Watchout: eWeb Financial, Work from Home Opportunity

November 17th, 2009 by Chris

Have I become the guardian of Internet get rich quick gimmicks and or misleading business promotion opportunities? Apparently, I guess, since so many of my recent blog posts deal with such. I suppose this has something to do with the recession, people are out of work and other people are looking to prey on those out of work.

I am reminded all the time of that episode of “That 70’s Show” where Jackie falls for a modeling agency scam getting her to pay $200 for headshots and consulting. Jackie only realizes it is a scam when the agency gives Donna the same pitch (Jackie believes she is far better looking than Donna and if the agency is also interested in Donna, it must be a scam). Funnily enough my brother and his wife fell for this same scam in real life.

Anyways, I digress, late last night and then again today a company called eWeb Financial called me about a work from home business opportunity. They said I filled out a survey saying I was interested in such things, when pressed they could not answer where or how I filled out said survey. They called my home number in an obvious violation of the do not call registry which I am on. Of course, I know I would never fill out such a survey, I already happen to make quite a bit of money. I decided to be a little snarky and rather than just hangup I laid the sarcasm on the salesman pretty thick explaining how successful I am and he kept pushing, saying “You can always have another poker in the fire.” and whatnot. It was funny, really, how hard he was working, and I was just messing with him.

Anyways, doing a little research with Google I find their website, ewebfinancial.com, which is a great example of frontpage-template-quality design. And a few other complaints such as this one here.

As near as I can tell this company sets up turnkey affiliate shop sites and then charges you a few hundred dollars for them. For anyone interested in this work from home opportunity let me set a few things straight for you.

Marketing thin-affiliate sites no longer works, hey, I used to do it myself, I made… I don’t know… $40 or $50,000 doing it over the years, but it hasn’t worked in awhile. It worked for a little bit when only a few people were doing it either because only a few people knew how to do it or a few people had the technical knowledge to do it. There is even a tutorial on this site on setting up Amazon.com affiliate sites. But then, everyone started doing it, and the search engines reacting by hitting all sites doing it with bans and penalties, and algorithm shifts, and now it just doesn’t work.

Even if it did work, these aren’t the types of sites you can just “build and they will come” you have to have some way to direct traffic and link-weight too them. Ask yourself, do you already have link-weight you can send to such a site? Do you even know what link-weight is or how to get it? If so, you have no business even trying these things. But, of course, they don’t work anymore anyways.

If you want to make money with affiliate merchant datafeeds you gotta do something other than just duplicate the product catalog on a dummy site. You need an angle, and there are only so few, and most require advanced programming.

I figure if these guys call me twice in an 18 hour period, they gotta be hitting up others too, so let me save you some money, just say no. There are far better, easier, cheaper, and more reliable ways to make money online. Pick a topic, get a free blog from wordpress or blogger, and start writing.

Just remember this, if there is an easy way to make money online, a million Indians and Chinese are ALREADY doing it, and they’re willing to do it for a few dollars of profit, you will never compete.

Left Hand, Meet Right Hand

Posted in: Website Management » by: Chris

5 Responses to “Watchout: eWeb Financial, Work from Home Opportunity”

Amik Says:
November 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I checked their site only after reading your review. Even if they have used good quality joomla template to develop their website, it does not look impressive at all. It sound nothing more than web design company who will give you some non sense affiliate website or may be duplicate site of their own (might be MLM kind of)
Brandi Says:
January 6th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I worked for Eweb Financial and it seemed to me like it was a scam, but i’m not gonna say for sure. It’s just simply a way for these people to get money off of people, even if it means to scam people. Especially seniors.
Romy Says:
January 8th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Hi Brandy
so you worked for them,to get people to sign up
they call and want you to sign up right then and there,I nevr do such thing and then he said he cut the gold package half price for 199.–
They are just desperate to get you to sign up right then and there.And show you there gov.business site listing in AZ as a company in good standing.
But can not provide a working website but a dummy one !
Sick how does peopel try to take advantage of others,just another teller marketing !!
Jack Says:
March 8th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Well I just received a phone call from a representative of EWeb Financial. The guy I spoke to couldn’t answer any of my questions neither. I asked him how did he get my name. He said off his computer. So I then asked him what was the email address submitted on their registration or sign up form. He couldn’t answer me that information either. In fact he even went and told me that today was his first day! So I told him to hold the phone for a minute and I went online on my laptop and typed in EWeb Financial. and sure enough, this sight came up.
He said that the initial investment would be a couple hundred dollars and that I could could probably put that easily on a credit or debit card. I informed him that I was working a full time job now and make more money than I have in a few years, but the one and a half hour drive was eating me up in gasoline. I then wished him good day and hung the phone up! There are legitimate ways to make honest money out there, you just have to do your research.
Corben Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 11:19 am
I’m a college student, and I recently got a call from E web financial with regards to starting up an online business. I knew right away that this was a scam of some sort. You can generally tell when something isn’t right, when they tell you how much money you are going to make, before they tell you how you are supposed to go about making that money. Low and behold I decided to listen to the guy for a couple of minutes, and when he told me the name I put it in google, and about 50 sites that slam the company came up. I then saw that the BBB gave the company an F rating. I then told that to the guy and he hung up. Didn’t even say bye or anything. When you get called by a telemarketer of any kind, make sure you do some research before spitting out some cash. You’ll be thankful you did.