Four Percent GroupScam or Legit?
UPDATE: Four Percent simplified their structure and product set back end of 2017 early 2018.
The lead product is now the Four Percent Challenge.
To read a detailed review of the Four Percent Challenge click here…
The rest of this post is now outdated, but continue if you wish 🙂
This program makes a very bold claim promising to help people make money online…
It’s going to divide opinion and as example here are two what I believe are honest reviews of the product…
Starting with an honest and very negative review of The Four Percent Group…
Four Percent Group SCAM Review Video
Alejander clearly vents her frustrations.
Just to be clear Alejander has misunderstood a few key points…
You don’t have to pay ANY MONEY to promote The Four Percent Group. As a free member you can earn 50% commissions on paying members you introduce.
You don’t have to BUY any other programs either.
If you want to know how to earn from Four Percent Group at ZERO cost I’ve covered the set up here…
The services Alejandra joined and later cancelled are the tools of the trade that are 100% optional (Namecheap, Aweber, Get Response, Click Funnels, Click Magick).
All of the above offer affiliate programs that don’t require you to own the products in order to participate.
To be fair to Alejanda I can see how she could misunderstand, because you do have to sign up to each of the programs AFFILIATE terms (no cost).
As a pro member of Four Percent you should join each affiliate program because your affiliate ID will be coded in to the system, meaning that any member you introduce who for example decides they need an auto-responder and signs up with Aweber or Get Response will see you get paid (monthly recurring :).
This is one of the big benefits of going pro.
If you’re operating on a budget you can promote as a free member at ZERO cost. Vicks system and follow up email sequence is all coded with you affiliate link so you don’t even need your own auto responder if you’re not interested in list building.
If you are interested in list building you can integrate your auto responder with the system and build your list as well. At the time of writing Get Response is the only auto responder integrated (but the others are promised).
So now for a positive review…
Four Percent Group Positive Review
Check out the Four Percent Group for Yourself here…
Back to Four Percent Review Category Page…
A question rather than reply…….. I have not, to date, been able to know what the PRODUCT is that is being sold and purchased. There never to seems be a durable ‘good’ that is sold. IS THERE A PRODUCT here? I’ve figured out that programs Morrison, Wealthy Affiliate etc, the product is an educational course which is then sold to others and I get paid if they come through my site. It appears that what I’ve really figured out is that most, if not all, of these things are in reality – a pyramid. I join, someone got paid. A video is being watched by someone, somewhere and if they join, someone gets paid. If I make a site, pay for traffic and someone who arrived on my site watches a video and then joins (purchases), I get paid. Do I have this right or have I missed the boat somehow? Thank you.
Hi Charles …GREAT Question.
1. Firstly you have products which can take the form of training, software services, books etc. Which in the simplest scenario are sold by the companies that own the products. Like Thrive Themes for example the company behind the website Theme and plugins this site uses. They market their own stuff.
2. Many companies have affiliates. People not employed by the company who can earn a commission on product sales if they promote the product and attract customers. As an example I use Thrive Themes products and promote them as an affiliate. I promote many of the products I use.
3. Pyramid is a term used to describe network or multi level marketing programs. As an example if Thrive Themes incentivised me as an affiliate to ‘recruit’ other affiliates in return for a share of the commissions they earned through their own efforts that would represent a 2nd level of commission potential for me – right?
Some programs offer almost unlimited levels which is where the ‘pyramid’ label comes from.
4. And there are also hybrid models such as Amazon who do have some of their own products but mostly operates as a marketplace and as affiliates for other peoples products.
As another example you mention Wealthy Affiliate which is a membership training site that teaches people how to create websites that rank in search engines for whatever purpose people want. Many of the Wealthy Affiliate membership create sites to promote their own business, or act as Amazon affiliates (very popular) some like me also promote the Wealthy Affiliate training as an affiliate. Note WA only pays commission on 1 level so is not a Multi level or pyramid model.
Four Percent Group is a hybrid that teaches people how to be successful entrepreneurs through a membership training product called The “Four Percent Challenge”. This is a step by step training that incorporates the required mindset (which has to change as you develop) strategy, and daily actions. The company has 2 other core products Internet Traffic Mastery and E-Stage. To be a success online you need to attract visitors (traffic) and need to own your own platform (website) where you can communicate with them.
Internet Traffic Master (the traffic) and E-Stage can be used in conjunction with the Challenge to accelerate your progress. But each can also be independent.
Four Percent also allows affiliates or promotional partners, BUT charges their affiliates a fee for the right.They do provide a lot of additional value for promotional partners (like me) but that’s another conversation…
Whew…
Hope this helps 🙂
Update Nov 2018: Four Percent Group no longer charges for people to join their affiliate program nor is there any requirement to buy products to promote them.
so is my $49 i paid for a month which isn’t over gone or what??????????????
Hi Phillip 🙂
Good question.
No. Here’s why…
Firstly you can refund through Clickbank if you don’t like what’s coming.
I don’t know what’s coming but based on the Facebook Group and Vick’s recent live streams I think the $49 monthly is going to be replaced by a one-time payment deal for ‘new’ starters to the Four Percent Challenge.
But for people like you that have joined a monthly paid membership model, I would expect it to continue (just my opinion I could be wrong).
In my opinion, the re-worked Four Percent Challenge will be a better product for showing how to build a long-term ‘real’ business without the implied need to promote Four Percent Products in your plan.
If I were you I’d join the Four Percent Facebook Group or watch for emails from Vick (if on his list) as this should be cleared up this week (presuming the tech testing goes well).
Hope this helps.