REAL Home Business Ratings

…from the Newbie perspective

  • Are you tired of wasting money on businesses that aren’t right for you?
  • Disappointed that the home business opportunities you’ve invested in assume that you have prior knowledge or experience that you just don’t have?
  • Do you want a complete, step-by-step system for making money at home?

If this describes you, you’re not alone… heck, I’m right there with ya. I can’t tell you how much money, and how much time I’ve  spent over the years on business opportunities that just didn’t seem to be all they were hyped up to be.

The home business reviews you find here will be different from the others you’ve seen!

Our Home Business Ratings and Reviews assume:

  • You are brand new to the business
  • The opportunity is the only program you need to get started
  • Real reviews – not just re-hashes of sales pages

I hope to help you find the best home business opportunity… for you.

Please feel free to leave comments and submit your reviews!

 

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Marketing with Anik Reviews

Product: Marketing with Anik Coaching Program

Website: marketingwithanik.com

Price: $37

Finding Reviews for Marketing with Anik

I’ve just spent the last 2 hours looking for honest reviews for the Marketing with Anik personal coaching course. I looked through the first 130 google results for “marketing with anik review,” and I honestly could not find even one real review… everything was just rehashes of the sales page .rying to get you to buy from their link.

This didn’t surprise me though...

Based on what I’ve seen from the author in the past, he pretty much makes his living off of pimping other expensive “guru” products. Sign up for one of his mailing lists, and you’ll get emails from him touting products from all his “friends.” It’s sickening really, talking people who look to him for help into spending huge amounts of money into buying lackluster make money products.

No, I have not purchased Marketing with Anik. I’ve bought his stuff in the past, and have been less than impressed. Sure, he has thousands of followers who have spent lots of money on his products, but in my opinion, if his stuff was so good, you wouldn’t need to buy more and more of his products in order to start making money.

All that being said, Marketing with Anik actually shows some promise from the point of view of someone brand new to internet marketing. The 15 week training course seems to be a good step by step overview of how internet marketing works. It would be a good introduction into learning keyword research, small website creation, and internet advertising.

My Recommendation About Marketing with Anik:

I would recommend the 15 week training course, but use it from the perspective of building Adsense websites based around things you are interested in, and possibly add affiliate links for related products.

I would not use it as a basis for pimping other “guru” making money products. That market is too competitive, and it kinda gives me a guilty conscience for recommending things to people that they don’t need. Just my opinion.

I would not recommend any of the “upgrades.” Just go through the videos, and learn the basics. He also gives a huge amount of information as bonuses, and in my opinion, they would do nothing but confuse the newbie marketer.

In short, the 15 week training course (only) would be a good deal for someone brand new to internet marketing.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out: MarketingWithAnik

Hint: Close the original window, and you’ll get another page where you can get it for $27

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Commission Autopilot Reviews

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Product: Commission Autopilot

Offered by: Paul Ponna

Website: CommissionAutopilot.com

Price: $47

If you are on the mailing list of just about any internet marketer, you’ve no doubt received emails (probably a bunch of them) promoting Commission Autopilot.

Commission Autopilot is a software package that promises you good money for very little work. You simply plug an affiliate link into the software which will generate articles that will rank well in Google, and you make commissions off the sales.

Honest Reviews of Commission Autopilot

Kinda hard to find, aren’t they?

I spent over an hour trying to find just one honest review…

If you haven’t figured it out already, there are a LOT of internet marketers promoting Commission Autopilot. Where can you find an honest review of this product?

  • NOT at CommissionAutopilotReview.com, or .net, or .org
  • NOT at HonestCommissionAutopilot.com, .net, or .org
  • NOT at any other website with Commission Autopilot or Bonus in the domain name

Those sites are made by professional internet marketers just trying to get you to buy that product from their link so they make a commission.

The only real, honest review of Commission Autopilot I saw was at ReviewsGuide.net.

Here are excerpts from that review:

Pros:

The software is designed to help you build tons of backlinks from the high authority document sharing sites. This is usually a neglected area in backlink building. So if you have been using all other tools for backlinks, you now have the power to use the doc sharing sites for additional backlinks. With a cost of $47 the software is definitely worth the price.

Cons:

If you buy the software purely by the hype of earning money without even having your site then you will be disappointed. This software should be used as an additional source of valuable backlinks & not the only source. Additionally do not expect to earn money by just using the software to generate rehashed content from PLR articles. Remember if the content shared on document sites is not good, it will just be good to get another backlink & not go viral as the author suggested.

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Finally if you are a newbie looking to make quick & fast money without doing any work, this software is NOT for you but if you are looking for automated link building from authority sites, this software should definitely add value. Do keep in mind that early bird gets the worm. Once every other affiliate marketeer starts using the software & starts spamming the doc sites with garbage content, the links won’t carry any value. So get your act together & buy commission autopilot now!

To read the full review, visit: ReviewsGuide.net

 

 

 My Take on Commission Autopilot:

I look at potential business opportunities a bit differently than those on other websites…

I try to look at things from the perspective of someone with absolutely no experience, or prior knowledge about the business being considered.

With that in mind…

I would NOT recommend Commission Autopilot to those new to internet marketing. This seems like a great backlink-building piece of software, and a great piece to a puzzle of building a huge, authority-type website.

In my opinion, your money would be much better spent on the One Week Marketing program, where you would get much better training in identifying keywords, doing some minor site creation, etc.

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What is a Niche Market?

What exactly, is a niche market?

If you are looking to make money from home in affiliate marketing, (selling other people’s products,) then you no doubt want to find a niche market to sell your products to.

Perhaps the biggest mistake beginning internet marketers make is not properly defining the specific market of people that they are trying to sell to. Let’s face it, there are probably thousands of sites related to your product that are more established on the internet that you must compete against to try to get your share of the customer’s money. There’s a lot of competition, and you must be able to set yourself apart from the others in order to get people to see your offer, and then, hopefully, buy from you.

Successful affiliate marketers make their livings marketing to small, but very profitable niches, or groups of people.

These marketers identify specific problems that groups of people are having, and offer them information, and a solution to their problem.

Niche Marketing Examples

Here are some examples, both good and bad, of internet marketing niches:

“Bad” Examples of Niche Marketing:

  • Dog Training
  • Golf better
  • Weight loss

“Good” Examples of Niche Marketing:

  • Train puppy to stop biting
  • How to cure a golf slice
  • How to lose weight for diabetics

If you concentrate your marketing efforts on the second group above, your chances of success are greatly increased as you’ll be able to use low and no-cost internet marketing techniques without having to create a massive website in order to compete.

How to Find a Niche

A little niche marketing research will go a long way towards helping you create a successful, and profitable, online marketing campaign.

Here’s a great video showing you how to do niche marketing research using Google search to help you find a specific niche to market to:

Need help with your niche marketing research?

Or better yet, would you like it done for you?

Check out the service offered by InstaCash Keywords. You can get a week of their service for only $4.95 to see if it’s right for you.

Visit InstaCash Keywords

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How to Make Your Own Website for Free

Thinking About Making a Free Website?

It’s very tempting, when you are just beginning, to want to make a website for free. Hey, no one wants to waste money, in fact, I started out using free websites myself, they are a great way to get your feet wet, and learn some of the ins and outs of website creation. I was also under the (mistaken) impression that a “real” website was expensive and difficult to create.

Where to Make a Free Website

Here are some of the better places to make a free website:

  • Blogger.com is a great place to start a free blog. It’s super-easy to get a blog started in just a matter of minutes. It’s run by Google, so it’s easy to add Google Adsense to your free blog to help make some money.
  • Squidoo.com has a page creator that’s simple to use, and can create a nice free webpage. You can’t really make a free website here, but you can make a series of pages, and link them together.
  • Weebly.com lets you make a free website with their site creator that more closely resembles a real website. They also don’t have advertising embedded in your free website, like many of the other free website hosts.

Disadvantages of Making a Free Website:

  • No Control – free website hosts are kind of famous for changing their terms of service. They may, at some point, decide not to host websites with particular content. I’ve had sites removed because the free website host changed their minds on what they wanted their site to be about.
  • Limited Advertising – many free website hosts limit what kind of advertising you use on your website, and some allow advertising supplied only by them (where they get a cut of your money.)
  • Your Free Website Could Just “Disappear” – many free web hosts just “lose” your website when they do updates, etc. It stinks, but it happens all the time.

Making a Website for Free Makes Sense if…

  • you are making a website just for fun, or experience
  • you don’t plan on making money with your website

How to Make Your Own Website for CHEAP

It really doesn’t cost much to own a website that YOU have absolute control of. No need to worry about changing terms from the free website hosts limiting what content you have on your website, or how you choose to make money with your website.

You can make your own website for under $20… yup twenty bucks!

That $20 includes your:

  • Domain name – you can get a .com name for $8.95 a year at Go-Mama, just plug in your desired domain name in where it says “Check Domain Availability.” If the name you want is not available, it will give you other possible domain names that are available.
  • First Month of Hosting – I use HostGator. It’s $9.95 a month (less if you prepay) and comes with unlimited domain names on just one hosting account. No need to buy a new hosting account for each website you make! No matter how many websites you choose to make, they’ll all get hosted for this one low monthly price!
  • To Make a Website, I use WordPress. It’s a blog-style website where your visitors can interact with you. It’s very flexible, and your website will be picked up quickly by the search engines.

Need Help Setting Up a WordPress Website?

If you’ll get your hosting through my Host Gator link, I’ll install and configure a WordPress website for you FREE. (I get paid by the Gator)

To Get Your Website:

  • Buy a domain name. I don’t care where you get it, but you can use the go-mama link above to get a .com for $8.95.
  • Buy Your Hosting Through the HostGator link above

Then, Send me an email with a copy of your hosting payment. We’ll then set up a time to talk on the phone, or web chat, then we’ll get you rolling. I’ll even do a little keyword research for you, point you to some nice free tutorials giving you the ins and outs of internet marketing, and answer further questions for you through email for 30 days. If you need help choosing a domain name, email me at the link above.

If you’re ready to own your own website, this is a great way to get started!

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Project Quick Cash Review

Product: Project Quick Cash

Author: Alok Jain

Website: ProjectQuickCash.com

Type of Business: Internet Marketing

Cost: $47

Reviewed by: Garry

Review of ProjectQuickCash by Alok Jain:

ProjectQuickCash gives you 5 money-making ideas by using internet marketing.

  1. Cashing the Spike Part 1 tells you how to research hot trends and find keywords that people are searching for at the time. He shows how search trends can change even hourly, and how you can “cash in” on them. You then find a product to promote, and create a Google Adwords campaign to run ads to try to take advantage of the trend, and send people directly to the merchant’s website. Good info for experienced internet marketers, but not near enough help for a new marketer.
  2. Cashing the Spike Part 2 shows how to create a “funny news” catch-all free blog to take advantage of the same trends spotted in part 1, then use social bookmarking sites to promote that blog to try to get Google Adsense clicks. Again, ok for experienced marketers, but there are too many nuances involved for new marketers, in my opinion.
  3. Underground Niche Profits is probably the best section for inexperienced marketers, but I personally, don’t like this style of marketing. It involves participating in forums to sell products through a forum signature link. Please.
  4. Super Placement Targeting involves targeting potential customers with Google Adwords by advertising strictly on sites that used Google Adsense. WAY above what a new marketers should be even contemplating using as a home business.
  5. Leeching on a Launch involves trying to muscle in with the big boys by promoting new affiliate marketing books when they are released. Newbies should stay away from messing with this niche, it’s WAY too competitive!

In Summary: ProjectQuickCash is way above the heads of internet marketers that are just starting out. It has some decent information for highly experienced marketers. I did find interesting the section on spotting search trends, but that was information that’s easily available online at no cost.

My Rating: From a newbie’s perspective… I give it a 2 out of 5

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PS: This product is no longer available. The author says he is protecting his customers by not flooding the market further. Good.

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Honest Riches Review

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Author: Holly Mann

Website: HonestRiches.com

Type of Business: Internet Marketing

Cost: $37

Reviewed by: Garry


Review of Honest Riches by Holly Mann

I’ve been subscribing to email lists from the so-called internet marketing “gurus” for years, and I’ve been slammed by emails from these gurus pushing every book and internet marketing course you can dream of…

Every new release of anything from any of the gurus gets me at least a dozen emails… ugh.

Holly Mann’s Honest Riches has never been promoted to me (still to this day!) by those gurus, I just kinda stumbled onto it after clicking link after link trying to find some real help with my internet marketing questions.

And I figured out why it’s never been promoted to me…

It was all I needed to get started in business for myself! I guess the gurus figured out that if I bought Honest Riches, I wouldn’t need anything else they “offered” to me.

She shows you step-by-step, everything you need to know on how to:

  • do keyword research
  • make money without a website
  • set up free and paid-for websites
  • advertise

It’s set up into 10 sections, each giving you step-by-step, easy-to-follow  instructions for the topic covered.

My Opinion in a nutshell:

If you’re struggling to get started in affiliate marketing, and are looking for a path to follow, definitely try Honest Riches. I think you’ll be amazed at how different it is from most of the other home business ebooks.

My Rating:

This is a great book to help you identify different avenues for making money on the internet. It will not, though, give you the detailed step-by-step instructions to fully develop an income, but if you’re trying to find your niche on the internet, this is a great place to start.

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Online Marketing Course (it’s FREE!)

Found a fantastic FREE online marketing course for ya…

If you’re looking for real internet marketing help, then check out InternetMarketingforMommies (don’t worry, guys are welcome too!)

It’s a great blog by a stay-at-home mom who has taken the time to create excellent  step-by-step tutorials for beginning internet marketers. I’m absolutely amazed that she doesn’t charge for this information. If she were to charge for it, it would be worth every penny, no matter what she charged.

If you’re strapped for cash, there’s an excellent online marketing course for creating free niche websites with Squidoo. She’ll show you step-by-step how to make a small network of pages promoting a product, which you receive commissions for sales.

If you’re interested in making money blogging, there’s an online marketing course for that too. She’ll show you step-by-step how to use internet marketing blogs, both free (blogger) and hosted (WordPress) with installation, setup, content, and advertising tutorials.

Why does she give you all this info for free? She’ll offer to review your Squidoo lenses for a small charge. A great service for beginners, just to get an experienced internet marketer to make sure you’re on the right path. Internet marketing help that cheap is pretty rare… and refreshing!

If you’re looking for a great online marketing course for making money blogging, you’ll get some real internet marketing help at InternetMarketingforMommies.

P.S. Make sure to grab her free Squidoo course, just sign up for her mailing list!

My Rating: Even though it’s a FREE course, I’m going to rate this information anyways…

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One Week Marketing Review

oneweekmarketing One Week Marketing Review Product: One Week Marketing by Pot Pie Girl

Website: One Week Marketing

Type of Business: Internet Marketing

Cost: $47

Reviewed by: Garry

Review of One Week Marketing by Pot Pie Girl:

Finally!! A Complete, Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Marketing

If you’ve been struggling to get going in internet marketing (selling other people’s products,) then you’ve no doubt spent some money on some of the “guru” guides that promise you’ll be rich within days… if you’ll just follow their so-called “system.” Then, when you get the guide, it’s not really the step-by-step system you were promised. The author assumed you had prior knowledge or experience which you just didn’t have.

That is not the case with One Week Marketing. Jennifer (a.k.a. Pot Pie Girl) walks you absolutely step-by-step how to create an entire  niche marketing campaign, within a week, using only FREE marketing techniques. Of course, she’ll recommend tools to make your life easier, but you can absolutely this program with no other investments of money.

She shows you step-by-step how to:

  • Find a niche to market to
  • Find a product to sell them
  • Find keywords that the market is searching for
  • Create a FREE website
  • Advertise your website (lots of detail here, which is pretty rare!)

Until I found this guide, I’d picked up bits and pieces of how to create an affiliate marketing campaign, but this gave me the absolute step-by-step map I had been desperately searching for.

I have since moved my efforts away from free blogs, websites, etc. in favor of websites with hosting, but if you’re reading this review, it is because of what I learned in One Week Marketing.

I will tell you, that this home business opportunity WILL take some effort on your part, you won’t make money simply buying the information, but if you’ll commit to 10-15 hours a week to your business, you’ll build a nice business over time.

If you’re looking for a great home business that you can start part-time, with the potential to go full-time, check out One Week Marketing by the Pot Pie Girl.

My Rating: very easily, a 5 out of 5

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Can You Get Paid for Taking Surveys?

This post is going to be a bit different for the others, as I am not reviewing a particular product, but a group of home business products…

One of the most prominent so-called home business “opportunities” on the internet regards getting paid to take on line surveys.

Are on line surveys a scam? not really…

Can you actually get paid for taking surveys on line?… maybe

Does that answer your question? ; )  let me explain…

How On line Surveys Work:

  • You register with a number of different survey companies, and answer what could be pages upon pages of information about you, your family members, and your spending habits. The time spent simply registering which just one survey company can be considerable.
  • When survey opportunities arise, the company sends the survey offer to those that may be qualified to respond to the survey. Sometimes though, you may answer 5-10 minutes of questions, thinking you’re actually answering the survey for money, but, you’re actually only doing the “screener” survey, where the survey company is further weeding out people. They are usually screening further people that are actually using not only a particular product, but also a particular brand of that product. If you’re not using that particular brand of product, you’re disqualified, and don’t earn money, though you may have spent considerable time answering the screener questions.
  • Also keep in mind that the particular survey company has a database of thousands of survey takers, but a particular survey may only need, say 100 respondents. If you’re not in those first 100 respondents, you don’t get to take the survey. These survey opportunities could be gone in a matter of minutes.

You can make money with on line surveys IF…

  • You are able to do surveys as soon as you get the notification email. In other words, you are available anytime during the daytime.
  • Minorities (especially Hispanic women) will get many more opportunities, than say, a single, white male.

You will not get paid much for taking on line surveys IF…

  • You try to do the surveys only on nights and weekends. Sure, you may make a couple bucks, but nothing significant.
  • The typical survey I received has averaged $1-3. Every great once in a while, I’ll receive an opportunity paying $5-10, but they’re always expired by the time I get to them.

My Rating:

For me, on line surveys are a complete waste of time and money. I’m sure some people have made some money from them, but I wasn’t one of them.

I give them a 1 out of 5

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No referral link, I don’t want to be responsible for when you realize the time involved without much pay. : )

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