Recently I have reviewed a couple of the new ‘shiny new object push button’ products out at the moment. Commission Autopilot by Paul Ponna and Limiteless Profits System by Tom Whitehouse, Chris Freville and Paul Teague. I am not sure actually who’s system this is, Paul Teague seems to do all the video tutorials for the system, Tom did the sales video voice over and Chris Freville seems to have lent his name, to add weight maybe, who knows. However interestingly I have now ended up on 3 different email lists. I really should open the emails, be interesting to see if each one sends differing emails promoting different products or whether they have collaborated the affiliate sales of the same products into one pot they all share.
(Interesting idea that, send 1 person several emails from different people, different approaches, with different sales copy. Customers will eventually choose their favourite, if they do decide to buy all 3 gets a share. Maybe this system has a higher conversion rate! Anyway I digress however if it is a new super system that works, you read it here first J)
Back to the topic, the 2 systems that I have recently review have a different approach to all the usual marketing systems, there is no selling involved to make the small fortune that they promise you.
(Cynical side of me has to run wild a bit here, the real money is the in the cheap front end product, check, followed by the ‘you need this’ up sell check, now on the email list ready for the next bigger and better following webinar up sell, check. Ahhh so that is where the real money is J)
Both these systems sound good to be honest if you do not want to deal with people, or if you do not want to build websites, deal with sales and all the other issues that go with the usual internet marketing work. The idea of these two systems is to create free reports, books and how to guides loaded with affiliate links or direct links back to your own website if you have one. These reports are uploaded to PDF sharing sites then shared around the internet hopefully by people downloading them to read or to put onto their websites. They could go viral and get past around leaving your links and affiliate offers to be seen by loads of people.
The great idea with this is the person reading the reports do not feel pressured to buy, they are completely relaxed and at ease so if they decide to click on an affiliate link to buy something they feel that it is completely their choice. You haven’t had to do anything. No hard selling involved.
It is very much like article marketing but better, with articles you cannot have many clickable links, back links or images within the body of the text. With a PDF you can have as many as you want. It is worth noting that some of the online share sites which show your book on the site can make the links un-clickable. The idea is to get the reader to download your PDF and pass it on to their friends, once downloaded your links work fine. There are many great PDF sharing sites and free EBook sites to upload your PDF documents to. Here are a few of the good ones.
Limitless Profits system gives you 20 pre written EBooks where you can add your affiliate IDs into them via their system. You will need to sign up to become an affiliate with programs like Clickbank and Hostagtor. Once you have you input your affiliate IDs into the boxes provided and hit ‘Start Campaign’ the images and links within the EBoook now become yours, the EBook is downloaded to your computer ready for you to share.
As always there are upsells when you buy this type of program, with Limitless Profits you get the opportunity to increase your number from 20 to 100 affiliate link packed EBooks to share. The idea of having 20 or more EBooks circulating bringing in commissions sounds great, but does it work? I fear that with so many posting the same books that it will be diluted. Is it better to have your own books written and send them out so you are the one and only winner?
There are links within these EBooks where your affiliate ID is not added, these could be to sites owned by the EBook creator and with so many people sending out these books there really is only one big winner. I am not saying this is the case however the God Father of EBooks Tom Huh did that many years ago; he created EBooks and allowed people to rebrand them so they could sell them and get all the profits from them however they still pointed back to his sites and affiliate links. It was a very powerful tool back in the early days.
Commission autopilot is similar; instead of rebranding EBooks you use one of the software’s you get (there is two to download to your desktop) to download articles direct from one of the top article directories, you then add your website or affiliate links and it converts the text file into a PDF. The second software then uploads your PDF to about 18 PDF sharing sites. Some of them you will need to set up accounts before you use the software to upload.
There are 3 problems I have with this.
1) You are using other people’s article so you have to leave their name and website details at the end of the article. Ideally you want your name in there for branding purposes. Getting your name seen is great for business.
2) The chance of you posting the same article is highly likely. Most people will use the same or similar keyword and the software will bring back the same articles to be used. Some of these PDF sharing sites do not allow duplicate content especially if it is not your own.
3) The software did not upload the PDFs to all the sites like it said it would. Some of the share sites that it should have uploaded to do not require you to have an account and trying to see if your articles had actually been uploaded was impossible.
I love the feel of this marketing idea, having thousands of articles and books full of affiliate links circulating the web going viral, being seen by thousands of people who have an interest in the niches you have chosen resulting in you getting affiliate commissions on autopilot without the hard sell.
It is early days but my results are not looking as good as I was told to expect, however that may be because I haven’t done the Commission Autopilot’s plan of dredging up loads of articles and adding affiliate links to add to the share sites. I prefer to use either my own, or those without an author’s name which is one good thing with the EBooks you get in Limitless Profits.
As I write this, I have 18 PDFs on several share sites, one site alone has had over a thousand combined views of my PDFs, how reliable that count is I cannot say, it also appears that not many of them looked for long. I have not as yet had any Clickbank sales either and this is from all of the PDF share sites.
If you want to check out either of the two systems here for yourselves…