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Okay. If youre watching this video, youre trying to figure out if you should buy Sam Ovens Consulting Accelerator course, or potentially any other online business course. My name is Keaton Walker. Im part of the team here at CourseRanks. And if that describes you, youve definitely come to the right video. This is by far the most detailed video breakdown and review of Sam Ovens course on the internet. So the major question that everybody has before they buy a course is is this course going to be worth it? Is it actually going to teach me what I need to know? Well, I cant speak for every course out there. I cant say that Sam Ovens course helped me start a profitable marketing agency that made $40,000 last month. And its also helped me break out of my own head and really just start living the life that I know I can. Because we love transparency here at CourseRanks, Im just going to come out at the beginning here and tell you that this course does come highly recommended at a 24 out of 25 on a rating scale, which we will break down at the end of the video. Were going to cover the anatomy of the course, the strongest pros of the course, the worst cons about the course, our community members rankings of the course, and then our objective view here at CourseRanks. at the end of the video, were also going to cover alternatives to the course that might be a little bit cheaper. So make sure you stick around for that. Just one more thing before we get into it. If you ever decide to buy a make money online course, make sure you head over to courseranks.com first, check out the reviews and click through to the course from CourseRanks. We have affiliate agreements with a lot of the courses on our site, and it really helps us build a better transparent community around an industry thats been plagued with a lot of false advertising and predatory marketing. All right, with that said, lets dive into it. So first the anatomy of the course. Sam Ovens course costs $2,000 or $1,500 if you watch his webinar, or if you use our referral link, which is below in the description, or you can click through on courseranks.com. The course platform Sam Ovens uses is actually a proprietary software that he developed, which is really cool. It shows how much he cares about his students. The total amount of video in the course is 105 hours, 12 minutes and 45 seconds. Theres a lot of content in this course. The type of video that Sam Ovens uses is a Keynote presentation with him talking behind. So theres no videos of him actually talking to the camera, except at the beginning of the course. So now lets go over what actually gets covered in the course. And well hop over to his website for this. First is Fundamentals and Foundations. This is Business 101 and its really, really good. The next one is New Paradigm and Worldview. This is the mindset section, and its better than anything else at getting you to actually take action and get out of your own head that I found in any other course. In the third week here, we have Alchemy of Client Conversion, which is Sams conversion script or sales script. My opinion, Sams sales strategy is a little too sharklike. So this comes from a book called The Strategy Of The Dolphin and it compares everybody in a marketplace to either being a shark, a dolphin, or a carp. The sharks see everything as zero sum. Its not win-win. If I win, you lose. And all they do is feed on the carp, which are the average everyday people. Whereas a dolphin sees everything as a little bit more win-win and they see that they can partner with the carp or they can partner with the shark and everybody gets along. So Sams strategy is definitely a lot more sharklike where hes getting you to close right on that first call no matter what. And it doesnt matter. You just need to be really mean to the people on the phone. And your feelings dont matter. You need to be ruthless on the phone and just make sure that you close people on that first call, which in my experience, Ive found that if you just give people a little bit more time to think about things, that they can actually be better clients because they thought about it and theyve committed to the process instead of being pressured into it in one call. So thats the only thing I dont really like about week three, but if thats your style then great. And Sams sales script will probably work pretty well for you. Week four is the Alchemy of Client Attraction, which is his marketing module. And you can see that he has organic attraction method and then paid attraction methods here. I think that his organic attraction methods are pretty outdated. He actually did some customer interviews, which Ill put up here on the screen. And I think that these customer interviews actually do a lot better job of explaining how to get clients online organically than the training that he actually has in the course. And then paid client attraction methods, this is mostly gone over in the next week, which is Fractal Facebook Evolution. Sams really good at calling everything something super fancy like Fractal Facebook Evolution, when it could just be Facebook ads or whatever. Hes really good at sexifying his message, which is one of the cons that well actually talk about later. So Fractal Facebook Evolution is actually 24 hours of Facebook ads training. He truly does leave no stone unturned in this training. And he does a really good job of explaining how the algorithm works, how everything fits together to create a profitable ad campaign online. But his methods are purely for finding new customers nationally or internationally, not locally or anything like that. So if youre hoping to learn Facebook ads for a local business or any sort of other marketing besides Facebook ads for national or international audience, youre going to be disappointed by the Facebook training. And then finally we have week six, which is minimum viable service delivery. This is where it covers things like simplifying your service, setting good client expectations, hiring the right contractors and some other basic business stuff like tracking cashflow and automating your marketing. Theres also another little bit in here called The Next Level. This is where Sam pitches you on joining Uplevel, which is his high ticket $5,800 course on how to become a course seller. And then also as a bonus, if you leave a review for Sam, he will add you to the DM bonus, which stands for digital marketing bonus. This is where he explains how he got started in consulting, which was by selling marketing services, how he built his marketing agency and what he would recommend for you if you want to start out that way. So as part of these videos, we also want to include something called the course in a nutshell. And this is just basically whats taught in this course in less than 30 seconds. This is what Sam teaches in a nutshell. First, pick a niche. Second, get your messaging right for that niche. Third, fix your mindset so you can help the people in your niche. Fourth, sell something niche wants. Fifth, build a video sales letter so that you can automate your marketing. And finally, sixth, hire contractors to take care of some of the dirty work for you so that you can continue to scale. And finally, this is the last part of the anatomy of the course section. Weve got the bonuses that Sam includes, which are numerous. First, hes got the digital marketing bonus, which we covered earlier. Second, hes got the school platform, which is actually another proprietary software that he built himself as an alternative to Facebook groups. So this is where you can network with other people in the course. Ive personally had great a experience with the people that Ive found in Sams course. And Ive made a lot of good friends that way. Thirdly, they have a bi-weekly Q&A. So every Monday and Friday I believe it is, you can get on a call and ask questions to Sams support team. Hes never on the calls himself. Its just his team. Fourth, they actually have a program that will match you to an accountability partner, which is pretty cool. It can help you really grow your business when youve got somebody else to stay accountable to. Next, they have a refer a friend program where you get $500 per sale if you get somebody to sign up. Ive personally made a few thousand dollars off of inviting people to join the course. And theyve had a great experience with it as well. So the course could end up being free if you just invite a few friends to join. You get $500 each time they do. Next, something Sam does, which is really cool, hell actually ship you a physical box set of all the materials in the training course. I ended up throwing mine away about a year later because I didnt need all those boxes, but its really cool that he does that. And then lastly, something really cool Sam includes is searchable transcripts of all his videos, all the Q&A calls. You can just go into consulting.com and you can search for something. And if anybodys ever asked it on a call, or if its included in one of the videos, itll come up. These are bonuses that nobody else is doing in the industry and something Sam has really done to differentiate himself from the competition. Okay, so now lets move into the strongest pros of this course. Number one is the mindset section is simply incredible. $1,500 is worth it just for the mindset section of this course that can help you break out of negative cycles in your mind and really start taking action and building a business. The next thing Sam does really, really well is screen shares and checklists for all of the marketing and techie stuff that you have to do in the course, I literally was saved hours, maybe even weeks of work because his team has done such a good job of documenting every single step that needs to happen when youre setting up your marketing automation. The third strongest pro here is that the community is very strong. It used to be a lot stronger when the Facebook group was there, but there was a lot of pitching that was going on as well in the Facebook group. But the community is very strong. Theres tens of thousands of people in the course. And so you can likely find somebody thats on the same path as you and you guys can stick together. And its a great opportunity to meet new people. Fourth, Sam does this really, really well, is thoroughness. He leaves absolutely no stone unturned when it comes to how to build a business online and all of the mindset things you need to understand. And every single little bit of information, its all in there. Hes extremely thorough, which is awesome. And props to Sam for that. And then lastly, a really strong pro for Sam is that it has really good customer support. It does take usually a day or two for them to get back, but they always get back and theyve taken care of whatever Ive asked them very promptly. Just amazing people. Really nice. Okay. So now lets hop into the worst cons. We havent covered any of the cons so far, so this should make you reconsider your choice maybe. Theyre really not that bad when you think about it. The first one is Sam tries to position himself as some sort of business god of bizarre bragging and all this stuff that really makes you buy into him instead of just buying into the process of building a business. So the way that he does this is he names each module something like Fractal Facebook Evolution or Falling for the Trap or something that really makes you think that youre learning something brand new and completely different. When in reality, its something that youve learned before or you might even know already, but hes just calling it by some crazy name. He also has branding and fancy music at the beginning of each video. He does a really good job of making each video sell you into watching the next video. He just keeps you eating on every single word that hes talking about. And then he transfers you. Hes like, "And then were going to cover it. I cant tell you everything now because were going to cover that in the next video." And so then you go to the next video and you keep going. So part of this is psychology is trying to get his students to buy into the process and buy into understanding how to really build a business. But part of it is just really bizarre and I dont know why he does it. And then the last thing here is he kind of positions himself as if he invented the online course industry. He built consulting.com. He picked up the crown of consulting out of the gutter and put it on his head. Theres plenty of consultants that make way more money than him. And hes done a really good job, but hes still just a internet marketer at the end of the day. And he doesnt really have any humility or anything else in the course that might make you think, "Okay, this guy is humble. Hes pretty down to earth." Its very high in the sky. Im the best. And you should listen to me for these reasons. And the reason he does that actually leads us into the next con, which is he wants to upsell you into Uplevel, which is how to build a course. And if he can get you to believe that hes this business god and he has all of these secrets that you dont have, then youll buy Uplevel, which is close to $6,000. He makes much more money off you that way than he would if you bought the $1,500 or the $2,000 Accelerator. Theres another review on this course by Taylor Benterud, I believe his name is, on YouTube and he does a really good job of explaining why Sam does this and why hes so biased towards courses. So Accelerator is there to get you from zero to about $30,000 to $40,000 a month in a service-based business. But Sam doesnt like service-based businesses. Hes very introverted. He doesnt like talking to people and hed rather just build products and really focus on the education side of things. Once he built his marketing agency to a certain level, he actually left it. And he didnt want to build such a big business, which I think it was close to seven figures. And he just wanted to transfer that over to consulting so that he didnt really have to talk to people. All he had to do was create courses, right? But the issue is a lot of people do better with this. And if theyre making $30,000 to $40,000 a month, theyre completely fine. And they dont actually need to transfer into the course side of things to make more money. Selling courses can be very profitable, but it can also be very taxing, draining. You can lose money selling courses. And Sam has a huge bias towards this. And thats why he wants to sell you from youve got the service-based business. And then you go into a product-based business, which is selling courses. But really theres a lot of people that can just stay here forever and be really happy and scale to a good amount that they dont have to keep scaling and build something really good and keep getting their clients great results. So whatever you do, just make sure that if you want to buy into Uplevel, which if you buy Uplevel, then you get Accelerator as well for free, that you actually do want to go down the course selling round at some point, because otherwise its really just irrelevant. And its a lot of repeat information from Accelerator. And its just Sam selling you on his dream, maybe not your dream. And then the third and final con here is that Sam sells you into products that he has affiliate agreements with like ClickFunnels and Kajabi when those might not actually be the best software tools. And if you dont end up using those software tools, then you have an issue because all of the trainings and all of the checklists and all the screen shares that I mentioned are with those tools. And so if you know marketing pretty well, you wont have an issue. But you will probably have to start out with his tools to learn it, which theyre pretty expensive. And its not too big of an issue if youre making money, but Sam does have a bias there because he has an affiliate agreement with them. All right. So now lets go over his overall score. The way that weve made these rankings at CourseRanks, were trying to be as objective as possible and well go through them now. So number one is quality of content. We give Sam a five out of five. Secondly, the credibility of the instructor, another five out of five. He makes over $12 million a year online. And so hes definitely qualified to help people grow from zero to $10,000 or zero to $30,000 a month online. Relevance, we gave him a four out of five. While theres a lot of extremely relevant things that dont change in his course, there are some things that need to be redone that havent been. Theres rumors that Sams going to redo the course, but that hasnt happened yet. And theres some things that are outdated for our day and age. Things have changed with Facebook ads or theres other software tools that are better to use, et cetera, et cetera, that just arent being changed because the course, its so good and its selling good already. But all things considered, thats not really a reason not to buy the course. Like I said, the mindset section, which doesnt really change, will be worth it by itself. So four out of five on relevance. The next one is community and support, five out of five. If you joined consulting accelerator and fail, its on you. They provide every single thing that you might need to succeed, including a community Q&A, also support members who can answer your questions. The average CourseRanks rating at the time of making this video is 4.9 out of five, which puts Sam, well just round him up, at 24 out of 25 on the total value for price, the rating that we have here at CourseRanks. Now, if you have more questions or if youre wondering if theres another course better for your situation, make sure to head over to courseranks.com and check out the reviews on this course and all of the other courses in the industries that youre looking to go into. For example, Brendan said this about Consulting Accelerator. "I thought I was joining this course to come up with a good business model and strategy. What I came out of it with was mindblowing. The business strategies, sales techniques and understanding was incredible, but it was about 20% of what I learned. The mindset stuff in week two is what really shifted everything for me. I would recommend it to anyone." Thanks Brendan for leaving that awesome review. So before we close out today, lets just cover a few alternatives to Sams course. You can find these on CourseRanks as youre looking. But the first one is going to be Course Creator Pro by Parker Walbeck. I would say this is more of an alternative to Uplevel Consulting, which teaches you how to build a course, but theres a lot of really great stuff in that course as well that can help you. The second one is Elite CEOs by Tanner Chidester. You can see the reviews for that on CourseRanks. And then thirdly, the One Funnel Away Challenge by Russell Brunson could be considered an alternative to this. But honestly, Sam is in a class of his own and none of these alternatives really compare to what hes created in Consulting Accelerator. I would recommend it personally. And CourseRanks, to have a CourseRanks score of 24 out of 25 is pretty impressive. So hats off to you, Sam, for making such an awesome course. Thanks again, guys, for tuning into todays video. My names Keaton Walker with CourseRanks. Make sure you sign up for CourseRanks. Tell your friends about it and subscribe to the channel because were going to be coming out with more course review videos just like this every single week. Thanks so much. And well see you next time.
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