Ivan Fienney Reviews – Is IvanBlogSecrets.com a Scam?
IvanBlogSecrets.com is the latest work at home website to reach a level of massive exposure. It seems that everyone who was once promoting the infamous Google Kits has now switched to promoting this new program, specifically including the litany of fake news sites.
The reason for this crossover is that IvanBlogSecrets.com follows a similar design and layout as the fake blogs used to promote programs ripe with hidden charges. In this case, the one major difference between Ivan Fienney’s blog and the others is that his is setup to promote Robert Allen’s Multiple Streams of Income course.
Most people have heard of Robert Allen and know him as a popular Real Estate author and Make Money Seminar guru. In his latest product he attempts to show people how to make money online, he’s even taken on the same challenges as he did in his real estate days.
He still claims to be able to take an ordinary person off the street and have them making money in no time. In fact he claims to have made over 200 millionaires with his tutelage. As good as this all sounds there’s still a few things that are off about IvanBlogSecrets.com.
Is Ivan Fienney and IvanBlogSecrets.com for Real or Just another Scam?
What’s interesting about this whole thing is that among the new guidelines set forth by the FTC all testimonials used in the sale of online products have to be verifiable and real. So in this case either Robert Allen’s company is blatantly disregarding those warnings and has created another fake blog, or in some way or form they have actually helped Ivan Fienney make money online.
In all honesty it would take a lot more in depth investigating to find out the truth, but it would seem foolish of them to blatantly disregard those new guidelines and put their company in harm’s way. It’s one thing when some fly by night scam artist does it but it’s a different story here since Robert Allen has his name and company out in the open.
Despite all this there are some concerning statements found on IvanBlogSecrets.com. On his blog he states that among the options in the multiple streams of income program he choose to focus on the internet stream.
He goes on to say,
One of the steps included how to post the links on Google. I don’t even have to sell anything. Did you read that? Yes, no one actually needs to buy anything from you, me or Google. In order to get paid. Just post the website links and get paid. You can do the same.
Now this is the same kind of misleading hype that was used in the past scams. Fact is nobody pays you to post links on Google. The sponsored ads found in Google’s search results are placed their by people advertising products or services.
The only way to make money for posting these links is if you’re selling your own product/services or promoting products as an affiliate. Based on my experience and the rhetoric used by Ivan Fienney it looks like the training focuses on affiliate marketing.
Moreover, the other thing that Ivan doesn’t tell you is that it costs money to have your ads displayed by Google, hence the term sponsored listings. For each ad you place you’ll be charged anywhere between several cents to several dollars every time someone clicks on it.
As an affiliate marketer the trick is to make sure that the commission you earn for each sale generated through your ad makes you more money then it cost to run it. So your profit = commissions – advertising fees. No matter what anyone tells you this is the only way to make money “posting links” on Google.
Ultimately, it’s hard to say if Ivan Fienney is a real person and if his blog really is a sincere documentation of his journey to online profits. It could just as easily be a marketing device created by Robert Allen to sell more Multiple Streams of Income subscriptions. I would recommend using your discretion when it comes to this product as there is evidence to support both sides of the argument.
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February 8th, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Can somebody tell me how to get rid of the e-mails that they send. There is nothing like a unsubscribe button. And they fill my inbox with hundreds emails per day. I don’t know how they get there because I haven’t left any e-mail address. ha funny. And Btw people especially the scammed ones. I want to tell you all: I got stuck For a whole 2 months searching for a online job for extra cash. The first thing i went through was this type of websites. I was ready to pay for about 50$ to get to some databases and systems that will make money etc. after I found the reviews and many angry comments from people who were scammed. I remember there was one guy that commented that actually he wasn’t scammed but the database was so empty that it didn’t helped and he also said that if you try harder, looking on the internet you can find those companies by your self. which is very logical. after that I found some mommys blog and she has written one very smart thing “You don’t need to pay them to get paid, you simply don’t have to pay to anyone to give you a job they should pay you.” that was the second truth when I started to ignore all of these sites for easy money making. there is no such thing like easy money. there is nothing like data entry for 150 per day.
September 15th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
One again, your idea is very good. thank you very much.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Too many scammers and hard to tell which one real.. NO ONE CAN MAKE $$KK IN ONE NIGHT. I personally dont believe in those things anymore. I got scammed by SECRET CHOPPER
July 9th, 2010 at 3:15 am
I have read Multiple Streams of Income and it contains some good ideas. However a lot of what it teaches, especially about real estate, could lead to heavy losses. Grant Bovey, Anthea Turner’s husband, had a property empire worth millions till the credit crunch came. Because he was highly leveraged his business model collapsed and he went bankrupt. This is the problem with Allen’s property model as it is highly leveraged and leaves you open to losing everything if the market turned down.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
is he a white nigerian?
May 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am
I actually went thru Prosper a few years back for assistance on doing Short Sales when the trend was still “new to most”….great idea, but reality is something else! Spent a lot of time going from one sales Rep to another to “get thru” their system, then paid a lot of money for them to tell me what I’d already learned from the Mortgage industry, reading a few books, & studying little things online, and COMMON SENSE. One Rep I spoke with kept asking me what I meant after I explained a simple situation several times, then he gave me advice that was totally unrelated to the situation – THEN he tells me he’s NOT a qualified Rep. Often they couldn’t answer their phone or voicemails. When they told me to put a property that was going to default in someone else’s name, that was the last straw. Took months to get refund, and after a few years I STILL can’t get off all of their mailing lists.
So if this is related to “Ivan”, please save your money, spend it on good research books & legal advice before you get into anything!
May 14th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
This actually isn’t a scam. This guy went through a 1-on-mentoring program with a company called Prosper (look them up on BBB.org, they have an A rating). They have thousands of success stories.
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:15 pm
What i really did not like is that I had to restart my computer to get rid of him, and it has been running very slow since then. He wanted $29 without telling me what i was buying…what did P. T. Barnum say?
April 15th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I swear I saw a couple pics on his website on iStock or another stock photo site. Looks too regular. Anyhow, yeah…affiliate marketing. Soon as he said “post ads on google and get money to do it” I clicked off the page and came here. Thanks for further explaining the scam!
March 23rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
which one is the scam? or is it both?
March 20th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I have to agree 100% Scam Scam Scam
March 17th, 2010 at 8:39 am
This is a mass email scam,Don’t do it.This punk needs to get a real job.scamming piece of sh*t