Synopsis

Let’s just recap…why did I choose [to try] Affiliate X?

1. I looked at some of the other Affiliate Marketing websites available but decided to try this one out as I’ve read that Chris X is an experienced marketeer with a proven track record.
2. The sales page states ease of setup, ease of use and, ultimately, quick results.
3. The sales page states they do all the work (somewhere between all the work and all the hard work – depending on which paragraph you’re reading).
4. Ultimately, with all this ‘stuff’, there’s a 60-day money back guarantee.

So, what happened and where are we?

The setup of the website was easy – AffiliateX did all of it. All I had to do was choose the niche and the domain name. I wasn’t impressed with the fact that I could only choose a .com but I understand why they enforce that. I’d done some keyword research and referring to GB’s GS of targetting long-tailed keywords, the one’s I’d selected (.org or .net) couldn’t be used.

I then picked [what I would consider to be] a poor domain name which would never rank well; that was the first negative part.

I logged into the Affiliate X site and tried to get started with the Ads by X. This didn’t work for something like 4 days. I kept getting SQL errors and as I mentioned in an earlier post, when you purchase something, you want it working.

The email support wasn’t the quickest. Initially it was almost a 24-hour turnaround and, linked with the comment in the previous paragraph, this is an age when you’re trying to get somehting off the ground.

The next thing was the backlinks and then they sent me the 4-month old keywords. Now I’m new to this game and am fairly sure that an ‘automated process‘ should churn out keywords far more regularly than two to three times per year. I have to admit that this shocked me.

In conjunction with the SQL errors, the slow email response, the Ads by X not working, the Auto-keyword tool not working, and the fact that though I was getting traffic, I wasn’t getting sales, was hacking me off.

I am generally an impatient kind of person but especially so when the promises are so much and when I’m paying for it!

I’m kind of figuring that I will be getting fast sales and at least some return on my investment. I’ve got 60-days on the money-back guarantee so no need to be hasty or rash, some money will come in…soon.

I’ve read in a few places where a 1-2% ROI is good so 200 hits on the site should equal between 2 and 4 sales (on average). Well, I got over a 100 hits in the time of the site but no sales.

I hadn’t done anything more than the initial setup of the website. I hadn’t configured any additional hoplinks or other affiliate links for sales but, at that stage, neither did I intend to: THEIR promise was to do ALL THE WORK/ALL THE HARD WORK.

Now, I’m not naive enough to think that I don’t have to do anything but also know that you shouldn’t really promise things if you don’t intend to deliver. You promise to do it all and for myself, as a newcomer to this, I want you to take me by the hand and walk me through it. That is, is it not, what you promised? I need your assistance and that is the prime reason that is why I chose you over your competitors.

The back-breaker for me was you have to read these 4 pdf’s to really start getting going. I didn’t have the time. Plain and simple.

Also, in that time [that I don't have] I can’t sit here and go through AffiliateX in the infinite detail that I need to get my head around all of this. It just isn’t going to happen at this point. In the future maybe, but now, no!

But, there’s no rush, I have 60-days. Well, yes I do. But during that time, when I have a free hour and want to do some more work on the website, I want to login, go to the Auto-keywords tool and do some investigation. I don’t want to login and then find that once again, it’s not working.

That, was enough for me.

I didn’t give the product enough of a trial to really, honestly, 100% evaluate it. But then and again, I’m not going to pay money and spend time trying to learn, to evaluate and understand something if it’s not working and unfortunately for me, that was what I found.

• Is it a good product? It could be!
• Is it value for money? It could be?
• Does the sales page reflect what they provide? In the time I used the product, yes.
• Is it value for money? Not for me it wasn’t.
• Is it a scam? No, I believe it’s genuine. Like everything though, unless you’re either just plain lucky or just happen to be in the right place at the right time, then it’s not going to be a get rich quick scheme.
• Can I make money off it? I believe you can. You need to get that product, that niche and offer somethng that someone wants to buy. It can work. Someone has to be on page 1 of Google, right? You just have to get there before the other guy.
• Is FatLoss4Idiots a good niche? Not a chance! It is or was for some but at the time of writing this there are in excess of 26 pages on Google all offering Fatloss4idiots reviews/scams/the-truth-is-out-there/the-truth-is-here-kinda sites. You’ll be hard pushed to make a bean from that.
• Where are we today? Well, frustrated at the non-working elements of the site and the other bits and pieces, I cancelled on the 8th June; a mere 10 days after signing up. A very quick trial but that was enough for me. I don’t have the patience to wait for things to work. I’ve paid for it, it should be working. I understand that things break or malfunction but this was too much for me. If they could sort this out then it may be a different story but as it was – no thanks!
• How much money did I make?

• Did I get my money back? Yes I did. No questions asked, full payment back. A cast-iron guarantee which they honoured as they said they would.
• Would I try it again? That’s a difficult one and the answer is maybe.The two main points for me are those I’ve stated already: firstly, they really need to iron out those faults! The functionality has to work. Unless they get this right, users will get frustrated quickly – I did!

  Secondly, I need time to digest the information so I can come into this with more knowledge. Time is against me at the moment and that’s unfortunate. I wish this website had been available for me to read and I could’ve made a more educated decision.

Anyway, there it is. Unlike other review sites that promise to ‘tell you the things other sites won’t‘ and then just put you through four or five paragraphs that are  straight off the sellers page, I’ve told it like it is. – my experience with AffiliateX (click here if you want to try it out – remember, there’s always that 60-day money back guarantee).

It could be a good product. You just need some time and to to give it a go. They will set your website and traffic up within a short time but to make it work, you need a bit more than that. You need to read, digest and implement the information in the guides. Then it may work.

If you do try AffiliateX and find that everything on the site does work then please let me know. I’m moving house next week and will be a bit busy for the foreseeable future. Who knows, if it’s good, I may try it again.

Anyway, that’s enough of me. I’m off to review Killer Content now. With the house move that may take a while to get posted.

UPDATE

- I’m currently in the process of reviewing Killer Content and so far I like what I see -

— Click here to read my review —