Well, I have waded through all the information, watched all the videos (18 of them to be exact), read through all the material, and have formulated my opinion about the recently released Commission Blueprint by Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey.
If you are considering buying this product, I strongly recommend you read through this review entirely before you make you decision. What you learn here may just save you some money!
Let the dissection begin:
The Landing Page
One thing that I did learn from this course is just exactly what "those in the know" of internet marketing call the various types of landing pages. It appears there are four different types of landing pages and those are:
For Commission Blueprint, they used the Long Form Sales Letter. I followed my usual approach and read the first few paragraphs and then quickly scrolled through the rest to see how much this thing was. I don't know about you, but I generally look at the price right off to see of this something I may consider buying. I have a set limit that I will spend on something that I have no knowledge of before hand and that limit is usually right around $100, no more. So, with that in mind, I was actually surprised to see that this product was only $77 and not the usual $197 or $497 or $997 that you see so often. (What is up with setting prices $3 short of an even amount? I have always wondered about that.)
Anyway, the page is professional looking and looks like they paid some money or took some time to put it together. There are plenty of recent ClickBank snapshots showing huge payouts so it would be easy to assume that these guys know what they are talking about. However, graphics like these are easily produced by anyone with a little Photoshop experience.
The Purchase
Another ClickBank managed purchase that was uneventful. They do, however, try to upsell you with their monthly program the "Online Marketing Classroom." They present an introductory offer to this program priced at $4.95 for the first week which then converts to $67 per month after that. I haven't had the chance to make a complete assessment of this part of the sale, so I have no review on it at the moment.
The Product
Keep in mind that I am writing this review from the perspective of a AdWords and ClickBank newbie and I have never attempted to launch an AdWords campaign simply because I am fearful of things I don't fully understand. And if you haven't guessed by now, that is what this program is all about.
Upon completing the transaction, you are directed to their product site where you have the choice to either download all the videos or watch them via flash movie in your browser. I chose to download all of the videos which took some time since they are produced at a fairly high resolution and contain quite a bit of content. Like I mentioned before, there are 18 videos in all for 14 different topics of the program, 3 manuals in PDF format, and you can download all of the slides that Steve uses in his presentations on the videos. As a bonus, they give you templates that you can download of the landing page types discussed above. These guys really took some time to put this package together and it shows.
There are almost 5 hours of video with this program and in those 5 hours, there is not much fluff or wasted time. All are really direct and to the point and seep with useful information. I learned more by watching the first three videos than I have learned in most programs that cost 7 times as much and contain twice as much.
The manuals all contain snippets of code for your landing pages, links to products that they use in the program, and samples of everything that they talk about in the videos. Again, they look like they took some time putting these together and there is not a wasted page in them. If you have read any of my prior reviews you know that I am particularly critical of products that contain a lot of grammatical errors and misspelled words. With todays technology, you have to either be in a real big hurry or just not care when you produce a product with errors like these. I was taught in school that when you are writing a report or anything for publication that it was always a good idea to have several people proof read it a couple of times before you send it to print. These two gentlemen obviously came from the same school of thought. I didn't find any glaring mistakes like I have in other products. That's not to say there aren't any, I just didn't notice any.
The templates they provide are useful but I wouldn't say they are great. It gives someone with no knowledge of HTML somewhere to start but they are pretty basic. I think anyone with a little HTML experience could turn them in to some really nice pages with a little work.
The Summary
In summary, I would say that if you are an experienced AdWords entrepreneur, you may find some value to this program. Steve walks you through the method to his madness which involves some really intricate and time consuming details and some pretty primitive methods as well, all of which he uses to pick his opportunities which seem to pay off. Steve also shows you some tools that he uses that aren't even available to the open market yet and, ironically, that I was introduced to as part of the Thirty Day Challenge I am currently participating in. So, if you are already involved with AdWords and are successfully running ad campaigns, you may only find value in the access to the new tools Steve uses.
However, if you are a virgin to the whole AdWords game, like me, and want to get involved I think this program is ideal for you and will give you the knowledge you need to try your luck at it without losing your butt in the process. That right there is worth the price, in my opinion. I feel very comfortable with launching an AdWords campaign now and think I could take the information I learned from this program and not only apply it to AdWords successfully, but to many other aspects of my internet marketing venture.
In conclusion, I highly recommend Commission Blueprint for all the reasons I stated above. And I hope that if you found my review helpful in making your decision that you purchase your copy by clicking here and help me keep reviews like this coming.
I have been bombarded the last two days with emails about the latest program to hit the online marketing market, Commission Blueprint.
Several of you have asked for a review of this product before you spend your hard earned money on it so I have purchased it and will be going through the materials in the next couple of days.
My initial impressions are as follows:
- The landing page looks professionally done and not just another copy of the same one everyone else uses.
- The story is like most others, "Guy(s) tired of corporate job, guy(s) look for way to make money online, guy(s) discover secret formula that makes guy(s) $109,151.19 in 30 days promoting just one ClickBank product!"
- For the cost, which is set at $77 for a limited number of copies and then, of course, they have to raise it to $277; It isn't too painful to pull the trigger on. But then again, if your struggling paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet like a lot of people searching for an answer are, $77 can seem like a fortune! And that is why I am here.
- The amount of content is impressive: 18 Flash videos, 3 PDF manuals, 4 website templates, and some bonus content!
Well, I am now on Day 19 of the 30 Day Challenge and I have reached my objective: make $10 online!
Now, some of you may not think that $10 is anything to get excited about but the significance of it is this; I made that money with no financial investment of any type. I didn't have to buy a program, I didn't have to buy a membership, I didn't have to pay for advertising, I paid for nothing.
In 19 days time, I was able to do the following:
- find a niche to market to.
- establish a blog/web site based on that niche.
- find a product to sell and use to test the market.
- secure 6 of the top 10 spots on Google for the keyword(s) I chose.
- generate growing traffic that could potentially generate much more than that $10.
I am confident that I could take what I have learned in the last 19 days and apply it again and generate a whole new project in less than 4 hours! I am also confident that with time and repetition, I could narrow that time down to a couple of hours. And you know what the amazing part is? I still have 11 days of training left to go!
With that said, I have yet to see one attempt by these guys to sell something to those of us involved in the training. There has been no mention of any offer, product, membership site, etc. that would require an investment of anything but time. I really have to commend these guys on what they are doing and how they are doing it.
Another incredible part of the program is they are going to leave all of the training videos and lessons up after the 30 days so that those involved can refer back to them at anytime for a refresher or whatever they may need. And it's not to late for people to get involved, you could literally get caught up in just a few days if you were to start now. I would highly recommend it to anyone who was considering trying to get started in internet marketing in any way.
One of the really neat things about this program are the concepts involved can be applied to ANY online business. It doesn't matter if you are selling a product, a service, or just trying to increase traffic to your blog, these lessons will help you. And it's amazingly simple.
Now, I may sound like I am trying hard to sell this thing and that would be correct and there's a good reason for it. I have spent thousands of dollars on programs in the past that were supposedly going to help me create an online business and "start making $5,000/month!" We've all seen those offers, right? Out of all those programs I paid good money for, none contained as much information or taught me as much as this program has and I want to do my part to help others out there looking for some help. I want to help people save their hard earned money, especially with the economy being what it is today, and invest it in something that will show them real results instead of a screen clip of some unknown account that shows all the money a person has made using some "Top Secret Magic Code"!
I will be upfront and tell you that if you were to sign up for the program through this blog, I get a referral point that goes toward prizes they plan to award at the end of the Challenge, but that's it. There is no financial reward, no commission, no bonus. My main motivation is to help others out there that are like me, looking for something with some substance that will help them get started in this interesting business of online marketing.
Check it out here, you have nothing to lose but a bit of time and the potential to learn is incredibly in your favor. Read more!
Day 10 of the 30 Day Challenge: I have 2 blogs up and running and they were both indexed by Google within hours of them going live simply by following the lessons provided by this amazing program. I really have to tell you, I have learned more in the last 10 days from the 30 Day Challenge and made more progress than I ever have before with any of the expensive programs I had purchased form the "gurus" of internet marketing.
Now, you might not find that part too impressive but the best part about all of this is the program and all the tools they give you access to cost you absolutely nothing! That's right, this FREE program has taught me more than all the expensive ones I have on my bookshelf combined.
These guys are really on to something with this program and another great thing about it is it's not too late to sign-up. If you are interested at all in learning how to get you website or blog optimized for the search engines or just want to finally start your own blog, these guys walk you through choosing a niche, doing the marketing research for that niche and then publishing a blog that gets indexed quickly. Click here now to sign up and get started. There is no cost or obligation and they don't try to sell you anything. In fact, they go to great efforts to keep any cost to you out of this program.
Once I complete the program, I plan to write a complete and full review detailing everything that I learned, experienced, and whether I had success or not. I can not reiterate the fact enough that this program is free, no cost, no obligation or up-selling, no pressure. Just great lessons and great information showing you results almost immediately. Check it out and you just might learn something.
I recently joined a program that touted it would teach me how to finally start making money online. Now, in my relentless search for a way to free myself from the daily grind, I have come across many programs claiming that they would teach you "everything you need to know" to start making money online and I usually give them my information to "learn more" only to find out they want my credit card number before I can learn anything. I have found that most of these programs are simply crap that charge a enormous fee to learn things that are readily available online and have simply been compiled into a link-farm type document. However, the program I recently joined is nothing of the like.
Some of you may have heard of the "30 Day Challenge" put together by three blokes by the names of Ed Dale, Dan Raine, and Robert Somerville. If you haven't heard about it, these three guys have created a system that takes the participant from Internet Marketing virgin to finally making money online by holding their hand and walking them through each step. Not only do they teach you everything you need to do to find a unique niche to work on, but they provide you access to some tools that some of the gurus wish they had. And this is not their first run with this program. They did this exact same thing last year and helped a bunch of newbies finally make money online. Now, they don't make promises that you will make tons of money in your first 30 days, they set the goal at an easy $10 mark. Why? It's more about the process required and not the profit acquired. To me, this made a lot of sense and makes it an easily achievable goal which in turn takes some of the intimidation out of it.
Here is the greatest part of all of this; this program is 100% absolutely, unequivocally FREE! There are no affiliate promotions, no up-selling, no trying to get you to buy anything. I absolutely mean that, they aren't trying to sell you anything with this program. All they are doing is helping those of us out here that can't seem to get over the hump, can't seem to get it all figured out, can't seem to understand the whole SEO concept, and get through the process to see that there actually is light at the end of the tunnel. The video lessons are posted daily, along with any pertinent materials or links, for the trainee to follow. Real simple, real clear, and real concise. They make everything make sense and don't overload you with tons of tech-talk, mumbo-jumbo, or unknown acronyms. So far (I am on day four of training), everything has been really easy to understand and follow along with and it has already given me lots of ideas to pursue along with some really neat tools to do most of the work, automatically!
I can't emphasize the fact enough that these gentlemen have provided access to an incredible tool that cuts down on the time it takes to research a new idea to find a micro-niche that will give you the best chance of making money. This tool, in itself, looks to be something that will give those who have it the upper hand in the highly competitive and labor intensive process of carving out those micro-niches. This program is still in development and isn't 100% complete just yet. However, the modules available in this program right now are incredible and they are adding more modules almost daily. I can't wait to see the future modules and if they are anything like what they released already, they may just have some tools that will change the game as we know it. You have to sign up for the 30 Day Challenge program if you want access to to this incredible tool and believe me, for the money, it's worth every penny! (Remember, it's FREE!)
So, if you are like me and trying to find some sort of mentorship or training that will walk you through every step of the process that is required to make money online, you had better go to the 30 Day Challenge right now and sign up. Then get caught up on the past lessons and let these guys help you get to where you want to be. Again, I must reiterate that it's absolutely FREE and there is nothing you have to buy, I don't make anything by you signing up through the links on this page. They do give points for referrals which translate to prizes so if you sign up through this blog, you can get your own referral link to send to your friends to start earning points yourself and get them involved with the training, and you will help me while you are at it.
Let me close by saying that, so far, this is the best thing I have seen so far. I have learned more in the last 4 days with this program than any other I have participated in or purchased. I have spent a lot of money on a lot of other programs that weren't anything near the quality or provide near the information as this program does. This goes for most all of the programs I have purchased from the top "gurus" out there. If the rest of the lessons are even half the quality as the first four have been, I will still be happy and content.
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