Product Name: Partner with Anthony
Product Owner: Anthony Morrison
Price: $98 (in two payments) or $67
Rating: 19/100
What is it?
A training product focused on teaching people how to build email lists and make money from them.
Short Review
Partner with Anthony isn’t that different than any of Anthony Morrison’s other products, and is little more than PDFs and videos with limited support. Email lists may be a legitimate way to make money online, but Anthony’s training probably won’t help most people actually get to that point.
Before You Buy
For this product, I was immediately sent an email offering me a ‘free upgrade’ to Partner with Anthony. The upgrade in question was known as Commission Consultants, and this is commonly used ‘bonus’.
Commission Consultants and so-called opportunities like it are complete scams. They offer you ‘free’ sites (which aren’t particularly good anyway), but the catch is that you have to pay for hosting through their provider.
The provider of hosting for these products always charges much more than the market average, so you end up getting locked into an expensive agreement for a site that doesn’t really help you to start off with.
So, be a little careful of this with this product, and with any upsells, because they are rarely ever worth the time or money.
What I Liked
The only real thing I liked about this product is that you can make money through email marketing, but there really are much better ways to learn.
What I Didn’t Like
Anthony Morrison has a reputation as an internet marketer, but despite what he would tell you, it isn’t actually a good reputation. Personally, I find his marketing techniques frustrating and manipulative, and his products aren’t normally that good either.
It’s true that Anthony Morrison has been successful at making money online and he is kind of famous for that.
However – this doesn’t mean that his products are any good.
A lot of successful internet marketers have found their success on the backs of others. Their approaches often take advantage of the people they claim to be helping. At the end of the day, just because someone has made money online does not mean that their product is going to be any good.
Anthony has been responsible for developing or has been connected with a range of different similar products, which use the same hype and manipulation to get sales. Some of these have been reviewed on this site in the past, such as Traffic with Anthony.
This is the email I received from someone promoting “Success With Anthony” today. You can really see what kind of “company” this guy is running.
Honestly, Anthony is a ‘mentor’ to be wary of. Most of the time he is promoting systems that might get you money or traffic, but only ever in the short-term. In fact, many of his approaches seem to be manipulations of current systems, which is never a good way to make money.
In this case, the sales page starts off with a video that you can’t pause, can’t mute and can’t fast forward. It’s a horrible technique because you are forced to watch a video that is mostly hype and filler just to work out what the product is.
And as normal, the video really doesn’t tell you that much about the product to start off with.
The basic concept behind the product is email marketing – which isn’t new or revolutionary in any way.
Now, it is possible to make money through email marketing, I’m not saying it isn’t. However, it isn’t as simple as Anthony makes it seem and honestly, his training isn’t really going to help that much.
What you get in this product is largely videos and PDFs, which are supposed to teach you everything you need to know. This is actually a really bad way to learn. I mean what happens when you don’t quite understand what the lessons have to say?
In that case the only thing you can do is contact the support for the product – and honestly that isn’t going to help much. In pretty much all of his products, Anthony has a habit of outsourcing support, which means you end up looking for support from people who don’t really know internet marketing to start off with.
Additionally, products of this type are rarely updated. This means that the techniques they promote get out of date fast, and it’s likely you when the techniques do go out of date, you won’t even be aware of it.
You might also notice, that like most of his other products, the internet is filled with glowing reviews about how wonderful Partner with Anthony is.
Don’t be fooled. You can spot these a mile away by the lack of real info about the product, usually just quoting information from the sales video. It's a very common tactic in this industry. With enough random sales from a few uninformed customers, you can build a business on deception.
Final Review
Steer clear of Partner with Anthony. Even if the approach he is promoting was decent (which is debatable), his style of training leaves users with many questions, particularly people who are new to the field. $67 is far too much to pay for a collection of low-quality PDFs and videos that are a poor substitute for real training.
What Now?
At $67 for the full product, Partner with Anthony is a bit on the expensive side, especially as you are mostly just getting PDFs and videos with little to no support. The same amount of money would get you two months of membership at Wealthy Affiliate, where you receive personalized support from people who know internet marketing, and up-to-date training and guidance. This support can help you make money online much better than Partner with Anthony possibly can.
Nathaniell
It appears ALL your articles have the same theme Nat. Cut down other programs to sell yours. Did you go to the Moron Marketing school?
LOL. Ok troll Dave. No marketing school for me, I just call bullshit when I see it.
Well, I actually did go down one or two of these scam products and I can confirm that this guy knows what he is talking about. Fortunately, one of these scam sites made the mistake of charging more than advertised which is sufficient reason to request a chargeback from my bank (even when it was a debit card). The other one scam used Clickbank to do the selling so all I needed to do is to ask them for refund (and give a link to one of the reviews on this blog to prove my point). So, actually this guy is not cutting down anything, he just exposes the rotteness hiding inside these programs. The rotten programs then “fall down” on their own, without any help.
Basically the reason why “it appears ALL your articles have the same theme Nat: Cut down other programs to sell yours” is not “Did you go to the Moron Marketing school?” but “the Internet is so full of scams”. Essentially, if you want to find a honest product in the “make money online” niche, you need to set up a filter that says “if it promises $100 per day in 30 days, then it is a scam”, you will be ALWAYS (not MOSTLY, but ALWAYS) true and you won’t be left with many products. Yes, the ratio IS that bad, for every 1 solid product on the market there are 100+ scams.
And the “yours program” you are so complaining about, did you ever tried it? They don’t ask for a credit card on signup so …
I did check it and I can tell you it is one of those 1% that are NOT a scam. They are not going to pull a honey rope under your nose but they have pretty solid training there and awesome support. And, especially, if you dare to read the Nat’s review you will see for yourself that he also found a few problems even with “his program”. Personally now I learned to grow extremely suspicious when I see a review with nothing negative mentioned about a product. It is one sure fire way how to spot a dishones review yelling at the reader “BUY THIS PRODUCT AS FAST AS YOU CAN !!!” (which my brain now translates to “WHAT YOU ARE WAITING FOR, GIVE ME YOUR MONEY OR GET LOST”).
You hit the nail on the head Josef. A very small % of products out there are legit, so a very large % of the reviews that I do are negative. I now have a total of about 20 positive reviews on my site (of about 400 reviews) which is 0.5%. Of course that’s just my personal opinion, but I do try my best to see what a product is trying to do and whether or not I think it’s good for newbies.
“I now have a total of about 20 positive reviews on my site (of about 400 reviews) which is 0.5%.”
20 positive reviews out of 400 is 5%, not 0.5% 😀
On the other side I would say that your picking process is pretty biased towards good products. This is because you are actually already making money with an Internet based business so you know what you are doing and you know what is going to work and what is not. Therefore you subconsciously ignore many scams that literally scream “I am a scam” to somebody with your expertise. “Subconssciously” means that you run away before you even realize that you were near that scam and what exactly it was and why it was a scam. Somebody who is a total newbie would see that only 0.5% to 1% of the products he tries are actually any good. This is because he can’t tell “obvious scams” from “might be legit scams” apart.
Additionally it can be that your “source of products to review” (which I guess is the Wealthy Affiliate Community) is pretty biased towards the good products. Many people there know what is going to work and what is not and they most likely also dismiss obvious scams before they manage to realize they are dismissing something so you get less scam through them than there actually is.
Haha. My math is so terrible. Exactly 100% of my math calculations on this website have been incorrect and corrected by someone in the comments. LOL. Hopefully got that number right 🙂 Just goes to show you that you don’t have to be a genius to make it in this industry.