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 Still Mack should know this and not be continuing to display outdated and incorrect information on his website if he is as genuine as he claims to be.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