I’ve given my two cents about why I can’t help it if I despise “gurus” especially if they’re the type who are helping you to make money.
If you read my blog when I started it back in 2005, I have this intense dislike/distaste for people who con others into believing that making money online is something you do while you sip your Tiger beer and lol about on a hammock.
What’s wrong with the picture of paradise is this: sounds too good to be true. But hey, judging by the people who greedily sign up for make-money-online-for-free seminars and workshops, you’d think the world would be populated with billionaires sipping beers on their own private Necker Islands.
But there aren’t.
And Here’s Why…
I’m not sure which annoys me more - the gullible folks who sign up or the guru. The folks (ok, maybe they’re not gullible, they’re probably greedy) sign up for seminar after seminar wanting to learn the latest, incredible secret of making money online.
Hello people? Are you awake? Haven’t you learnt that there’s nothing new under the sun? The same business models and fundamentals apply.
And do you even know why the seminar guy is getting his private island in the sun? Because everyone signs up to learn from a guy who just got his guru credentials a year ago by following his guru’s teachings!
The mad rush to sell anything online reminds me of the olden days when every Chinese wanted to hop on a ship and go to San Francisco. That’s the Gold Mountain. Literally. These days, the gold mountain is in the internet and you’re stupid if you don’t want to get into the newest money-making venture. Or so they say.
The Quick Guide to Making Money…
Don’t need experience, don’t even need money (free blog sign ups are plenty).
Can’t write? Never mind. Mine the article directories or hire a ghost writer (find plenty of cheap cheap writers from Third World countries). Don’t even get me started on how the First World views the Third World countries as sources of ultra-cheap labour. It’s probably the fault of Third World countries anyway for falling over themselves to offer the cheapest services or products. Don’t do that. Have some dignity please.
No product? Never mind. Grab other peoples’ products and become an affiliate. Or get those private label rights stuff.
No ideas? Never mind. Just interview a bunch of people you like and know and who’ve made a smidgen of dough online and together you can create an info product to sell. And hopefully you’ll all be cackling to the bank.
No marketing sense? Just pay out fat commissions to people who are willing to sell your products on their blogs (ergo become your affiliates) and you’ve got it all covered.
More Acid Than The Rain That Falls
Here’s more for you. I found two bloggers who are eloquently state their positions on this. One says he has more ideas than some people’s pathetic attempt to make money online with a dead guy and the other makes his case why making money online blogs should be killed. Oh and even this guy who makes 30K a month says it’s bloody hard work. … sorry, I just can’t help rubbing it in!
I always say: do what you LOVE and the money will follow. Not “what shall I do that makes me pots of money?” There’s a distinct difference, you know.