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Updated: February 13, 2024

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Franklin Hatchett Savage Affiliates Review

15 things to know about Franklin Hatchett's affiliate marketing course

Savage Affiliates
Incomplete/5
Kyle Arnold1 Review | Rate This Course

Welcome to my Savage Affiliates review.

I recently spent 10+ hours researching Franklin Hatchett’s affiliate marketing course so you don’t have to.

(Have you taken this course? Add your rating!)

If you want to know:

  • What Savage Affiliates is all about
  • If it’s legit or a scam
  • If Frank’s money-making methods really work
  • If students are actually getting results

Then you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s get started.

Franklin Hatchett's Savage Affiliates – Key Points
  About

A popular affiliate marketing course from Franklin Hatchett.

💰  Price

$197 to $297 (discount info)

😍  Pros

Relatively low price, covers all aspects of affiliate marketing.

😩  Cons

Lack of transparent student results, Frank’s frequent misleading claims.

  Verdict

Worth considering if you’re on a tight budget, but definitely keep your receipt.

Overall Rating
Incomplete/5

About the Author

Niall Doherty

Hey, I’m Niall Doherty.

I quit my last 9-to-5 job back in 2010.

Since then, I’ve earned my living online doing a variety of things:

  • Blogging
  • Web design
  • Online courses
  • Advertising
  • Ebooks
  • Affiliate marketing

I’ve bought and reviewed many online courses over the years, ranging in price from free to $3600.

Some of those courses were awful. 

And some were excellent (see my top picks here).

Savage Affiliates seems like a decent course, but a few significant issues have me hesitant to recommend it.

(Disclaimer: I am not a member of Savage Affiliates. This review is based on 10+ hours of researching publicly available information about Franklin Hatchett and Savage Affiliates. The goal is to save you from doing all that research yourself.)

Table Of Contents

To learn about our review process, click here.

This review is a joint effort between Niall Doherty of eBiz Facts and members of the Freedom Business Builder community.

Our process:

  1. Niall spent 10+ hours researching Franklin Hatchett and Savage Affiliates. This involved a close examination of the sales funnel, reading a bunch of other reviews, watching far too many YouTube videos, and googling relentlessly for answers to countless questions relating to the course.
  2. Niall then wrote up the first draft of this review.
  3. We sent the draft to our Freedom Business Builder community and asked for feedback.
  4. We made our final edits and published the review.
  5. We sent the review to Franklin Hatchett and asked if he had any comments or corrections.

Note: We earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase through referral links in this review. Read our full disclosure here.

What is Savage Affiliates?

Savage Affiliates is an online course by Franklin Hatchett that aims to teach you how to make money online via affiliate marketing.

savage affilaite review boxart

Here’s how the course is described on FranklinHatchett.com:

savage affiliates description

I’ve reviewed quite a few affiliate marketing courses already and Savage Affiliates is probably the broadest of them all, covering pretty much every topic related to affiliate marketing (more about this below).

Who is Franklin Hatchett?

Franklin Hatchett – also known as Frank Hatchett – is an online entrepreneur from New Zealand and the creator of Savage Affiliates.

Here’s Frank holding up an award he received for earning more than $1 million as an affiliate of ClickFunnels…

franklin hatchett clickfunnels award

And here’s how he describes himself on one of his websites…

franklin hatchett bio

Frank has quite a big following on YouTube:

franklin hatchett youtube

Best I can tell, he earns most of his money by selling his online courses – Ecom Elites and Savage Affiliates – and as an affiliate for products such as:

How can you make money with Savage Affiliates?

You don’t make money directly from Savage Affiliates. Instead, the program shows you a variety of ways you can make money online by selling other people’s products and services and collecting commissions.

This is called affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing can be done with free or paid traffic.

Savage Affiliates has training for both methods.

When successful, affiliate marketing with free traffic looks like this, using the Amazon affiliate program as an example:

How Affiliate marketing works

And here’s an example of affiliate marketing using paid traffic:

how affiliate marketing works

The reports I’ve seen from successful students of Savage Affiliates lead me to believe that they’re mainly making money as affiliates for ClickFunnels, and driving traffic with paid ads.

Indeed, there are two whole sections devoted to ClickFunnels inside Savage Affiliates, including a case study where Frank shows you how he has earned big money promoting that particular product.

Is Savage Affiliates legit or a scam?

Savage Affiliates looks to be a decent course with tons of content, an active community, and a 30-day refund policy. In that sense, it certainly isn’t a scam, but I’m hesitant to recommend it.

A few specific things have me wary of recommending the course, such as:

I cover those problems and more later in this review.

Here’s how Savage Affiliates compares to other popular affiliate marketing courses I’ve reviewed…

🏆 Best Affiliate Marketing Courses 🏆

1.The Authority Site System (review)
4.8/5
2.The Affiliate Lab (review)
4.6/5
3.Scale Your Travel Blog (review)
4.6/5
4.Blog Growth Engine (review)
4.5/5
5.Passive Income Geek (review)
4.4/5
6.Niche Site Profits (review)
4.3/5
7.Income School's Project 24 (review)
4.3/5
8.Blogging Fast Lane (review)
3.9/5
9.Perfecting Blogging (review)
3.8/5
10.Solo Build It (review)
3.7/5
11.123 Affiliate Marketing (review)
3.4/5
12.Passive Income Unlocked (review)
3.2/5
13.Jungle Influencer (review)
3.1/5
14.Affiliate Escape Plan (review)
3.1/5
15.Digital Worth Academy (review)
2.9/5
16.YouTube Affiliate Marketing System (review)
2.9/5
17.Home Business Academy (review)
2.7/5
18.Entre Institute (review)
2.6/5
19.Affiliate Marketing Success MasterClass (review)
2.5/5
20.Passive Income Pathways (review)
2.5/5
See all reviews of affiliate marketing courses »

Savage Affiliates Price + Discount Info

Savage Affiliates comes in two flavors: Standard and Super. Standard costs $197 and Super costs $297 (both are one-time payments, no recurring fees).

The difference between Standard and Super is described like so on the SA sales page:

savage affiliates super standard price

I’ve read numerous reports that you can sign up to Standard first and then easily upgrade to Super for $100 later.

Savage Affiliates Discount?

Sorry, there is no discount available for Savage Affiliates.

I searched for a while but couldn’t find any legit coupon or special offer.

On the SA sales page it does say that the course is “60% OFF”…

savage affiliates price discount

…but I’ve found no verifiable reports that the course was ever sold for $497 or $697.

(Given that, I think it’s safe to ignore Frank when he says, “you don’t have much time before the price goes up on this training.” Best I can tell, the price has remained the same for several months.)

PRAISE FOR SAVAGE AFFILIATES 👍

Low Price

This seems to be the main reason why Frank’s course is so popular: compared to other affiliate marketing courses, Savage Affiliates is fairly inexpensive, starting at $197.

Most other affiliate marketing courses I’ve reviewed – at least those that are actually good – cost $500 or more, and it’s not uncommon to see such courses priced at $1000+

Be aware though that there are some hidden costs with Savage Affiliates (detailed below).

Covers all aspects of affiliate marketing

Savage Affiliates strives to be a comprehensive training, with 100+ lessons on all aspects of affiliate marketing.

You can get a sense of how much Savage Affiliates covers just by looking at the list of modules inside the course:

savage affiliates modules content
Screenshot via this YouTube video

By contrast, other affiliate marketing courses usually only teach one particular affiliate marketing method.

For example:

Income School’s Project 24 is the only other worthwhile course I’ve seen that covers so many aspects of affiliate marketing.

There are obvious advantages to such comprehensive training, which is why I’m listing it as a pro for Savage Affiliates. 

Just be careful not to get scattered and overwhelmed. Your best bet would be to pick one of the methods taught in SA and stick with it long enough to see results.

CRITICISMS OF SAVAGE AFFILIATES 👎

Questionable Student Results

The results Franklin Hatchett shows on the Savage Affiliates sales page aren’t all that impressive.

In fact, most can’t really be considered “results” since they’re just generic praise for Frank’s training.

For example:

franklin hatchett testimonials 1

Sure, those people love Frank’s training, but I don’t see any of them reporting that they’ve actually made money from it 🤷‍♂️

Also, there’s no indication that those people are praising Savage Affiliates. They may in fact be praising Frank’s ecommerce course, Ecom Elites.

Franklin uses some of the same testimonials to promote both courses, despite those courses teaching different online business models:

Here’s a testimonial from a “Top Student” of Savage Affiliates named Brent James:

According to the Way Back Machine, Brent’s testimonial has been on the SA sales page since at least August 2019.

When Brent James appeared on Frank’s YouTube Channel in December 2019, he reported earning $30,000 per year (see below).

And that $30,000 per year comes NOT from affiliate marketing, but from running a social media marketing agency….

In an April 2020 video Brent also stated that the agency was his main source of income:

Update: I had the video embedded here but soon after publishing the review it was conveniently deleted from YouTube 🤔

Key quote:

6:20 – “that’s my main source of income guys, I have a social media agency and people come to me and they basically pay me each month to grow their [Instagram] account”

So when Franklin refers to Brent James his “Top Student”, it’s hard for me to believe that other students are making much money following the Savage Affiliates training.

Franklin Hatchett’s Misleading Claims

Frank seems to regularly make big claims that fall flat upon close inspection.

I found many examples of this, but I’ll list just a few…

Earn $500 A DAY Online For FREE Copy & Pasting Links!

One of Frank’s videos from Oct 2019, with more than 500,000 views:

In that video Frank says he’ll show you “how to make over $500 per day just by pasting links on the internet.”

In short, here’s what he recommends:

  • Sign up for ClickBank and find a product to promote
  • Sign up for a free account at TheFreeAdForum.com
  • Post a free ad promoting your product with your affiliate link

Unfortunately, nowhere does Frank show proof that he’s tried and tested and earned money doing this exact thing himself.

I looked through 100’s of comments on the video and found one person reporting earnings of $120, but far more frequent were comments like these:

franklin hatchett youtube video comments 1
franklin hatchett youtube video comment 2
franklin hatchett youtube video comment 3
franklin hatchett youtube video comment 4
franklin hatchett youtube video comment 5
franklin hatchett youtube video comment 6

Just for kicks, I tried it myself, and even paid $10 for a premium listing:

the free ad forum $10 ad

After ten days I’d received exactly one click and zero sales.

So it looks like that was a complete waste of time for me and about 499,998 other people.

How To Make $200 PER DAY With NO Website!

One of Frank’s videos from March 2020:

This time Frank says he’s “going to take you through step-by-step on how you can make money online, and over $200 per day, with this particular method.”

The method, in brief:

  • Find a product to promote on ClickBank
  • Post your affiliate link for that product on Pinterest

Once again, Frank shows no proof that he’s earned any money doing this himself.

In fact, when I went and found the example pin he created in the video, I found that that the link wouldn’t work because Pinterest considers it spam:

franklin hatchett pinterest smap

Other folks commented the same thing on the video, but never received a response from Frank:

franklin hatchett youtube video comments 7

(For the record, Pinterest does allow affiliate links, but they don’t allow link shorteners and they clearly block some links that they consider spam. See Pinterest’s community guidelines for more info.)

Update: Upon further investigation, it seems Franklin’s affiliate link in the example above does work, but only if you’re not logged into Pinterest.

The Easy Side Hustle That Made $4,000 For FREE Online

One of Frank’s videos from April 2020:

His opening words:

“This my friends is $4000 that I didn’t even realize I had in my account from a side hustle that I started not that long ago. And in this video I’m going to show you exactly how to make money online doing this without spending any money.”

Here’s the process Frank lays out in the video:

  • Sign up as an affiliate for MyThemeShop.com
  • Create a free website on WordPress.org (here’s Frank’s example)
  • Post content to that site with your affiliate link
  • Drive traffic to your content by answering questions on Quora

In what seems to be a recurring theme in these videos, Frank shows ZERO proof that he’s earned any money by following these exact steps himself.

And see where he shows you how to post your link to Quora at the 13:05 mark of the video?

Check out the question he replied to on Quora and his answer is nowhere to be seen. That’s likely because Quora sucks for driving traffic and the mods often delete answers containing links.

Frank’s response after reading this review:

“This post was an example for the video only and was deleted after the video was done. We have showed that we use Quora for one of our main traffic courses in videos before.”

I asked Frank why he would delete that example if it could actually get him some extra traffic?

His response:

No particular reason on why it was deleted I usually just delete examples.

This doesn’t make much sense to me, especially considering that Frank’s aforementioned Pinterest example post has remained online for 2+ months as of this writing.

Yet Frank claims to have earned $4000 as an affiliate for MyThemeShop…

franklin hatchett youtube earnings

…and he probably has.

But I sincerely doubt he’s earned those commissions via a crappy free website and posting links to Quora.

It turns out that MyThemeShop is one of a handful of products Frank frequently recommends to his audience and students via a special “deals” page on FranklinHatchett.com:

franklin hatchett my theme shop promo

One way Frank pushes traffic to that page is via his free Affiliate Marketing Samurais group on Facebook.

Join that group and you’ll soon get tagged on a post linking to Frank’s deals page…

franklin hatchett facebook group deals link
There seems to be a post like this every day or two, usually tagging dozens of people

Thousands of folks join that group every month…

franklin hatchett facebook group

So that probably gets him a decent chunk of traffic + commissions.

Far more than posting links to Quora ever would.

(I wouldn’t recommend joining that Facebook group, btw. Most of the posts are Frank promoting his own stuff and then turning off comments due to spam.)

Passive Income: How I Make $50,000/year Doing Nothing

One of Frank’s videos from June 2019:

In that video, Frank implies that he’s earned more than $50,000 as an affiliate for Shopify via organic traffic to old blog posts like these:

franklin hatchett online dimes blog post
franklin hatchet ecom elites blog post

But when you check both of those articles on Ahrefs, it looks like they get very little organic traffic:

franklin hatchett online dimes ahrefs
Online Dimes article has averaged <50 organic visits per month since Feb 2018
franklin hatchett ecom elites ahrefs
Ecom Elites article has never gotten more than 110 organic visits per month

Update: Frank sent me a screenshot from his Google Analytics showing that the latter article received 528 unique page views in April 2020. I haven’t seen the breakdown of that traffic though, so I’m still not sure how much of it is organic.

More likely, Frank generates the majority of those Shopify commissions by recommending that every student of his Ecom Elites course signs up for Shopify…

ecom elites shopify step
Step one of Frank’s ecommerce training is to create a Shopify store
(source: Ecom Elites sales page)

He even has a big promo for Shopify displayed prominently within the course…

Franklin Hatchett Ecom Elites
Screenshot via this YouTube video

Apparently more than 300 people per month pay to join that course…

If even half of them were to take Frank’s recommendation and sign up for a Shopify account using his affiliate link, that would add up to lots of commissions.

Indeed, “Elite” is the second most profitable campaign showing in Frank’s affiliate dashboard (though this could also refer to clicks/signups generated from visitors to the EcomElites.com website)…

franklin hatchett shopify affiliate campaigns 1
franklin hatchett shopify affiliate campaigns 2

Frank also prominently displays his affiliate offers in the sidebar of his Savage Affiliates course…

savage affiliates franks affiliate links
Affiliate links for Bluehost, GetResponse, and ClickFunnels. Screenshot via this YouTube video
.

Almost 200 people sign up for that course every month…

So Frank has about 500 students buying his courses each month, and many of them no doubt sign up for things like Shopify, Bluehost, GetResponse and ClickFunnels based on Frank’s recommendation and via his affiliate links.

But when you watch Frank’s YouTube videos, he makes it sound like he generates affiliate commissions by doing things like…

  • Posting free ads on forums ($500 per day!)
  • Posting affiliate links to Pinterest ($200 per day!)
  • Posting links to a free WordPress.com website on Quora ($4,000!)
  • Writing simple articles on his niche websites
    ($150k in 7 months!)

Given all that, I can’t help but think that there’s a significant difference between how Frank SAYS he drives traffic to his affiliate links, and how he ACTUALLY drives traffic to them.

Update: to be clear, I’m not saying Franklin ONLY earns affiliate commissions by recommending products and services to his students. I’m pretty sure he earns tons of money as an affiliate in other ways. My point here is that the methods Franklin recommends in some of his YouTube videos don’t seem realistic to me at all, and there’s rarely solid proof showing that he has generated lots of affiliate commissions using the exact same methods himself.

(Frank earning commissions via his students may also help explain why Savage Affiliates is priced so low compared to popular alternatives.)

Frank’s response after reading this review:

“It’s priced low because we wanted to give people a cheaper option if they wanted to get into affiliate marketing. We make a small commission inside the course and it wouldn’t alone justify a cheaper price.”

One of the top Affiliate Experts in the world?

From the Savage Affiliates sales page:

franklin hatchett affiliate marketing expert

Curiously, a very similar thing appears on the sales page for Frank’s ecommerce course:

franklin hatchett ecommerce expert

Turns out that a 2017 guest post on Entrepreneur.com did refer to Frank as an “ecommerce expert”…

franklin hatchett entrepreneur magazine
Source: 12 Awesome Tips From Ecommerce Experts (entrepreneur.com)

…but there is no mention of affiliate marketing in that article, and I found no other mention of Frank on Entrepreneur.com.

“I rank for some of the best terms on the planet”

Frank makes this claim on the SA sales page:

franklin hatchett seo rank best terms

“Best” is a very subjective word, but I still find this to be a big stretch.

Frank’s best-ranking website that I’m aware of is EcomElites.com, but the top ten keywords for that site can hardly be described as “some of the best terms on the planet”…

franklin hatchett ecom elites ahrefs top keywords
0 keyword difficult means it’s easy to rank for the term. 100 KD is the most difficult. Higher numbers generally signify “better” terms, but also more competitive. (Source: Ahrefs)

Frank’s response after reading this review:

“I do currently rank for some of the most competitive high volume keywords online. I have multiple blogs and one is in the finance niche, this blog has very good rankings online. I have never mentioned specifically that the Ecom Elites website ranks for great terms. In fact, when I said this Ecom Elite didn’t even have a blog it had 1 page.”

I invited Frank to share some screenshots to back up what he’s saying here but I’ve yet to see any. Though, in fairness, there are plenty of legit reasons a site owner might refrain from revealing all their sites and what keywords they rank for.

I could bore you with several more examples of claims by Frank Hatchett that I consider misleading, but I think you get the idea.

Let’s move on…

Hidden Costs

It’s not at all obvious from the Savage Affiliates sales page that students are advised to spend more money on various products and services after they buy the course.

Frank does teach free ways to do affiliate marketing within the course, but these are limited.

Paid products and services recommended inside Savage Affiliates include:

  • Domain and hosting for your own website ($4/month from Bluehost)
  • ClickFunnels ($97/month after 14-day trial)
  • GetResponse ($15/month after 30-day trial)
  • Thrive Leads ($67)
  • Ahrefs ($7 for 7 days, then $99/month)
  • Google ads, Facebook ads, YouTube ads, solo ads

Pretty much every affiliate marketing course will advise you to invest money in similar products and services, but it’s nice when they tell you that BEFORE you buy the program. 

Like Authority Hacker does on the sales page for their affiliate marketing course (reviewed here):

2 More Things You Should Know About Savage Affiliates

What exactly is included in the course?

Savage Affiliates has A LOT of content, containing more than 100 lessons and at least 30 hours of video training. Members also get access to a private Facebook group.

Here’s the full list of sections/modules within Savage Affiliates:

savage affiliates modules content
Screenshot via this YouTube video

This review on YouTube gives you a good look at everything covered within the course:

(That reviewer is very positive about SA and seems genuine, but I didn’t mention him above as an impressive success story since he only shows affiliate earnings of $651 in 9 months, not including the commissions he’s earned from promoting SA itself.)

Lessons inside Savage Affiliates are laid out like this:

savage affiliates lesson layout
Screenshot via this YouTube video

When you join Savage Affiliates you also get access to the private Facebook group:

savage affiliate private facebook group

Savage Affiliates Refund Policy

Savage Affiliates has an action-based 30-day refund policy, and a 24-hour grace period.

Info on the refund policy via the Savage Affiliates sales page:

savage affiliates refund 1

More detail is provided here.

I’ve highlighted the info about the 24-hour grace period:

I generally prefer that courses have a no-questions-asked refund policy, but I consider this policy from Savage Affiliates to be fair game.

Worth noting though that there are at least 30 hours of video within the course, so make sure you give yourself enough time to watch at least half of them in the first month. (You can hurry things along with this speed hack.)

I found zero reports of people having trouble getting a refund.

WRAP UP

Are Franklin Hatchett’s students actually getting results?

As mentioned above, I have been unable to find convincing examples of this.

Apparently almost 200 students join Savage Affiliates each month, and more than 2600 students have signed up to date…

Given that, I would have expected to see some legit success stories available online.

Most other affiliate marketing courses I’ve reviewed – at least those that are actually good – tend to have evidence of impressive student results online.

Who should join Savage Affiliates?

I rate a few other affiliate marketing courses much higher than Savage Affiliates – see below – but SA sounds like a decent option if you’re on a very tight budget.

At only $197 for Standard access, Savage Affiliates is more affordable than the other courses I recommend, even when you take the hidden costs into account.

Their refund policy also sounds reasonable, so it should be easy enough to get your money back if you sign up and find the training isn’t to your liking.

If you want to take a chance on it…

Savage Affiliates Alternatives

Here’s the full list of affiliate marketing courses I’ve reviewed so far…

🏆 Best Affiliate Marketing Courses 🏆

1.The Authority Site System (review)
4.8/5
2.The Affiliate Lab (review)
4.6/5
3.Scale Your Travel Blog (review)
4.6/5
4.Blog Growth Engine (review)
4.5/5
5.Passive Income Geek (review)
4.4/5
6.Niche Site Profits (review)
4.3/5
7.Income School's Project 24 (review)
4.3/5
8.Blogging Fast Lane (review)
3.9/5
9.Perfecting Blogging (review)
3.8/5
10.Solo Build It (review)
3.7/5
11.123 Affiliate Marketing (review)
3.4/5
12.Passive Income Unlocked (review)
3.2/5
13.Jungle Influencer (review)
3.1/5
14.Affiliate Escape Plan (review)
3.1/5
15.Digital Worth Academy (review)
2.9/5
16.YouTube Affiliate Marketing System (review)
2.9/5
17.Home Business Academy (review)
2.7/5
18.Entre Institute (review)
2.6/5
19.Affiliate Marketing Success MasterClass (review)
2.5/5
20.Passive Income Pathways (review)
2.5/5
21.Simple Profit System (review)
2.5/5
22.Wealthy Affiliate (review)
2.5/5
23.Legendary Marketer (review)
2.4/5
24.Super Affiliate System (review)
2.3/5
25.72IG WhatsApp Income Blueprint (review)
2.3/5
26.Invincible Marketer (review)
2.3/5
27.Commission Academy (review)
2.2/5
28.Partner With Anthony (review)
2.0/5
29.Inbox Blueprint (review)
1.9/5
30.Spark by ClickBank (review)
1.9/5
31.Affiliate Marketing for Bloggers (review)
1.8/5
32.Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing (review)
1.7/5
33.12 Minute Affiliate (review)
1.7/5
34.Four Percent (review)
1.6/5
35.Commission Hero (review)
1.6/5
36.Affiliate Marketing Mastery (review)
1.5/5
37.Affilorama (review)
1.5/5
38.Ministry of Freedom (review)
1.5/5
39.ChatGPT Short Form Riches (review)
1.5/5
40.Six Figure Mentors (review)
1.4/5
41.FullStaq Marketer (review)
1.3/5
42.Perpetual Income 365 (review)
1.3/5
43.Launch You (review)
1.1/5
44.Wolves Academy (review)
0.8/5
45.7 Figure Franchise (review)
0.7/5
46.ClickBank University (review)
0.6/5
47.Click Wealth System (review)
0.5/5
7 Figure Acceleration (review)
Incomplete/5
Adam Cherrington (review)
Incomplete/5
E-Farming Course (review)
Incomplete/5
Profit Singularity System (review)
Incomplete/5
Savage Affiliates (review)
Incomplete/5
See all reviews of affiliate marketing courses »

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Great for beginners

Franklin has always been a big inspiration for me, and when he dropped this course I had to grab it. After going through the course I can say that although it is beginner-friendly, if you are totally new to internet marketing and how the whole game works then you’ll need to be prepared to put in the work to learn.

The course is great and provides all the fundamentals to get you going and earn some affiliate cash. This is a course I wish I had when I was first getting into affiliate marketing as it really helps to fill in all the gaps and answer questions. I took the course a few years ago and now am far more experienced, and even to this day, there are things that I have taken from his training that I use both on my clients’ sites and my personal affiliate projects.

The Savage Affiliates course was a great complement to Frank’s free materials and he really goes into the details. If you stick to the plan and follow the methods, you will make money. I have built some successful websites following the exact strategies in this course and have recommended it to many of my friends to help get them started.

If you want an easy way to make money, there isn’t one. But if you understand that there is work involved, and are willing to make the commitment then this is definitely for you. There is even a support group on Facebook that has everyone else who took the course. It is still quite active to this day.

There are definitely much better courses out there that go deep into the weeds but they also come at a bigger cost. If you’re on a budget then this is a good starting point along with doing a lot of research on YouTube. Most important thing is to start doing things rather than taking a tonne of courses and doing none of the things taught in them.

Pros and Cons

  • Easy to follow.
  • There are other courses that are more technical.
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7 Questions & Answers

  1. Hi Niall, good blog and interesting review – but I dont think you are being totally fair here for SA. mainly IMO, you should really be reviewing content of Franks course. instead your analyzing his sales page & making assumptions and picking holes in that which may or may not be true and his youtube videos for drawing traffic to his course and increasing subscribers.

    i think you should really go inside his training. surely you can get access to review it. how good is the training. how current iiiiis it. relevant today. outdated. does it work, etc etc. and you could even poke around his FB group to ascertain who was making $$ and who isn’t !

    you make some CON arguments for things like discounts, and affiliate commissions on products he promotes. they all do that. i dont think that is sneaky, just clever. in fact you do it too !

    i have Frank Ecom Elite course, only 10-15% thru it, so too early, But Frank seems very knowledgeable, and seems legit. and has a pretty laid back style. i like him so far.

    you talk about his youtube videos, and you might have a point, but he is just driving traffic using free info giveaway/throwaway on youtube. it costs nothing to to view those and not much to try. that doesn’t really reflect in the inside knowledge on the course tho.

    i hear SA is a good course, but would love to know your in-depth point of view once you had gone inside and really looked at the training, and then even applied it !

    still this is an interesting blog site. maybe sometime in the future you can look precisely at the content. that gives a better viewpoint IMO

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    • Hey Rod,

      Thanks for the comment.

      I agree that it would be nice to go through the course materials and share my impressions, but given what I saw in my initial research – as detailed above – I have a hard time trusting Franklin Hatchett. It takes me 20-30 hours to properly go through a course and write up an in-depth review of it. I’m no longer willing to invest that time and energy on reviewing courses with lots of early red flags.

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  2. Hello Niall, I’m new at starting affiliate marketing. Looking into commission hero but I have heard good and bad. My question to you is… Which do you think is the best affiliate marketing course for a newbie to start getting traffic and earning, say with ClickBank? Thanks

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    • Hey Mike,

      I would lean towards a course like Authority Hacker or Income School. They focus on organic traffic, so it will take a while for the traffic to start flowing, but it’s a reliable way to do it so long as you can put in the work consistently. If you want to see results faster, then you’d need to drive traffic with paid ads, which can get expensive fast. But that’s what Commission Hero teaches.

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  3. Hi Niall, I liked your review, I’m interested in starting in affiliate marketing but I’m a complete begginer. Would you recommend looking for free info on youtube or buy this course.
    The thing is that like you said, the lack of success stories and the fact that we keeps showing the same success stories over and over again makes think it doesn’t work.

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  4. Great review. What would you recommend to do Ecomelites or Savage affiliates if I had to choose one to make me big money fast?

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    • I’m not sure how you got the impression from my review that you can make “big money fast” from affiliate marketing or e-commerce. Neither of those is likely to help you get rich quick. It takes a lot of time and effort to build a successful affiliate marketing or e-commerce business.

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      • Why it takes so long? If you run a proper website with good ads technique then why wouldn’t it generate a lot of money fast? its only matter how much money you put in and from which keyword

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        • If you run a proper website with good ads technique then why wouldn’t it generate a lot of money fast?

          You make it sound like creating a proper website with good ads technique is easy. But that’s the hard part. That’s what takes a long time. Once you get it right, then sure, you can make a lot of money fast. But it usually takes a lot of time and effort to build a business to that level.

          Think of it like becoming a professional golfer: if you just hit the ball with the perfect amount of power and accuracy, you can make a lot of money fast. But learning to hit the ball like that takes a lot of time.

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  5. Niall, I like your in depth review style, it’s clearly high quality especially considering you haven’t seen inside the product.
    Very persuasive, however I am wondering from the order you rank the products whether its to do mainly with how large a commission you’ll get from these reviews.
    Savage affiliates doesn’t have an affiliates program. Maybe you’d rank it higher if it were possible to make a commission from it?
    Some of the marketing tactics like saying the price will go up or was higher previously, you list as a con for SA, but Authority hacker uses a similar tactic saying that the 300$ discount will expire in 5 days. And the price will go up again. Which is just as dishonest, it’s these marketing tactics we see everyone using. Just in this case that “limited time” discount benefits YOU because you’ll profit.
    They also both use a “results not typical” disclaimer. For authority hacker you paint it as being honest. For SA, you present it as at face value, suggesting Franklins students typically don’t succeed. The more typical results you do see from both courses are equally underwhelming but hopeful.
    I wondered if you could comment on that?

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    • Hey Meryl,

      Thanks for the comment, good points you raised.

      Savage Affiliates does have an affiliate program, and I’m signed up to it. So I do receive a commission if you buy through this review. The commission % is actually far better than Authority Hacker, so if I ranked Savage Affiliates #1 I suspect I’d earn more money overall (the conversion rate would be good since SA is priced relatively cheap). I currently rank Income School #2 but their affiliate program is pretty bad, especially compared to courses I have much further down the list. I’m not an affiliate for Five Figure Niche Site but I rank that course ahead of others I am an affiliate for (in this list), such as Commission Hero, Wealthy Affiliate, ClickBank University, etc.

      I try to rank courses based on how good I think they are for students and regardless of their affiliate programs. The way I see it, the smart way to run my business is to build trust for the long-term, and not just try to make a quick buck off my readers. For example, Commission Hero gives me the best commission per sale, but I recently dropped the rating on that after hearing some negative reports from students. That hurts my earnings, but I believe it’s the right thing to do for my readers.

      Some of the marketing tactics like saying the price will go up or was higher previously, you list as a con for SA, but Authority hacker uses a similar tactic saying that the 300$ discount will expire in 5 days. And the price will go up again. Which is just as dishonest, it’s these marketing tactics we see everyone using. Just in this case that “limited time” discount benefits YOU because you’ll profit.

      Since I’m an affiliate for SA as well, it would benefit me to do the same in both cases.

      But I agree with your main point here: that my criticisms of courses aren’t perfectly consistent. It’s hard to keep them consistent when I review courses several months apart and there’s a lot to cover. My Authority Hacker review is almost a year old now, and it was one of the first I did so I didn’t have a lot to compare it to. I plan to go through and update it fully before the end of the year. I doubt my overall rating of the course will change much, as I’ve still found no other training as good and the vast majority of reports I’ve heard from students are positive. I’ll take a closer look at things like their marketing and do a better job of highlighting any shady stuff there. That said, I’m 99% sure that if I were to do a direct comparison of shady marketing tactics between Savage Affiliates and Authority Hacker, SA wouldn’t come out of that looking good.

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  6. Hi Niaill

    Do you recommend ecom elites. Thinking of starting a online dropshipping business but need to take an online course to learn more

    There are alot of positive reviews about his course but wondering if they are legit

    Thanks
    Anna

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    • Hi Anna,

      I haven’t seen inside Ecom Elites or researched it very much. I’m no expert on the dropshipping business model but I’ve heard from people I trust that the glory days of dropshipping have come and gone. It seems to be very hard to build a successful dropshipping business in 2020, given the level of competition. Also, due to coronavirus the supply lines for dropshipping businesses are a bit of a mess at the moment. I wouldn’t recommend getting into something like that unless you already have solid experience running a successful business and overcoming lots of challenges and obstacles. Building a freelancing business or getting a remote job would be much easier ways to earn a living online, IMO.

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