Sounds great, doesn`t it? But is it actually true? Ok, so you get to decide your work hours, but let me tell you, there`s a LOT of hours involved here, and a LOT of hard work, and even then, you may not succeed in making enough money to quit your day job (IF any at all...)

There are tons of business opportunities out there to get involved with. Here`s a list of some of them, with their "TRUE" colours. I`m NOT saying every individual opportunity IS a scam, but a lot of them are, and you need to do your homework before you embark on journey as an "internet marketer".

MLM, Pyramid Schemes etc:

Promise: You make money from sales, be it services or products. You recruit other sales people, and earn from their sales. Fact: Most of time, you`ll find that people you`re trying to sell to are other distributors, and you`re all trying to sell to each other, which ultimately means no sales.

Holidays and Travels:

Promise: You get dirt-cheap or even free tickets, with tons of extras. Fact: You could end up with no trip, or with a trip of a much lesser quality of services and accommodation than promised. Sometimes there are hidden charges and costs that you don`t find out about until you`ve paid.

Credit Cards:

Promise: Give us your credit card number, we need it to verify that you are over 18, then we can give you X, Y, and Z for free. Fact: There are a lot of these that will run up charges on your credit cards

Health Care:

Unfortunately, where there`s power, there`s always a flip-side. In case of email, flip-side is abuse, also known as SPAM, that great big nasty word. Makes me shudder just to think of it these days.

Is spam email considered marketing? It probably is, if you want to get all technical about it, but it`s most definitely not RESPONSIBLE email marketing. Although some marketers don`t seem to be able to see difference between permission marketing (where people have ASKED for mail) and email spam. Spam is actually a major threat to legitimate email marketers.

People check their emails, see their inbox cluttered with all sorts of stuff they didn`t ask for and they yell SPAM!! Unfortunately, with so much stuff in their inbox on a daily basis, it can become really hard to recognise mails they`ve asked for, they may even forget they asked for it in first place, or they may just be sick and tired of receiving too many mails, and they yell spam about wrong mail.

Everybody has their own definition of spam. As it currently stands, spam is in eye of beholder. Spam is usually unsolicited ads sent in bulk by people you don't know--although there are exceptions to this rule.