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tonny_is
August 25th, 2007, 06:26 AM
There are so many different business opportunities available on the Web. Everybody claims to have the "inside
knowledge" that will put you on Easy Street! Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
That scenario is particularly painful for Internet beginners lacking the advanced researching skills of more seasoned Netizens. Nevertheless, is there a way for most inexperienced surfers to ascertain the initial merits of a particular offer.
There is a general procedure to dissect and examine most Internet Marketing offers, in broad terms. The bulk of the offers can be classified into two categories: Dream Merchants and Web Specific Products. They have unique qualities that are very obvious once you study them. Follow me and I'll show you how to recognize each one.
The Dream Merchant: I'm going to describe a real world, brick-and-mortar analogy to help you understand what the Dream Merchant sells. Let's say you walk into a retail outlet and the sales clerk mentions an idea that's going to make you rich! He sounds very excited and full of enthusiasm!
He then continues to tell you all the benefits you'll get from the "great idea." Curiously, every time you ask him what it is, he never gives you a strait answer! He continues to pump you up while never revealing what it is he's selling. By now, your expectation is at a fever pitch; you got to have it!
So you corner the silver tongued sales clerk and ask him, point blank. He then produces a little book and informs you that it contains the "great idea" and it will cost you $100!
You pay for the book and he quickly scampers out the door with your money. As you open it, it says: Do to the next guy what I just did to you!
I know the above scenario is rather simplistic but it does occur all the time on the Web. That kind of business is selling you a dream! The dream is the product! You must continue to sell the dream to the next guy. Do you want to become a Dream Merchant? I don't think so!

andyz
August 25th, 2007, 01:32 PM
There is much truth in it...but that's only half of the truth. With good products you get also good helpful information. But you don't know it before, and most times you will have a unrealistic high expectation, due to the salescopy, how this information might help you to reach your goals. But this is EVERYWHERE! In every niche, in shops, all the advertising in TV and where ever. It is ALL selling dreams and false hopes. The perfume that will girls make love you...the Bacardi on the beach that will make your life happy. It's all manipulating emotions.
Or the nutrition supplement or wonder creme that promises what it doesn't keep. Bad or fraud products are everywhere. And where are the most hopes, there will be the most fraud. Freedom through money is one field with big hopes, getting healed from a bad illness is another example, which is maybe even bigger. How many fake healers are there? Or the religion and sects! People belive evrything that gives them hope!!

laidback333
August 27th, 2007, 08:23 PM
I somewhat agree. Half the time it will work but you need to work on it yourself.

Biff_Tiberius_Farnsworth
August 27th, 2007, 08:54 PM
There are so many different business opportunities available on the Web. Everybody claims to have the "inside
knowledge" that will put you on Easy Street! Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
That scenario is particularly painful for Internet beginners lacking the advanced researching skills of more seasoned Netizens. Nevertheless, is there a way for most inexperienced surfers to ascertain the initial merits of a particular offer.
There is a general procedure to dissect and examine most Internet Marketing offers, in broad terms. The bulk of the offers can be classified into two categories: Dream Merchants and Web Specific Products. They have unique qualities that are very obvious once you study them. Follow me and I'll show you how to recognize each one.
The Dream Merchant: I'm going to describe a real world, brick-and-mortar analogy to help you understand what the Dream Merchant sells. Let's say you walk into a retail outlet and the sales clerk mentions an idea that's going to make you rich! He sounds very excited and full of enthusiasm!
He then continues to tell you all the benefits you'll get from the "great idea." Curiously, every time you ask him what it is, he never gives you a strait answer! He continues to pump you up while never revealing what it is he's selling. By now, your expectation is at a fever pitch; you got to have it!
So you corner the silver tongued sales clerk and ask him, point blank. He then produces a little book and informs you that it contains the "great idea" and it will cost you $100!
You pay for the book and he quickly scampers out the door with your money. As you open it, it says: Do to the next guy what I just did to you!
I know the above scenario is rather simplistic but it does occur all the time on the Web. That kind of business is selling you a dream! The dream is the product! You must continue to sell the dream to the next guy. Do you want to become a Dream Merchant? I don't think so!

Excellent post.
The way THEY perpetuate this is by saying that their system works if you do the work. That's a linguistic trick to shift the blame and further erodes the self confidence of the purchaser making them more easier to sell the next 'great product' to them.

~B

ArtColombia
August 28th, 2007, 12:19 AM
What you say is all true...but right or wrong ethically, you will have to wade through elbow deep sales shit in real life ( I believe) till you get to the other side and earn your wings...and by then you should be able to sniff out the good from the bad....not the best post I know, but I believe it is realistic - we are all going to get hit over the head at some time - whether it be in buying the internet marketing dream, or a second hand car!

Know yourself.
Know YOUR (measurable) goals and steadily work towards them and
donīt put all your eggs in the one basket
(unless you are prepared to watch the basket!!! - Warren Buffet)

Chris Stigson
May 12th, 2008, 03:24 PM
Come on dude.. this is NOT how most people with respectable incomes do it online... I mean there are about 300,000 newbies who try to scam you daily with their resale right... but they soon disappear off the net!

The real people mostly operate in much more profitable niches or actaully provide information to people.. this is like "weight loss" or "self-help" or whatever... even "how to get rid of acne"..

For me it's the opposite (I also make money selling how to make money) I make most money selling REAL solutions to REAL problems... Procrastination Cure I've got. I'm also operating in "antispyware", cloaking softwares and much much more... even Dog training I make money in.. I've also made money selling Bowling information!!! F**KING BOWLING INFO... The SKY is truly the limit, but you can sell "how to make money" and make a damn good living doing so..

- Chris