I would like to know more about The Mailing Company - is it a scam? They want us to send them $38.95.?

Answer 1

The concept of the Mailing Company dates back to pre-internet days when newspapers advertised this type of scam. Click on this link http://ripoffreport.com and type Mailing Company into the searchbar there. You will see people who have been there & done that, they use words like "rip-off, dishonest, scam, fraudulent", etc. Also might I add that I have spent hundreds of hours researching work@home opportunities, for myself, during the last few months and have come to the conclusion that 98%+ of whats out there is a rip-off scam. Now I spend my spare time trying to help people from being scammed, for free. Your time and money are best spent elsewhere.

Answer 2

If you do not check a company before entering into a transaction,
you could lose your money, time and credibility. Some widely used resources are the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) and thenational fraud center ( www.fraud.org) These days, you can easily find out more about a company using the internet in a few minutes. From a company's website, you can get details about its ownership how old the company really is and feedback from the company's customers. You can find more,detailed information about a company at http://tinyurl.com/gtb89

Answer 3

SCAM CITY ALL THE WAY !!!!!!!LEGITIMATE COMPANIES DO NOT ASK FOR MONEY UPFRONT. The guy who posted the book in the previous answer should learn how to shorten things and be more precise unless he has no life except for the computer and the screen . That is sort of sad .

Answer 4

Hello,

This is a scam. Don't waster your money.

Why not create your own Web site for fun and profit?

Here are the absolute essential steps that must be followed to create your own website. Don't just create a Web site. If you follow these steps you will create a Web site that works. A Web site that will produce income, build equity, and create a financial fortress for you that can be sold for real money, if you disire.

Step 1 - Master the Basics by understanding the difference between "preselling" and "selling". People do not like to be sold. There is no “magic” or “secret” methods like the "Gurus" would have you believe.

People use the Web as a searching tool. Success on the Net begins with a critical mindset shift. This means replacing that well-known offline strategy of “location, location, location” with …

“Information, information, information”.

You attract free traffic with credible information related to the theme of your site. You need a niche so step 2 is…

Step 2 – Develop the best site concept. Find a niche, a theme that interests you, a passion, a hobby, special knowledge you may have.

Step 3 – Explore keywords to find the best site concept. Get demand for your keywords, Get supply for your keywords. Pick the keywords that have greater demand than supply. These are the keywords that will allow you to monetize your Web site. Your best site concept must be in demand, not be too broad, and should excite you. (Something you know and love).

Step 4 – Create a list of potential site concepts and pick the top three for further research. Guidelines for picking the best candidate are: Number of keywords, overall profitability, knowledge, passion, and monetization potential.

Step 5 – Weave a wide-web of keyword-focused content pages, topical pages of interest that will attract and catch the surfers most interested in those subjects related to your site concept.

Step 6 – Each keyword should “fit” into an evolving 3-tiered site blueprint of your content. Tier 1 is your homepage, next are your tier-2 hub pages. Next, your tier-2 pages link to tier-3 pages (the mass of content), so if you have 15 tier-2 and 15 tier-3 pages for each tier-2, that 225 tier-3 pages. Take your time – you don’t have to do them all this week.

Step 7 – Investigate and plan your Monetization mix. Learn how to apply Google AdSense to your site. Remember: monetization comes last. Make every visitor to your Web site contribute to your bottom line. If they don't want to buy something, they'll submit a lead via a form. Or they'll click on a Google ad. Or they'll click on a contextual affiliate text link that recommends the product of a related merchant (weave affiliate links naturally into your content -- do NOT "pitch"!).

Step 7 – Refine Site Concepts and Register Domain Name. What is your VPP, “Valuable Selling Proposition? What specific and high-value information does your site deliver? What is your unique positioning for this delivery? Don’t mix themes. Remember both types of visitors: humans and Search Engine spiders. What does your Web site provide? Outline the key benefits to your surfers. Identify your unique benefit that makes you stand out: Summarize all of the above into one tight, powerful motivating phrase that will persuade you clients to do business with you, to trade their money for the benefits you deliver.

Step 8 - Ready? Name that domain. A good domain name is: short and sharp, meaningful, easy to spell, easy to remember, unique, solid, contains your VPP for human visitors, contains your Site Concept keyword, attractive to humans, ends in the class “.com”, “.net”, or “.org” (by far the best regarded by surfers). Make sure it’s legal.

Step 9 – Congratulations! Your good to start building your Web site. Eliminate any “Get Rich Quick” (GRQ) that the Internet may have put into your head. GRQ does not exist, never works, and lures your away from reality. Get real.

Step 10 - Continue to build high-value, credible content.

High-value content, content that gets found, is the critical lynchpin for building a viable, profitable, vibrant Web Business.

Anything else is a waste of time and money.

Hope this helps,
Walter A Brown
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P.S. Cost is under $300 for a quality Web site based on the above principles and steps.

P.P.S. Do not make the mistake of picking a "free" Web site builder. They will just take your money and you will be left with an empty shell that does nothing and has an Alexa rank equal to "no data". You end up in the purgatory of the Information Highway.

Answer 5

SCAM for sure! Rule of thumb: never pay money to go to work for anyone.

Answer 6

Check it out with the BBB.