(2022) ENTRE Nation – Is It Legitimate?

Let’s take a look at these offerings through a critical lens. Here are the issues I (and other reviewers) had with ENTRE Nation and ENTRE Institute.

They Don’t Mention Other Costs

At no point during the sign-up process are you told about additional costs to expect. These can vary from inconsequential to insurmountable! Depending on your location, the money you’ll need to establish your business and get off the ground can be hard to manage.

But ENTRE isn’t interested in calling out the less glamorous parts. You are given some resources in the ENTRE Vault to help you wrap your head around it, but that doesn’t make start-up costs any more affordable.

Upsells Galore

You will not be able to have a single conversation with anyone at ENTRE that doesn't include you spending more money. While the group moderators are pretty laid-back, phone and email support can be intense. It seems the answer to every one of your problems is to just spend a little more... and that's a dangerous game to play.

Lack of Proprietary Content

To be frank, there’s nothing revolutionary about what you’ll learn as an ENTRE Nation member. Most of the information is available for free with a quick Google or YouTube search. It’s true you’ll have to do a bit of legwork to assemble it all, but I honestly feel it’ll be cheaper than spending the monthly fees on ENTRE.

Plus, you may honestly get more neutral (and therefore useful) info from a search. ENTRE teaches you how to do it their way… which will always cost you money. It’s like instead of teaching you how to fish, they teach you how to swipe your credit card and receive a fish.

Seems Cult-y or Like a Pyramid Scheme

If you go to the ENTRE Institute website, they do have several success stories posted in the form of videos by students. So, clearly these students aren’t being whisked away in the night and shaken down for all their pocket money.

But that’s kind of where it stops. There are no promises, no statistics, just feel-good testimonials and a plethora of interviews with Jeff Lerner talking about his life and his vision. It just feels like they spent a lot of money to add polish and draw you in, but didn’t spend a lot on their actual course materials.

Even More Hidden Costs

Okay, so you’ve gotten your business license and you’re in the IRS’ good graces. Now you have to start making money. But first, you have to spend even more.

Why? Because generating affiliate traffic the way ENTRE Nation teaches you isn’t free. You’ll have to either spend about a year building your affiliate website yourself, pay someone to do it, and wait for people to come… or you can pay to have the website built, and pay to have people come to it.

Either way, I dislike that you pay ENTRE Institute to tell you to pay other people for more stuff. It just feels yucky.

Many Complaints Online

You and I both know that every single business on the planet has received at least 1 negative review. It’s just not possible to do business and 100% satisfy everyone, 100% of the time.

But I still found it interesting how many reviews called ENTRE Nation a “scam” because they were unable to make money using it. To be clear, I don’t think it’s a scam—because you do receive what you pay for.

But like I said, they’ve clearly spent most of their money on their branding and advertising… leaving the course material rather lackluster. Just know that this program is definitely not a “quick and easy” or a “30 minutes a day” type of course.

Yucky Marketing Tactics

The most unsettling thing, for me, while watching reviews and testimonials was this: No one talks about their profits. At all.

Instead, people who speak highly of the course specifically only mention their revenue. The difference is that revenue is all money you’ve brought in, whereas profit is what you have left minus your expenses.

If anyone were actually making big money, they’d be talking about profits. The fact that no one uses this word was very alarming to me.

Purely Hypothetical Money Back Guarantee

I didn’t have this experience myself, but I found a lot of people saying they tried to utilize the 30-day money back guarantee and just never heard back. Keep in mind that when this happens, you can absolutely contact your bank and see about getting a refund that way.

Lack of Support

The email and phone support, as previously mentioned, is a bit of a joke. If you aren’t currently a member of ENTRE Nation, odds are you won’t get a response. And if you do, it’ll mostly say that you should become a student for answers to your questions.

If you reach out to support once you’re a student, you’ll likely hear that the next tier is the answer to your prayers. Waiting on hold for customer support is already annoying enough… do you really need to throw in a sales pitch too?! I found this extremely annoying, as do many students.

Live and Die by Paid Traffic

I mentioned above that you can drive traffic to your website by organically building it out over the course of a year, or paying for traffic. ENTRE Nation will only teach you about driving paid traffic—and frankly, this is a very unsustainable way to do affiliate marketing. I think this is the crux of why no one seems to turn a profit in this program.

They Don’t Show You the Whole Picture

ENTRE Nation only tells you about one partner for your affiliate marketing: ClickBank. ClickBank has been in the affiliate space for many years, and they’re a very reputable choice. However, there are 2 or 3 other major affiliate partners that I feel any affiliate marketer should be familiar with.

I’m guessing Jeff Lerner has some kind of exclusivity deal with ClickBank, and they get a kickback for recommending it to their students. That’s pure speculation, but based on how Lerner operates, I think it fits.