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Hosting, domain,
and residual income. Good income opportunity for individuals with
lots of energy and enthusiasm. Minimal technical skills required.
Good perceived value within target market. Read
full honest review here.
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Rating: 
Level of Review:
Tested as far as we were able.
Overview:
This one is interesting. It promises to pay you
for taking quizzes, which are actually kind of fun,
sort of like Trivial Pursuit online. They support
their site by advertising. They also offer other
ways you are supposed to be able to make money,
including from downline, and from there it sort of
deteriorates into the familiar story of wanting you
to buy, asking you to sell, refer, etc. The program
is initially free, they offer higher compensation
for a fee, plus they offer you chances to buy
affiliates, and upgrade further. Sounds ok on the
surface, and a bit fun.
Product:
Advertising is the product. They sell
advertising on the website, which is of course
targeted at you, the user.
Costs:
Varies from free to $25 (quarterly), on up. We
could not see that there was a cap on how much they
wanted to sell you in the way of increased
compensation levels.
Compensation:
They pay on a point system. Each point earns 1/10th
of a cent. For taking a quiz, which will take up
about 5 minutes of your time according to our
average performance, you get 30 points...if you
answer all questions correctly. There is a time
limit on each question, so if you get distracted by
a kid or a customer (I did), then it will time out
and mark it wrong. The quiz process is tedious,
each quiz is made up of ten questions, and if you
answer correctly it takes you to a page to tell you
that, then you have to go to another page to get
the next question. The pages took an average of 20
seconds to download, between questions, and between
being informed of your result on each question.
Now, some simple
Math gives us the following results: 30 points for
5 minutes (again, if you get them all right), means
that you could make a grand total of $.36 per hour
if you really applied yourself. Now, on the free
program, you are required to rack up 4500 points
per month in order to get any points from your
downline (you get 1 point for every quiz they
take). You don't make that many points, then you
don't get the points from the downline. You are
required to make that much from taking quizzes.
That breaks down to 150 quizzes a month, or if you
estimate 30 days per month, 5 quizzes per day with
perfect scores. More if you consider most people
cannot do something like that every day. Nearly
half an hour a day, just to qualify, and earn
yourself $4.50 (for the whole month) plus however
many people take quizzes under you (at the same
average, your downline would be contributing a
grand total of $.15 each to you per month). On top
of that, the free program limits you to 5000 points
per month from taking quizzes. Perhaps it is a good
thing! They did offer other ways to earn points,
but if the other ways were as lucrative as the
basic program, it would take you a great deal of
time just to get enough in your account to upgrade
to the next level which would allow you to raise
your limit per month, and offer you yet more ways
to earn points. You can also buy points... which
would sort of make earning points to earn money,
well, pointless!
Conclusion:
There are clues on the site that this outfit is
in trouble. One is that nearly all the advertising
slots are vacant. Not even filled with their own
copy, just a space holder banner there. The next
sign that they were in trouble was that there is a
notice on the site that payments due in May would
be paid by the middle of June, and later. It was
the 18th of June when I investigated this
program.
I don't know about
you, but I just don't have time for this. I tried
it out anyway, just so I could estimate time and
come up with an accurate review. After going
through all that, I took three quizzes. Each time,
I got the same error message at the end, that there
was a programming script error, and it could not
log the results (and therefore could not log the
points I had earned either). I earned $.08 by
golly, and I wanted my credit! (Please hear the
sarcasm there!) So, on top of the problems I felt
from the program, it did not even work! I tried to
contact the company, but they have no way to do so.
There is not an email address or anything else,
they just refer you to web pages which do not
address the issue. I use a Mac with OS X, and they
recommended that I have a PowerPC with Netscape 4.7
or better (I am using WAY better). If you can get
it to work, and feel that your time is worth it,
the quizzes are actually fun, but don't look at
this as a means of pulling your family out of
financial destitution!
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