AffiliateJump is a new so called “CPA network” created by Mike Filsaime and Joe Holland that will allow newbies to get started with promoting CPA offers. Now I have to be completely honest and say that I don’t care much for any of Mike Filsaime’s products because his promotions are always way over the top in regards to the actual value he gives you with his products. What I’m saying is his promotions always make you feel all warm and cozy inside and then you get let down by what you really get behind the curtain. Don’t get me wrong, Mike is a very successful guy and he makes a lot of money but the bottom line is it seems Mike is usually the guy making all the money from his products as the owner. AffiliateJump doesn’t seem to be any different…

If you’ve watched Mike’s promo video on the homepage he emphasizes that it perfectly OK and even GREAT that you don’t know anything about the CPA networks and he makes it sound like it’s so agonizingly difficult to get accepted into the CPA networks. He wants you to believe that you can’t make it in the CPA world unless you pay him $300 to start and up to $99 a month to promote the offers in “his network”. Should we have to pay to make money on CPA offers when we can easily get accepted into at least one of dozens of CPA networks? Hell no, what a joke! Also, you should know that Mike’s “CPA network” isn’t even a real affiliate network. All they are doing is letting you send traffic to the offers with their affiliate link using a subid and then paying you half of what they make. Note that you will only be paid every 30 days when they are likely getting weekly wires direct into their checking account. If you build a relationship with your account manager at an affiliate network and you start doing some sales they will gladly pay you weekly with direct deposits right into your account.

Let’s talk about the other poor elements of this system that you might not be able to resist. The websites! When I watched the promo video at Affiliate Jump I have to admit I liked the fact that I could generate landing pages on the fly but that was until I saw what the websites looked like. Terrible! I promote CPA offers with custom built sites and I can tell you first hand that these sites will perform poorly on the search engines and I don’t imagine very many people are going to trust a page like this. The site basically has 3 banners on it with less than 100 words of content and there aren’t any other pages on the site to increase quality score. Aside from the websites this is basically an under paying affiliate network that costs you money to use.You are better off saving your money, joining a free affiliate network and outsource someone to build you a beautiful landing page to promote your offers.

Just my 2 cents gang, I would be glad to answer any questions you have about CPA marketing and I will get some posts up for beginners that will show you how to painlessly get accepted into the CPA networks and how to start promoting offers. You don’t need to pay Mike Filsaime and Joe Holland hundreds of dollars each month to get paid half the money you can make at a regular, free to join CPA network!

Obviously I can’t purchase every new money making program that comes out and write a review on it but Zero Friction Marketing caught my interest because of the slick sales letter they used to sucker you in. I’ll be honest it literally suckered me in like a newbie that I once was. It looks to me like Saj P. had some other guy create the whole course and then Saj wrote the sales letter and pitched it to everyone. Despite that, the course isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. They basically show you all the beginner crap that is required to take on the more advanced CPA marketing techniques but at best it’s still just a basic course on how to waste your money with MySpace advertising, MSN Adcenter and 3rd tier media buying.

The thing that really pisses me off is if you sign-up for the advanced ready made campaigns they claim they are running you will lose a ton of money. They claim they are running all of these campaigns and profiting so I put it to the test and lost over $1,400 with the exact same keywords, ads and products they say they are promoting. One campaign I tested of “there’s” is an offer on the Copeac network called Foreclosure Coin. It pays $28 a lead and it shows people how to profit with foreclosures. I setup my MSN Adcenter account exactly like theirs and sent over 200 clicks and spent over $250. Guess how many sales I made….ZERO. Ok fair enough, so I moved on to one of their Myspace advertising campaigns promoting a Cell submit offer from Neverblue. Set it up the exact same way and spent over $50 in an hour with over 150 clicks and I bet you can guess how many sales I got again….Yep! ZERO! It’s funny to cause the clueless guy putting the video tutorials together was like “yeah, this is a super profitable campaign and it pays out 9 bucks and you only have to pay .32 a click so there is HUGE profit margins here”. I also tried another campaign of theirs for a credit report offer and I did make one sale which paid out like 26 bucks but I spent $300 to get it! Ridiculous!

Bottom line guys is this course is not worth the money you spend on it by any means and they rape you with upsells and downsells just to get in the members area. It literally took me 40 minutes from the time I purchased their first product to buy all the rest of their crap and to finally get into the members area. First they hit you with a $77 one-time fee and then they hit you with a $57 monthly fee and then a $197 fee and then another $50 or so fee so in all you can spend about $400 on this course. Save your money and start testing CPA offers on your own and you will probably learn more doing that then you will with this course. I’ve learned that unless someone is going to truly give you the exact keywords, campaigns and traffic sources they are using to make money you will waste money and time testing anyways. The guys at Zero Friction Marketing SAY they are giving you that but they aren’t. In one short sentences I will show you how to acheive the same results you will get with this course:  Ready? Ok, go pick ten random CPA offers and send related traffic to it and see if it converts. LOL

If you’re looking to get into the affiliate game without the high prices of web design or the lengthy process of learning how to build websites yourself, you may consider one of the many free website services available online. Some of the services are completely free but they may take a percentage of the commission your site generates and other services allow you to keep 100% of the commissions for a small monthly fee.

After trying out a few of the ready made affiliate site services online, here is my list of the best ones:

1. Money-Making-Website.net – Money Making Websites offers a plan for a any budget including completely free. They also offer a Pro Plan which gives you a whole new book of options over the completely free plan. Their free plan includes a ready made website that is instantly created when you create your account. You are only given a sub-domain which means the site sits on their server and includes their main domain in the URL. For example, your website address might look like this: YourFreeWebsiteSystem.com/mywebsite. The site comes pre-populated with 3 different money making programs and once in the members area they provide you with training and tools for marketing your website. The Pro Plan offers two easy ways to pay including a monthly fee of $19.95 and a yearly plan of $140. Once you select your payment plan you will continue on by choosing a domain name from Blue Wire Domains and then you will create an account at Clickbank.com. Next you will create an account, checkout and by the time you come back to login your website is setup and live on the internet. Once you login, you will be able to change many of the features about your website and you will have 5 different affiliate sites to choose from. These 5 different sites promote the top performing products from the Clickbank marketplace so your chances of making sales seems to be pretty good. You are able to change all the content on your site, you can choose any products from Clickbank.com that you want on your site and you can even add Adsense and an Aweber auto-responder to your page for collecting email addresses.

The bottom line is Money-Making-Website.net offers one of the most flexible and powerful affiliate website systems on the internet. From what I can tell, they are the only online affiliate website provider that allows you to have a website setup and running within minutes of signing up. Many of the other providers online take 24-48 hours to have your site live and on the internet. There aren’t many other providers that also offer the customization and freedom that Money-Making-Website.net offers. If you’re looking for a fast and affordable approach to getting your own free affiliate website online then this is the company to go with.

2. Acme People Search Websites – This program is a little different from your typical free affiliate website but it works and you will make money if you do everything involved in the website sign-up process. Basically you will be getting your own “people” search engine where people can come to your site and lookup people. The search engine then displays results from several sites all of which you will be an affiliate for. I signed up for this program and got my site setup in about an hour and I made money within the first two days of having the website live. Granted you can’t change anything on the website but you really wouldn’t want to, it’s already built for what you need it to do anyway. Tissa, the creator of this program offers an easy system for marketing your website and it’s highly recommended you follow his marketing plan because it does work.

I will add more to this list as time goes on however these are easily the best two free affiliate website systems on the internet. I’ve made money with them both and I still use them to this day.

Let’s make some money!

Kris