Get rich schemes are indeed very attractive for men and women regardless of who we are. It is the desire of everyone to be rewarded with the riches and abundance.
But does get rich schemes work? Yes, sometimes they really do. And you can really get a handsome reward for that. But many times, participants of the get rich schemes lost their money.
Get rich schemes can be in the form of ponzi schemes, autosurf, mlm, etc. They take money from you (they will call it investments), sometimes in exchange for a product or service that really doesn’t worth as much. But always, the selling point is that they will promise a good return for your investment.
Some of this schemes will take your money and just disappear. But the more organised ones will operate for quite some time, giving the investment returns for those asking to get back the investments, funding it with the money collected from new investments. When the confidence grows and more and more people are willing to put more money on the schemes, that is when the operator of the schemes disappear with the money.
So, do they work? Yes. As easy example. If today you put in $10,000 into a Studio Traffic ( http://www.studiotraffic.com ), your account level will be $100,000 after 9 months. After that, you can get $33,000 every months just surfing Internet. But as you can see, the risk here is that we don’t know how long studiotraffic will survive. If it survive forever, you get your money $33,000/month forever. If it closes down tommorrow, all your money go down the drain.
If you are more willing to learn, and go slowly, capturing opportunities around, working with other poeple to acquire the riches, I’ll suggest you to read around, looking for ideas, and gain knowledge along the way. But of course, that’s if you are willing to accept delayed gratification, which not everyone does.
March 10th, 2006
It depends on how you want to make your money. You might want to make your question clearer. What do you mean by “Internet business”? What do you mean by “web sites I can use for free” ?
1. Having your own website
If this is what you mean, you need a domain name and a web hosting.
Domain name is your Internet address, e.g. www.my-own-web-site.com
Some web hosting companies will include free domain name if you buy their hosting package, but don’t count on that. Domain name is cheap. You can get one for less than 10$ per year at http://www.godaddy.com . Good selection of a web hosting provider is more important.
Web hosting is where you store your files.
There are many websites providing free hosting, some will give you a sub-domain name, i.e. http://your-name-blah-blah-blah.freewebs.com .
These free hostings provide free hosting in exchange for exposure to their own website.
Some of the more popular ones are http://members.freewebs.com/ or http://www.bravenet.com/
For a good list of free web hosting providers, you can see
http://www.free-webhosts.com/best-free-webhosts.php
If you are serious about making money, I strongly recommend putting some investment. Paid hostings are more reliable, more presentable, easier to maintain, have less restriction, and load faster.
Addaction ( http://www.addaction.net )is a good start. If you are not expecting a lot of traffic (especially in starting months), you can use a starter package for less than 50$ /year. Their technical support is superb, and it comes with many good scripts built-in.
For example, if you are looking to have online store to sell things, you can install oscommerce in few clicks. After that, you need only enter your products details.
If you have good contents, you might consider putting Google advertisements ( https://www.google.com/adsense/ ) on your website to generate income.
2. Use other people’s website to sell your products/ services
Ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ) is the choice for many others selling in the Internet. You can create an account for free and start posting your items for sale immediately.
If you don’t have your own products but want your design to be included with other people’s product, you can try Cafepress ( http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/ ).
3. Others
There are thousands other ways to make money in the Internet.
Whatever you are doing, there are good guides to read on:
http://onlinebusiness.about.com/
http://www.myownbusiness.org/
http://www.oncallgeeks.com/
http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/new-internet-business/
Wish you all the best
March 10th, 2006