Recruit a System Administrator and get $2500
Recruit a PHP/Perl Programmer and get $2000
Recruit a Chat/Phone Support Rep and get $500

There are a few requirements:

1. They must be able to legally work in our Houston Headquarters.
2. They must be employed for 90 days in order to be paid.
3. The employee needs to be full-time to get this referral bonus.
4. You must fill out the referral form before their first interview.
5. You cannot refer yourself.

They will help with relocation for system administrators and programmers so as long as they are legal to work in the USA, they are easy to get hired.

You can work the cool factors of Hostgator such as the employee gameroom with pool table, air hockey table and foosball table or the employee fitness center which employees can use before and after shifts or during shift breaks.  You can also mention that administrators get triple monitor workstations and tech support gets dual monitor workstations.

You can recruit online with forums and employment listings or pay for ads in local newspapers. Recruiting just 4 system administrators will net you $10,000 after 90 days. It can’t get any easier than this.

All you need to do is get the potential employees name, phone number and email address and fill that information into the referral form . Then just forward the persons resume and info over to the hr department at Hostgator and if they get the job, you are set!

When I started out with my blog, I was really hell bent on helping people make money online. Notably single mothers and fathers and people trying to make it through college on their own working crap jobs to pay the bills.

At that time I had never heard of John Chow, Problogger or Shoemoney… Actually my first MMO read was JohnCow.com and I thought I could do better than they did for teaching people how to make money.

Onto my failure… I seen this infomercial on tv one night about buying and selling wholesale. A company called SMC . I figured I could teach people how to sell the stuff on eBay and it would be a good venture for those needing the extra income.

I signed up for the silver package which was $24.95 plus $15 S&H and another $39.95 a month for 11 months.

When I got the box of sales material and catalogs… I was totally petrified. For every 1 product that was worth selling, there were 100 that were total crap, the stuff you would find on a dollar store shelf.

So I made a list of the good products and got descriptions and pictures… I posted them on eBay and quickly found that there were 30 of the exact same product in each category. The low profit margin was making all of us SMC sellers slash prices by just pennies to make a sale.

With the eBay and Paypal fees and the low profit margins from selling online… I made a total of $68.52 in profit after about 2 weeks of work.

So not only was this a complete failure of concept, it’s also costing me $39.95 for the next 8 months for the membership. Their refund policy states I cannot get a refund because I already started selling and using the material included in the kit and I cannot stop paying because they report on your credit report. This is what they told me over the phone.

I am looking into how I can get my membership cancelled or at least try and figure out how to move the product and recover what I have spend on it.

Maybe this would be good starter content for a site I can flip. A ready to go shopping cart site and all the buyer has to have is an SMC membership to get the products. I won’t go so low as to try and sell the buyer a membership through an affiliate link as I don’t believe the system they are offering is worth the money.

If I decide to flip a smc store, I will let you know how it goes here on my blog.