I recently received an email from “Dave Taylor” about this new program.  Dave Taylor is the guy behind Team Success builder, but he also promotes a lot of other programs.  Therefore he is pretty much like most other online marketers in that he doesn’t seem to focus on one program and make it work but jumps from program to program making money each time I am sure as he emails the latest thing to his huge list of contacts and some people join in hopes that this will be “The one” that makes them rich.

The fact is the only people who make real money at this are the ones with the huge lists of contacts of people who are hungry to make money (and gullable).

The difference with this Forced Cash Gifting program is it doesn’t appear that the owners (whoever they are) make any administration fees.  The money you put into the program is all used to pay the members.  However, I am sure that the owners or administrators have a position at the top of the matrix so they DO make money from it.

The intial fee to join is $10, but that isn’t the only fee of course.  As you progress in the program you need to keep feeding money into it, however it appears the subsequent fees don’t come out of your pocket but are deducted from your commissions.  Therefore your only out of pocket expense (it would appear) is $10.

There are some great claims made by the website like for example “No Sponsoring Required”.  Well no programs “require” you to sponsor others.  However, if you don’t, it’s highly unlikely you will ever make any money.  Forcedcashgifts is a forced matrix, therefore it is POSSIBLE to make money from spillover but remember spillover is usually a trickle.

Another claim they make is “Our system is not a “Get-rich-quick scheme”. We truly offer a ‘Realistic Plan’ to earn about $1 Million in One Year!”

I have to disagree here.  This claim is by no means “realistic”.   They would be fortunate if even ONE person were to make $1 Million in one year (likely the creator of the program who is at the top) nevermind everyone.  This “realistic” claim is nothing but and that alone is enough for me to stay away.

This is as close as you can get to MLM or Pyramid scheme.  There is absolutely no product whatsoever, it is purely a money sharing/distribution system.  I’m pretty sure it’s fully legal as you are giving “gifts” to people in the program and there is no law against giving gifts to people.  That’s how they stay legal.  A pretty thin line if you ask me.

If you are in to Cash Gifting programs then I guess this one is pretty good as it incorporates a forced matrix.  So at least you have some chance of making some money without sponsoring others.

I have tried many programs over the years so feel free to read up on my Top Recommended Programs

If you have any comments about Forced Cash Gifts feel free to leave them below.

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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EZ Button Cash is something I have seen many times before.  You sign up to this website and pay $29.  You then promote it and get others to do the same.  Each time you are successful you earn $5 per signup.  You also earn $5 per signup that your signups get 5 levels deep.  With this structure there is no limit to how much money you can earn.  Theoretically you could earn millions or billions, but then again you could earn absolutely nothing at all.

One thing to note is that this is not a forced matrix like the recommended Work for $3.  It is absolutely impossible to earn any money without working yourself.  At least with Work for $3 and other forced matrices there is a small chance of getting spillover and thereby earning money without effort on your own part.  Not only is this good for you but it also makes the program more attractive to others and thereby easier to market and get signups.

I can’t see this being all that attractive and thereby I don’t think it would be very profitable.  There are many programs out there doing the same thing so Easy Button Cash is nothing special.  I wouldn’t say it’s a scam by any means.  Just like with most programs if you market it and get others to signup you will earn money.  It’s just whether or not you will be able to do so is the question, which is why I recommend Work for $3 first off.  It’s easy and it works well.  If you can succeed even a little with Work for $3 then you will succeed with other programs.  If you can’t, then forget all of these MLM programs.  At least Work for $3 is only a $3 risk, unlike Easy Button Cash which is $29 and doesn’t even have the possibility of spillover.

If you have any info about EZ Button Cash please leave your comment below for others to benefit from.

Here we have another one time payment matrix.  It is a 2×20 which means you will get maximum spillover mathematically speaking, but it doesn’t mean you will get more spillover than you would with the recommended Work for $3 program.  Spillover depends on 3 factors : the matrix construction (in this case 2×20 which is the best type), the person directly above you in the matrix (this is random so you could be under someone who is lazy) and finally how attractive the program is.

This is a one time payment of $12.99.  For that you get access to a bunch of digital products (same with pretty much every online MLM Program).

The commission structure however isn’t all that clear to me.  It looks like you get $0.50 for everyone that you sponsor or spills under you.  That’s the simple part.  However there is some bonuses for “cycling” which means filling 6 levels.  That’s 126 people.

The website doesn’t say what bonus YOU get when you cycle, it only mentions a $2.50 bonus when someone else cycles.  I would assume you get a bonus of some sort when you personally cycle but I wouldn’t be sure.

Basically we have the same ol same ol here.  Someone else doing what a million other people are doing.  Starting their own program and trying to make a buck doing so.  Just like with any program, you will make money if you promote and are successful, or if you happen to be lucky enough to spill under someone else who is successful (don’t bank on that).

I would still recommend the simple Work for $3 program over this.  It has the potential to turn into millions just like this does, but I found it very easy to promote and get sign ups.  That’s a very important factor to consider, “will others join” ?  People are much more likely to risk $3 over $12.99.  If you agree then others will too and you mat find yourself promoting something that people aren’t willing to risk.

I found the Work for $3 very easy so that’s why I recommend it.  If you can’t be successful at that then you won’t be successful at anything.  Try it out first and once you know you can do this marketing stuff you can try out these more expensive programs.  You can then try to get the people who already joined you in Work for $3 to follow you to your next venture so by joining Work for $3 and getting a following you are building for future opportunities too, not just Work for $3.

If you have any questions about this or experiences to relate please leave your comment below.

I was unfortunately sucked in by this scam.  I clicked on an Adwords ad I think that took me to the sales page for this so called “Google Cash Kit“.  It was a while ago so I’m not sure what the sales page was like however it wasn’t one of those blogs where someone tells their experience.  I don’t think I would have fallen for that.

Anyways, I paid the $2.95 with my Credit card thinking if it was a scam no big deal just call my credit card and get it refunded.  I have had an illegitimate charge before and got it charged back with just one phone call so this made me confident in being able to use my credit card online safely.

I was wrong !

Anyways, if you have been unfortunate enough to buy this “kit” you have unknowingly signed up for a subscription service.  They will bill you anything between $50 and $100 per month until you call the company and cancel.

Unbelieveably you cannot cancel via your credit card company.  This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, but the only way to cancel is to call the billing company directly and cancel with them over the phone.  Of course this won’t be easy.  You could be on hold for hours on end, perhaps they will never answer the phone.

Further reporting your card lost won’t work either unless you don’t admit to the $2.95 charge.  You would have to say the card was lost/stolen BEFORE you made the $2.95 (or whatever the “kit” cost you).  That way in the eyes of the credit card company the entire transaction was fraudulent.

If the credit card company knows you made the $2.95 charge in good faith, cancelling the card won’t do any good as the charges just go automatically to the other card.

If you are curious what this scheme is all about, it’s basically a monthly subscription service that gives you tips on how to make money.  I never even looked at it myself as I was so angry.

If you go back to the sales page where you signed up you will find the small writing in barely legible size and colour telling you about the monthly charges.  Because that writing is there we are legally liable for the charges and the Google Cash Kit company aren’t doing anything illegal.  Crazy but true.

So I hope you can cancel before you get billed the big money.  Feel free to leave your comments below about this scam that is catching many people unawares.

Here is some more evidence of this scam http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2009/06/22/google-cash-kit-is-a-scam/

7 Day Wealth are a little different from the rest as they don’t really have a product.  They claim to be an investment club.

This is a great idea in theory.  Pool everyone’s money together and invest it and share the profits.  They also claim you will never lose any money and in fact “guarantee” you will make money.

I always get a bit leery when companies make such far fetched guarantees.  Anything that sounds too good to be true normally is.

If you search the internet you will hear both good and bad stories.  People have paid money and got nothing whereas others have.  One problem I can already see is that they pay a 50% commission on your first level referrals and 25% on your 2nd level.  That’s a total of 75% commission paid on your first 2 levels alone !  If at least 75% of every dollar invested is paid directly to members as referral commissions how much money is left over for investing ? i.e. if i choose to invest $100 into the club, $75 (or possibly more depending on the other 8 levels commission structure) is paid immediately to the people above me.  How can my investment make any money when there is barely any investment left ?  How can they turn $25 (or less) into more than $100 in a short period of time ?

So for these basic reasons I think it’s pretty safe to say this is just another scheme that will eventually fall apart as they are very likely depending on the growth of new members and new money coming in, in order to fuel commission payments.  Once the growth slows down they won’t have any new money coming in and the payments will stop and the whole thing will collapse.  Just my prediction.

As for me, I will just stick with my simple Work for $3 program that has consistently been paying me commissions for the past 7 months and continues to grow week by week.

Feel free to leave your comments good or bad regarding 7 Day Wealth below.

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.

I have seen a lot on the internet about working from home stuffing envelopes.  This seems like an easy and a great opportunity.  Just sit around in your pyjamas watching TV and getting paid to stuff envelopes.  In fact the idea seems plausible as many advertising companies need a lot of envelopes stuffed so it would seem logical that such a business opportunity exists.

What you will find though is that whatever ad you are reading about this opportunity has a lot of hype.  What is worse is they will likely ask you for some sort of up front fee.  They will justify it by saying they need to weed out the time wasters and only want people who are really serious about the opportunity.  Or perhaps they will say something like they need the money for postage and packaging of the info pack with the instructions of how to get started in this “home business”.

If you do pay that fee because your curiousity is killing you, what you will likely get is a kit telling you how to promote the same business you just bought into.  It’s essentially another pyramid scheme where you earn commissions by “tricking” others into paying the same fee you did.  Where does the “envelope stuffing” come in you may ask ?  Well the company can easily justify it’s claim by saying you need to “stuff envelopes” with ads about the “envelope stuffing business” and then mail those out to as many people as possible in hopes of hooking someone else into the dodgy business opportunity.

Further, there are many machines that do this type of work much faster and cheaper than any human can do it.  I should know because I used to fix them.  Companies like Pitney Bowes and Francotyp Postalia make  folding and inserting machines that do this work.  So why would any company pay a human to do a job that they could get a machine to do ?

Further, there are many companies that specialize in these services that have these machines.  They can do the work very cheaply.  I am sure it works out to less than $5 per hour, so why would any company in their right mind pay a human big money to do this tedious task ?

The answer is obvious.  The ad you have read or stumbled upon is just another scheme trying to prey on the desperate and needy.  Unfortunately it works well, but hopefully you have stumbled upon my site before sending off for your “info pack”.

If you have any experiences with this type of scheme please post them below for others to learn from.

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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