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by: LucasHeijn
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I want you to imagine for a while that you are looking to buy a business. As you look through the advertisements in the paper. You come across an ad that says, "Profitable Ready Made Business it goes on to explain that it's an ice cream van in a hot sunny area.

This sounds a really good business. I could really enjoy this. This is for me. You find that it comes with a brand-new ice cream van, plenty of ice cream and chocolate topping. The area that your franchise is assigned to is a new suburb, so new in fact; there are no houses, no people, no customers. This means you really have no business.

Many products on the Internet just the same. You can buy ready-made websites, loaded with products ready to go. You are told, you can start making money within 24 hours. So you buy the product and set up the site on your new web hosting account. You make sure all the payment buttons are working. And then you sit back and wait, and wait, and wait. Nothing happens.

This website, you just put up is just like that ice cream van. It looks great. It even works great. Youve tested those payment buttons and they all work. But you make no sales. You have no customers.

When you bought the business. You were told you could be making money within 24 hours. This was hype.

So is there a difference between hype and being scammed? Well, there really is some difference. Hype is often not total untruth. It often stretches the truth to make something appear better than it really is. The thing that makes hype similar to scamming is the fact that both are after your money. Hype is used to convince you to buy.

The difference is a scammer is much like a con man. The scammer uses totally dishonest means, total untruth to get you to part with your money. They often pose as something they're not. I'm sure you have received e-mails from people posing as PayPal asking you go to the site and fill in your login details. With this information, they can fraudulently use your account your money.

Hype is often not total untruth. It just stretches the truth. So you think you are getting more than you are really getting. Any product on the Internet that promises you instant success is using hype to get you to buy. There is no such thing as instant profits.

Whether you run a business online or off-line, it takes time to build it. You need to build a customer base. You need to convince your customers that you are there for the long haul, that you're not a fly-by-night operator.

On the Internet, your new website is much like that ice cream van in the middle of the Sahara Desert. You have no customers. You don't even have people browsing. You need to draw traffic to your new site. This is not something that happens over night. This is a long slow process that takes a lot of work.

How to go about getting traffic to your site is a subject I will discuss in another article.

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