Reviews of Online Money Making Plans

How to Identify Bad Money Making Plans

The Mad Reviewer — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:48:55 +0000

It may be obvious to many of you, but how to identify a bad money making plan is something that everybody should give a little bit of thought to. To me, anytime I see a plan that really gives me little or no information about the plan without requiring information from me, like my email address, name, address, phone number etc usually turns out to be a bad plan. It’s not like they are harbouring some top secret information or something, they are just trying to get your information for other purposes.

Think about it, if I had a really great plan, I would be more than happy to give people as much information as I could about it (without totally giving it away, since I would be selling the information of course). If I presented the information well enough, I wouldn’t have any problem at all in having all the customers I want give me their details later when purchasing the plan. The internet is just flooded with these irritating and annoying landing pages, that promise you the moon or some ‘free download’ if only you give them your information first.

Some of the most dangerous plans are those that work like a pyramid scheme, where they promise you if you become a member and only get so many more members you will be a big success. None of these plans work and my best advice to you is to instantly avoid any of them. MLM’s or Multi Level Marketing schemes are crafted cleverly so they can say they are not really a pyramid scheme, but in reality they are. They just changed the way they do it a little since pyramid schemes themselves are illegal.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember in all this is that old saying, “if it sounds too good to be true it usually is”. I also like to look at these plans saying to myself, if I really had a plan that could make me easily $10,000 a month, why would I even want to share it with anybody else? And if I did, why would I have to charge them for it and go through all the trouble of creating elaborate pitch pages, collect information etc?

Intervestonline.com – The Top Ways to Make Money Online – They must be joking

The Mad Reviewer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:07:46 +0000

Whenever you do a search on Google for ‘How to Make Money Online’, you will see that intervestonline.com has the top spot in a results search. Their real tag line should be more like ‘How to Make US Money Online’. In my opinion, most of their suggestions are for sites and plans that are just utter garbage. You will note, several of the ones they promote heavily are ones that I have reviewed and found to be nothing but pure rip-offs. As usual, all that their site seems to be about is ways for them to cash in on referrals and the like by recommending these systems to people and trying to give them flowery, glowing reviews. It is no wonder to me that trying to find legitimate ways to actually make money online is nearly impossible these days. There are just so many obvious, blatant rip-off sites around that it is hard to find any of the decent ones. I am a little uncertain how to proceed with my blog here now. I could spend an eternity providing negative reviews of all the bad places, or maybe I should just change direction and provide only information on good methods and information on making money online.

Stock Assault 2.0 – Only an assault on your wallet

The Mad Reviewer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:58:31 +0000

Stock Assault 2.0 is yet another of the numerous stock picking AI robots that are around. The problem seems to be from many of the user reviews I have read there is no AI in this program at all. In fact, more than one reviewer claims the program does nothing more than feed ticker symbols from stored files during the ‘analysis’ phase when it is running and then present you with some stock picks from who knows where. They verified this by placing their own made up entries in the local files folder the program accesses and were able to view those entries during the running of the program.

When you look at any of the many positive reviews of this program, please look at them carefully, they really don’t give you much solid information on any performance they may have gotten and you can be sure that every single positive review you might find will also have an affiliate link to the Stock Assault 2.0 site so they get their commissions. Don’t fall for this one, I stand by my previous statements that there simply are NO get rich quick AI based stock picking programs available anywhere.

Doubling Stocks – MARL Stock Picking Robot

The Mad Reviewer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:45:40 +0000

I saw this one advertised in several places so I decided to have a look for myself. This place that has the MARL stock picking robot will either sell you a newsletter of free stock picks or sell you the stock picking robot for your own use. The best part of the presentation though had to be the video inviting you to watch over his shoulder as he made over $6,000 overnight in a single trade based on a robot pick for a small telecommunications penny stock.

He starts out by bringing up the NY Times homepage to show you the date and time, then logs into his etrade account to make a trade. Noting that the stock is at a bid price of only $0.13 he proceeds to say he will only buy $2,000 worth and puts in a trade to buy 15,384 shares which would be $2,000 worth at the $0.13 price. However, he adds a limit to the order instead of placing a market order and puts a $0.38 limit on the trade.

Now it is the following day, he brings up the NY Times page again to show you this is so, and then logs into his etrade account once again, this time he puts in a market order to sell 1,450 shares of the stock at its current price of $0.43 for $623. So, what ever happened to the other 14,000 shares? Did he already sell them yesterday? Did he make other trades? Well, we have no way to really know because at no time did you ever see 15,384 shares of the stock in his account. It is hard to believe that anybody with even half a brain would blindly go ahead and buy into this system after viewing such a faulty video presentation. In fact, it should have the opposite effect, watching such a video should scare you right out of wanting to know or hear anything else from this company or person whoever they might be. For all you know, they could have transferred in $6,000 from another account just for the purposes of the presentation.

I have over 30years experience in trading stocks, options and commodities having worked in the past for a large brokerage firm developing stock analysis programs of all kinds. My best advice for you is, if you are considering getting into stock trading, tread carefully, make sure you know what you are getting into before investing any sort of serious money into it. There really are no gimmicky one shot wonder type programs or robots that are going to make you rich overnight. At their best, computer stock analysis programs are just handy tools that you can use along with a lot of other information to help you in your trading decisions and strategies.

10 REAL Adsense Secrets

The Mad Reviewer — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:05:17 +0000

The 10 REAL Adsense Secrets is an eBook by Ryan Deiss. If you are looking for ways to optimize your Adsense earnings and increase them at the same time, this eBook does have some valid tips and techniques. When I looked, the price was relatively low ($17), so I went ahead and got a copy for myself so I could check it out completely. This is not some gigantic document full of technical information, instead, it is a concisely written small easy to understand eBook which presents some concepts and ideas which could prove to be very beneficial to you. It is not about adsense arbitrage, using adword against adsense, it is about methods to increase your site traffic and ways to direct traffic in an efficient manner. There are sections on how the ads should be presented, how many or few ads you should use and an informative section on the use of cloaking or redirection to your benefit with using unethical practices.
All in all I would say this is not a bad little ebook, and worth the small fee if you use the results to your benefit. You might find yourself a bit surprised by what some of these secrets really are, I found a few to be contradictional to standard lines of thought, but he does provide a pretty good argument for why his ideas just might be the better way to go. If you want to check it out for yourself, you can find his landing page here:

10 Adsense Secrets Revealed

LegitOnlineJobs – Not A Scam

The Mad Reviewer — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:44:49 +0000

I was a little up in the air over this one, whether or not it could or should be classified as a scam mainly because of the name and some of the slick pitch page hype referencing easily making $500 a day or more. The title seems a bit misleading to me. It would make more sense if labelled something like LegitWaysToMakeMoneyOnline rather than Legit Online Jobs. The site however does deliver a large amount of very good information on how to make money online using a host of various methods. The easy access to solid information which is well organized makes it a bargain for those looking into getting into affiliate marketing, using blogs to make money or various other methods. There is information on PPC advertising and how to bid on ads properly to make a profit on any affiliate sales they generate. They also have plenty of information on Google Adwords and Adsense, ebay, Paid surveys and various other systems that pay you to perform tasks online. The costs for all this information are pretty low when you think about it, $49.95 for a regular membership and $19.95 more for VIP status. You could easily spend that much elsewhere just to get a few books or such on any one of the many topics they cover. As with anything else related to internet marketing though, it is not a get rich quick scenario. It will take a lot of work and effort to make enough money for it to pay off. But, once you really get into it, there is plenty of money to be made. If you are looking for some good information all in one place and want to check them out, here is a link to their page:

LegitOnlineJobs

Cash4offers.com Review – Don’t Bother

The Mad Reviewer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:34:35 +0000

I saw a few ads for this place cash4offers.com, so I decided to check it out. Supposedly, they pay you cash for reading emails, reviewing offers etc. Well, I tried to check around for reviews on them and came up with some interesting results. There were plenty of negative reviews, full of comments from users who claimed to have been ripped off, cheated, or tricked in some way by the site. Most complaints were related to people who achieved the payout level of $25, but when trying to receive their cash, they were met with a myriad of excuses or just never paid at all. Several responders reported the same fact, that they were told that even though they reached this $25 level, all they had done was read emails, when, in fact, they had to participate in several of the offers to actually receive their payment. Also, the cost of participating in these offers was greater than the amount of money they would be getting, so, in most cases these users just decided to give up on cash4offers and never visit them again.
On the other hand, there were plenty of positive reviews on cash4offers.com but, unfortunately, most seemed to be written by affiliates eager to earn their $1.10 per customer they are supposed to get for each customer they get signed up on cash4offers.com. I would recommend you pass on cash4offers.com, there doesn’t seem to be any hope of real money to be made there.

How to Make Money with YouTube

The Mad Reviewer — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:43:32 +0000

Sure you have seen a YouTube video somewhere, whether online or on some television news or tabloid/talk show. Since its inception in 2005, The video-sharing sensation has exploded since then, with untold millions viewing YouTube videos daily. But, did you know there is also money to be made from this phenomenon? Maybe you have seen some of the many claims of six figure incomes from YouTube or other video-sharing services. Up until recently, the people making that money pretty much kept their methods to themselves, but now, anybody can get the information on how to create a successful YouTube venture from any one of several good books on the subject.

Of course, it’s not as simple as making a short video and just uploading it to the site. There is a lot of work and a lot of things to keep in mind while doing it. But, with the help of a good book, like ‘How to Make Money with YouTube’ by Bradd and Debra Shepp, you can learn all you need to know to have a successful YouTube campaign. They cover just about every aspect of making money with YouTube, from how to create YouTube videos to the best ways of marketing yourself, your company and your videos on YouTube. There is also a large section on marketing and distributing your videos as well as growing your income and even how to use YouTube’s competitors to your benefit. Remember, although YouTube is currently the largest video-sharing site, there are plenty of other competing services which are quite anxious to get video sources to compete with.

If the idea of making money online by creating and distributing videos sounds interesting to you, the best place to start would be a good book, like one of these listed below:

Multi-level Marketing (MLM)

The Mad Reviewer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:42:03 +0000

I’m sure by now you have at least seen the term MLM (or multi-level marketing) somewhere. But, do you really know what it is, or if you can make money in such a system? Many MLM systems are dangerously close to being nothing more than pyramid schemes. In a Multi-level Marketing program, you make money not just from your sales, but also from the sales of recruits you have brought into the system under you in a pyramid type structure. Many pyramid schemes try to make their systems appear legitimate by presenting them as an MLM system.
I’m sure that there are many legitimate MLM systems around where you could make some money. But, sadly, the largest percentage of them really offer you very little hope of making any sort of substantial income at all. They will fill your head with hype with evangelical fervency and promise you the moon. Most, will also of course show you many ‘questionable’ testimonials from happy customers who thank god that they joined this system. The sad truth of the matter though, is that most of them are just a load of rubbish. My best advice to you is, if you are seriously considering joining an MLM, do some serious research up front. Do yourself a favour and find out everything you can about the company and its members. Do internet searches and see how many dissatisfied or disgruntled members there might be. Try not to pay too much attention to glowing testimonials and other pitch page type reviews which are most likely just written by members trying desperately to get more recruits in under their name.

ShareASale Affiliate Marketing Program

The Mad Reviewer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:37:25 +0000

ShareASale is another one of the largest affiliate marketing programs. For business owners who sell online, ShareASale allows the merchant to pay commissions to affiliates who direct sales to their webstores. For the affiliate member, this means a way to make money for doing nothing more than placing an ad for the merchant on their website or blog.

You don’t need to own a website to place these ads, you can also put them on any blog you might have, and if you don’t have one, there are many places online where you can set up free blogs such as google’s blogger (http://www.blogger.com). When you join a merchant program that you want to advertise for, ShareASale gives you a line of HTML code that contains your unique affiliate id# in it. All you need to do is paste that line of code wherever you want your ad to appear.

ShareASale has thousands of merchant programs to choose from. Affiliate Marketing has been an increasing popular form of online advertising and all the biggest and best companies are using it to drive sales to their sites. Most of them pay great commissions of 8% to 25% of sales generated. For example, if somebody clicks one of your ads, then goes to the merchants site and buys $100 worth of merchandise and their commission rate is 10%, you get $10 for doing nothing but having someone click an ad displayed on your website or blog.

If you already own a web based business selling online, you might want to consider joining ShareASale as a merchant and start letting their affiliates advertise your business and drive sales to your webstore. But, this site is about people making money on the internet. I think that ShareASale is one of the best and simplest ways to make money online. If you are ready to start earning today just click their ad below and be sure to sign up as an Affiliate/Publisher it’s totally FREE and never costs you anything.