New Hall of Shame Award Winner

One of our astute readers recently asked me to evaluate an offer out there, and I have the wonderful displeasure of presenting my first Hall of Shame award winner.

This award goes out to the following site:

http://www.typeathome.us

They offer to show you how to make hundreds of dollars an hour just typing a few sentences into “PPC forms”. They want to charge you $49 for this information, which is an outright ripoff. They conveniently neglect to mention that these “PPC forms” also come with a commitment to paying the “PPC” part. That stands for “Pay Per Click” if you didn’t know. The form they actually show on the sales page is directly from Google Adwords.

They offer to hook you up with “11,000 companies” that never turn down an application. That’s because they’re referring to Clickbank merchants that allow you to sell their products on a commission basis. The payment proof charts are straight up out of his Clickbank account.

This is quite possibly the most egregious example I’ve ever seen of somebody selling information that is available perfectly free. I haven’t bought this product so don’t know exactly what “insider secrets” he might be offering, but my analysis of his sales letter and FAQ raises the hairs on my neck.

If you’d like, I’d be more than happy to take your $49 and tell you where to sign up for an account at http://www.google.com/adwords and http://www.ClickBank.com but….OOPS! I just did! Dang it, I just lost all kinds of money. When will I ever learn?

Seriously, sign up at Clickbank, find products that look good that you’re willing to represent and that have a high gravity number and a high percentage payout, then use Pay Per Click engines (MSN Search, Yahoo! Search, Google AdWords, etc.) to drive traffic to your own landing page or directly to your affiliate link. Yes, there’s more to it than that, but that’s the business model in a nutshell.

Take care everybody, and stay on the alert for online ripoffs!

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