Admittedly Neil Patel is one of the respected and trusted names in internet marketing. Unfortunately, all the trust he has earned over years is now being dented by his recently launched Traffic University, popularly known as Traffic U. Having been both a follower and subscriber to one of his blogs – Quick Sprout, l naturally jumped on the gravy train in order to learn how to drive tonnes of traffic to my website.
Quick Sprout or Traffic University Review.
The Traffic University was launched by Neil Patel supposedly as a low cost training on how to drive traffic to your website. l do not doubt, Patel’s capability to teach website marketing skills after his great achievements with Yahoo, Techcrunch, Mazda, Microsoft to name a few.
Once you have happily paid your $47/month subscription you will get access to 5 minute videos unfortunately made by the less known Brian Dean on:
- SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).
- Link Building
- Content Marketing
- Social Media
- Paid Advertising
- Email Marketing
- Reputation Management
- Conversion Optimization
After being schooled at Wealthy Affiliate University for Free on the above subjects, l really felt humiliated to watch such ‘Internet newbie marketing training’ worse still after parting with my hard earned $47. l could have alternatively done a better job in driving traffic to my website using Google paid ads or even promoting my page on Facebook for the same amount. Traffic University is a total rip off.
How much you pay to join Quick Sprout U.
You will pay $47/ month to access the above videos that Neil Patel delegated someone to develop by rehashing information from his blogs. After watching all the videos it literally means that you are paying your monthly subscription to watch the promised additional 5-10 minute videos.
You can also become a life-time member by paying a once off $97. This was introduced after too many Quick Sprout complaints.
Are these prices consistent with Patel’s promise of low cost training? Indeed Quick Sprout Traffic U training content is cheap but NOT the price.
Advantages and Disadvantages of joining Quick Sprout University;
Advantages;
- If you want to get ideas on how to design a nice looking website, Traffic U is the website to visit.
Disadvantages;
- There is no training by Neil Patel himself inside his own University.
- Besides the good looks of the website there is nothing to write home about there are Free YouTube videos with better content than this.
- There is no indication on where to start your training.
- There is no access to the promised webners.
- There is no established method on how to get your money back from Traffic University.
- The short videos are too shallow and there is nowhere to ask questions.
- Traffic U is overpriced for a mere collection of short videos.
- The training is not supported in anyway – its like Patel hired a freelancer (Brian Dean) to create videos, pulled them together and he secured their access.
Quicksprout Traffic System.
Of course Neil Patel succeeded in increasing Tech Crunch’s traffic, but can the same method work for an affiliate marketing beginners?
That is a big NO!
The Quick Sprout Traffic System claims to teach any one how to generate traffic to their websites using social media and Google traffic. Unfortunately, all honest Quicksprout University Reviews think otherwise. The system did not help them significantly increase their traffic – an absolute scam.
Neil Patel SEO content marketing and email marketing guide, is just another crap you can find else where for free online. We al know how difficult it is rank websites in Google, especially now the new Google knowledge box is further pushing down websites ranking for organic searches.
Dodge the bullet by not joining Quick Sprout Traffic System.
In conclusion, Quick Sprout Traffic System is a rip off at its best and a scam at its worst. Neil Patel’s free blog posts have better content when compared to the university. My advice to Neil is to leave proven internet universities do the teaching while you concentrate on your high market clients such as Walmart. You have put your reputation online by betraying the trust of your blog followers and email subscribers. Like most scams it provides short term quick returns and but a disaster in making in the long run.
Lets hear what you have to say about Patel and his Quick Sprout Traffic U in the commentary box below.
It’s a great big infomercial. In my opinion, yes a scam. The guy is trying to scare people into believing it will cost upwards of $20,000 per month to run a proper blog. What a joke. When I posted on the quicksprout website that his suggestion of $20,000 per month to operate a proper blog was ridiculous, and added the answer was all in the margin (+ it’s an infomercial) yes, my comment was deleted within seconds. Hence my SN here.
Of course it is an ‘infomercial’ and all the referred services are overpriced affiliate products. There are however great pieces of content inside Quick Sprout blog.
It’s too slick. Makes my BS detector go off right out of the gate. Yes there is some useful info on the site. But frankly, I learned how to build an entire site, top to bottom from scratch on youtube – minus the inflated ego and BS. There is a wealth of free info available online and I am just not at all impressed with this guy. He does not deliver what he advertises, but he takes the money. . .
Well said.You website looks great too.
I was impressed with the content provided in Neil's blog posts, so I signed up for a webinar that was touted as "live" and "this won't be recorded, so you'll want to attend and take notes."
Turns out, the webinar had already been recorded, and wasn't "live" at all. It was deceptively designed to appear that way — my own comments were inserted into the "chat" stream, but no one saw them except me. Every other comment in the chat was canned, along with Neil's presentation. They tried to cover this by having the "technical" guy say "If I don't get to your question, email me" in the chat stream.
I emailed him complaining that the "live" course was actually recorded. He wrote back, making excuses about how they used to do it live before Neil got so busy, and just hadn't had time to go back and re-record Neil's webinar-pitching video saying "live, won't be recorded" and update the emails to remove the "live" references. Really? You had time to develop a webinar that would take my chat comments and add them to the recorded stream, but you didn't have time to update your marketing materials?
I wrote to Neil with the same complaint, but that email was ignored.
Frankly, this casts doubt on everything, in my mind. The other chat comments saying things like "Wow, most other webinars are just pitching, but this one is full of useful content" are obvious sales shills, but what else is being manufactured? Testimonials? Traffic numbers?
I'll keep getting what I can from the free blogs, but I'm going to keep the credit card in my pocket.
Interesting observation Ian. You really wonder why such established affiliate marketers still want to squeeze pennies from newbies. It is time Neil admits that he cannot singly address every affiliate marketing challenge. He must concentrate on what he has time for and save his reputation. There is more to learn from his free blog posts without being billed monthly. All the best.
I posted a similar comment yesterday in response to a QuickSprout blog post that was talking about lying. This morning, that comment has been deleted. Rather than apologize and promise not to do it again, Neil Patel simply tries to pretend it never happened.
Editing comments so that only positive comments appear is a sleazy tactic employed by sleazy people. It's deliberate, it's deceptive, and the people who do it are knowingly dishonest.
He can control his own website, but he can't scrub the internet. Thanks for providing a platform where people can share their negative experiences as well.
Thank you Ian for the update. Sad to hear that freelancers employed by Neil deleted your negative comments. There is no affiliate program that is perfect, but it is important to address concerns and use feedback to improve the program. There is a rampant abuse of comments and buying of social proof videos on websites such as Fiverr by unethical affiliate marketers. If every affiliate marketer would allow people to freely express their opinions on programs, the internet would be a better place. We must understand that no affiliate program is for everyone …. period.
LOL – Its so true – He deletes every comment that doesnt love him – His snake tactics and his ugly looks
True that.
The guys just a joke – $100,000 income a month challenge – Tosser – He's nowhere near and if anyone else tried it – It would cost a small fortune.
Hope the wanker gets found out soon for what he is – A joke.
Was following the challenge until l lost intrest. Just checked it out now and he is still to monetize the website. 30k visitors are from FB, 14k direct and only 19k are finding it through search engines. l smell a rat.
Neil Patel is a scammer. There are no other word(s) to describe this guy. Maybe he knows a thing or two about internet marketing, SEO, etc, but everything else he does like teaching, webinars etc.. these are complete scams. Don’t be stupid and pay him to “teach” you how to create a website. You want to get traffic ? Then create a fan page, build slowly a following, create twitter page, buy media ads, make backlinks.. and work your way up. There’s no other way, there’s no shortcuts. Otherwise, everyone would be rich.
Thanks Bosnian for the heads up and advice on how to create wealth on line. l think Patel is well established but his methods of making money online are NOT for Newbies.
Agree!
Thats the thing isn’t it? You guys keep calling SCAM something that by law or by basic defenition could never be a SCAM. Is Traffic U most likely a waste for more than 95% of people who pay for it? Sure, but it is not a SCAM. We need to educate ouselves on the subject before we go calling a Cat a Dog.
Nice post Scam Busters
Thanks Dedte for chipping in. It is unfortunate that there is a wrong perception that everything posted on AvertScams is being labeled a scam. l love Patel and he has contributed significantly to the growth of my other businesses.
RE; the squeezing pennies out of newbies question above.
I’ve often wondered about this, and after reading MJ Demarcos books I think I have the answer. People like Patel make it big and earn big bucks $$$ ka-ching. Neil obviously did well for himself. But these people have a terrible relationship with money and live beyond their means. Yes, even millionaires can easily live beyond their means. So, they need more money, and who best to squeeze than all those sheeple sitting there, glazy eyed, with their wallets wide open.
I watched the webinar with no intention of signing up. I find these kinds of webinars often do contain little gems. In this case it really did have some useful info, and if nothing else gave me a few great ideas. But, seeing how obviously recorded it was made it clear that this was a scam at the outset.
It sounds like this guy had built up some creds, then went and blew it with this scam… which is a pity. I value my rep over any amount of money.
What makes it particularly annoying is there are people out there offering AMAZING courses that are worth more than their price. Mark Dawson’s SPF and Advertising For Authors courses are perfect examples. Unfortunately, as is always the case with human being, all the good stuff gets buried in a mountain of shit, so one must be willing to get dirty in their search for gold.
When your BS sense is tingling, always – and I mean ALWAYS – run for the hills.
Thanks for the article.
Okay,
The people who are saying neil patel is a scammer, are those people,
Who blame their teachers for failing in class exams.
Get a life people.
If you don’t know how to do things, can’t educate yourself then it’s your fault.
Nobody force you to visit his blog and buy his products.
The main reason of your failure is this thing,
You only blame people for your failure…
If you want to make a life online, go learn, educate yourself, do things your own way. You may follow or not follow someone, its your choice. But don’t waste time judging a person.
Its your life, your decision.