Louis Raven

I brought & learned NOTHING!

Very well presented but for an Adwords newbie I expected to learn at least 1 secret or see a live campaign setup in front of me.

8 of the videos are basic 101 stuff showing you how to use tools?

Also, the profits do not add up to me. By the time I've waisted so much (500 clicks) on 4 campaigns just to find a profitable one I'll have to scale it to make the money waisted on the 4 non profit campaigns??

This should be called Adwords-Keyword-tool-Blueprint.

Not happy.

Louis

Amfire

Louis,

Commission Blueprint is not for totally Newbie, in fact videos clearly states that if you need basic info where to look for? And it odes require some budget testing products before you get a winner, It is a comprehensive guide to Clickbank via PPC,

Shoot me a PM if you want to know about the products which are for starters

Louis Raven

Maybe you missed the gist of my post?..

I am a PPC newbie but still didn't learn anything from Commission Blueprint.

I wish it was more advanced and complicated than standard 101 PPC training.

Louis

Amfire

Oh yes did, my bad, well beyond that it’s a mater of finding the winners and scaling. you will not find anything magical, if you do, please do share

faakhatri

I bought it but found it to be too complicated. Maybe because I have never used Adwords and PPC before. But the information and the videos seem to be good quality. I would say not for newbies

Raiel Schwartz

I don't know anything about this product (mostly because I am not on any Internet Marketing lists and also because I've taken a break from Internet Marketing forums) but reading just a few comments here tells me that you can make SALES without this product (like you can do without many other products)

I can't discredit this product as I haven't actually reviewed it, however I've seen some people say it's a shoot-and-miss scaling system, in which case internet marketing is more than hit-and-miss. I can see the profitability of a scaling system, especially if you have the funds to support such a system, but I hate to think of internet marketing as a hit and miss game.

If you do market research, and know a particular niche, when you DO decide to advertise on Google Adwords, you should have a pretty good idea on how profitable it should be, it should NEVER be just hit and miss, and delete the losers and select the winners (although again, I'm not discrediting a system like this).

The Copy Nazi

You are right on the money with this. I bought Commission Blueprint and I'm currently reviewing it on my site and this is the biggest problem I have with it. They are basically advocating "misrepresentation" - they are saying put up a lot of bogus "review" sites with bogus photos, bogus names and shonky testimonials.
The other HUGE problem I have with it is that I can't find one decent Clickwank product using their suggested criteria of $30 payout and 100+ gravity I've found exactly 24 products that qualify - including "TV on your PC" (banned by Adwords), "Water 4 Gas (say no more, "Penis Enlargement" (does size matter?) and similar stuff.
The videos are technically so-so, there are a lot of audio distortions. The delivery and the content is interesting at times. But I don't think Steve Clayton is the "expert" he's cracked up to be. His knowledge of SEO, for instance, leaves a lot to be desired. Is it worth the price? Nope. There's quite a long thread on my site. I'm new here. Love it. Wish I'd found you sooner. à bientôt.

jbsmith

Hmm...bogus review sites, that's not good.

Is there not a middle ground where you review the Clickbank product yourself and develop a decent review based on your own info + use of the product, or does their recommended landing page template design go well beyond that?

Jeff

MikeAmbrosio

Hi Jeff,

Templates are only templates. You can pretty much do whatever you want.

I think part of the problem I see from some of the posts is there is still an expectation of some mystical secret to be revealed, or that this will be some push button money maker.

It IS basic info for many people, but it doesn't mean it's not useful. I had my assistant go through the course, learn it (and he is someone that until Sept. '08 never even HEARD of Adwords or Internet Marketing...) and apply it to a test campaign.

He did.

Let me just ask - would you spend $10 to gross $150?

That's what we did in sales in a week (after setting up the Adwords, tweaking the ads and landing pages, brought up the quality score and reduced the costs per click...about a month).

I made a video showing the results:

Adwords Campaign Results After Commission Blueprint

*Note: The end of the video redirects to an affiliate link. Feel free to ignore it. My intention is not to make sales from the forum, but instead to show some results achieved by a total newbie who took action, followed the basics taught in the course and saw some success in a short period of time.

Bottom line - I agree it's not ground breaking in the big picture sense, but it IS good, solid info. I can't say I agree with blatantly using false testimonials (which I don't really recall them saying to do, but my memory isn't what it once was) but aside from that, I found it to be well worth the money.

And yes - I DID pay for this

Mike

moises_pk2

Nice product

jimsomchai

Hi there,

I bought Commission Blueprints after viewing this thread many times and finally decided to purchase.

I would say that I am very happy with the information I got.

I am not going to dig into the review since many people have done this before.

It is another good investment of mine.

Cheers,

Jim

Bruce NewMedia

Thats a nice video Mike, very persuasive. If you can now ramp that campaign up, it should produce nicely. You didn't mention it in the video but you were also getting some nice CTR's as well. Good luck!
_____
Bruce

jacksonlin

Hmmm...

For some reason CommissionBlueprint seemed like a waste of time to me.

Most of the single landing review pages that I've seen online in my niche have been Google Slapped out of existence.

I think he should tell you that you need to have a real website and not just a single landing page otherwise you get slapped hard.

I didn't get too much out of commissionblueprint and thought it was just over hyped.

gamequeen

Well I got it yesterday after reading through the forum. I am currently watching the videos. I am just getting to video 4. I am a newbie to IM and I must say that the info that I have seen so far has been beneficial to me. Many people said that it was not for a newbie but I am a quick learner and prefer more intermediate details before the basics. I am able to apply the theories better this way. So far I think it's a great program but of course I am not done yet so that's just a preliminary opinion.

Ken Banks

Thanks Guys and Gals -- Your input has made up my mind -- I'm going to pick it up!

gamequeen

Great Ken let us know what you think when you review it!

Meanna Blog

Ok, here's my question. My wife knows a little about Internet Marketing.

As an experiment, she was asking if I could order this pack for her and she could go through and see if she could make some decent monthly money.

Is it a course that someone with little(ish) experience could have some success with???

gamequeen

I am not a guru in IM and consider myself a newbie and I found it easy to follow. I think if she studies on her own using the many free tutorials online along with using the videos then she will be able to follow and get ahead for the newbies just starting out with no clue was to what Commission Blueprint is. She should also find a mentor that she can follow. Someone who is considered a authority figure in this business. It's kind of hard finding the right person because many self proclaimed guru's exist now. However, if she finds the right person and put her all into this business she should have no problem earning a decent monthly salary.

mbomb

Anyone know where I can signup as an affiliate to commission blueprint? Thanks.

Mike

Amitywill

commissionblueprint (dot) com/affiliates.htm

Amitywill

sarahstaar

On the Commision BluePrint sales page it says available for immediate download.

Can you download the videos ?? or do you have to watch them online?

jbsmith

Sarah - you can download them or watch them online. In addition, there are manuals for each of the first two modules in pdf format.

Really like Steve's teaching style - makes for great learning videos.

Jeff

jbsmith

Mike - commission blueprint is sold through Clickbank, so you should be able to find it on the Clickbank Marketplace.

Niche Blueprint is not a Clickbank product however.

Jeff

BrianTubbs

I purchased CB a while back. Tim & Steve do put a lot of hard work and quality into their stuff. However, it's not for everybody.

Bottom line...Commission Blueprint is an excellent product.....IF....you are comfortable with numbers, stats, spreadsheets, etc. AND you have money to invest in Adwords campaigns. If you're not a statistician or you're a relative newbie with little $$$ to invest up-front, then I'd wait on CB.

jbsmith

I agree with your statement that you need to have some money $300 or so, to invest in Adwords campaigns - this is primarily to uncover the best keywords - the alternative is taking a ton of time and developing a bunch of content (or spend $300+ on having it developed), so there are really very few options.

One way or another - you need to discover the right combination of promotion and product, no matter what the approach, it will cost you time and/or money.

Finally - I sincerely HOPE that people don't run away because of the spreadsheets and numbers because folks -- that's what it takes to run a successful business.

If you are not tracking fundamentals within your business, you are not really in business at all...or you won't be for long.

Jeff

Bronkim

Hi Guys,

I have been reading through this thread as I am about to take the plunge into the unknown, AKA Affiliate Marketing.

I have been pretty sketical about jumping in and buying a product as I tend to try and find reviews on them first, There are a lot of products promising the world only to deliver nothing so some investigating pays off IMO.

So given the general feel of info on here, I think I might buy this one, I will keep you in the loop as to what happens.

p.s. If any of you more experienced guys & gals out there have any helpful advise/tips It would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

Bronkim

cclegg06

To add my voice to the mix... just finished the 14th video and I give it two thumbs up. Worth the purchase price.

JMLebeau

This product looks interesting, I'll give a look on that. http://o09e0107blbe211.imageshacknow...108uplg/me.jpg

ThomasW

This is so typical. 4 pages of posts. Many of them have not purchased the product, some have recently purchased it and are in the process of checking it out, many are obviously affiliates hoping to make a buck off of it, and no one is really making any money with it.

This is the state of the internet marketing industry. Real and pseudo personalities getting a salespage written for dirt cheap offshore and depriving an American of making a living just like the big boys do, throwing up a hype to the max ad, getting their associates to promote it to their lists and making a bundle - even when the product isn't worth the time spent reviewing the dozen videos and reading the manuals and the bonuses until you are too dizzy to do anything with the product.

And all the unhappy purchasers put the product into their virtual library of never to be looked at again trash file and chase the next overhyped thing. It is mind boggling that this continues ad nauseum. Everyone wants to be on the "casino" end and be pulling in the big bucks from the naive.

Save your money. Either find a mentor/friend who knows the business or learn from the ethical people on this forum - yes, there are some! It is a basic process that takes effort. There are no shortcuts except when you learn the ropes from an ethical professional. You save time that way - and that is the shortcut.

I wish everyone success and hope that you realize you are trying to start a business from reading a book or watching a few videos. It's like reading how easy it is to make a hamburger and then going out and competing with McDonalds.

You are jumping into shark filled waters and spending your money on products marketed by a multitude of people who make a fine living selling you hope. They are not your friends.

Find a friend and learn the right way to make money online.

jbsmith

Bought the product about 1-month ago, watched every video 3-times, have over 8-years marketing online, several businesses and about 12 additional years marketing offline.

What you WILL learn from CB is a process for 1) finding top selling products to promote 2) ways to reverse engineer the marketing campaigns behind successfully selling products - always a good thing to know 3) A systematic way to put $300-$500 to work to discover the right combination of keywords, ads and landing pages/sales pages that make money.

Is it the only way to accomplish affiliate marketing? Of course not.

Is it one way that works - yes.

I've used it to find one very profitable product on CB, created an income stream with that product.

In addition, I have used the principles to drive traffic and improve conversions to my own info product sites - something CB was not designed for, but works great.

The only downside as far as affiliate marketing goes is that you need to plan to throw away $200-$500 over a 6-7 day period at PPC, but I can't see how this won't result in much greater profits for anyone that follows the system.

Because of this investment, it may not be suited to many who can't afford to invest that cash right now, doesn't have the time to monitor over a 3-5 day period or feels squeemish about seeing what may seem like big money disappear over a week period.

Hope that helps...

Jeff

mick535

I am a fan of the program, but like many, I found a few holes where if I had a little more knowledge it would have helped me move forward with more sales.

I found an article which has helped me immensely with scaling my campaigns here:

5 Critical AdWords Reports for Optimal PPC Optimization

It is all info and no affiliate links.

dmhinman

Commission Blueprint was the first ad I tried running on Google Adwords.
Had no luck at all with it due to the fact that everyone was promoting it. So I have sinced moved on to other projects.

gdf19800

Can you PM some names who know the business and are ethicical for mentoring.

cclegg06

I've purchased and studied this product carefully. While I have not been able to invest in the "CB Approach" yet, I have applied the principals to my existing sites and have gone from an average of $5/ day to $17 to $20/ day. I'm quickly building the cash reserves I'll need to test this approach.

hbsjcd3

Has CB been update since its release to incorporate the new changes at Google PPC that wre announced in January?

Sounds like the only guys making money are the developers

jbsmith

Ahhhh.. but what if you were to use this approach to...

1. Quickly find product - keyword combinations that really work.
2. Turn out your own info product
3. Apply the keyword to your page combination that you found using the CB techniques
4. Keep 2-3 times more profit than if you were to simply market affiliate products (And build your own equity, brand, list, etc...)

That's the system we've had in place for years now - CB helped to more quickly identify the winning keywords before we leap into new markets...makes the entire process of info product development and marketing much less costly and much faster to profit.

Jeff

rahulc123

I dont know much about that, But,
I definitely would love to learn about it.


Rahul

stancheng

Hi there, I guess my question is simple. Has anyone here bought the Commision Blueprint and earn a few thousands PROFITS following their methods in less than a few months? I think that's the bottomline right? We buy the products to earn good money and not just watching "good" videos with "good" information. They certainly make it sounds very simple saying there is no way that this can fail if we follow their "secrets'. Is this true? One thing i wonder is why they decide to develops this product instead of continuing to use their "tricks" to earn affiliate incomes. Afterall, they mentioned that IM is not the niche where the money is coming from but this is exactly where they are marketing now. JnSmith above mentioned that $300-$500 is required to discover the right combination of keywords, ads and landing pages/sales pages that make money, is this the average amount of cost that I should expect to use in order to see a first sale or to see profits? thanks alot for your help.

Black Hat Cat

The bottom line is whether you decide to do anything with it. If you buy a brand new car, but never drive it, that doesn't mean the car doesn't work. It's no different here.


Because they can. Why wouldn't they develop "this product"? You have a problem with earning an extra $100,000 grand or so selling something people want? And who said they stopped promoting affiliate programs anyway? Did McDonalds stop selling cheeseburgers when they started selling chicken sandwiches?

And?

No offense, but folks like you are too smart by half for your own good.

Roy Carter

BlackHatCat - Love the one liners!

Especially "If you buy a brand new car, but never drive it, that doesn't mean the car doesn't work."

That one sentence right there carries a lot of power in it.

People should read that sentence again and then go and look at all the products they've bought in the past that are just sitting there on their desk top and see how many they've honestly taken action on. Then ask themselves again why they think they haven't made any money.

Roy

jasdon

What then, of just about every advertisement you've ever seen? Most of which use actors to extoll the virtues of this product or that service.

stancheng

Blackhatcat,

Love your one liner because it shows how stupid you are. All I am asking is if anybody here bought the Commision Blueprint and earn a few thousands PROFITS following their methods in less than a few months? If I am going to open a Macdonald restaurant, i would definately want to know some success stories. And what you said was basically "if you don't work, of course Macdonald won't earn you any money". Seems like you are the "smart" guy who couldn't answer a basic question. What makes you think that I am not going to do the required work ? Can't you read that I typed "following their methods" on the question? The problem with people like you is that you assume that everybody who starts asking questions before purchasing are the ones that expect to get paid without doing any work. Perhaps people like you and RoyCarter should look at the "powerful" line again.

jeswarrior

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.

hbsjcd3

Those who could, but no longer can, sell .......um junk that no longer works.

At least that is the way I see it. 90% of the time.

IMChick

Somebody missed their nap today. And, frankly, you owe blackhatcat an apology for a personal attack to a business question that was answered in a professional manner.

Consider yourself smacked and told to straighten up if you're going to be here. This forum doesn't work like that.

Blackhatcat, I enjoyed that post!

chris taylor

Hi Simon,
My name is Chris. Just per chance I have logged into this site and read your letter of comment and I am glad I did.
Yes ,I am a newbie and has been a newbie for over 2 years, looking and tinking and hoping to make SOME money on the net.Last night I thougt that if I can show $2 Iwill be happy.
Yes, I have logged in on hundreds of so-called sites where like you say it is all the same method. NOBODY seems to be telling the truth and help the new-comers in the right direction.I wish that somebody had a site which says:A MESSAGE TO ALL NEWBIES----DO NOT EVEN TRY TO MAKE MONEY BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS A FARCE!!!
Every site you log into, advertises (maybe right so) and then you spend hours and every site makes you feel exited and then the next site is the same.
I really still cannot understand what ROI means and how one can bid on keywords ----yet their are literally thousands of sites talking about these terms----not one explais in simple terms what it is and from step one how to go about it.
Because it looks to me that you analised a site without really trying to advertise buying it, I assume you are hones and therefore my naive question to you is:
CAN ONE HONESTLY MAKE $2 ONLINE WITHOUT SPENDING A FORTUNE?????
Thanx for you honest answer!!

bluerose

Yes you can make money in IM but you have to stick to one thing until you make some money. I am member of Commission Blueprint and have made money with it but it will take some work at first. They have their own forum to help everybody (even newbies) and a load of people that have lots of experience that will give you advice if you run into a problem.

Sandy

rbr451

I thought I'd step up and show some results.

I bought CB and have been working it full-time (40 to 60 hrs a week) for the past 3 weeks. I've run 4 tests so far, one was a side-by-side with 2 nearly identical products with different gravities. I was able to eliminate the one with the higher gravity after the other sold better.
I've been tracking, tweaking, tweaking and tweaking again. So far my results have brought in close to $700 in the last 2 weeks and spent nearly $1600 to do it.
The problem, I think, is that to get the CTR I need I have to bid .75 to 1.25. This is with a break-even point at .35.

I'm not ready to give up on CB, yet, but it's not for newbees or anyone short on investment. I consider myself an intermediate. I've been working the IM scene part-time since the "internet" consisted of separate dial-up bulletin boards. I'm working full-time now (yea, lost my job) and starting to get nervous about turning a profit before the investment funds run out.

I can see the potential with CB, but it's going to take a lot of work - and money - to get there. Just hope I turn the corner soon.

Ben Schemel

I tried to down load the 7 day trial of CB when I put my email address in and pick a pass work it wont let me beyond that point.

"Invalid Email and password"

cclegg06

I would be interested in hearing people's opinion of how compatible the Commission BluePrint method is with the FCC guidelines that go into effect tomorrow. Specifically whether or not CB's method of creating a testimonial is now ill-advised.

(Note that I'm not saying I agree nor disagree with the FCC guidelines. Just interested in how CB fits or doesn't fit.)

Opinions?