With the advent of mind-boggling technology, and the developments in social media, the internet economy has become a boon for bloggers, social media (digital) marketers, freelancers, and affiliate marketers. The possibility of making a handsome income through blogging, digital marketing, and freelancing is pulling a huge chunk of people (even the utter nonsense and stupid ones) towards all these.
It's indeed true that if used prudently, all these can become a source of income in the present times, but at the same time, it's not a cakewalk as most of the stalwarts in these fields describe. I may sound a little offensive, but a HUGE FRAUD has been going on revolving around this.
A lot many ads that most of us are compelled to watch nowadays on YouTube and other social media platforms are turning out to be a great way of 'duping clients' for these 'crafty' bloggers, digital marketers, and freelancers. Through their dishonest but effective marketing and promotional tactics, they are attracting many people to their workshops/courses/webinars.
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They make big, PARTIALLY FALSE promises about learning invaluable lessons and earning six (or even more) digit salary in a very short interval after attending their free (or a nominal priced) workshop, which eventually make people greedy and end up registering for the same. Once you get to the workshop, all you get to know is that this workshop's not going to teach you anything valuable, and to actually learn what you look for, you'll have to pay this much amount of money. Suddenly all the promises they had made in their promotional video for the workshop shift to another workshop, and that too with spending huge sums of money. And this cycle goes on and on. Even if you attend the second workshop paying heavy sums of money, they'll hardly give you the information they promised in their first promotional ad. They ask you to go for the third workshop to learn this and that and charge tens of thousands of rupees for that.
Being a blogger and having a penchant for professionally learning digital marketing, I have become a victim of these 'crafty bloggers' quite a few times. So, a gentle piece of advice - next time you come across such flamboyant people who flaunt their heavy earnings and ask you to attend their absolutely free/nominal priced workshops, be wary of them. Most of them won't give you any value but snatch your precious time and hard-earned money.
Best,
Anant Vyas