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Empower Network Review: Last Year’s Hottest Scam

June 7, 2019 by Nathaniell

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Table of Contents

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  • Empower Network Review
    • What is EN?
    • Short Review:
    • Before You Buy:
    • Anything Positive?
    • What You Need To Know:
    • Is This Program For You?
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      • Update
    • Final Review

Empower Network Review

Product Name: Empower Network
Product Owner: David Wood & David Sharpe
Advertised Price: $25/month
Upsells: $19.99/month, $100/month, $500, $1,000, $3500
Rating: 0/100 

Update 2019: Dave Sharp, one of the founders of Empower Network, is now running a new product called Legendary Marketer. From other reviews, it seems to be a more “legit” venture, with actual training, but the cost is pretty freakin’ sky high, and based on his previous affiliation with this garbage product Empower Network, it’s not something I recommend you invest your money in.

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Oh yeah, remember when Dave charged you ten grand then shut down the company? Yeah. That’s the same guy. Now you want to give him more money because he “went legit”? No way man. 

Update 2017: Empower Network has shut down officially, and now the ex owner is asking people to join his new program. It took 4 years to come to fruition, but don’t say I didn’t warn you!

UPDATE 2015: Notice that all “Ex” Top 1% Empower Network have now jumped ship. This is very common in MLMs where people ride the wave of euphoria while everyone signs up, then exits the room before the thing collapses.

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What is EN?

Make money by blogging on their network and referring other people to join Empower Network.

Short Review:

Blogging is just a facade for their MLM/network marketing/pyramid scheme, and this program should be avoided at all costs.

Before You Buy:

There is a lot of hype around Empower Network because they give “100% commissions”, and you “make money by blogging”. This is not the whole truth.

The truth is that you make 100% of only some of the commissions, and much of what you earn goes to your upline, ie the people that referred you. After joining, you are then strongly encouraged to ‘go all in’, and ‘upgrade’, which are buzzwords for ‘pay more money’. Remember, in order to make big commissions, you need to actually own the packages.

In typical MLM fashion you pay a minimum fee to enter, and they slowly reveal higher levels of membership that supposedly unlock bigger commissions.

Remember! that to make money with Empower Network, you must refer more people to Empower Network. You are essentially a door to door salesman selling an “amazing” product.

It is an unsustainable business model where eventually, there are more sellers than there are buyers.

Anything Positive?

I’m sure it’s great to be at the top of the pyramid. Too bad there are so many sitting at the bottom.

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Thats  less than 1 chance at $28k per year not month I can think of some MUCH BETTER business models than this

What You Need To Know:

Not only is MLM one of the worst types of programs to make money with because of the extremely low success rate, they are tarnishing the reputation of real internet marketers like myself. Many of their members spam forums and social media networks trying to refer more members to their downline, so I see this EN crap posted all over the place. EN does not provide sufficient training to actually teach you how to promote your blog, drive organic traffic to it via search engines, or sell real products and services.

The #1 Goal of Empower Network Is To Get More People Into Empower Network

Even though their product is a ‘blogging platform’, this is still a pyramid scheme at heart. Remember, you do not OWN the blog that you write for on Empower Network. EN owns it. They can block your access at any time, and have done it to many people (see video below). There are many free or cheap ways to start out online with a blog that you own 100% of.

The #1 thing you need to be looking for is training. Good training and a quality support community will help you get started online. The next thing you need to look at is sustainability. Will you still be doing this in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years?

One more thing you need to know is that if you do not buy their upgrades for hundreds & thousands of dollars, you will never get those commissions from your downline. If you stay with the $25 monthly fee (plus monthly ewallet fee), you can only make that amount from your referrals.

If someone in your downline pays $500 for the Costa Rica Intensive or $3500 for The Master’s Course, you make $0

Is This Program For You?

I get so many comments from people trying to “correct my mistakes” or “clear up confusion”. Whatever your opinion on MLM or EN is, you need to ask yourself, can I afford this? Remove yourself from all the amazing stories of rags to riches, and pictures of people holding big checks and bigger smiles.

Can you afford to risk $5000 or more on a business opportunity that’s receiving so much criticism from legitimate online business owners? Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 These are real people with real businesses, not just guys that blog about how cool EN is.

So, take a long, hard look at your wallet and think – would you take this money to Vegas? Would you give it to a friend to invest for you or would you put all of it down in the stock market today?  Can you afford to hand it over to “viral blogging system” even though you are not 100% clear how it works?

 

 

Update

Empower is still around, though it’s unclear in what form. They ran a few promos with company names in the sales front but eventually led you to EN in the back end, but I don’t see that so much any more. More recently, they launched their so-called “revolutionary” blogging platform Kalatu, but that hit the ground with a thud (as with their previous attempts outlined in that post).

So some folks are still promoting it, but the hype has clearly died off so I’ve renamed this post “Last Year’s Hottest Scam”. I would just like to indulge a bit and take a moment to say “I told you so” to all the commenters below who spent hours and hours hating my opinion which turned out to be right.

Final Review

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It’s become very clear from the comments that this review makes a lot of folks mad. Let’s make a few things clear so I we can avoid some issues down the road.

  1. I don’t like MLM and you cannot convince me to like it
  2. I review lots of products, not just EN
  3. I promote other, legitimate services on this blog
  4. It is not a secret that Wealthy Affiliate is my #1 rated product
  5. If you are rude, I will not approve your comments

What is One More Cup of Coffee about? Surprisingly, my goal in life is NOT to talk argue about my Empower Network review! I create websites about various topics like software, homebrewing, health & fitness, and traveling. Then I find companies to partner with, and promote their products on my blog. It’s that simple. There is no secret system.

My online businesses are based on my own personal interests.

I do not have a degree in marketing or computer science. When I started, I couldn’t even build a website. I learned everything I know from an online business training center that specializes in teaching newbies how to start their own online business. I’m still a member today, and continue to generate income from many other websites not related to ‘make money online’, including websites about computer software, health & wellness, and others 🙂


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  1. Jose

    August 20, 2017 at 9:49 am

    Too bad Vick had an issue for not adding a disclaimer on his marketing videos, which lead people to think it was a fact. But his “Internet traffic formula” was one of the best training tutorials you could come across. Unfortunately, they are no longer available. That was the type of training that actually was able to get you to the dream promised in his marketing videos.

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  2. Jose

    August 20, 2017 at 9:43 am

    EN isn’t a scam. There are only bad coaches/people who don’t train people well enough to earn money. The product is sometimes sold to people who are only looking for an easy way to get rich & aren’t business or Internet oriented enough tojust know how it works.
    As with any business, there is a need for investmenting & risk. That’s basic entrepreneurialism, which not everybody isn’t ready for, especially when their given a boat wIth out any paddle, sail, or motor along with never having navigated a boat in a lake before; they’ll be lost without any skill. That is why proper coaching is important when a person has potential as well as honestly in knowing when a product isn’t for somebody, instead of trying to shove it down their throat to get a sale.
    Are there free blogging platforms? yes.
    Can you purchase everything online to monitor and attract people to your blog & website? Yes.
    People are not told about the many extras that are actually needed besides an autoresponder, a goodles camera would also be good, plus knowing how to edit videos.

    As a former customer service agent for EN, I’m well aware of how well it can work for the right person, as I am about how much of a waste of money it is for the wrong person. But you might say that would be the same with any business venture.

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    • Nathaniell

      August 20, 2017 at 4:59 pm

      What are you talking about man? EN is bankrupt now. Didn’t you see Dave’s video about it?

  3. John

    August 15, 2017 at 11:19 am

    I wonder why you gave this a one. I remember when this first came out… I paid $25 per month for a complete blog and hosting… and my accounting business was number one in my city for many search terms. That was the BIGGEST boom to my business ever. Somehow when they changed to another blogging platform, my listings stopped showing up. I think the beginning blog was perfect but they made changes over time. That’s sad.

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    • Nathaniell

      August 15, 2017 at 11:29 am

      I would recommend just getting a self-hosted WordPress website. I’m sure you’ll see the same boom to your business with a website. Empower’s blogs never ranked well, and were doomed from the beginning. Now they’re a defunct company (officially).

  4. Deejay O'flaherty

    June 23, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    I joined the EN and basically got out after one month. I was not well informed at the time about MLM, however something about it didn’t sit right and no matter what I heard from it’s members, pyramid scheme was all I could see it as. I think there are one or two legit MLM’s out there that they have real products to use for the monthly fee. However I am just not a fan of MLM myself.

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  5. Jonny

    April 1, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    The biggest problem is what they sell is useless crap! Duplicate Dave is a new crap from the Empower asshole who left Empower. Same crap upgrades. Same shitty useless products! Avoid anyone associated with Empower! Tgey are worthless assholes.

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