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Underachiever Secrets – Is This Another Marketing Lie?

At first glance, looking at the sales page for Russell Brunson’s latest Internet product, Underachiever Secrets, one can be struck by the amount of hype and other dubious tactics used to promote this program. It’s enough to turn most people off in the beginning. But if you dig beneath this superficial surface, you will find that the information being offered is based on sound business practices that have stood the test of time while helping other aspiring entrepreneurs make their mark in online marketing and business.

To answer the question posed in the title to this review, no, the core information presented in Underachiever Secrets is not just marketing hyperbole. Nor is it a lie. Those who take the time to actually research and prepare their product for Internet marketing and who implement the information presented in this program can discover first hand the power of what is being taught. If you are a “take charge” type of person who enjoys thinking for himself, it’s likely you may find plenty of profitable ideas and strategies to choose from in this material.

That said, there are some drawbacks to the Underachiever Secrets material and software which may cross the line on marketing hyperbole, especially for the beginning student of Internet marketing. For one thing, this program has been criticized for being light on the actual specifics of putting together an effective promotion in terms of website creation and such.

For example, it’s uncertain how much users are taught about SEO (search engine optimization) and how to set up their websites for maximum exposure to capture free traffic from the search engines. While SEO procedures are not all that difficult to understand, it would be beneficial for novices to the business to be given some in-depth direction in this highly important area. There’s more to SEO than just choosing the right keywords and placing them in your article or on your website. You also have to know HOW to make that effective.

In many areas it’s almost as though Brunson assumes the reader already understands a great deal about online marketing, so he doesn’t go into the nuts-and-bolts details. As well, it often explains things using generalities. If you’re a beginner in the I.M. industry, you may wish to check out another of Brunson’s products (20 Minute Payday) which addresses these matters more fully.

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Underachiever Secrets Review – The Unvarnished Truth

Okay. Let’s be honest up front in this review. The underlying business and marketing methods taught in Underachiever Secrets were not originally created by Russell Brunson. Russell acquired this program from one of his own mentors, Ed Dale, who created a program called Underachiever Mastery several years ago. After that program had run its course, it was retired, no longer being offered for sale. What Russell has done is to update the original program information while adding his own software products to it to help increase its value for the user.

As the story goes, when Russell was first starting out to explore the Internet business arena, he bought and implemented Ed Dale’s Underachiever Mastery course. And as they say, the rest is history. Russell began to set up his own online marketing empire of products and has since become a successful entrepreneur beyond even his own dreams. Underachiever Secrets is meant to help others set up their own online business empire to achieve that same success.

Russell has been successful in both online and offline business ventures, creating and selling both electronic informational and tangible products (e.g. CDs) using the Internet and the USPS to deliver his products. His experience in all phases of business and marketing lend him credibility with regard to what he has to teach others about setting up their own businesses.

One thing that Russell has had to revise from the original Underachiever Mastery program that he initially used is the advice to use AdWords as a traffic method. Using Google AdWords no longer works very well, in part due to all the negative changes that Google has instituted in its advertising criteria. You’re better off concentrating on some of the free methods for driving traffic, one of which includes driving traffic to the Flycatcher page he talks about in the material.

Another aspect of this product that may have been de-emphasized on the sales page for this product is the necessity to have a professional look to your website’s sales page. Several years ago, back when Underachiever Mastery first came out, it was possible to put up any old kind of cheesy looking website without any graphic appeal, no header, just a single page sales letter, and have it do well in sales. That’s not the case today. Since that time the bar for graphic appeal has been raised.

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