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Perpetual Income 365 Review

This is a review of Perpetual Income 365, an affiliate marketing system created by Shawn Josiah.

(Have you taken this course? Add your rating!)

Perpetual Income 365 basically teaches you how to become a salesperson for the program itself. You would make money online by earning a commission for every successful referral.

If you want to know:

The pros and cons of Perpetual Income 365How much it costs (including upsells)If real students are actually getting resultsHow it compares to other affiliate marketing programs

Then you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s get started.

Perpetual Income 365 – Key Points

About

Shawn Josiah’s program that shows you how to be a commission-based salesperson for the same program.

💰 Price

$9 trial then $47/month or $297 lifetime (additional costs + upsell info)

😍 Pros

60-day refund policy, low cost of entry, landing pages included.

😩 Cons

Little evidence that students are earning consistent profit, strong MLM vibes, questionable marketing, lots of upsells.

Verdict

An overhyped system with many flaws. Best avoid this one.

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About our 31-factor editorial review processJump to…The best affiliate marketing course?How does Perpetual Income 365 work?Who is this course for?Course reputation Are students getting results?Price (and discount) info Refund policy Course structure Praise Criticism Other things you should know Should you join?Alternatives Leave your review Ask a questionAbout the Author

Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.

I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.

Since then, I’ve earned my living online in various ways. Over the last six months I’ve earned an average of $19,581 per month, mostly from affiliate marketing.

I’m on a mission to accurately rate and review all the best affiliate marketing courses. My team and I have spent 500+ hours investigating these courses and getting feedback from real students.

All that to say: we know a thing or two about affiliate marketing and making money online.

The Best Affiliate Marketing Course?

We’re on a mission to find the best affiliate marketing course, based on our own extensive research plus feedback from real students.

Unfortunately, Perpetual Income 365 doesn’t come close to making the top of our list…

Best Affiliate Marketing Courses

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How does Perpetual Income 365 help you make money?

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services, and collect a commission for every successful referral.

Perpetual Income 365 is a somewhat unusual affiliate marketing program in that you’re mainly shown how to promote PI365 itself.

Once you sign up, you can become an affiliate for the program and they give you landing pages and email templates designed to convert other people into paying members of Perpetual Income 365.

You drive traffic to those landing pages with paid advertising (solo ads).

Here’s one of the landing pages provided for you:

There are lots of upsells within Perpetual Income 365, so you can earn quite a bit of money from each referral.

In fact, when I checked the product on the ClickBank marketplace, it showed an average conversion value of $310.91.

So for every new person you successfully refer to Perpetual Income 365, it seems you would earn an average of $310.91.

So essentially Perpetual Income 365 shows you how to become a commission-based salesperson for Perpetual Income 365. The more new customers you refer to PI365, the more money you make.

Below is a video from Shawn Josiah – creator of PI365 – so you can get a feel for his style.

Learn more about affiliate marketingWho is Perpetual Income 365 for?

PI365 is definitely aimed at people new to online business.

The marketing for the program is full of statements like…

there’s an amazing loophole you’re about to discover that’s creating full-time stay home moms and dads without any tech expertise and in any economy.

Everyday Ordinary People With No Tech Expertise Reaping Extraordinary Reward!

A 7 year old used MCCA to make him $22 million a year. So if a 7 year old can do it, so can you!

It’s also marketed as a very easy and low-effort way to make money online…

95% Done For You: we have automated all the heavy lifting for you.

Granted, you need to squeeze in just a little bit of effort, but that goes a long, long way.

It’s like buying one of those “just add water” cake-mixes you buy off the grocery shelf. While you still need to pour in the liquid to the mixture, the results FAR EXCEED the effort you have put in.

However, based on my own extensive experience with affiliate marketing, and having skimmed through the PI365 training and seeing lots of comments from students, I personally DO NOT consider this program to be a reliable way to make money online.

I’d especially advise caution with Perpetual Income 365 if you’re new to online business or have a tight budget.

Full list of ways to make money online (including better options)Does Perpetual Income 365 have a good reputation?

Not really, no.

One of the biggest complaints you’ll hear about Perpetual Income 365 is the misleading messaging they use to market the program.

If you’ve visited the PI365 sales page, you’ll have heard mention of a “secret algorithm” within their system called MCCA, which stands for Micro-Commitment Consistency Compounding Algorithm.

This is nothing more than an overblown marketing gimmick.

MCCA is basically a common marketing tactic where you offer people a free or low-priced introductory product. This increases the odds that they will buy more from you later, so long as they’re happy with the initial purchase.

PI365 points out that big corporations like Netflix, Microsoft and Apple use MCCA, and promises that you can too once you sign up for their program.

This is technically true but very misleading.

It’s a bit like getting a job as a fry cook at your local McDonalds, then bragging to your friends that you work at a Fortune 500 company.

PI365 also employs lots of fake scarcity to market the program. For example:

Claiming you only have “24 hours to act” every time you visit the sales page.Claiming there are only 50 spots available in the program (despite there being 6000+ people in the private PI365 Facebook group).Claiming each upsell is offered as a “one-time opportunity,” but you can buy them all at any time once you’re inside the program.

On the plus side, Shawn Josiah, the creator of Perpetual Income 365, does appear to be a very successful affiliate marketer in his own right…

That’s Shawn in the above photo displaying three consecutive ClickBank platinum awards, which you only get if you’ve made over $250,000 in gross sales on ClickBank in a year.

However, the products that Shawn has sold to achieve those awards are somewhat questionable. For example, he finished 2nd in a contest to promote a program called ClickBank University, which I reviewed thoroughly and determined to be a borderline scam.

Also, the email templates provided for you inside PI365 come across quite spammy, with subject lines like:

I want this program so freakin badABC as easy as 123.open this email and buy nowI urge you, Finally buy this!greg says to buy this!

But perhaps the most troubling thing about Perpetual Income 365, is how much it reminds me of a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scheme.

You basically buy the program and then immediately try to convince other people to buy the same program, and then those people are asked to recruit even more people to the same program.

I guess that wouldn’t bother me so much if lots of students were getting good results after signing up. But that’s not really the case…

Are PI365 users getting results?

I spent several hours researching Perpetual Income 365, looking through earnings screenshots and testimonials from students, browsing the private Facebook group, and searching for other reviews online.

At first glance it seems like lots of students are getting good results.

For example, here are results shown by a student named Ali, who had joined the program a couple of months prior…

As you can see, Ali earned more than $2000 in a single month.

However, in her testimonial on this page, Ali says she bought all the upsells for Perpetual Income 365, and spent “as much as I could afford to buy traffic.”

Given that, there’s a good chance that the revenue shown in those screenshots did not cover her expenses.

Here’s another earnings screenshot, from this “success stories” page…

Rich is very excited after earning his $136 in commissions.

But to earn that $136 he apparently had to spend…

$9 for the 14-day trial of Perpetual Income 365$297 for Email ATM upsell$320 for 800 clicks via Udimi

So he spent at least $626 to earn $136, leaving him with a net loss of $490

Of course, it’s possible that students like Ali and Rich go on to earn big profits later, as they continue to build and optimize their systems.

But if students do eventually earn good profits with Perpetual Income 365, I have to wonder why all the testimonials and “success stories” I’ve seen only show earnings from students who have recently joined the program.

Could it be because it’s easy to generate revenue with Perpetual Income 365, but hard to earn a consistent profit? And eventually most students realize this and stop using the system?

Who knows.

But the bottom line is this: I’ve seen very little evidence that people who sign up for PI365 are able to earn consistent profits using the system.

Given the popularity of the program – there are 6800+ people in the members-only Facebook group, and I spent quite a bit of time looking through their recent posts – I would have expected to see far better success stories and testimonials.

How much does Perpetual Income 365 cost?

The gateway into Perpetual Income 365 is a two-week trial for only $9. If you’d like to keep access beyond that, you have two options:

$47 per month$297 for lifetime access

Once you sign up for the two-week trial, you will be hit with three consecutive upsells:

5 Clicks Profit Activator – $197
Activates more features on your landing pages to increase conversions.Email ATM – $297
Email templates for promoting other top ClickBank products to your list.Perpetual Asset Multiplier – $127
Gives you access to all landing page templates instead of only two.

One of the few good things about Perpetual Income 365 is that you don’t have to buy expensive landing page software like ClickFunnels, because landing pages are provided for you.

But you will still need to sign up for mailing list software to use the system.

PI365 integrates with GetResponse, so that’s what you’ll need to sign up for. That will cost you an additional $15/month, but they do have a free 30-day trial.

Lastly, you will need to pay for traffic.

Within the training, there is a short video on generating free traffic – he basically recommends DMing people you find in Facebook groups – but Shawn spends a third of that video telling you why paid traffic is far better.

He recommends you buy your traffic from Udimi and Traffic For Me. That will cost you at least $0.40 per click, which works out to $40 for every 100 clicks.

Say you buy 100 premium clicks each month. Your minimum expenses for one year of PI365 would be:

$306 for PI365 membership$165+ for an autoresponder (list of 1000 or less)$480 for traffic

Total expenses for one year = at least $951.

That’s the best-case scenario, without going for any of the upsells, and spending pretty much the bare minimum on traffic.

Perpetual Income 365 Discount?

There is a spot to enter a coupon code when you go to the checkout for the $9 trial, but I haven’t found any legit coupon code for that.

I was offered a discount on all three of the upsell pages when I tried to leave the page.

5 Clicks Profit Activator – $50 discountEmail ATM – $100 discountPerpetual Asset Multiplier – $30 discount

I also saw a 20% discount offer on all the upsells once I was inside the program. That looked like an evergreen offer.

Refund Policy

Perpetual Income 365 is sold via ClickBank, meaning your purchase is covered by ClickBank’s 60-day money-back guarantee.

The best way to get a refund on your purchase is to find the email receipt you should have received when you signed up.

In there you’ll find a link to a page, followed by text like this:

From this page, you can create a printable PDF ClickBank Receipt, generate another copy of your ClickBank order confirmation, change your email address or access the product you purchased. You can also request support from the vendor, or request an order cancellation or refund. To do this, click on Get Support and select More Options.

I’ve only seen one complaint from a PI365 member about getting a refund, but it looks like they didn’t go through ClickBank to request it.

Go through ClickBank for the refund and you shouldn’t have any issues.

Also, keep in mind that you won’t get any refunds on the paid traffic or autoresponder software, as you have to buy those through different companies.

How is the program structured?

Here’s how the Perpetual Income 365 program looks once you’re logged in…

There isn’t a ton of training in there; Shawn mainly just shows you how to set up the system and feed it with traffic.

So don’t expect to learn much about affiliate marketing via Perpetual Income 365. You’re not learning how to set up your own unique business here. Instead, they show you how to promote Perpetual Income 365 itself.

There are some bonuses included, but these are just some PLR ebooks that I wouldn’t rate highly at all.

Signing up for PI365 also gets you access to the private member community on Facebook. Last I checked, there were 6,800 people in there but it was surprisingly inactive, with only 79 posts in the previous month.

And despite there being few posts in the Facebook group, some posts still fail to receive a response, like this one from a struggling student that had been posted 4 weeks prior:

I wonder how much he had to spend on ads to generate that $20 per month

Green Lights

Here are a few things to like about Perpetual Income 365:

60-day money-back guarantee.Low price to sign up and check out the program.Landing pages included.Red Flags

A few things about Perpetual Income 365 that might give you pause:

Unclear if any students are earning a consistent profit.Too MLM-y for my liking.Lots of upsells.Full cost of implementing the training undisclosed when joining.Lots of questionable marketing tactics (eg. fake scarcity).Little training on how to promote anything but PI365 itself.Buggy software (the four landing pages I set up never appeared).Other things you should knowOne of the dangers of Perpetual Income 365 is that it teaches you primarily how to promote PI365 itself. So if you are successful in earning money by following the system, you will end up almost entirely dependent on that system for your income. If at some point Shawn Josiah decides to stop selling his program – unlikely, but possible – then you no longer have a business.Should you join Perpetual Income 365?

If you are new to entrepreneurship and are looking for a quick and easy way to make money online, you will likely end up disappointed with Perpetual Income 365.

I’ve simply seen very little evidence that students are earning a consistent profit by using the system.

The questionable marketing tactics used to sell the program are also very off putting.

Personally, I would steer far clear of Perpetual Income 365. As far as affiliate marketing programs go, this has to go near the bottom of my list.

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Perpetual Income 365 – Key Points

About

Shawn Josiah’s program that shows you how to be a commission-based salesperson for the same program.

💰 Price

$9 trial then $47/month or $297 lifetime (additional costs + upsell info)

😍 Pros

60-day refund policy, low cost of entry, landing pages included.

😩 Cons

Little evidence that students are earning consistent profit, strong MLM vibes, questionable marketing, lots of upsells.

Verdict

An overhyped system with many flaws. Best avoid this one.

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Legendary Marketer Review

This is a review of Legendary Marketer, a digital marketing training platform created by David Sharpe.

(Have you taken this course? Add your rating!)

Legendary Marketer aims to teach you online marketing skills, and seems to have a strong emphasis on how to apply those skills to promote the Legendary Marketer suite of products.

If you want to know:

The pros and cons of Legendary MarketerHow much it costs (including tools and upsells)If real students are actually getting resultsHow it compares to other affiliate marketing programs

Then you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s get started.

Legendary Marketer – Key Points

About

David Sharpe’s upsell-heavy digital marketing training platform.

💰 Price

$7 to start + $2500 blueprint upsell (additional costs + upsell info)

😍 Pros

Decent refund policy, low price to get started, decent training before the upsells.

😩 Cons

Lack of significant student success stories, strong MLM vibes, lots of expensive upsells.

Verdict

Some good training on offer, but it comes with a lot of baggage.

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Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.

I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.

Since then, I’ve earned my living online in various ways. Over the last six months I’ve earned an average of $19,581 per month, mostly from affiliate marketing.

I’m on a mission to accurately rate and review all the best affiliate marketing courses. My team and I have spent 500+ hours investigating these courses and getting feedback from real students.

All that to say: we know a thing or two about affiliate marketing and making money online.

The Best Affiliate Marketing Program?

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How does Legendary Marketer help you make money?

Legendary Marketer is an entire suite of courses, mainly covering what David Sharpe refers to as the 4 core high-ticket online business models:

Affiliate MarketingDigital ProductsCoaching and ConsultingEvents and Masterminds

More broadly, here’s how Legendary Marketer is described on the site homepage…

The primary path into Legendary Marketer is the The 15 Day Online Business Builder Challenge. This training aims to give you an overview of online marketing.

Once you’ve completed the 15-day challenge, the idea is to move on to one of the blueprint upsells. These are deeper training programs, one for each of the 4 business models listed above, and each costing $2500.

How you would eventually make money depends on which of the blueprints you use.

The Affiliate Marketing Business Blueprint will teach you how to promote Legendary Marketer and/or other products as an affiliate.

If you refer paying customers to such products, you earn money.

This way of earning money is called affiliate marketing.

Most of the successful Legendary Marketer students I’ve seen tend to be affiliates for Legendary Marketer itself. They get new people into David Sharpe’s funnel, and can earn big commissions if those people bite on the many upsells they are offered.

For example, if you refer someone to Legendary Marketer and they eventually buy the $2500 Digital Products Business Blueprint, you would earn up to a $1000 commission.

Below is a video from David Sharpe’s YouTube channel so you can get a feel for his style…

Learn more about affiliate marketingWho is Legendary Marketer for?

The 15-Day Challenge seems to be the main entry point for Legendary Marketer, and that’s positioned as being…

For Anyone Who Wants To Start A Profitable Online Business But Doesn’t Know Where To Begin

Given my own extensive experience with online marketing, and having spent a few hours researching the Legendary Marketer program and seeing reports from many students, I’d say that it’s actually NOT great for newbies.

Most of the people I’ve seen having success with it already have some digital marketing chops or even an existing audience that they can promote products to.

For example, the below video is by someone who has been an affiliate marketer since 2012.

In January 2020, he started promoting Legendary Marketer on his YouTube channel with 1700 subscribers. He created many videos about the program and several months later was earning $10,000 per month as an LM affiliate…

Furthermore, this certainly isn’t a good program if you’re on a tight budget.

At the very least you’ll need to pay for some additional tools to make it work, and Legendary Marketer is also heavy on upsells and recommends that you start driving traffic with paid ads.

Full list of ways to make money online (including easier options)Does Legendary Marketer have a good reputation?

David Sharpe himself is somewhat controversial.

He has built up quite a big following over the years:

117,000+ followers on Instagram58,000+ followers on Facebook21,000+ subscribers on YouTube

But David is also well known as the co-founder of Empower Network, a Multi-Level Marketing company that went bankrupt back in 2017.

Apparently David left the company before it got in big trouble, but it was still an MLM that he helped start and build, and MLMs are notorious for enriching the founders at the expense of everyone else involved.

Furthermore, the description of Empower Network on LinkedIn sounds a lot like Legendary Marketer…

Empower Network hosts one of the largest blogging communities online, and provides educational training products and services to online marketers, entrepreneurs, start-ups, home-based and small businesses.

(In case you missed it, Legendary Marketer also provides educational training products and services to online marketers.)

Of course, Legendary Marketer cannot be considered a true MLM since it only has a one-tier commission structure, but I still get some strong MLM vibes from it.

Especially since most of the Legendary Marketer success stories I’ve seen are people making money primarily by convincing other people to join the program.

That said, I’ve also seen quite a few reports from people saying that the Legendary Marketer training is quite good, and there’s lots you can apply to promoting other products and services, not just those offered by David Sharpe.

Last thing to note here is that Legendary Marketer doesn’t have a great rating on BBB.org, with more complaints than reviews listed there.

Are Legendary Marketer users getting results?

Yes and no.

On the affiliate application for Legendary Marketer, it is claimed that over $150 million has been paid out to affiliates.

That sounds like a ton, but it seems to contradict the income disclaimer that appeared on the Legendary Marketer website as recently as March 2021…

Source: web.archive.org

According to that, affiliates could expect to earn only $500 to $2000 per year, minus expenses.

It’s also surprisingly difficult to find Legendary Marketer students reporting big earnings. Most courses like this have earnings screenshots and testimonials plastered all over their sales pages, but I didn’t see anything like that on the LM site.

Searching beyond the official website, the best I found was the student in the below video, who credits Legendary Marketer with teaching him the skills he used to generate $43,000 in affiliate commissions in only 30 days…

But such results seem to be rare.

Given that there are 36,000+ members in the LM customers Facebook group, I would expect to see far more success stories

How much does Legendary Marketer cost?

There may be a few entry points for the Legendary Marketer training, but the primary one at the moment is the 15 Day Online Business Builder Challenge. That costs $7 and unlocks 15 days of training and several bonuses.

Then, to follow that training properly, you will need to sign up for the following:

ClickFunnels – at least $97/monthAutoresponder – at least $19/monthPaid traffic – varies, but expect at least $100/monthA domain – $10/year

Once you’ve finished the 15-Day training, you’ll be invited to apply for the Legendary Marketer affiliate program.

There are two versions of that:

Basic is free and gives you 5-30% commissionsPro costs $29.95 per month and gives you 20-60% commissions

Then there are the upsells to other Legendary Marketer programs, some of which you’ll be pitched during the 15-day challenge. These include…

Legendary Marketer’s Club – $30/month or $179/yearTraffic University – $1,497Affiliate Marketing Business Blueprint – $2500Digital Products Business Blueprint – $2500Coaching & Consulting Business Blueprint – $2500Events & Masterminds Business Blueprint – $2500Business Blueprints Starter Package – $2500Business Blueprints With Mastermind – $4500Business Blueprints With Coaching – $9500

All in, I’d estimate that you’ll need to spend a minimum of $2500 a year to implement what you learn in Legendary Marketer and give yourself a chance of earning a decent income.

And that’s without signing up for Pro commissions or buying any upsells.

If you’re not careful, you can end up spending a lot of money without earning back anything at all.

Legendary Marketer Discount?

I was offered a 50% discount on the 15-day challenge on an exit intent pop-up, but that amounts to a savings of only $3.50.

I haven’t seen any other legit discounts available for Legendary Marketer.

You can of course save some money on your Legendary Marketer’s Club membership by signing up for annual instead of monthly. The monthly plan works out to $360 per year, whereas the annual plan is only $179/year.

Refund Policy

The 15-Day Challenge sales page specifies a full 30-day refund guarantee.

Go through the entire 15 Day Online Business Builder Challenge. […]

Put everything to the test.

I’ll give you 30 days to decide if you want to stick with it.

If not (or if you don’t see the amazing life changing value) – I’ll give your money back.

As per this page, the Marketer’s Club also has a 30-day refund policy, but the business blueprints only have a 3-day guarantee…

Please note, if you have purchased a Business Blueprint, or above, you have a 3-day right of rescission based on your contract.

Most of the complaints about Legendary Marketer on BBB.org are regarding refunds, but they all seem to be resolved amicably in the end.

How is the program structured?

This video gives a pretty good walk through of the 15-Day Challenge…

Tht student mentions that one of the first things you’ll be asked to do is set up a Zoom call with your advisor, and that you actually have to do this before some of the training is unlocked for you.

Expect to be pitched an upsell on that Zoom call

Some of the topics touched upon during the 15-day training:

The 4 high-ticket online business models 2How to set up a sales funnelDeveloping a business planWhen to quit your jobLead generationCopywritingSalesOutsourcing

Signing up for the 15-Day Challenge also gets you access to the private Legendary Marketer Facebook group, which has more than 36,000 members.

Green Lights

Here are a few things to like about Legendary Marketer:

30-day money-back guarantee (but not on all products).Low price to get started.Some decent training before the upsells.Active and supportive private community.Red Flags

A few things about Legendary Marketer that might give you pause:

Lack of significant success stories from students.Too MLM-y for my liking.Full cost of implementing the training undisclosed when joining.Lots of expensive upsells.Only a 3-day money back guarantee on some of the upsells.Other things you should knowLegendary Marketer is NOT available in 100+ countries, such as India, Indonesia, Russia and Vietnam. See here for a full list of blocked countries.One of the dangers of Legendary Marketer is that you can easily end up focused on promoting Legendary Marketer itself. And if you do earn a good income doing that, your business could end up dependent on David Sharpe for your income. If at some point he decides to stop selling his products or stop paying affiliates – unlikely, but possible – then you no longer have a business.Should you join Legendary Marketer?

Legendary Marketer does seem to offer good training, but it comes with too much baggage for me to recommend it.

First there’s David Sharpe’s MLM background and the MLM vibe I get from Legendary Marketer itself. Then there are the hidden costs and many upsells that can result in you spending $2500+ to have a decent chance of success.

But more than anything, it’s the lack of significant student success stories that gives me pause. I simply haven’t seen much evidence that more than a handful of students are earning a decent income by following David’s training.

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Legendary Marketer – Key Points

About

David Sharpe’s upsell-heavy digital marketing training platform.

💰 Price

$7 to start + $2500 blueprint upsell (additional costs + upsell info)

😍 Pros

Decent refund policy, low price to get started, decent training before the upsells.

😩 Cons

Lack of significant student success stories, strong MLM vibes, lots of expensive upsells.

Verdict

Some good training on offer, but it comes with a lot of baggage.

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$200k/year on GitHub Sponsors

GitHub Sponsors is a bit like Patreon but for open source software projects, and with no fees.

About a year ago Caleb Porzio wrote how he went from $0 to $100k on GitHub Sponsors in only 6 months

He had ~550 sponsors around the time he wrote that piece (source), and now he’s up 1270+ so it’s safe to assume he’s earning about $200k on there this year.

Caleb’s success on the platform seems to be rare though. I looked through dozens of projects on Github Sponsors and found only 4 with 100+ sponsors. (Btw, someone please build Graphtreon for GitHub Sponsors so it’s easy to see who the top earners are!)

Caleb partly attributes his success to a familiar old chestnut:

You can build the greatest tool on the internet, but it means nothing if no one’s paying attention to you. Building an audience is ESSENTIAL for any of this to work. Twitter followers and email subscribers are your most valuable asset. Again, no shortcuts here. Just hard work, and providing value to people publicly and consistently for a long time.

7 Figure Franchise Review

This is a review of 7 Figure Franchise, an affiliate marketing program offered by Michael Cheney of Commissionology.

(Have you taken this course? Add your rating!)

7 Figure Franchise basically gives you the rights to resell Michael Cheney’s products, with some training and many templates to help you drive traffic to those products. Ultimately it’s a way to make money online via affiliate marketing.

If you want to know:

The pros and cons of 7 Figure FranchiseHow much it costsIf real students are actually getting resultsHow it compares to other affiliate marketing programs

Then you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s get started.

7 Figure Franchise – Key Points

About

Michael Cheney’s affiliate marketing program that shows you how to promote his products.

💰 Price

$1997 or two payments of $1100 (more details + upsell info)

😍 Pros

60-day refund policy looks okay, students get access to all of Michael’s programs.

😩 Cons

Severe lack of success stories from students in recent years, strong MLM vibes, lots of questionable marketing tactics.

Verdict

Seems expensive, overhyped, and ineffective. Best steer clear of this one.

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About our 31-factor editorial review processJump to…The best affiliate marketing course?How does 7 Figure Franchise work?Who is this course for?Course reputation Are students getting results?Price (and discount) info Refund policy Course structure Praise Criticism Other things you should know Should you join?Alternatives Leave your review Ask a questionAbout the Author

Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.

I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.

Since then, I’ve earned my living online in various ways. Over the last six months I’ve earned an average of $19,581 per month, mostly from affiliate marketing.

I’m on a mission to accurately rate and review all the best affiliate marketing courses. My team and I have spent 500+ hours investigating these courses and getting feedback from real students.

All that to say: we know a thing or two about affiliate marketing and making money online.

The Best Affiliate Marketing Course?

We’re on a mission to find the best affiliate marketing course, based on our own extensive research plus feedback from real students.

Unfortunately, 7 Figure Franchise doesn’t come close to making the top of our list…

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How does 7 Figure Franchise help you make money?

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services, and collect a commission for every successful referral.

7 Figure Franchise is a somewhat unusual affiliate marketing program in that you’re only shown how to promote Michael Cheney’s products.

Once you sign up, you get access to Michael’s products, some basic training on how to promote them, and a bunch of templates you can use for those promotions.

Michael markets his program as a simple 3-step process:

Source: 7 Figure Franchise sales page

Michael claims that he earned $1.1 million in a single year from selling his products, and 7 Figure Franchise gives you the right to sell those same products and earn a commission for every successful referral.

Here are the top 3 products by Michael Cheney that you would be promoting as his franchisee…

7 Figure Franchise
Yes, you would be promoting the same program you bought yourself.The Commission Machine
A poorly reviewed and upsell-heavy program that promises to generate $2642.60 per day in affiliate commissions.Commission Black Ops
Another upsell-heavy program where Michael promises to teach you the “secret strategy” he uses to earn $1000 in commissions every day.

All Michael’s programs look very similar.

They all propose to teach you how to make money online via affiliate marketing, they all make big promises about how much income you’ll earn and how little work you’ll have to do, and they all seem to have multiple upsells after the initial purchase.

Here’s a video from Michael’s YouTube channel so you can get a feel for his style…

Learn more about affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing website examplesWho is 7-Figure Franchise for?

7 Figure Franchise is primarily marketed to people new to making money online.

You’ll see things like this on the sales page:

I’m Literally Going to Force You to Make Money Whether You Like it or Not… (Even If You’re a Stone-Cold Newbie with No List, No Experience and No Website)…

This is the Single Best Way To Go From Zero To $10,000 Per Month (Even If You’re A Newbie)…

It’s also marketed as a very easy and low-effort way to make money online…

I’m pushing the boat out here and flat out GIVING YOU my entire $1.1 Million per year business on a silver platter. This is everything you need. And it’s all done for you.

You just copy, paste and make money.

This one component alone could easily generate you many thousands of dollars this year without you barely having to lift a finger.

However, based on my own extensive experience with affiliate marketing, plus the hours I’ve spent researching 7 Figure Franchise, I personally DO NOT consider this program to be a reliable way to make money online.

I’d especially advise caution with 7FF if you’re new to online business or have a tight budget.

Full list of ways to make money online (including easier options)Does 7 Figure Franchise have a good reputation?

Michael Cheney and his 7 Figure Franchise program are somewhat controversial.

Google around for reviews of Michael or his training programs and you’ll find many people reporting that those programs do not live up to the hype.

I don’t doubt that Micheal earned $1,168,766.43 in twelve months as he claims, but based on his sales page and presented screenshots, those earnings seem to be from 2016 or 2017 at the latest.

Also, the promotional strategies that Micheal teaches come across quite spammy.

For example, one of the main ways he teaches you to get free traffic is by adding at least 100 people as friends on Facebook each week – during what he calls “friend-getting sessions” – then posting promotional copy and your affiliate link to your Facebook news feed and hoping that some of your new friends will click on it and make a purchase.

Someone on Facebook promoting one of Michael Cheney’s products. I found several examples of people posting messages very similar to this on Facebook.

While researching 7 Figure Franchise, I couldn’t help but think how similar it is to a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) scheme. You basically buy a program and then immediately try to convince other people to buy the same program, and then those people are asked to recruit even more people to the same program.

MLMs are considered by many to be very cult-like, and Michael seems to embrace this terminology by referring to himself as “your cult leader” in a video posted to his website.

Are 7 Figure Franchise users getting results?

Best I can tell, the main sales page for 7-Figure Franchise hasn’t been updated since 2017, so all of the screenshots and testimonials you might see on there are now quite old.

I haven’t seen any evidence that students of Michael Cheney are earning good money from following his training in recent years.

Perhaps a bigger red flag however is that in July 2020 Michael reported that he was “permanently leaving internet marketing” because it was “neither fulfilling, nor truly helping nor putting food on the table.”

Source: Michael Cheney Show Facebook page

From that, it sounds like Michael himself was struggling to earn money from internet marketing in 2020.

All that has me skeptical that anyone who signs up to 7 Figure Franchise today can earn a decent income from it.

How much does 7 Figure Franchise cost?

There are two pricing options for 7 Figure Franchise:

$1997 one-time payment2 payments of $1100, one month apart

Micheal is well known for upsells, so don’t be surprised to be offered several other products after signing up for 7-Figure Franchise.

I’ve read one report of an upsell to an Insiders program, which apparently costs an additional $4997.

Michael mainly teaches free traffic generation methods within the program, but he does cover some paid traffic methods as well, so you might need additional budget if you want to go that route.

7 Figure Franchise Discount?

I’ve seen some reports and rumors about a discount for 7 Figure Franchise, but haven’t been able to confirm any of them.

The program is sometimes advertised as costing $9997 or $4997, but if you go through the main sales page there is a discount code automatically applied and you should be able to get it for $1997.

Refund Policy

This 7 Figure Franchise sales page specifies a “Double Your Money in 60-Days Guarantee”…

If you take action on what we teach here and for some bizarre reason don’t earn at least your initial purchase price of the 7-Figure Franchise within the next 60 days… not only will we give you a complete refund of today’s purchase price… we’ll actually give you double your money back.

However, there are some strings attached to this refund policy:

You have to send at least 35 unique clicks into the funnels each day using the free traffic methods they teach you.You must add at least 100 new friends on Facebook each week and make at least 3 promotional Facebook posts each day.You must document your daily activity in a Google spreadsheet and share access with 7 Figure Franchise so they can verify that you’re taking the aforementioned actions.You must request your refund between 61 and 68 days after your purchaseYou have to schedule a final Skype call where they will double-check that you are entitled to a refund.

Given all that, it’s strange that they refer to it as a “no questions asked Guarantee” on the sales page.

Personally I think they have too many hoops to jump through for getting a refund, but I haven’t read any complaints from students about getting a refund so it might not be as hard as it sounds.

How is the program structured?

Here’s how 7 Figure Franchise looks once you’re logged in…

The “Get Approval & Your Link” section refers to signing up for JVZoo, an affiliate marketplace where Michael lists all his products.

Most of the training is in video format.

Here’s an affiliate of 7 Figure Franchise showing what the inside of the program is like…

You also get 30 days of email support from Michael Cheney when you sign up for the program.

Green Lights

Here are a couple of things to like about 7 Figure Franchise:

60-day money-back guarantee (though you have to jump through some hoops).Students get access to all of Michael’s programs.Red Flags

A few things about 7 Figure Franchise that might give you pause:

I couldn’t find any success stories from students in recent years.Too MLM-y for my liking (Michael even calls himself “your cult leader”).Lots of hype and unrealistic promises in the marketing.Only shows you how to promote Michael’s products.Looks like the program hasn’t been updated since 2017.Unclear if Michael is still earning good money as an internet marketer.Many poor reviews online for Michael’s training programs.Primary “free traffic” method seems to involve adding new friends on Facebook and marketing to them.Other things you should knowOne of the dangers of 7 Figure Franchise is that it only shows you how to promote Michael Cheney’s products. So even if you are successful in earning money this way, you are still entirely dependent on Michael for your income. If at some point he decides to stop selling his products or stop paying affiliates – unlikely, but possible – then you no longer have a business.Should you join 7 Figure Franchise?

If you are new to entrepreneurship and are looking for a quick and easy way to make money online, there’s a good chance you’ll end up disappointed with 7 Figure Franchise.

Judging by the old testimonials on the 7FF sales page, some people had success with this program back in 2017, but I haven’t seen any reliable testimonials from students in recent years.

It’s also worrying that Michael himself reported in 2020 that internet marketing was no longer “putting food on the table.”

Personally, I would steer far clear of Michael Cheney’s products, including 7 Figure Franchise. They all seem to promise quick riches with minimal work, but there’s little to substantiate those claims.

Learn more about affiliate marketing

7 Figure Franchise – Key Points

About

Michael Cheney’s affiliate marketing program that shows you how to promote his products.

💰 Price

$1997 or two payments of $1100 (more details + upsell info)

😍 Pros

60-day refund policy looks okay, students get access to all of Michael’s programs.

😩 Cons

Severe lack of success stories from students in recent years, strong MLM vibes, lots of questionable marketing tactics.

Verdict

Seems expensive, overhyped, and ineffective. Best steer clear of this one.

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1.The Authority Site System (review)4.8/5 2.The Affiliate Lab (review)4.6/5 3.Income School's Project 24 (review)4.0/5 4.Passive Income Geek (review)3.7/5 5.Commission Hero (review)2.4/5 6.12 Minute Affiliate (review)1.6/5 7.Affiliate Marketing Mastery (review)1.5/5 8.Affilorama (review)1.5/5 9.Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing (review)1.5/5 10.Wealthy Affiliate (review)1.0/5 11.7 Figure Franchise (review)0.7/5 12.Six Figure Mentors (review)0.7/5 13.ClickBank University (review)0.5/5 14.Super Affiliate System (review)0.5/5 123 Affiliate Marketing (review)Incomplete/5 Savage Affiliates (review)Incomplete/5
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eBiz Weekly #137

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€3500+ from a niche ebookHe worked at an ice cream shop…Clickbait is Unreasonably EffectiveHow to get rich in 10 yearsGet Rich Quick vs Get Rich EasyThe Next Big Wealth Opportunity$2000/month Playing a Crypto Game?5 threads = 100,000 followersGiveaway: No-Code MVPMomentos€3500+ from a niche ebook

Last week Úna-Minh Kavanagh released a super niche ebook: DIY Gaeilge: 150 Online Irish Language Resources

She earned €2000 off it on the first day, and revealed in my FBB group this week that she’s now up to €3500 in sales (that’s about $4100).

Pretty incredible for an ebook about a language that less than 100,000 people in the world speak daily

If anyone could pull that off though, it’s Úna-Minh, who has long been a public advocate of the Irish language and has amassed 23k followers on Twitter.

Just goes to show that you can make money in pretty much any niche online if you’re willing to stick with it for the long haul.

He worked at an ice cream shop…

Speaking of niche, Dylan Lamey filmed himself working at Coldstone Creamery and built a massive following on TikTok (10M followers) and YouTube (1.6M subs) in only 18 months.

Check out The Publish Press for more on that story.

TikTok is absolutely crushing it as the most downloaded app in the world for the 6th month in a row.

It seems every niche can thrive on there. Another prime example is the beekeeper lady with 9.3 million followers

Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective

Veritasium explains how the title and thumbnail play a huge role in a YouTube video’s success or failure

A must-watch if you’re a YouTuber or work with one. Lots of good before-and-after examples in there too, showing how videos got way more views after a title and thumbnail change.

I could see this kind of title/thumbnail optimization becoming a service you could charge decent money for

How to get rich in 10 years

An 8-minute video from MJ DeMarco explaining how you can rich in 10 years or less, even if you’re starting with no money and no skills.

He outlines a stair-step approach, where your income potential increases at each step:

Foundational job – covers food, shelter, healthSpecialized labor – basic self-employmentSpecialized skill – learn a rare skill, sell your timeSpecialized unit – create an asset that you can sell over and over

But here’s the problem:

Many aspiring entrepreneurs want to start out at the top step with a specialized unit. While that is possible, it is very difficult to do without money and without a corresponding knowledge base of a specialized skill.

As the saying goes: skills pay the bills

So make sure you’re constantly leveling up your skillset.

Get Rich Quick vs Get Rich Easy

Speaking of MJ DeMarco, he’s the author of The Millionaire Fastlane, which is one of my top 3 books for online entrepreneurs.

One of the key distinctions that has stuck with me since I first read the book a few years ago: Get Rich Quick vs Get Rich Easy

MJ points out that Get Rich Quick is actually possible – you can find examples everywhere – but people tend to confuse it with Get Rich Easy.

The distinction is that “get rich schemes” aren’t endemic of “Get Rich Quick” but its evil twin, “Get Rich Easy.” “Get Rich Easy” shadows its innocent sibling, leaving a trail of victims to be blamed by its brother. “Get Rich Easy” parades in the limelight and on Instagram feeds with pictures of beaches, palm trees, and used Ferraris. It lies, deceives, and casts a mirage of vanity that all desire. Just watch buy this $197 PDF or buy this stock software program, and wham, you will be rich in 10 days! No! That’s not “Get Rich Quick” but “Get Rich Easy”—and that only leads to a lighter wallet.

I recently published a (fairly negative) review of something called 12 Minute Affiliate. That program is textbook Get Rich Easy. Accordingly, student success stories are almost non-existent.

So remember: it is possible to get rich quick – ie. in a matter of months or a few short years – but not without working your ass off.

The Next Big Wealth Opportunity

Nat Eliason writes:

those old barriers aren’t standing in-between you and generational wealth. You don’t need to be in a certain location. You don’t need money. You don’t need a degree. You don’t even need a job. You just need to build. For these next few years, perhaps the next decade, those generational wealth opportunities are going to be in Web3 (crypto, blockchain, whatever you want to call it).

He goes on to explain his reasoning and throws out some ideas for taking advantage of this opportunity, including “the highest leverage thing you can learn”

$2000/month Playing a Crypto Game?

Also from Nat’s article:

Crypto video games like Axie Infinity and Crypto Raiders are gaining popularity because they allow players to reclaim some of the value of their work. When you play hours of Fortnite and earn rare skins, there’s no way to cash out that work into dollars. But in Axie, there is.

I went down the rabbit hole on Axie Infinity and other Play2Earn blockchain games.

Axie seems to be the most popular, especially in countries like the Philippines Venezuela and Vietnam

Some of the earning reports I found…

A short doc reporting that people in the Philippines were able to earn $300-400 within a few weeks.This blogger spent 14 hours playing Axie several months ago and earned $39.70 in crypto, which is now worth 4 times as much. (Works out to $11/hour.)Someone apparently earning $2000/month playing an hour a day while looking after their 82-year-old grandmother.A couple earning about $200/week while playing a combined 20 hours a day.

But before you go signing up for Axie, know that you need to invest about $600 to start playing

Here are some cheaper Play2Earn games to start with, and here’s a list of 40+ other ways to make money playing video games.

5 threads = 100,000 followers

That’s Shaan Puri’s story on Twitter.

He breaks down his framework for writing viral threads in this value-packed 57-minute video

A key tip from Shaan is to target a specific emotion in your writing, the main thing you want the reader to feel. Because if they feel nothing, they’re not going to share it.

The 8 emotions Shaan chooses from:

LOL – that’s so funny
WTF – that pisses me off
AWW – that’s sooo cute
WOW – that’s amazing!
NSFW – that’s crazy.
OHHHHH – now I get it!
FINALLY – someone said what I feel!
YAY – that’s great news!

You can use these in your own writing, but also think about how you could offer this kind of writing as a service. Maybe find people on Twitter who have a decent following but aren’t engaging their followers very well, then offer to write some viral threads for them

Giveaway: No-Code MVP

No-Code MVP is an online course that teaches you how to rapidly build and validate your startup ideas, without any code. It’s available on AppSumo for $99 right now.

The creator of the course, Bram Kanstein, has built and sold three products without writing any code. Apparently one product had over 1 million users and another sold to a Silicon Valley VC firm

Here’s what super-successful serial entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson had to say about the course:

“If I was thinking about learning to code/starting a startup, I would do this course above and beyond almost anything else”

Just for kicks, I’ll buy the course for one reader of this newsletter.

To enter, write a post on Twitter with a link to this newsletter and tag @ebizfacts, @bramk and @nocodemvp.

Something like:

Entering the @ebizfacts giveaway, would love to check out @bramk’s @nocodemvp course: https://ebizfacts.com/ebiz-weekly-137/

Feel free to get creative with it. I’ll announce the winner in next week’s newsletter. Good luck!

Momentos

You can read my latest batch of personal ramblings here

Btw, I’m in Dublin right now doing a 10-day hotel quarantine.

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12 Minute Affiliate Review

This is a review of 12 Minute Affiliate, an affiliate marketing system created by Devon Brown.

(Have you taken this course? Add your rating!)

12 Minute Affiliate aims to provide you with an automated system to make money online via affiliate marketing.

If you want to know:

The pros and cons of 12 Minute AffiliateHow much it costs (including upsells)If real students are actually getting resultsHow it compares to other affiliate marketing programs

Then you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s get started.

12 Minute Affiliate – Key Points

About

An affiliate marketing system that aims to generate automated commissions for you.

💰 Price

$109 to try for 14 days, including traffic (more details + upsell info)

😍 Pros

Relatively cheap to try, 60-day refund policy, helps you build an affiliate sales funnel with little effort.

😩 Cons

Few significant success stories from users, questionable marketing tactics, quite a few complaints about upsells.

Verdict

Not the quick and easy income opportunity it appears to be.

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About our 31-factor editorial review processJump to…The best affiliate marketing course?How does 12 Minute Affiliate work?Who is this course for?Course reputation Are students getting results?Price (and discount) info Refund policy Course structure Praise Criticism Other things you should know Should you join?Alternatives Leave your review Ask a questionAbout the Author

Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.

I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.

Since then, I’ve earned my living online in various ways. Over the last six months I’ve earned an average of $19,581 per month, mostly from affiliate marketing.

I’m on a mission to accurately rate and review all the best affiliate marketing courses. My team and I have spent 500+ hours investigating these courses and getting feedback from real students.

All that to say: we know a thing or two about affiliate marketing and making money online.

The Best Affiliate Marketing Course?

We’re on a mission to find the best affiliate marketing course, based on our own extensive research plus feedback from real students.

12 Minute Affiliate is more of a system than a course, but regardless, it doesn’t make the top of our list…

Best Affiliate Marketing Courses

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1.The Authority Site System (review)4.8/5 2.The Affiliate Lab (review)4.6/5 3.Income School's Project 24 (review)4.0/5
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How does 12 Minute Affiliate help you make money?

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services, and collect a commission for every successful referral.

12 Minute Affiliate doesn’t really teach you how to do affiliate marketing. Instead, they aim to provide you with an automated system for generating affiliate commissions.

So instead of teaching you how to fish, 12MA gives you a system that will apparently catch fish automatically on your behalf, once you have it set up

They market their program as a simple 3-step process:

Source: 12 Minute Affiliate sales page

Going a bit deeper, once you have the system set up, it looks like this:

You buy traffic from 12MA.That traffic goes to your landing page set up via 12MA.Some of that traffic (ie. people) opt-in to your email list.You send them an automated series of emails, encouraging them to buy something.If they buy, you earn a commission.

The products you promote to your email list are chosen from Clickbank, a popular marketplace with thousands of products to choose from. 12 Minute Affiliate recommends specific products on Clickbank for you to promote.

They advise sticking to products in these three categories:

Home Business / Make Money OnlineWeight LossPersonal Development

Here’s a quick video that will give you a feel for Devon and his 12 Minute Affiliate system…

Learn more about affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing website examplesWho is 12 Minute Affiliate for?

12 Minute Affiliate is primarily marketed to people new to making money online.

You’ll see things like this on their sales page:

The 12 Minute Affiliate System is 100% newbie-friendly. So, even if you’re a complete newbie, you can use this system with ease.

With 12 Minute Affiliate, even the newest newbie can start getting results with the system their very first week!

It’s also marketed somewhat as a budget-friendly way to make money online.

However, based on my own extensive experience with affiliate marketing, plus the hours I’ve spent researching 12 Minute Affiliate, I personally don’t consider 12MA to be a reliable way to make money online.

I’d especially advise caution with this program if you’re new to online business or have a tight budget.

Full list of ways to make money online (including easier options)Does 12 Minute Affiliate have a good reputation?

12 Minute Affiliate seems to have a decent reputation overall, as does the creator of the program, Devon Brown.

You’ll find very few people referring to 12MA as a scam, and I don’t consider it to be a scam myself.

However, the way the program is marketed can be misleading, IMO.

For example, one of the big marketing tactics they use is the promise of a free vacation just for trying the system…

Source: 12 Minute Affiliate sales page

But once you sign up for 12MA you’ll see that you have to jump through quite a few hoops to get your vacation…

Get your FREE VACATION! Take advantage of our free vacation contest, and show off your results in the Facebook group! Make just 5 Affiliate Sales with 12 Minute Affiliate (12MA) in your first 45 days of using the system… and we’ll send you to one of over a dozen exotic locations (restrictions apply for those living outside of the U.S. or Canada)!

To achieve those results you will likely have to spend hundreds of dollars buying traffic from 12MA.

Furthermore, it’s hard to find examples of 12MA users earning a significant amount of money…

Are 12 Minute Affiliate users getting results?

Listed on the 12MA sales page you’ll find many screenshots of “results from actual users.”

However, I found only one who seems to be earning $1000’s per month…

Far more often, 12MA user results look like this…

And it’s hard to know how much money these users are really making, as it’s unclear how much they spent on traffic to generate the revenue shown in the screenshots.

12MA users buy traffic direct from 12MA, and that traffic costs about $1-2 per visitor, depending on the niche you’re targeting.

12MA also says that you can expect an opt-in rate of 20-25% from your traffic. So for Guy above to have 145 subscribers, he had to buy about 600 visitors, which would have cost him around $600 or more.

And, unfortunately, it looks like he’s so far generated far less than $600 in revenue, meaning he’s yet to turn a profit

Seeing results like this being used in the marketing for 12MA makes me skeptical that many people are actually profiting from using the system.

How much does 12 Minute Affiliate cost?

There are several different costs involved with 12MA and also several upsells offered to you after you sign up.

To use the most basic version of 12 Minute Affiliate and get your system up and running, you will need to spend:

$9.95 for the first 14 days of access to 12MA$99 to $192 on traffic (90-100 visitors, price dependent on niche)

You will also need to sign up for an account with Aweber to get started, but that’s free for your first 500 subscribers.

So the total cost to try out the system will be at least $109 for the first 14 days.

If you want to keep access to 12MA beyond the first 14 days, you have a couple of options:

$47/month or $397 one-time for Basic Membership$97/month or $797 one-time for Gold Membership

The main difference between those: Basic Membership lets you promote products in one niche market – your choice of Home Business / Weight Loss / Personal Development – whereas Gold Membership lets you promote products in all three.

Say you go Basic, focus on the Home Business market, and buy 90-100 visitors (traffic) each month. Your minimum expenses for one year would be:

$9.95 + $397 for 12MA membership$300+ for Aweber account (once you have 500+ subscribers)$1,188 for traffic

Total expenses for one year = at least $1895

A couple of other upsells to be aware of within 12 Minute Affiliate:

Done-For-You System Setup
$67 for Basic setup, $97 for Gold setup.1-on-1 Coaching
Starting at $297 for three 1-hour coaching sessions.Affiliate Mastery Platinum (AMP) Coaching
Price undisclosed, must apply to join.

So while you can try out 12MA relatively cheap, if you really want to make a go of it you should expect to invest a lot more in the system and be pitched several upsells.

12 Minute Affiliate Discount?

I’ve seen some reports and rumors about a discount for 12 Minute Affiliate, but haven’t been able to confirm any of them.

Devon already offers 14-day trial for only $9.95, and that’s as good as you’re likely to get.

Refund Policy

This 12 Minute Affiliate sales page specifies a 60-day money back guarantee:

For a full 60 days, and for less than 10 measly bucks, you can give the 12 Minute Affiliate System a test drive and put it to work for you.

Apparently this is a “no questions asked” refund policy, and I haven’t seen any complaints from 12MA users regarding refunds, so you shouldn’t have any problem getting your money back if needed.

However, best I can tell, there are no refunds offered on the traffic you order via 12 Minute Affiliate.

How is the program structured?

Here’s how 12 Minute Affiliate looks once you’re logged in…

There’s not much there in the way of training. Most of the menu items lead to sections that help you set up and feed the 12MA system.

Notes on a few of the sections:

Other Traffic Methods
This is an ebook that covers free traffic methods, but it appears to be very outdated, with sections about defunct platforms like Google+ and Yahoo Answers.Education Center
This contains a handful of training videos from Devon, plus recordings of the monthly “12MA Team Training” group calls.Personal Development Library
Access to ~20 books (MP3 and PDF downloads) covering topics like public speaking, leadership, self-esteem, etc. I didn’t recognize any of the titles or authors but some may be worthwhile.Green Lights

Here are a few things to like about 12 Minute Affiliate:

14-day trial for only $10 (+ cost of paid traffic).Helps you build a real affiliate marketing sales funnel with little effort.60-day money-back guarantee.Monthly live Q&A calls.Red Flags

A few things about 12 Minute Affiliate that might give you pause:

Few significant success stories from users.Some of the marketing can be misleading (eg. the free vacation offer, referring to 12MA as “the ultimate shortcut”).Paid traffic is quite expensive ($1-2 per visitor).No refunds on paid traffic.Quite a few complaints about upsells.Very little training included, so you don’t actually learn much about affiliate marketing.Some of the Clickbank products recommended by 12MA are controversial (eg. John Crestani’s Super Affiliate System).12MA is recommended to 12MA users as the #1 home business product to promote, which is a bit too MLM-y for my liking.Provided email swipes use questionable marketing tactics.Other things you should knowIf you sign up for 12MA, expect to spend more than 12 minutes setting up your system. The name of the program is a nod to the absolute best-case scenario, but most people seem to need at least a couple of hours to get the basics up and running.It seems 12 Minute Affiliate does not disclose the source of the paid traffic you buy from them. I’ve seen one user speculate that the traffic comes from udimi.com, where the cost can be as low as $0.40 per visitor. If that’s true, 12MA could be making a handsome profit as the middleman.Should you join 12 Minute Affiliate?

If you are new to entrepreneurship and are looking for a quick and easy way to make money online, there’s a good chance you’ll end up disappointed with 12 Minute Affiliate.

Some people do seem to find success with 12MA, but to start seeing significant and consistent income with it, you will likely need to invest several hundred dollars or more.

You’ll also need to be comfortable promoting various Clickbank products – some of which are quite controversial – and positioning yourself as an expert on topics that you may have little-to-no experience with.

Learn more about affiliate marketing

12 Minute Affiliate – Key Points

About

An affiliate marketing system that aims to generate automated commissions for you.

💰 Price

$109 to try for 14 days, including traffic (more details + upsell info)

😍 Pros

Relatively cheap to try, 60-day refund policy, helps you build an affiliate sales funnel with little effort.

😩 Cons

Few significant success stories from users, questionable marketing tactics, quite a few complaints about upsells.

Verdict

Not the quick and easy income opportunity it appears to be.

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Published on August 18, 2021 03:52

eBiz Weekly #136

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Living on the beach full timeHow to Monetize Your Newsletter$1000/Month From Display AdsDeal of the Week: $10 Udemy CoursesBrilliant people tend to do thisLocal Media Business Playbook13 ways to get attention onlineHow to become a digital nomadLow-Competition Business IdeasSuccess is in the excessLiving on the beach full time

An inspirational piece from Jason Kester, who explains how he built a business that lets him live on the beach full time

Jason started off as an in-office employee programmer in the late 90’s, then switched to higher-paying contract gigs so he only had to work ~6 months of the year. As the internet took off, he found he could do contract and consulting work remotely from places like Thailand.

Eventually he started building and monetizing his own software products. Sounds like it took him a few years to earn big money that way, but he eventually cracked it

If you want to emulate Jason, he says everything you need to know is in this paragraph:

Consult remotely, build products and charge money for them. Pick a paradise beach that doesn’t have tall hotels on it and is therefore just this side of free to live on. Bring some savings and start small.

For me, the key takeaway there is that Jason built a solid freelance business first. That bought him the time and freedom he needed to build a higher-level business (SaaS in this case). One step at a time.

How to Monetize Your Newsletter

Pete MacLeod has a website and newsletter called No CS Degree, featuring interviews with self-taught developers like Shaquil, who went from $0 to $5000/month in a year

With less than 5000 subscribers, Pete was able to sell ads in his newsletter to the tune of $1,450 in a single month.

Then Pete went and packaged what he’d learned from building and monetizing his newsletter into a short online course called Monetize Your Newsletter, which has earned him $4000 since last October.

If you’re interested in earning money from a newsletter or creating a course of your own, give Monetize Your Newsletter a look. The basic version is only $49 and you can use coupon code EBIZ for a 25% discount

If you sign up, pay attention to the format. No bells and whistles, just a simple course with solid info. Assuming you know your subject matter, you could put together a course like that yourself in a couple of days.

The simple format reminds me of Pat Wall’s SEO course that did $40k in sales in a couple of months

That said, before jumping into creating a course of your own, revisit the ATM Strategy mentioned last week.

$1000/Month From Display Ads

Back in 2019, Dan Richardson started building a website “hyper focused on one tiny topic.”

He doesn’t reveal the topic, but in this 11-minute video (and accompanying article) he shares some juicy details:

He used Ahrefs to find the opportunity (see his process)Launched the site in October 2019 with 22 articlesThen published 10 new articles per monthDidn’t earn any money the first 8 months14 months until his first $1000+ month$1965 spent building and running the siteCould sell now for about $20,000

If you factor in the time Dan spent on the site, his ROI isn’t all that great.

But I’d argue that the biggest win for Dan is how much he has learned along the way. He’s developed some legit, real-world SEO, content creation and project management skills that he can leverage in many ways going forward.

Optimize for learning not just earning

Deal of the Week: $10 Udemy Courses

Udemy is having their biggest sale of the season, with lots of top-rated courses available from $9.99.

As I wrote in my Udemy review, courses on there are hit and miss, even those with high ratings

But here are a few that are worth your while:

The Complete Copywriting Course Jonas Schmedtmann’s Web Development Courses Writing With Flair: How To Become An Exceptional Writer

See all deals this week.

Brilliant people tend to do this

Justin Pots writes about imposter syndrome, and how actual imposters rarely experience it.

Instead, it’s the brilliant people who tend to doubt themselves:

If you’re not actually a con artist, and you’re experiencing impostor syndrome, you should find comfort in this. The fact that you’re wondering whether you’re a fraud probably means that you’re not one. Actual impostors don’t ask themselves if they’re a fraud.

Local Media Business Playbook

Tim Stoddart, CEO of Copyblogger, tweets that “the opportunity to build a business in local media is enormous.”

Building the audience seems easy enough, but monetization can be tricky, and Tim lays out the pros and cons of a few approaches

I love this space and will likely explore it more myself once I settle down somewhere. Sounds like it’s hard to get rich off a local media business, but you can probably earn a decent living from it while serving your local community and building a strong network.

13 ways to get attention online

Jake McNeill shares them here, with lots of great examples.

My favorite is YouTuber Sweet Anita, from the section entitled, Turn your insecurities into your trademark.

Anita has long struggled with Tourette’s Syndrome, but when she “faced her fears and started streaming. Anita blew up almost instantly. Tourettes is her trademark.”

What apparent “weakness” or insecurity is holding you back? Could that help you stand out somehow?

How to become a digital nomad

Sober advice on this topic from Wandering Earl, who has been doing the digital nomad thing for almost 20 years.

One excerpt:

I would also highly consider applying for actual remote jobs as opposed to trying to create your own stream of income. It’s a far easier and more stable path to a successful digital nomad lifestyle.

Agreed.

I’m constantly trying to talk people out of starting with stuff like affiliate marketing or Amazon FBA. Less sexy options like freelancing or a remote job are FAR more likely to make your digital nomad dreams a reality

Low-Competition Business Ideas

Andy Cloke lays out a framework for finding them:

1. Find a platform that is growing massively.
2. Look at successful tools for more mature platforms.
3. Build equivalent tool for the new platform.
4.

Andy gives two examples of how he’s done this himself.

One was back in 2019, seeing something that worked well on Instagram and doing the same for TikTok. He apparently bootstrapped it to $3500/month before selling the business for five figures.

Success is in the excess

Lastly, here’s a quick post on Reddit that should be required reading for all entrepreneurs:

Stop looking for easy solutions. You’re f*cking yourself.

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