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Infomercial Scams
When we started this website we decided to not focus on the negative. Infomercial Scams sounds quite negative, don't you think? Just the word "scams" probably caught your attention. Read on.
No doubt many of you in your search of a true and honest business opportunity have watched those late night Informercials, and we are sure you thought to yourself, is this just another of those Informercial Scams?
If you are like we were, you had to think to yourself, do they really think I will fall for this corny, almost obviously rehearsed, bunch of bologna? We wanted to use another word there but need to uphold the integrity of our website and business!
Anyway, you can be sure that there are many Informercial Scams. They aren't only on late night TV anymore either. Seems to us there are some channels that are always pushing a new hyped up product or business.
There are also some advertisements that are not a scam. How can you be sure if one of these informercials is a scam or not? Let's see if we can offer you some help to not become another victim of one of those Informercial Scams.
Usually these Informercial scams direct you to a toll free number or website. First step, if you can't talk to a real person and the contact information on their website doesn't have a real address, but just a PO box, you should start to be suspicious.
Next, if you do talk to a live person (meaning someone answers the phone call), if they sound like they are "selling" you, they probably are. Go with your gut! If they try to lure you to take action and you don't have enough information to make a decision, tell them that, and if they are legitimate, they will allow you to take your time and make your own educated decision.
Remember always, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. You should also remember to ask specific questions on what your expected sales will be. Ask how do they know that you will make a certain number of sales for every "hit" to your website. Ask them what their conversion rate is, and have them prove it. Ask them how you will market the product or service, and how will they assist you and for how long?
We aren't saying anything that you probably haven't thought your self here. We all tend to get caught up in the hype and excotement when we think we found something that is not in this case one of many of those Informercial Scams. You just need to keep your mind clear and not let the emotions fog up your good business sense. If you feel like you are being pressured, walk away. You can always come back.
Hopefully we offered some guideance here. Hopefully the Informercial scams will lessen, and you will find the opportunity that fits you and sets your financial status to where you feel you want to be.
We are here to help you and feel free to offer your experiences with Informercials scams, or any other opportunity. If we can do it, so can you!
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J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, recently delivered her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. I was told about this speech by one of my friends on the members-only SiteSell forums for Site Build It! subscribers. Thanks, Colin. If I hadn't heard about her speech there, I might have missed it and that would have been a real shame. In reading her speech, I was surprised by how little she referred to Harry Potter, even though writing her novels took her to dizzying heights of success. Instead, she talks about the liberation of total failure and the importance of imagining new futures and different pasts. In talking about failure, part of what she emphasized was: So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. I have experienced this level of failure a couple of times in my life. It isn't fun, but it can be educational and liberating. Depending upon how you react to it, these experiences can put steel in your resolve and be a foundation upon which you can build your future success. It reminds me of the lines Kris Kristofferson wrote in "Bobby McGee" when he said, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Once you've lost everything - materially, that is - you aren't encumbered by the things you want to believe about yourself, because many of them fall away as you lose houses, cars, credit ratings, and other things we associate with material affluence. Other parts of the experience can be harder, or they can be liberating. For example, to one person, losing a spouse can be something that will hurt for decades. To another, it can be a difficult, but liberating, experience that will make it easier to build a better life, move in a different direction, and grow more as a person. This level of failure is truly difficult and poverty is not something I would wish on anyone. However, it can be life-changing, if you take the steps to do what you truly want to do. Like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, you can rise to new levels of success, understanding, and personal fulfillment that you would never have achieved, otherwise. Is it easy? No. Can you do it? Yes. As she progressed with her speech, Ms. Rowling says this about imagination: You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Here is where the speech took a turn that really surprised me. I was sure she was going to emphasize the imagination that enabled her to write all the Harry Potter stories, but she went in a very different direction. Instead, she talked about her earliest exeriences when working with Amnesty International and all the suffering that had been experienced by people who had been tortured and killed and the uncertainty, pain, and worry experienced by their family and friends. I have to tell you, this is totally outside my own experiences, but after reading what she wrote, I have found more empathy for the people who have experienced these horrors. Compared to them, even in my deepest failures and during the darkest days of my life, I have had it easy and safe. Ms. Rowling continued and said: Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places. Imagination is a powerful thing. It is the basis for all future inventions. By imagining, we can achieve things undreamed of by others. Napoleon Hill said, in Think and Grow Rich: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. This is the power that we have to create new worlds and change the horrors we have inherited from those who preceded us. We can write novels that inspire millions to read more. We can develop better products and services to solve problems and offer opportunities to people around the world. Or, when used negatively, we can imagine worse things that we can do to make the lives of our fellow earthlings even more miserable. The choice is up to us. The choice is up to you. Or, if you prefer, you can choose not to use your power of imagination. You can continue to lead the life you're living and not imagine the great future you can live if you pursue your dreams and follow your passions. Again, the choice is yours. Ms. Rowling closes her speech by talking about her friends. These are the people that offer support and help in times of need and share joy in times of abundance. Even when I lost everything, I still had my friends and family. True friends can be even more important than your family, because you may have closer bonds and more in common with them. You don't need a lot of friends, but I hope you have a few really close friends with whom you share your life. These friends are treasures worth far more than the rarest metals or the prettiest sparkly rocks. Share your life with your friends and family. Help each other live to your fullest potential. Thank you, Ms. Rowling, for an outstanding speech and I'm happy I was able to read it. (If you have broadband, you can watch the video.) The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Now, it's up to you. You have the power to change the world. Act on your dream! JD
In a previous post on another of my blogs, I wrote about adding subscribe forms on our Squidoo lenses: Squidoo module request - Sign-up forms for Aweber mailing lists Last week, Lewis Smile added a comment to the post and told me my dream was answered. Today, I finally found enough time to see what he was talking about. You can read more on my 21st Century Affiliate Marketing blog about how I followed Lewis' method to add a live Aweber mailing list subscribe form on one of my Squidoo lenses: How to add an Aweber subscribe form to your Squidoo lens. Act on your dream! JD
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