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Freedom Funnel Systems Review – Is This a Scam?

Freedom Funnel Systems claims to be a free funnel system that anyone can use to make quite a bit of income online. It claims to be completely automated once you set it up and seems to be really awesome. But is it really? Most online marketing products seem amazing when they are advertised but many of them failed to perform. Is this a scam somehow?

In this Freedom Funnel Systems review I will be going over how the system really works and what you need to know. It can be confusing if you have never seen a funnel system like this before and you might not really know what you’re getting into.

I actually came across this system after our clicking on a link in an email that sent me to this video…

This video was presented by Pat Patterson and told a pretty horrific story of how he used to be a police officer and nearly died. Apparently at one point he was beaten and attacked by a pit bull. He thought he was going to die and could only hear police sirens in the background. He knew help was coming but was not there yet.

It’s crazy because this whole story is all part of the sales pitch to lure people into Freedom Funnel Systems. He relates this to people watching the video by basically asking if you are helpless and know that help is coming, but just don’t know one. And then of course he proceeds to tell you that this Freedom Funnel Systems is the help you have been waiting for.

Yeah I know… It’s a pretty ridiculous sales pitch. Whether the story about Pat Patterson being a police officer or not is true doesn’t really matter to me. If it is true and he really was attacked like that then thank God he is all right, but the point of this review is on Freedom Funnel Systems itself. The attention grabbing videos that lure you in don’t matter much… There are probably plenty of them out there and their only real purpose is to get you to look at the system.

What Is Freedom Funnel Systems?

Freedom Funnel Systems is a system created by Pat Patterson and Jon Mroz. Jon seems to be the main guy behind it and claims he spent thousands upon thousands of dollars creating it. And of course it is all free now for you and other people to get. You can get access to the same income streams and funnel system that is making Jon over $30,000 per month.

Crazy right? What’s the catch?

While the catch is that it is not free and you will have to pay to use the system in its entirety, but I’ll get into this later. First I want to go over how the system works and give you a high level overview.

Overview

Freedom Funnel Systems is a funnel system that gets people to sign up for different offers that can make you money. So basically what you will be doing is driving traffic to the Freedom Funnel Systems sales page, the same one that you saw, and then those people will be presented with the same offers that you are presented with.

The Freedom Funnel Systems funnel itself is free but the offers that you and others will have to join or not free.

So you join and first sign up for these offers, then you promote the Freedom Funnel Systems as a moneymaking opportunity to other people, they join and sign up for these offers as well which in turn makes you money.

The Different Parts of This Funnel

Step #1 – Express My Cash Freebies

The first part of this funnel is to sign up for Express My Cash Freebies. This is a program that promotes a free trial offers for all sorts of big businesses, such as Netflix, GameFly, etc. and pays people to refer others to sign up for free trials. So what you can do here is join and then refer others in, getting paid when they sign up for a free trial.

Express My Cash Freebies gets paid from the companies that are behind the offers that is promoting and they pay you some of this money when you get others to sign up for these free trial offers.

Step #2 – MLSP

My Lead System PRO is in online marketing service that gives you the ability to create lead capture pages, provides you with an autoresponder, training on traffic generation, and other things.

If you don’t know, a lead capture page is the page that you drive traffic to in order to get someone to enter their email address, and an autoresponder is software that allows you to send out automated emails to thousands of people at once so that you can follow up with them if they haven’t already bought into the offer your promoting.

MLSP also has an affiliate program where you can get paid to get other people to buy this service as well. So when you promote Freedom Funnel Systems and that person buys into MSLP just as you are going to, you will get paid a commission.

Step #3 – Pure Leverage

Pure Leverage it is very similar to MSLP. They provide lead capture services, and autoresponder, and training so that you can get others to join in and make money doing so. I honestly don’t really know what the point is of also signing up for this service because it’s pretty much the same darn thing. I’m assuming it is just to add another stream of income because you will also be able to make money when people buy into this when you are promoting Freedom Funnel Systems as well.

Bonus Step to Get Traffic – Traffic Authority

Of course you’re going to need traffic to make this funnel system work. Your first going to have to drive traffic to Freedom Funnel Systems before you make money from any of these income stream. So how do you do this? Do you advertise on Facebook? Do you share your link on social media? Do you get people to visit your site via Google?

While what they refer you to is what is called Traffic Authority, which is a traffic generation service where you can buy your traffic and send it to the page you want. And of course you will also be able to earn commissions when others you have referred to the funnel system buy their traffic here.

The Cost

Express My Cash Freebies is the only one that is free. You do not have to pay for this service and you can make money getting others to join trial offers. The way it works is that you first have to join trial offers before you are able to get paid by referring others to do the same.

But everything else cost money so if you want to use this sales funnel system in its entirety you’re going to have to take out your wallet. The costs of being able to make money with the other income streams are as follows…

MLSP – $49.97/mo or $149.97/mo
Pure Leverage – $24.97/mo + $19.95/mo to become an affiliate
Traffic Authority – $220 for 170-190 clicks (minimum)

The most expensive is going to be Traffic Authority which offers a bunch of different traffic packages. The lowest-cost one is $220 and the highest cost one is $8397…

Is This System Worth Joining?

Well the big question here is whether or not you will make money with this. It’s not a question of whether you can or not, all of these income streams that they are funneling people into will pay you, but is this really as easy as it seems?

The answer is no… It is not as easy as it seems. I have seen many funnel systems that are virtually the same type of thing is this, such as Digital Genius Lab & Funnel X Project which I recently reviewed, and none of them seem to last very long. They seem to come and go with the seasons and the only reason that I can think of for this is that they just do not work all that great.

I mean just think about it… You didn’t join right away did you? You were suspicious of this which led you to doing some extra research and eventually to reading my review here. If you do join the system and end up promoting it many of the people that you promoted to are going to be suspicious and do the same thing or just outright avoid it without even looking into it any further.

Conclusion on Freedom Funnel Systems

Freedom Funnel Systems it is not really a scam but it’s also not really something that I like the look of very much. Basically what you’re doing is luring people in with the hopes and dreams of making money online and then the funnel system is getting them to buy into these multiple streams of income, which they will then be able to make money with when they refer others to the system. It’s just an endless cycle of buying into things all for the sake of getting others to buy into them to make money.

I don’t know… I’m just not a fan of this kind of thing and I don’t really think it’s a very sustainable business model. But you can buy and if you want, I’m not telling you not to buy in. I will tell you that I’m definitely not going to though.

"Get Rich Quick"

Partner With Patrick System – Wow… What a Scam

The Partner With Patrick system is said to be able to make you a guaranteed $1,000 but is this really true? We have all heard scams make ridiculous claims of being able to make tons of money in short amounts of time before. So is this on the real deal or is it just like the others? Is this all a hoax set up to make Patrick money and suck money away from people like you?

In this review I will be going over the reality of the system. If you are possibly thinking about buying into this you are definitely will going to want to take some time and rethink it. You will see why I’m saying this throughout my review here.

Partner With Patrick System Review

When you first landed on the video presentation for this Partner With Patrick system you are shown screenshots of bank accounts where this Patrick guy is supposedly making hundreds of thousands of dollars per month… All from a single website that is pumping in money day and night on autopilot. Hmmm… Sounds like some other “get rich quick” schemes I’ve reviewed lately like The AZ Code, Earn Easy Commissions, and 60 Minute Profit Plan.

And of course he tells you that he is going to be setting you up with your very own automated moneymaking site. Why is he doing this? Well he tells you that he has too many sites to keep up with and that when you make money he will also make money, which will act as an incentive for him to help you make money. But he never goes into detail on any of this. He just says that one time and then leaves it at that

From what he says the site is going to give you is going to guarantee you make at least $1000 with it. And all you have to do is click your mouse a few times to get the website set up. The amount of work it requires is only about one hour per day he tells you.

And of course there are limited spots. Supposedly there are any 10 spots open and you are one of the lucky people that somehow came across this website.

Red Flags That Tell Me This Is a Scam

I’m sure you are probably already thinking this is a scam since you are reading my review here, but I’m going to be going over some of the red flags that I noticed that our common characteristics of scams.

#1 – Done For You, Push Button, Only Requires 1 Hr Per Day

This system claims to be done for you, push button, only requires one hour of work every day, and is guaranteed to make you thousands. It has all the ridiculous “get-rich-quick” claims that I would expect from a scam program like this.

As a rule of thumb, when something sounds too good to be true it probably is and you should proceed with caution. The system sounds way too good to each area and that’s because it isn’t true… It’s all a lie.

#2 – We Don’t Know Anything About Patrick

The first red flag is that we know absolutely nothing about this Patrick guy. He tells us his name is Patrick and that’s all we know. We don’t have a last name, there is no picture of him shown… We literally know nothing.

This is a major problem because there is no way to try to find out if this guy is legitimate or not. We just don’t know enough about him to do any research.

My guess is that this Patrick guy doesn’t even exist. It’s probably just a made up name used to promote this scam. Scam systems do this kind of stuff on time… Make up fake people all for the purpose of promoting the scam, because of course they do not want to put their real name in front of it due to the backlash they might receive.

#3 – No Information About How This System Works

There is no information given about how this actually works and how it makes you money. I guess you have to buy the product before you even know any of this.

From the video presentation all you know is that these Partner With Patrick sites make you tons of money on autopilot… But how? This is something that is not answered at all. I guess we are just supposed to believe in the system in trust that what “Patrick” is saying is true although we have no proof this guy even exists.

Yet another common scam sign.

#4 – You Are One Of The Lucky 10 People To Get This Opportunity

He tells you that you are one of only 10 people to get this opportunity, but this is all a lie. He is just telling you the stuff to try to get you to buy in as fast as possible because he makes it seem as if you are going to lose your spot if you leave the page.

If you leave the page and go back to it in a weeks time it is still going to be saying the same thing. Pretty much all scams have some sort of “false scarcity” like this.

#5 – Every Other System Is a Scam But Not This One!

Throughout the video presentation Patrick tells you that there are lots of scams out there that make false claims about being able to make you money but really just end up making the creators of money. And of course this is not one of those systems.

But can you really believe this? The answer is absolutely not. It seems like every scam system out there talks about other scam systems and then tells you why they are not a scam, yet offers a horrible explanation and has all the same characteristics of the scams they were just describing

Conclusion on Partner With Patrick – Avoid

Making money online is not something that is “easy”. There are lots of great aspects to making money online, such as the levels of automation that come with an online business, but the fact of the matter is they all take real work. It doesn’t matter how you’re trying to make money online, what methods you are using, if you want to make money online it is going to take real work.

Partner With Patrick is just your typical get-rich-quick scheme that lures people in with bold claims of making fast and easy money online all with very little work.

No I did not buy the system so I guess I cannot say with 100% certainty that it is a scam. But I can say with 99% certainty that it is a scam. I reviewed scams like this all the time and this is nothing new to me.

If you are still thinking about buying into the system, take a look at this. I will conclude this review by showing a screenshot of the disclaimer at the bottom of the homepage on the website… Now I don’t know if you will are able to read that but what it says is “The typical purchaser does not make any money using this system”.

Scams like this are able to get away with what they do because they can say all the lies and misleading information they want to in their sales pitch as long as they provide a truthful income disclaimer.

But of course they leave the true income disclaimer at the bottom of the page where many people will not look. And in this example they made the text very dark and hard to see to make it so that even less people actually read this.

So pretty much they’re telling you that this is only scam. The don’t use these exact words but when in the sales video there at telling you you are guaranteed to make money, and then in the disclaimer that they are telling you that most people will not make money… The only logical conclusion is that it is all a scam.

Training

Mobile Success Training Review – Yes You Can Make Money But There Is a Catch…

Mobile Success Training, or MST, is a money making opportunity presented by Paul Mahoney where you can supposedly make up to $10,000 commissions online. But is this opportunity really as good as it seems? After all it seems like pretty much every opportunity has some sort of catch to it. So what’s the downside… What is the catch?

While this particular opportunity that Paul is promoting is something that you can make money with, there is a catch to it… A big catch. In this review I’m going to be diving into the reality of this opportunity, how it really works, and hopefully give you all the information you should know to make a better choice about whether to buy and are not.

Mobile Success Training Review

There are probably multiple video presentations for this program but the one I watched started out kind of like your typical get-rich-quick scheme permission. It started out with Paul talking about how he is about to cross the $1 million mark using the system after having worked in a 9-to-5 job at a Guinness brewery. The video presentation was pretty flashy with talks about being able to travel the world while you make money along with beautiful and captivating vacation pictures to get people excited and ready to jump on board.

However I will say that Paul is much more honest and straightforward than many of the other people I have seen promoting this particular opportunity. He doesn’t lead people on thinking that they are going to make tons of money super easily. He tells you that not everyone makes a lot of money with this and he also provides a link to the earnings disclaimer page so that you can get a real idea of how many people are making money with this, which I will go over shortly.

But what the heck is this program that he keeps talking about? What is this opportunity that you can supposedly make $1250-$10,000 commissions with?

The Real Program being Promoted Here

One thing you should know is that the Mobile Success Training program is not really a program. The real program that is being promoted here is called MOBE. The Mobile Success Training presentation is just a clever way to get people to sign up and join MOBE.

If you paid close attention in the video presentation you may have noticed this. When Paul is talking about how this program has paid out over $75 million in commissions he shows you videos of life events where people were getting handed large checks. And if you look closely at the top left corner of these checks you will see that it says MOBE…

So What The Heck Is MOBE?

MOBE is a digital marketing platform that provides training, tools, and holds live seminar events all over. Basically what it is, is a program that’s goal is to provide a way for people to make money online.

How do you make money online with MOBE? In a nutshell you will be selling MOBE memberships to other people. It’s one of those programs that you join to make money online and then you end up going out and selling the same darn program to other people in order to make money online. This is similar to systems like Jeff’s 6 Figure Business System, Legendary Marketer and others.

The $75 million in commissions that were paid out from MOBE that Paul was talking about… All of those commissions came from members selling memberships to new people that are joining. It is possible to apply the tools and training that MOBE provides to any online business, but the whole system is mostly focused on getting people to promote MOBE and make money this way.

What You Aren’t Told…

It is true that you can make $1,250-$10,000 commissions with this program. How is this possible? Well because there are multiple products, or memberships, that MOBE has in that you can sell and make commissions with. So as you can imagine, if you’re going to make a commission of $10,000 by selling a single product than the product you’re selling must cost more than $10,000. In this is true. MOBE is what you call a “high ticket” program because it is extremely expensive and you can earn really large commissions selling these extremely expensive products.

What exactly are these high ticket products that you’re selling? Well they basically come with digital marketing training, tools, access to live seminars, coaching, etc. There core products that MOBE sells range in price from the low $1,000’s all the way up to $29,997 as you can see in this chart…

Okay… Sounds good… You can make massive commissions selling high-priced products. So…… What’s the catch? What are they telling you?

Will the catch is that you first have to purchase the products before you can sell them and make commissions doing so. So if you want to earn large commissions you will first have to pay large amounts of money to buy the product yourself. This is what they don’t tell you upfront and this is where they really crank in the money because the system lures people in with talks about being able to earn massive commissions but does not tell them that they will also have to pay massive amounts of money.

The introductory product to buy into all of this is only $49 but this is just the beginning of things. You will have to purchase upsells and spend lots more money if you actually want to be successful here.

Can You Really Make Money With This?

Although I do not care for these kinds of systems at all, that are just based around selling memberships for the system, I have to be honest in this review and tell you that yes you can make money with this, although it will not be easy.

If you look at the earnings disclosure statement that they provide you will see that there are some people making a heck of a lot with this. Some people are making over a million a year. However… The majority of people are making close to nothing and not nearly enough to live off of as you can see…

Conclusion on Mobile Success Training – Scam?

Okay, so Mobile Success Training really is nothing more than a funnel created by Paul Mahoney to get people to join MOBE. Paul is a member of MOBE and he is doing exactly what the system teaches people to do, which is go out and recruit others to join the system. He makes money getting people to join and if you join you will be pushed down the same path. I am very familiar with MOBE because I review funnel systems created by MOBE members like this all the time, such as Rookie Profit System, Your Easy Business, Secret Society of Millionaires, and plenty others.

Now is this all a scam? Well can come to your own conclusion on this. I guess this all depends on what your definition of a scam is. At the very least I would definitely say this is a shady business model that almost entirely revolves around recruiting new members in and then teaching them to recruit new members in.

Whether you want to join or not is up to you. But let me just tell you this: I sure as heck will not be joining a program like this.

"Get Rich Quick", Easy Money Scams

Verified Robot Review – Smells Like a Scam to Me

Verified Robot (verifiedrobot.com) claims to be an automated cryptocurrency trading bot that will buy and sell Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and other big name cryptocurrencies for you at a 86% profit rate, which is pretty darn high. But the question is… Is this automated trading robot actually legitimate or is this all a scam that has been designed to steal people’s money?

In my opinion this is more than likely a scam and in this review I’ll be going over why I think this. There are many red flags that stand out to me that are common characteristics of these types of scams. So if you were thinking about buying into this I would read over my review here and think again.

What Is Verified Robot?

Well, like I said, it is supposedly a cryptocurrency trading robot that does everything for you automatically. They tell you that it uses a complex set of trading algorithms to analyze the cryptocurrency market and make trades within average accuracy of 86%.

Now nothing really stands out right off the bat as this place being a scam. I mean in 86% accuracy rate is high, but it is something that could possibly be “do-able”, although unlikely. At least they aren’t telling you it has a 100% win rate like many of the cryptocurrency trading bot scams out there. I have reviewed many such scams that are much more ridiculous including Bitcoin Millionaire Club, Litecoin Trader, Crypto News Trader, etc.

But although this does not come across nearly as “scammy” as many of the other systems out there, I still do believe it is a scam.

Red Flags

No Information On The People Behind This

The first red flag that I’ll go over is that there is absolutely no information on the people behind this. I always like to look into the team that created such a system to see if everything checks out and unfortunately here there is no information for me to look into. This definitely does not mean it’s a scam but it is a red flag that is concerning because every other known scam out there does the same thing.

Don’t Know How It Trades

All we know is that it supposedly runs on a “complex set of trading algorithms” to make these highly accurate and extremely profitable trades for you. We have no idea what method it trades with, the strategy behind it, or anything. Is it making large position swing trades for you? Is it making smaller day trades? Is it making trades using Bollinger Bands, using an EMA Spread, is it dollar cost averaging down? There are so many questions with absolutely zero answers.

With legitimate trading robots there is usually much more transparency. But here we know nothing… Another major red flag.

No Information About The Exchanges It Uses

When you trade cryptocurrency, which I do as a hobby by the way, you have to use a cryptocurrency exchange such as Binance, Bittrex, GDAX, etc. And with a legitimate trading robot you will hook it up to an exchange so that I can make the trade for you.

The problem here is that they make no mention of any exchange and you have no idea what is going on. I have used legitimate trading bots before and what you would do is create an account with the exchange you will be using and then grant API access to the trading bot so that I can make trades for you.

This is really starting to smell more and more like a scam.

Refer You To a Broker

To make things worse they refer you to a broker. Now of course they tell you that this is a “reputable broker” as you can see here…

… But the problem is that there is no need for a broker. When trading cryptocurrencies brokers are completely unnecessary. I have never heard of a legitimate trading bot that goes through a broker.

As I mentioned above, when trading cryptocurrencies you trade through an exchange. You create the exchange account yourself and that’s all there is to it. No need for a broker at all and any sort of opportunity that refers you to a broker to trade cryptocurrencies is more than likely a scam.

$250 Minimum Deposit

Of course you have to make a minimum deposit of $250 to fund your trading account with your broker. This is where they scam you because it is unlikely that you will ever see that money again. For some reason all of the trading bot scams out there require a deposit of $250. I’m not sure why this is exactly, maybe this is the minimum amount that you can deposit with a broker, but it doesn’t really matter because I’m about 99% sure this is a scam.

Conclusion on Verified Robot – Scam?

This is a bit more sneaky than your typical cryptocurrency trading bot scam but it still seems to be a scam in my opinion. When I look into opportunities like this that seem a bit fishy I always look for reasons that they might not be a scam. I pretty much begin my research with the mindset that they are a scam and look to be proven wrong. But there is nothing about this place that leads me to believe that they are actually legitimate.

There is no proof of anything they say being true and there is a severe lack of information. If it were a legitimate then they would be more than happy to provide ample information so that customers know what’s going on, which they don’t. And the whole getting referred to a broker thing is probably the biggest red flag of all.

If you want to buy into this then go for it. It’s your money and you can use it as you wish. This just definitely is not something I would recommend by any means. And if you already did buy into it and are looking to get your money back then you may want to try chargeback service like MyChargeBack to help you do this. If you used a credit/debit card such as Visa or MasterCard they will be able to help you get your money back but of course this isn’t a guarantee.

Uncategorized

Postal Job Source Scam – This Place Will NOT Get You a Postal Service Job!

Postal Job Source claims to offer a service to help people get jobs working for the post office but unfortunately this is not true. This place really is nothing more than a scam that is going to steal your money and in this review I’ll be showing you how they do this.

This type of scam is somewhat hard to spot. It comes across as being legitimate because they don’t make any really ridiculous claims of being able to make you rich or anything along those lines. All they do is claim to offer a service to help you get a legitimate job working at the post office. Sounds like something that could be true right? I agree with that, it does sound like something that could potentially be the real deal but, like I said, this is a scam.

Postal Job Source Review

The website that I came across this Postal Job Source was postaljobssourcewcs.com. However I came across another review of this place and it seems that they have multiple websites that all point to the same exact scam so if you came across this on a different site it is still the same thing.

As I said, all the service claims to do is help get you a job. They tell you that you will be able to start out making $14.92 to $33.10/hour, new experiences needing, there is paid training, and the job security is great. In the thing about all of these claims is that they are true for Postal Service workers which makes this scam so convincing.

Years ago I actually tried getting a job at the Postal Service as a delivery driver so I know a good bit about the jobs they offer. They are good jobs, some of them pay pretty decent in the job security does seem to be good.

HOWEVER… This place is a scam so if you do really want to work for the post office then apply directly to their website and not through this site.

How They Scam You

So you might be wondering, “well how does this place scam you?” Well they do so by making you pay for some registration package. They tell you that the U.S. Postal Service requires you to take an exam that will determine whether or not you get employed, so you need to pass this to get a job. And this registration package that they provide to you will give you everything you need to study to be able to pass this exam.

Here’s a screenshot I took from their website and what they tell you:

The registration package cost $48 and what I found pretty funny is that it somehow has a 200% moneyback guarantee. What the heck? How is this possible at all? How can they possibly make a guarantee like this? It makes absolutely no sense from a business standpoint. If this were true anyone could make $48 for free by buying the package, failing the U.S. Postal Service exam, and then getting a 200% money back refund.

This is just silly and is a major red flag of a scam.

A Look At The Company Behind It

Okay, so it’s always important to look into the company behind job opportunities like this to check out they are legitimate or not. On Postal Job Source’s website they tell you that they are not the Postal Service. They tell you that they are a private employment service that simply helps you get hired by the Postal Service…

So then what is this company that is behind all of this? Well if you go to the Contact Us page of their site you will see there address listed.

So what I did was searched for first address the posted to find out more about this business. I found that the business name is “Labor Services”, which I remember them saying they were a division of somewhere on the Postal Job Source site.

On the Better Business Bureau’s website there isn’t much going on with this business. It has supposedly been in business for 22 years but only has three customer complaints and a zero reviews. What’s funny though is that one of the complaints is about being scammed by a fake mail processing job that required the person to purchase a package of study material just as the scam we are going over here does…

And also one of the other complaints that was posted for this business came from someone claiming they purchased some study material package for a fake mall clerk job.

Yep… Its a Scam Alert

When doing my research into this I came across an article written by the Federal Trade Commission warning consumers about these exact types of scams. You can read the article if you want to here but I’ll summarize it for you: Basically what it tells you is that this Postal Job Source website is a scam. Of course it doesn’t tell you this directly but it warns you about these places to a T.

What the article says is that there are scam artists out there that trick people into purchasing study materials to get a high score on the postal exam when they likely are completely worthless. They also tell you that a high score on the exam does not ensure you will get a job and that there is no good way to actually study for the exam anyhow.

Here is a small screenshot of part of the article:

Conclusion on Postal Job Source – Scam

Scams are getting trickier and trickier these days. The “get-rich-quick” type of scams are easy to spot. They make ridiculous claims about getting rich overnight with automated systems and fairytale type things like that. But this Postal Job Source scam is much more sneaky and much more legitimate seeming.

If you did get scammed by this place I wouldn’t feel too down on yourself. This is one sneaky little son of a gun and I’m sure there are a lot of people being scammed by it.

If you did end up getting scammed you could always try to get your money back via a chargeback if you used a debit/credit card like MasterCard or Visa. MyChargeBack is one service that I know that helps with this. And of course if you still want to apply for a Postal Service job then go directly through the Postal Service or make darn sure that the third party service you are using is legitimate.

Paid Survey Sites

VIP Voice, Scam or Can You Actually Get Rewarded? – Review

VIP Voice is one of many paid survey sites out there you can be rewarded for taking free surveys online. Is this place actually worth your time though? That is the real question and that’s exactly what I’m going to answer today in my review.

In this review I’ll be going over how VIP Voice works, rewards, the downside to this site, complaints. And more. You are going to want to read this before actually signing up.

What Is VIP Voice?

VIP Voice is a paid survey site that is run by The NPD Group. They offer your typical online surveys, which are run from 10 to 25 minutes generally, that you get paid for in points in these points can later be used to get rewards of real value.

Now you may be wondering why they are paying you to take surveys. The reason is because they are conducting market research. You may realize that under the VIP Voice logo it says “make an impact”. You take a survey your opinion along with thousands of other people’s opinion are used by companies so they can improve products and services, among other things. There are many companies out there that pay money for market research like this. So VIP Voice gets paid by companies and you get paid a small amount as an incentive to take surveys in the first place.

The surveys that they offer are typical. They can be in all sorts of various topics and as I said run about 10 to 25 minutes normally. This is the okay part of this paid survey site, but there is a major downside. The downside is how redeem points for rewards.

Rewards

The rewards is where they really screw you over here at VIP Voice in my opinion. Unlike most survey sites out there where you can earn a set number of points and then redeem this points for rewards such as gift cards, PayPal payments, etc., VIP Voice doesn’t work like this.

At VIP Voice there are two main options that you can do with your points. You can go to BidLand or SweepLand.

BidLand it’s where you go to bed on different rewards, such as electronics, home products, and mostly gift cards. It sounds like it would be fun and all, I mean who doesn’t like a bid war every now and again, but really it’s a ripoff. VIP Voice those darn well what they’re doing here.

With the bidding the prices of the different rewards often get inflated far beyond their real value, you’re going to have to pay more than you should in points. Sure sometimes you might be able to win an auction for a rather low price but most of the time it seems that bids are higher than they should be.

VIP Voice makes users bid on their rewards for a reason, and I don’t think the reason is for it to be fun. I think the reason is because they know people will be paying more for the rewards normally, which means that they will have to give out less rewards in total.

Below you can see a screenshot I took of some of the featured auctions as well as gift card auctions below that…

And when it comes to the SweepLand it’s the same kind of deal. There are plenty of different contests for various prizes such as TVs, cash, gift cards, vacations, and more. The chances of you winning these things is very low though. I’ve never been a fan of sweepstakes because it’s basically like the lottery and these things are nearly impossible to win sometimes, especially if you are entering in sweepstakes for one of the better prizes.

How Many Points Can You Earn Per Survey

Its all about earning points. You take surveys, you earn points, and you bid on different rewards or enter in sweepstakes contests. So how many points will you earn you are asking?

Well, this depends. At VIP Voice there are different levels, or tiers, of membership and the higher you are the more you will earn. There are five levels in in order to move up the levels you have to take more surveys. With each survey take you will earn what are called “VIP Participation Points” and “VIP Qualification Points”. The participation points are points that you earn when you attempt to take a survey but are disqualified during the preliminary screening questions in the qualification points are when you actually complete a survey. I know it sounds like these two would be backwards but this is the way it is.

So at level I you will earn at least 25 VIP Participation Points and 50 VIP Qualification Points, which is hardly anything. But as you can see from the chart below you will build a move up the ladder rather quickly. By taking 20 surveys you will reach the top and be able to earn at least 200 VIP Participation Points and 550 VIP Qualification Points…

So how much are you really making? Well considering that as I’m writing this a $10 Amazon gift card has a highest bid being over 20,000 points, this means even at a level 20 you would have to take close to 40 surveys just to be able to get that $10 gift card.

Does this seem worth it to you? It sure as heck doesn’t for me.

Complaints

I always go to SurveyPolice to look at other user reviews when looking into different survey sites. On this site anyone can go in review different sites in the often complain about everything they don’t like.

For VIP Voice the main complaint I came across was overwhelmingly about the reward system. People complain about exactly what I just went over… The bid system is ridiculous and drives prices of rewards up our than they should be in the sweepstakes contests are damn near impossible to win.

Conclusion on VIP Voice – Is It Worth Your Time

Will let me first answer the question of whether it’s a scam or not. NO I didn’t think that this place is a scam in any way. However this does not mean that I think it’s working at time. I actually do not think it’s even close to being worth the time you put in. Normal paid survey sites are bad enough but with the reward system that VIP Voice has in place things are even worse.

I would only recommend this site to people who are looking to waste their time and earn very little value for the time they put into it. There are better paid survey sites out there like Swagbucks and PaidViewPoint for example, but even they aren’t all that great. Paid survey sites just don’t pay much at all for your time in this is just the way it is.

Paid Survey Sites

Makeculous Review – Good Way to Earn Money & Bitcoins Taking Surveys?

Makeculous is a website were you can earn money from home completing surveys, offers, data processing and more. But is this place actually worth your time? This is a serious question that needs answered beforehand because often times sites like this lead to in income that is extremely low.

In this Makeculous review I’ll be going over how the site works, the different ways you can earn, how much you will be able to earn, getting paid and more.

Makeculous Review

Makeculous is a website like Swagbucks, Inbox Dollars, etc. that pays people to complete offers, watch videos, and take surveys. I don’t know what they are talking about when they say they pay people for data processing,.. I didn’t find any way to earn doing this.

Everything is free for users. It is free to join and free to take the surveys and such. They offer mobile apps that you can download for convenience or you can just do everything on your PC if you want to.

They make their money conducting market research and advertising. This is how they are able to pay you to do these things in case you were wondering.

Overall Makeculous is decent. Its not a scam but its also definitely nothing special. Some people will love the fact that you can get paid in Bitcoin but other than that they are pretty normal and nothing to write home about.

The Ways You Can Make Money

Taking Surveys

They offer quite a few number of different surveys. These are your typical surveys that you will find on just about every survey site out there. You will see surveys by Sampilicious, Opinion World, Say So Surveys, Peanut Labs, etc… all very popular market research entities.

With these surveys you can earn generally between $0.50 and $2.00 and they usually take 15 – 25 minutes or so to complete.

Offers

If you go to the “offer walls” section of the site you will literally find hundreds upon hundreds of different offers that range a lot in how much they pay out. You can see below the screenshot I took of some offers. There are offers for you to join other survey sites, schedule an appointment at PepBoys, join the WorldBookLearning club…

And these are just 4 out of hundreds of different things. You will find offers of all sorts but usually they are for you to schedule something or sign up for something. There are lots of offers to get you to sign up for online services like Netflix, Gamefly, etc.

Here you will earn points which can later be redeemed for things of real value. The points you will earn here range a lot because the offers range a lot. You could earn 100 points on one offer and 10,000 points on another… you never really know.

Watching Videos

Its strange I know… but you can get paid to watch short videos. There are many different kinds of videos you will find here. You will find videos on sports, medical problems, music videos, foods, and tons of other things…

They will range in time a good bit. Some will be just around 1 minute while others could be 15 minutes or longer. At the beginning and end of the video there will be an ad that you have to watch which is how Makeculous makes money from this to pay you in the first place.

But don’t expect to make much of anything. Based on my experience you will make 1 point for every video. But I’ve never say through one of the longer videos so I’m not sure if they pay more or not.

How Much Can You Make?

With the paid surveys you are making about $0.50 – $2.00 for every 15 – 25 minute survey, give or take. But you also have to take into consideration the time spend getting to the actual survey, getting screened out of surveys, etc. After considering all of this the pay becomes less for your time.

And when it comes to earning points don’t expect much. 1000 points = $1. So for the offers I guess you could earn $10 or so for some of them but these are offers that usually require you to subscribe to something, pay for a small trial, etc. And with the videos you are literally going to have to watch hundreds before earning a measly $1.

Overall this is pretty much your typical paid survey/paid offer website. You can’t earn much of anything and the only nice part is that you can work on this at any time you want to.

Getting Paid

For me, living in the US, the two options for withdrawal are Bitcoin and Paypal. If you withdrawal with Paypal there is a $10 minimum that you must be withdrawing and the same goes for Bitcoin.

If you are going to withdrawal in Bitcoin you are going to need a Coinbase account. They don’t allow you to just send the Bitcoin to any wallet of your choice. What you do is enter your Coinbase email address and they will send it to that account’s wallet.

Conclusion on Makeculous – Good Opportunity or Not?

Makeculous isn’t anything special, as I mentioned at the beginning. Its your pretty typical paid survey website for the most part. The only benefit that it has above many of the others out there (which you may or may not consider a benefit) is that they allow you to cash out in Bitcoin.

I don’t care for paid survey sites like this at all because I think they are a major waste of time when you sit back and look at the big picture, but if you do want to make money doing this stuff I would recommend looking into Swagbucks or PaidViewPoint. Swagbucks offers a ton of different ways to earn and PaidViewPoint is more for just surveys but they both are some of the better sites out there for this kind of thing.

Something else you might be interested in since you are looking to make money online on your own time is how I make a living online. You can read my “make money online guide” here where I go over what I do, how it all works, and how others can get started doing the same if you are interested.

Leave all comments and questions below and I’ll get back to you soon 🙂

Paid Survey Sites

Pinecone Research, Scam or Can You Really Make $3 Per Survey? – [Quick Review]

Pinecone Research is one of many paid survey websites out there that you can join to earn a bit of extra money sharing your opinion online. But is the site any good? Is it better than the many other ones out there? Or will Pinecone Research scam you in one way or another?

In this review I’m going to be answering these questions and going over how this site works, including what you will be doing to make money, how much you can really make, the different rewards that are available, pros versus cons, and more.

Pinecone Research Review

There are plenty of different paid survey sites out there that pay you for the same reason that this place pays you… Which is for market research. They work with large companies to collect information from consumers to help influence their products/services. So they get paid for the research they do from companies and they pay people like you and I a small portion of this money as incentive to participate.

One of the reasons that Pinecone Research it is so luring compared to other survey sites is because they will pay you a minimum of three dollars per survey that you complete. This is definitely on the high side. I have reviewed dozens upon dozens of other paid survey sites and usually what you can expect from a 10 to 25 minute survey is $0.50 to $2.00 or so. Making three dollars per survey is pretty darn good and is certainly more than you will earn on average compared to sites like Swagbucks, Valued Opinions, Opinion City, etc.

The surveys will take you generally 10 to 25 minutes as surveys on most sites will take but you will be compensated more for your time.

Of course you get paid in points first but these points can then be redeemed for cash and various other rewards.

What also is nice about Pinecone Research is the product testing. You will be able to receive sample products before they hit the market so that you can test amount and provide feedback on them. This is something that’s kind of fun to do. And unlike many survey sites out there that will send you sample products and that counts is the compensation, Pinecone Research will actually reward you in addition to the sample product that you get to keep. After testing out a product you will complete a survey on it and get rewarded in points for that.

Cash Out Options

As mentioned will not be paid in cash directly. You will first earn points which will end up in your account and then you’ll be able to redeem this points for things of real value, such as cash. The different options you have if you want regular old cash include cashing out with PayPal, getting a check in the mail, or getting a prepaid Visa card.

But other than this there are many other options. You can get tons of other different gift cards such as for Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, etc. as well as use your points to enter in sweepstakes contests when large prizes.

I would say that Pinecone Research is also on the better side compared to other paid survey sites when it comes to the cash out options available. They have every option you need really. Anyone who wants cash has three different options to getting it the end of this is probably what most people are going to request.

Pros Vs Cons

Pros

Good Money Per Survey

Of course the fact that you make three dollars per survey is definitely a pro. On average this is much higher than the majority of paid survey sites out there.

Don’t Get Disqualified

One of the main complaints you will find on other paid survey sites come from people who are frustrated because they will begin taking surveys and then get disqualified without being compensated at all or within only being compensated a small amount. But here it is different. If you get a survey offer you will not be disqualified and you do not have to worry about this.

Plenty of Cash Out Options

As I just went over there are plenty of different ways you can redeem your points and I don’t see any reason that anyone can’t find a cash out option they would be interested in.

Cons

By Invite Only

You can only join Pinecone Research by invite only. You can’t just go to their website and decide to sign up because you feel like it. You will have to be invited by another member. But if you want to do this it’s usually pretty easy. What you can do is Google “Pinecone Research signup” and usually you can find someone that is promoting the company using their invite link that you will be able to join through.

Not Many Openings

But even if you do find and invite link this does not necessarily mean you’ll be able to join. Pinecone Research limits the amount of members they have and won’t just accept tons of people like many other survey sites. So if you try to sign up you might get a message saying that they do not have any openings or something like that.

Not Tons of Surveys

Making three dollars per survey is great but this is definitely not something you can count on for a full-time job or even close to that. If they did have unlimited surveys you would be able to do this but the fact of the matter is they do not.

Conclusion on Pinecone Research – Good Opportunity?

Pinecone Research in my opinion is one of the more legitimate and reputable paid survey sites out there. They conduct quality research and treat their members a well which is something that cannot be said for all paid survey sites. There are some downsides of course but if you do have the ability to join and are looking for a little extra income on the side that you can make in your spare time helping influence products/services, then I would go for it.

Just don’t think you’re going to make lots of money doing this. I find that some people looking into paid survey sites like this think they are going to be able to make much more than is possible and if you go in with this mindset you will only end up disappointed.

MLM's

Is World Global Network a Scam?… Pyramid Scheme Maybe? – [Review]

World Global Network sounds like one heck of a great opportunity, but is it really? Do their products even work and what’s up with all the members of this company trying to get other people to join? Is World Global Network a scam that you should be avoiding?

In this review I will be going over a little bit about the products that this company sells but I mainly want to talk about the business opportunity that everyone is trying to get other people to join. And by the way I am in no way affiliated with this company so I’m not going to be recruiting you in, nor am I going to make this sound better than it is. There is actually a pretty significant downside to the business opportunity that I will be going over.

World Global Network Review

World Global Network is a MLM company that sells “life sensing technology”. The company was started back in 2011 and is growing at a pretty decent rate.

There most popular product includes the Helo wristband. This thing looks very similar to a FitBit and monitors all sorts of vital signs like your heart rate, blood pressure, fatigue, mood, electro cardiogram, etc and alerts you when your numbers are abnormal or out of the healthy range.

They also sell this pretty cool product called Biozen that is a small sticker-like chip that you stick on your electronic devices to reduce what they call “electro smog”. This little device they claim to be recognized as a class I medical device in Europe and this “electro smog” that they refer to is just a fancy term for radiation.

According to research his studies, many electronic devices generate electromagnetic fields that subject our bodies to an overload of positive ions that can distort water molecules and ultimately harm our DNA. So there is definitely a need for a product like Biozen but whether or not this particular product works isn’t something that I know. I wasn’t able to find any studies of the product showing that it reduced the distortion of water molecules in our body or anything like that. But in theory it should work.

The Business Opportunity

If you are presented with the different products that World Global Network sells and were pushed to buy them then there’s a good chance you are also pushed to join the business opportunity where you can make money selling the same products to other people. From what I have seen this business opportunity is usually presented as a way to achieve financial freedom, quit the daily grind, make tons of money, etc. But what no one tells you about this is that there is a serious downside to it… One that I will be going over.

If you decide to become an affiliate for World Global Network you will be able to earn commissions from sales that you make. You will be set up with your own little personal online store and when people buy products from your store you will earn commissions from the initial sale as well as any recurring sales.

The controversy all part of the business model, which is why you may hear people calling it a pyramid scheme and is the reason members are going out in trying to recruit others in, is MLM part of it. MLM stands for multilevel marketing and basically what this means is that there are multiple levels within the compensation plan and you can get paid from the efforts of people beneath you. So what you can do is recruit others to join the business beneath you and earn commissions from what they do, and earn commissions from the people that they recruit in, in the people that they recruit in and so on.

The Team Volume Commissions are paid out in a binary structure. So beneath each person there are two available positions. Beneath you the pyramid breaks off into two sides (binary), a left and right. So as you recruit new members into the business you first fill the two positions beneath you and then your recruits will overflow and fill any available positions on the way down. The same will happen when people that you recruited in go out and recruit people in. Below is a little illustration of what this will look like.

You will be earning commissions based on the volume of product sold in your downline, with the possibility of earning 10% commissions from the volume on both sides of the binary structure.

You will also be able to earn what they call “Generation Matching Bonuses” which are basically commissions paid to you from different teams that are created in your downline. So as an affiliate you go out and recruit a bunch of people and sort of build your own “team”. With these Generation Matching Bonuses you will be earning commissions based on the teams formed beneath you. There is more to it to that but I think this is an easy way to understand it.

With these bonuses you will be able to earn down to 10 generations deep. Generation one consists of the people that you personally recruited in, generation two is made up of the people that they recruited in, generation three is made up of the people that those people recruited in, and so on.… All the way down to 10.

So with the different ways to get compensated through recruitment you can end up getting paid from people way beneath you.

Sounds Awesome But Here Comes The Downside…

With MLM opportunities like this there is a lot of potential to make a lot of money but what people don’t tell you is that they are very difficult to make money with. The reason has to do with their very structure. Their pyramid like commission structure sucks money away from those at the bottom of the pyramid and funnels it up to those above them. So what this means is that the people near or at the bottom are making less money than they possibly could be making if there wasn’t such a MLM structure and the people at the top are reaping the rewards.

And as you can imagine with a pyramid -like structure there are always many more people at the bottom or near the bottom of the pyramid then at the top, making this type of business model more difficult for the majority of people that join. This is why you see such high turnover rates for MLM businesses like this in the reason so many people fail. It is NOT some super easy opportunity to make money like some people try to make you believe. The people that present it as such are probably just trying to recruit you in to make money off you.

I review MLM’s all the time, Zija International, Rodan and Fields, World Ventures, you name it… and one common theme is that when I find ones that do show their income disclosure statement it is always very uneven, meaning that those at the top are the ones making most of the money.

Conclusion on World Global Network – Good Opportunity?

I’m a fan of the products that World Global Network sells. Sure they might be overpriced but when it comes down to what the products are all about and what they do I am a supporter. But with the business model I’m not too big of a fan. I’m not too big of a fan of MLM business models because they always lead to a bunch of people running around trying to recruit everyone in him because of course what I just went over.

Is this a good opportunity for you? Well that all depends on what you are like. Some people really excel with MLM businesses like this while they a majority don’t. Those who excel are the ones who are able to recruit new people in consistently and really build up a big downline, Which is absolutely necessary if you want to take advantage of the compensation plan.

As I said, I’m not too big of a fan of MLM’s, but I will say that one upside to this MLM is that the technology that is being sold is new and I think it’s going to increase in popularity quite a bit future, making it a much better MLM opportunity than many of the other ones out there.

Something else you may want to look into if you are thinking about getting involved in this MLM and starting your own business would be how I make money online. You can read my “make money online guide” here if interested.

And of course leave me any questions or comments you may have below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can 🙂

Work At Home Jobs

TutorVista Review – Should You Become a Tutor?

TutorVista provides an online tutoring service in a variety of different subjects and for grades from kindergarten all the way up to the college level. If you think you are qualified you can tutor through their online service and make some decent money from home, which is what I’m reviewing here today.

In this TutorVista review of the job offered, I’ll be going over all you need to know if interested. I’ll cover things like flexibility, what tutoring sessions are like, how much you get paid, complaints and more.

TutorVista Job Review

As mentioned, TutorVista offers tutoring services from low level courses going as far down as kindergarten all the way up to college levels. These courses can be in Math, Physics, Statistics, Chemistry, and pretty much all the main subjects. So if teaching one of these subjects to students is of interest to you, and you meet the requirements below, then this might be something worth considering.

However, as with any job, their are downsides to it. So make sure you read everything including the complaint section.

Requirements for the Job

If you are looking to become a tutor here then you are more than likely going to need a masters degree in the subject you want to teach. On their website they tell you that this is expected but in some rare situations they may accept tutors without one if they feel their communication skills are up to par and their academic record is strong.

The equipment/ technical requirements you will need to perform the job include…

High speed internet
Windows PC
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
At least 256mb RAM (your computer probably has this)
Pentium 3 or faster processor
Speakers and microphone (or headset and microphone)
Microsoft Word
Digital Pen and Pad

You also are going to be required to work at certain times and for a certain amount of time. This isn’t a job you can just work at 30 minutes here and their as you like.

What The Job Is Like

As a TutorVista tutor you will be interacting with the student through their platform. You will have a virtual whiteboard in which you can draw on, just as teachers do in live classes, and you will be able to chat with the student in real-time.

Students will come for tutoring with all sorts of questions so you never know exactly what to expect. You will have to well equipped with knowledge in the particular subject so that you can help with what they ask for.

When it comes to work times this job probably isn’t as flexible as you may think since its an online tutoring position. You will be required to work certain times of the day. Its not a freelance tutoring position where you just work when you feel like it. They schedule you shifts where you must be online. As I’m writing this they are hiring for positions where you must be able to work at least 4 hours per day, but this might not always be the case.

Students are able to schedule sessions ahead of time or they also can loggin at anytime they want to be connected with a tutor. Because much of the tutoring is provided on a “come and go” basis, much of your time that you are scheduled to tutor will be spent idle, meaning you will have to be logged in waiting for sessions but don’t know when you will get any, unless of course their are pre-scheduled sessions that they have set you up with.

The sessions are around 45 minutes long each but this will vary.

TutorVista tries to hook the same students up with the same tutors for certain subjects when they are able to. This is nice because you can get used to students and start to build relationships in a way. Many other online tutoring aren’t like this… you just get random students that you will likely never see again.

Complaints

I always like to look on independent job review sites like Glassdoor when researching opportunities like this to see what other workers are saying. When it comes to TutorVista the overall view is decent but nothing special. For example, on Glassdoor they have a 3.4/5 rating (as I’m writing this of course)… not terrible but not amazing. There are a fair number of complaints and some of the more notable ones include…

Low Pay

This is definitely the most common compliant I’ve come across. They don’t tell you how much they pay but from what I understand it will range a lot. I’ve read on another review site that they pay anywhere from $8-$39/hr but based on what I’ve been reading most tutors are making on the low side of it.

This also doesn’t count when you are sitting idle waiting for tutoring sessions. I’m not sure how the pay works with this part of the job.

Another complaint having to do with this is that there isn’t really any room for growth as a tutor.

Sitting Around Doing Nothing

Like I just said again, as a tutor you may have to sit around quite a bit just waiting for sessions. This depends on a lot of things such as what you are teaching, what time of day you are scheduled, etc.

Rude Students

Students can be rude and very unappreciative. This just comes with the territory and you have to be willing to take it.

Conclusion on TutorVista – Is It Worth Your Time?

Overall TutorVista is pretty good and definitely not a scam in any way. There are a lot of people complaining about it and not recommending it to others but then there are people that have been working as a tutor for years and still love it. The extremes go in both ways.

One thing I would say for sure is that if you are looking to possibly apply for a tutoring job here don’t do it for just the money. There are many complaints about the pay being low so I feel that the people that really enjoy this job are the ones that get a lot of satisfaction with helping students.

You can learn more at tutorvista.com/teaching-jobs

Something else you might be interested in since you are looking to make money online is how I make a living. You can read my “make money online guide” to see what I do, how it all works, etc. if you’d like.

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