How to Avoid Internet marketing scams 's hard when you just start out trying to make money online. It's a difficult question who to trust in Internet marketing. I wrote a blog post on my main blog yesterday. However, how do you define scams? Often people who write dishonest reviews often write "don't buy this product until you read about the scam."

In fact, it is just another marketing ploy to suck you in, when you are reassured it is not a scam, but in fact the best product in the market. This is dishonest marketing.Similarly, a lot of people who fail to make money online, fail because they don't take action.

 

The Internet is A Scam

Because they have failed, they tend to say the Internet is a scam, and anyone that makes money online must be scamming. They can live with their failure if they justify it by saying it is a scam, rather than confronting their failure. On the other hand, there are many Internet marketers who market their products as miracle workers.

They are marketed as miracle software or a one push solution. In reality, Internet marketing is nearer mountaineering. You climb a very steep slope, and you can't see where you are going because the angle is wrong. That means that you cannot see when you have made a step forward because of the angle. During the time you may make a little money, but you do not have a business you have a hobby. It is rinsable and repeatable, but you do not have enough knowledge or experience to work out where and why you have made the money.

Internet marketing is the same as real world business; it is made up of a series of systems. When you have the systems in place you will earn money. Many people give up at this point. If they were to persist  for a little while longer they would find that mountain begins to flatten.

They start to connect  with people and they gain momentum or leverage that maximizes the chance to earn money. In real terms, an online business is no different from a business in the real world. OK, the tools are different but the mechanics are not. We learn very early in life that there is no such thing as a free lunch. We all know and understand this expression. We also know the expression if it looks too good to be true  it probably is.

Yet somehow or other when we are presented with the choice of buying a product our common sense flies out of the window. We believe that we can make money a whole heap of money by working for five minutes a day. I have many friends who make real serious money online, but they are amongst the hardest working people I know.

That is the paradox of online marketing, it sells you a dream. By buying the next shiny new product idea you are perpetuating the myth that you are an entrepreneur. You are in fact a wantapreneur. I used to think that success online was achieved by very brainy geeks who had some special skill I didn't. Now I know better. They are not cleverer or smarter than I am. They just take action. 

Too many people buy a product, then they either leave it languishing on their hard drive or they try it very enthusiastically for a few days and give up. They then get seduced into buying the next shiny object that  will make them millionaires overnight. Sales page mantra: Be Lazy and Earn More (and put more money in my pocket). Learn to avoid Internet Marketing scams and you won't need to do this, you will have a real business

There  are many learning challenges when you start  to run an online business. You have to learn to build a blog, create a social media presence and find out what plugins are. The list goes on, and then once you have built your blog you find that it languishes on page 4954 in Google.

Traffic is the bane of every internet marketer, you are dead in the water if you don't drive traffic to your offer. That is another challenge you have to face. No wonder it is so easy to go on and buy the next miracle product. Yet if you have ever worked for someone else you will have invested both time and money in your career. You will have taken refresher courses and training programs.

The web is no different. Things change, and most Internet marketers have made a mess of things at some time or another while they learned. That is one of the reasons I like Sarah Staar. She practises what she teaches. She has her own products which are hugely successful. She has a huge amount of free training available. The reason for that  success is that whatever she teaches she does every day in her own business. 

Because she teaches by example, you see what she is doing every step of the way. Have a look at some of her free training below. She has a no-nonsense style that concentrates on the Pareto principal. That is only twenty percent of your efforts will create eighty percent of your income. Be careful whom you follow. Watch out for someone's internet footprint before you buy from them. Don't just think they must know what they are talking about. 

Sarah regularly updates her products as she is aware that things change. When something stops working, she immediately puts up a video saying this has changed as of this date, and now you need to do this. So many internet marketers are STILL TEACHING WHAT WORKED TWELVE MONTHS A lot of new entrepreneurs turn to opportunities to work from home for their first online income success. I know quite a few people who seriously read the papers, and when a large factory shuts down in a certain area, they then create Facebook ads which target only that area. 

This is, of course, a very successful business strategy because they are appealing to people's fears of not being able to provide for their families. When a product owner makes a  claim that you will be able to earn over 6 figures with little or no work, then you are potty if you believe it. That would not happen in the real world, why should that happen on the Internet. 

Before buying a product, research the sales page. Does it offer a no conditions guarantee, it should! Does the site have an address or a phone number or a help desk? Read income disclaimers and the privacy policy. Nobody can absolutely guarantee a precise income figure, how can when they they don't know your skills, your education level, the time that you will dedicate to your business or anything else for that matter. Read up on forums about the product. 

This is often the first place that the scammer's activities will come to light. Look very closely at the site, does it look professional? Are there loads of spelling errors? Grammatical gaffs etc. If they are making so much money they should be able to have a professional site. 

However a professional site in itself does not mean that the product is not a scam, plenty of scammers earn enough money to invest tens of thousands of pounds to create a sales page. The same rules apply when you are promoting a product. 

Your affiliate footprint hangs around like a bad smell, and you don't want to be labelled as someone who will promote anything for a profit. Be careful to protect your fiscal information – Never give out your personal information, and never provide your bank account or credit card number unless you are paying for something on a trusted site.