In this “Your Profit Team Review” I bring up red flags in the product’s sales video, such as off-the-wall income claims, hype, news stories taken out of context, yet little about what the product is. You should AVOID this product!

Your Profit Team – Product Overview

Product Name: “Your Profit Team”

Owner(s): “David” according to the sales video, Destin Cribbs according to his user name at ClickFunnels.com, Neither name is conclusive.

Price:  The maximum affiliate commission of 65% is $340. Based on this, the customer pays a maximum amount of $525 for the product. It likely includes any up-sells, if any.

Guarantee: 60-Day Guarantee backed by Clickbank.

Website: yourprofitteam.biz

The Promotional Campaign Has Some Problems

As with many low quality online digital products, the promotional campaign is often fraudulent, or misleading at best. It is often riddled with extremely hyped-up promises of a trouble-free groundbreaking system of sorts requiring little-effort, no experience, and promises very high, off-the-wall income potential in an incredibly short amount of time. A common claim is that anyone and everyone who purchases will see incredible success using the product. The advertising comes with warnings that the opportunity itself is fleeting in some way and may be gone tomorrow, so the prospect must hurry and grab one of very few spots available or lose out on a once-in-a-lifetime event. The advertising lays heavily on appealing to emotion and uses fear (another emotion to arouse buying.)

This type of advertising has been used with the Your Profit Team product. The product apparently has not yet launched as I cannot get get past the Click Here button. This Review explores the promotional campaign.

Now, Let’s Take a Look at the Sales Video…

The sales video is shown above.  I would that you watch the video and consider what you’ve seen in it. The work on the advertisement itself is well-done. It has soothing music with light piano and subtle sound effects. The narration is done with a soft-toned voice. Everything that went into the sales video was done eloquently. The marketing strategy in it is also eloquent however extremely unethical.

• Right away, we’re told that we’ve reserved a spot and this requires no experience and removes the nonsense that keeps us from making money..
• This is followed by another logical fallacy – the appeal to authority.  This support comes from two different ABC News stories and a foreign news station.  There will be an entire section devoted to this below.
• An appeals to emotion session begins by being told this is a secret society of sorts and then given the typical Rags-to-Riches story which takes up much of the video.
• Following this, we are given more reinforcement about getting in before it’s too late, shown an image of money falling from the sky and then the typical act of altruism – “Dave” and the team have so much money and so many websites that they don’t know what to do with. They’re throwing open the doors to the tiny few who are lucky to get in.
• We then get about 10 seconds where we’re given a hint of what the product is about. It refers to a website we’ll be working with, most likely a cookie-cutter website from what I gather from the information I have about this product so far.  We’ll be given some instructions on how to set up the product. From here on, we see the final call to action and an arrow that points down to where we fill in our details and press the Submit Button.

To get more information, we need to go to Clickbank, which hosts this vendor featuring the product.  Here we see a little bit more.  There’s some training on how to advertise online, which apparently comes with videos, website templates which we’ll be needing, goes on to mentioning customer support and then (Uh oh!) “100+ Master Resale Rights Products.

I am concerned about MRRs these days.  MRR products are an out-dated form of marketing that is no longer popular as it once was and in fact have their own problems. More likely than not, the media you are trying to sell are freely available somewhere else on the Internet. You and countless others will be trying to sell the same media within this program and probably from many, many others besides! The marketing technique was effective and popular in the 1990s.

Let’s take a closer look at the support they’ve used in the sales video…

Taking News Stories Out of Context!

I smell a dead, maggot-infested rat here!  The producer(s) of the sales video resorted to clipping some news stories, taking the snippets and reassembled them. The original meaning has been lost, thus has been taken out of context to be re-used in the sales video. This is completely unethical and irresponsible usage of material that originally didn’t mean what they are conveyed to mean in the sales video.

In this case, parts from three separate news stories were isolated from their surrounding material and forced to fit into the context of the sales video. Apparently the creators of this video didn’t take in account that these news stories are online where people can find them and these clips are in them in their original contexts.  We will take a look at this scenario now.

If you remember, near the beginning of the sales video, You heard and read, “The EXACT same business model shown on hundreds of news stations” on the slide just prior to being shown four snippets from news broadcasts.

What is meant by “The EXACT same business model…” is left to the viewer’s imagination, therefore is ambiguous at best.  Since the viewer has probably figured out that this is an online business opportunity of sorts, this, of necessity, is what the news broadcast snippets are about.

Whoah!

The ABC 9 On Your Side Story…

This is not about setting up a home office and building out an affiliate marketing, PLR product marketing, MRR product marketing or any other recognized form of freelance-type of internet marketing done from home.  It’s completely about employees working for their employers doing their jobs at home.  This is a HUGE difference!

The ABC.com’s Action News Now Story…

In this story, we have Yahoo! (the browser and search engine company) requiring their employees to cease doing their job assignments from home and are now required to work in offices within the company’s facility.  The objective of this story is to ask the question, Why?  The bit extracted from the newscast features one of the spokespersons mentioning a relative that is working from home with no problems.

The ANC’s The World Tonight Story (This Is a Filipino News Network or Station)

The final clip, also used for support here, comes from a story about the growing trend of employers allowing workers to do their job assignments from home rather than doing facetime in corporate offices.  This report comes from a news broadcast studio in the Philippines.

The problem here and the point is, none of these stories have anything to do with Internet marketing done as a home business or through self-employment. All of them are related to folks completing assigned work for their employers.

A Look at the Email Campaign…

In the affiliate’s area of the Your Profit Team website, (which is accessible directly from Clickbank for affiliate marketers looking for products to promote.

The entire email sequence is much like the sales video, which we will look at next.

What we have is a lot of play on words, excessive appeals to emotion, which is a logical fallacy known simply as, the fallacy of appeal to emotion.  This is where the flashing of money, huge promises, the selling of the dream rather than the product, the rags to riches story, and other similar psychological exploits come from.

Contrary to what the sales video says, in the email shown above, we have them saying that they’re going to be picking out a couple of people for their team.  This is an extremely ambiguous use of the term “couple” and once again, is left to the imagination.  The emails are filled with a commonly used fear tactic – scarcity.  There’s only so many slots or seats, there’s only a very few being taken in, We’d better hurry and get in now because this outstanding offer will be gone.

Now, let’s take a look at how many lucky ones the sales video tells us will be admitted on the so-called team…

The correct answer to the question in the caption is, “Neither!” Let’s let the affiliate program for Your Profit Team give us the truth…

…The Rest of the Story!

The end of this product that faces the consumer, that is, the front-end, is where the grand staircase is, the glitter and glamour. It has to look pretty and for low quality products, it has to appeal to the emotion. The job of the advertising is to get conversions. As was mentioned above, one of these is the use of fear, the scarcity factor to get people to do what the vendor and the advertisers want.

We are all familiar that Disney is a theme park. It’s decked out and full of fantasy. It’s full of that appeal to emotion, to authority and other logical fallacies. At these places, folks break down to a time of fun. In doing, it lowers inhibitions and raises impulsive buying. Note that the summary of the Earnings Disclaimer below suggests that we consider this product as “entertainment only!” This is more like throwing hoops or shooting the revolving ducks at our favourite Disney game stands. The statement is in full as in the original Disclaimer.

At Disney, the employees that service the park, have their own corridors and behind-the-scenes workplaces throughout. These passageways are there to keep the service employees and the utility areas out of sight of the consumers who are there for the entertainment. The workers are there to work. The workplaces are dull, drab and functional.

In the same way, the affiliate marketer goes behind the scenes of these products, in the back-end of things. What they see is the data they need, which is different than what the consumer sees. Please see the following two images. These tell the truth of the matter.

In reality, there’s not a couple people being admitted, nor 20! This is absurd. There will be many hundreds, probably as many as tens of thousands of buyers for this product. Unless this product fails miserably (and it probably won’t because of the powerful advertising. It would make no sense to put a product like this on the Internet and host it through a place like Clickbank if only a few (shown in the advertisement) were to be admitted.

The Earnings Disclaimer – Another Dull Thing People Don’t Want to See

No, I will not give you the whole thing here, but I will give the summary for you to compare with the sales video!

• All results shown in our presentation, website, or marketing literature are atypical results.
• Average results are unknown.
• The strategies, marketing methods and other business advice obtained by the owner, may not produce the same results (or any results) for you.
• There is absolutely no guarantee, expressed or implied, that by following the advice or content
  that you will make any money.
• You assume all risk related to investment and money based on your own discretion and at your own potential expense.
• You agree that our content is to be considered “for entertainment purposes only”.

An important thing to note about the Earnings Disclaimer on the website. The poor design of this text against a dark background isn’t an accident. By law, the disclaimer must be present and readable. That it is, but with difficulty. I had to highlight the text to be able to read it. The producers of the website do NOT want you to read the disclaimer and would much rather you didn’t notice it because it does have damning information in it which directly contradicts the information in the advertising!

Conclusion

When I first started this Review, the very first flag that popped up was Your Profit Team’a home page. On it, the background features a balmy tropical beach with a blue-green ocean, brilliant sand and of course, a palm with lush fronds. I had no idea I was going to find all this stuff – and I never even got to the product itself!

I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did researching and writing it. It’s a work taken much longer than I usually do with a review. This is more of a case study and a learning tool for my readers to help protect themselves from the myriads of scams that lay in wait to pounce! Thank you for reading!

Does this product work? Maybe. Unfortunately the advertising for this product has little to say about the product, which is probably for very good reasons. For for those who are familiar with critical thinking and how invalid argumentation is used in advertising to trick the unsuspecting, I have enough grounds to safely assume this is a scam because the advertising itself is such a critical element. In this case, it clearly induces impulsive buying of a product that likely, will produce buyer’s remorse. However, not knowing enough about the product itself, and until I do, I assess this product as one to…

*** UPDATE ***

I found that the product has launched this morning. This is interesting. Now the product being opened to the public, the home page has changed. It still has the same video but now in a smaller container.

Notice at the top, above the video, you see someone has taken the #14 spot. Remember that when I began writing this Review, people were already said to have been taking these spots even before the product was launched this morning (or yesterday.) This is a script on the page and I will say more about this below.

The other two items of interest are the price is now visible and there’s

You are now allowed to enter your email at the bottom and are presented with a new video after you do this. Here’s what I have found thus far…

• This product comes with a coaching program of sorts. My best guess is this is where the up-sell lies.
• There is now a definitive price point to purchase this product. $57 USD gets you in the door.
• It presents you with a discount of $10 USD in one of three ways. I will show you the ways below.
• What you see on the box (which changes as you interact with it) isn’t what you might think. More on this below.
• I found another hint to what’s involved with this product! Let’s look at these one at a time…

Bear in mind that some of the information below is inconclusive and I will state this in association to those items.

Coaching

In the second video, there is mention of coaching that you will get when you join the “team.” Usually, coaching comes with a fairly hefty price tag and It is likely the same occurs here. You will be assigned a coach and may get a starter session. You will be given contact information. From the information I have gotten from the JV invite information on Clickbank, there’s definitely some up-sells here. It could be the coaching or it could have something to do with the Master Resale Rights products. It could also be an undisclosed item, such as hosting for websites that come with the MRR products. Without actually purchasing and going in, this remains inconclusive.

Even if all of the coaching is for free and is included with the membership price, there is one or more up-sells involved here. In fact, there’s $500 somewhere along the line here that you will need to be paying out to get the optimal thrust of this product. The MRRs are not mentioned anywhere in the sales videos but they are mentioned at Clickbank! I strongly believe you get this 100+ package. Let’s look at the pricing now and see what you get with this…

Price

Initially, the cost is $57. This is how it starts. It gets dropped though and the common reason you see these drops in pricing is that already, you’ve been fixed upon the initial amount. You might think it’s a little high, but you’re probably going to go for it. Dropping the price further into the buying process is just another thing that locks you into a buying decision – and you go for it.

The second video, tells us we’re getting the following…

• The reserved spot becomes yours (one in 20 (and you’ve received the last spot! – how lucky you are!)
• You now have the online office. This is most likely nothing more than a dashboard where you set up your website.
• Speaking of which, is probably the main campaign you start with. More on that below…
• Given the benefit of the doubt here, you’re assigned a coach for all the time you’re a member.
• You also get access to other members. There appears to be some sort of communication between you and others.
• You get the quickest and easiest means to making money online. When you make money, “they” make money. Hmmm.
• You get a fool-proof guide that shows you how to set things up.
• You get a 60-Day guarantee which you can receive an income with no questions asked.

There is an uncanny reference about not doing anything with the spot we’re given and that if we were to still feel objections to what we are seeing in the second video, then the advertisement tells us that we are probably not the person they’re looking for and that we don’t deserve the spot.

This last statement is yet another ploy to get the viewer to jump in. Many people have what’s known as entitlement mentality. This mindset is encouraged in Western-type consumer-based nations. One of the tenets of entitlement (and consumer) mentality is that part of entitlement mentality is the feeling that we deserve what we have coming. To be told otherwise comes off as an insult and an undesired label – “You don’t deserve it!”

This is a ploy known as the logical fallacy of appealing to emotion. This is a play on emotion which gets the viewer to divorce their intellect long enough to purchase the product compulsively.

Discount

We have covered what’s involved with the discount and why it’s there. Here I’m just going to show what the page changes to when you get the discount. Note that the page also informs that the last spot is now taken.

There are three ways we see this discount. All roads lead to Rome, so no matter what you do, you’re going to get this discount. However they are going to play the line and they are crafty at fishing, so watch out! After all, it’s you and I looking at the end of the line and that worm sure looks tasty! Here’s the three ways…

You watch the video but you notice the notifications at the top of the screen. Someone has just taken Spot 14. You watch the video further and notice the notification briefly go blank. It’s then replaced by someone taking Spot 15 … and then 16. You don’t take any chances and click the Let’s Get You Started! Claim Your Success Right Now! Immediately the top notification indicates, “FINAL SPOT HAS BEEN RESERVED – LAST SPOT DISCOUNT HAS BEEN TURNED ON” and at the bottom of the box, “LAST PACKAGE DISCOUNT IS NOW APPLIED”

The Count-Down and a Wait! Pop-Up

The Final Nail in the Coffin…The Verified Site Badges

I did everything I could to find the badges that are laid out across the bottom of the box beneath the video, but I had some problems. I couldn’t find them – anywhere!

I looked for them by typing what’s on them – nothing. I tried to guess at possible websites and trying different possibilities based on the information on the badges. I made a screenshot of one of the more “popular” ones (the red one on security.) I checked for known badges. I simply could not come with a single match. Using Google Images to match the Verified Site Badge – Security Verified, I came up with the following…

• Redoxon Triple Flavour Effervescent Tabliets
• McVital’s Club
• Rennie Orange Flavour
• Kit-Kat Orange Bar
• Trident Chewing Gum, Orange Flavoured
• Sugarless Bubble-Yum Chewing Gum Orange

Yep – the badges shown above are little more than what I’ve found – eye candy. Looking at the image of trusted badges in the image to the right, what do they all have in common?

They all have the website’s name on them, such as eTrust.com, etc. The ones at the top of this section do not!

This concludes this study and based on what I’ve found here, even if the product does actually have some value, I hereby downgrade Your Profit Team as an outright…

Reason? False, misleading and fraudulent advertising that is clearly designed to trick folks into purchasing a product that most likely isn’t worth the pixels that it’s made of!

My Top Pick…

It is likely you are here because you found the Your Profit Team product and wasn’t sure about it. You wanted to look into this before purchasing. I hope I was able to show you why this product isn’t a good idea. I weigh very heavily upon the promotion of a product for reasons given above. It’s a serious matter and costs consumers millions of dollars per year.

I’m going to show you a real opportunity that can become a long-term profitable affiliate marketing business. You will be taught everything you need to know from the ground up, on how to build a find your niche, build a core website for it, write the content to put into it, learn how to know your audience, know how to optimize your content for the search engines (SEO) and incorporate social media. You will be provided all the tools you need to register domains, host your websites and get all the support you need, even from the owners! The community is composed of members who closely network with each other in a business and entrepreneurial environment. There’s no black-hat marketing, no funny stuff and no need for any of the kind of advertising associated with the product featured in this Review. There’s nothing to hide!

I will be bold (and proud to say) that Wealthy Affiliate is the place you’re looking for. If you are willing to work hard and know that there isn’t such a thing as getting rich quick in any Internet business (or any worthy ideal of a business at all) I have the place for you! Check it out by reading my Wealthy Affiliate Review. You can jump to it by clicking the banner below. You will be shown what Wealthy Affiliate is all about and if hopefully, you click through, you will see that Wealthy Affiliate is the Real Deal! Try it out…It’s free to try. You have nothing to lose…Click the button below.

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:

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