Here are the the biggest breakthroughs from HyperMeeting in our opinion…

There are a lot of incredibly useful features that none of the confercing solutions we've used offer, but the core gap that HyperMeeting has filled is the ability to share applications, documents or even your entire desktop with meeting participants in real time.

Also incredibly useful is the ability to transfer files to all of the participants. How many times have you needed to discuss a document in a meeting and had to email the document to everyone and then wait for them to retrieve it to get the meeting started? HyperMeeting makes those days obsolete.

Are you doing business globally? Then you know that the entire world is not on broadband. In fact there it was not until July of 2008 that Broadband penetration in Australia exceeded the number of dialup users there. In other words this is not an issue that only affects developing nations.

So how does HyperMeeting solve this problem? Caching is fine and they do that, but they go behind the basic caching of other services and display fixed dimension slides when slow connections are detected.

The other thing HyperMeeting offers that is quite unique is "control-passing" which allows participants to take control of presenting which allows everyone to participate. Another gap they've filled in the traditional conferencing marketplace.

For those of you who have used systems that require a software download, you'll be happy to know that HyperMeeting has eliminated that step which can sometimes be a hurdle for meeting participants.

Click here for more about HyperMeeting. HyperMeeting also offers a free trial with no credit card required.

A friend of mine who's not had much luck with Aweber support sent me the following support conversation he just had. It had me laughing so hard I was literally in tears…

Customer: Hi, can you direct me to instructions for importing a suppression list?

You are now speaking with Aweber of Customer Solutions (CP).

Aweber: Hi Customer

Aweber: http://www.aweber.com/faq/questions/498 [users' note: this is NOT the correct link]

Aweber: you do not want to do this

Customer: I don't?

Customer: what?

Aweber: why would you want to import a list of unsubscribes?

Customer: I have a list of customers hosted at 1shoppingcart. I can email them from there.

Customer: my leads are hosted with you

Customer: I want to email everybody (using both services), but I don't want people to get duplicate emails

Aweber: Explain to me exactly what you want to do

Aweber: the list of leads you want to import….who are they are where are they coming from?

Customer: hmm, I'm not sure how to put this more clearly….

Customer: I want to import a list of my BUYERS' email addresses…

Customer: they are hosted at 1hshoppingcart.com, and I can mail them from that service.

Customer: But some of them will also be on my AWEBER prospect list

Customer: I want to email everyone, but not have duplicate emails

Customer: so I thought if I 1) Got a list of my buyers from 1shoppingcart and

Customer: 2) used that as a surpression list so they would NOT be emailed IF they were on the AWEBER list…

Customer: then I could email both lists with no duplication

Aweber: if you create two different lists, within your AWeber control panel, one could be "purchasers" and one could be "prospects" for instance…..

Aweber: you could import these lists of leads into their respective list in AWeber, and send out your messages to include both lists

Aweber: our system will automatically remove the duplicates

Aweber: (people who appear on both lists will not receive more than one email from you)

Customer: that would be great, except that everyone I import would have to confirm their subscription again, and probably would be too busy/confused to do so

Aweber: any leads that you import into AWeber, have to verify

Customer: exactly

Aweber: because although they already bought something from you in the past, this doesn't mean that they want to continue to receive emails from you

Aweber: so, for this reason, we would send them the verification message to make sure they want to continue to receive more info from you

A: I don't think Richard Stera is even a real person. However, there ARE telecommuting/work at home jobs - but
they are hard to find and typically very competitive to get…

Here's a list of free resources:

This page lists sites that post jobs on a regular basis:
http://www.workathometruth.com/work-from-home-companies.php

This is the phone jobs section:
http://www.workathometruth.com/work-at-home-phone-jobs.php

This is the list of data entry companies:
http://www.workathometruth.com/data-entry-work-from-home.php

This is page about tutoring I helped put together:
http://hubpages.com/hub/become-at-tutor
(I just noticed we spelled it wrong. LOL).

This is a page I helped put together about writing:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_Money_Writing_for_the_Web

I'd also check the site:

http://www.ivetriedthat.com

Paul

A: I don't know it other than from rumors (it doesn't have a great rep)…but I can tell you what I DON'T
like about - and it's a BIG thing I don't like…

It uses semi-hidden negative option marketing. On the page you pay $2.95 - to the left and "beneath the fold" (which you have to scroll down to see) are details that after 7 days you'll be paying $47/month unless you
cancel within the 7 days.

Now most people are just going to press the "Order" button and not scroll down and not realize that their card is going to be dinged for $47/month.

I checked at AbosoluteWrite which is one of the better freelance forums and here's the link to what they had to say:

Absolute Write Forum Discussion about FreelanceHomeWriters.com

They mention another site that's free and looks better called:

http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com

There's also a page I helped put together here
http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_Money_Writing_for_the_Web

Let me know if you need more on this.

Paul

Background of the "F-+" awards' most distinguished honoree -Dr. Richard Andrew Stera , Chairman, SiteReviewAuthority.org

The F-+ award apparently isn't the first "first" for Dr. Richard Andrew Stera. Apparently the good doc received his Phd from a university located in "opposite world" where good is bad, bad is good, Fs are As, and As are Fs…well, you get the idea about the "good" doc.

In other words, if you are to get the most value of of SiteReviewAuthority.org you must view it through the eyes of a man steeped in the critical research methods of an "opposite-world" type university.

Another little known fact about the "good" doc is that his title of Chairman is often completely misunderstood - even the briefest research into his background reveals this quickly.

The truth about "Chairman"…

It turns out that Dr. Richard Andrew Stera isn't "Chairman" in the corporate sense, but more in the super-hero (remember…"opposite world" terminology) sense.

While it's possibly true that Dr. Richard Andrew Stera was bitten by a radioactive spider - legend has it that the bite had no prolonged effect. However, the bite did cause him to trip over an office chair which ultimately got embedded into his left knee.

Surgical removal of the chair being impractical, a special "melting procedure" was used to melt away the chair, which inexplicably got absorbed into Dr. Stera's blood stream and ultimately led to the manifestation of "ChairMan" - a superhero with the special powers of a chair!

If you want to get serious about working from home, visit www.WorkAtHomeTruth.com

Strike 1 against Little White eBook

Another not-so-cool thing that several affiliates of Little White eBook have noticed that they've done is they came back into the game and are about to change their affiliate program, basically giving their affiliates the big "Rasberry-nose-thumbing gesture" for doing a lot of promotional work for them. As it stands their business partners are sending them traffic for free - many of them possibly unaware of it.

It will be interesting to see how they try to make amends for this serious affiliate faux-pas.

Strike 2 against Little White eBook

Now Little White eBook was a fairly high quality resource that served a specific purpose, but it's hard to recommend a company that operates the way this one has been doing business.

Will there be a Strike 3 against Little White eBook or will they somehow magically rebound erasing all of the frustration and some degree of lost of customer confidence many of us have suffered by their actions (obviously a customer isn't going to lose complete confidence over one incident such as this, but it definitely does NOT help).

Stay tuned.

I told them that I felt the site IveTriedThat.com - which is one of MY favorite work at home sites - would be the best place to help them out on that.

They need YOUR help, too.

From Steve at IveTriedThat:

"If you were a victim of a rebate processing scam, ABC News and I've Tried That wants to hear your story. You can find more information in this post: http://www.ivetriedthat.com/2008/08/15/we-want-to-hear-your-i-was-scammed-story/

Please take a few minutes and share your story so we can work together to prevent anyone else from being scammed again."

Steve

Note from Paul at WorkAtHomeTruth. There are several websites run by the same company that promote rebate processing. Here are a few you might recognize:

• 3 Steps to Home Processing
  www.3stepstohomeprocessing.com
• Angel Stevens
  ProcessAtHome
  www.processathome.com
• Angela Christianson
  ProcessSamplesFromHome
  www.processsamplesfromhome
• Angela Penbrook
  RebateProcessorTools
  www.rebateprocessortools.com
• Angela Penbrook
  MyRebateProcessor
  www.myrebateprocessor.com
• Anna Partridge
  3StepsToHomeProcessing
• Automated Daily Profits
  Processing Profits
  Steve Sonneberg
• Brenda Meyyers
  InternetProfitHouse
• Cindy Dalton
  RebateProcessorJobs
• Internet Profit House
  www.InternetProfitHouse.com
• Input Vouchers at Home
  www.inputvouchersathome.com
• John Jacobs
  ProcessforPay
• Make My Income At Home
  www.MakeMyIncomeAtHome.com
• Mary Nichols
  MaxInternetMarketing
• Max Internet Marketing
  www.MaxInternetMarketing.com
• My Rebate Processor
  MyRebateProcessor
• Paid Refunds
  www.PaidRefunds.com
• Penbrook Productions
  PenbrookProductions
  www.PenbrookProductions.com
• Process Ads at Home
  www.ProcessAdsAtHome.com
• Process for Pay
  www.ProcessforPay.com
• Process from Home Direct
  www.ProcessfromHomeDirect.com
• Process Rebate Center
  www.ProcessRebateCenter.com
• Process Samples from Home
  www.ProcessSamplesFromHome.com
• Process Vouchers at Home
  www.processvouchersfromhome.com
  Kelly Armstrong
• Rachel Williams
  ProcessAdsFromHome
• Rebate Processor Jobs
  www.RebateProcessorJobs.com
• Rebate Processor Tools
  www.RebateProcessorTools.com
• Rebate Work
  www.RebateWork.com
• Sarah Johnson
  RebateWork
• Stephanie Edwards
• Submit at Home
  www.submitathome.com
  Kelly Armstrong
• Voucher Cash Secrets
  www.vouchercashsecrets.com
  Kelly Armstrong
• Wealth DCI
  www.WealthDCI.com

So if you're looking for a review of Google Cash, you can click here to see the full Google Cash review. However, you might like to know that Google Cash is no longer on our top 10 recommended home businesses list.

Some sort of adwords training is still important, but isn't necessarily the best place to start your internet business or affiliate marketing training.

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I have to admit I don't know enough about Real Estate to say for sure, but it seems like an incredibly risky proposition to me.

You can check them against John T. Reed's check list here:
http://www.johntreed.com/BSchecklist.html

Write ups about Nouveau Riche here:
http://www.johntreed.com/Reedgururating.html#Anchor-Nouveau-35882
http://snipurl.com/cnnriche

I checked RipoffReport for 2008 and there were 412 complaints. Now you can't
just take that number at face value because it depends on how big the company is, but
412 is still a lot of complaints in one year - but again unless you really know volume of

transactions you have to take it with a grain of salt.

http://snipurl.com/nriche

The only data I have to go by is the traffic reported at various traffic analysis sites & their site doesn't really seem to get a lot of traffic, but that could be because most of their business is done offline.

The ones I looked at are Compete.com:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/www.nouveauriche.com/?metric=uv

Quantcast:

http://www.quantcast.com/nouveauriche.com

&

Alexa:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/nouveauriche.com

On the other hand, they only have 10 complaints at the BBB within the past 36 months:

http://snipurl.com/bbbriche

"This company previously had an unsatisfactory record due to a pattern of complaints concerning selling practices. However, recent file activity reflects improvement in this area. Any complaints processed by the Bureau in its three-year reporting period have been resolved. The number and type of complaints are not unusual for a company in this industry."

And the fact that they are NOT a BBB member actually is a factor in NouveauRiche's favor when it comes to BBB rating them as favorably as they have (the BBB requires dues and tends to be more lenient with members).

I'm not sure what you mean by "creative". Can you be more specific?

There's a page I helped put together for writers here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_Money_Writing_for_the_Web

And if you want to combine writing, making basic videos, and learning strategic
web promotion, I would recommend Surefire Success:

http://www.clickhereforsurefiresuccess.com

More…

In addition to what I have at:

http://www.workathometruth.com/top-10-home-businesses.php
and
http://www.workathometruth.com/self-funding-home-businesses.php

You could also think about leveraging your existing experience
as a Virtual Assistant. http://www.vanetworking.com has a great
free community where you can get a lot of information about
starting up this type of business.

The other reviewers I think do a good job on other types of
online businesses, are:

http://www.ivetriedthat.com (we don't always agree 100%, but they
will definitely look out for you).

&

http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/ which has a very helpful discussion forum.

&

http://www.quityourdayjob.com (this is more of a affiliate marketing training site, but the
training is free and excellent.

Let me know if you need more info anytime.

Paul