After 12 months of turmoil in both my personal and business world,I am now embarking on a new journey in life,both homeless,jobless and in debt to the tune of $320,ooo dollars I have what I can see as only two options.

Number 1 is to rise to the challenge of re inventing myself and  put behind me the money I have wasted on so called internet gurus who promise that if you buy their program you will make money.Fifty thousand dollars and two years on and I am no closer to making the money they claim that their  programs would teach me how to do.

Number 2 is to give up and become a bag lady drinking from a brown paper bag in my local park and talking to random strangers about the unfairness of how life treats you,for all that you have given to those around you.

I have decided to chose option number 1 and approach life’s obsticles from a different angle.I will no longer fall victim to brainwashing sales letters of  the next big how to make money on the internet sales letters that flood my inbox on a daily basis.It is now with amusement more than anything that the guru’s who have just convinced you to part with your hard earned cash to buy there latest make money course,because it is guarenteed to make you money,is now sending you another email with another course that is going to make you rich.

If the first course is going to make guarenteed income why do you need the next one they are  promoting or the next or the next,so my fellow bloggers if you are thinking like me right now you will see that the only people who are making the big dollars,are the gurus who are selling the how to make money on the internet courses. 

I am by no means stupid and I am a fast learner,I have been to seminar after seminar of some of the richest internet gurus in the world,and I am about to attend another in New Zealand in a weeks time,there is no doubt in my mind that every speaker there will be selling there must have  programe of how you too can become rich if you follow there overly priced course.Most of which the information can be found for free on the internet if you look hard enough.

So why am I attending this seminar,to pick the brains of others,I have found at some of these seminars,that some people,not all will without realise they are doing it give you valuable information for free.I have picked up a lot of tips and tricks that can be used in both my online and offline life.And by networking with like minded people,usually gets me to even more seminars,that costs me zero to attend,so therefore more free tips and tricks.

So as part of rising to the challenge of changing my path in life I have decided that i am going to share with all my fellow bloggers,the good,the bad and ugly truth about the courses i have bought tried and failed with,am i selling these to you absolutely not,you can check out the links read the testimonials and make your own decision as to whether they are worth wasting your money on,but here’s a hint before you do.Be sure to check out scam watch and read the forums,I only wish I did.

1.How to make money with ebay,Matt and amanda clarkson,currently selling gym equipment,wrote a programe called bidding buzz,showing you how you can make unstoppable income on ebay,they are selling different levels of this course you can buy just the basic course most of which the information is readily available for free on ebay itself ,or become a jv  partner at a bargain  price of $17,500 which doesn’t give you much more or for a mere $50,000 buy a franchise,and take other peoples hard earned cash.

2.Opportunity Ave this $11,500 dollar course gives you done for you websites,with turnkey,affiliate and niche sites where all you do is change a few pieces of code,add your own domain name and viola,you are an internet success,they even do most of the work for you where they will design your own ebook website to promote your own product they have written for you,I must say after seeing what they wrote for me to promote,my 10 year old grandson could do a better job,I for one would not pay for the ebook they wrote for me.

3.Michael Chenney golden thread this gives you seven cash cannons,with videos showing how to edit and up load to your own domain names that you choose for the already written sales letters,selling you guessed his how to make money programes,very involved and time consuming,this site now takes you to a report called the delta squadron report,where they can capture your email to send you even more how to make money on the internet courses.I can’t exactly remember how much i paid for this one but somewhere around $2000.

Ewen Chai Succeeded,this one is mainly about affiliate marketing,and how he too spent well in excess of $50,000 and made nothing,it has lots and lots of how to videos,for you to learn what you need this one is $497  with  a 60 day guarentee money back if you don’ t make money.The big surprise here is if they are guarenteed to make you money they shouldn’t need to add  a money back guarentee.hmmm.

4.Ewen Chai Fast track cash,this one is another affiliate course at a price of $47 or you can buy the resell rights for $97  this one you make money selling his fast track cash programe,it gives you all the how to videos mainly about putting your links on blogs and forums and creating slideshows and videos for email marketing.Ewen also has a book called how I made my first million on the internet and how you can too.

5.Brett Mcfall Warpies Program,this one is a step by step lessons delivered to your inbox on a regular basis and dvds delivered to your door once a month for 12 months programe at a cost of $3997.The lessons could be in a better order as they show you how to set up a paypal processor before you build your thank you page,given you need to add your thankyou page to your paypal button,this would be confusing to a newbie,their web builder of choice is big pixie which has a cost of $39.95 per month for hosting per site which is quite expensive if you wish to have multiple sites,no surprise to learn they are affiliated with the software company.He is also the author of the best selling book how to make money while you sleep.

6.Mike Enos, Buy  your niche site.This guy sells niche sites already done for you  at a  cost of $895 each with a pieces of code to edit and affiliate sites to join you should be making money in no time right? wrong,these are shopping comparison sites and unless you spend half your days writing articles,visiting forums and using ppc campaignes like the rest of  all them,you will never be found.He has also just set up an automated program called instantnichemaker.com which will build a niche site in 21 seconds,these are blog themed sites which all look the same,at a cost of $4.95 for a two week trial and then $147 a  year with $47 per month per site.You can cancel after 14 days with no penalty (we will see) These sites have all sorts of content on them,there is an option of linking your own domain and changing various other things,I haven’t spent too much time on these in the two days i have been with them but i have had replies to my posts that are on there so I know that some traffic finding them.Once again you have to put in your data feed file number.

7.John Thornhills Masterclass,the verdict is still out on this one,I bought his program in 2009 and if you have read my previous blog the turmoil i have had in my life did not allow me to give my full focus,so when he announced his upgraded 2010 lifetime course for $1497 I jumped on board,a bit disappointing that he is sending his students links to other peoples courses to buy,again if his course does make you money why would he be asking us to purchase someone elses,and again it comes back to the people who are marketing the how to make money on the internet courses  are making the money,not the people doing the courses.

8.Omni business solutions,this one comes at a cost of $4997 and is run by jeremy cobb,this one includes weekly coaching calls with a training session you can go through in between,it is all about building a website from scratch with keyword optimized pages to get you ranked at the top with google.So therefore finding your niche using keywords is what it is all about,and having that product that people want to or are willing to pay for.

9.Home  job placement,This one is run by jeniffer johnson and is all about placing ads in various papers and on different sites that is suppose to pay you a commission,they offer a refund but no matter how hard you try and after numerous emails and phone calls you will not get your money back,my experience with this one is stay away.

10.Global Cash Flow Network,This course is by mary gersten it is all about media placement and your sites act as a referal site for places like amazon whereas if people buy from your site instead of amazon direct you will get paid a fee.You can have you own business cards that you can purchase through vista,and you can put links in your blogs and in forums to drive the traffic to your site.At a cost of $199 dollars it will be refunded after 12mths if no money is made.

So this is just 10 of the many courses I have bought and there a numerous others sitting on my hard drive at costs from $47 dollars,from various other gurus such as mike filsame,jim cockrum,pete godfrey,armid morin,dave quidon,russell brunson,and many many more.

In time I will be writing an ebook about all of these courses in depth and the pros and cons of  what they have to offer,until then I hope by checking out the links and scam watch it will save you a ton of time and money.

Here’s to Your Health and Wallet

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