You can’t open up a shop and expect floods of customers to walk through your door. So don’t expect it to happen online.
Red Flag #2: My Only Product Will Teach You How to Make Money Online!
Now, honestly there are some legitimate marketers who’s main business is to teach. But if you do your research, you’ll be able to find pages and pages of independent information regarding that person, and they usually are also endorsed or work with larger trusted companies or publications. Jeremy Palmer has earned awards from Commission Junction. Rosalind Gardner writes for Revenue Magazine.
The key differentiator is that they are teaching from experience. Both of these people haven’t always sold internet training programs, they learned the ropes first.
I have an acquaintance, who shall remain nameless, who tried to sell a marketing training program, but I knew first-hand he wasn’t teaching from experience. His web site had a Google Page Rank of 0, his Alexa rank was around 7,000,000. A Google search on his name produced his personal Geocities blog with his ‘fat’ pictures that he took as he was trying to lose weight from 2 years prior. If the person who wants to train you on internet business can’t build his own link credibility, his own traffic, and can’t even manage his Google reputation properly, you DON’T want to hire him to teach you how to run a business online.
Red Flag #3: Our BBB Profile is Clean!
In this day and age, you can rename, re-brand, and re-scam new ‘clients’ in less than a day. Sadly, unless you have a way to prove that this company has been doing business under this name for a good length of time, the BBB isn’t very helpful.
You can check the age of the domain name of the site that is offering the opportunity through WhoIs. Do a search on a domain, and it will tell you the “Created On:” date, or provide a link to the registrar that has that information. I’d consider it a big red flag if their domain was recently registered, and would immediately pass it up to find a more established program.
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