In this post I’ll be talking about the inner workings of kaching kaching, in the mean time to put a long story short – No it’s not a scam , but it sucks none the less. It’s just a ploy to get some referal income and unless you REALLY know how to market, it’s not worth your time.
Can you really make money from home by just typing all day long?
Work from home typing jobs have been around for ever , starting in the early 50s even as ‘home memographers’ as featured in older magazines (Most large magazines had ad space devoted to these ads).
Now that we’re age of the internet , companies that place ads trying to entice people to buy into their program that supposedly teaches you how to make money at home by just typing on your computer.
This type of business opportunity is much harder, and much more complex to deal with than a simple scam, as there are so many types of these programs out there. For instance , medical data transcription is a very legitimate ‘typing job’ that people do , it requires several months of education to do. This is very different from a offer that teaches you how to create a money making blog , which then is different from creative copywriting.
Simply mindless typing into a computer just doesn’t exist , however there are tons of opportunities out there for someone to do smaller odd jobs online for a little bit of money. If you sign up to our newsletter (featured at the bottom of this page) you’ll get a free list of dozens of ways to make money from home, all for free.
One such program we talk at lengths about is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk which allows people to take small , odd jobs from various companies and individuals. These tasks can be as simple as following someone on Facebook, or as complex as developing a written sales campaign. Compensation can range anywhere from a nickle, all the way up to tens of thousands of dollars.
So , these are two examples of jobs that you can do from your own home that only involve typing.
There are many others , too numerous to list , however here’s a short list we compiled.
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These various types of typing jobs cover quite a wide array , as well as make up a huge skill set , ranging from nothing to a degree in English , or sales.
One major thing to consider is the cost of the program. My dad signed on to a medical data transcription school , the total cost was around $1,500 or so. Once he had his ‘license’ from them and had completed all the required education , it then took time to find doctors/hospitals to partner with. In this case ,it was a great choice , as depending on his typing speed, his income would start out at $8 per hour , and as he got quicker and better at typing the data, he increased his income to around $18 per hour.
On the flip side , there are many programs out there that offer ‘home courses’ for home typing jobs, one we reviewed in a earlier post had a price tag of $9595.00 which is a astronomical number. In the case of this specific program , most of the information in the so called course could be found online for free, and only about a hour worth of searching.
Be sure to be careful ,and check for reviews from other people that are doing the same thing. Be sure to join our newsletter that includes a free ebook ‘How to make $10 in 10 minutes for nothing’ a great book to get you started in the world of work from home typing jobs. The book is free, and we don’t sell your email address to anyone.
I just spent the past 30 minutes trying to find something decent for stat tracking of the few dozen websites I own.
I found one guy’s review and decided I’d try one of the ones he suggested.
I’ve already tried PIWIK before, it’s great, however it’s self hosted on each site, which in my case means every day logging in to each site , and checking stats. Sure , i could find a tool to do that , but it’s too much work. Piwik’s interface is THE BEST of all i’ve seen.
Getclicky is also great, however if you have more than 1 site, they charge you. I had a deal worked out with them , that allowed me to have up to 100 sites for only $20/mo with a max of 15k PVs a month , as they’re really concerned about a high number of page views.
Enter woopra – a analytic tool that met all my criteria and went even farther. Woopra has a desktop tool that allows me to log into a dashboard to view stats (a big plus). It also lets me throw on a ton of sites, with a max of 30k page views per month which is more than fine with me. The interface is good, better than clicky but not as nice as piwik. So far I’m quite impressed , they charge per site in terms of fees ($5/site on the minimum package) but I guess it’d be worth it, as it brings you up to 100k page views per month.
Not too shabby at all 
Check out woopra.com for their service.
Another ad that I have seen many times in newspapers and magazines have been relating to the assmbly of products at home for large companies. These ads always interest me, as they seem more legitimate than some of the other ads because they are more up front with costs it seems than other ones that claim you can get started for a dollar.
To start off, I can’t say these are outright scams , but in most cases clever marketing ploys.
Most work at home assembly schemes amount to 2 different instances.
1 . Advertizers who make craft making products who are trying to get people interested in buying their products.
2. Work from home ploys with nearly no benefit.
Obviously, the first of these two types of assemble products at home systems is the one you go for , so I will be talking more at length about it.
Most of the time, these ads are placed by equipment manufacturers , not companies looking to outsource labor to home workers. Companies that make things like welding , mills , lathes, and even simple things like DIY crafts. These types of ads can some times be misleading , in the fact that once you purchase the device , machines or equipment to “assemble products at home” you then have to sell them yourself.
Obviously in a system like this , one could easily make their own products and sell them without aid at a local flea market , or online at a place like ebay or etsy. Both of these places allow anyone to sell home made products, etsy is the better of the two for selling home-built products. I would advise you a word of caution – Don’t spend any money on equipment unless you’re willing to loose it. It’s far too easy to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on equipment not yet make a dime back. Craftster is also a good resource for DIY products as well , and it’s 100% free.
The second type of advertiser is much more of a scam. They offer to put you in ‘contact’ with companies that offer home assembly products, and inform you that they have their own product sales channel , or that the company will just buy the products off of you (or pay you a fee per product you make). The issue with this is that there are VERY few companies who need hand-made products, and even then, they’re swamped with people wanting to work for them. I had even run into once instance where someone had paid upwards of $2,000 for a system like this, and made absolutely nothing off of it. I would be much more wary of these types of scams, as they can take nearly everything from you.
Some tips to consider when looking to make products at home are :
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Growing up , I remember reading a article in Popular Science magazine about a “Job Offer” ad in the classifieds, offering that anyone for a minimal fee could work from home stuffing envelopes, and make good money doing it.
So, I sent away for the “Free” information on stuffing envelopes at home, and received a letter back with “information on how to start”. I promptly threw the letter in the trash after reading they wanted $29.95 for information on how to get started. I was pretty upset that the supposedly free information seemed like a scam , and never went back to look at it for many years.
Recently though, I’ve had many people ask me about whether you can really work from home stuffing envelopes. So , I set out a small journey on finding what the deal with this gimmick was, and whether you really could make money doing it , or if it was utter BS.
Since I’ve been involved in various programs, systems and methods of making money at home, and home job sourcing , I have plenty of contacts to find out the real deal on stuff like this, so I contacted my network of friends.
What I heard from one person was what I heard from all of them concerning envelope stuffing – It’s a scam , don’t spend your money.
While I’m not one to ever think that something is a outright scam , I decided I would go further into things and see really what was going on.
In short, you pay a person $29.95 to send you a packet of information on how to get “paid stuffing envelopes”. This involves you taking out ads in the newspaper, placing more ads on ‘get paid to stuff envelopes’. You then go on and ask people to send you a further $29.95 to get information on how they can do it themselves. This in itself is a pretty straightforward “pyramid scheme”. I have also found others who were asking for much less in return , maybe a quarter , or only a dollar.
So , in the end , I can’t say it’s a scam , but you’ve need to ask yourself whether you’re one to purposely convince other people that they can work from home by stuffing envelopes and then to give you some of their money as well.
I’m sorry to disappoint anyone, I know if I could make $20 a hour from home doing something this simple, I’d be the first to sign up , but it’s just not that easy.
So , do you want to REALLY learn how you can make money from home, with no investment what soever? Just join my mailing list, and I’ll show you how to turn 10 minutes into $10 , without spending anything other than your time.
Well , I guess this was going to be part of the 16 weeks to wealth series that I had planned quite a bit ago , and haven’t updated hardly at all.
Anyways, I’d say the 16 week plan I had set has been a 95% absolute failure , and I’ll go over the reasons why.
Last year was a very wild ride, I went from having nothing ,to plugging along with a daily campaign (bizop) series that brought in upwards of $1500 a day , with several days over $2,000 daily income (with most of it being profit).
Anyways , I started raking in the money mid April , and managed the campaign(s) quite carefully, up until June-July, when we started to get extremely close to having the baby. Alot of ‘experts’ started giving me their 2 cents into what I should do to expand the campaigns, and go from $2,000 to $5,000 a day , and I was all ears.
I hired a firm in the Philippines to “manage” SEO on my campaigns, so I could work on other projects and try to expand my net.
Then in July, things started to go downhill , my sites all got a malware injection , and were all de-listed from Google, which made me loose about a good 20 days worth of income for the most part, as it took that long to get the sites re-included into Google. Finally in August, google decided they’d de-index a sheer ton of websites that delt with bizops , mine were included in the de-list, and I went from that $1,500 or so a day to $200 or so per day.
Also , during the time of the website doing good, I started to funnel money into other, non AM projects in hope of ‘diversifying’ so that not all my income would be based on affiliate marketing , or the internet for that matter.
Over the course from Sept-Dec I managed to get almost nothing done it seems, even though the sites were still getting a great deal of traffic from bing + yahoo (to the course of $200-$300 per day). I tried to get a site or two launched, with very little success, as I was relying on my seo “managers” to help in the reformation of new pages and seo sites.
I chunked along at a slow pace, as since the baby had come, my hours per day spent had been severely slashed……from 8-10hrs a day (some times 12hrs) down to about 6 hours, as I was helping with the baby in the morning, then getting back at home at 5 to try and help. This all has been extremely tiring, as the baby still cries in her sleep, and wakes my wife and I up (So , needless to say I feel like a zombie all day long).
So , what I’ve done the past 2-3 days is look at myself and situation ,and try and figure out where I went wrong, to try and convey a cautionary tale.
So , here’s what I discovered have been my problems.
#1 Being a follower and not a leader.
I’ve realized that almost every good choice I’ve made has been from making my own decisions about things , and not listening to others. In fact, I’d say 95% of the times people have offered me “Help” or “Advice” , it’s led to TOTAL disaster. I spent $12,000 last year with that stupid SEO “Firm” on a suggestion from someone, and what did it get me? A bunch of crummy links to sites that got de-indexed anyway! I spent $30,000 on a real estate investment I bought because someone asked me to buy it (not because I really really wanted to), but bought it because I ASSUMED my campaigns would continue to truck along at the $1,500 or so a day. I spent approximately $5,000 on software/websites that were absolutely worthless, in most cases it was from poor advice , but this was the lowest of my losses. Finally I lost $30,000 on a failed investment where someone begged me to help them get off the ground. I also spent approx $10,000 in servers & server management, not as much of a loss, but considering I likely could have done fine with a $50/mo VPS instead of my $400/mo server, it wasn’t money well spent.
I realize that I’ve given in to pressure from others, rather than using a business mindset ,and working on things like I should.
#2 Reading forums and blogs.
Let me tell you something that you won’t hear on many blogs or forums………..They’re both pretty worthless.
Yes, Blogs CAN have good information , Forums CAN have good information , but 90% of the information is either total crap, or outdated. It’s far better to work and get stuff done, instead of finding out the latest trends and ‘advice’. The guys who make money WILL NOT give you advice because you’re a competitor, and they’re smarter than that, and anyone who is willing to sell you information is trying to make money , no more.
#3 Not working hard enough
As a followup to 2 , i’ve spent likely 3x more time than I should have in chats and forums, I’m sure if I cut those both out of my life i’d do much better….and I am doing better since I’ve cut them out.
Well , there’s the list of things that I’ve noted, I’ve unfortunately landed myself into the same place i was almost exactly 1 year ago at this time. Hardly any cash in hand, and a bunch of ‘hopeful’ projects that will bring money in.
For those of you curious , this is what one of my better FB ad campaigns looked like, something around $1500 adspend, $6500 in total return on this specific campaign.
CTR is important……..very very important.
I finally took the plunge, and sold off a few savings bonds from when I was a kid.
#1 Was purchased Oct 1985 sold @ 260% of initial purchase price
#2 Was purchased Dec 1992 sold @ 151% of initial purchase price
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So , this is all good and well , however I started thinking about the investments that could have been made right around the time I was born (1985).
One of the biggest investments talked about right now is precious metal investing, so I will compare gold & silver
Gold spot in 1985 $330oz
Silver spot in 1985 $6.20oz
Gold Spot in 1992 $345oz
Silver spot in 1992 $4oz
Using current spot prices – of $1110oz for gold, and $17.15oz, we find out that since 85, silver has been up 177% , and since 92 it has been up 329%
Gold on the otherhand, would have seen a 236% appreciation since 85, and a 222% appreciation since 92,m giving an average 229% appreciation.
So , having said that, Silver would have been the best investment , then gold, then the bonds, but not by a wide margin.
Now , looking at the Dow Jones industrial average, the gain since 85 has been 631% and since 92 a 223% gain.
Obviously , out of these , stocks would have been the best choice , but let’s go further……
Machine guns since 1985 have gone up well over 1,000% , and would have been a much cooler investment
Ok, I’m going to do something that will gain me hopefully street cred, so one day I may wear the stunna shades like the big guys, and maybe a fancy ring.
Here is a rundown on a working facebook campaign I ran in the first few weeks of September While I was on Vacation.
Below is my ad write & CTR and the like , the offer pointed to “Fiesta” the game that every single network has , in particular , i ran this one with Profit Kings Media (If you join em, let them know that I sent you).
First 3 days was nuts , my bidding was around .004 (less than half a cent) with a EPC of around 5 cents, FB can be ultra powerful , however my hurdle always has been fresh ad-writes. I have yet to make more than $400 a day in profit from FB , as it might start off with a 500% ROI campaign , and over a week end up around 5%.
My targeted age group was 13-35 , the keyword was ‘Gaia Online” with a few associate keywords, you can imagine why. I also tried this with a few other kiddie games, with some luck and decent conversions. I’m sure if you copied this you could make a buck or two , but IMO copying isn’t worth it, the method however can work.
There you go , a working facebook ad campaign , my total cost as you can tell from it was around $34 , my total revenue was $211.60.
So , I was in my gmail account reading various business emails, when I saw a little adwords text ad that said “Premier wealth system” or something like that , and since I’ve been working on my very own “Make Money At Home” Course offer, I figured why not check into it, and see the lander.
I must say , I was blown away with the intro video , by far the absolute nicest lander video I’ve ever seen. So, I was curious to see what the program costs (That’s always the first thing that comes to my mind).
So, I opted-in to their Aweber opt-in system (Somehow it seems like they’ve bypassed the double-opt-in) , to see the product cost and whether the program was MLM or not.
That’s where I confirmed my thoughts about what it was……..Not only was it a MLM , but their top course was only a few dollars shy of TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!
I’ve heard how in the past there were a few MLM companies out there with $10k products, but had never seen one online till today. It sure did pay for a nice video to start off with , but I don’t feel nearly as bad about selling $40 internet ebooks now that I see people are buying ‘courses’ off this company for anywhere from $500 to $9497.
Amazing stuff, and here I was worried that my own ‘internet wealth course’ at $19.95 was going to be too high.
