iS "COMMISSION CLONER" A GOOD PRODUCT TO TRY?

Buy it and see for yourself. You can always get a refund. It does sound like it will work, but then again, I wouldn't recommend it for a new person just starting out. I've always believed it is best to learn the processes involved, then take shortcuts. Kind of like using a graphical web page editor without knowing the code behind it. Everything is fine until you need to edit it.

That said, a good (and by good I mean GREAT) affiliate marketing book (as in physical book) is the one by Ewen Chia. I find myself dipping into it as I go and it doesn't do what most of his sales pages do, and that is hype things up. Solid, step-by-step info.

Part of this is organization. And the best way I've seen to do that is with Affiliate Marketing War Machine, which is a very detailed way to organize each aspect of your affiliate marketing business. Really detailed and very very well done. It is put out by Mike McMillan a Warrior here.

I'd also love to hear from someone who has the program.

The intro video appeared to show a decent methodology.

Barry

It is $497

iser was a speaker at yaniks underground a few years ago.... now as we all know, yanik just doesn't go asking anyone to speak at the underground.... hmmm.

russ, they use them because they work. you might hate them, but they work.

we're in direct response marketing, and guess what? we do what works.

you can probably pause the video by clicking it.... thats what i do with any of mine, so if you wanna watch it later, in 10 min, or whatnot you can.

Wow.....just wow....no way would I spend money like that if the product owner isn't even willing to answer pre-sales questions. I swear some marketers think that just because they're on the Interwebs that they don't need to act professional. If I went into BestBuy and they wouldn't answer my questions before I bought the product, you can bet I wouldn't buy from them. Same here. If he's doing that then frankly I don't care how awesome the product is supposed to be.

I have not bought it but have seen the contents, don't waste your money, you will be very disappointed, it can be summarised as: watch for ads you "think" are profitable based on some very basic assumptions then go run your own and see if they work, rinse and repeat, is this really worth $497, what am I missing.

I also think it is impossible to turn $50 into $5000 in 30 days as he claims, most networks take 30 days to pay so you are waitting at least 30 days just to make your 1st $50 even if you could do 100% ROI

Good luck to Steve if he is making $50,000/month but I'd really like to hear from someone who has repeated his performance after taking the course

not worth $497 by a very long stretch of the imagination!

I have just watched the replay of Steve Iser's webinar with Mark Ling. Out of 105 mins there was only really 15-20 mins of 'live demonstration' that leaves more questions for me than answers - which would be understandable (as he is selling a course) but his method simply did not make any sense to me.

This is because:

In this live demo, he went to some random site that had some sort of text ads.
These were affiliate ads with affiliate links. The ads were hosted through Adsonar. He looked at two different ads in the live demo and wanted to show how he looked up core traffic data, demographics, referral site data etc in relation to the target sites.
However, what I don't quite understand is this: The first ad had a direct link to the merchant landing page. He punched that into compete, quantcast and googleAdplanner and explained the data that came up on those sits as if it was in relation to that particular affiliate. However, this would comprise the traffic data etc from all over the web to this site, or not? He says 'look how long he has been running this campaign' while in fact it is the merchant who has this site up and running since that date showing, or not?
Also, when it comes to finding out how much the payout for this offer is for the affiliate, he makes an assumption that the header of the text ad (that leads to the offer) is the same as the offer name - he simply punches the name into Offervault as if it was a general rule that every text ad has its header promoting the exact name of an affiliate offer?
Then he goes on to find another ad that would lead to a presell page. The links on that page redirect to a domain WJADSERVER.com and he picks that, punches it into those into compete etc. and again talks about the data for that domain as if it was in relation to that particular affiliate's efforts. I don't know about that domain but it looks like an Affiliate Network's domain to me (?), so again how can he say the data is in relation to this particular advertiser (affiliate), that would simply have to be copied ('cloned') in order to become successful.

Am I missing something...?

The course was ok, I did learn a few things. I learned alot about spying on ads from the PPC ninja course awhile back to.The principle is sound and I'd say most if not all super affiliates use the tactic to help short cut their way to finding winning campaigns.

Heres a really good video break down from a lesser known super affiliate where he breaks things down on how most of theses bigger guys make money. He could have sold the video as a product if he wanted to, it's that good.

http://blog.mediatrust.com/2009/09/hamlet-batista-webinar/

Theres a course called Insider HQ that sold out not long ago ($997). It was the first IM course endorsed by clickbank itself. One of the main tactics taught in the course was how to properly spy on ads as much faster way to winning campaigns. Spying on what ads repeat over time is a strategy advertisers in all media have been using for many years. I actually had a tool developed to spy on banner ads and other types of display ads...(works on content network, facebook, ect..even banners on top of the warrior forum

I posted a link about it here as I was looking for feedback from fellow warriors.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...k-pof-etc.html