Let's look at details of this one in particular:

This program is based on a 3x10 forced matrix. You get 3 people on your first level, whom all have 3 on theirs, down through 10 levels. Everyone has to sign up 4 members, and "spillover" is placed (forced) into existing downlines.

To get most out of this program, you need to refer four people in first three days after you join, and it will build a mailing list of up to 80,000 addresses for you. PLUS, you earn $10 per referral, which has potential of making you $800,000. Pretty darn tempting. Even WITHOUT referral fees, what a person couldn't do with a mailing list of 80,000 addresses, right? We'll talk about that part in a minute.

*Refer 4 people in 3 days, you get $10 for every referral. *Refer 4 people in 7 days, you get $5 " " " " . *Refer 4 people after 7 days, you get $1 " " " ".

They pay NOTHING until you have referred 4 paying members. (Membership is $89.) And don't overlook part of member agreement that says that you won't get paid until your account reaches $200.00. They give you no information about what happens to any money in an account that does not reach $200.00 minimum payment amount. And they also state that they make no guarantees as to how much money you can earn.

Somehow, a man who many thought would end up Prime Minister, couldn't figure out how to get off track, so that when first train started towards him -- he stood there and got run over, thereby becoming first well-known person to succumb to dawning Railway Age.

Predictably there was an uproar with hotter heads feeling sure that banning railroads was only solution to such fatalities. The fact that Huskisson was notoriously near-sighted was lost sight of. The fact that casualty was himself responsible for result wasn't nearly as good copy as calling for a ban on hottest transportation development of 19th century.

Hmmm. It all looks familiar to me, as daily more members of Chicken Little League cackle to high heaven that e-commerce sky is falling.

My, my how they cluck. But you know, two centuries from now Internet will still be here, working its wonders, just as (the last time I checked) there were trains.

The real issue is keeping your head while all about you people are losing theirs. Hence these recommendations on how you can profit in current uncertain Web environment and position yourself for absolutely certain future profit to come.

Recommendation #1: You're Going To Have To Work Hard To Achieve Online Success

Far too many people on Internet still have crazy idea that success online is inevitable, effortless, thoughtless, casual. It's not. Far from it. Because Internet is a new environment, it demands extra attention and more work than you'd have to perform if, say, you opened a standard retail shop.

Thus, you must make how to succeed online a subject of continual study. The 'net is still, after all, to a considerable degree a trial and error environment. That's good for people who like to use their wits to solve problems; not so good for people whose goal is to perfect their skills as Couch Potatoes.

The people who will succeed in next phase will be, to a person, energetic go-getters, thinkers, and experimenters. The Internet is a gigantic laboratory, where millions of people are trying this and that. The people who approach task as WORK and not a day in park, are ones who stand best chance of success.

Frankly, I'm appaled by habits of most Internet "marketers" and "business people." Probably because such well-publicized success came to a few online marketers so early (usually through inflated stock prices), idea took root that all you had to do was turn-up to grab your own brass ring.

This comfortable idea, so in tune with prevailing "Take it easy" culture that most people find so appealing, is slow to die. But if YOU want success, you've got to kill it, root and branch. Can you do it?

Recommendation #2: Get The Tools You Need

The sad fact is that millions of people are trying to profit online without having tools they need to do so. It's nuts! These tools include

* your own domain, so you have your own property to develop * a listserver, so you can send unlimited non-spam email to your prospects, customers and subscribers * a sales manager, so you can follow up all your leads personally, automatically * professional website design * guaranteed traffic devices.

Without these absolutely must-have elements, you're toast.

Take a look at tools you're working with now. Have you got each and one of ones you need? Or are you just fooling yourself? The people who make it to next phase of online profit will have these tools, no ifs, ands, or buts. The ones who don't will get Huskisson Award for worst response to new technology.

Recommendation #3: Focus On Value

As I've said often enough, lots of what people are trying to profit from online is stuff nobody will ever need. In a word, they're trying to get rich selling junk. Friend, it ain't gonna happen.

If you want to make money online, you must offer VALUE online. Do you?

Now I realize that people have an unlimited ability to delude themselves about what they're doing, so it may take you a while to be honest with yourself about what you're selling. But PLEASE try!

Ask yourself these key questions:

* Do people really need what you're selling? * Is price fair? * Can they get it elsewhere for less? * Are you offering VALUE, or are you just trying to make a big score off junk, so you can loll on a beach somewhere? Caveat emptor!