Well you definitely CAN make money in one week IF:

a) You have lots of assistants to work for you for cheap (slave labor, that is)

b) You have gobs of money to spare

Those are the (bitter) truths I have hardly read in any salespage so far (for obvious reasons), but once you know the game, you would never, I say never look at those salespages in the same way again!

Personally I prefer to buy from people that I feel I can trust and they tend to be the people that are honest in the description of their product or service.

If somebody tells me I can make money within a week the alarm bells start to ring for me.

Thanks. I know, but it was a token of appreciation for your hard work. I know you don’t need that, lol

Then after not reading or implementing the product, the buyer buys a different product he also fails to read or implement. Eventually local congressmen and senator’s email folders are full of lazy people looking for a magic pill to solve their problems and feel they need to do something or face a beating at the polls the next election.

That is not to say there is not a lot of evil going on on the net. The net has come a long way since 1991, but there are still areas that could be classified as ‘the wild west’. Because of the money that can and is being made in IM, that is the current ‘Gold Rush’ and it attracts all sorts of ‘characters’ both good and bad.

Doc Nielsen and Frank Kern are great examples of ‘characters’ that use their powers for good. (I love Frank’s blog!) For every good, it seems there is at least one ‘bad one’ that gives IM a bad name.

In this current economy, there is a glut of people turning to the net to try to find an income. It also happens to be true of me, but for different reasons; I was in a car accident and can no longer work a ‘real’ job. I bought a ton of ‘crap’, but I also have some really good stuff, much of it worth more than I paid for it. Part of my ‘implementation problem’ was I could tell some was crap and I didn’t know which product was accurate or which would lead me astray.

I have finally (with help) figured some of it out and am currently embarking on my 1st project. After it is up and tweaked, I’ll be able to revisit some of the items I bought and glean some good things to do to improve what I am doing. (Then of course, I’ll do it again…and again until I am making enough to feed the dogs and pay the mortgage)

It doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen without work. I understand the frustration a laid off person feels coming into this biz for the 1st time. Suddenly everything he does and every decision he makes decides his fate! And truth be told, no one really cares if he is a success or not, (although there are those that, though they sort of really do care, they are not going to mail him the rent check this month, either). In the past all he had to do was his little part in a big company and now he is CEO, Secretary, Treasurer, middle management and worker! It can be overwhelming and it can be scary, especially if feeding a 10 year old child is on the line.

The current FTC ruling will likely scare more newbies from even trying to internet market than it will do to protect them. The ‘bad ones’ will find a way around it and a few Gurus will get ‘hit’ as an example, but for most of us, other than changing a few words in our posts and pages, not much will change.

As I see It,
Mark

PS-Arindam, you didn’t have to do that. It was nice and heartwarming, but I come by here because I like you. Thank you, when I get what I am doing going, I’ll drop you the link and you can come say hi to me once in a while. Lol. Thanks again,
Mark

I think what really spurred this on were the offers where you pay $1.97 one time, but in the fine print you will then be charged $97 per month after 7 days. I never did agree with these offers and I do not promote them unless I have used them with success myself.

If the scammers would have stopped making false claims, then we wouldn’t be dealing with this. Unfortunately, we are and we’ll have to cope.

BTW, I did make it all the way through your post. I did find myself scanning instead of reading and comprehending too much though

This post is anything but boring. You really hit the bullseye. The FTC ruling is not really a bad thing. I think it levels the playing field. Most people are honest. Some are not. Tough tootsies for them.