Russell Brunson - Micro-Continuity 12 Week Training

It was "gone in 60 seconds"..

The video he did was very compelling, I was actually interested in the traffic secrets more than anything else.

I actually tried one of the ones he mentioned in the video, it had a major flaw in it that he didn't mention, would love to see the whole technique.

Funny - my deal too - the traffic secrets he sold with it looked amazing - the ability to just show your outsourced workers all the videos he's already set up for you to train them...wow -

Russell - if you get over to da WF to see this - do you offer up your Traffic Secrets or 'could' you again for limited time offer again????

CHeers ,M

I disagree with everyone here. It seems like most of these guys who "review" have vested interest with Russell.

I paid $3,000 for the course (it didn't even come with a guarantee of any kind!) because I trusted in Russel's "reputation" but it was total waste of money. What ticked me off more was that he re-released the "7" spots again immediately after and priced it at $2400 (showing how he cares crap about the earlier customer who paid $3,000) The "12 week" course turned out to be cut short because Mr. Brunson changed plans in between and then to make matters worse the "traffic systems" parts are not only too short and non-detailed but also in some videos the narrator is dumb enough to say "you will make $xx" easily with this system by doing this" now why would I give this video to an outsourced worker if they know how much money the work they are doing is yielding? It's insane they didn't edit it out.

Not sure about you guys, but if I'm paying $3,000 I expect to get a lot more than some quickly thrown together program that is out to make the creator quick cash from a seminar pitch.

I'll never purchase anything from Russell again after this mess. Totally unethical marketing where he did not fulfill his promises and cut the program short. Avoid.

-JW

Can you explain what you mean by:
1. Qualify visiotrs what actually have credit cards?
What exactly does that mean?

Thanks for the review, this was the most helpful review I read about this micro thingy, no hype, and to the point.

I hope it works for you.

Franck

Hi Russel

I believe initally it was meant to be a 12 week program became less than that, I've lost track now. Yes extra webinars were added but the actual course itself was cut short.

The comments about we do it for you were not related to the actual "we do it for you" premium service but the copy on the standard product which essentially suggested you make the DVD etc etc.None of which is strictly true, provide the service yes, but there was a tendancy to exagerate what is actually handed to you on a plate.

Rest seems fair comment.

is this satire?

I got the system and it couldn't have been more up front and clear that there was a $97 charge coming. This is a continuity model that is acceptable and has been used for a long time, i.e. Golds Gym lets you enter for $1 and then charges $50 a month, VOIP phone service lets you sign up for $5 then charges $29 a month, etc.

I agree on that. I ordered too, but got stuck on oto1. I didn't get a confirmation for anything but my cc was charged. Did you rec an email when you paid for shipping for the loaded mp3 player? Sent note to support desk yesterday and haven't heard back yet.

Oh and I think the MC system is SUPER Sweet. I'll be testing this for sure!

It's not an iPod Shuffle - it's just a generic MP3 player made to LOOK like an (old-style) iPod Shuffle.

Hey, Bigdadda... I know it's sometimes difficult to trust someone you've only ever seen on the internet. All those bad apples have really ruined it for the guys who are really making a difference and adding valuable content to the IM coversation. IMHO, Russell is one of the latter.

I know Russell already addressed some of the issues you mention above (how's that for character?), but from what I can remember about the original Micro-C training offer, there weren't 12 webinars. I remember it being 6 (but I could have a bad memory there).

In looking through the current sales materials, Russell NEVER mentions Apple or iPod, he always says MP3 player. In fact, he even says he bought the first shipment from Korea - that's about as transparent as one can get regarding the product being offered.

Granted, I don't know if I like forced continuity very much, but i've never had a problem getting removed before the charges hit.

I know there is a tendency to lump aggressive marketing into the used car salesman category. I can't blame you, there. But I am 100% satisfied with the stuff that Russell has put out so far.

It seems that PayPal Plug-In is currently only available in the United States and is not offered in any other country at this time.

Guys,

Everything Russell does is 100% ethical and honest. If you get billed on his continuity and didnt want to, its your fault. If you thought that it was an Ipod that is also your fault. If you didn't get a refund from him that is also your fault because you did not ask.

Now there may be some legitimate criticism about some of the content not being detailed enough but he is working to always improve everything. In most courses out there you get a vague outline for an upfront payment of $1000 or more. He is giving you most of what you need for free.

If you don't have continuity, then you don't have a business. The days of peddling a one off $47 ebook offer are over. You must have continuity and you must have a back end if you want to be really successful. ALL of the top guys have this and what Russell if providing you is a way for anyone to set this up quickly and cheaply.

If you are a newbie, you will have problems with getting traffic to your site since you probably do not have JV partners to promote for you so you will have to spend some time writing articles, making blog posts, doing SEO etc... to get the traffic. You will have to do this for any business but in my opinion is the only reason that people might fail using his system aside from not doing anything which is why most people fail to make any system work. But, all the while, you are building a list of qualified customers that have valid credit cards. You can use this list to promote other products of quality in your niche and thus increasing your chances that those people will promote for you later and all the while earning commissions and collecting recurring income. This is powerful stuff!

Cheers!

mdt

I signed up on accident - I'm a sucker for a good sales letter every time!

I just wanted to see what the buzz was all about, ended up signing up & getting a oto.

After the dust settled I thought about it & decided to cancel 2 days later since I don't have time to really learn this right now - have other projects going.

I emailed support - no wait - sent in a support ticket about this & was sent a reply around 1-2 days later saying my account was canceled. So hopefully that did it!

Hope that helps,
Ann

If you dont want me to get credit, that is totally fine, but I urge you FOR YOUR OWN sake to go check it out. I promise the marketing strategy will be the ONLY strategy you ever need for ANY product you choose to sell.

3. Joy's excellent site is a great example of RB's micro-c model.
While thinking about my own niche/s, I could not help myself but thinking as to whether her site would be suited for a market outside of the USA? I have obviously not bought the CD (and I have no intentions to), but I would be interested to know if she added a session/section that covers rules and regulations for running a home based preschool outside of her own home country?
Just a thought, I could very well imagine that it might actually be very restricted in some countries?[/quote]

Hi,
My daughter purchased Joy Anderson's Start a Preschool. The "free" CD has some pearls of wisdom. The first month is slightly repetitive if you watched her giveaway content and listened to the CD-but still, there are quite a few gems in there.

The second month gets a bit meatier. At 7 weeks in to the program she has not made suggestions for any countries besides the US. She does offer suggestions on how to go about doing the research for your particular area, though. Additionally, participants in her program are writing her with information as to what is (and is not) allowed or required in their parts of the country. Joy mentioned a few of these in a recent video.

Altogether it's a good program and my daughter is pleased.

Hope this helps!

He probably could have found cheaper mp3 that didnt look exactly like the last shuffle. So I am willing to bet money that was a decision to pick a knock off of an ipod shuffle. Bottom line is that it gave me the nudge to make a quick decision to give his content a test but signing up for his stuff. Do I feel duped? No. But I can see how many would feel duped. Do I think he is trying to dupe people with this offer (shuffle Knock off)? Yes... But it is in a good way since he is offering an awesome product. So I am happy and juiced that he did it since it got me to take action. I have already listened to 2 hours of the 6 hours, watched the video, read the report, and love it all! I am going to purchase his program and go through it this week and start right away! When I see Russell I will thank him for duping me!

(I know that "Duping" cant be spelled right?):confused:

That's called "saying that the duper is absolved from liability" because the duped did not order for the reason for which you think they should have ordered.

Do I think Russell duped me re the mp3 player? Naw. But I've been around this game much longer than most people so I understand the tactics. It's just like those who publish graphics of hard covered books when selling an e-book, or graphics of physical cd's when the product is an mp3 file - to the majority of online purchasers who are not experienced IMers, this could be deceptive. The confusion re the mp3 player that others have set forth in this thread is the proof in the pudding.

Russell never claimed there were 6 audio files.

He said there were 6 hours of audio, not 6 mp3 files.

Dennis - Nobody is disputing the notions of exercising personal responsibility and due diligence. However, I do dispute your conclusion that exercising personal responsibility and due diligence somehow absolves the duper from accountability.

Thanks brother and I am juiced to get some IM started. I tried the traditional route and not something I want to keep doing. I have 3 kids and dont want to be like 80+% of the other speakers out there that talk about family and how to live an amazing spiritual life, while their own kids are overweight, drug abuse, and the family is falling apart or gets a divorce. I am juiced to get the products out there since I have hours and hours of audio, video, interviews, that I have ceated but was too tired and overwealmed to launch with the traditional ways (telesmeniars, live events, radio, tv, etc). I am so glad I found you guys and the warrior forum. You guys are all RockStars!

Yea is customer support sucks. Took a little over 48hrs to respond back to me after I sent email, opened ticket on his site, and called was put on hold and then had to leave a message. Also his support site is very unstable and crashes. But he is teaching how to sell and not be a good biz. I think he needs to take some courses on that. Its like when AOL sent out all the cd roms back in the day and they fell apart. Just on a way smaller scale. He teaches to just get it going and work on the next step later. So thats what he is probably doing.

A lot of complaining on here. You guys do realize this is a INTERNET MARKETING forum and Russell is a very successful internet marketer, right?

So why all of the complaining about the mp3/ipod and continuity?

Does the mp3 player look an ipod, yes. Does he say it IS an ipod? No. If it were a real ipod, trust me, it would have been stated. What he did was called smart marketing. He knows that people will react better if the mp3 player he is giving away resembles an ipod. If you thought you were going to get a real ipod, well, that's your fault. Not his, again he never claimed it was an ipod. So instead of complaining about it, perhaps you should be taking notes.

And about the continuity thing, do you guys not see the irony here? You are upset with him because when you order you are put into a continuity program. Umm, hello, the thing he is giving away teaches you how to go about setting up a continuity business model!! He tells you in the sales letter about how it is more profitable to give away a free CD/DVD/mp3 player and then do a OTO, and put people into a continuity program. And then you complain that he is putting you into a continuity program.

Haha!! That's hilarious!

2 other things about his continuity, it is clearly stated on his order page. And it's where the big money is. That, along with upsells. So again, maybe you should stop complaining and start taking notes.
And if your material is good, then why wouldn't a customer want to get more of it?

Actually this is exactly "the door" Russell is hoping his offer will get him through.

Thanks for getting us the links for the weekly trainings. I was wondering why I never got any and it will be 2 weeks on the 7th. Thanks for the awesome content brother.

I purchased the Apprentice Coaching Program that Russell offers. I know this is not the same exact program you are discussing here. However, it is an option through Russell's upsell. I have been marketing online for several years and not doing too bad I must say. However, this coaching program offers so much and is not a cookie cutter coaching program. I can't speak for all of the coaches as I am only working with one. But, I can tell you that they interview you before the program starts and they find out what they need to work with you on. They don't wast your time on things you already know and that is much better than most coaching that I have heard about here.

This coaching program is like having a direct line to Russell himself. The coaches are actually in the same building as Russell. It's not one of those outsourced coaching programs that you may find through some others that I wont mention. There is good and bad in any course you take but no matter what level you are in your business, you will learn a great deal from his Apprentice or Protege coaching.

I am glad that I decided to accept this offer and I am looking forward to the launch of the site I have been building with Russell's coach.

Michael M. is doing a fantastic job! I have 3 weeks left in the course and as soon as my outsourced work is done, we are ready to launch the site...

I wonder if the Trojan takes $97 a month out of your bank account !!!

I am a newbie at IM but I have looked at alot of stuff out there and it is the best complete package I have found to date. I love it so far and recommend signing up for his weekly micro c course (97 a month). This is the micro C program in bite sizes. Goes from picking a niche to setting up your site and all the rest.

Still ain't got my mp3 player...but kind of like you...it was the final thing to push me over the edge towards buying and I am glad I did...Looks like I am in about at the same place you are in the program...

On the graphics front, you want to check out the warriors who do that kind of thing...I found one who is doing it very inexpensively...

Here is the links he posted to watch the videos:

Week #1 Training:
http://microcontinuity.com/content.php?day=ZGF5MQ==

Week #2 Training:
http://microcontinuity.com/content.php?day=ZGF5Mg==

Just use the email address you used when you ordered and it will take you to the members area.

Help me believe:

I am trying to make up my mind about this program and I have followed this thread for a few days now.

I would like some experienced warriors to give me thier opinions about it.

Some of the most glowing opinions seem to come from folks with very low post counts.

I don't think I am suggesting these may be shill postings, but here are some of the writers and their post counts and their comments:


User name - post count - comments

myhomestart - 4 posts - "Russell Rocks"
dreamit78 - 8 posts - "genuine guy"
egenius - 1 post - "100% ethical and honest"
coolmoma - 1 post - "thanks a bunch"
free09 - 3 posts - "highly recommend it"
munbhero - 3 posts - "impressed and happy"
bmichaels - 1 post - "love Russell's system"


Do you believe these postings and what they say?

Make me believe.

What do the long term forum members think about this course?

Sam

Yes, I have too. Haven't decided for sure yet, but they are calling again tomorrow afternoon. So will have to decide soon.

Anyone?

Rackspace Cloudfiles or Amazon S3

If he was such a "good guy", then why were you seeking refunds from him?

From what you said, I don't know if this shows badly on him or you.

Please clarify if you don't mind.

Thanks.
Sam

I'm on week 5 of the MC training. I'm nearly ready to launch a brand new system that we've just created. The training is excellent and worth my investment. I'll be using this system for many years to come.

Nanacast does one click upsells....

Looks really great, but if they can handle support for thier own products then how can they handle others?

Great idea though and might be worth something when they get there house in order.

I'd like to get some feedback as well. Seems interesting.

Anyone?

Franck

Yes, we get that Pierre, but clearly we are trying to find feedback on how well it's implemented, what money if any people have made from the backend coaching, how customer databases are stored, how customisable the content actually is once your niche is dropped in and so on, stuff youc an only learn from somebody actually in the program.

There's no confusion as to "what" it is .

For some people, the whole shebang is too overwhelming --drip content is perfect.

The more impatient ones simply buy the OTO.

Pierre.

Has anyone else had problems with charging the MP3 player?

I plug it into a USB port but no lights come on.

I only get a red light on the same side as the USB socket when the USB cable is plugged in *AND* the unit is switched on -- no light at all on the earphone/switch face.

Without the USB cable plugged in there are no lights regardless of the position of the on/off switch.

Have tried all the USB ports on both a Dell Netbook and a desktop PC.

I had audio straight out of the box, which I assume was the result of some residual charge.

Any descriptions of what others are seeing would be most welcome.

TIA

First of all, I don't get paid to say any of this, but while my relationship with Russell has consisted of just occasional emails since meeting him in April '05 at the Big Seminar 5 in Atlanta, I do know Russell enough to say that he's the real deal, and that he's one to definitely follow for marketing advice.

Now, to address the quote, above, I don't have time to read all of posts or research what he charges every month for the continuity portion of this program, but the one bit of advice I would give to anyone who gets upset about being billed 4 times but only receiving 3 issues so far is this...

1) Determine how much the monthly charge is. Let's say it's $100/mo. for simplicity's sake.
2) If you've been involved for 4 months, ask yourself, "Have I made my $400 back, yet?".

- if so, then you are playing with the house's money, allowing you to ignore the fact that you haven't received month 4's content, yet, and choose to use your time and energy focusing on improving what you've already learned in months 1-3, with the piece of mind that you know you'll have more content to study within a week or two.

- if NOT, then make it your goal to earn $400 from the first 3 months of content BEFORE you ever TOUCH the month 4 content. You just have to ask yourself, "How much have I really applied what I've already been taught? Man, I need to focus in on building my business more, rather than looking forward to more training."

In fact, anytime you buy a continuity product, whether it's a membership site, monthly coaching, CD of the month, or whatever, your #1 goal should always be this...

* EARN MY 1 MONTH'S PAYMENT BACK!... In other words, just for your own piece of mind, if you know going in that you can at least make your investment back, then there's no reason to ever have to worry about getting a refund, because then you can focus on making money, rather than how quickly you're going to get the next module of content.

So the key is to study and then IMPLEMENT what you learned in that first module as quickly as possible, make some money, keep testing and tracking for results, and only once you've exhausted all of the content from that first module (and hopefully earned back your initial investment), move onto the next month's content.

Goal #2 would be to earn enough to pay for an entire year, so you can RELAX and just build your business, knowing you've made back many times your investment.

Finally, I'll just say that, yes... it's always nice to pay for something and then get it immediately, but the truth is that when you are paying for a monthly piece of content, the promise on the marketers' end is that you will get this type of content every month... it's never promised that you'll get access to it exactly when your card is dinged. The only time you EVER get what you pay for immediately online is if you're buying a digital product that's already been created. Monthly membership material takes a ton of time and effort to create so that it has value, and is provided as soon as it's available on a monthly basis.

Besides, because people decide to buy the monthly continuity product at different times of the month, it only makes sense that some get the product earlier than others, because their cards are dinged at different times of the month.

I hope this helps. It's definitely a LOOONNG drawn out answer to a simple concern, but I wanted to share a bit of the psychology that's helped me over the years whenever I get a continuity product that's geared towards helping me make more money. I've had problems in the past of staying on one task, as it is, so this type of thinking allows me to stay focused on a GOAL of just earning back my original investment, so I can rest easy about making the buying decision in the first place.

It's all about realizing you're making an INVESTMENT, and your goal is to get a positive return on your investment as quickly as possible.

Hey brother I feel ya on this. I was having the same challenge with them. After launching my own micro continuity program I have come to realize that some times things happen and you get a little behind trying to keep up with your upload dates to your server. Those who got in at the beginning are the ones that suffer since they are expecting a weekly video every week. People that start the program now will get all the videos on time each week since they have over 17 weeks of content ready to be sent to them.

I wouldn't trip too much about it and just implement what he is teaching and just make sure they make it up to you ion some way or at least they dont charge an extra month at the end of his program.