WarriorWinky

Has anyone bought Local Mobile Monopoly by Adam Horwitz?

Please review.

Thanks

Regional Warrior

If its any thing like his last one ( Mobile Monopoly) stay very far away IMO...

sallycev

Yes, I have to agree about his previous product. I did buy it and refunded it.

I actually tried his free software tool for this one and it does not work properly, when I put in my town it gives me results for another town in my state that is 1 1/2 hrs. away!

BUT, I do love the idea of offering more mobile marketing to offline clients which has been the main focus of my marketing business these days.

So, I'm not sure how this one will measure up but the concept is good and I will be emphasizing this method in order to get more offline clients on board.

I'll come back and review it here if I decide to check it out.

Have a good one.
Cheers!
Sally

typhoon

I think local mobile monopoly is basically for businesses in real world or at least I think it is not that good for affiliate marketers trying to sell electronic downloads.

In my own city, mobile marketing has increased BIG time (India - Indore)..I don't know how they are getting my mobile number but I am getting like 2-3 messages daily and most of them are related to stock trading, gold trading, any new offers in the city, some dating sms etc.

Still I need to try local mobile monopoly..It's hard to say what it REALLY has got..60 minutes before it launches

TBInternetMarketing

What annoyed me about this, was that last year they had a product called Cashflow Tycoon. I actually thought it wasn't too bad so decided to market it as an affiliate. I build a few web 2.0 pages linking to it, only to find those links have now changed to the mobile monopoly site. My pages are still generating traffic, but they are reading about Tycoon chasflow and then being directed to the mobile monopoly page. Very annoying if you ask me.

jasonthewebmaster

I tried the search tool and the copycat site - not very impressed - the search tool is just a google maps search whoopdeedoo... and the copycat site is nice, but I dont like promoting someone else's brand etc.

WarriorWinky

yes.Does any one bought it?

Is it includes any thing about QR codes and its marketing?

Is the price of yeptext is free for members..
MR

rmoore

I heard bad reviews of Mobile Monopoly as well. People were slamming this one pretty hard. I don't have either product, but if he offers a refund...then people who are interested could give it a shot risk free.

-Rusty

tlarsen2080

Love the concept...lol...and the video backdrop. I wanna know how to do that!!!11
but if someone actually buys...lets review it!

Global365

It's through clickbank so there is no risk, curious, might give it a try.

There must be some major OTO...here is clickbank description

Over $300 a sale plus recurring commissions. EPC's as high as $8.00. Extremely low refund rate. Get your affiliate tools at:

Rolaur

I have just purchased it and will do a review after I have gone through it.

There are multiple up sells in the purchase process. The first is the main product for $77. Next is a mobile web site and QR builder plus hosting for the sites for $67 per month. If you say no, it gives you the option for a $4.95 week trial. Next is a copy of some mastermind conference for I think $67 and if you say no, it goes to half price. Last is a social media training program I think again for $67 and goes to half price if you say no.

I have not looked yet but I am getting a feeling that the YEP account is limited and that you will have to purchase messages above a certain amount per month.

As I go through this I'll try and keep you all updated. Figured someone had to check it out and it's Clickbank with a 60 return so what have I got to loose?

Global365

Keep us updated Rolaur...

especially if the account is limited...thanks for taking the plunge

Andre Slater

Is it just me or has Adam Horwitz been 19 years old forever??? I am not sure about this program, but I did buy mobile monopoly and all the upsells and I had got a refund. I really tried hard to make that system work. I spend over $500 bucks on ad networks trying what he taught and made about $14 bucks.

I can tell you one thing he knows that the mobile market niche is a believable niche that people will fall for and buy. People buy his products because they know how huge the potential is and his sales copy and videos are stellar. So, he knows how to sell his product and he is making a "killing" (his favorite phrase) online. I just didn't make any money with his program.

I also felt let down when I did finally finish Mobile Monopoly...

I know there are WSO's on mobile marketing with local businesses. They would be better, because I know he is a upsell king plus monthly fees.

cadillac48

I would never buy any money making niche product from anyone under 25. They should not be trusted! They just have no ethics and don't care about anyone but themselves. Their only goal is to see how much money they can make from their promotion. Believe me, their only goal is to see how much money they can make for themselves, not their customers.

jasonthewebmaster

The YepText account is limited by the number of messages you can send. See the pricing here:
Group Texting | Yepword | Short Code | Text Messaging Pricing | YepText.com

Also, keep in mind if you try to use this to make money you will be promoting YepText as an affiliate. Also be promoting MobileHelpers.com

Again, i would rather not promote someone elses brand and definitely will not pay to be an affiliate for YepText...

Also... the pricing $99/mo. for sending only 2,000 messages is pretty steep compared to industry leaders.

Chris Sorrell

The business plan is decent enough and pretty easy to follow if you focus on certain types of business. For instance you could do some marketing for bars/nightclubs if they've got a special event on or a restaurant because those are the sorts of things that people are more likely to respond to within their local area.

Also, things like pizza places are worth pitching to in that you can offer them a service where you send out texts with their details on it during their quieter times of the week.

I don't intend on buying the product but I imagine most of the methods are really just common sense based more than anything.

BerkleyStreet

- I'm assuming that the pricing plan listed is what we would be charging our "clients". I'd be interested in knowing how much of that we actually earn. Also - i'm not thrilled with sharing one short code with the "world". I'm betting that most of the popular "keywords" are already gone.

Global365

I would be interested to know where he acquires the mobile phone numbers?

Is Yep Text His Company?

Rolaur

Yes it seems that Yep Text is his company and his money maker. As soon as I got to that point in the process, I requested a refund. Not that I have a problem with paying for service but the fact that it was not disclosed from the start makes this someone that I don't want to do business with. I will never look at another one of his products not because they won't work but because he was not upfront with what it would cost and the system itself. Sorry Adam but you lost at least one customer for life.

BerkleyStreet

Rolaur - Would you mind sharing what the actual "costs" are?

Jarrett

lol I don't know if I agree with that.

I've met some grimey old men that would pawn off their own mother if it made them a buck...

Actually, old men shouldn't be trusted EVEN MORE then younger guys... at that age they got nothing to lose.. and they've had years of practice at playing dirty ;p

Ie: my grandpa. he doesn't fight fair. Would I play him cards or trust him with my money? no way in hell! lol The man's been fighting dirty since 1935! I'd get murdered. hahah

but seriously. jokes aside.. age has got nothing to do with it. There's kids that steal, old men that cheat, and women that would rob you blind. There's sheisty people in all ages, sex, ethnicities, and tax brackets. It has no color or creed.

And on the other side..

Just a few days ago I watched some KILLER videos that a 12 year old kid made on how to use advanced video editing programs for mac. I learned TONS of stuff.. it blew my mind. the kid was 12 and did an amazing job teaching it

xlfutur1

$67 bucks a MONTH for a website and QR code generator? wow, that is steep. I threw up my mobile site earlier this year with free WP template, and purchased a killer WP plugin QR code generator for $27 bucks - one time. I think doing this one yourself will be the way to go for most. And I agree with the fact that a WSO on mobile marketing would be a better way to spend your money.

Jarrett

by the way.. you can do that stuff with green screen and then just edit a really cool graphic into it.

I haven't been in WVU for years but Dave Kaminski is a BOSS and I'm sure in his program he gets into how to do that..

Web Video University - How To Create, Get Traffic and Get Paid From Web Video - WebVideoUniversity.com


Cheers,
Jarrett

Mr.Wright

Paul Ponna just sent out a replay of his webinar with Adam horwitz.

They actually showed a demo of each software and explained what's included in the package.

Thought this replay might help some warriors:

Local Mobile Monopoly Review Webinar Replay.

-JW

Curtez Riggs

Yes it is... I took the $4.95 upsale thinking I was getting something special... He's using a white lable verison of http://www.mobisitegalore.com/index.html

http://login.mobisitegalore.com/mobi...ome.jsp#design..

Bcrewse1

Hahaha, Jarrett, gotta say your first post had me crackin up! The best post in the thread for sure and absolutely correct. And, as Rolaur pointed out a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes on this promo and I too am staying away from this one. Good luck to those of you who buy it.

Andre Slater

Wow, I just went to the site Yep Text. Killer site. This "19" year old guy is making a killing on us, to bad he will never share his methods on how he "really makes money" which my guess is that he creates a product, let's call it "product service" then he creates another product, call it "super tempting make sense product" then he creates 5 other small products, let's call them "products a-e"...

This is how it works.

He sells you the "super tempting make sense product", but tells you that to get the fastest results you have to buy "products a-e" or your "super tempting make sense product" will in essence; SUCK! then you need to buy the "product service" if you want your "super tempting make sense product" to actually work, other than that your screwed...

Then about 3 months later he creates the "really super tempting make sense product on steriods" this one is created to see how much more money he can get from the "super gullible suckers"... This time he throws in the same extra basic "products a-e, but ads +++ to the name making it the "products a-e+++"

Then he gets with some other guys and creates the "ultra-hyper-galactic-super-product-service" offered to everybody... Using his super cool marketing and his super cool Donald Trump hairdoo! He knows that even with clickbank refunds the "super gullible suckers" can't refund his "hyper-galactic-super-product-service" which is really what he is "making his money with" suckers!!!

Wow, I can't believe you read that...

All Night Cafe

I'm interested in the product, so I'm going to
see what it is about.

We all know there is big profits in the mobile
advertising for offline companies.

Judy Wulff

I bought LMM and it is good, but you would have to have a lot more cash to get it going. They only give you 1 Yepword ( a word that your potential customers would tell people to text to ) that is yours so you would need to buy more of these yepwords just to start. Too much cash is needed to get it going. Too bad it doesn't come with 10-25 free yepwords to get started and get established, then charge for more yepwords and other services. Unless you have money to throw away, this would be very tough to get going. Just put in for a refund.

Paul Schlegel

Who would you consider the industry leaders? YepText looks like a white-label of something else (maybe Protexting?)

I think the bigger issue is the number of keywords you get which with YepText seems somewhat minimal for the prices as compared to say something like Protexting's prices.

Michael_Le

still doesn't take away the fact that this 19yr old kid probably made over 200k of sales on launch day......no matter if the product wasn't up to standards or not or if it was just plain rubbish, you gotta admire the fact that this KID knows how to sell to the market...granted he could have been abit more upfront etc but this is sales after all.

and yes, it will cost alot of money to start up so if your a newbie on limited funds then i would stay away.

just my 00000000.2 centz

darrenmonroe

DUDE (or dudette LOL) thank you! You just saved me a purchase and decision. I signed up for their JV because I liked the page look and hadn't heard of them that much. But I like to promote for a long time and the fact that your links were change???? DONE DEAL.

Curtez Riggs

Man good catch.... Now is Protexting a legit company, im not finding much info out on them?

Rolaur

The pricing for members can be seen here:

Yep Text Pricing

Chris Worner

Like last time, the sales letter is incredibly deceptive and in complete violation of ftc laws.

5 billion mobiles in the world, pity only a small fraction(20%) of those mobiles are smart phones. Which is less than the amount of internet users in the world.

It is sad that people still fall for this crap.

Chris

yougpeter

Today bought it and I love it.Great program.

davez

Well good for you. Bet you like the commission checks from promoting it, too!

I would go with Mobile local fusion, one time payment new content regularly and no upsells and one time payment, with a weekly webinar.

Watched Adam's vid's and pretty sure he passed 19 a few days ago.

I just wish these guy's would sell things on there own merit and quit with the up sell, sideways sell, down sell, reverse sell, and the don't close the page discount sell.

If the products so good just put it all out there and sell it for a decent price, what a novel way to do business.

Maybe he is still 19 ????

Skylars1

Mobile is still in it's infancy, especially when it comes to making money with it.

Now comes the Product that for $77.00 is going to solve all that.

3 Months from now - it's another program taking space on your computer.

Too Bad- Had Really Kewl Graphics and Video's on the sales page

Ummm... Sounds familiar.

Best way to make money right now- is to learn how to make Mobile Websites for your offline customers and sell them.

I believe the text thing is a way off for most business, unless they truly want to spend money and direct a chunck of their budget and time to it.

Thanks for the reviews peeps. (I also, have looked the same age for years now- See my Pic)

bjallen

Thanks everyone for chiming in here with your reviews and recommendations! I guess I am still looking for a program to help me get started promoting sms marketing to my customers - and I guess I am also still looking for a texting service, since Yep Text seems so pricey.

Any recommendations Warriors?

BJ

Andre Slater

I am personally staying away from clickbank ebusiness section... Majority of the products in that section with high gravity turn out to be basic stuff dressed like the real deal. I would stay looking on WF for something I am sure it is coming soon.

Amber Jalink

eztexting.com - used, excellent customer service
grouptexting.com (I think they're the same company)

Oh there's tons of them - just depends where you live.

The above works in can and the us.

Others include:

Aqua360 - DO NOT recommend at all. (too many bugs - it's simply a white label of eztexting or grouptexting)

Clickatell - haven't used,
Mobile Storm - haven't used but heard they're good
Mobivity - (same ")
Trumpia (highly recommended, but not by me)

I know that one of the Warriors has set something up for it, but from my research they have a whitelabel of Trumpia too.

(I'm in Canada, so most don't work here but in the US there's lots of choices)

I think there was also one called ProTexting, can't find the info though in front of me.

Hope some of this helps.

There are many that sound good - cheap - but aren't "true" texting... as in, several are actually sent via SMTP - which means that it's basically simple email.... and many providers (sprint etc) will block it from reaching its destination.

You want to make sure the service is truly SNMP, which is why it costs 4cents or more per message.

I didn't see this product - I was asked to promote it and chose not to for a few reasons, including particularly experience and "lack of customer contact" (except pitches - no support) with some of the people listed in that letter.

And it was 99% rehash.

Not sure if these are offered anymore, but Mobile Local Fusion and Mobile Success Formula are the best in my opinion.

Mary W. from that letter (in local mobile monopoly) put out a course that pretty much mimicked MSF. (And doesn't reply, her emails bounce even though she says to email "here").

I'm putting together a free video on SMS (video 4 in my free series-just finishing the voiceover) because there ARE lots of ways to make money with it, and you don't need to be an expert or pay huge $ for the courses.

If its something you want to do, you can get a lot of research free.

Mobile Marketing Watch | The Pulse Of The Mobile Marketing Community is a good "news" type site on the industry. Tons of stats and info.

Amber

Amber Jalink

Just an add on...

If you go to the actual sales letter for local mobile monopoly, and you click to leave, you automatically get a $10 discount...

And if you still click to leave, they give you options of free training (which is probably all you'd need).

Amber

bjallen

Thanks Amber!

uwantmedia

I bought LMM yesterday as I've always been interesting text marketing and never got round to it.

I only bought the front-end, not the upsells.

The course consists of 2 major sections:

1) Be a Text Message Marketer for Local Businesses

2) Be an affiliate for YepText

Of course chances are you would do the second if you do the first.

I went through the whole course last night because it's pretty short but I think it's worth it because I'm essentially a newbie to mobile marketing it covered the topic to a reason level of depth.

I live in the UK and so I can't use YepText but Adam recommends a couple of UK based options.

I could def make this work as a real business, I know many business owners who could immediately benefit from text marketing. I think within a few weeks I could get at least 10 businesses to sign up a text messaging marketing service. If you do offline marketing then this is def worth adding to your business.

Even if I charged each business only $150 per month to manage their campaigns they would easily make their money back if you send out a quality coupon offer via text.

I'm sure there are other good courses out there too but Adam has given a solid amount of content for $77.

Hope that helps.

Rick Wagoner

Why would a business owner need anyone to manage their text messaging campaigns for them? It seem like a straight forward process that any business owner could easily do themselves. However, I am not speaking from experience. Granted, they may need to be educated on the benefits of using text messaging as a marketing option.

Rick

Rick Wagoner

dimeco,

What's the difference between SMTP and SNMP?

Thanks,
Rick

go4wealth

Even though I do not post in the forum very often I have been a member for a very long time and it is posts such as this that makes the forum so awesome. I am in the process of launching a Small Business Consultant program and I have been searching for a Mobil Texting Service that they can market to local businesses and earn a commsion.

The feedback in this thread has helped me tremendously. I just want to say thank you all for the pros the cons and information on alternative sources.

BrandMasterPro

Run, don't walk away from any Adam Horwitz offer. I bought the first one - Mobile Monopoly - and it was lame. I also bought the one-pay lifetime option for his Beast Mobi 2.0 mobile site builder in November and it still hasn't been set up. Version 1.0 is worthless. Their tech support is worthless, too, promising that 2.0 would be set up by 3/21 - NOT!

Noctilus

Thanks everyone ^

I was seriously thinking about going for this. As always WF saves the day! So thank you WF too lol

Rolaur

If you are curious about how many people bought this in your area, just go HERE and put in your town or area.

Amazing. How many people can actually do this in one area. And all using the same text number...LOL! Everyone after the first person to visit the business is gonna look pretty foolish.