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.

If you want real local marketing training, click here.

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.

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.

Making money on the internet is entirely possible for anybody if they start with the right training and mindset and stop chasing too good to be true products.

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In summary – What is MyFlexJob?

MyFlexJob.com (not to be confused with flexjobs.com) states they offer unique services in the “trial processing” industry, and that they offer flex jobs with Fortune 500 companies to those interested in working from home. At first glace you may think this company sounds great; their website looks professional and there’s no advertised fees to get started. There’s even a bold button to “submit your application” like you would for a legitimate job offering.

Upon further investigation, however, this company is not at all what they claim to be. A quick fill and submit of their application can leave you with more questions than answers. There’s a lot of shady things going on with this company, and I will explain in further detail why I believe MyFlexJob to be a total scam site.

What work will you be doing?

The “work” isn’t actually real work at all. Basically all you’re doing is completing offers to earn credits. These offers are things like filling out a credit card application, signing up for a free trial to GameFly, or just buying a subscription or product. Each offer is worth a certain amount of credits, and once you earn a minimum amount of credits, say 5,000, you can cash out for real money.

There’s tons of problems with trying to do this type of thing as a full time job. First of all, the majority of the offers will require spending money up front or at the very least putting down your credit card information. If you have to spend $50 to earn $52, you’re really only making $2 and that is why the income claims and widely inaccurate.

Beyond that glaring flaw in the system, you’re also going to be giving out your credit card information to a massive amount of companies and that can open the door to all sorts of problems. It isn’t always easy to cancel with companies as they try and make the process as difficult as possible, and some even hide within their terms of service secret charges they’ll put on your credit card without ever advertising or making it clear up front.

Most of the offers will be for completely random products and services you aren’t interested in anyway.

(Instant Payday Network, Online Profit for Dummies, Project Payday and Freebie Money Printer are other systems that take advantage of these trial offers, but in a slightly different way).

Red Flag #1 – They claim to offer real jobs, but their application process is shady

The first step you’re walked through is filling out a quick application on their website that’ll ask you basic questions and only take a minute to complete. But it’s merely a front to make them appear legitimate. I took 30 seconds to fill it out – not even bothering to fill in anything for the “about you” section – and upon clicking the submit button I was immediately approved to start working! No real company looking to hire employees for work at home positions would be that easy to get in.

Real companies (check out Leapforce or Pearson) would at the very least make you wait for an approval email or take a screening exam. There’s no check to verify age, location, credentials… nothing! Considering they state the average earner earns upwards of $20 dollars an hour, it can’t be that easy to get hired.

Red Flag #2 – You need to pay up front for a subscription to MyPCBackup in order to start “working”… What?!

Now, after you complete your application you can go on to watch their orientation video. Here you learn you’ll need to pay $25 for a subscription to MyPCBackup to start working for the company. This should be another red flag that they’re not the real deal. They say you’ll be reimbursed the expense as soon as you verify the purchase, but they only give you back the money in the form of credits which cannot be cashed out until you reach a certain number of them. And you’ll have to spend a lot of time (and money) earning credits before you’ll be able to cash them.

But there’s no reason why you should have to order a subscription to a PC back-up service to start working for them, especially one that is shady in and of itself! No company is going to make you pay to start working for them!

Red Flag #3 – The testimonials are fake and bought for $5 from Fiverr

If you take the time to watch the testimonials given on their website, they seem a little off. Oh, maybe it’s because they’re not real. Someone had mentioned on a forum they took their testimonials from Fiverr, but I wasn’t going to take their word without investigating into it. I took the time to go on Fiverr and actually found 2 of them immediately offering to do testimonials for $5. I took a screenshot for proof:

On the left, a young blonde girl is advertising her services on Fiverr to provide a realistic testimonial for only $5. On the right, here the same girl is again on the MyFlexJob’s website… as you can see the background is identical down to the arrangement of papers pinned to the bulletin board and the unique mole above her lip (I had to make the videos full screen to notice that).

I also found the African-American guy advertising himself on Fiverr as well. I wasn’t able to recognize the other 2, but those alone should be proof enough something isn’t right here.

Red Flag #4 – Their income claims are inconsistent and entirely false

Their income claims are inconsistent throughout the site; their home page states you can earn between $12.33 to $27.90 per hour, another info-graphic only says you’ll get paid up to $23.75 per hour, but their introduction video states the average worker earns around $26. So what is it?

It really doesn’t matter because you aren’t ever going to make anywhere near that amount “working” for MyFlexJob’s. Like I previously mentioned, you’re going to have to start completing their offers to earn credits and that will take a lot of time, energy and money to get anywhere near the cash out amount!

You won’t be doing real work… MyFlexJob is a huge scam!

You’re going to run into all sorts of problems if you try and do this as full time work, first and foremost being you won’t really be making any money at all. You’ll just wrack up tons of crap charges on your credit card for things you don’t even want, just to earn a few dollars in return. You’ll also risk getting your credit card information compromised and may even have to cancel the card and get a new one. This isn’t real work, you are being scammed out of your money if you sign up for this system.

There are legitimate work at home jobs out there, but anything that is “too easy” and asks for money up front is going to not be the opportunity you thought it was.

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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.

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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.

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Seven dollar PTC is a paid to click site claiming to pay out $7 for advertisement clicks. If you’re familiar with PTC sites, you’ll know this is a giant red flag that Seven Dollar PTC is a scam. If you’re completely new to the game, however, you may not think twice about it and sign up as a way to make some easy cash online. After much online research, not a single positive review of this company comes up; only a bunch of former members complaining they never actually got paid. Do not invest any of your money to this website!

What are PTC sites?

But let’s first discuss what exactly PTC sites are and how they earn people money online. PTC (paid to click) sites will have a collection of advertisements to show on a daily basis to its members, and those members can click the ads in exchange for money. However, because the advertising means of ptc sites a very untargeted, unfocused traffic, advertisers can buy a lot of exposure from these ptc sites for relatively cheap.

They then pay their members to click on ads every day, so they can earn money from ad buys. Any legit ptc site will only profit if they pay small amount per click. I’m talking very, very small; a mere fraction of a cent (.001 – .005). They also only have a set amount of ads to show you on a daily basis, say anywhere between 15 and 50.. so after clicking 50 ads per day you can earn a whopping 5 cents! Taking this into account, it sure makes the 7 dollar per click claim seem rather fishy.

While there are many legit sites online that offer this service, there’s also a ton of scammy, shady sites involved as well. It’s critical to do thorough research before investing your time and money into any of these programs.

What makes Seven Dollar PTC any different?

Their claim of paying seven dollars per click is just not realistic. No advertiser would ever pay that much without losing a ton of money. The advertising on these types of sites is not only seen by an extremely untargeted audience, it’s also shown to people whose sole purpose of viewing is to earn money . The conversion rates for ptc site ads are very, very small and that is why the amount given per click is so small as well. The truth is, it’s not the best way to advertise.

Warning signs:

• There’s a $7,000 minimum payout limit
• $7 per click is way too high, you’ll never be credited that for simply viewing an ad for 60 seconds
• Tons of complaints online that this program does NOT pay its members
• No forum for members to provide experiences/feedback (most of these sites will have a member forum)
• Premium membership price is really quite expensive
• Claims yearly premium members earn 200% of their referrals earnings and lifetime members earn 300%

Even though this site has been around since 2011, it’s not held up a credible reputation and I wouldn’t bother investing a dime with this company. I’m honestly not even sure how they’re still allowed to operate!

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How to find well trusted PTC websites:

Look for sites that have been around for over a year and have a history of paying their members with no problems. It’s really easy to do a quick search on Google and read what members are saying about the program. Keep in mind any legit ptc site will let you join and click on ads for completely free, so never pay money up front to join a program like this. Sites that pay members over a cent per ad click should remain in question, and anything over a dollar would definitely be a scam.

Paid to click programs such as Clixsense, Neobux and Legacyclix are very popular and have an established reputation, so if you’re interested in doing it those are a good place to start. There are literally hundreds of ptc sites so you need to be careful and make sure you only sign up for ones that are legitimate.

PTC isn’t going to make you rich!

It’s important you realize that these ptc sites aren’t the way to get rich online. Realistically, you can expect to earn only a few cents per day at best purely from clicking on ads for every site you are a part of. Even if you were a member of 20 ptc sites and clicked all the ads available, it probably wouldn’t even ad up to a whole dollar! Also keep in mind you’d need to spend quite a bit of time clicking through hundreds of ads to even earn anywhere near a dollar and not only wait for them to load up on your computer, you need to wait a minimum of 5 seconds per ad to be credited.

Many of these sites have provided additional ways to earn credits though, such as through taking surveys, completing cpa offers or daily polls. Still though, your efforts are only bringing you in pennies. If you expect to make any type of money with this the real “secret” is building a downline.

But, because you get paid only a fraction of your referrals earnings, you have to have a pretty impressive number of referrals to earn even a little bit more money from it.

My final opinion – Seven Dollar PTC is a fraud

Seven dollar PTC is a dishonest paid to click website that exists solely to steal your money. No ptc program will pay you 7 dollars per click, let alone a few cents. They encourage you to upgrade for 100’s of dollars and won’t even pay you when you’ve earned the money. Even legitimate PTC sites only pay a mere fraction of a cent per every click. You’ll have to spend a lot of your precious time clicking and getting very little in return.

There may be people out there that claim to make massive amounts of money with ptc, but honestly it’d be extremely unrealistic to expect to earn anything to speak of on these types of websites. Each of these websites would only earn you a few cents per day and even if you had 1,000’s of referrals, you’d only earn a few dollars more. It’s a lot of work to build up 1,000’s of referrals for only a few dollars per day…

There’s a lot better and more rewarding ways to earn money on the internet. If you are looking for a way to earn real money, I’d suggest avoiding the PTC scheme.

Product:

The Rapid Content Wizard is marketed as a miracle solution to your content creations needs. You’ll no longer have to spend all your time writing articles and you can stop spending a fortune on outsourcing the task, because RCW takes care of all of it in one amazing software program (well, so claims Sean Donahoe)…

But the reality of what this product does couldn’t be further from the truth of what they claim it does. In this Rapid Content Wizard Review, I’ll show you exactly how the software works and why it isn’t the solution to your content needs.

The reality is this product will not help you at all with your business, and will only end up hurting you.

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So how exactly does Rapid Content Wizard Work?

RCW is software that seemingly appears to pull content out of thin air. You type in a keyword, click a button and boom… tons of content and images around that keyword is generated for you. The content is broken down by paragraphs, so you just click the ones you want, choose some headings, images (which are taken from Pixabay and Flickr) and select affiliate products to promote (Amazon, Clickbank) and voila! You’ve got yourself a “quality” article that’s ready to post on your site.

The program is set up as a word processor, so you’d have pretty much all the same editing capabilities of Microsoft Word or Google Drive. But the images provided may not actually be “free” to use, so you’d have to double check to make sure you don’t run into any

The software goes even further and can integrate with your WordPress account to post directly, without you even having to log in. You can also post your articles to Facebook from the software too.

It sounds amazing, right?

The Reality of What RCW does…

The content being created when you type in keywords isn’t just pulled out of thin air, it’s being scraped from other websites around the net. Absolutely nothing this pulls up is original content… it’s stolen.

First of all, you can’t just steal other peoples content. Not only is it unethical, you’re going to get yourself into trouble with Google. They’re really good at deciphering between original vs scraped content, so if you use this software expecting instant rankings (or any rankings at all for that matter) within the search engines, it’s not going to happen.

Search algorithms are very sophisticated these days. If copied content is ever published, they’ll realize it isn’t worth ranking, because it already exists. There’s too many people publishing content for the web on a daily basis like this so they’ve learned to recognize it and ignore it.

“Produces quality, readable content… not garbled nonsense like other similar software programs”

If you ever actually pause the video during his demonstration, you’ll notice the article he pulls together is nonsense. It’s a bunch of random paragraphs being strung together in a way that doesn’t flow, make sense or connect with the reader.

It’s horrendous. There is no way you could use this software to produce something of quality unless you spent hours editing it to flow and make sense. Even then, unless you completely rewrote it, it wouldn’t erase the fact it’s copied. And if you were going to do that, you might as well just have written the articles from scratch.

Not even the Warrior Forum  members who bought this are recommending it to others. They all requested refunds; some seemed to get them with no problem and others had difficulties. And if you’re not familiar with Warrior Forum, that place is full of people who love to buy all sorts of lower quality products. If it’s so bad that everyone within the forum agrees, you know it’s horrible.

I don’t understand how they try and make such bold claims about their product when they’re contradicting themselves right within their own demonstration.

Real people are reading your articles

You’re not publishing your content for search engines, you’re writing it for actual people. You could have a hundred thousand visitors coming to your site on a daily basis, but if your website was full of unreadable nonsense nobody is going to buy anything from you. Either way, nobody is going to read the content on your site if you use this tool because you won’t see the light of day in Google or any other search engine for that matter.

What if you really don’t have time to write your own content?

You can always outsource your writing if you really hate doing it or don’t have the time. While you may be able to find people willing to do it for $5 on Fiverr, I wouldn’t recommend it. Those are not going to be well written, researched articles and since your content is the core of your business that is one area you don’t want to cut corners. For a quality, 100% original article it’ll probably run you around $30 – $50, or even more depending on length.

While it may seem like a lot, it’s worth it if you want to be running a successful business. If you’d like to know more about how to find a quality writer for your website, take a look at this article.

Pros vs Cons

Pros

• Provides a 60 day money back guarantee (but refund experiences seem to vary between no problems and not able to get one, so not sure how reliable it is)

Cons

• Flat out copies from articles across the internet
• Generates random paragraphs of content from different sources that don’t fit together
• Your content won’t rank in Google using this tool
• You won’t make sales with this tool
• Up-sells after you buy
• Unethical and Illegal

Price

The lite version will run you $47, while the lightning edition is $97. They’re both one time fees, no monthly subscription is required. There’s also upsells once you buy, for article spinners and other unnecessary products and services.

They also offer a 60 day money back guarantee; however it’s not always honored.

My Final Opinion – Is Rapid Content Wizard a Scam?

Since this software doesn’t live up to any of its claims and is performing unethical tasks, I do believe that Rapid Content Wizard is quite the scam. Sean Donahoe is a slick salesman that lies through his teeth. You’re made to believe it’ll generate wonderful content that’ll rank you in the search engines and be an amazing solution to your article creation needs. You’re told that using this software will only take a few minutes to set up, you’ll have content for life, and that you’ll be able to generate all kinds of crazy traffic through search engines.

But using this software will not get you anywhere but sandboxed with Google. Your content is the core of your business. It’s what generates search rankings and traffic, it’s what earns trust, it’s what ultimately ends up converting your customers to sales. If you don’t have the time to write it, outsourcing it to an actual human being who will write original, quality articles is a way better solution.

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Product:

I recieved an email earlier today promoting” typing and data entry jobs for beginners”, which I thought was suspicious since gmail is normally good about putting crap like that in my spam folder (a little too good since they always seem to throw legit stuff in my spam) and also because it came from some email list which I have no recollection of signing up for.

I was curious what they were going to try and promote since typing and data entry is usually a bait and hook call to action that is used to trick people into falling for scammy “make money online” products that are in reality entirely unrelated to data entry! Well, it took me to this website that was just an advertorial for a product called the A to Z Cash System… oh boy here we go again.

A to Z Cash System – Scam or Real???

The A to Z Cash System is definitely not original (there are tons of similar websites all promoting the same concept.. work from home mom earns $90K per year!) and not new (these have been circulating for years). These products are aimed at people who have absolutely no experience with making money on the internet, because what they do is immediately call you after you sign up and try to hook you up with upsells for things you definitnely don’t need (which, only newbies would fall for)!

Let’s take a look at the “news report” I was linked to…

Advertorial – an advertisement that is constructed to look like a news story

This is highly deceptive because if you didn’t really know better or think about it, it does look real. There’s even a link to an ABC news report, and tons of comments where people share their “success” stories… but remember, this is an advertisement… so those comments are part of it and NOT real.

There definitely are ways to make money online, but you have to be careful and find the right training!

Only $4.95 to start? Watch out, that’s only the beginning…

They advertise that they’re system is only $4.95, but you can also get it for $1 if you press the back button on the payment screen a few times, a pop up will tell you WAIT DON’T GO! And you’ll be able to opt to stay on the screen and the price will be reduced. This is a very common marketing tactic called downselling, and the reason they do it is because they make their money by upselling you after you buy into the system.

In fine print, you’ll see that the $4.95 is only for your first 3 days, and then you will be charged a fee of $77 PLUS a $59 monthly fee? Already this is way more than they claim, and have fun trying to get your money back!

Now they are only getting started eating away at your credit card. Since they promised you “a 1 on 1 consultation with an expert”, they’re going to have one of their fine sales representatives give you a call and try to sell you additional products and services that you do not need.

Watch out because these could be literally set you back 1,000’s of dollars, and it’s all crap.

The terms EASY, FAST and AUTOMATED are phrases you need to watch out for and AVOID

You don’t have to search very hard, you will find those 3 tempting words in the vast majority of the online money making product out there. Don’t be fooled though, because starting out online is not easy, fast, OR automated. It’s hard work, but definitely possible when you find an extremely helpful resource like this one.

Product:

What is Online Home Careers University?

What this product is and what it claims to be are two entirely different things. This is actually a downright scam and has been done many times over on the internet, using nearly identical sales pages, photos and testimonials. It’s merely a copy paste scam that is going around and is designed for nothing more than to fool you out of your hard earned money, then call to hound you with additional upsells!  The creator is fake, the testimonials are fake, the claims are fake – it’s just one giant lie that is definitely too good to be true.

Let’s take a quick look at how this product compares to the competition…

Scam Alert #1 – So called creator Melissa Mayer isn’t an actual person!

This girl “Melissa Mayer” looks familiar because she’s been floating around the internet as many differnet people. You see, she’s a stock photo and that story is fake!

Take this example:

Look familiar? Oh yeah because it’s identical!

Oh and here is the actual stock photo of Melissa, or Michelle, or whoever she is…

In case you aren’t familiar with stock photo – it’s a website where you can go and purchase images to use at your own free will. This girl is obviously real but she isn’t any of the people these websites claim she is. All the testimonials on their site are stock photos as well (it claims so right on the salespage) however that seems like an incredibly shady practice. It says it’s to “prodcut their identities” however there just isn’t any reason they would be fake pictures unless it wasn’t a genuine product.

Scam Alert #2  – Online Home Careers University hides behind many identities

Like I stated previously, this program isn’t one of a kind. There are many others, such as Careers at Home University, Work at Home University, Stay at Home Revenue, Profit From Home University…

The sad part is those aren’t the only ones, there are more – but I think you get the point. There is no reason for a product to go around with many aliases unless it was trying to hide something.

Scam Alert #3  – Promises you’ll make ridiculous amounts of money doing virtually nothing

As you read down the sales page, they keep saying how easy it is to makes TONS of money working from home. They also go so far as to claim it’s “proven and guarenteed” to earn you _x_ amount per day. Any program that tries to make such claims is lying to you and you should stay away.

If there was a real job that let you make $450 daily from just working a few hours “posting links” – wouldn’t everyone be doing it? They’re pretty vague about the whole link posting process, but it’s probably something like posting spam links across the internet. Some people do stuff like that to earn money online, but it’s shady and you’re probably not going to be very successful or earn a lot of money trying to do that. When it comes to making money online, I can tell you first hand it is not that easy or simple.

Scam Alert #4 – They want all your phone number (along with lots of other personal info) so they can hound you with upsells!

They promse you a “free one on one consultation with an internet expert!” but what that actually translaties to is they’re going to have a sales representivie call you and try to get you to spend $1,000’s more on additional products and services. This is merely a gateway for upsells and nothing more.

Many people are angry and confused once they join and want their money back.

Final Thoughts

This program has absolutely no value. I don’t know how many times or in how many forms this product is going to dance around the internet disguised as another to try and mislead more unsuspecting folks.

I do want to point out that there really are people earning this type of income online, but it isn’t from any sort of program like this. Yes, it is possible to work at home online but it takes hard work, patience and determination. If you’re willing to make it happen, it can. It just isn’t so easy like they claim. No one can make any sort of guarentee of online income as that is entirely dependent upon YOU!

PS If my review isn’t enough to pursuade you this program is a flop, check out the comments section on my review of Work at Home Univeristy – there are many, many people commenting there who are complaining about being scammed by them!

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Product: Get Cash For Surveys
Creator: Gary Mitchell
Price: $74, discounted to $37, then $27, then $12
Website: www.getcashforsurveys.com
Rank: 0/100 (absolutely worthless)

I’ve already written a blog about my experience with online surveys that you can read here, but I wanted to take the time to review a specific product that’s marketed to help people take such surveys. The thing that bothers me about this product is they are charging for a service you can easily get for free, and they claim it’s easy to make thousands per month just by filling out these simple surveys each day.

Overview – What is Get Cash for Surveys

In short: The product is essentially a portal to a confusing land of tricky upsells to all sorts of things unrelated to taking online surveys. After wading your way through them (they make it VERY difficult to get through without buying any) you’re eventually provided a button to the official members area. This program contains NO instructions or help – it’s basically a giant database of survey taking websites. Oh, but these are all well known survey sites you can access FOR FREE.

…Wait, what did I just pay money for again?

Price – Just $12 to start, but it’s crazy upsells after that!

I was able to purchase the system for $12. They initially try to sell it for $34 with a 50% coupon, but if you click the back button a few times they’ll down sell the system enough to eventually offer their “friends and family discount” for 80% off. This seems really cheap and I’m willing to bet most people aren’t going to pass up such a price.

However, immediately after purchasing you’re hit with an upsell for $77 worth of e-books/videos that claim to do all sorts of things to teach you how to make money online – anywhere from selling on ebay to affiliate marketing – NOTHING that relates to taking online surveys. Talk about information overload.

After you click  “No thanks”, they keep offering you the same upsell for a lower price – finally offering it for as little as $27

Note: Once I joined, I found out they provided me with all these e-books and videos for free without even purchasing the upsell!

Now they’re trying to tell me they have a special deal with a web design company, and they’re going to offer me a professionally designed website absolutely for free!

They claim this worth nearly $2,000 but they are going to actually give it away to me for free? I click on the step one link, and I’m taken to a page that wants me to enter in a domain name. The fact that they’re trying to sell this to people who are absolute beginners (most likely) really bothers me, because they’re not going to know what website name to pick or anything about how to make money with the website.  They’re also not going to realize it does NOT cost $2,000 to start a website. You can buy a domain name for around $10 per year, and hosting can be found for as little as $5 a month. You can also easily use a website builder like WordPress, which as THOUSANDS of templates that are easy to upload and use and look 100% professional.

Also, they’re not charging this for free either. After I entered a domain name, they tried to charge me nearly $300 JUST for the domain and hosting.

You can buy your own domain name with hosting included for around $70 – $100 a year. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!

Aside from the fact this website scheme has NOTHING to do with taking online surveys, they’re trying to throw this charge at innocent people who may not know any better. They also made it a total pain in the butt to try and get back to the main website after trying to cancel the order!

After you join Get Cash for Surveys, they waste no time asking for a phone number for “1 on 1 coaching” 

That just means someone is going to call you up and try and sell you a lot more things you don’t need! Also, you’re number will probably get sold at some point and you’ll get put on spam lists.

Their Members Only Survey Database is a JOKE!

Seriously, it’s a database that just points you towards a bunch of survey websites that you can easily find for free, survey sites such as MySurvey, Surveyhead and even Swagbucks. These are all very popular sites that you can access without joining Get Cash For Surveys!

Pros vs. Cons

Pros -

• You have access to a list of survey websites (however, these survey websites are all free and you do not have to pay to be a member of Get Cash For Surveys to access them)

Cons -

• Upsells, upsells, upsells – it’s difficult to get past them and to the real members area (Also, NONE of the upsells are even related to taking surveys for money)
• Asked to submit your phone number after joining for “1 on 1 coaching”  – they just want someone to call you and sell you more stuff
• They try to upsell you for something they actually will go ahead and give you for free
• There’s absolutely no training, support or help

The Reality: Taking online surveys will earn you VERY LITTLE extra income

If you’ve never tried taking online surveys before, it’s a giant pain in the butt. The sales page tries to make it seem like it’s easy to make thousands per month by taking several surveys a day. They even have this handy dandy calculator:

I can promise you one thing – you will NOT earn that much money taking surveys online (not even close!)

While you can genuinely take surveys for money, you will not be able to earn a significant amount of income from it. The problem is, each survey is looking for a certain demographic, and the chances you’ll fit that specific demographic are slim. However if you sign up for enough of these survey sites, you’ll probably be able to find at least a couple to qualify for each day. But even then, it’s time consuming and you won’t be getting paid that much money for the surveys you take.

In my experience, I spent about 5 hours trying to take surveys online and it was VERY difficult to find ones I actually qualified to take – and even when I did, they paid out nearly nothing. I finally was sent a $10 gift card to Target from all my hard work! What a joke!

You’re getting paid less than minimum wage!

I got paid $10 for an entire 5 hours of work, and that only equates to $2 per hour! I could spend 5 hours working a minimum wage job and earn nearly $40!

My final opinion on Get Cash for Surveys -

Stay away from this, it’s a complete scam. They’re merely trying to lure you into charging you for additional products and services that have NOTHING to do with taking surveys online! Oh yeah, then they throw you a database of survey sites – all of which you can get for free elsewhere!? I don’t see anything of value in this program and I definitely do not recommend it.

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What is Niche Profit Classroom?

Niche Profit Classroom is a training program for internet marketers founded by Adam Short. It consists of in depth video based training that will walk you through the process of how to make money online; it concentrates on things like setting up niche websites for affiliate marketing, email marketing (list building) and developing your own products. There’s also an active community forum, and occasional webinars and teleseminars set up for personal help.

So, is Niche Profit Classroom a scam? Let’s take an investigative look and see what it has to offer!

Let’s take a further look…

The program says they train individuals to produce websites that have 3 qualities – “evergreen, automated, and simple” – meaning; they’re easy to build, require little maintenance once they’re up and running, and they will continue to generate revenue for a long time to come. While these types of websites may be able to pull in a profit, the emphasis on “push button software”, automation and no further maintenance make me question the quality of these types of sites, and how long they could sustain themselves within places like Google.

Ready Made Niche Packs… Yay or Nay?

They provide ready made niche packs every month to all the members. These are claimed to be able to be used for “model” websites, to give beginning members a guide as to how they should be putting together their website and further materials for email marketing, but Adam also says they can be “tweaked” to use as your own website to make money from.

While there’s nothing wrong with providing sample websites for your members as it can be valuable to see the process of how it is done, if a member actually does try to “tweak” a ready made niche site and put it up for profit they will most likely face duplicate or spun content issues within the search engines as they are providing these ready made niches to EVERY member. Most likely they will find their website to either not rank or not be very successful long term.

Let’s take a look at the tools offered within Niche Profit Classroom and see how they fare…

Included Tools:

• WordPress website builder and web hosting – allowed to host up to 15 of your own domains (note: these domains are non-transferable–you have to keep your account with NPC in order to have access to them.)

• Market Profiler Tool – assesses a niche market’s profit potential–however I can’t see this tool being all that useful. The profit potential for any niche is based on your effort and skills, not the specific market you pick.

• Keyword Tool  – definitely a necessary tool, although I don’t know how accurate it is. (some are better than others).

• 15 minute newsletter creator + 15 minute sales letter creator – automated creation for email newsletters to people on your list. Anything “automated” like this is going to produce something of poorer quality.

• “Done for you” niches – 2 niche packs given out every month to members which include pre-written articles, keyword lists, a 75 page ebook (PLR type) that you can claim as your own, along with various other tasks that are already done for you.

 Support:

• Once per week live Q&A teleseminars
• Active community forum
• Coaching webinars twice per month

Cons:

I think while there is some good training offered within this program there are a few cons that make it a deal breaker–at least to me!

• Domains are non-transferable – once you buy a domain and set it up with NCP’s hosting, you cannot transfer it to other web hosting if you decide to discontinue your NPC membership. So while you are able to host up to 15 of your own domains on their server–I’d advise NOT doing so–this means you don’t truly own your web content, and unless you stay with NCP forever you will lose all your sites eventually.

• Many complaints about bad customer support – while I have no personal experience with the customer support offered by this program I’ve come across countless negative reviews online that range anywhere from people complaining they were extremely rude or dismissive – to that just took several days or weeks to even get back to them, and when they did they offered no real help at all. There were also several complaints about people cancelling their membership under the free trial, yet still getting charged the $67 for the program (yet still being locked out).

• Emphasis on automation and push button software–anything that is automated isn’t going to be good quality. It is obvious when you read something online and it sounds more programmed and mechanical than if an actual human wrote it, and that in itself is going to turn a lot of potential customers away.

• Questionable long term potential of the way they emphasis site building. Once you do get a site up and running, it’s best if you keep it “fresh” and update it often, sites DO require ongoing maintenance for longer term success–even if you end up having to outsource the work.

Price

Monthly fee is $67, plus around $10 for each domain you set up. This is quite expensive for a recurring monthly fee, especially considering there are way better programs which are significantly cheaper.

Conclusion – NPC scam or legit?

Niche Profit Classroom isn’t a scam, they do provide some valuable training and support to their members. However, I think there are definitely some aspects it could improve upon. I wouldn’t want to join into any program that wouldn’t let me keep my own websites after I left, that’s for sure! Plus, they are just too expensive in my opinion for what they offer.

There is a $1, 14 day trial, however, so if you still want to consider giving it a shot, you don’t have that much to lose.

Consider a better, cheaper alternative…

What if I told you there was a program that offered way more support (24/7), had a greater variety of training resources, UNLIMITED web hosting (plus lets you transfer the domain if you quit the program or go elsewhere), and one that focuses on building a long term, successful business online – rather than just creating several “websites”. What if I told you this program could save you $435 a year when compared to if you signed up with Niche Profit Classroom?

They have a fresh approach, one that focuses on you starting out in a niche you are interested in, rather than a “profit niche” because ultimately, you can pick the most profitable niche and not make anything if you aren’t motivated or interested in what you are doing enough to stick with it.

Better yet, skip the $1 trial, you can try this out for free–no credit card is even required. How can you say no to that?

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Wendy
Owner, SurvivingAfterCollege.com