edatajob.com makes the comeback, and my paycheck

So after weeks of ranting and raving about how horrible a scam edatajob.com was, I wake up one morning and see that several hundred dollars had been deposited early in the morning into my online paypal account--from edatajob.com! As you can imagine I was extremely excited. So then I checked my email as I usually would and find a reply to one of many frantic threats to edatajob.com! This one was from John Lennard, CEO of edatajob.com. He apologized for the delay in responding to the emails, and blamed the situation on a server failure and promised it would not happen again. All of my sales were credited to me finally, and he explained that edatajob.com pays out on the 1st and 15th, sometimes more frequently in order to help affiliates who may be picking up pennies off the ground to get by. Although I finally had my paycheck I was still unsatisfied with this business...

We exchanged emails several times (on one occassion he happened across this blog and found that I had plastered it across the web and asked me to take it off now that the situation had been cleared up) and I urged him to look into his business practices. He agreed that the situation could have been handled better, and I have seen updates and changes on the member section of edatajob.com! After looking at the pros and cons of the whole situation, I have decided that marketing edatajob.com will continue to be in my best interest and in the best interest of other affiliate marketers. They maintain the highest commission payout in their league, they provide all the tools necessary to make money easily off of their own website as opposed to waiting for clickbank (who is still holding back my paychecks!), and I have to admire John Lennard for taking strong consideration of his affiliates' feedback after this disaster and managinig to come back through it all when I was pretty sure he had seen that final days of his online business venture!

If you aren't an edatajob.com affiliate, I would strongly urge you to become a member. You may already understand affiliate marketing, but buying the membership will pay itself back immediately!

The Rich Jerk

After my experience with edatajob.com, I was about to throw in the towel with this online money-making business. And then of course I spent my paycheck from folding clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch on another program. This one seemed kind of corny, but it is totally legitimate: TheRichJerk (click to view pitch page). It's really the same idea as edatajob.com, but they use clickbank to process commission payout and they provide mutliple ways to create additional streams of income, not just affiliate marketing. There are plenty of help videos and the member help team is very quick to contact you back. Let me know if you become a richjerk member and I'll drop you some feedback about my campaign. Buddy system is definitely necessary in this business, otherwise you get ripped off like I did with edatajob.com.

FTC vs. edatajob.com

As I said in my description, I would post all the bad business and pursue action against them with the help of the Federal Trade Commission. My first attempt at the get rich quick scheme landed me at edatajob.com. I paid a $47 membership fee, signed up to clickbank.com and google adwords and began submitting ads for them. The program here is to market services and products online from clickbank.com and pay for advertising on google adwords. When someone clicks the link on google and makes a purchase, you earn a commission of 50-75%. With edatajob.com, I was earning $35.25 per sale and racked up well over 300 bucks in one week. Unfortunately, edatajob.com didn't even pay out commission. They did not respond to my inquiries for over a month, and crazy enough, they still haven't! I probably spent close to 50 bucks on pay-per-click advertising on Google for them. If the program was legit, I easily would have broken even and would have earned close to 1,500 per month the way things were going. But because it is illegitimate I filed a complaint with the FTC. Soon after, Google banned ads for such data-entry sites because of a large volume of complaints. Go figure. I've made my case known to Google so that they can report complaints to the FTC. If you've been a victim of edatajob.com, please let me know so that you can file a complaint with the FTC using my case reference number.