Money Tree 4 Moms

I stumbled across this the other day, and after taking some time to check it out, I can’t wait to share it with you! Work-at-home Mom Extraordinaire Kelly Land, creater of MoneyMakingMommy.com, has a job search portal web site! She maintains an accurate, updated list of job search web sites that she shares with her GroovyMoms members, and believe me, it’s well worth the small yearly membership fee she is requesting.

Kelly’s database is made up of over 150 job search sites, and she also provides several great job-hunting reports as a sign-up bonus. So if you want to save yourself countless hours of searching, I highly recommend Kelly’s GroovyMoms membership. Check it out!

As the economy continues its downward slide, I hear from more and more people who feel they have absolutely nowhere to turn to meet their financial needs. They’ve lost jobs, had unexpected medical expenses, their homes are in foreclosure, or they are facing some other dire financial circumstances and can’t find an answer no matter where they look.

If you find yourself in a situation where you feel you have no solution to your financial problems, I would like to offer you some hope. A few months ago, a friend of mine started a site called My-Friend-In-Need. It’s a web site where people who need moneycan publish a page detailing their problems and request donations anonymously via their PayPal account.

Yes, we’ve all seen the tacky cyber-begging sites that are cropping up all over the Internet, but this one is truly trying to be different. It’s a clean, well-designed site that has a goal of treating all its visitors with kindness and respect. After it launched, my friend started to hear from so many people, that she added a blog to the site so she could publish some of the testimonials she received — from both givers and receivers. She’s also trying to post links to any publicity they receive, and hints to help people create an appeal that will touch hearts and inspire folks to help.

In order to help cover the costs of developing and hosting the web site, there is a small charge to post your donation request. However, my friend is doing her best to help publicize the site to attract as many donors as possible, and she also offers hints people can use to increase traffic to their individual donation pages.

If you have a crushing financial need, and the other money-making techniques I offer on this site aren’t for you, please at least pay a visit to My-Friend-In-Need and see if it can help.

I recently heard from one of my readers about another paid online survey site that she’s had success with: Paid Surveys at Home. I must say, I’m impressed with their web site. It’s simple, and not overloaded with half-baked hype like many other work-at-home sites.

The payment amounts it lists are completely realistic — for example, $5 to $75 per survey. I’ve signed up with them, and again found opportunities that were not listed with any of the other paid survey sites I use. I’ll be sure to keep you updated on how they work for me, but at the moment I see no reason not to recommend Paid Surveys at Home!

With all the over-marketed hype in the Internet marketing world, I’m quickly becoming a true believer in Chris Rempel. If you didn’t read my previous post on Looking for your next step in Affiliate Marketing, Chris is the plainspoken, down-to-earth creator of Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate, and he has published several other courses and reports to help affiliate marketers turn a profit quickly and efficiently.

The Conduit Method definitely does not disappoint. It is short on fluff, long on facts, and it gives you a strategy that’s easy to follow, complete with real-world examples. I’ve seen it compared to a couple of other reports that sell for more than twice the price Chris is asking for the Conduit Method, so at $14.95 you are getting a real bang for your buck.

In short, without giving too much away, this report teaches a system based on the fact that most people who are looking to buy a product online already know exactly what they want. It teaches you how to leverage the efforts that have already been made by others (the product’s creator and other affiliates) for substantial profits.

I highly recommend Chris Rempel’s Conduit Method for affiliate marketers who have a bit of experience under their belts. It will help you take your earnings to a whole new level.

Now that you are looking online for ways to make money, you’re bound to run across hundreds, if not thousands, of “get-rich-quick” or “easy money” schemes that not only won’t work for you, they will rob you of your time and hard-earned cash. So every now and then I will risk the wrath of the Marketing Gurus and “name names” on some scams that I find particularly offensive. Ready? Here are the first two:

• Maverick Money Makers Club (Mack Michaels)
  The web site for MMM states that the system was “developed by millionaires” and it’s been “proven to generate at least $354.97 per day.” It claims to be “the most effective step-by-step money making system in existence,” and that it’s been “seen on” CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Small Business Opportunities, CBS News, and Reader’s Digest. Your first warning sign should be that searching on the web sites for any of these publications and media outlets brings up absolutely nothing for either “Maverick Money Makers” or “Mack Michaels.”It is nearly impossible to turn up any unbiased information for this program, because a web search brings up thousands of pages, reviews, and articles published by MMM members, all trying to sell you the program and earn a commission for themselves. As best I can tell, the entire program consists of signing up to re-sell programs for Mack Michaels (if that’s really his name… more on that in a bit), in order to earn themselves an affiliate commission. Oh yeah, Mr. Michaels will also charge you $97/month for the privilege of belonging to his “club.”

  Finally, it seems that “Mack Michaels” has been known in the past as “Chris Luck,” “Chris Cavalli,” and “Chris Clayton.” Before MMM appeared on the scene, Chris Luck was running a suspiciously similar program on the now-defunct site IncomeGreed.com.

  My best advice to you is to run screaming in the other direction from Mack Michaels and his Maverick Money Makers.

• Pay-to-Click (PTC) Programs
  This is not a single program, but an entire class of schemes that you should completely avoid. Briefly, PTC programs show you links to advertisements which you are required to view (or leave up on your screen) for a specified period of time, usually about 30 seconds. You are paid about $0.01 (yes, one cent) for each ad you view, and you are only allowed to perform a very small number of these each day, usually 3-10.So, what is the appeal of a program where you can earn $0.03-$0.10 (three to ten cents) daily? Well, the real money supposedly lies in referring other people to click on links. Most programs allow you to recruit your own referrals, and they also offer you the opportunity to buy them. If you take the time to apply some math skills and realistic assumptions, you will see that these programs simply are not the “investment” they claim to be. Worse, they tend to be very short-lived, since the owner of the system stays in business long enough to collect your money, but closes down when it’s time to actually start paying out. If you are still considering participating on a PTC scheme, please read the following article: Getting Paid to Surf? One Person’s Alarming Story.

OK, so maybe you’re not a total newbie to affiliate marketing, and you’re looking for a new approach to try. Or maybe you really have conquered Newbie Campus and are ready to take your next step. I have something really unique to recommend.

If you’ve spent any time at all researching affiliate marketing programs, you will immediately see that Chris Rempel is genuinely a breath of fresh air in the Internet marketing community. When you visit his Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate web site, the first thing you will notice is the length of his landing page… it’s short!  But better than that, it’s honest, to the point, and not filled with the usual sales hype.

Instead, he very simply provides a screen-shot showing a few weeks of his Clickbank income, gives a quick overview of his system, and invites you to receive a video if you are interested in more details. When you go ahead and register on the site to view the video, you are presented with great information in the most straightforward, down-to-earth video I’ve ever seen in the Internet marketing world.

Truly, Chris Rempel and his Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate program are refreshing, legitimate, and unquestionably the best thing I’ve seen in affiliate marketing in quite some time. Obviously, I highly recommend you take the time to check it out!

So, I’ve heard from some of you who obtained the Newbie Campus program, and you’re almost all asking the same question… “Now what?”

Please don’t take offense when I say that one week is definitely not enough time to to complete Newbie Campus and implement all you have learned. Affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-quick scheme (even though some programs would want you to think it is), and any techniques you use take a bit of time to generate traffic and results. And those of you who have already seen some sales, congratulations! That’s awesome!

Now just because you’ve gotten your feet wet, applied some successful techniques and obtained some favorable results, it does not mean that you need to run out and get the next great money-making scheme and put that to work! In fact, that’s probably the most costly mistake that new affiliate marketers make — trying one program after another, without fully committing enough time and effort to be profitable at anything. There’s a saying that you may see if you hang out on any affiliate marketing forums, “Lather, rinse, and repeat.” (Yes, they blatantly stole it from your favorite shampoo bottle!) But what they mean is, if you’ve found something that works for you, do it again!

Choose a different product to promote, select a different advertising method, research a few new keywords, and duplicate your initial success. By doing that, you will have your first campaign working for you while you start up something new and increase your daily/weekly/monthly earnings. When you’re learning something new, doing it for the first time is always the most time-consuming, demanding part. Once you’ve completed it, you will expend much less time and energy doing it again, and you will also become better at it!

So, once you’ve found some affiliate marketing success, be sure to “lather, rinse, and repeat” before moving on to something new!