Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Affiliate Marketing (Scam or Not?)

Hello Everyone,

      Well if your reading this then you probably read the first blog/article I wrote about testing the work at home programs. Well after deciding to try google adsense, I have now moved onto my next venture called Affiliate Marketing. Now as I said before to keep in mind, I am no professional at any of this, but I am going to do the best I can to update and inform everyone all about these programs.

      (Update) Adsense: So to start with I want to give a quick update about the adsense account I signed up for. From the way it seems, Adsense can start working in weeks, but could possibly take months. Take this blog for example. I just started it yesterday. In order for this blog to work for me, I have to get traffic to it. Now this is no easy task. So with adsense the idea is to get the sponsored links on your page, and then when people click on them, you get paid. Now this may sound very siimple, but it's not as easy as you might think. You have one major obstacle that will stand in your way. You need people to come to your site or whats the point? So as it would seem, if you are using Adsense, traffic and advertising is the key. I will update more down the road about whatever advertising steps I have taken, what works, and what is a waste of time.

      That brings us to the affiliate marketing. The new program I am trying is something called Free Site Signup. This actually seems to be a very legit company who's goal is to help you make money. Here is the link if you are interested. http://robincorporated.com/affiliatemarketingincome/ This site is exactly how it sounds, free. Unless you want a premium membership in which they give you free advertising t search engines, a , and a 6 week online training course to help you start making money in the fastest ways. I also noticed one really important thing with this company. They actually have phone based customer service. This seems to be kind of rare in the sea of work at home companies out there. The best part about this company is for the premium membership its only about 7 or 8 bucks. Compared to many of them thats really cheap. I payed the fee and they built my website in about a day. So far I would have to say this company seems legit. I will continue on with this and see what happens, and of course keep everyone updated.

     So in conclusion, I am starting to see the potential to make money online, But I have a feeling we have a long road ahead of us. I have high hopes of making that residual income in minutes a day, but so far I have actually had to put in some hours. It would seem that the age old saying may actually be true. (You can't get something for nothing.) Well you never know, we may stumble across that get rich quick program, or at least a program that actually does require extremely minimal work. Well that's it for today. I hope this is educational and helpful so far, and thank you for joining me on this quest to determine......Riches or Rip-Off??? 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Work at Home...Scams or Not???

Hello Everyone,

       My Name is Robert and I am currently majoring in computer science in Oregon. This is my first blog ever so please bare with me if you can. I am 27 years old and definitiely not getting any younger. I have a beautiful 5 year old daughter, and a lovely fiancee. It sounds like a nice little life I have going, but if you believe that than you would be VERY sadly mistaken. I live in a tiny one bedroom aparment, and only see my daughter on weekends. I have seen (and experienced) much in my short time on this earth and even only being 27 years old I am tired. I started working very young to help support my family so high school was never completed. Over the years I have worked many jobs, from gas station attendant, to supervisor in a multimillion dollar, world wide corporation. I'm almost what you might call a jack of all trades.

      Now that the summary of my past is out of the way, lets get to the purpose of this blog. I'm Broke! As are many of you hard working red blooded Americans out there. The unemployment rate is higher than ever, even though so many of us WANT to work. In fact some of us want to have that sense of accomplishment and financial security so bad, that without it we are just shaving years off of our lives dealing with the constant stress of trying to just survive. For many of us, just keeping a roof over our heads feels impossible at times. Needless to say, I am sick of it. My fiancee deserves better, and more importantly, my daughter deserves better. So I have decided to take some risks. I am going to take the little bit of money I have, and I am going to put it into the work at home programs you CONSTANTLY see on the web, and probably in your email quite frequently as well.

       I think for many of us it's our dream to be able to work a couple hours a day at most, and make the kind of money that these sites boast you will. Many of them say you can make an easy $20,000 per month with little effort. Now I don't know about that, but I do know this, I am desperate and am willing to try whatever it takes to take care of my family. So here is what I want to do with this blog. I am going to invest in these work at home programs, then as I go along I am going to continuously update you all frequently through this blog. My goal is to finally crack open the mystery of whether or not these work at home sites and programs are actually profitable, or truly just scams. I will keep you updated on which types of programs I am signing up for, the cost of them, and the outcome as I work away.

       Now I have two goals here. The first is to inform America, and the world, whether or not these work at home websites and programs really do work, and the other goal is to finally come out of this horrible and stressful rut I am stuck in. I don't graduate for more than a year, and at this rate, financially I'll never make it. I am not a salesman, a marketer, or any kind of an advertiser. I am a father, and soon to be husband, who is terrified his family will soon have nowhere to call home. So lets do this and see what happens. I have been interested in this subject for some time, and I am pretty sure many of you out there have contemplated on trying a work at home program. So here goes.

      I am starting my work at home quest by using something called Google Adsense. I went to google, signed up for Adsense, and got approved the next morning, which happens to be the morning I am typing this blog. To use Google Adsense from what I can tell you either need a website or blog. Then Google will provide sponosored links that can be placed on either your website or blog. After the sponsored links are in place, everytime someone clicks on one of those links, you get paid. The best part is Google Adsense is free. Now this is just the first program I am trying. There will be many more to come, and as I said, I will constantly update to let everyone know what's working and what's not. So anyways, I hope you all enjoy this blog, and more importantly that you become educated from it, and who knows? Maybe we'll all get a little bit richer.