Friday, April 04, 2008

Farewell to " Affiliate Silver Bullets"

I promised to tell you what is going on with the "Affiliate Silver Bullets System" (ASBS). So here it is:

Only 3 month after its launching, the ASBS transformed into "Affiliate Silver Bullet System Version 2." This was a small change in name, but a drastic change (to the worse) in membership functionality:

There are no more 10 "Silver Bullets" as was promised for each and every month that would consist of:

10 Professionally Designed Video Squeeze Pages;

10 Pre-Selling Mini-Sites;

10 Powerful 5-Part Training Series;

250 Keyword-rich SEO Articles;

10 double opt-in lists;

fat checks from Clickbank.


The ASBS Version 2 model is simple genius:

1) Each and every month there appears the same Video Squeeze Page intended to opt-in subscribers for "Internet Marketing Genius" newsletters!

2) The user has to promote these newsletters and only the newsletters. And the user has to build the so called "his" single opt-in list. But even if the user does nothing at all, ASBS promises to "market for him," that is, to add subscribers to "his" list (please don't ask when and how many!). Obviously, this list is at the disposal of the membership's owner and at no one else's!

3) Moreover, the membership owner, the one and only, will sell to this list a "variety of products" (again, don't ask what, when or how!).

4) And the owner and no one else will share the commissions that these sales generate with the membership users (when and how much is a mystery!).

An additional "blossom" is that in the gratitude for a more effectively bringing leads to the membership owner's list (or, alternatively, for a more effectively doing nothing at all) the user will "be provided with the best marketing tools to help you drive traffic to the squeeze pages. We'll also teach you how to get free traffic". How nice of the owner!

What the user unconditionally gets is to pay $37 monthly. This is not too expensive for such a lovely trap.

I quit!