I love the names used for all the product launches now a days, don’t you? Google Terminator, Google Sniper, Google… snatch. What the?! Seriously? I get that you want to grab the users attention, and yes granted that will probably do it (for at least the male population), but snatch… really?

*shakes head and moves on*

Google Terminator, created by Chris Fox (who?), claims to stuff your pockets full of cash without having to spend anything at all. What we all want, isn’t it? Rumour has it this is just a streamlined repeat of Chris’ previous launch, what ever that may be. Honestly, I’m not sure. I only received a few emails about this launch and don’t have anything else about Chris Fox lurking around the inbox. Hence the ‘who’ comment…

The method involves getting in on other new and preferably big product launches in the Internet Marketing niche prior to their actual launch date. You start blogs to promote them with your affiliate link, offer the best bonuses possible and then get your blog to the #1 result for organic search results. Sounds straight forward enough. (And it is a method that works.)

Like most “I can show you the real way to make money online” products, the sales letter promises everything while asking little from you in return. But is that really the case? The first main focus point informs you that you do not need to know a thing about SEO, PPC, Web 2.0, List Building or Email Marketing to promote your sites, nor do you need to know about article marketing, blogging, HTML or other web related functions to create your site in the first place.

Wrong.

It involves most, if not all of them! Ok granted, PPC and list building may not be required in order to duplicate the success taught by his methods, however, you definitely need at least a basic knowledge of HTML, blogging, article marketing, link building, SEO and Web 2.0 marketing. When someone says you don’t need to clap your hands to turn on the light, and you do in fact have to clap your hands, that’s called lying. Most days I wonder if that’s Internet and Marketing’s middle name…

Hey wait a minute, isn’t it cool to have more than one middle name these days? If so, can we add in ‘one-time-offer’ as well? Google Terminator certainly continues that trend as well, in fact, there’s not one, not two, but four back-end offers attached to this initial purchase. Even worse, from what I have heard, none of them are worth it yet most are required in order to complete the main purchase and follow all the techniques needed.

I just got it for £3.15 (press back on sales page) and I must say I was really shocked to see not 2, not 3 but 6 UPSELLS!!! This guy must be making a killing out of this…

Anyway, I have just logged into the membership area and inside the first 2 things you come across are 2 more products hes promoting. He’s promoting a product by his brothers for $197 and then selling a google terminator website BUT you have to purchase hostgator hosting + domain name through his affiliate link. ~ Joe Walter, Warrior Forum Comment

Even the JV page provided informs you that at least the first up-sell is the ‘completion’ of the main product:

Back-end Offer Number #1: The “Promotion Terminator” System
A HIGHLY related up-sell which will nearly forces people into buying. It’s the “COMPLETE” promotion strategy that will ensure their Terminator sites get top rankings in the search engines

All in all you’re asked for $47 for the ebook purchase, $27 for the “Promotion Terminator” System, $37 a month for access to the “Insiders Club” membership site, $47 for the “Automated Blog Feeding Software” which, if you say no to the first time, will be re-offered alongside a Slide In Pop-up generator, a set of wordpress themes and “Resell Rights” to various bits of special marketing scripts for the same $47 price tag.

Total cost: $158 + $37 each month after that… ouch.

Of course, a high price tag is nothing IF the product delivers. Unfortunately, feedback so far says this one doesn’t. From reading various replies to blog reviews about it, to chatting on Twitter with people who purchased it, the general census is a lot of refunds and unimpressed customers. There’s a thread over on the Warrior Forums (here – from about reply #11 onwards) that shows what some people had to say, and another review over on Mad IM Marketing which covers a couple of negatives (although still promotes it in the end, so I’m not convinced it’s a real review, or one of those “I’ll show you it’s not 100% perfect so you trust my word and buy from me” tricks).

In comparison, I have heard from a quite a few people that George Brown’s Google Sniper is pretty much the same method’s but presented in a much better manner. In fact, while I could only find a couple of less than flattering comments about Google Terminator, there is is an 11 page Review thread (plus another smaller one) dedicated solely to Google Sniper. One member even claims that “the section on pre selling and conversions is worth the price of the course alone.” So honestly, if you are wanting to look into this sort of method to make money, I’d put my money on a Sniper over a Terminator.

As I mentioned at the start, the general methods outlined do work, you just need to find a product that shows you everything in order to have all the steps required to succeed, and preferably, all within the one price tag. In the end, Google Terminator teaches one important factor – that skimping on the main ebook in the hopes it will force customers to purchase the second one really doesn’t work.

For those that are interested, you can check out Google Sniper here.

P.S. Of course I’m going to link to Google snatch as well! I’m not a tease! Google Snatch! :-)

Other ‘Google’ names I discovered in my inbox include Google Ambush, Google Conquest and even a Google Slapper … what the?

P.P.S. With so many people looking to make money online, the real ones making it are the ones promoting and selling “how to make money online” products. Ironic much?