Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Free Cash Machine (FCM) and ZNZ(ONE)- Part 1

So everyone is running around and wanting to know what exactly is ZNZONE and the Free Cash Machine. How do you make money with it? Is it really free? Is it a scam? I think that many of us who work on the internet are faced with these questions on a daily basis. The truth of the matter is ZNZONE is not a scam and nor is the Free Cash Machine system.

ZNZONE is owned by ZNZ or ZipNadaZilch. ZipNada Zilch is an incentivized freebie site. If you are unfamiliar with this term, I am sure that you are not unfamiliar with the term "freebie" and I would bet that you have seen those sites that offer a free I-pod or a free Mac for trying this offer or signing up with this or that sponsor. Well, I can also even bet that you thought that those sites were all SCAMS, right?????Well, think again, they are not. They are an actual form of a CPA or "Cost Per Action" campaign (I will cover this more thoroughly in another post.). Basically an advertiser is paying a marketing firm for legitimate leads or potential customers for their products and services. The advertiser is usually requesting and paying the marketing firm for an initial or pending credit card transaction from this new potential client.

Why would they advertisers engage in these type of transactions?
It is getting harder and harder to market and advertise directly to customers. In itsWith the advent of DV-R and Tivo,

The Free Cash Machine is just an advertising and promotion mechanism to help explain the ZNZONE program period. You do not pay anything to join it and you can join ZNZONE directly and just promote, advertise and obtain referrals on your own. The Free Cash Machine will help do some of the work for you (by providing a full, explanatory webinar on exactly what ZNZONE is and how we can make money by promoting it).

Benefits of Free Cash Machine (FCM):
  • It's FREE!!!!!:  You can absolutely get started with absolutely no money!!!! None, Zip, Nada, Zilch!!!!
  • Especially important for newbies, it provides you with:
    • a back office for lead management
    • an auto-responder that will follow-up with your leads (in a systematic way) as well as a selection of capture pages, a control panel and other advertising tools that can help you to build a list and keep in contact with all of your leads. 
  • You will be provided with access to a training site which will provide you with all of the tools and the tips that you will need to get started. There will be numerous suggestions of places for you to think about placing free ads as well as loads and loads of examples of samples ads to really get your juices flowing about how to start. Once you get going, you will be creating ads that will bring in your leads and ultimately referrals. Once again, all of this is provided for free to help you learn how to market and promote the ZNZONE system. It is not mandatory but it can only help as you get started learning how to market and advertise online.

This is not to say that FCM is without its critics. Let's think about that here. Some critics have claimed that you cannot make money on the first day as claimed in the webinar. You can but you would have to be SERIOUS, well disciplined and able to take action immediately. How? Well, usually ZNZ will pay within a 24 hour period. If you signed up, completed your offer (depending on the offer you chose, assuming that your offer cleared.....I will discuss this in a later section) and you were immediately able to gain a referral (like a friend) or someone else, you could be paid by ZNZ into your PayPal account in 24 hours. It does happen. I read through the training site carefully and took my time. I earned within my first 5 days. I had some painful lessons ahead that I will share.

Some people are not fond of the auto-responder, well once again, you do not have to use it and that is just one way to follow-up with your leads and referrals. You can also drop an additional e-mail or give them a call. Nothing is forced on you. This tool is just what is included in the Free System and by no means has to be the only tool that you use.
 
The Training Site: Some people (including myself) have expressed at one time or another some confusion of what exactly is needed to get this operation up and running. I decided to use my common sense and ask questions later. I was chomping at the bit and wanted to get to the info that I needed right away and that would help me to start the fastest.

What I now know for sure.....(not just for Oprah!)
is that this training site is a smorgasbord of possibilities. It has both mandatory (in my opinion) things that you need to know and optional "be nice to have, maybe in the future" things. It also has complimentary items. If you used your common sense, you will be fine. If you get too overwhelmed, I would suggest contacting your sponsor.

I am a huge proponent of having a mentor/sponsor that you can reach out to so that if you are really unsure, you can ask him or her questions. I eventually did ask my sponsor about some of the items but by then, I was up and running and meeting other fellow marketers who were also promoting the site. Make sure that when you join a program, any program that you have a sponsor or a mentor that you can bounce ideas off of, that you are comfortable with (and sometimes we need to move out of our own way and get the help, the advice or leadership we need from our sponsor or someone else----It critically helps with your learning curve. Get the help that you need so that you can make the money that you want to help. It may or may not come from your original sponsor but get what you need!)

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