Empower Network – Scam Review 2016
Empower Network – The Worst MLM Scam there is?
Empower Network is online Multi Level Marketing company that was founded in 2011. They sell internet marketing tools & offer training to teach you how to make money online. More precisely, Empower Network offers blogging platform as well as series of digital products to teach people how to become internet marketers.
Despite the fact of “selling” the products to you at the same time they retain ownership of everything, every single product.
Basically, you’re using Empower Network blogging system within their own network to refer other people to buy the same products you are currently using to do the promoting. You have to buy their products in order to sell their products.
It really is another typical MLM – You pay low price to enter & through multiple expensive upsells you get higher level of memberships “unlocked & revealed” that presumably makes you earn much bigger commissions.
The biggest hype is about “make 100% commissions” label which is not entirely true. As a result there are a lot of complaints piled up against Empower Network. Couple of the reasons why has it happened I’m going to explain in detail..
Empower Network - Ranking 10 out of 100
Pros & Cons in Empower Network
Pros
- Kalatu blogging platform – Blogging network to help you to start your MLM project.
- Online training, Audio libary – Training to the help you to set up your blogging platform in order to help you to earn money online
Cons
- Founder is already known figure in internet marketing world & is described as documented liar/scammer
- EN doesn’t have definable business model & offers multiple upsells for absurdly high price
- Empower Network online marketing program lacks clearly distinguishable products + every product you promote is not yours to own
- On many occasions their affiliate campaign targets inexperienced users through unethical ways & marketing tricks to take advantage of them
- Additional hidden fees – In order to make progress you need to invest heavily into your own advertising budget
- There is no proper support system – You can’t contact with the Empower Network owner
- Numerous false claims & out right lies to sell you products in order to glamour you into their system
- A lot of complaints from members who have completed every step in training but haven’t made a dime since this system isn’t legitimate
- Many former 1%-ers have already quit the program – at some point this system collapses, it’s unsustainable – eventually there will be more sellers than buyers
- Kalatu blogging platform – It’s designed to help you to get into “online marketing”, in this case into Multi Level Marketing.A blogging system, for $25 per month, that is similar yet inferior to WordPress which is completely FREE, incredibly versatile & available for everybody on internet..
This particular blogging platform they offer has very limited functions that can’t be altered & it’s purely built to promote Empower Network products only. It’s expensive yet has very little use for you.
Compared to your WordPress account which would entirely belong to you, unfortunately..
..Empower Network will completely retain the ownership of their products: It means this blog won’t even belong to you, you’re simply renting it for certain period of time.
How comfortable & secure does it make you feel that some complete stranger out there entirely owns your project?
- Online training, Audio libary – to cover the training part & to help you to make money online.”Make money by blogging” training which actually is not the case at all: It’s actually indirectly a guide to buy yourself deeper into their hype – It’s nothing more than a promotion of the product itself to “unlock” bigger commission levels for you.
It’s very common tactic for many Multi Level Marketing programs out there, this is exactly how it usually goes – It’s with point on aesthetics & well made facade combined with Kalatu blogging system to hide their pyramid scheme.
They give you with one hand, but take from you with two hands: The more you are following the “training” the more money you are going to lose. Once you get there, your “inability” to turn it all into profit will be pinned at you & translated as your own “laziness” or “not working hard enough” & not buying their products..
..it is used as ridiculous excuse why you’re earning very low or no profit at all. This is how this online “training” logic goes – You’re forced to buy Empower Network products in order to be able to promote these products, it’s the only way.
Man, this company has deceived so many people and delivered little results.Heard recently that Dave Woodward had to go into rehab because of drug issues and that the company is going into bankruptcy. I won’t be surprised if this guy opens get rich quick scheme where he charges thousands to listen to is BS.The MLM indsutry needs to be regulated more,too many people lose money and nothing is done about it.
It’s just matter of time, these companies will collapse at some point
Unfortunately they always try & eventually re-emerge under different name, with “different” deal
Different labels, different domains but once people notice the pattern, nobody buys anything from them
Arrgh are these still in business? They got listed and charged about 2 years ago and initially closed down (one of the owners even did a runner leaving the other owner right in it!). Anything to do with this lot will always be a scam – if it has the empower name on it it is worthless to you and everyone else out there!
Unfortunately yes.
Plus, there are also many “new companies” out there that are actually the same old companies, simply operating under new name.
Their schemes are almost always the same if you keep looking closely.
New label get slapped on the “product” & it’s ready to be released as new marketing campaign..
This is how these owners/companies re-market their online scams
Don’t let them fool you by new name OR the fact that some of them seems to be “closed down”.
Hi there, thank you for this very in depth review of the Empower network. I have to agree that although there are areas of this system that I believe have elements of truth, this system is a very nasty scam.
The fact that some people are taking out bank loans and getting into debt with credit cards to fund this system is quite sad. As you rightly point out, even the basic blogging system on the empower network holds its costumers to ransom as even the blog that they create through this system is not fully within the members control and doesn’t actually belong to them.
The fact that the upsell’s for this system go into multiple thousands of dollars surely means that it’s time for someone to take action against these scam artists? I think there needs to be stronger action taken and more investigations into these people!
You’re welcome Andrew,
Couldn’t agree more.. Yes, someone should take action against scam artists such as these.
Unfortunately, they can & keep operating freely since there are some gaps in the law.
They will build it exactly the way it looks good on paper & that’s all they ever need.
The rest of the deal is just creativity that causes impact which always results in casualties..
Thanks for taking your time to share your thoughts.
Be well!
Best Regards,
Henry
Hi Henry,
Appreciate the honest review. It’s easy to get sucked into ‘Empower Networks’ marketing strategies. I know what you mean by how a lot of affiliates for these guys recommend taking out bank loans in order to be apart of their group. Are they crazy!, no integrating what so ever.
Would love to see more honest reviews like these mate!
Best regards Vinnie
Thanks Vinnie,
That taking “bank loans” part seems like a new low.
Scammers are creative have to admit that,
I’m going to keep posting the ones I find.
I appreciate your support!
Regards,
Henry
Great job on your review. So much information on this company that is very convincing. You might want to go over you text and clean up some of the typo’s. Great use of media. I did find myself at times skimming though the text because it is very long. Do you think it is possible to condense some of your copy? Other than that, great job.
Hi Cori,
Thank you, I appreciate your feedback!
That’s a very good point – A lot of people online use english as secondary language, so do I.
The general message is already there, which is the most important part, but it never hurts to make things a bit better.
Yes, you can use my ideas if you mean that.
After all, that’s why I’m here – to help you & to increase the overall scam awareness.
Let me know if you need help with anything else.
Regards,
Henry
Hey, Henry!
This is one very detailed review. I think you are doing a great job by warning people about suchlike scams. It is really, really sad that suchlike things are happening online and even more sad that there are people falling into these scams.
I have joined Wealthy Affiliate more than half a year ago.
And I can just recommend this platform due to lots of valuable trainings and courses. Besides that, WA community is great – whenever any problem, you get help and advises.
Hello Arta,
The very core of scams is to mimic the legit thing – That’s why people fall for them.
It’s always great to be able to tell the difference between quality product & a scam.
We have Wealthy Affiliate so we can increase the scam awareness.
Thanks for your support, stay safe!
Regards,
Henry
Man this is dangerous! You can read online of all the people who have signed up to this pyramid scheme and ended getting into so much debt.
It’s a terrible place to be in – once you’ve put everything you have into it you’re forced to do anything you can to try and recoup some of your money back – including lying and manipulating people to sign up.
Is this a real way to make money? I hope other people read this review before even thinking about joining empower network! Thanks for the work you’re doing to expose these scams and help people know the facts before making a mistake.
Hi Simon,
Thanks, you’re pointing it out exactly as it is.
Once you’ve joined & invested your money, as a victim you get to know what kind of curse this is.
Indeed, you’re very likely forced to manipulate other people to save yourself, it’s humiliating & as shameful as it can get.
In other words it’s a never ending evil cycle – Claim a new victim to not be a victim yourself.
Stay safe!
Regards,
Henry
Hi Henry, thank you for the detailed review of Empower Network. I had no idea how bad they were. In particular, the fact that they retain their products after you purchase them, what a scam. I agree with you, any advertising that states “complete autopilot†throws up a red flag for me too, as well as “No Wussies Allowedâ€. Great review! So you’re saying I can get a website going for free through Wealthy Affiliate?
Hello Sara,
Yes, Empower Network is bad to the bone, probably one of the hottest scam of the year.
That’s correct Wealthy Affiliate grants you free website.
Not only one but two free websites – They will be permanently yours, fully functional & rank well in Google as well.
No need to spend a dime to get you up & running..
Regards,
Henry