At 11am EST your inbox probably exploded with the latest “solve all your ills” WSO – this time it was Daredevil Infohero by Robert Stukes that was the big push. So, in the time-honoured fashion, here are my initial thoughts about it.
You can find it on the Warrior Forum if you want to check it out.
First up is the sales page. I know I’m going on a bit about these things recently but I’m hoping there are some guidelines in amongst all my ramblings that will help you if you ever release a WSO of your own.
Sales page, then. Lovely graphics (maybe) but made up of 4 honking great images. They took an age to load – enough to tempt me to move on. Robert, please take note!
Just as an experiment I ran one of them through Photoshop and made a perfectly passable jpeg (size 700k) out of a 5.9 meg original. Come on guys…..that’s unacceptable. 20 or so megabytes downloaded just to see your sodding sales page!!
Not only that, but they are all still stored on the main Daredevil Infohero site, clogging up all the download speed for folks that have successfully purchased.
Just squeeze them and put them on Amazon AWS.
I’ve bought other Daredevil products in the past, so in a sense I was going on “trust” for this one, but if I were starting from scratch, I’d say the evil spacehopper logo has taken over too much of the sales page space.
It just feels image heavy and while I know that testimonials are good for social proof, having so many from old products in the image blitz does nothing for me.
Does anyone read those reduced Warrior Forum images?
What’s Inside Daredevil Infohero?
The product itself comes as 5 modules which are all downloadable pdf files. Each module page also contains a box for personal notes that you may make while reading the pdf.
I’m not sure what I think about that. I’m sure Robert is an honourable guy and all that, but I’m always wary of making specific notes on a site which is accessible by the product creator. Maybe I’m too suspicious.
Now, of course, I haven’t had time to implement any of this stuff yet as I’m a buyer like the rest of you (no up-front freebie here :)) but here’s a quick overview.
Robert basically walks you through the whole task of finding a “desperate” crowd, answering their question using a particular format and then monetizing that answer.
Along the way, you ‘ll be using a few very specific sites for research and traffic generation, but at it’s heart this is a good solid “how to do infoproducts” course.
Module 3 may look a little light for those of you who already know all about WordPress sites, but even in here I found the discussion of payment engines to be a useful summary of Robert’s own experiences.
Ironically, the section on copy writing and sales pages talks a lot about simple, clean-looking pages – not something we see on the WSO sales page, Robert 🙂
It’s probably not going to set the world on fire for new techniques, but Daredevil Infohero manages to be comprehensive enough to be good for beginners and also to add enough tweaks in for the intermediate crowd – some of those tweaks may just be reminders, but we all need reminders now and again.
Robert makes a claim that he puts sites up in around 5 hours, so I’m going to see if that’s a feasible claim for his technique.
If you want to follow along with me, you will find Daredevil InfoHero here.
STOP PRESS: Robert has closed this WSO.
I have no idea why you’d need to close a generic thing like this, it should be offering value for some time to come. Anyway, there it is.
What is your opinion of the firefly lifetime of WSOs these days? Chime in below.
