C’mon, if you have been paying any attention at all, you knew the Shoemoney System Scam post was coming. The big thing in internet marketing is to write a “scam” post to get to the front pages of Google. Google, according to Grizz (and this seems to be true), will always post an opposing position to all of the positive affiliate review posts. Affiliates now use that information to title their posts with “scam” in it and then they just give a positive review full of affiliate links. They are as useless as the actual positive review posts, if not more so.

Now, do I think the Shoemoney System is a Scam? No, I do not. It is many things, both positive and negative, but I really think the word “scam” is thrown around a bit too lightly and frequently. A scam, in its worst form, attempts to deceive and defraud people. It is nothing short of stealing in most cases. The Shoemoney System certainly doesn’t do that. The actual purpose and content of the system may be a bit vague, and it certainly comes at a significant cost, but that’s all part of the marketing game, and perfectly legal and not a scam at all. You have 60 days to decide whether or not the system’s a scam, and you can go ahead and get your money back if you do.

The problem with releasing any product online is that people are always quick to label something like the Shoemoney System a scam when it doesn’t immediately live up to the hype and their own expectations. I actually have to give Shoemoney a lot of credit for taking the flak for the first month and actually doing something to correct it. As I’ve mentioned before, he’s completely restructured the program as a result of the feedback from his customers. The Shoemoney System is reopening, and if you want to check it out for yourself, click on this affiliate link (link removed – if you’re serious about making money online, join The Keyword Academy instead.  I’ve been working it since quitting the Shoemoney System, and I’m making serious money now) here so I make a little money too. I’m a poor noob. I need your support.

Speaking of review posts, I actually wrote a Shoemoney System Review as a WordPress Page instead of an actual post. I did this because I wanted to play with the concept of a “landing page” and the flexibility that Thesis allows me in creating one, not to mention I didn’t want to screw up the sweet flow I have kickin on my blog here. Now I admit that page is a pretty lame excuse for a landing page, but you’ll notice there’s only two ways out of that page; my Shoemoney System affiliate link and my link back to my blog.

I wrote that Shoemoney System review about a week ago, only got a couple of backlinks for it, and it’s already ranking on page 2 of the SERPS. I’m hoping that some more internal linking and a couple more inbound links will boost it to page 1. I’m also already ranking for “Shoemoney System Scam” on page 4 simply because I mentioned it in a post or two. This post should boost that ranking a couple pages, and some backlinks will hopefully get me to page 1. I better get on that…

Hey kids!  Do you want to get in on all the fun we’re having in the Shoemoney System?!  Now’s your chance!

The Shoemoney System will reopen  on Tuesday March 2nd, 2pm EST!  This may be your LAST CHANCE to get in!  You can sign up here (link removed because he’s changed the affiliate program, and I have yet to bother signing up as an affiliate for whatever crap he’s slinging these days.)

That’ll be your last chance to get in… until next month, that is.  Still here?  Cool.  So, this reopening comes as no surprise to me.  I actually wrote my post about the Shoemoney System reopening knowing that this would eventually be the case (I’ll show you why in a sec).  However, I did not expect a reopening this soon.   6 months, or a year maybe, but a month?  Seriously?  I guess Shoemoney needs to hit up the ATM again (more on that in a moment, too).

So I wrote that post about the Shoemoney System reopening because I knew it would be opening again at some point. I wanted an aged page out there that I could possibly put an affiliate link on should anyone search that term. I really didn’t expect the reopening to occur so soon. I also didn’t expect the results of that post to be as good as they are. Keep in mind, I’ve been learning SEO as I go along starting only a couple weeks ago. Check it out.

If you search “shoemoney system reopening” I’m #2 as of today.  I’m even ahead of John “I make money online by being evil” Chow’s recent post about this reopening.  I realize this may be temporary, but it’s a small victory for me and my new hobby of SEO.  I did absolutely nothing to promote that post, yet I win for now.  I especially like how well the double indexing worked out; I am both #2 AND 3.  Kinda cool.  I believe a lot of this game is trying to predict future occurrences and planning for them.  I think I did an okay job of that here.

Now, how did I know that the Shoemoney System would be reopened?  Well, upon signing up for a $197/month system for making money online, I decided to do some actual research about making money online.  Did you know that creating a sense of urgency using scarcity is a typical internet marketing technique?  I didn’t.  I really only grabbed my spot in the Shoemoney System because I thought he might be closing it for a long time.  I really had a bit of faith in Shoemoney’s abilities to show us the ins-and-outs of internet marketing (and still do), and I figured “What the hell?  If it sucks I’ll get my money back within 60 days.”  That is still a very open option for me.

What really solidified my belief that Shoemoney would open his system again?

Check out that WickedFire post dated January 31st, 2010. “… do you really think I have intentions of limiting it to 500 people?”  That’s direct from the horse’s mouth.  I found that little post shortly after starting this blog.  Again, I still didn’t think it would be a month later.  Perhaps so many people were unimpressed with the slowness of the system and bailing that Shoemoney felt the need to hit up the old ATM again.

I get that this is part of the game of internet marketing.  Quiet honestly, I’m not that guy who sees this sort of thing and will just throw in the towel and think Shoemoney is only out for himself.  He certainly is out for himself, and why shouldn’t he be?  It’s a cruel world out there. But I also know that his success with the Shoemoney System is tied into his student’s success.  If this thing bombs, word will spread, so I believe he will do whatever is within his powers to keep us satisfied.  I don’t particularly care what his motives are.  However, if you are under the illusion that your interests are first and foremost in Shoe’s mind, then have a look at the underlined statement in the picture above.  He has sent out an email telling you that the Shoemoney System is about to reopen.  Ka-ching ka-ching.

I have quite a bit of work to do this weekend with the sudden reopening of the Shoemoney System.  This is work that I planned on doing over the next 6 months to a year, and now I have to jam it into a weekend.  What work?  I am going to try to rank in the SERPS for various Shoemoney System related words, and sell the thing to whoever is buying.  I’m not going to spam the internet with B.S., but I’m going to bring people to my site, offer them the link to the Shomoney System, and then tell them how I really feel.  If they chose to just screw off with the affiliate link, then that’s their choice.  (For those who are paying attention, this is my version of Grizz-style internet marking which you can find at his blog about how to make money online which has since been taken down from blogspot.

I don’t know if this is the type of thing you can do in a weekend, but I’m willing to find out.  We’ve just had a foot of fresh powder dropped on us here, and rather than go snowboarding or sledding (hell yes I still sled) with my friends, I’m going to coup myself up here and work on getting backlinks and writing content that is relevant to the Shoemoney System reopening.

Well, this isn’t only about the Shoemoney System, but I’m now on a quest to try to outrank affiliate marketers and floggers for Shoemoney System and related terms like Shoemoney System Review and Is the Shoemoney System a Scam, etc.  Good luck, right?  They have experience and a head start.  I guess we’ll see how that pans out…

Anyway, the Shoemoney System has really taken a turn for the best.  My biggest complaint was that it was slow.  It was slow because they had included really basic stuff like account set-up and entire videos dedicated to definitions like “What is Affiliate Marketing?” within the course on the 3-day posting schedule.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t require 3 days to absorb the intricacies of setting up a Facebook account.  Well, as of Sunday, they took all that sort of supplementary material, released it all at once, and put it in its own section called “Getting Started.”  There’s 30 new videos in there, and now the core content will be all the real money making content that people have been hoping for.  They also sped up the releases last week, giving us 4 new core videos dealing with making money on eBay with arbitrage.  Ebay arbitrage is nothing new, and is something I vaguely knew about but never bothered to pursue information on it.  All in all it seems pretty interesting, and I spent a few hours this weekend trying to find arbitrage opportunities (with little luck, mind you).  I am hoping the Shoemoney System gets into a little more detail on how to find these opportunities.  That’s really all I have about the Shoemoney System right now, so if that’s what you came for you might want to leave.  Now onto my little side projects…

In my last post I mentioned that I was giving Project Payday a try, and that I would give it it’s own post.  Well, much like the program itself, I can’t be bovvered to write an entire post about it.  I did indeed make 50 bucks from it (less several dollars for shipping the of a couple items), and it took me about 1.5 hours of work up front and maybe half an hour of follow up.  I thought about posting a screen shot for a larf because it’s only $50, but $25 an hour is not a terrible wage.  The problem is that this program is actual work.  I knew that going in, but man is it tedious as hell.  I have a day job, so what precious time I have outside of work I am using to pursue more long-term ways of producing passive income online.  If I didn’t have a job though I would definitely give this a deeper consideration.  I can see how more time and effort would bring in more money, and it’s real money deposited into your Paypal account, no B.S.  It’s really just too much of a pain in the ass, and time consuming for me to bother right now.  I guess this is where I toss you an affiliate link?  I’m even too lazy to do that.  Just type it into your url box if you want to check it out.  It’s free after you complete an offer which is probably also free or very cheap.

How are my efforts in newbie SEO going?  Remember that old blog that I was going to SEO rape? (Dear G, please rank me for SEO rape.  Thanks.)  Well I went through and tweaked urls, tags, meta info, and keywords within posts (without overdoing things).  After that I set about creating a new post related to that term I was ranked #10 for in Google.  Then I wrote another post on the same subject and spread it throughout the internets, making sure I included a backlink to my site.  After my small amount of effort, as of this morning, I am number 1 for that term.  I’ll have to add some backlinks to really solidify my place there, but the scrapers have been doing a pretty decent job of that themselves.  That’s how I know I’ve made it.  I have scrapers.  What is rather vexing though, is that I thought I’d set up double-indexing properly.  What’s better than being in spot #1?  Being in 1 AND 2.  But I’m only holding spot 1 at the moment.  The odd thing is, the new post actually uses the plural, and a plural search finds that post at position 13 and it actually IS double indexed with the original (spot 1) post, so I’m 13 and 14 there.  Weird.  I imagine Google will sort that out eventually, we’ll see.

I only want to briefly touch on that keyword I was super excited about before.  After acquiring a better understanding of keyword analysis, I have found that it is indeed a great candidate for a niche site.  The competition is harder than I had imagine at first, but it’s doable.  I don’t have much to say about it right now though because it has yet to be indexed by G.  I’m going to write some more articles, and get some more backlinks and go back at G and say “Howyalikemenow!”  Google will probably continue to hate.

The Shoemoney System is slow, as I mentioned previously, and as a result I went in search of some real money making information.  I came across Grizzly’s blog (http://makemoneyonlineforbeginners.blogspot.com – he doesn’t need me linking to him in every post) and began really learning what it takes to make money online.  I then took some very basic SEO information I learned from reading his site and applied it to some dusty old blog I have that I haven’t touched in many months. It’s a PR 2 in a fairly competitive/high paying niche.

That blog gets several random Googlers a day.  Every once in a while I check to see where they’re coming from and it’s almost always this one keyword phrase.  The key phrase wasn’t something I targeted, but I do have two posts about this phrase and it seems to be searched for fairly frequently.  Using the advice provided in Grizzly’s blog, I shuffled some words around, and sprinkled the keyword a little more liberally through the post, and then I linked the two posts.  Low-and-behold the post jumped one spot in the SERPS.  Big deal, one spot, right?  Well that one spot was from 11 to 10.  This key phrase has had me planted solidly in spot 11 for months on end and with a little SEO tweaking I was on the front page of Google for a major key phrase in my niche.  I’ve already noticed a little upswing in the traffic.  In addition, I received a couple long-tails related to this key phrase.  I always check my long tails, and I’ve never been higher than position 5 or so.  Then yesterday I see a pretty generic long-tail search for [key phrase] [different niche key phrase] landed me in position #1 on Google.  I’ve never been in position 1 for anything but my blog title.  It’s pretty damned exciting to me that such a small change could have a significant impact.  Imagine what would happen if I really went at it with this site… I haven’t slept since I discovered this, by the way.  This really sparked my thirst for more knowledge on the subject.  I’m on hyper-focus overdrive.  When I get into this mode I tend to ignore general animalistic needs (ie eating, showing, sleep, various bodily functions) until I arrive at some sort of conclusion, plateau, or just pass out.  It’s quite unhealthy, really.

Anyway, back to the SEO rape of my old blog.  Luckily my small readership has long since abandoned that blog much like I had.  There will be no one to offend when I strip it of its pretty theme, change all the goofball reader-attracting titles, and bury the pictures deep into the posts, below the fold, if not remove them entirely.  The bounce rate on my search traffic is a low 60% and I need to change that.

Now that I have some idea of what I’m doing I’m aiming for the biggest keyword in my niche; a keyword that I am certain will take at least a year to even get near page 1.  But first things first.  I need to rank that related key phrase at position 1 in Google.  I’m going to pull it up from position 10 by getting backlinks.  I’ll start by writing a new post that is perfectly optimized for this keyword and then I’ll modify the article a bit and submit it to GoArticles.com and link that back to my new article.  I won’t have to do much to get this word into position 1.  If that doesn’t do it, then I will work on getting links from Squido, Hubpages, etc.  I’ll add new links sporadically for a week or two.  That should do the trick.  I don’t really know though, since this is my first time trying this.  Once I get that keyword phrase to position 1, I will start tackling long-tails related to my main keyword.  I don’t plan on putting much effort into that blog, but I do want to build it up as an authority for the profitable Adsense traffic.

What I really want to pour a bit of effort into is building new niche sites for adsense and affiliate sales.  I actually had a real “Eureka” moment while in the shower this morning (I begrudgingly pulled myself away from my studies to do this).  I had narrowed my ideas for a first attempt at niche blogging to a fairly broad niche. In the shower I got to thinking about whether or not I should start with the broad keyword, or go for specific products.  Say, for example, golf.  You could write a niche blog about golf, or golf gear, or better still (I think) golf balls, golf clubs, etc.  I was listing the different possible type of products I could use and one hit me like lightning.  I walked right out of the shower, mid-wash, dried my hands, and went to the laptop to do some research.  I am pretty excited by what I found.  I found that the keyword (product) I wanted to key in on had 100k searches a month according to Google.  The plural, another 15k and a side keyword + main keyword, another few thousand.  I checked Blogspot.  Keyword, taken; plural keyword, taken; keyword + side keyword is available.  Awesome.  The side keyword also happens to start with “s” so you grab the plural in there too.

Upon searching the keyword in Google I get less than 300k websites.  For 100k searches…  Things are looking good. I take a look at my competition; wikipedia, a myspace band page that happens to use this product as their band name… and random joe-shmoe sites that happen to mention it in passing.  No real backlinking anywhere to be seen.  Good lord, this is looking too good to be true.  I check the CPC, and it’s showing an average of about $.75 – not bad.  I’m both excited and worried at this point.  Why hasn’t anyone else noticed this?  Am I reading the data wrong here?  It looks like a huge imbalance to me and one I can easily capitalize on.  It’s a pretty obscure product and the people who would know about it probably aren’t into SEO, but people are definitely searching for it.  And people are willing to pay to find those searchers.  I guess this is where I come in.  We’ll see how it goes.

One a final note, Grizzly promotes a product on his site called Project Payday.  It’s free to join and involves filling out incentivized freebie offers (people pay you to fill out free trial offers and what not so they can get cash or a prize).  Not only is it free, they garauntee that if you follow their steps and don’t make $50 they will pay you $100.  I’ll be getting my first $50 tomorrow, but I’ll talk more about that in another post.

Shoemoney talked about speeding up the system and it looks like he is – 4 videos coming out this week.  Oddly enough, todays video actually talked about arbitrage and how incentivized freebie offers are a form of arbitrage.  Weird timing again for a Shoemoney System video.

But for those keeping score at home:  Shoemoney System – $1 ; Project Payday – $50.

The Shoemoney System has been dragging along at an absolutely glacial pace.  My first commenter, Anthony, said it best;

What [The Shoemoney System has] covered so far is very, very basic stuff and I doubt anyone has had any real benefit out of it… Seeing the next few videos to come looks like another slow week or two. Sponsored Tweets again isn’t going to set the World on fire for many.

(edited and paraphrased by me – full version on “Is the Shoemoney System Reopening Its Doors?“)  The Shoemoney System is taking basic to a level I didn’t even think was possible.  If you are a 72 year old woman, a “beauty pageant contestant” from Nebraska, or you’ve been in a coma for 20 years, then the Shoemoney System (at least the first few weeks) is for you.  If you have an email account, then I guess you want the accelerated version.  Which doesn’t exist.  There have been a couple more videos and a webinar and I’m not even going to get into them because they’re dull beyond belief.  In the webinar, Shoemoney did vaguely mention that maybe they’d be speeding things up due to feedback.  We’ll see I guess.

Enough about the Shoemoney System, I want to move on to actually making money online.  Due to how slowly the Shoemoney System has been moving, last weekend I went in search of information on my own (a novel concept, I know).  The problem with finding information about making money online is that the arena is full of garbage and B.S.  I wandered through some well-known forums that revolve around making money online and found what I expected – crap.  I had to wade through 14 flame posts, a bunch of stupid pictures of cats, people trying to pitch pointless products to even find one piece of useful information.  This isn’t just true of the making money online arena, it’s basically what you find on any forum.  Forums, for the most part, are absolute garbage.

There ARE some good forums out there.  But they’re few and far between.

So I took to simply Googling “make money online” thinking that perhaps someone who actually knows something about making money online would also know how to dominate the search engines and perhaps give out useful information instead of pitching garbage to passersby.  And lo-and-behold I found what I was looking for.

I stumbled across a blog called “Making Money Online for Beginners” <link removed because he’s removed that blog> by a guy named Grizzly Brears.  What got my attention was that this was the ugliest blog I’d ever seen.  It wasn’t covered in ads, shooting pop-ups in your face, and trying to direct your attention this way and that.  It was just page after page of text with a very boring layout.  I learned (by reading his blog for the past week) that the ugliness is intentional as most people would see this and click away (preferably using an Adsense ad or affiliate link).  And he has only a moderate amount of ads because he has a soft spot for the readership he’s unintentionally developed (aw, how sweet). You can go to his blog and read this for yourself though.

He essentially walks you through his process of making money online step-by-step.  The blog itself was an experiment to see if he could rank in the number 1 spot on Google for “Make Money Online.”  He isn’t in the number 1 spot now, but I suspect he was there at some point (I haven’t gotten that far yet).  He obviously knows how to dominate the SERPS and from there he makes money using Adsense, affiliate offers, lead generation etc.  He gives you just about every piece of information he’s gained from doing this for years and it’s not $197 a month, it’s completely free.  Yep, FREE.  This is a rare find, so I suggest you stop reading this and go read his blog right now.

Oh, and in case you hadn’t noticed, I already have someone commenting.  Which means people are already finding my blog.  And it’s already been indexed by Google.  Go ahead and check.  This website’s barely a week old.  How’d that happen?  Go read Griz’s Blog and find out!  I haven’t even really begun to implement the things I’ve learned over there.

Anyway, I’ve got some reading to do myself as I’m only up through 2007.  I’ve also got more homework to do using what I’ve already learned from his blog.  So a final note for this post; the Shoemoney System is for recently awoken coma victims and “How to Make Money Online for Beginners” is a rare gem that anyone aspiring to make money online should read.  Seriously.  Why are you still here?  Go.

Update: (about 4 minutes after originally posting this) Today’s Shoemoney Systems video is about pitching crap to people in… wait for it…forums!  I’m seriously watching it right now.  I didn’t know this when I wrote the above paragraph, I promise.  I find this hilarious.  I’m really laughing out loud over here (not just typing lol to people).  Damnit, Shoemoney, I want to pretend like I’m not wasting my money here, but you’re making it increasingly difficult to convince myself of this.  I have to at least believe that he knows this is complete crap and he is playing the “nice guy” to appease his general customer base.

Shoemoney System Video 6

Todays video shows us how to go through our affiliate network, find offers that we’re “genuinely interested in” and signing up for them.  I’m not talking about signing up to promote them.  I mean Shoemoney sat there with his sidekick and had her enter her information into an insurance quote landing page (through her own affiliate link).  She made less than $5 from the transaction and now that she’s entered her email there she gets information regarding products she’s “genuinely interested in.”

Granted, it’s only Day 13, and not Day 17, but I hope this isn’t the actionable item that Shoemoney talked about previously that would have us seeing our first dollars.  This method seems a bit silly.  However, in the name of playing the game, and doing all steps of the process I did find a program I was genuinely interested in to sign up for.

I am now one dollar richer.  At this pace I’ll be able to quit my day job in 327 years.

Day 10 of the Shoemoney System brings 2 new videos.  Neither of them provide any real money making information.  We don’t move forward here at all.  We’re just getting some general tips and information.

Video 6

Video 6 is called “Books That Will Change Your Life.”  It contains the standard list of books found in any self-procalimed successful person’s bookshelf (ie Rich Dad Poor Dad, Anything by Seth Godin, some Donald Trump, a bit of Malcolm Gladwell, and of course, the 4-Hour Work Week). Nothing new here.  Surprisingly, no Amazon affiliate link.

Video 7

This video is a behind the scenes look at an affiliate network.  It includes a whirlwind tour and and some general tips.  Guess what; I don’t care where you prepare your lunch.  Cut to the chase already.  How are you and I, as a team, going to make money?

Tips from this video – Communicate with your affiliate manager, they see all.  And don’t be a “get rich quick” moron, take a fistful of cash, throw it into advertising without know what you’re doing and come crying to your affiliate manager about how you’re not making any money expecting them to make it all better [my phrasing].

Got it.  Next video please!

I received a combination of an email and a new video from the Shoemoney System today.

Video 5 + Email – Red Flag?

This video had to have been made recently, because it has stats regarding the sales of the Shoemoney System.  It essentially teaches you how to create a new account at an affiliate site, find the Shoemoney System affiliate program, and sign up for it.

The accompanying email said our tasks for this video are to do the above, and then spread reviews around the web, giving us various formats that we can use to do this.  I get that this is part of how the whole “making money online” thing is done, but to me this seems too soon for us.  Not that it’s above our diffifulty level, just because we have nothing really to talk about.

It’s bad enough that before the Shoemoney System launched, there were already a bunch of fake “reviews” around the web.   One that I found even claimed to have made almost $300 dollars on his third day.  He must be really good, because on the third day I was sitting around waiting for video 3.

So that’s bad enough, but then to ask us members/students to review something before we’ve even gotten into the meat of the course is ludicrous.  What shall I review?  How effortlessly I was able to set up a Gmail account thanks to the 10 minute video on it?

My Shoemoney System Review

I can’t knock the quality of the videos and instruction; they really are quite good and in-depth.  Just because I haven’t been introduced to anything new to me doesn’t mean it hasn’t been helpful to a lot of people.

So here’s my review; quality step-by-step instruction, if a bit slow paced.

I’m put off and annoyed with this new development so this post is pretty negative.  I wanted this blog to be about my (hopefully) positive experience making money using the methods in the course.  But right now it seems like we were sold the Shoemoney System… to sell the Shoemoney System…

I’m trying to keep my cynicism in check here.  I realize we have 50 more weeks of instruction, but this should have been presented a month or two into the course. 

Is The Shoemoney System Reopening?

The Shoemoney System is a hot product right now, and Shoemoney obviously wants his new members to be able to take advantage of that.  But why so soon?  Is the Shoemoney System reopening its doors soon? 

Do you think this is a red flag?  Is this typical of the making money online circle?

So we’re a week into the Shoemoney System and two more videos have been released.  He also ran a webinar answering users’ questions where he got deeper into some of the specifics of the course.

Webinar

Let me cover the webinar first.  The “6 Ways to Make Money Online” video barely scratched the surface about the material in the Shoemoney System.  It’s more like the 6 ways to make money using one of many angles to make money on the internet.  Shoemoney got a little more specific about the money making methods covered in the course.  He seems pretty excited about it, which makes me excited about what’s to come.

Here’s a question on everyone’s mind; “When will we start making money?”  And Shoemoney’s reply “…Day 17…”  I guess we’ll see if that’s true.

These webinars are planned bi-weekly.  That’s also a cool feature I didn’t know about.

Video 3

This 3rd video does some basic explanation of one of the ways Shoemoney makes money online.  I’ll leave it up to you to imagine which.  Even though I’m pretty new to all this, none of this was new to me, so I was a bit bored with the video.  Shoemoney did use some really cool real life examples of this money making method that I’d never thought or heard of which I found interesting.

Video 4

This video covers setting up an account related to this method.  The method and associated website/company are new to me, but I can run through a basic account set-up.  One of the kickass parts about being in Shoemoney’s course is that you get automatic acceptance into some pretty high-level programs, and higher payouts for being a Shoemoney System student.

There’s the first week of the Shoemoney System in a nutshell.  It’s been pretty slow thus far, but I’m still excited for what’s to come.

So after signing up you’re immediately ushered into Shoemoney’s back-end.  Wait… that didn’t sound right…  (some may say it was the other way around – $2400 bucks, yeesh)

Well anyway, there’s this back-end area with tabs along the left side.  A couple of tabs I found interesting are the “best of” Shoemoney’s Podcasts, and a list of “Helpful Links” with over 300 links to Shoemoney’s personal bookmarked websites.

Shoemoney claims that the “Helpful Links” list alone is “worth several times your investment to this club.”  I don’t quite know about that (seriously, I’m not being facetious, I literally don’t know how one might value this information), but these two unexpected bonuses are pretty cool none-the-less.

Video 1

Of course there are also a couple of instructional videos to get you started.  The first one is that crappy “6 Ways to Make Money Online” video that’s been used to promote the Shoemoney System for a couple months.

Now, before we get to the second video, let me just clear something up.  I’m not blogging here to leak Shoemoney’s secrets or give everyone a play-by-play of the videos and materials in the course.  This website is to demonstrate whether I (a total noob) can make money with the system.  I will share my stats, and progression from beginner to billionaire, but the information related to the Shoemoney System will be vague.  Sorry if that’s not what you’re looking for.

Just kidding.  I’m not sorry.

Video 2

That being said, here’s exactly what the second video was about; setting up a Gmail account.  This may seem ridiculously simple to some, but much of what is done in the course hinges on having a Google account.  Believe it or not, there are 2 or 3 people who don’t have a Gmail account, and since the Shoemoney System is designed for people who are even noobier than me, it make sense that he’d sit down and go through the process.

There you have it, Day 1 of the Shoemoney System.  I don’t have a pile of money to roll around in yet, but I will certainly be spending some spare time listening to the content in the podcast section.