There are so many business opportunities online, and often they are not worth squat. In this article I am looking at a particular kind of product: those e-books which claim to show you a brain-dead easy way to instant riches.

Take this for instance:

“$100,000/month guaranteed – start earning within 15 minutes!” That was a Google AdWords advertisement I saw today, when I did a search for “business opportunity”.

Now, come on: how can anyone seriously promise you an income like that? To make that much money you have to be very skilled at whatever you are doing. Now when I hop over to the sales page, I am told in blazing letters that I will make a hundred grand a month “100% on autopilot”!

That is, if I buy their “insider secrets” at the very affordable price of $49.90 — if I “act today”.

OK, so now I can spend less than fifty bucks and in return I get some “insider secrets” which will make me a hundred grand a month ON AUTOPILOT!

I know only one way of doing that: print your own money. And since that is forbidden by law I wouldn’t recommend it.

This ridiculously inflated sales hype is characteristic of the more shady kind of make money online stuff. It is aimed at desperate people who have no idea how to make money using the Internet, but have a vague dream of doing it.

Now, I happen to know that this particular $49.90 ebook seems to be marred by a strikingly high number of refunds. You see, this is an ebook and it comes with a 60 day money back guarantee. And the payment processor (Clickbank) provides public data about every product they handle. A quick glance at that information shows me that many people have disliked this product enough to ask for their money back. And what else could you expect from the B.S. smell of the sales page.

In summary: there are gazillions of people out there trying to tell you what terrific business opportunities you’ve got by using the Web. But stay away from these products being marketed with ridiculous promises! It is indeed possible to find good information also, if you know where to look for it. Now I invite you to step over to my site, dBusinessOpportunity.com, to learn more. I have seen many of these products — the good, the bad and the ugly.