Make Money Online Scam

So, you've just discovered the concept of how to make money online and you excitedly look at all these wonderful, flashy websites with pictures of shiny new sportscars and expensive houses saying that you, yes YOU, can become the next internet millionaire in just 1 week!! "WOW", you squeal, "I want that!!", and then you proceed to get sucked into the most common online scam there is: How to get rich quick. The answer: You don't.

I'm disheartened whenever I see such ads with all the photos of hot cars, jewelry and giant homes because I know someone will get blinded by them. The cold, honest truth is that MOST people who try to earn some money on the interent will FAIL, and miserably. They either make nothing at all or they make a few bucks and end up quitting 3-4 months down the road because it's a waste of time for the amount earned.

The biggest part of the problem is not that you CAN'T make money (because, in fact, you CAN), but rather, that you've been lead astray by "gurus" and scammers into believing it's EASY (which it isn't). Most people are first introduced into the whole "making money online" concept by some catchy landing page for an ebook telling you how simple it is to make huge piles of cash in your sleep and the "proof" is always some garage full of cars and a beautiful woman holding a wad of cash. You DO know that's fake, right??

So, you're basically already set up for failure because of unrealistic claims of making $20,000 in 2 days or $1,000,000 by next Tuesday, before you even get started. If someone, like myself, had told you instead right from the start that it would be a lot of hard work with many hours put in every day, AND you probably wouldn't even make anything at all for at least 3 months, would you still be as enthusiastic? Would you even bother to try then?

I'm sick to death of all these false, totally unrealistic claims made by scammers just trying to con you out of your money and then leaving your dreams shattered on the floor. The really ironic thing is that you actually CAN make some money, if you do it the right way, but so many people start off by getting conned that they give up completely, without even trying something that could truly work out for them!

That's why I started this blog...to show you what can be accomplished, if you're willing to work hard for it. Am I rich? NO, of course not!! But I do own a house that's paid for, with no mortgage, plus a brand new Honda that is also paid off with no monthly payments. I make a living working from my own home, with no boss, and you can too!

Just be realistic in your expectations. Do NOT expect riches overnight and do not pay attention to any of those crappy ebooks that say you can earn in your sleep and "wake up to piles of cash" sent by "hungry buyers" while you do nothing. They're junk! Someone even put together a parody website to show everyone just how ridiculous these sites really are. Check out the buy my stupid ebook page!

Last month I was arguing with a woman in a forum about a sales thread she had made that claimed you could "Retire in 10 weeks" using her program. I asked her why she was making such wild claims and told her she definately would not be retiring in 10 weeks! Of course she got mad at me, and defensive, and said I didn't know what her network could do. Well, no, it's true that I don't know everything, but I certainly know hype when I see it, and while I explained that I never said her program was a "make money online scam", I DO think she was lying, misguided or misled into believing such over-the-top claims.

After further discussion she admitted that she didn't think she'd be retiring anytime soon, but that she had made SOME money with this company. Ahhhhh, see? That wasn't so difficult now, was it?? That's what more people should do! Instead of making wild, unrealistic claims that smell of online scams, they should just try being honest for a change. "No, I didn't get rich, but I DID make $XXX amount of dollars." I'd be MUCH more willing to join someone who was honest with me right from the start than one who is trying to pull the wool over my eyes from step one! Wouldn't you agree?

That's what I try to do here with full disclosure, including screenshots and actual scans of the checks I've received. You won't see me holding some fake check for $100,000 but you WILL see honest earnings proof from an average guy who earns a living working from home.

How To Backup Blog Posts

It's important to always make a backup of your blog posts EVERY time you post to save you from potential trouble in the future. As the saying goes "Shit DOES happen" and you have to be prepared for it. Your blog might get deleted or your host could go down or any number of technical difficulties.

I learned my lesson the hard way with a free hosted blog site where all the blogs there got hacked and everyone lost what they wrote. I had 6 months worth of blogposts there that were lost! While many people spent hours putting together the pieces of their broken sites, if we had made backups then it all would have been fixed in less than a minute!

So, here is how to backup your blogposts for the 2 most common ones, Wordpress and Blogspot:

- In WP you simply go to the left side of your dashboard and look under "tools" where it says import and export. Click on "export" and then download for ALL authors (to make sure you get everything) and save it to your computer. What you are downloading is what is called an XML file containing all your blogpost content, as well as the comments made by others for each post. Then, if you ever need to rebuild your blog, or if you decide to transfer to another host, it will be an easy move!

If you ever need to use the file to recover your website or restart again on a new host account, then simply click "import" wherever your fresh new blog is installed and pick "Wordpress" from the list. Then browse to where your XML file was saved and, like magic, your empty blog will be filled with all your old posts intact!!

You'll also notice there are many other blogging platforms listed under the import section. That's because you can transfer your posts from many other sites into your WP blog, including taking what you have written at blogger.com and importing it to a WP blog!

So, how do we get all the posts from Blogger/Blogspot?

- When logged in, go to "settings" and under the basic section you'll see import/export. To save all your blog posts as a backup file to your computer, just click "export" and then "download blog". You're done!

The "import" function works basically like described above. Just click browse and find your XML file and follow the directions.

Creating blog backups should never be a scary thing. It literally only takes 10 seconds just to grab the export after each post, so do it EVERY time you write something!! That goes with ANY website you have. Be sure to save website mysql database zips to your comp on a regular basis too. Don't wait until it's too late!!