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leoniebrookl
06-06-2009, 10:44 AM
There are many work-at-home programs out there, but the question that is still lurking in most of our mind that prevents us from purchasing the product or program is “If it is legitimate?” , not knowing the proper answer to this question we disregard the product and continue to live our lives working constantly to make ends meet. Bu t what if I told you that there is a legitimate program out there and it is called SCI.
This 6 hour certificate program teaches you everything you need to know on marketing and it paves the way so that you, yourself can start your own small business. With dedication and consistency you can be making the income that you have been longing to acquire. There is no rush you can go at your own pace and once you are finished you can start your business.
Life is too short to wait until you get promoted or until you finish graduate school, Get SCI and live your life.
For more information click or copy the link below.
Thanks for your time

Harold Mansfield
06-06-2009, 11:50 AM
I know that his is a "drive by" but in my informed opinion, and having worked from home for a while now, there is no way that a person with no experience, little computer knowledge and no training in internet marketing can take a 6 hour course and immediately start making the kind of money advertised in these offers.

It is impossible.

These offers market as if the Internet is a business model, and if you learn the "internet" you can make big money.
They prey on people's lack of business knowledge, and "folk lore" that working online is the key to instant success and riches.

They prey on ignorance and desperation.

The actual business is always vague, and they never really say what you will be doing online, just that you will be working online. That is a broad area that can include any number of 1000 things. No one can learn Internet Marketing, Retail, PPC, Advertising, SEO, and Design in 6 hours.

Jeff Paul's secret to Internet millions is another prime example....people buy the program, and all of a sudden are making $50,000 a week. What an absolute crock of poo !

It is not possible. Any program that promised this , is a complete and total scam, and you should stay way from them unless you like throwing away money.

If it were as easy as advertised, everyone in the free world would be Millionaire Internet Entrepreneurs, and it's just the opposite. The majority of Internet ventures are failures, or barely break even, and it takes more money and time to be successful online than the fee of a 6 hour course.

You can learn the basic principles if Internet Marketing for free, through forums like this one, books, and industry blogs.

"Make Money from Home" is not a business model. Many people run online businesses from a home office, but the success in these type of programs is that they are selling hope to people who don't know any better.

For the life of me , I cannot understand why the FCC doesn't stop thse companies from making false claims to the public and misleading people to believe that they can be financially successful in something they know nothing about, with no experience, and little training.

This offer claims that Fortune 500 companies are paying big money to people for writing articles, and that you can cash in. This is a complete lie.
Article marketing pays peanuts, and Fortune 500 companies hire SEO companies to do this work, or have their own in house marketing specialists.

They even claim:


n fact, we guarantee we will have you working with a Fortune 500 company, from the comfort of your own home, by the time you complete the course and get certified.


Maybe they will, but writing articles pays crap, unless you have an expertise, and even still it's not a $2000 a week as stated in one of the "testimonials".

I hate to see people waste money on garbage like this.

vangogh
06-06-2009, 12:42 PM
The original post here is spam, but since eborg left a good post I thought I'd keep the thread alive. Instead I've deleted the OPs signature and banned the account.

It is important for people to realize that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. You can make money working from home. Many of us here will attest to that. But none of us will tell you it's easy. Working at home is still work. You want to have a solid business plan and spend time marketing your business.

Working at home can be a great thing, but it's still work and it takes a lot of effort to be successful.

Patrysha
06-06-2009, 01:10 PM
Over the years, I've just been floored by how many otherwise intelligent people get caught up in the "get rich quick" offerings.

I just don't understand it.

vangogh
06-06-2009, 01:30 PM
There must be something in human nature to want to get the most for the least amount of effort. It's not just money. Think of all the losing weight remedies or unnecessary plastic surgery.

What's interesting though is the more difficult the journey, the more rewarding it is when you get to your destination. In fact the journey itself can be rewarding even if you never reach your destination.

Patrysha
06-06-2009, 02:24 PM
Well considering my face is currently recovering from a cosmetic treatment, so I guess I can actually relate to that one :-) Of course, I don't consider it unnecessary, lol.

And I agree, the best moments in my journey have certainly come from the overcoming of obstacles. My destination keeps moving though, like the end of the rainbow I know it will never be reached.

vangogh
06-06-2009, 02:54 PM
I purposely threw the word 'unnecessary' in there since there are certainly cases of cosmetic surgery that happen for a reason.


he best moments in my journey have certainly come from the overcoming of obstacles

Unfortunately most of us are afraid of those obstacles. That's not meant as a negative comment on people either. We're programmed to avoid the obstacles, but ironically the act of attempting to overcome them is more important than whether or not you overcome them.

KristineS
06-07-2009, 03:15 PM
It is sad how many people honestly think that they can get rich without doing the work. It is also sad that there are individuals and companies out there that prey on those people. I guess as long as there are people looking for the easy way to make a buck, there will also be people who are willing to profit off the laziness and gullibility of others.

The reality is that anything worth doing is probably not going to be easy. It's the same thing with the spam e-mails I get for a Masters Degree in six months. It's not real, but there are people who will want to take the shortcut. It's sad that we've become, in some ways, such an instant gratification culture.

vangogh
06-07-2009, 05:22 PM
I have a feeling human beings have looked for instant gratification for a long time. I think it's ingrained in us in some way to seek the path of least resistance.

Dan Furman
06-08-2009, 01:37 PM
I find a lot of these are geared towards women with children. The lure of staying home with one's kids is very strong.

Most ads show a woman with a toddler on their lap, on the computer (because toddlers make computing sooooo much easier!) Even my publisher plastered the cover of Start and Run a REAL home based business (my Home Based Business book) with a scene of a woman with a headset, and a young child on the couch in the background.

I hated that cover, but since I have not hit the NYT bestseller list (yet), I have no juice. I'm actually against "wanting to be home with the kids" (or just "wanting to be home") as a reason to try and work from home. Have a business because you WANT to be in business for yourself. Any other reason (kids, money, "do nothing", etc) and you will likely fail (or at best, you will have some success but hate the business).

phanio
06-08-2009, 02:00 PM
I wonder if the spammer also got caught up in a get rich scam or MLM and the 6 hour marketing program he/she went showed them how to spam forums and other social media.

While I don't like these programs at all - someone has to be making money form them or there would not be so many. This spammer probably answered a thread like this one and paid money to someone - Thus someone got paid.

Too many people want the easy way out and will pay someone to tell them what they want to hear - even if it does not work.

Patrysha
06-08-2009, 02:23 PM
I don't know Dan...wanting to home with the kids is a darn good motivator.

If I hadn't had kids I likely would never have looked at working from home until much later in life. I loved my job outside of the home and had every intention of going back...but one look at my oldest son and there was no way I was letting other people raise him.

But I needed an income. No way could we have made it without my income. And so started the journey. Of course, I didn't go for any of the get rich stuff...my first home business was a registered home childcare that opened it's doors as soon as my EI preggo leave ran out. (I spent the six months I had preparing for opening day, getting registered, taking my courses, getting the apartment in order)

Dan Furman
06-08-2009, 02:40 PM
I don't know Dan...wanting to home with the kids is a darn good motivator.

If I hadn't had kids I likely would never have looked at working from home until much later in life.

But this tells me you were eventually meant to be in biz for yourself anyway - if the kids are a motivator, that's fine. If they are really the only reason... no, it's not a good enough reason then (IMHO).

Harold Mansfield
06-09-2009, 06:57 PM
I find a lot of these are geared towards women with children. The lure of staying home with one's kids is very strong.

Most ads show a woman with a toddler on their lap, on the computer (because toddlers make computing sooooo much easier!) Even my publisher plastered the cover of Start and Run a REAL home based business (my Home Based Business book) with a scene of a woman with a headset, and a young child on the couch in the background.


..or just plain frustration and desperation. The one I hate the most (and I know I bring it up all the time) is Jeff Paul's Shortcut to Internet Millions, or what ever it's called.

Everything about the commercial is a straight out lie, yet it runs on cable continuously.

You can probably trace "easy way out " schemes back to biblical days, through salesman that actually sold snake oil in the 1800's.

Reasonably educated people would know that these promises are not possible, but the problem with America is so many people are not reasonably educated and get any knowledge that they have from small blips of words and phrases, or friends and acquaintances who are equally as uneducated....and then add to that educated people who take shortcuts out of sheer greed and never seem to get into trouble.

I have grown friends in their 30's that don't know some of the basic functions of taking care of business for their personal life, yet dream of being successful in business.

American's have become so enamored with worshiping money like a religion as the "end all be all" of acquiring things , yet the work ethic and knowledge that it takes for success is hardly ever mentioned.

More people watch tabloid shows than the news, and can name more entertainers, than Congressmen.

Our society is increasingly self absorbed, and based on instant gratification. That is why "be successful quick" offers appeal to so many people.

It also doesn't help when greed and unscrupulous behavior is given a safety net in the business world.

It makes it all look easy.

KristineS
06-16-2009, 12:28 PM
I think the other half of this equation is the fact that we love the story of the overnight success who never had to work at it. Look at all the fuss over Susan Boyle. For a while there everywhere you turned you saw a news story about her. We also tend to admire or at least talk about people who really don't do anything at all. Paris Hilton is a good example of that. People are admirable simply for being known, not because they've done anything worthy of admiration.

The get rich quick schemes are part and parcel of the same thing. It isn't as much fun to hear the story of someone who worked for years to get where they are and ultimately became a success.

Harold Mansfield
06-16-2009, 05:24 PM
I think the other half of this equation is the fact that we love the story of the overnight success who never had to work at it. Look at all the fuss over Susan Boyle. For a while there everywhere you turned you saw a news story about her. We also tend to admire or at least talk about people who really don't do anything at all. Paris Hilton is a good example of that. People are admirable simply for being known, not because they've done anything worthy of admiration.

The get rich quick schemes are part and parcel of the same thing. It isn't as much fun to hear the story of someone who worked for years to get where they are and ultimately became a success.

Such a good point. Everyone loves the lottery winner. I live in the city built on that hope and dream of making it without doing anything...and see people everyday burning good money on the hope of "making it" on luck, rather than invest the same money to make it on hard work.
We all want it now.

Great Observation Kristine.:)

KristineS
06-17-2009, 01:49 PM
Thanks eborg!

It makes me kind of sad in a way because it used to be considered admirable to spend years learning to do something, and people were admired for doing it. Take all the painters who apprenticed and studied and then become Old Masters and taught other aspiring painters. You don't see a lot of that sort of teaching and passing on of knowledge anymore. Everyone wants to get to the end without taking the journey.

vangogh
06-17-2009, 04:20 PM
Everyone loves the lottery winner

I think there are statistics out there showing that many lottery winners are back to being broke again in a few years. I'd imagine it depends on how much they won.


it used to be considered admirable to spend years learning to do something, and people were admired for doing it

I think it still is admirable and I'd even say the people who put in the time to really learn something are the ones who end up being most successful. The reward is in the journey and not the destination, while at the same time those who put more into the journey typically end up at a better destination anyway, because they discover new and better destinations along the way.