Banner Ad Blueprint

I don't think this has launched yet. I know its in pre-launch and the content on that was pretty good. I'll let you know if I purchase

It looks to be a great product for media buys and strategies from the looks of it. I may get it in a few days.

Greg...

Thanks so much for the great video review. I'll diffently be giving this a try now. It looks like a good solid education with banner ads...something I've been wanting to learn!

Thanks for your review, very interesting. Will buy it shortly. In the meantime are there any upsells or is it just the price as shown which is incredibly cheap?

Thanks

This is good to know as I have been thinking of purchasing this as well. Seems like a great value

Can Anyone Explain what the two $197 Upsells are?

Hmmm...I'm starting to have second thoughts now but still might give it a go. I'd like to think theres some good valuable information here. So does the regular $77 purchase include all 38 Videos or is that included in the upsells? Sorry for all the questions...maybe I'll just buy it and if not satisfied or believe it doesn't live up to the sales page/pitch ask for a refund.

Just my 2 cents worth.

BA Blueprint appears to be yet another cash grab by someone with a very big list.

To quote from a free high value affiliate course...."retinal studies have shown that Web surfers actually avoid banners. Yes, their eyes look away!"

Think carefully before you buy & save your money for something more valuable

Thanks Goldmine for telling me what I came here for: namely the Upsells.

If the course was complete for $77 I'd consider buying it but when all those affiliate sellers where offering their high ticket bonuses the red flag started to wave.

Sure enough...3 upsells, one being a membership!

So, NO I'll not be buying it.

Haha....I bet you thought it was "a breath of fresh air" with the "See My Sig for a review" in your post!

Call me crazy, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of the Review section here when people start doing the "See My Sig For a Review" routine?

BANNER ADS WORK!! PERIOD

I know that's some strong language. But even with my stupidly ugly banners I'm getting decent results and can certainly be improved if I put more time into it.

Have you guys seen How Life Works I see banner ads directing to this site from all over the internet. Especially Yahoo mail and a few other news sites. If you go there and look at the 'Recommended articles' on the top right hand side corner, you will recognize the banners I'm talking about. They cover all kinds of things and everything leads to a CPA (or some other offer). If banners didn't work, they wouldn't be doing it.

As for this product, I'm sure even the $77 product has some gold nuggets if you're going to put it to practice. I'm definitely going to buy it because I've seen what my stupid basic banners are capable of, but I have to wait till Saturday because I have too many other things within the next 72 hours.

My 2 cents is that, if anybody is going to put it to practice, buy it. If you don't like it return it; that's a different story; but don't be discouraged to not give it a try. The chances are, if you put it to practice, you will at least learn something!!

Chucky

EDIT - 5 minutes later

I found another site like that. If you read this news item on Yahoo news Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress - Yahoo! News and scroll down to the bottom right you will see some banner ads. Clicking on them will take you to ARA Lifestyle which is also another site like How Life Works. I get the feeling that both these websites are owned by the same guys.

I think I just gave someone a million dollar idea!..... You're Welcome

2nd EDIT - Another 5 minutes later

I was browsing http://news.yahoo.com/topics/bill-clinton and what do I find? Banner ads from How Life Works

The 2 sites look very similar I did a Whois lookup - http://www.whois.net/whois/howlifeworks.com and http://www.whois.net/whois/aralifestyle.com. According to them, they're not the same, but everybody knows you can give fake names to these accounts on GoDaddy etc.

Take home message - Banner Advertising Works. I don't know if Saj's Blueprint works. But if you are open to finding some important information; you will!

Greg, you are welcome to PM me because I only have 35 posts and cant PM yet.

Thanks
Mike

I found it as zero friction marketing, i got ZFM before and i found it helpful, i think this one too can be better!

I don't really mind OTOs IF they are done properly. In my opinion, the basic product should fulfill all the claims on the sales page and the OTO upsell is just a slight added value (which shouldn't cost more than the original product).

Kind of like ordering a burger (which I'm happy with) and when they ask me, "Would you like fries with that?", I usually say "Yes". Pay a bit more for some added value.

What I hate is seeing a few OTOs all saying stuff like "You can't live without this", "It's a must have". This makes me feel like the basic product is incomplete and useless, without adding the extras.

Seems like some internet marketers are stooping to new lows now in the name of making a quick buck. Whatever happened to the good old concept of "giving the customer great value for money"?

Quite costly for newbie.

I'm seeing offers where the bonuses seem worth more than the product. So I may take the plunge just to get the bonuses. For example, Michael Rasmussen is offering all of Saj's products as well as 6 cut and paste campaigns.

But I agree, the OTO strategy has been widely misused. When used properly, a OTO adds value to the original product or complements it in a natural way. When used improperly, it a) annoys the purchaser, b) degrades perception of the product being purchased making it seem like it is not everything the salesletter promised, setting the mindset for a refund rather than an upgrade.

But by far the stupidest thing I've seen is a OTO on a free opt-in, with wording like "You will only see this page once, EVER!" But it works For an example, see my sig...

I took a break from the ass-kicking and decided to install Keyword Dominator because I figured it was unfair to criticise something I hadn't even looked at, despite its origin.

But, you know, you get a nose for these things and, sure enough, Keyword Dominator was instantly familiar. I downloaded it from Resell Rights Skip a while back and there it was, that same stench I thought I'd never have to endure again. Really, do not waste your time, this thing is less powerful than a half decent Excel macro and, impressively, even less intuitive.

Upshot of "Keyword Annihilator?" I'm back on Paul Ponna's list... NOOOOOOO, it's like one of those zombie flicks where you can run a lot faster than them but they never tire, they never sleep and they'll get you in the end.

I'm posting this tongue-in-cheek...

For what it's worth, I always found banners to be profitable, especially when I placed one above an adsense ad and one below the same adsense ad. The visitors to my sites were so quick to try and avoid looking at the ads that they always ended up getting drawn to the adsense ads which resulted in extraordinary click-thru-rates.

Respectfully,
Tim

Very funny TimG ;-)

On the same note you could say that a positive side effect of these promotions is, that it gives us an opportunity to clean up the list of 'guru's' that we're subscribed to.

Thank's for letting us know.

I watched the pre-sale video, and from what everyone is saying in this thread... the same content in the pre-sale vid is the exact same thing in the product itself.

Is that true?

Ok Guys, I really don't know why some of you don't like BAB. I bought it, put it to practice and already making money.

I do admit however that I've never given a serious attempt at banners. But I have previously advertized on Adbrite, some CPV (clicksor and another network) with no success.

With some of BAB methods I'm already making money. This 1st campaign is not making a lot, but I just have to rinse and repeat it.

Ofcourse if you're an advanced IMer, even StomperNet or John Reese's traffic secrets may be of no use.

I also have to speak about the bonuses. There are some very short 2 page reports that themselves alone will make you 1000s IF you put them to practice.

Again, if there is any newbie in 2 minds about BAB; buy it, if you don't like it just return it; what have you to lose?

Chucky

Thanks for all the reviews, I almost bought this product but not now.

Thanks warriors,
William

Same here! I will pass on this one. Thank you all for saving me $$.

This place rocks!

JB

I've always wondered if the Gurus who launch these products ever come here and read these threads.

I was silly enough to buy the course and the third upsell - "instant campaign" or something (very expensive), spent 200 bucks to buy a banner space on one of the websites recommended and after about 2 weeks i have TWO LEADS. Spent $200 to get $6!!

Lesson learnt - do not buy anything when you are emotional/desprate to get a working system/"winner" (i was and I fell into the trap)

Whatever you do I would focus on getting good at one traffic source before you continue on. So many people jump around that they never get any decent traffic because they get overwhelmed.

I'm not a fan of banner ads buying myself.

Buying CPA leads might work much better.

Thanks guys for this thread. I almost bought BAB because i've bought Saj's products before and i love them but i don't think this product is worth the price especially with all those OTOs.
I'm so glad i could get an honest review from this forum-another reason for thanking God for the day i discovered the WF.

I recently tried banner ad blueprint. I was direct linking offers with simple media placements in ad networks. So far the results haven't been very good. I did about 35000 impressions as a test on a couple different offers. NOT A SINGLE CONVERSION. And the offers were simple email and zip submits which should have a decent conversion rate.

I reviewed BAB on my blog recently.

Here's the short version: The info in BAB is waaaaay too basic. Not that it's wrong or anything, but most of the videos just cover stuff that you can easily figure out yourself.

Definitely not worth the price, in my opinion.

Sounds like the jurys out on this one. I've heard some good and bad. Those upsells really get my goat. Unless your a total newbie, I think its better to save your money for the actual banner ad campaign. If they included some software on banner design then what would be more useful. All those videos and Ebooks telling you stuff you can find out for free, or requiring you to spend more money on the "secret killer" upsell before you even start are a real piss take.