Gary Pettit

Has anyone tried Banner Ad Blueprint or had a chance to review this new product? Any input of likes/dislikes or advantages/disadvantages would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

socomplete

I don't think this has launched yet. I know its in pre-launch and the content on that was pretty good. I'll let you know if I purchase

mikkosant

It looks to be a great product for media buys and strategies from the looks of it. I may get it in a few days.

Gary Pettit

Yeah...I watched the 49 minute pre release video and it actually looks like it might be pretty good. I love designing banner ads and I haven't seen a training course like this before. I'm leaning toward giving it a shot

Gary Pettit

Greg...

Thanks so much for the great video review. I'll diffently be giving this a try now. It looks like a good solid education with banner ads...something I've been wanting to learn!

papeter

Thanks for your review, very interesting. Will buy it shortly. In the meantime are there any upsells or is it just the price as shown which is incredibly cheap?

Thanks

money2k

This is good to know as I have been thinking of purchasing this as well. Seems like a great value

A Bary

This is just a plain joke!

I was also tempted to give it a try as I watched this review video, however, I didn't find any of the mentioned value inside!

These are a bunch of very basic videos that will hardly worth attention, even for free.
Very basic info, non sense, and just a waste of time...

I really laughed when I viewed Module 3 about direct linking vs landing page

Here's a recap for the golden nuggets you get from the whole module:

-Both direct linking and using a landing page has pros and cons (yeah..what a catch)..

-Some offers will work for direct linking, some will work for landing pages
( what a surprise)

-And finally, the best inspiration, (hold your breath before reading that)..you need to talk to your affiliate manager to confirm which offers allow direct linking...(OH MY ..!!)


This is the type of knowledge in most of the modules, and yes, I was able to browse it all within 2 hours, all the secret ninja videos are 5-10 min. in length.


I grabbed this looking for info about media buying, but what I got so far is very disappointing...

Maybe they keep their worthy knowledge for their upsells (2 x $197), but I still think that what I paid $77 for doesn't worth even the time I spent browsing.

Super_Vendor

Maybe it will be good for newbies. But $77 does seem to be too much...

Gary Pettit

Can Anyone Explain what the two $197 Upsells are?

A Bary

Actually there're three upsells, not just two..

One for the advanced media buying videos, for $197, the other is traffic videos (adwords and so) for $197, and there's a $47 continuity membership for something called copy and profit campaigns,

myyoulo

I bought it and feels really bad.

I am going to contact clickbank and suggest AT LEAST a limitation on One Time Offers.
I also sent the sellers a mail explaining what questions I got after the OTO experience.
The OTO totally invalidated the main product, made me think there is no valuable information there. And I even bought the first one, then I got another one costing $197, then another for $197.

I have been interested to find good info on Banner advertising for a long time but this totally turns me off. Was it only 3 OTO´s ?

I dont care if OTO´s is a "great marketing method", I totally hate it and will not use it myself.
I hope OTO´s only create badwill so it will disappear because it doesnt feel honest. And I will also check if all said to be included on first salespage is included (if I have the energy....pheeew).

Mike

robert key

Hi Warriors,

I was very close to purchasing this product but I will now hold
off or put it off totally.

I for one don't want to see all that newbie stuff. I am more
interesting in the "advanced media buys".

Does anyone know of a good product about media buys utilizing
banners?

Thanks,

Robert

Gary Pettit

Hmmm...I'm starting to have second thoughts now but still might give it a go. I'd like to think theres some good valuable information here. So does the regular $77 purchase include all 38 Videos or is that included in the upsells? Sorry for all the questions...maybe I'll just buy it and if not satisfied or believe it doesn't live up to the sales page/pitch ask for a refund.

papeter

Thanks guys, you saved me $77 plus a bunch of upsells which I hate with a vengeance.

A Bary

Don't , unless you're willing to jeopardize your money with the upsells, the basic product has a little value for anyone has been online for a month or so, the 38 videos you mentioned are the basic 5-10 min, video that only provide very basic info..

Gary Pettit

Ok....THANKS....I appreciate all the input! I've decided not to buy Banner Ad Blueprint! I'm diffently past the newbie stage and just like everyone else I hate all the upsells. Thanks everyone for your input and help!

Paulo

Thanks for the reviews guys.

You´ve saved me some money and especially time.

Tajine

Just my 2 cents worth.

BA Blueprint appears to be yet another cash grab by someone with a very big list.

To quote from a free high value affiliate course...."retinal studies have shown that Web surfers actually avoid banners. Yes, their eyes look away!"

Think carefully before you buy & save your money for something more valuable

l3y

well, thanks so much for this thread, i almost bought banneradsblueprint, because i see that video on sales page is real, but let me know, can we promote the affiliate link to other 2.0 site, like facebook, tagged, myspace or other ?

affhelper

LOL after what I have seen in the last 2 days I wouldn't be so sure

JK though, Saj does have some great products.

l3y

may you give a recomendation, any usefull cpa tutorial for newbie?

stormer

Thanks Goldmine for telling me what I came here for: namely the Upsells.

If the course was complete for $77 I'd consider buying it but when all those affiliate sellers where offering their high ticket bonuses the red flag started to wave.

Sure enough...3 upsells, one being a membership!

So, NO I'll not be buying it.

Mark-Dickenson

Haha....I bet you thought it was "a breath of fresh air" with the "See My Sig for a review" in your post!

Call me crazy, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of the Review section here when people start doing the "See My Sig For a Review" routine?

maverick4u

Okay-but surely there are some shrewd marketers making a killing with well placed site targeted banners right? Anybody have a good suggestion on a solid resource for learning more about this?

Greg Jacobs

No not really. I mean, I showed you what is actually inside the course. Whether I get a commission or not is iregardless, I made that quite clear and most of you have been around long enough to know how to sidestep it if you dont want the bonus.

but would you rather have me NOT show you what you get when you order and everybody just keeps guessing?

but this thread is not about that. It is about BAB, which despite "herd mind antics" going on in this thread, I think is still an excellent product.

myyoulo

You are an affiliate for this product, I have bought this and it is very shallow. I bought the basic $77 and then the $47 OTO. Then ofcourse there was two more OTO´s for $197 each.
One of them was considered a "must have" lol.
Maybe there is more value in that then because as I said, the information in basic/main product is not worth $77 (in my opinion, need I say ?).

Greg, its kind of more interesting listening to members who are not promoting it you know ?

And about "herd mind antics" as you wrote, was that an insult to people here OR what did you mean specifically ?

Mike

Bcrewse1

Personally, I think it's very deceptive advertising to sell a "one all, be all" product for $77 then have major upsells after the purchase just to "make it work"!!! Good thread and I know I won't be wasting any of my money on this one....and for those who just have to see what it is all about....click off the sales page and you will save $10 on an exit pop up. That way you will only waste $67....=)

Chucky

BANNER ADS WORK!! PERIOD

I know that's some strong language. But even with my stupidly ugly banners I'm getting decent results and can certainly be improved if I put more time into it.

Have you guys seen How Life Works I see banner ads directing to this site from all over the internet. Especially Yahoo mail and a few other news sites. If you go there and look at the 'Recommended articles' on the top right hand side corner, you will recognize the banners I'm talking about. They cover all kinds of things and everything leads to a CPA (or some other offer). If banners didn't work, they wouldn't be doing it.

As for this product, I'm sure even the $77 product has some gold nuggets if you're going to put it to practice. I'm definitely going to buy it because I've seen what my stupid basic banners are capable of, but I have to wait till Saturday because I have too many other things within the next 72 hours.

My 2 cents is that, if anybody is going to put it to practice, buy it. If you don't like it return it; that's a different story; but don't be discouraged to not give it a try. The chances are, if you put it to practice, you will at least learn something!!

Chucky

EDIT - 5 minutes later

I found another site like that. If you read this news item on Yahoo news Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress - Yahoo! News and scroll down to the bottom right you will see some banner ads. Clicking on them will take you to ARA Lifestyle which is also another site like How Life Works. I get the feeling that both these websites are owned by the same guys.

I think I just gave someone a million dollar idea!..... You're Welcome

2nd EDIT - Another 5 minutes later

I was browsing http://news.yahoo.com/topics/bill-clinton and what do I find? Banner ads from How Life Works

The 2 sites look very similar I did a Whois lookup - http://www.whois.net/whois/howlifeworks.com and http://www.whois.net/whois/aralifestyle.com. According to them, they're not the same, but everybody knows you can give fake names to these accounts on GoDaddy etc.

Take home message - Banner Advertising Works. I don't know if Saj's Blueprint works. But if you are open to finding some important information; you will!

Greg Jacobs

not meant as an insult at all, I started here on the WF with nothing but a username and built a 7 figure business from nothing in 6 months, so I would not insult the place where I came. If you want to know my thoughts specifically on that comment you can PM me as it goes far beyond the scope of this review thread.

Not So New

I actually bought the product, but none of the OTO's. What's funny about those is that you can still buy them in the membership area for the same price.

I agree, 3 is a little much.

Sid

myyoulo

Greg, you are welcome to PM me because I only have 35 posts and cant PM yet.

Thanks
Mike

machia

You can get the value of this release right from the sales letter: You can make money with banner ads - look into it. I'd say that's quite common for the majority of IM releases. Very few have anything groundbreaking in them (you're more likely to find that here for $10).

And kudos to those that are able to set up sales pages with multiple one time offers. It takes extra work not only to get people to buy, but also to avoid something getting screwed up along the way and losing the customer in the process.

Now it stinks to buy something only to be given the impression in the first OTO that what you just bought is kind of lame or inadequate.

Even so, just started selling something the other day (not this) and didn't even notice (putting up too many campaigns to) it had multiple OTOs until sales started rifiling in three at a time, instead of one at a time from each customer.

If you don't like OTOs try selling them instead of buying them. They're lovely!

type-m

High ticket bonuses are not indication of a bad product but affiliates are trying to outshine other affiliates so that potential customers would buy from them. That's probably because Saj P is well known marketer and lots of guys with bis list will mail about it to their list and then there are review site affiliates who are trying to ride on this buzz wave.

axel40

Could this mean ,Bary et al, that , if you are familiar with it, their Zero Friciton Marketing course already covers this "banner advertising " aspect enough good and what is added in this new course is just marginal comparing with that? I think anyone familiar with ZFM might have an opinion.
Rolf

quickcashstrategy

I found it as zero friction marketing, i got ZFM before and i found it helpful, i think this one too can be better!

alextsui

I don't really mind OTOs IF they are done properly. In my opinion, the basic product should fulfill all the claims on the sales page and the OTO upsell is just a slight added value (which shouldn't cost more than the original product).

Kind of like ordering a burger (which I'm happy with) and when they ask me, "Would you like fries with that?", I usually say "Yes". Pay a bit more for some added value.

What I hate is seeing a few OTOs all saying stuff like "You can't live without this", "It's a must have". This makes me feel like the basic product is incomplete and useless, without adding the extras.

Seems like some internet marketers are stooping to new lows now in the name of making a quick buck. Whatever happened to the good old concept of "giving the customer great value for money"?

MoBuck$

I thought the course was really good IMO, specially for the price. I've paid $997. for some higher end courses, that haven't even compared to this one yet.

A Bary

You paid $997 for courses of less value than this one?

I think you need to revise your spending habits..

Mike Downs

I got an offer with a bonus for Keyword Annihilation software. Does anyone know what this software is and what it does. Along those same lines, anyone know what Market samurai costs?

THanks

Mike

A Bary

MS costs $147, if you're on a good number of marketers emailing lists, you should receive offers for a discounted price of $97.

Keyword Annihilation?? By whom this is offered?

l3y

why somebody didn`t want share about cpa technique for free?

A Bary

Coz it makes them money, and sharing their techniques will dilute its effect

Rozaidi

Quite costly for newbie.

Mike Downs

I should have been more clear in my post. I received an offer for Banner Ad Blueprint and one of the bonuses was the Keyword Annihilation software. I had never heard of it before, so I was curious if anyone knew what it was.
Thanks
Mike

Mr.Wright

Can you post the link of the keyword anihilation software? It looks interesting.

JW

Kuma

Fully agree to your statement.
And what annoys me also is that many of the so-called gurus have absolutely no inhibitions to recommend this kind of products. And the countless OTOs just turn me off more and more.
The result is clear: I don´t buy from them anymore.

Mike Downs

I cannot find a link to the actual software, it was just on a list of bonuses. I am looking for some information related to the actual software, but I have tried Google searches and can't find anything about it. If you are interested, PM me an email addy and I will forward a copy of the email I got from the creators or Mass Article.

gcintermed

I'm seeing offers where the bonuses seem worth more than the product. So I may take the plunge just to get the bonuses. For example, Michael Rasmussen is offering all of Saj's products as well as 6 cut and paste campaigns.

But I agree, the OTO strategy has been widely misused. When used properly, a OTO adds value to the original product or complements it in a natural way. When used improperly, it a) annoys the purchaser, b) degrades perception of the product being purchased making it seem like it is not everything the salesletter promised, setting the mindset for a refund rather than an upgrade.

But by far the stupidest thing I've seen is a OTO on a free opt-in, with wording like "You will only see this page once, EVER!" But it works For an example, see my sig...

DannyUK

It's another Paul Ponna (ahem) "special" - There's a free download listed on the top page of Google if you want to grab it. The page says this product will launch in 2010. Can't figure out the strategy here - give it away and then launch it later?

Anyway, it's a piece of software called "Keyword Dominator" and a TON of MP3s from the usual suspects. I haven't installed the software (I already have Market Samurai and MNC so why bother) and I dipped into one MP3 which was a low quality recording of some bloke going on about how Disney gets its staff to pick up litter in novel and entertaining ways. Right...

Glad you brought it up because all the MP3s must be taking up a gig of HD space and I'd forgotten to delete them.

As for BannerAdBlueprint, unless you want to take the plunge and find out if the "One Time" offers are any good, forget the $77 basic package ($67 if you click the link in the chat box that pops up when you try to leave the page)

I got half way through and there's nothing you couldn't get for free by hunting around this site or doing a search on Google. Maybe it hots up in the latter stages but I can't be bothered just in case more of my time is wasted.

You do get a LOT of bonuses though, for $67 there might be something in there that is useful. Again, I won't bother myself, the whole thing just turned me off and my time is better served by kicking myself in the ass for falling for another guru launch.