Work From Home Training

Let me say right from the start that anything with the word ‘auto’ in it makes me a little twitchy. I believe that if you want to make your fortune online then you have to have a reasonable work ethic. Most ‘auto’ systems I’ve seen are designed to push all the emotional buttons and generally promise the world with no requirement to do any work. Experience tells me otherwise!

So you may be wondering why I bought a program when I’m so skeptical about ‘auto’ programs. The nature of the automated part of auto content cash intrigued me. As a serial blogger, I like the idea of being able to have material added to my blog automatically, but I don’t want to use poorly written articles and I don;t particularly want to have to rewrite or ‘spin’ content. I think we all have a responsibility to provide our visitors with fresh USEFUL content. Some of what I saw on the sales page eluded to a much better way of adding valuable (yet automatic) content to your blog.

I’m also not a big fan of adsense. I’ve had two adsense accounts terminated and I didn;t break any rules or find out why Google pulled the plug on me. Programs that leverage adsense can just as easily leverage other networks and/or affiliate programs so the fact that some of this product related to potential adsense income was pretty much inconsequential.

So I took the bait and jumped right in. There were a couple of upsells after the initial purchase but I declined those. I’m what you would call an internet ‘old timer’ having been around here for the past 20 years so I didn’t see the need to pay the extra for additional coaching. One thing I did end up doing though, was buying one of the recommended programs – Micro Niche Finder. Wow! What an amazing tool. I used Keyword Elite for a long time but Micro Niche Finder just blows it away completely. It reminds me of some of the advanced niche research tools that they have at SiteSell.

Anyways, once you get inside the members area there is just a huge collection of videos as well as links to free and other tools that are used as part of this system. I’m not easily overwhelmed by loads of learning material but I have found that some sites lay it all out in a fairly haphazard manner. That makes it overwhelming for the newbie and frustrating for the advanced guy, poking around trying to find the right info. The member area of Auto Content Cash is a blog and everything is set in a logical order within categories. It really is a good model for a membership site.

I’ve really only scratched the surface so far on what I’ve watched and read but it is fairly easy to tell that these guys know the traffic, SEO, blogging and affiliate areas of online marketing inside out.

I like to think I’m a fairly compassionate person and I hate seeing people getting the last few dollars sucked dry from their credit cards, but this is one of a very few programs that I would actually say yes… even if you’re struggling, go ahead and purchase the core product. If you have the cash and the need then by all means purchase the additional coaching, but if not… then purchase the core product. It IS going to help you make a lot more money online and you certainly won’t regret the investment you are making in your self education.

Update – October 3, 2010

With any product, system or technique it’s important to do as much research as you possibly can. I still think this is a good product from the point of view that it provides some worthwhile training. However, the methods used are not very effective any more. As you would expect with most things ‘auto’ it is considered spam, particularly because there are so many people out there using this type of system to produce nothing more than sleazy blogs with crappy content. The other issue with this program is that the program owners pretty much abandoned it some months ago. They haven’t posted in their forum or posted any updates in months.

I’ll be honest – I have some ‘auto blogs’ of my own. They’re not purely automated though. Much of the content is original content by me and I use a product called WPRobot to add syndicated (RSS and article) content from time to time in much the same way as newspapers and magazines use syndicated content.

I did find a program that is much more active and uses much more responsible and effective techniques (it is where I heard about WPRobot). That program is Mike Johnson’s Auto Blog Blueprint. Mike is very active in his forum and is very dedicated and helpful. He’s not chasing the ‘make money fast’ crowd or promoting random products from other online marketers.

You see, it is possible to automate without producing junk. The Internet is a treasure trove of valuable information and if you use that information responsibly then you can contribute to an information rich world wide web.