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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Igor
Hello Nathaniell!
Man, this program is laughable! $100 000? “You are guaranteed to make money but we don’t know when we can pay you” – This must be the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of, online or offline. At least other scammers are trying to snatch some small amounts from people, but who would put out this kind of money?
Great post, keep it up!
Nathaniell
The sad thing is that a lot of people will know it sounds a bit sketchy, but will pay anyway because they really want it to work. The first “buy” of a silver pack is often enough to start the “sunk cost fallacy” where people feel like they already invested some money, so invest MORE to try to gain back their lost cost.
That’s how a $25 investment turns into $100k in the blink of an eye.
Carl
Hello Nathaniell
I just finished reading you review and I totally agree with you. Any business that can not tell you when you will get paid is, in my opinion, a scam.
How can someone request people to invest a large sum of money without any pay back garanties.
I don’t think they will last very long. I believe people are smarter than that and will not sign up.
Great review.
Can’t wait to read the next one.
Nathaniell
you are absolutely right! Although I’m not a fan of MLM or network marketing, even from the perspective of a netowork marketing fan, how can you ask people to join this biz op? When you can’t even tell your down line when they get paid, it’s pretty bad.
Not to mention I think a lot of people will be suspicious of the low quality training videos. If the owners are so successful, why didn’t they invest any money j to creating a better training system? I personally think this is one reason why most companieswomt show you training before you pay! This is one reason why I recommend wealthy affiliate so much. You can view the training videos for free! They are not afraid to show you how to make money online. They main aspect of the company is training and assistance building a legitimate business online.
You don’t have to recruit anyone to make money or being anyone into “the system”.
Chrissies
This is a really informative review. Your page is well laid out with good graphics and “interesting” videos. It tells me all that I need to know about Click Intensity, more than I need to know to come to the same conclusion as you – it is most definitely a scam.
It is so important that this kind of real information gets out to as many people as possible. How did you first hear of it?
As you say, the internet is full of unscrupulous people who are trying to make a profit out of the gullibility (and greed) of others. Anyone who has been involved with online marketing for any amount of time is very lucky if they have managed to completely escape the claws of these people.
As you say, everyone considering these obviously dubious schemes should never join them without their own “due diligence”. The more reviews there are out there that tell it like it is and “out” these vultures, the better.
You have done a great job in exposing Click Intensity for what it really is.
Nathaniell
I first heard of this company through a buddy of mine who warned me about it. The pitch sounded familiar, like another product launched earlier this year, so I wanted to write a review of this one before the launch.
The thing I love about writing reviews of companies like this is that for the people that do their due diligence, although this is just my opinion, it’ll make them think twice. Rather than have the first page of Google littered with “join now” type reviews, there’s an even mix of people that support or dislike it.
This way, everyone can make up their own opinion based on what they read. I think I’ve created a pretty convincing argument here as to why no one should invest money into CI, and I think a lot of people reading this review (at least so far) agree with me!
thadpoore
Wow what a scam, the internet is the “wild west” of the marketplace. Things like this are everywhere sadly, I have read so many reviews. Anyways, I like your review because it is very relatable and easy to read!
This was quite an enjoyable read, thank you for posting and sharing this with me:)
Keep up the great work!
Thad P. Gymbulk fitness
Nathaniell
The internet truly is the “wild west” in that there are so many scams, and very little the government is doing to prevent or regulate them. Though they rip off a lot of money from people, I guess in the bigger picture, the dollar amount is not as much as other issues the US. They are small fries compared to other fraudsters. People looking to make money online are a pretty small group compared to people looking for traditional jobs IRL.
Jonathan
Hey thanks for the quality review. I’m glad you reviewed this product, because if their buzz is hot then a lot of people will be victimized by this scam. MLM are no good, unless you’re one of those top of the pyramid type persons and very experienced in the business.
People need to stop joining MLM companies so that eventually they will become extinct. I hate when people spend their money on something that is going to flop! Thanks again.
Nathaniell
I guess you heard about these guys as well! So far, they launched two days ago and I haven’t heard much here on the blog, plus I haven’t seen very many comments on the top ranking websites with reviews. I think this one may have been a dud (unless they pushed back the launch date again!)