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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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.
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Armand707
Hi Nataniell. This site, Click Intensity falls along the lines of “pyramid schemes”, “scams”, “fraudulent sites”, etc. It seems that there are no real work-at-home sites anymore.
I used to be the type that hopped from one money-making opportunity to another only to find out that over 70% of them are scams which is a high ratio rate. Anyhow, you have done a good job with this review and keep on exposing those scams.
-Armand
Nathaniell
I think you’re right to assume that 70% (or even more) are scams. Really, there aren’t a lot of “secrets” to making money online. There are many ways, and all of them involve hard work, but also require that you provide a legitimate product or service to people. Once you get into the realm of “asking” people for money or making money just by helping people make money that also help other people make money…then it’s a scheme.
If there’s no real product, and you’re not providing anything of value then even if you do end up earning, it’ll be short lived. That’s how even successful network marketers end up opportunity hopping year after year!
Chris
I’ve come across similar systems as this before and I’ve always wondered how they end up at a $5 profit on each ad box. From what I gather Traffic Monsoon is very similar in it’s setup. What is the actual advertising side of things like? Is the traffic mainly cheap PTC traffic or better? I can’t see how you can make money on each ad unit ( other than $5 profit for each one you own! )
Nathaniell
I have also heard this program compared to Traffic Monsoon. I guess that happens a lot with these types of programs. Something starts up, gets big, fizzles out when they run out of new people to join, then a new, copycat starts up.
The program officially launched yesterday (March 27) supposedly, so we’ll see how this one does. So far, I don’t seem to be hearing much from anyone.
The thing is (regarding traffic) is that none of the videos discussed it! They glazed over the topic briefly, but I couldn’t find anything else about the traffic packs, who can use, them, where the traffic is coming from, or what type of offers its good for. Hmph!
JeffWA
Hi Nathaniell, My word these fraud, bogus MLM business opportunities just keep appearing out of the woodwork like unwanted cockroaches.
You did a thorough review of this click-intensity scam opportunity. Besides the fact that you pointed out it clearly is both a Pyramid and Ponzi scheme (both quite illegal here in the U.S.), it really is a shame that people like the co-founders Nick Johnson and Tara MIsh aren’t already in jail for trying to perpetrate such a disgusting fraudulent opportunity.
However because of the fact that so many people in the world are greedy, and want to make money as easily as possible; it is a reason why the Nick’s and Tara’s of the world still exist polluting the Internet with their bogus schemes.
I laughed out loud when you pointed out in your review the fact that with Tara, (“head of communications” as she bragged in the vid) making the absurd statement in her vid that one involved in this scam could eventually have 53 billion people in your down-line team. It was beyond stupid what she said. There aren’t that many people on planet Earth. Someone please place handcuffs on that woman!
And then when the owners admit that they could not even promise you when you would get paid assuming that you were so stupid to get involved in this scam was the absolute icing on the cake. 100% certified fraud!
Thank you Nathaniell for taking the time to craft such a superb article. It is needed, and I do the same posting reviews on my website.
Their training as you pointed out in your review for people/suckers getting involved in this opportunity was a total joke.
As long as there are criminally twisted people out there like the founders of click-intensity trying to lure naive people into scams that will only end up in relieving them of their initial investment money, then we have to keep pointing out online and in articles the fact that these people are to be avoided at all costs!
Sincerely,
Jeff
Nathaniell
Thanks for the comment Jeff, and I’m glad that you agree with me on these points. Although I agree that some people are greedy, I dont’ think that’s what really motivate people to join a program like this. Honestly, I think they are just like everyone else, and want to improve their financial situation…perhaps more than the rest.
When someone starts to get needy for money (including MYSELF!), it’s easy to ignore red flags, or negative signals. I’ve been almost scammed before on Craigslist when I was looking for a new truck. A very cheap one came up, and I really, really wanted it! There were too many red flags though, like wanting me to wire money for them, and wanting to ship the truck from across the country.
Luckily I looked it up online, and it turns out it was a common scam tactic.
The same is happening here. I think a lot of people will look at how Click Intensity presents itself and wonder, “Is it too goo to be true”, then look up reviews online. Hopefully mine turns up, and they can see that it truly is too good to be true.
There definitely are ways to start a business online, but they take hard work, and require that you actually help people with a product or service. Not just get them into a ‘business opportunity”.
Simone
I have been looking for ways to make money online and have seen click intensity all over Facebook. I’m always a bit skeptical of things and like to do my own research. I am glad that I found your review. This does not sound like a way for me to make money.
The fact that they don’t even know when people will get paid is a huge red flag. Funny how Tara says in the video “this is about quality of life”. If I am paying $25 a day for 4000 days without knowing if I will ever get paid I don’t think my quality of life will be very good.
So did you join to get this info since I see you have access to the members area? Will they let you join for free to snoop around?
Thanks!
Nathaniell
I think you found Click Intensity the same way a lot of people do… through their friends on Facebook. This is how scams get passed around many times. Someone “discovers” it, doesn’t fully understand how it works (and hasn’t made any money in it), but still recommends it to their list of friends on Facebook or via email.
That “trust” gets other people to sign up, and the cycle continues.
I do hope that if anyone sees this posted on Facebook that they decide to share my review of it in the comment section. Although it’s my opinion, and some people will disagree with me, at least it’s an alternative opinion and will make some people think twice!
I agree that sometimes you do have to risk some money if you want to learn how to and possibly start a business. But you should have a definitely plan in mind, or at least have “proof of concept” (ie some kind of monetary return) first, before sinking more money into the biz!
Thanks for stopping by Simone!
tatihden
There are way too many scams out there. It makes it hard to find a legitimate program. We need many more people like you bringing these scams to the open so fewer people fall prey. So many people are looking for additional income are easy targets for these scams.
Keep up the good work!
Nathaniell
There definitely are a lot of scams out there, and it’s precisely the reason you mentioned; there are a lot of people out there that want to make money from home. Because people are desperate for money and freedom, they are willing to believe in things like guaranteed income, easy profits, and a fast way to financial freedom.
Mark my words the fast majority of people investing money in Click Intensity will lose money!