Hi from South Africa

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Permalink Reply by Carola Meyer on March 19, 2009 at 6:57pm

Hi Joan,

I'm afraid I'm no good at videos, but the last part of your message strikes a chord - like so many others I've spent years trying out dozens of "must-have" turnkey business opportunities that promised, even guaranteed, a fortune and turned out to be pretty useless to me, either because they were cleverly designed to make the founder and a few others rich on other people's money or because I simply couldn't figure out what I was meant to do. Or couldn't afford the advertising and other extras. Or I would get distracted by the next "must-have", and so the cycle would continue. Definitely been there, done that, lost the t-shirt!

I now have only three things I promote:

(a) One is a lovely, down-to-earth South African venture, which you can find at www.behappynow.tk. I recommend this for its simplicity and good value, even should you choose not to make a business of it. The free gifts give an excellent oversight of what makes Internet business work (or not).

(b) The second, www.seesa.ws, is an international MLM system that brings in useful pocket money for me, and bigger money for people who put in a lot more effort.

(c) The third is what I'm using now to really learn the ropes of internet marketing - at last! I wish I'd found this a lot earlier, though perhaps then I wouldn't have appreciated quite what it has to offer. It's an online course teaching all the skills one needs to create and run a profitable internet business, for a one-off reasonable payment that's lower than the cost of most local one-day seminars. If you're serious about any form of Internet marketing, I recommend investing your time in ProfitLance. You'll learn solid skills that will apply to whatever you choose to do - and it'll help you choose the best vehicle for you. I wish I'd done this years ago... but I didn't, so I'm doing it now. (And editing to make a living in the meanwhile.)

Whatever you do, avoid any system that doesn't provide something of real value (a product or service) to the marketplace - such schemes may work briefly, but cannot be sustainable and honest. I blogged on this last night at http://flagondry.blogspot.com/, if you want more detail.

Hope that helps a little - and saves you a lot!

All the best
Carola
www.skilltrain.tk

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