Home Job Institute, found online at SecureHJI.com, is a work at home opportunity that promises to teach people how to make money from the comfort of their homes using a they refer to as “link posting.”
This opportunity is described as giving people the ability to make as much money as they would with a traditional full time job outside of their, but in just a few hours per day. They quote a minimum of $379 per day, and often more.
According to the website, this program is currently priced at a one time fee of $97, which gives you full membership access to their training program which they say is valued at a price of more than $2000.
What Is Link Posting?
The goal of the Home Job Institute is to train people with no technical or previous experience how to “post links.” Link posting is a specific type of affiliate marketing, the most popular type of online business being performed today.
The business of partnering with another company to promote their goods and services through posting links online is called affiliate marketing. Whenever a link you have posted results in a sale for that company, you will earn a commission.
Though affiliate marketing is a very popular form of working from home, it is also an incredibly difficult type of business that often requires lots of time, effort, and money to do successfully. Unfortunately, many companies that offer affiliate marketing training are known for promoting this business as “guaranteed” or “easy.”
The Concerns
Many affiliate marketing training companies show many signs of untrustworthiness, and Home Job Institute is no different. Their sales page spends most of its print talking about the large amount of money their members can potentially make, and very little time and effort is given to explaining the actual type of work and effort that will be required to make this money.
In addition, though this company says it offers a Refund Policy, there is no continuity between all the pages of this website as to the parameters of this policy. Some places describe it as a 60 day policy, while others say it is a 30 day policy.
Regardless, their Refund Policy is one which says that refunds are contingent on your ability to be able to prove that you followed their training to the letter and were unable to make money for a prescribed period of time. These refunds are almost impossible to successfully obtain.
With all of these things in mind, customers may want to investigate other training methods or – more importantly – free resources which explain the work behind affiliate marketing.
I sure hope you post this so others will know what is really going on. After months of getting e-mails and looking for a legit, legal, and moral way to make money from home, I have never been so frustrated and mad at the same time. Most of and also this Online Riches University is a big, big scam. I paid the fee upfront and when I finally called the number for, "support", and talked with Simon, whoever that is, I was treated like a nothing person. He started right away asking personal questions about finances, what my husband does, do we owe on the house, credit card debt etc.
I asked him what this was for, that the number on the page of Step 1 I had showing on my laptop at this time stated this call was to set me up totally free of charge compliments of the University for joining their team. He became rude and pushy stating nothing is free. I stated it was staring me in the face written down right in front of me. He again stated he would not mentor people free and that it all costs more money. He said, "if you want to do it all by yourself, go ahead, most people don't succeed unless they have a consultant and he wasn't doing this for free. He actually told me that he would not help me to do anything and I should just forget it.
Most of these stupid gimmicks try to suck you in and then try to get large amounts of money from you. I am reporting a lot of this stuff to the Attorney General of North Carolina and try to wipe them off the internet for good. All of this stuff is scams the e-mails, the people sending them, the videos are all fixed with fake backrounds, actors, and the programs are not producing anything, especially money. It takes a real low life scum ball to take advantage of honest people trying to better themselves in this world, and worse to do this to us retirees wanting to make extra income. Be aware and don't buy anything. Make them let you try it out to see if it works. Having your own business takes money, but you can find all kinds of free websites, hosting is minimal, 5-25.00 dollars, free traffic and of course you have to have something to sell.
For us who want part-time posting links, that is a scam I just talked about. I will be praying for all of us that we don't get taken again. Good luck and remember, "nothing is free." Jan Summers, RN retired