I Really Dislike Crypto Scammers and Fake Gurus

They kind of ruin everything.

They kind of ruin everything.

Source : Straico AI — Prompt : I Am The Anti Guru

People assume that I’m one of them sometimes, and you know what?

I don’t blame them.

I’ve received a few hater comments here and there, and I do my best to keep up on replying to them. I just discovered a three month old comment and replied this morning.

Scammers are EVERYWHERE.

As are those who start teaching how to make money online, but end up making more from their paid course than from the things they are teaching.

Any hecklers on my posts are totally forgiven for assuming I might be ….that.

I just hope that if anyone actually reads my stories, they will find they are dealing with a real person who isn’t making very insane claims.

I don’t ever claim you can just <do easy thing> and <have wildly successful instant results>.

Yeah, I use creative titles and such to grab attention, but that’s part of modern click-grabbing. If I wan’t to be successful online, I cannot avoid it.

I usually post my less than favorable results too, the good and bad — like with my store Motherfunker and having to possibly pivot soon.

I can create as many ecom stores as I want with almost no new overhead — other than buying a domain name.

I forged that reality for myself by buying LifeTime license software repeatedly in the last two years until I had an ecom platform, a mass email messaging system, two chatbots, AI images — so I have NO monthly fees on any of that anymore.

Automations, I teach those because it’s fun — but my crypto trading bots are earning more at this time than my other endeavors, and like a rat pulling levers to get food, I am now paying more attention to my trading bots than my other businesses.

If something is working, you hit repeat.

There are two big reservations I had before embarking on this blogging / youtube journey in regards to crypto posting:

• The amount of spam scam garbage that it attracts when I have crypto keywords anywhere associated with my profiles. It’s the most annoying thing on planet earth. The spam, scam calls, scam emails, etc, have skyrocked.

• I had to overcome my own perception that anyone teaching about what they are doing in this space, is probably just earning from the teaching, and not actually from the thing they are teaching.

This is a huge issue in Affiliate Marketing world.

I still don’t offer a paid course about any of this, and I am not sure I ever will.

I might offer paid walk throughs of various platforms soon, but I will not market some miracle course designed to snag a bunch of bright-eyed fat-wallets drunk on motivational speech and axiom/value posting and trick them into thinking I have the keys to a yacht-lambo future for them.

Think about it.

Lot’s of people sell the idea of totally passive income, or launching an online shop or affiliate marketing venture, and having it take off with some exact formula, but the people selling the courses — don’t you it funny that they want to book calls all day? Show up in your DM’s constantly? Seem to be AVAILABLE ALL THE TIME to try to talk you into a purchase?

It should be easy to assume, if someone is that involved with selling and teaching to the point of working at it all the time….. well…..

Could it be that their income depends on all those things they are doing?

And THESE are the honest folks, probably really just trying to teach something online but omitting that they probably earn more from the course than the thing they are teaching about.

I promise — inside the “Guru mill”, that sea of marketers teaching marketing skills to other new marketers so they can turn around and start a course teaching marketing skills — many of them do NOT see the irony, and they are not consciously trying to pull any kind of fast one. But yeah, it sure is cute!

My method with affiliate marketing is a little different… more… passive. But its also less profitable than the claims of others, and that’s because I do it my way. I don’t make 10k per month, but the money I do make, doesn’t require customer hand holding.

Scammers are different, and it’s sad that what they practice actually works at all, but I guess it does or they wouldn’t repeat the same tactics over and over and over.

Scammers are usually roping people with Pfishing for their info, or sending them to fake platforms that take peoples money and never pay out, or pretending to be investment services, or even impersonating real people.

I have already had one scammer clone my photos, create a fake account, and try to pitch people and take their money.

I can’t speak for anyone but me here, and I am NOT trying to slap others while giving myself a reach around, but you might find…. I am not available all the time for my audience.

I will not show up in your DM’s, on any platform.

I have a emailing list, and unless you sign up, you don’t hear from me outside of commenting on your posts.

And…. I have etiquette. It’s simply rude and stupid to drop my own links on YOUR posts. You won’t catch me doing that either unless you are ASKING for solutions or links.

And my Meta/Facebook profile — HAHA.

I am in Meta JAIL all the time for running my mouth on different topics. I never add new friends, and people don’t really find me. You can message me there if you want, but I don’t keep messenger on my phone, so I don’t always respond quickly.

Your first clue it’s a scammer pretending to be me — they approached you at all pitching anything or trying to take your money.

I am not here to make a new job for myself by becoming full-time course creator or salesman, but I AM here to attempt to automate new income streams and find creative ways to earn without working as an employee.

That is what this Medium account is about, and all my affiliate marketing endeavors.

But from the outset, I had a different mission.

It’s not worth it to me if I have to work full time to keep this thing alive.

So I carefully only choose those things which stand the most chance to pay out without having to interface with people all the time, and without having to build a team to create content.

I totally intended to automate the hell out of this Medium account at first, but a funny thing happened — I love to write, and now I am writing in my free time because I find it addictive and a neat way to earn from running my mouth on things I nerdgasm about, something I already love to do.

That is kind of what happened with Business automations and integrations too. I found a way to take my own nerdery into extra profit by marketing the platforms I use.

If I can find a way to take a business that otherwise would require lots of interaction, and deploy it in a way where it works better without any expectation of lots of human interaction, that’s great.

Some businesses can have great conversion rate and performance with chatbots alone, others, not so much. Totally depends on the business and its customer base/expectations.

I could play the marketer salesman game, but I’d rather just put fishing lines in the water (both online, and in real life — at the lake) and earn much less and build an audience slowly, over time.

Transparency

I’d like to be transparent here, because some people think all people who make stories like mine are “Gurus” who are selling some course.

I know this won’t stop the hecklers from heckling, but at least I wont have to respond much anymore, Ill just reply with a link to this story.

Medium

I earn about $130–200 per month through Medium, and I am on track this month to earn more. My goal is to push this this to earn $1000 per month, in three years. If I cannot take it there, I will eventually stop posting here.

Source : My Earnings in Medium Partner Portal

Make

I earn around $100 per month from Make in the last two months —which is the workflow automation solution I have been using. It automates just about everything you can think of.

It’s like Zapier, but I prefer it beacuse of it’s non-linear spider-web-of-modules UI approach.

Source : My earnings in Make

Wondr AI

I earned $313 from Wondr AI so far, and they are one of my favorite platforms to promote.

They created the Make workflows that I use in deploying fully automated print on demand shops. They have their own platform that is a white labeled version of Make and is tailored for Print-on-Demand.

Wonderflow AI — The Future of Print on Demand!
WonderFlow AI offers a seamless platform to automate your Print on Demand Store, social media marketing, and more!medium.com

My earnings from Wondr AI

My First eBook

And of course I have to mention my book, I’ve made about $15 in the last week from the first launch of my first book!

Forgive me if I admit that my goal here is to take all this as far as I can, but the reality is that it’s not as easy to sell books as people imagine. My first 5 sales came from Medium, and Nextdoor.

Thank you!!!!

Source : Amazon KDP Dashboard

>>>>Click here to check out my Book listings

My Amazon ads aren’t even creating impressions. So Ill try to promote my book on YouTube next.

It’s not a book promising people the moon, it’s just showing them the different types of trading bots, with some detail and examples of how they function.

Pionex

And — even though I promote the hell out of Pionex Exchange, and many people have told me they used my links, I have yet to see any payout.

And thats because they pay in the form of discount on trading fees, and because I run trading bots — I never really notice how much I am saving on their fees really, I guess it just happens as my bots work. I think.

Motherfunker

Motherfunker.shop was grossing around $3300–4800 while I was running ads, but that was only $600–800 profit per month after deducting ads, base costs, and all the returns….

Cannagar Tools

Then — my primary business is averaging $1500– per month as my take because 70% gross is going to my production partner.

Cannagar Tools Herbal Craft Molds & Accessories
Tools for making form-factor perfect cannagars!cannagartools.com

Crypto Trading Bots

If you look at my crypto trading bot update story series that I started posting in February, you can see how running 3 trading bots as I do, is exceeding what I am earning elsewhere.

That is also why I call it my Semi-Automated strategy, because I am definitely not just starting a bot and walking away to perpetual profit.

It takes effort and attention.

Now, all my affiliate income + my primary business income = less than what I am made with crypto bots last year.

I honestly didn’t expect that, but here I am.

Thank you for reading!

Until next time….

Onward and Upward Everybody!

-Chris

Automated Income Lifesyle w/ Chris Morton YouTube

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