I really wanted to write a great review of Sean Donahoe's Internet Marketing Success Center, (IMSC) Inner Circle because he's such a nice, helpful guy...but sadly, I cannot.
The site, Internet Marketing Success Center, (IMSC) is more often down than it is up, pages are slow to load, many links do not work properly, and the navigation of the site is frustrating at best, assuming the site doesn't die on you in the middle of a page change.
Sure, the IMSC site looks good, with a splashy background and an excellent sharp picture of Sean Donahoe, along with professional looking icons and very nice, eye-catching pages to display a ton of great informational videos and PLR software and article downloads, but unfortunately Internet Marketing Success Center (IMSC) is a navigational nightmare. So much so, that I did not last through my one dollar 14 day trial of the site. I cancelled after 5 days of struggling with the slowness, the errors and the downtime.
For example, in the download section, the "Download Now" button does NOT mean Download Now, so you can't do the "right click.save target as", like I can on Mark Austin's Resell Rights Weekly No, "Download Now" means click here and go to yet another page that has exactly the same description information (and some useless download stats). THERE you can download by using "save target as", etc. But I did not find this out until I had gotten frustrated by the "Download Now" button constantly telling me I had already downloaded the file, which turned out to be an .htm, not a .zip.
However, even after you click into that additional page, many of the downloads do not give you the zip file. but rather you end up downloading the jpg or png image of the item instead. There is also no way to get back to the page you were on, other than using the back button, and for some of us who have randomly double-clicking mice/touchpads, this means NOT getting back to the page you were on, and having to waste even more time waiting for page loads to get back to where you were.
Additonally, there are only 4 or 5 items per main download page, and a lot of self-advertising banners that are the same on all pages, that makes the pages slow to load. If the pages were cleaned up better, to be more like Mark Austin's Resell Rights Weekly that has over 100 downloadable items per month on a single page that loads in a blink with direct click links on all items, I would have stuck around on Sean Donahoe's Internet Marketing Success Center (IMSC)
In the section that has the "Ask Sean" videos (which are not available at the cheaper price), it is not obvious that the videos can be downloaded for later watching offline. There is a barely noticeable and non-intuitive "download" link called "Read more" that leads to a page where you can download the video. However, right click/save target as, often gives an .htm file to download, NOT the mp4 video. This .htm page is an error page that says "This page demonstrates link redirect with "WP-NoExternalLinks" plugin. You will be redirected in 3 seconds. Otherwise, please click on this link"
Clicking on the suggested link however has the browser just sitting and spinning for long minutes until the browser finally admits that it cannot display the page. Nor can you get back to the video page once this error occurs, as the site has just dropped dead on you. Not even a cached page at Google will get you back to the Inner Circle, it just sits and spins also..
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There is no way to contact Sean Donahoe to tell him about these issues. I could not find a Help Center link to put a ticket in to tell him his links don't work. I can only hope he stumbles onto this post while he is searching for his latest contest winners. I know I won't be a winner with such a negative post, but I had hoped to write a more positive one when I first joined his Inner Circle.
All in all, Sean Donahoe's Internet Marketing Success Center (IMSC) is a great idea, but for $47-$97 per month, it's poorly implemented for the target user. There are too many clicks when one click should do, the site's pages are way too slow to change, and then too slow to load, and it goes offline frequently, several times a day, for an hour or more, so you barely have time to download more than 5-10 items before it crashes out on you, or after about 2 or 3 main page changes, the browser is sitting and spinning again, and down for the count. One thing I noticed, whenever it comes back online, there is a new item to download, so when he is adding things to the site, apparently several times a day, it's offline to everyone but Sean Donahoe.
By comparison, Mark Austin's Resell Rights Weekly is only $19 per month (with a FREE option that still gets you a lot of useful content) and a whole lot easier to navigate, with most of the same PLR and MRR downloads that Internet Marketing Success Center (IMSC) charges twice as much for, with no free subscription option at all.
It's only a $1 for a trial subscription to either one of the two sites, so check them both out for yourself. I've already made my decision about which is the best value for the money and the least waste of my time.
