Hi, I have written a review about my experience with joining CC. I have separated my review into Positive and Negative points. Before I begin, this is MY OPINION and does not represent that of any other members of CC. Also, I am not an expert PPC Marketer, but I have more knowledge than the average PPC Marketer so CC did not meet my needs. Also, I am not attacking anyone personally, just stating my experience with CC and trying to be as objective as I can. POSITIVE POINTS 1. The forum is good for beginner PPC Marketers who really have no idea about how to get started in PPC. 2. Step-by-step guides are provided for YSM 3. Fresh landing pages are provided each month for popular campaigns (ringtones, etc.) which provide a good start for getting into PPC Marketing. NEGATIVE POINTS 1. Very little information and expertise exists for AdWords Campaigns. 2. Most of the information is very vague and really does not provide much direction. 3. The price of $50/month does not provide much value and in my opinion, if a service is costing $50/month I expect it to exceed my expectations (expectations are subjective). 4. The monthly fee is NON-REFUNDABLE which is not a problem, but CC did not provide instructions on how to cancel the PayPal subscription at all (another user was charged for an extra month because they did not receive a reply from the founder on how to cancel their membership in time - intentional or coincidence???) 5. If a PM is sent to the founder/support, I expect a reply within 6-12 hours if I am paying for a service (it took 3 days for mystickcal to reply to my simple PM). 6. It is Very slow to get a response for posts in the Forum (specifically for AdWords questions I had to wait 3 days). 7. 95% of the content is focused around YSM, not AdWords (again this is directed to beginner PPC Marketers who use YSM to test the waters before moving to AdWords). Finally, my recommendation is NOT to join CC if you have experience with PPC Marketing as this forum does NOT provide value at $50/month. All of the information found within CC is available online free of charge from other forums (DP, SP, etc.). The advantage is that most of the information has been aggregated and is available from a single location. In saying that, the information is still for the beginner PPC Marketer, not someone with more experience. Either CC need to lower the monthly fee to a reasonable price ($5-$10/month) or really increase their customer service and quality of content, because there are quite a few other members who are dissatisfied with the forum. Thanks.
Everything he says is true! No reason to join CC, just read Shoemoney's blog. CC is a waste of time and money and really has no purpose. The mods are never on, they barely respond, some of the members have high post counts than the mods. Sure some people did alright but they were few and far between. His "secret methods" are not secret at all. They are scarecly similar to Shoemoney's methods he announced in a blog post long long ago! Basically CC is a forum with all the free information on the web, combined into one forum site. I wish I would have thought of it, charging people for free information on the web, it should be illegal. It is not my place to talk about how anyone runs their business, but the owner should take a business course. The customer is always right, no matter what the business is. I really don't know how much he makes on PPC, but I guess it is enough to live on he claims. He knows what he is talking about, but with his response times it almost seems like he is researching it and trying to find out. If you have never heard of PPC marketing, have tons of money to waste, and are not afraid of failure, then go with CC. If you want to make money online through PPC affiliate marketing, just read around DP, and Shoemoney's blog.
We are working on getting more advanced tips up there, but most of the stuff is beginner yes, because that was the first purpose, to teach people affiliate marketing. Mystickcal privately taught 10 people, and these people were total beginners. We wanted to duplicate these results with many more people. Here's yesterdays stats for my Azoogle test account (I have 2 Azoog accs) that I promote one niche for ringtones (both offers up there are ringtones) in (ie "Cingular ringtones", or "polyphonic ringtones" is a niche). I don't have anything else in that account as you can see except that one niche.
SUP3RNOVA, You may well be making XXXX per day with your affiliate programs and marketing methods but that is NOT what the members of CC are making. You and mystical are not sharing your real strategies and keep providing vague and useless answers to common questions. As I have said in my review, until you guys get your act together CC is NOT WORTH JOINING! On a side note, I and almost all other members are waiting for a refund for this month as you and mystical have reduced the monthly rate. Mystical has said it is TOO MUCH EFFORT to refund everyone. Really, you guys are ripping people off for a start and then say it is too much to refund them??? Seriously, get your acts together because you may have made some money in May from these members, but the bad reviews and nil referrals will kill CC. So, start by being professional and honest and refund your members. Then, offer some quality support so that your forum is worth paying for. Thanks.
I'm usually the one that looks on the bright side but I have to say that I agree with the review. All points said above are correct so i'm not going to regurgitate D) it again. Besides that... the forum sometimes has speed issues. It doesn't seem that the "founders" are there on a daily basis and only pop in once every 2 to 3 days to answer the questions. Like this month there has been a few freebies, but that was only the first few days and after that the forum really died down with maybe 6 to 8 people talking on a daily basis, 50% of them newbies in the affiliate marketing like me (meaning they don't have real valuable information). And to continue to repeat this pattern for months to come with paying members isn't really cool to me. I keep hear people saying "we are working hard to come with new stuff" but it has been 2 weeks already since the last "new stuff" was brought in, surely there must be some other valuable info that can be given. However I DO give my hats off to artarmon. He IS there on a daily basis and has provided really quality information. I'm not saying they are dishonest but it's not worthed. I only have to remember to cancel my membership in time before it renews..... I don't feel like i've give away my (so far) $100 though, for $100 i got a few good landingpages and info so that was worth the money plus in my case I also blame myself because I was/am too busy with other stuff to give AM my full attention but still.....
I have cancelled my subscription.. With absolutley no disrespect and without prejudice - two months membership has for me, been a waste of time and money - when I have been able to view the forum it has been up and down more often than Paris Hilton's undercrackers......it has been slower that an asthmatic tortoise with a dodgy leg...and carrying some heavy shopping. If you have a penchant for wading through treacle clutching a tennis ball between your bum cheeks, then join Click Consultants. Paying $50 a month for the service I have experienced I am expecting to sprout donkey ears any moment now. Homer Simpsons "doh" does not even come close to how I feel. But having said that Mystical and SuperNova are nice chaps and maybe a CC version 2 could materialise in the future with more a member/customer service orientation. As a side note there is member called Artamon42 - he is the real driver behind CC and not to my knowledge, connected financially - if he were to instigate his own paid forum I am sure he would have a full house. Good luck with it though - PS I think the membership is way, way over priced - if it were $9.99 you would probably increase the membership ten fold and have fewer cancellation and bad press. Toodle Pip!
What we need now is our refunds from CC which we ARE entitled to. Mysitcal and NOVA, you guys should really respond to this thread as the two of you and CC are getting such a bad reputation becuase of this.
We are not offering refunds, nor to be honest do we really care about our rep. We are showing people how to make money, there are several members making money now, more that what the subscription costs, yes alot of the info can be found in various parts of the internet for free, hence as we have stated plenty of times before. The idea is we are bringing all the info to one place and not only that but we offer our own unique twists on it and what worked for us and didn't work. There are tons of useful info on the forums and we answer any and all questions that we havn't already answered before and for those that we have already answered yes our members do answer them again for the new people, which is what makes the forum great. If you don't like the forum, by all means cancel your membership and don't come back next month. Won't hurt my feelings at all Thanks for trying it out and your right we don't offer refunds on our forums. We have also stated that from the beginning. You can say how bad the forums are all you want, but if they were really that bad and the info there can't help you make (easily I might add) a couple thousands dollars a month profit then how are there members doing it? They have the same info you are getting yet they are making money. Point proven.
Mystical The point for me is not the fact that I am not profiting from your forum - or indeed am I questioning its potential. The information within the site is worthy of a subscription (although $50 is too steep) The fact it - I CANNOT VIEW THE DAMN THING despite paying for it this month. Plus last months user experience was not good. So in essence - I have payed for something as yet unrecieved, to which I should be entitled to a refund. Incedentally... "We are not offering refunds, nor to be honest do we really care about our rep" Put that on your forum...
LOL! I have no idea what CC is or what any of this discussion is about. But if the person who posted that is really from the company then nothing more needs to be said, does it? With an attitude like that failure will dog him like stink on sh*t no matter what he does. LOL, again!
Sorry, no offense. But this thread sounds like protesting for no refund? I get this email from paypal once I made subscription No one read the email from paypal?
Mystickcal...Can you please respond at your other thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=272540&page=17
LOL exactly how this forum is run ^^^ They don't care at all, and are horrible businessmen! HORRIBLE! ROFL HORRIBLE! (IMO) . The type of things these two pull out no where is so funny, the forum should be on comedy and telling jokes! ARTARMON42 MAKE YOUR OWN FORUM I WILL JOIN!!!!!