This thread is informative but I have a question or two. First, John Chow is pretty forthright, saying "I Make Money Online By Telling People How I Make Money Online ..." The bottom line is that these guys MAKE MONEY and I think you can learn something from all of them. Ripping on them seems hypocritical in a way.
I'm starting a wordpress-mu membership site for newbie marketers that has an affiliate program which I'm going to teach them how to promote, among other things. So the whole point is that I'll make money by teaching them how to make money using the blogs hosted on my server. I was thinking about taking out ads on BHW, hoping that members would here would market it. Is taking out those ads going to be a waste of time and money? I'm also going to take out massive ads on Shoemoney and John Chows sites as well as Wickedfire. So am I going to find my name on a thread like this next week, saying how I'm some kind of asswipe for successfully making money with one of the membership site programs that are being promoted right here on BHW? I'm not going to call myself a guru, but I think that my members might assume that I am one, and I'd lose money if I corrected them and said that I was NOT. How do you handle this?