CPA Ninja Review – Is It Really Worth $1000?
This is not the typical “review”… since I’m actually going to tell you my impressions of CPA Ninja based on having gone through the WHOLE COURSE. (You’ve probably seen offers from just about every major marketer by now… since this is the latest $1000 launch. Yet I have to wonder if any of these guys actually go through the whole course before they send out a promotion.)
3 out of 5 stars - I recommend Google Cash Detective: www.gcdetective.com (click the image above to go there)
In case you’re wondering, I actually purchased a pre-launch copy and went through the course about a month ago. I’m not offering any bonuses or anything so if you’re bonus hunting… you’re in the wrong place, but if you’re interested in an honest opinion of the product, keep reading…
Just so there’s no confusion, this is the offer we’re talking about: www.cpaninjas.com/vid2/ (this is their current squeeze page where you can get a short interview with Amish Shah – a multiple 7-figure affiliate marketer).
So let’s start with the CPA Ninja Review.
In a nutshell:
CPA Ninja is created by Matt Trainer and Marty Rozmanith, and as the title suggests, the course is about how to make money with CPA (cost per action) offers. It includes 4 modules consisting of 12 videos (with some videos going over an hour long). These modules are delivered every 3 – 7 days, so it will take a few weeks to get the whole thing. They also will send you a ‘hard copy’ of the course as well.
The modules cover:
- CPA Basics – 3 videos in Module 1
- Traffic & Website Setup
- Website Infrastructure & PPC (pay per click)
- Tracking & Scaling
The price for the course is around $1000 (or perhaps $1200?), with a 1-time discounted offer for Wordpress Direct (which is a “pre-requisite” for this course – I’ll explain this a bit later).
As you know, I’m not in the habit of jumping on every single product out there… but over the past couple of months I’ve been focusing on CPA networks so I decided to “pull the trigger” and purchase the pre-launch copy of this product.
The Overview:
The course is laid out as expected, with Matt and Marty sharing the duties of teaching this process. Matt covers the overview of CPA, how to get traffic using PPC along with keyword research and tracking. Marty’s videos for the most part deals with the “nuts and bolts” of their system (using Wordpress, or more specifically Wordpress Direct).
Module 1:
Video 1 of CPA Ninja starts out with a relatively brief introduction by Matt on what CPA marketing is and why he chose this business model over others. He talks about the 4 most important things when it comes to promoting CPA offers and reveals his ONLY formula for online success.
Video 2 – This is where Matt and Marty discuss what the aim is of this program. Matt actually reveals a $10,000 per month niche, AND the site that got him there (using the exact process taught in this course).
Video 3 – An interview by Luke Jaten who interviews Matt and asks him all kinds of questions. It has been matched with a powerpoint presentation which makes it easy to follow along. I found this interview to be rather long (and somewhat boring) but I’m sure it would be helpful for new marketers.
Module 2:
Video 4 – Traffic… Matt shares his preferred methods of getting traffic, starting with his least favorite (Organic… and Google Adwords) to his absolute most favorite way to generate traffic. While he reveals a couple of strategies that are not talked about very often, most of the information here is pretty basic…
Video 5 – This is Marty’s first solo mission and talks about how to setup your money page using Wordpress that will ultimately give you a simple method to setup a site that will get a good quality score from Google. In essence, this is all about setting up bridge page(s) / site(s) using Wordpress. Marty is quite thorough and in this video shows you how to find offers, types of offers to choose, where to get a domain name etc.
Video 6 – In this video Marty continues on with how to get hosting, what type of hosting they recommend, and how to do the initial blog setup and selecting appropriate themes with Wordpress Direct (I’ll talk more about this under “The Bad”). He also goes over some basic keyword research.
Module 3:
Video 7 – Matt and Marty share three sites, two of which has been promoted with success (the third is the site Marty is showing you how to build during these tutorials). The first is the same site as shown in video 2, the second site is a different style site he used to send non-paid traffic (where he made an average of $50 per day). They share the pros and cons of each site and gets in-depth about on-page setup, traffic generation, content creation, using the right type of creatives for offers and more. Then they go into a big Q & A session. Overall this is one of the best videos of the whole series.
Video 8 – Another video on the nuts and bolts of setting up your site and finishing the blog. Talks about how to promote an offer on the blog and adding content to using advanced features of Wordpress Direct. Not a lot I can say about this video without giving away stuff that would potentially be considered propriatary to Wordpress Direct and CPA Ninja.
Video 9 – An in-depth look at Keyword Research and how to create your keyword list(s) for your money site(s), as well as a quick and simple way to come up with relevant keywords for PPC promotion. Matt shares his PPC spreadsheet that allows you to add keywords properly formatted for Google Adwords. He also shares his PPC strategy and how he sets everything up in Google Adwords Editor.
Module 4:
Video 10 – This video is all about tracking. Matt shares how he uses sub-ids and tracking scripts to track his campaigns and includes the “how to” of setting things up and implement it on your site. He also shares some bidding optimization strategies for Google Adwords for getting bid costs down.
Video 11 – This video is also about tracking and introduces a “new” tracking tool.
Video 12 – Scaling your business. Different strategies for growing your business. They also clear up some things in regards to traffic generation and include a section on organic search engine traffic.
In addition to these videos, they include some process maps, resource page and a bonus video.
My Thoughts…
There are several great things about this product with the most valuable part of this course probably being the “real world” blog examples, since seeing a successful site is always a good thing. If you are new to CPA marketing then many of the modules will be very valuable to you.
And the tracking and the keyword strategies presented by Matt is also quite good (his keyword strategy for Google PPC campaigns is a method I’ve only seen once before… and is really good).
However, one thing that really bugged me about this product is that they make it virtually mandatory to purchase a monthly membership to Wordpress Direct, which is an auto-blogging platform for Wordpress. This makes sense since Marty is the creator of Wordpress Direct… But to be honest, I almost feel like this course was one HUGE “pre-sell” for Wordpress Direct.
So unless you are pretty internet or rather wordpress savvy, you are almost stuck with having to buy Wordpress Direct to make this work (http://wordpressdirect.com in case you want to see what it is). While you could conceivably do this manually, I really think they should have shown people how to use Wordpress Direct alternatives, since there’s other software / plug-ins available that can do this at the fraction of the price of Marty’s software (but that wouldn’t make sense for Marty… cause nobody would buy WP Direct then).
Having said that, if you are thrifty and have some WP knowledge you can use the information presented here and create your own version of these sites using off-the-shelf tools.
So what’s my consensus? Is it worth $1000?
I have no doubt that the methods presented in this product will make people money. And while the guys are likable and the product decent, I just don’t think the information here is worth $1000.00 (sorry Marty and Matt). Mostly because of the heavy reliance on Wordpress Direct with NO mention of how to build this using other tools. And the fact that you can get very similar info out there for about HALF the price… including the required Wordpress Plug-Ins and an auto-installer (and maybe a new premium theme or two).
So, unless you’re dead set on getting a CPA product, I think your money may be better spent on investing in Google Cash Detective (http://gcdetective.com) and one or more of their upsells. Since you can pretty much find already successful CPA offers with GCD and clone campaigns (taking a lot of the trial and error out of the process).
I give this product a 3 out of 5 stars.
Just my 2 cents…
Other Sites mentioned in this review:
Wordpress Direct: http://www.wpdirect.com/
Google Cash Detective: http://gcdetective.com
Have fun.
Steven
Comments
It’s funny that you mentioned GCD because as soon as I read the first paragraph I thought about GCD and how much I love it. I purchased it several months ago when it first came out and am still as impressed with it today as I was then. The functionality and the amount of data available to analyze with it is remarkable and the ability to “clone” successful campaigns is phenomenal. I recommend it to everyone. So thanks for posting this very fair critique of another product.
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to post a comment.
GCD is definitely one of the better products to be launched this year. Absolutely worthwhile for any affiliate marketer to take advantage of the $1 trial offer while it still lasts (Chris Carpenter is even giving people free access to Google Cash Detective 4). This offer is available here: http://gcdetective.com
In any event, thanks for commenting.
/Steven
I am a GCD user as well and really love it. I also believe every internet marketer has to get on board with video. Affiliates are learning that the conversion rates soar when the use video on the squeeze pages.
See Hot Video Squeeze Pages for great look and feel, coded, ready to go video squeeze page templates.
Hi Kalynn,
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you on using video for ones marketing and landing pages as well. I think many people overlook how well video can convert. It can be a very powerful tool in the right hands, and a very good tool even in the “wrong” hands.
By the way, I checked out your video squeeze page templates. Very nice.
/Steven
Thanks for the great review – at least I did get some good advice about using video in my landing page. I’ve seen it more and more, and I hate to jump on band wagons, but it seems like it works so well I’d be crazy not to!
What a fantasitc site i have saved this page for further reading in my exploer bookmark box and keep up the good work i learnt a lot from here
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