Scams Verses Your Affiliate Internet Marketing Business

An Affiliate Internet Marketing promoter can be financially devastated by scams. The overload of home business ideas and opportunities available to both the “newbies” and the seasoned internet marketer can easily become overwhelming. The confusion as to what is legitimate and what is a scam is further exasperated by the recent up scaling of the quality of both the scammer’s sale’s copy and the graphic presentation of the sale’s page itself. To me these scammers put so much effort, time, and technique into their scams, that it seemingly would have been easier to promote a legitimate home business or product to begin with. Beware that scams not only exist in the procurement of a home business itself. Scams also exist in the promotion of such internet marketing tools as search optimization, pay for click advertising, list building, link sharing, traffic generation, and even web hosting. I have even seen products which teach the affiliate internet marketer to scam the scammer and virtually become a scammer himself. 5 concepts keep in mind:

1-Avoid the sense of urgency. We all want the best deal on our internet marketing product, but if it’s truly legitimate, it will still be there tomorrow, and next week for that matter.

2-Decide if you truly need the product. Is the internet marketing product or affiliate product is really what you need at this point in your home business. If so, do you even have time to implement it with all the other marketing tools you may have recently purchased.

3-Research the sales page and product yourself. The best way to do this is through a forum such as the The Warrior Forum, and read the reviews of those who may have purchased the products before you even knew it existed.

4-Do a search through a business directory, product review site , or even Google search. Chances are that if you can not find any legitimate content on what you are about to purchase, it is not legitimate.

5-Print the sales page, because in many case it will disappear if the internet business or product is a scam. This way you can email it back to the sender saying “you promised this.”

Finally, in order to succeed, one must take risks to a certain extent. Slow down and do your homework before taking action. Thoroughly utilize free information provided on social site and forums, remembering that
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. James McCanless now writes on a variety of subjects related to Internet, article, and affiliate marketing. For more information visit http://www.sbhummer4u.com. His wife Betty keeps him healthy at http://www.healthybettysite.com., and keeps his information sensors full at http://wwww.bettyjaneonline.com