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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Network Marketing - Is it worth it? (Simon)
Monday, 21 February 2005, at 6:34 a.m.
> I'm new to the network marketing affiliate program make money at home
> deals and am looking to see if anyone has had any success with it?
> This program I entered seems great, and it is based on registering a new
> domain, which I'm always willing to do.
> Good, bad, indifferent?
I've been seeing a lot of spam lately from members of this program. Since the beginning of the WorldSite company, they've used spam to advertise the availability of .ws domains.
Basically, nobody who's thinking very deeply would believe that a .ws suffix would be an adequate alternative to a .com or .net top level domain. "WS" actually belonged to Western Samoa the same way that the ".to" TLD belongs to the Kingdom of Tonga.
In your case, you display a fatal flaw right off the bat: misspelling a critical part of your domain name: HomeBasedBusinessOppurtunity. There is only one "u" in opportunity.
I'm interested how they are advising you to advertise this site of yours. They claim: "You will be given access to a virtually unlimited supply of these leads for just pennies each." Where do they get these leads to sell you? Have you asked that question? Do you know why it's a critical question to ask? (Answer: So you won't be accused of being a spammer if these are harvested addresses and you don' thave confirmed permission to send them your email.)
And how did you first hear about this "oppurtunity"? In spam?
If you really want to make money in the domain registration and hosting reseller business, I'd recommend you sign up as a GoDaddy reseller using Wild West Domains (http://www.wildwestdomains.com) for $99 a year, and then you can set your own price markup on top of the GoDaddy price, and go for it. Of course, they won't supply "leads" for pennies apiece for you to market, or a flashy flash movie to motivate new participants attracted more by sparkly shiny bits than real substance. But you will be registering people for real TLDs like .com and .net (and even the marginal ones like .biz and .info) and not sharing your revenue with any parasitical upline.
But you won't be selling useless domains in the .ws hierarchy, whose only purpose is to induce others to join the pyramid.
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