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EZ Cash Creator – What’s In It?

January 31, 2014 by Daniel Euergetes 7 Comments

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EZ Cash Creator helps the user slip solicitation in Facebook under the radar, shadowed by emotion-driven content from current events to hide the solicitation.

Name: EZ Cash Creator

Website: http://ezcashcreator.com/ (Site not live yet as of this review)
Owners: Travis Stephenson
Price: $97, $77, $47
Overall Scam Rank: 5 out of 100

VERDICT: NOT LEGIT

EZ CASH CREATOR, Product Overview

Inflated advertising for the EZ Cash Campaign is expected to bring a windfall of sales. Is it worth it?

The Good & the Bad

The Good:

1. Easy to use.
2. Articulate.
3.
4. What’s said inside the product contradicts the promotional materials.

The Bad:

  • Use of Banners
  • Upsells.
  • Deceptive Advertising
  • False Premises
  • Under the Radar Marketing.
  • Appeals to Emotion. Sensational, Acting
  • Inflated
  • CoolHandle Required Hosting?

Who is EZ Cash Creator For?

This product’s intended audience are the computer & Internet illiterate out there who have not had any exposure to marketing on the Internet but are looking for opportunities. This product will appeal to many folks who are not attuned to sensationalism for what it is. The sensationalism found in the promotional materials is not anywhere near what it is inside the program.

Any person who has had some experience with advertising and marketing will stay clear of this, and other products like it.

EZ Cash Creator Tools & Training

Information about the tools and training here.

EZ Cash Creator Support

The support offered with the product. Is there a community, forum, personal support, do the owners support it.

EZ Cash Creator Price

Description of the pricing, the levels of pricing, structing, upsells, etc

My Final Opinion of EZ Cash Creator

Description of the product goes here.

EZ Cash Creator at a Glance…

My firsthand experience with the tool is that it’s an inferior product and that its usefulness weighs in at less than the costs that come with it. This is what’s inside…

Snapshot 7934First thing I got hit with is a “special offer” advertising a free website purported to be worth $2,500 – and you get it for free. You just have to pay for the registration and hosting for the website.

For website creation, the offer contends that building a website takes a month and costs between $2,500 and $5,000 and that professional performing of SEO (getting the website optimized for the search engines) is another added cost of $5,000.

This is NOT true unless one is suckered into a deal like this without doing his/her homework!

Snapshot 7935Next, your new website will be given advertisements, placed “strategically” on it, making you money 24 hours, 7 days a week. You won’t have to sell anything to anyone and be making money, even when you sleep. It is very unclear by the training on the software how these websites are put together with the user’s specific interests in mind.

Your website will be optimized for the search engines. The video briefly explains in layman’s terms what SEO is. They go on to say that your site will be put together by trained technicians. The SEO for the site would normally cost over $5000. But today, they’re “throwing in for free.” They do it all and you don’t lift a finger.

How much do you think you will be making with this website? Well, here are some folks (shown below this paragraph) right here who have done it. The only problem is, they show three individuals with astronomical amounts they’ve made from this program. The problem is, at the time of this writing, this program isn’t even officially launched yet!

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“Don’t bother spending too much time coming up with a domain name, you can always change it later.” Well, usually this can be done with any registrar, but it will cost money. Not sure what’s up here with this statement.

It goes on to explaining what web hosting is. Well, this needs to be dependable so the highly recommend “CoolHandle” (a web hosting company.) to make your “money-making empire run smoothly.”

Sidenote:

Coolhandle is said to have been around since 2001 and has been acquired by another hosting company. The services offered are said to be acceptable. As for its customer service, it is reported by other reviewers and angry customers that their customer service is offline much or most of the time. This has gotten the company poor to mediocre ratings. At this time, I know little about this company nor its services except that it has budget price points with its business packages in the $13/month range.

They suggest a sign-up for a two-year package. How this affects the history of a website, as they say, is not know to me, whether it matters if one pays by the one-year or two-year or any other, as long as the site stays online regardless. They are equating being signed-up longer (an ambiguous statement here) with [it could be…]

1. signed up with them.
2. signed up anywhere.

What they want people to believe is that being signed up with CoolHandle is going to be a definite factor in search engine rankings.

The connection to hooking up with CoolHandle either isn’t available yet or the software has a glitch.

What’s In the Members Area?

Wealthery Network Members Area

Here’s a screen shot of the home page of the program. It’s simply an application similar to the early ebooks as they were before pdf files or better yet, a sort of mini browser. The menu items on the upper left are:

  • Home
  • Webinar Sign-Up
  • Claim Website
  • EzCashCreator Control
  • Successful Campaigns
  • Mastermind Group
  • Contact Us

It has two adverts below the Main Menu, “Get Free Exposure from Page 1 of Google in Less than 7 Minutes (or less) Even for a Brand New Website! and below that one advertising malware-removal software. It offers a free scan but like many others like these, will cost money to actually clean what it finds.

On the right hand side, there is a video and four links below this. The video show the user how to navigate the platform. The training that’s in it has already been discussed above.

The four links are:

  1. Register for Webinar Training
  2. Get Your Free Professional Website
  3. Start Using EZ Cash Creator
  4. 24-hour Customer Support

Let’s check these out…

Step 1: Webinar Training

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Snapshot 7939Note that there is to be an upcoming webinar. It is not clear whether this is a pre-recorded event made to look like a live event or whether it indeed is a live event. My only guess as to the numerous warnings of limited seating points to more upsells. This remains to be seen.

WARNING: Space is limited and these LIVE trainings always fill up because they are significantly better than the information others charge you thousands for… even though they are free.

The legal information link sends you to a new tab, at this time, right back to the same page.

The Webinar is free. You will just put your name and email into the form and book your seat.

Step 2: Professional Website

What you get here is a website that’s completely controlled by “specialists” who do the SEO, add the advertising and content to it, apparently from the work you do with the software. What I find quite disturbing about this is that the narrator assumes the reason the user has purchased the software is because he/she doesn’t know how to drive traffic to websites.

Ironically, the original promotional adverts do not even mention anything about what this thing is or does! This is further evident that the developer(s) here is targeting an inexperienced audience.

The video advertising the websites is vague on how the software relates to the websites.

Step 3: The EZ Cash Creator Software Itself:

Once inside the actual dashboard of the EZ Cash Creator itself, you are given two forms positioned vertically.

In the first we have:

Title
Page URL
Interstitial (ad) Page URL
Banner (Here you choose a file from your computer)
Banner Links to URL
A big red “Save” button

There are EDIT & DELETE buttons below.

Support

What’s in the Video?

Main Menu

We have already covered the first four items in the Main Menu as they are repeated on the right hand side below the video.

Name: WEBSITE_NAME

Website: http://ezcashcreator.com/ (Site not live yet as of this review)
Owners: Travis Stephenson
Price: $97, $77, $47
Overall Scam Rank: 5 out of 100

VERDICT:

scam! (2)

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Is ClickSure Just Like ClickBank?

January 23, 2014 by Daniel Euergetes Leave a Comment

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What is ClickSure? Is ClickSure Safe? Here’s a review on this affiliate network and why future reviews will carefully consider which network a vendor uses.

In the last review, I took on a product that had not yet been launched (and is still pending) and I noticed that this vendor was affiliated with ClickSure, something at the time, I had no idea what it was. I eventually began talking with a friend about the product and he mentioned ClickSure. This turns out to be an affiliate network.

I began looking into ClickSure to find out if what my friend was saying was true and began finding a horror story beyond description. Thus my article and review on the company.

What Is An Affiliate Network?


howaffiliatemarketingworksFirst of all, an affiliate is an individual that promotes a company’s products for a commission on each sale. This is in its simplest terms. Companies offer what are called affiliate programs. These are the official contracts they work up in official documents that hold the offer, policies and pact, usually in a package, for affiliates to join.

These often include necessary promotional tools the affiliate can use to actively promote products for the company. The company gathers necessary credentials from prospective affiliates through a special application form and makes the decision to bring individual affiliate marketers on board or not.

An affiliate network is company that creates a marketplace for the businesses with affiliate programs and affiliate marketers. What these do is provide a place for the two parties to meet up. It’s sort of a job fair of sorts. Albeit this platform handles all of the sign-up and pay-out processes for both sides. An affiliate network is like a mall that houses all kinds of individual stores under one roof. The affiliate network also provides stats to the affiliate marketer on the performance on any affiliate program being made available to the affiliate marketer.

Finally, the affiliate network operates under a set standard or policy (Terms of Service) under which all activities and conduct are governed within the membership of its vendors and affiliates. Some are pretty rigid, and others are not.

Clickbank and Commission Junction are two famous examples of affiliate networks. These are perfect places for newbie affiliates to get started and also great places for vendors to set up, letting the affiliate network do the work for them. They are indeed, affiliate marketplaces.

For more information about affiliate marketing, please see my resource on this page, or you can click on the affiliate cycle image just above to get to that page.

So, What About ClickSure?


This will be a straightway write-up on Internet history that was in the making on September 1, 2011.

In and around 2004, product launches began to really take hold and took the Internet by storm. Then properly known as the “Wild-Wild-Web,” and still in its infancy, some great products and services began springing up in droves.

However, as would be expected, an even greater number of others jumped onto this bandwagon and began pumping out wannabe, me-too, and outright scam products and services. The online world began turning into a den of pirates like never before seen since the great Dot-Com crash.

Clickbank, one of the pioneers of the affiliate network movement, amongst others, were getting overwhelmed with these inferior products and services, and fearing their reputation, began upgrading their policies to include stipulations about such media as video marketing, about the viability and functionality of products being promoted through them, and so forth.

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September 1, 2011

ClickBank initiated such an upgrade to its Terms of Services, effectively cleaning house of the fraudulent and inferior products that were overrunning the marketplace there. Other established networks followed suit.

September 7, 2011

A week later, a new affiliate network, ClickSure, premiered from out of China. It is not clear whether this company got started by disgruntled vendors who had been kicked out of ClickBank. This information is conjecture and isn’t known for certainty. However inference to the sudden uprising of the company was indeed retrospect to ClickBank’s new policies as shown:

Snapshot 6550The earliest version of ClickSure’s website had a message on its front page about ClickBank’s policy (actually merely a link to it the policy itself as it first appeared.) At the next website update later that September, this message was removed. They were, by the time of the update, established and fully functional.

The droves of vendors and developers now banished from ClickBank and others, had a place to flock to – and they did just that! The affiliate network mushroomed with selections not fit for ClickBank and US FCC & FTC regulations.

Since the inception of ClickSure, there have been innumerable complaints and negative write-ups against the company and vendors using the service.

It is known that a few products and services channeled through ClickSure are not bad, but the vast majority of them are.

In one report, it has been said that over 60% of all ClickSure-endorsed products are handled by some of the same dubious folks insofar as production and marketing, creating the familiar uniform appearances of the deceptive advertising and associated scam products out there.

What’s Inside ClickSure?


ClickSure at a Glance:

Name: ClickSure
Website: http://clicksure.com
Price: Company charges a percentage for its varying services.
Owner(s): Online Affiliate Group LLC
Overall Rank: 5 out of 100

Verdict: Not Legitimate, Not Recommended

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ClickSure offers a very easy-to-use-&-navigate platform for both affiliate marketers and vendors. Its customer service tends to be rather poor and though this handles international transactions, which is said to be a good thing for those that can’t use some of the more superior networks for reasons other than compliance, there are numerous complaints of unauthorized charges by ClickSure and unresolved issues of all kinds.

ClickSure harbours just about any vendor and affiliate marketer. This means malicious and ruthless marketers! For this reason, the offerings at this marketplace is literally filled, not only with rubbish products and services, but ones that cause serious financial damages to end users. One must be very careful which products/services he/she makes an alliance to for the sake of reputation.

Why is all this so?

Let’s look at ClickSure’s policy – it’s Terms of Services. They’re not long at all and we won’t need to include everything. Below is a copy of ClickSure’s TOS on the condition of product and services sold through them:

3. NON COMPLIANCE WITH DESCRIPTION AND REPRSENTATIONS

3.1. Sellers are solely responsible for writing the description of the Products and Services offered by them through us, as the authorized reseller, and for any representations and warranties made in connection with them. CLICKSURE PAYMENTS LIMITED will ensure to the best of its ability to verify any representations, warranties or commitments with regard to Products and Services resold through ClickSure.com. There by, CLICKSURE PAYMENTS LIMITED is not liable with regard to the description of the Products and Services by the Seller or any third party and to any representations and warranties made in connection with them, including that they are accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free.

3.2. If your product and/or service purchased by a customer through the ClickSure.com website is not as described or promised, or is otherwise defective, non-functional, non-compliant or non-satisfactory, you the Seller take sole responsibility for this product and any issues that may arise because of this.

As you can see, the fact that ClickSure places all the marketing, quality of products/services responsibilities upon the vendors using the service, making it open-season for a massive free-for-all, anything-goes scenario.

The company appears to be only interested in the money it incurs from transactions which will never stop regardless of reputation of the company nor that of vendors and affiliates using it. Due to the motives of many, many vendors who do not wish to abide by ClickBank’s policies, ClickSure is a thriving business. US laws cannot touch them and their services are gladly accepted on an “as-is” basis.

What Does This Mean at DanielEuergetes.com?


Any products and services being reviewed at this site with the knowledge that it is being hosted by ClickSure and any of its subsidiaries, will not get a good review unless it is exceptional and is otherwise impossible to be hosted at one of the better quality networks due to issues above and beyond product or service integrity as set forth in their policies. This would be on a very rare occasion, if at all.

Any products or services reviewed on here must be of high quality, ethical, legal, fair and of good report before it will be considered an awesome product worthy of a high mark here. Being in alliance with ClickSure, under most circumstances, is a reputation (amongst other) issue(s.)

Who Is Daniel Euergetes?


I am not employed and have not been since February 2010. I have long decided that the employment world has not been for me and that I needed to do something about it.

danieleuergetes250In 2004, I began trying my hand at Internet marketing and, after having been through a number of training programs and simply trying to find out how to market on the Internet, I became a proud member of the best online business training community that I have yet to see, anywhere. Today I make a consistent income from what I’ve learned there and continuing to grow from the ongoing training and support.

This website is just one of the outcomes that have come as a result of my training!

I have always been able to pick out the quirks in advertising, especially the elements in it that goes against ethical and fair practices. I have had additional training in critical thinking, logic and argumentation. I do what I can to help folks realize their dreams in rising above mediocrity.

If you would like to reach heights beyond that of the average, I can help you in a number of ways. I specialize in online business training and know where the best resources are.

When it comes to learning how to market on the Internet as an affiliate, building campaigns and websites, nothing beats Wealthy Affiliate! Learn how to build a niche site and/or an authority site, finding niches, audiences and much, much more! The community comprises like-minded members sharing with and helping one another, as well as actively building lucrative campaigns of their own passions and interests. The platform features a free membership complete with two websites, free hosting, two major courses, classrooms, and no time limitations for free accounts.

The free account offers you an in-depth and value-packed evaluation of the top Training Area offering more services than you will get in paid programs! Check it out for yourself by going to my Wealthy Affiliate Review page right here on this site or by clicking the link below.

https://danieleuergetes.com/wealthy-affiliate-review-as-i-experience-wa/

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EZ Cash Creator Review [BE CAREFUL with This Product!]

January 21, 2014 by Daniel Euergetes 38 Comments

A rather pathetic product is in the works, EZ Cash Creator by Travis Stephenson. The launching of this site February 3rd, 2014. My findings: Not Recommended!

My initial experience with Travis Stephenson and what he puts out are extremely low quality, rather ineffective product launches designed to separate you from your money and provide you little more than useless junk. At this time, there is not much information to go on with this product launch, however, there are tell-tale signs that this is a long line of red-flags on this product!.

There are also the Earnings Disclaimer, TOS, and other pages, which to my dismay, won’t open. However, the videos do open and this is what I found…

“I’ve never been moved like this before … I can’t keep this to myself!”
“I am making money, plain and simple.”
“I literally can’t believe the results that I’m getting.”
“…it’s so easy and simple.”
“Within 24 hours of having access, I’ve made my first commission.”
“I – I don’t think I’m going to NEED a new job because things are working out pretty good here.”
“You see … $50 in my account in 24 hours! I am excited.”
“I want to thank you, thank you, thank you so much and you guys have really changed things for me, I changed my life and I appreciate it so much.“

So much for the lame acting of the two people they had sitting in to make these videos (only one shown above,) and for the flashing and sparkling sprites around the frame of the video, here you have two people touting the above words like they’ve been in the program already

…and it hasn’t even been launched yet!

This is just a little taste of the fakery in programs like this!

That’s Not All…


Snapshot 6497The video goes on…

What you are already doing right now can be making you up to $256.98 per day… (in sparkling, revolving graphics) Note here the exact number.

This folks is a ploy used by advertisers to get your trust. You see, It’s an exact number, something concrete for you to grasp onto – therefore, it’s believable. Subconsciously, this registers in most people’s minds as something believable and thus it is often used covertly by some advertisers and marketers. It is an anchor for the subconscious mind.

…with absolutely NO additional EFFORT! Watch Your Back! This is a Big Red Button at its best – a Silver Bullet! And it’s in patriotic colors of the United States – Red, white and blue! Another anchor to gain trust! Here they are appealing to you with the fact that there’s no work involved! There’s no free money out there and don’t let this type of thing fool you.

It’s not marketing, surveys, article writing … none of that! Again – a contrast to things that do take effort (but are much more effective and lucrative in the long run.) The narrator goes on to say that you get paid weekly (Oops what did that lady in the beginning say???) Well, the text is shown in the box above, but the sales videos will reveal the acting when it comes out!

Uh oh! here comes another exact figure – a whopping $129,940.72 A Year! (yes, we can’t forget the exact penny change you will get! How’s that to be thrown before your eyes across the video screen?

I know this might sound a bit too good to be true Well yes, if I were born yesterday! The narrator continues …opens up a world of effortless profits that churn out easier than telling your Facebook friends about last article you’ve read online!

…and all of this happens in LESS THAN 5 MINUTES A DAY! Oh yes… this requires no learning? How much easier can this get??? You’re going to get paid for what you already do!

The narrator goes on about how he’s no big star and that you’ve probably never heard of him, so if you’re looking for a famous TV actor…

…get the hell outta ‘ere, I’ve nothing for you! So you won’t be dealing with a celebrity – well, what he’s got to offer is so unreal “it feels illegal!”

The video then turns to the view of the acting shown above with money falling about. Note this old trick of selling the dream of the abundance of money falling everywhere (so abundant that it just covers the floor!)

Okay, What’s this Program All About?


I have now gone completely through the sales video. Before I get any further with this, I’m going to red flag this RIGHT NOW!

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Why did I label this a scam? I will show you after I give you what information I can as to what this program is, because the sales video tells you not one jot or tittle about it! The blatant intrepidity of this presentation had me laughing at times, but really this isn’t at all funny! It’s the hard-earned money of thousands of people at stake here! This review is going to be done a little differently and perhaps longer than usual, so please bear with me. I have a FAR better alternative for you after this is done.

My Official Review for This Product


EZ CASH CREATOR

Name: EZ Cash Creator
Website: http://ezcashcreator.com/ (Site not live yet as of this review)
Price: $97, $77, $47
Owner(s): Travis Stephenson
Overall Rank: 5 out of 100 (a voucher in this offer has the sole value here)

EZ Cash Creator, Product Overview

The information I have available to me at this time does very little to indicate what exactly this product is and what it does. The sales video/literature gives very little, if any information on it. It appears to be a commissions-generator (whatever that is.) The following blurb was found on the check-out page:

“EZ Cash Creator is The Easiest Tool For Generating Online Commissions Without Having To Change Your Everyday Life.”

The Good & the Bad

The Good:

PRO #1 This is an excellent example to teach folks what’s in a bad product.
PRO #2 Get a $28-value for the $75 Google Traffic Incentive. Dispose of the rest.
PRO #3 There is nothing notable about the product itself that has any value.

The Bad:

CON #1 Extremely shady advertising.
CON #2 Over-inflated claims.
CON #1 Appeal to emotion through power words, scarcity, etc.
CON #2 Bad argumentation/logic.
CON #1 Nothing whatsoever said about what this product is or what it does.
CON #2 Leaves prospects in danger of losing their money for rubbish.

Who is EZ Cash Creator For?

There is essentially no indication as to who would benefit from this product except the developer/owner himself as he rakes in money from unweary folks. This product is for anyone who wishes to part with their money.

EZ Cash Creator Tools & Training

The product itself is said to be a tool used to somehow generate cash. The sales video contains a contradiction in it about what training this product requires. In one breath the narrator says it’s for people who don’t want to bother having to learn about it (stupid easy to use) yet in another breath, mentions his “students” who would use it.

EZ Cash Creator Support

The only support that I can see throughout this deal is a 30-day money-back guarantee if customers are not delighted with it.

EZ Cash CreatorPrice

The initial price of the product is $97, but to “sweeten the pot” the owner knocks off $20, making it $77. Upon attempting to leave the page, the visitor is presented with a Leave/Stay form for which either choice will take him/her to a One-Time-Offer of sorts to entice them to purchase. The already discounted price is now offered at $47 – a savings of an additional $30.

The $75 voucher for Google Traffic now puts the customer in the green, essentially being “paid” $26 to purchase it. This voucher appears to be the only value offered here!

My Final Opinion of EZ Cash Creator

Due to the shady nature of the various sales videos in this campaign and the “desperate” appeal to get folks to buy this, I absolutely DO NOT RECOMMEND this product to ANYONE. Stay away!

EZ Cash Creator at a Glance…

Name: EZ Cash Creator

Website: http://ezcashcreator.com/ (Site not live yet as of this review)
Owners: Travis Stephenson
Price: $97, $77, $47
Overall Scam Rank: 5 out of 100

VERDICT: NOT LEGIT

More About the Sales Presentation & Final Thoughts


Since there are quite a few screenshots involved, this information is on its own separate page. Please head on over to the supplemental page for this review.

https://danieleuergetes.com/how-can-i-spot-a-scam-website-a-few-false-advertising-examples/

You came to this page most likely because you are looking for opportunities to help you make money on the Internet. There are a LOT of scams like this one all over the Web and it’s my hope that you took the time to visit the other page that accompanies this review. It is an atrocity that there are folks out there that will go to the farthest ends to separate you from your hard-earned money.

If you want to make money online, this is just like any other legitimate business and there are no Big Red Easy Buttons out there. It’s just not that easy and I hope you learned something from this example. Hopefully you will recognize stuff like this when you see it if you’re not accustomed to it.

danieleuergetes250You can breathe easy that not every company online is a scam. There are also very highly reputable and honest companies out there too which cares more for your welfare and success than the money you give them. In this, the money always follows and so does the trust and reputation.

I am a happy member of an online business community that teaches folks how to build online businesses from the ground up.

If you would like to learn how to build websites and the campaigns that go with them, how to write and publish, I know just the place for you!

If you are willing to work, be consistent, and persistent, this place is for you! Click on the link below. This will take you to my review which will tell you all about it and what it can do for you! Has a free membership with REAL value! Click the link…

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Empower Network vs Wealthy Affiliate – The Rest of the Story

January 19, 2014 by Daniel Euergetes Leave a Comment

The following video is one of many that purport to be comparative, indicated by its title,”Empower Network vs Wealthy Affiliate.” Watch and see why it’s not.

What’s Missing?

Well, I hear much ado about this person’s experience with Empower Network. That may be her house in the background or it may not. She may be standing on her land with a beautiful Georgian pond replete with wildlife. It’s a wonderful setting if I do say so myself. And who’s to say this isn’t her home?

…not only financial freedom, but time freedom now. And I wanted a way to, not only support my family, but provide them with a lifestyle they truly deserve – new house, you know, in a safe neighborhood, the traveling the world, just simply spending quality time with them, whenever I wanted and wherever I wanted … and I wanted to live fully, love fully, and live with dreams right now…

Personal testimonies are great! It gives folks a chance to see what’s inside a product, program or service from the perspective of the author. That’s what we all want. It’s a great way to help folks to make better buying decisions. It’s all pretty well-done here except one minor detail – at the time of this writing, this video only half-delivers…

So, I’m going to finish the job. I won’t have to go very far into either programs here, but the following is a comparative view of Empower Network and Wealthy Affiliate to see which one give you a better bang for your buck and the best quality of education.

What Are They?


In this section, let’s make a short comparison as to the nature of these programs. They both teach online marketing, are both online businesses and both offer a business opportunity for their members.

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What Are Their Free Getting-Started Programs?


What do each of these offer in the way of a getting started program which allows new members to get in and acclimate themselves to their new surroundings? How much value comes with these free programs?

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There is none. Yes, they will tell you that you can join for free. It costs $25/month to get a blog. If you stop paying this monthly amount, you lose the blog.

“If you cancel your monthly subscription you will lose your team and all benefits and services of Empower Network.”

That $25/month is only good for having the blog. You cannot promote any of their products (except procuring the blog itself!) I can think of far better places to get a blog that doesn’t cost you anything!

To use Empower Network to get any sort of value out of it, you will not only need to put in vested interest in the other products, you will not be able to promote these and be compensated for them until you do. You will be pressured by other members to do so, else be shamed for not doing so!

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You will get as much or more useful information from Wealthy Affiliate’s Starter Membership than you get with most paid programs. Hard to believe, but true.

You get two free websites and hosting to go with them. The sites are not plastered with advertising like those, even premium EN members must display on their blogs (which incidentally, are not truly free,) and they’re yours to keep if you decide WA isn’t for you. Not so with EN! You drop out from EN, they take the blog away from you.

Not only do you get real value in Wealthy Affiliate’s Starter Membership, you will never be pressured to join the Premium Membership if you choose not to.

WA’s Starter Membership comes with way too much to put into this blurb. Please head to my Review on Wealthy Affiliate to get the details.

What Do They Teach?


Both of these platforms have training programs. What do they teach and how is the teaching done? What things does the teaching cover?

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Teaches how to set up the WordPress powered blog given to each member. It then gets down into the SEO and how to write blogs. These basics come with the Fast Start Videos that come with the initial sign-up. For an additional cost, the Inner-circle

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What Are Their Products/Services?


Both have products and/or services. They are different though and pound-for-pound, which one offers the better value?

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What Are Their Objectives?


What’s the objectives of the teaching found at both of these platforms? What are their mottos? Let’s see which has the higher standards here and what members get out of them.

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How Much Do They Cost?


Simply, what does it cost to join and then go into the “premium” services, if any?

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Empower Network Income Proof – What EN’s Own Statistics Say…

January 16, 2014 by Daniel Euergetes 4 Comments

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We often hear and read about Empower Network income proof in reviews by well-meaning folks, but are they REALLY reliable? Let’s let EN show the REAL proof!

Can You Really Make Money with Empower Network?


empower-network3The answer is YES! You can – but whoa! Hold your horses! In this article, I will show you that yes, you can – but it is extremely unlikely unless you are one of the atypical folks out there. There are a very few folks that are MAKING money with it – and even FEWER who are actually turning a profit!

Here, I will give you some raw data directly from Empower Network itself. It will come in the form of two charts – one to show what income levels were a little over a year ago from the time of this writing and then a comparison with a current one.

But first, let’s look at the buzz going on out there…

Empower Network Reviews – Are They Reliable?


Empower-NetworkSome of these are in fact! However, you must glean out which ones are actually coming at you with the truth about Empower Network and what you can really expect from it.

Usually, these come from those who have done extensive research on EN and others from those who are, or were, members of EN and have discovered its many flaws.

With the many, many folks out there trying to carve their way up the Empower Network ladder, they are, in quiet desperation to fulfill their dreams, peer pressure and expectations, are coming up with such titles as:

  • Empower Network Income PROOF
  • Empower Network Payment Proof! Proof of Income!
  • Empower Network Proof Of Income
  • Empower Network Income Proof – Best Home Business
  • Empower Network Income Proof ~ $1100 in 2 Months
  • $1625 Day With Empower Network – Empower Network Income
  • …Network Income Proof – It Works … $8,100 Income Proof…
  • Empower Network Income Proof | Revved Up Marketers
  • …and many, many more!

Empower Network Marketing Statistics Reveal All


Here I will show you what you can expect with making money with Empower Network, let alone profit from it. These are sobering facts and they come directly from EN itself!

Of the first exhibit, I am truly shocked that someone very highly upholding the company, would include such facts! The date, coming from Empower Network’s own Corporate Income Disclosure, can be found right dab in the middle of her promotional campaign. I find this quite intrepid on her part as she appears to not even realize what she has included in her campaign!

As apparently hard as it is to promote Empower Network’s products, I really wonder if this person has gone “all in” and is now part of the overwhelming statistics shown here for those who are not profiting anything.

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Note that there are five distinct products available for Empower Network, none of which really have much intrinsic value, at least insofar as what’s being charged for them, and the fact that much of what’s in them can be had at a much lower cost, if any costs at all according to numerous reports. The products are:

  1. Blogging System Price: $25/month
  2. InnerCircle Audios Price: $100/month
  3. Costa Rica Intensive Price: $500
  4. 15k Per Month Formula $997
  5. Masters Retreat $3,500

Let’s do some figuring here…

Note that in a years’s time, you will need to cover the costs of $300 for the blog alone (Product #1) For the Inner Circle, the yearly cost comes to $1,000. For the rest, these are one-time expenditures.

If you were to purchase JUST the Blogging System, your cost will be the $300. What percentage profile would you be under in order to cover yourself this charge and make some money in a year’s time?

Looking at the chart below, that would be about 31%. Not too bad, but if you are in the 69% that are not making this income, you will be losing money! That’s an awful disadvantage, considering the ONLY product you will be allowed to promote, per Empower Network Policy is the basic requirement of having the Blogging System that which you’ve purchased (not to mention the shaming you will get from not “going all in” and purchasing the other products!)

Note that if you DID make anything, you will be required to purchase a merchant account known as eWallet, one of EN’s programs (or one within its control.) Note that you cannot use PayPal for this as Empower Network has been blacklisted there! Empower Network apparently does allow third party merchant accounts – if you can find one. There is also those sales for which you won’t get commissions for as they are pushed upline – another Empower Network Policy.

Can you make enough money to support this monthly fee? Evidently 69% cannot.

The most current statement is right here below. You can see that, over the course of 14 months, this isn’t a whole lot different than a few adjustments in percentages here. None of these are enough to take the world by storm by any means!

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One more scenario:

You decide to take in the next available product here (Product #2.) Actually, you can purchase these in any order except, by common sense, the first one. Now we’re up to $1,300 for the year for the blog and this other product for which expenditures you must cover.

For these two products alone you might be fairly easy to make a profit but you will be limited to promoting these two, and only these two, and you must be in the top 12% for this level. If you are in the 88% that have not reached this level, you will be losing money! Note that if you were to go “all in” and purchase all of the products, you won’t make it here in this bracket! If you leave out one of the products and work your tail off, you might break even if you have exceptional marketing skills.

To go all in and get ’em all, you will need to be outside of the 98% of those who have not reached the yearly income level to achieve this. The 2% that do, you can be sure these people are seasoned marketers. They know what they’re doing. They have massive email lists and know exactly which audiences to target! They know how to clarity for success, create compelling content, syndicate your content, sell using videos, drive traffic, do solo ads, do email marketing using seduction tactics and how to manage teams.

Note that some of the courses offered by Empower Network cover these things. Also note that “Email Marketing Seduction” is a blatant outcry of the tactics you will be taught in your campaign to bring people in. There is a lesson by this very name. Here’s the meaning of “seduce.”

In colloquial language and fictional literature, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person, to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; to corrupt, to persuade. This word comes from the Latin, “to lead astray.”

You will need these kind of tactics to bring people into Empower Network under the present structure it has.

Who Am I and What do I Suggest?


danieleuergetes250I am Daniel Euergetes, as my site implies. I am a proud member of Wealthy Affiliate, which is an online business training platform made up of a community of like-minded members all sharing the same cause – learn how to market on the Internet, help people and pay it forward to get folks like you to see the evil intent of places like Empower Network. I encourage you to find out what Wealthy Affiliate is all about.

You will not find black-hat tactics taught, expensive upsells, shaming (being called a wussy for not going all in amongst other choice things,) people being taken advantage of those who don’t know what they’re getting into, and many other insidious things found at Empower Network.

Wealthy Affiliate teaches what you need to know to create and build an online business based on YOUR passions & interests (something Empower Network disallows.) Wealthy Affiliate is truly the industry standard at a fraction of the cost you will invest into Empower Network for far less than you would get at WA!

For one thing – What you get for free at Wealthy Affiliate does NOT come with a cost as it does at Empower Network, and you get TWO (not one) blogs on which you do what you want as long as it’s clean and legal and you don’t pay for hosting or the domains! You do NOT get a cookie-cutter blog at Wealthy Affiliate and you get the free training that helps you set these up! These are basic WordPress-powered websites. Unlike what you get at WordPress.com, through which you can also get free websites, you get all the training you need to set them up!

Check out my review on Wealthy Affiliate! You’ll be glad you did.

Inside Wealthy Affiliate – Pure Online Business Training and Nothing Else!

Here are three screenshots of the inside of Wealthy Affiliate. This is but a very tiny representation of what’s inside! Click on any of these images to go to my Wealthy Affiliate Review and learn more about it!

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The Dashboard is your centerpoint to getting around all of the rest of the Platform. Note that member-to-member interaction is highly encouraged and is what has helped make Wealthy Affiliate what it is today!

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This is inside one of the 13 different WA Classrooms. It is showing the first few courses offered at WA. This particular classroom comes with the free membership! All classrooms cover the following:

  1. Getting Started
  2. WA Affiliate Program
  3. Keyword, Niche and Marketing Research
  4. Everything WordPress
  5. Authoring & Writing Content
  6. Search Engine Optimization
  7. Pay Per Click Marketing
  8. Social Engagement & Marketing
  9. Website Development & Programs
  10. Local Marketing
  11. Video Marketing
  12. Email Marketing
  13. The Wealthy Affiliate Platform

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This is inside the first level of the Entrepreneur Certification Course – an intensive Course on building out a niche website and everything that goes into it. It is one of two intesive Courses, the other being the Boot Camp. This Course teaches members how to build an authority site. In the case study, this Course also teaches how to effectively promote Wealthy Affiliate. All the content in this Course is the blueprint to the creation of any authority site, not just WA’s Super Affiliate Program.

This Level is absolutely free and comes with no cost. The BootCamp Course also has Level 1 for free. Members are encouraged to use their two free blogs to accompany the learning that comes with these Courses. There is NO cost whatsoever and the resulting websites are truely yours to keep! In Empower Network, you resign from that program, yo also forfeit your blog.

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