<story><title>The freelancer&apos;s guide to good jobs and great pay</title><url>http://thecreativeclass.io/guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>This has a &lt;i&gt;horrible&lt;/i&gt; vibe of all of these guides on how to get rich quickly, that a company would mail you for $19.99. Everything, beginning from having to supply an email address to be sent the first lesson,to cheesy &amp;quot;testimonials&amp;quot; like &amp;quot;now I can pay my bills 3 months in advance!&amp;quot; reeks of some sort of scam.&lt;p&gt;At the very top &amp;quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And at the very bottom:
&amp;quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&amp;#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnward</author><text>At the very top &amp;quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And at the very bottom: &amp;quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&amp;#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see anything wrong with that. They are giving away something for free in hopes they can sell something else. Nothing wrong with that at all. They are even disclosing that before you join the list, which most people don&amp;#x27;t. I guess you may not see that before joining but I see no harm.</text></comment>
<story><title>The freelancer&apos;s guide to good jobs and great pay</title><url>http://thecreativeclass.io/guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>This has a &lt;i&gt;horrible&lt;/i&gt; vibe of all of these guides on how to get rich quickly, that a company would mail you for $19.99. Everything, beginning from having to supply an email address to be sent the first lesson,to cheesy &amp;quot;testimonials&amp;quot; like &amp;quot;now I can pay my bills 3 months in advance!&amp;quot; reeks of some sort of scam.&lt;p&gt;At the very top &amp;quot;A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And at the very bottom:
&amp;quot;FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE&amp;#x27;S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frandroid</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not a scam, it&amp;#x27;s the freemium model.</text></comment>