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If you're going to be an Internet marketer, the one thing you have to learn is know when to speak. Sometimes you can say things that can really hurt other people. When you do this, you open yourself up to attack and a possible lawsuits. If you're wondering what I'm speaking about, don't worry, I'm going to make this very clear. Hopefully, you will learn something from this.

Just recently at a forum that I attend, a member of the forum publicly stated that another member was a crook. This person said this without any proof of any kind. Now, regardless of whether it is true or not, this is defamation of character. Forum rules forbid people from calling out other members in public. These rules are put into place to protect the other members. A shame some don't follow them.

If you're wondering, what could happen to you if you do this, you need to take a good look at the legal system. The defamation of character is a serious offense. Pull this nonsense on somebody with no sense of humor, and you can find yourself taken to court. There are many people out there who have the funds and the patience to do this. The point is, don't think you can get away with saying anything you want. You can't. Freedom of speech does not apply to a public forum. At the least you can get your account deleted, and at worst, be sued.

The reason I am warning you of this is because I don't want to see you make a mistake that could hurt your business. There are some very vindictive people out there who all you have to do is look at the wrong way and they'll take you to court. So please be careful. I'm telling you this to protect you from making some very serious mistakes.

If you have any doubts about the forum rules, read them. They are posted at the top of every forum. There is no excuse for not knowing the rules.

Take this as a fair warning.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Tired of busting your behind for peanuts online? Go to my web site and find out how I earn a monthly income that exceeds 5 figures and how I can help YOU do the same. Get your free report at http://www.mysecretarticles.com/report.html

It never fails. You see a successful site pop up on the Internet, and days later you've got a half dozen clones out there selling the same thing. There's no originality. They just copy the site, almost word for word in some cases, and try to make money off of somebody else's idea. This is no only wrong, but it's counterproductive to what you're actually trying to do. In this article, I am going to show you the right way to copy somebody. Yes, you can actually use ideas, since ideas can't be copyrighted. The key is to add some originality to what you're doing.

Let's take an example, albeit a fictional example. But I think you'll more than get the idea.

Let's say, for argument sake, that somebody comes out with a site on how to make money on the Internet by selling ad space using pixels. You buy a pixel and your site link gets put up on that pixel. Okay, as you probably know, this has actually been done, and it's been done to death. Everybody and their grandmother jumped on this thing after the first kid came out with the idea. But they all did the same exact thing. They sold pixels. There was no originality in the concept at all.

But what if we did this? What if we sold flash video space. That's right. We offered to place the advertiser's flash video up on a 500 pixel block and on the page you could have up to ten videos. For one thing, the exposure for a flash video will be a lot greater than a link on a pixel. Also, because there won't be as many ads per page, the chances of somebody seeing your video will be a lot greater. So what we've done is taken a concept and put our own little twist on it in order to make it unique.

The key is thinking outside the box. Look at what somebody is doing and see if you can't add your own little twist to it. If you sit down and think hard enough, you will come up with something. The main thing is not to outright copy the idea and make no substantial changes to it whatsoever. That's just plain theft and it doesn't do you any good anyway. Why? Because you're just reminding people of how much better the original is anyway. Make YOUR creation better than the original.

That's what separates the successful marketers from the rest of the pack.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Tired of busting your behind for peanuts online? Go to my web site and find out how I earn a monthly income that exceeds 5 figures and how I can help YOU do the same. Get your free report at http://www.mysecretarticles.com/report.html