Poll: Your thoughts on Opportunity.com?
I had a private conversation with about 20 Elite Members yesterday following our usual Brainstorming Hour, specifically regarding Opportunity.com and their decision to join – or not to join. It was a really cool discussion so I thought I’d open it up publicly… and anonymously.
This is your chance to share your thoughts on Opportunity.com. I’ll also share the results of the poll so that you can get an idea what other’s think, what thoughts they shared, etc. Your answer & comment on the poll form is completely anonymous. All I ask is that you answer honestly, for the sake of creating true results…
If you aren’t familiar with Opportunity.com, you’ll find my review here: http://www.clicknewz.com/1905/opportunity/
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Total responses: 82
Yes! I joined right away! 24%
No. I’m not interested in Affiliate Marketing. 5%
No. I don’t like John Reese. 6%
I might – I’m still undecided. 60%
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John Reese is one of my Internet marketing examples, but I currently have my own affiliate marketing training, and I am busy with my members.
I think you should add in the poll: I wish I could, but I’m busy promoting my own business.
I can understand that Franck. We were discussing this in the other thread: FOCUS is good
Opporunity.com opened at the perfect time for me personally because I am currently working on my collection of niche affiliate sites and looking for new programs & creative marketing ideas.
So many of my readers are interested in Affiliate Marketing as a model that I had considered writing a guide or offering a course on the topic. I’m actually relieved that John Reese ‘beat me to it’ and created a site I can simply recommend instead. Now I can get back to work on my own affiliate sites!
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I test drive a handful of systems examining each for user train-ability. My thoughts are if a person were;new to affiliate marketing they wouldn’t have a clue what he was talking about. The videos are screen shots and power point slides leave many unanswered, bewildering question.
The only part of the training may be in the Google Adwords, but the videos content is pretty vague, so the jury’s still out.
Experienced marketeer’s will learn nothing.
The research done for new products is really just a list of best performers, based on what I don’t know. A few of their “recommended” products have a return rate above 3%. Not a good recommendation.
The information looks to be compiled from an earlier cd he released. In my opinion Crowd Mountain , Commission Blueprint and Niche Blueprint have much more detailed training for both newbie and experienced affiliate marketers. I’ll go ahead and ride out the month and see what else comes up but at first glance I’m not too impressed. I’ve seen him put out way better stuff.
Thanks for the poll.
Hi Greg,
What questions do you feel John leaves unanswered, that someone new to affiliate marketing wouldn’t have a clue about?
I have not reviewed Crowd Mountain, Commission Blueprint or Niche Blueprint personally so I can’t comment on the comparison. I also didn’t buy/review any earlier CD’s that John Reese released so I’m not sure what you’re referring to there. Would you mind to share, and I’m also curious what the price was for that CD.
By the way, I’m an “experienced marketer” and I feel like I got my $39 worth already
For most people – not people like you and I that generally review multiple products/courses – I recommend they choose the course that matches their goals and stick to that one course or method all the way through to profit. I feel like Traffic Secrets 2.0 and Opportunity.com have both provided incredibly good training to the person that wants to start and run a successful online business.
If someone were to take those two products, and igore EVERYthing else until they were up and running – in profit – they’d be much better served than the majority who buy/subscribe/join everything under the IM sun and don’t follow any one thing all the way through…
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Hi Lynn,
I fully understand that you are an experienced marketer. I have followed your blog for sometime now (rss feed on my IGoogle page)and also have seen your foot print around the net. Your are the real deal and give sound advice/recommendations. Kudos!
I too feel the material is easily worth the $39, more actually, and support your advice on picking something and sticking with it till you have it figured out before moving onto something new.
As for clueless – I had my wife (less than newbie) listen to vid 3 of the intro, video 1 of keyword research and the video about Google’s quality score. After she had got through them I asked her what she thought. She asked me things like; What is LSI, What are natural patterns? Black hat? What is the quality score? Totally deer-in-the-headlights.
Confused me a little at first when I first watch the vids. There were reference to things that hadn’t been presented yet I thought my attention span(old age)was failing me! So I can see how it could confuse a beginner.
From a observational point of view the information appears to be fragmented; meaning there are pieces of the presentation missing. The video content was recorded in June 2008 and it is clear that from the way the subject matter jumps around there must be things missing?
Your comments section is no place for my for full opinion on the material John presents. Opportunity.com is very new and I’m sure it will age like fine wine as the team continues to refine the operation. I’m simply putting my 2c in and adding to your conversation
Thanks
Your 2c is welcomed and appreciated
I did see mention in one of the follow-up emails that there are some videos in the sequence being reworked – to be added back in soon. So that may be where the disconnect is that you experienced.
To be fair, I’d guess that most of John Reese’s readers, and mine as well, are familiar with the basic terminology – and smart enough to Google any terms they don’t fully undertand.
It would be interesting to take a TOTAL newbie straight through from the video on the main page all the way through the training modules step by step – and hear their thoughts on it at the very end.
I bought the Starter Package that was offered after signing up, which was an incredible deal for 8 niche squeeze pages – professionally designed – complete with reports and the email follow-up series for each. To me, that alone was worth joining. In today’s email John stated they would be adding specific training for how to use the Starter Package: how to upload the files, set up the email follow-up series, etc etc etc. Obviously there is still much more to come for Opportunity members!
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Surely there are other reasons to not have joined than disliking John or not being interested in affiliate marketing.
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Such as… ?
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How about being broke? Or feeling you know the material already?
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Well… if you know the material already you definitely wouldn’t be broke. LOL -just sayin. Obviously I am a successful affiliate marketer, but I’m enjoying the perks of membership myself. Namely the starter package and the offer database – but the videos are giving me some great creative ideas too.
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Well, it would seem those two reasons are orthogonal (though I’m not convinced). My point, however, is only that people reject offers for many reasons other than disliking the offerER or not being interested in the topic or success therewith. (And, mind you, the reasons are not always logical. Just as a sale can be made on emotion, refusal to take someone up on the proverbial irresistible offer can be made likewise, and probably often is.)
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Lynn, honestly speaking – if the $39 per month would really make things kinda tight, would you say there is enough missing now to make it prudent to wait a few months before joining?
The largest majority of my readers are newbies, many I’d venture to guess are TOTAL as you mentioned above. Some may not have the funds to “wait it out” bug wise…
Personally I dont see any major ‘bugs’ with the site as it is. There is quite enough information for a total newbie to get started with the training, and continue to learn as new things are added as well.
Learning is a process. Even if everything were presented all at once to any one person on any one topic, it takes time to go through it and digest it – and really get it. I often go back to certain points after completing a course and get greater insight on the micro-topics the second time around.
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Lynn,
I attended last Webinar-Excellent! I, too, have similar questions as Dennis E above-I’m VERY anxious to get going in A M & want to be as sure as I can that Opportunity.com is the way to start. I have some webdev, content writing, article marketing, etc. experience but definitely want the “start form the beginning” element that this program seems to offer. In other words, as you point out above, I want to go full out with one program, leveraging all it has to offer. Your comments on this would be most appreciated. Thanks again for great, straight up info and the Webinars-very inspiring!
Thanks Jack – glad to hear you enjoy the webinars. I truly enjoy hosting them every week
I like your approach to joining Opportunity. Considering where you are with your knowledge and experience, and being ready to start at step one and work ALL the way to profit, I think you’ll find it to be a VERY good match for you.
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How can any not like John Reese? He’s one of the good guys!
I agree – I’ve been following John Reese for years. I was actually his affiliate probably 10 years ago when he had a how-to video out on VHS!
lol
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Hello Lynn,
my 2c: $39 per month is too much for a newbie, newbie will have to put up a website/hosting – another cost- or buy squeeze page package and promote with Adwords, PPC – another cost.
From my point of view, the best information about affiliate marketing can be found on your blog or to start step by step with SBI.
I did it and all I can say is, that there is learning and researching stuff,website, doman and hosting included, for less than $39 per month.
Affiliate master course and pre-selling ebook are free, and many more, you know.
P.S.:
I was waiting for you to write a super affiliate guide or create a membership site and give us affiliates good stuff to promote.
Really, with all your knowledge!
All the Best,
Jana -Affiliate Retired
I may still do it yet, Jana
I have to disagree that $39/month is too expensive for a “newbie”. It’s actually dirt cheap to learn a business model that could easily have you earning 5-figures/month by the end of the year. The costs to enter online biz are trivial really. My overhead is so low it’s ridiculous, especially compared to my first businesses (all offline, local).
I probably spend more than that at McDonald’s every month
(TMI I know – I’ve quit eating the burgers and switched to the McSalads though 
lol).
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Very interesting information here. I have been looking at Opportunity.com since seeing some tweets about it. My spouse has dabbled a fair bit in affiliate marketing for years, but no significant roi (time spent) at this point. I feel we need to figure out how to focus on this if we honestly want to make money at it. I’ll spend some more time here reading more after work this evening.
Best regards,
Sally
Focus is the key, Sally – if you feel you need the how-to training, learning the specific marketing strategies and technical hurdles, you’ll really enjoy the video series. Putting it into ACTION is what will get you that ROI
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I looking for ways to do affiliate marketing with my artwork and if your info or oppornuity.com has it I am in.
With your artwork? Can you give more detail?
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Great conversation!
Since I posted a few -negative aspects of the program (there really are not that many), I wanted to clear up my comments.
First – I do not dislike, hate or otherwise John Reese. I was simply giving Lynn my first impressions of the program. Yes, he is one of the good guys!
Second – $39/month is dirt cheap to learn a business model that works! Although the material maybe somewhat in disarray (from my view) the training is still top notch. Stompernet has similar training that would run you $400+ a month and Frank Kern’s training is $2000+ (if you can get in). The old saying.. “It takes money to make money”.. and affiliate marketing is no different.
There is a ton of information on the net about affiliate marketing but most of it is outdated or copied from people like John, Brad and Andy, Frank, Ed Dale, Michelle McPhearson, etc. You never know everything. If you think you do, you may find yourself far behind the curve. Search marketing is changing constantly and if you don’t have the resources to stay educated on all the changes then you need something like Opportunity.com
There are many good training programs out there designed to teach people how to make money online through affiliate marketing. As Lynn said above; pick one program and follow it all the way until you’ve mastered it and you WILL make money.
Opportunity.com is not offering “hobby material”; they are offering a business model that works! Learn what you can learn, do what you can do and never give up.
Thanks Lynn
Great points – one correction though: StomperNet is $800/mo
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Lynn & gang,
Sorry to have missed today’s Webinar (doooh!) – is there any recording of them available yet?
I signed up for Opportunity.com Monday based on your review & the add’l comments you gave earlier to my questions here and have been into Training portion of it for the past two days. I agree w/Greg above that it’s a bit scattered topic-wise but also that it appears to be straight-up info giving good value for the monthly cost. No regrets so far-obviously, soon I”ll be getting busy on the “hands-on” part of A M. I do want to be grounded in the Training material first. Thanks, as always, for the help & encouragement.
Hey Jack,
Today was just an Open Q&A on all of the topics we’re discussing here at ClickNewz. Next week we’ll pick up on #3 in the 10-part series.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying Opportunity -with no regrets
I believe they are adding some new training material over the next couple of weeks which might help fill in the gaps for you. If you have any specific questions in the meantime, dont hesitate to ask!
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I signed up for Opportunity.com, and I can give my very early impressions as a complete newbie to Affiliate Marketing, with lots of enthusiasm and ambition, but zero experience.
1) The training is not currently arranged in a very step-by-step manner. There are three intro videos, a checklist, and then a whole bunch of other videos on various other topics. Once you get through the three intro videos, you’re left on your own to figure out where to go next.
2) Sometimes the intro videos refer to other videos or training material that either isn’t there yet, or isn’t labeled in a way to make it clear what it is.
3) The $40 per month price isn’t bad if you consider it an investment in your business. But as a beginner, I’m willing to pay someone to lead me by the hand a bit more than I feel I’m getting here.
4) The other sections of the site (Find Offers, My Opportunities, etc) aren’t really explained anywhere that I could find. Maybe their use becomes obvious after watching another video. Not sure.
So, overall, there is a lot of no doubt valuable information here, but I’m wishing it was better organized into a learning plan for the beginner. I’ll continue to go through the training videos and see what I can learn, but I think I’m going to check some of the other sites mentioned here, too.
Thanks for the personal feedback, Doug
Very good points – I could see where more explanation would be very helpful on those sections of the site. It’s things like that I miss because I figure out how to use them based on my experience with affiliate marketing. I will have to pass that suggestion along to John.
The thing with Affiliate Marketing is that there are SO many options – so many combinations of things you can do to make affiliate sales. Personally I dont like courses that only teach one method (usually PPC via Adwords), so what I like about Opportunity is that it covers the many methods you can learn.
The problem with teaching one method on a large scale is that it often results in a “slap” or the method becomes less effective – simply because so many people are using it. We’ve seen this happen time and again over the years. So the BEST method you can use is your own personal combination along with your own creative strategies – all learned from core marketing strategies of course, which is what John teaches. Make sense?
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I’ve been a member for two weeks and I’m quite disappointed. This isn’t really for me.
Plus, there’s no option to cancel my membership and get a refund anywhere from the website. So i opened a support ticket but haven’t received any response at the moment. I’m hoping they can cancel my membership before my 2nd month starts and get my refund soon.
Anyone wanna help out?
I’m sure they’ll get you taken care of, Pau. I’d be interested to hear details about why you’re disappointed and why you feel it isn’t really for you.
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I am not every experienced IM. I tried opportunity.com. My impression was that the site was unfinished. Also it seemed geared toward total beginners in online techniques such as PPC. I think John Reese is excellent, but I did not find the type of value I was looking for. Over time, the value will increase though, as they will add a lot more material.
What type of value were you looking for, specifically? You mentioned not being very experienced in Internet Marketing, but that the training was geared towards beginners – so, you lost me. Can you offer some detail?
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