Is this is for real ?

I started reading both Pat and Tyrone's blogs when I heard about the Niche Site Duel. I like them both. According to Tyrone, he had been promoting himself as someone who makes 6 figures per year online and that he only works a few hours per day doing it. Apparently, he does not make 6 figures online - the majority of his money comes from offline work and he works more than a few hours per day. He says he was caught up in the "internet marketing hype" and felt the need to over-exaggerate what he earned.

I just think you have to use common sense when it comes to these claims. Are you going to earn $100,000 overnight? Not likely. And as someone else stated, you have to actually put the information you buy to use and see what works for you.

I hear you. And I definitely don't have sympathy for him.

I think there is certainly more to hinge the success of a product on, beyond monetary claims. Unfortunately, that is what everyone knows and expects. Big numbers make eyebrows raise, whether they are fabricated or not. I, personally, don't like playing with numbers simply because...knowing what I know about IM.....even if I was REALLY making $1,000,000/year off a system, and was providing high quality REAL screenshot, as a consumer, I would STILL probably be skeptical....

I can't believe for the life of me that that stuff even works in headlines anymore. I guess it does. It becomes more of a game of picking the right combination of even and odd numbers (i.e. I earn $1,376,432....), than truly being genuine about what it is you are offering. I guess people know that using the right "numbers", whether fabricated or not, just simply work....so, now, we have large scale bloggers who "get caught up in the hype" and compromise themselves completely...

I tell my wife I would never cheat on her. I know I wouldn't, but I don't even put myself in that position. Maybe I'm a loner, but I don't frequent clubs or bars, without her, very often...if at all. Point being, I don't want anything to do with even the remote possibility of associating myself with something that could cause me to cheat.

Why, then, do they associate themselves with this stuff? It's an easier way to the top just to simply fabricate earnings instead of actually putting in the hard legwork and REALLY doing it?

I'm glad that his conscious caught up with him to the point where he felt the need to address this and come clean.

Now, it makes me wonder about the reputation of everyone who associated themselves with him, as well. :rolleyes: Of course, maybe they just didn't know...

Sometimes those people do make a lot of money, but they make it from selling products that teach other people how to make money. Seems to be that happens sometimes when you see some income proof images on sales letters.

I think people can make a lot of money online, no doubt about it. But its kind of like most things, a person can only get out of it what thye put into it. So if thye only put in 37 or 67 or 97 dollars and are expecting to get back hundreds of thousands on autopilot, I think that person might be a bit disappointed with their results.