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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Affiliate Cash Secrets Membership Candid Review

Is Affiliate Cash Secrets membership a rip off?

I've been a member of Derrick Van Dyke's Affiliate Cash Secrets website since it started over 12 months ago now and it hasn't been all smooth sailing.

In the beginning it was free to join and stay a member. For a new site, it was still very impressive. It had a downline builder and a squeeze page you could download and use on your own website to build a list.

I used these tools to get a few extra hundred subscribers and some extra profit over a few months.

Then came the downfall....

In a space over the last 6 months, I could have sworn Affilaite Cash Secrets was falling apart. It seemed like Derrick was changing the system almost every week. I couldn't keep up with the changes and I doubt that anyone else could.

So I said "Bye-Bye".

But something amazing happened.

Late this year, 2007, Derrick finally got his head screwed on right. It took a lot of tinkering and frustrated affiliates like myself, but he has made what I can consider almost the "perfect turn-key affiliate marketing system".

Here's a 1 minute break down of the "NEW" Affiliate Cash Secrets system:
1. You sign up for a free 7 day trial getting you full access to the
system. Your login details will be emailed to you. After the 7 day trial
is up, you'll be paying $29.95

2. You "Set Up" your system which is a squeeze page (4 to choose from) that
is all hosted on the ACS website. You just fill in forms with your
auto-responder info, affiliate links and follow up emails (all form
filling-no HTML required).

3. Read the "Traffic Tactics" page to see how you can get traffic for free.
You will learn how to use ad swaps, blogging and social networking sites to send
traffic to your squeeze page and build your list.

4. You get subscribers to sign up and download a free report with your
affiliate links embedded inside (that happens auto-matically in the "Set-up").
Your subscribers also get a series of follow up emails with your affiliate links
in them. These emails are pre-written so you just need to copy and paste them in
your auto-responder.

Some other cool extra features inside include....
  • Ad/campaign tracking software
  • Affiliate program that pays you $20 per month for every paid member you refer
It's really simple, but this is the exact same way I and all other online marketers build there business but with one difference.

The great thing about the Affiliate Cash Secrets is that EVERYTHING is there in the one place. It's turn-key. It's simple and fast to set up. If you're half familiar with computers, you can have eveything set up and ready to make money in less than 2 hours.

The list building tools are there. The products are there. You don't need to know anything about niche research, keywords, or anything techie like HTML, web hosting, FTP or cpanel.

The downsides....

Of course, nothing is ever perfect (but Affiliate Cash Secrets is not far from it). There are some "not so good" points about.

For one, you need to sign up and pay for an auto-responder acount with Aweber, Prosender, Get Response or Email Aces. This can hurt a newbie with no income stream. But the cold hard truth is, an auto-reponder service is absolutely 100% necessary to be successful online. Not 2 ways about it. You must bite the bullet on this one and get an autoresponder.

Next is, you've got the same squeeze page as 10,000 odd other people in the world targeting the same group of people. Everyone knows that originality wins at the end of the day. Derrick has got 4 different squeeze pages offering 4 different reports, but still, you're not the only one using them. And as more people join, the more watered down the effectiveness will be.

Finally, the navigation of the site is still a little confusing. There are many sub folders within subfolders, making it a little time consuming to get around and easy to get lost at first. The best way to deal with this is the watch the tutorial videos and just take some time to get used to where it all is.

All in all, Affiliate Cash Secrets is perfect for newbies starting from scratch. It's a complete system that makes it easy to start building a list and make their first dollars in commissions fast.

I have my membership and will stay a member. Not that I don't have my own business building system in place, rather, I will stay a member to keep it high on my list of recommended tools to help those who want to start making money online easily and in a hurry.

It's like the "microwave dinner" of online money making affiliate marketing systems. Not the perfect meal, but it's ready in a minute, provides enough "nutrition" and still very tasty!

For more information, click here to visit Affiliate Cash Secrets website and sign up for a free 7 day trial membership...while they last. Apparantly, numbers are limited.

Stuart Stirling

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