Earning Money at Home? – Scam or Legit?
This article covers those typical websites in which they offer a course often for a discounted price on the premise that the student can earn more money in the future. For analysis of money-making strategies, stay tuned for more!
Ever so often website “gurus” come up and promise the sight of thousands of dollars coming in as a secondary income. They often target everyone, promising money as long as they have a strong work ethic and they follow their written out plan of attack. So are these websites legitimate or scams?
These “gurus” have many points in common. First, they claim that anyone can earn a significant flow of income, all they have to do is follow their steps. Their logic is “if I can do it, why can’t you?”
Another point they have in common is that they often tackle money making from a specific angle: whether it be through advertisement, creating a small business, or drop shipping through websites like Amazon, these successful mentors focus on one area of finance that they have the most success on.
The third and most common roadblock point that they have in common is that they always have an email newsletter and course that a prospective learner has to pay a fee for, often at a “significantly discounted” price. For example. they always claim the MSRP of the courses to be 5 times or even 10 times more than what the customer is paying for to make it sound like a good deal. During these pitches to sell their course, they also have a video that cleverly hides the scroll marker, so a viewer cannot see how long the video is or skip through all of the marketing, making viewers very susceptible to common psychology tricks.
With these possibly questionable tactics aside, do these courses offer a true value that can allow a person come from in debt all the way to being a millionare? Well not so fast!
As with many things in life, it is very important to read the fine print included. Often in these course websites, there is a significant amount of fine print hidden at the bottom of the website which no one reads. Many of the time, it mentions as kindly as possible that the one or two success stories mentioned come from a pool of thousands of students, many of which fail to gain back the hundreds of dollars they put into their endeavors and are at a loss.
By cherry-picking success stories, these sellers are able to put themselves in a much better light than reality.
Does this mean that all of these sellers are bad? No, not really, there’s definitely a few that are pretty useful and good at what they do, however, even the best teachers cannot guarantee success, so if one claims they can, it’s a bad sign.
In all, here are some warning signs of one of these schemes: 1. The “guru” sends you to an external private website 2. There is an un-skippable video that cannot be fast-forwarded 3. There is a heavily discounted “master” course that a person must “buy-in”
In all, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. “Gurus” can make more money releasing their secrets for free through ad monetization if they really wanted to do it out of the good of their hearts. One person’s success story does not define everyone else’s. There are a myriad of free resources that will help you along your journey that can work significantly better, as you can decide what area of money-making you want to tackle without a buy-in that locks you in. Quill’s Digest wishes you luck on your new journey!
