However, Opinion Outpost is one of the most widely used survey sites that has been around for quite a few years now and only continues to grow in popularity. But is Opinion Outpost a scam, or is it a legit survey company that’ll really pay you cash?

Short answer – yes they’re legit and they do pay you for taking surveys

BUT….

Even though Opinion Outpost is a legitimate survey company, the reality is you will not be getting paid anything substantial and will end up wasting a heck of a lot of time trying to take their surveys. They make it seem like it’s very easy to get paid $100’s of extra dollars taking a few surveys every month, but the reality is very different.

Let me go a bit more in depth with how it works and what kind of payment you can expect to get a better idea of how you’ll be wasting your time with this company (or any survey company for that matter).

How Opinion Outpost works

You first need to fill out a pretty extensive profile and answer tons of personal questions in order to qualify for an account. My first attempt I was rejected from even signing up (they told me my application was denied but there was no further explanation) but I tried again using a different address and it worked… (very odd).

I actually found they asked extremely personal questions, and even wanted to know the name of my company and the phone number to “confirm I was being honest”.  I’m not sure why they would need quite that exensive amount of information. (And no, no one actually called if you were wondering).

Once you complete your profile set up, they’ll send you surveys you can start taking to earn points. Surveys vary in points depending on length, but you can expect to earn a few cents to a couple of bucks per survey. They have occassional survey opportunities that pay more, but it isn’t an ordinary occurance.

It also seems to be quite hard to qualify to actually take the surveys they send you, at least in my experience. The major problem here is you don’t know you won’t qualify until you’ve taken the pre screening survey.. which basically is an entire survey in itself. You can spend anywhere from 5-15 minutes answering questions only to find out you don’t qualify and don’t get compensated for your time.

Add that up several times per day and you’re essentially working for nothing.

For example, upon joining they immediately told me I qualified for a survey which ended up being about dishsoap. They asked me several questions pertaining to what type of decisions I made purchasing dishsoap, what brands have I bought in the last few months and what brand(s) I used the most. I probably spent about 5 minutes of my time going through the questions, only to be told I didn’t qualify to actually take the real survey.

Then, they sent me a few more surveys about additional product purchases and preferences. After going through the prescreenings it turns out I didn’t qualify… again.

Geeze… it can’t just be me, either (and it’s not judging from several user reviews which I discuss below). The companies are looking for a very particular group to take each survey and if you don’t meet the criteria then it’s tough luck. I’ve had the same issue with other survey companies before, there’s always going to be a certain portion of surveys you won’t qualify for and unfortunately that means spending your time answering screening questions just to find out.

Survey points and monetary compensation

The way it works is you earn points for every survey you complete, with 10 points = $1.

You have different options for cashing out your points, but the most popular options are either a direct Paypal deposit or an Amazon gift card. The minimum cashout for Paypal is 100 points ($10) and Amazon gift cards are only 50 points (5). They seemingly pay very quickly too.

But like I said before, it will take you awhile to accumulate 100 points – probably several hours. The survey points range from around 5 – 100 points per survey, but most of them are around 15 – 30 points ($1.50 – $3). They take anywhere from 5 – 60 minutes to complete.

The more honest and in depth you are in your surveys, the longer they will take you (and the less money you make). But they can kick you out if they feel as if you’re just randomly checking boxes, so you don’t want to speed through them too quick!

But no matter how you approach it, it’s not a way to get rich online.

Something to take into consideration if you’re seeing tons of positive reviews… the company has gown downhill in the past few months

Now personally I haven’t used Opinion Outpost prior to January 2015, but after reading hundreds of user reviews there seems to be a pretty high general consensus that the company has gone downhill within the past few months.

This user pretty much summed up what 100’s of others were saying. It was a smooth site prior to 2014, but now there are tons of issues with not only customer service, but it’s become increasingly harder to qualify for the surveys and they let you take pretty much an entire survey before they kick you out for “not qualifying” and not give you any points to compensate.

I only used it for the purposes of trying it out, but as I stated previously within this review I did spend awhile “prequalifying” for surveys only to be told I wasn’t a match. That is pretty obnoxious and a waste of time considering you get no points whatsoever for it.

And frozen account issues…

While I haven’t experienced the frozen account issue personally, it seems to be a pretty common complaint.

So many of the extremely positive reviews were prior to last year, before the company apparently made it much more difficult to qualify for surveys, started giving less compensation per survey, as well as kicked people out and froze accounts.

The reality is you’re getting paid way less than minimum wage – is it really worth your time?

So even when I take the positive reviews into consideration, there’s something I find totally mind boggling about it. These people say they’ve spent weeks or months taking surveys and brag about how much they’re making… which most of the time equates to $20 – $30 per month.

So… this person spent 16 hours over the course of 4 days and made out with $30. That’s a very little amount of money to get for such a large investment of time. If you do the math, it works out to less than $2 per hour!

Okay to be fair, I get it.

These surveys can be taken from the comfort of your own home without having to deal with all the stress, crap and drama that goes along with carrying out a low paying job for some extra cash (trust me, been there, done that). You can do it in your PJs, laying in bed on your laptop… that is the ultimate dream and I think most people would prefer that to flipping burgers or cashiering.

But at the same time, the money you make from the time investing just isn’t worth it. I learned there were much better (and more profitable) alternatives for making extra cash online that were way more fun.

A better solution for making extra cash online

While Opinion Outpost may not be a scam, it isn’t the best option for people looking to make any type of real, sustainable online income.

Think about this – would you rather invest your time working on something that’ll pay you once (like filling out a survey for at most, a few dollars), or spend time working on something that’ll pay your over and over again, day in and day out, even though you only spent that one day doing the work?

I know, it sounds too good to be true. But honestly it’s what I have been doing for the past couple of years now (building affiliate niche websites online) and I cannot explain how amazing the feeling is of waking up and seeing you’ve made money while you were sleeping…literally.

It’s so much more practical and profitable then any online survey site, and if you are bored to death of taking surveys then I recommend you give it a shot.

Have any of you tried Opinion Outpost or similar survey sites? What have been your experiences? Please share them down below, I’d like to get a decent collection of reviews/stories down below.

Program:

While this program by Anthony Trister has been around for a few years now, for some reason it still gets a ton of attention. The sales video is very alluring and definitely makes you feel like buying it will get you one step closer to making your first million online.

But the question on everyone’s mind remains – is Coffee Shop Millionaire a scam, or does it actually work? If you’re looking for my short answer, yes, I would call this program a scam. It is pretty much all hype and no actual substance. If you’re looking for real training to make money online, you can find it here.

However, I’m going to give you a thorough review so you can make an informed decision of whether or not it’s something you’d want to invest money in.

What is Coffee Shop Millionaire, and how does it work?

If you’ve taken the time to watch the sales video for CSM, you may be left wondering what the heck it actually is. After all, Mr. Trister spends the majority of the time selling you on the dream of making lots of money online and bragging about how much he makes, rather than taking the time to actually explain what is included within your membership and how he can teach you to have the same success he did.

Once you buy the program, you find out that it’s an online training course that essentially teaches you how to start up your own local marketing business. The training within the members area consists of 12 modules, all containing 1-2 videos that are about approximately 10 minutes long (give or take). The program provides a pretty good overview of how to start up a local marketing business, but that’s about it. It’s not nearly comprehensive enough to cover the scope of what a newbie would need to know in order to actually go into the business themselves.

I find this to be a major drawback since it is being marketed to newbies, so it should cater to their needs.

What will you learn with the training?

The modules walk you through all types of things but they aren’t very focused. For example, module 1 is just assigning your financal goals, which is totally fine and everyone needs that. The second module walks you through getting started with local marketing. More specifically, how to contact specific business local businesses and offer to help them out in terms of online local marketing offering them squeeze pages, mobile optimized websites, communicating to customers through email lists and web design.

The third module talks about setting up your own website for you local marketing business, and largely talks about outsourcing the actual tasks of website creation. It also talks about how to find clients to reach out to and offer your services.

The course then goes on to explain local SEO strategies, email marketing, video marketing and social media marketing. These are all explained how you can use them to benefit your clients local business in terms of outreach and marketing potential.

Then it focuses on taking your business and scaling it up to reach more profit potential.

Taken as a whole, the training is actually a pretty good overview of the local marketing business module. People do actually make money this way and it can be a very lucrative business to get into.

The problem is the training is not nearly comprehensive enough to cover the scope of what a newbie needs to know to start their own local marketing venture. It’s only 12 modules, each consisting of a 10-12 minute video. So you’re looking at less than 3 hours of overall training to teach you how to start a business in local marketing.

Less than 3 hours, seriously? Some of my college courses were longer than that, and I certainly didn’t learn everything about any topic in a single class hour! My favorite online training program has countless video courses on all different aspects of local marketing, and that’s only a tiny portion of what they have to offer. My point is, there’s way better options out there if you’re looking to get started out with local marketing.

It tells you what you should be doing in this business, but not really how to do it. It tells you to outsource your website creation, but then goes on to tell you about how you can offer your clients services like website design and mobile optimized sites. How are you supposed to offer potential services to your clients that you can’t even do yourself?

There’s nothing wrong with local marketing, but if you’re going to get started with it you should first know how to create a website and a thing or two about how local SEO works and how to do it – none of which you’ll really get out of Coffee Shop Millionaire.

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Price

This is where things get confusing. You can purchase the program for $27 (after being told you can receive a special $10 discount), but you’ll be hit with massive upsells before you even find your way to the members area.

So in all honesty, the $27 doesn’t really get you anything but the training modules, which are incredibly basic and not worth the money.

Upsells

Upsell #1 – The 6 Figure Secrets Club – Initially $297, then only $147

Anthony Trister tries to get you to buy 10 done for you “money machines”, which is basically premade websites with PLR content that’ll promote various products and services. Since it’s done for you, you seemingly don’t need to do anything except buy them, set them up, then watch the money roll in.

Although the reality is very different. Done for you type sites loaded with PLR content don’t really work well in the real world, especially because the people setting them up have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. How are you going to market the site, get traffic and sales? And even if you do get traffic, the content is probably so bad it won’t even convert well. Also consider the fact every other person who buys this upsell is getting the exact same “money machines” that you are.

Upsell #2 – Direct email coaching – $197

This is where you’ll get access to Anthony’s personal email and guidance to show you his way to “the easy street”.

Upsell #3 – Website and hosting

Now as you’re finally within the members area you’ll notice a special “FREE” bonus being offered to you… which is really anything but free. This is a very common tactic done by several similar type programs. They try to get you to purchase a domain and web hosting from them for at least 2 years, totaling almost $300.

Now it’s not that this isn’t something you don’t need, because yes having a domain and hosting is a very important part to owning an online business. That being said, however, it’s the way they market it to complete newbies that’s shameful. They target people who have no clue what they’re doing and then overcharge them for something they aren’t even sure is right for them.

You can get a domain and web hosting for a lot cheaper and better quality then what they try to charge you here. You should also be very clear what direction you want to go with your business before you decide on your domain name, because you cannot change it without buying an entirely new domain.

Total cost with upsells – $816

That’s a significant chunk of money to invest, if you ask me. Especially when they throw it all at you before you’ve even gone through any of the training to know what you’re actually going to be doing yet!

My Final Opinion – Coffee Shop Millionaire does NOT live up to the hype

I would consider Coffee Shop Millionaire a scam in the sense that it’s highly misleading. This program sells itself on the dream, not the reality of what is offered nor the quality of the training. Everyone wants to make millions just from hanging around a local coffee shop with a latte every morning, but what this program offers isn’t going to make that a reality for anyone.

The $27 price tag is just a front to get you to spend hundreds more on upsells, none of which re going to be very beneficial to a beginner who is looking to make money online. This is true of so many programs like this – they lure you in with a low price tag, then get you with the upsells. And in the end they offer very little value and leave you with nothing but more questions and the need to buy another product.

If you’re a complete beginner, you’re way better off starting off with something that is going to actually teach you how to do things yourself. Understanding how everything works is going to help you tremendously in starting your own business online.

This company seemingly gives people access to hundreds of social media jobs across the internet where you’ll seemingly easily be able to start earning hundreds of dollars every week. Is this legit or is Paid Social Media Jobs a scam?

While it’s true that companies do hire for social media positions and smaller companies will outsource the work to freelancers, Paid Social Media Jobs is a different story.

The problem with this (and other programs like it) is they make you pay a fee to access what you can find for completely free elsewhere online. They also use misleading advertising tactics and don’t tell you the full story of what it really takes to make money in the industry.

What’s included with your membership?

With your $47 purchase you’ll get access to basic “training” on how to start as a social media manager, the Paid Social Media Jobs Marketplace, and the job board.

The training is mostly an overview of different social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter, and why companies invest into hiring people to manage these aspects of their business.

The problem is the “training” is more like an overview rather than actual training. It’s not any type of step by step program that’ll teach you how to get a proper start as a freelance social media manager.

What jobs will you get?

The job boards are full of companies wanting likes to their Facebook pages, views to their YouTube videos, replies to comments on their fan pages/vidoes, or companies that just want their social media accounts set up and are willing to pay someone to do it.

With no experience you’ll be restricted to remedial tasks such as setting up a Facebook fan page or Twitter account. These aren’t going to pay well at all, at least nowhere near the amounts they advertise on their sales page. Many are only willing to pay a few bucks per hour for your efforts.

You need to realize a few things before you get involved in something like this -

• You’re not automatically going to land a job when you join this program. It will take a lot of effort and when you’re just starting out you’re only going to have a shot at the simple jobs that pay next to nothing and require no experience.
• Social Media freelance jobs are competitive. There’s a lot of people out there that have solid reputations in the freelance industry and have backed themselves with rich portfolios and testimonials. These are the type of people that companies with real money to spend will hire, not the type of people that join a site like Paid Social Media Jobs.

• You can find freelance social media projects on entirely free job posting boards without paying for access to anything.

Unlike the program leads you to believe, you won’t instantly start working and making hundreds just from joining. You can make that type of money doing this work, but it takes a lot of experience and resume building to work up to it.

Finding social media positions for free

There a multitude of free sites out there where companies or individuals will advertise services needed for freelance positions. You can join any one of these at no cost and apply for projects. Some of the more popular ones include freelance.com, odesk.com, elance.com, guru.com, but there are many, many more you can check out.

Another site that part of Paid Social Media Jobs mimics is Fiverr.com. This is another type of freelance site where individuals advertise their unique services starting at just $5. The PSMJ marketplace is pretty much a direct copy of this, where members advertise “I will do __ for only $__” just like Fiverr… only it’s not credible or anywhere near as large as Fiverr (which is completely free).

But the truth is, you’re not going to easily find work in this field with absolutely no experience. These jobs are in high demand and there are a lot of people applying or advertising themselves for the very same work. Also keep in mind small companies that outsource tasks like this are on a limited budget, and most often will hire it for as little as possible.

Why I think Paid Social Media Jobs is a total scam

Freelance social media work is indeed a very real thing, but Paid Social Media Jobs lures people in with false pretences and doesn’t deliver on any of its claims.

It just packages up what you can get entirely free access to elsewhere, offers no real training and is extremely misleading in the sales pitch, not telling the whole story about what it takes to make money with this type of work.

They also go so far as to use a Fox News clip (whether it’s real or not, I’m not sure) to try and make the site seem real. The reality is, however, the story is a generic piece about social media managers and doesn’t mention or credit Paid Social Media Jobs in any way.

There’s similar types of programs out there that package up job opportunities into package deals and membership sites to earn money from people who don’t know any better. This is very common with freelance writing jobs and online survey sites. Take Legit Writing Jobs or Get Cash For Surveys, for example. They pull job postings or survey sites from free postings on the internet and then charge you for it.

The common theme amongst these is that they’re Clickbank products. These are usually lower quality and entice others to promote them with very large commission chunks. If you come across a flood of positive reviews for any program you find questionable, there’s probably a reason behind it. Many people will promote something they don’t know anything about just because they’re looking for a payout.

Final opinion

It takes hard work to break into the field and there’s no miracle program that’ll make it easy. If you are seriously interested in getting involved with social media work, find some real training that’ll teach you how to get involved. Start with smaller gigs on free job posting sites to start gaining experience, or even offer to work for free if that’s what it takes.

Moral of story – don’t trust any “job” site that makes you pay a fee to access job listings. They’re always the same and contrary to what they claim don’t actually guarantee you any jobs.

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Rank: 0.5/5 stars

This program advertises itself as an incredibly easy, fast way to make hundreds of dollars online with only a few minutes of work. But having my fair share of experience in the internet marketing niche, I can assure you that any program that makes such claims is lying to you.

So what is Nomadic Profits and how does it really work? I joined the program to take a look inside to give it a thorough review so you can make a better decision of whether or not it’s the type of program you’re looking for before you put down any of your money.

How does it work?

Once you join, you’ll get access to the members area which has your unique referral link for promoting the system. (You’ll need to provide your Paypal address so you can get paid). It comes with a few very generic, copy paste ads for posting in classifieds (like Craigslist) an email campaign letter and the Nomadic Profits Ebook.

They claim all you have to do is spend a few minutes posting your ad within classifieds and Facebook and you can start to watch the money roll in. But that isn’t going to get you very far…

While the system does work, i.e. you post your link, people join and you get paid directly – it’s not the best method for making money online for the long haul. It’s a very generic, copy and paste marketing campaign that is nothing new or groundbreaking.

The ebook provided with basic membership isn’t anything of quality and doesn’t give any further instructions as to how to really use the system. Additional training materials are either only available as upsells or third party Clickbank products.

When people buy the product through your link, the payment is a little different than the typical affiliate marketing program because the sales you make will actually go straight to your Paypal account within 24 hours. This is a definite positive of the program if you need some fast money.

The downside of this is you’re actually responsible for refunding people’s money when they ask for it back, so you’ll need to set money aside for refunds or risk getting your Paypay account suspended.

Is there anything beneficial offered with the premium membership?

The premium level opens the doors to some actual training sources, as well as “better” ways for you to promote your link and make sales. You’ll also be able to earn commissions on anything your referrals buy from the resources tab within the members area as well as include your own unique link to your referrals when they sign up under you. (This allows experienced marketers to advertise their own products or other affiliate programs).

All that being said, the training materials offered are low quality and there’s too many upsells… you’re better off not wasting your money.

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The major flaws with Nomadic Profits….

Even though they claim to offer step by step training, it is extremely vague and doesn’t tell people how to do much of anything. For example, it’ll tell you to “Grab your link and post on free classified sites and Facebook.” But there’s no explanation other than that. Good luck newbies!

The problem here is it just isn’t teaching anyone anything. People will end up confused and wondering why they can’t make any money when they claimed it was so easy.

The truth is, it’s extremely hard to advertise this type of program and make sustainable sales from it. Both Facebook and Craigslist are pretty horrible routes to try and advertise direct affiliate links (it’s actually against CL terms of service and you’ll probably get flagged) and you’re not going to have much luck with it, especially with absolutely no guidance. While you can advertise other ways, there’s no mention of it within the basic membership training.

Not only that, there’s a lot of upsells and people will end up spending a lot more than $10 trying to make it work. You’re immediately told to upgrade to the premium membership for $19.95, or else you’ll be missing out on all the sales. Oh, and if you want any additional training you’ll need to buy a million different crappy Clickbank products.

Price

• $10 initially
• $19.95 premium membership
• Additional training is all upsells to different Clickbank products, which can cost 100’s more

Pros vs Cons

Pros

• You get paid within 24 hours after you make sales
• Can work to earn you a few extra bucks

Cons

• No real training provided with initial $10 investment
• Upsold immediately to the premium membership
• “Resources” and “training” are all upsells for additional Clickbank products, nothing that is actually included or part of the Nomadic Profits system.
• Horrible, very confusing system for newbies to follow
• You’re held personally responsible for money back requests

My final opinion- Is Nomadic Profits worth it?

While you can use this to make a few extra bucks, it isn’t a sustainable business model and is not a very good system for newbies. There’s absolutely no real training or guidance as to how to go about getting leads; anyone new to online marketing purchasing this as a way to make easy cash will be extremely dissappointed.

While I wouldn’t go so far as to call Nomadic Profits a scam, but it certainly is deceptive advertising. It may work for people who know a thing or two, it isn’t going to get anyone very far online.

If you want to learn more, you can view the official sales page.

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Rating: 75/100

So what is Neobux and is it a scam? Neobux is an extremely popular PTC (paid to click) site that has been around since 2006. In the world of PTC, that is a very long time. If you aren’t familiar with PTC, they’re websites that let you sign up, usually for free, and click on ads to earn money.

First let me say that the paid to click industry is notorious for scams. These type of sites pop out of the woodwork on a daily basis but most of them never will actually pay out. Neobux, however, is actually one of the legitimate PTC companies out there.

These sites are a place where people can go to buy extremely cheap advertising for their website, and also where people can get paid to view a certain number of advertisements each day. Neobux serves to benefit (at least in theory) both the advertisers and the customers and is a place where they can come together.

That being said, there’s still some questionable activity going on within Neobux, which I’ll discuss below. It’s also not really a very good way to earn money online as you probably won’t end up earning very much at all.

Let’s take a closer look at how Neobux works.

Making money vs advertising with Neobux

There are 2 ways you can use Neobux – buying advertising clicks to your website, or clicking on ads and getting referrals to earn money.

Using Neobux (as well as any other type of PTC site) for advertising usually won’t be very beneficial, especially if you’re trying to sell a product or service. The people viewing these ads are getting paid literally (in most cases) between a hundredth of a cent and a tenth of a cent to view the ad, so they’re most likely not interested in buying something while they do it. If you’re using it to gain traffic or get people to sign up for a mailing list, you might have a bit more luck.

About 99% of the ads on Neobux are for other PTC sites or make money online programs and products. Because you can buy 10,000 ad views for under $20, it’s a good way for people who have very little money to spend on advertising to perhaps get some first time exposure if they’re not looking to immediately sell to their audience. But if you’re looking to advertise via paid to click sites to make sales, it’s going to be a nearly impossible market to profit from.

How to make money with Neobux

Because you’re being paid an extremely small amount to view each ad, you’re never going to make any money to speak of if you simply click the daily ads and do nothing else. If that is all you ever did, you’d make about 5 cents per day with Neobux. Doesn’t seem hardly worth it, does it?

The real way people use Neobux to make any sort of money (although in most cases usually still a very small amount) is by referrals. You can either directly refer others, or pay to rent referrals for a period of time and get commissions on their activity.

Rented and direct referrals

Direct referrals – these are referrals you personally brought to Neobux using your referral link, either personally or using online advertising. These referrals are completely free, but require effort to get a lot of them.

Rented referrals – these are referrals you “rent” for a certain amount of time, and get paid for their activity. These are a lot easier to obtain, but you need to buy rented referrals.

Here is the breakdown of Neobux referral commissions:

As you can see, you get very little for referral clicks.

While I’ve never personally bought rented referrals here, many people who have claim the system is a scam. They say they use bots for the rented referrals, which will click ads a few times for the first 3 days, then they stop after that. If they’re really bots or not I can’t tell you for sure, but either way I would say they’re probably a waste of your money.

Even with real referrals, you’ll have to have a massive amount of them to earn any type of residual income.

With the way their system is set up, however, you can’t get enough referrals to earn any significant amount of money as a standard (free) member. You can only start earning referrals after you’ve been a member for at least 15 days and have at least 100 clicks, only then will you be eligible to have 30 direct referrals.

According to the site’s FAQ section, it then it goes by the amount of time you’ve been a member, minus 30, divided by 4. For example, if you’ve been a member for 1 year, 365 days – you’d take 365 – 30 = 335. Then, 335/4 = 83.75. (So add that to your initial 30 and you can have a whopping 113 referrals after an entire year of membership).

As you can see, you can’t ever get anywhere as a free member. Obviously the amount of referrals you’re allowed increases when you upgrade and when you buy additional packs, but the downside is you have to invest a significant amount of money into them.

Because you’re getting paid so little for your referrals clicks and it’s rare to get referrals who are very active, having even 100 referrals would hardly earn you any extra money at all.

Mini jobs and completing offers for points

To earn points and credits to put towards things like your rented referrals, you can do mini jobs or complete offers. These are things like downloading and installing an app to your iphone, playing a game or taking a short online survey.

Upgrading your membership and buying golden packs

If you want to earn more money for ad clicks and for your referrals, you can upgrade your membership for $90 a year. You can also choose to buy packages to enhance your account features for several hundred dollars; the most pricey pack costing you nearly $900 bucks.

Now a lot of members will say you need to invest money to make money with PTC, but if you want my opinion it’s a risky business. It’s so hard to earn any money with PTC sites that if you start investing money into it, especially 100’s of dollars, there’s an extreme possibility you could end up losing your money. There’s also been quite a few complaints from people who have had their memberships suspended after upgrading, and no ability to get their money back. Just something to keep in mind if you do plan to upgrade your account.

My final opinion – is Neobux a scam?

While Neobux isn’t exactly a scam, it also isn’t a good way to make money online. Most people aren’t going to make any more than a couple of bucks per month, and that is with investing time into it on a daily basis.

If you do use Neobux, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading your account unless you know exactly what you’re doing. But then again, if you don’t upgrade it’s set up for you to get nowhere. It’s sort of a lose-lose situation for most people.

Honestly, you’re better off spending your time elsewhere learning how to create a legitimate online business. It’ll be way more rewarding and you’re going to have the potential to earn a lot more money than just a few dollars a month.

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So is Work At Home Authority legit? Well, there’s several red flags with both the legitimacy of the website and the suggested work at home programs. It was created entirely to funnel people into 2 different making money online scams, Work at Home Institute and Paid Surveys & More. According to the site, these are the the best programs for people to start making money online.

I have to say however, that I entirely disagree. Let me explain a little bit behind the scenes on both Michelle and her top two recommendations to paint a clearer picture.

Who is Michelle Withrow?

The first thing you should know is that Michelle Withrow (or Owens) isn’t a real person. She’s just a fake identity these scammers have come up with. Her image is merely a stock photo and her program has been disguised under several different names; a new one seems to pop up every few months. (You can read more about who Michelle really is in my Work at Home University review).

Let’s take a closer look at Work at Home Authority’s top recommendations

Work at Home Institute

I’ve already reviewed the Work at Home Institute program so if you want a complete analysis, go and read my review here. In short, it’s a copy cat program that has been floating around the internet for quite some time, always changing identities and hiding behind other names when people catch wind and start voicing complaints. Every website is nearly identical – Michelle’s story, the site’s appearance, testimonials and even the sales pitch remain unchanged.

Basically it comes down to spouting a bunch of hype that doesn’t deliver on any of its promises. The “link posting” they’re referring to is a real thing, but it doesn’t work the way they make it out to and is rather difficult to get started in. It takes a lot of time and effort and you aren’t going to just randomly post links and make a ton of money from it.

What you’re really dealing with when you purchase programs like Work at Home Institute is a very low quality product that doesn’t do anything it says it will, and then tries to get you to buy in to 1,000’s of dollars in upsells. They prey on people who don’t know anything about making an income online and convince them to spend their money on overpriced and/or unnecessary services and products.

Paid Surveys and More

While I haven’t reviewed this specific program, I am very familiar with online surveys and how they work. Online surveys themselves aren’t scams, but websites that make you pay to access survey lists, like Paid Surveys and More, definitely are. (I’ve reviewed an extremely similar program called Get Cash For Surveys if you’d like to check out an example of what you’re getting yourself into).

The reality is there’s an endless amount of survey sites that are 100% free to join and once you do, there is a never ending feed of new survey sites to sign up for free. There’s no advantage of paying for a system to gain access to survey lists because they’re all the same – they give the exact same survey sites as the free ones do!

The real purpose of paid survey sites like Paid Surveys and More is to try and get you to spend more money on additional products and services you probably don’t need, and ones that are entirely unrelated to taking online surveys.

If you want to make extra cash with surveys, check out Survey Junkie, Swagbucks or Inbox Dollars. At least those are 100% free to join so you won’t be wasting anything but your time.

My final opinion

The top recommendations suggested by “Michelle Withrow” on her Work At Home Authority site are both scams. Both of them lure you in with the promise of making a lot of money, then only try to push you into spending a lot more money once you sign up. The site was created to try and make Work at Home Institute and Paid Surveys and More appear legit, but it’s really just a clever facade.

When signing up for any type of make money online program, you can never be too cautious. Anything that makes you put down money up front before you even know what the heck it is you’re really going to be doing, you should really think twice about.

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There’s plenty of products out there that claim to do just what Turbo Paypal does – provide an easy solution for earning an unlimited amount of income from the internet. But really, what is Turbo Paypal and is it the miracle solution you’ve been looking for?

I’ve had a chance to see for myself if this is really all it’s cracked up to be. If you want my honest opinion, there’s not a whole lot to this. The instructions are poorly written and vague, at best it’s just a crude outline that seems like it was put together in 15 minutes with no editing (but for less than $3, what would you expect?)

There’s also many flaws in the system itself and I want to discuss them in further detail to give you a clear picture why this probably isn’t what you’re looking for. But let me start off with an overview of how it all works…

How does Turbo Paypal work?

Basically this outlines how to clone and resell the exact same system to others using a free website. You’re given the text, image and video files to upload to your own website and taught how to create a paypal account and download page so you’ll get paid every time someone buys the product from your site. This isn’t an affiliate marketing system since you’re actually the one who is selling and earning the profits.

After you’ve created your site, you’re going to be using the popular PTC site, Neobux, to advertise and get visitors to your page. He says you can click ads til you’ve reached $16, then invest that into your first advertising campaign…

Then, apparently this is where you can sit back and watch the money roll in. However, he claims to really make it work, you’ll need to reinvest your initial earnings back into your Neobux ads to get more and more views.

In a nutshell, that’s the entire system.

Price

This system is usually $2.99, but it really depends where you buy it from.

However, your advertising expenses will be quite costly and much more than the initial few bucks you paid for the purchase. You’re looking around $20 to start but could easily end up spending way more.

Since you’re using a free website platform, you won’t need to pay for a domain or hosting.

The flaws of Turbo Paypal…

First of all, this is extremely poorly put together and would probably leave a complete newbie with more questions than answers. The step by step instructions leave out tons of vital information inexperienced individuals would need to know.

Second, Neobux is not the most effective way to advertise your product. There’s a reason why you can buy a crap ton of ad views for so cheap! A crucial element of any advertising campaign is reaching your target audience. The way Neobux and other PTC sites work, however, you can’t restrict who sees the ad. Not only are the views extremely untargeted, they’re being shown to people who are desperate enough for money they’re willing to click ads for .001 cents a pop. Most likely, they probably don’t care what you have to show them. You’ll end up with extremely low conversion rates. You’d be lucky if you got a sale or two from 10,000 views..

You need to be very careful when you pay for advertising and understand the math and conversion rates in order to have a profitable campaign. There’s absolutely nothing that trains you how to pay for your ads or the best strategy to use

Carlos states you can set up the entire system for no additional costs, but let’s get real. You’re most likely going to need to pay out of pocket for your ad campaign because it isn’t as easy to earn money with Neobux as he makes it seem. Since you’re restricted in your daily ad views and you’re only getting paid a fraction of a cent to view each ad, realistically you can expect to earn around 5 cents a day as a free member there. If you do the math, you can see it’d take nearly an entire year to earn up money to run your first campaign. Most likely you’d end up throwing in the towel and reaching for your credit card to fund it.

Because you’re risking your money with Neobux and there’s aboslutely no clear instructions as to how to properly implement and refine your campaigns, it can be easy to spend more money than you are actually making. The views may seem like a lot, but they won’t get you very far at all.

My final opinion

Turbo Paypal is probably one of the lowest quality programs I’ve come across. It’s nothing more than a poorly written step by step guide that’ll teach you how to repackage and sell the exact same step by step guide… there’s nothing new or insightful to be learned from it..

While I wouldn’t go so far as to label Turbo Paypal a scam, it isn’t something I suggest you waste your money on. The methods are neither solid nor groundbreaking, and will most likely leave you with nothing to show for it. It’s just so horribly written and there’s so much left out of the instructions that I cannot recommend it.

If you’re looking to set up a system that’ll truly earn you unlimited money from the interent, you’re going to need to put forth a whole lot more work than creating a 2 page free website and buying some Neobux ads. Anything claiming to earn you unlimited income from the internet for a $2 investment and little work should always set off some red flags.

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What is Traffic With Anthony?

This system claims to offer struggling interent marketers a chance to jump in front of the traffic instead of waiting for it to come to them, which will lead to massive amounts of daily traffic and sales without using Google or Facebook. Anthony spends his entire sales video talking about this amazing software he developed called Auto Traffic Accelerator which lets you leverage the power of viral YouTube videos to gain traffic and sales to your website or affiliate links.

The problem with it is (and I’ll explain in even further detail down below) these methods aren’t only against YouTube’s terms of service, they’re flat out illegal and won’t work as promised. Furthermore, this AutoTraffic Accelerator software isn’t even included in the initial purchase price – it’s an upsell! I don’t think that was mentioned anywhere in the video or on the product sales page…

But that will only be one tiny upsell amongst 1,000’s of dollars more in products and services he tries to shove in your face. This guy is no boy scout as this is pretty much the norm for his products, e.g., Success With Anthony.

Let’s Compare Traffic With Anthony to my #1 Recommended Training…

Who is Anthony Morrison? A little history…

Anthony Morrison is indeed a self made internet millionaire who has been featured in magazines, newspapers, TV programs, and even written several books on how to make money online. He definitely uses this to his advantage within his sales video and sadly it does make him appear credible to people who aren’t familiar with the type of programs he puts out there.

But the reality is he’s nothing more than a crook who doesn’t mind scamming people out of 1,000’s of their hard earned dollars.  He may have made big bucks online, but he didn’t do it using the program or the software he is trying to sell you, nor is it the reality for the average person.

RipoffReport currently reports 43 complaints on this guy, but it’s growing consistently. Mostly these are people complaining he didn’t offer what was promised, charged their credit cards for unauthorized charges or just simply didn’t honor his money back guarantee. In fact, most people say they didn’t ever get their money back when asked, and those that did had to jump through hoops, make 100 phone calls and argue with people to get it.

In fact, I’m on Anthony’s mailing list and he has an extremely spammy approach as an email marketer. He literally sends out emails promoting his Traffic With Anthony system nearly EVERY SINGLE day, sometimes multiple times a day… each with 2, 3, 4+ links to the sales page! It’s extremely spammy and calls out desperate to me.

This guy is clearly willing ot lie, cheat and decieve people in order to make a buck.

What Software/Tools are included?

You’ll initially recieve access to step by step training. But that’s just the training that teaches you how ot use the Auto Traffic Accelerator software, which isn’t included in your purchase price... it’s sold as an upsell after you already shelled out the money for Traffic With Anthony. This is not mentioned in either the sales video or the sales page at all. A little deceptive, don’t you think?

The Auto Traffic Accelerator software let’s you do a few things:

• Search by keywords to find YouTube videos that have gone viral, and then directly message the video owners asking to place your link within their video description in exchange for a monthly payment.
• Find YouTube videos that have the potential to go viral, and get alerted when they reach a minimum view amount
• Steal other member’s YouTube videos, place your own watermark on them, and re-upload as your own with your affiliate link.

Why these methods won’t work as claimed

This software may actually do these things, but it doesn’t mean that they’ll actually work as claimed or are ethical. How many YouTube video owners are actually going to respond and let you place your own website or affiliate link within ther video descriptions? I doubt hardly any, for a multitude of reasons. I know I wouldn’t!

Here’s what one member stated within RipoffReport:

“By the way, the Auto traffic Accelerator does find videos but after contacting 800 video owners, not one reply and I did things exactly what they said to do. I think that this market has been saturated and they still continue to sell people a worthless program.”

800 video owners and not one response? Yeah that doesn’t surprise me at all. These people don’t trust you, don’t want your spammy link on their videos and have probably been messaged several times by people using this same software trying to take advantage of their videos.

The second strategy and another aspect of the software, ripping people’s YouTube videos and placing your watermark on them to claim them as your own, is both against YouTube’s terms and illegal. You can’t just steal someone’s video and pretend it’s yours, you know because of copyright infringement and all that?

If you try this most likely you’ll get reported for stealing, not necessarily by YouTube, but definitely by the video owner or someone else. That’ll get your channel shut down in no time and I wouldn’t be surprised if you got slapped with a lawsuit or two!

You may be able to use this method to make some additional sales, but you’re putting yourself at risk and definitely won’t be able to make the money Anthony claims you will.

Price

This is where it’s deceptive and hard to pinpoint; there isn’t just one price that is offered. Initially you’re told you can buy it with 2 payments of $49, or 1 payment of $69. However, there’s several downsells if you try and click away, and you can actually get in for as little as $7.

Most people probably would be sold on that, but that is only the beginning of what he’ll try and sell you. Auto Traffic Accelerator, the main software that’s used in Traffic With Anthony, is a seperate upsell. You’re also pushed to buy $1,000’s more in products and services before you actually are able to find the product you just bought.

You won’t be able to use the $7 program for much and will have to buy upsells if you want to “really make it work”.

My Final Opinion – Don’t Buy Traffic With Anthony

The way this guy operates is slimy and I don’t recommend any products he puts out. He may have made millions online and been featured in magazines and newspapers, but that doesn’t make him any less of a scam artist. This program is a total front and bait for newbies to get them to buy tons of additional products they don’t need.

While experienced marketers may be able to make a few sales, this isn’t any method for newbies and it’s highly unlikely you’ll experience massive success with this. The truth is, it promotes illegal activities and will put both you and your YouTube account at risk. This is not a way to produce long term success online, but only a shortcut that won’t get you any closer to finding it.

There’s always going to be some guru or salesman trying to sell you on “the newest breakthrough” or “the next greatest thing” that’ll finally be able to make you millions online, seemingly very easily. I won’t lie, these guys are often times very good at what they do and make their product seem amazing, but they also never fail to dissappoint once the product is actually bought.

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What is Super PinMadness? – An Overview

Super PinMadness is a 58 page PDF guide on how to leverage the power of Pinterest for affiliate marketing without dealing with setting up your own website. It was put together by well known Warrior Forum member Erica Stone. If you aren’t familiar with her this isn’t her first Pinterest marketing PDF guide; she has put together other products including PinPlosion and PinFabulous Affiliate. Each deals with their own separate realm but SuperPin Madness is the most recent of them all, just launched last week (October 2014).

What will you learn and how is it different than other how-to guides on Pinterest?

This program is unique because you don’t need a website at all to start with affiliate marketing. You’ll be walked through how to set up a new business Pinterest account and find affiliate programs that will work to direct link from Pinterest. Since most affiliate programs don’t allow direct linking via social networks, and Pinterest doesn’t like direct linking either, this is taking advantage of a loophole.

Erica talks about 2 artsy affiliate sites that let you do this, at least for now. Meaning, there’s technically nothing in their current terms of service that forbid direct social linking, but they could change the rules (either the affiliate program or Pinterest itself) whenever they feel like people are abusing them.

Amazon and other affiliate networks already have filters in place that will strip an affiliate link when posted directly from Pinterest. Just because these programs she talks about don’t do that, doesn’t mean they never will.

She also discusses another affiliate network, Share-a-Sale, that will let you direct affiliate link to Pinterest as well. Although, the majority of programs within the Share-a-Sale network actually don’t allow it, so you need to read every affiliate programs terms carefully before you sign up and start posting their links.

Do the methods actually work?

Erica claims she has self tested this method and it works for her. Now I’m sure they really do work for her and I’m sure others who follow the guide could make it work for them, too. The problem is, however, this isn’t something that will work forever and could very well come crashing down sooner rather than later. Especially now that she’s packaged and sold these methods, there’s going to be an increase of people trying to direct affiliate link from these programs (especially if people abuse the links) and it may send some red flags to the Pinterest team.

While this may work it’s only a temporary fix for the here and now.. not for next year, 6 months from now, and maybe not even for tomorrow. It  will require a lot of work to implement and I’m not sure you can really experience great results using only the methods she outlines in the Super PinMadness PDF. The “secret” to the method, using ViralWoot, is only really powerful if you have the money to throw at your promotion. She doesn’t outline a good way to gain free, solid traffic to your affilitae pins (at least not with this guide in particular).

Price + Additional expenses (buying “seeds” with ViralWoot)

Super PinMadness currently is selling for $21 as a Warrior Special Offer. There aren’t any upsells, either. You really can follow the guide all the way through and she doesn’t push any sales in your face.

However, there’s a site called ViralWoot in which you’re supposed to join in order to increase your Pinterest followers and to promote your affiliate pins. The problem is that it doesn’t work very well if you don’t pay for the promotion. Anyone can sign up for free and earn “seeds” (the Viralwoot currency) by liking pins, following other members, and repinning pins.

But as a free member those seeds don’t come easy and go very fast. If you really want your affiliate pins to get promoted and re-pinned consistently, you’ll have to have a lot of seeds in your account. But every time someone follows you, likes, or re-pins your pins, your seeds get taken away. My balance kept ending up in the negatives every hour!

It’s unrealistic to spend every hour going back earning more seeds, so that is why they offer paid packages. You can spend anywhere from $29 – $300 buying seed packages, or sign up for a monthly account with them for extra seeds and additional benefits (which is overpriced in my opinion). It’s sort of like you’re paying for advertising, but you could be throwing a lot of money away if you choose to spend your money on this. (Viralwoot is also very buggy and seems questionable, I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable giving them my credit card information).

Since this is pretty much the only traffic method discussed within the guide, you’ll need to actually pay additional expenses for advertising. Unless you already have 1,000’s of Pinterest followers on your business account, or know how to gain 1,000’s of followers, you’re going to have a hard time getting much exposure for your pins.

Pros vs. Cons

Pros:

• Don’t need a website
• Pinterest is fun and addicting so it doesn’t really feel like “work”
• You’ll learn how to grow your Pinterest traffic and exposure
• The very same methods can be used to promote your own websites or products
• Erica is very responsive to emails if you need help

Cons:

• Unstable business set up, can be taken away from you at any time
• Takes advantage of loopholes to earn money
• Can throw a lot of money away promoting your pins with getting very little in return, losing your ROI
• Recommended program for affiliate pin promotion is questionable
• The conversion rate will be relatively small, so your pins will need a A LOT of exposure to make sales

My final opinion – is Super PinMadness a viable long term business strategy 

If you plan to use this exclusively without a website and your only source of income is from direct affiliate links, you’re building a business on eggshells. You’ll also need to put a lot of time, effort and money into getting your pins the exposure they need to convert… and it’s risky to invest all of that into a business that might not work tomorrow.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to get involved with Pinterest; it can be a highly beneficial social network for blog and product exposure (and just for fun, too). But Pinterest should be used to gain traffic to your own blog, not an affiliate link. If you don’t want the rug thrown out from under you, I recommend that you use these strategies with your own website instead.

Once you quit searching for “the next best thing” and focus your energy on creating an actual sustainable online business, you’ll find yourself much ahead of the game.

Looking for a sustainable online business strategy? Let’s compare Super PinMadness to another product on the market….

This product is a a membership site geared towards newbie online writers in search of the ideal situation, i.e, getting paid tons of money for freelance writing work without ever having to leave the house!

It can seem very appealing to many because they claim you can have absolutely no experience whatsoever to earn big money writing online for large companies.

But in this Legit Writing Jobs review you will soon learn the truth about what it takes to make money writing online and that products like this (check out Real Writing Jobs) are just scams ready and willing to take your hard earned money.

What does the membership fee for LWJ give you?

Within your membership for Legit Writing Jobs, you’re given access to a job board that pulls online freelance job postings from various sources around the internet. You could find all of these postings for free though if you did your own research. There’s also no guaruntee you’ll get any of the advertised jobs, or that the posting are outdated.

A nearly $100 monthly fee for access to a questionable job posting board is NOT worth it.

There are all types of websites geared towards freelance work that you can sign up for completely free – elance.com, odesk.com, freelance.com, guru.com, craigslist, fiverr… the list goes on. If you want to search for online work, those are the places to look.

Grossly false advertising claims… A newbie will never earn $365 a day from freelance writing jobs

Most people advertising these types of jobs are small website owners looking for blog writers, content editors, proofreaders, etc (not the LARGE companies they claim will hire you). Typically they have small budgets and aren’t willing to invest a whole lot, especially if you’re an unestablished freelancer.

Because there are so many freelancers willing to write articles and blogs, the website owners can afford to be selective about who they hire, especially those with more money to invest. If you want to make any type of money writing online, you’ll need a lot of experience and a solid reputation within the online freelance world.

Those with absolutely no experience, no portfoio, no testimonials, who lack proper writing skills or don’t have a solid grasp of the English language (the people who Legit Writing Jobs seems to beckon) are not going to get hired for high paying jobs. Your best shot would be starting with $5 Fiverr gigs to gain experience and working your way up.

Price

You can get access for $4.95, however that only gives you a 3 day trial membership. If you don’t cancel soon enough, you’ll be charged an additional $17.95 per month for as long as you stay a member. But after reading through their terms of service and checking the average commission sale within Clickbank, I question whether there’s an unadvertised larger fee associated with your purchase…

A closer look at their terms of service:

Something looks a bit suspicious about this program after giving a closer look at their terms of service. They first state that if you choose to keep your membership, you’ll be charged a monthly fee of $17.95 per month; nothing unexpected considering that is the advertised monthly access fee on their sales page. However, they go on to state if you don’t cancel, you’ll be charged a $77 monthly fee as well.

The question is, is this some sort of typo within their terms or are they being sneaky with their membership fee? $77 isn’t exactly the same as $17.95 and wasn’t advertised ANYWHERE except hidden within the TOS page.

A look at the average commission earned by Clickbank affiliates leads me to believe it was no typo, and that you’re going to pay a lot more than you budgeted for.

Here you can see the average sale is $76. Affiliates earn 75% commissions, so less than $3 for the 3 day trial membership. Then you’d have to factor in monthly rebill charges, but since the advertised monthly charge is less than $18 a month, the average retention rate for Legit Writing Job customers would have to be nearly 6 months (earning $13.50 per month) for affiliates to earn that much from promoting this program.

I find that extremely hard to believe.

So let’s do some more math… what would be the commission percentage from the $4.95 trial + $17.95 monthly fee + $77 unadvertised fee?

4.95 + 17.95 + 77 = 99.9

99.9 *.75 = $74.925

The average Clickbank sale of $76 matches up pretty well when the $77 charge is taken into account….

Let’s sum up the CONS of the LWG program:

• False advertising
• Monthly fee is nearly $95, not the advertised $17.95
• Gives you access to job postings you can find for free
• Outdated, unmaintained website – trademarked from 2011

Final Opinion – Don’t waste your money with this program!

Legit Writing Jobs is nothing more than a clever scam that entices members with the promise of endless freelance work and high income. The only people recommending this program online are only trying to sell you the product and don’t provide any real feedback on what it’s really like.

The reality is it’s just pulling writing jobs from sources you can find for completely free on online job boards. Freelance writing jobs are highly competitive; as a complete newbie you’re going to have a really hard time breaking into the freelance writing scene. You’ll need to spend time working your way up to the point you can get consistent jobs, and even then you probably won’t be earning anywhere near their claims.

Stay away from this program because you’ll only be wasting your money.

If you want to earn real money online as a writer, quit outsourcing your work!

People who outsource tasks like writing blogs and articles do so because they know the investment will yield them a bigger return (if they’re smart about it). That’s because in the online world, a single blog post can hold a lot of power; it has the ability to create passive income for the owner.

Sure, you may get paid $30 to write an article or two, but the blog owner is the one that will earn residual income day after day from all YOUR hard work! That $30 investment can soon turn into 1,000’s of dollars in yearly income and you’re the one that got the raw end of the deal.

By starting your own blog and writing content for your site you can hold all the power. The ability to communicate and market online starts with writing and if you can effectively communicate, you can learn how to market online in a way that can lead you towards a lot of success.

If you’re interested in learning how to create a blog to earn passive income, check out my #1 recommendation – Wealthy Affiliate.