Please note that there’s a post here where you can learn about a new direction my site started to take, with a new purpose and brand.
Hello and welcome to this website! The central purpose of IM Impact is to provide honest, thorough and objective reviews of online marketing related products. Often, these products are presented as “get-rich-quick” opportunities and they come in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes as a simple ebook, sometimes as a complex, huge system containing video-courses, reading-material, software, special-privilege forums and personal coaching. Sometimes you’ll see peripheral get-rich-quick material sold for very particular purposes: a piece of software for finding profitable keywords, design-templates for high-conversion sales-pages or a guide on how to write attention-grabbing Google-ads, perhaps.
What you will be hard-pressed to find, however, is reliable information on whether these products are any good or not. This is a void that IM Impact is here to fill.
Things to Come
At the time of this writing, there isn’t much to see on the site yet. It’s only just been launched and every website has to start somewhere (“somewhere” usually being “scratch”). Now, you will soon find my first in-depth review of a get-rich-quick product, more specifically a guide to affiliate marketing. As you can imagine, testing such a product takes quite a bit of time. Remember, I am actually testing the products, not just writing positive reviews in order to promote my own sales of it. This is what separates IM Impact from countless other sites: they do “reviews” (picture: exaggerated air-quotes), I do reviews.
The reason I am doing this is because I think it is dearly needed. An affiliate program is tremendously good for an individual product, but in the long term, it’s bad for the overall market. Because practically every online marketing product comes with an affiliate program, there are lots of eager marketers buzzing all over the place, trying to sell these products by any means possible. This is great for the sales of the individual products, because dozens or even hundreds of affiliate marketers will inevitably generate more sales than the author of the program ever could on his own. But it is bad for the market as a whole because so many people have a vested interest in the products that nobody criticizes them. Why should you write about how bad a product is on your blog, for instance, if you can use the same space to write a few lines of praise, throw in an affiliate link and make some money?
Welcome to the Swamp
As a result of this, the “online-marketing market” is a scam-ridden, overhyped, bold-red-letters-flooded swamp of bullshit and misinformation. Anyone encountering this market for the first time is likely to A) get sucked into it instantly by all the hype, get into some program before knowing anything about it (“Hey, I’ll be making millions by the end of the week! I can’t risk not trying this!”) and probably end up regretting it or B) instantly dismiss it.
That’s too bad, really, because there is an actual market here, a diamond, so to speak, somewhere in this humongous pile of dung. There really are people making money with online marketing and there really are guides and programs that can help you get into online marketing. Perhaps some of them even have the capacity to make you rich quickly, but how would you ever find them among all the crap?
Well, soon enough, you’ll find them right here. I can’t tell the good from the bad products by just looking at them, either, so I will just have to try them all. I will tell you exactly what the products I test are about, whether they are worth your time and money and, most importantly, whether they will really help you generate some income or not. And believe me, I will call out the bad apples. I will call them out and I will enjoy it.
In the meantime, and in between the reviews, I will be filling this website with as much useful information and resources on the subject of online marketing as I can. Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you around again, soon!
That’s it for now.
Hi Shane,
I got to know about you when I was using Article Marketing Robot and bumped into your review of the same. I’m impressed by your unbiased and honest reviews. So I decided to start from the beginning and here I am. I am a freelance copywriter, now into link building work for my clients and my entry into IM has been inspired mainly by the wonderful guidance from you regarding Keyword research etc for free. I am quite confident of making some headway in IM with your practical advice. Thanks for sharing such invaluable knowledge. I am a great fan of yours, will keep reading your stuff and benefit from it. Thanks again Shane.
Regards
Rema.
Wow, you made it all the way back here? :)
I didn’t even change anything about this post, because I thought no one would ever look at it, anyway…
Thank you very much for your kind comment!
Hey Shane, been following your fab site for about 3 months now. Love you style & top quality info. So here I am, right back at the beginning and about to plough through every post since you started! Will be commenting along the way, no doubt. I know I must be deranged, but I want to make sure I haven’t missed out something super-valuable by being late-comer!
Hi Griff,
Wow, thanks! Didn’t think anyone would make it all the way back here anymore.
I hope my older stuff isn’t a let-down. Looking forward to your comments and thoughts.
Cheers,
Shane