How excited would you be if I told you I had worked out a proven system to make money online, lots of money, and I was willing to tell you everything you need to know so you could literally copy and paste it to succeed? That I was earning almost twenty thousand dollars each and every month, and you could be too? Only you will do it minus all the trial and error I went through. Without all the financial loss I went through. And that I would share all this with you for… oh I don’t know… $77?

Are you nodding? Reaching for your credit card? Good, then before we make that purchase, I want to show you this ab work out machine that requires nothing more than three minutes a day to turn your flabby middle into wash-board abs! Oh no, no, wait! Even better, here’s a recently discovered berry from the amazon forests that will make your body simply repel any excess weight like it was last season’s fashion!

Yes, any of those ab machines will help you to get those rock hard abs of steel… providing you use it in conjunction with traditional exercise (cardio preferred) and a balanced, healthy diet. And that’s a diet in place of your junk food addictions, not as well as. Spending just 3 minutes a day but changing nothing else in your life will not work. Just the same as the berries on their own won’t work… although I don’t think they work at all, but they certainly won’t work some voodoo fat magic without the aid of exercise, diet and perhaps one of those ab machines…

Just like those infomercials, there is more to a “copy and paste” system when it comes to making money online. Yes they work, I’m sure that at least 50% of the people writing the ebooks claiming you can copy their methods are in fact making some money with the steps they are teaching. But, and it’s a very big but, there’s always going to be more to it. Why do I say that? Well let’s talk to Captain Obvious for a moment.

Put yourself in the shoes of one of those “I’m not a guru so you can trust me, but I’m making as much or more money than them and am here to tell you all my secrets” salesmen. Let’s pretend you’re making a respectable $10,000 a month, every month. You’ve gone through the trials and tribulations to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Sure, you’ve lost money along the way but finally, you’ve got it all sorted and would be comfortable making the claim that you could teach someone else how to do it. So, are you going to:

1. Share this system with anyone who wants to know?
2. Not only the methods, but give away your exact campaigns, and exact systems that allows anyone to duplicate your exact earnings?
3. And best off all, give away all this proven money making information for a measly $77?

No? Hrm, ok. No problem. I’ll just pop over to Copy Paste Systems because apparently, they will! And they make almost twenty thousand a month which is double you, so nyeh! In your face!

I’m not going to hide my dislike of these sorts of sca…. systems. I’ve been bitten a couple of times on the same sort of claim and I’ve yet to see or hear of any real copy and paste system that actually works. To me, all I see is Copy, Paste… Fail. Why? Because it’s common sense, something that is scarily uncommon these days.

I mean really, if you are earning just under twenty THOUSAND dollars a MONTH, and you are claiming that ANYONE who buys your system can do exactly the same thing with your EXACT campaigns, keywords, landing pages, etc… are you REALLY going to give away that big of a gold mine for $77….? No, you’re not. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be proven wrong. I would be the first person to hand over my money if it was as easy as copying what ever they told me worked and plugging it in to where ever they say it worked. But it’s not that simple.

I’ve seen a lot of these types of sales pages over the past year, and have even fallen for a couple myself. But now, there’s no way I’d waste my money, because the only “copy and paste” system that is in play and working, is the “tell people they can copy and paste your campaigns”. Yes they’re making money, every time someone buys their eBook!

Just take a look at what the emails are claiming:

All the testing, tweaking, market research, landing pages, keywords, ads and all the other good “secret” stuff including exact systems and processes are already “done for you!”  and handed to you on a silver platter! There’s no more expensive trial-and-error!

That’s right, you don’t have to test, you don’t have to tweak, do market research or try to come up with the best landing page, keywords or ads. In fact, throw that brain right out your left ear, they’ve done it all for you! And all for $77? Gee, what a steal! (I mean seriously, stop and think for just a minute about how ridiculous that sounds!!)

I received a fair few emails on this particular product launch, surprisingly more than I would expect for a $77 ebook. Perhaps there’s some juicy up-sells after your original purchase that bump up the affiliates commissions? Who knows. I do love the ‘hurry now’ tactic used in a few of them though:

But, You need to hurry now because it’s extremely limited and available only for the first few people!

Yes, hurry. Limited. Right. I’ve been opening up the same website for the past 5 days (as of writing this post) and what do you know? It’s still for sale. That means that there’s either a lot more common sense happening than I first gave credit for or, more likely, there is no limit.

I do so love the other little tricks used as well. Like how the sales letter goes on and on about how you won’t need to worry about Adwords, Yahoo or MSN to make your money. A little play on words trick that gets the reader thinking that you won’t be doing PPC advertising. But you are. You just doing it via Facebook instead. How do I know it’s facebook? Look at the picture they provide for their “Traffic Tornado Sales System”, then look at the one under the ’step by step’ tab on this: http://www.facebook.com/advertising/ Oh my gosh! They’re the same…

And the quote “This brand new never seen before system does not require a web site or technical experience!” Um, yeah… Facebook advertising isn’t brand new, and you’ve never needed a website to do PPC, although it helps.

After noticing that along with a few other issues I had on the page, there’s no way I would be parting with my money for it. I’ve spoken to a few people on Twitter about it, but so far no one’s taken that leap of purchasing it yet, and apparently, none plan to. For what must work out to be between $26 to $50 commission, some of the promoters were hell bent on making sure I got the info about it – one of them even sent me seven emails, four on the ONE day! So I’m sure there’s at least some good info in there, because all affiliates purchase the product before they push it… right?

Oh yes, and I realise a disclaimer is pretty much required, but take note of the last paragraph:

ANY AND ALL FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS HERE OR ON ANY OF OUR SALES MATERIAL ARE INTENDED TO EXPRESS OUR OPINION OF EARNINGS POTENTIAL. MANY FACTORS WILL BE IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING YOUR ACTUAL RESULTS AND NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE RESULTS SIMILAR TO OURS OR ANYBODY ELSES, IN FACT NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE ANY RESULTS FROM OUR IDEAS AND TECHNIQUES IN OUR MATERIAL.

LOL!

P.S. I get that “copy and paste” is what this is all about, but, um, Chad Michaels… it might be a good idea when you “copy and paste” an email to promote it, that you don’t copy in the original senders sign off. Because when I get an email from you, ending with “Talk soon, Steven”, it kinda gives the game away.

Has anyone bought it? Care to tell me I’m wrong or are you too busy rolling around in all the newly acquired wealth?

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?