River R.
I'd give zero stars if I could
PLEASE READ this before signing up for the AMBSDR program. SECTIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS ARE CLARIFYING UPDATED RESPONSES TO THE AMBSDR REPLY. This is a truthful, first-hand account. AT FIRST, Chris seemed like the real deal. Learning a system FOR BLOGGING was precisely what I was looking for to bring my business plan together, not to mention a steady income. When I started on March 4, 2022, I went straight thru his CERTIFICATION 1 TRAINING and set up my website and domain, paid more for monthly software than I knew I’d NEED to (NO, I DIDN’T HAVE TO, BUT HE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED IT & I WANTED TO FOLLOW HIS TRAINING EXACTLY) and wrote a couple of articles. Right before I published those articles, he changed his mind and wanted to start the training all over again because he said students had too many questions. So, instead of starting to make money a few weeks after joining, I would need to wait 6 more weeks. He said "yes" when a student asked if we'd be making money at the end of the 6 weeks. SIX weeks turned into months ending mid-July. And during this time, he changed his story about when we'd be making money, AND we changed platforms two more times before settling on the current website home for the course. I went thru a lot of changes with this guy, just trying to learn how to monetize a blog and make a living. I also changed everything I had set up the first time to make sure TO GET RESULTS BASED ON THE NEW TRAINING. However, it became clear that we would not be making it to the first page of Google upon publishing AS HE ORIGINALLY SAID WOULD HAPPEN. As it turns out, it could take months. He either didn’t know that or wasn’t honest about it. Either one is horrifying, YET, HE'S STILL PITCHING THE SAME THING TO NEW PEOPLE. NO MATTER HIS DEFENSIVE ARGUMENTS, HIS CURRENT PROMOTIONS CONTRADICT HIS REPLIES TO THIS REVIEW. More red flags started flying for me when early on, he began to spend more time on wanting testimonials from students THAT HADN'T FINISHED AND GOTTEN RESULTS than focusing on answering our blog-post questions thoroughly. Contests were for GIVING testimonials. Your name would be put into a hat for a really nice prize. I don't usually win contests, and I don't give testimonials until I have results, so I didn't play. BE SURE TO CHECK ANY GOOD REVIEWS YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET ABOUT AMBSDR. DOES IT SING PRAISES FOR HOW MUCH MONEY WAS MADE IN THE CURRENT AMBSDR PROGRAM, OR IS IT JUST ABOUT CHRIS or the TRAINING? IF THE REVIEW DOESN'T PRAISE FINANCIAL RESULTS, THE PERSON HAS NOT GOTTEN FAR INTO THE PROGRAM, SO DON'T TAKE THAT AS A SIGN TO ENROLL. But here's where it gets fraudulent: He STILL shows mind-blowing earnings on his CURRENT pitch and presentation – stuff like earning money on the first day or thousands in the first month. First off, that’s impossible due to the sequence of the training, and secondly, if you look closely, those earnings are “quote graphics” with Facebook backgrounds. The current AMBSDR course doesn’t have a FB group. The group community is on the AMBSDR website, not FB. The graphics with $ results currently being used to pitch his course are from a prior, different course. Here’s the thing. In exactly 6 months since I joined (and +two months since publishing my articles due to the training timeline being drawn out), I have made $8.17. You heard me right. $8.17. It has been a tremendous hardship for my family. As his focus turned more and more toward having us make money by promoting AMBSDR instead of making our blogs the best they could be, I decided enough was enough and asked for a refund. His money-back guarantee, which was posted in our community, had 3 options, so I asked for the "triple refund guarantee" because I qualified for it. (IN ADDITION TO REDOING THE FIRST TWO ARTICLES FROM THE FIRST COURSE, I ACTUALLY FINISHED THE SUGGESTED 10 ARTICLES BEFORE HE FINALLY GOT AROUND TO RELEASING HIS "WEEK" 6 TRAINING. ALL ARTICLES USED ONLY LOW-HANGING KEYWORD FRUIT PER THE TRAINING. AFTER THAT, I CONTINUED TO PUBLISH ARTICLES. HE HAS NO IDEA HOW MANY ARTICLES I HAVE BECAUSE HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT MY SITE DOMAIN IS). However, after following and doing every single thing he taught and sticking with him for 5.5. months, he wouldn't honor the triple guarantee. EVENTUALLY, I was able to get my initial refund of $1997 back. However, that didn’t make up for the 6 months of money spent on bills and the time that I spent training and expecting to make good money by now. Instead, I’m starting over. He didn't teach us to be compliant with Amazon WHILE WE WERE BUILDING OUR ARTICLES. Since then, I’ve changed every single one of my articles to be compliant. I AND SO MANY OTHERS WOULD NOT HAVE LEFT THIS COURSE IF HE had delivered what was promised or been honest. Instead, it messed up lives and financial situations. It's not time & money that can be regained.
Response from AMBSDRSep 4, 2022
👋 Hi River Rock! It's Chris. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with the world about AMBSDR. I'd like to take some time to share my response so that we can clear some things up. Let's start with... THE REAL DEAL Thank you for saying that I seemed like the "Real Deal". I try to be as engaging and as fun as I can with teaching people how to build a business around the art of becoming a Brand Ambassador. I have a blast doing it! PAYING FOR SOFTWARE You didn't have to pay for the monthly software. The monthly software I recommend through the AMBSDR Certification is SEMRush (if you want to speed up doing keyword research), Jasper.ai (If you want to use Artificial Intelligence to help write your articles), and SurferSEO.com (if you want to see the content score of your competitors that are ranking on the 1st page of Google so you know what score your article should be to outrank them). Of course, all this software is optional... but some people like to invest money so they can save time doing everything manually. YOU NOT BEING SUCCESSFUL I see you mentioned you wrote "a couple of articles". That right there is why you weren't successful. I explain in AMBSDR that this whole business is like "Plating Seeds". If you were a farmer and your income was directly related to the number of seeds you plant each each... how many seeds would you plant? A lot! Right? However, if you only plant "a couple seeds" - then chances are you're not going to do very well. Plus, the biggest level you can pull to move the needle in the Google Algorithm is to publish as many articles as you can, on a consistent basis. I explain very specifically that to make this work, you need to be publishing (at least 1 article a day) - consistently. And each article is like plating a seed in the "Google Garden". The more seeds you plant, the more money you can make. Plus, the more seeds you plant, the happier the Google Algrotihm will be (and will start ranking your articles high in the search results). THE TRAINING When you invested in AMBSDR, I was JUST starting to introduce it to the world. Unfortauntely for me, half way through the training (which i was teaching LIVE, because you got to watch me build a brand new Brand Ambassador business, from scratch)... I discovered some INCREDIBLE new software (mentioned above) that allowed me to rapidly speed up the process with "Plating Seeds" (aka: Writing Articles). And yes, I was getting a lot of questions from students early on during the weekly livestream parties I do (where I answer every question from every person that attends live, until all questions are answered). And I noticed a lot of repeat questions each week. So, I thought it'd be best for everyone for me to just (start the whole thing over) - and THIS TIME, show off the software I discovered that makes everything so much easier. People loved it. TAKING MONTHS TO RANK IN GOOGLE As I explain in the AMBSDR Certification, it CAN take MONTHS to rank in Google if you go after keywords that are super competitive and hard to rank for. For example, if you wrote an article about "Best Makeup Brushes" - using SEMRush, I can tell you right now it will take you SEVERAL MONTHS to rank for that search term... because the Keyword Difficulty Percentage is 72% (which is terrifingly high). However, if you do what I show you in the AMBSDR Certification and rank for "Best Makeup Brush Cleaner" - using SEMRush, I can tell you right now it will take you DAYS to rank for that search term... because the Keyword Difficulty Percentage is only 29%. ASKING FOR TESTIMONIALS Yes, on every Livestream Party I do (each week) where I answer every question every person has that attends... I let everyone know if they'd like to leave a review about their experience about AMBSDR, you can do so here (https://www.ambsdr.com/c/testimonials). However, I ONLY do this at the very end of the Livestream Party once all questions are answered... and yes, I put everyones name on a big wheel that I spin on every Livestream Party, and I give away a lot of cash and prizes to the people who took the time to share their experience about AMBSDR with other members of AMBSDR. The reason I do this is because it's a big motivation boost for EVERYONE inside AMBSDR, because you can always go to that section inside AMBSDR and read about the experiences people have (and currently we have over 500+ reviews, so it's going well!) People love it. If I start getting people not loving the experience with leaving a review, then I'll stop doing it. I don't think that'll be the case anytime soon based off how things are going though. TRUST PILOT I was very clear to everyone that the reason I moved away from TrustPilot for being the place to leave reviews is because TrustPilot has a sales team that started contacting me (because I'm a business) and saying that if I want to use all the features TrustPilot has, the starter package is a little over $8,000.00/year. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to give a company $8,000.00 a year to be able to collect reviews from customers about my busienss. So, I moved the reviews to my own platform (https://www.ambsdr.com/c/testimonials) - which people LOVE because you can not only see the review, but you can see the persons (real name, not a name like "River Rock" - I'm sorry, but I wish I knew who you really were), and you can click to see their profile on AMBSDR so you can see what they look like, how many posts and comments they have on our platform, and you can even direct message them if you want to connect with them. On TrustPilot, ANYONE can leave a review about my business here... including competitors that can create fake profiles with fake names (or no name at all) and leave 1 star reviews to hurt my business so that I'm not a threat to their business. MIND BLOWING EARNINGS The "Mind Blowing Earnings" you saw on my presentation are 100% REAL earnings from REAL AMBSDRs that DID EARN what they said they earned. Before building AMBSDR.com, I had a private Facebook Group that came with the certification program. This was a year ago when I was just testing things out to see if people would even be interested in learning about what I've been doing for more than half my life. I didn't know how to build my own community outside of a Facebook Group, so I just started a Facebook Group and when you invested into the certification program. In the Facebook Group, we had a theme every Monday called "Motivational Monday" - and I encouraged everyone to share any "Wins" that they had that could help motivate and inspire others in the group at the beginning of each week. It was a huge success and there were dozens of new FB Posts with REAL earnings each and every Monday. The reason I closed the Facebook group is because I moved the whole community over to AMBSDR.com so we could get off someone elses platform (Like Facebook). PROMOTING AMBSDR My focus will never "turn towards having people promote AMBSDR". I built AMBSDR to help people become Brand Ambassadors, and to connect and collaborate with Brand Ambassadors. In addition to the 6 Week AMBSDR Certification program, I do a Livestream Q&A Party every week along with 2 - 3 Livestream Interactive Workshops each and every week. One of the benefits of joining AMBSDR is having the ability to become a 50/50 partner so that anyone you refer to AMBSDR that enrolls, you'll get 50% (which comes out to almost $1,000.00). If I talk about the Partnership Program, it's because people have quesitons about the Partnership Program on the Livestreams. TRIPLE GUARANTEE The guarantee that came with AMBSDR when you invested was being taken advantage of and I had people slapping together a blog really quick and putting up a few articles that don't follow anything that I teach inside the AMBSDR Certification (at all) - and then reach out to me telling me nothing is working and then asking for a refund. Which, by the way... If AMBSDR is not for you, it's not for you... and you WILL get a refund if you want it. Inf act, as you said... after going through everything... and using everything for even 5+ months... you STILL got your money back. Very few people would do that (if any) that I'm aware of. Yes, I changed the phrasing of the guarantee... and that's so that it's even simpler and easier to understand. Again, if it's not for you, it's not for you... and you WILL get a refund if you want it. COMPLIANCE I have a whole Workshop inside AMBSDR.com that's all about compliance. Compliance is important to a lot of people (including myself), which is why I teach everyone how to be 100% compliant. The reason I didn't have trianing on it when you were in AMBSDR was because I wasn't to that workshop yet. YOUR JOURNEY "River Rock", thank you again for taking so much time to leave a review about your experience with AMBSDR. I'm glad that you were able to get in and learn from me for 5.5 months, get all your money back, and then go on to continue building your business on your own. Your friend, Chris Luck 🍀