Intended as a legitimate tool for everyone from the casual user who needs a quick temporary email, to web developers and website flippers who use many temp accounts this spam blocking service provides what you need.

There are two types of membership: free and paid. Free memberships allow you to create an email account on the fly without signing up. This is great for most users' purposes. However, there is a security risk in that anyone could access the same email box as you. This will most likely not be an issue for most.

The second membership type is a pro account. This is great for web developers and other users that need many temp emails, but also need these temp services to be more secure. The service is only $19.95/year, and highly recommended for commercial users.

Some ideas for using this service is if you need to create multiple accounts at popular social networking websites, want to sign up for contests or promotions but don't want the spam that comes with them, or if you need to submit to a web directory or other site and want to avoid unnecessary emails.

So go ahead and visit MyTrashMail.com for your temporary emails, and spam blocking emails.

Now, some legitimate sellers use these tactics, and you won't be scammed. You will still get your website and domain. But these stunts really leave a bad taste in my mouth so I decided to give some tips on avoiding these websites. I believe every new website buyer should read this, otherwise you will probably get roped into purchasing a site like this.

First thing is every seller wants you to know the value of their site. This is fine, but many sellers will stretch the truth, or all and all out lie. First look at the title. This is their sales pitch. Watch out for words like "make $5000/month potential!" The keyword of course is "POTENTIAL". The site does not actually make $5k a month and there is a strong chance it never will.

The next thing to locate is the date the website was started. There are important points to watch out for: if the site is old, that is good, but not necessarily legit especially in the claims of their monthly profit. If the site was "started in 2008", but they claim the site has been making "$500/month for the last two months", than most likely the seller bought an expired domain, and the business itself has been only running for a few months. Old domains are good however because Google trusts them more, because they are most likely not a spam site.

There are what are known as "Website Flippers". There are forums, memberships, and special groups that all they do is build and re-sale websites. Note how I said "build and resell", not buy and resell. There business model goes like this:

1. Build a site that usually includes an eBook or digital product. This product is usually based upon a hot trend or the biggest, most popular things online(ie Twitter)
2. Next, they hit up "make money online" forums, where newbies are hungry to get rich quick online, and are thus willing to shell out coin for products guaranteeing or claiming big profits
3. These Flippers create smooth sales pitches, and even get testimonials(usually paid), claiming how the product will instantly make them a bazillion dollars in as little as 1 day
4. Like a mad torrent, these script kiddies will buy the product, and Flipper will make their own bazillion dollars very quickly. But with most products its life span will die off miserably, very quickly within a few weeks usually, maybe a month. These forums include DP, Warrior Forum, and Wicked Fire.
5. Once their quick profit has been made, they move over to a website marketplace like Flippa or Digital Point.
6. They claim the site makes $xxxx'/month and will likely go on to grow exponentially. Again, watch the age of the site and how long they have been making this money. If they've only made the money for a few months, most likely the efficacy of the site is over and it will crash and burn quickly after you buy it.
7. Another thing to watch for is how much they are selling it for. If it makes "$1000 per month" and they only want $3000 for it this is a HUGE RED FLAG. If you could make $1000 per month with no effort why sell it for only $3000? Most real businesses sell for at least 12 - 36 months or more in claimed income. I rather make $1000 month for the rest of my life than make a one time $3000 chunk of change.
8. Watch out for duplicate sites or products. Sellers business may be based upon a PLR, or Public License Rights, or a MSR, Master Reseller Rights, product. This is a product or site that gives the seller full rights to the product. Them, and a million other people. That means your business is flooded with competitors and makes your product's value next to none.

Here are other things to consider:

Look at buyer's feedback. Do they have negative comments, or been accused of fraud?
How quick is the seller able to respond to your questions?
Do they respond directly, or dodgedly answer your question like a politician?
Is the seller's English good? Not always, but many times sellers from other countries will try to swindle you as there really is no jurisdiction to stop them. Our country has bigger things to deal with than go after 3rd rate con artists in other countries. These swindlers know this.

With these tips, you should be able to spot some of the biggest red flags. Not all of these are direct signs, or a dead on giveaway. Some products may legitimately good, or have REAL potential to make money. Do your homework, ask questions, research the site, seller, and product online in the search engines, forums, Copyscape, and wherever else. If you do this you will avoid wasting your money, and have a better chance of scoring a gem of an online business that will help your web portfolio rather than harm it. ]]> http://www.dollarprojects.com/tips-to-avoid-shady-sellers-when-buying-a-website/feed/ http://www.dollarprojects.com/what-does-wts-wtb-mean-anyway/ http://www.dollarprojects.com/what-does-wts-wtb-mean-anyway/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:24:38 +0000 admin http://www.dollarprojects.com/?p=185 What Does WTS, WTB Mean Anyway? WTS means Want To Sell, and WTB means Want To Buy. If you have been browsing the forums or websites for sale locations online, you may have asked yourself this, especially if you are new to buying and selling of websites. These are simple, but good terms to look for depending on if you are buying or selling a site. If you are buying it is a quick search term that can be used to find sellers with good sites. If you are selling it is a fast way to find a targeted buyer and make a quicker more profitable sale.

On with UBot! Now, I am an experienced user with iMacros, and a beginner with UBot, as Ubot is the new kid on the block. Both tools are useful, depending on A) what you want to do, and B) your programming/webmaster skill level. Now my skill level would be dubbed intermediate. If you are intermediate or above you can go for one or the other program and you will probably be happy with either. If you are a beginner your best bet is probably uBot, because there is no programming skills required. To an extent no programming is required with iMacros either, and if you just use the iMacros free plugin for Firefox you'll be good to go. BUT!...
If you want to go on to the next level, ie major automation, auto generating content, auto social bookmarking and marketing, etc. you are going to have to choose a paid version. Just remember programmer = iMacros, newbie = UBot.

Okay, let's go a little more in depth with UBot now that the iMacros versus UBot situation is out of the way:

PROS:

• Ubot is newbie friendly
• it uses a Visual Scripting Language(WYSIWYG) Interface
• You can compile your scripts and resell them - royalty free!
• Great support by email or forum
• You can automate form filling tasks
• Automate Web Scraping/Extraction - Useful to fill content for your database/website
• Scrape Data About Competitors
• Automate Online Marketing Tasks such as directory submissions and social networking
• How To Videos (30 - 60 minute sessions!) are free and get you started QUICK!
• You can make your first bot in less than an hour
• 30 day money back guarantee!
• Continual updates
• Cheap! - At only $249, it's half the price of iMacros and there are no resell royalties!

CONS:

• No trial version - remember the no questions asked money back guarantee!
• Some bugs - not bad, but some kinks are still being worked out
• Takes longer(not necessarily harder) to identify html tags in the scripting process than iMacros

As you can see the pros outweigh the cons, but there are still things to consider. Personally, I use both it and iMacros as each is best suited for different tasks, but for beginners and cash strapped patrons Ubot is much cheaper.

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Here's an intro video about uBot:

In our tools section I will soon release some free and paid bots so you don't have to buy it if you don't want. You can just use the bots I create for you. Hope you like.