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Questions and Answers will be made public in order to further help other innocent people looking for legitimate online income. Thank you for participating.

WendyRoan

**Here is the 2nd**

From Office Of The President African Development Bank (from: dkbank006@yahoo.co.jp)

Attn: Beneficiary,

You are inform that US$10M part payment has been approved in your name by world bank via AFD Bank, contact Rev.John Kampson for details on (revkampson_office1@maktoob.com).Being Lottery/Contract Payment. Approval No.WB/AFDB/50001/07.

Kaberuk(President)
Africa Dev Bank
- Donald Kaberuka President AFDB

Posted May 02, 2008

WendyRoan

I'm tired of getting emails like the following - and just deleting them, pretending they are not a problem. It occurs to me that there may be completely unsuspecting people out there who don't know these emails are scams: **Here is the 1st**

I WANT TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE POOR AND NEEDY THROUGH YOU (from: grahamdouglasssssss@yahoo.co.jp)

Dear Friend in Christ,
I am in need of your assistance, I want to make a donation to the poor and needy through you.

Before I became ill, I kept USd$ 3.5 Million in a long-term deposit account with Loys Bank in Repubilc of Ireland.

Thanks.

Graham Douglas
- Mr Graham Douglas

Posted May 02, 2008

WendyRoan

Dear Anonymous, you have asked me a tough one!

You see, I have been involved with Project Payday (early on, before I knew any better). For those of you who do not know... Project Payday is a program where ---this is the bottom line version--- you are paid by other marketers to enter into product and service trials and get paid for it. This is very risky business and you will be required to behave un-ethically. I did actually make $20. However, I lost money every time I forgot to end a trial period and had many very frustrating interactions with the trial service companies.

It's not their fault. I was engaging in inappropriate activity to begin with. I just didn't know it.

In addition, the whole work at home theme was based on a sort-of fishy, game-like "broker" activity.

I told you I would be 100% honest with no sugar-coating and my final word on this... I DO NOT RECOMMEND PROJECT PAYDAY

Posted April 09, 2008

Anonymous

What is your opinion about Project Payday?

Posted April 08, 2008

WendyRoan

Posted February 10, 2008

WendyRoan

Thank You for your question! It is unfortunate that there are so many unsolicited frauds coming from Canada into our email accounts. I am suspicious of email coming from obvious Canadian originations. It's a shame - because I work with very reputable Canadians as an internet marketer. However, they are legitimate businesses and don't send those VERY obvious attempts at extortion... (i.e., lottery)!

To answer your question: Two points of particular interest...

Did you notice the Press Release dated March 2007 from the Consumers Council of Canada? It appears to be legit. (see link above)

However, since you can never really be sure, there is an excellent resource available for checking it out. See very last link on the page under "Other Resources". (find link above)

I sure hope this helps you and puts you at ease.

Wendy J. Roan

Posted February 10, 2008

memorypower

I see the listing on Google that says "CCC is a scam," but the words look the same now matter the expert. How do you find who's good and what just wastes your money?

Posted February 10, 2008

Read about Affiliating Marketing in you spare time

"Network Marketing" vs. "Internet Marketing"

"They are both Legitimate Online Business Practices"

At this time I choose to focus solely on "Internet Marketing". In my opinion, Network marketing and Internet Marketing are two different forms of making money online.

Let me explain: I equate "Network" marketing with MLM (or Multi Level Marketing). Multi Level Marketing is sort of like purchasing the option to be involved in selling a product or earning percentages of units sold directly by you and then by anyone who you recruit into the business that is "below" you in a chain of other marketers who purchase the right to sell the same product/products.

Network Marketing is a valid method of earning money online. It is a real job. It's a "sales" job. It can pay well if you are actively recruiting members into your "downline" consistently.

Based on my own personal experience, here are some disadvantages with Multi Level Marketing (MLM - or Network Marketing):

1.
If you are already in a very bad financial situation, you are likely going to get into a worse situation if you are not 100% devoted to doing absolutely everything it takes to get people in your down-line.

2.
Most often, there are fees and required purchases for entering into business with an MLM company. Consider this your business investment, which in all reality, you are are entering into a business relationship and contract to become a distributor. So if this is realistic, and expected, why is it a disadvantage?

If you are venturing into working online because it has become your only viable source for income and you have NOTHING... you would have to somehow come up with the money to invest to get started, and with no guarantee of any success any time soon.

3.
When you are completely inexperienced with working online, you will have a large learning curve. That learning curve is going to cost you money. Experts can lay out everything for you, but there is a natural learning curve which must take place in order for you to comprehend or place the information into context. (This is actually true for all forms of marketing on the internet.)

4.
If you are not careful, you will pick up on some of the worst personal advice behavior I have ever seen. Some of the most successful network marketers have some very undesirable thought processes when it comes to cold calling and the attitude you should take with non-receptive people. If you are going to get into this business... please retain your personable traits and "take what you can use, and leave the rest". It's easy to get sucked in and become a follower... even for those of us who have never been "followers". When promises of money and riches come into play... you think you are getting the expert advice you need to succeed. Plenty of people have succeeded in MLM (network marketing) without becoming insensitive, demanding, and judgmental.

If you are a people-person, and have no problem cold-calling and interacting with people via parties and "salesman" mentality, then you might do ok. There is a term used quite frequently in the MLM profession, "law of averages". Simply put, this means that if you call 100 people in a day, at least a couple of them will "bite".

For me, personally, I am not a bubbly people person. I am a business oriented, love data, love writing, love working, love learning, and love teaching person. I choose not to interrupt peoples lives who are not looking for what I am offering. I don't like to be "bothered" and I choose not to bother others.

Have I dismissed the MLM profession? NO! I know who I am and I know what I want. I have made the decision to create a presence online, develop my advertising skills, understand the internet marketing community as a whole, and learn how to attract or advertise to people who WANT to be advertised to.

Once I have mastered those techniques, I will venture back into MLM in such a way that I will attract people into my business who are CONTACTING ME!

Can you see the power in that? This is all just purely my own opinion. You will learn very quickly that there are many opinions on this and every other internet marketing strategy on the internet.

Brief Intermission to Look at Some Interesting Marketing Trends

How to earn money at home on the internet

Internet Marketing vs. Network Marketing vs. Affiliate Marketing: This graph shows internet marketing remaining the top method for making money on the internet. Network marketing ( synonymous with mlm ) appears to be the next most popular search term of this series. I think many more people are searching for "mlm" to determine the following: whether or not it is legitimate, if it is risky, if it will help them get rich quick, and, basically, just doing a good job researching it. I know I did. Another thing to keep in mind, the search term "internet marketing" is a very broad and all-encompassing term. Still, this is a very interesting graph, don't you think?

Trends depict how to earn money on the internet

Affiliate vs. MLM vs. eCommerce: As I look at this graph, I see that the term "Affiliate" is being searched for much more often than both ecommerce and mlm search trends. To me, this reinforces my view that Affiliate Marketing is in the top three ways to earn money at home on the internet! I can only assume that people are searching for legal, realistic, and and respected forms of earning money online.

Take a Look at these Traffic Generation Trends

Video Ads vs. Social Marketing vs. Pay Per Click ads vs. Search engine optimization: From this statistical graph we can clearly see that pay per click advertising is practically non-existent, compared to Video, Social, and SEO traffic generation methods. I took the time to search for many variations on the pay per click search term... and they were all the same... Practically Non-Existent! Note how Video ads has a strong presence in search statistics. This is a very interesting trend graph. I am a huge proponent of using web 2.0 techniques to get traffic to your sites (whatever they may be).

So, then ... What is "Internet Marketing" ???

In my estimation, "Internet Marketing" is the equivalent to doing the following money making activities online:

Affiliate Marketing

Product Creation (and selling)

Educating (courses, etc)

Counseling / Consulting

Running Membership Sites (can include all of the above as benefits)

Direct Selling (drop-shipping, auctions, etc.)

There is, of course, a learning curve for understanding each of these methods of marketing as they pertain to the internet.

To participate in these legitimate work from home jobs, you will need to learn and implement some very important skills:

How to use new age marketing techniques to attract buyers (widely referred to as Web 2.0)

How to research and learn without getting caught up in information overload! (common challenge)

How to determine when and where to invest the money you haven't got into your online education and resources

How to collect and organize your "research" in such a way that you can easily find it on your hard drive again

How to spot and avoid scams or time and money wasters

How to "spy" on successful internet marketers to learn from them without getting sucked into every wonderful course and educational document out there

And, the list goes on (there's just too much to list here and I am writing articles on each of these topics in the near future)

Just know, this industry is work. While it's end goal is to provide you with more time and more passive income, for the beginners - it's a full-time job. Everything listed above is a bullet on your position description.

The downfall, -- there is a giant learning curve if you are dead serious and want to (or need to) make this your means of income.

Most likely, you will not make money right away. If someone (like me - or like many great internet marketers out there) could grab ahold of you right when you get on the internet to start your "work at home" research, and tell you step by step... this is what you do first... then this... etc.,

In summary, life is all about choices...

Do I Feel, and therefore Become Defeated?

Do I Feel, and therefore Become Empowered?

Do I Do Everything in MY Power to Make Things Work or to Work Toward a Solution?

Do I Live inside the Problem and Wish I was Dead? (because why live like this?)

Do I do "Network Marketing"?

Do I do "Internet Marketing"?

Do I Listen to Someone Who Has Been There?

Do I Learn from my Own Experience?

Do I Give Up?

Do I Work Toward Something Better - Always?

Is There a Difference? - You Decide...

"Networking Marketing" vs. "Internet Marketing"

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They are NOT the same!

WendyRoan says:

I understand your frustration with MLM. I think if you have a good, solid foundation on the internet (i.e., people know who you are and you know how to market and who to market to)-- it can be a lucrative and honest business. It takes time, practice, training, and a good, honest, and ethical product or service.

Posted April 09, 2008

Anonymous says:

I agree they are not the same. And, I hate MLM!

Posted April 08, 2008

WendyRoan says:

I agree

Posted March 20, 2008

WendyRoan says:

Of course I believe that "Network Marketing" and "Internet Marketing" are not the same! I wrote the article :)

Posted March 19, 2008

They ARE the same

WendyRoan says:

It's not fun being in a duel with myself! :) But I'll be the "devil's advocate"

Posted March 20, 2008

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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.

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That guy is amazing. Thank you for sharing Wendy.

Posted April 08, 2008

WendyRoan

Thank you, Mark and Melody! I very much appreciate your comments. Visit anytime... Regarding my story, it's sad to say that in the last year I have come to know many people suffering from similar diseases and conditions. I wish I had been more aware BEFORE I walked in their shoes. Now I know, and now I deal. And what I DON'T do is give up. :)

Posted March 18, 2008

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Blessings to you. Great lens.

Posted March 16, 2008

Mark Wadinski

Wendy,

I applaud your courage and your story is amazing. Anyone can have success online, all they need is the right coach. There are no secrets to anything, and success is a matter of "State of Mind Control".

Mark Wadinski
http://excel.myjetstream.net

Posted March 16, 2008

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Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch -- http://www.randypausch.com -- is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center -- http://www.etc.cmu.edu -- and creator of the Alice -- http://www.alice.org -- software project. The slides for this lecture and high-res downloadable versions of this and other lectures can be found at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/.

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