MoneyListProfits (MLP) has been very difficult to judge. At first glance the site has the look of a bog standard affiliate money making program where usually the main letdown is the product itself. The other immediate judgement I made is of the blatant use of affiliate marketing techniques. Of course it can hardly be expected for the marketer not to try and sell it, but the whole site is incredibly ’salesmany’.

A Warning against the style of writing used by affiliate marketers
Affiliate programs like MoneyListProfits generally consist of a few basic pages, a squeeze page (where they will send you the ‘free part’ if you enter your email address’), and the landing page where the customer is lead down the page by a sneaky series of hyped up promises ‘free bonuses’ and examples of what the money could be spent on.

I have nothing against these techniques being used, after all if I were selling a product using a similar affiliate program I would use elements of those techniques. However, it is important for customers not rush into the purchase. Take a breather; you could always come back the next day to the site when you have had time to put things into perspective.

Examples of hyped up promises and ‘free bonuses’

“Let’s take a look at these Two FREE Bonuses in closer detail…”

“If You Hurry And Order Right Now From The Bottom Of This Page, You Will Get The Entire MLP Platinum Membership Package For $39.85 One-Time ONLY Instead of $197.00!”

“This special deep-discounted limited-time offer
could be removed any moment without noice”.

“I could be updating this page right now”

This is the oldest trick in the book, they never remove the special discount and it’s not really worth $197. The page is carefully written to make the customer think they are getting an amazing deal. This is reinforced when the affiliates who sell MoneylistProfits are paid a flat rate of $10 with no mention of what they would be paid if the price rose.

Despite being all too aware I was being manipulated the product actually has some interesting features.

“For that single downline you create at MLP (full step-by-step training included), the Bulk Downline Generator will automatically generate and manage multiple downlines for you at the 20+ Listed PTR programs”

The ‘Bulk Downline Generator’ sounds like a PTR nerd’s wet dream but with MLP it does seem to make sense. MLP recommends pretty much the same batch of PTR programs to all its members and so the new signups are put in the downlines of the ones who already signed up. This is boasted as being the main feature of MLP but if you remove the other not-so-great features this doesn’t really add up. It results in people finding themselves paying $39 because they know more people will do the same thing… it’s a odd concept because people normally sign up for PTR sites for free!

An unusual detail is that the position of being an affiliate must be applied for, or the MLP can be bought giving instant access, which is a clever trick but if an affiliate refers 4 new members the cost of membership is recovered.

Conclusion
I was amazed at the lack of ‘internet chatter’ about MLP and it’s affiliate program, which suggests it hasn’t ‘taken off’ yet. MLP has potential and it’s affiliate program could prove lucrative, however, I could find no proof of anyone actually buying the MLP program. At the moment there are just a few lonely affiliates posting about MLP in forums and the affiliate terms forbid affiliates from making open claims about their amount of earnings and also from displaying checks. I do not think MoneyListProfits to be a total Internet scam, but due to the current lack of evidence it cannot make it to the recommended affiliate programs section.

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I previously ‘prophesised’ that Fummo would turn out to be an Internet scam, and you know what; I was right. (Don’t look so surprised!). Wyatt, who has actually dedicated his new site to spread the word about ‘FakeFummo’, commented alerting me to what has happened to Fummo since I wrote about them.

When I started this update the main Fummo homepage was still up and running. You could still sign up, create an account and even take offers. I.e. you can still make money for Fummo. However, the forum, which was full of disgruntled members had already closed down and the message that they will be back on the 25th of May was clearly not true. The site had been plastered with Bidvertiser ads, presumably a last ditch attempt by the owners to milk the site for all it’s worth (not much!).

As if my very writing itself had killed Fummo, the Fummo site suddenly went down. Wyatt wrote that Fummo was put up for sale, which may explain the site going down like this because perhaps they fooled someone into buying it.

Conclusion
Fummo has reinforced its position in the Internet scams section. It looks like they have finally met their grizzly end and I hope they stay that way!

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Ultimate Wealth Package (UWP) is a somewhat dubious looking affiliate money making program which has made more than it’s share if Internet cash. UWP is made by Mark Warren, who according to himself and other reviews of UWP is an Internet millionaire. UWP uses the Click Bank affiliate program and so has already avoided the Internet scams category. However, whether it makes it to the recommended affiliate programs section is a different matter entirely.

It is important to understand that the UWP is a product that you have to buy. You also have the option of selling the UWP as an affiliate. UWP claims to contain a successful formula to make money online; and as has become the accepted standard with such programs Mark Warren makes some pretty hyped up statements.

“All you need to do is activate your website and watch the money come in”

“this is not a get rich quick scam”

Mark also says that, “Your website will work similar to the way Wal-Mart works”. This reveals who his target market is. He has tried (and succeeded) to make his product attractive to beginners and relates it to them by comparing it to Wal-Mart.

I found the site as a whole very patronizing; his photo’s of fast cars and happy people have nothing to do with the program itself and are classic affiliate marketing techniques which attempt to work on the customers hopes and dreams.

The phrase ‘affiliate programs’ isn’t even mentioned on the page. This is because the people who buy UWP are people who don’t know what affiliate programs are (stay tuned for my overview of affiliate programs which will explain everything you need to know about the ‘lingo’ needed to be successful with affiliate programs!).

In simple terms I am impressed with the UWP landing page and I am sure it helps generate a respectable conversion rate for affiliates of UTP. However, there is a problem with the product.

The main selling point of the UWP is that everything will be done for you and the parts that aren’t will be taught to you. The problem is that it is quite possible to learn almost everything you need to know about affiliate programs for free, without paying for the UWP. This can be done online (with a site like this one!) or with ‘all encompassing’ affiliate programs like SFI.

Conclusion
As mentioned UWP is registered with ClickBank and so will pay its affiliates and members. UWP has not made it to the recommended affiliate programs section because it has been ‘undercut’ by blogs e.g. John Chow’s E-Book, affiliate programs like SFI and other sites which give away it’s information freely. There is also a lot of competition for selling the Ultimate Wealth Package making is less profitable for affiliates, not to mention the very annoying audio that reads aloud what you are already reading in your head!

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