Nowadays many people are making money working from home via the internet. There are many different ways this can be done but there are also many scams out there so one must be very careful.

First let me start of with a legit no fee work from home business. There aren’t too many of these types of home internet businesses, but this is one of the few. It is called “Niche Marketing” among other similar names. The basic principle is to create a website about a certain topic that has the ability to make it to the first or second page of the Google search results. The main reason being that if you can get to the first or second page of Google then it’s highly unlikely anyone will ever find your site.

This Niche Marketing has no fee whatsoever attached to it. That doesn’t mean however it is without costs. You will need to buy a domain for each site you make (about $10 per year) and also have webhosting. It is by no means a scam but of course it is by no means easy either. You need to have some computing knowledge as you need to buy domains and create websites. Many use WordPress which is fairly easy to use but even for an experienced computer guy setting up your first WordPress website will take some time. Once you have done one, of course, it gets very easy.

Further you will need to do “keyword research”. This is possibly the longest part of the job as you need to find “niches” i.e. keywords where the competition is low so that there is a good chance you will reach the first page of Google, or close to it.

Once you have found your topic then there are a couple of ways you can make money with your new website. The most popular and perhaps easiest is with Google Adsense. This is completely free to join and you basically give Google some space on your website and when people click on the ads you earn money. Very easy!

You can expect to make about $1 per day with Google adsense on a niche site. (Unless you are lucky enough to find a niche with high search traffic – very hard to find). The idea is to have many of these websites so that you can make possible $100s per day depending on how many sites you have. The nice thing is that once the site is set up and running it shouldn’t need any work afterwards. So you spend a lot of time creating the sites but then you just relax forever as the sites earn money.

You can also make money through affiliate programs. So if your site is about Pet Toys then you can find another website that sells pet toys and become an affiliate for that site making a commission off of each sale that is made from the customers you send to that site. Therefore you can have 2 potential forms of income from the same site.

Now perhaps you aren’t very good at creating websites but you are eager to try to make money online. The other very popular way is by joining some sort of MLM or Pyramid scheme. Many people think that these are scams but they aren’t really. Sure there are many that are scams, but just because some are scams doesn’t mean that all of them are.

Things to avoid are anything that sounds like “Google Cash Kit” or “Make Money With Google”, these are very scammy in that they try to sell you a kit for $2-$5 (very low price). They make it out that this is all you pay, a small fee for the shipping but what you don’t realize is that you have just signed up for a subscription service that might cost you $50-$100 per month. The crazy thing about this is that it’s completely legal. The reason being that at the bottom of the page where you provide your credit card details there is some very small writing about the monthly fee. Of course it is never mentioned anywhere else and all the sales pages make you think that it is just a cheap kit you are buying and all you have to do is pay the shipping.

Another scam to avoid is the work from home stuffing envelopes scam. The websites promoting this supposed work from home job make it out to be that many companies are willing to pay people to handle and process their mail for them. This is by no means true. I should know because I used to fix the machines that are used to perform this job. Companies like Francotyp Postalia, Pitney Bowes and Neopost all make machines that automate this process and work infinitely faster than any human can. Further many companies offer this service in bulk (because they have these machines) and it works out to pennies a piece. So what company in their right mind is going to pay anyone $10 or more per hour to do a job that can be done by a machine at 100 times the speed and therefore much cheaper?

If you have seen any sites trying to promote this type of work you will notice that you will need to pay a fee in order to do the work. This is your first alarm signal. They say the fee is to weed out the people who aren’t serious or to purchase the names and contact details of companies who want this work done but it isn’t true. You are just buying into a scheme whereby you try to get others to do the same and earn a commission for doing so. The companies promoting this are not very up front about this so that’s why I would label it as a scam. You can of course make money from promoting this, but you make your money by duping others into falling into the same trap. Not a really nice way to make money.

Other scams should be easy to identify. Any site that has a “guarantee” about the income you can earn is a scam as no one can ever guarantee anything. All success is down to how much work you put in and a little bit of luck. This is something that no one in their right mind can make a guarantee for.

Another very popular way to make money legitimately online is to join a real MLM scheme. One of the most popular and well known schemes is GDI (Global Domains International Inc). You basically pay $10 per month to be a member and that $10 gets you a very basic webhosting service. Illegal MLM schemes don’t give you anything for your money (ie no product), but this is a real product. It just so happens that most people don’t really care about or use the product. Nevertheless it’s real and legal. They have been going for about 10 years now and I even think they are traded publicly on the stock market (I could be wrong).

You earn money by getting others to join, so you advertise on the internet wherever you can. Most people use free advertising like traffic exchanges and so forth. The commission is $1 per month per person. But you also get the same commission if one of your referrals gets a referral. This happens up to 5 levels down. So, simply speaking, if you got 1 person per month, and everyone did the same, you would be earning $1000s per month after your first year. It’s very slow going in the beginning but it picks up as you stick at it and the idea is to get the snowball rolling. Now the goal of 1 person per month seems very easy but in reality it isn’t. Not necessarily for you, but perhaps for others. The numbers all seem very easy in theory, but in practice it just doesn’t happen that way.

However, if you are very skilled in sales and marketing then you will likely be successful with Global Domains International Inc. They also offer a very good bonus scheme. If you get 5 signups within a week you can earn a $100 cash bonus. This is possibly the best bonus scheme available on the internet.

The drawbacks with GDI. is that it’s been around for so long so almost everyone is in it or already has been. The only possible or potential customers are the new people who come to the internet in search of work and haven’t heard of or tried GDI yet (like me a year ago – I am no longer a member now however). These people can be considered “fresh fish” for G.D.I. marketers. The thing is there are thousands of thousands of GDI marketers online. It’s kind of like fishing in a lake where there are thousands of people fishing at the same time. If 1 new fish enters the lake what are the chances that you will catch it ? So in the end I dropped out of GDI as I didn’t see a great future in it. However, that may not be the case for you so by all means give it a try. The most you can lose is $10 per month. Don’t let me put you off if you were considering trying it out. Nothing ventured nothing gained right ?

However before jumping into Global Domains International Inc, you might want to consider some of the new competition that has come on the scene in the last year. One of the best, in my opinion, is Teamwork Revolution. They are very similar to GDI in that they are $10/month and the product is again webhosting. Their webhosting product however is far superior to GDIs. GDI only offer 100MB of web space or 10 pages, whichever comes first. Teamwork Revolution offer full blown cPanel webhosting service with 700MB of space and unlimited pages as well as unlimited traffic and other necessary things like MySQL Databases. Therefore GDI can’t even hold a candle to Teamwork Revolution when it comes to product comparison.

Their compensation plan is also much better. First of all it is a forced matrix program. If you aren’t familiar with what a forced matrix is it basically means you have the possibility of getting spillover. The whole point of these MLMs is to get people to join under you. Well, if you are in a forced matrix it’s possible that you will receive spillover from your upline thereby earning commissions without even doing anything. This isn’t only a great benefit for you, but it is also a huge selling point for future potential recruits. Everyone loves forced matrices, so if you aren’t in one it will likely be much harder to entice people to join as there are so many forced matrices now.

As for compensation, you earn up to 6 levels down, unlike GDIs 5 levels. Further, Teamwork Revolution give you $2 per month per person for the first 5 people which means once you have 5 people on your first line you break even, unlike GDI where you would need double that (ie 10 people) in order to break even. Moreover, Teamwork Revolution give you $2/person per month commission for the recruits on your 4th line as well. All in all, the commission structure is far superior to GDI’s.

The only advantage GDI have over Teamwork Revolution (and pretty much every other competitive company) is their bonus scheme. I already said that GDI pay $100 for every 5 people sponsored within 1 week on top of the $1/person per month residual commissions. Teamwork Revolution don’t offer this so if you think you can sponsor 5 or more people per week into GDI then GDI is definitely for you. However, for most people, 5 people per month is hard enough never mind 5 people per week. So for these reasons I would recommend Teamwork Revolution over GDI any day. I hope I have given you some food for thought if you happen to have been considering GDI as a way to make money online.

Now you may be wondering if I think it’s such a great company and money making opportunity why did I leave? The main reason is that it didn’t quite work for me personally. I tried it out for about 5 months and I was able to personally sponsor about 10 people but the problem was is that’s where it stopped. Those others weren’t able to replicate the process. Possibly because they didn’t bother trying (an unfortunate drawback with forced matrices is that they attract lazy people who think they can get rich purely on spillover – impossible!) or it’s possible they did try but they just didn’t succeed. Whatever the reasons, eventually the people I recruited dropped out after they didn’t see the expected or hoped for success. This is a huge challenge with these monthly payment matrices. You feel like you are constantly bailing water out of a leaking boat. Although you have no boss or anyone telling you what to do and when to do it, you still feel under a lot of pressure to recruit quickly. If you don’t keep the ball rolling then it’s very likely your matrix will implode as people drop out. If you aren’t able to keep recruiting new people and providing spillover then people drop out, which in turn causes others to drop out as they see their own downline dropping out. So for this reason I decided to give up all together on the monthly payment matrices. I don’t like working hard to build a business only to see it collapse. It feels like you are building a house on water. I prefer to build on concrete (so to speak).

Where I have had most of my success and profit is with 1 time payment matrices. These are great and also have excellent potential. You can make just as much money with these MLM programs and possibly even more. What I like about them is you only ever make 1 payment so your risk is limited entirely to that 1 payment as apposed to monthly payment matrices where your risk is dependant upon how long you stay in the program. Further, with 1 time payment matrices if you decide to take a months holiday there is no risk. People don’t drop out of 1 time payment MLMs. If you stop marketing for a while, there’s no leaky boat feeling. Theses MLMs never implode or go backwards, this is like building on top of concrete.

One of the successful programs I tried was 4×1 Fortune. It is only $11 to join and it is a “Cycler Matrix”. What that means is you need to “cycle” before you make any commissions. Once you make 6 sales you will cycle and earn $30. So you nearly triple your money after only 6 sales which is pretty good. If you make 5 sales you earn nothing. The commission doesn’t happen until the 6th person. It is also a forced matrix so you will possibly get spillover or spillunder once in a while but I always stress this should never be relied upon. If you do this you won’t get anywhere. Although it’s possible to get spillovers I recommend just carrying on as if this didn’t happen that way when it does it’s just a nice bonus. The “product” in this case is just some e-books and videos and stuff to help you with online marketing. Most people don’t care about the product, they just want the chance to make some money. So if you are looking for a simple program with low risk and one that actually works and pays, then 4 by 1 fortune is definitely one to consider.

If for some reason you don’t want to risk $11, or you want to try something that is even easier, then I recommend Work for $3 (WF3D). This is only $3 to join as the name implies (well there is a $0.40 alertpay fee). This is basically a mailing list builder. This is a highly useful tool especially for online marketers. As you recruit others to join this list you earn a little bit of money. It is by no means a lot of money but it has the potential to turn into millions. For example, if you recruited just 3 people in your first month and then never recruited again ie retired, and everyone else did the same thing, then in your 11th month you would earn almost $18,000. It seems crazy but it’s a fact. Only 3 people in the first month seems easy, especially considering I recruited about 30 people in my first month. However, I am in my 7th month or so and the reality is that other people are not able to recreate the same success I had. In fact there are many who after 7 months haven’t recruited a single person. Possibly because they haven’t tried or perhaps they have tried and failed, and then there are others who consistently get signups every week which is contributing to the growth of my downline. I have personally now recruited about 100 people, but my downline is about 500 because some of the 100 that I recruited have become successful recruiters themselves. It’s all about what you put into it.

So if you are looking for a really easy program with the potential to turn into decent residual income then give Work for $3 (WF3D) a try. The worse case scenario is that you lose $3.40 right ? But the best case scenario is you will have a residual income for years to come like I am enjoying right now. Even after 7 months I am only seeing about $10/month in residual commissions, but it’s still free money and I’m not really trying hard at it anymore. Further, it definitely has the potential to grow into a lot more than that.

So there you have it. There are many ways to make money online via the internet. Above are just some online opportunities that exist. I hope my experiences and reviews will help you to make your decision as to which online business opportunity you will try out. If you try any of my recommended programs I would love to hear about your experiences good or bad. We can all learn from each other.

Here I introduce my current top rated MLM program (but #2 rated work from home program as the #1 rated work from home opportunity is not an MLM program).  To start off with I would have to say mathematically speaking 4×1 Fortune is one of the best online business opportunities as far as commissions goes.  Of course all of these programs are the same really.  You spend “x” amount of dollars to join a program and then you try to get others do the same, and make money doing so.

This one happens to be a one-time fee of $11.  This program is a “cycler” so it works a little different in that you don’t get paid from your very first referral.  You need 6 referrals before you get paid anything.  After your first 6 referrals you will get paid $30 which is pretty good when compared to other programs.  Not too many programs allow you to nearly triple your money with only 6 referrals.

After 6 referrals it gets a little confusing.  After your next 6 referrals (ie your 12th referral) you get nothing.  The next payout doesn’t happen until you reach 18 referrals (which I haven’t done yet).  It appears that once you reach that level you get paid $110.  This is pretty good considering 18 referrals generates $198 for the company and you will have received $110+$30 of that.  Pretty good compensation rates.

The “product” is just another library of digital products.  Mostly e-books for marketing etc.  I haven’t had much of a chance to go through any of it but I’m sure you could find some useful stuff in there.

I will say that 4x1fortune.com is something that you have to promote in order to make any money.  The spillover is very limited so don’t expect to get anywhere with spillover with this or any other cycler matrix.  If you want spillover then you should consider Work for $3 which has the possibility of providing spillover forever.  But then again Work for $3 is a yearly fee and I prefer 1 time payment MLMs, and I think others do too.  I don’t like to be committed to a monthly or yearly fee.

The trick, or scheme, behind 4x1fortune is that they don’t need to make any payments until you “cycle”.  This allows them to hold on to the cash for a while which they could invest or use otherwise.  Further, they likely bank on the fact that people won’t make it to their next cycle and they will get to keep all the money themselves.  Maybe there is some sort of a figure out there that says on average each marketer can only recruit 15 people or so.  This is the type of info that makes this a perfect business model, as the big payout comes once you reach 18 people.  I am about half way there and when I reach 18 people I will be sure to update this page to let you know what happens.

So if you are as curious as I am, by all means join using my link (Click HERE to Join the 4×1 Fortune Opportunity) so I can reach the 18 level  that much faster and post the result here.  All kidding aside this opportunity is actually quite good when just analyzing the math.  I haven’t found too many programs that pay out so much, it’s just the waiting for the payment that’s the killer.  The other standard matrix programs like Work for $3 and Teamwork Revolution Power System pay you after each recruit, no waiting to “cycle”.

If you don’t like recruiting people then you should look at my other recommended online opportunity No Fee Real Legit Work at Home – Niche Marketing which doesn’t require any fee to join and is probably the only real legitimate job/business opportunity reviewed on this site.  However it isn’t as easy as the others.

The other nice thing to remember about 4×1 Fortune is that it’s only a 1 time fee of $11.  If you join with me I will help you as much as I can, as your success is my success.

Click HERE to Join the 4×1 Fortune Opportunity

UPDATES

MAR 13 2010 – What a nice surprise today.  I got paid $11 from 4×1 Fortune out of the blue.  I wasn’t sure why but I found out it was a “matching bonus”.   I never really talked about matching bonuses above but I will mention them now.  If someone you recruited yourself cycles then you will get paid this bonus.  The website never actually said how much it was but I guess we know now.   I don’t know which of my recruits cycled but at least this tells me at least one of them is active so there is hope I will get more of these matching bonuses on the future.  So I have made a total of $41 in commissions with this little program which cost me only $11 to join leaving me with $30 profit at this point.

Click HERE to Join the 4×1 Fortune Opportunity

Project Payday is an interesting, unique online money making program.  The basic idea is you sign up for trials of stuff and make money by doing so.  The biggest catch is you must live in the US to participate.

It requires a highly organized and disciplined person, however, as you need to be sure to cancel the trial in time before you end up paying the actual fee.  If that happens you probably lose money.  So normally you are trained to create a spreadsheet with all the trials you are currently “trying” and the dates they expire etc.  Then you check it regularly and schedule the times when you need to cancel.  If you have a PDA with an alarm feature this would be highly useful.

You normally have to work with some sort of a mentor.  He will also make a bit of money from your efforts and as you get better you can eventually graduate from the mentor and even become a mentor yourself.

The trials can be anything from vitamins to DVD rentals.  You also need a credit card in order to participate in the trial.  I wouldn’t worry too much about credit card fraud as you aren’t giving your credit card details to project payday, you are giving them to the company offering the trial.

You can pick and choose the trials yourself.  There is a wide range to choose from and some of the trials you may end up keeping because you like them.  Whether you continue or not with the product has no bearing on anything, it’s the trial you get paid for.

However I must admit that one of the companies they use is the Google Cash Kit which I warned against on this site.  So if participating in projectpayday.com one needs to be very careful and read all the fine print.

I don’t think you will get rich with this program, however I am sure you can make more than $10/hr on average.  So for working from home it’s a pretty legitimate opportunity.

You may wonder how is this all funded ?  It’s simple really.  Big companies spend billions on advertising and this is just another one of those advertising methods.  Companies know that word of mouth is one of the most powerful forms of advertising as we are far more likely to buy something a friend has recommended as apposed to something from a commercial.

So these companies have decided to give away free stuff and even pay money to do so instead of giving this money to the advertising companies.  This gets the products into the hands of people whereby the company is banking on the fact that a certain percentage of people will fall in love with it and keep it.

I’m not so sure how this Project Payday will influence this however.  If a company notices an unusually high number of cancellations this could throw up some red flags.  But that shouldn’t affect project payday as they have many programs to choose from.  Of course nowhere are you allowed to advertise the fact that you are trying the product with the intention of canceling.  Project Payday is set up primarily to be a portal to get free or reduced priced products on trial.  The word “cancel” is taboo although everyone knows the idea is to cancel. Shhhh ….

I was a member of Teamwork Revolution during the first few months of their beginning.  It was basically a spin off of Revolutionary Matrix by a former successful GDI Marketer named James Al-Oboudi.

As far as I can see, initially James Al-Oboudi and some others started Revolutionary Matrix.  For what ever reason James Al-Oboudi decided to part ways with Revolutionary Matrix and start his own little program (teamworkrevolution.com) which is still in business almost 1 year later.

In the beginning there was quite a lot of bad blood and a smear campaign against James Al-Oboudi.  In my opinion he was innocent of all the false accusations and he presented a very strong and convincing case proving this.  He was always professional and didn’t resort to foul language or sabotage or any sort of revenge which gave me more reason to believe he was an innocent victim of the attacks.

All in all it seemed some people were unhappy to see James go, as in reality it meant he took a lot of customers/affiliates with him and thereby a lot of money too.

So back to Teamwork Revolution.  This program was almost identical to it’s counterpart Revolutionary Matrix in that it is a $10 per month forced 5×6 matrix mainly designed to compete head to head with Global Domains International Inc.

In doing so they have done a pretty good job, in my opinion, as both these programs offer a lot of advantages over GDI.  However Teamwork Revolution DO have the advantage over Revolutionary Matrix because Teamwork Revolution offer a commission of $2 per person for the first 5 recruits allowing members to break even at 5, whereas Revolutionary Matrix offer $1 making it necessary to have 10 recruits to break even.

Their products are essentially the same ie  web hosting with standard cPanel interface and MySQL, PHP etc.  However most people know the same product is easily available for half or less the price than what they are offering it for.  In reality, no one joins these schemes because they want the product, only a fool would do so.  I personally have webhosting that is just as good, if not better, for less than half the price.  Further, when I was with Teamwork Revolution they changed servers which interrupted my service and in my experience this seems to be a regular thing with these web hosting matrices.  So anyone who genuinely wants web hosting will probably find it a bit troublesome to use.

Teamwork Revolution always paid me what they owed me so I have no complaints about that.  I wouldn’t say Teamwork Revolution is a scam by any means, however I do take issue with the image that James Al-Oboudi is trying to paint for himself and his company.

When Teamwork Revolution first started it had a very nice feature whereby if someone randomly came to the TWR home page as the result of the owner James’ advertising efforts, those signups would end up randomly going under one of the members in the matrix, regardless if they were at the top or at the bottom, regardless of whether they had just joined minutes ago or joined months ago.  This “lottery” was a nice feature and gave an equal chance to everyone regardless of their position.

However, a month or so later I noticed my signup page hits had significantly decreased.  So I checked the home page and noticed the signups were no longer random but were going to one person specifically until someone had signed up at which point it would move on to the next person.  I noticed the names of these people were the admins and people who were at the top of the matrix, not the “little guys”.  I sent a private message to James about it and he said he didn’t know about that stuff as that was the technical side of things and I should contact the appropriate person.  I ended speaking to someone named Cheryl.  She told me this “new placement” method was better than the old one.  Of course I dis-agreed as it didn’t benefit the “little guy” (a phrase that TWR loved to use – they claim to be all about the “little guy”).  So needless to say I was annoyed when they changed their program in such a way that DIRECTLY did NOT benefit the little guy but benefited the company and the big guys at the top.  When I didn’t agree with Cheryl she got angry and even insulting.  In my experience people who try to hide a lie end up reacting like this.  She was very condescending and patronizing and told me that I have no idea what I am talking about as I don’t have access to the traffic logs and I have no idea how the random sign ups are being allocated.  However she was wrong.  I watched where the random signups went over a 2 week period and those sign ups went to the members of the admin and other people who were at the top of the matrix.  NONE of the little guys were getting those random signups anymore.

The reason for this was that the company makes less money if the signups are placed under people far down the matrix.  It’s more profitable for a company to have a member high up within the first 6 layers.  I won’t spend the time explaining that here, but it’s simple mathematics.

Now this isn’t to say it was impossible for someone to get a random signup.  People were indeed still getting random signups, however only those people at or close to the top of the matrix were getting them.  The “little guys” down at the bottom, under this new scheme, wouldn’t likely see any random signup for years to come.   The old way was better for the little guy and more fair and that is a FACT.  TWR would never admit to this of course as it goes against their “we are there for the little guy” motto, which I no longer buy into.

However, despite all this, when analyzing things from a purely business point of view TWR still have the edge over others.  If I were to join a $10 per month webhosting matrix this would be the one as it has the best commission structure thus far.  I’m sure it won’t be long before someone catches on and starts their own matrix slightly better and the cycle of jumping from one program to another continues.  But until then feel free to try your luck at this.  My prediction is your success will be short lived just as mine was with this and every other monthly payment program.

In defense of TWR they did make another move which did indeed directly benefit the members and as a result cost them money.  Initially they were paying out $2 per member for the 6th level.  After a few months James suggested changing the $2 payout to the 4th level instead.  What this meant was the maximum monthly payout per position would be less, but everyone in this business knows it’s next to impossible to fill a matrix and make it to the 6th level.  Therefore changing the $2 higher payout amount to the 4th level instead is a much more realistic goal but also costs the company more money as most companies put the higher payout at the bottom level knowing fine and well no one will ever reach it.

So in reality TWR confuses me.  I initially bought into the “little guy” promise and even saw the above move as one that supported their motto.  But then they go and directly take something away from the little guy ie the random signup system, and when questioned about it get angry and defensive and in my opinion lie and try to cover it up.  So in the end I have no idea what to think.  Perhaps James Al-Oboudi really is who he says he is and his co-workers/partners pull the wool over his face sometimes.  Perhaps James is genuinely trying his best to do all he can for the little guy but his greedy business partners make adjustments to increase profits while keeping James in the dark.  Who knows and who cares? I don’t.

As for me, I will stick with Work for $3.  It has consistently paid me every month since starting and I am guaranteed to never lose any money ever as it is a one-time payment program.  With Teamwork Revolution I made money in the beginning but then everyone dropped out because they expected instant riches and results.  This is what most people expect and this is why these schemes don’t work.  Recruiting people isn’t that hard, KEEPING them is the challenge.  If you can’t keep them you are doomed to fail.  With Work for $3 this isn’t a problem as it’s only a 1 time payment and therefore no one ever drops out, as there is no need to.

Feel free to leave your Teamwork Revolution comments below.

The GDI business opportunity is perhaps one of the most well knows online schemes out there.  In fact it was this very matrix program that got me interested in the working from home online market in the first place.

Global Domains International Inc (also knows simply as “GDI” or “G.D.I.”) is basically a full legal pyramid or multi level marketing scheme.  I am no longer a member so you need not have any fear that I am speaking positively about this opportunity as a ruse to get you to join at the end of this review.

Simple put you pay $10 per month to have some webhosting and a domain ending with “.ws” as apposed to the more common “.com”, “.org” or “.net” domain endings.

The “.ws” actually comes from Samoa believe it or not.  Domain extensions are normally given to each country.  I for example could not request the extenstion “.myname” just for the fun of it (at least I don’t think I could).  The savvy business owners over at Global Domains International ws made a deal with the island of Samoa.  The “.ws” domain extension actually belongs to Samoa and the GDI entrepreneurs wanted to start a business whereby the domain extension would identify with their company.  A smooth business move, however it isn’t so easy to get your own extension.  Hence, they found some small country who wouldn’t likely care very much if they sold or leased their extension to someone else, and Samoa is where they found their answer.

Anyways back to the review.  The GDI business opportunity is no different from the many other online opportunities out there incliuuding the Work for $3 that I recommend here.  You simply join for $10 per month and try to get others to do the same.  Each person that you recruit earns you $1 per month.  So, once you have recruited 10 people you will be breaking even (ie earning $10 per month but also paying $10 per month to be part of the program).

One of the unique things about Global Domains Intl is that they have Paypal as a payment option.  I believe they are the only ones that have paypal, making them perhaps a more trusted program.  Most, if not all, of the other programs only use Alertpay or others as Paypal is very strict about who they let use their system, especially towards MLM and Pyramid schemes.  How G.D.I. were able to get and keep Paypal is beyond me but nevertheless they have them and that is a big plus for them.

As Global Domain International Inc is a multi level program you also earn from your referrals referrals down 5 levels.  There is no limit as to how much money you can make with this and many have become rich from it.  Perhaps why it is so famous and popular.

I joined as an experiment a few months ago but I found it very hard to recruit anyone.  I put this down to a number of factors :

1. GDI has been around for a long time and therefore everyone is already in it or already was at one point in time in the past and therefore the market is quite saturated.  Not to mention you are competing against the 1000s, or perhaps millions of other GDI affiliates out there advertising and trying to get the same people you are and therefore competition is FIERCE.

2. There are many new copycat programs out there that are similar and even better than GDI.  Teamwork Revolution for example are one that are also $10 per month but give a slightly higher commission, and better yet ,offer a forced matrix structure which is much more appealing to a potential recruit.

3. The product GDI offer isn’t very good.  100MB of space or 10 web pages.  Most of the other copycat programs offer full blown webhosting with unlimited space and traffic as well as MySQL, PHP and other highly useful and necessary features.

So for me GDI was a waste of time and I didn’t make any money at it.  I will stick with my Work for $3 as it’s only $3 to join and a one time fee.  It continues to make me a little bit of money every week and is the easiest thing I have tried and earned me the most money so far.

Feel free to leave your GDI related comments below for all to benefit from.

This is perhaps the only REAL legitimate work from home job that I have tried so far.

It is completely free, there are no membership fees and you don’t earn money by recruiting others.  No Pyramids, no MLM.

However, it is by no means easy.  I have been experimenting with this for the past few months, researching and learning as much as I can.  I haven’t made enough money to quit my day job yet but I am sure I will eventually get there.

There are 2 different ways that I make legitimate money working from home via my computer.  The methods discussed here don’t require recruiting other people like a pyramid which I would say at least 90% of online schemes are just fancy MLMs.  One way I earn money is by promoting clickbank products.  Instead of writing a long article about that, you can learn about it by reading about the clickbank course (CLICK HERE).  Clickbank is free to join but of course no one is going to teach you how to do things step by step for free, so you have to be willing to either spend years learning how, or spend a few bucks and buy a book from someone who has already done it then you can start earning a little quicker with that little head start help.  I decided to buy a few books and get a head start and it worked out for me.  I will talk a little bit below about my second work from home income method.

Now although there are no membership fees thiese businesses are by no means without any costs.   It is nearly impossible to have any business without incurring costs.  You use your electricity to run your computer, your telephone etc.  In order to run these businesses there are things you cannot do without.  The difference is that those things that you need do not benefit any “recruiter” just like your electricity and phone bill does not benefit any recruiter.  I cannot “recruit” you into this business and if you decide to try this out I won’t earn a commission from your efforts.  That is also why I cannot spend time training you how to be successful because I don’t earn any money from doing so.  I am merely explaining the basics in this article in order to provide good content for my site and hopefully help people  find a legitimate way to earn a living online.

In order to run these businesses (or any online business) you need to have web hosting, as these businesses are all about creating web sites and making money from them.  Web hosting companies are a dime a dozen so feel free to pick any company you want.  However I have been using this web hosting company and they have been great.  They are only about $5 per month for unlimited everything (cheaper if you pay a year or more up front).  Further, perhaps the greatest feature they have is one click WordPress installations.  I used to have to do this manually and it would take about 10-20 minutes getting everything set up and it wasn’t very easy.  So for a newbie you will love the one click wordpress install feature as wordpress is a great and easy way to create websites for this business.

The only things you MUST have to start these businesses are a computer (which you likely already have) and web hosting.  You could even use someone else’s web hosting if you didn’t want to pay the $5 or so per month for your own.  So once you have a web hosting company you then have to begin your “keyword research”.  The research is perhaps the hardest and longest part of the job.  You are looking for topics that aren’t too competitive because your goal is to get onto the first page of Google for search results of your targeted keyword.

This is very easy if for example your targeted keyword is “things people like to do on the beach on July 10th“.  If you wanted to be the first position in Google for that phrase I’m sure it could easily be done.  The problem is how many people in the world do you think search for that term?  Probably none! So what you are trying to do with your keyword research is find search terms that are somewhat popular but don’t have a lot of competition.

One website you will need to check is https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.  Here you can type in any keyword and it will give you a rough estimate of how many people search for that keyword.  Select “Exact Match” as that is the number of people who search for that exact phrase.

In order to check the competition for a certain keyword you can type in the keyword phrase into Google and look at the top 10 results that are shown.  You will want to use a plug in for your browser like http://www.seoquake.com/ for Firefox.  They may have a plug in for Explorer I’m not sure.  Just install and use Firefox as it’s a great browser.

Otherwise just do a search in Google for “SEO Plugin Explorer” or something like that.  I am sure you will find something.

Once you have the plug in installed type your keyword phrase into Google and look at the first 1o results.  First thing to look at is the Page Rank of each website.  If the top 10 websites are all Page Rank 3 or lower that’s your first good sign.  The plug in should display this information next to each website.

The second thing to analyze is how many backlinks do each of the sites have ?  The lower the better.

So if the top 10 sites are all low page ranks with low numbers of backlinks then you could be on to a winning keyword phrase.  Another thing to look at is the total number of results that Google gives you.  This number is normally displayed at the top of the search results.  It could be millions of matches or maybe even only 1000s.  This is not as important as the page ranks and backlinks of the top 10 sites, but it is still another indicator as to how many sites are out there with this keyword phrase in them.  The less sites there are the better.

Of course this will likely take you many many hours to do, coming up with ideas for possible website niches and then doing the research, checking the top 10 results etc.  You will probably find a good keyword phrase 1% of the time , so be prepared to spend a lot of time trying to find good target keywords.  It’s all about trial and error (mostly error).

If you don’t want to wait, or don’t have the patience to jump through all the hoops then you may consider buying this software that does a lot of that work for you.  It takes a huge amount of the leg work away.  You type in a keyword phrase and it basically gives you a rating from 0 to 1000 for that phrase,  0 being the easiest and 1000 being the hardest.  Generally if you are just starting out you should target phrases that are less than 20, 0 of course being the ideal.

I use this software and it’s great, but I will stress that it isn’t necessary.  The only thing that is absolutely necessary to start this business is web hosting.  You can use the same company as me or maybe you already have webhosting ? If you are a member of one of these webhosting matrices like Teamwork Revolution, or the like, then you can just use their hosting.  But those normally cost $10 or more per month, whereas I only pay $5.  I’m sure you can find it cheaper but this is the company my friend has been using for a while now and he is also doing this niche marketing work.  However, he does it full time and makes a living at it.  So I am trying to learn from him and follow in his footsteps.

He also uses the Niche Finding Software and swears buy it, and so do I.  But again if you have more time than money then don’t worry.  Just spend the time doing the research manually as the software costs $97, but worth every penny.

Once you have found your keyword phrase with low competition then you will want to buy a domain.  GoDaddy is a pretty cheap domain name provider, but I’m sure you can find cheaper.  A domain will cost you about $10 per year.  This is another cost associated with this business that you can’t avoid.  Nobody makes a commission off you buying domain names except the domain name company.

You will want to find a domain that matches your targeted keyword phrase exactly.  So if you are targeting the keyword phrase “dog grooming kit” you will want to try to get the domain “www.doggroomingkit.com.”  It’s very likely that it will already be taken so you can try to get .org or .net.  Don’t go for any other extension other than those 3.  If those are all taken you could try to go for hyphenated domains like “www.dog-grooming-kit.com” or the like.   However, the fact that the domain is already taken could be an indication that another person is trying to do the same thing as you.  So you may take that as an indicator not to bother as you may not want to go head to head with another niche marketer that is likely more experienced than you and who will easily out rank you.  It’s up to you of course.  If they aren’t in the top 10 search results then perhaps they aren’t that good anyway.

Now, how do you make money you may ask ? One very popular way is to simply put Google Adsense on your site.  People who visit your Dog Grooming site will see ads about Dog Grooming so they are quite likely to click on them and you earn money every time someone clicks on an ad.

A word of warning here.  DO NOT EVER CLICK ON YOUR OWN ADS OR ASK FRIENDS TO DO SO.  If you think Google won’t know then you are highly mistaken.  Google knows EVERYTHING.  So don’t try to be smart and increase your earnings by a few bucks, because that type of short sightedness will get you banned FOR LIFE from Google adsense.

If you choose to use Google adsense to earn money from your site you will also want to take into consideration the amount each click is worth.  You may stumble upon a Niche that looks very easy to target but when you see what the average CPC (cost per click) is it may not be worth it.  $0.01 per click might make you a few dollars per year.  Just enough to pay for the domain name perhaps and maybe the hosting.  So there is a combination of many factors to consider when choosing a niche to go for.  You can check out what keywords are roughly worth at this site https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

Another way to make money from your niche site is to sell affiliate products, for example Amazon.  With this type of affiliate marketing you only get paid a commission on each successful sale, not on clicks like Google adsense.  So it may be harder to make money with Affiliate commissions as you are depending upon people actually buying something.  Whereas with Google Adsense all you need is a simple click to make money.

In reality however, I have sites that earn more money from affiliate commissions than from Adsense.  So both ways are good.  Even both ways on the same site work well too.

The main thing to remember about this business is that it is very slow going and has a huge learning curve.  It isn’t a get rich quick scheme but a real legit way to work from home.  Initially it will likely be a hobby as it is for me.  You can expect to make money after about 1 year of trying this so don’t be dissappointed when one or more of your websites don’t make any money.  Some of the guys who have been at this a while launch 100s of websites EVERY MONTH !  Those guys admit that only 20-30% of the sites actually make money and they are experts.  So if you embark on this make it a long term goal so as not to get too disheartened.  I have been at it for almost 1 year now and I can by no means do it full time (yet).  But I have learned a lot during this past year and I am certainly getting better at it.

I also know that I will be able to this full time one day, it just a matter of when, not “if”.

If you are interested in working from home in the same way as I am then you need training as I did. I recommend this Training Course.  Of course if you are reluctant to spend money on any training you will still likely succeed in carrying out this business as I have.  However it took me over a year to reach any decent income level.  If you don’t have that sort of patience then the training is right for you.  I know make over $500 per month with my websites and each month that number slowly grows.  I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to have a completely independent source of income.  I feel like my experiment has finally paid off.   I sure wasted a lot of time with the MLMs but I don’t regret it.  Overall I haven’t lost money because I view those MLMs as a stepping stone that brought me to this REAL business.   I hope the same can happen for you.

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MK Hosting is another web hosting matrix that has recently sprung up and I am sure this won’t be the last.

When they first started out they were a 3×6 forced matrix costing $17.99 per month allowing you to earn a maximum of $1458/mo per position.  Now, however, they have since changed to a 3×8 forced matrix costing $19.99 per month with a maximum potential income of $10,584/mo per position.

This changing in structure and price is something I have seen quite a lot with these programs.  The reason behind it is they are trying to make the program more appealing and or more profitable.  By adding $2 per month to the price and changing the structure to 3×8 they are able to increase the potential income to over $10,000 per month.

Perhaps a program that has as potential of $10,000+ per month income vs $1458 is much more appealing.  But the fact is that it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever reach the maximum level.  You should never judge a program based on what the potential for income is.  There are many programs out there that have UNLIMITED potential income i.e. you can make millions of dollars per month.  That doesn’t make them better than this.

MK Hosting are offering web hosting as well as an autoresponder.  They started up soon after Teamwork Revolution Power System (TWRPS) which has a very similar product.  Many web hosting matrices are just web hosting.  These 2 have added more value by throwing in an auto responder service as well, which for some is very useful and valuable as auto responders can cost $30/month on their own.

Fact of the matter is many people don’t use or need any of these services and what we have is just another scheme that people join for the opportunity and not the product.

If you already pay for an auto responder and web hosting then this is a great way to possibly reduce your costs and even earn a profit from recommending the service.  However I would also warn you that in the early days these companies tend to have a  lot of teething problems which can be very troublesome.  For example they may change servers for one reason or another which would require a lot of leg work on your part to redirect your omain names and perhaps need you to re-upload your websites etc.  Some people have many websites, so with each change the company makes you have possibly hours of work to do each time this happens.

Unfortunately my first encounter with MK Hosting was a negative one.  I learned about it via an email “from a friend”.  The email however wasn’t written in the style of my friend and I suspected it was a fraudulent email and it turned out I was correct.  Someone with a bit of computer knowledge was able to send me (and many others) emails which appeared to be from people we knew promoting this program.  This marketing tactic I must admit is a great idea.  People build relationships and reputations in this business.  Many people will join a program just because a certain person recommends it. I’m not sure how successful this dodgy marketer was as I was able to clearly see through the scam.

This teaches us a lesson with respect to these programs.  The companies cannot control what the marketers do.  Yes this way of marketing is completely fraudulent and maybe even illegal.  That however doesn’t make the company MK Hosting responsible for his actions.  It’s like trying to hold gun companies responsible for the murders committed using those weapons.

Apart from that there’s no reason to put you off joining this.  If you want to give it a try and believe in it by all means do so, but in my experience these monthly payment web matrices die out quickly and you spend all this time trying to market something that eventually fails.  It’s like bailing water out of a leaky boat.

This is why I like the little Work for $3 program.  It will never regress.  It may possibly come to a stand still but it will never ever go backwards and end up being a loss.  Once it’s in profit it always is in profit.  Not so with this or any other monthly payment program.  They all run the risk of going from profit into loss.

If you have any experience with MK Hosting or useful, valuable information that others could benefit from please feel free to post it below.  No spam or affiliate links please.

Teamwork Revolution Power System TWRPS is a spin off of the original Teamwork Revolution.  It promised to “revolutionize” the online marketing industry.  I’m not quite sure if it has, but it certainly is one of the best programs out there.

Teamwork Revolution (original) was a $10 per month 5×6 forced matrix.  It was doing quite well since its launch in the Spring of 2009.  I joined it at around the launch time but left a few months later after giving it a good go and not succeeding.   You can read more about my Teamwork Revolution experience on this site.  It seems this original Teamwork Revolution has now been closed down, perhaps because the owner James Al-oboudi wanted to focus on this new Teamwork Revolution Power System.

A few months later this new version deemed “Power System” came out.  I wasn’t in the mood for trying out anymore monthly payment matrices but this one looked promising.  It was a 2×8 forced matrix.  I had always dreamed about a matrix that had a width of 2 and how it would perform.  So mainly out of pure curiousity I joined to see how things would go.

Joining was easy as during pre-launch it was free to join.  Those 2 months proved very interesting as my downline grew to about 150 with the most of those being spillover.  I had never seen such huge amounts of spillover and I started to believe that this was finally the online program I was looking for.  I was certain with spillover rates like this that I was in a good position in the matrix and that people would all join this program because of it’s great spillover rate.

But then of course reality hit when it came time to pay.  The price tag was a bit hefty at $29.95 + $3 alertpay fee.  But I decided to give it a go based on how good everything was going up until that point.  I didn’t expect all 150 people to pay their fee and stick around but I was quite shocked when only about 10 (less than 10%) decided to pay and stick around.

Things didn’t get much better from there.  The following month had more people drop out without any new people joining so I decided it was time to cut my losses and bail ship as the future didn’t look promising for me and this program.

The product is web hosting with an auto-responder.  Auto responders can run you about $30/month alone so TWRPS is trying their best to provide value for the $30 per month.  The thing is, most people who join have no idea what an auto responder is never mind how to use it.  People join these things in hopes of making money, preferably from doing nothing and just getting spillover.

I got paid the 2 months I was with the program on time as promised.  So I would by no means label TWRPS as a scam at this point.  Of course no one knows what the future holds, but at least your losses are maxed out at about $33.  So if you are thinking of giving it a go by all means do so.  But keep in mind the original Teamwork Revolution was supposed to “revolutionize” the online marketing industry but it was abandoned for this program.  What about all those people who had a successful $10 per month business in the old TWR ?  They were either abandoned or expected to join this program at 3 times the price.  So it goes to show that despite what they claim about caring about the “little guy” when it comes to increasing their profits, the “little guy” takes 2nd place.  Perhaps in the future TWRPS will also close down for whatever reason.  The fact is there is no stability in any of these online MLMs except perhaps for GDI since it has been around for so long and is a publicly traded company.

Let me talk about some of the claims that TWRPS makes that aren’t true.  Maybe they believe it to be true but unfortunately their math skills leave much to be desired.

First of all their site says and I quote :

“You are given a mathematically impossible to beat rate of spillover, a mathematically impossible to beat break-even point, and an industry leading 96.8% payout”

The first part about mathematically impossible to beat rate of spillover is undeniably true, it’s one of the great benefits to this program.   But I doubt it is the ONLY program out there with a matrix width of 2. The second part however is completely false because Infinity Downline allow you to break even with just 1 referral.  Further the $29.95 fee has an alertpay fee of $3 (at least that was what the fee was when I was a member – it could easily change) and 2 recruits are worth $30 per month.  So although the program itself only costs $29.95, the member is still out of pocket $32.95.  With 2 referrals/recruits giving an income of $30, that’s actually a $2.95 loss, not profit, not break even – am I right ?

Finally the 96.8% payout is also ridiculous.  What really annoys me is that I mentioned this once to James Al-oboudi in an email  a while ago when I was with the old Teamwork Revolution (now closed or dissolved or whatever) warning him that he was making a claim (at that time he claimed the original TWR had a 90% payout rate -  again not entirely true) that was mathematically impossible and possibly setting himself up for humiliation and possible reasons for people to call him a scammer (something he takes very personally.  His reputation is very important to him as it should be to anyone) when they figure out the math to be incorrect .  He didn’t believe me and even when I said I could show him how his figures were wrong he didn’t care.  So I guess I will just explain to everyone here why that number is mathematically incorrect and maybe one day James will stumble upon this site and read for himself and correct his mathematical error.  This isn’t intended to be some expose of a scammer, this mathematical mistake is easily made by anybody, and in fact the same mistake is made by lots of programs who use this type of matrix structure and the same method of calculating their payout rate.

First I need to explain to everyone the method they (and pretty much every other MLM program) use to come up with the “96.8%” figure in the first place.  Remember the fee is $29.95 and you get $15 for anyone in your second line, lines 2-6 are worht $1 each and the final 8th line is worth $8.  So $15 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 +8  = $29 payout.  29/29.95 = 96.8%

What he is claiming is that 96.8% of everyone’s fee is used to pay the members of the program, not the owner (i.e. him).  He makes it appear that he only earns $0.95 per person in the program.  His whole sales pitch is about how greedy other programs are in that they only pay out 50% (ie GDI – again that figure not entirely correct).  I will admit that he IS indeed paying out a higher percentage of the revenue to the members compared to most other programs, but he is by NO means using 96.8% of every single persons membership fee to pay commissions with.

This is because he isn’t taking into account the profit he is making with the people who are at the top of the matrix.  The 96.8% phenomenon only occurs with members who are on the 8th level or lower from the very top of the matrix.  Think about the marketers who are at the very very top of the matrix paying their $29.95 fee.  Where does that fee go ?  100% of the $29.95 goes into the company’s pocket.  Not a single penny of that $29.95 is used to pay any of the members.  Now what about the people in the 2nd line of the matrix ?  They are all paying $29.95 per month but $15 of that must be used to pay the person above them leaving $14.95 in profit for the company.  So for the members in the second row, roughly 50% of their fee is used to pay the members and the rest is profit. for the company.  NO WHERE NEAR THE 96.8% claim they are making.

What happens is as the matrix grows the % of total income the company turns over that is used to pay members slowly increases.  However, it can never in a million years reach the 96.8% they claim.  Even if they had millions of members they would be paying out somewhere between 90%-96.7% (im not going to waste any time getting the exact figure) at the most.  It’s mathematically impossible for it to reach 96.8%.  In reality though, as you can see from above, the company is very profitable, as it makes most of it’s money from the members near the top.  They could change their site to say “we pay UP TO 96.8% of your membership fee to other members” – that would be a true statement because depending on where you are in the matrix the % of your fee that is paid back to members changes.  96.8 % of  SOME (ie all the members 8 levels down or lower from the top) of the member’s fee is used for commissions.

Another claim on their site that annoys me is :

You are entering the most advanced and mathematically superior home-based business in history, allowing you to earn 450% more money than the owner of the company.

He is again making another mathematical error here.  I’m not going to say he is doing this on purpose to mislead you and make himself and his program to look better than it actually is, but the nice this about math is that it doesn’t lie.  So I am not giving my opinion here but merely showing you the truth.

His “450%” comes from the fact that in a full matrix you earn $2330 which is a full matrix of 510 people.  That’s an average income of $4.56 per person.  He claims he only makes $0.95 per person in your matrix giving you 450% more profit than him.  Once again this is only true for people who are in the 8th line or lower in the matrix.  If you are close to the top of the matrix this statement is totally false.   The closer you are to the top of the matrix the more money he makes from you.  It’s impossible to know, who or how many people are close to the top of the matrix, but I am pretty sure he has his best hand picked marketers at the top ensuring maximum profits for him.

Hopefully I haven’t lost you in the math there but the simple fact is the 96.8% figure is completely impossible. and the 450% figure only applies to certain members.  In saying that I’m not saying that this program is a scam by any means.  You can certainly make money from it as many people have.  I am just trying to shed some truthful light on the subject where I can so no one who tries this program can call it a scam.  I think it’s unfair to call a program a scam when it isn’t.  TWRPS isn’t a scam, it’s just an online money making  scheme.  It’s one of the many ways to make money online.  There are TONS of these programs out there all trying to out do one another.  This is definitely one of the better ones (comparitively speaking) however keep in mind there is absolutely no stability in these programs.  They can close overnight and there’s nothing you can do about it.  I have seen it so many times before, even with James Al-oboudi himself.  He used to have a $10/month program called Teamwork Revolution (TWR) (http://www.teamworkrevolution.com) but that website has been down for the past few months so I can only assume he closed that program to concentrate on this new one.  However the old TWR was a great rival for Global Domains International which is also $10 per month and hugely successful.  So all those original TWR people who worked their butts off for few months to build  a successful business lost it all because James decided this TWRPS was better.  In some ways TWRPS  is of course better, but the $10/mo original TWR was great for competing with GDI at the same price point.

So, who’s to say James Al-oboudi doesn’t have some other plan in the pipeline and he will close down this TWRPS because he has found something else better again.  There’s absolutely no way you can guarantee all your blood and sweat and hard work won’t just crumble over night because James Al-oboudi becomes sick or bored of this program.  He get’s a lot of flack from people out there in the market who are jealous of his success and maybe one day once he has amassed enough fortune he will just sell TWRPS or walk away or decide to pursue some other opportunity.  Unless it becomes a publicly traded company like GDI you are building your business on quicksand.  This principle applies to all online MLMs, even the 4×1 Fortune program that I recommended below to get your feet wet.

This is the reason I don’t do these programs anymore as they can’t be trusted to stay around for the long haul.  I prefer to build something I know will last for many years to come and I’m not convinced this will, but of course I could be wrong.  But if the past is anything to go by I will be right eventually.

So if you were thinking of giving this ago why not give it a try ?  The worst you can lose is $29.95 + alertpay fee right ?  If you aren’t sure of your ability to be successful why not try something a little easier first like 4×1 Fortune.  It’s a one time payment of $11 unlike the monthly commitment of $29.95 with TWRPS.  Something else to think about is if you recruit 6 people into TWRPS your profit is about $5/mo whereas with 4×1 Fortune 6 recruits will earn you a one time $30 (i.e a $19 profit).  Futher it doesn’t matter how long it takes you to get those 6, your profit will always be $19.  If you don’t get at least 6 in TWRPS in your 1st month you will end up losing money ( and for newbies this is  a highly likely phenomenon).  If you can make a success of this easy program (4×1 Fortune) than you might be successful with TWRPS.  But jumping straight into TWRPS is a pretty big online program to try for the first time.  You may be biting off more than you can chew.  So it might be better to get your feet wet with 4×1 Fortune and prove to yourself (without a monthly fee) that you’ve got what it takes to be successful at this online marketing stuff.

So the choice is yours.  You will make money at any program so long as you promote and get people to join.  No need to be afraid that it is a scam.  But don’t expect the company to last forever, just enjoy the ride while you can if you can.

If you are afraid of risking money, even $11 or $29.95 you need to remember this.  Many of the most successful people in the world are the ones who have had the most failures.  You could also so say success is based on the foundation of 1 or many failures.  This has been so true for me.  From this site you can see that I failed at many of these programs, however those failures were stepping stones and part of the journey that got me to my successful online business which you can read about here : Affiliate Niche Marketing – No Fee – No Recruiting – Actual Legit Work From Home for Free Business.

Nothing ventured nothing gained – is the motto for business.

I don’t bother anymore with the online MLMs.  But for a hobby I still like to check them out and see what new scheme someone has dreamed up and how it compares to the others.  It’s fun!

If you have any info to report about TWRPS please post it below.  Please don’t post affiliate links, just truthful information about your experience, good or bad, with TWRPS.  I’m sure others would love to hear the real life experiences of others with this program.

July 2010 UPDATE

Unfortunately WF3D have changed their program.  It used to be a one time payment of $3 to join which was one of my favorite features.  But they have dissolved this one-time payment option and changed it into a free program to join or you can upgrade by paying $3 per month.  It’s this change that has caused me to change my opinion of this program.  It used to be my top recommended online MLM program because it was so easy, but that is no longer the case now that they require a yearly payment of $36 or more.  I don’t think people are going to like this.

This change was obviously done in an effort to make more for the company and for everyone else, but I fear that it’s advantages may outweigh it’s disadvantages.  Therefore I will now make my favorite, or top recommended online MLM 4×1 Fortune which used to be my my #2 recommended online MLM.

I like the one time payment MLMs as they don’t create any pressure to perform quickly.  You never have to pay again so there’s no “sinking boat” feeling.  WF3D used to be like this but it no longer is and as a result I expect the sign ups will slow down.  So, have a look at 4×1 Fortune as it is still a good paying program.  Hopefully they won’t change their structure in the the future.

I will leave the original WF3D review below in tact but be aware that a lot of the info is now out of date due to the recent changes but some still applies ie 3×15 structure, the “product” etc.

Original WF3D REVIEW

This has by far been the easiest and most successful of all the online businesses I have tried so far.

It’s basically a 3×15 forced matrix which means you can get spillover and spillunder.  I personally haven’t received any spillover to date because I am obviously underneath someone who isn’t marketing this at all, however I have indeed provided spillover to the people who have joined me and benefited from my success in this program.

Of everything I have tried this has been the easiest of all to market.  In fact the results have really taken me by surprise.  I really thought Teamwork Revolution was going to be something great but then it fell apart.  Then not soon after that my hopes were again re-kindled with the Teamwork Revolution Power System which started out incredible but just as quickly fizzled out.  During that time this simple one time payment $3 + $0.40 alertpay fee program was ticking over making money week in and week out.

In fact this program very much reminds me of the fable of the Turtle and the Hare.  You remember ? The Turtle very slowly but consistently makes his way through the race while the Hare took it in fits and spurts.  In the end the Turtle won the race and that’s kind of what has happened here with my little experiment.

One huge benefit this program has over others is that you only ever make a payment once thereby limiting your expenses and investment.  The monthly payment programs increase your risk but also increase the potential reward.  In my case all the monthly payment programs died out and I lost money on pretty much all of them.  That whole time this program was ticking away making a few dollars every week and has the potential to turn into a whole lot more.  If things continue as they have done so for the past few months then after 6 months to a year this will be earning a decent monthly income.

There are even more benefits to this program than meets the eye.  The product is a list builder.  So you are building a mailing list of people who are interested in making money online.  So not only do you earn commission from the people you recruit and the people they recruit 15 levels down, but you can also potentially earn money from promoting other good opportunities to the people who have joined your list.  This is perhaps the most valuable part of this program.

Further, if you are inexperienced with online marketing this is the PERFECT program to get your feet wet and learn the ropes before trying to take on a bigger fish.  Basically if you are unable to make a profit with this simple program than you might as well give up all together on online marketing because this is the easiest thing out there I think.  It was the easiest for me anyways.  It’s just a surprise and shock to me that it turned out to be the most profitable.

When I first joined this I spent some time marketing placing free ads on some websites.  I did really well during the first couple of months where I averaged about 1 signup per day.  That slowed down after 2 months for whatever reasons but my recruits were starting to get good and I was starting to see some decent spillunder as well.

Now, after about 7 months, I have personally recruited about 100 people and those in turn have brought in 400 people for a total of 500.

When you look at the number of people that is a huge success for someone starting from scratch.  Remember before this I had never done any online marketing before.

The money earned from that hasn’t been much.  Just over $100.  However, for a measily $3 investment that’s a pretty darn good return on my money.

Have a look at the chart below :

This chart shows what your income would be with this program if you were to sign up only 3 people (i.e. convince 3 people to part with $3.40 with the hopes of getting a residual income) in your first month, and then do NOTHING AT ALL FOREVER.  Seems crazy but it’s simple mathematics.

Now for me personally I started off pretty good because I got about 30 people in my first month, but a lot of those people didn’t do anything so the snowball didn’t roll as fast as the chart above indicates.  After 7 months I should have 2187 people whereas I only have 500.

Now I think I am partly to blame for that as part of my marketing campaign was basically telling people to join me and do nothing and benefit from the spillover.  So, were I only to be looking for people interested in marketing for themselves I wouldn’t have the 500 people I have now.   So I’d rather have 500 people join me and do nothing than have no one join me at all.

In actual fact quite a few of those 500 people ARE marketing and doing quite well.  So you never really know what type of people are going to join you in this venture but sometimes you get a nice surprise.

So now that I am not going to acheive the results I was hoping for with the chart above I have my sights on this chart :

1st Month – 1 member in downline (earning $1.50)

2nd Month – 3 members in downline (1 recruited by yourself and 1 by your downline – earning $4.50)

3rd Month – 7 members in downline (1 recruited by yourself and 3 by your downline – earning $5.36)

4th Month – 15 members in downline (earning $6.70)

5th Month – 31 members in downline (earning $8.92)

6th Month – 63 members in downline (earning $12.52)  

7th Month – 127 members in downline (earning $19.32)

8th Month – 255 members in downline (earning $32.52)

9th Month – 511 members in downline (earning $58.52)

10th Month – 1023 members in downline (earning $110.12)

11th Month – 2047 members in downline (earning $212.92)

12th Month – 4095 members in downline (earning $418.12)

13th Month – 8191 members in downline (earning $828.12)

14th Month – 16383 members in downline (earning $1,647.72)

15th Month – 32767 members in downline (earning $3,286.52)

16th Month – 65535 members in downline (earning $6,563.72)

This chart shows what would happen were you and everyone else to recruit just one person per month.  Yet another very attainable goal considering I recruited 60 in my first couple of months.  A goal of 1 per month is easily achievable if you work at it consistently just like the Tortoise in the Tortoise and the Hare fable.

According to the chart above after 7 months you would have 127 people.  Well I have about 500 so I am certainly way ahead of schedule on that one.  So let’s see how things continue over the next few months.  Feel free to bookmark this page and check back as I post updates.

If you decide to join this opportunity you will notice 2 upgrade options one for $10(Gold)  and one for $30 (Platinum).  Basically it just means you earn a little more money each time someone you recruit also upgrades.  However, mathematically it is better to use the $10 to purchase the 3 positions underneath you or use the $30 to purchase the 3 positions on your 1st line and also the 9 positions on your 2nd line.  This is of course completely optional but I am writing this because I feel bad for those who joined and upgraded to Gold or Platinum instead of doing what I recommend above.  My recommendation pays you more commission in the long run than upgrading to Gold or Platinum.  If you aren’t sure why contact me before you upgrade so I can explain in detail.

If you decide to try this opportunity out I will do my best to help you replicate the success I enjoyed.  Your success is my success so don’t expect to be left out in the lurch.  Feel free to contact me via my Contact page or leave a comment below if you have any questions at all about this or any other online program I have tried.

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