Make Money Online…Wading Through The Scams

Earn money online, the secret to online success, thousands a day from the comfort of your own home, are just a few of the pitches you hear to get you to invest in those work at home schemes. What you will find , for the most part is, the only ones getting wealthy are those selling the schemes. First of all, if they promise that only an hour or two a day will make you rich, than they are simply trying to get lazy peoples money. Whatever you decide is the best for you, it will take a lot of work. Believe me, the ones who are trying to scam you, put a lot of work in developing their schemes. Are they all scams? No, just most of them. In the next few minutes I will explain and review some of my attempts at finding a true online money maker, and let you decide for yourself. To actually make money using your computer, breaks down into two key functions. You are either performing a task or you’re  selling something. Performing task would include Taking Surveys, Writing E-mails and Data Entry just to name a few. If you are fast at typing, and you don’t mind the monotony, you might make some extra money. However you will never get rich. As for surveys, I personally think they are not worth the hassle. I know there are some entrepreneurs that swear they got rich doing nothing more than surveys. That might have been the case before they got popular. When I dabbled in them a few years ago, it was nothing like the web site had advertised it would be. There are two different kinds of surveys you can take. One won’t cost you anything, and the other you will be asked to join a club or try a product at a considerable discount. The first type of survey offers a big ticket item. You’ve probably have gotten e-mail offers about them. You know, the FREE  X Box 360, flat screen TV, or once in a lifetime vacation, to name a few. For those of you who have completed the task, more power to you. For those who have not yet tried, don’t. In a nutshell it goes something like this. After an hour of answering stupid questions and signing up for things to try that you don’t need, and  just when you think you’re almost there, they inform you that you have to get at least two more of your friends and put them through the same torture, before you get your prize.The second type of survey, the one that can make you rich, works like this. Sponsors will pay you to try their product or join their club. It sounds good until you actually start taking the surveys. To make more than a couple of bucks, for most higher paying surveys, you have to spend your own money to buy a product or join a club you probably don’t want or need. Also, all the survey web sites offer the same deals, so there is not much to choose from. If you should decide to try the survey game, make sure you document every date of the transactions. Most of the free month trials are continued until you call and cancel. You could find that you are spending more than you’re making, if you are not careful.  So now that you’ve decided that selling would be better than performing a task, what on earth is your next move. This is where the big money is, and of course the biggest scams. You’ve seen the ads on TV, and undoubtedly even saw a few when you first started Googleing. I know I did. Fell for one too. They sound something like this. We will set you up with your very own money making web site, and if you act now, we will throw in nine more, for a total of ten money producing sites for just $39.99. What they fail to explain is, the sites only make money if people visit them. Once you have bought the package, they sell you on the advertising. Now you are into it for hundreds if not thousands of dollars, and now and than one of the web sites produces a sale, so they can continue pronouncing they are money making sites.Whatever you sell on the internet, there are only two effective ways to generate traffic. Pay-per-click and article marketing are the most proven and reliable forms of internet advertising available. To find anything, almost everyone uses one of the top search engines, like Google, Ask, MSN, or Yahoo. Lets take Google for example because they are the biggest. When you Google whatever you are inquiring about, the format is always the same. The left side is reserved for the free articles on the subject, and the right side is for the sponsored ads. These ads are set at a  given per click rate, which means that you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. The idea is that you know how many clicks it takes for every sale you make. The other way to generate traffic to your site is writing articles on the subject and getting  great positioning. Because, like pay-per- click, the more people that read your article, the better chance you have of making a sale. Getting the best position for both PPC and article marketing is not by chance. There are tips you must learn. With hard work and the proper guidance you can make a very substantial income. Will it happen over night? Of course not, the average person will start to see real results in three to six months. So where do you go for the guidance, and what is it going to cost?Whither you choose to sell your own product or become an affiliate and sell all kinds of products and services, you need to know where to turn to get stated on the right path. Like everything else there are dozens of sites that profess to helping the affiliate marketer get started. The one that I settled on and became a member of is Wealthy Affiliate.Wealthy Affiliate is undoubtedly the highest rated and most  recommended and regarded Internet marketing program available online today. They don’t just take your money and ask for more, like other sites do. They really care about your success and back it up with tools, services, tutorials, guides and support all included in a very reasonable monthly subscription fee. As an ex smoker I can tell you that it cost less than a carton of cigarettes did. There is so much help and support that in the beginning it might be overwhelming. Do not fear, if you need personal attention, it’s available. There is also free web hosting and even an online web site builder that takes only a few minutes to master. On top of everything else, you have access to a community of successful marketers that will help you succeed. So if you are truly looking for the right path to start your own home based business, Wealthy Affiliate is for you.