Larry Marcus advertises Xplocial as a system that will have you earning big bucks within “weeks.” In reality, Xplocial is a perfect example of what is known as a MLM (multilevel marketing) trap that offers nothing but empty promises. In the space below, I’ll explain exactly what Xplocial is, and how Larry Marcus is using it to rip off people desperate to earn online income.
Pressure to Pay More (and More)
Immediately after buying access to Xplocial for $29, you’ll gain access to what is called the “back office.” Below is an image of what it looks like, and you can clearly see in red ink the word unpaid twice.
Time and again, Larry Marcus will stress that in order to really make money with Xplocial, you have to buy more expensive membership. Even though the sales page talks about earning “now money,” it turns out the only one spending more money is you.
The higher level membership is not cheap, and it’s even worse once you see what Larry Marcus is trying to make you pay for. For $24.95 a month, you can earn the right to be an affiliate and promote his product. As if that’s not bad enough after already spending $29 to gain access, Larry Marcus has the nerve to push the envelope further and charge $100 a month for platinum membership (see below).
This is important because one of the signs of a MLM trap is that you are constantly harassed to spend more and more money on the business’s products. Larry Marcus is a pro at this, and the entire focus once you join Xplocial is on trying to sell you even more expensive membership.
Terrible Training
The expensive membership might be worth it if the training that you gained access to in the “back office” was actually useful. Instead, the training that Larry Marcus offers on how to make money turns out to be just another attempt at selling his own product. The videos consist of tips and ideas of how to sell Xplocial to other people, rather than explaining the product itself. Below are two screenshots from the training video which explain exactly what I mean.
In the first screenshot, Larry Marcus offers advice on how to sell Xplocial by giving what he calls an “elevator speech.”
It turns out this is all Larry Marcus likes to talk about. In the second training video, he continues talking about how to sell Xplocial using three different approaches.
If you expected real training on how to make money online, then you’ll be sorely disappointed. All that these training videos are about is selling Xplocial.
Focus on Recruiting
It’s clear from the awful training videos that the goal of Xplocial is nothing more than to sell it to other people. This is important because it’s another tell-tale sign of a MLM trap. In this type of system, it’s common for there to be very little talk about the product itself, and instead the emphasis is on recruiting other people to join the program.
This is because Xplocial itself offers nothing of value to its customers. The “tools” that you gain access to can be seen in the image below, and here too the focus is on selling Xplocial and buying more expensive membership.
Take note of this because it shows that Larry Marcus is lying when he claims in the sales page that “you don’t need to sell anything.” Clearly this is not true, and in order to make money with Xplocial you have to sell it to lots of other people. This should be a red flag for all readers, since if Xplocial was a legitimate product, then this would not be necessary.
Never Pay to Join an Affiliate Program
Everything mentioned till now should make you suspicious, but the clearest sign that this is one big rip-off is the fact that Larry Marcus wants you to pay $29.95 a month to join his affiliate program. If Xplocial was a product with real value, why would he make his members pay money in order to promote it?
Anyone with internet marketing experience knows that becoming an affiliate of a legitimate product will never cost money. Product creators are happy to have affiliates promote their products in exchange for receiving sales commissions, and there should be no need to pay a monthly fee. Larry Marcus claims that this ridiculous fee is meant to cover his expenses so that he can offer his affiliates a 100% commissions, but it’s just an excuse to charge his members even more money after they already paid for membership.
Paying to join an affiliate program is like an employer asking an employee to pay money in order to work. It’s an outrageous idea, and it shows how mediocre of a product Xplocial is. It’s just another attempt of Larry Marcus to suck more money from his members after they already paid for Xplocial itself.
Quick Summary
All of these points come together to give us a clear picture of what Xplocial is all about. It’s an empty promise about making fast money online, and an attempt to convince its members to buy even more expensive membership. This is clear from the fact that the “back office” and training videos are all about recruiting for Xplocial, and that Larry Marcus wants you to pay money to join his affiliate program.
If you want to make money as an affiliate, do yourself a favor and choose from the endless list of legitimate free affiliate programs. Forget about Larry Marcus and his Xplocial trap, which is nothing more than a method to suck you dry.
Share your Experience with Xplocial
Have you been suckered into buying Xplocial by Larry Marcus’s sales pitch? Did you also recognize the type of trap he was orchestrating? Join the conversation and let us know what your experience has been by leaving a comment below!
Summary: An never-ending MLM trap
Description: A complete Xplocial review (with screenshots), and why it’s just a trap set by Larry Marcus for you to pay higher and higher monthly membership fees.
Rating: 1 out of 5.
Do you pay tax on these scams I mean schemes LOL?
If you are considering investing into any multi level marketing company, ask yourself if it feels morally right to make money off of recruiting people into a company that they will most likely lose their money in; because that’s exactly what you’re going to be doing. Yes, it is possible to make a lot of money doing programs like these, but you have to have the skills of a seasoned con-man to do it. These are all obvious pyramid schemes and I’d stay out if I were you. I’ve been approached by many people trying to sell me into companies like these and they’re all the same. The only one’s that make any money are the ones at the top of the pyramid. I have a few friends that have lost hundreds of dollars because of multilevel marketing schemes… Any company that makes you pay them to work for them is a scam. You’re better off playing the stock market.
I couldn’t agree more. Thank you very much for stopping by, reading the review, and leaving a comment to share your thoughts and experiences with the community! I greatly appreciate it.
I think the website does need a sleeker look but the opportunity to make part time income is great. I would suggest to anyone pursuing opportunities like these to read and take in information outside of what is on the website. Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Rohn, John Maxwell, Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Eric Worre, etc have helped to open my understanding of people and there are a host of reputable books that teach sales techniques. Even though the sales training is not the greatest, no one program will spoon feed you all information to be successful, MLM or otherwise. You are interacting with different human beings with different quirks, no training will prepare you to talk to everyone but outside reading and action will get you pretty close. Xplocial is one of the cheapest ways I have found to make money online. Some programs require you to do hundreds in product sales every month to qualify for a bonus PLUS recruiting people to join and do the same.
As with anything new there will be teething pains but I would encourage anyone that has found an opportunity to hold on to the initial excitement and fight your way to the top.
Ian, if there are any persons that are interested in working from home, that are disabled, unemployed, sick of working at a job that you are underpaid and every week you’re just dying for that one or two days off, that couple that doesn’t get to see each other because they work different shifts etc let me meet them and give them an opportunity to be bold, take a risk and live their dream!
“Action cures fear” ~ David J. Schwartz
Hey Lionel, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to respectfully share another perspective. Although I disagree (as noted throughout my review) regarding the quality of information and opportunity presented by the Xplocial product, I respect your opinion and think it adds a nice counter-perspective for other people to possibly consider when evaluating the product. If I can ever help you with anything in your internet business, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask. Take care and thanks again!
I am trying to look for a way to make a second income online, and I was referred to xplocial by a friend from Facebook. I already have a steady income. Like others, he referred me to watch this video and it started 29$ and then they stated an additional 22.50$. I am looking at almost 55$ a month and on top of that, I have to at least four other people to jump on this. Good thing I read this, because I was considering it for a minute even though it sounds like a pyramid scheme.
I do say that we live in an advanced digital era and there are tons of tools at our disposal like Facebook or instagram that have potential to help us make money. I do want to develop a steady second income but I have no idea on where to start. My question is if not xplocial (almost sounds like exploit to me) then what affiliate programs are out there or what are good recommendations?
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experiences with the community. I would recommend checking out the “Free Stuff” section in the site’s top navigation menu before buying into any product in this industry.
Hi, Ian i was wondering what are some of these websites worth visiting, with either products, training, or investments or just some personal marketing tips if you have any you would like to share.
Hey Demerius, I actually have a lot of free marketing tips and training available to my followers on the “Free Resources” page, and even a few more if you look up and hover over the “Free Stuff” section in the top navigation of this site.
Hmmmm are you guys serious…. There are all type of people who make money with a shiity product plenty of MLMs they never use the product they use the people… So you guys take advice from a review… lol ok how many of y’all shop at walmart or best buy… I’m willing to bet I can find a negative review some type of way are you gonna stop shopping there seriously…. You can make money with anything if you put the work in period… you guys came looking for something you can find about any company ANY if you guys would of jumped in took some action and did it you might be making money with it right now and I cant speak for everyone, but I know there aren’t that many great JOBS out there im just saying
You’ve totally missed the point. Yes, I could make money with this program because I have a large email list and established following, but most people have no idea how to get an established following and get traffic to their sites, which is something that Xplocial doesn’t teach well at all. So I can promote and sell Xplocial, sure, but 99% or more of the people I refer into the program are going to waste money and fail because Xplocial doesn’t set them up properly for success. THAT is why Xplocial falls short. Thanks for reading and commenting, Michael!
Well Ian thats where you come in.. there buying you more than Xplocial.. and if you know how o get traffic you can change lives literally and help people succeed. They would stick around just from making a few hundred bucks a month. But I know its better than joining a MLM.
But Xplocial is an MLM. I’m not sure I follow.
Well Ian not exactly i mean you i dont know any MLM where 65 people will get you 100k a year… I’ve been on commission I made comcast plenty of money got paid like 3% commission which was like 315 thats 24.00 a month to keep all of it monthly is worth it in my opinion
But the disconnect that I’m having is that, no matter how much money I can make in a program, if it doesn’t have quality training and/or quality products as part of their membership (meaning the ONLY benefit of joining is making money off of the other people that sign up) then I don’t recommend it to my followers because it isn’t setting them up for success or adding value to their lives. For example, Empower Network pays MASSIVE commissions but I couldn’t recommend it to my list because, even though I could have made $5k+ per subscriber, referring them into that program would have made me rich while I watched 99%+ of my referrals fail.
Well if empower network wont work and I understand that.. What will they so call claim to teach people how to market in many different ways the problem why so man people fail in that I think its there just copying and paste what ever one else is doing the people that actually make money i think they use the tools but in there own way so no one is looking or sounding like them i could be wrong
Hey Michael, I think that’s true to a degree. The people that make the most money at Empower Network were very well established coming in though, and they knew David Wood and or David Sharpe long before they got in. The point is that these programs should be strong enough that they train people how to actually make money rather than giving them “copy and paste” instructions. Each one of these programs should make very clear that people SHOULDN’T be copying them directly and encouraging them to apply methods to their own niches. If the training they’re selling doesn’t instruct users to apply the methods to their own niches or interests instead of copying/pasting exactly what they’re doing in the videos, in my opinion it isn’t much of a training program at all. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts with the community, Michael!
I was thinking of joining xplocial but after reading I am hesitant. If xplocial is not for you then what other MLM do you consider joinimg?
Hey Juan! Unfortunately I haven’t found an MLM that wasn’t a complete waste of time and illegitimate product yet. I focus mostly on internet marketing/affiliate marketing products, but occasionally there are MLMs (like Xplocial) that overlap with IM/AM training and I review them. I am yet to find an internet marketing MLM that has an ounce of legitimacy, unfortunately, so I can’t recommend anything that I’ve seen so far.
There seems to be a lot of good and bad, I do see the products in other companies as well, so I am not really impressed. I was not aware of mr Marcus’s history. That part is disturbing. I have had bad experiences in the past following people with rigid past in the industry. it really sucks, because before today, I was going to join…
Chris
I understand where you’re coming from, Chris. Unfortunately there are a lot of people in this industry with rigid pasts. If I can help you with anything in the future, please don’t hesitate to reach out and ask. Thank you for reading and commenting!
Awesome review you just saved me another headache and disappointment
No problem at all, Emilio! I’m glad that I could help – thank you for watching and commenting! Let me know if I can help with anything in the future.
I’m glad I came across this article because I have a friend on FB who keeps making these posts about how they are “grinding”, and they are so excited about this new investment, etc. The way they are going about is off putting like you’re stupid for not taking this opportunity cause it’s so easy. They flood my FB and Instagram timeline of memes or pictures with captions about this great money making opportunity that allows you to retire at an early age so much to the point that I had to unfollow them, I didn’t add you to be harrassed about some opportunity that’s making you money. You’re my friend, I added you to connect with you but I digress. I can’t tell you what you can and can’t post on your profile but I can unfollow you lol.
Anyway, with all the postings they never really say what the opportunity is BUT if people want details on the opportunity they should send them a message. That alone made me skeptical because if this opportunity is so great why should I have to message you to find out about it? Why can’t you just put it out there? Secretive approaches like that make me feel wary. I didn’t want to message my friend and ask about it cause I had no interest in this “Investment”, but I did some scrolling to see if I could find a clue of some kind so I can look it up I finally came across some picture that said Xplocial Math that listed how much you could make in a year if you have a group of 10, 20, 50, 65, 200 people or “business partners”. Using the groups to show how much you could make in a year tipped me off that it was a pyramid scheme. Thanks for the article it answered my suspisions.
Wow, Jaz! Thank you for the very detailed comment. People rarely take the time to comment with something so informative, but everyone within the community of this site benefits whenever someone like you takes the time to share their detailed thoughts and experiences leading up to finding the review. I’m glad that you were highly suspicious of Xplocial, and unfortunately it’s just one of several similar products floating around right now where people are trying to sell others on what a great “opportunity” it is. Any way around it, I’m glad you found the review, found it helpful, and that you won’t be falling for all of the hype after reading this review. Let me know if I can help with anything else down the road, and thanks again for commenting and sharing your experiences!
This is the first site of many I’ve researched concerning whether XPLOCIAL is a scam or not where it is marked as a scam – from what I’ve researched it isn’t a scam.
I’m young but I read and observe how society convinces Americans to invest their monies and the only thing that seems secure (in my opinion ) are Savings bonds… IRAs, Stocks, and pretty much everything else is based on our failing, wishy-washy economy (where you can even lose what you put in)so why isn’t that a scheme? Or let’s just talk about what it costs to go to a University…THOUSANDS! Only to come out of school with Loads of debt only to end up working at regular jobs because you are overly qualified and our economy can’t afford to pay you…. What was the reason for having to pay THOUSANDS (to read books that can be read for free at a local library) for the AMERICAN education again?
From what I’ve researched people have been receiving what was promised as long as they work the system set in place for them to succeed. So what if they had to pay $24 to become an affiliate? It’s just once! This business makes more sense than buying into a Resort you can only use once or twice a year at such a hefty monthly price (rent) and only on dates that qualify and it makes more sense than what our society has brainwashed us to believe in and it is very inexpensive for what it has to offer. You still haven’t given legitimate information on HOW the Xplocial business is a scam…. WHO has been scammed or how they will be…
Go ahead and join it, Gena! I wish you the best of success, and I’ll do everything I can to help you if you reach out to me along the way. If you feel that confident that you’ll be successful then I don’t want my review to be the thing that stops you. You have to realize one thing with programs like this though – many people SAY they’re doing great just to get people to join through them because they’re rewarded very handsomely in return. I can tell you as someone that has been in the internet marketing industry for years that the training in Xplocial is very disappointing and far from holistic or well-rounded. Affiliates all over the world (it’s not just Xplocial) are plugging programs like this and bragging about how great they are because they get very, very handsome commissions when they get enough exposure to their positive reviews and have people buy through their links.
The compensation structure of this industry is rigged to be biased and one-sided: If I review a product positively and am compelling enough, someone buys through my link and earns me a commission. If I review it honestly and negatively, I’m not going to make a commission so why would I take the time to put together a review? That’s why there are 10-20x as many positive reviews for almost every product with an affiliate program than there are negative reviews, particularly in the internet marketing/affiliate marketing space.
I do wish you the best of luck and my offer still stands for you to feel free to reach out if I can help with anything. I will warn you one more time though – proceed with caution! I know how to spot bad training and programs that are setup with the intent of making money for their publishers rather than making their customers successful, and Xplocial is much more of the former than the latter.
Ok, I am still considering all that you have said and will proceed with caution as I already have been. I have no hard feelings towards you, I just wanted solidity. Thank you for taking the time out to respond back to me, I appreciate you for that. 🙂
Xplocial is a trap. Why does the website look like it was made by a 6th grader? Why does he not promote the products? After all to be a LEGIT MLM the company must make its profit from the product or else its a Ponzi scheme. Finally all the information I found on the CEO is either not there or negative, he was the CEO of “Approval Warehouse” a company that lasted 5 months and turned to be a Ponzi scheme. Larry claims that he spoke with Ronald Regan and George W. Bush, why can’t I find a sniff of these speeches online? I can’t even find more than 1 picture of him anywhere.
Thanks for sharing, Josh! I agree – the product is completely amateurish and under developed. In my opinion, it isn’t worth paying for on any level.
this is a joke right? lol… you made this because you failed at making money on it is my guess? the free vacations and cruises you get for the membership is worth it in itself… never mind the recruiting money you make from doing this… i have been at it for 1 week… i have 3 people that i have brought in… only 1 in my pay line… but the person in my pay line brought in a person aswell… so im getting 100$ profit… which isnt bad for 1 weeks work… especially considering i will continue bringing in members the more the people i bring in push the product the more i will make… because you are a failure at marketing does not mean this is a bad idea… lol
If you want to benefit financially by bringing people into a remarkably thin product (where most of your referrals will never break even) filled with “deals” that they can find elsewhere for free, that’s your choice. I could bring in a HUGE paycheck in Xplocial with the email lists that I have, but I won’t because the product isn’t good for my subscribers. I’d make a lot of money, but most of my recruits would fail because the training in the product is extraordinarily thin, the “deals” definitely aren’t worth paying for, and the vast majority of them would never even be able to recruit a single member. I don’t promote products that don’t set their members up correctly for success, no matter how much money I would make.
Insulting someone with a difference of opinion as you have here by saying, “You failed at making money on it,” and, “because you are a failure at marketing,” is unnecessary. We have a difference of opinion – so what? I won’t insult you even after you’ve insulted me, and I wish you the best of luck in Xplocial and other business ventures that you pursue down the road. We see it through different lenses, and your lens is clearly expressed publicly on this review along with mine now. Let’s keep this an open forum for people to learn, not a place to sling insults at others when you haven’t even taken the time to learn their background or accurately see their perspective.
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“Most people joining Xplocial or any other MLM charging a monthly affiliate fee will not make many sales (if any at all), and therefore the product publisher makes more money by taking a monthly fee rather than a piece of every sale. This isn’t for the benefit of the customer – it’s stacking the deck in favor of the publisher ”
Very true,
However this is where the difference is made between someone who is gonna be successful or someone thats gonna drop the ball either because they are lazy or it just didnt work out. And from then claim this is all a big scheme only because they in the end lost money. Everything you said was true but like john said ithe company itself has to make money especially since they are pouring out “thousands” to “successful affiliates”. They just happen to make the most money of those unsuccessful people who weren’t willing or capable to put in the work to gain a profit
This is very true, Josh. After all, why run a company if it doesn’t profit for the owner(s)? I think my big issue with Xplocial (and many other programs in this industry) is because they are making as much money off of their members’ failures as possible – and that is a very profitable thing. If they focused on putting out better training, far fewer members would fail.
Thank you for the comment. You made some very good points here.
Ian,
Thanks for the review. Do you realize that for you to earn 100% commission in Xplocial, you will need to pay an affiliate fee? I understand where you are coming from and why you disagree with the affiliate fee charge by Xplocial. If you were to make 100% commission and without the $24.95 affiliate fee to Xplocial, isn’t that some kind of scam? Don’t you think. The person who sold the membership will reap all the benefits while left Xplocial to dry up without any money going into their operation. A company without support is good as dead. Where in your case, I agree that affiliate promotion should be free but the revenue is split between you and the product owner. Now, how are you suppose to earn 100% commission and continue to earn a monthly residual income? Affiliate promotion is only one time offer and if you find that to be a workable solution, congratulation. There is another side to network marketing and that is all about acquiring people skill. That is why most of the training in Xplocial is focusing on training a person how to see and communicate with people. I don’t think that any professions is fair but as long as people see it fit, why not give it a try and learn to improve their skill to become better at what they are doing? It is fascinating how people’s judgement are clouded by other people’s opinion. I wish these people luck because they are always chasing after the shining object syndrome.
Some of these comments MIGHT hold water if the training within Xplocial were worth paying for at all, but (as you can see in one of the points above) it’s some of the worst training I’ve encountered in this industry. And that’s saying a lot because I’ve reviewed dozens of scammy products at this point. You refuted a single, minor point that I made in this review – that they charge a monthly fee to be an affiliate – but there are several more points in this review that illustrate why Xplocial is such a terrible product. Programs charging a monthly affiliate fee do so because they make more money that way. Most people joining Xplocial or any other MLM charging a monthly affiliate fee will not make many sales (if any at all), and therefore the product publisher makes more money by taking a monthly fee rather than a piece of every sale. This isn’t for the benefit of the customer – it’s stacking the deck in favor of the publisher.