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HomeProfitCode QuickShot review

September 2, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) 4 Comments
iStockPhoto 000005673793 - a.k.a. "Michelle Stevens"

iStockPhoto 000005673793 - a.k.a. "Michelle Stevens"

iStockPhoto 000000559716 LOVES HomeProfitCode!
iStockPhoto 000000559716 LOVES HomeProfitCode!

He’s suave, he’s cool, he loves HomeProfitCode.com and he’s iStockPhoto stock photo 000000559716. Obviously a very trustworthy fella. Right? Right?

He’s Tim Holl – a.k.a. iStockPhoto 000000559716. You may remember him from his testimonial on Sebastian Foss’ program RapidRiches.com in which he said:

“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to earn some extra money online although I don’t live in North America. I’m not making thousands just yet, but the extra money has really helped in paying off some of my bills. It’s also great to see that you have many companies just for Australians. – Tim Holl, Australia”

Oh, wait. That’s the same testimonial he’s giving on Michelle Stevens’ HomeProfitCode.com – well, one thing about Stock Photo testimonials…they certainly are consistent.

iStockPhoto Stock Photo 000001340763 - a.k.a. Savane Smith

iStockPhoto Stock Photo 000001340763 - a.k.a. Savane Smith

“Savane Smith” - a.ka. iStockPhoto 000001340763 wants to know that she loves Michelle Stevens’ HomeProfitCode even more than she loves being a stock photo! 

I bet “Savane” was thrilled to be able to “Watch a torrent of internet cash pour in by the $1,000s every week”. Her kids seem pleased with the “torrents of internet cash”, too.

iStockPhoto 000002830061 is Happy and Confident after finding the HomeProfitCode.com system

iStockPhoto 000002830061 - a.k.a. "Laura Johnson" is Happy and Confident after finding the HomeProfitCode.com system

iStockPhoto 000002830061 – a.k.a. “Laura Johnson” is “Happy and Confident” after finding that HomeProfitCode.com course – at least that’s how her stock photo describes her at iStockPhoto.

She does look happy. I guess she’s confident. She’s definitely confident enough to give the same testimonial she gave on the RapidRiches.com site:

“Thanks for responding so quickly! It is rare that you find good customer support on the net these days, but you guys answered my question within only 30 minutes of my email. By the way, keep up the good work on the website. – Laura Johnson, UK”

I wonder if they contacted her at her iStockPhoto email?

Hi, we’re using an invalid TRUSTe trust mark! Look at us!

Now, come on. If you’re gonna use an invalid TRUSTe trust mark, do you really want to shove the invalid TRUSTe trust mark right in the middle of your sales copy?

Yeh, probably. I mean if you’re going to use stock photos for testimonials, why wouldn’t you throw an invalid trust mark in just for good measure? Really, you’d be crazy not to.

Please don’t call me cynical!

iStockPhoto 000005673793 - a.k.a. "Michelle Stevens"

iStockPhoto 000005673793 - a.k.a. "Michelle Stevens"

Now, call me cynical – but I’m starting to think that Michelle Stevens isn’t even a real person. I mean, yeh, she’s real, but in a “stock-photo” kind of way.

Maybe that’s what Home Profit Code means when it says “As featured in Weekend Entrepreneur” – maybe her stock photo was featured there. I bet that’s what the meant. I mean they wouldn’t lie about a thing like that would they? Would they?

Hey, that reminds me of the ol’ “Right? Right?” at the beginning of the post.

Apparently using a smiley face absolves you of all accountability since HomeProfitCode. Michelle sure uses those smiley faces a lot on the HomeCashCode.com sales letter!

Let me give it a whirl:

  • “I ran into your car and nobody’s going to pay for it!” :-)
  • “No, I’m NOT going to pay you back the $50 you lent me!” :-)
  • “Guess what officer? I wasn’t going 5 miles over the speed limit. I was going 10 miles over the speed limit!” :-)

I don’t know. It’s not really working for me. Maybe if I used a stock photo next to them it would feel better.

Smiling woman in the forest. iStock Photo 000003246920

Smiling woman in the forest. iStock Photo 000003246920

Just one last thing about one of the Home Profit Code course’s claims:

“All sorts of people… pastors, retired veterans, work-at-home moms, frustrated corporate executives, bus drivers, and many others… have all discovered this secret method of making real money from home! ”

I just want to point out that just because Home Profit Code didn’t specify “forest dwellers” does NOT mean that you’re out of luck if you live in the forest.

I just know I’m going to get a lot of questions about that, so I thought it better to err on the side of caution.

Note: I am NOT saying this is a Sebastian Foss website!

I want to be clear about this – I’m not saying that this is a Sebastian Foss website. I checked the SpamHause ROSKO database and HomeProfitCode is NOT listed as an active domain owned by Sebastian Foss. The list of active domains SpamHaus has for Sebastian Foss does NOT include HomeProfitCode.com as you can see here:

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SwapClix 2.0 QuickShot review of salespage

August 29, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) 1 Comment
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Stav at his job - being stock photo 6315357 at IStockPhoto

I was surprised to see SwapClix being promoted recenty as SwapClix 2.0. SwapClix originally came out back in 2004/2005 and was one of the first products about PPC arbitrage - a system whereby you would buy cheap clicks on one PPC search engine and send them to a site where you’d get PAID for people who clicked on your ads from a network (usually Google Adsense) that typically paid more.

This was a DIFFERENT type of arbitrage than what is usually taught today in courses like The Arbitrage Conspiracy or any of the other countless CPA courses – CPANinjas, MaverickMoneyMakers, etc. that surfaced after The Arbitrage Conspiracy course. In fact, technically sending pay per click traffic to a CPA offer isn’t really arbitrage at all – as arbitrage typically means that you are buying some THING (i.e. a “click”) for one price and selling that same sort of THING (i.e. a “click”) at a different price and pocketing the difference.

Does Travis Sago endorse SwapClix 2.0?

One of the first things that caught my eye was Travis Sago’s endorsement of SwapClix. Was this an endorsement for the ORIGINAL SwapClix product or for the new SwapClix 2.0?

I took a look at the review page where Travis Sago has almost the EXACT same wording as the testimonial for SwapClix 2.0 (only one word is different). Then I used a javascript command on Travis Sago’s review page to see when Travis Sago’s review was last updated:

Does Travis Sago endorse SwapClix 2.0?

Does Travis Sago endorse SwapClix 2.0?

To determine the date that the page was updated I went to the page in question and typed the following javascript into the address bar of my browser:

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

Of course for this to work you need to have javascript enabled in your browser.

So my GUESS based on this is that the testimonial from Travis Sago is for the ORIGINAL version of SwapClix.

Stav at his job – being stock photo 6315357 at IStockPhoto

If you’ve seen the SwapClix 2.0 sales page, you probably recognized the stock photo used at the beginning of this QuickShot review of SwapClix 2.0.  The presumed author of SwapClix “Patrick Creek” says that the photo is of his friend Staveros, who “cleans boats for a living”, puts the SwapClix system into place for 2 hours and makes a profit of $42.54. IStockPhoto tells us that it’s stock photo 6315357 (click here to verify).

Businessman leaning on something.

Businessman leaning on something. iStockPhoto 3386248

Now, of course:

It’s POSSIBLE that “Patrick Creek” has a Greek friend named Staveros who also HAPPENS to have his picture on a stock photo site…

…AND it’s POSSIBLE that Travis Sago LOVES SwapClix 2.0 even though the his testimonial appears to be fore the original SwapClix product…

AND it’s POSSIBLE that the image shown at the beginning of the SwapClix 2.0 salespage isn’t supposed to be “Patrick Creek”, but merely some guy who likes to hange out on sales pages (after all, we’ve just seen how much fun they can be haven’t we?”).

So should I review the actual SwapClix 2.0 product now?

Usually after looking at a sales page like this I would be hesitant to move along further and actually look at the product in question. After all, it seems highly unlikely that a product with this type of sales page would end up replacing one of the products on the WorkAtHomeTruth Top 10 Recommended Home Businesses list.

Right now, i’m going to take a “wait and see” approach as there is someone in the WarriorForum named Tom giving pretty detailed feedback regarding what SwapClix 2.0 is all about.

After reading the first PDF from SwapClix 2.0 Tom said: “I just finished reading the first PDF and it was mostly a sales pitch for the value of CPA, then a generic history of CPA and their networks, a generic tutorial on getting accepted and a few other “generic” things. So far not impressed…”

Click here to read more about what Tom has to say about SwapClix 2.0

Just an aside – I noticed that the person fielding the questions about SwapClix 2.0 in the WarriorForum’s username is CWDSteve and using a “CWD” logo. That leads me to suspect that the owner and creator of SwapClix 2.0 may still be Costas Dedes – a.k.a. Constantine W. Dedes.

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True-Money.com QuickShot review

August 24, 2009 By Paul (Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth) 6 Comments

Upon seeing True-Money.com and some of the comments about True-Money.com I began to realize that there are two types of people looking to build a business online.

The ones who keep throwing away their money in programs like True-Money.com that can never possibly work based on pure math. And those who actually realize that they will have to do some real WORK to build a business.

The dead giveaway that a program like True-Money.com is destined for failure is the statement “No Recruiting Required”. Programs like these have NEVER been sustainable and they NEVER will be. And even if they WERE somehow mathematically sustainble, it would take a huge amount of media buying knowledge to make it all happen – but again, I see no way that a program like True-Money.com can be self-sustaining.

And why are the SAME people giving testimonials several times on the testimonials page?

And how about those 445.34 worth of products with resale rights? NOPE!

Some of those products have been floating around the internet since the early 2000s and have been given away free all over the place. If I were to stretch my imagination a bit, I MIGHT consider the whole package to be worth maybe 20 bucks.

If you keep getting suckered into programs like True-Money.com only to be disappointed – here’s a tip…

STOP looking for “easy ways to make millions of dollars!”

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