Blog Marketing and Scams
0Blog marketing is something that has really peaked an interest in the online world. Many people across the internet have blogs. A blog is basically just an online journal that you can use and publish for the world to read – whether you choose to write about personal things or business. Maybe you want to use it to promote products or services. The way you use your blog is totally up to you. However, you should be aware of the scams that are out there and what to avoid while you are trying to market your blog.
Blog marketing has scams just like any other kind of marketing. There is always someone wanting to scam someone and take money from people that do not know better. So what can you do to protect yourself? The best way to protect yourself from blog marketing scams is to become familiar with them and know what they are and how they work. Unfortunately this can be hard to do because the scams change as often as you change your clothes.However, by becoming familiar with how they work, you have a much better chance of avoiding them.
Often it easy enough to learn of a scam by doing some research, usually it has happened to someone else and they were angry enough to write about it somewhere in hopes of saving others from making that same mistake. Just make sure that you research and read and know what you are getting into. Visit forums and look for references on any type of marketing that you are interested in doing.Pay close attention to who is getting good press and who is not. Get feedback from your fellow marketers for the best results. Ask them if they have recommendations, or know of places that are legitimate.
Here are some tips and clues to alert you to a possible scam:
- The company is demanding payment upfront before any work is produced.
- The company is new and/or has changed names several times.
- The company provides references but no way to contact those references.
- You are provided references with contact information but the information is not the same as what is available on that reference’s website, etc.
- You investigate and research and find a lot of positive feedback – but after a closer look it all appears to be written by the same person using different names on different sites. (For example they have the word excellent misspelled as exellent in 5 different posts on different sites)
Sadly, if you have been scammed, chances are there is not much that you can do other than get the word out about it. If you have paid someone through something like PayPal that protects you, then you do have a time limit to get your money back and freeze the scammer’s account. Of course that doesn’t always work either because most of the time the scammers are aware of your options, and they work fast in order to get your money and get out before they are caught. If that is the case, you really can not do much else about it other than alert the proper authorities and count your losses and scream it from the mountaintops so that no one else gets scammed.
I know all of this sounds frightening but it’s important to remember that there are also many legitimate resources that you are going to find that you can use and trust. The best way to protect yourself is your research. Ask for references, and make sure that you will be getting the best that you can afford. You will not regret it in the long run, and it will pay off to check someone or a service out before you go and invest your hard earned cash. Actually contact the services or person’s references to make sure that they are who they say, and that they can deliver what it is that you are looking for. It only takes a bit of time and is well worth it to lower your risk of being scammed.
Until next time . . .
Write On!
Paige Jackson
http://www.paigejackson.com/business/
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