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If you have been involved with the affiliate marketing world any time at all, you are most likely aware that creating videos is a must for any marketing campaign. In this Screencast o matic review, I will share with you all the details of this software and what they don’t really tell you.

There are many programs and software dedicated to the creation of video. Some are simple, some are complicated, some are expensive and few are inexpensive. Some video creation product focus on screen-share capabilities, while others focus on using a webcam, or a combination of the two.

Screencast o matic is a very well-known piece of software and along with other products similar to it, I have had the opportunity to use it to its fullest extent and can share with you what I have found.

Screencast O Matic Review Summary

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Name: Screencast O Matic

Website: https://screencast-o-matic.com

Price: Free , Solo Deluxe $1.50/mo,

Solo Premier $4.00/mo (both paid yearly)

Owners: Matt Champagne and AJ Gregory

Products and/or Services: 99 out of 100

Training: 99 out of 100

Support: 99 out of 100

Community: 99 out of 100

Overall Price Value: 100 out of 100

Summary: Here is where I will tell you what they don’t tell you, and who are they? The owners, the website and the rest of the affiliate marketing community. I say this because I have seen and used a lot of different software in my affiliate marketing experience, and nothing has exceeded the price value as much as Screencast O Matic has.

What They Don’t Tell You: The thing about this product is you don’t see a lot of marketing hype telling you how great it is. I wish I had been told about this product a long time ago. I would have started creating screen share videos much sooner than I did, and I would have enjoyed the traffic I am seeing now much sooner, seriously.

TheAffiliateResource.com Overall Rating: 99 out of 100:

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Since Screencast o matic is a great video creator for affiliate marketers who want to promote affiliate products (affiliate marketing), then below is my #1 recommendation to learn how to make money selling affiliate products:

Screencast O Matic Product Overview

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If someone was to ask me is Screencast o matic worth the money you spend, I would have to say NO. Why, because it is worth way more than what they charge. Even the free version is worth way more than FREE.

The overall value of this product is simply amazing. You get a first-rate piece of software at a ridiculously low price and I say this in all sincerity. This product performs just as well, if not better, than its higher priced competitors by far. So, let’s review the three different plans that the company has to offer.

Screencast o matic has three plans:

• Free
• Solo Deluxe
• Solo Premier

Free Plan

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The great thing about the free plan is that it is always free. It is not a free trial, it is simply a free version of the software. This is great for recording training s that you have or anytime you want to share your computer screen with an audience. You will see the Screencast-o-matic logo towards the bottom of the video. You can also choose between 3 different or random music tracks.

In addition to being able to screen share, you can also use a webcam to record yourself live. In either case you can always then upload your videos to YouTube.  The free version limits the length of the video to 15 minutes.

Solo Deluxe Plan

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This is a great plan especially if you don’t want the watermarked Screencast-o-matic logo on the video. You get to use 20 different music tracks, overlays and a bunch of other features. Take a look at the image below for a full breakdown of all the features. There are too many of them to list here as text.

It is an intuitive program for editing text and the training is just as awesome as for all the plans.

Solo Premier Plan

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This plan includes all the solo deluxe features mentioned above plus the ability to host all of your videos on a custom site. Plus, you can make your videos as long as you like. This plan also provides you a full digital workflow optimization.

I am an owner of the solo premier plan and have an example screen share video you can review below. I created this video with the built in camera on my computer. So no extra bells and whistles was use on this one. Notice there is no watermark on the video, it is clean and the audio is very clear.

Plan Features

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The plans offered by Screencast-o-matic are broken down into three different features:

• Recorder features
• Video editing tools
• Collaboration and sharing

Let’s take a look at each of these features in detail as they pertain to the different plans.

Recorder features

 

As you can see from the image below, the recorder features are indicated for each of the plans that are offered by Screencast-o-matic. You can see what is offered by each of the plans. The big thing to note here is that each plan offers a lot of value. It is simply a matter of what features you need based on your video creation needs.

 

Video Editing Tools

 

It is in the video editing tools where the two paid versions shine. The free version is great if you simply want to create videos and then upload them to YouTube. This is one of the main functions of video creation that many affiliate marketers are interested in.

But if you want to take it a step further and edit your videos, this opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. You can mix videos. Copy and paste sections of recordings and a multitude of other video editing activities. Each of the two paid versions offer the same features for video editing as you can see in the image below.

Collaboration and Sharing

 

Both the free version and the solo deluxe plan offers 9 great sharing features integrated the major social media sites. The solo premier plan offers ad free play back pages, the ability to use your own brand and domain on video pages, and the ability to upload videos longer than 15 minutes.

Another main difference between the two paid versions is the amount of bandwidth per month. The solo deluxe plan offers 2GB (same as the free version) and the solo premier plan offers a huge 100GB of bandwidth per month. Check out the image below for all the details.

 

Again, as you can see, all three versions offer a great deal of value. I have chosen the solo premier version mainly because I do a lot of videos and like to have the ability to edit and may need the bandwidth at some point. Maybe not right now, but for the price, why not. You pay for it as a yearly fee, so it doesn’t involve needless monthly fees.

Training and Support

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In this section I would like to discuss what Screencast-o-matic has in the way of training and support. Like their overall value, the training and support are excellent. As you can see in my initial overview I scored them well in this area. On the main website, they have three tabs labeled as follows:

• Blog
• Tutorials
• Support

Each of these sections has loads of great information, training and support.

The blog has mountains of articles and videos about community, education, tips and tricks and is updated regularly. These include Community Updates, Product News, Tips and Tricks.

The tutorials section includes a compilation of step by step video tutorials designed to teach you different aspects of video creation. This include 10 very details videos describing such things as recording and editing intros, recording and saving uploads, draw and zoom and a host of other great tutorials.

It also goes into real good detail on video editing. If it wasn’t for what I learned in this section, I think I would have been totally lost. I didn’t realize how easy it is to edit videos. No need to start over when you can simply edit videos with smooth and clean results.

Now the support section is what I have used the most. Not that I have had any support issues, but they house a tab there that shows you exactly how to use Screencast O Matic. In that section are a huge number of FAQs showing you step by step of how to do, well, just about anything related to creating and editing videos.

So, between these three sections, you really get all the support and training you need to create, edit and share videos.

Conclusion

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As you have most likely figured about by now, I highly recommend Screencast o matic for all of your video creation needs. Choose a package that best fits what you plan on doing with video. This is a program that will not break the bank and you really have no excuses not to use video in your affiliate marketing campaigns.

Video simply works. It is easy to rank videos and get traffic. People like to search on YouTube to find out how to solve their problems or how to do something, and if you get your affiliate product in front of them when they are looking for it, you stand a better chance of being a successful in affiliate marketing.

 

With the recent events concerning Digital Altitude and now MOBE, the questions concerning the legitimacy of work at home products become more and more relevant each day. So the question “is Conversion Pros a scam”? is not an unreasonable question to ask at all.

If you haven’t heard, the FTC has just recently declared MOBE a scam, and not too long ago, Digital Altitude has undergone similar investigations as well.

In this review of The Conversion Pros, I will not only answer the question above, but I will dig deep into the program to give you a clear picture of what to expect from this program and the products and services it offers. I do have firsthand information about the program, since I was a product of the product,  so to speak.

This review was not written with the intentions of selling the products and services of The Conversion Pros, or to get you to become an affiliate. This is a fact based review. That being said, let’s take a detailed look into this program.

The Conversion Pros Review Summary

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Name: The Conversion Pros

Website: www.theconversionpros.com

Price: Free for the first 7 days, then $50/month,

or $500/year, or $250/6 months

Owner: David Dubbs

Products and/or Services: 80 out of 100

Tools: 90 out of 100

Training: 80 out of 100

Support: 75 out of 100

Community: 75 out of 100

Overall Rank: 80 out of 100

Summary:  In general, The Conversion Pros offers an excellent tool suite and great training for the more experienced marketer. If you are a selling affiliate products and/or are an experienced Network Marketer, then be preparted to gather some great strategic training that has the potential to take your business to the next level. David Dubbs shows you some great strategies that combine the page builder with some of the other tools in a way that has the potential to out do your competition.

If you are not an experienced affiliate marketer and are someone who is wanting to learn how to sell affiliate products and earn an extra income online, then this program is most likely not for you. It is really more geared toward the experienced marketer.

Since The Conversion Pros is mainly for the experienced marketer, If you are more interested in learning how promoting a multitude of already created affiliate products (affiliate marketing), then below is my #1 recommendation:

 

The Conversion Pros Product Overview

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So, what exactly is The Conversion Pros?

The conversion Pros is really a tool suite and lead vendor for network and affiliate marketers’. The tool suite includes the main landing page builder in addition to the rest of the tool’s they offer.

The Conversion Pros (TCP) also offers work from home leads as well as weight loss leads at cost (supposedly), if you are a paid member.

The main appeal for the landing page creator is that you can create custom landing pages on the fly. So, if you promote multiple products, for example, you can customize the page to reflect the product and even the ads you create. This is a pretty good advantage to have since most PPC company’s give you a higher quality score to your ads based on relevancy.

In addition to the tool’s and leads, there is an affiliate program associated with TCP which offers 50% commission. So, if you sign up two members, your membership is free as long as the members remain active. The company claims they are not MLM, since there is no payment structure below your first level.

The Conversion Pros Tools & Training

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The tool’s suite provided by The Conversion Pros is a pretty impressive array of marketing tool’s each of which provides step by step training. Below is a snap shot of the tool’s TCP offers:

The tool that stands out for me the most is the customized landing page builder. It is extremely quick and easy to use and is designed to create pages on the fly. Not only is the step by step training easy to follow, but the owner provides good webinar training that shows you some application of these pages. He goes through great lengths to show you how some tool’s can be used together to create successful marketing campaigns.

For example, he shows how you can create a few different landing pages and use the URL rotator to test which page converts the best so you can scale your business up once you find the highest converting page. Plus, the pages you create are customized, so they don’t look like all of the rest if you are promoting a well-known Network Marketing company for example.

This gives you an edge on your competition. While other members are promoting the well-known duplicate pages everyone else sees, you can promote custom pages, test for conversion, and get a leg up on your competition. The owners show several strategies using these tool’s to give you more and more ideas of how to better promote whatever primary business you are promoting.

Who is The Conversion Pros For?

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The Conversion Pros tool’s are primarily for two types of marketers’. Network Marketers and affiliate marketers’.

For the Network Marketer, TCP offers a never ending supply of leads, and, depending on the marketers’ strategy, these leads can be used to build an email list through the landing page and auto-responder, or they can simply be downloaded the to a file to be called at a later time. Diet leads can also be purchased for the Network Marketer who is in that particular niche.

For the affiliate marketer, TCP offers a way to create great landing pages quickly and easily to match whatever affiliate marketing product or service you want to create a campaign for. This allows you to capture email addresses so you can email affiliate offers to your prospects. You can redirect the prospect to your blog or sales page that you can also create from the tool’s offered by TCP.

If you do not have your own product, or you are not into selling other peoples products through affiliate marketing, TCP offers an affiliate program where you can use the tool’s provided promoting TCP itself. They even have a training program that shows you how to use their lead program to sell the TCP affiliate program. This is where I believe the training program falls a little short.

To get a complete overview of who The Conversion Pros is for and what you can do with it, watch the video webinar below. It goes into quite a bit of detail from the owner himself.

Support

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The Conversion Pros does have a support function on their website if you have a problem such as a billing issue or a website issue. There is not really a community support section on their website. They do have a Facebook group run by the company, however, the latest activity as of the date of this review is about a month old.

The latest entry on the Facebook support group mentioned whether someone thought that the leads were any good. According to the post, the affiliate purchased 50 leads and three people had signed up for his primary business. He attributed that to the fact that his leads were hooked up to his autoresponder. So, in his opinion, the leads were good.

The only other recent update on the Facebook group was an update for the latest GDPR update. So, based on my review of the Facebook group, I would have to say that the Facebook support is not that active. They do, however, have a chat area on their Facebook group for questions that can be answered within a 24 hour period.

Overall, I would say that TCP support is about average. It is certainly not at the level of this awesome affiliate marketing community.

Pros and Cons

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In this section I would like to discuss the pros and cons of The Conversion Pros. Every business has some pros and some cons, so let’s discuss these in detail. We want to keep in mind the intent of the program. Remember, TCP is a tool suite and lead vendor for Network and affiliate marketers’. It does have an affiliate program, but this is not its only focus.

The owner of the program believes this platform is to help marketers’ by giving them the tool’s and training to help them succeed in their own business, or if they don’t have one, to use the tool’s and training promoting TCP itself.

Pros:

Pro 1: The Landing Page creator is top-notch quality. It is extremely easy to use with its drag and drop features which allows one to create a very high quality landing page within minutes.

Pro 2: There are good testimonies stating that the leads offered to paying members are of high quality and can be delivered directly to the auto-responder tool for prospect follow-up

Pro 3: Good training if you are already at the intermediate to advanced level of internet marketing. I believe that the training is great if you already know the basics of affiliate marketing and are looking for interesting strategies that you may not have tried before.

Cons

Con 1: The training is not conducive to the beginning affiliate marketer who want to learn how to sell affiliate products. It is better for people who are already succeeding and want to go to the next level in their marketing efforts.

Con 2: There is not a very active community of affiliates that are willing to share their ideas and strategies. Most of this comes from the owner himself.

Con 3: The tool’s are a bit pricey for what you get. Granted the landing page builder is excellent, but you can get just as high quality from a good plugin for a one time fee, rather than paying monthly. Plus some other tool’s offered have free versions on the internet, like link cloaking tools and rotator links. You can find free versions of these other tool’s from a simple internet search.

My Final Opinion of The Conversion Pros

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As mentioned before, I really like the landing page creator as an affiliate marketer who has experience in affiliate marketing. It allows you to create an awesome landing page on the fly for what ever affiliate product you want promoting.

If you are an affiliate marketer who likes to sell Clickbank products, for example, you can create a quick and easy landing page for a multitude of products quickly and easily. You can create multiple campaigns and then test those campaigns quickly and easily and have the information readily available to improve your conversions. This would give the affiliate a great advantage in that sense.

Plus if you are a Network Marketer and you wanted to test out different campaigns for building a team or even selling a retail product that your Network Marketing company has to offer, this would be an awesome platform to use. Plus you can utilize the leads to build your Network Marketing business.

However, if you are new to affiliate marketing, the training provided will most likely be a little too advanced for you if you want to simply learn how to make an income online with internet marketing.

So, to answer the original question, Is Conversion Pros A Scam? I would have to say no. Conversion Pros is not a scam. It is a legit business.

VERDICT: LEGIT/NOT LEGIT

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I have actually been asked this question a few times. One person asked it this way. ” Is Clickbank University a scam or what?”

I can hear the tone in his voice, even though it was from a Facebook chat box. The reason he asked me this through my Facebook chat is because I was involved in a conversation in the Facebook Group of Clickbank University itself at the time. This individual was a little upset by the answer to a question that was asked in their Facebook support group.

Yes, I was a member of the Clickbank University 2.0. So this review is from firsthand experience. Let us take a close look into what Clickbank University actually is, and address whether it is a scam or not.

The Clickbank University Review Summary

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Name: Clickbank University 2.0

Founders: Matt Hulett, Adam Horwitz & Justin Atlan in 2013

Website URL: http://clickbankuniversity.com

Price: $47/month + $594 Upsell

Products and/or Services: 85 out of 100

Training: 87 out of 100

Technical Support: 90 out of 100

Tools and Resources: 88 out of 100

Community Support: 75 out of 100

Summary: I believe, overall, Clickbank University 2.0 offers a good quality product. It does provide useful tools and training helping marketers create their own digital products to sell on Clickbank and earn an income doing so. They do attempt to provide training and support helping marketers to choose and market already existing Clickbank products, however, the training and support is a bit limited and outdated.

For the marketer who wants to simply market Clickbank products already in the marketplace, they not given real direction and guidance in my opinion. It seems they spend a great deal of time and energy focusing on selling their high ticket upsell which they do not reveal to you upfront. So you may want to be aware of that.

TheAffiliateResource.com Overall Rating: 85 out of 100:

Recommended: Yes

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Since Clickbank University is mainly for marketers who want to create and sell their own products on the Clickbank Market place. If you are not interested in creating your own products, but are more interested in learning how to promote a multitude of already created affiliate products (affiliate marketing), then below is my #1 recommendation:

 

What Is Clickbank University 2.0 About?

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Clickbank University 2.0, AKA CBU 2.0, is a revised edition of an online training platform that is designed helping both potential affiliates marketers and potential vendors make money from the Clickbank marketplace. They offer this training as an advantage since it is promoted within Clickbank itself. If you understand what affiliate marketing is, you no doubt know that Clickbank is one of the largest affiliate marketing networks for selling digital products and services.

The training platform is divided into two different training tracks:

• Product publishing
• Affiliate Mastery

The product publishing track:

Is an 12-week training course designed to teach people how to make money creating their own products, place them on the Clickbank marketplace and then promote them themselves in addition to having other affiliates promote them as well. This allows you to reap the benefits of having other affiliates promote them for you, creating additional potential income.

This course is taught by Justin Atlan who generated his first million dollars as a Clickbank publisher with his own products.

The affiliate mastery track:

Is an 8-week training course designed to teach people how to market other peoples products that are already placed on the Clickbank marketplace through a process known as affiliate marketing.

This course is taught by Adam Horwitz. Adam is known for making his first 6 figure income specifically selling Clickbank products when he was just 20 years old using other people’s YouTube videos to promote.

Now, as a side note, this is one aspect that inspired me to join the Clickbank University. I was very interested in learning how to use Adam’s techniques. I will discuss this later on this the review.

 

Tools And Training Included With CBU 2.0

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12 Week Vendor Training

When I first joined Clickbank University 2.0, I was mainly interested in the affiliate training, but I wanted to go through this course as well because I had heard it was excellent training, and I do have to agree, this was the most detailed training of all the available training.

Here is a snapshot of what you get access to:

• Week 1: How everything works: Set up for success
• Week 2: Fining your perfect product
• Week 3: Creating your avatar
• Week 4: Course content creation and outsourcing
• Week 5: The perfect upsell to maximize sales
• Week 6: High converting sales copy
• Week 7: The “easy” VSL (Video sales letter)
• Week 8: Finalizing your product using the builder
• Week 9: Getting up on Clickbank
• Week 10: Joint venture managing
• Week 11: Split testing
• Week 12: Scaling up your business
• Bonus: Selling high ticket products on webinars

Now this training was pretty extensive and I do believe if I had followed through on the training I would have learned all I needed to know to create my own products. But, my interest was more on selling other peoples products and focusing on the marketing end of things.

In my opinion, being a Clickbank vendor requires more advanced knowledge of affiliate marketing. This is not something the “newbie” should start with. So, if you are an experienced marketer and you feel you are ready to create your own products and take advantage of the Clickbank marketplace, then I would highly recommend Clickbank University 2.0.

That being said, let’s move on to the Affiliate marketing side of things.

Here is a brief walk through video of Clickbank University 2.0

 

8 Week Affiliate Marketing Training

This was the course I was most interested in when I joined the community. This training is more geared toward learning how to sell other peoples products that are already on the Clickbank marketplace as an affiliate.

The advantages of this approach is that you don’t have to create your own products and you can pick products that you know are selling well on Clickbank.

For this course, here is a snapshot of what you get:

• Week 1: Introduction
• Week 2: Affiliate marketing concepts and Clickbank navigation
• Week 3: Choosing a niche and finding products to promote
• Week 4: How to create a sales funnel using capture pages
• Week 5: Writing and outsourcing content for your email list
• Week 6: Basics of email marketing
• Week 7: More email marketing concepts
• Week 8: Scaling up your business
• Bonus: Affiliate promotions

So, based on my experience with this part of the training I would have to say I was a bit disappointed. I am not sure if it was because I had knowledge of a lot of this material from other sources (mostly free sources) or if my experience level was beyond the course.

Because this training was regarded as high quality training, I may have had too high of expectations. I felt that the course was a big sales gimmick for the Clickbank builder upsell. I will discuss this in more detail below.

Since affiliate marketing is all about building an email list through capturing emails, I thought this part of the training would be more detailed, but, again, it was all about selling the CB builder upsell and for the price of this training, I felt I shouldn’t have to pay to get pitched on a product.

If you are mostly interested in learning how to sell affiliate products, I would highly recommend Wealthy Affiliate. You will get everything you need to be successful with affiliate marketing and NO UPSELLS!

Live Weekly Q&A Webinar with Justin And Adam

Justin and Adam offer a Live weekly webinar that allows paid members to
ask any questions they might have. These webinars are
recorded so that any member can watch them at a later date that may be more convenient for them.

The thing is, if you are new to affiliate marketing, you may not know what questions to ask. These Webinars are not based on any specific training so there really isn’t a huge amount of value here.

One of the things I was looking forward with this training platform was a structured step by step program that would teach me what I needed to do in order to be successful in affiliate marketing. The live webinars that I went to did not give me this step by step format that I was looking for. Instead, is seemed very chaotic and unstructured.

I also got feedback from the Facebook group that I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Other marketers that were less experienced than myself were even more confused that I was.

ClickBank Builder (Here Comes The Upsell)

OK, so here is where the program starts to rub me the wrong way. Not only are you not told upfront about that fact that they really don’t support you on the affiliate side unless you purchase this builder software package. I am not saying it is not of good quality because it is. But, it is certainly not worth the $595 they are asking for it. At least as far as using it to sell affiliate products.

The builder is a great tool if you are using it specifically to create and market your own products. The thing is, that in order to really get involved with creating your own affiliate products, you really should not be at the beginners level with affiliate marketing. This is more of an advanced marketer project and not conducive to the beginning marketer.

If you want to use a builder like this (which you should) to market other peoples products, you can purchase a good WordPress plug in that will give you the same features and benefits. There are several high quality plugs ins that you can purchase for less than $100 one time purchase.

Not only that, but the affiliate training provided by Clickbank University 2.0 doesn’t really show you how to build a capture page other than what you would get if you paid the $595. In other words if you wanted to learn how to do that, you have to take the upsell.

This is ridiculous in my opinion. I felt while going through the training and webinars, that I was constantly being driven to purchase this product. I was paying for a constant sales pitch!

Private CBU Facebook Support Group

For the support part, you’ll have access to the Clickbank University Forum as well as their private Facebook group. The activeness and engagement within the forum and the group are OK, but not great. Mainly because the members don’t seem to be real enthusiastic about the community itself and are constantly asking other members how they really make money online, rather that talking about the methods taught in the course.

I don’t think I saw Adam and/or Justin even one time while I was participating in the group.

Overall the community support is average at best. The Community I below to here

Pros and Cons

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Pros:

• Clickbank University was created by Clickbank.
  • Clickbank itself is a reputable affiliate network so the idea of being trained by the same platform is appealing.
• They do offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so if you try it and don’t like it, you can get your money back.

Cons:

• Not newbie friendly.
  • As I mentioned above, Clickbank University seems to be geared more toward the more experienced marketer who would be interested in creating their own products and then promoting them on Clickbank.
  • If you are interested in selling other peoples products as an affiliate marketer and get real valuable training, then I suggest starting the best free affiliate marketing training here.
• Clickbank Builder (beware!)
  • Clickbank builder is a good piece of software and it does provide a good platform to create your own products, however, a good page builder does not have to cost as much as Clickbank Builder costs. The cost is highly inflated. Like I mentioned before, you can get a real good page builder plugin for less than $100 elsewhere.
• Low quality Training
  • the affiliate marketing training is very week and not very detailed at all.
• Only paid traffic training is covered.
  • As I mentioned above, when I first joined the program, it was advertised that Adam was using a special YouTube method that was responsible for helping him earn his first six figures online. However, this training is never offered. They only real traffic training that was covered was Facebook pay per click and Instagram Influencer advertising which also cost money.
• I have seen many webinar hosted by both Adam and Justin, and most of them involve a big sales pitch at the end. The training I am mostly interested in is good solid training that has a specific purpose that does not involve being pitched to buy a product. These webinars all seem to build up to a big sales pitch at the end.

Conclusion

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So, in conclusion, let’s answer the original question. Is Clickbank University a scam or what?

I do not believe Clickbank University 2.0 is a scam. I think overall it is a legit program. As mentioned before, if you want to be a vendor for Clickbank, then this is a program you should check out.

If you are interested in learning how to make money online as an affiliate marketer selling other peoples products, then you should check out my review of Wealthy Affiliate here.

So, my overall rating of Clickbank University 2.0 is: