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		<title>Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing And Internet
Our a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing And Internet</p>
<p>Our a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?</p>
<p>Why Affiliate Marketing? </p>
<p>Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessmanâ€™s products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchantâ€™s website and the other being the affiliateâ€™s site. In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliateâ€™s site. The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailerâ€™s ad on his site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote their products.</p>
<p>There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would compensate the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash. Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method. The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their siteâ€™s visitor would only have to visit the advertiserâ€™s site for them to gain money. The other two methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to compensate you if your visitor becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.</p>
<p>Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site. A website that can attract more visitors would generally have the greater chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.</p>
<p>What about Google Adsense?</p>
<p>Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program. In Google Adsense, Google act as the intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants. The merchant, or the advertiser, would simply sign up with Google and provide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products. These ads, which is actually a link to the advertiserâ€™s website, would then appear on Google searches as well as on the websites owned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signed up with the Google Adsense program.</p>
<p>While one can find a lot of similarities between Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also see a lot of differences. In Google Adsense, all the webmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Google takes care of the rest. The ads that Google would place on your site would generally be relevant to the content of your site. This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser, as the visitors of your site would more or less be actually interested with the products being advertised.</p>
<p>The Google Adsense program compensates the affiliate in a pay-per-click basis. The advertisers would pay Google a certain amount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Google would then forward this amount to you through checks, although only after Google have deducted their share of the amount. Google Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly. Also, the Google Adsense program provides webmasters with a tracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings you actually get from a certain ad.</p>
<p>So, where do all of these lead us to?</p>
<p>Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits! Affiliate marketing programs and the Google Adsense program simply work, whether you are the merchant or the affiliate. For the merchantâ€™s side, a lot of money can be saved if advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketing rather than on dealing with advertising firms. For the webmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doing what you do best, and that is by creating websites. And if you combine all your profits from both the Google Adsense program and other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convert to a large amount of cash.</p>
<p>By: Robrt Thomson</p>
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<p>For more useful tips &#038; hints, please browse for more information at our website:- <a href="http://www.youradsenseprofits.com/">www.greateducationonline.com</a> </p>
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		<title>Affiliate Programs &#8211; Internet Business Success</title>
		<link>http://kinghurst.net/affiliate-programs-internet-business-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Revenue]]></category>
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How to Design a Good Affiliate Marketing Website
Not all websites are created equal. This is really true when it comes to affiliate marketing because many people in this industry do not care about having a website. They are doing it because people like me have told them they need one.
It is true however that if [...]]]></description>
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<p>How to Design a Good Affiliate Marketing Website</p>
<p>Not all websites are created equal. This is really true when it comes to affiliate marketing because many people in this industry do not care about having a website. They are doing it because people like me have told them they need one.</p>
<p>It is true however that if you want the best chance to succeed as an affiliate marketer you need to have a website of your own. O.K enough on that. Now let&#8217;s talk about how to design your affiliate marketing website to get the results you want.</p>
<p>Your affiliate marketing website has 2 goals.</p>
<p>1. Capture contact information from your visitor.</p>
<p>2. Get the click through to your affiliate sales page.</p>
<p>That is basically all you need. You want to get the names and email addresses for future follow up because most of your visitors will not buy on the first visit. They need to be exposed as many as 10-15 times.</p>
<p>So you need a sign up form or box where they can type their name and email address. To increase your chances to get that you need to offer them something so enticing that they can not resist. Think about what would appeal to you and then offer to give it to them.<div style="float:left;"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Next let&#8217;s talk about how to get the click through to your affiliate sales page. Even better is get them to click through in a buying frame of mind.</p>
<p>You do this by braggin about the product you are selling. you just talk about what you like about best about the product you are selling which makes it easy to do.</p>
<p>Do you know the best way to do that? Buy the product and write from a firsthand experience. When you do this you will be way ahead of 95% of your competitors because they will not be their own best customer.</p>
<p>Getting this on a web page does not have to be fancy. It should be professional and you should check you grammar and spelling to make sure that is correct too!</p>
<p>If you are not sure how to build a web page consider setting up a free blog with Blogger.com and let their software build the pages for you. Then all you have to do is type in your pre-selling comments and then list your affiliate i.d for them to click on. It does not get any easier than that.</p>
<p>Author: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/william-hutchinson/40167.htm">William Hutchinson </a>  Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-design-a-good-affiliate-marketing-website-404733.html">Articlesbase.com</a></p>
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		<title>Make Money with Google Adsense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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How to Make Money With AdSense Made Easy
Adsense is a program that is professionally run by Google and fills a gap identified by the company several years ago that of ethical and effective internet advertising. Advertisers pay a predetermined amount to Google for every time their ad gets clicked. Now Google gives you opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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<p>How to Make Money With AdSense Made Easy</p>
<p>Adsense is a program that is professionally run by Google and fills a gap identified by the company several years ago that of ethical and effective internet advertising. Advertisers pay a predetermined amount to Google for every time their ad gets clicked. Now Google gives you opportunity to display these advertise on your site and earn share of revenue from it.To make a long story short, there are people who want to advertise on Google, they pay money for that and then there are people who want to make money from those adverts by displaying them on a website or a blog. AdSense is all about content. It&#8217;s not about search results.</p>
<p>Adsense is hot, no doubt about it. So hot in fact that many people are jumping on the bandwagon with the hopes of getting rich without any clue to what they are getting into. Adsense has great ads from carbon offset providers that are very pertinent to my readers. Adsense has floundered for so many people, but some people are bringing in 3 figures per day with adsense. What are the differences between adsense earners making 4 figures a month from adsense and people whose adsense revenue is pennies per day?</p>
<p>Google has an extensive FAQ about this program. Google gives the chance for other webmasters to publish google adwords ads through their websites and/or blogs, sharing the revenue with them. You subscribe to the adsense program, get your unique code to add it in your web pages and some ads related to the content will be generated automatically.</p>
<p>AdSense is a great platform for making money online. The beauty of it is that whenever someone clicks on one of the adsense ads on your affiliate marketing site, you get paid. Google&#8217;s advertising program is free to sign up and you can usually be online within an hour or so (assuming your application is approved quickly). Then adding adsense to your blog is easy especially with bloggers new adsense widget ,it&#8217;s quite simple with wordpress as well but I&#8217;m going to assume wordpress users already know how to do this since it&#8217;s just cut and pasting html. Google adsense is really a gold mine and people are creating niche websites just to display the ads and make easy money everyday &#8211; automatically.</p>
<p>Google will only allow quality site with quality content into its adsense program.If you have a website that has good regular updated content, lots of pages and good traffic then you probably won&#8217;t have any problems getting approved. You won&#8217;t be told how much you will earn by google as google wants all that stuff kept secret. Like the brain surgeon that drives a volkswagon while he saves up for his early retirement to the French Riviera, best not to remind people someones making gobs of money off of them. Google&#8217;s adsense is a superb revenue generating opportunity for small, medium and large web sites. Googles adsense is a really great way to generate money online, and more and more people are starting to realize that.I actually feel like my potential to earn money with adsense is virtually unlimited these days.</p>
<p>Google adsense works on the principle of passive income. In other words, you will generate income with a minimal amount of active participation on your part. Google adsense team has recently launched a new advertising programme for publisher, it is adsense video unit. There is a code that you can embed into the YouTube video such that the ad will be displayed on the top. Google ads are those little &#8220;clickable&#8221; links that you see on many websites above, below and beside the articles. For example, if you look towards the top of this page, you&#8217;ll see a horizontal line of text links.</p>
<p>The adsense program allows entrepreneurs to benefit both from the active income from sale of products and from the passive income obtained through pay per click rates on adsense ads. You will make money with adsense if you follow the rules set out by google. Google advertising tools shows how to build a site that is optimized for adsense revenue, generates high traffic from the site&#8217;s targeted audience, and achieves top search engine placement.<div style="float:left;"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>Google&#8211;and reputable users of Adsense&#8211;recognize that maintaining the quality of the program helps advertising and helps with the acceptance of internet advertising as a legitimate and professional medium for marketing. You may be forgiven one trespass, but Google is also under no obligation to allow you to blatantly ignore the policies and procedures.Adsense strategies, and the right adsense strategies, are what work for success with adsense you need strategies.</p>
<p>Content is what&#8217;s going to keep visitors on your site, looking for the information they need. The longer they stay, the more chance they&#8217;ll click an ad.If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to learn about AdSense, now&#8217;s a great time to get started.As thousands of savvy webmasters and bloggers are making money with Google adsense. With google sending them a check every month like clockwork.</p>
<p>Author: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/douglas-stuart/71295.htm">Douglas Stuart</a>   Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/how-to-make-money-with-adsense-made-easy-547862.html">Articlesbase.com</a></p>
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		<title>How To Get The Most From Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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How to Make Money with an Affiliate Program
by asupport
If you are a regular user of the internet you will no doubt be familiar with adverts bombarding you and popping up telling you how you can make money with affiliate programs and unless you&#8217;re in on the secret, not that it is much of a secret [...]]]></description>
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<h2>How to Make Money with an Affiliate Program</h2>
<p>by asupport</p>
<p>If you are a regular user of the internet you will no doubt be familiar with adverts bombarding you and popping up telling you how you can make money with affiliate programs and unless you&#8217;re in on the secret, not that it is much of a secret anymore, you&#8217;ll be wondering how you do indeed make money with affiliate programs. It sounds so easy and very tempting, and it will have at least crossed your mind that you&#8217;d like to be part of this apparent get rich-quick-scheme, and make money with affiliate programs. You do need to do some research into the best affiliate program for your particular website, but you could find that it really is easy to make money with an affiliate program.</p>
<p>There is undoubtedly a lot of money to be made with affiliate programs, but if you really want to make money with an affiliate program then you need to take action quickly, because the secret is out and the competition is getting tougher. Everybody, it seems, as heard about how to make money with an affiliate program and how easy it can be and wants their share. If you want yours, a good slice and not just the crumbs, then I&#8217;d do something about it right now, because tomorrow you&#8217;ll find somebody else has had exactly the same idea about how to make money with an affiliate program as you, but has moved quicker to secure their pitch and is taking the money you thought would be yours and indeed should be yours.</p>
<p>So get moving and start to make money with an affiliate program the right way. Choose the product you wish to be an affiliate for carefully. To really make money with an affiliate program you need to be original. Utilize search engines to find a suitable and professional program and you will soon begin to make money with an affiliate program.<div style="float:left;"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</div>One of the main steps needed to make money from an affiliate program is to set up a website. You need to create a good one that is professional and be one that can direct internet traffic your way, or you won&#8217;t make money with an affiliate program if nobody knows of your websites existence. It is worth investing in simple website building software that can track search engines and highlight the most common keywords in your sphere of business.</p>
<p>You also need to find a suitable business or program to refer visitors to your site, and help you make money with an affiliate program. They should also be professional, and have the appropriate products to tempt visitors to your site, and hopefully buy some of their product. At this point you will begin to make money with an affiliate program as you&#8217;ll be on a percentage of referrals from your site to the main program, so your job is done and you can begin to watch the money begin to roll in. To make money with an affiliate program can be as easy and straightforward as that.<br />
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>S. Stammberger is the owner of <a href="http://www.easywebdevelopment.info">Easy<br />
Web Development.</a> On her website you will find tips on web page design and development and resources on making money online.</p>
<p>Article Source: Populate.NET <a href="http://www.populate.net">Article Directory</a></p>
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		<title>AKO tests new wiki capability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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A new feature on the Army&#8217;s enterprise portal will make collaboration significantly more effective. The Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online Project Office today officially launched a pilot program for wiki &#8211; a feature facilitating the perpetual, collective work of many authors within the AKO community.
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<p>A new feature on the Army&#8217;s enterprise portal will make collaboration significantly more effective. The Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge Online Project Office today officially launched a pilot program for wiki &#8211; a feature facilitating the perpetual, collective work of many authors within the AKO community.</p>
<p>Wiki is a collaborative web environment allowing AKO/DKO users on the unclassified portal to post information of interest to other users while capturing change history for posted topics. The site is similar to a blog in structure and logic, however &#8212; unlike blogs &#8212; the wiki will allow others to edit originally posted materials.</p>
<p>&#8220;With AKO/DKO wiki, users can post, track and capture edits, enabling them with the ability to assure the authenticity of their topical information,&#8221; said Col. Earl Noble, AKO/DKO project manager.</p>
<p>AKO core users &#8212; Army users with common access cards &#8212; will have access during the evaluation period to a collaborative web environment featuring editable pages with versioning and access controls, the ability to link chains of documents together, document storage and sharing capabilities, the ability to capture change data, cross-linking on the fly, enhanced security and governance, and more.</p>
<p>&#8220;This represents the capabilities AKO/DKO offers in a secure environment that enable collaborative knowledge sharing to the Warfighter and support structures,&#8221; said Noble.</p>
<p>The term wiki, which comes from the Hawaiian language, means &#8220;fast,&#8221; and refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site. Wiki adds to the collaborative tools already present on AKO, and draws on the wealth of information held by its users.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is another example of AKO/DKO&#8217;s commitment to provide users with relevant capabilities to meet tomorrow&#8217;s information needs,&#8221; said Noble.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the challenges faced by AKO users is locating the right document. Wiki brings with it the capability to search document text, rather than just meta data,&#8221; said Noble. &#8220;This further assures the user will be able to find the right document with the right information.&#8221;</p>
<p>During limited user testing, the Clearspace software platform will be evaluated on the Army&#8217;s unclassified portal. A similar solution, Intelepedia, will be tested on the smaller classified network. </p>
<p>Article Source: <a href="http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/08/19/11767-ako-tests-new-wiki-capability/" target="_new">http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/08/19/11767-ako-tests-new-wiki-capability/</a></p>
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		<title>Understanding Home Based Online Business Legal Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A home based online business has to legally comply with the same regulations as an offline business from any other location. Below are the basic legal issues with which a real home based Internet business owner must be familiar. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A home based online business has to legally comply with the same regulations as an offline business from any other location. Below are the basic legal issues with which a real home based Internet business owner must be familiar. </p>
<p>The first one, a real concern for any home  Internet business is the age restriction. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) follows regulations spelled out in COPPA, the Children Online Privacy Protection Act.</p>
<p> The above act requires that children under the age of 13 cannot disclose their personal information unless a parent consents to it. Children under 18 years of age cannot, under any circumstances, be allowed to view pornographic content on the Internet, nor are they allowed to enter into any contract. </p>
<p>Real time occurrences on the Web, including chats and forums, must be carefully controlled by the home based Internet business owner. Bulletin boards will have the same control issues. </p>
<p>The rules of using each should very clearly solicit and retain the consent of each online user to refrain from posting pornography.  Also, in this category are, defamatory or hate material or anything that infringes on the rights of others.</p>
<p> It is probably not a law and may never be so but respecting, truthfulness and fairness to other human beings should be a serious concern also. </p>
<p>Your company should also clearly state, on its site, that you are not liable for other users that commit to following your policies and guidelines but subsequently violate them. I always keep a sharp eye out on my web sites for this anyway and hope others will do the same.</p>
<p> We should all keep an eye out to preserve the integrity of the internet for all of us.</p>
<p>To make your ownership of all property real and keep content rights safe, on your home based business Internet site, you will need a copyright notice on the site footer, maybe on every page. The notice should clearly have the date, your name and the statement, All rights reserved.</p>
<p> A real copy of your business online site should be filed with the U.S. copyright office. This will effectively record ownership of the site contents, as well as its look and its feel. Incidentally, this will instill confidence in your site visitors that you are sincere about having a worthy web site.<br />
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Your site domain name is a dramatically important part of the branding and marketing for your Internet business. It is best to tie that domain name as closely as possible to your logo, your brand and your business name. This is so very important.</p>
<p> Carefully choose a domain name that clearly conveys the products or services of your real home based Internet business. It is the beginning of every sale or donation you ever get from your home business. </p>
<p>It is your very valuable headline. Register your domain name as a trademark and you can retain ownership should it be challenged by another business. Sometimes this will happen. </p>
<p> Your site is on the World Wide Web so you must comply with export regulations. If you sell goods over the Internet to these global consumers, which you should want to do, then you are exporting items for sale and entering into international countries and commerce. Your market increases by hundreds of millions of flesh and blood humans.</p>
<p>If your site is encrypted then you are exporting to other countries per U.S. Department of Commerce and Defense technology regulations. There are many U.S. federal agencies that have regulations in force.</p>
<p>Enforcement agencies are expected to enforce them with the intent of the law, for doing business with other countries. This is their job. Times and circumstances require a firm to get an export license to send information, technology or goods abroad. </p>
<p>Regarding other countries, there is now software on the internet that translates into many of the major world languages. If your web site can sell goods world wide you can use this software to major advantage to sell in many more places.</p>
<p> Your Google Ad Sense will be in other languages giving you more action also so many millions more prospects can read and buy from you. Your online pages will increase dramatically giving you far more links and exposure. Your Alexa rating will begin to rise. Understand the immense benefit from this.</p>
<p>There are countries with whom business transactions are limited severely for U.S. firms. These countries are Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Yugoslavia.</p>
<p> Romania and Malaysia are rife with dishonesty on the internet. It is best to risk losing business with these two countries for now because your chances of being cheated are very high and not worth the risk with such poor odds that are not in your favor.</p>
<p> The best decision about the real problems you might encounter for your home based online business doing commerce with these countries and or the residents should be made with your attorney. Better yet, forget all of these until international relations with them get a lot better.</p>
<p>About the Author<br />
James M. Lowe writes original articles about <a href="http://www.contenttomarket.com/" target="_new">home business issues</a>.<br />
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What&#8217;s a diploma mill?  Explanation is right at your finger tips.  Just check out the entry in Webster&#8217;s Third New International Dictionary:
&#8220;Diploma mill:  An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or, because of the lack of proper [...]]]></description>
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What&#8217;s a diploma mill?  Explanation is right at your finger tips.  Just check out the entry in Webster&#8217;s Third New International Dictionary:</p>
<p>&#8220;Diploma mill:  An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or, because of the lack of proper standards, worthless&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Many con men have found the lucrative field of diploma mills&#8211;or degree mills&#8211;to be as good as gold.  In pursuing this line of con man endeavor they simply practice Harley&#8217;s First Law:  You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you&#8217;ve got something.  Think of how ridiculous this whole concept is:  just apply on the internet for a college degree and in a finger-snap moment, when accompanied by a small fee, you have it.  No fuss.  No bother.  No strain.  Why, then, bother to attend college for four years or longer if your college education can be this quick and easy?  This whole notion is so hard to swallow&#8211;seemingly, a mystery solvable only by Scooby-Doo&#8211;yet it thrives.</p>
<p>Many of the &#8220;home&#8221; addresses of these hoax perpetrators are nothing more than a post office box or &#8220;mail drop.&#8221;  Remote regions of the U.S., like Montana, which has loose standards, are often used to locate these &#8220;institutions of higher learning.&#8221;  Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi, and California, too, have either few standards or excessive loopholes.  Mississippi has no oversight at all.  </p>
<p>Unfamiliar European locations are also popular with the con men, who, without conscience or any moral standard to guide them, simply fall back on their basic principle:  that money is the root of all wealth.  They then follow this path accordingly:  easy as falling-off-a-log education.</p>
<p>Now you see it, now you don&#8217;t.  This particular magician&#8217;s appearance / vanishing act only proves Murphy&#8217;s Law of Combat #12:  If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.  A great many people get their fake degrees revealed.</p>
<p>Who bites?  Who actually believes that a counterfeit college education can have any benefit for them?</p>
<p>In analyzing why people believe this you could say, &#8220;my mother might believe that.  My priest might believe that.  Sponge Bob might believe that.  Most people won&#8217;t.&#8221;  Wrong!  You&#8217;d be amazed at the number of people who have jumped at such &#8220;opportunities.&#8221;  Perhaps, like so many others, they think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their own prejudices.  Envy?  Jealousy.?  Greed?  Who knows?  Off the top, here is just a sampling:</p>
<p>>     A North Carolina man whose degree-verified medical clinic treated an 8-year old girl who died.</p>
<p>>     Parlaying a $100 degree he&#8217;d &#8220;earned&#8221; from a British degree mill, another North Carolina man raised venture capital to market an AIDs drug.  He raised millions before getting caught.</p>
<p>>     A San Clemente, California man raked in $10,000,000.  He ran a fake degree operation that was located 2,000 miles from his home, in Louisiana.</p>
<p>Some of these scam schools also provide a complete transcript.  Some provide phone operators who will verify graduation to inquiring employers.  Some will supply laminated student I.D. cards, and other proof-of-attendance records.  A few even offer class rings.</p>
<p>With only some 35% of U.S. corporations systematically verifying degrees as factual, is it any wonder why  such a big market for fake college degrees exists?</p>
<p>If you try to fail and succeed, which have you accomplished?  That&#8217;s a good question for all the people who are participating right alongside the con men in perpetrating this in-your-face scam.</p>
<p>This whole exercise seems like standing in a bucket and trying to lift yourself up by the handle.</p>
<h2>About Author</h2>
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