Ron

Mitch Mitchell Says:
June 21st, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I’m missing something here, mainly how Brendon Burchard’s name shows up for this article on scams and yet his name isn’t mentioned anywhere in the article. In a way, his name’s being besmirched by being associated with the article because none of what the article talks about involves him in any way. The article on its own terms isn’t bad, but something just doesn’t seem right.

Jeff Walker of Product Launch Formula fame uses other people’s expensive courses to make affiliate sales for himself using those very same expensive courses as “his” bonuses. (Let that sink in)

Here’s how it works: (he’s done it twice in 10 days — I’ve saved his “bonus offer” emails if the moderator here needs to see them)
Ok, here’s what he does:
1) Someone announces a big product launch
2) Of course, all the affiliate partners then try to get you to buy through their link
3) Here’s Jeff’s filthy trick: Jeff sends an email to his list proclaiming how AWKWARD it is for him that this new launch is happening… because HE, TOO was just about to launch HIS OWN (very similar) COURSE. As I said, he’s done this twice in 10 days: He did this with Frank Kern’s List Control on March 15th and he did it today with Brendon Burchard’s “Become an Expert / Experts Academy” launch.

4) So what Jeff does is say: (check out how SLEAZY this guy is) “if you buy through my link you’ll get 2 courses instead of one. But (and here’s the other part of the trick) “I won’t release my bonus training course until AFTER the training on the regular course is complete (“so as not to overwhelm you with too much content”, he says). Plus:
5) Jeff says, “I’m going through Frank’s course (and exactly the same for Brendon’s course) and taking notes” so you’ll get those notes, too. (Meantime, he’s using Frank’s course to build his own course which is then the bonus). Same exact thing for Brendon’s course.
Do you see how incredibly, infinitesimally small the chance is that Jeff Walker could have simultaneously developed SO MANY DIFFERENT courses — remember he’s also preparing for a launch of his own course — yet not released ANY of them only to have some of his affiliate partners beat him to the punch?
Seems like STEALING in every way — from Frank Kern, from Brendon Burchard, and from the people who buy through his link who inadvertently pay for this thief to use their money to pay for his attendance at these real guru’s courses. Which he then pirates as his own course content as your bonus.
WOW!
By the way, as I said, I have the emails from this jerk if the moderator of THIS site wants to see this guy’s masterful chicanery in action before posting my comment.

My advice is to always do research before joining any independent affiliate program before you promote them just the same way you would research a product before you buy and if they have the affiliate program on a network – promote them through the network instead of independently.

In my case the fraudulent program was Viatalk…their sister site Hostrocket also has the same non responsive and non paying affiliate program.

I would recommend wealthy affiliate to you. No matter what your level is you will surely learn something from the members there. The price is around $30 per month if I remember correctly.

http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/

Thanks,
Troy

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