Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. If you spend any time online surfing
Internet or any time reading magazines that deal with business topics, you will more than likely run across countless business opportunity offerings --- headlines will scream out at you “FREE this and FREE that and FREE! FREE! FREE!”
Here’s one such ad (copied directly from a published article–there’s many more)….
Free home based business by Mehdi Heidari It is completely free home based business. We make your website free and teach you through our internet marketing course, secrets of internet millionaires, get out of debt system and much much more to promote your business
About Author Mehdi Heidari was born in 1979 in Aarhus Denmark and then immigrated to Canada. He is a successful man in his home based business and helps other people to make their home based business for free.
His headline is “Free Home Based Business. His first explanation is “…completely free home based business. We make your website free…” OK, so everything’s “FREE”!
Not quite,,,,,,Remember, there’s no free lunches left in world anymore. They even shut down free meals in Las Vegas.
His hook? The very next statement is “…and teach you through our internet marketing course….” They’re giving away a free home business, yes, and they’re giving away a free internet web site, yes (it’ll cost later, of course). But they pay for this through sales of course, a course which you purchase. Not free.
I used to have my web site hosted “Free” on – well, I won’t mention them because I’m not interested in giving out free advertising. But while it was “free” to me, someone was paying hosting fee – and in a way I was “paying” for it too.
I “paid for my ‘free’ web site” with pop up ads which came up on my web pages every time you moved to a new page or every 30 seconds, whichever came first. I paid in inconvenience, someone else paid in cash it took to host web site --- persons who were putting pop-up ads on. Hey, they had a good deal with me. I had nearly 200 pages up there. That’s a whole lotta pop-up ads to be seen. A whole lotta advertising paying for my little ol’ web site.
