Affilorama is a legitimate affiliate marketing training platform that has been around awhile.  The platform has improved over time and remains one of the top picks in the industry.  In this review, I will compare this affiliate marketing training platform with Wealthy Affiliate in a side-by-side comparison review which has a two-fold objective – to show what’s inside these top picks and how they compare in this first of upcoming “What’s The Difference Between” series of reviews.

About AFFILORAMA and Wealthy Affiliate

Histories of These Two Platforms

The history tells a lot about development and progress.  Affilorama and Wealthy Affiliate are of no exception. Here are their brief histories that you may get an idea of the impact these platforms have had through time.

History of Affilorama

Platform with four featured affiliate programs, guitar course (Jamorama,) Spanish language course, dog training and relationship help guide.  The platform appears to have been an affiliate program repository something like Clickbank.  There were no courses, training or services available other than search functions. It appears in 2006 or possibly just before, Affilorama teamed up with SEOKing.net, making SEO training available to its members via an archive of articles on its pages.  SEOKing went defunct in the latter part of 2006 from which it never recovered. In March Mark Ling offered a six-part ecourse on affiliate marketing.  Ironically, part of the course had music lessons! On July17, 2006, Mark went from producing newsletters to putting out content on a blog, thus the blog section of the website came into being.

On November 2, 2007, Mark Ling closed the doors, apparently to revamp the website and make significant changes to it. However, the blog remained open and continued throughout the closure. On October 31, two days shy of a full year, Affilorama opened its doors once again, with a brand new website, fitted with an all-new training platform complete with lessons, a forum, tools and a forum.  There were free and premium memberships available, obviously the free coming with less functionality and features. 

On July 6, 2011, Affilorama 3.0 rolled out with a completely new platform and featuring the introduction of three new products, Affilorama Premium with a 30-day trial for a buck, then $67 thereafter, AffiloBlueprint for $197 and AffiloJetpack, offered as upsells on the site.  The sales copy was on the hypish side and packed with perceived values, plenty of bonuses with their perceived values and not one Jetpack, but five.  The perceived value for the AffiloJetpack + bonuses come to $5864 + $1294 for the bonuses.  This racks up to the main product x 5 plus the two bonuses at a grant perceived value of $30,614.  Each Jetpack is good for one website. The final pricepoint for this product? $497.

In time, the sales copy was taken down and the inflated perceived values with it.  In May 2013, the platform was overhauled again and the Affilorama Premium product was replaced with AffiloTools.  In November 2014, the appearance of the platform had some minor alterations done to it though very little in the way of improvements have been done. Since then, the site appears to have gone stale.

History of Wealthy Affiliate

Because Wealthy Affiliate is, and has been my top recommendation, its history is on a post dedicated to this.  Like the above, the major advances in the life of Wealthy Affiliate, since its founding shall be found here.  The page will oven in a new window.

What I Like & Dislike About AFFILORAMA

I am a member of both of these platforms however, I am far more familiar with Wealthy Affiliate history than I am of Affilorama’s.  I have become a member of Affilorama for the purpose of getting inside to properly review it.  For each segment I will include my likes and dislikes within each.

I Like What I Saw in Affilorama History Because…

• There is no question about it.  Mark Ling came on the scene in 2005 with all intent of putting out an honest, ethical online existence.  In my research within Affilorama’s history, I have seen this throughout.
• Like any true netpreneur, Mark Ling has shown his true colours by changing, updating and tweaking the Affilorama Platform, which is a strong attribute of a successful entrepreneur on or off the World Wide Web.  It is far more than I can say of the vast majority of affiliate marketing training platforms and courses out there.
• For what you get, you get more than a fair value in the products and services within the the subscription. These surpass most others out there by far.
• History has shown that Mark Ling has always made simplicity and understandability a high priority in everything he puts out.
• On the entire scheme of the online world, Affilorama is one of the best choices out there!

I Do Not Like What I Saw in Afilorama History Because…

• I have run into several instances of highly-inflated perceived values and outright hype in earlier sales copy.  A small example of this can be seen on the right.
• There are at least two items (promotion of backlinking and PLR content) in the otherwise excellent training that I have found to be dated today.  It is one thing to find these two items present in pre-2007 training, but that both of these still persist to this day.  More said on these items in a later segment.
• In spite of the once aggressive push to update the platform, it appears that, since 2012, Affilorama tapered off on this and has gone stale.  Whilst most of what is taught is timely (so far) it seems improbable that the products and the platform itself could have ever achieved perfection.
• On par with the previous observation, a report indicates that Affilorama is not top priority because Mark Ling has gone on to bigger and better things, thus the site seems to be in limbo and has seen some neglect.

What I Like & Dislike About Wealthy Affiliate

There is no doubt in my mind that Wealthy Affiliate has no rivals and has been such for years, even back to its beginning.  Kyle and Carson has gotten it right from the very inception!

I Like What I Saw in Wealthy Affiliate History Because…

• Kyle and Carson has always demonstrated a pay-it-forward philosophy.  This is readily apparent in their actions, products and teaching.  This is an extremely rare attribute in the business world and those who portray this attribute almost always become highly successful!  The earliest expressions of these two outstanding men was the need for someone to “lay it all out on the table” because nobody else was doing it.  This has never changed.
• Updating and entire overhauls of the system has, not only been top priority through the years, but has accelerated profoundly and is almost a daily routine.  Admittedly, the earlier platform has had its share of members getting lost and not knowing what to do next, all of these issues have been quelled.
• Massive throngs of folks enter into Wealthy Affiliate daily and this being due to the impressive lineup of services available and an extremely low price.  The value found at Wealthy Affiliate towers over the pricepoints!
• The Wealthy Affiliate Platform, the community and everything in between are top priority.  This accounts for the acceleration we see at Wealthy Affiliate, as well as the observations of many instances with tools and services far advancing beyond top providers offering the same.  Wealthy Affiliate indeed has no rival!
• No blackhat marketing attempts, foul language and other no-nos are tolerated on this conservative site.  This is in constant check by the owners and the vast membership.  Wealthy Affiliate is truly a family-friendly place!

I Don’t Like What I Saw in Wealthy Affiliate History Because…

Wealthy Affiliate has indeed suffered issues over time but I can honestly see no faults beyond growing pains in the Platform.  This is not to say that it doesn’t have any faults because it does.  If Wealthy Affiliate was indeed the utopia of affiliate marketing training platforms, Kyle and Carson would find no need to continue to update and rebuild.  Of the minor things I have consistently seen over time, it would be these…

Old, dated content does not get purged.  However, the content is so massive on the Platform that the old stuff literally gets lost in time!  Once in a while, things do come up in the Platform’s onboard search engine that really shouldn’t be there.  The important thing is, the current training and posts are up-to-date.  Items such as PLR content, article spinners and backlinking have been left behind.

Conclusion

Both of these affiliate marketing training online platforms are amongst the best that can be found.  There are others besides and I will be touching upon them in future reviews.  Each of these will be compared with my top recommentation, Wealthy Affiliate.  There is no doubt that both can result in highly effective businesses for folks looking to them for the necessary training and support.  In these special reviews, I invite you to visit each and join the Starter Memberships.  This way you, can form your own assessments on each.  They’re both awesome and effective.  One might be more for you than the other in spite of my recommendations.

Here is an overall grid of comparison between Affilorama and Wealthy Affiliate for your consideration.  I hope you have enjoyed this presentation and is but a part of a larger series on these two great platforms!  Thanks for reading.

Foolproof Cash Flow is articulately-done with top-notch quality. Will Oviedo Jr. has done a fantastic job! However, there’s a few items I’m a little uneasy…

My Initial Experience with This Product

My experiences with the Foolproof Cash Flow was, for the most part, superb. I’ve actually learned new things from this Course and from one of the up-sells, the Niche Finder Upgrade, I was granted access to. I’m not an advocate to up-sells. I’ve been with programs that lay it all out on the table at once. Although up-selling is a popular marketing tactic, I find that putting out products and then having a barrage of up-sells suddenly hitting you in the face immediately after purchase is annoying.

Finding what works (this concept is taught in the Course,) is done by the vast majority of online marketers. Up-sells work, but in several reviews, I’ve found that the product is nothing more than a teaser, a form of bait & switch. With Foolproof Cash Flow, you do get up-sells, but you also get value in the basic course.

It irks me to go into a product I’ve just purchased only to find that, in order to get the full benefit of something I thought I was getting in the first place, I have to put out more money. Even worse, when a product leads to a product that does nothing more for you than to reveal itself as a vehicle to present more flashy offers (besides up-sells.)

It’s like milking every drop out of the cow!

What I thought would be a course teaching you how to exactly replicate a site, through & through, including the content (duplicate content) turned out to be nil. It’s just the way the initial advert laid things out. I was pleasantly surprised that this isn’t the case at all. It’s how to replicate a site alright, but not plagiarism.

However, there is a bit of black-hat marketing involved and it’s taught in the Course. I wrote this special supplement to go with my Review. I believe that it’s only right for folks to know what they’re getting into. I do not believe Mr. Oviedo intentionally sought out to put his students on a mutiny with Google and other search engines, but indeed, there is a bit of dated stuff inside the Course and so, without further adieu, here they are.

I am a bit at odds with the fact that this is a “foolproof” system. Most of what’s taught in the Course is not unique at all. More on this below…

Keyword Density

There was a time, not to long ago, when you wanted to get as many targeted keywords into your composition as possible. However, as Google and other search engines noted this “gaming” that was going on, some of them, especially Google, began to clamp down on the ongoing keyword stuffing that was rampart throughout the Internet.

The first time I noticed this was when I used to write for EzineArticles. This article directory was amongst the first to see changes going on within Google and acted upon it by imposing restrictions on how many instances of a targeted keyword could appear in articles. Exceeding this number resulted in articles being rejected. Soon after, to help the reject rates, EZA implemented a cog in the editing machinery that detected keyword stuffing before the article ever left the editing board. This was great.

People went on to just “make it” within the safe zone.

Over time, Google responded by strongly suggesting that attention should be spent more on writing naturally than to be worrying about density. To me, that was a great relief because I remember experiencing the issue of getting that keyword in at a 2% density (because if this wasn’t done, others who had would outrank mine.)

The worst problem I had with maintaining a keyword density was having to strategically-place them into the article and have them make good sense. Often, trying to word something with keyword density doubled writing time.

Why Does Google Want You to Write Naturally?

This is what the Penguin update within Google is all about. There were a huge number of websites being artificially-optimized and many of these practices are now considered by Google as “black-hat” marketing. Google (and increasingly other major search engines) focus on the human experience reading articles, reviews, and so forth. Google rewards you if you know your material, cover it thoroughly and naturally ranking for other keywwords that are relevant and rank high in the search results. These are the Latent Semantic Indexing keywords that, if you write naturally, can’t help but attain.

If you build a site with keyword stuffing in it, you might rank very high with it at first, but experience has shown that once Google is done dancing with this content, she will leave you stood up. If it’s not you who gets slapped, it will be the person you sell the website to. For some people, that’s their problem, but for people like myself and others – I care and I won’t do that to others. This means putting a site up on Flippa and getting top dollar for it. I may be able to go to the bank but I’m not laughing.

Hiring Cheap Outsourcing to Write Articles

Again, this may be a temporary fix for someone who wants to build a website and then unload it through an auction site. Google insists on quality, unique writing and as the days go on, she gets smarter and smarter all the while.

This means you are not likely to fool Google and other search engines with cheap writing. The problem is with doing this – you don’t know what you’re getting. It’s a great thing that William Oviedo does provide a resource that checks on this. If you go with this Course, make sure you use that application to be sure what you’re getting from the content-creating marketplaces like Fiverr and others.

I also find it outstanding that he offers resources on places you can go to hire out your content to be written, which sources do indeed insist on quality and have quality-controls in place.

Oviedo recommends using poorer-grade compositions, you’ve paid a few bucks for to have done, to be used in the upper levels of your linking chains, (he calls tiered linking.) and outsource better compositions from the more quality platforms. He points out to be used in first and perhaps second tiers of your linking system.

There’s some problems with purchasing low-end content…

• You might be getting PLR (or other forms of duplicate content) – at least in part.
• You might be getting compilations that has been ripped from several other existing works.
• Having duplicate content within your linking system will eventually catch up and hurt you.
• Very often those who will do articles very cheap ($1-$5) are written in poor English.
• If you specify how many times a keyword gets used, it will be done, but quality goes down.

You might be one of those who says after having unloaded the site this has been done to, “It’s not my problem!”

Well, that may be so if you don’t have a conscience. If you do, you won’t want to dump a site like this off onto another person so he/she winds up with the Google slaps and the find that what they REALLY have is a mess!

You do this for any length of time, Google will catch up with you and you will be the one getting slapped.

Whatever you write – or have written, insist on top quality and pay more for it, even though the content is going on higher-tier levels. Would you want to go to read an article to find it full of stilted language and parts of it not making sense? Don’t subject others to this.

Content Spinning

I hate to spill the beans on this one, but one of the things Oviedo recommends is “good” content-spinning software. I don’t know that there is such a thing, and in fact, I would not use any content-spinners, period.

Even at the time when these were in wide use, I found I had more trouble and spent more time making the results that came from spinning software make sense and restore the human element in it. I’ve often found myself completely re-writing the article – not good!

One day I compared something written by a drunk person to one spun. The inebriated man made more sense in his writing than did the spin software. It was a mess!

Further, Google is getting smarter and so are the article directories. They can pick out spun articles much better than ever before, moreso than you might think, so if you are spinning your content, be sure that eventually, you (or the one you sold the website to) is going to be rewarded by deranking and possibly de-indexing!

You have the spinners featured in the Course. I would not use them nor encourage anyone else to either.

Missing the Human Factor

I realize that this set of instructions entails replicating sites (that is, creating a similar site with modified content) and it will give you everything you need to know about SEO (and a bit, as shown above that is not so good to know) notably artificially-optimized web pages which employ some of the things taught on here. This is what the Penguin and Panda upgrades are ultimately addressing.

Sure, if you do everything that is addressed in the Courses here, you will most likely get results, but how long will it last? Will you be the one who gets slapped by Google, or will it be the unfortunate person who knows little about SEO that suddenly finds his newly purchased site little more than cyber waste when Google de-ranks it?

Trusting in Flippa.com

Do bear in mind that folks use Flippa.com to unload sites that are no longer useful to them. That’s fine and dandy, but what if you’re following a site on there that has been created exclusively for Flippa? If you use any of these, make darned sure you note how old the site is. What Mr. Oviedo says is unique about his training (i.e. replicating what others have done to their sites to make them successful) is actually not new.

I’ve seen this many times over the last ten years in my involvement with online marketing. Back when I first started, I remember a site called “carboncopy *such-and-such*) and it had something to do with digging into competitor’s sites. That’s not new at all. In fact, the online business training community I’m a member of, teaches the same thing, but without the black-hat stuff.

What’s new about this training is the Flippa trick. I’ve never seen that anywhere and I would say this is what’s unique about it.

I’d be very leery about which sites on Flippa you intend to replicate, because if it has some of these black-hat processes on it, and even if it is shown to do well with them, it might have been created to be sold on the auction site.

Final Thoughts

I included this product as one that’s acceptable because most of what is taught in the Courses are up-do-date and Mr. Oviedo is careful to note that there’s work involved, you don’t get rich overnight and he does provide many contemporary aspects one would need to know with regard to SEO. There are however, some dated methods on here, and these are what I expounded upon above. This is NOT a scam by any sense of the word, and this also is worth a lot to me.

I don’t like how the advertising and up-sells are done, even though this is a popular “Warrior Forum” way to do it. (my take on it.) Therefore, I’m providing the link to the [Foolproof Cash Flow (link not yet available)] system because, it does have value. Please check out the Review for my #1 Top Choice for online business training programs right here on this site…

Here’s my Simple Cash Code Review. This piece of rubbish launched today and getting inside, I found it to be a total rip-off. Before you purchase, read this!

Sales Video – Full of HYPE and LIES!

This video begins with a compelling story about the alledged character (whose voice you’re hearing) was in a bar and happens upon some dude with a bottle of Jack Daniels, who gives him a secret code. He takes the code home and uses it, to his shock the next day or so, he goes onto his phone and finds windfalls of money. Upon this instant fortune, he takes the code and makes it public on one of his friend’s websites with the intention of intercepting revenues being made by the extravagantly rich.

This action has the FBI chasing after him and he desperately tries to get this “secret code” into the hands of the public before he gets nabbed, and desperately notes that he can hear the sirens outside, admonishes folks to “take it now whilst you can.!

Warning! This is a SCAM! Do NOT purchase this! If you think about this, recall those Nigerian folks who are always needing someone to take over grand estates in which you allow them to deposit their money into your bank account.

Same sort of deal here. Although you literally get NOTHING for the initial cost of this product. Read on and see why.

By the way, this video does make for great entertainment! It’s worth more than the product itself! I have seen another version of this same story four years ago – one which captivated me and then, if I had the money, would have purchased it. Since those days, I have learned much about online scams and I pass what I know to you when opportunity affords. This is one of those times…

This is for real…

Product Details:

Affiliate Review: Covering Simple Cash Code (sister to EZ Cash Creator)
by Daniel Euergetes,
April 10, 2014

Owners: Travis Stephenson, owner
Price: $49, many up/down-sells
Website: http://simplecashcode.com
Note: Look, but Don’t Touch!

Rating:

(0 / 5 Total Rubbish!)

Product Overview

Let’s Get Though the Hype…

Off the bat, we find a fair share of hype in the email swipes affiliate marketers will use (and are now using the first.) They don’t give all the answers, but they do provide a little bit of information

The Good & the Bad

The Good:

• Great story in that video! It’s one reason why I put it here. (Entertainment ONLY)
• This move will probably result in more refunds being paid.
• It also means better service.
• The policies are stricter at ClickBetter.

The Bad:

• Loaded with hype.
• Lies found throughout the email broadcasts.
• This entire thing is theatrical from promotion to product.
• Very little about the program given in the emails.
• Poor customer service (Highly predictable!)
• You pay $49 to get a “code” that requires another $29/month to use it.
• It’s a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme – Indicated through and through.
• It’s full of upsells, and you pay $49, for this.
• It’s the same product as EZ Cash Creator in a different skin.
• The sales video has testimonials which are actually gigs from Fiverr.com
• Absolute appeal to emotion (an an insult to intelligence) throughout.

Who Is This For?

This product is targeted to audiences that do not know the ins and outs of online marketing. It will get sales from people who have no idea what they’re getting into, and the sales materials deliberately keep the real essence of the product silent until it is unveiled to the customer within the product itself.

What’s In This Product?

The “Code”

The essence of this product surrounds a “code” as indicated in the above video. There is nothing to this code whatsoever, and at this point, we will let a “special” e-mail (below) sent from Mr. Stephenson, to all who purchased this thing. I will give a short description of each of the elements (3 Steps) found inside the e-mail.

I want to make one more point here from this e-mail. This really takes guts to throw something like “If you do as I instruct, you won’t be able to stop the profits once you get started!” This kind of stuff is insidious. Let’s move on to the three sections of the e-mail…

1. PureLeveage: An up-sell in EZ Cash Creator, it’s also featured here in this program. This is some sort of marketing aid that they’re promoting as affiliates. I have not evaluated this company in neither this nor its sister programs. Like everything else, this probably isn’t free.
2. CommissionConsultants: It’s actually the first up-sell you get upon going into the Members’ Area. I will elaborate a little more on the hosting program as I have looked into it. It will be found on a separate page as including it here would dramatically lengthen this Review! Note the download image at the bottom of the middle column of the email above. FREE? not by any means! This is NOT free, though they will purport go give you $10,000 or $20,000 websites (joke!) at no cost. See my Report for Coolhandle Web Hosting, the company doing the hosting. This is way overpriced!
3. Download the App: No explanation needed: This is the link you click to download the software – if it works! There are already horror stories of this thing not working and the need for the HelpDesk. (another joke!)

The Members’ Area and App

EZ Cash Creator is a rip-off and here we have the same thing, but different pile. These sister programs are so similar in what they do and how they are formatted, for the most part, the only real difference between the two are the styling, some modifications to the format, training tailored to this program. SCC has a much calmer appearance to it, a cool blue, making it more attractive to unwary customers.

This being said, heading over to my EZ Cash Creator Review will adequately discuss the features, right down to the order of most of it.

Tools & Training

Just like its sister product, EZ Cash Creator, here is training on how to use the software editing being done and has an interface that features 1-2-3 document creation for uploading to article directories, etc. There’s video training on how to use the software.

There’s also training on how to go about getting domain names and hosting set up. As for building the websites, there’s purportedly a “team” which carries this out. It’s likely, this “team” is composed of folks from the online marketplaces offering gigs and freelance services. These often go for $5 a whack and building these websites would be a service provided.

Support

Support is through a help desk (Zendesk) and 12-hour wait times before customers get served has already been reported. Further, one customer, when his app wouldn’t work, was given a page from the EZ Cash Creator suite that offered no links to the right app. The customer had to contact them again to get access.

Price

The intial cost is $49 to purchase information on how to use and access this thing. There are up-sells (which must be purchased) to be able to acutally access the app. There’s also the requirement of hosting SimpleCashCode websites (up to 20 of these.) This array is an exact repeat of EZ Cash Creator. Many of the same pages are re-used here.

Up-Sells

1. $49 > 2. $197 > 3. $97. Like EZ Cash Creator, the user is hit with the first up-sell prior to seeing any other page on the website that comes up. (Note: THIS IS NOT THE APP! Added costs (explained above) are required. The first up-sell (if purchased) leads directly to the second, and so forth. I have not investigated any of the up-sells. Their sales videos are equally-full of lies and hype.

Down-Sells.

1. $29 > 2. $97 > 3. $97. Declining the $49 up-sell sends the user to the $27 down-sell. Just like the up-sells, the user is conduct to the next as he/she purchases them.

My Opinion

From the beginning of the promotions, even the JV invites, to the very end, this product is PURE rubbish! It is a rip-off and you should stay well away from this at all costs!

Many, if not most, of the elements found in this product has been ripped from the previous EZ Cash Creator, also a sinister creation of Travis Stephenson. It is re-skinned to its present looks. In essence, very little to nothing has been changed.

Absolutely STAY AWAY from this product! You WILL get ripped off.

My VERDICT:

This product is clearly a scam and I strongly advise you STAY AWAY from it on all counts!

Who I Am and My Recommendations

I’m Daniel Euergetes and that’s my mug right there on the right! I am a proud and happy member of a most unusual and awesome online marketing training platform known as Wealthy Affiliate University. I have been a member there now since January 1, 2010.

Wealthy Affiliate University is all about learning how to build an online business where you will learn all the nuts and bolts to building and maintaining online campaigns. There are no up-sells of any kind, hosting is free to Starter as well as Premium members. The Starter membership itself puts these rubbish programs out of the ballpark by leaps and bounds! Lying, misrepresentation, false advertising, hype and any of the other vices you’ve seen in these programs featured here on this Review are never tolerated for a moment.

If you have any questions or comments, I’d like to hear about them in the comments area below. I will get back to you within 24 hours, and usually much sooner than that! I hope you’ve learned from this Review and you’ve enjoyed it as much as I do writing them for your protection!

Cheers!

Daniel

In this, my Easy Money Machines Review, I thoroughly go through the member’s area to reveal what’s inside. What I find is not anything to write home about.

Let’s begin by having a peek at the member’s area itself on its main page. Shown above, I’ve boxed around the most prominent sections within the page with different coloured boxes to help clarify things. This is the opening page of the member’s area. Each section will be discussed separately down through this Review.

I. Main Menu:

Here we have four choices, Dashboard; My Account; Make Money & Sign-out

1. Dashboard This holds all the nuts and bolts to this site.
2. My Account Where you can edit your basic details. This is all there is to this area.
3. Make Money 3 Road Blocks Audio.
4. Sign Out Exit the software.

Let’s break all of these down and get the highlights out of this software, what it does, what’s on it, what’s of any value, what’s worthless and everything in between.

II. The Sidebar (Vertical Menu on Left Hand Side)

In this section we will be discussing the menu itself, not the offers that come below the menu.

Since the Sidebar Menu appears in both the landing and My Account pages, I gave this a section in itself. Let’s take a look at what’s in these 6 selections:

• Easy Money Machines (Basic)
• Unlimited Money Machines
• Auto Income Builder (FB)
• Auto Income Builder (YT)
• Money Machines Mastermind
• Core Training

At this time, the page is returning “You do not have permissions to access.” None of the links except for the very bottom one in the sidebar work. I have contacted Support and unlike others who have received immediate response for this exact issue, I have receive an answer, but It’s only been an hour so far. It is Sunday over there in China, so perhaps it’s closed now.

[Added: day later… They did contact me back to say that this was fixed. I went to go into it and found it had NOT been fixed. It’s still just as I reported it to them. Needless to say, I reopened the ticket this morning and it has not yet been answered. At this point, I’m not going to fret about it. I’ve rummaged around found enough about this product been through the training, etc, to have created this review.]

Easy Money Machines (Basic)

This EMM (Basic) button is supposed to access the basic Easy Money Machines software where you actually are given ten templates to use for squeeze page development. On the page you are presented with the download link to obtain the actual software and a video. Not having access to this page, I don’t know what’s on the video. It’s probably some instructions in downloading the software and perhaps other things related to this step.

Here the software allows you to select a template and then fill in the fields on how you want it to look and what to include from pre-determined selections. When this button is depressed, you should be taken to the actual software where you find more training

Unlimited Money Machines

Here is the upsell that allows unlimited squeeze/thank you pages, not just the 10. The cost and what’s inside here are unknown at this time.

Auto Income Builder (FB)

This is reported by others to be an upsell. It is probably the fan page generator I heard talked about in other circles.

Auto Income Builder (YT)

This too, is reported to be an upsell.

Money Machines Mastermind

Once again – reported to be an upsell. It’s possibly the personal training offered on the sales video which is supposed to come with the program, but is also found to be an upsell.

Core Training

This link corresponds to Step #3 on the Main Page or Dashboard and will be discussed below under the appropriate Heading.

III. The Dashboard

• Button #1 This is supposed to access the “Money Formula Webinar Training,” which has been noted by others to be an upsell. In my copy, it goes to the same PureLeverage website that you would get if you joined through the $0 downsell. In that downsell, you don’t even get to see the software as shown above, but goes directly to the PureLeverage site.
• Button #2 This is where you access the “One-On-One Strategy Session.” With the $9 access, let’s see what we get: Here’s an upsell that offers five free websites and what they build these and hand them over to you. The cost to build? $2,000 x 5 for a whopping $10,000 that they say will serve out to the first 100 “valued” members. I will not go further with this as it most likely is an upsell for webhosting, etc.
• Button #3 Takes you to the core training. This is actually the meat and potatoes of dashboard is. The bottom button on the sidebar takes you to the same place. Please find the discussion for this button at the bottom of this Section.
• Button #4 Takes you to Support. There is also an email address available to get there: support@easymoneymachines.com

Core Training

There are two Quick-Start videos in this area, about 15 minutes apiece for a total of about a half-hour of training on how to get the actual software that contains squeeze and thank you page templates.

Here you choose one of ten templates and edit the fields to make them suit what you are using the templates for.

IV. My Account

There is little to this section. You can edit your name, email address and password. That’s it.

V. Make Money

Behind this link you will find an audio which points out three snags people trying to make their way “in the industry” run into. It does have some sound advice, covering “3 Core Roadblocks” that entrepreneurs online often run into. In the audio, the narrator calls this the “Money Formula System.” Here are the three roadblocks:

• Fear Here the narrator talks about what happens to folks with employee mentality trying to enter the entrepreneurial arena.
• Information Overload Fear leads to overnight fixes, and this usually equates to information overload. Good point!
• Self-Sabotage Explains how fear and information overload leads to self-sabotage and on not finishing tasks.

It’s good advice, but can be found anywhere in the self-empowerment industry for free. So, we do find a smatter of value right here in this audio. It’s a good pep talk, so I give this some merit. The presence of this audio in the member’s area and a statement in it, “99% of you are afflicted with these things” gives a clue as to who this software is for and who is drawn to it.

A second audio is available “Selling Framework” talks about three selling propositions for newbies:

• How to Sell Your Service
• What Service to Sell
• What to Sell the Service For

Has some good points within these subheadings. This audio covers the nuts and bolts of selling stuff. It’s good advice and between these two audio files, you do get some value here. The second audio further attacks employee mentality.

In this section, the sidebar is different, having the following buttons:

• EMM Training This returns to the opening page of this section.
• Facebook Trains on how to create a Facebook fanpage
• FB Training Downloads This takes you to a page where you can download five PDF files, all geared to Facebook, creating a Facebook page, Facebook Timeline for Biz update, The New Facebook Facts, Facebook Ad Coupon and How to Redeem and Facebook Resources. They have these first two files and links flip-flopped, but no big deal. It does fill you in on how to use Facebook in pretty good detail.
• Google+ Here’s a PDF file entitled, +1 Traffic Wave: How To Get Free & Endless Traffic Through Google +1. A quick glance through reveals that this training does cover things pretty well within its pages. Albeit, a closer look reveals the work as being a basic overview of what Google+ is. This covers a little over eight pages. The actual training on how to use G+ covers the next 3.5 pages and the remainder (which brings the total length of the file to 13 pages) is the conclusion.

  There’s certainly much better guides out there, including Google’s own tutorials on this topic, than what’s on there.

• Youtube Training A total of five videos will teach you the ins and outs of YouTube – how to find a product, outsourcing video creation, channel options and video promotion. There is also an overview video, making the suite of five in this section. The videos cover, affiliate networks, search tools (hails Google Keyword Tool,) creating a video, such as testimonial videos.

  I would like to emphasize here that the narrator plainly encourages the use of gigs from Fiverr.com to create the testimonials with, which is something I absolutely disdain.

  The video goes on about the different types of videos to create and covers more things on the shady, black-hat side of things. It goes on to the call to action types, which are acceptable. Finally, it goes on to some demonstrations, including creating a testimonial video using Fiverr.com actors.

  The Channel Optimization video talks about getting the keyword into the channel name, creating more than one video per product and create playlists and get subscribers to the channel. It then goes on to uploading the video, making sure the filename, title, tags, etc has the keywords. All the basic stuff in optimization are included in a list, title, diescription, comments, number thereof, likes, embeds and backlinks.

  The final training module, “Promoting Videos” shows you how to promote using Folkd.com, Socialadr.com, how to obtain 1500-2000 bookmarks using wickedfire.com and warriorforum.com and then document sharing sites.

  I am not impressed with this set of training video modules.

VI. Sign Out

Not much to say here. This is where you log off the member’s area.

VII. The Upsells and Offers

This area (enclosed by the violet box) flashes like a Christmas tree! This is only a small representation of the different offers found in the member’s area as there is quite an array throughout. If many of the buttons in the Sidebar and the first two of the four Dashboard buttons were not enough baits for these folks to wing more money from you, they load this outer shell of the software with even more.

The experience I have so far with this is that $9 (one of the downsells) will not grant you access to the actual software but does let you access the training that shows you how to get in. One person that I know of allegedly contacted Support and promptly was given access when the download button wasn’t appearing. So far I can’t get that far as I’m getting an “You do not have permissions to access” error message.

Some of the Offers in the Member’s area

• Push Button Millionaire: “Push Here to Become A Millionaire; for $10,728.92 a Day” The video within the Offers area shown within the violet box above in the image “Dashboard” goes to the same place as this banner ad under the sidebar menu.
• PureLeverage: “Win This F430 Spider Ferrari! The car up on the block in the sales video was a Lambourghini.
• PureLeverage: “See What’s Hot!” Sexy woman laying on the beach. Pretty provocative even though this probably isn’t about women.
• Automated Income App: “Want $1,000 A Day? For Life? Click Here to Download My Automated Income App for FREE”
• Make Money with Megan: This is a program launched by Mr. Atkinson around September of 2013.
• CASH MACHINES 2.0: “Unlimited Commissions For Life”

It’s all very much the same quality, just different variables, as the Easy Money Machines program.

My Final Thoughts & Recommendations

You get what you pay for (if you’re lucky.)

Much of what’s in this program is not reflected in the sales material, and in fact, things simply don’t add up throughout the sales presentation and contradicts the sales material. A good example of this can be found in the headline above the sales video, which plainly indicates that there would be 10 money machines available for free. This has not happened. What’s actually in the member’s area and the product is a mismatch of what’s said in the sales video.

At the point where the downsell video for $0 the host of the video exclaims, “Okay, don’t think it’s worth it? Take it then!” Don’t hold your breath too long. You don’t get the member’s area, not to mention the software. Instead you get served an offer from PureLeverage.com, and the cycle would just repeat itself again in another adventure in cat-and-mouse with value and a swim in flash and hype.

The value you get with this program are squeeze page templates, which is the core of this offer, some helpful advice on entrepreneurship and selling, training on how to optimize a Facebook, YouTube and Google+. Some of the training is good and some of it is not so good, encouraging black-hat marketing methods and incomplete. Fortunately, the core training fills us in on what the core of this program is all about.

The only people, for the most part that’s going to make a killing with this software are its producers and Clicksure (an affiliate network from China historically known for harbouring scam programs.)

Sadly, many people will flock to this and find out the hard way. Yes, I believe this software works, but it’s not the powerhouse nor does it have the quality purported in the promotion. It certainly is not the Big Red Easy Button it’s purported to be. It may supply the software to create attractive-looking squeeze pages, but when it comes down to the content in them, you’re on your own – and there’s no training for any of this included.

My verdict:

My Recommendation:

I strongly recommend you pass this one by and don’t look back.

I have been a happy member of the most complete online business training membership found on the Internet. This is an online educational facility that does not focus in on one small facet of Internet marketing as this program does.

Why settle for enough bits and pieces of a puzzle enough to have a piece of software that develops squeeze pages and offer a bunch of upsells to get anymore value when you can actually learn how to build campaigns from the ground up, from niche selection to a finished and converting website?

Please check out my review on Wealthy Affiliate and see why the members (which you will have complete access to) stay and enjoy a much higher success rate in a positive learning environment. You will not find the hype, misleading advertising nor black hat techniques at Wealthy Affiliate that you find in programs like this.

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