Commission Blueprint Review
Today I had the opportunity to review a new product in prelaunch called Commission Blueprint that was created by Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey. It is a training program about how to maximize affiliate profits using Clickbank and Google Adwords. The authors of the course state that their course “is a no-holds barred step by step course showing every last secret we know”.
The product consists of a one time $77 charge for 14 videos and at least three ebooks that provide more details and examples of some of the more technical material discussed in the videos.
The second part of the product is a $67 a month membership site that the authors promise will continue to provide more training on the topic as well as many other resources that will be made available to members such as templates and sample pages for marketing campaigns. A $4.95 trial membership is being offered as an upsell to anyone who purchases the video package.
The Creators
Steve Clayton is an expert on marketing and technology and was a VP for a Fortune 500 company in Burlington, NC and currently manages over a million dollars in Adwords campaigns each year.
Tim Godfrey is an internet marketer that has been successful in the health and golf niches and ran a very profitable online gambling website.
Commission Blueprint: The Product
The 14 videos are narrated by Steve Clayton. In all there are over three hours of video that explains how Steve has become a super affiliate with Clickbank. The products claims to be step by step training in how to find the best Clickbank products and what you need to do to milk the products for all they are worth.
Steve got off to a slow start but once he did get going, he provided a lot of useful information on the following topics:
Keyword Research
- How to pick four to six products and test them for profitably
- How to avoid making the costly mistakes of paying too much for Adwords and lose money rather than make a profit
- Explained how to read and understand all of the statistics that Clickbank provides
- Defined the terms Clickbank gravity, cost per click, conversion rate, commission payout and click inventory then explained why they are important
- Showed how to use a spreadsheet that is part of the product to decide if a product is worth marketing and explained what number combinations make a product worth pursuing
- Demonstrated tools that he uses for keyword research
- Provided a formula to determine which keywords are profitable and how much you should pay for them
- Performed a step by step demonstration on how to do keyword research and use Google Adwords statistics to analyze them to determine which one are most likely to be profitable for you to use
- Showed how to estimate the amount of traffic for a given keyword using google’s free tools
Domain Names and Hosting
- Steve explained why you need a domain name and what factors you should consider when selecting one such as length and demonstrated a few tools to help you choose good keywords
- Explained the best type of web hosting to buy to make running your business easier
- Explained how to use domain names in your Adwords ads
- Demonstrated how to set up the correct DNS server for your domain name
Creating Landing Pages for Adwords Campaigns
- Explained how to set up landing pages and what you need to do to get a good quality score from google and how to create a page that will sell your product
- Explained how to make sure there is sufficient continuity between the Adwords ad, the search term, the story you are telling and the offer made by the Clickbank product and why it is important
Managing Adwords Campaigns
- Explained how to use the Adwords information in combination with the data from Clickbank to manage your keyword ad campaigns for profitability
- Demonstrated how to determine which keywords are not converting well enough to prevent losing money
- Explained why you need to use Adwords Editor
- Showed how to optimize your ad position and click through rate
Scaling Your Affiliate Business
- Explained how to scale your business (how to increase your daily commissions)
- Discussed the methods that have proven successful for increasing your earnings as your campaign matures
- Demonstrated how to optimize your bids to increase profitability
- Discussed when it’s time to move your ad campaign over to both Yahoo and MSN
- Discussed when it makes sense to do offline advertising
- Discussed when to use email campaigns or JV with other marketers
- Discussed when to start using SEO for you campaigns
- Discussed when to use opt in pages
- Explained how to create Thank You pages
Cash Flow
- Explained how Clickbank pays out its commissions so you know how to budget your money to pay for your Adwords campaign and made several recommendations on how to manage your budget
- Explained why you need to get a tax advisor and/or an accountant to prevent problems with the IRS if you live in the USA
What I Liked
Overall the information was well organized and presented in a logical order. Videos 3 through 14 contained a great deal of useful information in a reasonable amount of detail. I was also provided with three templates. All three were simple but attractive and the optin page template was quite professional which will definitely make setting up pages easier for a novice or a somewhat technologically challenged marketer.
What I Didn’t Like
Steve got off to a very slow start and spent a lot of time talking about stuff that was really of no interest to me and didn’t relate to his product. In short he talks too much. For example, it took him almost 10 minutes to say that this is not really a beginner’s product and some basic knowledge is necessary.
He spent the first two videos on fluff such as the viewer shouldn’t be scared, etc…etc. If the product was not designed for beginners, why waste time with all the reassurance stuff. He reminded me someone who is just rattling off because they are nervous and not sure what to say.
Most people are very busy and don’t need to spend an extra unnecessary hour or so watching these videos. Unlike printed material, you can’t just skim over the unnecessary parts.
In addition, video 1 and video 5 terminated before he was actually finished talking. He was cut off in mid sentence. Do keep in mind that what I was given access to is a prelaunch version so it may just be that they haven’t worked out all of the technical hiccups yet.
Conclusion
If they cut out the unnecessary time wasting material and fix the technical glitches in the two videos, Commission Blueprint is an excellent product that will benefit anyone trying to get an affiliate sales business up and running. The templates provided are good and designed to use the information presented in the videos. One is for a review page, one for a sales letter and two optin pages. The optin page that allows you to put your own video online is especially helpful to the technologically challenged. While the membership site promises more training and great resources, I will need to defer comment until it actually becomes available. Click here to purchase Commission Blueprint at the best price.
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11 Responses to “Commission Blueprint Review”
By nizam ali on Oct 9, 2008 | Reply
Hi there.
I am unemployed and desire to do some business from home through the internet.Problem is I am not easily motivated to do anything. Can you help?
By Vita Vee on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
Hi Nizam,
I’m sorry to say this, but without motivation, dedication and persistent work, I’m afraid you won’t be able to make money on the internet.
As any other business, it requires work.
Vita
By jill schlueter on Oct 14, 2008 | Reply
Vita,
I enjoyed your review on the CB series. I my not well versed in the internet jargon and think CB will be over my head.I purchased Ewin’s super affiliate program and opted out because it was equally difficult for me to understand. Can you recommend a product/course that my bring in cash that is easier to understand. Also, have you heard of Mike Dillard,s Magnetic Sponsoring? Any thoughts?
Thank you in advance, Jill Schlueter
By FaridSulaiman.com on Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the great review about the product, I had try doing CB last 4 month ago but still loss USD100 and no sales. I would like to view this product.
By Stan on Feb 18, 2009 | Reply
Hi Vita,
I read over your review and am very interested in Commission Blueprint. I would definitely want to earn an extra income online. Before I go ahead with the purchase, here are some questions I have for you.
1. When they mentioned about those sales figures such as $109,151 every month, how much advertising costs on adwords would I expect to pay in order to earn this revenue using the methods taught on the product? I mean, the sales figures are great but can the methods ensure that my advertising costs on adwords would be lower than the revenue being generated? This is a simple question and yet so important.
2. When Steven and Tim mentioned that the methods being sneaky and tricky, does that mean that eventually google will find out about it and won’t allow this method to continue? I am asking this because I want to develop a long term income with Internet Marketing and not just to earn some quick cash. Also, will the methods be used so competitively that eventually they won’t work?
3. No offense but I am very curious on why you decide to sell this product(Commision Blueprint) instead of using the methods to earn affiliate incomes from other clickbank products. Afterall, Steven&Tim mentioned that internet marketing is not the niche where the money is coming from but this is exactly where you are marketing now.
4. If I go forward in using your methods to do this affiliate business, do you think I have any competitive advantage given the fact I reside in Hong Kong and know Chinese?
Thanks in advances for your help. I do have some background on internet marketing having done some online business few years ago but I had trouble controlling my advertising cost. Anyway, look forward to hear from you.
Rgds,
Stan
By Vita Vee on Feb 18, 2009 | Reply
Hi Stan,
I understand your concerns and I’m going to try to give you the details you are asking for.
1/ I don’t know how much THEY paid for their advertisings to generate this kind of money. They didn’t talk about it. From my experience, what you can expect in general is that for many of your promotions you will NOT be profitable. This is why it is important to have a blueprint to follow, as you may have heard, it’s mainly a numbers game. You promote several offers, one after the other until you find one that is converting for you. You then scale up this campaign to send as much traffic as you can to increase your profits. For some campaigns you might expect a 2:1 ratio or 2 dollars earned per dollar invested. For some other campaigns you might reach 10:1 ratio or 1.1:1 ratio. It all depends on the following pipeline: Your keyword -> Your AD -> Your landing page if any -> The sales page conversion ratio. If you find the perfect combination you will make nice profits. If something doesn’t work well in your pipeline you might get some profits but most likely you will have a non performing campaign. With Commission Blueprint you will maximize your chances to create those perfect pipelines.
2/ No you don’t take any risk with Google if you follow their sneaky methods. They don’t break Google rules.
3/ Internet marketing is just one of the markets I’m working in. But I’m also involved in other markets like the health market, luxuries, apparels, culture, entertainment, sports, education, careers, mind power, pets, webmasters etc… That being said, I don’t agree with them when they say that Internet Marketing is not where the money is being made. Of course it is a much smaller market than weight loss for example, but a ton of money is being made in the Internet Marketing field every days.
4/ Honestly I don’t know. Advertising in your own language for your countries could help but I’m not sure. The fact is you will face more competition in the USA, without any doubt, but there are also tons of offers to promote. Myself I am french and living in France. But I don’t promote anything here in France because of the lack of interesting offers.
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Vita Vee
By Laurie on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Hi your review on commission blueprint sounds great…I especially liked your keyword tracker tool bonus…so in commission blueprint’s course do they mention anything about a keyword tracker tool and how to use it…and is this something extra you have to buy…is this tool like keyword elite.
thanks
Laurie.
By Vita Vee on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Hi Laurie,
Yes they do recommend to purchase a program called Speed PPC but this software is really expensive. $397 or $497 depending on the version you choose.
But Speed PPC is more than a keyword tracking software. It helps to solve a lot of problems like:
- High cost per click
- Poor quality score
- Low click through rate on your ads
- Low conversion rates
- Tracking to the keyword level
And it does all this EXTREMELY quickly so instead of spending 4 hours for example to setup a new campaign you only spend 20 minutes.
The official website is : http://speedppc.com
Maybe I will write a review about this product but it’s quite expensive and out of reach for many people.
So if you’re on a budget I recommend using my keyword tracker bonus along with Commission Blueprint. It won’t help you to create your campaigns faster but it will show you which keywords are costing you money and which ones are bringing in some profits.
Hope this helps,
Vita Vee
By Laurie on Mar 2, 2009 | Reply
Hi Vita Vee,
thanks for your reply…yes I checked out speed ppc and it is very pricey but I guess it does a great job.
Anyhow I’m looking at ppc ninja and it sounds awesome a lot of folks on the warrior forum give it a good rating but its a lot more pricey than commission blueprint
do you know anything about it…there’s not many promoting it so no big bonuses offered at the moment.
thanks
Laurie.
By Vita Vee on Mar 3, 2009 | Reply
Hi Laurie,
I don’t know anything about PPC Ninja yet.
I will try to test it and review it as soon as possible.
If you want to know when my review gets published just subscribe to my newsletter (top-right of this page).
Thanks for letting me know about it.
Vita Vee
By Vita Vee on Mar 18, 2009 | Reply
Quick update: I have just published my review of PPC Ninja.