Is the $7 Secret a Scam?
In 1978, at the age of 14, I purchased my first IM product. Back then IM stood for “Information Marketing”. I answered a classified ad in the back of a magazine for an offer with the following headlines “Get paid $1 for every envelope you stuff”.
I had heard about envelope stuffing jobs, where mail order marketing firms would pay people to manually put sales letters into envelopes, address and mail them.
At the time I thought, “WOW! I can stuff thousands a day.” So I sent off a dollar bill to the person that ran the ad along with a self addressed stamped envelope to find out how I could start making buckets of money.
After a couple of weeks I got on envelope in the mail. It contained a single sheet of paper with these 2 instructions:
1. Run a classified ad telling people how they can make a dollar for every envelope they stuff. Ask them to send you a dollar for more information along with a SASE (Self addressed stamped envelope).
2. When they send you a dollar, stuff a copy of this letter into their envelope and mail it back to them.
HEY! I’ve been scammed! Or so I thought. A year later I did spend $10 on a classified and had over 300 people respond. Hmmm…. It worked. And $300 dollars for a teenager in the 70s was pretty good money.
I didn’t continue with the envelope stuffing scheme because in the back of my mind I knew it wasn’t a quality product. Plus I was already running other mail order classified ads that were doing just as well or better. However, that $1 investment turned out to be one of those life changing events.
Since I learned that lesson at an early age, I tend to view all offers as if they are an evolution of the envelope stuffing scheme. So when I was reading about the $7 secrets systems I thought I knew what it was about “Send in $7 for a report on how to make money selling $7 reports”. Been there, done that.
But then another life altering event changed my life. A fan of my blog wrote asking me if I had an affiliate link for the seven dollar secret. I didn’t, and the only way to become an affiliate was to buy the report. Since I knew that the report had a 100% commission, I was faced with one of those “no brainer” situations. I bought the report for $7, got the affiliate code, and sent it to my reader who bought the book and I made my $7 back. Since the commission is paid instantly via PayPal I was out seven dollars for about an hour.
I began to read the report and guess what? It was actually an easy to follow system that can actually work. As I read the eBook I could see that this isn’t a fad, it’s actually a well thought out marketing plan that anyone can follow. Better yet, it’s viral so it will grow itself, in almost any niche.
One of the best features to the system, IMHO, is in the scripts. These scripts come with the package. There is a script that allows you to automatically pay commissions via PayPal instantly without the affiliate having to sign up for an affiliate program. They simply put their PayPal address into the link. That’s brilliant!, No wonder affiliates are going nuts over this. You promote a product, someone buys… BAM! You have money in your account… no waiting. This single script alone is worth many, many, many times the $7 I paid for the eBook.
I felt that this was a good enough product that I could put my seal of approval on it.
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