The Click Click Cash system is supposedly some incredible money making system created by guy named Josh, but of course you can always trust what you hear online. Are these “cashflow websites” that he is going to give you really going to make you money? Or is this all just a scam that is going to leave you with less money than when you started.
I hate to break it to you… But unfortunately it is the latter… This is a SCAM. In this review I’ll be going over why does a scam and why you need to avoid it. If you were thinking about possibly getting involved then I strongly suggest taking the time to read this over and rethink that decision.
I’m guessing you are already suspicious of the claims made… After all you are reading my review now which means that you probably came across the website and were hesitant to believe the claims that Josh makes about this system of his.
Click Click Cash Review
On the website you are immediately greeted with a video presentation where Josh opens up saying that he has made over eight figures in the past 24 months with this system and these cash flow websites that he creates. Later in the video presentation he says that the amount he has made over 10 million…
Sounds pretty awesome… $10 million in just two years… That is a heck of a lot of money and although it sounds awesome this should serve as a warning sign. Because he then goes on to say that he is setting you up with copies of his “cash flow websites”, which obviously sounds way too good to be true. At this point it is really reminding me of some past scams I’ve exposed, such as Profit 24/7 and CB Cash Code.
He says you will literally be able to get started with a few clicks of the mouse and claims that as you are watching the video he has already set up your “cash flow website”, which is making money.
But of course “this opportunity won’t be available forever. Time is running out”. He claims that the doors will be closing tonight, which is something that I can easily prove as a lie. I actually came across the system the other day and didn’t get around to reviewing it until several days later, but the system was still open… Which means this is just a lie.
How This System Works
Okay… So how does the system work? How do these “cash flow websites” start bringing in tons of money every day like clockwork?
Well… I HAVE NO IDEA! He doesn’t give any sort of explanation on this… You are just supposed to trust that these websites make money as he tells you that they do, which I don’t know why anyone would trust this.
He claims that it is a win/win situation, and is mutually beneficial for him if you make money. Because of this, he has his partners do all of the work for you…
He tells you that literally all you have to do is check your account a few times a week to make sure the money is coming in. His team supposedly does the entire web design, sales funnel, list building, HTML, social media advertising, copywriting, and everything else.
There is a hint in one part of the video presentation, because he shows this screenshot of what is supposedly “”your brand-new money making account”. As you can see is says “Affiliate Dashboard”, which means that this should have something to do with affiliate marketing, which is when you promote products online and earn commissions when you help make sales…
But honestly, who knows what the heck the system does… All I know is that it is definitely a scam.
Definitely a Scam
The video presentation is absolutely full of red flags. First off, of course it all sounds way too good to be true. I mean why would this guy be doing all the work for you? I know he says it is mutually beneficial, but why doesn’t he just set up some new “cash flow websites” for himself so that he can make all the money from both sides? And why the heck would you have been selected for one of these “cash flow websites”?
Also… Who the heck is this Josh guy anyhow? There’s absolutely no information given nor is there any picture shown of him. My guess… This guy doesn’t even exist. It is probably just a name that the scammers behind this scam decided to use. There is absolutely no information that I’m able to do research on to prove whether or not he is real.
And if that is not enough to convince you it is a scam, take a look at this…
Fake TESTIMONIALS!
That is right… All of this people that were shown in the video presentation who claimed to be using the system and making tons of money with it are fake. Well… They aren’t fake, but they are paid actors that are just saying what they have been paid to say. They are not making money with this system.
I saved this to the end to show you, but actually recognized that these people were paid actors as soon as I saw them in the sales video. How? Well… I have seen them in multiple other “make money online” programs that have turned out to be scams.
Look at the Disclaimer
One thing you should always do when you come across some sketchy opportunity online is look for the disclaimer. Usually you can find this at the bottom of the page, but sometimes you might have to do a little digging around.
The disclaimer for Click Click Cash was not that easy to find. The text was nearly as dark as the black background in you couldn’t even come close to reading it as it was. So anyways… I highlighted it so that you can see what exactly is says. And as you can see, it says that this “does not guarantee income or success” and also that “the average results are unknown”.
So all that talking the video presentation about how you are guaranteed to make money… And already have made money as the video was playing according to Josh… It is all a lie. This is how the scammers behind it all save themselves from legal trouble. They can tell you all the lies they want to in the video presentation and, as far as I know, as long as they put a disclaimer like this up then what they lie to you about doesn’t really matter.
Luckily There Is a Moneyback Guarantee
Luckily there is a 60 day moneyback guarantee that hopefully you will be able to get. I say “hopefully” because there are plenty of different scam products out there that offer guarantees, yet they never honor them.
That said, this product is sold on ClickBank, which is a digital product marketplaces that is pretty reputable. So you should be able to get your money back, although I can pretty much guarantee that the scammers selling Click Click Cash on ClickBank are going to make it darn hard for you to get that.
What I Recommend
If you are a beginner looking to make money online and want a program that actually works, I would recommend taking a look at this program. Back in 2015 when I first started looking for ways to make money online, this is actually the same exact program I got started with. I know from experience that it works because I now make a living working online… Which was the goal all along.
But anyways… I’m not going to get into it all here. You can click the button below to learn more…
Some great advice for the future is to always either avoid, or proceed with extreme caution, when you come across an opportunity online that just sounds too good to be true. You know, I have this opportunity is that just doesn’t seem to make all that much sense, just as Click Click Cash doesn’t make much sense.
There are some very professional and very sneaky scams out there that seem completely legitimate, and these can be difficult to spot. However, the large majority of scams out there or full of red flags that should act as warning signs that they are scams.
I know you can’t trust every review online, but you should always do a little research on your own and try to find reviews of certain programs before you join them.
But anyways… I hope you enjoyed my review and I hope I helped save you from a scam today. If you already buy into this, I would attempt to get your money back as soon as you possibly could… Because it is probably going to be a hassle.
Please leave any comments or questions down below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can 🙂
American Consumer Panels claims to offer a very lucrative product tester job that pays $25-$45 per hour, but what's the catch? Is this job really as awesome as it sounds or is there more to this that they aren't telling you? Is it possible that American Consumer Panels is a scam that is just going to be a waste of your time?
Unfortunately there is a catch, and it turns out that this is not a place I recommend to my readers. Why? Well… You will see in this review. I will be going over what American Consumer Panels claims to be, how they tell you that the product tester job works, requirements, the application process which is very strange, fake reviews, how I think they might be scamming people and more.
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Recommended?: Absolutely NOT, more than likely a scam
What Is American Consumer Panels?
American Consumer Panels (ACP) claims to be a consulting firm that specializes in product testing and product development work. They have a very nice and professional looking website, which makes this seem like the real deal.
The reason you are here is probably because of the in home usage testers, or IHUT job, in which you get to test products from home, get paid good, and get to keep the products most of the time. I mean who wouldn't want a job like this?? Not only does it pay good and is very easy, but it also is very flexible it is something you can do around your current job.
Product testing jobs like this are something that have been around for a while. Before companies launch products on mass scale, they want user feedback. Many times they hire third-party services, such as American Consumer Panels in this case, to conduct the research for them and get user feedback. It is common to see paid survey sites, such as Pinecone Research, pay people for product testing like this. However, the survey sites I have come across that pay people to test products do not pay nearly as well as American Consumer Panels, which is one of several red flags that I came across while reviewing this company.
If you are considering applying to become a product tester, I would definitely suggest that you read this entire review to the end because there are some serious concerns that I will discuss.
How The Job Works
Everything seems to work just as it should, and there aren't really any red flags here. The job description is accurate and does seem completely legitimate.
The first thing you will have to do, not all the time but sometimes, is sign a nondisclosure agreement for the products that you are going to be testing. The reason some companies will want you to sign one of these is because the products maybe having been released to the public yet and they don't want you going around telling everyone about them.
You will be provided with a daily schedule that tells you what you are to be doing, such as product usage and recording daily general entries, etc. You are going to have to keep good documentation of your testing. This usually includes things like journal entries, snapshots, recordings, etc.
According to their website, you are also required to attend Skype meetings online, usually 2 to 3 times per week, with brand managers, account managers, and other high up people.
Requirements
One of the reason is that this is such a sought after job is because there is no experience needed. You must be 18 or older, but don't need any sort of experience or degree. All you need is a high school diploma, which most people have.
And of course they also want you to be able to follow directions, write reviews, pay close attention to detail, be honest, and be able to work 15 to 20 hours per week.
As far as equipment goes, you must have a computer with reliable Internet and the camera or phone that is able to take pictures.
How Much Do They Pay?
As I mentioned earlier, they claim to pay $25-$45 per hour and you are guaranteed to 15 to 20 hours per week. I mean seriously… Who wouldn't want a job like this? It sounds like a very easy and relaxing job, and with pay like this… Sign me up!
It sounds amazing and all, but this is actually a red flag for me. I just don't get why they would be paying people this much to test products. I have come across product testing jobs in the past, and I know that they can vary a lot and how much they pay their testers, but paying up to $45 per hour seems like a heck of a lot. Just doesn't really seem realistic to me and seems a bit too good to be true.
But anyways, to review this place and more depth, I decided to apply for the job to see what would come of it… Ian this is where things started to get pretty strange as you will see.
Applying for the Job - Okay.. This Is Strange
When you start the application process you will be guided through a series of five questions. These are just simple yes or no questions and you have to answer yes to all of them, which most of you probably well.
These are simple question such as whether or not you will be able to work the required amount of time, whether you will be willing to sign nondisclosure agreements, if you are willing to leave detailed feedback in your reviews, and a few others…
After you have made it through this series of questions, which should only take a minute or so, you will then have to enter your email address so that they can communicate with you if you are approved.
All sounds good up until now. It seems like this is just a basic prescreening which most people would pass easily.
But after this is when things got weird…
The Strange Part
After submitting your email you are then asked to fill out your demographics and consumer profile by following two steps, which include 1) joining MySurvey and 2) VIP Voice, which are both paid survey sites…
Now what they tell you is that you will be joining the survey sites just to fill out the initial profile surveys so that they can get more information on you. If you have ever joined a paid survey site before, you know that demographic information that goes into creating your profile is important.
When you sign up for the sites you will be taken through some short surveys that will require you to submit information on your education level, income level, hobbies, household size, marital status, etc. All survey sites ask you demographic type questions like this so that they better know who you are in can better match you up with surveys.
But the big question is… Why are they asking you to join these panels? Why can't they just ask you these demographic questions themselves and not have you join to third-party sites?
I don't know… It just sounds very strange to me. At the bottom of the page they state that while you will be able to earn rewards on the survey sites, the real job here is with American Consumer Panels...
So in summary... They are using these survey sites to "establish your consumer profile in demographics".
I guess I'm okay with that, although it does sound very strange, but there are a few other major red flags that I also came across which make me more suspicious that this could very well be one big scam. The next thing I want to talk about its fake reviews, because it seems like this company may actually be going out of their way to create fake reviews in order to make this opportunity seem legitimate.
Fake Reviews - Red Flag
One thing that I always like to do when looking into a job opportunity like this is to read reviews from people who have supposedly worked the job before. I want to hear from people who are IHUT's (in home user testers) to see what they have to say.
There are a fair amount of reviews out there, mostly on the independent review site Glassdoor. The reviews are mixed, but I am hesitant to believe that they are truthful. It seems that the negative reviews are legitimate, but all of the positive reviews are fake.
Why do I think all the positive reviews are fake? Well… Because they seem to be very general and most of them seem to be saying pretty much the same darn thing with slightly different wording. It just doesn't seem realistic, and something else that doesn't seem realistic is that most of these positive reviews were posted within a very short amount of time. This company has supposedly been offering this user tester job for years, so why wouldn't there be some old reviews of it and why wouldn't the reviews be more spread out?
It just doesn't seem realistic. An example of one of these seemingly fake positive reviews you can see here…
Now don't think that fake reviews are out of the question. I have seen many opportunities before that have had many fake positive reviews. Reviews are a great way to gather some helpful insight, but you can't trust everything you read. A lot of times companies will actually pay people to leave positive reviews for them.
Not only do the review seemed fake, but let's not forget about the very strange application process which seems a bit fishy. These two things couple together are really making me think this might be a scam. In addition to all of this, there are also reviews claiming exactly that… That this company and job opportunity is a complete scam.
People claim that this is just one big ploy to steal your information… They advertise the job but just want you to give up your data so that they can sell it. Many people who have signed up for this job are complaining about getting multiple emails each day from the survey sites that ACP referred them to…
That is just an example of one of many negative reviews. In the negative reviews seem much more believable. Most of the people agree that is a scam that is in place to steal your information, but they don't all say the same exact thing with slight changes in wording. They seem to be a legitimate and they are also spread out as far as the time-frame goes, which raises no red flags.
Also, the possibility that this could be one big scam to steal your information is also not out of the question. People's personal data is worth money and this definitely would not be the first time I came across a scam involved in "data harvesting" as I call it. Some other "data harvesting" scams that I've reviewed include Reward Survey and BigSpot.com.
What's Really Going On Here?
Is it possible that this is just one big set up?… One big fake opportunity that's entire purpose is to steal peoples' personal information?
Well, it is definitely possible and it is seeming that this very well may be the case more and more.
The crazy part is that, although this company claims to have been in business since 2006, I cannot find one single reliable review on the user tester job. If this job really were as amazing as it is said to be, and really did pay up to $45 per hour than I would expect the people who do have these jobs to be leaving some pretty darn good positive reviews. But I'm not seeing this and this is very unusual.
There Is No Product Tester Job!
It seems that the logical conclusion is that there is no product tester job. It likely is just one big ploy to harvest personal data from people… As mentioned.
They tell you that somewhere around 97% of applicants do not end up getting the job, which leads you to believe that if you go through the application process and don't get contacted that this is just because you weren't selected. However, it seems that this is just a lie to keep people from thinking it is a scam when the reality is no one is getting selected for the product tester job because the job doesn't exist in the first place.
I Hope You Didn't Use a Good Email Address
Remember how I went over the application process and at the end you had to enter your email address? And also, when you sign up for the two different paid survey sites that you are referred to you also have to enter your email address. Well… If you already went through this process I hope you didn't enter a good one.
The reason I'm saying this is because you are going to be bombarded with emails you have no interest in. You will be receiving emails for paid surveys that they paid survey sites are offering and you may receive other spammy emails as well.
More Signs It Is a Scam
There are a few other red flags and signs that this may be a scam that however briefly.
#1 - The Website Was Just Created in 2015
One of such as that, as mentioned above, this company claims to have been around since 2006, as it states that the bottom of their website…
However, I cannot find anything showing that this is true in anyways. There is no information about this company prior to 2015, which is far from 2006.
I did a WHOIS search for their website, american-consumer-panels.com and found that it was created in 2015. Now of course she could say that maybe they had a different website prior to 2015, but nonetheless, this is strange.
#2 - Inactive Facebook Page
Something else that seems very fishy is that their Facebook page was created in 2016 Ian shows it very very little signs of activity. On the Facebook page there's literally a couple of very basic posts and nothing else. This definitely does not seem like something you would see for a reputable company that has been around for over a decade.
#3 - Can't Even Get In Contact With Them
On their website they provide a telephone number that you can call to talk to someone from the company. I decided to give it a try to see what I could find out as far as the product tester job goes. The phone number listed is (917)677-2043.
I gave the number a call and they said in an automated message that due to the high number of applicants for the product tester job, they would not be able to speak about this particular position and that if I wanted more information I should check the FAQ section or I could also email them at human.resources@american-consumer-panels.com.
So anyways... I sent them an email and patiently waited a reply. I was just asking some simple questions about the job see if I would get any reply at all and sure enough, I didn't. Instead this is what I received…
This email address that they gave me doesn't even exist! Yet another major red flag for the books. The more and more I look into this company and job opportunity, the more and more it seems like a scam to me.
Final Thoughts - Avoid
It is still a bit difficult to really determine whether or not this is an outright scam, or a legitimate opportunity for a legitimate company that just has very bad communication and a lot of suspicious signs that could possibly be explained.
However, this is definitely not a job opportunity I would recommend applying for due to what I have found. My guess is that this is a scam, I'm just not going to definitively say that it is. You can come to your own conclusion on this.
Just think about everything for a second… The job sounds too good to be true right off the bat. I mean making up to $45 per hour with zero experience as a product tester??? That seems insane. And then of course there is the whole thing where they refer you to sign up for paid survey sites, which really makes no sense to me. Why they can't have you submit your profile/demographic information directly to them is beyond me. In then there is the whole thing with the fake reviews, which I think most people would agree with me of their fake. Then there is the fact that this company claims to have been around since 2006, yet it seems to have no existence before 2015. There is the inactive Facebook page which is something you don't normally see with a company that is supposed to be legitimate. And lastly there is the fact that the email address they give you to contact them is a fake and does not exist.
So we have...
A job that sounds too good to be true
An application process that is very strange and doesn't make much sense
Fake reviews
No company history
An inactive Facebook page
An email address that does not exist
I don't know about you, but this isn't something I would get involved in, nor do I recommend.
So anyways, I hope you enjoyed my review and found it helpful. If you are looking for a legitimate way to make money from home, I would highly suggest taking a look at how I make a living working online, which is something that you very well might be interested in. I'm not going to get into it all here, but you can click the button below to learn more…
ClickBank University 2.0 is promoted as a way to earn 6-7 figures a year from home. They claim that it can help you generate ClickBank commissions like clockwork and that if you join today you can even earn your first commission by tonight… But come on now… Is it really this great?
We all know of ClickBank and we all know they are a legitimate and reputable company, but is there online marketing training program really this amazing? Is this program the answer that is going to save you from the robots taking over the workforce? Or is it possible that ClickBank University 2.0 is a scam that I would recommend avoiding?
In this review I'll be going over (hopefully) everything that you need to know to make a better and more informed decision of whether or not this is a good program for you. I'll be going over everything from the training, to the tools, a massive upsell, the support, the real cost, pros v cons and more. This review is going to be pretty lengthy and detailed, so you can use the quick navigation below if you want to jump to a certain section 🙂
Clickbank University 2.0 Review
Name: Clickbank University 2.0
Product Type: Digital product creation and online marketing
Cost: $47/mo + massive upsell
Recommended?: Yes, mainly for people looking to create their own digital product
What Is Clickbank University 2.0?
ClickBank University was founded in 2013 by Matt Hulett, Adam Horwitz, and Justin Atlan. It has went through a lot of changes over the years, which is why is now called ClickBank University "2.0". And even with it being the newer version, things are still evolving… Training being updated and as such as times change.
But anyways… CBU 2.0 is a digital product creation and affiliate marketing training program that is mostly geared towards beginners looking to get started making money online via ClickBank. Overall the program is good, and it is nice that you learned straight from the source (ClickBank themselves), but there are a few downsides that I will go over in this review.
Can you really join today and start earning commissions by tonight? Sure… I guess it is possible, but it really isn't likely. This is just some typical somewhat misleading online marketing.
The Training
When it comes to the training that CBU 2.0 offers, there are two different paths that you can take. You can choose to learn to make money as an affiliate or as a vendor. When this university program first opened up, there was only training for becoming a vendor, but since then they have added affiliate training as well.
Overall the training is well laid out, easy to follow, and very professionally made. It is in video format, has lots of screen tutorial videos, and also can be viewed in written format, which can be better at times.
No matter which path you take, you will notice that once you get to week 3 the proceeding content is locked, and to unlock it you have to email the CBU team. They say that this is this way to keep people on track and keep them from jumping ahead. Now I'm not sure exactly how true this is, but I do know when it comes to "make money online" programs like this people do tend to get a little bit too excited and jump I had at times… But whatever the case I think it is a bit unnecessary.
Below I will go over each of the two training programs in more detail so you know what you're getting yourself into…
Affiliate Training Program (8 Weeks)
The affiliate training program is an eight week program called ClickBank Affiliate Mastery.
Now if you don't know affiliate marketing is, let me explain this briefly before jumping into the training: affiliate marketing is when you promote products online and earn commissions when you help make sales. It is particularly good for beginners looking to make money online because you don't need to create your own product or sell something that is yours… You just promote someone else's product.
The ClickBank Affiliate Mastery course is taught by Adam. The eight weeks are focused on the following…
Week 1 - Affiliate Marketing on Clickbank
This is going to be just a basic introduction to affiliate marketing on ClickBank
Week 2 - Understanding Affiliate Marketing
Here you will be given a general overview of the process
Week 3 - Finding Your Passion
It it is important that you find products that you are passionate about to promote, which is what the focus is in week three.
Week 4 - The Ultimate Affiliate Funnel
This week is focused on funnel creation
Week 5 - Free, Free, Free: Always Over-deliver
Here you will learn about over delivering as a way to lure in new customers, in particular by giving away something for free
Week 6 - Writing The Perfect Swipe
In week six it is all about writing a good swipe to help convert more customers
Week 7 - The Email Blueprint
Email marketing is a big deal. You have probably heard people say that the money is in the list. Well… And this week you will learn about email marketing and how you can use it for affiliate marketing.
Week 8 - Scaling and Expanding
Lastly... You are going to want to know how to scale and expand your affiliate marketing business so that you aren't stuck doing all the tedious small tasks that you originally did.
Now an eight week training program is fairly lengthy and seems like it would provide a great deal of information, however there are complaints about this training not being nearly as detailed as it could be, and even outdated in some areas.
There could be more tutorials going over exactly how to go about doing the steps, rather than just giving broad overviews. Knowing what to do is one thing, but actually going through the process is different.
As I said, this affiliate training program is something that they added to the ClickBank University more recently, which is nice, but it is lacking in areas in there are other affiliate training programs out there that I would recommend, which I will go over later in the review.
The vendors training is where it all started for CBU...
Vendors Training Program (12 Weeks)
The ClickBank Product Mastery course is 12 weeks long and is taught by Justin. It is a longer and more detailed course, which makes sense because this is where CBU started and creating your own product as a vendor is more complicated than simply promoting other people's products.
The 12 weeks are as follows...
Week 1 - How Everything Works + Setup for Success
Week 1 is basically an introduction to how everything works, duh, and focus is on getting things set up.
Week 2 - Finding Your Product Niche
Just as with affiliate marketing, when you create your and products you are going to need to figure out which niche you want to go into. Coming up with a niche can be difficult but this is very important because you want to create a product in a niche that you are passionate about.
Week 3 - Creating Your Avatar
Who are you and what are you like? How do you want to be represented? This is all about creating your Avatar, which might seem somewhat unnecessary, but I'm glad to see they are including this in the training.
Week 4 - Course Content Creation & Outsourcing
As the title suggests… This is all about creating your content and outsourcing, which there's a good chance you are going to want to do.
Week 5 - Your Perfect Upsell to Maximize Sales
If you are familiar with ClickBank products then you are well aware that they all have upsells. ClickBank products are famous for their up-sells… Usually 2 to 3 of them which can be annoying. However… These upsells can make you money and this is the focus of week five.
Week 6 - High Converting Sales Copy
Week six is all about creating a good sales copy, which is obviously very important.
Week 7 - The Easy VSL
VSL stands for the video sales letter, and these can be very effective. You we'll see just about every professional promotion out there containing a VSL... This is because they work.
Week 8 - Finalizing Your Product Via Builder
Here the focus will be on the ClickBank Builder 2.0 tool that I'll discuss below.
Week 9 - Getting Up On Clickbank
Here you will be taken through the process of getting your product and everything up on ClickBank.
Week 10 - JV Managing
When you create your own product you can have affiliates promote it, just as you would for other people if you were to go through the affiliate training that I discussed above. JV stands for "joint venture" and this is all about working with affiliates, which is easy to do through ClickBank.
Week 11 - Split Testing
Not much to say here… Split testing is absolutely necessary.
Week 12 - How to Scale
And lastly of course there is scaling. After you have your business up and going, now it is time to scale.
Tools & Other Resources
In addition to the training, you will also be provided with other resources, some necessary and some not, that will be helping you with your online business.
Toolkit & Traffic Center
The toolkit in traffic center is basically a library that shows you how to use different tolls for automating your business, some free and some not, along with some training on driving traffic to your offer.
The tools that you are referred to use our third-party tools, which you will be able to get a discount on through ClickBank University. There it's a lack of training when it comes to actually using these tools, but you can easily find tutorials on YouTube if you want to. However, it would be nice if there is more detail in this training program.
When it comes to the "traffic center", there isn't much to be said. Overall the training is seriously lacking and only focuses on running Facebook ads in doing Instagram shout outs. Not only could there be more detail provided on both of these advertising methods, but what about SEO, Bing ads, Google AdWords, using Facebook pages and Facebook groups for advertising, what about Pinterest??… The list goes on.
They really cut it short with the traffic training in this is definitely a disappointment. Without traffic you don't get any sales… It doesn't matter how good of a product you created or you are promoting… Traffic is the "lifeblood" of online business, as some people call it.
Interviews
On the platform you also have access to interviews that the ClickBank guys did with gurus such as Gary Vanderchuk, Mike Whitefield, Tony Almeida, and many others. These are fairly in-depth interviews, usually around 30 minutes or so, and are on a bunch of different topics that have to do with online marketing. They could be focused on things like branding, pre-selling, etc.
You can get nice little nuggets of information from these interviews, but they really aren't anything that special. They will give you some good broad ideas that are definitely helpful, but that's about it.
Add-on Training
In addition to all of this, you also get add-on training that is focused on various aspects of online marketing, such as advertising, copywriting, YouTube ads, etc. It it is nice that they do provide some additional traffic training here, but I would still like to see more.
One of the good things is that by being a CBU 2.0 member you also get access to new courses that are added in the future, but of course we don't know what these will be.
Clickbank Builder (Builder 2.0)
ClickBank Builder 2.0, or just Builder 2.0, is the massive upsell that I mentioned in the beginning of this review. After you join ClickBank University 2.0 you will be pushed to purchase this upsell, which costs a massive $594.
Now it isn't completely necessary to purchase, however in the training there is some focus on this and they pretty much act as if you have already bought it, so if you don't buy you may feel a bit lost at some points.
But anyways… ClickBank Builder is a sales funnel creation software where you can drag-and-drop different elements around to create really nice looking sales funnels to promote your ClickBank offers.
Basically it allows you to create small sales funnel websites designed to get people to purchase your product, or the product you are promoting. It might be worth buying if you are serious about creating your own product, but for complete beginners that are looking to get started with the affiliate marketing side of things, this probably is not for you.
The sales funnels that you will be able to create through ClickBank Builder 2.0 will be hosted by ClickBank themselves. This gives an advantage over other similar software out there, because it allows you to seamlessly integrate your funnels with your ClickBank offers.
Thrive Architect by Thrive Themes is a good, much cheaper alternative. This is what I use for all my sites.
Support... Is It Any Good?
When it comes to programs like this, support is essential. There is nothing worse than getting involved with some training program, getting lost at some point (which is pretty much inevitable) and then not being able to get the support you need to get back on track.
I remember when I first started out online in 2015 and how lost I was at times. I've been there and I know what it's like.
But anyways… Is the support offered with ClickBank University 2.0 any good? Or are you going to get lost and receive absolutely no help… Just being another number in the system lost for good?
Well… Yes there is support. There are several different ways that you can get help if you have a question or are stuck on something. You can get help via the weekly live Q&A, the CB forum, or the support team.
Weekly Live Q & A
Maybe I should have listened this above, but it is a form of support so I am talking about here.
The weekly live Q&A day is just as it sounds. It is a live Q&A session where you can ask questions and hopefully they will get answered… Emphasis on "hopefully". From what I have read these Q&A sessions are basically just a bunch of random questions being answered and are best for newbies.
They don't really have any focused and for many people are probably just going to be a waste of time.
The CB Forum
Another way that you can get help if you are stuck on something is through the forum. You can ask any question on the forum and hopefully it'll get answered, maybe by one person and maybe by several people.
The form appears like this…
I was reading some old reviews and apparently this form has improved a lot over the years. It has become much more organized and active, however it is still lacking in my opinion.
I read one review where someone mentioned that you have to login to a different portal to access the forum. This is a good point. Having to log into somewhere else just decreases activity. It would be nice if this form was contained right along with all of the training and everything else at CBU.
I'm a member of Wealthy Affiliate, which is my top pick when it comes to affiliate marketing training, and they are well known for their very active and lively community for them. So maybe my expectations are just too high when it comes to this.
The Real Cost
So let's talk about price for a bit. You have the $47 per month membership and you have the massive $594 upsell for ClickBank Builder 2.0, which isn't mandatory but is definitely pushed on you hard, AND… You can't forget the other tolls that you are referred to along with the fact that the traffic training they provide to you is focused on paid traffic and not on all of the awesome free traffic generation techniques that exist.
This is just something to keep in mind if you are looking to get involved with CBU 2.0. I really don't think that the course is overpriced by any means, there is plenty of value considering the membership price. The only questionable price would be for the ClickBank Builder 2.0. Sure... It is a very easy to use software that you can create really awesome funnels and landing pages with, but $594?? That seems a bit steep.
Pros v Cons
Pros
Straight from the source - You learn how to do affiliate marketing or so will your own product on ClickBank from ClickBank themselves. Right off the bat that sounds like a great idea... certainly a bigillion times better than scams like the CB Cash Code program.
Very professional - The training is very professional and good quality. Sure, is lacking in areas, but it is well laid out and there was obviously a lot of work that went into creating it all.
Good way to create your own product - This course, in my opinion, is pretty good if you are looking to create your and digital product. ClickBank is a great marketplace for selling digital products and the vendor training is on the better side.
Cons
Lacking traffic training - As I've mentioned multiple times, there is a lot more training they could have provided when it comes to traffic generation. If you are a vendor then much of the traffic will be handled by affiliates, but if you are an affiliate this is going to be more important. It is definitely still important for both product vendors and affiliates however.
Forum could be more active - Community forms like this are often overlooked. Back when I was a beginner I received is so much help through forums by other members I don't know if I would've made it without them. That said… The CBU forum is getting better but just isn't as active as it could be.
More expensive than it seems - As I've discussed, things are going to get more pricey than they may seem at first.
Is Clickbank University a Scam?
I think that is pretty obvious ClickBank University 2.0 is not a scam. The and the reason I am including this section and my review is because I know a lot of people are going to be asking it.
CBU 2.0 is a professional training program developed by ClickBank themselves, which has a pretty good reputation for being one of the larger digital product marketplaces out there, although I would say it is declining over the years, but nonetheless it is a good program.
I guess you could say that some of the promotional material out there for CBU 2.0 is somewhat misleading, such as how they lead you to believe that you can join today and start earning commissions tonight, but it is still far from a scam.
Final Opinion
There or lots of different reviews out there on this program, some good and some bad, mine is a bit in the middle. My final opinion is that this training program is best for aspiring vendors that want to create their own digital product, but I think there are better options for people looking to get into affiliate marketing.
There it is a heck of a lot going on here and I think it might be a better choice for them to separate the two training programs, vendor and affiliate, in definitely add additional training to the affiliate side of things, in particular when it comes to traffic generation which should be a major focus.
My Recommendation
If you want to be a vendor and make money selling your very own digital product, then this is definitely a program I would suggest getting into. Truth be told, I don't know all that many other programs out there that I can compare it to when it comes to this, but from what I see this is definitely a program that could get you to your end goal… Which would be making money selling your product on ClickBank.
That said, if you are looking to make money as an affiliate marketer, which is probably the easiest way for beginners to get started in online marketing, there are better options out there. My recommendation would be Wealthy Affiliate, which is actually where I started back in 2015 when I first started looking for ways to make money online.... And I now make a living doing this which goes to show that it works.
Wealthy Affiliate is pretty much solely focused on affiliate marketing and provides a heck of a lot more in depth training when it comes to this. It is just a much more rounded training program for aspiring affiliates and is definitely my recommendation for such. I'm not going to get into it all here, but you can click the button below to read my full review of Wealthy Affiliate:
Any questions or comments? Leave them down below in the comment section and I will get back to you as soon as I can 🙂 Also leave your own review for CBU 2.0 if you have one, as I am sure it will benefit other readers of my review here.
Solo Build It (Solo Build It!) is said to be an "all-in-one" platform for building a profitable online business, but is this place really worth getting involved with? Can you really become a "solopreneur" by following the step-by-step training and simply doing as you are instructed?
What is Solo Build It exactly and is it a scam?
All these questions are important and should definitely be answered before getting involved in a training program like this, which could cost a fair amount money and take up a lot of your time. In this in-depth review I'll be providing you with all of the information you need to know, good and bad, so that you can make a more informed decision for yourself of whether or not this is right for you.
This review is in-depth and lengthy, so feel free to use the quick navigation menu below to jump around 🙂
Solo Build It, or SBI as I will be referring to it, used to go by the name Site Build It in was founded way back in 1997 by Ken Evoy. It wasn't until 2017 that the name changed to SBI.
SBI is an online marketing training platform that provides step-by-step training for teaching people how to build their own online business, and ultimately make money with it. In addition to the training it also provides the tools needed to make all of this happen.
Membership is available at a monthly or yearly price, being $29 per month or $299 per year, which may seem like a lot but really isn't considering what all you are provided with.
Overall I think that SBI is a good program, definitely not a scam, but there are other options out there as well as I will go over in this review.
In a Nutshell
As I said, SBI is in online marketing training platform that provides you with the training and tools for creating a profitable online business, which is why it is referred to as an "all-in-one" platform.
One point that they really try to make clear in promotional material is that SBI does not just teach you how to build a website, but rather build a business that you can monetize. This is likely the reason that SBI changed from "Site Build It" to "Solo Build It", or at least that is what many people think.
Building a website is a necessary part of the process, which you do learn, but is still just one part of the process, just one piece of the puzzle.
What Solo Build It Is All About
There are a lot of different approaches you can take to make money online when it comes to building out your own website… But what is the focus of SBI?
I'll go over this and a lot more detail below, but the focus is on building a website around quality content, with the hopes of ranking in search engines such as Google and Yahoo, thus attracting free traffic to your website which you will then be able to monetize by advertising, promoting products, etc.
The Focus Of The Training
The focus of the training is all around CTPM, which stands for content, traffic, presell, and monetize.
Content - This is all about your website... creating quality content that will rank in the search engines and convert
Traffic - Of course every website needs traffic to make money and there is obviously going to be a large focus on this.
Pre-sell - Pre-selling is all about gaining trust from your audience, getting visitors to trust you before you try to sell to them.
Monetize - And of course the ultimate goal is to make money.
Core Training at SBI
When you join SBI the first thing you will do is get started with the Action Guide, which is a 10 day course that takes you from nothing, to being able to make money with your website. However, don't think that you will actually be making money in 10 days… This can be extremely misleading and just because your website has the potential to make money does not mean it is actually going to be making money.
I'll get more into this in a bit, but anyways… Here is what you will be doing the first 10 days, which you can complete your own pace…
Intro: The 10-DAY BIG Picture
Gives you the big picture
Day 1: Master the ALL-Important Basics
Basically somewhat still and introduction
Learn more in-depth about CTPM
Day 2: Develop Your Best Site Concept
Focused on brainstorming and choosing a niche for your site, which is what your website will be all about
Day 3: Brainstorm More Profitable Page Topics
Will learn about keyword research and develop a list of keywords you can target on your site to bring in traffic
Day 4: Investigate and Plan Monetization Options
Here you will look into monetizing your site and try to plan out the best approaches for this
Day 5: Refine Your Site Concept and Register Your Domain Name
You will determine the "voice" you will take with your site... how you will represent your brand (which is you) in your particular niche
You will also register a domain at this point
Day 6: Build a Site That Gets the Click!
Now it is time to create your website, well... the start of it anyhow
Day 7: Build Free Traffic From a Variety of Sources
You will learn about driving traffic to your site and the best ways to go about doing this; a large focus is on free traffic from search engines
Day 8: Develop Relationships
This is all about developing relationships and trust. Covered here will be newsletters, social sharing, setting up a contact form and more
Day 9: Know Your Visitors
It is important to know your visitors if you want them to convert, and that is what this module is about. You will learn how to analyze your traffic to imrove conversions
Day 10: Monetize
Finally... here you will set up your first method of monetization.
What you may not know is that I make a living doing what SBI is teaching people to do… Getting websites ranked in the search engines and monetizing them via different methods. After all, you did come across my website here after searching around the Internet (via Google, Yahoo, etc.) did you not?
So I can tell you with complete certainty that it would be incredibly unlikely, it very very very unlikely, that anyone is going to make any money in the first 10 days… And if they do it would be luck.
The "All In One" Part of It
Lets talk about this "all-in-one" stuff for a bit. It seems like a lot of different programs out there claim to be "all-in-one" but then often leave you needing more… So that you have to go out and buy some other service here or some other product there to make things happen.
When it comes to SBI, they really are an all-in-one platform. I mean sure, there are always additional products/services that you can go out and purchase, but they provide you with everything that is necessary to building a business of this sort.
What All You Get
Of course the core of it all is the step-by-step training, which will take you through the whole process and show you exactly what to do and when to do it. Below I've broken down what you get into the four different focuses of this program, the CTPM...
1) Content
SiteDesigner - Tool which allows you to create a website easily with pre-made templates
BlockBuilder - Tool that allows you to drag and drop website designer
Hosting - You get hosting with your membership
2) Traffic
Analyze It! - Analysis tool provides suggestions to increase conversions and search engine rankings on pages before you publish them
Search engine tracking - Allows you to easily track your rankings
Click analysis - Provides stats on clicks so that you can see what visitors are doing and improve conversions
3) Pre-sell
Email newsletter publishing - Can create customer newsletters
Autoresponder - Allows you to send out automated messages to subscribers; can also integrate your forms with other autoresponders, such as Aweber and Getresponse
Socialize It! - Social media sharing tools
4) Monetization
Private Monetization Headquarters - Provides information on increasing conversions, many different "how to" methods explained
So as you can see... this is "all-in-one". As I mentioned a little bit ago, I make a living doing this kind of stuff online, so I know what all you need to be successful with this type of business and this platform provides all of that.
You have the training which is going to guide you through the process, you have the tools to help you build out a website, you have the tools to be able to find keywords that you can target so that you can attract free traffic through the search engines, you have social media told along with an autoresponder, etc.
If anything, I would say that SBI actually provides more than is absolutely necessary.
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Confused? Here Is a Better Explanation
I know this all can be confusing so I'll try to explain it as in-depth, yet as simply as possible what all is going on here:
What you will be taught to do at SBI is create a website that will get ranked in the search engines and receive free traffic (visitors) whom you will then be able to monetize by advertising, promoting products, etc.
You will be brainstorming and planning everything out before you really start to take action, but the main elements of this business model can be summed up in 4 steps...
First what you will have to do is come up with a niche, which will be the topic your website is focused around. Maybe you want to create a website around horses, maybe around gymnastics, maybe something specific like teaching dogs tricks, etc. The first step is figuring this out and making sure that there is the potential to profit.
After figuring out what you want your website to be about, of course then you have to build the website. With the tools SBI provides you will be able to choose a design that you like from pre-made website templates. You will also be able to use BlockBuilder, which is the visual editor, to drag-and-drop elements of your website.
The next part of the process is creating content that is going to rank in the search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. This content will be focused around the niche that you just chose. You will be able to use the keyword research tool provided to find keywords you will be able to rank with in the search engines. If this all sounds confusing, it really isn't. The take away here is that you will be writing blog posts/articles to get ranked in the search engines.
And of course the last step is monetization. You choose a niche, you bill your website, and you created content that is ranked in the search engines. You now have traffic and it is now time to monetize that traffic. There are a bunch of different ways to do this, but two of the most "beginner friendly" ways to do so or by placing ads on your site and by promoting products.
Can You Really Make Money Doing This?
Of course the goal with all of this is to create a profitable online business, but is this something that is realistically possible?
Well as you already should know, yes it is possible… Because this is how I make a living and I know many other people that do the same, not necessarily making a living but at least making some decent money with it.
So yes it is realistically possible, but failure is also realistically possible. There are many advantages to creating an online business rather than a traditional brick-and-mortar business, but failure rates are still pretty darn high and there is no doubt that a lot of people end up failing.
I'm throwing this info into this review because I think it is important that everyone knows they certainly aren't guaranteed success.
Important: Don't Get The Wrong Opinion
Almost forgot... I wanted to explain a bit more on why you will NOT be making money in 10 days, as the training might make you think.
The reason mostly comes down to this methods focus on ranking in the search engines. You need traffic in order to make money and the focus here is getting traffic from Google, Yahoo, etc. The problem is that none of the search engines rank new websites very well at all. So when you first start out the new website you can be doing everything right, but still not getting any traffic, or extremely little… This is just the way it is.
You have to gain the trust of the search engines before they will start raining you while in before you will start getting decent traffic. This can take months, and certainly CANNOT be done in 10 days.
What Is The Support Like?
When I first started looking for ways to make money online back in 2015 there's a good chance I was in a similar situation to what you are in now.
I know how important it can be to have good support. Maybe you don't know this, but if you don't you will become aware. Unless you are a genius, you will get stuck at some points in the training and probably have a few technical problems along the way. Support is a must in without any support there is no doubt the failure rates would be much higher.
Luckily, SBI does provide support. The 2 main ways you can get support are as follows:
1) First off, they have a 24/7 support team on standby. These people will be able to help you with most things, but it is important to know that this is not some team of "gurus".
2) There are also private forums in which you can use to communicate with other SBI members. This is something that really can come in handy because you can talk to others who are going through the same process as you, or maybe have already went through it and have been successful.
In addition to this, there is also the Private Tips & Techniques Headquarters section which includes updates on what is going on, new developments, deleted content, changes, etc. within the program.
Site Build It vs Wealthy Affiliate
For those of you who don't know, Wealthy Affiliate is another online business training platform that is very similar to SBI, and… I am very familiar with it because this is the program I used to get started you money online back in 2015.
Overall, both programs are good. They both provide the training and tools necessary when it comes to this sort of online business.
However, I would say that Wealthy Affiliate excels due to its much more lively/active community and it having more training overall.
The community aspect is a big deal. When you are able to communicate with other people who are doing what you are trying to do, you can learn a lot in this can really help increase your chances of success.
I also like at Wealthy Affiliate provides weekly live training webinars in addition step-by-step training that is already laid out for members.
That said, one of the upsides to SBI is that they provide more tools. For example, they provide an autoresponder tool so that you can send out automated emails to subscribers, whereas Wealthy Affiliate does not. I wanted both provide all the very essential tools that are absolutely necessary for this type of business.
I would recommend Wealthy Affiliate overall, mainly because this is the program I use to get started with the end is pretty much responsible for my success, but both are good.
I know a lot of people reading this are probably beginners looking to make their first penny online. But is this a smart path for beginners to take?
In my opinion is one of the best ways for beginners to get started in the world of online marketing. It provides a very affordable and a low risk way to legitimately make sustainable money online. Most of the focus is on free traffic, so you don't have to worry about advertising costs and all of that. With both programs discussed above it is an all-in-one type of deal.
Not only is this method affordable, but the focus also is mainly on promoting products and advertising as a way of monetizing your website, which means that you do not have to worry about creating a product, dealing with customers, etc.
Affiliate marketing, which is when you promote products and earn commissions when you help make sales, is probably the most popular way for people to first start making money online and for good reason... It is one of the easier ways to go about doing so.
Final Thoughts & What I Recommend
Solo Build It is one of the few good online marketing training programs in a cyber world full of scams. The program is built around a legitimate improvement way to make money online, provides the training and tools necessary to be able to make money this way, and is affordable in price.
Overall SBI is definitely one of the better programs out there.
But should you join?
Because on the other hand we have Wealthy Affiliate which is another online marketing training program that teaches the same method the making money online. It is also affordable and provides all the training and tolls necessary.
Both programs are good, but my recommendation would have to be Wealthy Affiliate. This is what I know works from years of experience, being a member there since 2015 when it all that started.
Please leave any comments or questions down below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can 🙂 you enjoyed this review and found it helpful. If you are a member, or were a member of SBI, then I would appreciate your thoughts on it all as well. I'm sure they can benefit other readers of my blog here.
There are a lot of people out there promoting The Super Affiliate Network as an easy way to make money online, but is it really that easy? How much money are people really making with this program? Could this all possibly be one big scam?
There are definitely a lot of questions that should be answered before buying into a program like this, especially when you see other people saying that The Super Affiliate Network is a scam… You should at least be a bit concerned and do further research.
In this review I hope to provide you with all the necessary information so that you can make a more informed decision on whether or not this program is right for you. I will be going over pretty much everything you can think of in this review, from what exactly The Super Affiliate Network is and what it is focused on, the different memberships, pros v cons, how much affiliates are really making and more.
This review is going to be pretty detailed and lengthy so I have provided you with this nice little quick navigation menu below if you want to jump to a certain section :-)…
First up... What exactly is The Super Affiliate Network? And by the way, I will be referring to The Super Affiliate Network as "SAN" throughout this review just to let you know.
SAN is an online affiliate marketing membership training program that was created by Misha Wilson in 2015. The program is set up to give beginners a clear step-by-step blueprint for making money with affiliate marketing and provides many "done for you" features.
Is It really 90% "Done For You"?
It it is often advertised as being a "done for you system" that requires little work. But is this true?
The answer is, yes… It is true. Much of the system is already set up and in place for you, because the focus here is on getting members to promote the system (SAN) to other people.
So you already have the sales funnels in place, the products in place, etc. Essentially all you have to do is go out and promote the system.
SAN In a Nutshell
SAN is low to high-ticket affiliate training program that focuses on getting members to make money online by promoting the various SAN products and memberships. It is similar to Legendary Marketer if you are familiar with this.
Like many other "make money online" programs out there, SAN lures people in with the hopes of making money online and then pushes them to make money online by further promoting the brand.
And when I say it is a "low to high-ticket" program, what I mean is that the entry-level membership in products are low-priced but there are much higher upsells waiting, which will cost you thousands of dollars and you can also make thousands of dollars promoting them.
Memberships & Products
Basic Membership ($47/mo)
The basic membership is the introductory membership that people start off buying into. Whenever you see SAN being promoted this is what they are pushing you to buy into.
It is often advertised with a $1 trial for 30 days, and then $47 per month after that. However, if you decide to skip the one dollar 30 day trial, you can get the membership at a reduced price of $37 per month from the start.
This basic membership starts you off with a three week boot camp which consists of 21 modules. This will give you the basics and teach you about list building, email marketing, selling, in the mindset that you need to have to be successful.
In addition to the training you will also be assigned a coach that will help guide you through the process. However, some people claim that these "coaches" just try to upsell you on the next most expensive product within the SAN line-up.
Premium Membership ($97 one time)
The Premium membership is a one time charge of $97 that will give you access to the Solo Ad Success Formula course, which you can guess is all about solo ads.
What are solo ads? They are email based advertisements that you pay for. Basically what you do here is pay owners of large email lists to advertise your offer to their list.
You have to take into account that advertising like this is another expense that comes with this business model.
Super Affiliate Monthly ($47 one time)
This is a $47 upsell that is pushed on you when you first join the network as a new member. With this Super Affiliate of so you get access to monthly video newsletters from Misha about the current state of online marketing, what is and isn't working, etc.
Pro Membership ($2,497 one time)
And then this is where the "high ticket" products begin. The Pro membership is a whopping $2497, but is only a one time charge. When you are a pro member you access to everything listed above, plus Authority Hacking, Systematic Profits, Magnetic Selling Machine, Push Button Swipe File Collection, Pro coaching and more.
You also get access to the private Facebook group, which in my opinion is a pretty big deal. Here you will actually be able to connect with people outside of the SAN, but still talk about SAN. This gives a little more sense of freedom to communicate.
As a pro member you also get access to the new products second on the future.
Maui Intensive Mentoring ($12,497)
And lastly is the Maui intensive mentoring, coming in at $12,497. This gives you access an in person mastermind event that lasts four days and is hosted in Maui, where believe Misha lives. These events are capped off at a limit of 20 people.
This is where you get some serious inside access and are able to network with the top marketers in the SAN. You also get to meet Misha himself.
Topics discussed here can be about anything really, marketing funnels, sales machines, email marketing, etc.
Confusion About Memberships
There are a lot of old reviews of The Super Affiliate Network which list products that no longer exist and ones that might/might not exist. There is definitely some confusion around The Super Affiliate Network and if anyone could help me clear things up I would greatly appreciate it.
For example, what happened to the gold and silver Pro Membership? Now it seems that there is just one Pro Membership. And also what happened to the "All In Experience" product package that they used to have? This was priced at a whopping $17,000 and give you everything SAN had to offer.
It appears that SAN is going through some structural changes and I can't help but wonder if this is due to the FTC cracking down on recruitment schemes like this, which I will get into later in this review.
The Compensation Plan
When you first get started in SAN you really have no idea what you are getting too, little do you know that you are entering a funnel system that slowly pushes you to buy the next most expensive product in an attempt to make more and more money.
The affiliate program they have in place is 2 tiered. What this means is that you can earn commissions from the people you recruited in directly as well as the people that they recruit in. However, the amount of commissions you will be able to earn will change drastically depending on what type of member you are. Below I will go over how much you can earn as a basic member, as a premium member, and as a pro member.
Commissions
Basic Member
As a basic member you will be able to earn 70% from the sales made from your personal recruits and 5% from the sales that those recruits make when recruiting in other people. This his for when you or your recruits sell the Basic Membership.
When you or your recruits sell the Premium Membership you will be able to earn 40% and 5% respectively.
Premium Member
As a premium member you will earn the same 70% and 5% commissions from the Basic Membership, but you will also earn 70% and 5% commissions from sales of the Premium Membership.
Pro Membership
And this is where things crazy. As a Pro Member you will be able to earn 70% from your sales of the Basic Membership and Premium Membership along with 20% from the sales of your recruits.
Additionally, you will be able to earn 34% from your personal sales of the Pro Membership along with 17% from your recruits' Pro Membership sales. This is going to be a pretty large number since the Pro Membership costs $2497. It equals out to be about $850 when you recruit someone in who purchases this membership.
The Catch... A Big Funnel
The catch is that you can only earn commissions on the Pro Membership sales if you are a Pro Member yourself. This is the type of thing you are not told early on and have no idea about when you are first joining.
You have no idea that you will be pretty much forced to purchase the next upsell in an attempt to increase earnings. This is what most people call a "pay to play" opportunity. You first have to dish out the money in order to get the opportunity to make money back on that investment.
Concerns About This Affiliate Structure... Pyramid Scheme?
There are definitely some concerns when it comes to this 2-tiered affiliate structure, which allow you to make money not only from your personal product sales, but also from the sales that your recruits make.
Is a pyramid scheme? I wouldn't call it such, but I would say that it does make this opportunity more likely to be under the FTC's radar because it increases incentive to recruit as many people in as possible, although that was pretty much the goal all along anyhow.
The Real Cost of This
Now that you have read my review this far, you probably have a pretty good idea of how much it actually costs to get involved in an opportunity like this, however I want to discuss it a bit more.
As you can see below, this is often advertised as a good way to make money online even if you are on a "shoestring budget", meaning you don't have much money to spend. However, I strongly disagree with this.
In a perfect scenario what you would do is join as a Basic Member, then make enough sales to purchase the Premium Membership, and then make enough sales to eventually purchase the Pro Membership… Moving your way up the ladder as you earn money. However, this often is not how things actually work and most people will have to invest their own hard-earned money.
Can't Forget About Advertising Costs Too
Furthermore, you also have to remember that there are advertising costs if you follow along with the training as well.
The focus of the training you receive at SAN is on paid advertising. This includes solo ads, Facebook ads, YouTube ads, and PPV… All of which cost money and all of which further make this opportunity not all that great for someone on a "shoestring budget".
You also have to realize that with recruitment based programs like this there is a lot a competition among members, which drives the price of advertising up and also saturates the market, ultimately making it more difficult to make money. However, the same goes with anything.
Pros vs Cons
Pros
Step by step training
From the research I have done in from what I have heard, the training is very well laid out and leaves no room for getting lost. This is good for beginners that want all the guidance they can get.
Is also worth mentioning that there are lots of video tutorials and the training is presented in a very easy to follow manner.
90% "done for you"
This I consider both a pro and a con. It is a pro because… Well… A lot of the work is done for you and he wants to do work anymore, right?
$1 trial
It's pretty obvious why this is a pro. The one dollar 30 day trial allows you to test out the system with extremely little risk, so that you can get a feel for it in see for yourself whether or not you want to get involved further.
Money back guarantee
I have seen a few complaints online from people claiming is difficult to get your money back, but it seems that overall SAN does honor their 30 day moneyback guarantee.
Cons
Can be very expensive
Obviously this program can be extremely expensive. In the online marketing world we call these "high-ticket" programs for a reason… It can get extremely expensive if you follow along with the system and buy into the upsells.
Focus on promotion of system
This is a major con in my opinion. I just don't care for systems that are advertised as great ways to make money online, in than just focus on getting people to promote the system so that they can make money online. This is pretty much the definition of a recruitment scheme in my opinion.
Sure, you can definitely apply what you learn here to any online business, but it is overwhelmingly focused on getting members to go out and promote SAN to others.
Future concerns
As I will discuss in a bit, there are some serious future concerns that I want to touch upon.
Misleading promotions
I have come across The Super Affiliate Network quite a few times before and many of the promotions I have come across have been incredibly misleading, such as "Super Affiliate Success System" for example. It is often promoted as some incredibly easy way to make massive commissions online and they don't really give you much detail on what you are really getting into. You have no idea the true cost in the true focus of the system.
Is Super Affiliate Network a Scam?
The answer to this question is largely based on opinion, but I think that many people out there would consider it to be a scam. It depends… Do you think that recruitment schemes are scams?
It is pretty obvious that The Super Affiliate Network is a recruitment scheme. They lure people in with promotions of being a "done for you system", in which they are obviously talking about all of the pre-made sales funnels and products that they have in place for making money promoting The Super Affiliate Network to other people.
So is a scam? I'm going to leave this question up to you to answer.
Future Concerns - Will It Get Shut Down?
Whether you think that SAN is a scam or not, the fact of the matter is that the FTC has been cracking down on programs is very similar to this recently and whether or not SAN could be shut down in the future is definitely not out of the question.
Digital Altitude's Aspire program along with the much more similar MOBE program were both shut down by the FTC recently and this raises some concern.
It would really suck to buy into SAN, spend a bunch of money hoping that you can go out and promote the system to make it all back, and then the entire thing getting shut down by the government. When that suck?
MOBE was incredibly similar. It had the same type of 2-tiered affiliate structure and sold the same type of online marketing products/memberships that were geared towards getting members to promote the system to others.
They were shut down in spring of 2018 (or maybe it was early summer) for fraudulent business practices, which I think me and they came down to how the opportunity was often promoted in a very misleading way, which I also just discussed how The Super Affiliate Network is also promoted in this manner.
Who Super Affiliate Network Is Best For
First off... It is obviously for someone who is confident in the system and is not think it will be getting shut down anytime soon. But furthermore, it is also for someone that has some extra money to spend and is looking for in the easy way to make money online, since much of it is "done for you", although it really isn't easy.
This is not for someone who is looking to create their own sustainable business. The reason for this is because of all the "done for you" stuff, which just makes you more reliant on the system. You don't learn how to create sales funnels, create websites, anything like that. All that stuff is done for you and you are pretty much completely dependent on the system… If the system goes under so do you.
How Much Are Affiliates Really Making?
This might be the most important question yet… How much are affiliates making with SAN?
I can say all the negative stuff that I want to, but if affiliates are showing high incomes than SAN must be a good choice… Right? Well… Unfortunately they are not.
According to the official income disclosure statement of SAN, which is legally required, an incredibly minute percentage of affiliates make enough money to live off of, or even close to that. You can check out the table below which I took a screenshot of directly from the official website…
Also on the income disclosure page they state that "the average partner spends between $3000 and $12,000 in expenses per year as they build their business", yet "less than 2% earns sufficient commission to cover their costs of The Super Affiliate Network products".
That pretty much sums it all up right there… Affiliates are spending more money for these high-ticket products than they are making back from trying to resell them to others.
Again, the statistics come straight from The Super Affiliate Network and the only reason they make these publicly available is because they are legally required to do so.
So maybe SAN isn't quite as "scammy" as the infamous MOBE was, since they are making it apparent that you more than likely will lose money.
*Note: It is also important to note that these figures shown above, only from affiliates of the SAN. There is no way for SAN to measure income from their members that is coming from outside sources. As I stated earlier, it is possible to apply what you learn from SAN to any online business, HOWEVER… There probably aren't going to be many people earning other streams of income because of the main focus being on getting members to promote SAN.
What I Recommend - A Much Better Option for Beginners
While there are some people that have success with The Super Affiliate Network, although very few, this is not something I'm going to be promoting or recommending by any means.
There are a handful of reasons why I would not recommend getting involved with The Super Affiliate Network. The training is great and all, but it is ridiculously overpriced (the higher ticket products)… And it is carefully designed this way to give affiliates more incentive to promote the products, of course after they purchase them themselves.
A Much More Affordable Option
A much more affordable option, and a program that I can say works from my personal experience, is Wealthy Affiliate. Wealthy Affiliate happens to be the same program I got started with back in 2015 when I first started looking for ways to make money online. And now I make a living working online, which goes to prove that it does work.
Not only is Wealthy Affiliate a much more affordable and honest training program, but it also teaches you how to build your own sustainable online business that is not reliant on any one source of income, such as how SAN members become reliant on SAN as a means of income.
But anyways… If interested click the button below to read my full review. I'm not going to go into detail here.
Please leave any comments or questions down below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can 🙂 Also, if you have your own personal review of The Super Affiliate Network then I would also appreciate it if you left that down below as well. I'm sure other readers can benefit from what you have to say.
There are so many people online promoting Wealthy Affiliate, but of course this does not mean it is a good opportunity. Can you really make money with Wealthy Affiliate or are the people promoting it just doing so before actually making any money themselves? Is this all just one big scam that gets people's hopes up for no reason?
In this short post I'll be taking a realistic approach when it comes to making money with Wealthy Affiliate. If you are familiar with my blog here, then you know I have been a member since 2015 and actually promote Wealthy Affiliate myself… HOWEVER, I will not be giving you the typical spiel on how great and amazing it is… I'll be telling you what most people won't… It isn't all puppies and rainbows.
But first off let me go over what exactly Wealthy Affiliate is. I know you probably already know this, but for those that don't here you go…
What Exactly Is Wealthy Affiliate?
Wealthy Affiliate is an affiliate marketing training program that has been around for quite some time. What it does is provides a step-by-step training course to teach anyone, including beginners, how to begin in affiliate marketing business with their own website online.
The focus of the training, as the name suggests, is on affiliate marketing. This is when you make money online by promoting other people's products and earn commissions when you help make sales, which is a common way for online marketers to first get started because they can simply promote products that are already proven to sell.
In addition to providing training, Wealthy Affiliate also provides the tools necessary to get going, such as to free websites, keyword research tool, hosting, and so on.
But anyways… Onto the main point of this post… Can you actually make money? You can read my full Wealthy Affiliate review here if you need more info on this.
Yes You "Can" Make Money, But Will You?
I think it is fairly obvious that you "can" make money, but the real question is whether or not you actually will make money, and if so how much?
You could also make money by setting up a lemonade stand at the end of your driveway, but obviously this is not going to be something worth pursuing because you will make very little money.
Lots of variables at play here
One question I get a lot from people is "how long will it take me to start making money?", And unfortunately this is a question that I can't really give a good answer to because there are so many variables at play here.
This depends on the competition in your chosen niche, the price of the product you are promoting along with the commission percentage, how much work you put into it of course, and so much more.
Why Some People Call Wealthy Affiliate a Scam
It seems that just about every program out there is being called a scam by some people. Now some of these, rightly so, because many are scams, but even a lot of good programs out there are being called scams.
It doesn't matter what type of "make money online" program you are doing research on, you will find people calling it a scam. It could be focused on affiliate marketing, drop shipping with Shopify, selling on Amazon, and various other legitimate ways to make money online… People screaming scam is something that is going to be inevitable.
While a heck of a lot of different programs out there online are scams, and you have to be very cautious, there are a lot of good ones out there as well. So why is this? Why are programs that are proven to work also called scams?
Well… Because some people really do believe with 100% certainty that they are scams. These are the people that fail, and with everything there are always going to be some people that fail.
It also seems that the word "scam" is thrown around a lot more loosely when it comes to online programs due to the anonymity that comes with online programs in not being able to see it in person who is really behind the operation.
Lets Talk About Failure
One thing that you definitely should know is that a heck of a lot of people fail when it comes to making money online. This goes for every program out there, or at least everyone that I have come across. Wealthy Affiliate is no different… It is a great online training program that teaches a proven way to make money online, yet a large number of people do end up failing.
So why do so many people fail?
Well… There could be a number of reasons, some of which I'll discuss below…
Giving up too early
This method takes time… There is no way around it. Everyone wants immediate satisfaction, but you will not get that with Wealthy Affiliate. This of course leads to many people giving up early and is no doubt one of the major reasons that people fail. You can't really expect to make money within the first month… It just isn't realistic. And even if you have followed the training for two months without any income coming in, this still isn't really all that uncommon.
Over-promotion
I see this quite a bit… People get a little bit too excited with their affiliate links and start throwing them all over their website, making a spammy mess that no one wants to see. This never works out. Visitors going to your website do not want to see that and will realize that you are just trying to make money off of them… So they want click on your links and thus you will not make any money. Not to mention that Google dislikes this kind of stuff and you may see it affect your rankings negatively, which is a massive deal.
Choosing a crappy niche
When you first get started one of the first things you will do is choose a niche. This will be the topic you choose to build your website around and it is very important that you choose wisely. You have to think ahead when choosing your niche… What products will you be able to promote that are related to it? There are almost always products to promote, whether it be a physical product or a digital products such as an e-book, but some niches you will definitely find it more difficult than others.
Doing a poor job with content
If you are familiar with Wealthy Affiliate at all, then you know that the business model it teaches is focused on content. Content is king and you will be writing a lot of posts/articles for your website and your particular niche of choice. You by no means have to be an expert in any niche, nor do you have to be amazing at writing, but you do have to put some effort into this. I have seen people that write the most awful posts, often full of overly promoted affiliate links, and expect to make money. And going even further, I have also seen people who try to cheat the system by copying and pasting, which is something that will never work.
How many people fail?
This is something that I have often wondered myself, yet I have no idea the actual statistics are. There is no doubt a fair number of people fail at Wealthy Affiliate and end up giving up in the long run, but I really have no way of knowing or measuring this.
All I know is that yes… A lot of people do fail and this is something that you should keep in mind.
How Much Money Are People Making & From What?
There are lots of examples I could give from people failing and complaining that this does not work, but I also give hundreds of examples from people who are actually making good money and have seen success with what Wealthy Affiliate teaches.
One for example, is this guy who made $500 in a single day…
*I have linked to these screenshots to the actual posts inside Wealthy Affiliate, so just click on them if you want to read the full posts to learn more.
And then We have a longtime veteran at Wealthy Affiliate it was able to earn over $10,000 in a single month…
And then here is someone who earned $500 off of a single commission…
There are many different success stories out there, and I also like to point out that I too have made over $500 in a single day before, although I typically do not earn this much.
Where are people making money?
Of course just showing you some screenshots from people who claim to be making a time money isn't enough… You need to know where people are making this money.
Unfortunately this is something else I can't really provide all that good of an answer to. There are so many different places that people are making money, it would be a waste of time to try to explain this.
For example, the person above who wrote the post titled "my first $500 commission!" Made a single $500 commission within one week of signing up for some new affiliate program. Then I give you multiple examples of different affiliate programs I am making money through, such as Panthera Network where I promote many different offers, and MaxWeb where I mainly promote different health products from a health related website I have…
Right now I am making money from probably over a dozen different sources, ranging from promoting health products to sunglasses to Wealthy Affiliate to advertising via Google AdSense and more.
The possibilities to what you can make money with are seemingly endless.
Is There a Way to Guarantee Success?
If there is a way to guarantee success than I am unaware of it. However, you can definitely increase your chances of success by being consistent with your work. Consistency is important.
As I've already discussed, giving up too early is easily one of the main reasons for failure when it comes to this method for making money online. It is a slow process and many people give up early on because they do not see any money coming in, so they assume that it either doesn't work or is a scam or something like that.
Sure, some people do get lucky in the land on a goldmine right away, but the large majority of people don't, including myself.
My Story
I started out at Wealthy Affiliate in late 2015 and didn't end up seeing success for a while. There are plenty of times where I contemplated giving up, and came very close to it at times, but ended up sticking around and eventually making a little bit of money… Then a little bit more… And eventually making a living at it, which is where I am at now.
When I started my very first website was in the fitness niche. I wasn't aware of all of the competition at the time, and soon found that my small site was no match for large companies like Health and Fitness, Men's Health, and so on. Looking back at it, I probably could have made some decent money in this niche if I had stuck with it, but at the time it seemed like just way too much competition with no room for me to make any money.
Fast forward to today and I have multiple websites, I two that promote natural health products and several others, one of course being my blog here where I mainly promote different "make money online" opportunities such as Wealthy Affiliate as well as promote some other random products.
What I Recommend for Beginners
There is no doubt that a lot of people fail at Wealthy Affiliate, yet this is still my recommendation for beginners looking to get started making money online. Not only have I found success with it myself and know from experience that it works, but there are many logical reasons why it is a good place to get started, some of which include…
#1 - Low Cost
The Wealthy Affiliate training program and the focus of the training is a very low cost compared to what you see with a lot of other programs out there, especially considering what you get as a member, which includes website hosting, SSL certification, 24/7 tech support, and of course all of the training.
Additionally, the training at Wealthy Affiliate focuses on free traffic generation methods, mainly on SEO, which is great for people looking to get started without spending much money. You can load your money really quickly when it comes to paid advertising if you don't know what you are doing, which is a big reason why paid advertising can be a disaster for beginners.
#2 - Sustainable Business Model
Affiliate marketing, which is the focus of Wealthy Affiliate is training, is obviously a sustainable business model that is here to stay. It isn't going anywhere and I know a lot of people who have been making a living as affiliate marketers for over a decade.
This is something you can bring and study money with if you know what you're doing.
#3 - "Easy" For Beginners
And the last reason that I will mention is that it is "easy" for beginners to get started with. Now I am saying it is "easy" with quotation marks, because of course a lot of people fail… So how easy can it really be?
The reason I say is easy is because I do consider it to be easy compared to the many other methods to making money online that are out there. Just think about it… There is no need for creating your own product because you just promote products that are already out there. There is no need to deal with returns, customer service, etc. because again, you are actually selling the product you are just promoting them.
Ecommerce is something that I was involved with for over two years, and while I did have some success with that, I can definitely say that affiliate marketing is more suitable for beginners.
Affiliate marketing is actually how a lot of online marketers get started which makes perfect sense.
Why Wealthy Affiliate
Well, like I mentioned, Wealthy Affiliate is where I got started and I know from experience that it works.
I have looked into quite a few other affiliate marketing training programs out there, and while some others are good, Wealthy Affiliate is definitely one of the better ones, and my opinion the best.
One of the major differences that I have noticed with Wealthy Affiliate is the whole community aspect to it all. With many others they have their training laid out for you, but there is no good way to interact with other members and get help. At Wealthy Affiliate the community is very lively it is very easy to get help from people who have been doing this for years, such as from me.
And of course the step-by-step training is great along with the tools that are provided to you.
Get Help From Me... a Full-Time Affiliate
If you want to join Wealthy Affiliate and want a little bit of extra guidance after joining then you can join through my referral link here…
I mean, if you going to join why not get some extra help from someone who does this stuff full-time?
Yes, I will get credit for you joining through my referral link and I will make a commission off of it, but this just gives more incentive for me to help you stay around and succeed.
I'll be checking in on you regularly and helping guide you along the way. This is a little bonus that most people who join do not get.
Is Legendary Marketer a scam? Can you really make money with this program? How much money can you potentially lose?… These are all questions that are very important and should definitely be answered before diving into a program like this.
If you came looking for answers on Legendary Marketer then you are right we need to be. In this in-depth review I’ll be going over (hopefully) everything that you need to know about Dave Sharpe’s Legendary Marketer program.
And I’ll tell you what… I’ll cut straight to the point here… No Legendary Marketer is not a scam, HOWEVER there is definitely a lot of very misleading promotional material out there and you do not want to get involved with this unless you truly know what you’re getting involved with. You can make money with this program but it also can be a great way to lose $20,000 and more.
Legendary Marketer, found at LegendaryMarketer.com, is a high-ticket online marketing training program and more. Besides providing training on lead generation, finding products to promote, building your own digital products, advertising.. just to name a few… It also provides coaching/training on becoming a true independent entrepreneur.
In addition to all of this are also a lot of “done for you” components to this program. There’s a good chance you came across what is called “Duplicate Dave“.
“Duplicate Dave” is just another name for the Legendary Marketer program. The reason is called Duplicate Dave is because of all the “done for you” components, which allow you to easily duplicate a system that is proven to sell.
Okay… Maybe I said that in a confusing way… What I’m trying to say is that there are pre-made sales funnels, ads, emails, etc., that you can use to simply promote the Duplicate Dave system to other people and make money.
In a Nutshell:
Legendary Marketer is an online marketing training program that is designed to help people start making money online, develop their own online businesses, scale, and even potentially grow them to massive proportions. There is a lot of really good training within this program but what creates most of the controversy around it is the duplicatable system and how many people joined the system and then go out to promote it to others.
Much of the training, and pretty much all of the “done for you” components, or focused on getting members to go out and promote Legendary Marketer to other people. You get training focused on selling the same system to other people and also get the resell rights to the different “tiers” of training that you have purchased yourself.
I’ll go more into detail on all of this soon.
The program is very similar to The Super Affiliate Network (if you’ve ever heard of this place) but in my opinion a little better.
Who Is This Dave Sharpe Guy?
Dave Sharpe talks about how he has made over $170 million in sales online. It is this really true?
Well, I can’t say with 100% certainty, but I am guessing it very well could be true. Dave Sharpe has been around for a while and is well known for being highly successful when it comes to online marketing.
He is probably the most well-known for his involvement with Empower Network, which was a high ticket program (somewhat similar to Legendary Marketer) that was basically a pyramid scheme. It collapsed a while back and tons of people lost tons of money. There are plenty of reviews on the Empower Network that you can look into if you want to.
So this really there is a monkeywrench into everything doesn’t it? The day was involved in a high ticket program that most people would probably consider it a scam… Not a good sign.
That said… Legendary Marketer is much different and much more legitimate without a doubt. In fact, it has no pyramid -like structure so it cannot be considered a pyramid scheme by any means.
“A System For Promoting The System”
There are many different promotional videos out there online for “Duplicate Dave” and Legendary Marketer, which are one and the same. Much of the promotional material focuses on franchising and why starting a franchise business is the way to go.
Dave tells you that 1/10 traditional businesses fail, but 9/10 franchise businesses are successful in the real world. I looked this up and according to Entreprenuer.com this is true in some cases. So why not apply the franchise model to online business?
This is essentially what Dave is doing with Legendary Marketer. You can buy in and then resell the same system to other people, earning commissions this way. By doing this you do not have to work on developing your own product/service or anything like that. And as I mentioned earlier, you are provided with many “done for you” components to make it even easier.
The “killer ads”, the sales funnels, the email follow-up series… It is all done for you.
Good or Bad?
This can somewhat be looked at as both good and bad. There is no doubt that much of the focus of Legendary Marketer is on promoting the same system to other people, in which the ethics of this business model could be questioned. However, this franchise model makes it easier for complete beginners to get started online, people who have no product to sell and have no previous experience in online marketing.
Another downside to this is that you aren’t really going to learn how to do much for yourself. For example… You get sales funnels that are proven to convert when it comes to promoting Legendary Marketer, but you aren’t going to be taught how to create your own killer sales funnel if you want to promote another offer.
Sure.. There is absolutely no reason why you can’t apply what you learn here to other online businesses, but the focus is on promoting Legendary Marketer and this is much easier to do.
The Products & Cost To Get Started
Okay… Now let’s talk about the different products in the cost to get started with this program.
I have seen it described as a “pay to play” system. This means that you have to pay for the different products before you can earn money promoting them. There isn’t just one product within the Legendary Marketer program. There are multiple products ranging from $30/mo up to $12,000. You only are able to promote the products that you personally have purchased.
So for example: if you buy into Legendary Marketer’s Club for $30 per month, you will only be able to make money selling this product to other people. If you want to make large commissions selling the expensive $12,000 product, you will first have to purchase that.
The different products that are within Legendary Marketer in the commissions you can earn reselling them are as follows…
You can also become a free affiliate and earn commissions but the amount you will earn as such is not even relatively close to what is shown above.
Also, there used to be a product called Legendary Lifestyle Experience that was priced at $30,000. This included meet ups in exotic locations and one-on-one training with Dave, but I have no idea what happened to this product… It is not listed anymore.
Anyways… I will briefly touch on all of the currently available products below:
1) Legendary Marketer’s Club ($30/mo) – This is your introductory course and is what you will normally be funneled into buying when you see promotions for “Duplicate Dave” and such online. This course provides introductory material on all sorts of things, such as advertising on Facebook and YouTube, lead generation, marketing on Facebook and YouTube without spending money, and you also get access to weekly live webinars.
And again, with this you also get all the “done for you” stuff, such as the sales funnel, landing pages, different types of ads, a massive 45 day follow-up email sequence, and more.
2) Traffic Rolodex ($247 one time) – This products is all about traffic generation. It is a bundle of a courses and provides more advanced in detailed advertising training than the Legendary Marketer’s Club product discussed above. You will learn paid advertising from experts who are actually good at doing what they do, you will be shown how to set up campaigns for Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and so on.
Also… One thing that, my eyes that they teach you how to make your landing pages compliant so that you don’t get your account banned. Facebook is a real bitch when it comes to banning advertising accounts. I’ve had my account banned multiple times in the past and it is one heck of a hassle trying to get them to re-enable it. So it is very good to see that they teach you how to do this the right way so that you don’t have to deal with all this crap.
3) Affiliate Business Blueprint ($2,500 one time) – This blueprint is obviously all about affiliate marketing, which is what you are doing if you are going to promote Legendary Marketer to other people. Affiliate marketing is when you simply promote products online, that aren’t yours, and earn commissions when you help make sales. This is a great business model for beginners.
Unlike the Legendary Marketer’s Club, this product focuses more on affiliate marketing in general, and is in all about promoting Legendary Marketer to other people.
4) Digital Products Business Blueprint ($2,500 one time) – Have you ever wanted to create your own digital product, such as an e-book? Well then this blueprint will help. Here you are guided on creating your very and to show product based on your knowledge.
5) Coaching & Consulting Business Blueprint ($2,500 one time) – This is a blueprint for starting your own coaching/consulting business online. You will be guided through identifying a niche, developing a sales pitch, delivering your product/service, and scaling your business.
This type of thing is probably not for the majority of people reading this review… It is more for those that are advanced and most people reading this probably don’t have an interest in it.
6) Events & Masterminds Business Blueprint ($2,500 one time) – Here is another blueprint that is pretty darn advanced and probably not for the majority of people reading this. This blueprint is all about setting up your own mastermind live event. It covers things like hiring people for the event, selecting a post venue, etc.
You can certainly make a heck of a lot of money hosting live events like this if you are good, but this is very advanced.
7) Legendary Marketer Mastermind ($8,000 one time) – And then come the mastermind events. This event consists of a three day life meet up with top online marketers. The focus here is on lead generation and conversions.
These events are held at locations in the US, often times that places like mansions.
8) Legendary Entrepreneur Mastermind ($12,000 one time) – This is another mastermind event that consists of a three day in person made up. However, this is more advanced and more for someone who is looking to become a true entrepreneur, in all senses. Topics at this event include health, wealth, wisdom and growth.
Definitely Not a Good Choice For Everyone
If you don’t have much money to spend and you don’t have any prior experience in online marketing, then this might not be that great of a choice for you.
As mentioned, the Legendary Marketer’s Club is focused on duplicating the system… Getting you to go out there and promote it to other people. If you’re going to continue on this path then you’re going to want to be able to earn higher commissions, which means you will want to purchase the more expensive higher ticket products to sell.
Now if everything went perfectly, you would be able to sell enough Legendary Marketer’s Club memberships to cover the costs of the next product, and you would then sell enough of the next product to cover the cost of the next product… And so on. But of course things don’t work out this way most of the time and you will have to invest money with the hopes of getting it back one day.
What I Like About It
There is no doubt that there is a heck of a lot of value provided when compared to the cost, in particular with the Legendary Marketer’s Club membership. It only cost $30 per month and comes with an abundance of training.
I don’t think anyone can really argue that you get way more than they pay for here.
However, this is common when it comes to high ticket programs like this. Often times the introductory product is low-priced and provides significant value. This way you get a lot of people to join the system, in which they then get up-sold on the more expensive products.
Pros v Cons
Pros
Good quality training
Dave knows what he is doing and in this program the other people that provide training know what they are doing as well. This is by no means a program that provides low-quality or outdated training. The training is up-to-date and is proven to work.
When it comes to people complaining about Legendary Marketer, I don’t think anyone is really complaining about the quality of the training. If you see complaints, they are probably complaining about misleading promotional material making it seems easier than it really is, it costing more than they were led to believe, and so on.
30 day moneyback guarantee
Of course there is also the 30 day money back guarantee.
Now I know a lot of people out there are probably worried whether or not this is actually real, and I can assure you that it is. I know there are a lot of scams out there that will claim to provide a guarantee but will never follow through with it. Legendary Marketer will honor this guarantee so there is no need to worry here.
Cons
Overpriced
This it may sound a bit weird… Above I said that the training is good quality and provides a lot of value, yet here I am saying that is overpriced. Well… It is both.
There is a lot of value here, but with the higher-ticket products there is definitely some massive overpricing going on. Just think about it… Affiliates that sell the Legendary Entrepreneur Mastermind for $12,000 are earning a $4800 commission. Why such a large commission? Why not just sell the product for cheaper in the first darn place?
The reason there are such massive commissions is because this creates increased incentive to go out and promote Legendary Marketer products to other people. The prices are inflated for this reason.. Not all of them however.
Focused on self promotion
A lot of people really do not like programs that supposedly provide you with a way to make money online and then teach you to make money online by selling the program to other people. This is definitely an understandable complaint about Legendary Marketer, however I will say that there is also a lot of good training that is not focused on promoting the system.
That said, this is something that I definitely do not care for.
The coaches/salesmen
Something that I didn’t mention is that when you join you will be assigned a “coach”. However, many people havecomplained about these coaches just being sales men that try to get you to purchase the next more expensive products so that they can earn their money.
This is something that is common when it comes to high-ticket programs and I certainly do not doubt that this is the truth.
How Much Are Affiliates Making?
Since much of the focus within this program is on promoting it to other people, you may be wondering how much affiliates are actually making.
Well… This might come as somewhat of a disappointment, but according to the official income disclaimer, “the average annual gross income for affiliates is projected to be between $500 and $2,000”. So if you take the median of this range, you get $1250…. Pretty disappointing.
Now of course this is the estimated average annual income for affiliates of the system, not counting people that have used Legendary Marketer training to promote other various offers. However… There probably aren’t all that many of these people due to the fact that much of the system pushes members to become affiliates and promote it to other people.
Seeing in extremely low average income like this makes me question the success rate that Dave talks about, which he claims is that 9/10 franchise businesses tend to be successful. I guess this depends on what you consider successful and it also really depends on the particular franchise in question. Not all franchises have the same success rates.
I was recently reading an article on Forbes about the worst vs best franchises to buy. What you get involved with makes a big difference, which I think is common sense.
Promotional Content Is Misleading
One of the main reasons for me writing this review is to help clear the air on what exactly Legendary Marketer is. There is a heck of a lot of misleading promotional material out there and often times it leads people to believe that this is going to be some super easy way to make money online.
The income disclaimer tells it all… If it were super easy than a lot more people would be making a lot more money.
What you have to remember is that the people promoting this are doing so to make money themselves. They are promoting it as some amazing way to make money online, but if people don’t buy into it then they don’t make money online in the first place.
There are all sorts of ads out there for this system along with many different websites and sales funnels. I actually reviewed a website called End Financial Stress Now a while back that is a sales funnel for the Legendary Marketer system.
Do You Have To Worry About This Business Getting Shut Down?
One concern that many people have, and if you are concerned about this then you should be, is that this business might get shut down by the government.
Could you imagine buying in, spending a bunch of money, and then the business going out of business… Leaving you high and dry. Don’t think this stuff can’t happen because it does all the time.
The reason some people are concerned about this is because of the whole business model that is running here, where people buy in at a low price and are later up-sold on higher-ticket more expensive products, all the while being pushed to go out and sell these products to other people.
In the recent past we have seen similar online marketing training programs shut down by the FTC. First there was Digital Altitude’s Aspire program, which is basically a pyramid scheme. Now Legendary Marketer doesn’t have to worry about being shut down for this because there is no MLM compensation structure, it is a simple one-tiered affiliate marketing structure.
However… MOBE is a little more similar and they were also recently shut down by the FTC for being a scam… Mainly due to misleading people to buy in without being straightforward about the real costs of the system. And I hate to say it, but Legendary Marketer is pretty darn similar when it comes to this, although not as bad I will say.
My Recommendation for Beginners
Since you are reading my review I am guessing that you at least care a little bit of what I have to say on this matter. Do I recommend Legendary Marketer, in particular for beginners?
While I do see the value in the training provided, and it is definitely possible that you could go on to make good money with this training program, this is not something that I am personally going to recommend. I have two main reasons for not recommending it: 1) I just don’t care for systems like this that really push members to go out and promote the system to other people, and 2) This it is just too darn expensive for many people out there looking to make money online.
I remember when I was first getting started looking for ways to make money online and I certainly didn’t have the money to spend on a program like this. I mean sure, I could have joined for the $30/mo Legendary Marketer’s Club membership, but this will only get you so far as I have already explained… You will have to purchase more if you want a good shot at making good money.
What I Suggest
I would suggested the Wealthy Affiliate training program over Legendary Marketer without a doubt. Wealthy Affiliate is actually where I got started back in 2015 when I first started looking for ways to make money online. It obviously works because I am now making a living doing this online marketing stuff, which I never really thought was possible.
The reason I would definitely recommend Wealthy Affiliate is because it is much more affordable. Not only is the program itself way less expensive, but the training also focuses on free traffic generation techniques, which are very effective and that they are… uhhm… Free! This is compared to Legendary Marketer’s focus on paid traffic generation, which can get pricey.
I’m not going to get into all the details here, but I would highly recommend reading my Wealthy affiliate review by clicking the button below…
Questions or comments? Leave them them below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can 🙂
Also, what do you think about Legendary Marketer? I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on things and I’m sure other readers would appreciate them to.
Yoonla is promoted as an easy and mostly “done for you” way to make money online, but is it really? Can Yoonla really help you build the “ultimate digital lifestyle”? Or is this all just a bunch of hype… Is Yoonla a scam that you should be avoiding at all costs?
Now I know some members are probably going to be upset that I am even asking the question of whether or not it is a scam, but this is definitely something that needs to be addressed. While I don’t consider it to be an outright scam, I do think that it is somewhat of a shady business operation which I will be addressing in this Yoonla review.
In this review I will be going over hopefully everything you need to know. The purpose of this is to give you a better picture of what exactly Yoonla is before deciding to either join or avoid it. And by the way, I am not a member of Yoonla so I am not promoting it… Which means this review is going to be a lot more unbiased than most.
Yoonla it is basically an online marketing program that provides you with training so that you can set up a sales funnel system to go out and promote Yoonla to other people.
it is possible to make money promoting other products, but the problem is that unless you have experience in online marketing,this might be out of the question, which is why I think Wealthy Affiliate is a much better choice. They focus just isn’t on this… It is centered around promoting the program.
The program was founded in 2016 by Reno Van Boven, who is a guy from New Zealand. Since 2016 as one through a number of changes and is still evolving quite a lot. So if you read older reviews, they might be describing a system that is a lot different from what it is today.
In a Nutshell
As I said, this program is focused around being able to make money by promoting the program to other people. It is the sort of thing you buy into to make money online and then try to make money online by promoting it to other people.
You are able to join as a free member, but in order to make money you pretty much are going to have to take out your wallet. Throughout the training you will be guided through steps to set up a sales funnel for the Yoonla program, which you will then go out and promote… Getting others to join in making money when they do so as a free member and when they upgrade.
Pyramid Scheme?
When it comes to recruitment focused programs like this I know a lot of people to around the term pyramid scheme rather loosely. But is this a pyramid scheme…?
Well… It is starting to look more like one. Recently they started implementing a compensation structure in which they now have 2 tiers. What this means is that not only can you make money by recruiting in new members, but you also can make money by the members that your recruits recruit in.
That said… No this is not a pyramid scheme… It is simply a program that focuses largely on getting members to recruit others in and has a 2-tiered affiliate program in place.
Different Memberships
Within Yoonla there are two different memberships, each of which I will discuss below…
Starter Membership
The Starter Membership is the free one… This is where people first to join at. With the free membership you get step-by-step training, although not very much of it, and it is mostly geared towards getting you to upgrade to the Elite Membership.
One thing that you definitely need to know is that, although this membership is free, there are additional costs and you will have to take out your wallet in order to follow along with the system.
Three additional costs, although only two of them are completely necessary, include:
Getresponse – This is in autoresponder service, similar to Aweber, and it is necessary if you want to move forward that you pay for it, the cheapest option being $15 per month.
I’ll get more into this all in a bit, but basically in autoresponder allows you to collect leads and then follow up with them via automated emails. This sort of thing is a big deal to any type of online business.
Yahoo Small Business – You referred to purchase a domain and website hosting with Yahoo Small Business. Of course this is something you definitely need in order to host your landing page, which will be used to promote Yoonla, and this will cost you around $70 per year.
LeadPages – This it is a service that is recommended where you can create really nice looking landing pages, which will be used to capture leads. However, it is expensive and optional. The Pro option is recommended in this costs $48 per month, paid yearly which is $576.
Elite Membership
With the Elite Membership you get access to the advanced training, marketing materials, and also to the private FB group where you can communicate with others.
In order to become an Elite member you must purchase the Getresponse autoresponder service as well as the Yahoo Small Business website hosting service. And you must do so through the provided links in the training, which are affiliate links that Yoonla makes money off of you with.
So this is going to cost you about $85 per month minimum. There is also talk about the Elite membership costing as much as $297, but I am not sure if this is actually going to take effect or not. The program is constantly evolving and changing, so maybe in the future… But not right now.
The point of upgrading to the Elite membership is not just the fact that it provides more in-depth training, but also the fact that it allows you to make more money with the CPA affiliate program, which I will go over shortly.
A Look at The Training
As I mentioned in the beginning, Yoonla has different phases. Right now it is in the Yoonla “Evolve” phase. With each new phase there comes updated training and usually some changes to the affiliate program.
If you join right now, during the Evolve phase, there are seven steps that are included in the free members training. This is what you will see inside your dashboard…
The steps are as follows:
1) Evolve App and Commission Tracking
The first step is to download the “Evolve App”, which is just a zip file. At this point you probably have no idea what the heck is going on. All you know is that you are downloading some file because the training tells you to do so.
This file that you are told to download is used to create your landing page, or “squeeze page” in one of the following steps.
2) Create Automation Account
This step is all about signing up for a Getresponse account, which is the autoresponder that I discussed. This will cost you a minimum of $15 per month and with this monthly plan you will be able to have a list of up to 1000 subscribers.
Autoresponders are very important when it comes to online business. These allow you to collect leads and then follow up with them by automatically sending out prewritten sequences of emails, which makes things a heck of a lot easier.
3) Set Up Automation Campaign
In this step you will be instructed on setting up your Getresponse account and will also be provided with a prewritten welcome email to get your follow-up series started.
4) Create Small Business Account
Now it is time to create a web hosting account with Yahoo Small Business.
There are several different hosting plans available, but you are told not to purchase the “basic plan”. The reason for this is because with the basic plan you can’t use FTP, which you will have to do in the next step.
5) Get Your Evolve App Online
Now you have your website ready and it is time to upload that zip file that you downloaded in the first step, which is your premade landing page. To do this you will need to use FTP, which I am not going to get into, but basically it is a way to upload large files to your website that can be uploaded by normal means.
6) Customize Your Evolve Site
Now that your landing page has been uploaded to your website, you will be instructed to make some small changes in order to make it somewhat unique.
7) Activate Affiliate and Elite Upgrade
And the last step is to simply make sure that you have completed all of the steps and then you will be able to activate your affiliate sales funnel.
In addition to these core seven steps that you are taking through, there is also some free training on promoting Yoonla via Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
Making Sense of This All
Okay… So this might all be a bit confusing but I will try to summarize it best I can.
The file that you have to download is your premade landing page for promoting Yoonla that you will be uploading to your website. Of course every website needs hosting, Ian you are instructed to purchase website hosting through Yahoo Small Business, which you have to do if you want to become an Elite member.
Once you upload the premade landing page to your website, this is where the Getresponse autoresponder comes into play. You will be promoting Yoonla via your premade landing page and when people come to that page they will enter their email, which will then be sent to your autoresponder. In with your autoresponder service you will have a series of follow-up messages in place in case they do not sign up for Yoonla the first time around.
I Hope this makes a little more sense now.
The Compensation Plan
Okay… So obviously the training provided at Yoonla is largely focused around, will pretty much entirely focused around, getting people to go out and promote the program to other people. But how much money can you actually make doing this?
Well… As I stated in the beginning, this place has what you could call a CPA affiliate program.
The CPA Part of It
CPA stands for “cost per action” and this is when you get paid when your referrals complete a specified action. The action that you get paid for could be to watch a video, and earn some contest, sign up for some free trial, and so on.
The action that you are getting paid for here is when you get referrals to sign up for a free account. There is a lot of contrasting information out there, but it seems that you can get paid and anywhere from $2 – $5 when you refer someone that creates a free account.
The amount that you get paid depends on the country of the person you are referring. If you refer people from countries such as the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and maybe some others… You will earn more than when you refer people from countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico, etc. The reason is because people from the latter countries don’t convert as well.
The Affiliate Part
When someone that you refer upgrades to an Elite membership, you can earn $40 commissions. In addition, you can also earn $35 commissions on the 2nd tier upgrades, which are the upgrades of members that your referrals recruited in. These commissions have been increased since the previous phase of Yoonla.
Now you might be wondering how this affiliate stuff works, and I will briefly explain it: when someone clicks on your affiliate link, they get directed to the Yoonla websit where their IP address is logged and a “cookie” is placed in their browser. The Yoonla system then recognizes this person as someone that you referred so that you get credit for it. Even if this person leaves and comes back in six months, you will still get credit.
Getting Paid
In order to get paid you must first refer at least two customers and you will get paid on the 1st and the 15th of each month. There used to be a $100 minimum requirement before you could get paid, but it seems that they did away with this.
What I Like & What I Don’t Like
What I Like
Clear Step by Step Training
The training that is laid out is very clear. There is no question what you should be doing next. It is laid out in a step-by-step manner and there is no reason why anyone should get lost.
Not Misleadingly Promoted
One thing that I noticed is that Yoonla is usually promoted in a reasonable way. It is not promoted as some “super easy way to make $500 per day online” like you see with many different online marketing programs out there, such as Fast Income Generator for example (scam).
The reason for this seems to be because they have a strict code of conduct. If you go out and promote this in a misleading way, they will shut your account down. This is definitely nice to see
Both CPA & Affiliate Marketing Earnings
The fact that the compensation plan pays out a mixture of CPA and affiliate marketing earnings is nice. Although you don’t earn nearly as much when someone just signs up for a free account, which would be the CPA part of it all, it is still nice because this is much easier to get someone to do.
What I Don’t Like
Promoting The System Is the Only Way
I really… really don’t like how this system is pretty much completely focused on getting members to go out and promote the system. There are so many different “make money online” programs out there that do the same thing. They provide people with a way to make money that also helps them make more money… Which seems to be what it is all about.
Too Much Is “Done For You”
Having all this “done for you” stuff may sound awesome. I mean who wouldn’t want a premade landing page that you can use to promote the system? Who wouldn’t want everything to be this easy?
Well… It does make it easy for newbies to get started, but it only hurts you in the long run. All you know how to do is promote Yoonla with this system… That is it for the most part. I mean you could throw in a few other products in your autoresponder follow-up series, but there isn’t really any focus on this in the training and you probably won’t see very good results.
With this system your pretty much 100% reliant on the system. You gain a little bit of knowledge and skills, but you will be far from an independent online marketer and this is a problem, especially since systems like this don’t seem to last very long.
Should You Be Worried About This Program Being Shut Down?
I know there are some people out there that are afraid to get involved with systems like this because they feel that they might end up getting shut down after they have already dedicated a bunch of time and spent money trying to make it all work.
Could Yoonla get shut down in the future? Well… It is possible.
Lately we have seen other somewhat similar programs that have been shut down by the FTC here in the United States. This includes Digital Altitude’s Aspire program the end the infamous MOBE program.
Now both of these programs are a good bit different from Yoonla, because they are what you call “high-ticket” programs which include upsells that cost thousands of dollars, but they are similar in the way that they all focus on getting members to go out and promote the same system to other people as a means to make money online.
MOBE is the more similar out of the two because it also had a 2-tiered affiliate commission structure in place. MOBE was shut down for being a fraudulent business mostly due to luring in newcomers without giving them a clear picture of what they would be getting involved with, such as not clearly explaining the real cost of the program.
Yoonla it is somewhat similar in this respect, you don’t really know that you’re going to have to purchase the autoresponder and website hosting. It is not until you are already going to the training that you find this out. That said… The products pushed on you here are not as expensive as those of MOBE and they don’t have the extremely over inflated prices that MOBE’s products had.
It it is a bit sketchy though for the “make money online” program like this to be pretty much solely focused on getting members to promote the system to make money online. So it will be interesting to see what happens with this program in the future.
Member Complaints
Believe it or not, I really didn’t find all that many complaints about this place online, which I was surprised about. However this could be due to the fact that members are not charged massive amounts of money, so if they do end up failing and quitting they are not as upset.
But anyways… Some of the complaints I have found include the following…
Not Getting Credit
There have been several complaints I came across about people not getting approved to receive the amount of earnings that they earned. It seems that these people are getting credit because they have violated those or something of this nature, but it is unclear.
Unclear Violations
The people that are complaining about not getting credit claim that they don’t even know why they didn’t get credit. They’re not offered an explanation as to what they did wrong and this seems to be due to poor support…
Poor Support
This is probably one of the most common complaints I came across. The support that Yoonla features a bunch of people that don’t really know what they are doing, according to what others have said.
Losing Money
And of course there are some complaints from people who have lost money in this program. They follow the training… But the recommended services… And claim to have did everything right but still did not make any money, or did not recoup their investment.
This is a complaint worth mentioning, because it shows you that this is not as easy as you may think, but this is something you will also find with any “make money online” program out there. People are going to fail… There are always going to be people failing no matter how good the training is.
Final Thoughts – Recommended or Not?
While I don’t consider Yoonla to be a scam, this is not something that I am going to recommend. The two main reasons I don’t recommend it are….1) the entire system is focused around getting you to promote the system, which just makes Reno a bunch more money, and 2) you don’t really learn all that much it… Your pretty much stuck with promoting the system as your only way to make money.
Overall I don’t think the system is all that great in think there are matched better options out there. There are some testimonials from people who have supposedly made good money with Yoonla, but they really aren’t all that many considering this place claims to have had over 1.5 million people join, most of which probably ended up quitting early on or just failed to ever become successful.
What I Suggest (for beginners)
Affiliate marketing is a great way for beginners to get started making money online, which is why most online marketers get started doing such. The reason affiliate marketing is so great is because you don’t have to worry about coming up with your own product or anything like that… You simply promote other people’s products and earn commissions doing so.
As you know, it Yoonla does have their affiliate marketing program, but the problem is that this is only for promoting Yoonla, which is all that you will know how to do. There are tons of products out there you can promote to make money with and Yoonla fails to teach this.
My number one suggestion, by far, if you are looking to get started in affiliate marketing would be the Wealthy Affiliate training program. This is actually the same program that I got started with back in 2015 when I first started looking for ways to make money online. And I know from experience that it works, because… Well… I make a living doing this stuff now.
Wealthy Affiliate training program is much more robust and provides step-by-step training on all aspects of online business, so that you can create your own sustainable online business you not be completely dependent on some single system for making money.
If you have any comments or questions than just leave them down below in the comment section and I’ll get back to you soon 🙂 I hope you enjoyed this review and found at least somewhat helpful. If you have been a member, or still are a member, of Yoonla and have anything you would like me to add to this review then I would really appreciate hearing about that below as well.
You can have all the website visitors in the world, but if they don’t convert… What is the point? This is why it is important to know how to increase website conversion rate so that you get the most out of the website traffic you already have.
What I’ll be going over today is an incredibly easy way to increase website conversions if you want already doing this.
Some website owners take the “throw enough mud at the wall, some of that will stick” approach. Basically they put most of their attention on driving more traffic to their website, and not enough on website optimization. What if you could throw mud at a wall, but increase the chances of that much sticking by optimizing the service of the wall? Wouldn’t that be better?
I know it’s a stupid comparison but that is basically what you are doing when you are optimizing your website for conversions. You already have traffic coming in, which may or may not be converting, and you want to increase the conversions that you get on that existing amount of traffic.
The Obvious.. This Is a Given
When I first started implementing this strategy I saw a very noticeable difference in conversions on my website. However, there are going to be some people that probably won’t notice a difference and for good reason.
First off, the website traffic you are getting must be relevant. You can’t be driving people to your website with clickbait… These people will leave no matter what.
The offer you are promoting must be something of interest to the audience. If you have a website about dog toys and you are promoting an offer on Harley-Davidson tailpipes, this is obviously a horrible idea and no matter what you do the conversion rate is going to be next to nothing.
So if you have traffic coming in that is totally irrelevant to your site, or are promoting an offer that is totally irrelevant… This probably isn’t going to work for you.
Something That Will Increase Conversions at the Flip of a Switch
So lets say that you are doing everything right… The traffic that is coming to your website is fairly targeted and the offer you are promoting is a good one.
Well what if I told you there was a way to instantly increase the conversions on your website… To get that existing traffic that is already coming into convert more, which means selling more products, more people opting into your mailing list, whatever the case may be.
Would you say this sounds too good to be true? Well… I agree with you… It does sound a bit too good to be true, but the fact of the matter is that it is not too good to be true.
The Almighty “Exit Pop”
Have you ever heard of a “exit pop”? In my opinion this is the holy grail for increasing website conversions, or at least one of several very effective and easy to implement ways to increase conversions.
Don’t know what an exit pop is? You have probably seen them before but just aren’t aware of the terminology. Exit pops are those pop ups that appear on a website when you are about to exit the website. You know… Those pop-ups that say “Wait… Before you go”or something along these lines that might be annoying sometimes.
There are all different sorts of exit pops out there, ranging from sale promotions, newsletters sign-ups, free guide promotions, etc. A few examples you can see below…
Why are these so effective? Well, because the people that see these are going to exit your website without converting… Then these pop up and give you one last chance to convert them into customers, people on your mailing list, etc.
How Can You Get These Exit Pops?
So how can you create these exit pops on your website? There are different ways you can do this, but installing plug-ins is probably the easiest way, and is how I do it.
There are many different plug-ins out there that allow you to create these exit pops, some of them free and some of them you have to pay for. Of course the free plug-ins don’t offer all the features and aren’t quite as good as the paid ones, usually, but there are some decent exit pop plug-ins out there such as Pop-Up CC Exit & Conversation Popup Builder.
What I Recommend
If you are pretty new in the game, or your money is tight, you may want to just start out with a free plug-in, but if serious and if you have the cash then Thrive Leads is my recommendation and is what I use.
What the heck is Thrive Leads?
Thrive Leads is a plug-in created by the highly reputable Thrive Themes company, which is entirely focused on creating plug-ins/themes for increasing website conversions. They are masters at conversion optimization and there Thrive Leads plug-in is one of the best out there for WordPress users.
It is mainly geared towards increasing conversions when it comes to capturing leads, which means getting more people to opt into your mailing list, but it also can be used for promoting various other offers.
When I started out using exit pops, I was first using a free plug-in (can’t remember what the name was) and later moved on to Thrive Leads which has proved to be well worth it for me
Why Thrive Leads Is a Beast
This it is a plug-in that you have to pay for, but is well worth the price and below I’ll be going over some of the reasons why I love it so much.
#1 – Very Appealing Visuals
With Thrive Leads you can make a very nice looking exit pops. Of course what is the nicest looking is and always the best for conversions, but sometimes it is and even if it isn’t, there is an easy way to test between different designs and see what converts the best, as I will go over shortly.
The drag-and-drop visual editor inside Thrive Leads is a big deal. This allows you to easily drag different elements of design wherever you want and makes it a simplistic process to create awesome looking exit pop designs. Below you can see a screenshot of a few of the many elements that are able to be dragged and dropped.
#2 – Plenty of Options
“exit pop” is just one of many options, can choose when you want something to appear – many different banners
The examples of exit pops that I showed above are only a few of the many different ways you can display these exit pops. You don’t need to have something that pops in at the last second and covers up the users computer screen… You can also create small ribbons that appear at the top of the screen, boxes that slide into the screen in one of the bottom corners, and so on.
You should also know that the “exit pops” are just one of many options. The reason I am focusing on them is because I found to be incredibly effective for increasing conversions, but you can also choose to have offers displayed after a specific amount of time, immediately when the page loads, when the user scrolls down a certain percentage of the page, and so on.
In there are so many things you can do with these pop-up boxes. You can use them to simply promote a product, such as by saying “wait! 50% off” and providing a button to a product; or you could integrate an autoresponder and have people opt into your mailing list. Lots of possibilities.
#3 – You can Categorize Offers
This is something that can make a big difference and is definitely not something you will be getting with free exit pop plug-ins.
With Thrive Leads you are able to show certain offers on specific pages, within certain categories on your website, and vice versa you are also able to choose not to show certain offers on certain pages, categories, etc.
So let’s say you have a website about dogs. You have many different categories and let’s say that one category is on “dog tricks” and another is on “dog toys”. You could set up offers for some dog trick e-book to be displayed on the pages that fall into the “dog tricks” category and you could set up offers for some awesome dog toy to be displayed on pages that fall into the “dog toys” category.
So in a nutshell you can display highly targeted offers which will definitely convert better than just one site-wide offer.
#4 – A/B Split Testing… Holy Crap This Is Important
Something else that you aren’t going to see with any free exit pop plug-in, or at least none that I know of, is the ability to do A/B split testing. With split testing you are able to test different designs against each other and see which leads to better conversions.
What you could do is create two totally different pop-up boxes and see which converts better, which is what many people do. Or you could also create one pop-up box, make a duplicate of it, make some minor changes to it, and test between the two.
What Thrive Leads will do is display the two different pop-up boxes to an equal number of visitors and see which converts the best… Then you can simply select the one that converts better to be displayed.
Exit pops alone are going to be able to increase your conversions, and split testing is going to further optimize your exit pops so that they increase your conversions even more.
I found a nice tutorial video for setting up Thrive Leads on YouTube that you can see below. This will give you a better idea of what all has to offer and, if you do get it, how you will go about creating these pop-up boxes…
The Cost.. Is It Worth It?
The way prices work is you can purchase licenses for a certain number of websites. One license is good for use on one website. The prices are as follows…
1 License – $67
5 Licenses – $97
15 Licenses – $147
They also have a Thrive Membership where you get access to 25 licenses along with all of the different plug-ins and themes that Thrive Themes creates, which as I said are all focused on increasing website conversions. This costs $19 per month and is what I personally have.
So Is It Worth The Price?
For many and many others it definitely was, but the answer to this question really depends on your website. You’re getting some traffic that you think could be converting better, then this plug-in could easily pay for itself in a short period of time.
However, if you are getting only, let’s say 20 visitors a day to your website, then this probably isn’t going to produce very noticeable results and it might take you a while to recoup your investment.
Final Thoughts
Exit pops are one of the easiest and best ways to increase website conversions that I know of. It is like turning on a light switch. If I were to turn off the exit pops on my websites right now I would see an immediate decrease in conversions, I know this for a fact because I have done it.
The bottom line is that exit pops do work and that Thrive Leads is the best plug-in that I know of for creating one that are really good-looking and high converting.
It is also worth noting that Thrive Themes offers very good support for people who purchased Thrive Leads. This is one of the upsides to paying for a premium plug-in like this… You get all the support you need so that you don’t have to worry about glitches, technical problems, not knowing how to do something, etc.
So anyways… I hope you enjoyed this post and found it helpful. If you aren’t already using exit pops then you should give it a try. You can check out Thrive Leads on the official website here if you want to purchase.
Bitcoin Profit is said to be in opportunity to make millions in the crypto markets… Even when they are crashing, but is it really? Or is Bitcoin Profit a scam that you should be avoiding?
This is a question everyone should be asking themselves after coming across this system. I have come across so many different systems/programs out there that claim to do one thing, but fall short, or are just complete scams. So it is good that you are doing the extra research and questioning whether or not this place is actually legitimate.
In this review I’ll be going over a few things that you should know. But I’ll get straight to the point here… This looks like your pretty typical cryptocurrency trading software SCAM. I’ve reviewed plenty of the scams before in that shows many of the common cryptocurrency scam signs.
What Is Bitcoin Profit?
Bitcoin Profit is supposedly some awesome new cryptocurrency trading software that was developed by young man named John Mayers. It is claimed to run on some breakthrough algorithm that can make you a bunch of money, even when the market is crashing. Now if it can do this then this is definitely a trading software that I want for myself… But from what I see this is just a bunch of BS.
You probably came across the website and watched the video presentation. They lead you to believe that “everyone who has invested in bitcoin in recent years has made millions”. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact… I have invested in bitcoin and I have not made millions from it. And there are plenty more out there like me.
This statement is very easily disproven. All you have to do is go on a site like CoinMarketCap and you can see Bitcoin’s trend over the years. As you can see, it has been going downhill since the beginning of 2018, which means a lot of people have lost money… A lot of money.
Now that we cleared that statement up, which is a obvious lie, who also agrees that the video testimonials seem to be fake? You know… The ones like this guy who claims to have made $65,342 over the last month with this trading software?…
They just don’t seem genuine to me.
Adding to this, I was reading another review of Bitcoin Profit in they actually found that the guy pictured below, he was also featured in one of the video testimonials, is actually a paid actor that is available for hire on Fiverr. What this means is that he is just saying what he got paid to say. He never actually use the system and never actually made any money with it.
This is a major red flag. If the system were really that great, and people really were making thousands of dollars per day with it, then it should be super easy to get people to make testimonial videos for it. They should be ecstatic to do so.
Free Trading Software?
Moving on…. Why would this trading software be free? This is something that is very strange and is also a very common characteristic of a scam.
Yes… There are some great things out there that are free, but this is rare and when you do come across some system that claims to be you tons of money like this, and it is free, this should definitely raise concern.
Just think about it… Why would anyone be giving this away for free? This is not a sustainable business model at all. After all, it had to of cost the creators and lot of money developing the system and this breakthrough new algorithm. It would also cost money keeping it running and up-to-date.
Not to mention that a system like this, which supposedly generates thousands of dollars per day on autopilot, could easily sell for tens of thousands of dollars.
How They Scam You… It Ain’t Free!
While the software itself is free to use, you will have to take out your wallet and fork over some money… $250 minimum.
Why do you have to do this? Well of course you have to fund your trading account before the software can start making trades for you.
One thing that is strange about this is that there is a minimum deposit of $250. Why such a minimum deposit? When it comes to cryptocurrency trading there is definitely no need to have $250 to trade with. I am actually an active trader and have been trading on multiple different cryptocurrency exchanges for the past nine months. There is no exchange I’ve ever come across that requires any minimum amount even close to $250.
To make things even worse… For some reason many of the scams I have come across require a $250 minimum deposit. I don’t know why they all require this number, but I just know this is the way it is.
So Many Scams Like This Out There
One thing you have to realize is that there are dozens and dozens of scams like this out there. Don’t think that just because the website looks professional and it appears to be legitimate, that it actually is.
Something strange that I have noticed is that most of the scams look eerily similar. They all have the same basic layout and are all set up in the same way… Which leads me to believe that they are probably all run by the same group of scammers.
What it is likely going on is that once one scam becomes too well known for being a scam, they simply re-brand the same scam system under a different logo and name, make a few other changes, and then promote it as something entirely new.
No Need For a Broker!.. This Is Important
When it comes to trading cryptocurrencies there is no need for a broker. This is something that is very important to know because it will help keep you safe from a lot of different scams out there.
When you come across some software, or system that supposedly can make you rich off of cryptocurrency, and they refer you to deposit your money with some broker, as does Bitcoin Profit, then immediately leave the website… Because it is a scam.
There just isn’t any need for a broker with cryptocurrencies… Simple as that. Any legitimate cryptocurrency trading software should be able to hook up to an exchange via API. So basically what should happen is you should be able to create your own cryptocurrency trading account on an exchange, such as Binance and Bittrex, and then give the trading software access to your account with API keys that you can generate within your account.
I have never seen any legitimate cryptocurrency trading software that does works like this software claims to work.
The Reason Behind This All
Of course I haven’t actually tested this software help for myself, so you could say that I am just guessing, but if so then this is a very educated guess because I have seen many known scams that are set up in the same exact way.
What is more than likely going on here is that the scammers who created this Bitcoin Profit scam are receiving commissions when they refer people to deposit money to the brokers. The brokers they refer you to in the scammers that created the software are working together to scam you.
Also… The brokers these places refer you to our often unregulated and if you do end up depositing your money with them there is little chance you will ever get that back. There are chargeback services out there, such as MyChargeBack, that help you get your money back when you have been scammed, but even with them there’s a good chance you will never see that money again.
Final Thoughts – Scam!
This review was pretty easy for me to write because this is your pretty typical cryptocurrency trading software scam. Everything about it looks like a scam to me. Usually when I go into review a system like this I keep a pretty open minded and look for any reason that it could potentially be legitimate. All I found when doing my research was more reasons that this is more than likely a scam.
Invest in this if you want to, but I certainly am not going to recommend it to anyone reading this… Of course unless you like to get scammed, which I’m guessing you don’t.
Future advice I would like to give you is to always do your research when it comes to money making opportunities like this that seem a little bit too good to be true. And don’t just do a little bit of research because there are some people out there who write good reviews of scam products/systems because they are getting paid to help sucker people into them.
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I saved this to the end to show you, but actually recognized that these people were paid actors as soon as I saw them in the sales video. How? Well… I have seen them in multiple other “make money online” programs that have turned out to be scams.
