Jeanie
Stay Away!
I would give 0 stars if I could. We started out on LURN where he asked everyone to leave a review on here to be put into a weekly prize wheel, the prizes were generous. I didn't. Who is going to leave a bad review for a prize? And so excited by this? He said he didn't like the setup at LURN & asked us to move over to a new platform, & asked if everyone would leave a testimonial there because Trust Pilot was charging him too much after his trial. We were all still new, pumped & excited about this supposedly exciting new opportunity, so I actually did leave a great review and later took it down. So the 5-star reviews can't be trusted as they were done BEFORE we had completed the 6-week Certification course and were all excited about this opportunity. Chris did have a way about him, he was very friendly, charming, and believable. The new platform is hosted on Circle.so. Any membership site hosted there looks pretty much the same. Also, Ambsdr was already set up there pre-LURN (I learned this from 2 students) and was also sent a screenshot of it costing half the price before I signed up for $1997, so I believe he used LURN for marketing purposes. When he got enough students through promoting with them, we were told he had this special platform made for us to move to, that his friend created it. He uses the testimonials to promote (I was contacted on FB messenger by a friend who saw my review AFTER I removed it, he saw it used for marketing purposes elsewhere). That section is public so anyone looking at Ambsdr only sees great reviews. Negative posts are removed. He has a few different promotional webinars out there, and they do lead you to believe you will be making money rather soon. I have made 24 cents so far. He said once you get your first sale, it will be like a waterfall and the money will pour in. At the beginning of certification, he tells you 3 types of "industries" you can enter before you pick your domain. Small - good for making 1k-10k a month, Med - 10k - 100k, and large 100k-1million. Most students chose large, where you can write about everything. We were so excited! I have dabbled in affiliate marketing so I knew a thing or two and was previously an Amazon Associate. He teaches non-compliant ways to his students and when questioned during live videos he gets really defensive and says he never got in trouble and puts the student asking the question down, and says to test. It says in Amazon's TOS you can lose your associate's acct. He doesn't care. I started to feel like he was making the course up as he was going along, and his background is in paid advertising and not organic, so as he finds out things for the first time himself he makes a video for the certification. He also changes his mind on things and doesn't update the course videos, so new students are confused. At the end of the 6-week course and week 6 was 1 video, so it is really a 5-week course, I felt gypped. It was far from a complete course. He said he is building a brand new site with us. It is an aged domain and started with an authority of 24 with 2.1k backlinks, mostly Indian traffic. We had one student who was a professional and it seemed like he was the real teacher there, always posting and sharing good information with us, and I was mad that this course was nothing special, and I felt like I already knew more from YouTube videos alone. He slams other professionals who do YouTube videos, yet he is the scammer. He makes the students believe that this program of being a "Brand Ambassador" is a new special thing, It is affiliate marketing. I have been a brand ambassador through an agency. Very different. Then he has what he calls the "Partnership Program" where the students can earn around 1k for each person they get to sign up. He says he has a special sales team to promote the program, students don't have to do anything but get the traffic. I did a test & watched the latest webinar through another email. It was full of FB posts of students saying they earned these large amounts of money in a short time & FB doesn't even have those bckrnds anymore if ever, so you know they might be fake. We never had a FB group. Wording makes you believe you will be earning money soon. These posts are being used by students advertising, & on his sales & checkout pages. Then there is no follow-up sequence to sell Ambsdr. They just send you an invite to his next program NFTSPY to sign up for the waitlist & an affiliate link to promote it. He lies about having a team to promote, he is just growing his list to sell other things. I was able to get a full refund. He took the refund policy off the new membership area (students asked, but no answer) & sends a new refund policy now. There is no way to access it from the membership area. Luckily someone took a screenshot of the one the last one visible. His DMs are usually off. Support slow. Tough questions unanswered.
Response from AMBSDRSep 4, 2022
👋 Hi Jeanie! It's Chris. Thank you for taking the time to leave such a detailed review about your experience with AMBSDR. I'd like to take some time to give you a thorough response. Let's start with... 5 STAR REVIEWS I NEVER ask anyone to give me a 5 star review, ever. What I do inside AMBSDR is to add members of our family who leave an honest review about their experience about AMBSDR to a "Prize Wheel" that I spin on every AMBSDR Livestream Party that I host each and every week. I do this because it's fun for everyone and I like to reward those who take the time to write about their honest experience with AMBSDR so that new AMBSDR family members that join can start their journey by reading through the (now 500+ honest reviews) that have been left inside AMBSDR. The reason I have them do it inside AMBSDR and not here on TrustPilot, is because when you leave a review inside AMBSDR, everyone can see who you are and even have the ability to DM you inside AMBSDR so you can connect with each other. That functionality isn't available on TrustPilot, or I'd ask everyone to leave their honest reviews here and not at AMBSDR. MOVING AWAY FROM LURN Anik (the Founder of LURN) and I have been friends for over 10 years. I LOVE what he has done with LURN and he LOVES what I have done with AMBSDR. He approached me a while back to see if I'd like to bring my AMBSDR Certification Program onto the LURN platform. I said "Yes! Of course!" (at the time) because I knew that having it on the LURN platform would allow me the ability to reach and help more people than if I were to do it on my own. So we joined forces. Once I was on the LURN Platform, there were a LOT of things I wanted to create and give to all people who invested in my AMBSDR Certification such as (Interactive Hands On Live Weekly Workshops, Weekly Livestream Parties, Private Community, the Ability to direct message me in the community, software, and a few more things). Unfortuantely, I found out (after I was on the LURN platform) that I couldn't be able to do ANY of these things. So, Anik and I both agreed that even though we are great friends, the LURN & AMBSDR partnership doesn't make sense based on the future I have planned for AMBSDR. So we parted ways and I built AMBSDR.com - which is my own proprietary platform that gives me the ability to offer absolutely everything I want to offer to those wanting to become Brand Ambassadors... all in one place. HALF THE PRICE The reason the investment for AMBSDR was half the price on LURN was because Anik suggested that I charge less if it's going to be on the LURN platform so that it falls into a similar investment as the other courses and programs he has on his platform. USING TESTIMONIALS TO PROMOTE I never, never, never use testimonials to promote AMBSDR. I don't know how someone saw your testimonial on Facebook, because I don't even run advertising or promote on Facebook. Also, negative reviews are never removed on AMBSDR. You can see for yourself by reading through the 500+ testimonials that members post on a regular basis here: https://www.ambsdr.com/c/testimonials MAKING MONEY RATHER SOON I never say you're going to make money rather soon. I also never say once you get your first sale it will be like a waterfall and money will pour in. (However, that is quite a nice visual to think about). What I DO say is that the business of being an AMBSDR that I teach (and have been doing for myself for the past 23 years of my life) is to build a blog and write articles in a very specific way that will be seen and ranking high in Google for product keywords that people are searching for that are easy to rank for. Then, I go on to explain "and illustrate" that this business is like "Planting Seeds". I show you that each article you write and publish on your blog is like planting a seed in the "Google Garden" - and that if you were a farmer, you probably wouldn't want to plant just 1 seed. You'd want to plant as many as you can. Because the more seeds you plant, the more opportunities you have for those seeds to grow and produce an income for you. CALLING IT SOMETHING DIFFERENT Being an Affiliate Marketer is completely different than being a Brand Ambassador. Just like how being a Brand Ambassador is completely different than being an Influencer. You can look up the definitions on Wikipedia to see the very distinct differences. In my career online, I've been all 3 and going the direction of being a Brand Ambassador is by far my most favorite (which is why I teach it and still continue to do it, and will until the day I die). PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM Yes, I do have a partnership program where (ANYONE) can join and I'll split the revenue with you for anyone that you refer to AMBSDR that enrolls 50/50. Which means, yes... you will earn close to $1,000.00 for each referral you send that enrolls. FAKE EARNINGS The webinar you saw DID NOT have fake earnings that were doctored FB posts. What you saw were 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 "you" never had a FB group is because I shut it down once I built AMBSDR.com - because I wanted to build an "All-in-One" platform for anyone wanting to become a Brand Ambassador... so they dont' have to go to a bunch of different places to do a bunch of different things. MY NEXT PROGRAM I don't have a "Next Program". AMBSDR.com is my "Only" program and will always be my "Only" program. This "NFTSPY" you mentioned was a fun and creative side project I was working on as I was studying the world of NFTs. It's not a thing that will ever become a thing because I sold it to someone else so I could focus on AMBSDR. THE HONEST TRUTH I've personally been a Brand Ambassador for the past 23 years of my life. It's my passion and what I love to do. Being a Brand Ambassador has allowed me to build a life for my family that is far beyond what I could ever imagine. The reason I built AMBSDR.com was to have a place where I could help others do the same for their lives. I spent YEARS dreaming about building AMBSDR.com, but I never did it because I was absolutely TERRIFIED to come out from behind the curtain and put myself out there on the Internet in the spotlight as someone that has something to offer that's about building a business. Unfortunately, we live in a world where MOST people who sell programs that teach you how to build a business and make money on the Internet... do not ACTUALLY DO what they teach. They make their money selling hopes and dreams. Whereas, I actaully DO what I teach. So, a couple years ago I decided to finally come out from behind the curtain and show the world how to do what it is I've been doing for more than half my life... because I feel that it's my purpose and calling in life help as many people as I possibly can as I enter into the next chapter in my life. And unlike MOST people who sell programs that teach you how to build a business and make money on the Internet... that do not ACTUALLY DO what they teach... I thought that the best way to stand out from "the others" is to actually lead by example. And to lead by example, what I do in AMBSDR (as you saw, because you made the investment) is to actually build an brand NEW Brand Ambassador business / blog, from scratch, and grow it to earning over a million dollars a year in profit, in full transparency, and show the world how I do it. And that's what AMBSDR.com is all about. You get to see me do exactly that. And inside AMBSDR.com, I host Livestream Parties each and every week where I do Live Q&A so you can hop in and ask any question you want and I hang out and party with everyone until all questions are answered (Usually around 2 - 3 hours for each party). Plus, in addition to the Livestream Parties, I also just started doing Livestream Workshops 2 - 3 times a week where you can hop in and look over my shoulder at my computer screen as you watch me continue to build and grow my Brand Ambassador blog in full transparency (and you can ask me questions LIVE on those as well). REFUND POLICY When you enrolled through LURN, they had their own refund policy (because it was on their platform). Now that I'm on my own over at AMBSDR.com, I have my own refund policy. And the way the policy goes is that if it's not for you, it's not for you. If people give it a try and don't like it, they don't have to pay for it and they get all their money back. The fact that my name is attached to AMBSDR.com and I'm now officially "in the spotlight" on the Internet with this business, I would never ever ever ever ever do something that would destroy my name and reputation. I built AMBSDR to help people, not to hurt people. I'M SORRY Jeanie, I'm sorry you weren't satisified with AMBSDR. It's definitely not for everyone. At least you gave it a try and know it's not the type of business for you and you got every penny back. Your friend, Chris Luck 🍀