Business Opportunities and Internet Marketing Systems that Don't Work

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"Free" Business Packages

This is one instance where free is definitely not free, and where potentials are exactly in line with what you put into it - as long as you put in nothing. If you do decide to put in time or money, your potentials are still likely to stay at nothing.

Business packages that bill themselves as free are generally outright failures, because of two factors:

1. Nobody gives you something for nothing. They want something from you, and you can bet that they set up the system to get it from you. They didn't set up the system to work so good that you'd be happy with it without giving them what they want.

2. Free business systems generally appeal to people who do not want to invest anything. There are a few people who are broke, but willing to work, and I am not impugning them - not at all - this type of system is NOT their answer, because it is NOT set up to work for honest people! These are set up for people who want something for nothing, and who can be enticed to gamble just a little if they think the possible payoff is tempting enough.

If you are looking for one of these, then someone out there is trying to sucker you. You have to invest in any business - either work and creativity (and these systems don't work even if you invest those), or at least a little money to pay for materials, instructions, marketing literature, etc. SOMETHING is going to cost you at least a little.

Even if you DO upgrade the system and give the seller what they want, it still won't work. Because it wasn't set up to make YOU money, it was set up to make THEM money. You could possibly replicate their system if you wanted to make a living cheating people, but you'd not do it either cheaply or easily. Don't let them fool you into thinking that they did not pay or work for their little almost scam system.

The way most of them work is that they let you join for free, but they do not let you actually make anything unless you pay a fee - sometimes a one time fee, but most often a membership fee. Sometimes they will report downline to you - but only ALL your downline, not the active ones, and only the active ones make you money, so the figure is pretty meaningless. And they will always plague you with emails telling you how much you "could" be making if you only upgraded (but carefully worded to avoid any actual promises).

The rare free systems that do work do so only if YOU work. So they are not an answer to easy wealth.

You are better off building a business from scratch, around something you love doing. It has a better chance of success in every way, and you can control expenses better.

Written by Laura Wheeler, MicroBusiness Website Developer, and founder of the MicroWebmasters Alliance

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