There is no need to get so bent out of shape about an honest review. I too purchased Affiliate Theme and while it’s ok, I find the price to be very high for what it does. You can charge whatever you want for it, it’s your product, but for the same price, I can buy a bunch of tools that put AT to shame.

Yes, I get it’s for newbies as well, but I don’t see whats so great about it. And you are wrong about AT not being involved in the money making process. If the landing pages look cheap or don’t convert, targeted traffic, while still making sales, will be a lot less then it should be.

You should have thanked Chris for his opinion and told him you would work on the issues he had. He obviously is no crack pot. I have a large list of bloggers and affiliates on my IM list and after reading your response here and using the theme, I won’t be recommending it.

Whether Affiliate Theme makes someone money is a function of their traffic driving efforts, assuming the theme has been properly setup before hand, which we do our best to help get all of our members on the right track.

Affiliate Theme is an enabler, allowing people to bridge the technological challenge of setting up an affiliate marketing website. Making money online takes a tremendous amount of effort and the tools you use can make it much easier. Affiliate Theme is one of those tools.

I can assure you all of our main launch partners have used the theme and give us critical feedback prior to the first launched version.

Not only that, but with all of the videos, resources, and tutorials, Affiliate Theme far surpasses the vast majority of premium themes when it comes to showing people how to use it effectively.

I, along with many affiliates out there, had to start from the beginning at some point. There is no doubt in my mind that Affiliate Theme would have helped me immensely.

My review is definitely just my opinion, and if people disagree with it, I’m totally cool with that. I know you guys are working hard on future releases and I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with. If I start making money with my Affiliate Theme sites, I will be more than happy to write a follow-up post saying so.

Have a great night,
Bruce C Ziebarth

Most of your points are subjective and I disagree with. For instance, many clients and even designers think the header graphics look great. There are a wide variety of styles for different niches. Of course, not everyone will find every banner attractive, especially when over 40 different headers are available for the Super Affiliates.

To say Affiliate Theme doesn’t live up to the hype is misleading. On our web site (www.affiliatetheme.net), we are very clear about what Affiliate Theme can do and we set a realistic expectation via the use of screen shots, test sites and a hefty amount of explanation and copy.

Like any product, it can take time to orient yourself to how best to use it, but it s a great tool for anyone who is a new affiliate or wants to quickly setup a lot of affiliate marketing landing pages. Therefore, over the long haul, people are saving a lot of money compared to having to purchase and/or modify a WordPress theme from scratch, each time.

The price points of $147 for the multi-use package is very competitive within the premium theme market. Of course, the Super Affiliate Package is $50 more, but it includes 40 additional pre-made graphics, which will save people time and money in the creation of niche sites. This also includes additional header graphics we make, upon request from the community, each month.

All of the features that are present and have been added to Affiliate Theme have been specifically requested by affiliate marketers, including the likes of Zac Johnson, Paul Bourque, Yaro Starak and a number of other successful affiliates.

We have already released a number of updates to Affiliate Theme designed to make it better and easier to use for affiliate marketers. We are committed to taking our user feedback seriously and a number of requested features have already made it into the theme.

We always welcome user feedback and we have a special forum dedicated to user suggestions and feedback. Of course, you are more than welcome to contribute if you want to see Affiliate Theme gain new specific features in the future.

I’ve only been using the Thesis theme for a couple of days, but I’ve actually been quite impressed with it so far. I love that the layouts actually are flexible, so besides being able to switch between 1,2, or 3 columns, you can also specify the widths of each. I definitely will be writing a review of it once I get more experience with it.

I tried the Affiliate Theme because it looked like something I could recommend to people who wanted something that was simple to use. So far I’ve only created very simple landing pages that I can direct people to through article marketing. I do like the ability to not have navigation appear on those pages but like you, I feel that $197 is a bit rich just to do that.

I’m still hopeful that I’ll be able to create some useful sites using the theme and am looking forward to the updates, hopefully they will bring out some more flexible options.

The Thesis theme that you have created this blog on looks very nice and clean. I will look forward to your review of that.

Cheers,
Steve Anderson