I’m now moving into the next phase of my ongoing project to make money online, route out the charlatans and identify some of the hazards. I’ve decided to check out one of the agencies that were advised by LegitimateBusinessReviews.com. The most tempting of the three is makemoneywithsurveys.org which has been given a hugely impressive 9.9 rating, so lets see if it is worth the rating or if its just affiliate hype to get me to part with my cash.
I click the link and am presented with another infomercial, this time with the added benefit of a syrupy voice belonging to ‘Lauren Mitchell’ who tells me via an attached audio file that I can make some, or a lot of extra cash. She then goes on to deliver the hard sell tempting me with the possibility to earn $1000’s for just a few hours work each week just by the click of a mouse.
The landing page is a standard mix of sales pitch and testimonials, all of which I take with a pinch of salt. The normal price of $79.90 has been reduced (for a limited time only, naturally) by half to just $39.95. (I take note of that old favourite selling technique, by adding a time limit on any offer you increase the urgency factor.) Now for a bit of my own shenanigans, by now I’m perfectly aware that this is another affiliate site and they will get paid regardless, as long as I sign up to one or all of the market research companies they are promoting. This first payment is just a bonus for them, I presume they’ll probably forgo some or all of that fee if I am reluctant to pay it. To test my theory I attempt to click away from the site, low and behold a pop up dialogue box appears urging me to ‘wait, how about another discount, pay just $17’ not bad but lets try and see what else I can do. I click away from the site entirely and then return, I do this several times until I find what I was looking for, A new landing page offering me a special friends and family discounted rate of just $7. I’m feeling less confidence in this site by the second but I resolve to pay the $7 fee, after all I’m going to earn thousands, right?
But wait, here comes another offer, this time for added VIP benefits, it will cost me another payment of course. I decline the offer but once again the fee seems to be on an ever decreasing cycle, each time I decline the offer it reduces in step with my reluctance to accept. Eventually I managed to make my payment without paying for any VIP extras, which I discover are given to me free of charge regardless.
The payment process is simple enough, they use ‘ClickBank’ to process my payment and I’m $7 lighter in no time at all.
I enter my newly purchased service and read through some of the things they advise that I do first. They recommend that I set up a new yahoo or hotmail email account to handle my surveys, I could view this optimistically as a necessity to handle all the opportunities that will be coming my way, or I could be the pessimist and expect a load of junk mail filling my in box. Only time will tell if the glass proves to be half empty, half full or just plain smashed!
The next nugget of advice my seven bucks has bought me is a suggestion that I download ‘Roboform’ a piece of software that “allows you to automate the entire registration process. It reduces the time it takes to fill out the forms, register with companies, and take the surveys. It will even remember ALL your user names and passwords that you create!”. The basic version is free to download but those ‘lovely’ people at makemoneywithsurveys.org inform me that “Personally I use the pro version and it stores about 400 website logins for me” no doubt another nice little affiliation is at work here.
So now I have my new email address and I have installed Roboform ,I’m ready to start some surveys. Well almost, first I get some blindingly obvious guidance recommending that I should register with as many market research companies as possible in order to maximize my profit potential.
I am then advised to ensure that my computer is running smoothly, a handy link to a free of charge virus scan is offered, I decide to give it a miss, I’m pretty sure that it will only lead to the offer of a paid upgrade requiring me to part with more money.
Now at this stage it dawns on me that all I am going to get for my hard earned $7 is a some pretty obvious advice and a load of links to affiliate partner sites, but what else was I expecting. The online money making market is a jungle and at the moment I’m at the wrong end of the food chain.
It seems that everywhere I turn, I’m inundated with affiliated opportunities for products and services. I’m starting to grasp the realisation that by playing the affiliates game and developing my own mini-sites I could move up the food chain, who knows, I might increase the odds of making more profit. I make a mental note regarding a future phase of this project, examine how to become an affiliate partner and see how much money can be made through affiliations.
For now I’m going to focus on the job in hand, it’s crucial to see how much money can really be made from the market research companies by completing online surveys. As it stands today, I’m $7 down. It’s time to start enrolling with the market research companies my and see what fortune brings.
I’m feeling unsure about what I have achieved so far, I’ve identified a list of market research companies that pay you for completing surveys but I’ve paid $7 for the privilege. However I have dodged a couple of bullets and not paid out as much as I might have, but I also know that I could of probably discovered these companies myself for free with a bit of search engine leg work.
Next time, I’ll start signing up with some of the market research companies and find out if my $7 has been invested wisely. Then we will really see what the online survey business has to offer, but for now, The Interweb Assassin keeps his powder dry for another day. No need to trouble The Grim Reaper just yet.
Spider
The Interweb Assassin
I click the link and am presented with another infomercial, this time with the added benefit of a syrupy voice belonging to ‘Lauren Mitchell’ who tells me via an attached audio file that I can make some, or a lot of extra cash. She then goes on to deliver the hard sell tempting me with the possibility to earn $1000’s for just a few hours work each week just by the click of a mouse.
The landing page is a standard mix of sales pitch and testimonials, all of which I take with a pinch of salt. The normal price of $79.90 has been reduced (for a limited time only, naturally) by half to just $39.95. (I take note of that old favourite selling technique, by adding a time limit on any offer you increase the urgency factor.) Now for a bit of my own shenanigans, by now I’m perfectly aware that this is another affiliate site and they will get paid regardless, as long as I sign up to one or all of the market research companies they are promoting. This first payment is just a bonus for them, I presume they’ll probably forgo some or all of that fee if I am reluctant to pay it. To test my theory I attempt to click away from the site, low and behold a pop up dialogue box appears urging me to ‘wait, how about another discount, pay just $17’ not bad but lets try and see what else I can do. I click away from the site entirely and then return, I do this several times until I find what I was looking for, A new landing page offering me a special friends and family discounted rate of just $7. I’m feeling less confidence in this site by the second but I resolve to pay the $7 fee, after all I’m going to earn thousands, right?
But wait, here comes another offer, this time for added VIP benefits, it will cost me another payment of course. I decline the offer but once again the fee seems to be on an ever decreasing cycle, each time I decline the offer it reduces in step with my reluctance to accept. Eventually I managed to make my payment without paying for any VIP extras, which I discover are given to me free of charge regardless.
The payment process is simple enough, they use ‘ClickBank’ to process my payment and I’m $7 lighter in no time at all.
I enter my newly purchased service and read through some of the things they advise that I do first. They recommend that I set up a new yahoo or hotmail email account to handle my surveys, I could view this optimistically as a necessity to handle all the opportunities that will be coming my way, or I could be the pessimist and expect a load of junk mail filling my in box. Only time will tell if the glass proves to be half empty, half full or just plain smashed!
The next nugget of advice my seven bucks has bought me is a suggestion that I download ‘Roboform’ a piece of software that “allows you to automate the entire registration process. It reduces the time it takes to fill out the forms, register with companies, and take the surveys. It will even remember ALL your user names and passwords that you create!”. The basic version is free to download but those ‘lovely’ people at makemoneywithsurveys.org inform me that “Personally I use the pro version and it stores about 400 website logins for me” no doubt another nice little affiliation is at work here.
So now I have my new email address and I have installed Roboform ,I’m ready to start some surveys. Well almost, first I get some blindingly obvious guidance recommending that I should register with as many market research companies as possible in order to maximize my profit potential.
I am then advised to ensure that my computer is running smoothly, a handy link to a free of charge virus scan is offered, I decide to give it a miss, I’m pretty sure that it will only lead to the offer of a paid upgrade requiring me to part with more money.
Now at this stage it dawns on me that all I am going to get for my hard earned $7 is a some pretty obvious advice and a load of links to affiliate partner sites, but what else was I expecting. The online money making market is a jungle and at the moment I’m at the wrong end of the food chain.
It seems that everywhere I turn, I’m inundated with affiliated opportunities for products and services. I’m starting to grasp the realisation that by playing the affiliates game and developing my own mini-sites I could move up the food chain, who knows, I might increase the odds of making more profit. I make a mental note regarding a future phase of this project, examine how to become an affiliate partner and see how much money can be made through affiliations.
For now I’m going to focus on the job in hand, it’s crucial to see how much money can really be made from the market research companies by completing online surveys. As it stands today, I’m $7 down. It’s time to start enrolling with the market research companies my and see what fortune brings.
I’m feeling unsure about what I have achieved so far, I’ve identified a list of market research companies that pay you for completing surveys but I’ve paid $7 for the privilege. However I have dodged a couple of bullets and not paid out as much as I might have, but I also know that I could of probably discovered these companies myself for free with a bit of search engine leg work.
Next time, I’ll start signing up with some of the market research companies and find out if my $7 has been invested wisely. Then we will really see what the online survey business has to offer, but for now, The Interweb Assassin keeps his powder dry for another day. No need to trouble The Grim Reaper just yet.
Spider
The Interweb Assassin
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