New Information For Your Making Money Online Business Success

August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

A new service has just opened its doors. The Internet Marketing Report Card. The official opening date was Wednesday, July 1st of 2009. Be among the first to get the benefit of others experience (and it won’t even cost you anything).   I have copied a small excerpt from their website to give you a head start. Simply go to the following address ( IM Report Card ) and enjoy a breath of fresh air in the internet marketing arena. We can all use it.

IM Report Card

How to use IM Report Card

IM Report Card is all about saving you time and money, and helping you to make more money online faster than ever before. Here’s how to get the most out of IMRC …

1. Create a free account to join our community of Internet Marketers
2. Before buying ANY Internet marketing related product or service, read our reviews and see what the IMRC community has to say about it first.
3. Grade, comment on, and share your own experiences with the products and services you do buy, and the people you do business with online.
4. Tell other people about IMRC – the more people that know about and use this site, the more useful the community becomes for everyone.

It really is that simple, and everyone wins. (Everyone but the scammers that is)
Better still, you’ll even make money just for participating!
We sincerely hope you’ll join us. It’ll make your Internet marketing journey easier and more rewarding, and you’ll be helping a lot of other people at the same time.

Most Sincerely, One of Your Friends in the Internet Marketing Arena … Dave Carlson

Google Home Biz Kits

August 14, 2009 | 158 Comments

There have been mass emailings ( I got one … and at first thought ‘this could be something’, that is until I did some checking ). You also might see an ad for this Google Kit on one of many blogs out there. (By the way the word Google is added into their title to add a perceived value and credibility to it). Whatever the case might be, save yourself the time and don’t click through, because they will only redirect you to one of the Google Home Business Kit pages such as Google Money Master or Google Speedy Cash.

In this post I have included just a small fraction of what I found regarding the Google Home Business Kit. I hope you read this before you sign up.

Recently there has been a wave of work at home programs all claiming that they can show you how to make money from Google. They all sell a Google Biz Kit for a low shipping and handling fee from $1.99 – $3.88. They change names often but as of now the most popular name is Google Money Master.

These programs consist of a CD, and a membership website that hosts the courses. The lessons teach you how to use Google AdWords to place advertisements for programs that you are an affiliate for.

They also advocate setting up fake blogs and websites to advertise the same Google Kit that you just bought. You may have seen ads like these on Facebook and MySpace. Don’t be fooled by these and other sites claiming that you can make money from these programs; any income they’re receiving is simply from referring more people to join these sites.

I have searched the internet regarding this “business opportunity” and here are just some of the responses that other people have made about the “Google Home Business Kit”. ( I did have a sentence here about fairness and finding one person that said he was making thousands. Then I thought – who’s being fair in all this anyway, so now you have this instead. )

DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS!! this company COMPLETELY screwed me over. They charge 5 bucks for shipping and then every month, CHARGE 50 DOLLARS!!!!!!! they are low lifes trying to screw the american public out of 600 dollars a year! I hate these liars. I am currently trying to cancel my account, but these pathetic people wont return my calls. I am going to have to contact my credit card company and have them deal with it because I am at a dead end. DO NOT, I REPEAT, EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS OFFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAVE YOURSELF

DON”T mess with them. Some of these companies say only $1.99 s&h and end up taking $89.99 out and they keep it in “pending” until the 7th day trial is up and bingo…they have their money before you can cancel on the 7th day.

Do NOT touch this so-called “Opportunity” or anything that resembles it!! They are after your Credit Card info….They will slam you with a monthly fee probably in excess of $60.00 a month, on a recurring basis….That’s the SCAM!!!

It’s almost impossible to contact them….You have to become a detective!! This also creates problems with your Credit / Debit card company in trying to get refunds as well!! I REPEAT….DO NOT GET INVOLVED!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

Now for the boring “Terms and Conditions” that seem to go on forever. Here is why you should take the time to read them. I know … I hate them too, and have to admit that I just click through. This is exactly what these “people” are counting on.

This comes straight from their terms and Conditions …..

Terms and Conditions
By submitting this form I authorize SEO Supervisor (DRI*SEO Supervisor) to immediately charge my credit card $0.00 USD for the setup of the SEO Supervisor Home Business Kit. I hereby request that SEO Supervisor (DRI*SEO Supervisor) activate my account and authorize them to advance funds as indicated. Monthly Service fees will commence seven days from the date of this purchase, and will be billed monthly thereafter. After the seven day trial you will be billed Sixty nine dollars and ninety cents USD monthly for the continued access to the Google Money Making System. No refunds will be given for failure to use the requested and provided services. We reserve the right to transfer your billing to a third party Merchant of Record. This authority will remain in effect until revoked by me. You may cancel at anytime by writing to SEO Supervisor, 4240 West Flamingo Rd. Suite #201, Las Vegas, NV 89103 or calling 1-800-497-4988 (International customers please call 1-866-321-2728). I agree that SEO Supervisor (DRI*SEO Supervisor) shall be fully protected in honoring any electronic transfer or collection. SEO Supervisor shall not be responsible for refunding any Account Set-Up fees. By submitting this information I am agreeing to the terms stated herein. SEO Supervisor (DRI*SEO Supervisor) will not send notification, postal or electronic, when a billing occurs.

If you Read it, it not so clearly says they will Charge you 69.90 per month after the seven days and it says that they don’t have to notify you that they are doing this…ALWAYS READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS!!!!!!

If you have already bought into this so-called “opportunity” good luck getting your money back or at least to stop them from continually charging your credit card.

Hope this finds your Home Business in good health, and free from those that want to steel your money.

Your Online Home Business Friend … Dave Carlson

also at: http://critical-business-information.blogspot.com/

Mary Gersten Or The Global Cashflow Network … Is An Internet Home Business Joke That Steals Money From People!

August 11, 2009 | 19 Comments

This is an update because I just happened to stumble on more information quite by accident.  Hopefully you will have read this BEFORE you give ‘Mary Gersten’ any of your money.  I found several articles with regards to the way ‘Mary Gersten’ steels your money.  I have reprinted just part of one of them here with a link to their complete article.

Global Cashflow Networks makes several marketing products, the main one being the certified media placement specialist plan. The average cost is between $2,000 and $5,000 including the advertising package. They use two unknown “trust” web sites with no Google pagerank to establish credibility. This is because at the Better Business Bureau they have an F rating with over 46 complaints. They also paid Ed Magedson at ripoffreport.com his fee and all their complaints were turned into praise and endorsements. After reading the rest of this post come back and click HERE to see the complete article. When you get there make sure you read the comments below the article. Unbelievable!

I really don’t like negatives so I am going to make this short. As the title above suggests, this ‘online opportunity’ isn’t bad, it’s ugly … so you need to stay away from this one if only for the protection of your money. If you only want to learn how to place media (send emails, printed advertisements, post cards, etc. – I did all of that) fine, … then only spend the $250 they charge to learn how to do that. But DO NOT spend the extra thousands that the ‘media coaches’ say that you need to spend in order to make really big money. I spent a total of $3,000 with Mary Gersten only to make a whopping $100. Mary Gersten’s ‘media coaches‘ are only there to talk you out of your money, in order to pay for a brand new building full of ‘media coaches’.  In short – set your money on fire. At least you will get warm by the fire.

It may be a little disappointing to get two posts in a row that are on the negative side of the coin, but I believe my job here, is to save as many people from loosing as much of their money as possible. I have made that a priority on my blogs. If you have got some experience with products or services let me know. I would even let you post a comment with a link back to your website if it is worth wile to someone’s pocketbook. What I don’t want to do is to check out products that you are just trying to sell (I will personally check it out the story anyway before it is posted). I am doing this because I am sick and tired of people that hide behind a website, lie to people because they are only out to steal as much money that they can get their hands on. I’ve made a little money and I’ve lost money, I just want to level the playing field a little. I’m sorry for getting on such a high soapbox, but I feel that it’s time the little guy deserves a break

There will be more information to come … not all bad I promise. Hopefully though this post and the previous one saved you some money.

Sincerely, Dave Carlson

PS. There is another good resource to help with decisions about this Online Business thing and that is the IM Report Card. Click the previous link and check them out. It is a favorite place of mine to check out business opportunities.  A report about that website will be here soon.