Global Cash Flow Network – My Story

Oct 12th, 2008

I actually have to look up my credit card statements from last year to be able to recall the order of the programs I joined and tried to make money with.

After the disaster with Data Entry Business, I was absolutely not ready to give up. I kept searching, and the next program I came across that looked like the real deal and sounded absolutely fantastic was Mary Gerstens “Global Cash Flow Network” (GCFN). Now, this is by no means a cheap program, but I was all fired up and ready to make some cash! I liked what was promised and took the plunge to sign up.

Total cost over the next few weeks: $781.73 USD. This included signup fee, setup costs, study material and things like that. (ouch!!! – some of you internet marketers might regret now that you didn’t come across me a year ago!)

I invested in everything to do with Global Cash Flow Network I could get my hands on. I had said to myself that I really wanted to make it work and then I had to give it a fair go.

After a few weeks with the program and learning quite a lot about media placement, I got a phone call very early in the morning (must have been around 5:30am or so; people forget the time difference between the States and Western Australia). Pretty much still half asleep I had this person from GCFN on the phone telling me about this fantastic offer of a three months advertising campaign to bring highly targeted traffic to my site. A flow of 20,000 guaranteed visitors to my site with a high conversion rate.

By that time I had learned that my websites were only going to be successful if they had visitors that converted into sign-ups to the program, or that bought something from my store.

Again, I had some savings at that time, and as I still wanted to make this a success, I agreed to buy their Premier PlusTraffic Package. It included 20,000 highly targeted visitors to my site(s), a direct mailer program with a 2-4% response rate (pre-printed postcards for me to send to already very interested “leads” which all got supplied to me through GCFN), and quite a package of information and study material about traffic generation. This was sure going to get a lot of sign-ups going! (Per sign-up I could receive between $100 and I think $1000, depending whether the sign-ups bought the traffic package deal).

Total cost for this Premier Plus Traffic Package (hold on to your seats, please!): $4,495.00

I must have been MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be continued……

By the way, here are the 2 websites I have with Global Cash Flow Network: http://www.cleverwebcash.com and http://www.mywebcashstore.com/weiss9719

13 Comments on “Global Cash Flow Network – My Story”

#1 Udegbunam Chukwudi
on Sep 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Ouch Ouch Ouch OOOOUCHH! Sweet heart what were you thinking? That’s like over $5,000 on an MMO product. Over here in Nigeria, we would say you must have been “jazzed”. Jazz=Voodoo. LOL
Till date I’ve spent less than $100 on mmo products and I’m still regreting spending that much. LOL. I hope this expenditure didn’t affect your relationship cos it’s quite a lot of money down the drain.
Udegbunam Chukwudi´s last blog ..Top 10 Ways Nigerians Make Money Online

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Petra Weiss Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm
@Udegbunam, did you know any technical stuff when you started, though? It is great that you didn’t have to outlay any money, but I guess you must have been quite comfortable around the net and computers before…? Because if you really don’t know how to work things, it can be quite beneficial to sign up with a training site or something similar. Don’t you think? No, my relationship was not affected by it, thank God.

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#2 Udegbunam Chukwudi
on Sep 23rd, 2009 at 5:54 am

I feel you. I’ve always been intrigued by computers and yes I knew quite enough about technical stuff before jumping into the whole make money online thing. Don’t mind me. I ain’t got other responsibilities like you do (Kids, home, partner etc) so I had a lot of time to dedicate to improving my computer skills.
I’m super glad the enormous expense didn’t but a strain on your love life.

P.s: If I was quite secure financially, there’s a slight possibility that I might have been you

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Petra Weiss Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
@Udegbunam, be glad you got away with literally no expense!

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#3 Cartier Tank
on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:52 am

Till date I’ve spent less than $100 on mmo products and I’m still regreting spending that much.

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#4 Ev
on Nov 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am

Very, very helpful post! Thank you for taking the time.

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#5 Sabrina
on Dec 8th, 2009 at 6:08 am

So did you make money at the end with this programm?

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Petra Weiss Reply:
December 12th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Not a cent.

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#6 Anna
on Dec 16th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

Hi Petra

Were you a student of Alex Jeffrey, if so, what do you think of his course?

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Petra Weiss Reply:
December 21st, 2009 at 12:17 am
Anna, Alex Jeffreys is a great guy and his course is well worth the money, I just found as I progressed that list building is not for me. Too much work with having to come up with emails and good content all the time – I don’t think I would enjoy it for a longer period of time, and I would find it too stressful. I am having trouble right now keeping up with my 2 blogs as I am doing this very part time, and I just can’t see myself doing list building for that reason. I have decided to go into building niche websites as I can take my time designing and putting together the sites which are then earning me a small but steady income for the future.

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#7 Bill
on Dec 31st, 2009 at 8:20 am

Petra,
I am a recent neophyte with GCFN that has heard the faststart pitch, but did not bite. I am curious since you said ‘not one cent’, Did any of the guaranteed 20000 highly targeted visitors materilize on your back office counter for either of your sites? Did you mail post cards to the targeted leads provided? Any results/replies?
If your one year anniversary has probably passed, have you requested a refund as they claim they allow it after trying for one year?
Sorry for so many questions, but I am not interested in wasting my time. I too am working on learning and trying to find ways to drive traffic to the web sites. My daughter has a real job in internet advertising/promotion and she has a real concern for creating traffic to these unknown websites.
I would appreciate your input.

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#8 Petra Weiss
on Dec 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am

Bill, you can read the rest of the story here: http://www.petra-weiss.com/global-cashflow-network-my-story-2.html
I believe it answers all your questions. If you have any more, please ask!!! Have a Happy New Year!

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#9 pedro
on Jan 17th, 2010 at 7:41 am

thank you mrs petra for your story on global cach flow network you save me time and money.
pedro

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