The Viral Secret
Filed Under (internet marketing, list building, marketing tools) by admin on 12-02-2010
The Viral Secret is a new list building product launched by the king of micro continuity, Russel Brunson.
The very impressive signup page certainly will attract a lot of people, specially once they see all the big names involved: Mike Filsaime, Jeff Dedrick, Ewen Chia, David Guindon, Frank Astheimer, Todd Gross, Derrick Van Dyke, etc. I confess I too felt attracted but then…
I’ve started reading other marketers’ opinion. Here are some of them.
A comment posted by Adin Martin on Bob Serling’s Blog (http://www.power8marketing.com/P8blog/?p=70#comments):
” You actually caught me at a bad time because I just received an email from someone I thought I trusted and clicked on the link and it was just another pathetic big-name-big-hype-big-promise-no-action guru deal.
By all accounts 6 top ‘gurus’ are going to work their fingers to the bone building our list, for free of course, when it just turns out to be another used car salesman tactic to get you to sign up to 6 lists and hit you with a $100 OTO.
On top of that they are playing the old MLM c**p game of showing how easy it is to grow a huge downline – we’ve all seen this stuff over and over again and I’m really pi**ed! ”
Daniel McGonagle, by email:
” I’m rushing this email out to you because I see some emails hitting my inbox talking about a new Viral list building product or service.
Yes, you can build your list and let others build a list under you but it’s doesn’t really make much business sense.
What if someone under you is building a health-related niche list and you’re building technology-related list?
How does that benefit you?
I’ve seen these services come and go over the years and frankly I think they’re all sucker’s bets that only really benefit the
owners of the program and the “first movers”…
Dave Lovelace, by email:
” Puhleeze. Same story, different face. These are time wasters and not your BEST option for buildling a REAL list that you OWN.
Listen, when others come on board to ANYTHING for their own selfish purpose, then how the heck will you benefit from that?
—————-The only person who really benefits from this or any other list-building matrix is the one who created it.”
Despite all the above opinions, I signed up because I wanted to find out exactly how it works.
Surprise, surprise…After you enter your personal information, you are requested to sign up for six newsletters (or are they seven?). You are then offered a $97 account upgrade, followed by a $47 downsell, if you don’t take up on the first offer.
Inside the members area, you find out that you need an Aweber autoresponder account and – of course – it’s Russel’s affiliate link that takes you to the Aweber signup page… While you are in the members area, every time you click on any link you are reminded that you are NOT an upgraded member and then the upgrade offer shows up.
Oh, about the newsletters: four out of the six marketers hit me with some sales pitch before sending any useful information.
Would Adin Martin be right when he stated: “I am sick of seeing people with hopes and dreams being treated as no more than a wallet to be prised open by these patronizing gurus.”? What do you think about?
P.S.: I for myself think that spending a lot less money (less than 10 bucks) you can signup for MMaco mail, present your offer to 150 million people and build your own personal mailing list. Read this blog post to find out more.
