The description of this company's sales technique has been accurately and adequately described in another scam Report by the former private detective. I wish I had read it before experiencing the sales pitch first hand. It would have saved me six thousand dollars.
I had signed up with EBay to sell some items laying around the house when I gota call from someone calling himself Tony "the tiger" Anderson. He asked why limit myself to selling a few items on EBay when I could make big money selling from my own site on the Internet.His approach was that the sky was the limit and that I would be limited only by my own vision, ambition, or effort. He recounted several astonishing success stories and then make me set for myself some earnings goals: for3 months ($1,000 per), 6 months ($4,000 per), and 12 ($8,000 per month). I know realize that this was to instill in me some greed, which as we all know makesone lose touch with reality.As far as the cost was concerned he didn't mention their fee until after a long discussion of good and bad debt (business vs. comsumer). He also said his company was only looking for people who could be decisive and then mentioned their $6300 fee by saying that it was good debt and then he asked for my charge card number. I am ashamed to say I fell for the pitch. Here is what thenhappened. In this case the only difference between business (good) debt, and consumer (bad) is that with consumer debt I, at least, have something to show for it. By the way, by the time I pay off the six thousand owed the credit card it will be over eleven thousand.
After getting my money they told me to get Firefox as my browser. Then they set me up with their ApplyKnowledge web builderand theyassigned a coach (which incidentally was a very nice person who seemed to have done her best to help me) and we began a long process of creating a site.
I am a diligent person so after spending that kind of money I was determined to make a success out of the experience even though I had come to the Ripoff Report and learned some uncomfortable truths about these people I would be working with.
I did the research on products and suppliers according to the coach and built a site using their template-based system. I looked at all of their coaching videos, and, according to instruction, verified with Google and the other search engines.
When nothing happened -- no sales and few hits --theytold me I would have to get heavily involved in "Social Networking,"so I registered with Facebook and startedwriting articles for E-zines and Blogger.
About this time I started getting calls from people like e-Commerce Positioning and ABC ECommerce telling me thatmy site washorribly flawed and that any template based system would fail. They said entities such asGoogle would kick me off soon.
Apply Knowledge Institute disagreed of course and said it just took time to get things going (in marked contrast to Tony "the tigers" pitch about making thousands of dollars within a couple months.
The bottom line for me is that, after almost a year and afterendless hours of effort, the site has had about five thousand visits (many of them my own and competitors of ApplyKI I'm sure) with ZERO sales.
I have not sold one item.
There may be many reasons. Some might not even be the fault of ApplyKI, butunless you are willing to spend even more than I have spent, and have a sure-fire high margin product that great numbers of people are clamoring for it, would bea good idea to give not only ApplyKI but the whole E-commerce experience a pass.
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