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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: Researched.
Overview:
Membership in a program that involves buying retail
and selling wholesale.
Product:
Their product is training and wholesale goods.
Yours is the resale of those goods. They have a
wide range of products, mostly pretty ordinary,
nothing unique about them.
Cost:
$299-$385 - not clear whether there are ongoing
membership fees or not.
Compensation:
Profit from sale of goods.
Conclusion:
I have read one positive but reserved review of
their program. Personally, I am unimpressed. The
review I read stated that their training
materials were improving, but that they were still
geared toward flea market sales. The products
supposedly can be sold through mail order, online,
or other ways.
It has the drawback
of most drop ship/wholesaler "programs". The
products are pretty blase. The ones they show in
their ad materials are listed with a wholesale
price, and a retail price, but I feel you
would be hard pressed to get the suggested retail
price out of them. And they don't give you a
general or average markup percentage, so there is
no way of telling whether the items they show have
a typical markup or not. In most programs of this
type, the markup on a few items is high, on the
rest it is not remarkable, and on all of them the
wholesale price is not much better than an average
retail price (just because they list a high retail
price does not mean that you can sell it for that).
If you are going to
open a store, or sell at flea markets, or sell
online, or through mail order, I feel you are
better off finding a wholesaler who carries what
you need, who does not charge you a fee to
participate in a membership program. Then go to
your local bookstore, or search through online
small business resources (SuperMom site, or SBA
site), and do it right. It will cost you far less
in the long run, and you can choose a unique
product, or something that really interests you,
and you will know ahead of time whether or not you
can really sell it at a profit.
This one is too
blind for me - too many unknowns that could
backfire, and what they do show feels questionable.
It might be possible with some classy marketing to
sell the products they have, but you would have to
find a way to make them distinct and desirable to
your customers.
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Our Rating System:
No program is right for everyone.
Even a rating of four or five does not indicate that you should
dive in without some careful thought and consideration. Business
is still risky. All reviews have the reasons for the rating
clearly defined.
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Information presented in program is accurate and factual concerning
the potential of the program, program is based on sound business
principles, and has good potential to provide stable income
for individuals to whom the program is suitable.
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Information is accurately presented, company focuses on selling
product, but business is either more confusing, less predictable,
or slightly higher risk for one of a number of reasons. Still
considered a sound company and very acceptable risk.
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Information may be confusing or misleading, company may have
significant issues with program structure, support of product,
or public perception and reputation. A rating of three does
not mean you should not do it. It just means you need to be
sure you are suited to overcoming the difficulties that the
program has.
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Information generally misleading, risk fairly high, many unanswered
questions, business principles questionable, but still has some
potential for actually working for some people.
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Cannot declare that it is an outright scam, but potential for
it to work is very low. Will have questionable business theory,
bad reputation, excessive hype that is not backed up by common
sense, or other aspects which indicate very high risk. Will
always have multiple issues, not just one thing.
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Outright Scam. Anything labeled this way is never worth any
kind of risk.
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