Sell Your Brains Out
Author: Len Thurmond
Every once in a while you find a “Program” that is such a blatant scam…
Ya just want ta go find the guy and shake him while screamin’ “WHAT WERE YOU THINKIN’”!
But then… we KNOW what he was thinking, huh (take the money and run!)
Today, I got an email promoting a “Program” (and I use the term very loosely) called “Sell Your Brains Out”.
It never ceases to amaze me the depths that some people will lower themselves to in order to make a buck!
“Sell Your Brains Out” is nothing more than a guy who wrote a slick website to take your money, and then tell you to do the same to others, “Start with your friends and family”, he says, “And then move on to your business acquaintances.”
“Don’t try to sell them anything”, he says, “Just tell them that they need to look at this site you found, and the site will do the selling for you!”
As it turns out, what this “Wonderful” new sales package consists of, is a three page website, and three very short pages at that.
The first page consists of a short statement, telling you that you can make money by signing up with free affiliate programs.
He then gives the links to ten such reseller programs. These are all well known programs that we have all looked into, if not joined already!
These programs are:
Instant Sales Letters
Top Ezine Ads
Make Your Site Sell
Internet Marketing Challenge
The Amazing Formula
Clickbank
Get Response
Ezine Marketing Machine
Internet Marketing Center
Directory of Ezines
All good programs, and all, already known to most of us!
The second page is a short page called “Places to Sell”
On this page of “Revelation”, he tells you not to waste your time with FFA pages and classifieds, but to advertise in Ezines and opt-in lists.
Duh! Wish I’d thought of that!
Then he gives you two ezine directories and one opt-in list to use for finding these sources.
On the third and final short page, he tells you that you need to use Autoresponders to better promote your products. He suggests ‘Getresponse’.
That’s it folks. For only $19.95 you too can receive this sage advice!
No sales copy. No how to write ads. No banners. No NOTHING!
To sweeten the deal, he is giving away two old and generic Ebooks, a free dial up service for life(which turns out to be one of the countless free ISPs that anyone can get by just going to the site and signing up), a directory of newspaper classifieds, and, my personal favorite…
“Start Your Own Affiliate Program For Less Than $50! Special Report” Which turns out to be his affiliate link to Clickbank.
This guy has done nothing more than join a few affiliate programs, and is now trying to charge you an extra $19.95 for the privilege of signing up under him!
The only saving grace about his “Program” is his guarantee.
“If you don’t at least BREAK EVEN after TODAY…I will refund 100% of your money TODAY!”
I’m quite sure he refunds A LOT of his sales, but unfortunately, there are all too many desperate Newbies out there, that will give him his fee and hang in there, hoping that they can promote this scam, as he is.
Even more unfortunately, it is usually the people who need the money the most, that fall for the schemes of these bloodsuckers!
There are far too many scams like this on the internet. The ease with which they can be created and marketed makes a fertile breeding ground for such parasites as this.
Too many wide eyed people enter the playing field with the expectations of instant success with no effort.
There are no free lunches in this life, Folks. Internet marketing is a profession and takes work. You MUST first spend the time to learn your new trade and then apply that knowledge diligently. There are very few shortcuts.
You can cut the learning curve some, by reading and following the advice of one of the few REAL “Gurus” out there, but you still have to learn, and then work!
Be careful! There are far too many Snakes in the grass to go frolicking in the fields of Internet Marketing.
WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK!…
