Recently 2 products came to my attention.

They are both similar in nature although they were presented in very different ways.

The creator of the first product had a very interesting question put forward to his potential customers – “If I were made a bankrupt tomorrow and left with nothing but $200 to my name, and I had no list (of customers), no product, no nothing, what would I do to make $500?”

The creator of the second product is irritatingly hypey – “Devastating ‘hands off’ marketing secret weapon makes $19,521.06 a month in just 18 clicks!”

On first impression, I instinctively wanted to banish the 2nd product and discontinue reading it. From experience, products with such hype in their sales copy are usually just that – hype. But of course I decided to continue reading it and eventually even bought the product just to see what lay beneath the hype. After all, quite a few internet marketing gurus were promoting this particular product heavily.

My first impression of the first product was better. I enjoyed watching the videos in which the creator explained what he would do to re-establish his wealth if he went bankrupt the next day with nothing to his name but $500. There was some good information for beginners in there. It was good marketing in my opinion.

But having said all that, actually both product 1 and 2 are almost the same thing.

In my previous blog post titled – How to make money online fast – I spoke of review affiliate marketing as one of the methods of affiliate marketing. It involves writing reviews on products you want to promote. A percentage of people who read your review will click on your affiliate link to find out more about the product and a percentage of those will purchase the product and you make a commission.

Both products are geared towards exactly just that.

The first product is aptly named ‘I Made 500‘. The second product is more loudly named ‘CB Predators‘ – where CB stands for Click Bank – the largest affiliate digital product network in the world.

Internet marketing expert Anik Singal is the brainchild behind ‘I Made 500′ – in which he promises that his product can help anyone start making a modest income from internet marketing with just a couple of hundred dollars.

Chris Fox and Jerome Chapman engineered ‘CB Predators’ – in which they promise that anyone can make 5 figure commissions with 18 clicks.

My verdict after going through both products – ‘I Made 500′ wins hands down. I’ll explain why.

First the similarities.

Both products are designed to help you earn money through review affiliate marketing. Both products have a software that guides you in writing product reviews and puts them up for you on a website even if you know next to nothing about setting up a website. That is where the similarity ends.

Now for the differences.

‘I Made 500′ tells you honestly that this program will not make you hundreds of thousands of dollars but can help you make your first $500 to give you the confidence to pursue the internet marketing route. This is a very realistic goal as the program also teaches you how to get the traffic required to make that first income.

‘CB Predators’ tells you that you can make tons of money with just 18 clicks. I found this to be totally untrue because you will need to do a fair bit of writing on top of the clicks. Hardly 18 clicks as they claimed! And I can also tell you that it is nowhere impossible to get tons of money just by making such review sites unless you can drive a tsunami of relevant traffic to these review sites!

‘I Made 500′ has a pretty intuitive system and guides you to write your reviews and get your free traffic in a ‘hand held’ fashion. If you are totally new to this, you will appreciate ‘I Made 500′ very much for this point alone. It also assumes that you are not the best writer in the world and it asks you intelligent questions that will make writing your product reviews relatively painless. ‘CB Predators’ on the other hand offers very little help and you are pretty much left on your own to figure things out.

If you are completely clueless about setting up a website, ‘I Made 500′ takes the pain away from you and not only provides you with your own domain, but also helps you put up your review. All you have to do is to write reviews. For ‘CB Predators’ you will have to purchase and set up your own website although the program does upload the review files for you. To be honest however, I found the end product review site for ‘CB Predators’ to be downright ugly and you will have to do quite a bit (read that as A LOT MORE) to make it decent. Again, it’s definitely a far cry from 18 clicks to riches!

Costs.

It costs$32 per month to use ‘I Made 500’s’ system but it requires you to sign on for a minimum of 3 months. CB Predators charges you $67 per month and thereafter a recurring $37 every month, but you can pull out anytime.

Verdict

- you are new to internet marketing
- you want to start making money online
- you need somebody to show you the path and get you started
- you have only $200 and some time to invest
- you are patient and willing to put in the time and effort

If you have the above attributes and want something that really works for you and not something based on hype, ‘I Made 500′ is probably the right answer for you.

This post is for business owners or CG enthusiasts who own a website or a blog. I have stumbled upon a website that can potentially drive loads of traffic to your website. The best part of all – it is free and easy to register for!

Qassia

Animation is not related to web traffic building, you said? Why am I even talking about it? Actually I beg to differ. A website would be useless if there is no traffic. It will mean your website is not generating business for you. If you are a business owner, the purpose of producing animation is to generate business for your company. And if you are a CG enthusiast with a showcase site or a blog, you will know that you want lots of people visiting your it to look at your stuff.

I study internet marketing religiously so I can tell you that this is quite exciting!

Qassia

Once you get to my page, you will be able to register an account. No charge at all. IF you don’t go there, you will not be able to register an account at all. This is purely through invitation only.

Once you have registered, learn the functions. Since it’s a good traffic mechanism (I checked its Alexa stats – not bad) and I think it could be the next wave in the Web 2.0 world.

This is a good way to put your profile out there for unique visitors to find you on the web. Have fun!

Aldric