The Silent Avatar Speaks

I couldn’t resist making this post in the wake of the launch of “Review Crusher”.

What? You haven’t heard of Review Crusher? Where have you been?

Mike Filsaime is at it again churning out yet another “buy this and it will make you money” product.

I sat through the whole painful video introduction which (if you took out all of his bragging and name dropping, and who he rubs shoulders with), it could easily have been condensed down to 10 minutes.

(C’mon Mike! Do you think we all have tons of time to just sit and watch a “brag fest”?)

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m no party pooper and good on Mike for getting to where he is (and no doubt his skydiving exploits are testimony to the money he has made to enjoy his down time) As Mike freely confesses.. he work’s hard and parties hard.

I’ve been reading Mike’s emails and watching product launch after product launch since I purchased the Butterfly Marketing script. All up I am probably on about 5 of Mikes lists (which means I get copies of all of his emails from all 5 lists! – which is another peeve of mine), and I’ve unsubscribed from others because it was just getting ridiculous with the duplicate emails).

But seriously.. lengthy product introductions like Review Crusher is enough to send me (and I’m sure many others) screaming up the garden path saying “Get to the point!”.

Was the waiting the 50 odd minutes worth it?

In my opinion? No.

Look.. the premise for this product is to be able to open up your own “Review Site” and without taking anything away from Mike I’m sure the product does what he says it does.

BUT… I couldn’t help thinking that even though you can customise your own template (so individual sites can be different), it still boils down to a few more hundred review sites hitting the internet courtesy of Mike Filsaime.

Now there is some benefit in creating your own review site, and before we get into what those benefits are, what about the competition who is already out there? Mike Filsaime has his own site for reviewing internet marketing products called MarketingProductReview.com.

As at the time of writing MarketingProductsReview.com’s Alexa rank was 28,927,768. Compare that to this sites ranking of 1,213,502. Enough said.

Dig a little deeper and I find that the traffic stats for MarketingProductReview.com is 140,832 (down 27,135)

The Reach, Traffic and Page Views are all down.

So one has to ask the question… is having a “review site” a good thing?

Well.. if you look at the stats then it’s not an earth shattering site for a niche (and this is Mike Filsaimes site).

However if you are in looking to pad out this site with your affiliate links and someone buys on the strength of a review, then it could be a money making proposition for you.

If you’re into Internet Marketing, then forget grabbing this product for a site which reviews Internet Marketing Products. Go review another niche as Mike’s got that one covered.

By The way.. if you are interested in purchasing Review Crusher software only it’s US$1997, or you can get a payment plan option: US$497 down and US$67 per month buys you the software and membership to Job Crusher.

You can watch Review Crusher Video here (you can download the video and fast forward Mike “bragfest”) to save time.

If you want to throw your money at Mike then go ahead. If I want a review I will just Google it.

So Is there any benefit in having a review site?

I’ll let you be the judge.

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