Project Quick Cash … How Quick Is It? ;)
November 30, 2007 – 11:44 pm
So, I finally managed to get some spare time to read through the whole thing, and there are both negative and positive things to say about this ebook. Most of it is actually positive (yeah, I shocked myself when I just wrote that).
But let's take care of the negative parts first, shall we?
From the salespage:
The Jealously Guarded Secrets Of A Few Very Smart Underground Marketers… Learn Them All & Unleash Your Dreams!
That's not really true. They aren't exactly "secrets", and they aren't exactly "jealously guarded" either. It's true that the techniques aren't something you'd pick up your first month of dabbling with affiliate marketing, but if you know your way around the internet and know where to find the hottest search-trends, you'd figure it out yourself.
Yes. Two of the techniques involve Google Hot Trends. Not very earth-shattering or "jealously guarded". There are a number of products out that names Google Hot Trends as the place to go when trying to determine what you should market next.
The first one involves PPC. If you don't want to spend click-money, that's not for you. The second one involves adsense. If you want a couple of good adsense days til the hot search trend dies off, that's one for you
If you want to make recurring, steady adsense-income, build a content-site. Don't use blogger. I still like the way Alok describes these both techniques, so they made a good read. And technique 2 is very doable. But it won't get you any income in a couple of hours. 'nuff said about that.
Technique #3, called "Underground Niche Profits" – is neither Underground, nor will it make you cash in a couple of hours. It's basic knowledge for anyone doing any type of micro niche marketing. But if you don't do micro niche marketing, and hardly know how to identify a niche, much less a micro niche – this chapter makes for a solid read. But it won't make you quick cash.
Technique #4 involves placement targeting of your adwords campaigns. Anyone with a bit of curiosity and an adwords-account know where to find this. But again, if you don't know your way around adwords, this is a solid read, with step-by-step instructions and some tips on how to make it effective.
Technique #5 is all about piggy-back riding on product launches. Alok tells you where to find info on upcoming launces, how you could steal traffic by registering the right domain name and simply forward the traffic to the real site with your affiliate link. Then there's the blogger-way, the squidoo-way, and again the adwords placement targetting.
So. There you have the recap of what Project Quick Cash is all about. The only negative things I really have to say about it is that
1 – None of the techniques is really a "quick cash"-method. They are fast ways to start generating revenue, yes. But "Quick Cash" they are not.
2 – They aren't "jealously guarded underground secrets". But they are not common knowledge either.
It pleases me to say that this product won't get the "Crap warning" or the "Re-cycled crap"-warning, but it won't get the "Hot Product"-tag either.
I picked up a couple of tweaks that seems to work great so far, so I'm fairly pleased.
Will it be of any use to you? Well, if you read my recaps of each chapter above, and you recongnize and can easily replicate it immediately with success, then it's not for you. If, on the other hand, reading the recaps makes you think "I want to know how to do that" – it's a good product. It's for you.
The price? It says $77 on the salespage at the moment, but if you hit the "back"-button in your browser, you get a $10 discount. Sneaky? Yes. Fair? No. A smart tactic? Hell, yeah!
Now it's up to you to decide. I told you how to get a $10 discount. I'm not going to ask for a refund on this one, even though I do feel uncomfortable about spending $67 on something I only picked up a couple of tweak-tips from, that I only consider "a good read".
Here's my affiliate-link again (you can't blame a man for trying) if you want to check it out.
As always, take pretty much everything you read on a sales page with a large grain of salt.
12 Responses to “Project Quick Cash … How Quick Is It? ;)”
Thanks Bjorn!
Great posts! Thanks for being our filter in this “infomration overload” world.
I love your honest reviews that will help me and many people get the rights expectations and avoid getting “burned” buying every product out there.
Keep up the good work.
P.S.
I Loved your new “craigs list secrets” ebook – great stuff…!!
By Jonas on Dec 1, 2007
Hi Bjorn!
I know there are lots of products out there,
but here are a few I am interested in now:
http://www.myviralspiral.com/new/silver/
http://www.myviralspiral.com/upward/
http://cbaffiliateformula.com/
http://www.immediateedge.com/
http://mpotycoonclub.com/
http://www.instantcashcopy.com/
Thank you for your time and efforts to
help us navigate the IM landscape,
Jim
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By Jim Furr on Dec 1, 2007
Hey guys, glad you liked the review
Jim: The only ones’ i’m familiar with is CB Affiliate Formula and Immediate Edge. Both are good products, IE especially. CBAF is also good, and the $77/month is justified if you’d get selected as JV in your second or third month
MyViralSpiral has been around for quite a while now. I didn’t jump on it then, and I won’t jump on it now that it’s a subscription service.
Jonas: Thanks
And I’m glad you liked The Last Craigslist Secret 
By Bjorn on Dec 1, 2007
Hi Again Bjorn,
Thank you for that quick response!
I will be making this a regular stop off for my IM surfing
Of course everybody has heard about Ewens new product …
Can you tell us about that one ?
At $47 a month, it sounds tempting …
Jim
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By Jim Furr on Dec 1, 2007
Thanks for the review. As a reader I’ll take it a step further, since I have the liberal freedom of the “review” and not the product itself.
Knowing Alok’s style, in the past he passes information long after he has fully sponged the benefits. Like his method of using mispelled and using www at the beginning of products in adwords to get cheap ads and get some traffic sales.
I used it, and found it was already a well abused method. However what was worth the $9.95 was me documenting all his OTO and sales pages. Now I had an exact duplicate sales mechanism for doing the same.
Alok didn’t plan on me doing this, as much as I did not plan on being sold a some shotty adwords startegies. In the end I faired well for the education.
Later on, he came up with a $97 affiliate software program that got Jon Ledger involved. It was great, but I waited and glad I did, because the JV Affiliate Software was far better for the price.
I am glad you read this. I am now going to take an estimated guess of what is in the e-book like a psychic. And yes, I saw the “sucked in factor” right away. It’s good for you to point it out.
There is nothing “quick” about it. Even if you made a sale instantly, you are looking at at least two days to over a week to get your hands on the real cash through your own bank account.
And this would be through PayPal.
Unless you actually made several thousands of dollars in one day, then you could possibly get it wired to you, but only if it was your own product on a credit card processor who already was setup by you with your bank account information intact.
With this being said, you could use western union and have people just walk up to western union places and pay you in hours. This is the only method I know. But good luck on getting anyone to buy this way.
Here’s my estimated guess at the ebook content to save all you readers from blowing $67. I do not have the ebook, and therefore I can legally “guess” all day long without retribution.
1. Register at ezine articles. Write an article with your registered affiliate link on a free blogger account. Point the “Author Information Box at the bottom of a written article you have written, to your blog page. Place in a post your affiliate link with the words, “For more information on…. click here.”
Let the page optimize byitself in the seacrh engines.
Now go and open a few dozen social bookmarking sites like digg, stumble upon. Point links right back to your article. You content will be stuck for years to come on the first page of Google and other search engines.
2. Use Aloks stupid methods of adwords. They are worthless.
3. Use social blog sites and create a buzz by inviting other bloggers and creating a community and joining all other communities related to making money online and your “niche” which your product will be sold in. Then blog on their blogs about your stuff, and get them to blog on your blog about their stuff.
Otherwise known as I call it, a revision of Bum Marketing, called, “Blog Bum Marketing.” and I mean to the max. This is particularly used by unemployed bums who hope they never have to actually go to work again the real world.
4. Go to forums and turn your self into the most undesirable person to come along and piss-off forum moderators world-wide. First started out by Russell fo dotcomsecrets.com, three years ago, this method of registering on forums and then posting like a queen everywhere. You place a nice signature link back to your helpful page on your blogger account and hope people follow your affiliate link and buy.
5. My last guess is to offer to write some content to high profile websites in return for some link love. Hey what a novel idea, if you are brand new to the web. But you will be in a boat of hundreds of others on a weekly basis doing the same thing.
In the end, nothing Alok does is breaking news and he only releases it once he has pounded it into the ground.
And for $77, it is just a test to see how desperate the market place is. No doubt there is another OTO behind this and he will in the future pound those with larger buys for years to come.
This is his style. He lives and breathes off his email lists. He will continue to spam you with at least 20 or 30 of other people’s offers for the rest of your life if you get on his list.
The rest you can read on my blog. I made a backlink here for link love. why not?
By Robert Lang on Dec 1, 2007
Robert:
The funny thing is that the method you outlined is probably quicker than Aloks method
Jim:
Ewen hasn’t impressed me at all since the first product I bought from him a couple of years back. It was rubbish (I know that today, back then I thought it was genious and would make me rich) so normally I just throw anything that has the name Ewen Chia associated with it, straight in the rubbish bin. Not sure there’s any point in reviewing it, as my guess is he’s selling basic knowledge at an unjustifiable high price. I’ll have a look.
By Bjorn on Dec 3, 2007
Well, what can I say other than making sure this site is in my blogroll and access from there now and then, as I am very forgetful. Thanks for all the enlightening comments and lessons to be learnt here. Really will save me the pension money!
By Ishak on Dec 22, 2007
Thanks Ishak, it’s comments like yours that makes me want to keep up
By Bjorn on Dec 22, 2007