Are all on-line businesses scams?

Two years ago almost to the day, I was suffering from boredom and I decided to run 10 trials on products that might help English teachers who live overseas in underdeveloped countries (and are therefore on low wages) supplement their income by making money online.

What started out as a time filler developed into a two year saga, which taught me that web-world is a dark and terrible place filled with evil creatures called internet marketers, who grow fat by feasting on the bodies and souls of innocent passerbys.  Well, nearly!

Instead of sinking into the pit of negativity caused by blatent scams, I would like to brighten the world a litle by saying that after two years in a never ending hell, I now make money on the internet. At this point I would also like to add that I still need to teach a few hours a week, and I don’t have a red sports car, a palace by the sea, a ski resort and two dozen pink flamingos.

The trial was not easy.  I lost money hand over fist. It more than bruised my ego.  And along the way I met some people who had their hearts ripped out in some of these scams.  I never wish to repeat this.  Again, I must say in all this negativity I now make money on the internet.

Maybe the first step in learning to make good money online is to find out who NOT to do business with.  I couldn’t trial every internet business, but I covered enough of a range that you can easily see the recurring patterns.  You will learn who to stay away from.  Snipsly will run ads down the side of this article.  This article is about making money, it will be interesting to see who is advertising.  (Don’t click – control yourself)    What I did learn was that the internet is not cleaning up its game, the internet supports and encourages internet scams, and the people you can trust online are a treasure when you find them.

If you wish to find who to steer clear of , and you want to read The Saga of The Good Teacher versus The Evil Internet go to  http://paulsblogstuff.wordpress.com/   (you will need to cut and paste this)

and I hope you have a good read.

Paul

An EFL teacher in Viet Nam.