Unfortunately it seems that Internet Marketing has more than its fair share of con artists trying to milk people out of money.

They prey on the emotions of confusion, fear, and greed. Don't pay to find 'get paid' to sites. I have said this all the time during my seminar training and school class.  Most are easily found with a search engine and adverts in papers.

Be realistic about how much money you can earn. For example: Most "get paid to read email" sites pay less than a penny or so to read an email.

You won't even make minimum wage at that rate. Keep that credit card in your pocket. It might be tempting to accept a "get paid to try" offers and sign up for a service, the problem is that you have to cancel the service within a small window of time.

And finally be a little cautious with 'get paid to" sites which try to convince you to establish a down line of recruits with the incentive that you'll earn a percentage of their earnings as well. Make sure the information in a program or report is up to date.

If the ebook you're considering buying is how to sell digital products on Ebay it's a waste of money because Ebay no longer accepts digital products for its auction site.

Google AdSense is still a good way to earn money but it's much less lucrative than it was a year or two ago when one click through by a visitor paid several dollars or more.

Understand that people do exaggerate on the Internet and don't clarify their sales pitches. One person sells a course on how to make money by blogging. The individual says they make $7000.00 per month just by blogging.

What the person doesn't tell you is that he/she has over 50 blogs and it took a full year to reach $5000 per month. You might be expecting to make that amount of money with one blog and in a month or two.

Another individual shouts that he/she made over $10,000.00 by sending one email. Just one email! And it's true. What he/she doesn't tell you is that they already had an established list of over 200,000 subscribers that email was sent to.

Rule #1: If it sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't.  It's a short rule, but works in lots of situations.