John Thornhill Ambassador Program Honest Review
If you are considering buying John Thornhill’s Ambassador program or becoming an affiliate for any of John Thornhill’s programs, read this first..
I must admit that like many gullible people starting out in affiliate marketing who fall for scammy programs and income claims, I fell for his marketing gimmicks. And it’s not the fault of newcomers either, who are usually in need of income and are fed extreme lies and shown big dreams by such “gurus”. His website has the tagline “simple, honest, ethical” which was the first reason I ended up trusting him and secondly he makes it sound like his product is “highly converting” on the sales page but nothing could be further from the truth. If you purchase the program, one of the first things you’ll notice is that the so-called “traffic training” inside the program is utter BS. You can easily find that information online and that’s not even the worst thing about it. He encourages buyers to use “his” income proof which is a means of promoting false income claims and therefore enabling scammy tactics to get his products sold.
Secondly, he offers you “free traffic” which includes you getting one post per month on his blog and him promoting your affiliate link to get signups and possible conversions. I have not received a single signup in 5 months from these “free traffic sources” except one JV signup which has also resulted in $0 in commissions. I checked his blog to see if any of the other blog posts from other users are getting any engagement. I was right, they weren’t either.
As a gullible newcomer to affiliate marketing, I purchased the program in January 2024 after falling for the income claims and thereafter promoted it regularly for the next 5 months through facebook outreach and content marketing on instagram. I managed to get about 50+ signups but not a single conversion. When I reached out to his team, they suggested that I spend more money on solo ads. That’s when I realized that this program may not actually even work with the free traffic methods as claimed.
The only reassurance I had was that the program offered a “$2000” income guarantee if you don’t make any sales in 60 days. I had been in touch with their reps for the 5 months or so when I was promoting the program and finally decided to give up at the end of the period when I requested Thornhill to uphold the payment guarantee. He wrote a couple of emails trying to get me to not cancel and asked me to put in even “more effort”. His words were along the lines of “not trying hard enough”. At this point I realized that there are hardly any sales one can expect from free traffic methods and he was trying to evade the payment guarantee. I insisted on the cancellation and John Thornhill sent me an email saying he has canceled my subscription but won’t pay me out the $2000 because it was required to work with him 1 on 1 to “qualify”. Clearly, he did not even have the ethics to mention that working with him personally is a criteria to get the amount.
When I mentioned this, he sent me a screenshot where it was “documented” that “if there are no sales in 60 days, he will work with you personally until you make at least $2k or he will pay you that money himself.” I had been in touch with his team for 5 months. He was well aware that I had not made aby sales way past the initial 60 days. Even after repeated requests for help during those months, they didn’t give me the option to work with Thornhill personally or mention that it would be necessary for the income guarantee to be upheld.
I decided to cut my losses and not pursue the claim amount further. The additional expenses spent on purchasing Aweber and hiring copywriters for the blog posts are not even recoverable. If you are thinking of purchasing any such program online, I ask you to be very careful who you trust. These people can go to desperately extreme lengths to convince you they are trustworthy so that you will buy from them.