No need to hide your credit card because this article is not about selling you stuff. This article is about a little piece of advice which you probably have heard many times before. The advice I am talking about is:

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

If I could get inside your head, I know what you will think. “Who is this guy trying to fool? Tell me something I don’t know.”

I agree. When that husband of yours willing takes out the trash without being told, you know he’s going to drop a bombshell. Within the next 24 hours, he is going to start a conversation that will begin with, “Honey, remember when you said that we should tell each other everything? Even the not so nice things? Well,….” At least you enjoyed not having to tell him to take out the trash.

However, when we go online, many of us forget to bring the skepticism that serves us so well in the offline world.

There are tons of websites with get-rich-quick offers on the web. Details vary, but the financial reward will always be completely disproportionate to the time, effort and skill needed to do the work or transact the business.

Such websites do well because it seems that when we come online, we lose our healthy skepticism.

I have been online a long time and I have been tempted many times by such sites. I gave in a couple of times as well. But I have not found a single site that lived up to their promise.

And I won’t think too much about the money lost when you decide to take a chance with these type of sites. But I would be very mindful of the time wasted on such sites. Money lost can be earned again, but time lost is gone forever.

And these kind of sites are all over the web.

The next time your encounter such a site, tell yourself that there has got to be a catch. Click the back button and continue whatever you were doing to build your business on the web.

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