A real deal for making money  

Hello. My name is Edwin and I started looking for ways to make lots of money on the internet at the beginning of 2002. Over the last 4 years or so I must have tried almost every type of business opportunity there is. I got involved with MLM schemes, scores of "get rich quick" and "make money online" products. I bought countless courses. I was desperate to make money. Despite my attempts for over 4 years, buying into every scam and losing close to $9500 in that time, I was still determined.

The reality I learned was that you can make money quick - even without experience - but only so long as someone teaches you certain fundamental principles about marketing online and practically shows you how its done! Only one course is worth your hard-earned money and that is Profit Lance!!!

The Profit Lance Course (http://weeed.netsalaries.com)

I came across the author of this course in one of the forums in late 2006 who was offering to teach some methods he was putting into some sort of online course. He wanted to test the effectiveness of the methods and whether the style, and content of his course was easy to follow. He was planning to launch a new product for later in the year and wanted to test it. I took this opportunity up.

This was at a time when I was trying almost everything. With a lot of products the topics covered are generally the same, so you will see similar topics discussed in the Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package and others. What I found with what became "Profit Lance" is that it is much more than a single ebook (or ebooks) that you download. It is a complete online course and system that is designed to give members a thorough working knowledge of internet marketing, instead of just a lot of theory that the other products presented.

Also, I haven't seen a more professionally designed website than the current Profit Lance members area. There is a wealth of information and the members area is divided into a learning area where you read and grasp the concepts and a practical / management area where you perform practical tasks.

Judging by the quality of the material and the way it is written and presented, the author proves that he cares and wants his customers to really learn the stuff and acquire what he calls "long term marketing skills".

I can totally relate to this, because after my goose chase for the last year and a bit and buying all that cheap trash, it makes sense. Sometimes I feel that by me believing that riches should come to me in a week or less, I've been manipulated by those "gurus" and "marketers" to buy their stuff, hoping to achieve just that. So its partly my own fault. But what's been drilled into me by the Profit Lance course is that to be really successful you have to educate yourself and build long term assets in an educated, informed and scientific way. It doesn't matter if you fail. That's part of learning.

There are a number of things that make this product light years ahead of the rest: - Once you invest in the program you are not sold anything else that you need to start benefiting from the program straight away (unlike the other programs) - You are given a complete set of already programmed and hosted websites. About 15 in total There is nothing to pay at all. The people at Profit Lance set it up for you as part of your investment in the program. I have to say that the website designs are absolutely brilliant. Clean, crisp and really appealing to look at. With the other programs (Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package), although you have a "free" website (for which you have to pay hosting fees), you still have to create and write the content yourself. These sites are there to enable you to practice the actual skills in the course, which the owner says is the most important thing. - There are certain practical tasks that the author makes you do. These tasks are aimed at giving you hands on experience with the techniques, but you are also taught the significance of these actions and where they fit into "the overall scheme of things". You simply do not get that with the other products. The author also reveals some really good techniques into how to do market research online. - I really love this one - an online tracking software that allows you to enter and monitor your tasks and goals. Absolutely great for organizing your activities. - The author makes a really great effort to respond to your questions and make sure you understand. - Extremely professional tutorial documents - There is a separate and growing article base that gives more in depth information on the core information in the course. I found this very valuable in helping to develop and grow my understanding. Recently, a new private members blog has been set up which gives some real great lessons in all areas, marketing, personal development and so on. - The materials and the writing in the product really does make you feel better and gives you great encouragement as a person looking to be successful online. - You can just straight tell from the professionalism of the site and the content that what you are getting taught is the real deal. It's what the "gurus" don't want you to know in case you reach their level!

Many of the scames I ran into!!!!

I have to warn you, if you buy into anything else, you risk being scammed. I would only recommend this one product if your looking to make money online from scratch, or if you've been trying but failed so far.

Beware of Data Entry and Paid Survey Scams One of the most popular scams currently being promoted is not a scam as far as the actual technique is concerned, but from the angle of the language used to market the technique, namely "data entry". In real and practical terms, what a person is doing is one step of the affiliate marketing process whereby ads are written promoting someone else's product in return for a commission for every sale referred. However, the whole process is marketed as "getting rich by doing simple data entry". There are literally scores of products of this nature currently being promoted. Recently, Google and certain payment providers have kicked out product owners or promoters of "data entry" related schemes.

Another very heavily promoted scam is "paid surveys". You must have come across claims such as "Earn $100 per hour filling out simple surveys". How this scam works is that people are asked to pay a fee ranging from $35 to $50 dollars in order to gain access to a list of companies that offer paid surveys. The surveying companies themselves do not charge people for taking surveys, rather they pay participants who complete their surveys subject to certain requirements such as age, demographics, gender etc. Many, if not most, paid survey offers do not deliver the rewards they promise. There are a number of ways that paid surveys mislead or inconvenience participants. Many of them compile personal information about participants to sell to marketers. Others require people to pay to access a database of survey opportunities that the participants could find on their own for free.

Other Programs I've Bought and Tried: (1) Easy Chair Millionaire - $47 for this ebook and it basically explains the Google Adwords method and a few other common techniques. The product was marketed well, and in terms of presentation, the ebook is quite readable. The usual promises were made about "make money straight away", but I did not find the instructions detailed enough and I had to spend a lot of time trying to grasp what and why I was doing whatever I was told to do. While I would say it is fair product, the information can be found in many other much cheaper ebooks and I did not find it to be value for money.

(2) Robert Allen - I bought Robert Allen's stuff due to the hype surrounding him and to be honest, for most people it would be next to impossible to make the kind of money he promises. He wants you get involved in real estate and stock investments - something that requires lots of experience and is not for the newcomer. His stuff on making millions from the Internet is the same as everything else. It gives you the skin but not the flesh. The seven or so ebooks I trawled through are just the usual information you find in most other cheap products. I was disappointed to say the least! And for some of the techniques as I said, you do really need some expert knowledge, but Robert Allen makes it look as if it is so easy when it is not. I would advise that you do not invest in this product.

(3) The Rich Jerk - This book was fair in that it covered a wide range of money making techniques but it was useful only for the advanced marketer. You had to have a lot of background knowledge to implement the techniques. When you look through the Rich Jerk forums, you can see clearly that people are lost. In addition the Rich Jerk tries to sell lots of other products to his customers, like for example a free website that's not really free because you have to pay for the hosting (for which the Rich Jerk makes a commission). While a lot of people have found the book useful, I think it would appeal only for a particular group of marketers. It was not something that benefited me greatly.

(4) Forex Enterprise (also known as "The Multiple Streams of Income System") - I bought this product and I must say that it was an extremely poor product. The members section was very poor, the website design was terrible and the product consisted of a wide variety of techniques all strung together in a one big mess. Unfortunately, the author recommended paid surveys (which is generally a scam) and a number of other money making techniques which most people will not be successful in. More recently, the author has tidied up the product a great deal and has got rid of a lot of the fluff and nonsense. What you get is just an ebook that you read online. It covers stuff like affiliate marketing, creating information products, selling on ebay, adsense etc. While the new product is a lot better than what it used to be, there is still a lot to be desired because the information is not enough to give you a practical working knowledge.

(5) Ultimate Wealth Package - This product is at the same level as Forex. What I didn't like about all of these programs (Rich Jerk, Forex) is that they claim to give you a free website worth hundreds or over a thousand dollars, but in reality, you have to buy hosting for it. This will cost you just short of $100 per year. The hosting that you buy results in commission for the owners of these programs. The same is the case with Ultimate Wealth Package. In terms of content, Ultimate Wealth Package provides the same as Forex Enterprise more or less, but it does add a lot of bonuses. Again, you are not given real in-depth know how. Just an introduction to the techniques and you don't walk away from the product as if you have understood what is reall going on.

(6) Affiliate Cash Vault - This is a very bad product, and definitely not worth the money. I bought into it and realised like many other people that the quality was atrocious.

(7) Shawn Caseys Mining Gold on the Internet -I bought this in February 2006. A 103 page ebook with a few additional bonuses. It goes with the subtitle, "How to make $1000 cash in the next 15 days". I found this book had a lot of outdated information, and again, a hallmark of cheap ebooks, extremely vague. There is a lot of information. It covers different ways to make money, marketing methods, search engines, no cost marketing, low cost marketing. Despite all the content you are still left thinking "what the frick do I have to do next?". And I certainly never got any sense of direction after reading that ebook. Most ebooks of this type are just "introducers". They introduce you to the ideas or concepts, but you will find it hard to get going.

(8) Internet Million Dollars -I bought this product because the sales page looked really really professional. Catchy music, real professional slick look, female voice over promising me that I'll be taught how to get rich. When I got the product it's just another ebook packed with a load of bonuses to make it look as if there is more value. In brief the product covered the same affiliate marketing technique that everyone else is discussing in their products. Again, like many other products you only get an introduction to the subject and there is much more that you are not taught, which is what you really need to know to make the kind of money that the authors are making. I find that a lot of products are like this. You only get told so much, and then you need to buy another product (an upsell) to get a step further. To be fair, it was nicely presented, but it did not go far enough to make it really worth the $50 I spent on it. The information is also a bit dated too.

I also discovered that there was some real dubious marketing involved with this product. A claim was made that this product has made 1, 327 millionaires in 2006 in a so called press release. I will say straight out - "Bullshit!". If there were that many millionaires made with this program it would be prime time news. After investigating the names and companies mentioned in the press release such as "Watkins Analytics" on Google, I found no trace of them.

(9) Instant Personal Cash - This is an outright scam. $97 for this ebook which gave nothing more than a basic introduction to affiliate marketing using Google and Clickbank.

(10) Data Entry Pro, Top Paid Surveys - I did try at least a few of these data entry programs and two paid survey products. I can summarise them all in one word: Scam.

Check it out and thank me later !!!! (http://weeed.netsalaries.com)

About the Author

Edwin Weeksie weeksie4@netzero.net