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A follow-up to my November 27, 2012 post with the same title minus the 'Revisited'.
I completed approximately twenty percent of the internet business course and did receive some professional instruction. I did receive a percentage of my money back. My financial position has not been impaired.
Over the years my Mother and I, with me homecaring, especially my Mom, have looked into various internet ventures/business, mostly from the United States which involve affiliates. I gather she spent a considerable amount, attempting to make a living. I am not going to estimate here how much on such ventures such as affiliate marketing.
I think most of them offer hypothetical opportunities of making large incomes, or smaller incomes, but in reality gathering such affiliates is not just extremely hard work, but is just extremely difficult to do, period.
Notice I wrote an ebook/e-book which is listed in my publications. The course I took on ebook writing started off professional enough with some good suggestions on how to actually set-up a decently good website and produce an professional ebook, as I have done, but then the course actually did not even finish!
The writing literally stopped in the course on a webpage. It was actually as if the seemingly previously, honest and caring course host and man I paid the money to got to the point where he knew the money would be safe in hand and thought, 'Oh well, I did what I needed to do, I have my money, why bother finishing the course'. He did state some information on finding affiliates to assist selling an ebook prior to that point, but finding affiliates for ebooks would require posting on discussion boards and becoming known after months and years!
That was his best idea.
So, when I signed up for the ebook course the relative ease of setting up a successful ebook is over-emphasized and the extreme difficulty of selling an ebook through affiliates or by oneself is not emphasized.
Typical.
I also, as noted on the previous post completed a copywriting course, as my Mother paid for it as a gift while I was without a PhD advisor for a time. I was not visiting Wales or the UK.
So, I begrudgingly agreed, being very sceptical.
What I was taught has helped me with some aspects of blog marketing, such as headlines, I suppose, but I remember stating to Mom after I received a high grade on my first assignment,'Mom, just watch, they will give me a lower grade with more criticisms on the second assignment, which I will do much better on having learned, and then they will strongly suggest I pay more money for the Master's course'.
I stated that it was a con.
Sure enough, that is exactly what they did. The formerly very friendly teacher had turned a bit stern. If I wanted to make it as a copywriter and sit on beach was the type of pitch.
Surprise, surprise.
The Shadow knows...
As well, as I deduced at the time and more so later, if one wants to be a copywriter, one usually attends University or college and earns a BA.
Today, via my credit card bill, I had two large charges from a certain US state that I have never been to, and the amounts are more than any web service, as in security, I pay for. My brother, as I was thinking, suggested it may be someone connected to that internet company in the United States that I had dealings with in 2012 or associates, and I agree it could very well be as noted, but of course it is just speculation. So, I called my bank/credit card company and now have a cancelled credit card for four to seven days until a new one can be issued.
I have given up on internet based businesses with persons I do not know personally, and instead will work with my brother and family with Seacret Direct, which is skin care from the Dead Sea.
At least with my family I can see a level of success and know many of the people I am working with.
