You Think YOU'VE Been Scammed?

Written by Pamela Geiss


Boy was I scammed! It was my first try at an Internet business. I saw an ad that you could get your own casino. Please do not confuse this with one that is going around new where you can sign up to be an affiliate at a group of casinos. This one was one where you paid them to make your casino. You chose your own casino name. They registered it and maderepparttar casino on a theme that went withrepparttar 120935 name you chose. I paid them a pretty penny to do it, too. In return, I would advertise it and collect 55% ofrepparttar 120936 profits.

I spoke with them, we emailed, we did a contract. I saved every email that they sent and I sent to them. I felt I had covered everything, reading every word inrepparttar 120937 contract, etc. and asking 25 zillion questions. So, I went torepparttar 120938 bank and borrowedrepparttar 120939 money, as according to statistics, I should be able to pay it backrepparttar 120940 first year.

Well,repparttar 120941 first thing that happened was it took a lot longer to getrepparttar 120942 site finished than they had said it would. But, inrepparttar 120943 meantime I went about scouringrepparttar 120944 Net for places to advertise so I would know whererepparttar 120945 best places were whenrepparttar 120946 site was ready. Byrepparttar 120947 time they had it up, I already had had to make my first payment on my loan; so I set about advertising with a vengeance! I found ways that worked well and byrepparttar 120948 3rd month, we had made a profit and I got my first check! Not a large one, butrepparttar 120949 exciting thing was we had made a profit!

The fourth month came and my check was larger and just about covered my loan payment. The casino was growing allrepparttar 120950 time and I was one excited person! The fifth month, I was due to get a check for over $8000! Now I was REALLY excited! What happened? It never came. Oh, there was this excuse and that excuse, but I never got my check. Did I ever get anymore money from them? No. Did I want to sue them? You bet! But did I sue them? No. Why? Because they are in Costa Rica and I am inrepparttar 120951 United States. Attorneys said their laws are different than ours, plus I had a choice of hiring a Costa Rican attorney and hoping he was honest and would do his job or paying someone fromrepparttar 120952 States to go over there. It was going to be very expensive and there was no guarantee whatsoever that we would prevail. Their advice? Don't put bad money behind bad money. Cut your losses now.

How to Slay the Dragon

Written by Pamela Geiss


There is a dragon, you know. It'srepparttar dragon of self-doubt. Somewhere in your brain is a little dragon with a BIG voice that keeps telling you, "You can't build a business online! What makes you think you can be rich? Who inrepparttar 120934 world do you think you are, anyway - a guru?"

And, to make matters worse, there's your spouse, loved ones, significant other, and friends agreeing with this dragon. And then there's you, not making any money, or making less than you spent or getting scammed in yet one more program that promised yourepparttar 120935 end ofrepparttar 120936 rainbow pot of gold.

So, what's a person to do? To begin with, you have to work to slay that dragon. The human brain is a magnificent thing. It will work to find whatever is necessary to fulfill whatever destiny you program into it. If you are programming self-doubt, it will work to make that self-doubt a reality. If you don't believe you can be successful, it will make you do things to make that a reality.

Most ofrepparttar 120937 time, it's notrepparttar 120938 programs that don't work. It's notrepparttar 120939 advertising that doesn't work. It'srepparttar 120940 non- belief you have that makes it not work!

Think about this: When you were 5 and started pre-school, you were "gung-ho" about school. You couldn't wait to make friends, get good grades, learn. Right? Byrepparttar 120941 time you got torepparttar 120942 7th or 8th grade, you got dissillusioned and your grades began to fall. Even if your grades didn't fall, most everyone will admit they didn't do as well in school as they were capable of doing. But if you had been mature enough to set your goals and work to make it happen, do you think you could have done better?

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