Thoughts on Marketing…

Your mailbox is probably just as full as mine with fantastic promises of wealth if you just buy in to the latest program.

I know some of them are making money for the people sending them, or they wouldn’t keep sending them. Well, maybe. What I think is they people behind them have lured in other people to keep paying to send them.

Start with the “Free to Join” promotions. They go on about how you can mail to other people who will also join for free and you’ll make a ton of money. So… where does this money come from? Somebody is buying something along the way.

Then there’s the ones like this sample from this morning’s mail:

“You don’t have to learn anything.

You don’t have to study.

You don’t have to be clever.

You don’t have to be technical.

You don’t have to DO anything*

* ( Okay, I lied, it takes
you 45 seconds of “work”
to activate each business )”

It says you get a money-making on-line business without having to lift a finger. I’m not going to click to see, but my guess is you pay a fee to have the right to send the same bogus message to other folks.

WHY does ANYONE think you can make a bundle of money without making an effort?

Even our crooked politicians, scam artists like Bernie Madoff, and the pickpockets on the street had to make some effort to learn how to steal.

One for a chuckle…

This morning’s mail brought me TWO copies of one I hadn’t seen before. It went on about working a day job, getting up in the wee hours of the morning to work on an internet business in his garage, and then having this fantastic breakthrough.

I won’t go into detail, but in the course of the letter, the writer talked about taking his wife and children away for a week-end.

The letter was signed “Stephanie.”

Now I suppose there may be some man out there named Stephanie. But I kinda doubt it.

OK, that’s my rant for today – If you have any funny ones, add them in the comments.