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Rachel Rofe’s new hybrid business model

Posted by Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth

Rachel Rofe is a smart business person.

How smart?

She recently sold one of her websites (Burn Your To Do List) for $200,000 and she regularly turns away clients willing to pay her $5,000 or more for sales letters.

She understand and teaches some things about succeeding online that in many ways are more important than just the fundamentals of things like site building and traffic generation. She understands how to help people make best use of their time and how to leverage their time so they can do much more in much less time.

If you run online businesses or do freelance work she can provide you with some valuable insights about time management and networking in ways to help you get ahead faster.

She also has a great talent for helping people spot opportunities that many others overlook.

Needless to say, she’s someone I always pay attention to.

She just launched a really smart hybrid business model that I hadn’t seen before called ChooseThePay.com.

Here’s what she’s done that I think is smart about it.

She’s priced it really low at at one-time fee of $17 which gets you access to several of her reports which she had initially planned to sell at $5 a piece. And she also offers a LIFETIME money-back guarantee which of course is nearly unheard of these days.

But here’s what’s unique about the ChooseThePay.com membership:

Once you take access to the membership you keep getting additional content at no extra charge (i.e., no monthly membership fees).

It’s set up to give you access to live pitch-free webinars by some of the top marketers online. You can send in questions beforehand or even during the webinars.

Recordings of the webinars are then posted in the members area.

Based on what I’ve seen many of these webinars will be worth far in excess of the $17 one-time fee for the site access. And Rachel realizes this and if you want to donate based on what an expert is worth to you you can do so – although that is totally up to you.

No pressure, no questions. It’s all your decision.

Who is this for?

I would recommend this for anyone who’s started any sort of freelancing or online business – even if you’ve just started.

If you haven’t started yet, you may want to hold off and look at this later, although the piece she includes about business networking is a goldmine and probably would be of value to anyone.

Click here to find out more about ChooseThePay.com

As usual, feel free to ask any questions about this below.

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13 Responses to “Rachel Rofe’s new hybrid business model”

Dean Collier June 10, 2010

Dear Paul
I am a handicapped person in a wheeelchair and on limited income SSD
and have limited typing speed I have looked at Niche Blitzkreig program and am not sure its for me can you suggest any other programs for a newbie
thank you in advance
Dean Collier

Mike June 10, 2010

This program of hers sounds excellent, definitely worth looking into. I’m actually in the process of starting an online teaching business, so I’ll definitely have to take a look at this one once it’s up and running.

To the above comment: I understand how you must feel because I’m in a very similar situation. Though I’m far from an expert, I have a couple suggestions for you:

1. Online teaching
What skills do you have? With the system I found on the link below, you can teach anything you think people would want to learn. Here’s the URL:

http://iteachenglishonline.com/?hop=atezaz

This guy just focuses on teaching English (or even getting with people who would pay to practice English with native speakers) but you can use this guy’s technique to teach just about anything. I teach English, Spanish and considering Latin music (I play like 4-5 instruments).

But more importantly, when dealing with SSI/SSD it’s important to consider how much you want tomake, as you can lose medicaid benefits and all that. The online teaching thing is great because you control how much you want to work and how much you earn.

2. Writing / E-book publishing

I’ve seen links for that too, and as a writer I am working on that as a kind of side project. Basically, it works the same way as the online English sells his book. Basically, what you do is put together a website where people pay for the download link for your e-book, then market it on youtube. So if you’re a writer (like me) you can give that a shot too.

Hope that helps.

Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth June 10, 2010

Thanks, Mike

One small tip. It’s general internet etiquette not to post affiliate links within blog comments. Just a heads up because most places won’t approve your comments if you do that.

Good comments on controlling the income as you do have be careful with SSDI.

Dean, I think typing speed is going to be an issue for online business or jobs – even the phone work from home requires typing. I like Mike’s suggestion of tutoring/teaching though.

Jennifer June 11, 2010

I have been doing Niche Blitzkreig for a while now. It has given me a good foundation considering I didn’t know anything about making money online before.
I am ready to step up my game a little bit now. Do you have any recommendations for how to learn to sell informational products or build a membership site?
I know I can create a good product and I know that PayPal offers great Mechant program, but how do I deliver digitally based products? And I would love to build a membership site.

Thank you! And I will check out the site you mention above, I always want to learn more as well as keep my costs down when I can.

Jennifer

PS- was it Automated Content Cash that you just warned us about recently?
Also do you know anything in general about Joel Comm?

Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth June 11, 2010

Jennifer,

The site I warned about was called Automated Profit Package

Auto Content Cash by Alex Goad, Brian G. Johnson, and is a great program once you have mastered the fundamentals of niche blogging.

In case anyone else wants more info about it, you can see Auto Content Cash here.

At some point I’m also going to ask Shawn Swinigan to do a more detailed review of it as he knows the system quite well.

Regarding information products and membership sites – Michael Brown and Kevin Riley held a webinar about that for WorkAtHomeTruth recently. Were you on that? If not, I put a replay of it here:

Infoproduct Line Webinar

I mostly like Joel Comm. He made a big mistake about a year ago with a membership site where I think what happened is that he turned the promotion of it over to another company and that company marketed it in a way that didn’t disclose monthly charges clearly enough. But they fixed that problem pretty fast.

His new blog theme looks pretty impressive although I haven’t bought it and tested it out yet.

Noemi June 11, 2010

Hi Paul,

Have you heard about “Quick Profit Formula” by Tyler Koling? Is this legit or not?

Thanks

Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth June 11, 2010

Noemi,

I don’t know Quick Profit Formula, but I see some major red flags.

One of them is the fact that at least a couple of the photos for the “testimonials” are taken from Stock Photo sites. Here are a couple examples:

Those particular stock photos have been used by MANY companies. Here’s an example of one at Sam’s Club:

Mom and Daughter at Sam’s Club

Also the claim to have been “Seen In” Entrepreneur, Money, CNNMoney, Fox News is EXTREMELY questionable.

The claim to be part of an “exclusive money making” group is another big red flag.

Noemi June 12, 2010

Thanks, Paul. You’ve been very helpful. I was about to purchase it when I thought about asking you first. Sure glad I did!

Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth June 13, 2010

You’re welcome, Noemi

Deborah June 23, 2010

I listened to a webinar last night for “OnlineEmpires.net” that charges a monthly fee of $47 for their information. Are you familiar with them? If so, what is your opinion of their product? I am wary of getting involved where a $50 a month membership fee is charged.

Paul - Founder Work At Home Truth June 24, 2010

Debora,

Someone else asked me about this as well. Here’s what I told them.

I’ve heard Michael Brown talk about this product and I know he endorses it, but I don’t know the product itself.

I read through the sales letter and he’s definitely hitting on the important areas of building a community site.

And Michael’s easily one of the most trustworthy marketer’s I’ve ever met online or offline and I’ve met hundreds, if not thousands over the past 10 years.

That all being said, community site building definitely is not an easy process – there are a lot of aspects to it as you can see just by reading the sales letter. Of course eventually you can have other people do some of the work, but at the beginning I’d be ready to seriously roll up your sleeves if you decide to proceed with this.

chris March 4, 2011