This morning, I received a pair of complimentary tickets to a dinner conference in my mailbox and I could see that so did all my neighbours. This conference is a 90-minute conference supposedly to teach us how to make money online using eBay, Yahoo!, Google, MSN and other online resources.
This is a free internet income training and it is said that at the end of 90-minute conference, we will be served dinner. We will also be given a business organizer worth RM150.
We are requested to reserve our seats and gifts at www.HoldMySeatandGift.com
I wonder, did anyone attend conferences like this before? Is it for real; a conference to teach us how to make money, and all for free? Moreover, we get free dinner at the hotel and also a door gift?
Is there freelunch dinner in this world?
I would most certainly love to attend, if there is not catch. I do not want to be caught in a situation where I find myself unable to decline the opportunity, or forced myself to be ultra thick skin and go away with all the free stuff.
I am all for earning money on the internet, but only in a legitimate way.
This is a free internet income training and it is said that at the end of 90-minute conference, we will be served dinner. We will also be given a business organizer worth RM150.
We are requested to reserve our seats and gifts at www.HoldMySeatandGift.com
I wonder, did anyone attend conferences like this before? Is it for real; a conference to teach us how to make money, and all for free? Moreover, we get free dinner at the hotel and also a door gift?
Is there free
I would most certainly love to attend, if there is not catch. I do not want to be caught in a situation where I find myself unable to decline the opportunity, or forced myself to be ultra thick skin and go away with all the free stuff.
I am all for earning money on the internet, but only in a legitimate way.
3 comments:
Listen to your instincts about the concept of a free lunch. I recently attended the 90 minute presentation by 'storesonline'. It was a 90 minute sales pitch around realizing your dreams of financial freedom via ecommerce. They were very slick, well scripted. There was very little real information presented, mostly emotional hooks to achieve their real goal,to get you to attend an all day training on how to make money on the internet. This training only cost 20 bucks. I bit, only because I hoped to learn some marketing tips for my own business. So two weeks later I attended the training event. After the first hour and half they still had not given any tips or advice. They were still selling their website building/hosting/marketing/ecommerce services via emotional tactics. What appalled me was when they passed out a 'confidential' form, and told everyone to fill it out to help identify how to get funding for your site. It was basically a credit application. And I must say that a good 75% of the room (about 150 people) eagerly filled out the form complete with income, ss number, etc. I chose to leave after the first break. They were just too slick and my gut told me they were unethical. When I got home I did some googling and found a tremendous number of complaints against the company (imergent, inc, onlinestores.com). So buyer beware, and if you think you're going to get any real information...forget it.
NO, it's not for real. I attended a few weeks ago, it's a slick, impressive sales pitch for storesonline.com (also known as imergent, icn) that tugs at your desire to be financially independent. No good information whatsoever, just a tactic to attend another seminar, one day worth of 'real training' on how to make money. I attended that as well, not planning on purchasing their services just wanted to see if they had any great internet marketing ideas. After the first two hours there was still just more selling going on. They did show us one tool, what they called a reverse search engine keyword analyzer, which is basically the stuff you can get online for free already. When they passed out the 'confidential' form, which was basically an authorization to access all your credit information, and made it sound like it was just needed to help them help us ("fill it out right now, we'll be coming around the room to pick it up in 5 minutes")....I left. Felt a bit unethical to me. Sad to say that I noticed at least 75% of the room eagerly following the command. Got home and googled 'complaint lawsuit storesonline imergent'. You'll find there are MANY complaints against this company and their practices.
Thank you very much for your comments. Everyone should be extra careful with the SSN and nobody venturing into ecommerce should be subjected to unethical credit checks by unauthorized third parties.
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