I bet you have received dozens of emails about today’s launch of the Rich Jerk’s latest product called X-Ray Affiliate Domination. Basically, it’s a software which allows you to track what keywords from the PPCs are bringing in the cash for you. Before you spend your hard earned money on it, please read my review below.
The Rich Jerk’s X-Ray Affiliate Domination script will be installed on your server and also allows you to import your sales statistics from Clickbank or Commission Junction into the software. Because these networks allow you to add tracking IDs to their URLs, you will be able to determine which keywords are the best performing ones and delete the non performing keywords from your PPC campaigns. These details will be shown in your stats within the admin area of this script.
This in itself is not a bad thing to have. At a reasonable price I’d probably recommend it. But I have to warn you: It will be about $1000. And that’s why affiliates are stacking up the bonuses again (hey, I’m doing that too if I feel a product is worth recommending it) but this time almost 99% of them are wrong in doing so because of the following reasons:
1.) A script like that could easily be done by a programmer from Scriptlance or Elance and you would probably have to pay 50% or less for it but you would be able to sell it yourself after you got your copy.
2.) There’s a script out there that does 90% of what the Rich Jerk’s script does (apart from importing sales stats). Even though people said it’s a clone, I doubt it is because the development started in Dec. already when no one knew the Rich Jerk would be releasing a similar script in March 07. This other script was available at roughly 1/20 of the Rich Jerk’s selling price. It’s called “Conversion tracker” and was recently sold as a WSO in the Warrior’s Forum.
3.) Even though you get the script to do your tests and see what keywords are performing well for you, you still have to spend a lot of your money on these campaigns to see a.) which keywords are working b.) which products are selling (especially if you’re selling Clickbank products only).
4.) Next week, there’ll be a tool out that is much better than X-Ray Domination. It’s called Undercover Profits and shows you exactly which keywords and which products are profitable on Google Adwords. The difference is that it doesn’t track your own keywords and campaigns but it’s monitoring other people’s campaigns and tells you what products they are advertising as well as which keywords they are bidding on. This takes PPC marketing to a whole new level.
My recommendation: Keep your money in your pockets. Do NOT BUY the Rich Jerk’s software.
Wait for Undercover Profits ( I still don’t know what the price of that one will be) because with that one, you’ll also get to see the keywords and products of the most profitable campaigns on Google Adwords which other people are running.
These are the ones which are run by affiliates and you can see how many days of the month they were online. In other words, the whole testing and tracking has been done, once you are ready to set up your campaigns. You’ll save thousands in wasted PPC clicks as you know for sure that these campaigns will be profitable.
Just to make it clear: I don’t have anything against the Rich Jerk… I even own his ebook. But I don’t like that he’s selling this software at such a price so the people who could need it would not be able to afford it anyway. And then considering the fact that you’d still need to run your own unprofitable campaigns, first, in order to find the gems, I simply think it’s not worth it.
Add a comment (click the “comments” link at the top of this post) and let me know what you think of my review… You could also have a completely different opinion than me.
Nice email man!
Detlev thank you for providing a badly needed, level-headed review of this product amidst all the launch hype.
I am sure it would have been much easier for you to just promote the product like everyone else and then bank your affiliate commissions.
Thanks for the “heads up” Detlev. I truly appreciate your honesty with this review!
-Mark
Detlev – Thanks for being so honest! I appreciate your detailed review. I believe it saved me from a costly mistake. I have nothing against RJ either. He does know how to have a good sales letter on his site because people will get sucked into buying if they don’t think twice about it. Keep the reviews coming – people have a right to know what they’re up against before forking over a bunch of money.
As a newbie it is refreshing to find someone not afraid to tell it like it is. There are so many new people out there trying to catch a break in this internet marketing and/or just for their own learning experience that unfortuantely rely on the integrity of people selling programs, software and the like. “Yes, Buyer Beware” But since we are not yet well versed in what we should be aware of, it is nice to see your emails giving honest opinions for us to do more reflection on allowing our hard earned money to line the pockets of those who would fool us.
Thanks again
Thanks! I am so sick of the GURUS who pat each other on the back, promote each others’ products and line each others’ pockets to capitalize on hype for their own piece of the pie…
Thank you, Detlev!
Good stuff, brother. Thanks.
Have you (anyone?) promoted any of the mentioned programs with UnderCover Profits?
I have promoted 4 of the programs (mainly the ‘bonus’ ones) to the cost of $300, yet thus far I have not converted a single sale.
Hi Jeremy,
no, I haven’t. I didn’t bother with those as I guessed there would be too much competition already because they were free.
Detlev
Thank you all for your honest comments!
It seems that my review didn’t change anything, though. The Rich Jerk still sold out his script and it seems that a lot of people didn’t care that it was highly overpriced.
So either they are making enough money already or they will soon realize that they’ve paid too much. Either way, for that kind of money, they could have done a lot of testing campaigns in Google…
Even without the script!
Detlev
Hi-
‘m relatively new to IM, but trying to learn what I can- I was hoping to get some feedback on RJ’s program- Besides the software itself, it seems that he has the final word on affiliate programs- That without his new program and training I shouldn’t even bother trying to make money as an affiliate anymore, because all of his trained “assassins” are going to go in, dominate the markets/niches, and leave nothing but crumbs for the rest of us- As a newbie here, I find it very upsetting, like I don’t have a chance-
Is there any hope to make money with affiliate programs WITHOUT RJ’s program? ANy feedback would be helpful-
Thanks-
Hi Matt,
The Rich Jerk’s software is not the only way to make money as an affiliate. You should focus on building an email list as this will be your most important asset if you want to make money as an affiliate.
Using PPC is just one way of getting visitors to buy from your link. But if you can build trust with your list, you will certainly get even better conversion rates than just sending them to your landing pages without them knowing you.
Blogging also is another way of making money as an affiliate. As long as you’re providing great content, a lot of people will buy products based on your recommendations.
And as I already mentioned in my review above, there’ll be a new tool out on Tuesday which is going to be even better: Undercover Profits. So I guess, we’ll all have to wait until we can test that one and then it could be a completely different story.
Best regards,
Detlev Reimer
Thanks for your response- It is helpful- But when I read through the ad copy, it seems that there’a a lot more to the affiliate training than just using the software- Read through the 27 modules they cover- It does look like it’s the last word on affiliate marketing- It still seems that even without the software, just having access to RJ’s proprietary techniques, will be the only thing to keep anyone in the game- Everyone else will be left behind- Or am I not seeing something here? I really do hate fear-based marketing, but RJ has done it well here-
Thanks for your response Detlev-
Matt
Hi, great info here. From what I see they are selling a training course including the software. If the training is as good as they say it’s worth 1k easy IMO.
Will have to see and they did offer a 90 day gurantee so no biggie.
Mike Leinweber
http://www.clickcafe.biz
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just checked out the link you had here detlev, maybe this is better then rj software and don’t need his training LOL! See this:
“The Rich Jerk’s software tracks your own campaigns, Under Cover Profits tracks Other Marketers’ campaigns so you know ahead of time what is profitable, before you even test it.
This should clear up any confusion that any internet marketer would have with these two systems. Simply put, UnderCoverProfits.com is the real “Profit Xray”, showing you exactly where to find profits online!”
Mike Leinweber
http://www.clickcafe.biz
Advertise your websites, text ads and banners for free!
I found out UnderCover Profits is a monthly service. RJ is a one time charge right?
I like what undercover does that RJ’s does not but the monthy fee can add up. As long as you are making plenty to cover that expense would be fine though!
Mike Leinweber
http://www.clickcafe.biz
Advertise your websites, text ads and banners for free!
Yes, Undercover Profits has a monthly fee which will be quite high. I am about to write a review about Undercover Profits and in this regard, I sent a question to John Jonas, the creator of this new membership site to help me clarify something. As soon as I have that answer, I will be posting my review here.
Detlev
P.S.: Matt, there still are organic search engine rankings that you can make a lot of money with if done correctly. But wait till my review – it will probably show you even more possibilities…
Thanks Detlev, I’ll be waiting to hear what you have! :o)
Mike Leinweber
http://www.clickcafe.biz
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What are your thoughts on Competition Dominator?
Mike
detlev, says “Chris Lee & Goran Nagy – Blue Infinity Software Ltd” on the website: http://www.competitiondominator.com
On Warrior an affiliate posted you may get banned from Google using from you own IP all the time since it is a desk top software. Where as UCP that’s not an issue since on their multiple servers. What is your opinion about that?
Thanks,
Mike Leinweber
http://www.clickcafe.biz
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Mike, I don’t know about “Competition Dominator”, yet… Who’s the creator?
Detlev
Thanks Detlev, makes since to me!
I was just getting ready to buy it, then I thought, do a search on it and see if I could buy it cheaper, and then I ran up on your site, what a blessing because I don’t know much about any of this…I just know that the internet is making money. I want to be in the race. Thanks for being the cooler….
Patrick
Hi Mike,
I don’t think that you can get banned that quickly. There are dozens of tools out there that are making use of Google’s data. It’s dependent on HOW people are using it, though.
If they are throwing in 400,000 keywords and then are monitoring them every single day, it could probably cause traffic that’s heavier than usual.
I think, when you’re doing something like this, the IP addresses from these online servers would also get banned even if they are using many servers for it. Desktop tools could probably also make use of proxy servers to make it appear that different IP’s are being used…
Regular users with standard sized keyword lists (up to 20,000 or so) probably won’t run into problems. It’s something that needs to be tested, though and I cannot guarantee this.
Detlev