Name: Accelerated Web Solutions
Advertised Price: $299, $399, $499
Rating: 10/100
What Is It?
Pay Accelerated Web Solutions to build a simple website for you and write some articles for your site. In theory, the site can make you money.
Short Review:
The amount they charge for the type of work that is done is shockingly overpriced. There are a few red flags in their presentation that makes me suspicious of the articles they provide you with, and I highly doubt they have sufficient back end training to teach you how to actually make money with this site.
Disclosure: I have not bought their product. But I have extensive experience in the online marketing industry and feel that I can make accurate assessment of what services they offer.
Before You Buy:
I was cold called by Accelerated Web Solutions a few weeks ago. It was after a long string of advertising phone calls, all hawking similar products. The common approach is to ask if you are interested in making some “extra money” from home, or if you are looking to “expand your business”.
They then check to see if you have a credit card, have an internet connection, and then we're off to the races!
I didn't have time to chat to their reps as I did with [insert link] and [insert link], so unfortunately I don't have all the juicy details of their sales strategy. But I can see a lot of “Do Not Buy” written all over their website.
Mistakes, Red Flags, Problems
Mistake: Buyer Cannot Make Informed Buying Decision
Here, they have their packages listed in order of Basic, Premium, and Deluxe.
Here in their portfolio, you can see that they are listed as Basic, Deluxe, Premium.
In typical fashion of these types of companies, this website is just a dummy site for quick presentation. All sales are conducted over the phone, where potential customers are put in high pressure situations, and forced to make buying decisions with as little information as possible.
Red Flag: Spun Content
In the image below they talk about “recycling” your articles
This is a tactic known as “spinning” an article. They take one single article, and rewrite it several times using different phrasing, synonyms, and other tricks to make Google think that it's original. This used to be a strategy to artificially boost rank in search engines and get your site to the #1 spot.
It no longer works. Not only that, it can damage your site's reputation, causing it to not rank at all. What's even worse is that these articles are usually barely readable, which means your visitors won't know what the heck is going on. Then they leave, and do no but anything from your site.
Problem: Pricing Model
Let's take a look at an image I created from their most expensive package. I have written in the actual value of each of the things they provide, if I were to do them myself, like buying a domain name, or contract someone to do them for me, like write an article.
You can see here that the actual value of what they offer is $79. And that's being generous!
About The Training:
No doubt if they are reading this review, they will say, “We offer great support and training”. I have now reviewed almost 100 products on my website, and I have yet to see a product that performed so poorly on the front end that has even come close to providing any kind of valuable training in the back end.
Of course, we can't confirm this because you have to pay before you look, and there's no money back guarantee. In previous phone calls with other companies I've asked to take a look at the training for my review, but they always refuse. They have to protect their “trade secrets” lol.
Final Review
This is an overpriced product that does not give us enough information about what we are buying or how we make money from it. Their marketing techniques are outdated, and they certainly does not highlight the amount of work it's going to require to build a successful internet based business. I started from zero, and you can take the same training I used to build my first profitable website.
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This company did the same thing to me. I was told by Accelerate Web Solutions that their company would do everything to get me making money. They suggested that I would be making $50 a click.
Hello Curtis,
Our notes indicate you spoke with our staff on June, 05, 2017 and at that time we addressed the above questions and concerns that you mentioned. Since the above comment was made, our staff has scheduled and completed additional ongoing training to insure that you were back on track with what type of ongoing maintenance that is required of you, to get any type of exposure.
Accelerated Web Solutions is a web development, design, and blogging consultation business. We educate clients on how to utilize and integrate affiliate and PPC services, how to manage content on their website, and we educate website owners on how to market their website on the world wide web. This is not a company that does “everything for you”. We do the technical work with getting a website up and running, and we offer a long list of services that can support website owners with the ongoing maintenance marketing if a client is seeking those types of services.
Let it be known, a service agreement is sent to each and every client prior to purchasing any services from our company and these service agreements along with the terms and conditions that are find able on our website clearly outline the above statement of earning “$50.00 a click”.
Each and every affiliate and PPC company offer a wide variety of commission/compensation opportunities. We encourage every client to read the affiliate and PPC applications to insure they understand the service agreements before activating or applying for such services.
In this case, you called in concerned about your lack or results, and we looked into the dashboard together. What we discovered is that you signed up in January of 2017 and as of June 5th 2017 no new content was added to the page. (This is the clients responsibility)
Since discovering this, our notes show that you have been working with our staff and have been receiving ongoing training to insure you are aware of what your ongoing responsibilities are.
Please do not hesitate to call our staff and or email our team if any additional ongoing support is needed.
We appreciate your business and look forward to working with you!!
I have lost many $$ joining with companies promising to give training,support and the way to earn $$ on line from home.
I need this as I have MS and do not have the energy or what’s necessary for a 9-5 or my current career in Real Estate.
I was about to sign with accelerated Web solutions on Friday but decided to wait and do some more research. Glad I did ….(I guess)…we never know what’s a scam or are the testimonials or bad reviewers scammers themselves. Scammers… scamming the scammers prospects…ridiculous.
An honest support system / Team / Company is so desperately needed in this fairly new fast paced and what COULD be very lucrative business…
Almost seems as though people have figured out that it’s easier to scam people into thinking that you’re going to give them real thing …instead actually giving it.
So OK here we try again…
Hello Robert,
We appreciate you voicing your opinion and most certainly understand your previous “not so pleasant” experiences give you the perspective that you have. As a full service web development and blogging consultation company we want to make sure anyone and everyone considering our services knows that our main goal is to support and educate our members and clients the many different ways one can monetize their website in today’s day and age.
We value your opinion and concerns and we wish you the best.
You’re welcome to call our office and chat with our staff or management team if you have further questions or anything is needed.
Support Staff.
I just want to warn everyone to stay away from this company. They do make it sound promising, but they are extremely deceitful and I don’t see how you could even break even with this company. They put you in high pressure high stakes situations which cause you to accept quickly without doing enough research. You just have to pay more and more surprise fees down the line. I tried to cancel before they even STARTED building my website and I was ignored for a long time before I was denied. They take your money even if you don’t use any of their services and don’t even offer a partial refund. They claim that you can cancel your account within 72 hours of purchase for a refund, but you are not even contacted for further explanation of the program until a week later anyway. I tried to create tickets like they said to on their site to receive quick service and I never once got a reply. Please don’t waste your money on this slimy headache inducing company… the chances are you will not make a cent.
Anon,
Our staff would like to speak with you to resolve this. You mentioned you were ignored and denied and our notes indicate otherwise. We are not able to contact you directly through this page. However we do ask that you call our staff and someone from management will be happy to assist you and or resolve this matter
Good Afternoon….
I just hung up my phone, with David! He actually had me to listen and comment on both what I had just seen. I thought that he was a little slick. Something told me to look at the company… and I am so happy that I did.
I have lost too much money… and with my having a Stroke, last year… this is Crazy.!!!
Please let me know what I must do??? Oh yeah… what about “Home Job Source”? They advertise…how you can make money by “looking at other sites ($7000-$8000) every month. It is only 97.00 to join. If you can help… please do.
Glinda
Those are both scams. No way you can make 8k a month looking at other sites.
Glinda,
We are confused by the comment left on this page. We do not offer a 97.00 system to join. Please call our office and someone from our staff/management will be happy to discuss your account and concerns. We look forward to speaking with you!!
Wow. This is devastating news to me. I have lost close to $10,000 in my search for a legitimate way to earn money online or from home. I have earned $38.40. What a joke. I am currently in the process of setting up my website with one company and though I’ve lost heart I have to continue as it’s the only way I might recoup some of my money. I realized too late how much I’d been overcharged to get a refund. I joined Accelerated Web in the hopes to actually have some money coming in while I worked on my website. I don’t feel like I was pressured but they did push for me to buy their most expensive package and I told them I had no money, period. I was also promised $50.00 a click — I asked 3 times if that was correct and was assured it was. Yeah right. I made .40 in two months. 40 cents!!!! When I called to talk to someone about it (and I was very upset) I was then given to Matthew. He was as nice as can be but he let me know that I had misunderstood. It was 50cents – $50.00 depending what people bought. I was told I would earn money just for having people click on my site whether they ordered something or not. He let me know it was all my fault. I needed to personalize my articles more(etc). I could go on. Now I’m scared that I will put in all kinds of work and NEVER make any money. What can a purpose do to find a legitimate way to earn money at home??? I am bankrupt and after 8yrs on the graveyard shift burnt out and exhausted.
i’m trying to find out to get my money back if you know how please share.
I can feel your pain lady is on the phone pushing me in. Just told her to call me later. I have lost over $10.000 over last 6-7 years .
I would admit I think my lack of knowledge played a big part in my lost And on top of all two huge scammers who literally took $4000 lump sump amount from me I was stupid enough to wire transfer the money and now almost bankrupt and my kids and husband are 100% sure, I am addicted to internet( computer )
I am totally sick to my stomach!!! I have read all the comments and just feel ill. I DID sign up with Accelerated Web Solutions!!! Went through some training and then they told me to sign up for Google and Amazon, and send them my user name and password. Was not comfortable with that, so started looking at my website. Had my daughter look at it as well. THEN another RED flag appeared when My daughter said there was a link taking her to a dating site. Which had NOTHING to do with what I was telling them what my site was going to be about. I recall seeing the word WordPress. Is there a way to get it moved into another web hosting?
EXTREMELY DESPRATE!!!
It is likely that the reason dating Ads were being displayed within your website is due to Google and or the Pay Per Click company places ads that relate to the users browsing history. You are capable of hosting your website where ever you would like, likely just a matter of getting in contact with the company and they’ll provide instructions on what you need to do.
Thanks for all the comments – I have just started with Accelerated Web Solutions – I had my first training today which was not enough but I will give them a chance. However, I thought it was up to $50. a click??
$50 per click? That’s most definitely not true.
$50 per click? are you KIdding? must be .05 per click or ever less.
Maggie,
There are many ways one can monetize a website, and we do not guarantee or claim anyone will make any money using these types of strategies. We would like to speak with you and as that you call our office so management can resolve this and handle accordingly.
Uh oh, looks like Accelerated Web Solutions is doing damage control…THREE YEARS LATER. This post was originally published in 2013 and it’s now one month before 2017!
>>> ATTENTION <<>> ALERT <<>> ALARM <<>> WARNING <<>> BEWARE <<<
ANY PERSON WHO IS SEARCHING FOR AN HONEST , LEGITIMATE , AUTHENTIC , SUCCESSFUL METHOD TO EARN MONEY ONLINE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THE COMPANY ASKING FOR YOUR MONEY BEFORE PAYING . " ACCELERATED WEB SOLUTIONS " CALLED ME BECAUSE I AM LOOKING FOR ( DESPERATELY SEARCHING ) A SIMPLE , INEXPENSIVE , EASY METHOD TO CREATE INCOME .
THE CALLER IS A LADY NAMED RUBY , AND SHE IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER HEARD . RUBY SEEMS TO BE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE , CONFIDENT AND HELPFUL . I LISTENED TO HER FOR MORE THAN 1 HOUR , AND FELT I COULD TRUST HER AND THE COMPANY.
THANK YOU FOR THIS REVIEW OF ACCELERATED WEB SOLUTIONS . I PASS .
Just signed up with accelerated web solutions in PHoenix Az.On Saturday Sept 19th 2015
Are you telling me that they are not legit or perhaps scammers?
Please advise
According to MY assessment, and according to the comments here, yes, they are scammers. If you purchased something from them, I would expect to receive a phone call quite soon where they will try to sell you traffic or some kind of other costs. Things like these rarely end on the first sale.
Wow. I just got scammed again. I found it weird how often they brought up my credit cards and the largest package would give me so much more money with the holidays around the corner. I thought that was rather pushy. They snagged me with low income discount and ONLY two spots left and sign up now or will lose the discount opportunity. How many times do I have to fall for these “at home” businesses? I have lost so much money when will I learn? They pretty much prey on fixed income people and you only need to put in at whatever level you choose. I should have hung up then. They would not give me time to think. Had to be done now or I will lose the discount. There was more pressure put on me in other ways. How dumb I feel. I am going to cancel today hopefully. Wish me luck and maybe a prayer wouldn’t hurt. I do not think you have read this yet but here I go again. I would like to try your program even though I just got scammed out of $350.00 yesterday. Broke me so now I really need help. I’m on disability and now my credit cards are maxed out. I’m calling my credit card and Accelerated to cancel. I will keep you informed. I feel like such an idiot because I have signed up for so many “make money at home” with only me putting out the money and NOT ONE PENNY RETURNED. Oh please there has to be one company to work at home and they are true to their word. I’m putting my faith out one more time. Thank you and hope to hear from you. Have a good weekend.
I will retract my Complaint due to the fact I had not spoken with Matthew when I wrote it. He explained more in depth to me what I would be doing and what was expected of me. He also helped me with an extra package which should help with business. Also, my time is very restricted and Matthew has extended my monthly fee, which is minimal, until time allows me to work on my business. Most other companies would not work with you the way Matthew is. I’m not talking back I felt pressured because I’m not going to lie and I did feel pressured. BUT, Matthew helped calm down those feelings and willing to work with me. I thank Matthew very much for helping me. He was calming, kind, helped me name my website, and use working with me. He has not left me out to dry. Sorry I jumped and filed my Complaint so quickly. I hope people who want to try this at home business will give it a fair chance and not jump to conclusions so quick. Thank you Matthew and hope too work years with you. I sincerely apologize I jumped so quickly to a decision before I had ALL the facts.
Be careful with these scammers. Read the other comments here and you’ll what they’re really about. I highly doubt that the website they gave you will be earning money, and I predict that they will ask for MORE money from you in the future.
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
I JUST READ YOUR ARTICLE — TOO LATE! I INVESTED ALREADY WITH ACCELERATED … AND YOU CAN SEE/REFER TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED WEBSITE!
IF YOU SO DESIRE I AM ABLE TO FORWARD COPIES OF THE CONTRACTS AND THE “SERVICE?” THEY PROVIDE?!
A LITTLE TRAINING IS PROVIDED AND THEY RUSH YOU THROUGH IT AND DON’T GIVE YOU MUCH TIME TO ANSWER QUESTIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN A HURRY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT! i HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CANCEL THE $460.00 LOSS!
I WAS TRYING TO SUPPLEMENT MY SS THERE I AM HITTING MY MID-SEVENTIES!
WELL, HAVE TO WRITE ANOTHER LETTER TO CANCEL AND I CAN CHALK UP ANOTHER SCAM IN MY LIFE!
Wow. I just got scammed again. I found it weird how often they brought up my credit cards and the largest package would give me so much more money with the holidays around the corner. I thought that was rather pushy. They snagged me with low income discount and ONLY two spots left and sign up now or will lose the discount opportunity. How many times do I have to fall for these “at home” businesses? I have lost so much money when will I learn? They pretty much prey on fixed income people and you only need to put in at whatever level you choose. I should have hung up then. They would not give me time to think. Had to be done now or I will lose the discount. There was more pressure put on me in other ways. How dumb I feel. I am going to cancel today hopefully. Wish me luck and maybe a prayer wouldn’t hurt. thought
Thank you for the article it was very insightful. I just got a called from the same company you wrote about, and I am glad I was able to put him off. It sounded more like he wanted my credit info without showing their product reputation or company info. That just sent an alarm in my brain, that this could be another scam on making money fast. Your article put the pieces together to what I already knew to be a lie.
Yeah, sometimes we need a bit of extra help to confirm what we already know to be true. I almost got caught by a craigslist scam today, and looked it up today. Yup. It was a scam!
I bought into the lies as well. I was trying to tie it into a business I already had and thought it would be a good extention to it. The articles they wrote sounded like they were written by someone who spoke English as a second language. They were horibble, I had to delete 2 out of the 5 and vastly change the other 3. This is a total scam, I don’t know how they sleep at night. Stay away!
I’m sorry to hear that Jack, but at least you are not alone. These guys are scumbags, selling junk to people who don’t really understand what they are buying. But I’m sure these guys are sleeping well on their silk sheets!
My name is [removed for privacy] and I recently invested in Web Soultions Accelerated. It cost $149 US dollars for membership, (which I did not understand that was what it was for) that is supposed to pay for any support that I might need.
The Domain Name is [removed for privacy], I further invested (or as you said in your article, was pressured on the spot on the phone to update to $499 Us dollars package, with which they offered some so called freebies. They went in and set up the website, posted some articles, contacted me and tried to explain to me how the system worked.
I could post articles of any kind, pictures, anything to draw attention to the site. I have FaceBook, Google, LinkdIn, Chitika, etc. that if people through social media go to my site and click on an ad and buy from that ad I was told I would receive .50 cents, pay per click, which turns out that it only pays from .5cents up to .50 cents. I have made no money from this investment, it was a very bad choice on part, especially having the support team that I need to help do whatever it is I am supposed to do.
I came across your site this afternoon and was blown away upon reading the details, the company works just like you said and had I further investigated I would have found out more than I cared to know. The company is not registered with the BBB and their rating is an F on the BBB site.
I filed a ticket with them today to see about selling the website, because of course I was told that if it became a popular site their company would sometimes even buy the copyrights to the site. Well needless to say it has not become popular nor do I think that it will, mainly because I don’t know enough about how to work it. It is useless to me as is.
I am writing to you looking for advice since you seem to be learned in the website industry, I thought this was going to a part time money maker on the side but boy was I wrong. I don’t know if you can help me or not, I’m just trying to find a way to do something with the site or if I can just try to sell it back to them for I invested in it. Which I don’t think their going to do.
I am unemployed and it really took a financial chuck from what little I did have saved up in my account. I even went as far to have file for Bankrupcy, which I told them about and boy could they really help me then. I have yet to even come close to building my account back up. Are there avenues that you can help me with or is it just a lost cause?
If you don’t respond I will totally understand, it is one sticky mess up on my part, and it is not your problem. So if you can give me any advice I would greatly appreciate it, if not, then I do understand.
Need to Know
Sorry to hear about your situation. Guys like the ones Accelerated Web Solutions have not considered the affect they have on real people’s lives with their misleading advertising. It’s very unfortunate, and they are not the only one doing this. These are representatives who do not think about what their job really is, and of course the mastermind behind this scam company remains anonymous.
Whether or not the website is still usable is up to you. It probably won’t sell for much. I’m not sure what you used to build it – WordPress? If you don’t know, don’t worry about it. Usually a website without a great domain name and isn’t earning any profit won’t be worth anything.
It actually costs just $10 per year to register a domain so you might have to cut your losses on that one, and pick a new one. Some companies allow you to transfer, others don’t. Some wash their hands of you when you try to leave and do not tell you how to transfer it yourself.
I always recommend people join the same training center where I learned to build my own websites and earn money from them. It’s a legit community of people, and can be real fun to talk about your website, get ideas from other people, and most importantly get HELP with the training when you need it.
It does require a monthly fee however. I know it’s pretty lame to get scammed by someone, ask for help, and then get sold another product! But this is where I learned how to build my website, and it’s the community where I’m active and provide personal support every day. You are welcome to follow the links in this response or in the article for more details on what their about.
You can also respond to this comment or email me with any further questions you have. Sorry to hear about your situation, and I wish you luck in the future.
My husband was coned into paying $95 to work from home deals. He gave up after two months of running around and phone tag. He was never given back is 30 day guarantee. On the 28th of December my husband at the age of 52 passed away in his sleep. He was not ill it just happened. Since then my phone has gone off the hook with these places asking for Ed I have blown them all off. But the truth is I do need to make some money from home. So What is real and what can I do with little experience?
Thank you for your web page I’m glade I was informed.
Mrs Green
I can’t believe these guys – the stories I hear about how they operate their business just get worse and worse. If you are interested in learning how I created my own online business with little experience, I suggest you join my 5 Day Email Course to see if it’s something you’d like to do. You have to be willing to learn – it’s not going to be a breeze to learn it. But it’s possible. Many other products out there will make you think that it’s easy and you can do it with the click of a mouse. It’s not. Don’t believe that stuff. But with the right support and training, you can make it work. Also, you can get 1-on-1 support form me if you need it. You’ll get my email address after you sign up for the course.