UPDATE: This review is now outdated, and I do NOT recommend this product any longer. Additionally, the feedback I received from my readers who purchased this product was generally negative. Apparently the sellers did not deliver what was promised. I initially supported this product after attending their live presentation in Vegas, which in my opinion was high quality. I even went so far as to defend it in some of my comments below. But these guys let me down, so I’m sorry I recommended it. I am leaving this review here for informational purposes only. I have removed links to their site from this review.
12/09/2008
While we’ve seen a handful of “big” product launches in the Internet Marketing arena in 2008, this one will probably be remembered as the biggest.
It’s got a bigger “hook” ($100k a day) and more gurus promoting it than anything I’ve ever seen.
So before I jump into the nitty gritty, let me make a few things clear…
1) I was at the Vegas “invite only” event, where they unveiled Arbitrage Conspiracy. No I didn’t pay $10k to be there, but I could see why they would have charged that much.
2) There is no way to review the product in its entirety, because it’s going to be a 12 week course. In other words, no one has actually “seen” the product. So I can only base this review upon the content that was presented in Vegas, combined with what they are saying the product is going to be.
3) Everyone at the Vegas event signed an NDA, so I can’t reveal many of the details. However, some of the details have now been made public by the makers of the product, so I can talk about those things. Also, I am certainly able to give you my opinions about the content I received in Vegas, without revealing specifics.
OK, so I’m actually going to start with the bottom line, and then I’m going to go into more depth to justify my opinion…
Bottom line: I am fully recommending the Arbitrage Conspiracy product/program for anyone who understands what it’s about and is interested in scaling their PPC campaigns to high levels.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me tell you the good, the bad, and how I came to my conclusion.
In case you’re not yet familiar with the Arbitrage Conspiracy story, and the characters behind it, let me fill you in…
It’s about a guy named Aymen (last name withheld), who is reportedly making between $50k-$100k per day NET profit using PPC (pay per click). His main method is promoting offers from CPA (cost per action/acquisition) networks which pay per lead generated.
Aymen works with two other guys on this business, one of whom is a partner in the business. They have requested to remain anonymous, but I did meet one of them in Vegas. He was a very nice Christian guy… I wish I could tell you more about him, as he is proof positive that this business can be conducted with integrity.
The guy who is essentially “bringing” the Arbitrage Conspiracy to the world is Brad Fallon, a recognizable name in the Internet Marketing world. You may know him from such things as StomperNet, Free IQ, etc.
The first question a lot of people may have is… is this for real? After all, $100k per day is a lot, right?
And IF it’s real… then why would Aymen be revealing his methods to the world?
To answer the first question, I will say yes it’s real. I’ve seen their commission statements with my own eyes. But more than that, it’s really not as unbelievable as a lot of people may think. There are a lot of people making that much money; there are just not very many who are teaching how to do it.
A couple months ago, a product was launched by a guru who made $2 Million last year from PPC. It was touted as the greatest PPC revelation of all time. Now these guys come along who are making more than that every month. It’s only a matter of time before the next PPC guru comes along and says he’s making over $1M per day. The Internet IS that big, and it will happen.
To answer the second part of the question (why would he teach it?) is a little more complicated. The most frequent answer you’ll likely find is: because he wants to give back.
I’m sure that’s true, as Aymen and his associates are nice guys… but this obviously isn’t merely a philanthropic endeavor. After all, there are plenty of ways to give back to the world, other than revealing your trade secrets to your competitors.
The obvious ulterior motive is to make more money selling the program. And with a launch of this magnitude, plenty of money will be made.
The other ulterior motive (although publicly mentioned by Amen in an interview) may be less obvious: Aymen is starting a CPA network and wants to train an army of super affiliates to promote his offers.
So hopefully that satisfies everyone’s desire for a reason why.
Now, the most important part…
Can they really teach you how to replicate their success?
Yes, I believe they can. When I produced The Next Internet Millionaire, I learned from Kris Jones (founder of PepperJam), that a successful Internet business can be built in three steps:
1) Find something that works. (period)
2) Replicate it. (period)
3) Scale it. (period)
It’s an ancient formula, and it’s been applied by many people to PPC since its inception. For example, Kris made $1M in one year from PPC arbitrage before starting the Pepperjam Network to scale his business to the next level.
So the CONCEPT is not new. All Aymen has done is taken a successful PPC model (developed largely by his own trial and error), replicated it, and scaled it into a $100k/day business.
And generally speaking, the business model is not new either. In fact, PPC arbitrage has been one of the most taught methods in this niche for the past several years. There are countless ebooks on ClickBank teaching it (I was initiated into it by Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash ebook years ago).
So what’s different about this?
It really comes down to the specific combination of tools and techniques that they are using to thrive in today’s market. Research is fundamental to their success.
Aymen and his team are truly on the bleeding edge of technology as it applies to their business. They have formulated a systematic approach to research, PPC implementation, landing pages, conversion, and every other element.
They’ve been able to leverage their system to the point that they only work part time (a few hours a day) in order to achieve the results they are getting. In my opinion, that’s impressive!
Their system is so good that it caused virtually everyone in attendance (including myself) to drop their jaws in awe of what they had presented to us.
OK so now it’s time for me to tell you what I DON’T like…
This is somewhat difficult to say, because I don’t want to tick off my friends who are launching this product. However, if I didn’t say it, this wouldn’t be Eric’s Tips. 🙂 If all I said were the same things as all the other “gurus” then you might was well unsubscribe from my newsletter right now, because you obviously don’t need more of the same hype.
I have a problem with the way they are positioning the course for newbies. For example, these are the top 3 bullet points on their current landing page:
“How he got started with a mere $50!”
“How to get completely set up and open for business in 24 hours!”
“How To Make Massive profits with No Website, No Product and No List”
I understand that a newbie can follow this system, but I do not believe those points are representative of the course as a whole. Although the business is fairly simplistic in nature (buy clicks to earn profits), I think their systems are more complex than they may realize.
Yes, Aymen got started with $50, but he also spent millions of dollars testing and developing his methods. There are also a handful of software and memberships that you will need to buy to implement all the methods.
Yes, you could get a PPC campaign up and running in 24 hours (or 24 minutes for that matter), but that barely scratches the surface of the Arbitrage Conspiracy methods. I consider myself to be an EXPERT, and it would take me a matter of weeks to implement all their techniques.
Yes you could make profits with no website, no product, and no list… but that’s not the emphasis of the program. A lot of their methods use landing pages, and landing pages are part of a website.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that if THOSE are the things that you want to do (start a business with no more than $50 investment, set it up in 24 hours, and make money with no website), then Arbitrage Conspiracy is NOT for you!
You don’t need to invest in a 12-week content-packed course to learn how to do that. You could go buy a $47 ebook on ClickBank and learn the basics of PPC.
So who is this for?
In my opinion, Arbitrage Conspiracy is for anyone who wants to go BEYOND the level I just described above.
It’s for marketers who understand that they have to spend more money on PPC in order to make more profits.
It’s for marketers who are not afraid of embracing new technology and methods.
It’s for marketers who can imagine themselves making $100k a day.
And it’s especially for marketers who already know how to create a profitable PPC campaign. If you fit that description, Arbitrage Conspiracy is a good choice for you, because it will show you how to take those same campaigns and crank them up to the next level, and then to the next level, etc.
Without a doubt, I would say this is the highest level of PPC education ever offered.
Whether you’re an intermediate PPC user, looking to ramp up to the next level, or a Fortune 500 CEO looking to figure out how these Internet geeks are making more money than your entire company… I recommend this course for you.
As always, you are welcome to leave your comments here on the blog.
Have a great day!
Thanks for posting Gauher’s email… I give that a lot of credibility. And essentially, his viewpoint seems to support my review:
It’s real. The system works, but is complex and hard work (ie. not for the greenest of newbies).
Eric,
I think I vaguely recall you saying something in an email (I’ll try to find it) to your list about giving up IM when you first started posting these lessons. I may be mistaken though, and I apologise now if I am. Regardless…
As you say though, whilst writing all these lessons you are indeed also preparing a truely awesome course for selling at some stage in the future: all you’ll need to do is take the free content down, repackage it into a printed manual and a couple of DVDs, and sell it for …well, quite a bit probably, and of course you’ve already got a huge bunch of testimonials in the blog comments.
Meanwhile you are, through the subscribers, presumably building a massive list of potential IM customers to whom you can sell more advanced products later in the course, just as soon as you have given them the necessary skills to use them. And of course, perhaps even more importantly, all of the marketers you are currently training up will make great affiliates for selling the above course when it’s ready.
It’s a great business model and, if I’ve guessed it right, I hope it’s something that you will share with everybody in a later lesson.
This Arbitrage Conspiracy recommendation worries me though because if people are following your lessons – and if they are then I’m sure they are getting a good grounding in something that *will* work and *will* make them money, with minimal financial risk – then surely it’s best if they focus 100% on that? Isn’t the biggest mistake that most people make when getting started in IM (apart from failing to put their learning into practice!) simply that of trying to do too many things at once, with the result that they do none of them properly and often fail completely in their new endeavour as a result?
I like this post a lot better than your last one, because you are correct on virtually all counts…
-I am still planning on getting out of the IM business in the “not to distant” future.
– I am still working on the course
-I probably will repackage it and sell it, and yes I have hundreds of testimonials
-Trying to do too many things at once is a bad thing for new internet marketers. As I mention in Lesson #4, there are many good ways of making money online but you need to choose ONE to start with. And again, that’s why I’ve said that this course is not best suited for newbies. But what you may or may not realize is that there are a lot of intermediate and high level marketers on my subscriber list who can benefit greatly from the knowledge contained within this course. Additionally, a big percent of my readers are ALREADY using PPC… so it wouldn’t be taking away their focus from anything, it would just show them how to be better at what they’re already doing.
Hi Eric,
It’s amazing all the posts you’ve gotten on this subject. Thank you for posting them and taking the time to answer these posts. And thanks to everyone else who has posted.
I’m glad the launch got delayed. Things happen for a reason. I was all excited about this product but I’m a newbie and after reading all these posts I’ve decided that before I learn to make $100,000 a day I need to learn to make $100 a day. SEO and Traffic is my biggest obstacle (as is everyone’s!) and I’m going to spend the next four weeks focusing on learning and testing with the info I have. The next product I buy will be from you or through your links because I truly appreciate all you’ve done.
Thank you Eric. Merry Christmas and God bless you and your family.
Joanne
Hi Eric,
Aymen mentioned that the basic jist to AC is channeling potential customers from PPC to CPA networks, then ramping up the ROI, etc.
However, after looking at the google adwords affiliate policy; it read:
“We do not allow data entry affiliates to use AdWords advertising, but all other affiliates may participate in the AdWords program. However, we monitor and don’t allow the following:
Redirect URLs: Ads that contain URLs that automatically redirect to the parent company.
Bridge Pages: Ads for web pages that act as an intermediary, whose sole purpose is to link or redirect traffic to the parent company.
Framing: Ads for web pages that replicate the look and feel of a parent site. Your site should not mirror (be similar or nearly identical in appearance to) your parent company’s or any other advertiser’s site.”
Based on this policy, it doesn’t seem that google approves. Your take?
Thanks again, this has been a marvelous forum and you are to be commended.
Zach
Hi!
Just want to clarify an idea.
Everybody is doing IM to gain money; just to hope that this statement is not true makes me think that YOU AREN’T THINKING AS A MARKETER.
It is just a problem to choosing the method to do it. Among the successful Internet Marketers, Eric is the most honest, his method to give something of a big, really big value FREE, and at the back end he makes some money (which buy the way, is optional for you to buy it) it is a good, modest, honest idea, and tell me volumes about Eric. He is not doing something which is not appropriate, or abusive, he is just a good marketer (I wish all the “gurus” be like him, but unfortunately they are not). His method is 100% OK with me.
About AC, there are a lot of thinks which worries me as well, but I thing we will find some answers on the launch.
1)Their motivation will become clear. If it is true that they make as much as they said, if it is true that they want to create a CPA and need to have a crowd, if it is true that they want to “give back”, then they will put a price which is extremely low, or will get the course free.
2)If they will put a high amount for the course, in this moment of our economy, one of the presumptions from point 1) is false. In this case I suspect they don’t make as much money as they pretend. And they aren’t very good marketers yet, they are too young and inexperienced, not the type of persons I want to learn from.
3)Also, the secrecy is worrying me, they react like they have something to hide, maybe I am wrong on this, maybe is just their culture thinking which is obvious different then our culture in States.
Michaela
(It would be great to get an answer to Zach’s inquiry…)
He brings up a good reason why this is NOT for newbies, and that is B/C we get stuck not just on technical things, but also on what to do when things like “policies’ come up in which we have no reference for what to do or how to correct it.
But anyway…
I don’t know why it keeps happening, but one obvious reason for backlash is the simple fact that nearly all products are marketed to all levels of experience when they never should be.
I mean, why do all of the marketers do this?
True marketing is about segmentation. SO in this example, a product like this one is not for “everyone,” so it is asking for trouble going ahead and marketing it as such.
B/C there will be rare individuals who are true newbies and will learn this system, have the available cash to implement, track, follow, tweak Etc. and get to profitability that can then be ramped up.
But having said that, I admire you so much Eric, B/C you started off this post by giving us your review and honest opinion about who you think can benefit most from AC.
I visit many blogs and websites daily, and I have to say that out of all of them, you receive the most hateful personal attacks of anyone I have come across!
It is beyond ridiculous!
You don’t deserve any of it!
The first obviously ridiculous assertion is that you are a money-hungry animal that is taking advantage of the lowly beginners and practically snatching away their grocery money.
I’d laugh if it weren’t actually serious…
Hello people…
Let’s go over business basics: In order to make money, you have to sell something.
So let me get this straight, Eric isn’t allowed to offer anything to anyone, B/C you are offended by the effort?
Hogwash!
Eric, you just remember that you have people like me who understand and appreciate your work, your relationship with us, and your integrity.
We will keep visiting and buying as long as you care to continue in what sometimes may feel like a hostile war environment.
Geez!
The haters that visit here obviously have too much time on their hands,a nd are folks who like to blame others for their unfulfilled existences, I guess…
Rock on, Eric…
ANd although I haven’t “made it” quite yet, I WILL “see you at the top” one day!
G.
First, some of their methods are perfectly OK within Google’s TOS.
Then, I’d say some of them are grey, and some would seem to break the TOS.
However, they (Aymen and co.) say they have talked to google reps many times, and have either been told it’s OK, or basically implied that it’s sort of a “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. In other words, the policy exists to prevent abusers, but their experience is that Google has been fine with allowing their methods.
It’s a fine line… as so much of internet marketing is.
G- I have now replied to Zach… and thanks for the comments 🙂
Arbitrage is not simply a get rich idea whose time has passed. I’ve been doing it as a “side” thing for most of a decade. I hit the ceiling 3 years ago at just over 7 figure net per year. I’m self-taught and have not been able to figure out how to scale it to a larger level. Let me explain one of the issues: merchants routinely pull CPA offers without notice. This is true of any of the dozen networks I am in. Sometimes there are temporary downtimes. Other times they have reached a quota for a campaign or determine it’s not producing sufficient ROI. I’ve found that to reach the 7 figure a year mark with arbitrage, I’ve had to limit my daily spending for any individual offer to $500 and for any individual network (I’ve experiences with entire networks going down) to $2000. I also had software programmed that will check every 15 minutes every CPA offer lander I am promoting to make sure the offer has not been pulled. (It stores the previous version of the page and compares it. If there is a change or the URL doesn’t respond, it sends me a text alert.) If all this course does is help me figure out how I can reduce the downside by pointing out whatever it is that I’m missing, it is money spent that I can recoup in a single DAY.
For those that think the bad economy is negatively impacting arbitrage – think again. I’m seeing more and more companies start to make use of CPA. In the niches I am in, I am not seeing more competitors on the advertising side. In fact, my average CPC has gone down. Even if 2000 people sign up for this program and actually implement it, it is definitely not going to saturate the market. It likely won’t even impact what I’m doing.
I think Aymen’s reason for doing this is pretty straightforward – he will be launching his own CPA network. Having a pool of trained people to promote offers makes perfect sense. I don’t know what the breakdowns are as far as split between payout to affiiates and CPA networks themselves but let’s say it averages for every $1 spent, Aymen would get 40% of it. If he has 500 people each generating an average of $1000 a day gross for his network, that is 500,000 a day and $200k gross profit. If his own ceiling for scalability is the 100k mark, this means he can literally triple his daily income just by showing people how to do a fraction of what he’s doing. Everyone in arbitrage WILL hit a ceiling at some point. So his releasing this program makes perfect sense.
Hi Amy – thanks for offering your insights. It might help people understand why this is potentially a win-win for both Aymen & those people who decide to fork out the money needed for the 12 week course.
Your answer is particularly useful in clarifying the paradox of why-is-he-giving-it-away. Not only could he triple his daily income eventually, for the fist time, if he CPA really succeeds, he’ll be able to make the deals & call the shots, rather than being subject to the unpredictable experience you so aptly describe above (& thanks for writing about how it’s worked for you).
I wonder what the existing CPAs will be thinking about all this?
I wonder how many of who’ve written something on this page will actually get involved, at the end of the day. At the moment, I’m just starting out in business, and my cashflow is really tight so I don’t know if I can pull the necessary rabbit out of the hat…
Best regards,
Dez.
sorry abt the typo 🙂
Great post Amy. With your experience and success, I think you should create a course (for less than the $2000 AC costs of course ;).
After posting I realized I forgot 2 important benefits of him going forward with his own network – things that may easily result in him doubling the revenue I mentioned above.
1. He’ll likely use advertisers from his own CPA network for his own arbitrage efforts. Instead of losing x% to another CPA network, he’ll be keeping it all.
2. He’ll get to see first hand what campaigns and landers are converting best. This will cut the testing curve down substantially for him.
HI Eric, hope this post finds you well.
I do not know where else to ask this
Question:
Do you know about or recommend
“blogi360.com”
I’m so “not” techie, I could not figure out your adsense template course you
did awhile back.
They say blogi360 is push button easy, is it?
Thanks again for taking the time to answer.
Much appreciated.
Regards,
Francois
PS: Merry Christmas
Yes!
I purchased the Arbitrage Conspiracy course and am brushing up on Excel in anticipation of mastering this. Frankly, learning this is just another step in my successful journey as an internet marketer. Pushing oneself forward and out of the comfort zone is how you learn … at least that’s how I learn.
Frankly, earning that kind of money will be nice but, sharing with my own clients ideas and methods that work and are proven to work brings me the most satisfaction. I’m grateful every day that I’m able to do that.
Thankfully, I’ve got a lot more clients who – even though they’ve been knocked down as often as I have – still remain steadfast that online success is there for the taking. Because I’ve discovered that anything worth doing in life will have it’s challenges. All you need to achieve those goals is to keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t bitch and complain. Just keep learning and doing.
I am not familiar with it. E
Cool! I look forward to hearing how it goes for you.
Is it true that Aymen spends $250k to make $50k profit? So in order to make $20 profit, I’m going to have to spend $100 – a terrible ROI in my opinion for cpa/ppc.
Hey Eric,
I am still very new at this except for running adwords campaigns. I still don’t know how to build a website or a landing page, I just got my first reseller hosting account at HostGator and I’m not sure what to do with it, I’m reading your tips but I still don’t know how to do the whole deal. If I thought I could put the Arbitrage to good use I would but I think I would be in over my head at this point.
I still feel clueless when it comes to taking all your tips into action. Don’t get me wrong! I have learned alot about internet marketing, I just can’t seem to take that next step when it comes to actually building the sites and the landing pages and then getting them and my hosting account and my website all working together? Help anyone!
What is Aymen’s ROI? How much money is he spending to bring in 50k profit/day?
Hi,
I was wondering if I can’t get the 2000 together for arbitrageconspiracy, is there another PPC CPA coach or mentor you would recommend? I have been following this from the beginning and have been really impressed mainly because of the step by step video tutorials which is always works best for me. I am not new to business but new to the PPC world and want to find a way to learn these techniques. I have signed up with 4 networks already using the techniques that Aymen suggested and I am ready to go to the next step. Please let me know what your opinion is from someone that is obviously respected in the PPC CPA world.
I’m not sure, but I thought I heard something about 30-50% ROI, which would mean he would spend more like $100k to make $50k…
I’m not sure… I’ve always aimed for 50-100% ROI in PPC, but I don’t know what it’s like at Aymen’s level yet. One thing to keep in mind though is even if it’s 20% ROI that’s still better than most businesses including fortune 500 companies.
I learned PPC from Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash, which would be a fairly inexpensive option for a basic education (it focuses more on CPS than CPA).
Alex Goad’s Affiliate Payload offers some education in CPA, including sneaky tactics, also for a cheap price.
A higher end mentor would be Gauher Chaudhry, whose techniques were adopted by Aymen. I think Gauher is relaunching his program in Feb (rumored to be around the $1k price).
If you’re looking for more of a “coach”, Perry Marshall is the name that comes to mind. One of the foremost Adwords experts, I met him when I produced the next internet millionaire.
AC has still been overhyped with that low of ROI (20 to 50%) and with the amount of advertising being spent – you are going to have do monitoring of everything 24 hours a day. It certainly doesn’t sound like you can spend 3 hours a day using this method and have it on autopilot the rest of the day. What happens if your website goes down? What happens if the CPA network tracking goes down? What happens if your cpa network scrubs your leads or decides not to pay you because the leads aren’t backing out? It sounds like you are taking on a lot of risk with such a low ROI (and a lot of campaigns). This isn’t for the timid.
Hi! I did a lot of thinking prior to write this. I try to posted from Firefox and the avatar wasn’t pick up, I try again from Microsoft browser.
First, in a month of giving, with so many holidays coming, when almost every Internet Marketer is a creator, a contributor or a member of giveaway, I am not comfortable with the price Aymen want for the AC, is very valuable, probably, but he can wait until the end of January.
Second, the business is business and the fact that I am not comfortable it is not as important. Like everybody else, I am curious to see this product, even though nobody can give us a realistic view, because nobody see it, try it, and also it is an excuse for failure,… a lot of work to do, we wasn’t able to muster, that work!
Well, if I generate traffic with Web 2.0 this means I am not afraid of hard work, but I am afraid of lack of info about AC.
Third, this is what I have decided. I cannot afford 2k for AC. But I sign up as an affiliate for AC, and if I am lucky enough to have 3 buyers, next month I can afford to buy AC.
Forth. Now telling you this, in Eric’s tips, can sound as I create concurrence for Eric. I don’t think this way as:
– The people that were determined to buy it they already did, and still can use Eric’s Affiliate URL not mine, especially as I don’t offer flamboyant bonuses.
– There are a lot of people promoting AC, those days everybody is on the list of everybody else, and people chose with some degree of subjectivity anyway
– In the same time, we here on Eric’s tips begin to know each other and we already are a fun and a good community. Maybe I am lucky to find out 3 people what will use my Affiliate URL just to help me when they decide to buy the products for themselves.
Fifth, Eric, if you consider that what I am doing it is not right, please delete this comment, it is you choice. If you decide not to delete my message, I promise that as soon as I have 3 buyers, regardless if they are from here or from my other advertising, I’ll let you know, and you can delete this message. I am not doing this to make a lot of money; I am doing it only to make money to buy AC.
This is fair? Let me know, whatever your decision will be, I’ll remain a good student of Eric’s tips, no hard filling.
You see, I started to think as a marketer, and it is your merit and also I learned from you to be honest telling people: what I am doing, and way I am doing it!
This is my affiliate URL:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/AC
Michaela
Eric,
Great review and nice comments too.
You mentioned somewhere to build sites know HTML. I know HTML, css, php to some extent. But it is difficult to manually keep doing it.
Do you recommend for affiliate sites or landing pages: wordpress or xsitepro or LPgen ( for landing pages)
Eric (& Ken)
All good posts. I’m just not ready for it right now. Eric, thanks for the honest review.
I don’t believe it’s fraud, but should be more honest in revealing what’s involved.
Ken, please be cautious about calling something SPAM just because you don’t like it. Chances are you opted into their lists at some point and calling mail from optin lists spam will ruin it for many legitimate internet marketers who all make sure they do NOT send email to anyone without a previous “click to confirm”
All you have to do is find their opt-out link at the bottom of the email and click that. Same goes for safe lists & list-builders – if you sign up for those, you are AGREEING to receive email promotions. I know you only want to “mark them” as spam, but I’m pretty sure that Google (gmail owner) sends all kinds of info based on all your actions in the account (read their privacy policy), so what this is doing, in effect, is telling Google stats gathering robots to accuse the sender of spam, which is unfair if you opted in to their lists. Just UNSUBSCRIBE from them. One way to delete them in Gmail is to STAR them, then click “select all starred” & delete.
Just a friendly tip that will save you in the future, also, when you want to build your list legitimately without false spam accusers ruining your efforts & the whole internet marketing business in jeopardy.
Duane
Hi Eric,
What areas or programs do you recommend to brush up on before starting the AC course? Are we putting the AC techniques into effect during our training? If so, I guess I better sign up with a CPA network!
Thanks again.
Zach
Hi – exactly. I get tired of hype as well, but I also get real sick of hearing “that’s a scam, i tried it for a month, it doesn’t work… blah blah blah.
It’s my experience, both in observing & from my own life, that USUALLY (not always) one cannot say, “it” didn’t work, but “I” didn’t work. At least, didn’t diligently work the system with the necessary tracking, management, etc.
Newbies are deceived usually because of the notion in the head that “this will be money with virtually no work”. It’s true that eventually, after you make enough money, you will work less & less (because now you can build on that success with multiplication & even just let the money work for YOU now), but when ANYone starts out, the work will be sleeplessly huge as one gets over the learning curves, slow process, indecision, lack of focus, etc. I found in me the problem wasn’t “the programs”, the problem was ME. I wasn’t disciplined to consistently implement the needed tasks, nor persevering enough to keep going after the first couple obstacles (like being rejected by a CPA program, or script now working, etc.) or when a week or two of tediousness led to zero profits at first.
THe catch 22 is that, while lots of these systems are good & require work, it’s a very hard sell to newbies to say, “this will require lots of work, knowledge, software, etc.” Nobody would buy it, because, to be honest, we all PREFER to believe the lie-dream that somehow overnight I can make thousands/month with no disciplined effort on my part – just the “secret key”, and will ONLY buy the products that promise us that. So it’s not all the guru’s fault – it’s giving what the CONSUMER WANTS to hear (many don’t WANT to hear the truth). Someone spoke of the marketers being greedy – well the only way they make huge income selling is because the BUYERS are greedy for quick gain and DON’T WANT to hear anybody saying, “follow this, & you’ll make $100/month in 5 months, then $1000 month in 14 months” or something like that. The “greedy” buyers would delete that email right away cuz it’s not quick, easy cash. So when they don’t receive this immediate dream, the marketers are made out to be the villains, and their programs are supposedly scams and frauds. Just get over it and read every sales page with a grain of salt, tell yourself you WILL have to work more than they’re letting on, you MAY need a website & you WILL need to spend more money to get anywhere near what they earn, but don’t throw it all away as lies just because they had to put glitter on the box for you to even consider looking at it in the first place. The contents of the box may still be quite good if you work at it. It’s not all THEIR fault that people only pay attention to glitter and flash. Nor is it all their fault that something really helps one kind of person, but won’t help another. They can’t read your mind nor predict your working habits.
So I agree. Let’s stop making excuses. Stop passing the blame of our own failure (or gullibility & greed) to the marketers, and just get down to business with systematic productive sowing and reaping.
I typically make basic landing pages with HTML. But I’ve been using WordPress a lot lately, I’ve found it can be used in many situations.
XSitePro is a good sitebuilder if that’s what you’re looking for. I talked about it in a recent lesson.
I have not yet used LPgen, but I may try it, as it is highly recommended by some PPC gurus.
The main skills I’d say would be… making a basic HTML landing page, and uploading it. Copying and pasting code onto pages. Installing scripts. Doing niche research. Familiarize yourself with Adwords, Yahoo and MSN. You could sign up with some CPA networks.
Hi Eric – I’m still trying to make up my mind about this. Just out of interest, are you joining up with the program yourself?
Cheers,
Dez.
As an invited partner I get a free membership, so I’ll definitely be following it. As I mentioned in my testimonial on their sales page, I already spend a lot of money on PPC, so for me its a matter of ramping it up to the next level.
Eric,
You mentioned that you could create landing pages using wordpress – I thought that was for blogs?
Hi,
This is maybe a little off topic at this point but earlier on – it was mentioned about being a good Christian. How a good Christian should not sell stuff to newbies or whatever.
I’m a Christian and I’m an I.M.
1. I’d like to explain to you (basically) what a Christian is according to the Good Book. It’s a person who is in need of help and knows it. Further, becoming a Christian does not make a person “good” or “perfect” and they still remain in need of help everyday. The great part of being a Christian is they have Jesus Christ to lean on. The best part is that a Christian knows, without a doubt, That Jesus Christ died for their sins, paid the price and made it possible for them to enter Heaven.
I’m an internet marketer who sells stuff to anyone who wishes to purchase it. I offer a guarantee and honor it but, that’s got nothing to do with my being a Christian. That’s just good business practise. Every IM marketer I know who is worth his salt does the same. Does it mean that everyone I sell stuff to is going to make use of it? No. I guess there are a lot of reasons why. Maybe it’s information overload. Maybe it’s laziness. I don’t know. So getting down on “Gurus” for selling stuff to newbies is really kind of dumb. First off, all these gurus used to be newbies. They all started out in the same place – at the bottom.
I didn’t do much trail blazing to learn this business and I still don’t. If someone is offering to teach me something I don’t know about and I want to learn – I purchase that training and learn it.
Have I bought junk that didn’t work? Yep! Especially in the beginning. It’s a learning process. As long as you don’t let setbacks stop you – You can succeed online. Aymen is a good example of that.
Eric,
I have a few questions, RE: Arb. Consp.
1. Will they have a second 12 Week Course
2. What’s the total necessary capital investment -tools, fees, invest…..
3. Will you be taking the training?
4. Will you had a feedback page for the those who took the course?
Sorry for all the Q’s
Thanks in advance, Joe
Hi Eric,
I’m retired (if it can be called that) and living
in Istanbul, Turkey. If the call is recorded,
can it be sent via e-mail?
Thanks
Russ
Hi Eric,
I have a few questions, maybe you might have an idea…
-Do you know if they’re offering a second 12 Week Course after the 1st one?
-Do you know how much investment capital would be needed?
…Website fees, Tools, Programs, etc…
-Will you have a review page of the actual course?
Thanks, Joe
Hi Eric – thanks for the reply.
To summarize then, does it work something like this? :
***PLEASE NOTE TO EVERYONE: I’m not saying it *does* work like this at all – I’m just trying to get my head around the cashflow, so I’ve laid it out in number form so I can get feedback from peeps (not just Eric). I’m not new to many of the ideas, but I have no experience yet with Adwords/PPC as I’ve been focussing on skilling up in other areas.
On its primary level, The AC PPC works like any other PPC:
1) you invest money on a high profile PPC ad on Yahoo/Google etc based on a hot-search term.
2) 50% of the people click on your link as it’s at the top of the search engine.Let’s say everytime they click, you pay the search engines $10 & 2000 people click. So you owe the search engines $20k
3) Once those 2000 people click, they’re taking to a landing page that you’ve created which has compelling content, offering them some of the relevant offers from the companies who have deals with the CPA networks. Some of these offers might just be persuading the viewers to sign up for info, others might be free products etc.
4)Let’s say 25% of the 2000 click through on these offers, ie 500, and on average you gain $50 for each action taken, so you get $25000
5) So your net gain is $25000 – $20000 = $5000
6) The AC takes it to a higher level however, because Aymen has worked out a way to harvest the most profitable CPA offers for internet marketers, combined with some as-yet uknown tricks/skills that are part of his training, so in fact the numbers above are in comparison, laughable.
My primary question is this really – to start with, how much spare cashflow will I need at any given moment? Obvioulsy as I get more skilled with the AC system, I’ll hopefully be making more money & losing less. What really makes me willing to consider this offer seriously are two things:
– The assurance of full, detailed on-going training (via video tutorials etc)
2)The money-back guarantee.
If people could feedback I’d appreciate it – especially advice on what sort of buffer is needed typically, when you’re starting out.
Cheers,
Dez.
In the AC’s SUBSCRIPTION TERMS:
‘Use of the Arbitrage Conspiracy WebSite equires the payment of a monthly subscription service. Each user agrees to pay to Iron Empire
Holding, LLC a monthly subscription fee, in advance, via Pay Pal, credit card or other method from time to time established by Iron Empire Holding, LLC , for each month’s use of the Arbitrage Conspiracy WebSite. Each user authorizes Iron Empire Holding, LLC to automatically debit the payment source or mechanism associated with his or her registered account for each monthly subscription fee. Monthly subscription fees are not refundable for any reason. Automatic debits shall continue unless the user
terminates the subscription in accordance with these terms and conditions. For termination on the Arbitrage Conspiracy WebSite. To cancel your subscription please send your request to support{at}arbitrageconspiracy {dot} com.’
I believe it is a one-time payment, but this seems to indicate otherwise.
Another thought:
maybe I can start very small with AC & as I get successful ramp up over time so I’m not having to fork out loads of $$$ to start with……? (apart from the $2k plus other softwares….)
Thank you Eric for that impartial, honest review of Arbitrage Conspiracy. I just wished others who are either newbies or are ill-prepared for the course read your review before buying it. Because the AC sales page was really full of hype and rather tempting for many wishing to make quick money online. In my case, after seeing Brad Fallon’s face, I immediately remembered my experience with Stompernet product he launched just last September 5th this year. Together with his free course I bought 2 upsells and I paid more than $230 during launch. However, still today, 100 days after my card was debited, I have NOT yet received the products I paid for. I have written many emails already to them, but I just a canned reply. Everyday I go to my local post office and I see a lot of packages delivered from all over the world, still my order from Stompernet has not arrived. I have stopped waiting. On the other hand, from a recent firesale, a mere $17 product gave a really decent support email where your complaints are handled professionally. Your lesson “Stop Buying Stuff!” didn’t really sink in to me well enough, but my Stompernet experience did! I think from now on I’ll never buy anything. However, your honest impartial review of any product is really a great help to anyone seeking to weigh for oneself if it’s really the right product to buy. Without it, one is just blind. Keep posting those honest and impartial reviews. They are a rare commidity!
Hi,
I have checked this out and it would appear that I would need to have a big list of traffic to send.
I have joined a network to build a list and then I might be accepted into this money maker. My list building gives the best chance for success for a newbie like me First things First
Eric
I was referred by a comment on Jim Cockrum’s blog. both of you are at the top of my “must read”. I’ve wasted a lot of money on “proven” programs and I have background in starting and running a real estate investing/development business offline.
I’m getting through the learning curve and will succeed online as I have in my other businesses, but you and Jim have just helped shorten the learning curve. I’ll pass on your tips to everyone I know and will send a broadcast this morning to my list.
Hopefully I can return the favor.
amy, do you do any consults?
Hi Guys
I’ve been in the internet marketing business for 8 years. I was very fortunate that in my first year online I made just under $1 million.
However I made it by a combination of desperation and good luck, and I learned a lot more than any course could teach me ( there was no course…happily )
I didnt have a blueprint to follow. I think if I had I may have failed, because some of the things I did were pure instinct and not necessarilly the right things to do, but I learned.
In my opinion releasing any blueprint to the masses is not a good idea. I dont care what ostensible motives you may have for this, it is always backed up by a hidden agenda.
I remember may years ago, someone in the UK released a “How to buy bargains at auctions” e-book, about visiting auctions and buying government surplus stocks for a fraction of the price of retail.
Guess what happened?. Every man and his dog was going to these auctions and buying things above retail because of the competition.
It completely killed the auction market for years to come.
You know in honesty, if you read the speil, you have enough info to go out and try this yourself without spending the $2k.
Howver what many people want is that feeling of being part of a bigger thing, a group or club or whatever. If thats you, you will fail, you will become one of the sheep. However you will feel comforted in the knowledge that you have the possibility of earning the figures suggested. This feeling of false security and comfort is what will lead to your failure.
You have the concept, now go and do some research into the market. Spend the 12 weeks doing FREE research. Even start a small campaign at a modest ammount. I guarantee that you will learn far more and be far more motivated than you will long term by buying the course.
Yes you will make some mistakes, but you’ll already be $2k ahead of the game. Thats more profit than most will make.
Hi Eric,
Were you able to pass my message to Aymen?
This is my only chance!
Their ad copy states:
“P.S. – Remember, this is going to be the ONLY time this coaching course is going to be available..”
Thank you Eric, Joe.
Eric,
I can’t quite wrap my head around this . . . my pleasant web surfing times, finding information, doing research, connecting with other people, is beginning to be saturated with ads from people I just don’t want to see: home depot, chevrolet, gillette. I immediately steer away from pages carrying this type of annoyances. I can find what I want somewhere else.
This is what a lot of people do. How do I know? I transcribe market research focus groups, and I recently did one on internet usage. A vast majority of people can’t stand corporate advertising on the web. I think you guys are killing the goose with the golden egg by selling (I decided against ‘whoring’ because such strong language is not conducive to holiday cheer) off the internet to huge multinational corporations who just can’t stand to have people thinking or buying independently.
I’m very curious as to whether you will publish my comment, and more curious as to your response. I think you guys better check yourselves before you wreck yourselves, as they say.
HI Eric,
I haven’t been here for awhile and saw your review on this product. I have bought many get rich quick products that once you get them they are just rehashed material. The only reason I am posting is because of the above note from Jasine. Althoug I do not agree with her approach, I have got to tell you that I was not interested in the product at all until you mentioned the guy was a Christian and that did make me want to find out more about the product and maybe buy it because of your comment. Now that I have read more, I honestly believe that it looks like many other of the junk I have bought. You said in the above post that he had integrity, that may be true but is he really a Jesus following, Christ honoring believer? I guess I am a little dishearted also that you said that but I do like you alot so don’t get me wrong. Take care, Julie