What's the difference between scamming the senile and using clever marketing to sell products nobody needs?
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There is no difference, which is why the new Medicare Part D drug plan is the biggest scam in history.\n\n...well, the biggest scam after Bush's 2000 judicial overthrow of the electoral process.
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It seems pretty obvious that *someone* is buying things\nfrom spam email, or the spammers wouldn't keep\ndoing it.  After all, they're not in it for fun; they\ndo it because it's profitable.\n\nCompared to physical mailings or TV/newspaper/radio ads,\nspamming is practically free.  If they send an ad to\n10M people, if only 1/10th of 1 percent of the people\nrespond, that would still be 10,000 sales.  In raw\npercentages, even if almost *no one* responds, in\nin absolute numbers it would still be a huge success.\n\n[By the way, I just made up these numbers as an example.\nEven if they're way off, the concept is valid (or spammers\nwouldn't still be in business).]
77081
not much difference, a spammer would send alot of emails or messages, where as a scammer will send something which wil ltry to get something from you ;)
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I do Xango.  I tell people about it only when I hear that they have a health ailment.  If they don't ask for more info, I leave it alone.  I am NOT pushy.  It can help so many things it sells itself.  I don't need to push it.  People try it once and just keep ordering, and sometimes they start to sell it too and I make money from their sales.  It is pretty lucrative, especially when they sign up someone else.  There really is nothing wrong with MLM, it seems to work - the @sses leave it alone after they have bugged to many of their family and friends without sellling anything, but the good ones just keep quietly chugging along....
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There could be some objects which could be sold this way. Maybe car parts, household chemicals, food, records - something the client already knows. But not everything because you have to look at pictures to make up your mind. And the catalogue has to be ordered, not sent around to everyone because thats spamming. As to getting people to like your product - advertise! Why don't you tell them why YOU would like this method and be honest, this will work the best. As for the cost of the service: in our country sms is not so cheap. And what about the length of the messages? Then you'll have to send many messages and that would be annoying to the receiver. Anyway - if you feel you are the only one who likes the idea - maybe its not such a good idea? Have another idea?
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...Hi...You can communicate with people on E-Bay...i am shure you find the answers there...I mean people who are selling or bought things...Otherwise you can take contavt with the people who are controling theit activitis...\nGreetings! ..
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One, learn to spell.  I thought you're 10 not 5.\n\nSecond, it depends on how nice it is.  You might sell to some kids under the age of 6.  This is not an insult, I am being completely serious.  But otherwise, no.  Nobody who has a matured brain would buy something free.  But you might sell to kids who think it's shiny.
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Any sort of scam that involves you parting with hard earned cash, then never seeing any sort of promised returns.\n\nMLM usually involves purchasing lists etc eg.Referrals then you pick up cents for everyone who uses your links,BUT BUDDY don't hold ya breath waiting for any sort of return...SCAMMMMmmm...Phooey, spit ,arrggghhhh.\n\nThe only real way to earn money is sell a product or services that are legitimate, that ppl get something in return for purchase.  Than hollow promises and making scumbag promoters rich from preying on those less savvy with these get rich schemes.....
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Wow - how negative those answers are.  OK - here's the real answer:\n\nWhile bad marketing techniques do create a false image, good technique portrays the benefits of the product or service being sold.  There's no need to mislead a buyer when you have something they want to buy.  \n\nIntelligent marketing will identify those customers that want your product, and then introduce it to them.  That's why good marketing works, and bad marketing always fails.\n\nBad marketing sells a product or service by tricking someone into buying it - and they only get fooled once.  There's rarely a repeat sale.\n\nGood marketing makes the initial sale, and then the customer comes back again, and again, while the marketing effort is bringing in more new sales.  It becomes self fullfilling.\n\nThis is why ads that tell the truth always produce more sales, and why the ones that promise the earth soon disappear as the company goes down the pan!\n\nI hope this helps.
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You know, I'm glad you ask that question.  Very glad.  Because I suspect this group of users know more about what NOT to believe in on the Internet than the average Joe.  They are in fact here, in front of a keyboard and monitor not all that different from your own, in most cases.  Probably newer than mine, in almost all cases.  So it goes.\n\nI would not, if I were you, waste time trying to find out whether there does exist a single, or maybe even two or three, "get rich quick" or "get rich easy" schemes that actually would be consistent with both your ethical values and your talents.  Better you should concentrate on a better use for your computer literacy.  Build a project of your own, a respectable attempt at taking advantage of the breakthrough we have here in communications which we call the Internet.\n\nYahoo! routinely corrects me whenever I neglect to capitalize Internet, and I think I have finally groked that they are right.  It does deserve a capital letter, out of respect for what communication can do for LEGITIMATE efforts to make money, removing any need to pursue someone else's near fraud or at least contemptible taking advantage of the naive.  If you want to play fair in business, you go on the Internet and present what you have honestly and honorably, whether it be goods which you photograph clearly and sell individually on eBay, or its your own business and your own web page, small business never was easier and more diversified IN A STRUCTURED WAY than before the Internet taught us all how to search branching tree formations for whatever we want.\n\nThe magic of a search engine is magic enough to conjure gold for everyone, if used honestly and fairly.  And with respect for security measures that guard that honesty and fairness.  Forget being able to prosecute afterward; security is a very important part of the Internet, and needs to be respected, upgraded, and used for the benefit of the ones who want to play fair in the marketplace.  The better we get at detecting and discouraging the frauds and cheats, the better we can all do honest business.\n\nLike book publishing, for a non-random example.
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No.\n\nIf you have the right personality and product you can sell anything.  Just accept that a large percentage of your time will be spent accepting no thank you responses or worse.\n\nIf you keep failing you either don't have the right product, personality or both.\n\nIT cold calling sounds like a bad habit, most companies have someone in-house who'll take care of it, or will hire a person recommended to them to do it.  \n\nUnless you have a new product, the market is just too small and wrong for cald calling.
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Scam.... Same as email scams... If you didn't enter a lotto you can't win anything. It's that simple.
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Sell the stuff you don't want.
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Give someone a free one.  If they like it, they might buy another.  \n\nNote: This is only ethical if the product is safe and it is ethical to promote the product.  Crack dealers often use this type of grass roots promotional scheme.
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Why would you want to sell to someone who has no need for your product.  Money from sales comes from repeat business.  If business has no need for your product, then you will not get repeat business.  \n\nThe cost of the orginal sale is usually more than lthe profit from the orginal sale.  Unless you consider your time has no value.
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Because your whole life revolves around trying to sell people things they don't need using methods that don't accurately represent said things.
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You have to be a better salesman (person) than the other guy.  I used to buy orthopedic supplies, and the guy with a so-so product and a great pitch would win over the better product a lot of the time.