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Fighting Against Scams! Safe Online Shopping Tips

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:32:13 +0000

Buy From Trusted Brands
Online scams are rising day by day and it is always recommended to buy from well reputed brands. There are many scam merchants who advertise themselves heavily and offer products at unrealistic prices. Perhaps if the product you are looking for is not provided by your favorite merchant then try to buy from those whom you have already purchased at least once before.

Customer Service And Web Design

A scam merchant can easily be identified from its design and customer service. A quality online store always show security certificates on prominent positions and offer both live chat and phone support. If you are not convinced with the site’s look then simply don’t buy.

Read Reviews

More information you have about the merchant, more secure you will be. Do some Goggling, read reviews and search for the terms which are scaring you (company name + Scam). Although you cannot trust much on this information but it will give you an idea about the overall reputation of the company.

Give Preference To The Organic Search

Any one can receive traffic through paid advertisements, a good company spends time and resources on search engine optimization. So, don’t buy from a merchant that hardly exist in the Google’s index.

Web Server Is Secure?

Always check the seal information of SSL, a scam merchant can use fake and unknown security certificates. Also make sure that checkout is located on the encrypted server and its URL must start from HTTPS rather than HTTP.

Pay With Credit Card

Most payment processing systems like PayPal and debit cards work on buy now and pay now principle but credit cards work on buy now and pay later principle. So credit card is most secure payment option as you can file dispute within sixty days of the bill with fraudulent charge. To know more about credit card rights read this ebook.

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Good Vs Scam Ebooks

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:02:23 +0000

A lot of people are earning huge amount of money just by promoting ebooks of various authors through Click Bank. Affiliate marketing and infopreneurship has a very close relationship, a content rich website without affiliate marketing is just like a bread with out butter. Similarly, credibility is the key to success in infopreneurial websites and promoting “Secrets Revealed” or “Get Rich Quick” ebooks means loosing credibility or scarifying long term goals over short term gains.

Secret Revealed VS Knowledge
I don’t believe in any secret but I believe in knowledge and knowledge is the key to success. There is no secret to get rich quick because no one can get rich quick legally just by buying an ebook.

E-books Have Extremely Low Satisfaction Level
Most of the ebooks have very general type of information but these ebooks are marketed heavily by click bank affiliates (earning 75 to 80% commission).Yes, commission is huge but very short term as you loose your reader’s loyalty.

We Are Not Against E-books?
Yeh , we are not against ebooks because it’s a cool way to deliver quality information but we are against these “Get Rich Quick” marketing scams. Quality ebooks not only build credibility but also bring thousands of visitors to your website. Millions of ebooks are being circulated on eBay (with resale rights) containing author’s website links and acts as a viral way of traffic generation.

Think Before Starting An EBay Business

admin — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:59:04 +0000

Most of the people think that they can build high profit online business on eBay, Yes intention is right because eBay is the biggest marketplace on the internet but still there are some things that needs to understand before starting an eBay business. I started my eBay business during my graduation, at that time I was looking for a part time work and I thought there is nothing better than an online business.

My journey on eBay was started by selling ebooks and other digital delivery items such as softwares. It was very easy to sell digital delivery items because there is no shipping cost and prices of these e-books were very low, ranges from 1.99$ to 4$.I always go for creativity and selling ebooks was not so creative. So I decided to sell some other products via dropship, selecting a dropshipper was a tough job as I was not interested in bigger companies like Shopster and Doba (They need a membership payment ). It does not make any sense because you are acting as a salesman of these companies for a minute profit and still you have to pay for membership to sell their products.

So I contacted various online stores and got very encouraging response from them. Then my painful experience of dropship was started it was so painful that you canâ€™t sleep at whole night in a worry that dropshipper will ship the product at right time or not.

Then after that I quitted eBay business and started an infopreneurial website. Now I believe infopreneursip has a lot of benefits with less pain and stress. The profit margin in infopreneurship is huge either from affiliate marketing or Google adsense.The first affiliate program selected by me was “Internet Marketing Center” because of high commission (65$ per sales).Then I moved to Shareasale and Commission Junction for the selection of affiliate programs according to my niches. Now let me make a sweeping statement about affiliate marketing “Good infopreneurs are those who always select quality products and services to promote and those who go for high commission and scarify quality can never build credibility”. High quality plus high commission is the best thing to promote.

In short, if you want to sell on eBay then you have to know that selling your words is much easier than selling products especially with dropship.

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Why To Hate Click Bank?

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:29:11 +0000

Click Bank has a lot of quality products and thousands of affiliates who promote these digital delivery items. Most of the Click Bank products offer huge commission (75% to 80%).But still I hate Click Bank and all of its products.

2-Reasons Why I Hate Click Bank?

1) Marketing Scams and Misleading Products

I don’t sell any product but I write and write with honesty while Click Bank products have nothing to do with honesty. There are a lot of misleading products on the Click Bank marketplace. What about “Google Ads For Free”? An ebook which got so much hype. This ebook was written by an English doctor who claims to be an experts in internet business world.I don’t know where this person was before writing this e-book? And what is the URL of his website for which he got “Google Ads For Free”? This type of misleading products forced me to write against Click Bank. Commission is not every thing dignity, respect and credibility is more important. Another example is “Paid Survey Sites” on Click Bank marketplace. These are just examples, making a good and attractive sales copy is different thing but saying that there is a method of getting “Google Ads For Free” and then selling a misleading a product is some thing else.

2) No Criteria For The Selection Of Affiliates

Any one can sign up for a free account and promote any product listed on the marketplace of Click Bank Now only those people will purchase your product who don’t now any thing about Click Bank and just want to buy and read this particular e-book that you are promoting. Any one else who already have a click bank account will purchase these e-books through their own hop Links. Affiliate marketers use a lot of things to protects their links, some use sub-domains and redirect them to their affiliate links and the problem with click bank is that when ever a person who is already a member of click Bank sees the order entry form of click bank ,tries to purchase from his/her own link.

How To Use Click Bank For Profit?

Still Click Bank can be used for profit without marketing any scam product. Yes you can write your own quality ebook and sell it with click bank. Writing e-books is not a tough job at all. A lot of authors are available who can write on any topic for you. So sell e-book on any hot topic, offer 75 to 80 % commission because you are not going to lose any thing on digital delivery items .Let others to send traffic to your website, Your Click Bank page will also be helpful in improving the ranking of your main site or blog.

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Should I Start “Dropship Business”?

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:06:15 +0000

In the past, Business world was shocked by Japanese concept of JIT (Just in Time Inventory); this concept revolutionized the world of business and played a vital role in the reduction of inventory cost of raw material.

Now the world has changed and business on internet has its own terms and concepts. The concept of drop ship has enabled the young entrepreneurs to sell products from a kitchen sink to a car, Infact every thing. As we all know working of drop ship is very simple, you sell the products of your suppliers to your customer either on auction sites like eBay or on your on store and products are shipped by the suppliers.

Still drop ship is not so easy because you have to enter the details of each customer on your supplier’s site when he or she makes purchases. Another biggest problem is finding the true drop shipper because of high volumes of internet scams and fake drop ship directories.

Now let me assume that you have just started your business and found a true drop shipper, your sales are improving day by day on your eBay store or on your own website and you don’t feel any difficulty to enter the detail of each customer manually. But after one year or so this is not going to work any more because of high volume of sales better search engine positioning and high positive feedbacks on eBay, you will not have any time to enter the personal details of each customer on your drop shipper’s website.

So you will need an automated drop ship system, I mean when some one will buy any product from you, his or her shipping information will be sent automatically to your drop shipper. There are a lot of drop ship services available on the internet but very few are trust worthy and very few provide secure and safe automation. If you sell on eBay then your drop ship listing software has to be approved by eBay so that you can do safe selling.

If you want to sell on your own website then you have to have SSL certificates for safe selling and it would be better if your drop shipper provides all necessary tools to list their items in your website.

In my opinion starting a drop ship business is not a good idea due to number of factors but most important factor is less profit margin.Thats why we don’t recommend entrepreneurship because we believe in Infopreneurship.In this world of intense competition selling products online is very difficult unless you are an owner of Amazon.But still you can earn thousands of dollars just by selling your words.

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Be- Aware Of Paid Survey Scams

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:00:49 +0000

Earning Online is very easy but it’s not as easy as described by “Paid Surveys Sites”. These sites are heavily marketed on the internet mainly because of affiliate commission that these sites offer through click bank.
Those people who want to earn some sort of part time income falls into the cage of these “Paid Surveys” and “data entry jobs”.

These sites usually have impressive sales copy to attract those people who want to earn online.

One of these sites says: you can earn:

Weekly Income: $1,125.00
Monthly Income: $4,500.00
Yearly Income: $58,500.00
Yes, you can earn a lot on the internet but not with “paid surveys”. Although you can get some sort of gifts and greeting cards but it is impossible to earn a heavy mount of money. So Be Aware of “Paid Survey” and “Data Entry Scams”.

The best way to earn online is by developing a website out of your passion. Develop a website on any topic on which you can write. The concept of Infopreneurship is now very popular; you can build high profit websites by writing on your passion. The best solution for infopreneurs is provided by Google in the form of Goggle AdSense. So build a high profit content rich website with “Site Build It” .SBI is perfect because it does every thing automatically but still you have to do one thing that is writing on your “hobby” or “passion”.

To become a SBI owner you have to pay $290/year but this amount is very low as compared to the benefits you get from SBI. So just convert your passion into a content rich website.

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