The Science of Getting Rich

Well, I was definitely hoping to find some good dirt on The Science of Getting Rich program, but so far no luck. Everyone who has taken the time to put comments or reviews of this system online seems very happy with what they received for the extremely hefty $1,995 purchase price. Of course, these are all affiliate marketers so why would they say anything negative?

It started with a book by a man named Wallace D. Wattles entitled The Science of Getting Rich. This book was published in 1923 and is now in the public domain. That means, among other things, that you can read it for free on Wikipedia. The book takes a philosophical approach to obtaining wealth -- mind over matter; change your thought patterns, change your life. Then in 2006, Rhonda Byrne produced a film based on the principles in the book called The Secret. This film can be purchased on Amazon starting at $19.99. The film features presentations by Michael Beckwith, Bob Proctor, and most notably Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. After the film's success, Rhonda partnered with Bob Proctor who had already expanded The Science of Getting Rich into a series of seminars and audio lessons.

You can obtain the information in this program for $19.99 by purchasing The Secret DVD on Amazon and reading the book on which all of this is based for free on Wikipedia. Or, you can pay $1,995 for a leather briefcase, an mp3 player preloaded with Bob's audio lessons, and a packet of instructional material based on the information in the original The Science of Getting Rich book. Also, you get tickets to Bob's seminars.

If you join the affiliate program to market this product, your level 1 payout will be $500. Your level 2 payout will be $250. If you are a good enough affiliate to sell a product worth $19.99 for $1,995, I highly recommend this product. If you don't think you will be able to sell a product at a cost that is $1,975.01 more than it is worth, then I recommend avoiding this program.

p.s. If you had a bad experience with this program, I'd love to hear about it.

Suckered.org

Suckered.org isn't a work at home opportunity, just an affiliate site with a unique gimmick. I stumbled across this site researching my last post and I thought it was a great idea. Suckered.org hosts a vast array of affiliate products and offers to refund your purchase if you are not satisfied with the product after 8 weeks. It's totally free, no registration is required. What a great idea!

Then I read the fine print. The refund only applies if you purchase the product through ClickBank. Which means, they are not offering any additional service that ClickBank does not already offer. From ClickBank's return policy:

Our official return policy for all ClickBank products is as follows:

ClickBank will, at its discretion, allow for the return or replacement of any defective product within 8 weeks from the date of purchase. For recurring billing products, returns for more than one payment may be provided if requested within the standard 8 week return period. After 8 weeks all sales are final.

So, suckered.org is not adding any value that is not already present in ClickBank. But, it would be a great idea for an affiliate site to really offer a full refund if buyers were unsatisfied, out of pocket. That would definitely be something to give customers some incentive to buy products through your affiliate site over another.

The other service offered by Suckered.org is "real reviews." The site indicates they use independent order verification technology to ensure only a customer who has purchased the product being reviewed can post their opinion. This is a good idea, but after clicking through twenty or so products, I'd only seen three reviews total. Two of them literally said, "Good product. Very good."

My opinion on this is that while Suckered.org has certainly come up with a clever gimmick, you might as well make your purchase through ClickBank directly.

Unparalleled Marketing LLC

Unparalleled Marketing LLC owns and operates a few work from home websites, the most prominent being http://home-survey-workers.com, but also http://www.freelance-home-writers.com, and http://www.easyjobsfromhome.com. A few other sites they own redirect to one of these sites such as http://www.top10-work-at-home-jobs.com. They offer work from home opportunities filling out surveys. Their product is a database of companies looking for survey takers and a software suite that will fill your demographic data into surveys automatically. The cost is $2.95 up front, followed by a $39.95 fee charged after a 7-day grace period during which you are allowed to evaluate the product.

Unparalleled Marketing LLC also has a company site at http://unparalleledmarketing.com. This is a nice flash site with some vague descriptions of their business and the same e-mail and contact number they give out in the contact section of all the product sites above.

I had some difficulty finding out who owns this company because all their domains are registered with WhoIs Guard and there are multiple Better Business Bureau records. One record gives the company an F rating, and the other gives them a C. The company is owned and operated by three individuals -- Michael Samson, Jeremiah Patton, and Michael Strathmore.

Jeremiah Patton has some experience marketing work from home products, with his previous attempts at http://www.jeremiahpatton.com and http://2ndincome4u.com. He has quite a few articles posted at Ezine Articles. I'm only mentioning this in order to clearly point out just how long and hard these gentlemen have been working to build their online business. Many failed attempts later, including the now defunct http://workathomeprofessor.com, they are attempting to legitimize their business using this umbrella company, Unparalleled Marketing.

The product they are offering is not something you can hope to make a living using, though the copy on the Home Survey Workers site suggests you can make up to $423 a day completing surveys. The problem is the companies that are looking for people to take surveys are looking for a certain type of person. In most cases, you won't match what they need. Irrespective of that, you can find many free survey databases online so paying for this product is not a good investment.

I don't consider this a scam. Although I found numerous complaints about the $39.95 charge following the trial period, the copy on the site is clear that this will happen. I found a few complaints indicating the charge was assessed before the grace period had expired or after requesting cancellation via e-mail, which is definitely a little shady. That said, I have no doubt a direct phone call to the company, or failing that your credit card or bank, could resolve an issue like that easily. The main problem I have with Unparalleled Marketing LLC is how long and hard they have been working to make an online living selling junk e-books and software products. It's obvious they are not committed to a product or trying to sell anything they actually think is worthwhile. They are just trying to make as much money off a few suckers as possible.

Market Health formerly Joe Bucks and HerbalBiz

Market Health at www.markethealth.com used to be known as Joe Bucks, still accessible at www.joebucks.com. They offer an affiliate program selling natural health products for a wide spectrum of concerns ranging from diet pills to erectile dysfunction cures. The affiliate payout is 50% which applies to online orders, phone, and mail orders. It also applies to re-orders which is rare in the world of affiliate marketing. The second tier payout is 5%. Affiliates who make 20 or more sales a month can negotiate their rate. The affiliate program is free to join; you can also sign up for a newbie affiliate program if you do not have a web site already or know how to create one. This option is provided by HerbalBiz at www.herbalbiz.com and costs either $1.95 or $49.95. The $1.95 option buys you a turnkey web site pre-loaded with Market Health products, marketing templates for flyers, business cards, and banners, and an e-book on internet marketing. The $49.95 option buys the same as well as a year of hosting and an 800# with customer support that can be used to take phone orders. This sounds like a great affiliate opportunity with easy start-up and awesome returns.

However, several complaints have emerged about affiliate ID hijacking. Many affiliates complained their affiliate ID was replaced with a common ID -- #680256. Market Health's FAQ section addresses this issue, indicating an affiliate cookie is placed on your computer upon visiting a Market Health or Joe Bucks web site. #680256 is the default affiliate ID (or Market Health's own ID). This is certainly a simple enough solution if your problem is as simple as seeing the wrong ID on your own browser. Many affiliates complained their ID was not persisting for customer sessions as well, though, and the default ID was replacing it. Complaints indicated this occurred most frequently on the most popular products.

  The director of Market Health is Gary McNelly. Gary regularly contributes on forums related to Market Health or Joe Bucks, answering questions and attempting to resolve issues, which I think is a mark in his favor, though his tone sometimes rings a little snide. Gary says the affiliate ID hijacking issue is a cookie problem. Affiliates say this is ridiculous as the problem persists across multiple browsers and computers. Personally, I think the blame should fall at the feet of Herbalbiz.com, responsible for providing the turnkey web sites the majority of these affiliates were using to sell Market Health products. This is probably a bug in the Herbalbiz.com sites where the default affiliate ID is not being updated properly for all products when the affiliate customizes the site. If anyone out there has a turnkey Herbalbiz.com site where this issue is suspected, send me the link! It would be my pleasure to track this issue further.

Market Health is a good affiliate program, but plagued with affiliate complaints due to the weak link in the chain - HerbalBiz. My recommendation is to set up your own site if you want to market Market Health products and avoid the turnkey sites provided by HerbalBiz.

UPDATE - I found an HerbalBiz turnkey affiliate site to check out. Basically, the issue is the implementation of the hidden affiliate ID, ironically meant to prevent affiliate ID hijacking. When you load the main store page, code on the site tries to set an aid cookie on the root domain for each advertised product on that main page. This happens when you click through to products not offered on the main page as well -- the store code attempts to write an aid cookie containing your affiliate ID on the product domain. Depending on the privacy settings on the browser, this may not be allowed. For instance, Safari browser's default settings do not allow sites to write cookies on third party domains. So none of these aid cookies will be written. In this case, the default aid (680256) is written upon direct navigation to the product site. This is a poor implementation that should be corrected to ensure affiliates receive credit for all their sales.

SiteBuildIt!

SiteBuildIt! is a suite of web site building and promotion tools that includes a hosting package, page builder, search engine submission, keyword generator, and marketing strategies to promote your site. SiteBuildIt! is a tool designed to help you create your online business from scratch, targeted specifically at affiliate marketers.

When I started looking for the most successful affiliate products, SiteBuildIt! kept coming up again and again. I think this may be because affiliates love to *sell* it more than it is because they love to use the product. The majority of the neutral reviews I read indicated SiteBuildIt! is a decent product for newbies who don't have any experience in web programming, but its applications are limited due to lack of compatibility for dynamic scripting like cgi or php. It is a simple tool that allows you to make simple, good looking HTML pages, and helps you promote them to search engines and monetize them. For more advanced purposes, it is somewhat lacking. That said, the product costs $300 a year, of which affiliates earn $75 for each sale, plus a portion for each year the customer renews their subscription. This is a big payout for affiliate products and one that is recurring. To me, this explains SiteBuildIt!'s generally high ranking more than the product offering.

Creating web page has been made simple by a variety of free products (see http://pages.google.com/); search engine submission is typically free; and web site hosting is in the range of $30 a year -- 1/10th of the cost of SiteBuildIt! As an affiliate product for you to market, I think it is a great one to select based on the payout and the recurring payment model. As a tool to build sites to market your other affiliate products... it might be worth experimenting on your own, taking a few free HTML tutorials online, and seeing what results you can produce without shelling out $300 a year for what is basically a glorified hosting package.

Get Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 from Amazon for about the same price as a one year subscription to SiteBuildIt! and make as many web sites as you want with it.

Business Builders International

Business Builders International is a AA rated company listed with the Better Business Bureau, although not a member. Their site looks legitimate, they have a legitimate business e-mail address, and they are looking for a "Business Manager" to act as a consultant on mergers and acquisitions, IPO, and other strategic issues. Qualifications for this complex and challenging position? Internet and e-mail operational skills and "maturity age." I assume this means they are looking for someone who can send e-mail and is at least 18.

This is so slick, but it is still a scam. The person who set up the Business Builders International web site looked through BBB records until they found one with a AA rating that had no web site listed, then set-up this false site. The BBB record shows the company registered in 1991, yet the businessbuildersinternationalsite.com domain has only been registered since March 19th of this year. The address listed with the BBB is in Corona, CA, yet the domain registrant's address is in China. Additionally, the address listed with the BBB belongs to a hair salon, not a financial management firm. Business Builders International is probably a long out of business company that some criminal is using as a cover.

Don't apply for this position. This is another money laundering operation similar to Agent USA, posted on previously, albeit much more cleverly designed. You can go to jail for being involved in these operations, even if you are just a poor sucker who got conned.

Global Money Flow

The Global Money Flow tag line is "Reach Your Goals Today!" But, unless your goal is getting ripped off, I would avoid them. Their product is a free investment system which you can use to double your money in a few days with no minimum investment and a cancel-anytime promise. Further reading on the product site indicates they are using artificial intelligence and neural network research to monitor stock activity and make investment decisions. To my mind, the testimonials on their web site are a dead giveaway that they are not running a legitimate business. Here are the two given:

"This is the best money making opportunity ever! We were able to earn big money quick so now we can afford a lot of things. Fantastic!"

"I am hugely impressed with the program and you can quote me to other customers. When I came to your website I had only $50. Now I make thousands of dollars daily and I feel happy!"

We can afford a lot of things? I feel happy? These are not real testimonials that someone taking the time to send in a testimonial would write. The numerous grammar mistakes and repetitiveness of the front page content is also a typical indicator that a business is not legitimate. Further research revealed the company formerly used the domain www.gmoneyflow.com, which was subsequently shut down by GoDaddy, the registrar for the domain. They then moved to www.gmoneyflow.net without notifying any of their "investors."

The www.gmoneyflow.net domain name is registered to Franklyn Espinal with a New York city address. However, the company address given on the Global Money Flow web site is in Aukland, New Zealand. The e-mail address given on the domain registration information is a free gmail.com address (similar to Agent USA which I previously reviewed). I would expect a legitimate brokerage firm to register their domain with their company address and using their business e-mail address as the owner information on the domain registration. For instance, www.etrade.com, the domain registered to a legitimate brokerage firm -- E-Trade -- is registered to "The E-Trade Group" with an @etrade.com owner e-mail address.

In order to work as a brokerage firm or broker in the United States, you have to register with FINRA -- the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. This organization allows anyone to search for registered brokers and brokerage firms from their site at http://www.finra.org. Global Money Flow is not registered as a brokerage firm with the FINRA. Franklyn Espinal, the owner of the www.gmoneyflow.net domain, is not registered as broker.

Global Money Flow is a pyramid scheme. You "invest" some amount of money with them. As additional "investors" sign up and invest more money, some of their funds are deposited into your "brokerage" account, giving you the impression that your investments are increasing in value. When you try to cash out, in most cases you will not be able to. Global Money Flow will simply keep your money. They may pay out to a few "investors" to give the impression of legitimacy. But please bear in mind, even if they do pay you, you are not making money off investments in any business or company. You are just getting a pay out from the money another misguided individual invested -- someone who will probably never see a dime of their money again.

CarbonCopyPro and Wealth Masters International

Jay Kubassek's CarbonCopyPro Internet marketing package is one of the latest "make a million dollars" products to show up online. The basic pitch is that CarbonCopyPro takes the sales and marketing element out of the Internet sales and marketing job, enabling anyone to be successful. Their experts will close the sale for any leads you bring in and share the profit. Now, this Internet marketing package does have a separate and distinct product you will be selling -- Wealth Masters International. The CarbonCopyPro application cost is $37, but with that you get a free DVD valued at $149(!!!). After your $37 application fee for CarbonCopyPro, use of the CarbonCopyPro system costs $149 a month, plus a recommended $500 in monthly marketing costs.

Wealth Masters International is a financial services package that includes CDs, DVDs, books, and seminars presenting various wealth building techniques. There are several levels you can purchase, the base level, which just includes the media and literature, is about $2,000. The top tier package, which includes the media, literature, and multiple seminars, is priced at about $20,000(!!!). Wealth Masters International is owned by Kip Herriage.

After extensive research on these two companies, I discovered the crux of the Wealth Masters International wealth building technique is "network" marketing the Wealth Masters International package -- the typical multilevel marketing scheme. Get rich by selling others the same literature you bought to get rich, which contains valuable information on how to get rich by doing the same. So, it is a partnership between a "network" marketing product and an Internet marketing product. Network marketing is just another name for multilevel marketing. The network marketing product, Wealth Masters International, is the product which you will sell via Internet marketing using CarbonCopyPro. The Internet marketing also employs multilevel marketing techniques. I won't deny that Wealth Masters International package may have some materials that include wealth building strategies other than building wealth by selling the Wealth Masters International package. I read a lot of things indicating part of their financial advice includes shady mortgage refinancing as well.

Further research also indicated one of the owners of CarbonCopyPro is also the Senior Vice President over at Wealth Masters International. Jay Kubassek also used to be heavily involved with Liberty League, another multi-level marketing system. He was one of their top earners before he left to start CarbonCopyPro. This is a highly incestuous teaming and you will be getting in with individuals who have been in this business for a LONG time.

For additional information, review the Rip Off Report page for Wealth Masters International. I also recommend reviewing the Better Business Bureau pages for both of these products. CarbonCopyPro found here, and Wealth Masters International found here.

My advice would be to avoid this product unless you are a very successful salesperson already. The exorbitant prices and shady teaming make this a bad investment.

Ewen Chia

Ewen Chia is the originator of a couple of Internet marketing systems -- "Auto Pilot Internet Income" and "Internet Business For Newbies." These systems are also sold by affiliates and their content focuses on affiliate marketing. The e-book sells for about $27.

You can purchase these e-books from Ewen Chia and apply them to any affiliate program, but be aware these systems are being marketed by affiliates with the usual "Make millions online!" taglines. The affiliate sites typically won't tell you what you are buying, but of course it is simply an Internet marketing e-book giving successful strategies to market any affiliate program.

Look out for "review" sites that claim to review a few online money-making products (except this one of course -- I am not an affiliate for any of the products I review. The links in my posts are direct links to the corporate product, not affiliate links). The review site that led me to the Ewen Chia package had three online money systems "reviewed." Clicking through the links it quickly became obvious the review page was nothing but an affiliate main page linking to his affiliate page for each online product he sells via affiliate marketing. A quick whois query indeed revealed all three sites were owned by the same person. If you are ever looking at a review site, thinking it is legitimate information, do a whois query to see who owns the sites being reviewed as well. It is free and you can do it online here. The registrant in the whois database did not match the person the affiliate claimed to be on the product pages, nor did the address.

My recommendation is to go directly to Ewen Chia's information site at http://autopilotinternetincome.com/ and read through the content of his site, which is very meaty by comparison. Then use the information on his site to determine if you think the system is worth $27. If so, I recommend purchasing from Ewen Chia directly instead of an affiliate. Additionally, I highly recommend becoming an affiliate for a real product instead of the circular path of marketing the marketing system as a work-from-home-be-a-millionaire package.

Agent USA

Agent USA is one of the sponsored links currently being returned on "work from home" searches by Google. Their web site looks *very* legitimate, however closer inspection begins to reveal a few cracks in the polish -- such as a free gmail.com e-mail address in the contact section instead of a legitimate business address.

This work from home opportunity offers a position as a "Financial Manager" for which the usual online work requirements are listed -- internet connection, available for a few hours a day to read e-mails and answer calls, as well as no special skills. One significant difference from the usual offers is that Agent USA requests a resume and does not advertise any up-front fee. The site promises an income of $1800 a month.

The site even displays a link to their Better Business Bureau Information page, which I found ironic since BBB gives them an "F" rating and strongly advises against getting into business with this company. BBB indicates the work being offered to the "Financial Manager" is acting as a mule to filter illegal funds between US accounts and overseas accounts.

I found no further information about this work from home opportunity, but based on the information provided by the Better Business Bureau as well as minor indicators on their website, I recommend avoiding this business opportunity. While you may be able to make some money doing this work, it appears it may be illegal.

View the Agent USA website at http://www.agentusa.us.

Process FromHome

This post refers to Angela Penbrook's "Process FromHome" product found at http://www.rebateprocessortools.com and http://www.myrebateprocessor.com. Ms. Penbrook also owns http://www.myincomeathome.com, which may or may not be the same "Process FromHome" product. These sites are all run by Penbrook Productions.

Process FromHome is a rebate processing opportunity. Enrollment for this product costs $197, for which you receive training materials, access to the rebate processing software, and support via phone and e-mail. Reviewing the business provided literature indicates you will be processing rebates from multiple companies and earning as much as $15 per rebate processed. Each rebate takes around 4 minutes to process. So you can theoretically earn up to $225 per hour. This would net you $9000 in a typical 40 hour work week. A 3-month money back guarantee is given wherein if you are not making money after 3 months, your $197 will be fully refunded.

This information is very misleading. Multiple sites, including the Better Business Bureau, indicate this product is NOT a career in rebate processing. It is basically a marketing tool that will help you sell whatever other multilevel marketing scam you're working on by offering a rebate. So the literature you get likely contains a variety of multilevel marketing packages which you can sell to others as "work from home" information kits (the job they would be doing from home is simply selling these same kits). The Process FromHome package is a marketing package to aid in selling these kits by offering a rebate. And the software allows you to process these rebates yourself. So, it is basically a cover for a multilevel marketing scheme. Check out I've Tried That's review. Or here's a direct quote from the Better Business Bureau:

Complainants allege false advertising, misrepresentation, inability to obtain refunds, and failure to honor their money back guarantee. Some customers complain that instead of receiving an employment opportunity, they received only instructions on internet sales tactics. Other complainants report they are unable to speak with anyone at the company or that company personnel is rude or fails to resolve their concerns. Most complainants allege the company fails to provide any information or instructions on obtaining refunds.

Click through to review the full Better Business Bureau details for Process FromHome. If the link does not work, go directly to the Better Business Bureau website at http://www.us.bbb.org/, click "Check out a Business or Charity," then enter "Penbrook Productions" in the search form and click "Search." The Better Business Bureau has given this company an "F" rating.

I would definitely NOT sign up for this or any other rebate processing program. However, if you are looking for an affiliate marketing program, rebate processing may be a valid way to help drum up more sales, but keep in mind it is not a career in itself -- it is a marketing tool. If you feel this is a good marketing tool, I recommend signing up from a different rebate processing offer, which are typically in the usual price range for online work opportunities -- $30 to $40. Do not sign up for this excessively overpriced and misleading product.

Project Payday

Project Payday is a "work from home" product that targets a $200 to $2,500 monthly earning -- tag lined "Realistic Income for the Average Joe". Enrollment is "free" or about $35. The "free" enrollment requires you to sign up for a sponsor product. The sponsor product is typically free for a trial period, after which you will be billed. Of course, you can cancel the sponsor product after your free enrollment to Project Payday is complete.

Project Payday offers a $100 guarantee that basically says if you give the product a good faith attempt and make $0 (donut, nada) they will pay you $100.

The enrollment price gives you access to the Project Payday training materials, which of course teach you the Project Payday method. One thing I didn't like about this system is that there is no information about what you will be doing to earn money on the site, other than it is online and you can, of course, do it from home for just a few hours a day.

Further research indicates this is a community of online earners making money off referrals for "Incentive Freebie Websites" or IFWs. These IFWs will give you a cash or prize if after you sign up for their product you refer a certain number of others who also sign up. Basically, once you sign up for Project Payday, you have access to a community forum in which you are either referred or refer others to sign up for these IFWs. If you sign up (to the IFW) as someone else's referral, that person pays you (this is via Project Payday) and the IFW pays them. You can also act as the referrer, in which case you sign up with the IFW, then go to Project Payday to refer the required number of people needed to earn your cash or prize reward. In this case, you pay the Project Payday members who you refer a portion of the reward from the IFW and keep the remainder for yourself. More information about the system can be found at this squidoo.com review.

Project Payday is owned by Ms. Monika St John and at the time of posting has an unsatisfactory rating with the Better Business Bureau due to failure to respond to 1 complaint. You can review this information at the Better Business Bureau Information page for Project Payday here. If the link does not work, go directly to the Better Business Bureau homepage and select "Check out a Business or Charity," then enter "Project Payday" in the search form and click "Search."

Here are my thoughts on this. This is obviously a complicated way to work the system and receive a modest payout from a variety of companies who are looking to attract business with these free offerings. You have a large band of people basically working together to get money from these companies for nothing (unless you actually sign up for a product that you find useful and keep it -- but this is less likely than the alternative). The intent of the free offering is really for you to refer a few of your friends and get a nice reward from the company making the offer for sending them the business. Using this as a way to consistently make money is a bit on the dishonest side -- that's on your part, not Project Payday for setting it up. If you can live with yourself, I think this is a legitimate offering where you can make some money (albeit in a somewhat shady fashion).

You can sign up at the Project Payday website -- http://www.projectpayday.com.

The Apple Patch Diet

This is an affiliate program in which you sell a diet patch for about $50. Each sale nets you $25. This is NOT a multi-level marketing scheme. However, you must sell $100 worth of Apple Patch Diet product before you will be paid. The enrollment cost to you is $29.95, but the Apple Patch Diet company will currently deposit $25 into your affiliate account for signing up, for a total net cost or $4.95. Note that this rate reduction would only apply in the event that you sell $100 worth of product. The company also offers a "No-hassle" guarantee that promises you will make $250 in the first month. If you don't, you can contact the company within 60 days of sign-up for a refund of your $29.95 enrollment fee (you will not be paid the $25 that was deposited into your affiliate account in this case -- only your enrollment fee).

The Apple Patch Diet company provides an affiliate web site and a software product that submits your affiliate site to search engines to aid in marketing. The basic pitch is that you will not have to do anything, just sit back and watch the cash flow in after you enroll.

Better Business Bureau indicates this company does not meet the criteria for earning either a satisfactory or an unsatisfactory rating. A total of 27 complaints have been processed for the company since June of 2006, the majority of which were advertising issues which the company was able to resolve amicably. The company is owned by Jeff Burkey. For more information visit the Better Business Bureau Apple Patch Diet Information Page. If the link does not work, go directly to the Better Business Bureau web site and click "Check out a Business or Charity," then enter "Apple Patch Diet" in the search box and click "Search."

After reading multiple reviews of this affiliate program, I think it is a legitimate offering. You will be selling a real product. However, you will have to do some outside marketing in addition to using the search engine submission software provided by the Apple Patch Diet company. To make the program work, you will have to put in the effort (e.g. posting fliers and handing out business cards to sell the product). As with all diet products, many people claim the Apple Patch Diet is effective and many claim it does nothing. Reviewing the product offering is outside the scope of this post; only the affiliate "work from home" program is being reviewed. Many comments indicate the diet patch is FDA approved, however, this is misleading. Very few diet products are approved by the FDA. The delivery mechanism -- the patch -- is FDA approved. The ingredients are not FDA approved, as with the vast majority of diet products. There are extensive additional comments about this affiliate program as well as the Apple Patch Diet product on the Friends in Business community site.

Many affiliates sell this product on e-bay for a price between $25 and $50. This is probably a legitimate way to work the system to your benefit. Order the product from the Apple Patch Diet company directly through the affiliate site they provide for you for the price of $50. Keep the commission you earn of $25 for each product you have purchased yourself. Then sell the product on e-bay to recoup the other $25 invested and a profit. For example, you purchase the product for $50 from your own affiliate site, receive your $25 affiliate commission, making your investment $25. Once the product arrives you sell it on e-bay for $40 - a discount from the retail price - and recoup your $25 investment as well as turning a $15 profit (minus e-bay listing fees).

Access the Apple Patch Diet homepage at http://www.applepatchdiet.net.

Work From Home Offers

This blog will be used to post reviews and information about various "work from home" and "earn money online" offers. I will post links to the offers and my thoughts on whether they are legitimate offers or scams as well as information about the businesses behind these offers. The purpose of this is to help you filter legitimate offers from scams and give you the information you need to make an informed decision in a single location.