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Comment from Bob Gould
Time: August 17, 2007, 9:20 pm

Excellent site my friend.Great content and honest intelligent reviews.

Not many people who highlight that a link supplied is affiliated.

Very refreshing and a pleasure to read.

Wishing you all the best for the future.

Bob Gould

Comment from Wayne
Time: September 30, 2007, 1:06 am

I don’t understand something. How is this site or blog as you call it, any different? You still have all these scammers or similar-to-scammers websites all over your site! ALL these “gurus” of internet marketing secrets are all the same! They are just like Multi-level marketers! THEY make all the money because they started the thing! Few, if anyone else ever does! The whole concept behind ALL of them is to get YOU to start a website and feed off the hopes and dreams of the average sucker who wants to work at home. It all makes me sick to my stomach! There is NO product! Just selling you and then others like you, to buy a “dream” - thats all. NO ONE has any product or service to sell. It’s all BS. I fail to see how you are any better. It’s all about “affiliate marketing” more affiliate marketing concepts! There is no real viable product or service which is why they are ALL scams! You aren’t really exposing anything here. All those “top ten” sites and “best home biz” sites are ALL affiliate marketers making money off the few they “endorse”! Doesn’t anybody see this?? YOU are doing the exact same thing - just disguising it in a different way. Which, by the way, is what the “Rich Jerk” and his buddies are selling. Simply repackaging the same scam. YOU are no different.

Comment from Ari
Time: October 1, 2007, 5:22 pm

Hi Wayne, thanks for commenting.

Do you really think that this blog is just like the get rich products I have listed above? I dont.

But you do have a point about the ads. I could filter them out but there are so many and new ones will just take their place. Another alternative would be to remove the ads altogether but then i wouldnt have any advertising on my site. The difference here is that people dont lose money when they click on the ads. Whereas they do lose money when they buy get rich quick products that dont work.

Of course one could argue that I am just as bad as they are. In that case the only difference between me and them is that I allow and respond to negative comments and they dont.

Some people would even argue that that makes me worse then them. go figure.

Comment from Joyce
Time: November 8, 2007, 6:09 am

It also might be www.Sohojobs.org which might be the same outfit. Their website seems so legit (just like Moneyfromhome.com) that I wanted to know if you or your readers know anything good about this website before (and if) I sign up. Thanks for the info.

Comment from rachelle
Time: December 11, 2007, 12:24 pm

Dear Ari
I’m horrified that anyone suggests you are not doing a huge service here. I’ve been glued to reading your site since stumbling onto it about 4 hours ago. A month ago I didn’t know this entire world existed and literally couldn’t cut and paste. I wanted to to expose affiliate marketing
by seeing how it worked. Australia is always a bit behind but about 6 months ago The Rich Pom hit, and somehow got endorsed by a morning TV and radio station. I quickly discovered he had completely plagiarised The Rich Jerk, so I wondered how many more schemes there were.
Anyway, long story short, I upgraded my internet to unlimited and set off.
I’ve pasted my blog from 2 days ago below - I was just scribbling. Feel free to edit it out. My website link doesn’t work because I tried to use the mega upgrade software “freebie” I was given (rather than pay another $50 for his expert buddy to do it) and it killed my website. SO, it was serendipity that I found your posts on obtaining software to create a real website. And after 2 hours on your site I trusted you so much I downloaded same, something I would usually not do.
Thankyou so much. You are doing something very worthwhile, and karma happen. Someone had noted that he would click all your links on each page to generate some ? adsense pay. I’m sure everyone you’ve helped would be happy to do same.
Actually I think the worst sites are those saying that you are helping everyone else too - all the pay-it-forward and friend of the secret types. At least the generic huge ugly mansion/sports car/happy couple in Hawaii are nauseating enough to turn many away.

08 December
My journey into internet marketing
So it’s 3 weeks into my get rich quick internet marketing experience, and so far I seem to be spending lots of money on things I didn’t know existed or I needed to generate traffic to my websites that don’t actually exist. The affiliate marketing program I signed up with says 6 streams of income but every day sees another service or upgrade to pay for in order to achieve success. 30 streams of income? Unlimited? That could be my claim when I get my own thing happening. My streams of income are yet to bear fruit, and despite being advised only 1 hour a day on the net is required I seem to spend over 10 hours just setting in place all that’s required. It seems that each program bombards me with e-mail until I upgrade (pay more) and then ignores me. There are inumerable free traffic generators where you can advertise to thousands of people selling the same or very similar products as you, and the person at the top of your tree is directly competing with you but with 100 times more ads. Guess these are completely futile. I can optimise my search engine results guaranteeing me ( and the other 10,000 subscribers!!!) the top spot in search engines such as google, yahoo and MSN. Now how is that going to work?
I can buy the secret to getting all my google ads free, thus allowing me to bid up to $1,000,000 to ensure the top ad spot. Wow, when a thousand people do that the cost of advertising will kill every system. I can read another 200 + page e-book warning of all the scams and tediously outlining the author’s eventual success using the program/s linked conspicuously every 10 pages. I can pass it forward in a win-win “help others while helping yourself” model ( to pass through my hands?), or team up with devotees of the Secret to attract money. I can turn my computer into an ATM by tellng people to pay me $X to allow them to tell other people to pay them $X in a 6/10 deep matrix which ensures $X x $X x $X x $X x ad infinitum. I can follow the guy with the same stock photo of the huge (but ugly) house and car who accidently found the missing secret. I can team with the Rich Jerk or his clone the Rich Pom to be a smartarse and publish bogus prewritten “articles” debating whether these sites are a scam ( strangely they all conclude that not only are they legit, but the “expert author” has pesronally made a ton of maney despite initially being sceptical).
And it all sounds entirely feasible - if you did it before the other 250,000 other people.
As a “newbie”(read sucker, as in “there’s a sucker born every minute”) who knows FA about any of this it can be confusing. Almost everything initially for sale can be found free on traffic sites. Of course there IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!. No 1 rule remember. Free advertising comes with competitors ads. Free websites come with ads and other people’s content. Does it matter? Probably not. The 3 clicks per 1000 ad showings means virually no-one is interested in your ads - they’re doing it to get the free ad/site/product JUST the same as you.
The biggest problem is that there are no dates in cyberspace - the program could be 5 years old (no chance) or recent, although most in “pre - launch” have actually already launched last year. Many links lead nowhere - who knows how long that “affiliate ” persisted.
SO, here’s my money sucking site if you’re interested. I’m not angry - this is a cheap way to educate yourself about internet marketing. I’ve gone from being unable to copy and paste to submitting multiple websites to search engines, advertising on google, learning how to link sites and submit a blog, and learning exactly how NOT to try and make an income. For less than $250 so far.
I’ll keep you posted !
http://www.barbarella2008.com/

Comment from rachelle
Time: December 14, 2007, 12:43 am

Sorry -they seem to have fixed my site when I e-mailed to cancel it, so the link does work. NOT my intention.

Comment from Ari
Time: December 14, 2007, 2:49 am

Hi rachelle,

thanks for the positive feedback. I really appreciate it. I am a bit confused. Do you currently have a website? Your second comment confused me.

Comment from Ari
Time: December 14, 2007, 3:01 am

Hi Joyce,

Sorry for not responding to your other comment about this company.

i am responding to both your comments at the same time. there’s no way to find out whats in these sites until you sign up. But my guess is that, as with moneyfromhome, the jobs posted at sohojobs would probably also be posted on sites such as monster.com and other job related sites. Any company looking to hire people would post wherever they could. If you are interested about some of these jobs then try whydowork.com first. You could read my post on this website. They list a lot of the companies that sites like moneyfromhome and possibly sohojobs charge you to see.

Comment from rachelle
Time: December 16, 2007, 4:34 am

Ari - the “website” crashed when I tried to modify it using their software. When I e-mailed to cancel hosting they decided to fix it for me for the remaining 7 days. My point was that I was not trying to promote the link on the blog - it led to a non functional site when I posted. I dislike people using real blogs to drop links, and I wasn’t trying to do that.
Anyway, thanks again for this site.
Any thoughts on Google Assassin?

Comment from Pamela
Time: February 20, 2008, 11:43 pm

SOHOjobs.org is far from a scam, you just need to know that you are paying for the serivce that they provide, not a job itself. It is a community of almiost 2,000 people like you and me that are looking for companies to hire us to work from our homes. They offer scam prevention on their site and hundreds of jobs where people are actually hiring. I am a member and have found employment through them. I can’t see my life without them!

They also provide a free newsletter to see if the opportunities that they have listed are right for you. If you do decide that this is the right place (as I did) to not get scammed and decide to join, please use my referrer code - se8pdsm to join. Not only does it allow me to extend my membership, it also offers 2 years for the price of 1!