AUSSIE vs RAMS

So you have seen them both on the TV and you are well aware that John Symond will tell you that at Aussie “we’ll save you” and of course there’s Ram’s with that sheep that sticks his head into things when it comes to getting a good deal on a home loan.

But you are probably wondering who is cheaper Aussie Home Loans or Rams?

Before we discover the answer to that question, lets get a rough understanding as to how these “mortgage brokers” can get you a better deal than going directly to the banks (which is where the money or loan comes from) and some of the traps to watch out for, as sometimes the wolf can appear in “sheep’s clothing” no pun intended here.

The basic answer is the mortgage broker is buying loan deals in bulk and passing on the savings to you the borrower. With their collective buying power they are able to negotiate a better deal on your behalf.

One of the things to watch out for though when you are being guided by your mortgage broker, is what is the “commission” they are getting from the banks. It is crucial to get this up front before you sign up for the “perfect home loan” for you. To find out about the “Brokers Who Have a Lend of You” click here.

The commission or fee structure can be made up of more than just an initial fee the banks pay them but can contain “on going” commissions for years to come. With this in mind, the sly broke could be tempted to get you into a mortgage that will suit him or her more than it will suit you.

So get it clear up front you want to see the structure of initial and ongoing fees they will be making from doing business with you.

Here is an article where you can wish up to their deceptive tricks, but for now lets get to the crux of the matter: “Where am I going to get the best deal, Aussie or Rams”?

The simple answer here is that one company is cheaper than both of these two brokers. Both Aussie and Rams pour millions of dollars into TV advertising in an attempt to out do each other in the brand stakes. The only problem is here, that the money for these expensive ad campaigns has to come from somewhere. Well you know what that’s not all. Who do you think pays for the expensive luxury yachts you see these big boys floating about on Sydney harbour? It comes from you through higher fees.

To get the best deal on your home loan, when you are armed with the knowledge of how to tackle the mortgage broker, is to find a company that has a low profile and doesn’t spend money on expensive TV commercials. eChoice is one such company and they claim to have a more streamlined process that not only makes the whole box and dice of getting the right home loan for your situation but they claim to be cheaper than both Aussie and Rams.

eChoice can give more money back to you the borrower because they don’t have to pay for fancy toys or TV ads and you are the big winner. Even getting them to come to you is easy and doesn’t cost you a cent to get a look at what loan might be right for you. You might be thinking eChoice “never heard of ‘em” well neither had I until recently and you know what that is probably a good thing – No TV Ad – No Extra Expensive to come out of my pocket.

So if you want to avoid having to pay too much for a home loan steer clear of the expensive mortgage brokers like Aussie and Rams and click this link to find out more about how easy and cheaper the eChoice home loan selector can be.

Well where do we begin with this one? Affiliate X by some guy called Chris who is reported as making over $5 million in Clickbank alone.

If you are anything like me you will have probably been alerted to Affiliate X by an email from a (trusted?) source? Am I right? Well that is how I got to first look into what Affiliate X was all about. I received an email from the guys who run, (well I won’t mention them but lets just say I once trusted them until it turned out their product didn’t work but I stayed on their list just to see what other stuff they were trying push), and decided to check out the Affiliate X sales page.

Nothing new about the approach, all the things you come to expect from one of these, “oh but I am not a Guru, just a regular guy” gurus with all these millions they have made. The promises to make instant income to the tune of hundreds if not thousands of dollars a day is fairly typical and the sales page does sound very convincing.

A new trend I am seeing emerge is the “I am changing my career from affiliate marketer so now it’s your turn, as I am into software now…” approach.

This attempts to convince people that “oh he has had his share and now it is my turn” type of psychology but if you look behind the scenes you will discover what is really going on.

Let me explain it this way, if these guys can convince you that they have stepped out of the way, and have allowed you as the next guy to come in on their coat tails, especially if they can fast track you there with some software, then you would be convinced right? Maybe or maybe not. But I can tell you what, it is a lot easier to get money out of your pocket on a regular basis if you are on what these guys call a “continuity program”, that is they are continuing to charge you each month, which in this case is what happens with Affiliate X.

So if all this looks like it is stacked in the favour of Mr Chris X then you may be wondering why I would be looking at it in the first place. Good question.

I run my own SEO company, (search engine optimization for the uninitialed, which incidentally is what you need if you are to get into the affiliate game) and one of the promises on the sales page for Affiliate X was the lure of getting all of Chris X’s trade secrets wound up in his software package that takes the hard work or guess work out of the equation and all of this is with “Free Traffic”.

I was inquizitive at this point to see if his software generated SEO traffic for me, as when it comes to traffic there is no such thing as “Free Traffic”. Sure you will turn up in the Google organic results but they are no means free. Yes Google sponsored links “Adwords” ads cost you money each time someone clicks on the ad while the organic side does not. But to get you site to rank highly in the top 3 spots or even just anywhere on the front page, is by no means free at all.

SEO is hard work no questions about it. Long hard work, and this is with all the software assistance you can get your hands on. So when he makes such a claim I am skeptical at best and outraged at worst. So what did I do next?

I Bought Affiliate X and then….

Then I decided that I had to buy a copy and see for myself what this was made up of.

Once inside you will notice the “tone” is a whole lot less pushy and Chris does a pretty good job of explaining what his program is all about, which is more than a lot of these guys do. So many times I have bought someones product to find myself lost in volumes of manuscripts or pages of confusing instructions. So well done on the layout, pretty good, but something a lot more sinister lies behind the slick facade.

The most crucial bit of research you need to do when preparing your affiliate campaigns, has to do with “Keyword Research”. Get the keywords wrong and your entire prospect of making money is dismantled. It’s a bit like picking up an incorrect map and heading off in the wrong direction to only find out your are lost when it is too late. (You need to have two things: Google Keyword Tool and Market Samurai, one is free the other is a one time cost but worth every last penny you will pay for it. period)

Your keywords are the absolute pinnacle of your success foundations. Sure there is work to be done once you get the right keywords but get them wrong and it does not matter what you do with poor planning and you are toast.

SO it comes as a big shock to find that for the very top rated of the Top 100 Clickbank products, the top keyword was one that would get you just one click a day IF and only you were at the top of Google, No#1 ranked for the keyword. My video above explains in detail how I did my keyword research and came up with the numbers using the indispensible tools of Google Keyword Tool and Market Samurai.

To me this is a major warning sign that Chris has gotten this program way wrong. Worthy notion but a miserable failure in my books if after all the backlinking efforts (and believe me they are considerable for this keyword, “maverick moneymakers review”) that you were to get just one click. With the average sale or conversion rate of just 1% or 1 in a hundred, you would be there for a very long time expecting your seo efforts to bring in just $30 commission. At one click a day, that would be over 3 months to make a single sale.

I am a professional seo expert and I run my own search engine optimization company, HeliumSEO.com and this is how I know what I do about how much a waste of time and money Affiliate X is. To the uninitiated it all sounds so good, and looks just great. So what about all those “other” reviews claiming how great this product is? Where do they come from? Well no surprises here, people will tell you anything to make a sale, get used to that in this industry.

Incidently this is why I do so well with people who join my blogs, I tell it how it is. No bs, just the truth.

So if Affiliate X is no good, then is there a way to find out about affiliate marketing without getting burnt?

The answer is yes…

Now if you are somewhat advanced or intermediate with your knowledge of affiliate marketing and are struggling to get over the hump to quit your day job income, then you simple must try to join up with James Schramko.

James started out as a super successful luxury car marketer, ($300k per year) who left it all behind to do affiliate marketing full time. He only did this when he had equaled his day job pay packet, so he knows exactly what he is doing in this game. His teaching is advanced, so not the best place to start. And well he only takes on people who have been recommended by a friend to his Super Fast Results forum. Even with an invite it is join the waiting list to see if a spot comes up to be allowed to get in.

He charges $97 bucks a month, so you need to be advanced enough to be able to put his techniques into practice straight away to make your investment worthwhile. He does offer a trial of just $39 for the first 30 days so you can check out whether or not it is for you. You can decide if his training is what you are after.

In my membership time with James which was for about 6 months I was able to hone my skills on several income streams that will pay for my membership 10 x over, and then some. I am no longer a member as my skills have enabled me to work on the internet full time now, so if you join you’re not going to be there forever. There are however so many professionals in this forum, it is awesome and I apologize in advance if you can’t get it. James keeps the numbers to a limit to enable full attention to his existing members. One of the cool things with his forum is that they have Mastermind meetings in many of the major cities around the world, so that you can meet up to network with other like minded affiliate marketers.

Bottom line: Stay well clear of Affilate X, not worth it although it looks the part, there are far better ways to get there than this half baked piece of software. Also just one tip from James has seen me make $80k per year in one part of my business that I was overlooking the potential. So for me the answer is clear, skip Affiliate X and most of the other scams out and get yourself to a group of folks who can help you to tell the difference between a phony/fake and the real deal.

Super Fast Results Anybody?

In the world of Internet Marketing there lies the lure of a great lifestyle. No more day job – gone, no more daily commute – gone, no more bills to pay with credit cards that are over the limit – gone, no more living in the stingey rented apartment with rats dropping out of the ceiling – gone! All gone in an instant, or so many of the IM gurus would have you believe – “Just sign here on the bottom line sonny and all these riches can be yours”!

All you have to do is grab this piece of super secret software, plug it in and press the button to instantly create the money spitting ATM in your bedroom that you just can’t stop – even if you tried!

If you have been around the block a few times with the likes of the plethora of these modern day snake oil salesmen, I think you will have a solid feeling of tongue in cheek right now.

Sure the sales copy is good – most of the time it has taken over your good judgment by a stealth form of hypnotism called NLP. It could be fair to say that at the moment of delusion when you purchased that latest and greatest widget you were “out of your mind” – literally, not in a sound state to make a well informed decision. Such is the power of professionally structured sales copy that many of these marketers employ, at times costing them $10,000 for just one sales letter.

I recently came across one of these modern day wonder workers by the name of James Schramko. He runs an Internet marketing forum that goes by the name of SuperFastResults.com. Doing a little research on the guy via Google brings up a whole swag of reference, paying tribute to James’ obvious rapid rise to success in this fairly crowded market of Internet Marketing super geniuses. His background is in car sales, no he was not a used car salesman but a high-end luxury car marketing executive on a $300k per year salary, that most people would drool over. James left it all behind him when he went full time as an Internet Marketer about 2 years ago. I am not going to mention any names but there are quiet a few of the big boys who are backing up this chap, do a search and you will see what I mean.

My own introduction to James was through a lady I met at the Bill Glazer “Outrageous Advertising” event in Orlando Florida in January of this year, many thousands of miles (kilometres) from my home in Sydney Australia. Her name was Catherine Maley and she runs a marketing company specializing in the plastic surgeon industry, we met up after my presentation on “You Suck, Unless You’re No#1 on Google”. She said to me, “Hey Greg, I see you come from Australia, I know someone from there you should meet”.

I thought to myself, yeah right, so where is this guy, Australia is a big place? “Oh somewhere on the coast, maybe near you?”. OK, the coast is big too, but you know what he happened to live just around the corner from me. Couldn’t believe I had an Internet Super Affiliate in my virtual backyard.

I hooked up with James for a coffee a couple of weeks back and he invited me to join his forum, which is incidentally by invite only (I was previously on the waiting list from Catherine’s invite) as he is a man of quality more so than quantity when it comes to helping out budding IMer’s like myself. He has a $1 trial for 7 days and within that time I was able to listen to and download some truly outstanding content on setting up systems to work more efficiently and effectively. The real winner from what I have discovered so far has been the webinar on making “Fast Cash”. I have at least 10 new models now to work into my existing SEO business to help my clients get better and faster results in the search engine stakes to help them drive higher profits.

There is around 100 or so very active members in this forum which makes it very personal, as most people seem to be helping each other out by sharing ideas and valuable experiences. I have only been in this forum for a week now but I have to say that I am very impressed with what I have learnt, things that would have taken me years to figure out on my own, (if I was even that smart) or maybe never learnt at all. There is simply no replacement for the valuable knowledge of people who are doing it themselves, right now. All the sales hype and testimonials you will read can never be a satisfying substitute for the real thing.

Well I don’t know if James is going to open this up for any of my readers, so sorry if you go there to www.SuperFastResults.com and find the doors shut, but at least you can get on the waiting list and enjoy some free things in the meantime. Who knows you just might get a lucky shot in like I did, even if this nice guy James Schramko doesn’t live just around your corner, you never know your luck, as the Internet makes the world a very small place just the same.

PS. Am I an instant success and bathing in a tub of 100 dollar bills yet? At the time of this writing, it has been a week since joining the forum and if you think you can make it that fast then I suggest you look elsewhere for some snake oil because as fast as James’ tactics are, they are not going to make you a million dollars next, but stick with this guy’s plan and do everything he teaches and yes you will ultimately be able to get to 6 figures and beyond.

PPS. I will keep you posted on my progress.

Ok, so you have heard about a guy called Mark Ling and his Affilorama website
and you are wondering is he just another scam artist about to syphon off more
of your hard earned cash.

I have been a member of his website since the beginning of 2009 and I have
personally gained a lot of information that has helped me make more money online
than I did before I joined his site. Unlike so many other internet marketers
who try to con you to join by long winded sales pages with endless lists of
testimonials, Mark Ling
from Affilorama is of a different bread altogether.

His membership site is free and you can benefit straight away from over 85
free videos. I have had a lot of really good audios and webinars that have
also been free that have helped me learn the ropes as an affiliate marketer.

As a free member I was able to download audios and listen while commuting
to work and was able to take a lot of helpful notes that have made me money
since putting the techniques into practice. He holds regular webinars that
provide excellent information for those wanting to get started earning money
online, and who don’t want to spend a small fortune trying to figure it all
out.

From the affilorama free membership I have learnt the following:

1. The exact formula for determining what a worthwhile keyword is and how
   to avoid going after the wrong keywords.
2. I have learnt where to go and find a “hot niche” of hungry buyers,
   this one is especially helpful, as trying to sell the wrong products can
   be soul destroying after putting in all the hard work to get traffic to your
   affilate pages that doesn’t convert.
3. Just how much effort it requires to do well online, and how to get started.

So is Mark Ling and Affilorama just another scam, well no way. Join for free
and keep your cash to invest in the other tools you will need to become a succesful
online marketer.

These things that I learned and so much more are what you can pick up for
free when you register at the affilorama
website.
Go and check it out today and learn like I did, you will not regret it. I can’t
recommend the guy more highly.

Well many of you are probably aware of an internet marketer by the name of
Russell Brunson, what many are probably not aware of is just how honest this
guy really is.

If you have been to his websites and seen his clean cut image and pleasant
natured videos, then you are going to agree with me that he looks perhaps a
little too sqeaky clean. You have possibly noticed all the family orientated
imagery carefully placed in the background of his video footage and maybe this
looks a little chessy as well. Feeling a little suspicious? Well I was, I have
to admit.

All these things are visual clues to who Russell Brunson truely is but can
they be trusted? Have you done any business with this man or are you thinking
about buying one of his products? Maybe you have seen the Micro C or micro
continuity website he has had up for a few months and you are wondering
just how well can this guy be trusted. If so, you should consider reading on
to the end of my article, to get a clearer picture of just how trust worthy
this guy really is or isn’t.

For starters, I was very impressed with the idea of promoting with free information.
It always captures people’s attention and for obvious reasons, people just
love free stuff. So the idea of the "Free Video Reveals…" hook
is certainly a good one, but the notion of giving away a free cd is quite novel
and I had not seen this approach before.

The cd is not totally free as you have to pay for shipping, and in my case
that meant shipping to a non US country on the otherside of the globe. This
also threw up an obstacle as the postage to my country was 4 x times the US
shipping fee. But I thought what the heck his info seems good and I guess it’s
got to be worth $20 bucks and not the advertised $4.95.

So off went my credit card cha-ching and then I waited for delivery of not
a CD but an ipod. It was supposed to be stacked with free info so I waited
very anxiously for it to arrive. Now I am a fairly patient kind of a guy, but
after one month of it not turning up I began to feel as if I was the subject
of a con.

I made several calls to their help desk, ticket system and they repeatedly
promised that it would come.

Can a Guy That Looks This Good Really Be Trusted?

So I waited some more and another month went by, but still no shipment.

I made more calls and they made more promises, they all seemed so nice about
it as well, so I couldn’t really figure out why my product had not shipped.

Then the thought occurred to me, that perhaps it was not a rip off or rort
but I had given them my postal box address instead of my home address? Well
I couldn’t remember so I decided that instead of calling international again,
I would just visit my post box.

Many visits but still no delivery, ooh oh, I have been conned, or so I thought.
But then on my most recent visit to the post office I found that they had notices
of a package for me and the late notices had been stacking up for a few months.
Had I been that busy that I forgot to check it in a couple of months?

Well the answer is yes, you see I got hold of Russells info with an immediate
download as soon as I purchased the "Free" ipod + shipping deal.
I had been listening to his seminar audios all 8 hours worth, on my daily commute
for all that time I had been waiting and I must say this lead me to forget
about the ipod.

You know I even thought to myself, "Hey if that ipod doesn’t turn up, I don’t
care, as I have had such good value from Russell’s instant downloads that I
forgive him for stuffing it up.

Well egg on my face, he didn’t stuff up, it
was me all along. And you know what when I finally got the package, it was
not one but two ipods, as they had immediately sent a second one for no extra
charge when I first notified them of it not having arrived. Now I have two
presents I can give my nephews this Christmas along with a stack of valuable
information that I have already put to good use and made money from with my
affiliate product promotions, (I learn how to attract massive traffic to my
websites and how to convert those visitor to paying customers, all from his
free 8 hours of auido – is he giving away too much here?) so I guess you could
say that on the question of whether or not Russsell Brunson delivers, the truth
is he actually over delivers.

Click here to
learn more about Russell Brunson and his Micro Continuity Websites, now that you know a bit more about this internet nice guy.

Part 2 of the Maverick Money Makers Report:

Maverick Money Makers 2 Months On

The first thing you notice about the “Club” in Maverick Money Makers when you join is that this is a very professional looking website. Most of the information is presented by Mack Michaels by video. He has a pleasant manner and is easy to listen to, but and this is a a big but, “BUT” the promises that Mack Michaels makes on the sales page for the Maverick Money Makers product are not delivered upon.

Period.

More Disappointing Details About Maverick Money Makers and The So Called “Club”

Mack goes to great length to prove his legitimacy and his earnings in the video on the Millnic Media affiliate network site (on the sales page), and he even gives you a so called secret about how to market ringtones. He takes you on a walk through the Adwords process and creates an ad for you to copy and place on the Content Network on Google, so you can start making money hand over fist. Only problem is that if you follow his example Google will not even run the ad he shows you. Google have very strict guidelines on what you can and cannot say in a Mobile Content ad. You must mention the cost of the service in the ad, so if you are promoting a ringtone service for Jamster, like I tried to do, you will have your ad disapproved. Even after going to the trouble of registering a domain name, www.ringtonefastfind.com and settting up my own ringtones on the site for free, Google insisted on me displaying the pay-cost which was only one part of my site, in my ad. That is Google’s rules and Mack mentions nothing of this.

The Secret Ringtone Ad That Doesn’t Work

You would have to ask yourself, has he even tried this? Or is has this rule been implemented by Google since he made his video and placed his information on his website? I guess it is possible, since after searching the Google Adwords Help forum, I found a post that was only dated in March of 2009. Still Mack should know this and not be continuing to display outdated and incorrect information on his website if he is as genuine as he claims to be.

The other thing that got my Google Ad initially banned was a 301 .htaccess redirect to the Jamster website, this is known as direct linking. Uh-uh. NO can do, but Mack seems to think you can, Google ban your ad immediately, so another cause for alarm. I have yet to even get a single click on my ads as they have not even given impressions and I have had the Cost Per Click set as high as $2.00 a click, so what goes on here with this niche is yet to be uncovered.

This IS The Real Disappointment With Maverick Money Makers

The one thing that Mack Michaels promises to do he fails to deliver upon. Mack goes to great length once again, to prove that he is the real deal and that unlike those other Internet Marketing Gurus, he is going to show you exactly how he has made his $2.6 million dollars. Well he doesn’t even come close. He shows you the money, so to speak on the sales page and promises to show you in every minute detail, What he is Promoting, How he is Promoting it and Where he is Promoting it. But once inside nothing. Zero. Zilch.

Inside the “Club” there is absolutely nothing that uncovers what you saw on the outside in the Millnic Media website. He does hint that Ringtones is number #3 on his special hit list in the sales page video but no further elaboration on ringtones or the other #1 and #2 secret markets in Millnic. I joined Millnic myself and discovered what he is probably making his money out of, if indeed his video is no FAKE but real, (in which case why is being so benevolent and creating this so called club) and that is sex related products and adult dating (read immoral, “Life is Short.Why not have an affair?” dating sites), horoscopes and diet pills. If that is OK with you and personally it is not with me, then I guess that is fine for you but I choose not to make my living in that way.

So with nothing explained you are left with a bunch of semi helpful videos and at worst a lot of PLR (private label rights) materials from places like PLRPro which you could purchase yourself for a whole lot less than what he is charging per month.

The “Club” – I Say What Club?

The last time I went to a club I meet other people and formed relationships based on mutual interests. Not this club, there is not another soul in sight. If it was a club then there would be a forum for members to exchange ideas, but no nothing like this at all. Mack promises to make his email address available once inside the club but once again, no such thing exists. You can submit a ticket that is answered in a day or two but no access to Mack at all.

On the subject of raising a ticket, I opted for the VIP upgrade to the Club when I joined figuring that it made sense to be able to download the materials instead of just view them in the browser. Never used this part though, nothing worth dowloading for me. But the thing that really stinks of scam is the email that comes a couple of days after joining the VIP program requesting you to ring up and book a VIP Advisor Interview. This sounded good, as I thought I could get the inside information from a pro who could sort me through to my level of experience and I could get some of the secrets unlocked. Despite raising 2 or 3 tickets and making one phone call, I have to this date not had anyone ring me back. Maybe I slipped through the cracks, not sure but once again all promise and no delivery of the goods.

The VIP upgrade was an extra $47 dollars a month, my opinion don’t waste your money, even if you are just going to try out the rest of the site.

Summary Scam or Truth?

I could go on and on about how the appearance of quality content seems to make the Club worthwhile, if it wasn’t for the disappointment of everything I tried. One that really annoyed me was the Adbrite Mastery video, that went to great lengths in a walk through fashion for explaining how to set up a CPA offer, (cost per action) as an alternative to Google Adwords. After following each step to the letter, spending a couple of hours doing this, all my Adbrite Ads were disabled and deleted. Unlike Google, you can modify a disapproved ad, not on Adbrite, if it is disabled it is history.

The reason they gave was that the landing page cannot have exit popups of any kind. Everything in the Adbrite Mastery video was for a CPA offer that contained an exit popup. So all my work down the toilet and nothing mentioned by Mack at all on this. Makes me think that he doesn’t even use Adbrite at all. If he had at some point then he would have known this to be true. When I raised a ticket on this I was told to go and follow another tutorial on creating a Gateway Page. In other words a landing page for the ad, as a presell etc, and then a link from there to the CPA offer. But once again, completely against the idea of making money without a website, which Mack claims all the time being able to do. Another lie?

Well I am not going to say that Mack Michaels is a scammer but you have to decide that for yourself. Would someone who lies to you on their sales page be someone you would trust at all? He puts the “As seen on TV” and “Fox News” and other banners on his sales page to lend weight to his claims but if you Google his name and any of the companies mentioned, you get no results. Now if he had been on any of these media sites then why doesn’t he have a link to them? Probably because he is lying.

Another thing I fell for at first was the upsell on the way to the checkout when buying into the “Club”, to a thing he called “Project CPA” where he claims you could make $15,000 in a month. Naturally I was inquistive and thought “well a Clickbank product can get refund” so lets give it a try. Well you find out that what he is proposing is a fake ad scam to suck people into to joining up with a teleseminar software company (who incidently only allow other business to business companies access to their affiliate program, so if you are not one of those, then you can’t even do what he claims you can), so that when they have completed what they thought was a job interview with the free trial software, and then forget to cancel the subscription, get billed for it down the track. All the way through he claims to not be suggesting that anyone do this without legitimate reasons but really come on, this is exactly what he is suggesting.

I returned that one the next day for a full refund. This was my first alarm bell, but I continued giving him the benefit of the doubt, right up until the final days of claiming a full refund, just to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Don’t waste your time or money with Maverick Money Makers, it is just another rip off.

So Where Can I Learn Affiliate Marketing Without Getting Ripped Off?

There is a website run by truly successful affiliate marketer by the name of Mark Ling. The name of the site is Affilorama. Mark is a super affiliate New Zealander (don’t hold that against him ; ) who has made a lot of money working affiliate programs, he has a very thorough website that explains just how to do it good detail. Not as slick as the Maverick Money Makers site but what Mark recommends is real. No scams here. The best thing about his site is that it is free to join.

Unlike the so called “Club” this website does have a member area with a great user forum for you to learn from others and help others when you have figured something out. Is it a website that will uncover every detail down to the level of showing you a live campaign, the exact keywords used, the conversion rates and total money earned? Well no. You are never going to see that sort of detail anywhere for obvious reasons. If this sort of information was being sold and people were to copy it, then it would not take long before it became worthless. The whole idea of affiliate marketing and success is you finding a gold nugget and keeping it hidden. If you let it out in the open, then it’s value diminishes rapidly as everyone jumps on it. So forget the marketing hype you read today, will read tomorrow and the day after, this sort of info is never going to be sold. That is not to say it is not available, it is just that in order to succeed here, you must do what all others have done before you, work it out for yourself the long hard way. But if you can get some help that will speed things up to point of being 95% there quickly, then this is what sites like Affilorama are all about.

To visit Marc’s site, please click on this link, http://www.afilorama.com

Part 2 of the Maverick Money Makers Report:

Maverick Money Makers 2 Months On

The first thing you notice about the “Club” in Maverick Money Makers when you join is that this is a very professional looking website. Most of the information is presented by Mack Michaels by video. He has a pleasant manner and is easy to listen to, but and this is a a big but, “BUT” the promises that Mack Michaels makes on the sales page for the Maverick Money Makers product are not delivered upon.

Period.

 

More Disappointing Details About Maverick Money Makers and The So Called “Club” 

Mack goes to great length to prove his legitimacy and his earnings in the video on the Millnic Media affiliate network site (on the sales page), and he even gives you a so called secret about how to market ringtones. He takes you on a walk through the Adwords process and creates an ad for you to copy and place on the Content Network on Google, so you can start making money hand over fist. Only problem is that if you follow his example Google will not even run the ad he shows you. Google have very strict guidelines on what you can and cannot say in a Mobile Content ad. You must mention the cost of the service in the ad, so if you are promoting a ringtone service for Jamster, like I tried to do, you will have your ad disapproved. Even after going to the trouble of registering a domain name, www.ringtonefastfind.com and settting up my own ringtones on the site for free, Google insisted on me displaying the pay-cost which was only one part of my site, in my ad. That is Google’s rules and Mack mentions nothing of this.

The Secret Ringtone Ad That Doesn’t Work

You would have to ask yourself, has he even tried this? Or is has this rule been implemented by Google since he made his video and placed his information on his website? I guess it is possible, since after searching the Google Adwords Help forum, I found a post that was only dated in March of 2009. Still Mack should know this and not be continuing to display outdated and incorrect information on his website if he is as genuine as he claims to be.

The other thing that got my Google Ad initially banned was a 301 .htaccess redirect to the Jamster website, this is known as direct linking. Uh-uh. NO can do, but Mack seems to think you can, Google ban your ad immediately, so another cause for alarm. I have yet to even get a single click on my ads as they have not even given impressions and I have had the Cost Per Click set as high as $2.00 a click, so what goes on here with this niche is yet to be uncovered.

This IS The Real Disappointment With Maverick Money Makers

The one thing that Mack Michaels promises to do he fails to deliver upon. Mack goes to great length once again, to prove that he is the real deal and that unlike those other Internet Marketing Gurus, he is going to show you exactly how he has made his $2.6 million dollars. Well he doesn’t even come close. He shows you the money, so to speak on the sales page and promises to show you in every minute detail, What he is Promoting, How he is Promoting it and Where he is Promoting it. But once inside nothing. Zero. Zilch.

Inside the “Club” there is absolutely nothing that uncovers what you saw on the outside in the Millnic Media website. He does hint that Ringtones is number #3 on his special hit list in the sales page video but no further elaboration on ringtones or the other #1 and #2 secret markets in Millnic. I joined Millnic myself and discovered what he is probably making his money out of, if indeed his video is no FAKE but real, (in which case why is being so benevolent and creating this so called club) and that is sex related products and adult dating (read immoral, “Life is Short.Why not have an affair?” dating sites), horoscopes and diet pills. If that is OK with you and personally it is not with me, then I guess that is fine for you but I choose not to make my living in that way.

So with nothing explained you are left with a bunch of semi helpful videos and at worst a lot of PLR (private label rights) materials from places like PLRPro which you could purchase yourself for a whole lot less than what he is charging per month.

The “Club” – I Say What Club?

The last time I went to a club I meet other people and formed relationships based on mutual interests. Not this club, there is not another soul in sight. If it was a club then there would be a forum for members to exchange ideas, but no nothing like this at all. Mack promises to make his email address available once inside the club but once again, no such thing exists. You can submit a ticket that is answered in a day or two but no access to Mack at all.

On the subject of raising a ticket, I opted for the VIP upgrade to the Club when I joined figuring that it made sense to be able to download the materials instead of just view them in the browser. Never used this part though, nothing worth dowloading for me. But the thing that really stinks of scam is the email that comes a couple of days after joining the VIP program requesting you to ring up and book a VIP Advisor Interview. This sounded good, as I thought I could get the inside information from a pro who could sort me through to my level of experience and I could get some of the secrets unlocked. Despite raising 2 or 3 tickets and making one phone call, I have to this date not had anyone ring me back. Maybe I slipped through the cracks, not sure but once again all promise and no delivery of the goods.

The VIP upgrade was an extra $47 dollars a month, my opinion don’t waste your money, even if you are just going to try out the rest of the site.

Summary Scam or Truth?

I could go on and on about how the appearance of quality content seems to make the Club worthwhile, if it wasn’t for the disappointment of everything I tried. One that really annoyed me was the Adbrite Mastery video, that went to great lengths in a walk through fashion for explaining how to set up a CPA offer, (cost per action) as an alternative to Google Adwords. After following each step to the letter, spending a couple of hours doing this, all my Adbrite Ads were disabled and deleted. Unlike Google, you can modify a disapproved ad, not on Adbrite, if it is disabled it is history.

The reason they gave was that the landing page cannot have exit popups of any kind. Everything in the Adbrite Mastery video was for a CPA offer that contained an exit popup. So all my work down the toilet and nothing mentioned by Mack at all on this. Makes me think that he doesn’t even use Adbrite at all. If he had at some point then he would have known this to be true. When I raised a ticket on this I was told to go and follow another tutorial on creating a Gateway Page. In other words a landing page for the ad, as a presell etc, and then a link from there to the CPA offer. But once again, completely against the idea of making money without a website, which Mack claims all the time being able to do. Another lie?

Well I am not going to say that Mack Michaels is a scammer but you have to decide that for yourself. Would someone who lies to you on their sales page be someone you would trust at all? He puts the “As seen on TV” and “Fox News” and other banners on his sales page to lend weight to his claims but if you Google his name and any of the companies mentioned, you get no results. Now if he had been on any of these media sites then why doesn’t he have a link to them? Probably because he is lying.

Another thing I fell for at first was the upsell on the way to the checkout when buying into the “Club”, to a thing he called “Project CPA” where he claims you could make $15,000 in a month. Naturally I was inquistive and thought “well a Clickbank product can get refund” so lets give it a try. Well you find out that what he is proposing is a fake ad scam to suck people into to joining up with a teleseminar software company (who incidently only allow other business to business companies access to their affiliate program, so if you are not one of those, then you can’t even do what he claims you can), so that when they have completed what they thought was a job interview with the free trial software, and then forget to cancel the subscription, get billed for it down the track. All the way through he claims to not be suggesting that anyone do this without legitimate reasons but really come on, this is exactly what he is suggesting.

I returned that one the next day for a full refund. This was my first alarm bell, but I continued giving him the benefit of the doubt, right up until the final days of claiming a full refund, just to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Don’t waste your time or money with Maverick Money Makers, it is just another rip off.

So Where Can I Learn Affiliate Marketing Without Getting Ripped Off?

There is a website run by truly successful affiliate marketer by the name of Mark Ling. The name of the site is Affilorama. Mark is a super affiliate New Zealander (don’t hold that against him ; ) who has made a lot of money working affiliate programs, he has a very thorough website that explains just how to do it good detail. Not as slick as the Maverick Money Makers site but what Mark recommends is real. No scams here. The best thing about his site is that it is free to join.

Unlike the so called “Club” this website does have a member area with a great user forum for you to learn from others and help others when you have figured something out. Is it a website that will uncover every detail down to the level of showing you a live campaign, the exact keywords used, the conversion rates and total money earned? Well no. You are never going to see that sort of detail anywhere for obvious reasons. If this sort of information was being sold and people were to copy it, then it would not take long before it became worthless. The whole idea of affiliate marketing and success is you finding a gold nugget and keeping it hidden. If you let it out in the open, then it’s value diminishes rapidly as everyone jumps on it. So forget the marketing hype you read today, will read tomorrow and the day after, this sort of info is never going to be sold. That is not to say it is not available, it is just that in order to succeed here, you must do what all others have done before you, work it out for yourself the long hard way. But if you can get some help that will speed things up to point of being 95% there quickly, then this is what sites like Affilorama are all about.

 

To visit Marc’s site, please click on this link, http://www.afilorama.com 

So you’ve heard something about a thing called Mind Movies and you are wondering is this just another Internet scam that is going to take your money and leave you with precious little for your time and effort.

Fair question and in this article I will show you how to prove one way or the other whether or not the Mind Movies creation kit is a scam or truth.

The fist thing we need to do is find a useful definition of what a mind movie is. According to Ryan Higgins the creator of “Mind Movies”, a mind movie is a set of visual images that flash before the minds eye in a sequencial fashion to produce an internal movie. It is an alternative picture of reality whether imagined, real or fantasy. A mind movie is another way of describing what our brains do when we visualize an outcome.

If we visualize a failure, then we are drawn to proving that to ourselves, likewise if we visualize success then we are going to draw that outcome to ourselves by the behaviour that follows the thought patterns.

But before we continue, let us ask that question again, could mind movies be a scam or is there some truth in how they work and what they can do for making our lives better.

Definition of a Scam.

A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. Ref: Wikipedia.

So is the Mind Movies creation Kit a scam or does in deliver what is promised? The best way to find this out is by visiting several online forums to see what other users have to say about the programme.

After visiting several forums myself, I have found an overwhelming collection of positive reviews and feedback from thousands of satisfied customers.

It seems that the product, Mind Movies Creation Kit is a decent product that is easy to use, that has few problems.

Mind Movies Do They Work?

In deciding on whether or not Mind Movies is a scam or not is to take the question a little beyond whether on not it is a real product but whether Mind Movies really hold the power to change your life and help you achieve the things that you want most in your life.

Whilst reading the forum posts I did notice that the predominant feedback was that people’s experiences were that they did achieve more of their life’s goals by using their mind moves.

When you consider that there is nothing that we as human beings can do without first visualizing ourselves successfully completing the task first. For example if we think we are gong to clean our teeth before we leave for work, then the first thing we need to do is imagine that in our minds before it can happen. If on the other hand you expected that it was something that you could not do, for whatever reason, then it is highly unlikely that you would attempt to brush your teeth.

Each day we use our mind’s movies to help us achieve the things we do. Not just the things we want to do but the things we actually end up doing. This is an important thing to remember when considering if mind movies are a scam or a useful thing to bring into your life to help you achieve your goals.

“As a man thinks so he is” – quote from the Bible.

Now are they going to produce such powerful outcomes as some of it’s proponents claim, “I got my son a new F150, in the color he wanted and he didn’t even know that I had put this in my mind movie” or is this just random luck?

Or the lady who “had a tax refund turn up in the mail that helped her pay off her mortgage on her house, with $50 to spare, when she was expecting a high tax bill not a refund”, another random bit of luck?

Well the answer to this is really only found in giving it a try. There is no doubt that there is power in having positive reinforcement in your day for building up your mind and helping you to overcome the massive flood of negative input that we constantly receive from the media in all it’s variations of sensationalist journalism.

Do You Really Need To Buy The Mind Movies Creation Kit?

No you don’t need to buy the mind movies creation kit to have a success producing mind movie working away in your subconscious with you as you go through your day, working towards your goals.

You can use a range of other software applications that come with most computers to produce the same thing. Some of the software and items that you need to create a good mind movie, may cost you some money though, so in the end perhaps the Mind Movies creation kit just might be good value when you consider the obvious advantages of having all the elements in one place, such as:

1. Sound tracks to add for that emotional boost
2. Easy editing that takes the geek requirements out of the equation
3. Simple uploading instructions to the Internet

Mind Movies are powerful and can help you achieve amazing results in your life but can they deliver you that new car? Give it a try and see what your imagination and the power of your mind can bring into your life.

To find out more please visit this link by clicking here: http://www.consumer–reports.org/mind-movies/

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It is free to join.

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