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Most of you are joining different money making programs because of the promise that you will leave behind a poor or not so good situation and you will become a wealthy person.

Before going straight to the point, let me tell you a short story that is based on a similar dirty trick like the owners of some of those money making programs use to … DECEIVE you.

There was a shop and anyone passing by could read a big banner that said, “50% off on any product“.

Attracted by that banner, many people entered and purchased different things.

The business was booming, the customers were quite happy.

Well, this seems great, right? The problem is that inside the shop, in a corner, very hardly visible, there was a small banner that said, “The 50% sale ended one week ago. All the prices are now regular.”

Oops! How is this trick? Isn’t it DIRTY? Were not the customers deceived?

There is a very similar dirty trick that no one tells you about …

You know the ads that promise you to make thousands of dollars by the end of the week or even to become millionaire by the end of the year?

Click on any link from those ads and scroll down the page that is loading.

At the bottom of the page, where no one reads what’s there, usually there is a link called “Earnings Disclaimer“. Sometimes the font is so tiny that even if you scroll down the page if you’re no longer very young … you may not see the link.

Click on that link and read what follows. You don’t know what’s there, do you? Let me tell you: that page tells you that you WON’T make the amount of money mentioned on the front page of the site or in the ads. The figures are FOR EXAMPLE only.

Here is an example taken from such a program’s website.

The promise from the front page:

“If you really want to start working, from the comfort of your own home, and earn anywhere between $100 and $1275, or more, every single day then you really should read this entire page and take action right away.”

The Earnings Disclaimer page from the same website:

“There is no guarantee that you will earn any money using the techniques and ideas in these materials.”

Of course the whole page usually is written ALL CAPS so that to be hard to read.

How is this?

Let’s make a better Internet and stop promoting such money making programs!

Streamline Magic is the newest money making program that is very much advertised these days over the internet.

Money making programs of this type is not my kind of programs, but, you know, everybody is doing what she or he wants … as long as it’s legal. I don’t have any problem with Streamline Magic or other money making programs but I am really annoyed by so called Joint Venture proposals I receive.

Here it’s an example.

My name is … My husband and I are raising our family here in Wisconsin.

I am involved with the very well known Streamline Magic system. The reason I am contacting you is because I am looking to joint venture with people like you. You have large lists of biz opp. prospects. My system has an extremely high conversion rate. The company we use with the system has launched a new enhancement to their proven long term residual based compensation plan that will change this industry.

I will split all bonus commissions generated through your list’s 50% - 50% with you.( I make $50 to $125 per sale and $25 to $75 a sale of any of those peoples sales to infinity!) All we do is send our presentation out to your prospects. You may choose to stay anonymous if you like. I can provide you with your own url so that you can keep track of all our sales.

As you will see it’s $29.95 to purchase our system. I will paypal you the $29.95 once you lock in. Once you see what we put together you will understand. I know that this can be a profitable joint venture.

Please let me know what you think. If you would like, feel free to contact me by phone.
My cell # …

So basically what is the JV proposal? I am supposed to check the salesletter of this program and if I like it and decide to promote it …

Instead of joining it, promote it and keep 100% of the profit … I am invited to promote it and keep 50% of the profit while my JV partner does nothing and keep the other 50%.

Great! Do you really think the ezine publishers are stupid and you’re so smart? No, ezine publishers are not stupid and if you promote such a JV you’re just a scammer. This is not a joint venture. You’d better stop what you’re doing and learn what a joint venture is.

All these Joint Venture proposals are almost identical. Only the first paragraph and the cell number is different. It’s very clear that people are copying this JV text from somewhere. Is Streamline Magic teaching its members to be scammers? I hope not!

First of all, what is SpinSuccess?

According to their website, SpinSuccess is a search engine submission service specialized in “promoting top earning affiliate web sites” that guarantees that they can do the same for you “no matter what type of web site that you use for your business“.

Here is one of their first statements:

“Here at SpinSuccess, we have been helping our clients gain staggering amounts of search engine exposure since December of 1999.”

If you check WhoIs database you find out that SpinSuccess.com has been created on March 2004. Oops!

One of their first promises is that “Our team will first manually submit your site to the top 15 search engines“. What exactly are these top 15 search engines in their opinon it’s not very clear. However, they use some logos on their website and you may suppose that the logos belongs to these top 15 search engine.

Let’s take a look at some of the logos:

1) DMOZ - this is not a search engine but a directory. More than this, your affiliate website will never be accepted in this directory. Read here DMOZ policy.

2) Altavista - this is finally a search engine but … Altavista does not have its database of websites but use Yahoo!’s database. So … no one can submit your website to Altavista. Check here and see for yourself.

3-4) Lycos & Hotbot - Hotbot’s Help page states very clear that “Lycos does not have a website submission form for Lycos Search or HotBot“. No one can submit your website to Hotbot or Lycos …

5) AOL - AOL uses Google, no one can submit your website to AOL.

6) About.com - is not a search engine

No more comments … but a final remark …

SpinSuccess also states that “in order to ensure indexing, your site must be submitted to the major search engines by hand“.

Sorry, but that’s a lie. There is nothing wrong to submit your website by hand to the major search engines, but this is NOT a must for ensuring indexing of your website.

Get a free blog hosted by Wordpress, post a few posts for a couple of days and you’ll see that your website will be indexed by Google very soon if your website’s link is inserted in the posts of your blog. Or register with a forum having a high traffic - like Warrior Forum - setup your signature so that to contain your website’s URL, post a few comments on the forum and within a few days your website is indexed by Google. Without ANYONE submitting your website “to the major search engines by hand”.

Now you decide what is the answer to the question from the title of this article …

Usually when there is something wrong with a company or program, the people immediatelly start screaming SCAM! Well, in the real world there are more colors than black and white. That’s why I really cannot say that SpinSuccess is a scam. However, what it’s very clear is that they don’t know what they are talking about … or … they mislead the visitors in order to make them buy (not very nice marketing techinique anyway).