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Are you thinking of doing an online buisiness? If so, avoid the “Guru Club”.

What is the Guru Club? It’s my name for the internet marketers who market themselves as gurus. They are the ones that have 50,000 or so names on their list and almost every day they send out a new email promoting the latest “hot” must have product.

I know of at least a dozen of them. Every day I receive at least ten emails from them, all trying to sell me some Click Bank product.

You can always tell when a new product is launched, as you will see the exact same subject line on several emails in a row, each containing the exact same message (except for the affiliate link).

I bought many of these products and not one lived up to what the promise in the sales page said. For instance, one promised a super duper traffic tool that would take on seven clicks and you would have more traffic then you could handle. It was really nothing more then an article submission software.

It is a guru club because each of these so called gurus continually promote each others products.

The sales letters are all made from the same template. It includes a rag to riches story, screen shots of their Click Bank accounts, testimonials, a list of what the products is not (mlm, ppc, etc), several paragraphs telling you why you will completely fail unless you have this wonderful product, and very little information on what the product actually is.

Once you buy it, thinking you just bought everything you need, you are hit with anywhere from two to six one time offers (OTO). If the product was everything you need why should you need an upgrade or add on?

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of the Guru Club and their tricks that are designed to empty you wallet as fast as possible.

Can you compete with these guys? Perhaps, however it is not easy. One problem is they have a huge list and we do not. Another problem is they can offer a huge bonus, usually from some of their older products that have stopped selling. I have seen bonus offers of $7,000. That’s hard to compete with.

What are our alternatives?

One alternative is to do CPA offers instead of affiliate offers (especially from Click Bank). With many of the CPA offers you are giving away something instead of trying to sell something. This can be easier.

But a problem with both affiliate and CPA is that you have to work for every sale.

What if you could offer CPA programs and build a residual income at the same time? What if you could own and also give away stores that were full of CPA offers? And what if you made residual income from the stores you gave away plus shared in several company infinity pools? And what if you could build your own list at the same time? And to top it all off, what if you could do this business without spenfing any of your hard earned money?

If any of this sounds interesting to you, please check it out here: http://www.internet-marketing-income-tools.com/Zero-Cost-Income-program.php.