“Lazy Internet Nobody Making 6457$ a DAY Swears Under Oath: His 4 Tier Annihilation Method is NOT illegal!”
Only the owner knows if this headline is working for him, but it’s exactly the kind of statement that draws howls of derision from even the most open-minded marketers.
It doesn’t matter whether or not the statement is true – only that the claim to make large quantities of money in a short amount of time, with the minimum amount of work, is overused to the point of nausea.
In fact, under normal circumstances I would be clicking away faster than the author claims to be able to teach you his ‘fool-proof’ methods.
So why did I keep reading?
And, more to the point, why was I extremely glad that I did?
The answer to the first question is simple: the name of the product the “Four Tier Annihilation Method” and, perhaps, the enigmatic visuals were enough to make me push on to see what internet marketing angle was being promoted.
The sales page got my attention still further once it began to trash the ‘Gurus’. It’s a lazy, ambiguous target, but it had an air of controversy that suggested the possibility of future forum arguments. It may be petty, but I’d rather have an opinion than be forced to admit ignorance.
But what converted me from vaguely interested reader, into impulse buyer, was the sales page’s refusal to reveal what this ‘Four Tier Method” was REALLY all about.
To find the answer, I’d have to pay for the privilege.
Fair enough.
I got my answer within just a few minutes of purchasing and my first reaction was, inevitably, one of disappointment. But I had to admit, grudgingly, that if the sales page had been more specific about the method being described, my prejudice on the subject would almost have certainly have led me to lose interest long before reaching the obligatory postscripts.
And I would have missed out on an EXCELLENT piece of work.
I can be as cynical and snooty as a the next internet marketer, but when I find a product that delivers quality instruction, is well presented, and is based on a solid, reliable set of marketing precepts, than I have to hold my hands up and give the respect where it’s due.
The Four Tier Annihilation Method is a FINE product and I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who is looking for a place from which to enter the world of internet marketing.
The title and sales page may unintentionally, and undeservedly, engender distrust, but don’t be put off. This is a system built on the sound principles of finding a market of proven buyers, sourcing a suitable product, and selling for a profit.
On paper this sounds simple, but the application is where people come unstuck.
The Four Tier Annihilation Method shows you where to find the specific tools and websites, and demonstrates how to use them to start a small, but quickly scaleable online business.
The manual itself is fairly standard, but it gets extra marks for making good use of screen-caps. So to, the accompanying videos are not trying to break new ground but, as a visual reference for the methods, this is a very welcome extra.
I must also mention that the package includes a number of different angles from which to begin. Your chosen point of entry will likely depend on your experience and interests, and what really impressed me here is that, just as the sales page suggested, the amount of technical experience required is far less than that required by most internet marketing strategies.
Existing experience will be of assistance, but is certainly not required.
As you’ve probably gathered by now, the Four Tier Annihilation Method is not aimed at the existing business owner but, rather, the aspiring entrepreneur who is keen to build a home business but is either unsure where to start, or has failed with previous online business attempts.
If this sounds like you, then this offers a really sensible place to start.
However, if you’re currently building a business that shows promise, then you might want to steer clear. Hopping from one opportunity to the next is a perennial problem for new internet marketers, and The Four Tier Annihilation Method could easily become a full-time job of its own.
Yes, it may appeal to ‘lazy’ marketers because of its easy point of entry, but effort and application will certainly be required if you want to be productive.
All of which leaves me wondering if The Four Tier Annihilation Method is going to be a victim of its own paradox.
The lazy, ineffectual, online business aspirant who jumps from one idea to the next, never sticking around for long enough to experience success, may well be drawn in by the sales copy, but fail to put in the required effort – minimal as it may be.
Even more tragic, the genuine home business contender who IS willing to put in the effort, may be put off by the hype-ridden sales copy, lumping it in with previous experiences of short-lived, or ill-conceived, ‘get rich quick’ schemes.
In doing so, they will be missing out on something valuable and real. Something that, these days, is in short supply.
If you think that this could be a good match for you, I recommend:
- purchasing The Four Tier Annihilation Method and reading it through immediately.
- Take a day or two to digest what you’ve read and watch the accompanying videos.
- Then, commit to following through on what you’ve learnt for the next six or seven weeks.
This should be adequate time to start seeing some results for your efforts. And then, in the unlikely event that you don’t start to see the potential of your work, then you can always make use of the standard ClickBank, eight week money-back guarantee.
Not that I expect you to need it.
But if you know you’re the kind of person who hesitates to take action, then I say this to remind you that the only thing you are venturing here is a little time and effort.
And if you REALLY want your own online business, then it’s not so much to risk, is it?
Arthur
June 16, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Hi David,
I already bought this item and am giving it a studious read. I agree with your take that it contains easy to follow steps and is worth the effort to try. Thanks for the good review. Now, if we could just get a little more info on this cake-eating excuse-making….
Clive Praed
June 16, 2008 at 7:50 pm
What a thorough and insightful review.
I was tempted to buy – just a little.
I will also admit I was put off by the so-called $6000 a day but, who knows?
Truth on a sales page nowadays is as rare as rocking-horse poop.
I’m still not going to rush out and buy the programme as I’ve about 20 similar ones on my PC and $0 in my PayPal account.
Maybe, just maybe, I will take the leap.
As for being cynical or skeptical, drop me a line, David, and learn from a Master!
The Grumpy Old Chef.
Paul Perry
June 16, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Hi David
I was very tempted with this product. The job done with the sales copy, what a job. I had to read all what was on the
page and all of the report. As for the claims of $100,000
a month only put me off buying. When you said you were doing a review I thought I would weight for the verdict. Thanks for the info but I still dont know? Paul Perry.
http://www.PerrysClickbox.com
Alex Wilson
June 16, 2008 at 10:49 pm
An erudite review David. One thing bothers me: They don’t make a point of providing their ‘offline’ business contact details. To me, that’s a ‘must-have’, so I’ve sent an email to Alex asking him for that information.
I’ll keep you posted.
Alex Wilson
10 Murton St
Nobby QLD 4360
Australia
Ph+61 7 4696 3241
Brian Gardiner
June 17, 2008 at 4:18 am
Good one,David,factual,concise and to-the-point.I agree with most of it,and I would likely purchase,if I was in the market.
Thanks again,and keep ‘em coming!
Brian Gardiner
Scottsdale,
Tasmania
David Congreave
June 17, 2008 at 8:31 am
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Good point Alex, that kind of info should be mandatory. On the one hand, I can’t help thinking that the style and tone of the sales page isn’t doing them any favours. On the other hand, they did a pretty good job of convincing me to buy, so maybe I’m just over-analysing.
In response to Paul – and anyone else who is still undecided – there’s an easy answer.
If you can reply “yes” to ALL the following questions, then you should buy:
1) Are you looking for an easy way to start building an online business from scratch?
2) Do you have the time and commitment to apply what you learn?
3) Are you prepared to get a refund from Clickbank if the product isn’t right for you?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to all three questions, then give it a try. What have you got to lose?
366 FREE Internet Marketing Tips AND Secrets
June 17, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Well done David. Sometimes I think you are too honest for your own good, but I also know that your strategy will pay off in the long run, as you are already developing a reputation as a trusted source of opinion and that in this market, as someone has already pointed out, is as rare as RH poop…all the very best, Allen
Mike Do-Follow Blog List
June 17, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Hi David,
You’re email pointing to your review was interesting. “Seriously… healthy skepticism is one thing, but this rampant cynicism is just exhausting :-S”.
You’re right, but as I spend more time in the IM arena I’m finding myself being more and more skeptical. Sales letters full of hype tend to make me even more skeptical
I am finding myself shunning the “gurus” and looking at some of the great things little known, up and coming IM’ers are doing. I am tired of lining the pockets of gurus when most of them won’t even give you the time of day. They have become too big for us “little people”
I’m probably a little more skeptical than usual right now, because a big time marketer – guru – was/is selling a high dollar business package that is crap – not even close to what he hyped up in the video he made to sell it . Trying to get a refund from him has been difficult for several people. Marketers like him make it hard for everyone.
Okay, thanks for letting me rant a little
Clive Praed
June 17, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Mike,
How right you are.
Except for one thing.
The refund bit.
Surely you don’t believe the guarantees on the sales pages?
If everything else is hype, why not the guarantee.
I bought a $500 program last week. Before I un-zipped it I knew I’d never make a single sale from it.
Money back on outlay is out of the question with anything online.
But I’d never dream of asking for a refund.
Before you buy you know it’s rubbish – nobody else to blame, is there.
You must accept that, if you buy online, you are going to be ’shafted’.
May as well just lay back and enjoy it.
Think of England. LOL
Peter Grannon
June 17, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“You must accept that, if you buy online, you are going to be ’shafted’.”
Makes a change from the boring old Moneyback Guarantee, Clive
I have not had problems with the few refunds I have requested.
e.g.
Last week I backed out of Michael Cheyney’s latest offering. It cost something in excess of 400 dollars and my Pay Pal was credited within 2 hours of my refund request being sent.
Moneyback Guarantees help to make sales.
Refunds are a business statistic.
mohd ariff
June 17, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hi David C,
Wishing all of us in good health. Very impressive products for sure everyone is interseted, if it’s really works. But now we had only blueprint on your messages, we hope this is true. You seem to hit the GURUS & you too can be classify as our GURU, once we had made the purchased. We have being looking for something like your offered & most importantly it’s easy to be used & really making money.
Good people doesn’t lie & everyone of us is making money to survive.
We wll works it out with your guidances to success & we promise you as this will be recommended to my members on my succeeding. Your products will be saleable on my sides.
Thanks & best regards
Mohd Singapore
Clive Praed
June 17, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Hi Peter,
I’m not surprised that Michael Cheney did the right thing so quickly.
I have a lot of time for him.
I also bought the $497 “thing” last week.
Don’t think it will make me any money, but I won’t ask for a refund.
You make your bed, you lie in it.
When have any of these things made anyone except the seller any money. LOL
Regards to all.
Clive
David Congreave
June 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm
“When have any of these things made anyone except the seller any money.”
Well, since you asked Clive…
A few years ago, I spent about $2k on an intensive marketing course. By applying what I learnt, over the next 3-4 months I made an extra $10k+
I joined Stompernet a few years back and by applying what I’d learnt my traffic has more than doubled (as has my Adsense income), and it gave me the confidence to launch Lucid SEO which has made over $40k+ in sales so far.
One of the Stompernet seminars also taught me a technique that I’ve tried out a couple of times and, on each occasion, has brought in over $2k in exchange for one day’s work.
Um, what else…?
One of Gary Ambrose’s seminar DVDs, helped me increase my affiliate income by, on average, something like $300-400 dollars per month during the last two years.
I rarely share my earning information – mainly because I’m a Brit. But I can’t let someone say that IM training is fruitless without challenging it.
Phil Henderson
June 18, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Hi all,
Firstly, a great review David.
Secondly, I’ve been “online” for some 8 months now and have spent thousands and I mean thousands of pounds on software, applications, business tools, so called “user manuals”, the latest and best offer (usually re-packaged garbage) and worthless ebooks.
Am I bitter? Well actually no. I believe that we have to all go through a learning curve and also invest in our future so i have written off this money as simply that; online education.
Saying that, I have become extremely wary of things I read online and even laugh at some of the sales letters and offers being promoted. I have even placed some of the best know so called “guru” on my spam list as I’m sick of their so called “this is the one” offers.
Last weekend I spent several hours clearing out my laptop and pc of the garbage I had collected. It felt great I can tell you.
As I work away from home through the week, i have been reviewing my stance and future in online marketing so i can produce a strategy for my future success.
Will I sign up for more of this dross in the future? Possibly, but it wont be an impulse purchase thats for sure.
Heres to everyones success
Phil
Roy Miller
June 18, 2008 at 4:51 pm
A few points for everybody:
1) David always writes insightful reviews. You’ll have to get used to it. He’s a helpful bloke (you can pay me later, David).
2) There’s a fine line between emotional involvement and hype on a sales page. As a copywriter, I know it’s a thin line to walk. As readers, keep one thing in mind: It’s only hype if it isn’t true. Of course, there’s no absolute way for a reader to know if something’s true, so it’s caveat emptor at all times.
3) Regarding Clive’s refund comments, if somebody ever doesn’t give you a refund you legitimately request, NEVER buy from that merchant again. Period. That’s crummy business and that marketer has just destroyed all possibility of you ever trusting him. Burn me once, shame on you; burn me twice, shame on me.
A personal story related to refunds…
When we launched Lucid SEO, there were–gasp–some people who wanted their money back.
Now, we on the Lucid team have been around the block, and we knew some people were simply “tire kickers” who wanted to steal stuff. Happens all the time. But we also made a binding money-back guarantee, so we had to live up to it (well, it’s more accurate to say we chose to live up to it). So we adopted a simple strategy.
First, we gave people options to stay. We said we’d like to earn another chance to satisfy them. Some folks took us up on the offer, and most are still with us.
Second, if they still wanted a refund, we cracked open the account and issued it in full.
Any marketer who has to depend on swiping money from people to be successful is not a human being you want to be involved with in any capacity. When we launched Lucid, we agreed that we wanted to overwhelm people with value and earn their payments. I think I can safely speak for David and say that’s the only way we’ll ever behave.
Clive Praed
June 18, 2008 at 5:19 pm
David,
I actually believe you.
And, because of this I will keep going.
Every time I see claims of $1,000 a week I automatically dismiss them as hype. {a nice way of saying ‘lies’}.
Having never made more than $100 in any month in sales over the last four years, I find it hard to believe claims of caviar and yachts.
Adsense income for 2007 = $1.09
Affiliate income (5 sales in 4 years) about $25 a YEAR.
I still won’t give up – I still spend about $100 a week on “guaranteed income items”.
I also occasionally buy a big ticket item. (I must admit I trashed ButterFly Marketing as a pile of worthless junk).
One day, I hope, ONE of these will make just ONE single sale.
I would never advise anyone to give up but I would say that luck plays a major part in online success.
I’ll keep trying and David, in many years time, I may get $300 a month in affiliate sales.
hahahahahahaha
Ernie Caponetti
June 18, 2008 at 5:58 pm
David,
Thanks for an insightful, thorough and helpful review – we need more of this and less of the hyped-up bs sales letters. I would like to see even a general sense of the types of methods that are taught in FTAM.
I can also relate to the many posts that were made about the quantity of junk and overstated promises that pervade the IM scene. I have been fortunate to purchase several good products that serve to at least provide a newbie like me with the tools and education needed as a prerequisite for success, as Phil said so well. I have also had good expereice with requesting and receiving refunds (perhaps I’ve been lucky), but what’s frustrating is that refunds would be unnecessary if most of these sales letters delivered on even half of what they promise.
Alex Wilson
June 19, 2008 at 1:16 am
Apropos my previous post:
I have not received a reply to my email to 4TAM of Sunday last requesting on-(ever so poitely) their off-line contact details.
That immediately sets my alarm bells ringing.
I agree with all that you say abnout this offer David, but if I can’t get a ‘real ‘world’ address for anyone I’m considering doing business with on-line then my consideration comes to an abrupt halt.
Peraonally I would not trust 4TAM’s proffered money back guarantee if they can’t stand up and be counted before they get my money.
Cheers
Alex
David Congreave
June 19, 2008 at 9:58 am
Not having contact details is a poor show, but it has nothing to do with getting a refund.
This is a Clickbank product which has a mandatory 60-day guarantee on everything. In fact, if you claim a refund, you can’t even do it from the owner, you HAVE to go through Clickbank who, as far as I’m aware, offer no problems in providing refunds.
See http://www.clickbank.com/refund_policy_faq.html
Alex Wilson
June 20, 2008 at 1:31 am
Point taken David. I wasn’t aware of the Clickbank implications.
And whilst not being upfront about contact details is indeed a poor show, their faiilure to respond to a request for them is, in my view, unacceptable.
So I’m not going to be an early adopter in this case, but will be quite happy to take my chances on top of the bell curve if you write a glowing report of your experiences with the program!
Cheers!
Alex
Alex Goad
July 1, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Hi All,
First off, to the authors: really nice blog, I’m glad to see that IM is finally becoming blogable and I might revive my own to have some fun with you guys
Also, very nice review, fair and balanced and actually informative, great job.
Lastly, this is for Alex:
We don’t provide offline contact info. My business address is at the bottom of each email I send to subscribers and buyers.
You have to understand that providing a phone number is not realistic for us at this time simply because of logistics. I may try it on a later product, but there are connundrums like having people show up at your house half drunk and getting all sorts of calls 24/7. Which, oh yes, it only the tip of the iceberg.
As for hype, it’s a necessary evil. Without hype, people will leave aside the best product in the world and go buy the worst scammiest thing possible because it is presented better (and often that involves $$$ and screenshots)
But as someone mentioned, it’s only hype if it’s not true, and this is 100% true. I make far too much money and have invested far too much in my businesses over the years to go down in flames over false claims.
I can understand your skepticism, it’s healthy. But there are a lot of people making 6 figures A MONTH online. I know many of them personally. Many are in their mid 20s. It’s hapening right now…
A lot. Believe it, it’s true, and it will serve you better than to think it’s not true. The money is there for the taking. Believe in it, believe in yourself and go get it.
Alex
David Congreave
July 2, 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks for taking the time to post a response Alex – it’s much appreciated.