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Question: Where Can I Learn More About Internet Marketing?

I see a lot of ads when I search on google about home business and making money online, I guess this is what internet marketing is all about, but there’s so many different websites offering different products.

So where can I go to learn more about this without having to sign up or buy something first, I mean the real truth about this stuff and not the hype I seem to run into everywhere else I go.

Answer: Hello.

Internet Marketing is a very broad subject and there are many ways to learn about it. One way is to take a class at your local college or university. Most schools now offer at least a basic course in their business schools.

Another way is to search for forums on internet marketing. The warrior forum comes to mind. There are a lot of smart marketers there with very good ideas on making money online.

To really succeed though, you will have to decide on what your business will be selling, because that’s what it is all about, selling and making money, at least in the beginning.

After having a significant amount of success, most marketers go into teaching to help others out, while at the same time making even more money from their home study courses.

There are many more ways to learn about this, but forums is a very good start.

Hope this helps.

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Question: Google’s advertising employment for stay-at-home folks. Is it legit?

Google is advertising that you can now work for them from home (see http://www.marysmoneyblog.com/index.php?t202id=7465&t202kw=blueeyes ) The ad says, “Get paid $5 to $30 for every website link that you post on Google. No one needs to buy anything from you or Google in order to get paid. Weekly paychecks. Can work from home computer.” Is this legit? Thank you.

Answer: This is a basically a scam, and a prolific one. You will find numerous emails, websites, etc. pointing out how easy it is to do this. Google is not hiring people to work from home (not in this way, at least), and, if they were, they would be using their own website to promote it, not marysmoneyblog.com.

A couple links you may find helpful:

http://yourbiz.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/18/362866.aspx

http://homebusiness.about.com/od/workingathome/a/workfromhomenot.htm

Are general ones about this type of scam.

http://www.employment911.com/cs/blogs/work-at-home/archive/2008/10/27/The-Google-Work-at-Home-Scam-Explained.aspx

Adresses this specific scam

I would take a hard look at the link you posted above. If you click on the links that the blog suggests, you are taken to a site that is clearly misrepresenting, if not fraudulent. For instance, look at all the network logos: MSN, CNN, CNBC, USA Today at the top. Doesn’t this suggest that there have been endorsements from these networks? Yet read the fine print at the bottom of the page, and it is clear that they have no relationship with this site.

If you want to make money with Google’s Ad product, it will actually take long, hard work.

I commend your question — glad to know that people are critically thinking about this kind of thing.

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