Today's Adventure in the Biz Opp Jungle:
'In which Charlie goes upmarket, gets an insight into David Anderson's Home Cash point System from a trusted source, and offers advice
on dodgy US survey opps.'
Hi
Here I am, in glorious Technicolor!
Just so you know, this new look HTML email isn't me being fancy. Nor is it some Hollywood-style facelift or snazzy hairdo.
And it's not because I'm going mainstream either.
I'm still the drunken cynic staggering through the business opportunity publisher's party, knocking over drinks and singing 'My Way' out of tune.
This new look email is all part of a new broadcasting system that should mean fewer glitches on my side of things. (Ha ha! As if!) And for you, it should be a lot easier to read.
Hey, and look, I can do crazy things in italics, bold, and... er...
Well that's about it.
Of course, you don't read these emails to watch me mess about. You're in it for the news and reviews, right?
And thanks to my eagle-eyed readers, I've been snowed under by deluge of requests in the last few weeks.
So I've turned to a trusted contact for a bit of help...
Is this Internet Home Cash Point system worth it?
David Anderson has been plugging his 'Internet Home Cash-Point System' recently, and I know a lot of people are wondering what the deal is here.
It's a part-work course that costs £29.95 per month. If you've been around the block a bit, you'll find that it's very similar to Andrew Reynold's Cash on Demand system, which I've reviewed on my website in the past.
The basic premise is that you learn the internet marketing techniques and strategies that make fellows like Mr Reynolds very wealthy. Namely, selling books, courses, DVDs and CD ROMS through classified ads, websites, search engines, and the like.
Wanting a second opinion on this, I asked Nick Laight from What Really Makes Money what he thought.
As usually, he's beaten me to it and has already reviewed this! In a comparison between Anderson's and Reynold's products, he writes:
"Anderson offers a decent general overview of the opportunities available online. You'll also find the usual starting point of how to find a niche by first identifying your own interests and passions.
This has been done to death elsewhere and I wonder how valuable this really is.
What gives Andrew Reynolds' Cash On Demand the edge for me is that he aims to reveal how his system works. So he takes you through the business model using specific examples from his own ventures."
Another difference, according to Nick, is that David Anderson looks only at internet marketing. Andrew Reynolds looks at newspaper advertising and other offline techniques.
When you sign up, you'll get a series of modules every month. If Cash on Demand is anything to go by, these modules continue indefinitely. There's no end to the course, as such, because there are always new developments and updates.
In summary then, it's a decent enough course if you want information on how to market your idea or product. But Reynolds is probably the better option if you had to choose.
Beware that with both these biz opps, you're gaining an education in modern guerrilla marketing. They're not a 'business in a box', where you unpack the information, follow the instructions, set it up and go.
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Thanks to Nick Laight and the What Really Makes Money team for giving me insights into this.
As always, I thoroughly recommend that anyone who is serious about making money from home should subscribe to his service.
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If he hasn't helped you set up a profitable home business in 12 months, you can ask for your £37 back. Even if you do, all the blueprints, reviews, reports and newsletters he sends you will be yours to keep.
Go here and take a look at the offer:
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A reminder about the perils of surveys
This week, a reader asked me whether a UK citizen is eligible to take part in US- based survey opportunities.
You may have seen these before. They offer you the irresistible chance to sit back and watch over $100 pop into your bank account every day, simply for sending out surveys for big companies.
The basic idea is that you're getting paid to do their market research.
The snag is, in 90% of cases I've researched, this is simply too good to be true.
If someone really had such a profitable list of companies willing to throw money at you, wouldn't they ask more than $35, $50 or even $100?
You can make a fortune in a day... if you sit at your pc 24 hours a day earning maybe a dollar, or sometimes as low as $0.005 per item.
Once you've joined, you are stuck on a merry-go-round of unanswered emails and dead ends. If you get your money back or talk to someone in charge, you'll be very lucky.
And to answer my reader's question, being mostly US companies, we're ineligible to partake in many of the survey opportunities. Of course, you won't know this until after you've paid.
I'd avoid them completely if I were you.
Or, if someone has made a nice little side-earning from surveys, please let me know of your experience. I love to be surprised!
Later alligator,
Charlie Wright
The Biz Opp Jungle