Learn from your mistakes

I'm sorry, this is going to seem really harsh, but truth is, I feel no sympathy for some people that have been caught up in the whole 12DailyPro scheme.

This is really taking its toll on me in every way. I'm trying so hard to be patient and supportive, but no matter what I do, I feel so helpless, desperate and let down. Cry I know I am not alone in feeling frustrated, we are all going through various emotions....What can we do to reclaim our funds? Nothing. We cannot issue chargebacks or do anything to get back part of what we lost. We just basically lost it all. This is one of the worse feelings that I have ever had. The ones that are responsible for doing this to all of us, obviously don't care and have been using our money on things that are not as important like the medicine that my mentally challenged son or I need, or groceries, or in our case, christmas presents because we didn't get a christmas this past year because of this. It was so depressing. Have you ever had to tell your child that there are no presents to open on christmas? I felt so low at that point, but not nearly as low as I am feeling now. I'm just feeling so bogged down with the realization that I was taken advantage of and I trusted the wrong people.

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There are several simple rules in business. All of which should never, and I do mean never, be ignored. But the 2 most important of which I'll repeat here for everyone to take notice of.

1. If its too good to be true, it probably is.
2. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.

I'm sorry, but that lady moaning and groaning because her child missed Christmas and they can't afford medications.... So Sad, Too Bad. If you couldn't afford to lose the money you invested, why did you invest it in the first place instead of spending it on the things you actually NEEDED?

This might seem cold hearted, and chances are I'd probably have to wear my asbestos suit for a while if people actually read this blog, but the fact of the matter is, she made a mistake and she has to pay for the consequences of it.

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to those that have gotten caught out by the StormPay vs GPT programs. The dream was wonderful while it lasted. You were turning about a 100% profit each month. Great. Now why didn't you take that profit out?

Its easy, very easy, to get scammed by companies like this. The lure of quick and easy money is exceptionally difficult to resist. Even I fell for it. But I refused to spend more than the very minimum I could until such time as I had 100% of my money back. I'm glad that I did that. In hindsight, it saved me from a massive fall. More importantly, I dind't invest more than I was willing or able to loose.

Yes, I still use these kinds of sites. But I don't treat them as investments or a way to make money. I see them as advertising expenditure. If you want to make money in this world, you've got to have a service or a product that people are willing to pay for. Its that simple.

One of the things I spent a long time looking for was affiliate programs and services that I could on sell that would generate a legitimate and legal income stream, both short and long term. There are not many that I can use in New Zealand, but there are a lot for people in the US and Canada.

So given most of the people that visit this site are from the US/Canada regions, I'm going to start going through a list of the sites I visited looking for ways to make money. Even more importantly, I'm not affliated or a member of most of them, so there will be no referrer link for many of them.

You cannot make money without putting in effort and time. That is the jewel of the autosurf scam. It appears you are putting in a little effort and time and getting paid in return. Whether this is true or not, you only have to look at the fallout from 12DailyPro to find out. Consider that nearly every autosurf program has now set up their own escrow service.

As I have with SKC Hosting, you need to make an effort and market your services/products. But anyone and everyone can do that. AdWords is a good start.