
Welcome to our definitive Launch You review.
Launch You is a series of affiliate marketing courses by Stuart Ross, who you may know as the creator of Six Figure Mentors.
My team and I have researched the Launch You training and signed up for the Modern Wealthy part of it. You’ll find all our insights below.
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If you want to know…
- If Launch You can help you make money online
- The pros and cons of Launch You
- If the whole thing is legit or a scam
- How much it costs (including upsells)
- If real students are actually getting results
Then you’ve come to the right place.
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About the Author
Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.
I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.
Since then, I’ve earned my living online in various ways. Over the last 4 years (through 2023) I’ve earned $842,000 from my laptop.
I’m on a mission to accurately rate and review all the best online business courses. My team and I are spending many hours investigating these courses and getting feedback from real students.
All that to say: we know a thing or two about such courses and making money online.
How does Launch You help you make money?
The courses on the Launch You platform help you make money via “Authority Marketing”. This seems to be their alternate name for affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing – or “authority marketing” as Stuart calls it – is when you promote other people’s products or services and collect a commission for every successful referral.
Here’s the definition they give for it on one of the Launch You sales pages…
Authority Marketing is a cutting-edge strategy enabling you to join the modern wealthy and make more money in less time, by working smarter not harder. It’s about embracing today’s digital world by leveraging the power of online marketing systems to automate selling any product or service to any target audience anywhere in the world.
(Calling this kind of thing “cutting-edge” is a BIG stretch, if you ask me. It’s almost as old as the internet.)
Best I can tell, Launch You consists of the following three courses…
- Modern Wealthy
- LaunchPad
- Accelerate
In this review, I’ll mainly be focusing on Modern Wealthy. I consider that to be a “tripwire product” for Launch You; essentially an inexpensive product designed to get you into a sales funnel so you will spend more later.
Who is Launch You for?
My impression is that Launch You is intended to be for everyone.
Claims such as the following on the sales page strongly suggest this…
I find this kind of marketing to be so vague as to be worthless.
Similarly, Launch You’s marketing material tells you very little about what kind of business you’ll actually be building, instead just constantly referring to it as “your dream business.”
Given all that, I’d say Launch You is really aimed at people who want to build an online business but have no idea what that would look like, and are happy enough to sign up for a course that doesn’t provide any details in advance.
- 70+ ways how to make money online (including easy options)
Does Stuart Ross have a good reputation?
Not really, no.
For starters, I found Stuart’s previous course, Six Figure Mentors, to be a thinly veiled Multi-Level Marketing scheme.
I consider Stuart to be somewhat notorious due to his MLM endeavors, which I detailed in my Six Figure Mentors review.
Unfortunately, as with SFM, it looks like the most reliable way to “succeed” with Launch You is to get other people to join behind you.
My impression is that Launch You is little more than a repackaged version of Six Figure Mentors: similar marketing, teaching pretty much the same thing, with familiar upsells to similarly priced offerings.
It seems the main purpose of the Modern Wealthy program is to get you into a sales funnel so you can be pitched those (more expensive) upsells.
Stuart Ross himself has quite a big following on Facebook. The Facebook group for Modern Wealthy has around 2500 members, but it mainly seems to consist of new members saying hi to each other.
Are Launch You students getting results?
Not that I can see.
During my research of Modern Wealthy and Launch You, I only found a few testimonials reporting any significant results from having followed the training.
The sales page for Launch You only features three video testimonials, all of which I found vague and unconvincing. Just like the training’s sales page, these don’t seem to mention any specifics.
It gets a bit better with Modern Wealthy, mainly because of the following testimonial…
However, I found the exact same testimonial on the sales page for Accelerate, a more powerful (and expensive) part of Launch You…
If Matt Cooke is actually a student of Accelerate, then he would have spent $1000’s on Launch You, so I find it misleading to have his success story displayed on the sales page for the $37 Modern Wealthy training.
Regardless, given that at least 2,500 people have apparently signed up to Modern Wealthy – that’s the size of the members-only Facebook group – I would have expected to see far more success stories during my research.
Sadly, such reports seem to be rare. So rare that it leads me to believe the vast majority of people who sign up for Modern Wealthy don’t achieve any significant results.
How much does Modern Wealthy cost?
The listed price for Modern Wealthy is $37.
There are reports of multiple upsells within the training, but I’ve only been able to verify two of them.
The first upsell is LaunchPad. That costs $997 if you pay all at once. But you can also pay $197 up front followed by eleven monthly installments of $99 (total price = $1,286)
Accelerate, the other main upsell, doesn’t have a listed price as far as I can see. To find out the details, they require you to sign up for a “free vision call”.
That said, I have seen unverified reports online that Accelerate costs a minimum of $3,995. I’ve also seen reports that there are several other products and upsells within Launch You, including one reported to cost as much as $17,990 😱
Keep in mind that you’ll need extra cash not just for the upsells, but also for paid ads and an autoresponder.
Launch You Discount?
I’ve tried finding a discount or coupon, but there’s none available.
Seems full price is the only option.
Refund Policy
The sales page for Modern Wealthy specifies a 30-day, no-questions-asked refund policy…
We 100% Guarantee you’ll love this training and the bonus courses, or we’ll return your $37 investment even if you watch the whole thing and take the full 30 days to do it. You don’t have to explain anything.
Just let us know it wasn’t for you, and we’ll return your $37 investment with no questions asked, and we will even let you keep access to the course. Does that sound fair?
Just keep in mind that it says you’ll have to watch all the videos beforehand.
I haven’t seen anyone reporting issues getting a refund on their purchase, so you can rest easy with this guarantee. Stuart Ross does seem to honor his refund policy for Six Figure Mentors, so my guess is that he does the same for Launch You.
How is Modern Wealthy structured?
Here’s what the course looks like after you’re logged in and you open the videos…
Unfortunately, the seven lessons you see pictured above seem to make up the majority of what Modern Wealthy has to offer.
Most of them are over 30 minutes long, and filled with Stuart Ross talking about (in my opinion) fairly basic affiliate marketing stuff.
These videos are preceded by an ebook, but I wouldn’t say that provides significant value either.
The videos might have been fine if they were free and more concise. I’ve seen plenty of videos that drag on, but for me Modern Wealthy takes the cake.
You also get two short bonus courses with MW, one focused on affiliate marketing, and the other on ecommerce.
As soon as you’re done with the seven core videos, it’ll take you to the LaunchPad upsell page. I can’t comment on the quality of the LaunchPad training, but given all I’ve seen from Stuart Ross so far, I’d be inclined to steer clear of it.
Green Lights 🟢
A few things to like about Launch You’s Modern Wealthy program…
- Reasonable price.
- 30-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee.
Red Flags 🚩
A few things to be wary of regarding Modern Wealthy…
- Lack of significant success stories from students.
- Expensive upsells.
- Seems to lack any advanced info.
- Some big skeletons in Stuart Ross’ closet.
- No search function within the training.
- No mention on sales page of expenses beyond the price of the training.
- Numerous questionable marketing tactics (eg. fake scarcity) used to sell the course.
Other things you should know
- I generally recommend that you steer clear of any course where the sales page doesn’t clearly explain what you’ll be doing. IMO, this is one of the bigger issues with Launch You as a whole. They seem to specialize in “selling the dream” while failing to provide any specifics.
Should you join Launch You?
I cannot in good conscience recommend Launch You or Modern Wealthy as a reliable way to make money online.
MW seems to lack any advanced info, and I didn’t find a single legit testimonial for it. I’d venture to say that the vast majority of its students have not achieved any significant results.
Add in the questionable marketing tactics and Stuart Ross’ reputation, and I can only advise that people steer far clear of Modern Wealthy. I believe it is extremely unlikely to help you build your “dream business.”
As far as affiliate marketing programs go, this lands near the bottom of my list.
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Stuart Ross has scammed so many people over the years. He is a salesman not a marketer.
I saw that the initial $37 was just to get bank details, only then do you realise you have to purchase the $997 course. At this point I pressed the ‘no, I do not wish to continue’ button only to be sent to the ‘Lauuch You’ page !! I have replied to three emails so far requesting a refund only to be met with silence. My real concern is that they will now continue to take $99 from my account every month. Can you advise me please.
Hi Gary. If I were you, I’d contact my bank and get them to block any further transactions from that company.
I have a friend who has currently spent £11k on this course and I still paying out. I’m so concerned as I feel they do not have a clue what they are actually selling. They have given him a very cheap website to use as a link to sell their course and that it.
He is has been sucked in and Modern Wealthy are abusing his vulnerability.
Is there anyway this can be stopped to prevent future people being ripped off.
Is Linkedin Premium included in the start-off package
Last time I checked, yes it was.