I was introduced to the Empower Network by an acquaintance at a rare blogging meetup in my home town. I have said that I’ve sworn off scams – but this one came looking for me – its not just a scam, its a pyramid scheme – so illegal in most decent countries (including New Zealand). I’ve written my review on the blog they so kindly set-up for me for my $25/month. I’m curious to see if it will rank for the appropriate terms before I get terminated! Anyways here’s my review on the Empower Network Scam Looks like they noticed it!
Lets take them one at a time :
- Wow a blogging system how cool is that? Very not cool – its just a WordPress install on their domain – you aren’t developing your own blog – you are providing content – for them. That’s why the original review got removed – because they could. Interesting aside – when I put the original review on my very own blog on their system – I thought it would outrank this review in the search results, it never did. In other words their own domain called “EmpowerNetwork.com” couldn’t rank for a term like “empower network scam”. For once Google and I agree – the domain has no authority at all
- High converting lead capture page. That sounds cool doesn’t it! Its the ugly form that shows up when you arrive on their site. I have one to – its called the email form on my sidebar or sometimes pops up (I change it around). I do it using a service known as Aweber – it costs about $20/month for the entire email management system – not just for the form!
- 8-Part Video training. Yeah right – nice if you want to see the lifestyles of the “rich and famous” – rich on other suckers money of course. These are very brief teaser videos each is only about 10 minutes long. The real content of course is in the upsell- oh you’re surprised there is an upsell? Also the only detailed information they give you is how to set up a merchant account – so you can get paid you know? I’ve been paid for years online and I’ve never had a merchant account: paypal, checks, bank accounts, they all work just fine. Unless you are running something somewhat illegal…
- Yeah website hosting etc. Like I said above – all you have is a blog on their site. If you want someone to host your blog for free then use wordpress.com – its free, or blogspot.com or blogs.com or tumblr.com – yes there are heaps of them. If you actually want your OWN blog – buy a domain name ($10/year) and some hosting ($7/month). I don’t know what “sales phycology” is – maybe they should spend all that money on a proof-reader? Anyways they sales are slick – look at what they are doing, not what they are offering.
- The right to resell to others – yeah that makes not just a scam but a pyramid scheme
So they are selling what exactly? Precisely – they are in fact not just offering an over-priced scam. They are offering a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is when what you buy has no value at all. You buy in because you want others to buy in on your “down line” and you get their payments.
It works for those at the top. The other 95% of members generally lose money.
That’s why pyramid schemes are illegal in most countries including the US, Canada, UK, Australia and most others.
Oh and the $25/month that’s the start of it – you’ll need to pay considerably more to get to the “inner circle” where they might actually teach something about making money online.
Really its the old, old story – if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
I love the typo in their ad ‘complete with profit pulling sales phycology‘ Uh, oh, if they make soo much money they really could afford a proof reader … SY
You should see their autoresponder email series – illiterate doesn’t start to cover it!
I see it’s still up! Didn’t Dave just give you 24 hours?
Yeah really! I thought Dave was being optimistic!
Hilarious. Well done Lis. No cheerleaders here yet though.
Your review is Golden Lis, I see you haven’t lost your touch.
You should skip Internet marketing and go right in comedy writing.
You ROCK Lis!! You are my A # 1 scam buster. Four days and your review is still on their network. It seems like Dave and Dave don’t spend much time on their own site.
$25 per month seems a bit expensive to me, because the cost for my web host is about $US8 ($NZ12.00) last month. That in its self would have put me off straight away. Good review and good on you for putting that on “your blog” that they provided for you. Be interesting to see how long that stays there, and you as a member.
The upsells actually add up to about $625/month!
Woah! Lis that was a brave move! So proud of you. I really thought that Empower network is Ok huh! I have even promoted it in some ways. Good thing I have never tried it
lol!
Julia I never promote anything I haven’t used in this niche. There is too much crap out there!
Hey, great review. Have you heard about Chris Campbell and Chris Jones new program to help promote the Empower Network. Its called the success luminary group. I am sure you have heard of IPAS by the two chris’s. We joined IPAS and because we are iPAS members, we are in the Success Luminary Group.
What they do is enhance your learning so you market the empower network better. It’s great. If you are no making as much as you want, I recommend looking into the Success Luminary group.
The Empower Network, does a good job with training but we wanted more. What I think is cool is you can network with the Chris’s and establish relationships with them. They wil help you out if you are a newbie.
Just FYI. Thought you may want to know. Good review.
The Hell Brothers
Oh hell – I kinda snipped your spamming link – really sorry about that!
Ha! Nicely done.
I’ve been worried about my son because he drank the Empower Network kool-aid. Trying to talk him down, but it’s a tough battle.
I’ve noticed too that the scam brothers have done what every other illegal MLM group has done: littered the internet with fake pages designed to hook onto a Google search of “Empower Network Scam”. At first glance, it looks as though it’s a legitimate site, offering to honest insight into research on their “system” – only to discover it’s them again, looking to promote themselves. I.E. “it’s not a scam, because we own it, so we’re saying it’s not a scam. You believe us, right?” *smacks forehead*
Awesome Lis
If you look at their front page Facebook testimonials, you’ll see that they’re all FAKE! I can’t believe they went through all that trouble…
- Tony
Oh I can – social proof works – and there is a lot of money at stake here
Thanks for your review. It just saved me from all this stupid bull!!!! That’s why i always search for scams when reviewing anything that I would be giving money to.
I’m very pleased to hear that Darron! Nice to meet you – hope you you hang around. You can make money online – but its building a business, and same as any business there are not guarantees, just lots hard work
Where can I read the review. It seems like they took it down and now your link actually forwards to their squeeze page, so indirectly you’re actually promoting them. Now with them having taken down your review you might want to post your review on your blog because I’d like to read it, thanks a lot.
THANK YOU for letting me know – I’ve been checking from time-to-time but I’d forgotten about it for a while. I couldn’t actually found the original review – but I wrote it again here. Its a pyramid scheme pure and simple – can’t believe they are still going I guess it takes the authorities a while to take them down.