This is not an Affiliate Resurrection Review
About a year ago, I signed up for Affiliate X, which is a website that specializes in Clickbank product research. They offered all sorts of upsells, like half-baked website templates plus, if you get on their list, you’ll be bombarded with emails hawking the latest Internet Marketing “frauduct.” Basically, the guys that run this site only want to make a quick buck and do not give a rats ass what they are pushing to people on their list. All they want is the commission.
Here’s one of the emails that I got:
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If you click on the link, you get this message:
This site is no longer in service or has been disabled due to a terms of service violation.
Este sitio ya no está en servicio o ha sido desactivado debido a violaciones en las condiciones del servicio.
Diese Seite ist außer Betrieb und wurde wegen Missbrauch unserer Verordnung gesperrt.
Ce site n’est plus en service ou a été disconnecté par suite de violation des termes du service.
This was sent to me about 8 days ago.
In the last three days, AffiliateX has been pushing a new product called Affiliate Resurrection.
Can You Make Big Money with Affiliate Resurrection
I’ve gotten emails with subject headings like:
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If you go to the site, it is your classic Internet-Marketing-Product-from-Clickbank-ad:
- the Powerpoint video presentation, with a paid actor reading the slides, that goes on forever.
- Big bold hand-written text, with lots of red, yellow highlights, circles and arrows everywhere.
- Proof with screen shots and video of how much commissions he’s earned in just a few days using his method after starting with nothing.
- Exclamations about how the author is upset with all these get-rich-quick-with-internet-marketing schemes
- Pictures of the good life like the big house and some exotic vacation spot
- Image of fake software package
- Official-looking certificate detailing the risk free money back guarantee.
- Cutting the price from thousands of dollars to just $49
- “Free bonus”
- If you try to leave the site, a message asking you not to leave without taking a look at a special offer ( in this case, an opportunity to get on his list and get bombarded with more crap plus $10 off his product)
- If you decide to buy it, you get hit with a number of upsells (if the product is good by itself, why the need for all that other stuff?)
Here are the upsells, according to a poster on the warrior forum:
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As for the product itself, the ad claims that this is software, but according to the posters at the warrior forum, it is just a series of 5 to 10 minutes videos. Here’s the description from one of the members:
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The bottom line is that you will probably get more value from some of the free blogs and forums that are out there. Warrior forum is a good place as well as digital point. It’s amazing that people actually make crap like this.
Anik Singal’s Profit Jackpot: An Honest Review
Anik Singal is well known in the internet marketing community for producing half-assed products that don’t work very well. He’s good at talking up his product as the end all and be all, only to offer upsells that will really make your system complete. On top of that, Anik will send you every other day an email hawking someone else’s internet marketing product.
I’ve purchased two of his products, PPC classroom and another one that helped you to build websites quickly. PPC classroom was laid out pretty well, but you can get better info at the Warrior Forum. That other one was just plain garbage. The interface was cluncky and it created very ugly websites. oh well. I quickly got a refund for that.
Anway, a few months ago, Anik Singal released Profit Jackpot. The landing page featured an annoying video with shaky camera shots, fast edits and switching between black and white and color footage. Of course, Anik talked about how all these push-button internet marketing products (that he probably promoted himself) are all hype and lies.
But Anik states that Profit Jackpot, which is a type of autoblogging system, is the real deal and will help you to make money for the long term.
Basically you set up sites that scrapes content from other sites like Youtube and article sites. Here are some comments I found at the warrior forum:
. . .the software was violating Youtube’s TOS in more than one way, not to mention that by disabling the links back to the article directories the software was scraping, we were also violating the TOS of those sites.
Their reply was that they had been building sites with the software for several months without any problem so don’t worry. . .
He uses this technique to disguise the fact his software really isn’t very impressive at all, even at $47. It’s just a scrape and spam tool like all the rest of these automated solutions. I guess this goes one step further by lifting comments (from YouTube?) which will only serve to make the search engines wary of all blog commentary, if enough of this garbage floods the net.
One positive comment though not much:
. . .The other site I put up in a tougher golfing niche to see how it would go without any backlinking or anything. Its getting there, but not for the tough keywords yet – mostly long tail stuff. This site is making a few bucks per week in AdWords revenue because the golf niche has pretty high CPC rates. . . as Autobloggers go, this one was ok. . .I’m at the point of dropping of his lists because its just rubbish swipe copy emails for terrible products . . .
Great comments. It’s probably a good idea to visit these forums to check out the opinions of people who have used it. You will get a good balance of whether a product really works as promised.
Salty Droid: Screwing the Internet Marketing Syndicate
There’s a really cool site called The Salty Droid. It’s dedicated to attacking popular internet marketers and self help gurus. It’s quite inciteful and very entertaining. I found this site through one of the forums I frequent. It goes on to bash such IM & Self Help gurus like Frank Kern, Mike Koenigs, Anthony Robbins, and his current target, James Ray.
The stuff in there is quite amazing, but there are a couple of post in there that are just plain shocking.
Main Street Marketing Machines :: Fusion ShitStorm
This post has actual recordings of IM gurus Mike Koenigs, Frank Kern, Trey Smith and Andy Jenkins discussing ways to basically scam people in paying thousands of dollars for what sounds like a half-ass product.
And here’s another post featuring conversation between Jeff Walker and Andy Jenkins as they planning something called the Video Boss.
Awesome stuff. We highly recommend you check this site out if you do anything in Internet Marketing.
Bombarded with Blueprint Project Black
Blueprint Project Black by Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton launched on Jan 11. How do I know? I’ve been bombarded with emails from all the Internet Marketing Gurus offering a bonus and all that good stuff. I probably got at least ten or so within the last few days, mostly from the same people. As Jeff Johnson would say, these emails have “rock-solid” content. I thought I just copy and paste some of them after the jump:
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Good Ole’ Jeff Johnson Needs Your Help
If you are not familiar, Jeff Johnson is one of the big time Internet Gurus. He claims to have made millions and millions of dollars through affiliate marketing and e-commerce properties. Jeff Johnson charges thousands of dollars for his courses and seminars and appears to be on top of the world. However, despite that, he probably sends the most emails that hawk internet marketing products.
Most of the emails are worded as if the content he is referring us to are free, but it will usually cost an email address, or perhaps a cliffhanger at the end tempting us to pay to get the Big Secret.
After awhile you start to wonder if you are paying thousands for the privilege of buying stuff from him.
Anyway, the most annoying emails that he sends out are the ones that ask for a favor. These favors are visiting a website or signing up for something so that he could be number one in whatever. Here’s his most recent one:
I have new content coming your way later tonight or tomorrow.
But right now I could use your help in a big way…
I’m still number one overall… but the weekend contest ends in just a few hours and I’d love to take back the lead and win the contest (I love to win!).So if you could help me out by signing up to watch these free tutorials with my link I’d really appreciate.And please feel free to pass my link along to your friends, that would be a big help as well.Don’t worry… The content is rock-solid and the guys behind are my personal friends.And it’s free.Either way I apprecate your time and I’ll be sending out some new content by tomorrow.Please request this free training or pass it along to your friends:
It’s like people are paying him so that we can do HIM favors like this. Irritating. It sounds to me that all that other stuff that he claims to be success in is a lot of bunk and all he does is make his money through selling internet marketing products via his lists.
Another thing that annoys me is he loves to use “ROCK SOLID CONTENT” in his pitch as in the example above.