I admit it. I was shocked to see KevinsBlogSite.org in a full-page ad in Small Business Opportunities Magazine asking me, “Would You Like to Make $5,000 A MONTH Just Posting a Link on Google?” I suppose I was stunned by the KevinBlogSite.org ad because I often do roll out of bed and immediately start thinking how I’d like to make $5,000 just posting a link on Google.
And obviously the claims on KevinBlogSite have to be real right? After all the site KevinBlogSite.org is promoting – SimplePayChecks.com has proclaimed that it is “Trusted on CNN!” I mean – obviously that has to be true right? People can’t just make up stuff like this and publish it on the web can they? Can they?
I mean sure there have been thousands of other FAKE sites that promise us that we can make $5,000 posting links on Google, but this one is different right? After all, Kevin tells us that he spent “almost a year trying to find a real, legitimate way to work at home… kept getting scammed…(and in) March I finally found the only legitimate, scam-free way to work from home. I signed up and made $1541.62 my first week!”
Yeh, I know that Michael Brown wrote this article about the Make Money Posting Links on Google Scam, but surely someone that takes out a FULL-PAGE ad in Small Business Opportunities Magazine (which apparently costs $10,130.00 for a full-page 2-color ad)…surely they wouldn’t spend that type of money to tell a story that they are completely making up, would they? I mean…they could get in trouble! Uh oh.
Anyhow, I was so excited about KevinBlogSite that I even made a video about it:
Anyone know where I can buy a giant yellow envelope?
(More to come…)
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Interesting that big buck classifieds are being used, wonder how much the bill will get to before the cons skip?
The full-page advertisement was run across three major business opportunity magazines as well. I would imagine they got a discount for running across all three, but if not it would be around $30,000 to run the advertisements.
First time in the magazines?
Michael,
I believe it’s at least the first time they were in a full-page advertisement in the big bizop magazines – which would be Home Business Magazine and Small Business Opportunities.
I haven’t checked to see if any advertisements were also run in some of the other bigger ones such as True Wealth, Home Business Connection, Opportunity World, and Simply Home Business.
I would also be interested in knowing if smaller classified advertisements were taken out first to test the magazines or if they just went full-out and bought advertising without testing the media at all.
Certainly based on my estimates of what many of these affiliates are likely making, $30,000 would really be a minimal testing expense for them. Especially since I’m sure many of them are running the flogs in multiple markets – teeth whitening, diet blogs, investing, etc.
I am surprised about the use of print advertising precisely because of the problem you state: hard to test conversions before spending 30k.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see the FTC go after some middle men in this scheme, like they did in the Money Gram case.
Wow. Right. I actually hadn’t recognized the full significance of the MoneyGram case until you mentioned this.