A Small Business in a Box
I received an email on Monday from a lady who wanted to exchange links with this site. I have to admit that over the years I’ve received many requests for such link exchanges and they all sound exactly the same.
“I’ve visited your site and I think a link exchange would benefit both of us. I’ve already put a link to your site up here (usually a page that no one will ever see - and quite often has no way of being found from any other page on the site) and in exchange I would like a prominent link on your site.”
These requests usually come from people who have bought what could best be described as a website in a box. They’re a bit like the field rations we used to have in the Army - powder and chunky bits that you tipped out of a package and after adding hot water they turned into something that rarely looked or tasted like what the label on the packet said.
This link request came from one of those ‘just add water’ sites and after doing a little digging on the site I found that the person who wrote to me had paid around $297 for this ticket to fame and fortune.
The hype on the page that advertised the site sounded wonderful but was just hype. Few people, other than the person who is peddling the scheme have the ability to turn cruddy template sites like that into real money so avoid them like the plague.
There is no shortcut to making money on the Net - and if there was do you really think you could buy it for just $297 with thousands of dollars of freebies thrown in to sweeten the deal?
