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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw
Saturday, 19 February 2005, at 1:36 p.m.
This has nothing to do with anything really, except that it blows me away.
In order to build a better blog, I have just spent many, many hours going through my old bookmarks, forum directories, and about a bzillion other sites I considered part of my regular "Boardwatch" rounds.
I am absolutely AMAZED at how many "fixtures" in internet marketing have up-and-disappeared!!
I don't want to name names, but I'm talking about people who were supposedly raking in the bucks -- *wildly* successful people!! -- people who told all the rest of us just how it's done -- people who were respected and admired on all the boards -- people who were taken at face value and held up as examples...
A couple of these people I saw right through at the time, because their "success stories" just didn't add up.
Some inspired me to keep going.
And some made me feel like a total idiot -- like a kid "playing business," because I knew I could never be like them.
Well guess what, Phoebe??
They're gone.
PHHFFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!!
Right into oblivion!
So lemme see now... what are the possibilities?
They got so rich they all retired?
==>> Naaaaa. Their websites were all on autopilot. You would have to be an idiot to scrap a business that raked in the really-big bucks when you already had plenty of time to play, right?
They all made a *second* fortune selling their incredibly successful businesses?
==>> Naaaaa. If so, you'd be able to track that down on the net (and I'm not going to tell you how long I wasted trying to do just that) -- and their former sites sure wouldn't lead to those empty wastelands that say, "This domain for sale" or boards that have millions and millions of "URGENT! TYPISTS NEEDED!" ads posted on them.
They're kicked back sipping lemonade while a scribe records their experiences for posterity, and affiliates are now doing all the selling?
==>> Naaaaa. If so, their affiliates are doing a crappy job, because their books are missing in action.
They all left their "completely automated sites" to keep on truckin' while they went to live in the Bahamas?
==>> Nope. They're gone. Really, really gone.
Oh well, enough speculating... I've gotta get back to work now, confident in the knowledge that it's the pluggers like me who survive the test of time.
KEEP ON PLUGGIN', FELLOW PLUGGERS :-D
Luv,
MaaMaw
MaaMaw's Favorite Last-Chance Biz Opps -- Not A Scam In The Bunch!
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