Dr. Ben Adkins's Social Accelerator?

by Melody
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Looks good from the video and I think if used properly, would be a nice way to post to your FB pages consistently. And yes, I know that it could be used to spam as well - but that is not the question here!

The question is whether anyone here has bought and used it? If so - does it work as well as advertised in the video? Is it easy to set up and is it reliable?

We have far too many similar products that just really don't work the way they advertise....

And open to any suggestions for similar products!

Melody
#accelerator #adkins #ben #social
  • Profile picture of the author Nightengale
    Hi Melody,

    I'm not sure how much help I can be, but I CAN tell you:

    I discovered Ben about a year ago and have been buying from him ever since. Not everything he offers is of interest to me, but I have purchased several things from him and have spent a fair amount of money with him.

    I like Ben a lot and he is on the up and up. I've never seen him promote anything shady or that didn't work. Furthermore, his help desk stands completely behind the affiliate products he sells, so even if it's not his product, his help desk WILL help you if you have any issues -- or need a refund.

    I've always found the products he sells to be EXACTLY the way it was presented. I totally understand your concern, but if you're buying from Ben, I think you're safe.

    I know that doesn't answer the question about the software itself, but I hope it helps. Good luck!

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    • Profile picture of the author Melody
      Originally Posted by Nightengale View Post

      Hi Melody,

      I'm not sure how much help I can be, but I CAN tell you:

      I discovered Ben about a year ago and have been buying from him ever since. Not everything he offers is of interest to me, but I have purchased several things from him and have spent a fair amount of money with him.

      I like Ben a lot and he is on the up and up. I've never seen him promote anything shady or that didn't work. Furthermore, his help desk stands completely behind the affiliate products he sells, so even if it's not his product, his help desk WILL help you if you have any issues -- or need a refund.

      I've always found the products he sells to be EXACTLY the way it was presented. I totally understand your concern, but if you're buying from Ben, I think you're safe.

      I know that doesn't answer the question about the software itself, but I hope it helps. Good luck!

      Michelle
      Thanks, Michelle! Being 'safe' means a lot - too many products sitting on the hard drive that stopped working about 30 days after purchased, and this one is $127, so you really would like to more than a month out of it!

      I haven't bought any software from him before so am still hopeful someone will pop in with some experience with the product - it does look like it could be useful if used with some care and thought.

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      • Profile picture of the author Nightengale
        Send a message to his help desk asking about long-term support, if you like. You'll get an answer which will give you an idea of how they intend to support/treat it. And you'll be testing his hep desk as well.

        It's what I would do.

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  • Profile picture of the author bgordon
    I too would like to know if any warrior has had a good experience with the Social Accelerator plugin being promoted by Dr. Adkins, Don Wilson and others.

    As Melody has mentioned above, there is a lot of software on the market that fails to work as advertised. In addition, even when things start out okay, problems arise as the target ( in this case Facebook ) changes.

    So not only is the reliability of the software to be considered, but the developer and long term support as well.

    Any feedback would be greatly appreciated before investing time and money in another "shiny object".

    Thanks.

    Barry
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesdj1
    Have to admit I'm a bit reluctant to respond however my gut tells me this is gonna be a sweet ride.

    I was about to hit the buy button night before last then I thought I'd check reviews here. Of course I saw your post above and it was getting late.

    Fortunately I hit the buy button because it seemed like minutes or an hour and then the buy button disappeared.

    It's looking like this might of been a soft launch to get testimonials. Not completely sure but I'm very sure this is NOT Dr. Bens or Don Wilson's product they were introduced to it. I have an "idea" of who's behind it but it does not matter.

    Support is STELLAR so far.

    I was having issues installing it yesterday Friday. by the time I finally decided to fire off an email to support it was early evening Friday. Did not expect to hear anything till at least Monday but to my surprise was on the mobile last night and bam.. reply back with solutions.

    Have to say support was very polite and provided solutions to get me running. All of which I have to say are found inside the plugin admin panel. There's a "trouble shooter" button I forgot to check because it's the last option on the panel. LOL

    Hope you guys jumped on this.

    Have to say I just finished setting up my first test but this is no amateur app it's pro all the way. Hell it even came back and told me the resources I set up likely will not give me the best number of results needed for success on my page!

    I don't think they are gonna do a fly by with this one guys I believe they're in for the long haul. They paid close attention to every little detail and it's almost seamless.

    I think it's very likely, if it opens back up, there will be a major price increase.
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Hi guys, I bought on Thursday and installed on Friday evening - giddy with excitement with what this plug in would do.

      I just decided to check in here at WF to see if anyone else is having the issues I am having and saw this thread.

      The install seemed to go very smoothly - for the most part the provided documentation was very easy to follow (although I am unclear about a couple of the fine points that they discuss to make this thing really sing). There are a ton of steps, but they are pretty easy.

      Problem is: the thing does not work for me.

      I have been going in circles for a full day and cannot get a single post to any of my pages, despite the troubleshooter that they provide saying all is correct. I called Hostgator (for a different reason, but thought I would ask about "timeout" settings), where I have my WP hosted. The guy there seemed to be very helpful and says he found several log files that suggest the app is trying to call on a domain that does not exist - which would explain why nothing is working. I have no clue if this guy is correct - he sent me a long log file showing all the errors so I can sent to SA support - which I am about to do. I will update after I get this (hopefully) resolved.

      Hopefully their support is good and I can get this thing working. It seems like an amazing product, which is why I jumped on it as soon as I saw their sales webinar. Just wish it works - my mind is spinning with possibilities.
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      • Profile picture of the author jamesdj1
        Originally Posted by jmidas View Post

        Hi guys, I bought on Thursday and installed on Friday evening - giddy with excitement with what this plug in would do.

        I just decided to check in here at WF to see if anyone else is having the issues I am having and saw this thread.

        The install seemed to go very smoothly - for the most part the provided documentation was very easy to follow (although I am unclear about a couple of the fine points that they discuss to make this thing really sing). There are a ton of steps, but they are pretty easy.

        Problem is: the thing does not work for me.

        I have been going in circles for a full day and cannot get a single post to any of my pages, despite the troubleshooter that they provide saying all is correct. I called Hostgator (for a different reason, but thought I would ask about "timeout" settings), where I have my WP hosted. The guy there seemed to be very helpful and says he found several log files that suggest the app is trying to call on a domain that does not exist - which would explain why nothing is working. I have no clue if this guy is correct - he sent me a long log file showing all the errors so I can sent to SA support - which I am about to do. I will update after I get this (hopefully) resolved.

        Hopefully their support is good and I can get this thing working. It seems like an amazing product, which is why I jumped on it as soon as I saw their sales webinar. Just wish it works - my mind is spinning with possibilities.
        Wish I could help but I'm no techie. That said my GUESS is based on what you said that one of your API's isn't correct and or possibly the facebook access token is not right. JUST A GUESS though.

        Hang in there because like I said I've had great support and you will get this running and IT DOES WORK as said on the tin.

        Be patient and diligent. Keep us posted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dostique
    I Googled Social Accelerator and I came across the link below (Not an Affiliate ) I think it is the program you are about talking here *** It states the Price as $127 *** But go to the bottom of the sales page and when you click the buy button the price is $ 27 **** not sure this is the same program as you are talking about but will not hurt to take a look!!!!!!!! Debra

    [SALE] Social Accelerator Agency - 75% Discount and Huge Bonuses
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Hope it is not $27. I paid the $127.

      So I am up and running, sort of. I am getting some posts, but not regular. For example, none today, but I got a couple yesterday. I know the source pages are posting more than enough for the app to pick up on. So I am not sure the issue.

      The support was OK - it was pretty quick, but they only answered half my question. Then I emailed back and again got only a partial answer. That is frustrating.

      As of now, the app is working marginally. Not $127 good, but OK. But I get the feeling that unless you have plenty of your own server space and can set your own settings for certain functions, this app is only useful if you have one or two Facebook pages. There is not way I am able to manage 20-30 FB pages with the set up I have. So I need to spend more money on better server space (I currently have share space on my reseller account). These are some of the questions I am still trying to get answers on from the support folks.

      Overall, the idea of this thing is brilliant and I wish I could figure out how to use it to its fullest extent. I am a fan. Just wish I could get it doing all I want it to - which is nothing more than what is shown in the sales videos from Adkins. I just think they left out the part about needing lots of resources to do all those things. I am still hopeful.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesdj1
    jmidas you can't get it for 27 not at that link or anywhere did you check? I wasted 1 minute of my time because I'd gladly got a refund and bought for 27 if so. I highly doubt who posted that link even checked themselves.

    Have you fully read thru the blueprint inside your wp admin?

    They suggest at least 10 sources to pull from. Not always possible but if there's only 2 or 4 it's likely the niche is not worth going after anyway. The more sources the better it will post.

    Basically this is an autoblog builder/poster that post to FB and does so at designated times that are proven to be more responsive on FB, and it will post to twitter if you want. Soon it'll pull from youtube.

    It pulls content a designated times and post to your blog/site, then it pulls SOME of the post and drops them at higher trafficked times on your FB several times during the day without having to decided yourself which post to pull and when to post.

    Check out that blueprint if you've not done so it really helped me realize the potential of this.

    I'm already seeing traffic to my test fb page and will check the website soon out of curiosity.
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Jamesdj1, Thanks. I have gone through all that. Are you testing with more than one FB page? - this is where I think I am having issues. One page is no problem as far as I can see.

      I currently have 5 pages set up with this with plenty of sources and it is not posting to all the pages - so far only two posts, one on each of two pages - in the last 48 hours. I know the sources I selected are posting way more than that and meet all my source settings. But for some reason they are not getting found and posted. Plus, in my WP settings, I see a ton of scheduled posts that don't get posted.

      I have been asking their support for 2 days now without an answer if this is something I can fix in the program or if I need to upgrade my server capabilities or what? I am wondering if it has to do with the "time out" settings and cron job settings and capabilities (you will see these things in your setup). I just don't know. I am not a techie, I just want this to work on all my FB pages. I am willing to upgrade my resources if needed - if they would just respond and tell me what I should do. I can see it being an amazing asset and really want to get this thing working well.

      I don't want to manage just one or two pages with this app, I want to manage 30, or 50, or more. I think the concept is brilliant and I see it working a little and like what it does. It is just not handling my 5 little pages, and I want it to handle more.

      As I said, I love the concept. Just really want it to work better.
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  • If it can help, I purchased Social Accelerator on the end of March, and I tested it out on a FB Page. What it does is great, but there's a big problem that the support wasn't able to fix. Everytime it posts something on your page, it post it even on your blog. So in five days, when I visited my IM Blog (where I installed the plugin", I found it completely cluttered of cat posts. And the problem is all my subscribers every day received the news about cats instead of other most important things.

    More, one blog goes for one page, because the plugin didn't permit you to add two pages.
    So you need one blog for each page you want to use with this software.

    After that, apart the good job of this software, I'm constricted to give it back, and I'm sorry because I'm a "serial purchaser" of Ben Adkins products, and they are all top quality.

    This is just my point of view, probably it depends also on my blog, but I'm sorry to say that.

    Thanks and see you soon,
    Alessandro
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    • Profile picture of the author jamesdj1
      Originally Posted by Alessandro Zamboni View Post

      If it can help, I purchased Social Accelerator on the end of March, and I tested it out on a FB Page. What it does is great, but there's a big problem that the support wasn't able to fix. Everytime it posts something on your page, it post it even on your blog. So in five days, when I visited my IM Blog (where I installed the plugin", I found it completely cluttered of cat posts. And the problem is all my subscribers every day received the news about cats instead of other most important things.

      More, one blog goes for one page, because the plugin didn't permit you to add two pages.
      So you need one blog for each page you want to use with this software.

      After that, apart the good job of this software, I'm constricted to give it back, and I'm sorry because I'm a "serial purchaser" of Ben Adkins products, and they are all top quality.

      This is just my point of view, probably it depends also on my blog, but I'm sorry to say that.

      Thanks and see you soon,
      Alessandro
      I'm starting to feel the same myself.

      Wondering if can use the app on a subdomain with it's own wp install on a generic site rather than needing a new domain for each FB niche?
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      • Profile picture of the author jmidas
        I have mine on a separate domain so I am not having issues with blog posts. But my initial issues are still the same - it just will not make multiple posts to multiple FB pages per day. I think it has to do with the resources available from both the program's resources and my servers. But that means very expensive upgrades to even see if this thing will really work. The concept is wonderful and the few posts I do get are great. It just does not post about 9 of 10 eligible posts from my sources.
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  • Profile picture of the author Noel2010
    Thanks for the feedback on this software. I notice that it is posting real slow and I want to add more pages.

    I will give it this coming week to see how it performs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Noel2010
    As a follow-up to the above post, I only have 2 pages and each have more than 5 sources. One page last had a post 17 hours ago and the other just have 3 posts from yesterday even though there is a lot of activity in this sports niche.

    Not impressive so far and no where near to what I saw on the sales video.

    I will keep using it and I hope others can post here too.
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      Originally Posted by Noel2010 View Post

      As a follow-up to the above post, I only have 2 pages and each have more than 5 sources. One page last had a post 17 hours ago and the other just have 3 posts from yesterday even though there is a lot of activity in this sports niche.

      Not impressive so far and no where near to what I saw on the sales video.

      I will keep using it and I hope others can post here too.
      I'm dealing with the same issues. I love the concept, just wish it would work better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Melody
    Looks like this is being heavily promoted again this week - any updates from users? Have the bugs been ironed out?

    Melody
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  • Profile picture of the author Melody
    This is being promoted AGAIN - anyone care to update us on the bug fixes? Anyone had any positive results with it?

    Thanks -

    Melody
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    • Profile picture of the author GlenH
      I really hate products sale pages where the product owners leave no possible way for a prospect to contact them to ask questions.

      The only way you can make contact with them is AFTER you’ve purchased.

      There’s no way to ask any pre-purchase questions.

      What…. are they scared of???
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