Review of Acme People Search

Being pressed for cash in this recession, I did what a lot of internet users probably do: looked into online money-making programs. They sound too good to be true, but sometimes it's best to look, for you never know if you don't try. However, I want to put the word out there on my personal experiences so that other people can use the research I've already done to help in their own research.

That is why I am going to put together a series of blog posts that makes full reviews on programs as I come across them. Today's target: Acme People Search

Acme People Search is a program put together by Tissa Godavitarne, a name that is probably infamous among affiliate marketers. Tissa figured out that 30% of all searches done on major search engines (such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN) are related to looking for other people. Think for a minute if you ever searched for someone online or thought about looking for someone. Maybe you got out of touch with a friend, maybe wondering about people you used to go to school with, or maybe even relatives who live in other states. He has a point if you think about it. It's a common thing to look for other people.

So what Tissa did was develop a search engine that will deliver free information on whoever you search. So how do you make money off of that? This is the genius part: he sought out affiliate links that would fit the theme well and integrated those into his search engine. Such links are for background checks and finding people by their social security numbers. When people click these links and sign up for the products, he profits.

But it doesn't stop there. Tissa has found a way to make 2nd tier commissions for getting people to help him in his referral efforts. So because of this, he offers to create a duplicate of his search engine for you to use to try to repeat his success. In addition to that, he can make commission the inevitable process of signing up for a web host on which to hold your search engine (don't worry, he lets you do that part too).

What you have now is a circle of profit as you get people to click on your affiliate links, and more importantly sign up for his program under you.

You can read more about his story and search engine here.

Pros:

• Tissa is a real person with a real identity and makes himself readily available to you. He doesn't hide behind the anonymity of the internet, like most, and instead invites you to meet him in person at his VA office.
• There's no real work involved in the actual setup of his program. Most of it is automated, you just have to sign up for various things.
• The program offers seven different ways to make money.
  
• Tissa offers free training sessions via online webinars on an almost-daily basis. He is pleased to answer your questions and give you the assurance that he is supporting you.
• Tissa will start you off with a little bit of free advertising on Google, Yahoo, and MSN to get your search engine some initial hits.
• Tissa promises that you will make at least $125 within 24 hours of completing all three of his steps, or he will give you $125 himself. He even has a "proof board" to show that people are being paid.
  

Cons:

• If you do not complete all three of Tissa's steps, he won't make your search engine display YOUR affiliate links all of the time. One of those steps includes paying him $30 a month, and failure to maintain that subscription could result in 35% of the links on your page being replaced with his own links that make him money instead.
• Your search engine can't make more than chump change unless you are a skilled internet marketer.
• While Tissa provides some free tips, he will not teach you how to make a successful PPC advertising campaign. Instead, he refers you to another site with a $40 a month membership.
• Tissa will not allow you to make commissions off the Lunar Pages or StartLogic sign-ups that people make from YOUR referrals unless you are both subscribing to him AND paying Wealthy Affiliate $360 a year (though Tissa WILL allow you to make commission from GDI hosting for free and also allow you to force referrals to sign up under GDI so you get commission and not him).

In conclusion, Tissa doesn't really run a bad program. It's just not an easy program, and will get costly at first. You need to know exactly what you are doing to be successful with his methods. That requires either already knowing, or spending the money to be told how to do it right. It is possible to make back all the money you spend and then continue to profit from there, but it can be difficult now with so many people in his program attempting to do the same exact thing.

Tissa's program takes effort and determination to work, but since it can work, I certainly will have to give it my vote of approval. You can sign-up for his program here or visit TalkToTissa.com to schedule a webinar in which you can talk with him directly and find out if his program is right for you.

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