Ok, so here is an honest review of paypercallexposed information. Before I get into all the details of the campaign, know that I followed the guide, step by step, including purchasing the landing page via themeforest. The guide has some good information, nothing ground breaking, but not worth the price IMO. Should be priced between $10-$30. A couple hundred bucks is just not worth it, most of the information you can find out there for free. As a disclosure, I'm running all of the campaigns off of ringpartner, who I was already affiliated with prior to this training. I mostly targeted adwords pay per call, but I did try a facebook ad based on the review from the training.
My 1st campaign is for replacement roof, at first it looked promising, within the 1st few hours I had 2 conversions paid at $7 per. My adwords spend after the 1st couple of coversions was about $5. So, I made $14 and spent $5. A net profit of $9. I'll spend $5 to make $9 all day long baby! But, as the campaign continued I only saw 1 other conversion, paid at 0.15. I have no idea why they would pay me this little, but so be it. I'm not going to argue with an affiliate manager about something like that. As the campaign wore on during the week, I saw no more conversions and spent a total of $50. So, for the week, I posted a net loss of $35.85.
I decided to launch some more campaigns, starting with a flooring campaign. This campaign pays out a fixed rate of $21 per qualified lead. They have a list of 34,997 zip codes they wish you to target. Adwords only allows you to add 1000 per adgroup/campaign. So you would need either 35 campaigns for this offer, 35 adgroups, or target by state and elimate the states that they do not do business in. I choose the latter because I just can't imagine creating that many campaigns for the same offer. The 1st call sent lasted 6 minutes and I received a conversion at $21, but the training suggests you bid at 50% of the payout, so the net revenue was $10.50. 6 more calls came in, but none of which were paid. Adwords data shows I received 16 clicks on my call only ad, and charged me about $120. Looking a the search terms, I realized that clicks were coming from people searching for brand name carpets and flooring. So I have changed the match to only exact match, no more broad match modifiers etc. So this campaign has netted a loss of about $99. I'm still running the campaign, but only for exact match keywords.
After this mess, I decided to try a medicare lead campaign. I started with facebook ads, because they allow me to target 65+. My creative was very close to the creative used for the course. Facebook charges per impression based on how shitty they think your ad is, or how good they think your ad is. Well, my relevancy score was 2, so I got charged about $3.50 per 1,000 impressions, I let it go to 10,000 impressions and turned it off. Not a single call, so another campaign loss, this time to the tune of about $35. I have an adwords campaign created, but the bids per click are through the roof and I am not budging off of $3. Needless to say, this campaign is getting zero impressions.
Today, I started an auto insurance lead campaign and it looks like I'll be able to get some traffic at a decent rate to pull a profit. But that's what I thought for the other campaigns. My conversion rate for all of the calls is 36%.
Bottom line, this course is priced at just too much for the information given. I've been on free webinars were most of this information was already conveyed. I've read through this sales thread and the positive reviews all seem to come from these 'free review copies'. This is a real life example of the program in action. So far, this certainly isn't going to bankrupt me, but the line is trending towards huge losses if these campaigns continue on the trajectory.
This review is not intended to harm the OPs business, but is an honest review that I can back up with data. If anyone is making any money after reading this course, please feel free to share the details of your campaigns and what made you profitable.
Also, has any person used the full setup service? I've seen some folks thinking about it, but haven't seen a independent review of the service.
ive read up on some of your case study work as well. awesome stuff.
