A flood of people are turning to the internet in order to make some extra money. They are filled with hopes and dreams about all the money they will be raking in but often these dreams fizzle out into nothing. It's heartbreaking to hear of stories of people who hand over their hard-earned cash only to discover they have been scammed.

Some people are scammed and don't even know that it's happened. How can this be true? Well, there are people out there who are telling everyone they are an expert. They say that they know how to make money and will show you too. The problem is that they might be known as a "one trick pony." So the money they made from one venture might just be luck or a case of being in the right place at the right time. However anyone else trying to emulate their success is unlikely to have the same success.

It's difficult to say whether or not that they are purposely scamming anyone. It's just that what they are teaching might not be easily implemented by others. Normally these people talk about the importance of writing about topics you are passionate; becoming socially active online; using twitter; using Digg and StumbleUpon; interacting with your visitors etc. They talk about how you should be writing purely for your visitors and that your writing should be so compelling that your visitors come back and subscribe to your RSS feed.

This sort of approach isn't necessarily bad, it's just not always the best approach. You should really be aiming to write articles about topics you know about but you don't have to be passionate about it. You can write about things that you have experienced. Like, maybe your car got covered in bird crap. You could write about what you did to clean it off. Do you have to be passionate about bird crap? No way!

Ironically people who subscribe to the idea that you have to write about something they are passionate end up writing about making money writing online. This is pretty ironic really. They don't have any experience in making money writing yet they are telling people how to make money writing. It just doesn't make sense yet that's exactly what is happening. They think there is nothing wrong with that but in reality they must be mad.

These said people are also releasing eBooks about how to make money writing. They pretend that they are an expert but they really don't have a clue. Yet they are charging $47, $97 and even $147 for these products. Some of these people are even selling monthly memberships to be coached on how to make money writing.

It's like a virus. There are more and more of them and trying to figure out who actually knows what they're talking about is very difficult. You end up having to do so the hard way by trying out the methods they teach. Either they will work for you or they won't. Unfortunately most people give up within a couple of months.

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