MLM ...Hype And Air

I just wanted to do a quick post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.. or whatever holiday you happen to be celebrating this season!

I have been working on a few things, including a post for later, or maybe tomorrow..whenever I can get it done, let's leave it at that LOL ..about downline builders and also traffic exchanges and several other things, so those will be coming in the very near future. I also wanted to take this chance to say a little something about
me and the purpose of this blog. This blog is pretty new, but I have a lot of things in the pipeline to write about as time permits, and there will be lots more stuff soon. When I write about something, whether it's a new program or a marketing tool or whatever it may be, my purpose is never specifically to bash the program and be negative. If a program gets a bad review and I say it's a waste of time and/or a ripoff, it's because from the information I've gathered about it, it IS a waste of time and a ripoff, and there's no way to sugar coat that for the satisfaction of the poor souls who get suckered into it. Sorry! I try never to be negative when I can help it, because I do think there's some truth to all that positive manifestation and you attract what you put out stuff. If there's something positive to be said, I'm very happy about it, really! On the other hand, if I see the Emperor marching along with his butt flappin' in the breeze, I'm gonna tell him.. "Hey, dude..you ain't got no clothes!". I don't hype, I don't lie, and I don't take advantage of people. I hate programs that are nothing but "hype and air", and I hate that people will join them on the recommendation of someone they trust, because they're some big-time marketing "guru" and then get shafted. How much money have you invested in "the best, most explosive business EVER!!!!" that's going to make you rich in your sleep, for doing nothing...? and how's your bank account looking now? The only one rich is the marketing guru and whichever one of his/her buddies started the program!

For example, when Lawn Chair Millionaire launched, one of the biggest selling points that people kept talking about was the fact that the "leader board" of people really pushing it had some big-time marketers on it. They reasoned that it MUST be a legitimate money-maker and they were safe in joining, because "those people" wouldn't be involved if it weren't legit. All it really meant was that they got the heads-up that it was going to be a great opportunity to make some cash for themselves, since they have huge lists and powerful marketing tools at their disposal to push people to join under them, and with their huge number of referrals, they knew they'd get a big ol' hunk of cash for themselves. Those who trusted them and believed it must be a great opportunity, most of them anyway, haven't been quite as lucky. I'm sure some have made some money, sure...but the majority probably haven't fared quite as well. Unfortunately, that's what happens in pyramid schemes.

If the program doesn't have a legitimate, useful, marketable service or product that people can..and would WANT TO..actually use, that is worth the monthly charge to be in the program to use the service/product.. it's just hype and air.. it's crap!

If the admin of the program spends lots of time telling you about the compensation plan for referring new paid members, and how much you'll make from recruiting and "fast track bonuses" and building your matrix that only needs 50,000 people to join to fill your matrix and get RICH..and very little time telling you how to actually market the product/service itself and grow an actual business ..you got it.. hype and air!

If they say you can earn as a free member, or that you don't have to recruit to earn, but then the only way to actually do anything, "unlock" the most desireable features, or make any kind of actual money with the program is if you do pay and upgrade and promote.,,.it's worse than crap..it's lies and dishonesty and deceit.

Whether you're an affiliate of an actual company with a real product, or you're promoting the latest flavor-of-the-month hot new 'business" in the hopes of making those promised millions at the end of some matrix, there's nothing wrong with that, but be smart, and be honest..with yourself and with those you partner with. That's what building a downline or getting referrals for things is. At least it's what it should be, and you shouldn't be dishonest with people who are nice enough to join your team.

Merry Christmas!

Suze Says

Zion5 Profit Club..launching Today

I joined a new site yesterday that I found out about through one of my contacts on Yuwie, Warren, called Zion5. At first glance it's a little confusing and it's hard to know what to do with it, but when you read about the site and how it works, you can quickly see that it could be a great place to make contacts, earn referrals, build your downlines..or just make some like-minded friends. It's very simple, really. You just join, go to the "websites" link and add your referral urls and a description for any and all programs or products or websites you are wanting to promote. If you are the first to add that site, your link will be the one shown to any unreferred members, or members who have nobody in their referrals who is a member. If you're the 2nd ..or the 150th member, your link and name won't show when someone clicks on the link, but if someone in your downline joins, it's your link they will join under.

The site owners say they've got big plans for things in the future to be set in place to help everyone make lots of money. Get in now and start telling your contacts about it, to lock in your place as the site grows and more opportunities are revealed. Join Zion5 Now!.

Lawn Chair Millionaire! ..Scam?

Lawn Chair Millionaire launched on 12/06/2007, and it's everywhere already! Lots of people are really excited about this one. Why wouldn't they be, if what they claim is true? That's a big IF. No sponsoring.. earn the day you join.. earn if you do nothing other than sign up and pay your monthly fee of 30.00. I signed up at the website to try to get some more information about what the site truly is about. I didn't join..yet.. because it costs $80.00 to join and 30.00 per month to remain a member. I don't know if I want to part with 80 of my hard-earned dollars just to test drive something, when I can't be sure it's not complete BS. According to the rather vague info at the site, they have one single moneyline. Everyone who joins after you is under you, and you get paid your share of the "Moneyline Pool" every day from the day you join. According to the site, my share on sign up would be about 73.00, which would almost cover my $80.00 investment, but then it has the amount broken up under the 73.00 into three months. So I don't know if I'd get the 73.00 today or broken up over the three months. They're not very forthcoming with a lot of details. I believe that it is broken up, based on what the ads say. It also says they guarantee you'll get paid for at least 60 days. So, what happens after the 60 days? if you don't have referrals of your own.. from this no referrals required system.. you won't be guaranteed payment every day any longer? This one smacks of a pyramid scheme to me. If you get in early, you'll make some money, but will it be able to sustain payments and will you continue to be able to grow and make money indefinitely..? My guess.. probably not. Unfortunately, it's so new that it's hard to get any kind of concrete information about what the "real deal" is with this program.

I did a little looking around online, to see if I could ferret out any more information about if anyone has been paid as promised or not, and I found one post on Yahoo Answers from a guy who said he got 19.00 his first day and expects to get that every day and more. Another guy who claims he signed up on day one, said he has tripled his initial investment already. Not too bad, if it's true, and if that is what everyone can expect who joins. I imagine he made that by recruiting a few people under him. I doubt that's how much he got just from the moneyline. They do offer a one month money back guarantee.. or so they claim. No idea, of course, how many hoops they make you jump through to get that refund, or if you'll ever see it, but you can always drop out if the money isn't rolling in as expected.

Here's what the ads say:

"The Moneyline Pool has YOU earning money the day you join, and for months after, whether you refer anyone to Lawn Chair Millionaire or not! No sales = No problem!!

The entire Group is working together in ONE single Moneyline. EVERYONE who joins after you is placed below you in your business! YES, If you join NOW and upgrade immediate, everyone who join after you from the globe will be placed under you!

The moment you LOCK IN your position in the Moneyline you LOCK IN your Moneyline Pool shares! Your first share is paid to you at midnight the day you join.

This golden opportunity costs you a one-time $49.99 set-up fee and $29.99 monthly fee.

Every time you sponsor a new member you earn a $20.00 Fast Start Bonus that gets allocated immediately when the sale is made.

You earn a $15.00 Referral Bonus each and every month that your personally-referred members stay active by maintaining their subscription to The Vault.

Earn by simply joining the Lawn Chair Millionaire Group!

This income is allocated to your commissions in the Administration Money Manager in three segments during the first 60 days of your active membership.

A selection of unique and proven ways that you can turn your Moneyline Pool commissions into small fortunes.

TAKE THIS SERIOUS.

This will be a great experience, if you take this serious and BEST is that you share it with others after you upgraded to maximize your earnings"

The other facet of this system is their "product". Yes, they do actually claim to have an actual product. It's called "The Vault" and, apparently, is filled with tons of amazing information you can use to make more money. Even if you can't recruit referrals to the Lawn Chair Millionaire program (LCM), you can use the products in the vault to earn money. I can't find any exact information about what sort of mind blowing information is in this vault, but one member said it's pretty much a bunch of crap. The stuff in there isn't free, most of it you have to pay more money for. I can't find any real details as to what exactly is in there or if there's anything at all worth paying 30.00 a month for access to. Your membership to "The Vault' is what they claim the membership fee is for. Odds are that "The Vault" is just a bunch of crap they had to throw in to keep the system "legit", but may or may not have any real value.

I will say one thing, they do go for the hard sell. Immediately after signing up, I got no less than 5 emails from LMC urging me to upgrade now!! to avoid losing my position and lowering my share of all the millions. It must be effective though, because one site claims they are having people signing up and upgrading at a rate of 400 people an hour! Maybe one more email and they woulda had me!

I'm going to keep my eye on this one for a few more days, and see what I can find out. If you're feeling adventurous and want to try it and see what happens, you can sign up at http://www.lawnchairmillionaire.com.

Suze Says.. Internet Money Guide

Vanity Googling.. or The Importance of Signature lines

Trying to get traffic to your website or blog is a very time-consuming process. Especially if you have a low, or even no, budget to work with and can't afford to buy hits or place paid ads. It's important to research and find the things that work, and in researching traffic generation you will, most likely, hear the same things repeated over and over. This is because, they work! It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel. Although finding new and different ways to promote is a good thing, especially when you find something that really works, you can learn from those who are successful at bringing traffic to their sites.

One of these tips you, undoubtedly, have heard repeatedly is the importance of a good signature line. Put your referral urls, your blog address, anything you need to promote in a signature file and attach it to everything you post, anywhere on tbe internet. I spend a lot of time on Gather , commenting and posting and pretty much wasting valuable time I could be spending earning money or, generally, trying to have an actual life. The other day, I published an article on rebate processor job scamsm and one of the commenters on it told me she found my article through Googling for information about rebate processor jobs, and that I was 3rd on the page under the search. Up to that point, I never even thought about stuff I write on Gather being indexed and searchable on Google, but, apparently, it is. Who knew!
I never put signature lines on my articles there, but from now on I will.

I then, out of curiousity, decided to vanity Google myself and see what came up. Well, 1050 pages of me came up under one nic, and 3200 under another. Not all of it was me, there are a couple of other people with the same nickname, but it was probably more than 90% me. That's 4250 chances of someone coming upon something I posted somewhere and seeing what I wrote, and thus seeing my signature file and whatever I'm trying to promote, clicking on it and joining up or buying something. The only problem with signature files is, if you change programs, move your site, or for some reason the information you post becomes outdated, then the signature files stop being effective. That's why you should use a good ad tracker if you can. Trafficwave.net has a great program and tons of features that will help you promote and grow your business or blog, and one of those features is an ad tracker that will let you change your ads from within Trafficwave, and anywhere you posted that signature line you're tracking it will change and be updated. How's that for a nifty little trick! So, if you don't already have one, get yourself a good signature line and use it whenever and wherever possible. Just be sure that wherever you're posting to allows them, because some forums and groups don't allow you to use them.

Some general rules of signature lines:
1. They should be no longer than 4 lines, 5 tops.
2. They should contain fewer than 80 characters per line.
3. They should also be plain text only — no HTML, no images. (well, that's a matter of choice, but the "rules" say that generally a good business or promotional signature should be just text).

So, that's the tip for today. Hope it helps :O)

Suze
Create a Traffic wave today!

Way To Go.. You RAWK!!

Jusr wanted to share a little something here. Lots of people will tell you, and it's actually very true, that one way to get visitors to your blog or website and build up that ever important traffic is to visit other blogs and websites and comment, comment, comment. After a while, it gets kind of redundant and boring, and you start to sound kind of insincere and generic if you say the same thing over and over. Great job! Thanks for the info! Loved this post.. whatever.. so, I found a site that gives you "101 Ways to Say Good Job" Maybe you can find a few things on the list to help shake up your comments and breathe some life into them.

Some of the suggestions are "That's a great point", "That's an interesting way to think about it", "Outta sight", "Super duper" and "That's a real work of art".. LOL Go ahead and check them out, see if you can find some you can use

And so it begins...

I've been thinking about starting this blog for quite some time, and I've finally gotten around to it. I've had a personal blog for a few years now Days Go By, as well as a very neglected Yahoo 360 blog, MySpace blog, Multiply.com blog.. you get the picture, but this is the one I've really wanted to create. I know there are probably, oh..a zillion, blogs about money and making money online already, so you may ask yourself, what can I offer that will be useful? The answer is..nothing, really, except my opinions and experiences and whatever information I can manage to gather to share with the world at large. Next to the heavy-hitters, financial geniuses and internet marketing gurus with their own wildly successful blogs, pulling down 100,000.00 plus in revenue from sharing their words of wisdom with the world, my babbling probably won't make a difference. But if I can find some interesting and profitable ways to earn some cash, or save some cash..or, yes, spend some cash, and it helps a couple people along the way, then I feel my time will not be wasted here.