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I decided to give Project PayDay a try again.

Project PayDay is video tutorial on how to make money at a website called FreeLunchRoom.com. You really don’t need the video, as some folks on FreeLunchRoom.com are more than willing to walk a new person step by step through the entire process.

NOTE: The following information is in another post. If you read that post, you can probably skip this information and go directly to The Pitfalls of Project PayDay below.

The Basics of FreeLunchRoom.com:
Companies offer cash or gifts for referrals/sign-ups.
Person A agrees to pay Person B a fee if they sign-up using their referral link.
Once Person A receives the required number of sign-ups, the company pays out (in cash or a product).

How does this work?
Person A signs up for an offer to receive $100 for 3 referrals.
Person A offers 3 person B, C, and D $20 each to sign-up using their referral.
Person B, C, and D make $20 each.
Person A paid $60 to make $100.
You can either be Person A, BCD, or you can do both.

The details are in the Project PayDay video tutorial.

You’ve probably come across this type of offer before, where a company offers a FREE Xbox 360 for signing up with a few companies. This is basically the same concept, but with a twist of paying others to sign-up.

The Pitfalls of Project PayDay:
Pitfall 1 - You don’t need Project PayDay at all to make money. The video tutorial is great, but you don’t really need it. I got the basic idea from the Project PayDay video tutorial, but the person I selected to do business with on FreeLunchRoom.com walked me through the entire process.

Pitfall 2 - This Pitfall is not really the fault of Project Payday or FreeLunchRoom, it’s more my fault and the fault of the company I selected to sign-up with. I contacted my mentor and said I wanted to try again. She offered me a site, and I proceeded to look for a product I was interested in trying.

This time was a little different. I needed one point to qualify, and there were offers ranging from .10 points to .75 points. There were no one point offers. The payment I was to receive was $28. I chose one item for $6.99 at .75 points (30 day trial offer to renew at $89.95/month) and I chose another FREE item for .25 points (15 day trial offer to renew at $29.95/month).

I set up the deal with my Mentor and proceed to sign-up. Offer 1 wasn’t working and offer 2 was linked to another program I already tried, so I had to choose new offers. I chose 4 offers at .25 points each. Two offers were FREE during the trial period, one was $3.99, and the other was $6.99.

The $3.99 offer was only for a 14 day trial and I didn’t receive the product until the 14th day. When I read the terms and conditions again I reaized I had to cancel 2 days prior to the end of the trial or be charged a $36.95 monthly fee. On top of that, I had to send back any unused product! Fortunately, I wrote an email complaint to the company and they cancelled my order on the 15th day with no charges and they didn’t ask me to return the product. I believe this offer was for MySlimTea.

The $6.99 offer had additional terms and conditions and required a telephone call to cancel. This offer automatically enrolled me into two other programs, and if I did not cancel those programs before the trial end, I would be charged $29.95/month and $8.50/month for the additional programs and $89.31/month for the original program I signed up with. The telephone numbers provided did not work. I was finally able to call a number that allowed me to cancel both secondary programs. This representative informed me that the toll-free number for the original program was not working, but they had a secondary non-toll-free (PAID) number. I called that number and waited on hold for about 10 minutes. It seemed like longer, but because I work in a call center I was actually paying attention to the time. I believe this offer was for Extreme Acai Berry or EAB for short.

Todays Lesson: READ THE FINE PRINT!

Yes, I already had this lesson once before, but it’s a very important message.

I am currently promoting several online opportunities with the hopes that a few of them will be successful.

Univera Monthly Cost = $300 Last Check = $0 This is my wife’s MLM venture. She does NOT actively promote Univera. We do not spend any money on advertising. We simply “Gift” products to a few people every once in a while.

Xango/MyJetStream Monthly Cost = $269.47 Last Check = $78 ($28 commission + $50 Sold a couple Bottles of Xango Locally) This is my main business. I have spent hundreds of dollars promoting MyJetStream/Xango and have only received one sign-up so far. MyJetStreamHawaii ads are currently on this site and a few traffic exchanges. I decided to stop buying into the advertising coop as I haven’t had a really good return on investment.

EyeEarn/SFI Monthly Cost = $29.95 Last Check = $8.98 I have not spent any money advertising this program, but this opportunity has the highest rate of return so far. The ad for EyeEarn appears on this site and a few traffic exchanges.

MyWorldPlus Monthly Cost = $19.95 Last Check = $2.80 I have not spent any money advertising this program. In fact, the only link I have on the Internet for this program appears on this site. The $2.80 is strictly from “Vertical Acceleration” or a single downline leg. Not one person in my downline was personally sponsored by me (Not yet at least). The cool thing about this opportunity is the discount card. I just received my card yesterday and will be seeing if the card works this weekend.

Success University Monthly Cost = $57.90 Last Check = $0 I spent $100 to place a banner on CWAHM.com. I received 5 leads but no sign-ups yet.

As you can see, some of the business opportunities I am trying require very little work and very little advertising. I would suggest starting with one of these smaller programs before stepping into something more costly such as Univera or Xango/MyJetStream.

I will be running ads on my site shortly to recoup my advertising efforts, and I may dabble in some affiliate marketing.

Today’s Lesson: If you are looking at a MLM / Network Marketing opportunity, try a low cost opportunity first to get your feet wet, then step up to more costly opportunities.

I gave the techniques in ProjectPayday a try, and in 5 hours I made $19.12 ($20 minus $0.88 in PayPal fees) using Method 1 in the video training. There are three methods total and you can do all 3 or specialize in 1 or 2.

A lot of my time was used messaging my ProjectPayday (PPD) Mentor, and following all the directions perfectly to make sure I didn’t mess up anything. After I get more practice and become more familiar with how things work, I’m pretty sure I could do several transactions in a 5 hour time span.

Honestly though, you really don’t need to buy the video training from ProjectPayday, but the videos are well worth the money. I don’t mean you have to sign-up for a product either. If you want to learn more, just go directly to FreeLunchRoom.com and take a look around. Don’t bother clicking on the “FreeLunchroom Tutorials” at the top of the screen (they were not available when I wrote this post), that page is still under construction, but you can do a search for tutorials. I’m not sure how the tutorials are, but what you’re really looking for is a Mentor, someone who will literally walk you through the entire process step-by-step.

If you decide to buy the ProjectPayday tutorials, don’t bother signing up for stuff, you are much better off buying the videos and then signing up for stuff later. To make money, you will be signing up for a lot of stuff (Business Opportunities, subscriptions, training materials, etc.).

The short version of how it works. Sites giveaway products and/or cash for referrals. Person “A” wants something, product/cash from a specific site and agrees to get “X” number of referrals. Person “B” wants some cash and agrees to sign-up as a referral for person “A” for a fee. Once the sign-up is confirmed, person “A” sends person “B” payment via PayPal. Once person “A” has all the necessary referrals, they receive the product/cash. NOTE: The confirmation process can take up to 24 hours or more depending on what you signed up for. If you signed up for a credit card, the confiramtion process can take up to a month.

Caveats:
-Some sites only allow you to get one item. A site might offer an XBOX 360 and a plasma TV, but you can only get 1 item, you can’t get both.
-You can only sign-up for a product once. You can’t sign up for Blockbuster on one site and then sign-up again on another site.
-Some product sign-ups could end up costing more than what you’re going to be paid. See below…
-Some sites only offer partial credit, which means you have to do several offers before a full credit is given.

Yes I got paid $20, but I paid $2 for a free trial which will become a $60 monthly subscription if I decide to continue to use the service. You have to give the product an honest trial, you could start the trial and just cancel, but you will have to payback the $20 you received as payment, and you will get banned, and you will receive negative feedback. NOTE: FreeLunchroom uses a feedback system similar to Ebay, so people can see if you’re trustworthy.

My explanation is the extremely short version. The video tutorials provide a very thorough explanation of how things work. When you get to FreeLunchroom.com, add me as a friend, my username is kahmaui.

You can browse the different items available for sign-up before “trading”, so if you see something you wanted to try anyway, you might as well get paid for it.

NOTE

If you decide to purchase the ProjectPayday Training Guide, you will automatically be enrolled in their referral program, which pays for every name and email address even if the person does NOT become a fully activated member. Out of all the things I have tried on TrafficSwarm, I think this one is the most promising.

I like to try different things, so I signed up with EyeEarn.com and ProjectPayday.com.

EyeEarn.com says you can earn money “Just by outfitting your car with an EyeEarn cling-on sticker, wearing an EyeEarn T-shirt, etc., you can start receiving a monthly commission check!” You just have to register to be an SFI affiliate and purchase the cling-on and T-shirt for $20.

What they don’t tell you is that you have to earn at least 10 points per month to collect your check. You can earn the points by making a purchase or you can get points from your personal sales.

SFI places everyone in a single stream like the MyJetStream system. By the time I decided to buy my points, I had over 500 people below me. I saw this opportunity as a way to deduct my car as a business expense. EyeEarn.com requires proof that you placed the sticker on your car; therefore, I can use that same proof to deduct my car, I hope?

There are all sorts of products available for purchase; therefore, I am hoping to make a few sales to make my monthly points.

ProjectPayday.com claimed that you can make money within 24 hours, and they have a $100 guarantee. They also state, “Sign up and get started right now at no cost to you.” Catch #1, sure there is no cost to sign-up, but to get the materials you have to sign up for some type of offer or pay a small fee. NOTE: Signing up for an offer is a hint of what you should expect from ProjectPayday.com. Catch #2, you may not be able to complete all the steps required within 24 hours; therefore, the guarantee will not be valid.

We have all seen the ads about getting a free XBOX 360 or Free Plasma TV, and we all assume these are scams. ProjectPayday.com says that these are not scams, and you could make some cash by following their system. In fact I even read an article in Maxim magazine several months ago stating that these offers are legitimate. After reviewing their materials, I am going to give the techniques in ProjectPayday.com a shot. I don’t have time to try it today, but I will give it a try later this week. I will be over the 24 hour guarantee period, but I think this one will actually work.

Hopefully I’ll make a little bit of cash to pay for all the “advertising” I did.