Avoid AutoTrafficAvalanch And Those Who Promote It

Andrew Stark

At the time of writing this post AutoTrafficAvalanch is in the #1 position on the clickbank marketplace for “e-business & e-marketing” with a gravity of 1325 which means it is selling like crazy, and almost all of the “big-hitters” who I subscribe to have promoted it.

Now the site has such a great hook, generate floods of traffic in 13 clicks or less, and enjoy hundred dollars on autopilot.

Normally I ignore these type of products, but that hook and the popularity meant I had to buy it, and as it’s a clickbank product I can buy it through my own link to check it out before deciding if I should promote it or not. After all the guy who’s on the video lives just up in the road in Stockport, if it’s a great product it could open some doors.

Pushy Sales Funnel

On taking the $39 product I went past 4 different up-sells. The sales pitch didn’t match the original page and they seemed to be pusing to buying proven campaigns that I would just copy and paste. It also talked about affiliate X, I tried they’re monthly site years ago – it was shit then, so several no-thank you’s later and alarm bells were starting to ring.

Not What I Expected, But Good Initial Content

Inside the members area Mike has gone, and we have Kieran who expalins where the traffic is going to be coming from.

The traffic comes from paid advertising on facebook and a dating site plenty of fish. Unlike google adwords they allow people to direct link to clickbank products and if you do some research you can drill deep and get super targeted advertising.

I’ve heard about this being like adwords before the mass affiliate marketer’s spoilt it and google had to slap everyone to stop every search showing up biz opps / weight loss ect.

Where’s the automatic 13 click software?

In module 3 we got round to the “software” and the product rapidly goes downhill. This is not software it’s a script that you install on your own website with the only automated part being aimed to deceive facebook staff.

These guy’s openly say that advertising the top selling products in the make money online section of clickbank break the terms and conditions for facebook advertising, but if you use this script it will show a different site to facebook staff during approval, and send traffic to banned affiliate links.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be taking on facebook’s legal team!

This product starts off white hat, but quickly turns into a very black hat method, and anyone who’s promoted it you without the warning about the black-hat is just out to scew you out of cash.

Misleading Salespage

Not only is the actual product black hat it’s completely misleading.

Lie #1 - 234 copies – total BS

If you look at the marketplace it has a link to the affiliate page where the top affiliate will get a $5,000 bonus on top of 60%.

Let’s do some maths – $39 x 234 = $9,126 x 0.4 (owners share) = $3560 – even with a killer upsell the owner is going to loose money if he sticks to this number.

Lie #2 – the actual name!

Inside the members area nothing is automated. You have to manually go through clickbank picking out products and then write your own adverts. The software itself is not automated, to use it you have to manually put in the deceptive link and clickbank product and then manaully upload it. Calling the site TrafficAvalanche may have worked, but the word auto is laughable.

Lie #3 – newbie friendly

The salespage talks of needing no PPC or technical knowledge.

The whole course relies on you using the advertising service provided by facebook / plenty of fish – this is just PPC by a different name! Installing the script to deceive the facebook staff is pretty technical, it looked easy enough to me after watching the video, but was definately not mentioned on the salespage.

I’m angry

I find it disgusting that this type of product has been allowed into the clickbank marketplace and that so many people are being sold to by unscrupulous people who ignore terms and conditions so that they can make more money.

If you’ve fallen for the slick salesvideo full of lies and broken promises then please contact clickbank directly for your refund, the only way to stop this type of crap is vote with your feet, a high refund rate should tell clickbank that this sort of black hat marketing is not something we want.

To get a refund contact refunds@clickbank.com with your receipt number.

Monday Morning Blues

Andrew Stark

So I’ve just had a whole week off and it’s been great fun just being at home doing DIY jobs and playing with the kids.

We also spent a wonderful day in Anglesay living it up in the most fantastic house overlooking the beach, it was the kind of surroundings that I wish we could do more often.

It’s becoming more and more obvious that working for “the man” isn’t going to get me anywhere, so here’s how I’m going to fund my lifestyle.

Keep On List Building

More Safe-Swaps – Over the past month I’ve added over 500 new members to squeezepagesecretsrevealed and earned lots from all the sites build into the marketing funnel :-) Note these messages will start to be sent with [safe-swap] in the title and I’ll put the name of the marketer at the top line.

These swaps are done with no affiliate link and go straight to the other person’s squeezepage, if you were to join via my link and stay a member for over a month I’d be up for swapping with you. My criteria is that yopu have an internet marketing freebie and the squeezepage is clear about what is being offered.

As a current subscriber / follower I trust you to make the judgement about what type of things you want to download, and who you give your e-mail address to. If you want to keep your personal e-mail free of marketing then I suggest you set up a gmail account just for your online business.

Investing In Myself

So beside adswapping creating a product and getting Joint Venture partners onboard is the next best thing. I’ve invested in John Thorhills 72 hour madness for $97 just to get access to John and record an interview with him so that I can leverage his contacts and get them to mail out for me.

For the record this physical disk arrived within 24 hours of payment, much better than waiting up to 3 weeks like some of the expensive courses I’ve bought in the past.

The plan is turn the interview into a front end product that will sell for < $10 utilise the same concept that buildabiggerlist.com is based upon. I may even try to put it onto clickbank – although I’m not sure if they accept list building products? Is that one of the many IM myths?

What Would You Like To Know?

Before I interview John I would be curious to know what you would ask him?

I’m not sure to ask him about list building, the blueprint behind his sold out coaching programme, or the process behind getting that all important first product into the clickbank market place ready for affiliates to find.

Anyway it’s getting late now and I will definately have the Monday Morning Blues when you read this.

If this has helped you to realise that you need to have sort of “lead magnet” and then a “paid product” then the next and more difficult step is to take action and get it online.

Happy List Building

Andrew

What happens after a week away from the internet?

Andrew Stark

So for the last week I’ve been living in a field looking after a dozen scouts with no access to the internet or any of the modern comforts that we take for granted. It was hard work, but great fun.

Now that I’m back at the computer I have so many things to do, but I think information overload is stopping me from doing anything. Here’s a list of possible things to do.

  • watch the last 2 videos of affiliate millionaire
  • read the Kaching book that arrived when I was away
  • complete reading the pro-blogger ebook
  • create content for my listbuildingexpert blog
  • watch the social media section of underground traffic blueprint
  • take action on the article marketing part of underground traffic blueprint
  • find JV partners for my buildabiggerlist site
  • promote my squeezepages with all my safelist accounts
  • catching up on the blog content produced last week I want to read
  • look into outsourcing to do some of the above tasks

As it turns out I managed to do none of the above today, and I think it’s all down to information overload.

I’m not sure how to cure it, but one thing is for sure I’m not going to be buying any more products in the near future, and I think that going back to basics and working on listbuilding is the way forward.

Last week whilst away I added over a hundred new subscribers by 2 swaps set up via safe-swaps so by applying the 80/20 principal this is probably the most profitable option.

Anyway it’s time to go and play in aweber to set up some swaps and broadcast this post.

If you suffer from the same dilemma then I suggest you take time to breath and find out the most profitable way to spend your time.

Andrew

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