Traffic Fusion Honest Review
September 15th, 2008
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by BobTheTeacher · Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing · Business Building · List Building · Product Launches · Product Reviews · Viral Marketing
You are probably seeing a ton of emails flying in about Mike Filsaime’s new Traffic Fusion Hyper Java software script.
Let me share some inside knowledge about this program so you can decide if it’s worth the hype.
You don’t have to listen to me, of course, you can listen directly to Mike himself.
First, a bit of background… As you probably know, almost all of my sites run Butterfly Marketing software, which is Mike’s flagship product (at least up until now). That software (which now costs $1997 physical, $797 digital at PoweredByButterflyMarketing.com) has powered sites like DiscovercPanel, SquidooSecrets, Discover Social Networking, Teleseminar Formula, and all the others. With that engine running my business, I’ve done quite well.
But I’ve also worked my butt off creating products to sell using the software.
So here’s the first point behind any new software gizmo that comes out – you still have to work your butt off creating valuable products people will benefit from.
Now, before I get into my no-holds-barred opinion, I should probably explain to you what this software will do.
To put it simply, Traffic Fusion is a JV management software script, hosted and updated by Mike and his team (so you don’t have to install it which is great). It allows you to create special offers and advertisements that your JV partners put on their thank you pages, download pages, etc., where their customers are going. These types of visitors are ideal because they’ve already paid for somebody else’s product before they look at your complimentary offer.
So instead of you spending all this time and money driving traffic from advertisements, you put your products in front of buyers on other people’s websites.
This is called integration marketing, and here’s a real-world example. I just bought a new laptop from Dell to replace the one that died on me last month. When I opened the box, there was a coupon book from Staples (an office supply store here in the States) on the top, giving me savings off Staples products.
So Staples integrated their marketing with Dell. Instead of spending money on mailing out these coupons to random people at a huge expense, they’ve given Dell’s customers special treatment and increased their bottom line. Brilliant.
Now with Traffic Fusion, your JVs get just a single line of code, and all the rest of the details are up to you to design. So you control what the ad looks like, what the price is, and you can change any of this from your dashboard and ALL the ads that are out there online automatically change without your JVs having to do anything.
Here’s a hypothetical example.
For my super affiliates, I may give them a single line of code to put on their thank you pages. And today, that offer will be Squidoo Secrets at $30 off for that affiliate’s buyers. After about a week of seeing sales come in, I can see from my dashboard which affiliates are getting the most sales, who’s getting the best conversions, and which of my ads selling this offer are pulling in the best.
Then, maybe I decide I don’t want to offer Squidoo Secrets at a discount any more. Instead, I want to offer Teleseminar Formula for $75 off. I change the ads and the offer in my dashboard, and ALL of the ads my JVs pasted into their thank you pages change automatically. In fact, they may not even notice the change at all, except for the new commissions that come in.
Again, I get to see all the statistics to let me know results I can base decisions on. Oh, and of course, it tracks how much commissions I will owe to the affiliates.
Make sense?
Next point – I’ve had a chance to use Traffic Fusion for about 7 months now as an affiliate of Mike’s. I just pasted one line of code onto a page inside my site, and never had to think about it again. As the product owner, Mike and his team change the way the ad looks on my page without having to get me to change anything. So as an affiliate, that’s a big plus.
Earlier today, I started playing around inside Traffic Fusion to see how easy it is to set up campaigns, ads, etc. And this leads me to the most important set of factors you need to know about…
- You must have your own product or service to sell if you are going to make any money with this software
- You must be comfortable with creating simple webpages for your affiliate special offers (or be willing to get someone to do it for you)
If you meet those two criteria, then I’d say keep learning more about it.
However, I want to take a completely different approach than all the others who are telling you about how great this software is.
The truth is, it’s likely this software is like giving a space shuttle to somebody who wants to learn how to hang glide. And honestly, I’d estimate that 83% of the people who buy this software are not going to see any return on their investment. This isn’t because the software is bad, it’s because the learning curve will still be higher than most people are willing to go through (laziness doesn’t pay the bills, though!). They’ll buy it with good intentions, and then forget about it later this week when some other shiny thing comes out.
Or they won’t have the marketing/strategy chops to really unleash its power, nor will they be willing to learn those strategies.
So I don’t recommend you buy Traffic Fusion for the integration marketing power it gives you unless you have multiple products and you understand how it fits into a larger marketing puzzle for yourself.
That being said, I think you may want to buy Traffic Fusion for a different reason.
I have a hunch that Mike will do what he usually does with his launches. He’ll throw in the kitchen sink as bonuses to the central offer.
These will likely include the Butterfly Marketing manuscript, the Butterfly Marketing software (that powers all of my 5 and 6-figure sites), perhaps even the 7 Figure Code DVDs, or recordings from i5 Gold (which rock), or elite memberships to his sites like ListDotCom, PayDotCom, JV-Network, etc. He’ll probably also give you the hyper-plugin script, and a ton of other stuff that all will add up to a stupid amount of value – way surpassing whatever he’s going to sell Traffic Fusion for.
So if you bought Traffic Fusion while it’s still available, you’ll likely get everything else as a bonus, and when you’re ready for Traffic Fusion, it will be there ready for you.
Hope this helps you make the right decision for your business! And if it did, I hope you’ll purchase Traffic Fusion through this link to let me know it helped you.
Bob Jenkins
p.s. Ultimately, you will need to work hard at putting Traffic Fusion to work for you. But if you have no product at all, I’d be investing in Teleseminar Formula instead so you can create a product in the next 10 days, or in Discover Autoresponders so you can start building a list.
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| Bob Jenkins is an internet business marketing teacher, with ten years experience teaching teenagers and teachers. He is the creator of several online training courses that teach you how to get better customers and increase your profits. Specializing in social networking strategies for business and creating information products from teleseminars, Bob can help you use internet marketing tools and strategies to promote your business online. |
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Thanks Bob.
A true review is getting a bit scarce nowadays.
Most just want the money and don’t give a rats patootie if buyers fail or get abducted by aliens. You are a good man.
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Thank you Bob.
Honesty in an online marketer – what a novel concept.
I wasn’t even going to bother watching the video for this. 35 minutes of hype is a little too much to bear just to find out that the price is outrageous.
You’ve convinced me not to look at it.
I’m afraid I can’t get my head around software that “puts my product on other people’s sites”.
I’ve been selling four years and have no affiliates and a list of just 200.
This is obviously just for the ‘already multi-millionaires’.
maybe I’m just dumb, but I was bought Butterfly Marketing for Christmas and deleted the lot as I couldn’t see that there was any way anyone less than a computer programmer could use it.
I also couldn’t work out what it was supposed to do.
Software can’t MAKE products or MAKE people buy.
My NVU sales pages are no different to ButterFly Marketing sales pages – except that they are a lot cheaper. LOL
The fact that I’m lucky to make $10 a month in sales has nothing to do with my software. BM wouldn’t alter that in any way.
I assume that ‘Traffic Fusion’ is another of these mega-expensive unusable things.
I’m sure you’ve stopped hundreds of people being conned.
More power to you.
Let me clarify a couple points Clive made.
First, I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen you say thank you to me – it’s usually a barrage of negativity. :)
However, I think you may have missed a couple of points that I hope will help you out.
One, Mike Filsaime is not and never will be a con artist. So I am not trying to stop people from “being conned”. His product will do what he markets it to do. However, there’s a lot more that is necessary.
Second, the Butterfly script could help you make more than $10/month in that it automates and helps you track what’s going on with your sales pages. For example, you can split-test headlines on your squeeze page or sales page to see what will yield better sales. It also automates the affiliate process, so any of your customers INSTANTLY becomes an affiliate and can help you grow your business.
So I agree, and it was my point, that for many Traffic Fusion will be too much. So I am glad to have helped you out.
And I wouldn’t say that Traffic Fusion is for the already millionaires. I am no millionaire (yet), but I will be using the software personally in my pursuit. However, that’s because I do have products and have had over $16,000 in mentoring the last 2 years to help me get a real internet marketing education so I understand exactly how to use these strategies and software products.
I am hoping that the final offer tomorrow does include some amount of training in this area. According to the call he just did with Mark Joyner, some of Mark’s integration marketing training will be included.
So again – if you have products, and understand how affiliates promoting for you hands free will help you, then Traffic Fusion will be great for you. If you have a product, but not sure what to do, then buying Traffic Fusion if it includes all the other bonuses will help a lot. And if you have no product, then try one of my beginner courses instead so I can help you be ready for the next big thing.
Hi Bob…
I want to reiterate an earlier comment of thanks to you for providing a very balanced and realistic review of this product. One of the problems is that many people think there is one super product which will do everything (almost everything) for them… but most products require heaps of learning and action to get the most out of them.
From reading your review… I’m certainly not turned off from the product itself but know my limitations in using it!
Thanks for your honesty!
Jeanne
Thanks Bob for the honest explanation. You hit right on the key point. That you can buy or get for free as bonuses ALL the software in the world and it won’t do you a bit of good if one you don’t already have a product or several products to sell and two if you don’t know how to market a product in the first place. I’m brand new to this whole world having jumped into it with one of the FREE web pages the Rich Jerk gives out. Of course that cost me to get it online, buying the hosting. But it is what it said it was, although I was a bit disappointed that it’s actually just a wordpress blog and shows up as a blog in the title line. But I can go past that if either I know how to write HTML or can afford to hire someone to do it for me. And it is set up to make money, for the Rich Jerk mostly. All the links are to his product. It did have the Google ads and I’ve made a whopping $2.57 in the first 6 weeks now.
Mostly I have been inundated with offers far and wide of buy this system or method or program and make tons of money.
It took me a while before I could make any sense out of all these new things, first I had to figure out all the new words and what they mean, and I’m still doing that.
But I also noticed a real similarity to the old mail-order business and what I went through with that once upon a long time ago. It too boiled down to the same thing, you must have a product. And it has to be one that people want and you have to be able to get it in front of those people that will want it so they can see it, just know that it exists. And like then the top seller is still information you control unless you have a patent and a manufacturing plant. But even now in this high tech computer world like then the people getting the richest seem to be the ones selling the how you can do it stuff. The biggest bonus to the Web is the savings in printing costs thanks to PDF files and downloads.
Like all newbies I started grabbing all the information I could, took every offer that hit my mailbox and now I have a filled up hard drive and stacks of CD’s and DVD’s and booklets and all the rest, you could say I’m drowning in the stuff. I also got this latest offer for Traffic Fusion and might have jumped on that one too if I hadn’t read your email first. Thanks for the wake up call and the big reminder about product reality.
After reading your honest review I’ve decided that the best thing for me right now is to take a big step back from the hue and glitter of the shiny new things. There will always be a brand new and better to buy next week no matter what week it is now. I worked for a fellow one time that told me one day that if I could ever find a way to sell all the stuff in my head I’d be rich. I think I’ve found that way now. I’ve even written a lot it’s just too bad it’s all on paper. So I’ve got a lot of typing to do, as soon as I get the bigger hard drives installed, the ones in my old computers were huge when I got them but oh so small now, programs seem to be ten times the size they once were. I saw a brand new one tera byte hard drive yesterday for $149, that less than half of what my very first 30 meg hard drive cost me. I’m going to just step back and go into my creative mode with the keyboard for a month or three, filter out some good and useful things, maybe some trivial nonsense for fun, and then I’ll be ready to take advantage of what ever new and better system of web manipulation will be launching then. Then again those things bother me, they may be great for just a few using them but when thousands more start doing the same thing all fighting to be at the top, it seem to dilute the real value of knowing something different; it all reminds me so much of the carrot and the stick.
But you wee right about another thing Bob, that a week later 90%, or more, of the people that buy those things have put it on the shelf and are off looking for a new shiny thing they think will bring instant success at the push of a button. The old 80 20 rule will always apply, just as it also applies again and again to the 20; the pie is never cut evenly. For those of you that read this and don’t know what 80/20 is, it’s an old rule in sales that says 20% of the people will do 80% of the business; thus leaving 80% of the people to fight over 20% of the business, or money to be made. But it applies again to the 20%, in that 20% of those will get 80% of that big slice of the pie. The old rules for business will always apply, like this one, working hard will get you tired, working smart is always better and will get you what you want, and, Working without a plan is like sailing in a storm without a chart and compass; you are bound to end up on the rocks, sooner than later.
As always, Bob, you are to the point.
Here is my take on so much of this:
The multitudes of eager marketers should
take a step back and Analyze their
Business Foundation before jumping into
the accumulation of Tools and System.
The money they have Budgeted should
first be spent accumalting the Awareness
of Business Planning, organization and Execution.
Many your fellow Members of Beginners Marketing Class have realized the benefits of STEPS 1, 2 and 3 and have a solid Business Foundation prior to Buying the Bell and whistles.
It is critical to develop the “Sellers” Mentality and rid
the Conscious and sub-conscious of the “Buyers” Mentality.
When looking at a purchase the questions need to be:
Does it fit my Current Plan?
How quickly can I turn my Capital?
How many out there have Files full of
the flavor of the month Program, never to be opened or
put into Action?
If you have any time in the next few days,
can we hook up on the phone?
drop me an e-mail
chuck@beginnersmarketingclass.com
I am Honored to have had the Opportunity of associating
with another professsional.
Gosh it has been a year since San francisco
Hi Bob, this is the first time I have been to your site and I have to say I am impressed. Great review. Also very intersting to see how you have used ning to create your own tribe – very cool.
Mike filsame is a insane internet marketer, he just keeps pumping out the products, its unbelievable. Seems like alot of people resent his success though, I don’t understand why. I certainly don’t consider mike a con artist, he is just a hard working, successfull marketer. I think he is absolutely brilliant, and wish I could just duplicate one tenth of his success.