Click Intensity Review
Product Name: Click Intensity
Product Owners: Nick Johnson, Tara Mish
Advertised Price: $25 – $100,000
Rating: SCAM!
What Is It?
Click Intensity is a network marketing company, that could also be classified as a pyramid scheme or Ponzi. The idea is that you purchase ad packs (silver packs) for $25, and they eventually pay $30 per ad pack purchased.
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Short Review
How you make money with this company is that the packs you buy are supposed to eventually pay, but even the owners do not know when you will be paid. They even say it in videos you’ll see embedded in my review of Click Intensity here.
Though the product that you’ll supposedly be marketing is “advertising” and clicks, the real appeal of joining this company is to recruit new members. You get paid 10% commission on all Level 1 recruits.
Click Intensity is an outright scam, and there are many red flags I will discuss in my review.
Before You Buy
Many of you looking into business opportunities have had bad experiences with MLMs and network marketing companies before. The main idea behind this type of business model is that there are two ways to make money.
1) Sell a product
2) Recruit new members
What is the product? “Ad packs”
In their Concept Presentation PDF, they briefly discuss the rise of online advertising. However, they never actually tell us how we are supposed to sell advertising packages to these companies, or how selling ad packs actually makes us money.
This is the first red flag with Click Intensity. They gloss over the product sales part of the opportunity, and quickly move into the recruitment details, and how you can “spend money to make money”.
Compensation Plan
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
- level 2 – 1%
- levels 3 to 6 – 0.5%
- level 7 – 2%
There are seven levels of recruitment. You must spend a certain amount of money to be eligible for each level though. For the most basic level, you only need to spend $25.
But in order to receive credits for the multi-level tiers, you’ll need to spend up to $100,000 (Level 7). They really push the “spend money to make money” aspect, which is another red flag worth noting.
In the screenshot above, Tara Mish is talking about how by Level 5 of recruitment you’ll have 53 billion people on your team. Ummm, there’s not even that many people in the world, let alone people that would invest money into Click Intensity.
Clearly, we are dealing with a pyramid scheme at this point.
What I Liked
Click Intensity hasn’t launched, and there’s already a lot of buzz about it. I’ve received several spam emails and seen it posted on Facebook a bunch of times.
If you are the type of person that enjoys hopping from opportunity to opportunity and doesn’t mind taking advantage of your “team” by selling them stuff from a company destined to fail, then this could be a good way to make money.
If you currently have an email list and have no problem sending junk offers so that you can earn a few bucks, you might be able to take advantage of the buzz around this company.
Note: Before spending money, do your due diligence. Their YouTube Channel has lots of videos worth investigating so you can make your own decision.
What I Didn’t Like
Core Commitment #2: Buy silver packs daily
Already in training video #2, they are asking you to buy something every day until you have purchased 4,000 silver packs! $25 per pack X 4,000 packs = $100,000.
Keep in mind, they say in the Concept Presentation PDF as well as in their training videos that they do not know when the packs will payout. Are you ready to commit $100,000?!
Remember, according to Tara Mish, this is 100% required to be successful!
This pressure to spend a lot of money is one big reason to not sign up with Click Intensity. Think about what they are telling you:
“You are guaranteed to make money but we don’t know when we can pay you”
If you still can’t see this as a scam, then let’s continue!
Video Proof: They Don’t Know When Ad Packs Mature!
Get In On The Ground Floor Mentality
Maybe this is just something I find annoying, but they really play up the idea that you’re “getting in on the ground floor”. This is a phrase we hear over and over again in the network marketing scam industry. Please just show me the facts and stop trying to pretend you’re the next Facebook or Google.
Actions speak louder than words, but in the presentations I saw, it was just a lot of hype and motivational hot air.
Low-Quality Production
If this is such an awesome opportunity, why is the production quality so low? There are moving chairs in the background and phones going off. Everything is off the cuff, and there are no video edits. At one point, Tara takes about 30 seconds to turn off the camera and is talking to someone in the background.
Come on, they can’t even clip the end of the video to remove that garbage?
It’s clear to me that the training videos were produced by one or two people, without any kind of “team” as claimed. Wouldn’t you think that such a successful company would do the bare minimum to make a decent presentation for recruiting members?
Even if you don’t mind the low-quality production, remember, part of your earnings depends on convincing people to join the company. How is this going to reflect on you as a team leader?
Destined To Fizzle
The reason that Click Intensity doesn’t know when they can pay you is because they are dependent on revenue from new members to pay the old members. This is the definition of a Ponzi Scheme.
In fact, all Ponzi’s eventually fail. There is a finite number of people in the world and an even more limited number of people interested in scammy business opportunities. Once new members stop signing up, revenue stop flowing in.
Old members stop getting paid. New members never get paid. Either the FTC gets involved, or the company just fades away.
Do you want to build a real online business that earns revenue for years to come, or join up with a short-lived scam and maybe earn a few bucks? Even I could make money from this business, I would not want to, because I know that the people I recruit would lose money.
No Training On Building A Business
One last point to hit home. Even if you don’t believe me that Click Intensity is a scam, at the very least you can see it’s not worth your time or money.
They provide no training whatsoever on how to grow your team. Everyone knows how to post links to Facebook or send emails to friends. But what happens beyond that?
- How do you build an online brand?
- How do you grow your business with a website?
- How do you leverage social media outside your circle of friends?
- How do you recruit and sell beyond family or friends?
There’s simply no training other than a little bit of motivation and encouragement. If you have a large circle of influence, an email list, or experience in network marketing, then maybe you could make some money here. If you are just starting out and have no idea how to start or grow an online business, then Click Intensity is not the company to teach you how to do it.
What Now?
Rather than invest your time and money into learning how to recruit your family and friends into a business opportunity, I recommend building a website that actually sells legitimate products.
The world of online business has many potential, legitimate opportunities to sell things online.
You can build a small website about any topic that interests you, and promote products from other companies for a commission. These are REAL products, not “ad packs” or “make money systems”.
You can start a fitness website and promote Vitamix. You can start a computer website and promote laptops. How about a video game website, or one about essential oils? Anything is possible. I have a website about making beer at home!
Learn how legitimate online marketing works, and how you can start your first website on any topic, promoting products you truly believe in. Build a business that lasts for years!
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Final
This is not a company I would join or promote. I think it will be a short-lived pop in the world of network marketing.
MLM Critic & Author: Nathaniell
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npern
Hey Nathaniell,
I haven’t heard of Click Intensity, but after reading your article, I won’t go near it. I understand the concept of spending money to make money, but this is ridiculous! Spending a hundred grand?! No thanks. It seems this product doesn’t have any game plan. No training or sense of direction. It has the word “shady” written all over it.
I had to laugh when you stated that the women said there were 53 billion people in your network. She might want to check the population in the world, let alone her network. No thanks, I’ll stick to a place like Wealthy Affiliate where you know EXACTLY what is offered to you. Thanks for the heads up on this scam!
Nathaniell
I couldn’t believe it when Step #1 was “buy more silver packs”, and they want you to buy some every day until you reach 4,000. Who has $100,000k laying around? Many people investing in this program aren’t even making $50k/year. Minus the cost of living like rent, food, utilities, etc, it’ll take them a decade to invest a hundred grand!
Investing in a business opportunity should never be a last ditch effort to get yourself out of debt or to turn your life around. You should fully investigate every opportunity, and if you have to spend money to stat a business, bootstrap it in the beginning. That’s just what’s worked for me in the past.
Susan
Hello Roderick, thank you for giving the world a heads up on this apparent scam. None of us has the time to research all the site on the net and having you do that for me saves lots of time and aggravation. All the red flags are there and the spend money to make money is a real eye opener. Not knowing when you’ll get paid is also scary. Thanks again for you insite and good luck with your site.
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Nathaniell
Yup, it’s launching soon so I wanted to get the word out. The funny thing about programs like this is that sometimes the launch is a big deal, and a lot of people get roped into the program on the day of release. Because I heard of this one through the grapevine, I have a feeling they’re going to lose steam before they even launch. I already checked out the leaderboards and people are signing up left and right.
Even if the program is popular, it doesn’t mean it’s a long term business opportunity!
And like I said in the review, even if you can make a bit of money in the beginning (very few people will), you need to heavily consider what type of program you’re promoting to your downline! Don’t you want to confirm that you can make money before recommending it? Heck, we don’t even know when anyone is getting paid yet!
Andrew
Hi Nathaniell,
Thanks for taking the time to warn us all about the forth coming “Click Intensity Scam”! These systems never cease to amaze me. How do the creators of this system manage to make such a shoddy, low quality production and make money from it? The sad thing is, I know they will make make money, directly at the expense of those people that need to make it the most.
I can certainly vouch for the alternative that you suggest here, in joining Wealthy Affiliate. I joined after taking advice from yourself around 5 months ago and I would highly recommend it. Wealthy Affiliate is worlds apart from the likes of this MLM scam!
Thanks again!
Nathaniell
It always shocks me as well how the creators of this system manage to convince themselves and others of its viability. Honestly, I have a feeling the the people we see in this video don’t actually create the system. Personally, I think they are working for someone else and just playing a role.
As I’ve seen in other “systems”, there are a lot of actors as well. The faces we see for Click Intensity just might be actors playing a role, and not actually know anything about how the system works, or what they’re talking about.
Of course, that’s just speculation. It may be that Tara Mish and her associates are aware of the type of program they created. Perhaps they just think that it’s OK for a few top affiliates to make money when they’re in on “the ground floor”, while the rest of the folks that join late lose money.
Who knows?!
either way, I’m not going to be putting any money into this thing.
PS. Thanks for agreeing with me on the recommendation! Glad to hear you’ve been a member for almost half a year now and are enjoying the training and building your website confidently. Keep up the good work 🙂
Eddy
Sounds like another scam that is based on smokes and mirrors. There are too many things that they conveniently leave out or gloss over. It’s crap like this that makes everyone feel that every work at home opportunity is a scam. Fortunately we have people like you Nathaniel to enlighten folks. So thanks for another great and useful review.
Nathaniell
Yeah it’s a real bummer that scams like this seem to keep popping up and it’s always something “new”. In fact, a lot of folks end up getting scammed by two or three similar companies before they become more sensitive to “it’s too good to be true” and wise up.
I mean, the #1 sign of a company not being legit is when they tell you that income is guaranteed. Click Intensity is basically saying that if you spend $25 you are guaranteed to make $30 back…as long as members keep joining. Guaranteed profit is always a bad sign, and it’s how Bernie Madoff was able to con all those stock investors back in the day.
Making money online is totally possible, but it’s just like any other business. You have to help people do something, by providing a product or service. Making money just by entering a biz op is never legit IMO. Even if you end up a bit richer, there’s probably more than a few people out there that are losing money. That’s how pyramid schemes work!
Rowan
The doubt as to when and if you ever will GET PAID are the top very Red Flags that say Ponzi. here is simply what happens – you pay some with the new money that comes in, so that people on top are happy but they take in more than they pay out – and in a Ponzi world that is called profit. Somewhere down the line it Crashes or everybody vanishes – Of Course with your Money
Nathaniell
I was pretty shocked when they came out and said they didn’t know when you would get paid and it just depends on how things go with the company. How many people would apply for a job that said, “Well, you can work for us for a few months, then we’ll see how things go. If you can generate enough revenue for us, then we’ll pay you. We don’t know when, but it’ll probably happen”. Ummm, yeah.
The sad thing is that a lot of people will ready my review and still want to sign up for Click Intensity. After they lose their money, they won’t come back to report that they lost it. It will just fade out of existence, and get replaced by something else.
This has happened so many times over the course of 4 years of me running this website, and there’s always a new hot biz op that’s “guaranteed to make you rich” (as long as you pay enough money into the system).