Motivation really factors into what I decide to write about. Typically I don’t really plan what to write. It just kind of pops up. Sometimes it’s from a Lost Ball comment. Maybe from a newsletter that I still get. Perhaps while wasting my employers time and finding something while surfing the net through the proxy to avoid Websense detection. I astound myself every time I come up with something to write about.

Well today, I was gifted by email. An offer for EZ Affiliate Site. “Push Button Affiliate Income System.” From Xybercode. For $97. sigh

“Generate Instant Cash While You’re Sleeping, Golfing, Mowing The Lawn, Or Plain Goofing Off - Anywhere And Anytime… The Money Keeps Rolling In!”

Sure sounds good doesn’t it? I want in. So guess who they are targeting with this abomination? Beginners. Oh it doesn’t say as much, but anyone with half a Internet marketing brain is gonna steer clear of this claptrap.

The sales copy (which is thankfully short)  details how “incredibly easy to set up” it is. For those of you who’ve been grinding your elbows on the concrete that is Internet marketing, what have you ever made money with that was easy to set up? OK, sure, push the button in Fantastico and build your blog. What? You’re done? I don’t think so. Plugins. Templates. Modifications. OK, maybe you do like I do and have a few templates already set up and plugins ready to go. Upload them. Enable them. What about your banner ads? Might want to add those. Adsense. You going with the default for all your sites or would you like channels with that order? Oohh, and let’s not even start with Ultimate Tag Warrior.

Making money is work. We seem to try to forget that reading these sales pitches.

So apparently they give you a site and host it for you. You need to add in your Adsense, Amazong and Clickbank IDs and you’re done. You just have to promote this turd. I have no idea if the site looks good because an example was not given. I have no idea if you are given a site that is not like anyone else’s. I have no idea if the sites allow you to put in articles. None of this was covered in the sales copy. Hope you like your URL because the sales page did not specify that you were given an option to host it yourself on your domain.

All anybody, newbies, is going to see is “every single day people earn tens of thousands of dollars through Adsense, Amazon and Clickbank”. They will think they can do that too with this system. Maybe it will happen. It just won’t be my money finding out.