Cash Gifting Marketing - 10 Biggest “DON’TS” Of Cash Gifting Marketing

Have you just signed up as a member of a gifting program? Or perhaps you’re considering joining a cash leveraging club? Either way, unless you have had previous experience in online marketing, you’re most likely searching for the best ways to market your cash gifting system.

I’m sure you have read plenty of blogs and watched countless videos on marketing cash gifting. There is a lot of good advice out there that will give any newbie online marketer a good idea of what they should be doing. The only question is, what marketing techniques should you stay away from?

I would like to share my personal marketing experience with you by revealing my fool-proof list of top 10 cash gifting “don’ts”.

DON’T:

1. Use the term “make money”. It’s tempting to title your Craigslist ad: “Make $5000 NEXT WEEK!”, but I must warn you, doing so could be a violation of your program’s Terms Of Use. You see, technically you’re not “making money” with cash gifting, thus the above ad title could be counted as false advertising. Try using terms like “Bring in money”, “Receive money” or even “Get money”.
2. Tell people that it’s “incredibly easy” to succeed in cash gifting… because it isn’t. Anyone who’s not a professional online marketer is going to have to spend a lot of time studying Internet marketing and trying different techniques to find out what works for them. To be honest, it can get quite frustrating in the beginning. You need to make sure that your team understands that, although you will provide them with support and advice, ultimately, they are going to be the ones responsible for their own success or failure.
3. Send a lot of emails to your prospects if your system has a built-in autoresponder. This is self-explainatory: you don’t want to inundate your prospects with a ton of emails. I would recommend signing up with one of your own email addresses on your website, just to see how many automatic emails your system sends. If you do decide to send a custom follow up email, make sure it includes something of value, an e-book or just good advice.
4. Send out any “un-targeted” email campaigns. For one thing, you will get a lot more response from a campaign that goes to a thousand opportunity seekers as opposed to a thousand random people. Also, you could get into trouble if enough people report you – remember, “spamming” is against the law.
5. Seem uneducated and “scammy”. You might have an IQ of 150, but if you write sloppy, “get-rich-quick-sounding” blogs, ads and emails, you’re going to get a much lower response rate. An ad title “WANNA GET SOME FAST $$$? CLICK HERE NOW!” might sound appealing to a small group of Internet users, but overall, people online have a very good “scam detector”. Something simpler and less “in-your-face” should get a much better response.
6. Use paid marketing services that you have just “found on the Internet”. There is nothing wrong with browsing the Net, searching for the next best way to market your cash gifting program, but be VERY CAREFUL whenever you sign up for anything that costs money. There are A TON of services out there that promise a lot of things, but don’t deliver. Always ask your mentor for a list of the “tried-and-true” marketing websites.
7. Make promises that you can’t keep. It pains me to see cash gifting marketers make claims such as “Receive $2,000 CASH The First Week You Join Under Me” or “Sign Up Today And Get Your First Gift By Next Tuesday!” There is NO WAY you can guarantee such things to your prospects, so I suggest you don’t… Unless you want to get dozens of angry phone calls a day from people demanding to know where their money is.
8. Pay for something when you don’t know exactly how it works. Some marketing services offer great-sounding deals on anything from leads to targeted traffic. The only problem is, how do you know if they’re for real? A fool-proof way to figure out whether a company is legitimate is to look at their “About Us” or “How It Works” section. If it sounds wishy-washy – stay away.
9. Put your phone number out there if you want to retain your privacy. This is very simple. If you don’t want to be constantly answering phone calls, don’t plaster your cell number all over the Net! In my experience, it’s much better to provide your number only to those who have opted-in on your web-site. That way the majority of people who contact you will be serious.
10. Lie! This is the biggest of all don’ts! It’s better to admit that you don’t know or haven’t tried something, then to lie about it. A much better tactic is to emphasize your STRENGTHS while drawing the attention away from your weaknesses. Eventually, you will gain enough experience to be able to speak about any aspect of cash gifting with knowledge and confidence.

I hope this advice was helpful to you! If you’re looking for more cash gifting and home business marketing tips, feel free to read my blog at: http://bestcashgiftingreviews.wordpress.com/

Good luck in all of your cash gifting endeavors!

By Brad Sinjin Smith

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Brad Sinjin Smith is a wealth expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

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Marketing Cash Gifting – The First Marketing Steps For New Cash Gifting Users

So, you have just signed up with a cash gifting program. Now what? You were promised thousands of dollars in cash, but so far your web-site stats show only one visitor – you. In the world of the online, where there are millions of websites competing for users’ attention how can a small cash gifting hopeful find their audience?

The first thing you have to understand is that, although marketing a cash gifting club is not very difficult, it requires a lot of patience and it could be very time consuming. The gifting “gurus” that are claiming to have made thousands of dollars their first week are either lying or they have had an advertising budget and all of the necessary tools from their previous online experiences. If you’re just starting out, it’s wise to try to keep your marketing expenses down and take advantage of all the great free advertising available on the net.

The first thing I recommend to my team members is to start blogging. You can learn about how to write blogs and where to post them HERE and HERE. The reason is, blogs that are linked to your gifting web-site act as “back-links”, which is something that search engine spiders look for when they determine the position of any given web-site in the search rankings. The more blogs you have out there, the higher your gifting site is going to show up in the search engines.

The second best marketing strategy I instruct my team to do is posting videos. Video has recently become the preferred format for information exchange, and it is one of the most important things you can do to drive traffic to your site. To take full advantage of videos, try shooting one every other day and using Tubemogul.com to auto-post them to several major video sites at once. A sneaky trick to use: search for “cash gifting” on Youtube, find the most popular videos, copy their descriptions and use as your own (just don’t forget to replace their links with yours!). By doing that you vastly increase the chance of your video showing up as one of the “related videos” to the popular video, the description of which you “borrowed”.

A good team leader should provide you with more tips and tricks on how to increase your chances of success with videos and blogs. It’s always the little things that make all the difference in the world. I wish you best of luck with marketing your cash gifting program!

Brad Smith

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Brad Smith is a marketing expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

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Blog Marketing For A New Online Business – The Best Free Blog Websites and Posting Tips For YOU

As you know, blogging is one of the best ways to increase traffic flow to your new online business website (“Um, what’s blogging?” – if you don’t know much about writing blogs, please read this article first.) Once you write your first entry, you start wondering, what is the best place to post a blog? What are the top blog sites that could aid the marketing of your online business?

Here is a list of the best free blog web-sites that I use myself and recommend to my team members (click on the links to view what your future blog is going to more or less look like):

1. Blogger.com
2. Wordpress.com
3. Hubpages.com
4. Tumblr.com
5. Xanga.com
6. Blog.com
7. Livejournal.com
8. Zimbio.com

“Oh no!” – you say. – “So many sites to sign up for! I hate that!” No worries – I recommend you use the free version of the software called Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/) for all of your Internet sign-ups. Roboform fills out your forms automatically with a push of a button, which reduces your sign-up time to a few seconds per website.

Generally, it’s good not to make your blog sound too promotional, with no more then 2 links to any one web-site per entry, but Wordpress and Hubpages are especially strict when it comes to blog content. Make sure you don’t put anything that sounds like a “direct sell” onto those websites – otherwise your entries will get deleted and your account could get suspended.

If you like to write your entries in Word Document and then post them to the blog web-sites, make sure you preview your blogs before posting them. Blogs imported from Word tend to show up with a bunch of gibberish HTML codes, visible on top of the page. You would have to go to the blog edit window, and remove those manually. Once you post your entry on one of the websites I would recommend to copy and paste it from that site for when you start putting your blog on others. That way, you will be rid of the Word HTML codes forever.

Posting your blog manually to all of the above web-sites will take anywhere from an hour to 3 hours, depending on how fast you can work. My team and I have cut our posting time to 30-45 minutes, using a great free blog disseminator (a service which auto-posts blogs to various web-sites for you). I strongly recommend blog disseminators to anyone who values their time.

A quick note about the disseminators: they don’t auto-post blog tags – only the body of the blog – so make sure you put your tags underneath every entry. I advise my team against using simple one or two-word tags, the reason being, that they act as keywords for search engines and if they are too general, your posting will not get nearly as much traffic. For example, try googling the keywords “blogging”, “blog” or “online business”. There are millions of search engine results for each of them. What is the chance that YOUR blog will show up on the first page?

Instead, try using longer tags. Think of something an actual person would search for in Yahoo! or Google. For example, good keywords/tags for this particular blog are:

Where to post a blog, best websites to post a blog, top blog sites, top blog web-sites, the best place to post a blog, marketing a new online business, online business marketing, blogging for a new business, writing a blog for a new business, how to post a blog, new online business marketing tips, best free blog sites, best free blog websites

If you haven’t yet joined an online business opportunity, make sure you ask your team leaders for help with blogs, as they are extremely important to your development as a marketer. For example, I provide my team with links to various blog directories and with detailed tips on how to avoid common blogging mistakes. Remember that the more blogs you write, the more people will go to your website. I would recommend writing a blog every other day for the first month after your start/join an opportunity.

I hope this was helpful to you! I wish you best of luck in your blogging endeavors.

Brad Smith

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Brad Smith is a marketing expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

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Marketing A New Online Business With Blogs – Blog Your Way To Traffic Heaven!

If you’re reading this blog, chances are, you’re a new Internet business owner, looking for marketing advice. Or perhaps you’re thinking about joining an MLM program or a cash gifting club and are looking for information on how to market your opportunity. Either way, blogging is one of the one of the best ways for YOU to get going in the online business community.

A blog (short for weblog) is an online journal containing regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blogs could be about anything, from strictly personal life observations to pop culture gossip.

So why should an Internet entrepreneur, such as yourself, maintain a blog? It’s quite simple. Blogs are a GREAT way for you to increase traffic to your business web-site while creating a trust relationship with your readers. The ultimate goal of your blog should be to increase visibility of your online business web-site, NOT to sell products or services. If you try to “plug in” a sales pitch in the middle of your blog, at the very least, the readers will be put off and leave and at the worst they will flag your blog as spam or inappropriate content. On the other hand, if you provide quality content, a vast majority of your readers will repay you by checking out your opportunity.

The other major added bonus of posting blogs is that they create what’s called “back-links” to your web-site, which is something that search engine spiders look for when they determine the position of any given web-site in the search rankings. More blogs = higher position in the Google and Yahoo! search engines.

So, how do you write a quality blog? How can you attract prospects to your online business without overtly “selling” them something? No one likes to be sold to, but everyone likes to buy. The key is to write your blog in a way that doesn’t aggressively “sell”, but “helps” the potential customers make their choice in favor of your product/service/opportunity.

For example, let’s say your business is selling electronic cookbooks. You might think that it would be best to write a blog like this:

“Super-Duper-Crazy-Cookbooks.com is EVERYTHING an aspiring chef could only dream of!

For only $9.99 get HUNDREDS of recipies, including rare dishes from Taiwan and Morocco!

Surprise your guests by whipping up our famous chocolate-strawberry souflee!

Create incredibly tasty meals for the whole family in 20 minutes or less!”

You get the idea. There are a couple of major problems with this blog. It sounds a lot like an ad and doesn’t provide any educational content, thus it is likely to be flagged or ignored by a majority of readers. Also, it is an extremely weak piece as far as search engine placement because it doesn’t have any “keywords” in it. Keywords and key phrases are what a person types in when they’re searching for things on Google and Yahoo. In the example with cookbooks, they will look for “the best Indian food cookbook”, “electronic cookbook reviews”, “best Chinese recipies” and other such key phrases.

Think about what it is that you have to offer that is unique and interesting. Perhaps, using the cookbook example, it’s your exotic Ethiopian food recipies. Then, it would be a good idea to target that audience by providing a blog like this:

“Ethiopian Food – Is It The Right Choice For Your Family? Recipies, Cooking Tips etc.

Ethiopian cuisine consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread. Ethiopians eat with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up bites of entrées and side dishes. No utensils are used.

Ethiopian cuisine is gaining popularity with families in America: the children are allowed to eat with their hands while getting a highly nutritious meal, filled with lean protein and vitamins.

So, is Ethiopian food the right choice for your family? You decide! Here is an easy-to-prepare recipe of one the most popular Eithiopian dishes, provided by Super-Duper-Crazy-Cookbooks.com:

The recipe is here.” 

A couple of notes about this blog: it provides something of value for free which is going to be appreciated by many people; it also contains many search engine key phrases such as “Ethiopian dish”, “Ethiopian Cusine” etc., which vastly increase the chances of this blog being found on the Internet.

Once your first entry is written, create an account with as many of the major blog sites as you can. It’s a very good idea to post your blog on at least 6-7 blog sites (you may wish to use a blog disseminator). If you haven’t yet joined an online business opportunity, make sure you ask your team leaders for help with blogs. For example, I provide a list of the best blog and article websites to my team along with detailed tips on how to post the blogs without any problems. Remember that the more blogs you write, the more people will go to your website. I would recommend writing a blog every other day for the first month after your start/join an opportunity.

I hope this was helpful to you! I wish you the best of luck in your blogging endeavors.

Brad Smith

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Brad Smith is a marketing expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

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Cash Gifting Marketing with Myspace – Learn how to Market Cash Gifting on MS

By Brad Smith, http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com

Over the last few years cash gifting has become one of the most popular activities on the Internet, due to its efficiency in helping people create wealth. Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you either belong to a cash gifting club or are interested in joining one, but would like to find out more about the specifics, especially about marketing a cash gifting system.

As a cash gifting newbie, you should initially try marketing methods that require the least monetary investment, and, as you receive more gifts, graduate to the more advanced marketing strategies. Myspace.com is a great place to start.

For those of you who don’t know, Myspace.com is a social network that packs more then 200,000,000 users. It’s no wonder that so many businesses are marketing their products on Myspace.

The first thing you would need to do is create a Myspace page (make sure you sign up as a regular user, NOT as an artist or a comedian). The next step is to design your page to make it attractive to potential prospects. Myspace allows HTML and CSS codes. If you’re not fluent in writing Internet pages, the best bet for you is to look for an appealing Myspace layout that you can use as a template. Once you found the template, add the codes into the “About Me” section of your profile. Save the images used in your template; open them using a program like Photoshop. Create your original content in place of the images. Save it and post it on an image hosting web-site like picturetrail.com or your own FTP server. Replace the image URLs in the HTML code in the “About Me” section with the URLs for your new images. Voila! You’ve got a customized Myspace page.

If you don’t own a license to a program like Photoshop or don’t know anything about HTML, perhaps you should ask your team leaders (if you’re already signed up with a cash gifting program) whether they provide Myspace layouts for their team members. For example, I offer a custom MS layout for my team members free of charge.

Once your page is designed, it’s time to think about promoting it. A great way to reach your potential prospects is to search through Myspace discussion groups and forums that are designed for opportunity seekers. “Home business” and “Internet marketing” type groups are a typical hangout for those types of people.

There are two ways to go about contacting them. The first is quite a bit more time consuming but very effective. You would have to join those groups and participate in discussions. ALWAYS use a resource box below any posting you write. If you give good advice, people will be sure to check out your web-site.

The quicker way would be to hire someone to get in touch with your potential leads for you. My team and I use very reliable software that ‘collects” the friend IDs of potential prospects and puts them into a text file. With such a file, those people could be contacted directly without the hassle of going to their individual pages. You could hire a programmer from another country that could do that at a very affordable rate. My team and I work with a few very reliable programmers from India that send out 50,000-70,000 messages a month for any individual on the team.

One last thing is, make sure that your messages and your page seem friendly and not “in your face” about marketing your cash gifting system. Post a few pictures of your family, include information about your favorite music – anything that makes you seem human can really help establish a relationship with your Myspace “friends”.

I hope this article was helpful to you. Good luck on your cash gifting journey!

By Brad Smith

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Brad Smith is a wealth expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

 

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The Best Online Business Opportunities: Pick The Right One For YOU!

By Brad Smith, http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com

In today’s very trying times, where can you invest your money? Traditional businesses are hurting badly, banks are going out of business left and right, the stock market is up one day and down the next. Instead of thinking about these types of investments, why don’t you consider an online business opportunity?

Right now the Internet is growing at an incredible rate, so one of the best ways to make money is online. When the economy is doing bad, online business opportunities grow even faster. Why? Because thousands of people are losing their jobs, thus they are looking for the best new ways to make money. Starting or joining an online business could be a life saver if you do it in a smart way.

The challenge is, of course, picking the best online business opportunity, the right one for YOU. Here is a list of 10 questions one should ask themselves when they’re looking for the best way to make money online:

1. How much can I invest? This is crucial. You must know your limits – otherwise you could end up spending much more then you bring in. I recommend that you start out low: no more than you are comfortable with to start/join an online business and no more then $500 a month for marketing. You can always increase your budget when your business is more established.

2. How much time do I have? This is very important as well. I have seen so many aspiring marketers join an online opportunity just to find out that in order to be successful at it they had to put in the kind of hours they couldn’t spare. Be especially careful if you want to do this in addition to your regular job. There are only a few opportunities out there that are truly suitable for you as far as time-commitment. Don’t settle for anything less then that!

3. Do I have any online marketing experience? If you’re starting from scratch, you’ll need to find an opportunity that provides a lot of marketing support. Otherwise you could potentially waste a lot of time on research and money on unsuccessful marketing tactics. Your time and financial resources have to be used to the fullest and an opportunity that provides good support will help you do that.

4. Can I build my own website? You need a website to promote your business, but building one could be a huge time-sink if you’re not a professional web designer/programmer. Even if you do know some basic HTML, you will undoubtedly encounter numerous challenges when you try to create a professional-looking website on your own. There are two choices for those of us who are not computer gurus: paying someone to build and maintain our web page or finding an opportunity that provides one for free. I strongly recommend the latter. You could save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars that could be used as part of your marketing budget.

5. How hands on am I? Some opportunities would require your constant attention while others pretty much run on their own. This is a matter of personal choice, of course. Ideally, you want to have control over your opt-in list and website content, while letting the marketing do its job without the need of constant supervision.

6. Do I want to deal with physical products and if so, am I prepared to ship them? If you’re selling physical products, daily trips to the post office could become a real inconvenience. You would most likely have to hire employees, which would considerably complicate the filing of your taxes. Personally I recommend opportunities that don’t require shipping – like selling e-books or anything that can be sent by computer for example.

7. How comfortable am I “selling” on the phone? Be honest with yourself. Are you usually the life of the party or a wall flower? Chances are, if you’re shy in person, you’re going to have a tough time dealing with customers on the phone. Even if your not shy, it takes time learning how to sell on the phone. The best solution is to find an opportunity that has professional “closers” on board – people who will take care of your customers for you.

8. How soon do I expect a return? Some opportunities take months to really kick into gear, so it’s up to you to determine whether you have the luxury of waiting. If your situation is a dire one (you’re losing your house, your company went out of business etc.), you might want to look for an opportunity that is quick to set up and easy to market. Those are usually the ones that start bringing in profits right away.

9. Am I good at following the rules? Those of you on the rebellious side – beware. Some online opportunities have extremely strict regulations as far as marketing methods you’re allowed to use. If you cross the line, you could be deleted from the system without a refund. Make sure you go over the marketing rules and guidelines before you join an opportunity.

10. Am I comfortable trying something new or am I more conservative? You’re thinking about creating wealth online – that is not very conventional in its own. And yet many people, who are looking for an online opportunity, look for something that fits into the more traditional business molds. Unfortunately, traditional thinking can really hurt you when it comes to the world of online business opportunities. Many people had had an unsuccessful experience just because they were not ready to accept certain activities or marketing schemes, commonly used in online business. Make sure you do all necessary research, but also remember to keep your mind open. Don’t automatically reject things just because they differ from something you’re used to. Otherwise, you could miss the best opportunity of your life.

Well, I hope this was helpful to you! The next time you see an opportunity that looks attractive to you, make sure you ask yourself all of these questions before you go forward. Using this Q&A method, I had found the opportunity that is truly perfect for me, although my budget was very limited and I didn’t have much free time. I hope you find YOUR perfect opportunity soon!

 

Brad Smith

Brad Smith is a wealth expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments. 

 

 

 

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Review Of The BEST Cash Gifting Programs

Cash gifting program review by Brad Smith

The world economy being at its all-time low, it’s no wonder that so many people are turning to the Internet, looking for alternative income streams. Cash gifting programs and clubs are one of the easiest and most efficient ways to improve your financial situation. There is no product involved, no taxation, and you don’t have to be a computer guru to be successful at it. However, there are many popular gifting web-sites around, flashing images of luxury cars and bags of cash in your face, that, chances are, you’re having a hard time picking one.

That is where I come in. Being an experienced gifting professional, I would like to offer you a comprehensive review of the top gifting clubs on the web to help you make your decision. So, let’s begin!

Number One Success System (NOSS) aka TLS

Overview: NOSS is one of the oldest 1UP gifting programs around and one of the most popular ones (the club allegedly has over 40,000 members worldwide). You can pick one of the 3 levels to join at: $500, $1,500 and $3,500. The only other expense would be their tracking software, which is run by a 3d party and costs about $120 per year.

The Good: The program is well-structured and provides a lot of support to its members. The weekly conference calls, conducted by the club’s leaders, are professionally put-together and are good to invite prospects to. With the lowest entry level being only $500, this gifting program has a wide mass appeal.

The Bad: This program is very ill-suited to anyone who doesn’t possess an outgoing personality. You’re required to do a lot of phone work, such as cold-calling strangers, in an attempt to invite prospects to the NOSS conference calls. There is no automation as far as following up with your prospects. You would have to pick up the phone and call them up yourself if you want to get them to join.

The Ugly: Extremely outdated marketing policies. This gifting program actually PROHIBITS people to market on the Internet! And if you violate their terms, they will delete you from the system and provide no refund.

Verdict: NOSS is a relatively inexpensive program to join, but its narrow views on marketing and lack of prospect follow-up automation makes this club an appropriate choice only for a small percentage of people interested in gifting. I wouldn’t recommend NOSS to anyone who doesn’t have experience in telemarketing or selling.

Ecosov™ (Too Damn Easy)

Overview: Ecosov™ is a private gifting club that has two entry levels: $6,600 & $18,500. It’s operated by a marketing millionaire who goes by the nickname of “Q”, who sends out a weekly “Cash Me Out” newsletter and has a phone hotline that addresses a lot of the prospect’s questions. The marketing system is such that every affiliate is given a member ID that is used in all ad campaigns. Whenever a prospect clicks on one of the Ecosov™ ads, they are directed to the main web-site, using the member ID of the person who had paid for the ad.

The Good: All of Q’s advertising campaigns are top-notch. He will provide you with pre-designed ads and postcards, that have already been test-marketed and proven to be effective. Q personally handles all of your prospect’s questions and sets up tracking to ensure that all of your cash is safely delivered to your doorstep. Everything is more-or-less automated within this gifting club.

The Bad: The lowest entry level of this program being $6,600 + marketing expenses (which could run into thousands per month), Ecosov™ is definitely NOT the gifting club for the average Jo the Plumber. Q is very blunt about the fact that his program is about the rich helping each other get richer. The other major shortcoming of this gifting program, as I see it, is the fact that none of your marketing and advertisement can be tracked! You don’t know where your prospects are coming from, thus you can’t determine which marketing methods work best for you. You could be spending thousands of dollars per month for ineffective marketing!

The Ugly: The thing that I find most offensive about this program is that, although the entry fees are extremely high, the members are not given ANY CONTROL. You’re not provided with your own web-site – only a member ID – thus all of the leads that you generated are going to Q. There is no way to know how Q is handling your prospects or how many prospects you have generated. For all you know, Q could be “pocketing” half of your leads! Also, you must GIVE AWAY every 5th gift you receive to Q as a “Monitor Fee”. Overtime, you could end up giving away your new house, or your kid’s college tuition.

Verdict: Ecosov™ is a gifting program that works for people with wallets that are bursting at seams, that don’t care if they have control over where their money is going to.

The Overnight Cash System (TOCS)

Overview: TOCS is a gifting circle that was designed for the “little guy”, since the lowest entry level is only $250. The program has been around for a couple of years and it uses a 1Up style structure, like many others. Unlike most gifting clubs, TOCS requires members to pay some extra fees, which vary depending on the entry level you chose and range anywhere from $200 to a $1000. There is also a monthly $30 fee for the hosting of your web-site and access to marketing tools.

The Good: This gifting club is almost fully automated. The prospects read over the information on the web-site and by pushing the “callback” button request someone to get in touch with them to answer their questions. The team leaders talk to the leads on your behalf, so the whole system can be completely hands-off.

The Bad: The TOCS web-site design has a hokey “Get-Rich Now” feel, which turns off a lot of prospects. TOCS actually has one of the lowest visitor conversion rates amongst all the gifting clubs. Also, there is no way to manage your opt-in database and send personalized follow-up emails. Everything is sent by the system and the members can’t improve any of the messages broadcasted.

The Ugly: NO CONTROL WHATSOEVER. Although an idea of a completely automated way to receive cash gifts is attractive to many, the fact that all of the material that TOCS provides is strictly regulated, makes it a difficult system to manage. You’re not allowed to change anything in the provided marketing materials, and if you do, TOCS with eliminate you from the system without a refund. If you came in at a $10,000 level, consider yourself in trouble.

Verdict: TOCS is a gifting program that’s easy to set up, but frustrating to manage. You have to be extremely careful with what you do to market your page in order to avoid getting thrown out of the system. Also, TOCS likes to “nickel and dime” its members, which is something that no other club does. Probably the biggest turn-off is this program’s really low rate of turning visitors into leads.

Cash Arrives 365

Overview: Cash Arrives 365 is probably most similar to NOSS without the necessity of cold-calling prospects. It’s been around for about 6 years and has 3 entry levels: $500, $1,500 and $3,500. Just like NOSS, it uses a professional third party tracking software that costs $120 per year.

The Good: This gifting program is accessible to most people due to its low entry fees. The tracking is professional and easy to manage, and potential prospects could be invited to weekly conference calls, led by the program’s veterans.

The Bad & The Ugly: Cash Arrives 365 is one of the smallest gifting clubs online, thus be careful joining it, unless you have a lot of experience in the cash gifting world. There aren’t many successful gifting pros involved in Cash Arrives 365, unlike Ecosov™ or TOCS. No one will provide you with any training or support, so you would have to do your own research and figure out your marketing strategies using trial and error.

Verdict: Compared to other gifting systems around, this one is definitely one of the weakest. I believe that you have a chance only if you have extensive marketing background.

Abundant Living System (ALS)

Overview: Abundant Living System is a new gifting program that has taken the gifting world “by the storm”. The innovative automated concept of this program incorporates the positives of other gifting clubs while eliminating all of the negatives. The entry levels for ALS start at as low as $150 and go up to $5000, which makes this club an affordable solution for many in search of gifting income. ALS provides extensive free training to its members as well as free, state of the art marketing materials. The ALS capture page has particularly high conversion rates due to the highly informational easy-to-digest content. Similar to TOCS, this system has a free callback feature; when a potential prospect fills out the callback form, they are contacted by the professional “closers” that introduce them to all of the features of the program and answer their questions. Each new member is provided with a free customizable web-site, with professional video and audio content to help potential leads grasp the essence of the program.

The Good: One of the most helpful features of the ALS program is their “cash credit system”, which is a convenient way for someone who enters at a low level to upgrade to higher levels. Whenever someone joins ALS at a higher level then their sponsor, unlike all other programs, the sponsor gets to keep half of the prospect’s entry fee and use it to upgrade to the next level. This could be a lifesaver for someone who can’t afford to join ALS at any of the higher levels.

ALS is also known for their impeccable support system: it doesn’t matter who you join under – everyone receives the same amount of attention. The customer support is very quick and they usually reply to member inquiries within a few hours. As far as their marketing training goes, they are constantly staying up to date with the latest trends and they even have monthly marketing Co-ops, which allow newbie marketers to "jump start" their cash flow.

One of the unique features of the ALS club is that they allow their members to have complete control over their opt-in list – you can use their free autoresponder to send memos and follow-up messages to your leads. There are no restrictions as far as content.

The Bad & The Ugly: Critics say that there is not a big enough return to be enrolling leads at a $150 level, but the truth is, the $150 level is one of the least popular ones. Most prospects don’t want to spend time building up to a higher level and come in at a $500 or $1000 level. Yet, leaving open the possibility of low-commitment entry, attracts far more leads then any other program around.

Verdict: The Abundant Living System is all about creating wealth for yourself while helping others do the same thing. The amazing support system and training make it easy for anyone, looking to enter the gifting arena, to make their first steps. This program is 99% automated through online content such as videos, audio, the callback feature and the customizable web-site. After months of research, I was convinced that ALS is the most exciting, innovating gifting program out there.

I hope this information was helpful to you! As you can see, gifting programs DO work! It’s just a question of finding the right one for YOU.

Brad Smith, Wealth Expert

On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

Cash Gifting: Is It Legal?

By Brad Smith, www.ToGiveAndToReceive.com

What is Cash Gifting and is it legal?

It’s a concept of giving and receiving by private groups of people and has been in existence for hundreds of years. Churches, civic groups and people from around the world have participated in organized gifting for over 300 years. This activity does not involve network marketing, multi-level marketing, commercial business transactions, investments and/or securities. The concept of private gifting is based upon the fact that American citizens as well as some other countries, have the Constitutional right to gift property, cash and other assets to whom ever they wish.. The U.S. gifting rules are found in the IRS Tax Code, Title 26, Sections 2501-2504 and 2511. The code states that one or more individuals can give a gift to another individual of up to $12,000 each per calendar year without any tax liability to either the giver or the receiver of the gift, because the tax on the gift has already been paid. These gifts are not included in the gross income of the recipient. In other words, you do not have to include these cash gifts on your tax return.

Is this like a pyramid scheme?

No, a pyramid is associated with an investment scheme, a company or a business. We are not a company, just a private gifting club. We have no sales quotas, we do not sell positions and we do not have an ever-widening base. A pyramid never allows anyone coming in on the bottom to ever reach the top. In a pyramid, only those at the top profit while those at the bottom never reach the top and many people have lost their money. In gifting, everyone works together giving and receiving the same gifts.

How does Cash Gifting work?

It is offered only by means of a one-on-one invitation to anyone over the age of 18. When someone accepts the invitation, they go to the giving stage and then to the receiving stage. In this activity, there is no fixed hierarchy of individuals who have an advantageous position or unfair advantage over new participants. We are all equal and have the same advantages. With our proven strategies, training and support, it really makes no difference whatsoever if you're an absolute novice or a seasoned marketer. Our amazing program is by far the easiest and fastest way to generate an endless stream of cash to your door.

Do I have to sell anything?

No, there is zero selling or pressure. You simply share this opportunity with others. Gifting has changed people’s financial lives for the better. Those who were about to lose cars and homes have been saved, college education's have been made possible, and finally retiring from that old “9 to 5” job has been realized, all from participating. Now is the best time ever to take control of your financial future. Everyone is tightening their belt. The stock market is in the dump, costs are going up and people are losing their jobs . If you just need a little extra money or looking for a full time activity that generates an incredible amount of cash, then look no further.

Brad Smith has been creating wealth through cash gifting for many years. On his web-site, www.ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can find valuable information about the best gifting program available. You can contact Brad through his web-site to learn more