Affiliate Elite - To Buy Or Not To Buy!

A few months ago I decided to do a quick test just for the fun of it. I’ve send out a very short email to my subscriber list and told them the following:

"I want you to go to this website because it is there"

If you have a look at the wording you will see it actually means nothing but I wanted to test the power of the word " because"

Funny thing happened, some of my subscribers went to the site and actually bought the product. This amazed me because I didn’t give them any real reason why they should go to that site.

Turns out the product seems real good because those who bought seems real happy. I’m going to be dead honest with you, I haven’t bought it…. yet!

I found this letter on the net and decided to quote a piece of it here because it gives more info on this Affiliate Elite product.

Usually I never post about a product I know nothing about but in this case it was literally a matter of selling without intending to sell.

"From the Desk of: George, Internet Affiliate Marketer.

Subject: Should I get a Refund for Affiliate Elite ?

Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008

Fellow Affiliate Marketer ,

Lets talk serious about affiliate software and really get something dead straight before we go any further.

Affiliate tools, I probably hate them more than you do, and I always have. Why, well read on and I will explain.

But first, let me tell you how I got here, and why I’m writing this page about Affiliate Elite…

It would have been about three weeks ago now, I was browsing the internet and working on my online business when I noticed an email from an associate raving about this affiliate tool "Affiliate Elite ", by Bryxen and Brad Callen.

As with most promotional emails I would have usually deleted this email but my associate who I trust and respect when it comes to online software tools, which is the only reason I opened the email that was in front of me in the first place. So here I am…

"But why do I dislike Affiliate Tools with a fanatic’s passion…"

Give me a minute and I will explain…

I spend allot of hours online working on my online business reading emails reviewing products and generally staying up with the latest developments in marketing and promotion online. In short I am a seasoned internet user and am very aware of all these so called Affiliate Guru’s trying to peddle their Affiliate tools.

But, I have never been a big fan of Affiliate tools - having an affiliate tool that can find 1,000 other affiliates promoting the same product at the click of a button isn’t much of an advantage to the average internet user. Actually what it does do is scare the pants off me until of course you read the really great sales page and lots of newbie’s see it and think they are going to make a fortune, so they rip out their credit cards and buy it.

Then, the same guys who raced out to buy the affiliate tool realize that having 1,000 affiliates marketing the same product doesn’t mean anything if you can’t use the software and if you use adwords for those Affiliate Products it could end up costing you much much more than the affiliate tool itself.

Great for the affiliate guru’s who are creating and making a killing on the software - very crappy for the unfortunate internet marketer who just parted with his hard earned cash and hours of wasted time…

So you could imagine my face when I saw my friend’s e-mail recommending Affiliate Elite . As I said, it was only because he is usually right on with his information that I even clicked opened the email.

On reaching the Affiliate Elite web site , I was pretty impressed with the sales copy, as usual Brad Callen had every aspect covered and even more impressed with some of the fantastic features that this program appears to have - reverse google search, Easily find profitable affiliate products and much more…

Before I go on, a Reverse Google Search is when you can track a web site or websites using their keywords, links, Ads that are actually listed in google natural listings. You just plug the website into Affiliate Elite and all the information is revealed to yo

Sounds great right , but I must be honest with you..

At this point, I was still thinking to myself, "informative site, great video’s and lots of useful features, this could work… but yet again, it’s just another Affiliate Tool… so forget it "

I closed the window and left the site… about a week later my friend emailed me, letting me know that he had purchased this software and had set up his business sites with some of the information obtained from Affiliate Elite, he had also included adwords into his arsenal and he was now making about $300 a week extra from the changes.

He also said to stop doing everything the hard way and just try Affiliate Elite and see the difference for yourself. After all I had nothing to lose with a 60 day money back guarantee.

Having touched on my curious side I did just that.

Just so you know, I did purchase and only for these reasons… well, firstly to stop his whining and secondly the cost was minimal compared to losing income on my websites and really i just had to know, even though my intention was to just file it away for another day - when my friend started up again - in fact he was pestering the hell out of me to get using Affiliate Elite once I had it downloaded!

So I decided to sit down for 15 minutes, and give him a chance to show me what all the fuss was about. After the install which was very simple I started to play around with the program features.

I quickly realized that my 15 minutes wasn’t going to be enough, I don’t think even an hour would be…"

According to George he was first sceptical and eventually became very happy with his choice of buying the product. Both of us know this might be true and again it might be nonsense.

If I were you and I needed such a tool I would head over to the Affiliate Elite website and do my own investigating.

It sounds good and I know Brad Callen has produced great products in the past but still please make sure of all the facts before you buy because I haven’t tried it yet and therefore cannot give an honest opinion here.