Is Everything In Online Marketing One Big Scam?

Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 6:16 am

As you all know, and being only 3 weeks old, I am obviously new to online marketing. I have taken the advice my parents give others and spent the day reading through marketing forums, trying to pick up tips and tricks. Boy, its overwhelming how much information is out there!

I see people pushing all sorts of ‘make-money-fast-and-get-rich-off-doing-nothing-in-your-pajamas-while-on-a-beach-that-you-drove-to-in-your-new-porsche’ offers. Now I don’t have much money…just a few pennies my brothers gave me for Christmas in my new Winnie The Pooh bank…but I figured I could sneek dad’s credit card if I found something I thought might help me learn faster.

Wow…Was I in for a shock. I googled product #1 to see if I could find a review and the first thing I saw was an ad yelling at me that it was a scam. Or was it? I quickly clicked away, proud of myself for not falling for that supposed “scam”. I then googled product #2 and by golly if I don’t see the exact same thing! Blaring warnings that I should not purchase this product until I read something first and another warning that it could be a scam if I don’t go and read that persons website first too. The same thing happened for product #3 and #4.

This internet place is downright damn scary! It seemed that anything I checked had someone yelling SCAM about it! Can this be right? Is everything for sale a scam? I telepathed my concerns to mom to find out. Here is what she said:

“No Brie dear they are not scams, but some marketers think this is an effective way to market their affiliate products. Scaring potential buyers into feeling they must read a particular website or risk losing their life savings, undershorts AND their first born child, has become the norm.”

The norm?! I don’t understand that personally. In my humble yet young opinion, most people seeking out these products are new to online marketing and truly need help learning. Why on earth would people want to scare the living daylights out of them and make the online marketing industry look like it is completely fully of scammers?

Gesh… I thought that was what the stock market was for…