make $10k a month for doing nothing?

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This is pretty normal in any industry, cant believe some people here who call this a scam? Do you even know what forum you're on right now? lol.

Retainer fees and "maintenance" fees for services that basically require no work are very common, particularly in the IT / SEO world.
 
firstnamelastname said:
anyway, don't read any of the above because it's not relevant.
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Now this cracked me up. Little too late I would say buddy :D

Anyway..

I find this really dishonest. I personally always aim to provide value in exchange for money.

This is like a disguised version of Patreon. The "client" doesn't know he's really just a "patron".

The problem is that it's one sided.
 
First of all, I'm wondering why this post got so many freaking replies, so random lol. But I'm sure these guys are managing the Yelp accounts, responding to people, deleting negative comments maybe, something like that. They aren't doing nothing. They're just being dicks and saying they're doing nothing. :cool:
 
I used to work for an organization that paid Reuters tens of thousands a month for a product that no one in the office used so it is possible.
 
There are many jobs where people receive money for nothing, but nobody calls them scammers. For example security officers, who protect only if alarm rings (in some premises never), real estate brokers, insurance companies, marketing gurus, motivators, etc, etc... Too many to list them all here.
 
Yelp is a business directory service and crowd-sourced review forum, and a public company. SEO is a different way of earning.
 
So, the guy is just an online con artist - using big fancy words to persuade clients into buying his service and making it look complex so that the clients have no idea what they are getting, and in return get nothing.
 
ab122183 said:
@MisterF

I am just starting out local SEO company for local small business. If you don't mind, can I discuss some ideas with you to be successful in the business.

Thanks.
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Please dont scam small businesses....
Give them at least some value and push your rating...
You dont know how much you can make just from having contacts with high-value costumers, recently got a request (because of the 1 contact) for something I never did before and they eventually want to pay me mid 4 figure.
Get contacts, "manipulate" them and always try to get more connections to high-value potential customers...
 
Spats said:
There's a little more to it than being a native English speaker.
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I know some native English speakers who would scare off literally any potential lead. They scare me off and I'm not even trying to buy anything
 
ChesterF said:
I used to work for an organization that paid Reuters tens of thousands a month for a product that no one in the office used so it is possible.
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That's a huge difference. When it's not your own money, people often don't care.
Years ago I tried selling office supplies to a local authority council in the UK. The buyer wasn't interested as the council were part of a buying group. I was coming in at around 40% cheaper on the exact same paper and still didn't get the orders.

Order from me and it would have been a pallet of paper from the mill, direct to their warehouse. £8 per box.

They instead were ordering through the buying group, the delivery went to the buying group warehouse, offloaded from the truck booked into the warehouse. Booked out, onto a different truck and delivered. They were paying £14 a box.

50 boxes of 5 reams (125,000 sheets) per pallet, soon adds up - But hey, it's not his money after all.
 
Throughout my business life i have come across managers who "have" to spend their budget. If not they get it cut the following year.

Catch them in the last month of their financial year and you can sell them shit and not only will they buy it, they will even pay a premium to use up their outstanding budget, rather than get it cut.

Who are the managers that do this the most? Government departments as @MisterF said.
 
awakened said:
First of all, I'm wondering why this post got so many freaking replies, so random lol. But I'm sure these guys are managing the Yelp accounts, responding to people, deleting negative comments maybe, something like that. They aren't doing nothing. They're just being dicks and saying they're doing nothing. :cool:
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This. I used to be a stock broker, with an emphasis in employee stocks and options. When someone would ask about it, I'd downplay what I do and say that I just punched a few numbers into the computer a few times a day. In reality, doing a trade for a senior executive for $10,000,000 worth of his companies shares required so much more to make sure he wasn't violating any regulations or company policies, sometimes contacting their companies stock plan administrator, actually placing the trade correctly, typically with a senior executives approval, and then documenting the trade on both an electronic as well as paper trade blotter.

Instead of all that, I'd just tell people I'd browse Reddit and punch a few numbers in the computer
 
That's an asshole move. Ppl like these ruin the industry and make it harder for honest ones to do work.
 
Shiieeeet son, he's a bad apple. $10k p/m is insane though
 
Its normal, what do you talk about those $5,000 online courses where the guy recorded last year and He will not move a finger and you will watch all the course online in 1 day.

Ir some SaaS like Google in the early days of Google AdWords where people started advertising millions of dollars a day and they do not worked much harder than the other days when no money are rolling in...

Thats called business, you can find a gold piece in the other side of the street and then sell it for 1 million dollars and the other guy will work 12 hours a day to make 100k per year.

We're in a free world where creativity worths hundreds of millions every single hour online.
 
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