Buyer BEWARE of SPAM ARTISTS!

Do you remember the old news specials on television exposing rip-off artists and scammers, warning you not to fall into their manipulative schemes? These evil-doers are sure to cause you financial damage in one way or another!

But nowadays you have to worry about a NEW breed of evil-doers ( some ARE, some ARE NOT, and some don't even realize they are doing it ) these are called the dreaded internet SPAM ARTISTS!

Let us begin with how spamming first got started. In the early years someone would walk up to you, regardless of where you were, and started pitching their business to you. And although this was the "traditional" way to sell, it became a very uncomfortable way of doing business. E-mail soon became a popular way of communicating, and guess what? Solicited ads and garbage that you were not interested in FLOODED your mailbox. You tried time and time again to keep up with deleting all these ads until you finally decided it was time to change your e-mail address. We surely have all been through this before! I can even remember my old sales manager ( when I was selling Kirby vaccuum cleaners ) telling me, " I don't care if they say they can't afford it, find a way to make the sale! " ( talk about feeling worthless! ) Yet this is the mindset that spammers are taught, whether innocent victims or not. They end up becoming dependant on the "system" they are promoting.

Online Social Networking sites are now the NEW target for SPAM ARTISTS. Sites like Yuwie and Direct Matches, which are very credible social networking sites, are now being BOMBARDED with spam ads daily by the thousands! ( If I could only make a penny for every Ad that I've run across ). In one instance, a certain individual wrote me an e-mail on one of these sites that said something like this " Hey friend, we get paid according to how much activity goes on in our site. Let's keep e-mailing each other back and forth, with no subject ( just write something ) hundreds of times so we will both make money from the activity. After all, that is what friends are for right? I'm not sure about you, but I almost felt nauseous after reading this! And these are the type of ( like minded individuals ) that I am supposed to do business with? I think not!

But let us not dwell on this information and perceive it in a NEGATIVE way. Let's use it as an example to teach our followers that this is not Professional behavior and people will not take your business seriously if you use these tactics. And even if we think we are not doing it and that we have multiple years of experience, we may still be doing it and not even realizing!