Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Don't get 'snookered'


As a general rule...
"if it sounds too good to be true...
it usually is"
I ran across a program that fit this description to a 't'.
It has a pretty good sales pitch...good enough that I decided to,
at least, check it out.
One of the things I have begun to do...after being 'ripped off' a time
or two, when I didn't...is to go out and do my 'homework'...
what are other people saying about their experiences.
Paidsurveysetc....doesn't get high marks from me.
Here are a couple of 'reviews' of folks
who purchased this program...
"I discovered to my horror that in order to get paid for these surveys you had to not only complete the survey you had to sign up and pay for a business offer. You either had to purchase goods or services. I was very dissappointed. My objective was not to make money by spending money on goods and services over and over again. Many of the opportunities involved services that could be cancelled later but who wants to go to all that trouble? I decided this wasn't for me and requested a refund. I haven't heard anything back yet but they did offer a money back guarantee..." Link to complete review.
I gave the author a five star rating for the review...please consider doing this
also. The review could very well, not only saved me money, but
saved me the aggrevation of a program that promised big...and delivered very small.
"My mailbox was inundated with as many as 800 emails per day - all garbage.Countless attempts to get my guaranteed refund have been in vain. No response whatsoever from these turkeys.I traced their physical address to a vacant strip mall in California.The website is very convincing and appears to be heartfelt - someone who has been duped in the past wanting to be sure you only have legit sites - yeah, right!" -- Link to complete review.
The author of this review needed extra income so they
could stay home with their son, while he was undergoing chemotherapy.
How heartless!!
I could go on and on with scam after scam after scam, from this program.
I'm a little horrified that the program is still being offered as a Clickbank affiliate product...
and I will say that...
the ONLY positive reviews I ran across
were from folks..who are actually trying to
'peddle the product'....
You will not find my affiliate link on
any paidsurveysetc product...
I will never...knowingly...lead anyone to a bogus product.
This is my 'review'.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Make Money At Home! Bum Marketing!

Bum marketing in a nutshell!

Write an article, publish it through Ezine Articles, GoArticles, Associated Content or one of a number of other article publishers.
Provide a link to your blog or website, within the article or the author's resource box and do it all over again!

Sounds easy enough, but there really is more to it than that. For one thing...you need to be sure the article, blog/website is something that you can monetize.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I 'broke down' and joined Wealthy Affiliates. I wasn't 'figuring it out' on my own. Now that it has become 'clearer'...I'm having to go back and rework a lot of my Squidoo Lenses, in order to maximize those.

But, until I've figured it all out...I'm going to be concentrating on my Associated Content Articles
because that is the one site that actually pays for some of the articles upfront, and the rest of the articles for the visits they receive.
They give you 'Calls for Content'...in case you're stuck about what to write about. You can include links to money sites (like Etsy and others) within the articles, provided it is pertinent to the article itself.

My 'plan of action' is to:
1. Select my niche
2. Write an article for Associated Content (embedding the money site link into the article)
3. Write a separate article for Ezine Articles, with a link to either a blog, website or Squidoo Lens.
4. Build a lens, blog, or site around this niche...occasionally a combination of all of these.
5. Link the articles to the site.
6. Go out and 'promote' the heck out of the site in forums, social networks, etc.
7. Write some new and different articles, for Associated Content, Ezine Articles, and Go Articles..on the same niche.
8. Include the links.
9. Do some more promoting.

I may do this four or five times, per niche. The key being...to get myself out there...as somewhat of an 'expert' or 'authority' on this niche.

By this time, I should be seeing income from the niche itself, rather than just from the visits I receive through Associated Content.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Make Money At Home! Zazzle!


I have been making my entire
income
from the internet, since 2005.
One of the ways I contribute to
my household funds is through Zazzle.
This is one of the mugs that I offer
through one of my three
Zazzle shops.
You don't have to be an artist to be able to take advantage
of this Free Site.
You just need an email address..
and a little imagination doesn't hurt either.
If you have some clever sayings
that you would like to see on T-Shirts..
if you have some doodles
that you think would look great on magnets or mugs..
if you have some photographs
that would make great greeting cards...
...whatever you think would make a great design...
you can put it together
and offer it for sale
on Zazzle..
for
FREE!
They have recently added a wonderful new
feature that allows you
to make hundreds of products in as little as an hour.
If you can't figure it out...
drop me a note and I will walk you through it!
I really am selling hundreds of products a month...
through my three shops..
and that is doing it on a very part-time basis.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Get Things Done

Do you 'get things done'? I do...sometimes...well, maybe! No, I don't actually 'get things done'. I work around things, over things and occasionally, 'through' things..but I don't often 'get things done.'
So...again on You Tube...I decided to type in 'getting organized' and found this video. Wow..who knew?
I think I'm going to try this and see if I can make better use of my time and my skills. There is a free basic program...I'm going with that one!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Legitimate Ways to make Money Online

I have been a 'You Tube' junkie lately. I've scoured all over the internet in an effort to find as wide of a variety of 'legitimate ways to make money online' as possible.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Article Writing and Rewriting

By the same 'author' as the last video I posted, this video goes further in depth at the fine points of article writing. She does a good job showing what you need to do with your article writing..I do recommend viewing this video if you are interested in doing some 'bum marketing'.