A fool, but not an April fool!

It’s April the 1st, ALREADY!?

I know that Jeremy Schoemaker of shoemoney.com loves his April fools pranks and has been plotting for months now (if you don’t read his blog then you really should). I cannot wait to get home and away from my Public Sector denial of access so I can read what he gets up to today. For me though April 1st kinda crept up on me as I have been reviewing an altogether different fool. The Affiliate Junktion fool!

There has been much written about this program and it is about time to set the record straight. First of all, looking at the site, it is well designed and their marketing blurb is all enticing, certainly for those with little or no experience anyway. Make $150 - 200 a day guaranteed etc etc is what you are told and you even start with a bonus of $75 when you sign up. Sounds good so far right? WRONG!

Here’s how it breaks down. First of all you must sign up for a hosting account with ipower (nothing wrong with ipower by the way), this will cost you $65 US. Once you are set up with that you will then be sent a template page to upload to your new domain - this includes all your affiliate links and is much more likely to get traffic than a site such as http://www.affiliatejunktion.com?a_aid=7f72c903 for example. And there you have it really, you promote your new site with the aim that if you get 100 people per day at $2 per day you will, as they guarantee, be picking up $200 per day.

The twist in the tale comes when I explain that your payout will be in NZ Dollars and that the $2 NZ that you get for every lead is easily covered by the $100 US that ipower will pay Affiliate Junktion for any signups generated. Confused yet? Well lets look closer and I’ll use a standard currency of pounds sterling to explain (all conversions done with XE).

To qualify and get started with your ipower hosting account it will cost you £33. To actually get paid you must get 38 referrals to qualify for a minimum payout threshold of £59. So for all the effort required just to meet the minimum requirement you will have profited by £26 (and a free website for a year). Does that make it clear? It’s ok for the guys at Affiliate Junktion who, for every lead that converts, get paid £50 from ipower and actually credit where credit is due, its a good scheme they have going; my advice to anyone interested in affiliate marketing is to steer clear of this……you may as well become an ipower affiliate yourself!

I’ll be reviewing a great number of affiliate marketing schemes on this blog and if there are any you are unsure of just leave me a comment and I will review them on your behalf. Also any comments, good or bad, from Affiliate Junktion users would be interesting too!!!!

Happy April 1st to one and all!