Work at home scam or solid work a home business?
I bought a work at home product recently, in response to an enticing email I recieved. But, I tell you now, I failed to experience the full benefits.
The package suggested substantial profits. It promised to be s a real work-at-home product delivering powerful local marketing results to small businesses. It all made sense as this is; something that local business need to get to grips with to grow their local market.
It took as its starting point the fact that, that when people search of something locally, they do so because they are looking for a local service, and probably want to spend some money. If you are searching for a florist, for example, you will search for florist in a town close to you because you want to buy flowers. Obvious really!
The purpose of the business, was to create targeted niche sites which are SEO tuned, launch them to your local area and lease them on to local businesses.
The local business would benefit from the traffic that you can delivered to them. The keyword rich websites they provided in the package, across a wide range of niches, were optimised to achieve good search engine rangings, and drive significant traffic to the target business.
The author indicated that you can lease out a high-ranking site for around 0 per month. This may be true – or not – you will have to get further than I did to find out.
He suggested that if you pick a good niche, buy the domain name, and build a site, he will show you how you get the site to rank at the top, who to approach, and how to sign them up.
If you buy the offer, you are immediately presented with an upsell that invites you to upgrade the offer of 43 sites, to 60 sites. This seems ok, although very irritating, because you naturally thought you had all you needed to get going. But Upsells are standard, and you just have to be prepared for them - you get the same thing in most high street stores, in one way or another.
When you purchase the upsell, even more irritatingly, you get a second upsell, asking you to commit to paying for a rapid video launcher which distributes videos for your sites to hundreds of other video hosts around the world, thus increasing your back-links and getting your new site to register highly in the search engine results. A good idea, but another !
You are clocking up the meter here. Hang on to your guarantee!
The site text tells you that your wil get the power of their rapid launch video package! You get all 43 videos ready to go! I.e. one for every key business category you target.
At this point I am confused because I already thought I had access to 60 sites with 60 videos. I have to say, buying a digital product can be very frustrating because the pages go so fast, and once they have gone, they've gone. You forget what's on them – or at least I do.
Videos are included for all niche sites he mentions such as accountants, electricians, lawn-care … pretty wide and inclusive.
Essentially, the videos are ok but I don't think they fit a British market. They rely on a presnter with a computer generated voice! How bad is that?
I was really not impressed with this and if you are good at making short presentation videos, you would be better doing these yourself. But as a simple traffic generation tool, they might be ok. I'm not qualified to say.
I decided to buy for two reasons. I was intrigued to see how I could use this. It blended well with what I was trying to do anyway, and I thought that I could claim a refund if it didn't work out for me. But I was not feeling so good at this point, and getting less patient by the minute.
The site promised "It's simple to do. You get everything you need!" But I thought I had that in the first part of the offer before the up-sells, but I think, maybe I was misled – or again, just confused by the process.
So you make the findal payment.
Now you get invited to login! You get taken to a registration page. You fill in details and enter.
You are given a login name, and password at this point so make sure you record them, and an invitation to log into your back office.
Then, on entry, and invitation to join their members only newsletter. But, I am impatient to get on. I complete anther form!
Below the invitation is a list of steps to go through, with pdfs and videos to watch and instructions to follow through. It makes sense, it's easy to get carried away and mess up, so follow the steps, to get up and running.
I do congratulate the producer on the quality of instruction material. it was all very clear an organised, and very professionally put together.
But I stumbled and and got no further.
It should have been simple, but it wasn't. I already had an account at their recommended host, so I couldn't register the domain I had chosen, in the way they suggested. So, I telephoned the domain host, to ask them to add a domain to my account. For me, the setup stopped at that point because I couldn't upload the files and scripts needed to my host account. I was definitely frustrated at this point.
I reserve my judgement at this point. I was still prepared to think positively about the product.
And now, I had a chance to test their support. I was not looking for this.
I sent 3 requests for support and got no resolution. I have to say, my experience of the support I got was not good.
I did receive an email from support to tell me that I had received feedback but it is clear to me, that they didn't read my support request properly because they didn't provide a solution to the problem. It was a simple problem, and I can't be the only person to experience it.
Anyway, after a week waiting for resolution, I decided to ask for a refund, which I received without any question. That was good!
It's a shame really. The upshot is, I can't really tell you whether their product is worth having because I never got to try their product properly, and I was looking forward to it.
However, I can tell you that their support sucks, from my experience. But on a positive note, you get a refund without difficulty.
If this work from home opportunity appeals to you, don't think you should be afraid to try it.
Either you will have more luck than I did, or, you chances are good to get a refund.
You can find a complete review at the authors site.
The author operates a work at home business opportunity review site helping people find profitable work at home opportunites.
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