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Let's break it down.

1) Release a bunch of free apps. 2) Take the holiday season - the single month with the highest sales and traffic. 3) Round it up a little bit to get to $80K a month. 4) Find as many people as you can who're willing to believe the story. 5) Don't lie - just let people extrapolate - Say $80K in a month and let people assume that means $80K per month.

Their website is the classic long form sales letter.

Make it long so people get invested. Offer $2600 worth of value for just $300. Then knock another $200 off.

Appeal to the total idiots who think a 'free' ready to go app that is included will start making them $5,000 a day.

Quote examples like iShoot + kitchen table without telling the whole story i.e. the guy's programming experience and the actual number of months spent and the strategy he used.

A fool and his money are soon parted. These two gentleman are taking upon themselves this painful task.

If we set aside ethics it's just a strategy - One guy builds a super valuable product and sell it at high price to smart people who value it.

Another person builds a house of cards and targets people's greed and laziness.

Notice a few things -

1) Their insistence that they spend just 5 hours a week on this. 2) Their focus on showing earnings from a single month - the month in the year that has the most sales. 3) If you were to wish for a easy, no hassle way to make lots of money - You'd dream up exactly what they are claiming. It's absolutely perfect - you don't have to know coding, you need just 5 hours a week, and you'll start making $5,000 a day within 60 days.

Right, but as it turns out they didn't just make $80,000 in a month. They made ~$800,000 over a year and a half, and clearly said they have had dud apps as well

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