Each and every one of them has some kind of downloadable
"freebie" that is supposed to help you in some way.
So naturally I gave up my name and email address to download
a few. Doesn't everyone?
I then went to read what was in these free downloads.
While reading them I began to think of the time I found a
fly in my soup.
I know you are probably asking now how and what could be in
these ebooks or reports that would remind me of that???
You see, I was in a very up scale restaurant late one night
and the back door had been propped open so they could take
out the trash. Maybe that's how the fly got in and somehow
ended up in the soup. That's my guess anyway!
Since I had been at a meeting for most of the afternoon I was
hungry but it was too late for a heavy meal so I just ordered
the soup. When the waiter brought me the soup I didn't bother
to stir it, I don't really like the cheese and sprigs of
greenery they put on top and I didn't want to mix it up in the
soup, so I kinda eat around it.
I dipped my spoon in and took a big bite.
UMM UMM Gosh that sure did taste good.
But when I dipped my spoon in again,I looked at it on the
way to my mouth, and I noticed something was there that did
not belong. There just floating a wee bit under the red sea
of my tomato soup was a fly.
I called the waiter over and showed him the fly and here is
what he said. "Oh my gosh, it's a fly!" I looked at him and
replied "Yes, I know that, so what are you going to do about
it?"
In a very serious way he said "Well we don't want anyone to
know about this or they may charge you more, after all soup
with meat in it has a higher price"
What?
Now I know you are smart enough to know what this is leading
to.
You see those ebooks and reports may be free and they
may contain some good information but the "fly" in your soup
is that to implement what you need to do to earn money, so the
ebook says, you have to spend money to get started.
You may need to purchase a domain name or pay a hosting fee or
some other fee.
And right there is an affiliate link for you
to click to buy whatever they say you need. Now this is where
you should stop and think....see this is how they are really
making their money, it's not with any program it's right there
in the free ebook/report. You purchase whatever they say and
they make a commission from that sale.
Then they ask if you would like to purchase the right to
rebrand the book. To do that you have to spend more money,
but that may not be so bad if it doesn't cost an arm or leg.
But remember you will have to become an affiliate of that
hosting site or whatever the links lead to and you may even
have to pay a monthly fee to join.
Yeah the ebook and/or report is free and you may have
learned from it but I don't want to pay extra for a fly
in my soup, do you?
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