Free Ad Cars scam

I am still in pursuit of my refund fund. Now the web site is down! I still contacted them and gave them a piece of my mind!  There is no reason for not getting me on board! I live in a huge metro area. I drive the freeways and go to the city on a daily basis. We have huge park and rides right next to our freeways! I want my $40 back! Who should we report these guys!

new spam trick just sent to me today

I was sent an email from....myself?! When I clicked the "remove me from the list" and it brought me to my own address book! It listed this new email address listed in it but no name! So I went back and reported it s spam, here's the address to look out for!-cllnsncllns@aol.com

Better Business Bureau

I was just told by someone all their opinions about any company are based on what he's found on the BBB website! So I asked him if that would be where he would investigate a business that way if he was going to be interviewing for a job. His answer was "yes". He is horribly wrong!
The BBB even says on it's landing page they do not monitor such things like bait and switch advertising, even of their employment practices or how a company is run! Many companies hire one day and fire the next. Many don't have any real training when they say they do! There are so many things the BBB doesn't cover it can only be used as one of your tools to gauge a companies business practices. If you don't believe me, look up Vector Marketing. Your interview is a group sales pitch. You buy a bunch of expensive knives and go to a bunch of houses and try to sell them! I have another post in this blog that will explain more about Vector Marketing. The BBB gives them a A+ rating!

Free ad cars online scam comment

Another person had a comment on line about getting the run around with "Free Ad Cars" as well. They are now saying 15 days until they can even communicate with us!

Scams, real opportunities and opportunities that don't work for you

I just read that it's thought that for every 6 scams there is one realistic opportunity! My guess is that for every 6 million scams there is one very real opportunity. But then we have to measure what we, ourselves have and want to "put on the table" as well. How much we want to spend to start up, then to run it into our future. What do we know and how well we do it and how it applies to it a well. How fast can we learn what we have to know? What is the income potential? The list is different for each person. Too often people call something a scam just because they didn't possess the skills to make it work. There is even a woman in New York that says Avon is a scam! Her reasoning is: she maxed out her credit cards. She works 40 hours a day and then comes home to work another 40 hours on Avon. She is still involved with Avon?! She spent all that money trying to climb to the top! She wasn't working her customers. She spent her own money to get to the top. Therefore, this is a scam? No! This is exactly why I don't take what I read for the truth until I've done a complete search on any company. Is Avon a scam! No. Who doesn't know Avon? Who knows any Avon Rep who pays their mortgage, raises children and pays for their vehicle with Avon income? NO ONE! If someone reading this has made a living off Avon please tell me! I'd love to know!

Free ad cars refund promise

For those of you who have been reading this a while know I've made myself a guinea pig of sorts by signing up with this company. Like most of you I would not mind driving someone's car for free, loaded with advertising or not! They first said it would take 7 to 14 days to hear from these companies offering this opportunity. When that didn't happen I asked, "what's wrong?" Then they told me 30 days. It never happened. So I asked for my money back on November 7. Then they told me they were having a problem with spam and to wait another 30 days. But I asked for it back today anyway!  This time they gave me an email address to contact them. Again we will see what happens!

Give away starts now!

Don't you deserve a gift after all the work you do to prepare for the perfect holiday for everyone else? Beginning now I'm holding a give away! Last day to be eligible is Nov. 30, 2011. Before I show you the gift I'll tell you that the winner will be announced Dec 1, 2011. Then your gift will arrive at your home by Dec. 15, 2011.
Here it is: a $38 value, 13 piece, Truffle Basket. By Labella.

Email me at cqui2004@comcast.net. Put Truffle give away in the subject line.

Genuine online income opportunities

Genuine online income opportunities are hard to come by. This is a genuine opportunity for anyone with work ethic! But before we get to that; do you have work ethic? This is the single, most important quality/talent you need to even start to look at earning money online! There is no such thing as residual income, or passive income, or ambient income! There is no such thing as “sitting back and watching the cash roll in”. Unless you’re a trust baby, or a “trophy wife” it just isn’t going to happen!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS RESIDUAL INCOME! The words passive, residual, overnight, today, or easy do not exist when it comes to any ongoing ability to earn income, especially online. You can be disabled. You can be living far away from everyone else, you can be a parent of three young children and working full time or any other limitations, but they can’t stop you from online earning, or have fun doing it!

If you truly have genuine work ethic, don’t give up easily, see your plan as it unfolds in front of you and a willingness to learn then all you need is a successful company to become involved with. You don’t need to pay out even $100 to join a successful company! You shouldn’t be buying inventory to begin your company. You shouldn’t be going into debt to keep your company running!

This is why I chose Labella Gift Baskets back in June of 2011! I knew all this from the beginning; I just needed to hunt for 2 and one half years to find it! I had zero money to invest in starting a business. I trust no one, especially online. I had to hear about it from people I know and trust online! It takes a while to find out who is honest and knows what they’re talking about at the same time! It took a year just to trust the people that were recommending LaBellas Gift Baskets.

So I took advantage of their $1.97, 7 day jump start and made these decisions for myself!  You know and I know that takes guts to try to see if you can do the job. You’ve got to sign on and pay out the money, then win, lose or draw you will find out if it pays off in the end. You end up asking yourself; Do you gain income? Do you have the potential to gain income? Do you work hard enough? Do your talents work for what you are doing? So you answer all these questions with “yes”. Then you think, do you love the job? Do you get out of bed in the morning ready to embrace your work day? My instincts said “Yes”, emphatically. I signed on, $19.95 for another month.

I’m a doubting Thomas by nature and nurture. I’m also a doubting Thomas because of the world of corporate liars I was in for years. I have seen for my own eyes the financial underbelly that most of the rest of the world will never see. So when Mia and Janis said that by following their suggestions right from the start my first month’s consultant fee “should be covered because most people get sign ups to be consultants almost immediately”, that’s a $15.00 bonus. Do you think I believed them? Guess what? They have documented proof they were right! The statement holds true to this day. Every time I have to pay for my monthly consultant fee people join up and I get my bonuses.

I’m not getting rich, but I’ve built much of the ground work that will pay off as I continue to build the foundation of my company. I’ve found ways that anyone can use to start making money almost immediately. I wish I would have seen that path immediately. It took me a while to figure it out. It’s all there, online. There are just so many different ways to go about it I had to try a lot of things before I started raking in bonuses.

Now, my final quest is getting sales. Back to the dollar store for more stuff

Your American Dreams.com a scam

Yes, Your American Dreams is indeed a scam. This is how I know:

The owners of this site saturated craigslist across the country accomplishing two things at once. Posting heavily for web traffic and producing pages telling you to avoid scams and go to their site. They’ve managed to fill pages of search engine results leading you back to their site. They’ve also managed to convince a lot of novice web site traffic to actually think they are a legitimate site with so many key words be used saying otherwise.

I personally find this behavior disgusting. This is exactly why I won’t touch this one either! 

www.YourAmericanDreams.NET

Free Ad Cars is not giving me my money back

This is the auto response I received today-

We deeply apologize, but our contact email systems are not working properly at this time. Please contact us again in 30 days, once the problem has been fixed. We are unable to receive a copy of your email due to this technical problem. You will receive no reply from this email address due to it being invalid and our technicians are fixing the problem with our servers. Please allow 30 days. We deeply apologize.

Do not reply to this email. There is no way for us to respond. Please be patient during this process.

Thank You.

Free Ad Cars was given a chance

I stayed signed up with these guys for an entire month and have heard nothing from anyone. I've asked for my money back. Lets see if it was just a waste of my time! I continue to not hear anything from Free Ad Cars or from any company willing to hand over a free car to me. I've emailed them yet I've heard nothing back. Is my $40 gone forever? I had them take it out of my checking account and they did that on Aug 22nd. It might be both my waste of time and money! Grrrrr.

Free Ad Cars Scam

It's been a full 30 days since signing up for this program. My money is supposedly able to be refunded. No company has contacted me yet like they said would happen. researching online I read you have to be patient. I am suspicious that that's  because after signing up you get this list of "money making opportunities to try while you "wait" for you offers to come your way. Why do I believe they are actually getting paid to list these websites for people to see and hopefully try for a long time "patience". I could use that money to pay for my communication with people interested in LaBella! In seven days I'm giving up, and getting my money back, I hope. I'll let you know. I hope I'm wrong. But I think I'd see a gas station open up with free gas just for me before I see an offer from these guys. Something about "he11 freezing over" comes to mind.

LaBella Gift Basket consultants

Well I've been a full fledged business owner since the 8th of June. On one hand I've made $60. On the other I've spent no money paying my monthly membership fee. I didn't do it alone! The LaBella owners told me how to do it. Although they have made statements that I've found hard to believe, I have to believe them now. It worked. I am now charging forth to build my customer base. First stop-The Chamber of Commerce.

Free Ad Cars Update

More than 30 days have passed since paying for joining. Although I joined on the 15th of August, my withdrawal only came out on the 22nd of August. So it will be only fair to wait the full 30 days to here anything from any company for an opportunity to drive one of these "New Cars". The weather in Minnesota is certainly changing for the winter months. I am putting off buying a car until I either will need one for sure (therefore asking for my money back) or actually making this thing work. Either way a full review will be written about whether this is a valid company or not!

What does it take to be concidered an online scam?

In my current investigation it takes not following through with their word. Free Ad Cars is my current experiment. I signed on August 15th. It was fun to fill out and exciting to think how my life would change if I really did get a free new car to drive 1500 miles in a month all over Minneapolis in a new car, marketing a fun product with $3200 in my pocket every month! They said we have to wait 7 to 14 days for companies to contact me. In the mean time they gave me a list of other money making opportunities. I had a couple of questions about their website so I contacted them, twice. Both times they responded quickly but told me I would have to wait 30 days. Ok, it's been 30 days and nothing has happened.
I'm going to give them a little more time but I continued to do more research in the mean time. My greatest concern is that no one has said they participated and was disappointed! This is impossible. Remember the old adage: you can please some of the people all the time and you can please all the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time. This is a dead give away there is something wrong.
My second concern is everyone saying anything good about the program say very little about it! Someone's sister drove one two years ago. No one gave a real review about the program. These kinds of comments say nothing about the experience. At best they said, "be patient". I've been patient. So far nothing has happened.

LaBella Gift Baskets, review

I've been busy, very busy. Not busy because of LaBellas. The people at LaBellas, again, didn't lie.Two hours is all that is absolutely necessary to run your business. The only problem is it's so much fun sometimes I just don't want to stop! I know there's a lot about online marketing I have yet to learn.
What also became true is I have enough consultants signing up under me the bonuses are paying my membership fees. I kind of snickered to myself about that too in the beginning. Now I'm putting a push on fliers and sales. We shall see. More coming later. I do have fun doing this though.

Free Ad Cars scam

You may know I am in serious pursuit to find out if this opportunity is real or not! Of course my hope is to be driving a brand new car soon and pocketing $3200 a month on top of that. No insurance, no payment for gas. Nothing. Living in a densely populated city, with a drivers license and clean driving record I know none of this will stand in my way of this opportunity. I joined it on the 15th of Aug. The 30th day they told me it would take for companies to contact me is coming soon. On the 15th of Sept I'll fill you in!

An audience from around the world!

It's hard to believe only 6 months ago I was ready to give up this blog! Today I decided to see where my audience comes from. Check this out! Canada, India, China, Russia, Austrailia, Philippines, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia! This is very humbling and exciting for me. So the question is: Do I have anything in my blog to offer them?

International money making opportunities don't exist unfortunately. Laws and customs vary too much to get things to match two countries at once. Canada for instance is very much like the US in terms of doing business. However, for practical purposes we would never think of our countries have identified problems and try to resolve them at the border. For instance: neither country wants any food, or fresh produce or flowers going across the border. They harbor disease and insects neither country wants to have introduced across the border.

State and Federal Law, once it crosses the boarder, becomes international law. Lets face it there are far too many criminals to even think of trying to apply international law to the world wide internet. So instead of focusing on what we can't do I'm focusing on what I CAN do! As I read my blog there are points that I do make that help everyone protect themselves. This is enough for me!

work is available email

Lately I've been getting email saying there may be employment available for me if I just fill out the information on the email and reply to it. WHAT! I do not have the time in the first place. More importantly, I know these are not offers for work. When you read the email you'll notice a couple of words that don't make sense. In the US we don't use "transport" to move around, we use transportation, just to name one. I also noticed the email didn't come from any of the employment or job boards I know of. So the unknown origin of the email along with poor usage of US language is enough to tip me off it's bogus it also said a few other alarming things! One of them said the job was a personal assistant position. The responsibilities would include "caring for the financials". There is no such word as "financials" in the English language. Also, why is this person overseas at a seminar? Why am I suspicious this is a check cashing scheme involving only my loss of money when the check becomes useless?
Beware of doing business with anyone overseas. Stay in your local market. Never give out your information directly on a "form" on the email and reply. Get the name of the organization and the website where you will fill out an application for employment. You also want to look for where the email came from. If you don't recognize the origin, it's a scam. It is praying on gathering enough information about you to commit fraud.
Don't feel like you are the only one who has made the mistake of responding to one of these bogus emails. They are getting better and better at what they do. Staying on top of them is no easy task. It happens often enough to justify buying the information from the experts who set up the fraudulent correspondence. These people don't know what they are doing so they buy these ideas from those who understand the vulnerabilities of people like us.
Be safe and make sure the email you are receiving is from a source you know. Have a wonderful and safe day you guys. Thanks for your comments and following!

Midwest Publishers

As you know I spend time looking for opportunities to earn money part time and/or online, sometimes I aactually work for them to see if they actually do work!

You are also aware that I don’t pull out the scam word easily in any case. I don’t listen to what others say until I’ve proven it for myself. Just because it didn’t work for me, doesn’t mean it’s a scam. However if it looks a little shady I will look it up to see if I’m really smelling a rat. With that in mind here is my review for this week:

Midwest Publishers has been around for a couple of years. They sell magazines, 5 magazines a month would come to you at the “low price” of $3.45 a week. That’s about $15 a month for all 5.

The telephone pitch begins with: You’ve won a $1000 online shopping spree, congratulations. Along with that we offer you 5 magazines for the low price of…… At least this is the condensed version. But in reality there is no shopping spree. This does not necessarily make it a scam, just shady. So if you have the time to read 5 magazines a month and can afford to buy anything during these tough times you do have a deal on your hands. So one way or another, this is not a scam.

 The base pay for this opportunity is $7.25 an hour, “but we don’t want to pay that”. This alludes to the commission possibilities you can get of $10 to $15 an hour. Or does it? Training time is 2 weeks, that is, until you sit down for that training period. Training is in actuality 30 seconds! You are given a script and shown how to get into the software system, once. Then off you go to whatever place is open. But, oh if you have any questions you can ask the two people beside you! They, of course are on the phone themselves calling customers, or prospective customers.

During the course of the 4 and a half hour day you hear the person two seats down call out for a supervisor to verify and confirm an order 20 times to your none. If you get stuck on a screen and it freezes there you may not even know it for 15 to 20 minutes. That’s many missed opportunities for your paycheck and that’s it!

No one is trained to train. There is no real coaching. Those who try don’t realize covering something once and fast is not training! Three of us were started on the same day and three of us were gone on the third day. The exit meeting is “we usually give people 1 to 2 days to make a sale”. Ok, bye.

So I worked there for a grand total of 10 and one half hours. At $7.25 an hour my one pay check, which happens weekly would be $71.13. Payday was last Wednesday and I did give them all my information to deposit it automatically into my account.

So far none of this makes this a scam! I patiently waited until next Thursday, today and still no pay check making line where they say “we don’t want to pay you $7.25” will become all too much of a reality.So is it a scam? If someone asks me what I think I will tell them about my experience and let them decide for themselves.

vector in craigslist

Once again Vector is advertising in Craigslist. I found an ad under part time today. It said it was for a SCR that would talk to customers about their product, anwser any of their questions, etc. I called that number. The young lady on the other end immediately wanted my name and phone number and repeated only what the ad said. I then asked what company it was. She said Vector. I hung up and flaged the advertisement as "prohibited".
Now if you haven't read my review of Vector please go to the list on the left hand side and click on the Vector review.
My greatest concern about this company is it's impact on our youth. Just last week I had to nurse another promising young college student back to positive thinking after their "interview" with this company. There are many opportunities out there for our college students and for all young people for that matter. There are many companies who don't lie. Unfortunately Vector is among a lot of others who do. Don't get caught up in their web!

Summer in the great lakes region

Swimming friendly weather is hard to come by up here. Cold temperatures, dangerous thunderstorms, and just plain old rain keeps us out of the water more than 7 months out of the year. So if we live near a swimming friendly anything and have spare time on our hands we are out there, come hell or high water!
My dad never, learned to swim, neither did my mother,but dad made sure my sister and I did. Dad forked over money to see that we learned and practiced the skill under the watchful eye of life guards throughout our childhood. Believe me, Dad was very careful where he spent money.
If anything has stuck in my mind from those days from what we were taught from the very beginning is was, yes how to swim, so I'm not afraid of the water but the second thing that was drummed into my head was a healthy respect for the water. When swimming, go with another person who knows CPR. When one is in the water the other is out. Keep a close eye on each other. When swimming in a lake never go into water above your neck and never dive into a natural body of water.
Sound boring or over protective of your life? Throughout the summer we hear of people diving off river cliffs who we will never have the opportunity to know. Recently a family went to their apartment building pool. A 5 year old boy, his father and mother were enjoying the rare opportunity to swim without anyone else around. The next thing you know the pool was surrounded by emergency vehicles as the sobbing mom who never learned how to swim retold the story of having to helplessly watch her family drown.
Way off topic? Yes. Waste of space? No. If this saves one person, or even eliminates a close call I will have made the world a better place.

Free Ad Cars scam review complaints

Again I am on the crusade to find legitimate websites. Three recommendations came my way from sources like craigslist and online advertising in general. Surfing the net is a science in itself. You have to make decisions with or without reputable recommendations and little talk in the sites you know and trust. Right now the jury is still out on these sites so I can’t tell you diddely squat about them. All I can say is why and how yellow lights come up for me while researching them so you can get an idea of how to sometimes waste your time too! Although I don’t consider doing this a waste of my time. It is an opportunity to give you guys a heads up and possibly anyone else searching for some kind of income opportunity.

The one that is most mysterious to me is Free Ad Cars. I would love an opportunity to drive a free car all over town racking up 1500 miles and earning $3200 to do it! The website is fun as you select the car you want to drive, how far you want to drive it and what general types of advertising you are willing to represent. It tells you the advertising companies will contact you in seven to fourteen days.

It costs a refundable $39.95 to get a list of other stuff to do while you wait for your car. I used the “contact us” link and asked them a question about navigating their site. They replied with that information and asked me to wait 30 days for these people to contact me via email. I’m inclined to believe there are actual people running the website and not a computer. This is a good sign. But not being able to jam these “opportunities” into my schedule I went on to research the sites chatter in other websites. This is what I’ve found so far;

Having to look at several websites, none of them I completely trust, several “people” said they are or were part of this program and they loved it. They got a new car and got paid $2,300 a month in the form of a weekly check.

With the web site not having a forum for people who drive the vehicles is a huge yellow light for me! If they were reputable, people would be talking about it a lot more on the web.

In the review category, not much is being said. The few reviews there are not comprehensive. While they have never been a part of the program in any way shape for form they use general logic only to review it. To me this is not a review. This is a guess. Others talk of only parts of the program and not it’s entirety yet are not part of the program. Even places like enzinearticles do not have full reviews and based on guess work.

One of these reviews even goes so far as to say; “Using common sense, everyone would be going for this program. The companies would never be able to keep up with the demand. They don’t have the money to supply enough cars. They are now giving their employees the opportunity to drive company cars with advertising.”

I can tell you that marketing is anything but common sense. Marketing departments have more than enough money to market the product. Why? Because marketing has nothing to do with making the sale!

Labellas, building a business on a shoestring budget

This is a surprising blog day. Two posts in one day is unusual for me. But I'm pretty much leaving LaBellas on "autopilot" this week in pursuit of another money maker I found. As I attempt to glean more and more opportunities to make me recession proof I will have less time for LaBella's temporarily. But it works. The bare necessary time I have to spend on Labellas consists of advertising. I'm spending all of 10 minutes online a week and my off line ads are checked when I pick up coffee in the afternoon anyway. They both work much longer hours than I do and they produce results. That's the beauty of marketing. It works 24/7 so I don't have to.
Replacing the flier that had pull off tabs with a fresh one takes as long as it takes them to pour my cup of coffee.
I know I have to replace the one at the library every two weeks. My grocery store will only allow postcards, but because I go there once a week I can put up a new one just before I go out the door. This is what I call autopilot because it is marketing, not direct sales. But then again 98% of what I do is marketing. So it is something I'm quite comfortable with. You can call it passive income as many online opportunities call it, or you can call it marketing, like I do.
Passive income to me is not possible, simply because it requires someone to be thinking and doing something at least in the beginning. I prefer to call the hours I'm not working my business "autopilot". If you are not marketing you are missing too many people who could very well be interested in what you have to offer.
At the same time many like to know they are dealing with a real person. Giving them a phone number to reach you at or leave you a message is going to bring in a few more curious people. Even if they just get your voice mail you are still marketing.

Recession proofing myself and other sound advice

Good morning. Yes, here at 7am (earliest I've ever written anything for this blog) I am working away. I'm working my group of income sources early and as late as 10pm. Sound like a long day? Nope, just split in half. At this point I have 4 hours, 10am to 2pm to myself. I can spend it sleeping if I want. I spend every other minute doing the one thing I love: helping people make the money the way they want to make it, helping people meet their goals and showing them how to recession proof themselves.
When I see people running around trying to sell their wares, hoping to become independently wealthy, in their little gas saving, economy cars, I have to laugh. Honestly I don't think I could exist for any amount of time without the personal joy of getting to have some life of my own. But I do have to say I do love a lot of family time. I love not giving anyone the right to say "You're fired!"
A W9 is not employment! Just remember that. I just had someone tell me they were "fired" from their last "job" and I found out it was only a W9 "job". But it wasn't anything more than a W9 that would be affected. A W9 means YOU DON'T HAVE A BOSS! If an employer doesn't pay unemployment insurance, workman's compensation, take out taxes, and otherwise take care of the people that work for them, they are not employers. So in the end, if you no longer work to gain compensation from selling what they offer you are parting ways because for some reason it's not working out, PERIOD! You can't be fired, you were never employed.
You will never have an employment gap. You will never have to justify for not being employed. You will not "be taken care of" (whatever that means) and in turn you have no allegiance to your employer. You are recession proof!
Personally I don't like hearing "no raises this year, because the company didn't make enough money"! I love how they tell you that everyone is expected to work harder and smarter. I worked in that environment for 6  years. In the bowls of the big corporate ship you are not permitted pictures of your family, or anything else personal. But walking by the VP's office you see a credenza showing their bright and shining moments of their life. While working in another corporation they bragged about integrity yet were forced to pay back pay to employees that they never paid overtime to. The lawsuit was settled with the stipulation it would remain anonymous. No one was permitted to talk about the Class Action during or after! That way they could still maintain the illusion of integrity. But they called me a liar. Big business looses in the end however. The illusion doesn't ever last indefinitely.

All dog food is bad?!

Today I have two posts today! You may be thinking it's about dog food but it's not. It's about an ad I viewed on a PTC site I'm part of. Clixsense never says their ads are 100% true and correct. Today's laugh comes from www.topqualitydogfood.com.
Their ad said the average dogs live span is 11 years. So far this is true! The next thing it says is your dog should live at least 20 years and dogs die too young because we don't know exactly what's in dog food. Therefore veterinarians, breeders, even the scientists who develop the dog food they feed to their own dogs is actually killing them? But still I'm not telling you not to believe them. Lots of people are going to buy it, just in case their right. But I for one am not.
My reasoning comes from common sense. This would mean breeders knowingly shorten the window of opportunity to breed their animals, even though they study closely what the scientists are doing and thinking about what should be fed to their breeding stock. Veterinarians know and understand the science that goes into the dog food they recommend. They have to or they could not have become veterinarians in the first place! They ARE serious scientists, applying science to our dogs directly. It's a requirement of their education.
Last but not least: Farm dogs have three major functions on the farm. They watch over the farmyard when the farmer is sleeping. They help bring the cattle in to the barn area, etc. They eat left overs. They live about 11 years.
So with all this in mind, go forth and make up your mind. To me it makes no sense.
The biggest glaring thing about all this is no reputable company would say all others are wrong. This is my biggest answer to this advertising ploy.

TCK Poperty Management, research helps keep you safe

Recently, I received an email from TCK Property Management saying: "Thank you for your interest in our offer of a position with with TCK." They went on to say do to the vast number of requests for an interview they want me to filling the application for the position to get me an interview as quickly as possible. It wanted a telephone number they could send an application code to me!
Now I detest when someone says there was no need to look further because common sense would tell you it's bogus. I'm not telling you it's bogus. I just don't want to be caught in the trap I ran into 100% of the time I filled one of these thing out over the last two years. Every time nothing happened as far as a job was concerned. What I got was phone calls advertising something. I am cautious about what I fill out and when so I can easily track it by memory.
This one also waited two weeks before sending an email to me so it would be less likely that I would find what it corresponded with. Well guess what I can figure it out pretty fast! I also found one thing in craigslist that was a warning from someone that it is a scam. It was flagged and deleted. Now anyone could have flagged it. Often, I suspicion the people who put the ad in in the first place.
I stopped dead in my tracks and refused to go so far as to give them one of my phone numbers. Instead I replied to their email calling them bogus. Where is the website? Where is the application? Why do I need a code? I have yet had a company do this who is reputable! I just stopped.
If you've found this kind of application process actually reputable please tell me here. Send a comment to me. As long as you aren't a supposed employee of the company I would love to hear from you! At the same time, if you've found out this truely is a bogus company let me know! Let us know exactly how you found this out! We'd love to know

craigslist good news for job seekers

I've been doing my job for this blog for another week since my last post. This time I only ran into one bad job ad in all the categories I look through! I comb through customer service, once notorious for junk "opportunities" is cleaned up!. Then there are the part time and ETC, equally riddled with pointless job opportunities. Amazingly "gigs" never was too much of a waste of my time. Today only one popped up under part time. It contained a link which led me to a website guaranteeing that if I join their program I will be able to retire in 12 to 24 months! You and I both know this is not the reason people look for jobs. Even if it was true most people are looking for a 9-5, go to work in the morning and come home at night. Even running your own business from home takes a lot of work and passion. You will find yourself immersed in your company sometimes as late as 1 in the morning if not later! And when you can't sleep past 5am just might go on line right then. That one job I personally flagged. So there is not much on the scam front to warn you about this week! As I continue to think why this has been a trend I can't help but want to believe people are wising up and reporting these bogus "opportunities".
I do know AIL (American Income Life Insurance) is still trying to recruit sales staff within the "customer service" portion.

Minute Workers scam review update

Well I found the forum on Minute Workers. I couldn't help but to post this:
I'll cut straight to it!
Threats of removing me from membership immediately upon sign up. I literally combed through every possible record of signing up at any time since I started doing my investigation of online opportunities 2 1/2 years ago. Then I tried the first opportunity for 25 cents to go to a website and stay there for "a significant amount of time" then report back with the URL and my IP address only to find out I wasn't paid 25 cents because of some "exploitation". What an odd time to tell me this!
This put up yellow lights for me so I looked over more of the "opportunities". I found two red lights immediately. I have a great reputation in craigslist as I use it to sell and to post a job opportunity myself. I read their terms and conditions. Obviously so have some of your "employers"! They know they can't advertise superfluously and remain part of craigslist! So they ask people on this sight to risk their reputation on craigslist by posting ads and getting paid for doing so. Not allowed boys and girls!
I blew it for another company by sending out a message to my readers about their ill gotten "offers" only to be sabotaged by their people. But I don't care, I have a powerful online reputation and if that's what I have to do to keep it, that's what I'll continue to do!

Minute Workers scam review

I would have never signed up for this opportunity normally. However, the detective in me was screaming to investigate this program I heard of recently and put it off until I had a few minutes to mess around with it. It took all of ten minutes for me to see major concerns, yellow lights and red lights! (my way of saying reasons to wonder about the sight itself. Here's what I've found so far:
I've been doing this for quite a few years so it's hard to know definitively whether or not if I ever signed up with it in years past. If you do sign up twice for this program you will have your ability to do any activities disabled and  never allowed back again! So check. put your email addresses you may have used one by one and see if they find your address in their system! I also checked my book of all programs I ever joined in the last 2 1/2 years.
I then did the first task available on their list. It said by going to one website, stay there for a "considerable amount of time" then report back with your IP address and the URL of the web site. When you check to see if you are credited for this task you find out only then that the offer came from a business that was "exploited" by a spammer so you were not credited the promised .25 for completing the task.
I then scanned the list for other opportunities and a huge red light went up because I found a few opportunities that is just not acceptable!
You post a job on craigslist and in turn get .70 for doing it. I advertise on craigslist and have read the terms and conditions to remain a member of craigslist. It's against the rules of craigslist to post ads on their sight and be paid to do so. Unless your membership with craigslist isn't that important to you, you may want to rethink doing this task.
The bottom line is do you want to be part of a program that has lots of red colored sentences warning of being banned from the sight for doing bad things, even making mistakes to get you banned? Do you want to be part of an online income opportunity with threats, one offer that really won't ever pay you, and two that want to ruin your reputation on any website, all on the first page? I for one will not. But I will be back in there to find any further problems with joining it! Hmmmmm!

Online earning secrets

The secret to earning on line is there is no secret at all! It takes hard work, patience and attitude. You come with the tools to make it work. Just like any brick and mortar you have to supply something that helps others to meet their goals. "The people who really made the money during the gold rush were the one's selling the shovels." Just by looking at the way you hunt for information online, everyone else must be doing the same. Some might hunt better than you do! It took me 2 1/2 years to realize that I was gaining something during the course of looking for ways to earn money. I got an in depth education without paying out a dime to a college or a program! I learned I have to have some kind of talent, be willing to learn more and willing to work hard. If I could find something I loved to do and remain fascinated with it. The program I finally did join I knew I had to at least learn something from it. I found LaBella Gift Baskets and Wealthy Affiliate. Both provide valuable marketing and earning ideas and tools to get there. My problem with Wealthy Affiliate is it costs about $50 a month to get their information. La Bella Gift Baskets is only $19.98 a month, something I can live with. I don't know about you but I have to make money to spend money! So when the training said 2 hours every work day and 4 on a weekend I figured that could work. I also have a need to be around people. This provides me that opportunity!

We Pay Daily review

Hello again! I figured I better get this in today because I will be leaving tomorrow at an unknown time to get out of town like I usually do for a little more than two days. Now that the kids have grown and moved out we take the dogs and go to the heart of Minnesota Tourist country. DON'T you just LOVE it?! We're not lazy, just the opposite! We have to force ourselves to unplug. So there is no technology up there but cell phones!
So anyway here's what I've found out:
We Pay Daily is a slogan, not a company. You don't find this out until you sign up. It can't be a scam because it's not a company. You soon learn you've signed up for APsense! Now you start receiving emails. It doesn't matter if you cancel when you know it won't work for you!
What it is is a gigantic forum. It's built by the people involved in the forum. You would start by bugging your friends and business associates to join with you. Then you look for contacts in their forum that you think will help you and your friends move your business forward.
If you know anything about forums you know if it becomes interesting and has a lot of people who have the same thing in common with what you're doing it can swallow your time up with interesting conversation for an entire day! I don't know about you but I spend time actually doing something rather than talking about doing something.
So, know you do not enter a scam, as far as money is concerned. You do enter an opportunity to loose time. In this case I consider loosing time is scamming myself. I'm busy earning an online presence if nothing else! A good one at that!
However, if you're interested in gaining knowledge for knowledge sake this might be the right place for you! You will earn money here. How much I don't know. I didn't stick around long enough to find out! Good luck if you join! Tell me if you find it worth your time.

We Pay Daily, mystery company

I think I've given this company enough time to let me find anything on line that tells me whether it's a scam or not. Although it remains a mystery to me one way or the other I'm going to take the dive. I feel like signing up with a completely different email address than the one I use for all other communication to stay on the "safe side".

The reasons why I question it so much is because they don't even let you see the web site without signing up first. I don't know what I would be doing, whether there is a forum or not, or anything indicating it's a legitimate site or not. Furthermore, I can't find even a review on line about it. I won't even be able to find the sites origin unless I sign up with my email address and telephone number!

I am about to step into murky waters with an unknown depth. But I will take the risk just for the sake of coming up with my own review if nothing else. PLEASE wish me luck!

Six mistakes wealthy people make

It doesn't matter if you're rich or not, this information is something to keep in mind in your life too!
1.Assuming the people you are with are honest and trustworthy when going abroad.
While servicing investment banking products I received a call from one of our wealthiest clients on board ship in the middle of the Baltic Sea on his way to France. He was pick pocketed on board. He had all his credit cards, phone numbers and information in his wallet and it was suddenly gone. Although his problems stopped with me, I'm sure the rest of his trip was less than pleasant do to worry.
Those uninitiated to foreign travel, no matter how much or how little they are worth are vulnerable to the cultures of other countries. There are some cultures that believe that no mater how wealthy they are, if it's not nailed down it's theirs. Write down the names and numbers of all your financial institutions, etc in the event of the worst happening. Keep that in a safe place, not on you when out in public. Leave the wallet at home and buy a money belt. You are far less likely to have it taken when it's close to your body.
Wealthy people stick together. They all understand the processes they had to go through to get there and keep it there. They can get used to sticking around people who are honest and trustworthy, letting their guard down.
2. Assume you are going to live forever.
 So you are loaded. You are a self made millionaire, or maybe you're not. You control all financial decisions and know where your hard earned money goes. Even if you know where every last nickel goes, people make this mistake.
All your financial accounts are in your name and your name only. You were ever so kind as to make your spouse a signer on one of the credit cards. Everything else is in your control completely. Knowing you have a ton of money stacked up you have taken out a life insurance policy to make sure your spouse is taken care of for the rest of their life without you. You're all set, well covered and ready for anything. Or are you?
I received a phone call late on a Friday afternoon. On the other end was a woman standing in her morticians office trying to buy two caskets and to grave plots with no credit of her own and nowhere near the $10,000 necessary to buy them. Her husband just had some kind of circulatory problem that day sending him to the hospice. Her financial adviser went on vacation for a week and his office was closed. She would have to wait 10 days just to talk to the receptionist about talking to him! We got her to agree to getting $10,000 from her credit account as she wouldn't be charged interest in the mean time.
This man did everything right, except one thing-plan and make final plans for the end of his life. His wife ended up having to do it all. She also had to establish credit in her name. This can only lead me to believe he loved his money more than his wife!
3. Believe that because you've never needed credit you never applied for credit. So you can buy everything with cash. You have money piled up and accessible just needing your signature.
One man wanted to take advantage of a great interest rate and investment banking product that required him to apply for a credit card. Even if he had a card with this credit company he still would have to get another one that worked with the product. So he applied. He was promptly turned down. Why? Not because he didn't have enough money, but because he had no credit history. He paid cash for everything!
While it's true that paying out interest is money going down the drain, however it is a necessary evil. Without credit history there are some financial products not available to you. So if you get a card, use it and pay it off when the bill comes. You will find that with discipline, using it to move money will be very convenient and safe. Just check your bill once a month.
4.Assume just because you were given a loan, even a mortgage loan, that your credit is good. Even an underwriter can let a ding on a credit report go by because the rest of your credit history is beautiful. That one problem can, over time, become a minor headache. Yes, I've seen this happen too. Have it pulled anyway. If there's a problem, make the phone calls to find out what it's all about.
I had a young newly wed wife on the phone and she was already knee deep in moving boxes, phone calls and trying to make dinner at 3:00 in the afternoon. She started crying when I was doing the research for this minor glitch I knew would be better solved by me than her. I told her to continue to unpack and I would nail down the culprit myself and call her the next day. Sure enough the bank who put it there didn't find it in their records and sent me a fax saying so. They would clear it right away. So I called with the good news, made a copy of what was sent to me, put it in her closed mortgage file, and sent her the other one. I also wrote instructions to do the follow up to ensure it was done to her satisfaction. Did this make any money for the bank? No. What it did was build a healthy relationship with the customer.
5. Trusts gone awry.
So you're a trust baby. (this is what we call you in the industry). How much money do you have in your account this month? We get this all the time. We also get to patiently listen to your story about the perfect sports car you found and hope to get it soon. We stuff in the appropriate "ooo's" and "ahhs" tell you how much you've got and send you on your way. But what happens if you're not around to contact in the event of the very smooth process becoming less than smooth.
One couple spent six months every year out on their sailboat. No technology, no cell phones, nothing. When they finally do come into port she goes to the local library and uses their computer to check their balances. Oops! This time something didn't look right. The balance was zero. I was the lucky one to receive the call from the irate woman.
Sailing away for 6 months out of the year sounds wonderful, but with no way to contact you in the event of a problem is just asking for trouble. Anything in the electronic world can go wrong and is usually solvable via the telephone, if you're near a working telephone. If not you could be in port with no way to pay for docking fees, supplies, fresh water or food. If nothing else check on your accounts by going to port at least once a month. You'll be able to eat that way.
6. Last but, certainly not least. Assume you have so much money you can treat people any way you want! Did you know we will perform only the amount of work necessary to get the job done for a customer that wants to bite everyone's head off? These financial organizations have excellent staff working for them. Some of which have 20 year track records with glowing reviews and awards. Beating these people up will not produce more because you have a big mouth. We will go above and beyond for those who are average people who just want to get their financial chores done. I saw one customer who after two years of he11, again threatened to take all his money out of the bank. The VP took him up on his threat and said fine go. Why? Their highest achieving banker collapsed on the floor after trying to satisfy the craby old goat!

Avoiding scams of all kinds

Scams of all kinds live and thrive online. Everyone thinks the definition of a scam has to do with money. Yet those of us who've made ourselves immune to this kind of scam are often getting scammed in a host of other ways. We don't count them because it never comes in the form of a check. It can't be held in a checking or savings account. The others are the ones that scam us out of our time. The website may be about ebooks that will teach you to become wealthy. Another may say if you learn their ways of selling online you can start earning a paycheck quickly. There are even scams out there that will ask you to jeopardize your membership in other websites. There are others that will mess up your blog to stop you from reporting the facts of these websites to your audience!
There are people out there who say their way is easy and not a scam, but when you spend a week learning how they do it only to find out what you were learning will never work for you, I consider these scams as well. For instance; find something on ebay that was listed in the wrong area. Buy it cheap because no one found it and resell it correctly for a profit. You can also create one good website a week for a year. Another spends your reputation by paying you to post ads on craigslist and paying you for them. Most people don't recall all the terms and conditions in craigslist and find out the hard way. You can't report them because you accepted payment from them and posted these ads on craigslist. But I can because I didn't engage in this practice!

La Bella Gift Baskets scam review complaints

La Bella Gift Baskets is a business I got involved with about a month ago. I want to first explain why I decided to fork out some cash rather than make money totally free and online line. I’ve been hearing about this company for over a year now. Members of another website, some of whom have been blogging about their adventures. I’ve been watching their blogs out of curiosity on and off. So I know these people are real people with the same problems and achievements we have.  I was in the craigslist, jobs section believe it or not and found an offer saying what all the attributes were about joining.

Because this only reminded me about something I was thinking about doing I actually thanked the person who posted it for reminding me. I thought by now I really need to invest in myself. But before I tell you my reasons for spending money I have to tell you that I noticed the direction of this blog was turning out to be more like a “seek and destroy” site as time went on. In my quest to warn people about the pitfalls of online earning it turned into something very negative instead of spreading good cheer. I think that’s kind of self destructive and I don’t know how other people can do that on a daily basis! With that I hope that you understand why I have to spend some positive energy.

I consider the $20 membership fee an investment in myself.  I am not a flowery, frilly type of person so the idea of a gift basket made up by someone else to say the absolutely perfect thing got me to thinking. There’s lot more people out there who are just like me! Companies are “downsizing” their marketing and customer service depts. There are people who don’t have the kind of creativity or the time to make a creative gift and give it as a hostess gift or thank you gift. Why not ask someone to make it and ship it where ever they want it?

I spent $1.98 to take this thing for a spin “around the block”. I seriously liked what I saw. It taps everything I enjoy and leaves the choices up to me. I bought my first business cards from their recommendation for an inexpensive printer. I paid the $20 to join La Bella and then another $7 something for shipping 250 business cards of my choise. I know it will take a good year to build my business to fully operational so I won’t tell you I made my first million already.

I like talking to complete strangers. I love being out where there are lots of people enjoying themselves. To me this is the kind of community living I was accustomed to growing up. It’s where there is no stress, no tight schedules and plenty of people to have fun with. This is why it caught my eye.

Two ladies, Mia and Janet dreamed the whole thing up. It’s one year old but there are no flukes about it and looks like it will be around for a while. It’s young enough that I am considered one of its “pioneers”. They have complete training that goes with it and it comes with your very own website. You can speak directly with Mia every Tues in the company conference call. The members can communicate with each other in the forum. And Mia and Janet respond to your emails quickly.

So I’m taking my smile to the streets and doing some online advertising. I wanted to completely test this thing out before talking to you about it, because as you know I will never say just join something without trying it out myself first. I will share more with you as time goes on. For now I’m just going to concentrate on getting the program to pay me some money! I’ll be giving you full reports at least on a monthly basis in the meantime.

craigslist caution for adplacers network scam review

Just the combination of craigslist and ad placers network is illegal. I've just learned the action ad placers network wants you to take is against the terms and conditions for craigslist! For those of you who just started researching ad placers network, they tell you they will pay you for running advertisements online for them. They don't pay people and some get $100 compensation for their trouble, not nearly the amount people are promised. They want you to to get a "Rush" card to get paid. What makes me think they own that too? Any other electronic pay system would not appreciate this illegal activity.
What makes it illegal is craigslist terms and conditions. You, as a craigslist member are not to post ads with them, online for payment for simply doing so! They can never get caught for wrong doing because the risk is all on the members of craigslist who perform this activity.
This reminds me of the scams run on those who advertise on craigslist. They offer to buy some expensive item immediately, sight unseen. They tell you they will pay you through paypal immediately and have a third party shipper arrange the pick up. They hope you will withdraw the money immediately so they can file a dispute that the item was never received. Any way you look at it, if you enter into the transaction they win.
When this was tried on me the first time, I became suspicious because no one buys a used fishing boat sight unseen! The biggest thing that made me mad was the time I spent researching this suspicious activity.
Ad placers network is just another wart on the online scene.

Update on adplacers.com scam review

As we know people are waiting patiently to the 30 of June to see if they get paid as promised for the work they did for adplacers. While I am very glad for the people who were paid by these people before May, there are many, including them waiting to be paid for work in May. I've recently found out those who have joined since the end of May are still waiting for their Rush Card. Adplacers promised it would be sent in the beginning of June. Needless to say the online rumbles of people waiting are loud and clear. They are reporting the program to whomever will listen. They are sharing with us for a possible warning to stay away. What concerns me is if we went to work for a brick and mortar, traditional job it would get picked up by the networks as not meeting payroll, loosing credibility in the market place. On line, nontraditional jobs are on the other hand exempt from this threat to their livelihood. When they fold they can just start up again under a different name with adjustments to what worked for them before. Do you think the people to started the program did not get paid as well? Wrong. They also have people. People who comb the internet looking for people like me who help squash their name for good. They do what ever they can to stop us but to bad. People like me don't become intimidated to easily.

Free to join online income

Everyone it seems is looking for a free income online. Unfortunately while it doesn't cost money, do you have the perseverance and dedication  to commit your attention to that program making only a few pennies a day? It is possible to gain daily income level much higher than pennies a day but are you willing to blog, seek out other bloggers that also blog about something relevant to your blog? Are you willing to take risk while your income grows? One way or another you will need to sacrifice something. That sacrifice may be time, effort or both. Online earning is the same as off line earning. Brick and mortar businesses are built the same way. Online business only means you won't have the heavy overhead offline businesses have. The heart of my business is all in my laptop. While I can access all my information from my other computer and soon my blackberry I still have to have an office within my home. True it's a tax write off but it is only that. It is not a reimbursement.

Is my personal recession coming to an end?

The recession has hit me particularly hard. After two and a half years of researching I've actually begun making more money. Yes, I've been told over and over again, it can take that long to finally earn something, anything online. Since I began this research I realized my findings could be useful information to others, hence this blog. This blog isn't going away anytime soon however. Since I've scheduled 36 hours a week for my business I have 4 hours to research other places to make an income and keep my hobby.
What I do doesn't and wouldn't work for everyone. I have a marketing education and have written corporate communications for years. With all that put together I've been tailoring what I want to do with what I'd love to do to finally come up with something that makes me excited to get out of bed in the morning.  But it would be irresponsible of me to say, "come join me!". It's not for everyone. All I can do for you is put you in touch with my website. In it is a place where you can see and buy gift baskets.
I picked this for my corporate marketing business because of the value it would add to anyone looking for a thoughtful and appreciated gift for anyone. No more biscotti and coffee samples for the holidays. Those obligatory gifts for family members, friends and neighbors would have the quality to say I care. It also shows a businesses strength without costing too much money. Anything else I offer is good for companies only.

Multitasking the right way

Multitasking the right way conjures up visions in each person’s mind in very different ways. Yet you have to ask yourself are you really multitasking? The perception of multitasking is different in each persons mind. Employment advertising will say: able to multitask in a fast paced……. A Walmart greater saying good morning to 10 customers at once is fast pace. Looking around for trash and dirt as well is multitasking. But you never see a job offer for the position saying these criteria are part of the job!

Entering an online career is equally fast pace and multitasking depending on who you talk to. Most people think multitasking means talking on the phone, driving and writing all at the same time is multitasking. Ok, maybe you are multitasking, but we all know the consequences that develop at some point when you do this. Most people think if you are talking on the phone and entering data into a computer is multitasking, but some don’t. You are physically doing two things. I think that’s multitasking. However, when I’m doing some mundane task like doing dishes and thinking about prioritizing my day or writing this blog, I of that as multitasking, it’s just no one can see me doing it!

I love asking the interviewer what their definition of multitasking is which actually shocks them! It’s hilarious listening to their answer! You aren’t supposed to ask this question during an interview! The same goes for asking them what they mean by fast paced or, if you’re older than 40 don’t ask them what their definition of too old to fulfill the requirements of the job.

Some of the best words of wisdom I ever heard were: Do one thing and do it well. These are wise words, on the other hand, what is the definition of “one thing”? Everyone with one 9 to 5 job thinks they are doing one thing because they have only one job! What about your hobbies? What about your responsibilities?

Everyone from the school janitor up to the president of the US have more to do than their job or run their company. Raising a family and many are becoming do-it-yourselfers since the recession. What about sports fans?  Then there are the second property owners. Everyone has more than one thing going on!

I think the wiser statement is “know your priorities”. Right now making a living is my highest priority. When I’m going to the post office and thinking about my conference call coming up, I’m multitasking. So what is your definition of multitasking? Once you know, do it and do it very well!