Jan 08 2012
Empower Network Scam
I’ve been making money online for a number of years – and it seems that the scams keep coming thick and fast. The latest one I’ve come across I call the Empower Network scam in order to work out it was a scam I signed up and spent $25 to find out whether it was for real or not – here are my findings:
Empower Network was launched about October 2011. It is run by a couple of fairly well known marketers David Sharpe and David Wood. There are lots of claims about how people have made 10,000′s of dollars, and I’m sure that the Davids, and their inner circle have.
The question is – can you? The answer is – almost certainly not. Now I am not the target market for Empower Network- I already make a living online and I know a thing or two about affiliate marketing.
So when I signed up for Empower and this is what I got – and my review of them:
1. Core Blogging System Claimed value $497
The blogging system is WordPress. This excellent software is available for free from WordPres.org, or you can set up a free blog at WordPress.com. The free blog at least be on your own sub-domain at WordPress. The Empower blogs are all part of the main domain name of the system. You are providing free content to benefit these clowns on their own website. You will lose the lot when they exposed as the pyramid scheme that they are too.
Actual value – less than zero because of the time you will waste.
2. High Converting Lead Capture Page Claimed value $297
Well maybe – but then you’d actually need a lead to capture first wouldn’t you? And then if you do capture and get someone to sign up – its going to be your merchant account that gets shut down for pyramid selling
Actual value – zero – lead capture forms are only useful if you have something decent to sell and a stream of buyers
3. 8-Part Fast Start Video Training Claimed value $397
Well its certainly fast – these videos are so short you can listen to the lot inside 1/2 an hour. They will carefully tell you how to signup for a merchant account in the first one – wow – really? Actually not – I’m not American – it won’t work for me!
The next one is how to add a blog post to WordPress, the one after that – how to read ever day!
No mention of keyword research, monetization, search engine optimization
Actual value – they owe me for the time I wasted listening to this rubbish.
4. Website Hosting, Design, Theme, Plugins Claimed value $247
You have got to be kidding me! Hosting costs $5 – $7/month. The theme is just their own theme – no value there. Plugins – well there is one paid plugin SEO Presser – which no beginner should be spending money on, particularly as nothing in the training has taught them how to find a keyword yet!
Actual value – zero.
Conclusion: run, do not walk away, from the Empower Network scam
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