Shanti’s Dispatches

I’m subscribed to Joel Comm’s newsletter. It’s interesting because he’s deeply plugged into that semi-shady world of Internet Marketing. Some of these guys make hundreds of thousands of dollars within a few days of launching their products. Sometimes, even a million.

It’s a refreshing change of pace from the TechCrunch world — where you might see many “startups” blogged about daily, some of whom I’m quite sure will never even break $10k in revenue (for the entire history of their company).

But this recent email from Joel started the old “omfg this has got to be another bubble” alarm bells ringing:

I know it is the day before Thanksgiving in America…

And I know that I’ve already sent you an email today…

But some things just can’t wait. I just discovered a
new site that is about to publicly launch, and I’d be
doing you a disservice by not telling you about it!

Please read on…

For those who were online in 1999, you may remember
the very first “Get paid to surf” program. It was
called AllAdvantage. Basically, by displaying the
AllAdvantage toolbar while you surfed, you got paid.

And when you referred people to the program and they
surfed, you got paid.

It worked VERY well, except that the management team
at the company messed up the opportunity.

Don’t get me wrong. I earned THOUSANDS with this
program. And it was incredibly viral.

Since then, I’ve been waiting for a similar opportunity
to arrive.

It just has!

http://www.makemoneywithjoel.com

Ugh.

In other unrelated news, Happy Thanksgiving ya’ll!

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