MakeMoneyStudio Quickshot review

MakeMoneyStudio prouldy proclaims that you can “Learn how over 5,831 people worldwide make $200 – $2,000 every day through MakeMoneyStudio”.

But let’s just pause there and ask a hypothetical question: how many of those 5,831 using the MakeMoneyStudio site are stock photo images?

I know of at least four people on the MakeMoneyStudio.com site that are…

…such as:

I hope I get a better part next time!

I hope I get a better part next time!

“Jim Karsons” who hangs out at the famous stock photo site stock.xchng here under the pseudonym “Image ID 872844″.

You may remember him from his supporting role as testimonial-giver Adrian McGruder in Brent Austin’s Automated Wealth system.

And who wouldn’t use good ol’ Jim? After all his face just shouts out “life is good!”

Then there’s the “Friendly Latino Man” (at least that’s what iStockPhoto calls him) which I just couldn’t resist licensing for this post. On the MakeMoneyStudio site he goes by the name of “Rob Weybert” which seems strange to me as I never would have thought of “Weybert” as beeing a

"Hi I'm friendly".

"Hi I'm friendly".

latino name, but perhaps the folks in MakeMoneyStudio’s offices in West Bengal, India – where the offices for MakeMoneyStudio’s owners are located know better.

I will admit the guy looks friendly, though.

And “Jenny Myels” with her winning smile that won HER a slot as “Smile-4″ at our old friend SXC.hu again. Now, I don’t know if she’s as friendly as Rob Weybert (a.k.a IStockPhoto 4178552), but I’ll say one thing for SXC.hu listing “Jenny Myels”, her smile sure is infections…dont’ you agree? Either that or she just played a practical joke on someone:

Smiler or prankster?

Smiler or prankster?

2x0=0! Q.E.D.

2x0=0! Q.E.D.

Personally, I find Carrie Joyce’s (pictured left) story the most believable when she says “I made 2 times my monthly salary in 5 days”. After all she is a stock photo on a FREE stock photo site.

No wonder she doesn’t look too happy in her picture!

Now, I have to admit that all of this makes me a “tad” skeptical about some of the other testimonials listed at MakeMoneyStudio. An honestly some of the testimonials I don’t even understand…

…like when “Frank Stevens” says, “I made $1,649.32 cents yesterday. That’s how much 46” TV costs – in one day”

That must be a heck of a T.V. if it costs $602,001.80 – maybe it doubles as his living quarters or something.

Get free access to MakeMoneyStudio – kind of.

MakeMoneyStudio is pretty ambivalent about their business model. At first it seems to be a paid site as they have a section explaining that “they charge a fee so that they don’t ruin the reputation of MakeMoneyStudio, to avoid “just curious” visitors, and because “we need some compensation”.

However, once you try to sign up for fee you are told you must either take a trial offer or pay $97.00 for an official license to gain access to MakeMoneyStudio.com

I didn’t have time to sort through all the trial offers to see if any were actually free – I think the eMusic one is, but I’m not 100% sure on that.

I’ll give them a B- for using TrialPay in this way. I like TrialPay, but I found the whole MakeMoneyStudio sales process to be a bit confusing. Also, using TrialPay kind of flies in the face of their claim that, “we’re giving out full membership to MakeMoneyStudio because we can”.

Succeeding is easy?

So do you have what it takes to succeed with MakeMoneyStudio…wait, why am I even asking that?

QuickShot review of EAuctionAtHome

Quick shot review of eAuctionAtHome

What is a quick shot review? Quick shot reviews of sales letters like EAuctionAtHome are designed to teach you how to analyze sales letters more critically.

Observation #1: eAuctionAtHome’s Michael Greene is an actor for that goes by the name of “Tim” on the site LiveFaceOnWeb. Click here to see photos of Tim.

Note: eAuctionAtHome does have a superscripted numeral “1″ by Michael Greene’s name, so maybe they explain that Michael Greene is being depicted by an actor somewhere, but I couldn’t find what the superscripted numeral 1 referred to.

Observation #2:

I put in some ridiculous information in the eAuction form that asked me to “See if you qualify to check out the free starter kit”, including saying that I was born in 2010 and here’s what the eAuctionAtHome website spit back to me:

“If you genuinely are Widowed… 9 years old… and… your goal is to start getting paid up to $150,000 + working from home with Online Auctions, then you may be a perfect candidate to receive an Online Auctions Success System Kit to check out for FREE in your home. However, there are a very limited number of kits available in your area. so we’d like to ask you a few more short questions…”

Well, I guess that’s “technically” true. I MAY be a “perfect candidate”.

To be fair the website does make it clear that “you must be 18 years old” to use the site.

Observation #3:

If you run into any sort of legal dispute with the company that owns eAuctionAtHome the Terms of the Website state that you agree that “legal action arising out of this Agreement shall be litigated and enforced under the laws of  Cyprus. In addition, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus, and that any legal action pursued by you shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus.”

Observation #4: The Hacker Safe security seal on eAcutionAtHome.com is invalid

The eAuctionAtHome.com website is using the HackerSafe security seal. There are two important things to understand about the HackerSafe security seal and security seals in general:

  1. McAfee Secure bought out Hacker Safe towards the end of 2007 for 51 Million Dollars and AUTOMATICALLY switched sites using the Hacker Safe seal to the McAfee Secure Seal.
  2. The security seal on EAuctionAtHome.com is NOT clickable to a listing to verify their participation in a security seal program. The way YOU as a consumer can validate the legitimacy of a security seal is by clicking on it and it should take you to the company listing in directory of the company issuing the security seal.

Observation #4: You are automatically enrolled into three separate programs – each with different monthly charges.

While I don’t have a problem with negative option marketing (such as Netflix where you are automatically charged monthly after a trial period), I believe that consumers should be given a CHOICE as to which monthly programs they want to be enrolled in.

The way this offer is structured, if the customer takes the offer, he or she is agreeing to:

  • A 3-day trial to the Online Auctions Success Club, after which there is a $39.95/month charge
  • “A FREE fourteen-day trial and twenty one-day trial to the Identity Theft Protection Center and to Craigslist Income Secrets for just $9.95 and $11.95 a month thereafter (shows as “IDProtect” and “Craigs Course”) should you choose not to cancel.”

So the three of those combined is a total of $61.85/month

I will give eAuctionAtHome.com credit for putting the terms of the trial right next to the order page and stuctured in such a way that my GUESS would be that most people would read through the full terms – of course I have no PROOF of that, but it seems better than a lot of similar offers I’ve seen.

Observation #5: “Michael Greene’s” domain OnlineAuctionsSuccessSystem.com has never been registered.

The domain OnlineAuctionsSuccessSystem.com is referenced under Michael Greene’s name at the end of the first page of the eAuctionAtHome.com sales letter – however, according to whois information that domain has never been registered – nor have the variants OnlineAuctionSuccessSystem.com, Online-AuctionsSuccessSystem.com, or Online-AuctionSuccessSystem.com

If anyone has experience with the eAuctionAtHome system feel free to leave your comments here.

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QuickShot review of ModernMomsMakingMoney.com

Quick shot review of ModernMomsMakingMoney.com

What is a quick shot review? Quick shot reviews of review sites like ModernMomsMakingMoney.com are designed to teach you how to analyze the review sites more critically.

Observation #1:

ModernMomsMakingMoney states that it has been “seen and trusted on” MSN, AOLChat, YouTube, FaceBook, and MySpace.

But what does that mean? First of all what does “as seen on” mean in this case?

Did someone set up a free blog on MSN LiveSpaces? Anyone could do that and claim to be “seen on MSN”. And why are they using the AOLChat Icon instead of the AOL icon.

Again with YouTube anyone can upload a video to YouTube, so beeing “seen” on YouTube doesn’t necessarily add to a products credibility.

The above observations apply to FaceBook and MySpace, too.

And all of those sites all companies to BUY advertising on them and thereby be “seen” on the sites. I still don’t understand how they were “seen on” AOLChat, unless someone typed a message to someone.

Observation #2: Brazillian-American Jordana Brewster’s picture is used for a testimonial on ModernMomsMakingMoney

One thing that grabbed my eye on the ModernMomsMakingMoney.com sales page was the photo of Brazillian-American actress Jordana Brewster being used for the testimonial of “Jennifer”:

Does Jordana Brewster really need extra cash?

Does Jordana Brewster really need extra cash?

In case you’re not familiar with Jordana Brewster, you can see a video of her here:

Maybe part of the ModernMomsMakingMoney plan is to become a celebrated television and movie actress? ;-)

Observation #3:

The sites listed on the sales page like SoftwareJudge and H3.com are really sites where it is possible – although not necessarily easy – to make money, BUT ModernMomsMakingMoney is charging $49.95/month after a 7 day trial which seems incredibly overpriced for the type of information they are providing.