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My Review Of The Profit Lance Wealth Course - One Of The Better Products Of 2006 / 2007
Here's the lowdown on Profit Lance ...
I came across the author of this course in one of the forums in early 2006 who was offering to teach some methods he was putting into some sort of online course. He wanted to test the effectiveness of the methods and whether the style, and content of his course was easy to follow. He was planning to launch a new product for later in the year and wanted to test it. I took this opportunity up.
This was at a time when I was trying almost everything. With a lot of products the topics covered are generally the same, so you will see similar topics discussed in the Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package and others. What I found with what became "Profit Lance" is that it is much more than a single ebook (or ebooks) that you download. It is a complete online course and system that is designed to give members a thorough working knowledge of internet marketing, instead of just a lot of theory that the other products presented.
Also, I haven't seen a more professionally designed website than the current Profit Lance members area. There is a wealth of information and the members area is divided into a learning area where you read and grasp the concepts and a practical / management area where you perform practical tasks.
Judging by the quality of the material and the way it is written and presented, the author proves that he cares and wants his customers to really learn the stuff and acquire what he calls "long term marketing skills".
I can totally relate to this, because after my goose chase for the last year and a bit and buying all that cheap trash, it makes sense. Sometimes I feel that by me believing that riches should come to me in a week or less, I've been manipulated by those "gurus" and "marketers" to buy their stuff, hoping to achieve just that. So its partly my own fault. But what's been drilled into me by the Profit Lance course is that to be really successful you have to educate yourself and build long term assets in an educated, informed and scientific way. It doesn't matter if you fail. That's part of learning.
There are a number of things that make this product light years ahead of the rest: - Once you invest in the program you are not sold anything else that you need to start benefiting from the program straight away (unlike the other programs)
- You are given a complete set of already programmed and hosted websites. About 15 in total There is nothing to pay at all. The people at Profit Lance set it up for you as part of your investment in the program. I have to say that the website designs are absolutely brilliant. Clean, crisp and really appealing to look at. With the other programs (Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package), although you have a "free" website (for which you have to pay hosting fees), you still have to create and write the content yourself. These sites are there to enable you to practice the actual skills in the course, which the owner says is the most important thing.
- There are certain practical tasks that the author makes you do. These tasks are aimed at giving you hands on experience with the techniques, but you are also taught the significance of these actions and where they fit into "the overall scheme of things". You simply do not get that with the other products. The author also reveals some really good techniques into how to do market research online.
- I really love this one - an online tracking software that allows you to enter and monitor your tasks and goals. Absolutely great for organizing your activities.
- The author makes a really great effort to respond to your questions and make sure you understand.
- Extremely professional tutorial documents
- There is a separate and growing article base that gives more in depth information on the core information in the course. I found this very valuable in helping to develop and grow my understanding.
- Recently, a new private members blog has been set up which gives some real great lessons in all areas, marketing, personal development and so on.
- The materials and the writing in the product really does make you feel better and gives you great encouragement as a person looking to be successful online.
- You can just straight tell from the professionalism of the site and the content that what you are getting taught is the real deal. It's what the "gurus" don't want you to know in case you reach their level!
On the negative side, it is possible for person to get lost in the sheer amount of information. Lately, a series of videos have helped greatly to understand the contents of the course better.
My overall opinion is that this is a value for money course and offers a huge amount of content in the form of videos, tutorials and lessons. Its a good starting point if you are a beginner or if you have a little experience already but need direction. This was the course that was the turning point for me in my online efforts.
Due Diligence Measures For Profit Lance
- First contact the product owner's email and check if you get a response. You can learn a lot by the speed and quality of the response.
- Be cautious of vague, generic reviews for Profit Lance. They are often biased and are aimed at making you buy the product because the reviewer gets a commission. Try to find real customer experiences who can give you proof of their experience.
- Do not accept testimonials for Profit Lance quoted on the website unless the person's website address, full name and location is given, or a screen shot of the actual email received is displayed.
- You can always get a full refund by going straight to the merchant payment provider. Find your original receipt, it should have a support email address. Simply mention your receipt code and state you want a refund.
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BEWARE! There Are Too Many "Get Rich Quick" Scams Out There. You WIll Not Learn Anything Practical Or Make Any Money With Them!
My report will highlight some common scams and review a range of products as well as explaining how I learned skills to build a stable income.
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My Two Year Journey Trying To Create Riches On The Internet - How I Failed
Miserably Falling For Every Scam and Get Rich Quick Scheme ...
AND How I Found One Program That Made Me
$1153.78 In 15 Days (With Documented Proof!)
And Now Regularly Makes Me Between
$4000 to $6000
Every Month!
SEVERE WARNING:
If you don't follow up my story below, you're gonna get scammed, plain and sure.
- Don't believe all the claims you read
- Don't buy anything until you have 3rd party proof
- Plainly speaking: Don't get taken for a ride!
If you ignore my advice, you're a sucker that deserves to be scammed!
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From the desk of Carl Haynes, Online Reviewer
Hello. My name is Carl, and I started looking for ways to make lots of money on the internet at the beginning of 2005. Reason being, that I lost my previous job. To be honest I hated working for someone else, and I really did not fancy a nine-to-five nightmare again. I'd heard and read lots about people making ridiculous amounts of money on the Internet, and so I thought I'd give that a try.
Over the next year or so I must have tried almost every type of business opportunity there is. I got involved with MLM schemes, scores of "get rich quick" and "make money online" products. I bought countless courses, some were cheap less than $100, and one particular one cost me a whopping $1000. I must have about 30 e-books that I bought on making money online still sittign on my hard drive because they were just full of fluff and nothing that tells you how the authors of these books actually make money.
I was desperate to make money, because I needed to get a steady income quick. Despite my attempts for about one year, buying into every scam and losing close to $8500 in about 10 months, I was still determined. All of these programs were basically offering and promoting the same thing, "you don't need any experience to make a five figure monthly income". Yeah, bullshit!
The reality I learned was that you can make money quick - even without experience - but only so long as someone teaches you certain fundamental principles about marketing online and practically shows you how its done!
I tried in all fifty-three (53) programs in all, as of last count, and out of all of them, I actually came across just one product at the beginning of 2006 that has made me stable monthly income. The great thing is that once you have put certain things in place, you just need to work a few hours a day to make it grow and grow.
In what follows below, I've outlined my experience with it, and also included screenshots of the actual cheques I've received and online statistics of revenue that I've generated.
I have to warn you, if you buy into anything else, you risk being scammed. I would only recommend this one product if your looking to make money online from scratch, or if you've been trying but failed so far.
Beware of Data Entry and Paid Survey Scams
One of the most popular scams currently being promoted is not a scam as far as the actual technique is concerned, but from the angle of the language used to market the technique, namely "data entry".
In real and practical terms, what a person is doing is one step of the affiliate marketing process whereby ads are written promoting someone else's product in return for a commission for every sale referred.
However, the whole process is marketed as "getting rich by doing simple data entry". There are literally scores of products of this nature currently being promoted. Recently, Google and certain payment providers have kicked out product owners or promoters of "data entry" related schemes.
Another very heavily promoted scam is "paid surveys". You must have come across claims such as "Earn $100 per hour filling out simple surveys". How this scam works is that people are asked to pay a fee ranging from $35 to $50 dollars in order to gain access to a list of companies that offer paid surveys. The surveying companies themselves do not charge people for taking surveys, rather they pay participants who complete their surveys subject to certain requirements such as age, demographics, gender etc.
Many, if not most, paid survey offers do not deliver the rewards they promise. There are a number of ways that paid surveys mislead or inconvenience participants. Many of them compile personal information about participants to sell to marketers. Others require people to pay to access a database of survey opportunities that the participants could find on their own for free.
A few people might be fortunate enough to earn some regular money, but it will never amount to much, no more than a few hundred dollars per month at best!
Other Programs I've Bought and Tried
I've pretty much bought into everything. I lost money with MLM trying sites like Referralware and also Bizmakers which is now defunct. This was at the back end of 2004. I remember waiting for a $500 check from Bizmakers when I learnt that the company went down. That was very disheartening for me! I also tried online education programs. Amongst them Success University which purports to sell educational materials as its business model - but that is really an MLM program in disguise. It has some very persuasive and aggressive marketing behind it. I fell for it. I also tried System X, which is a set of online IT courses that you resell. I never really got it off the ground, because I had little knowledge of marketing then. I was also going to join Mindleaders and sell their IT courses, but the problem was you had to buy quotas off them first and then sell them. I was almost tempted to join PAS (Prosperity Automated System) and was going to part with close to $4000 when I realised it was a classic pyramid scheme!
I would say that I've bought something across the whole spectrum of make money online products, and from most of the "gurus" out there.
Some were clear scams, others were cheap rubbish. Some did provide useful information, but were very limited and did not tell the whole story, whilst others were fair, but lacking in detail. Other programs required a fair bit of initial investment and carried risk, and others were just simply too good to be true.
Here are some of the products I tried in the last year:
Easy Chair Millionaire
I paid $47 for this ebook and it basically explains the Google Adwords method and a few other common techniques. The product was marketed well, and in terms of presentation, the ebook is quite readable. The usual promises were made about "make money straight away", but I did not find the instructions detailed enough and I had to spend a lot of time trying to grasp what and why I was doing whatever I was told to do. While I would say it is fair product, the information can be found in many other much cheaper ebooks and I did not find it to be value for money.
Robert Allen
I bought Robert Allen's stuff due to the hype surrounding him and to be honest, for most people it would be next to impossible to make the kind of money he promises. He wants you get involved in real estate and stock investments - something that requires lots of experience and is not for the newcomer. His stuff on making millions from the Internet is the same as everything else. It gives you the skin but not the flesh. The seven or so ebooks I trawled through are just the usual information you find in most other cheap products. I was disappointed to say the least! And for some of the techniques as I said, you do really need some expert knowledge, but Robert Allen makes it look as if it is so easy when it is not. I would advise that you do not invest in this product.
The Rich Jerk
I bought this ebook in October 2005 This book was fair in that it covered a wide range of money making techniques but it was useful only for the advanced marketer. You had to have a lot of background knowledge to implement the techniques. When you look through the Rich Jerk forums, you can see clearly that people are lost. In addition the Rich Jerk tries to sell lots of other products to his customers, like for example a free website that's not really free because you have to pay for the hosting (for which the Rich Jerk makes a commission). While a lot of people have found the book useful, I think it would appeal only for a particular group of marketers. It was not something that benefited me greatly.
Affiliate Cash Vault
This is a very bad product, and definitely not worth the money. I bought into it and realised like many other people that the quality was atrocious.
Shawn Caseys Mining Gold on the Internet
I bought this in February 2006. A 103 page ebook with a few additional bonuses. It goes with the subtitle, "How to make $1000 cash in the next 15 days". I found this book had a lot of outdated information, and again, a hallmark of cheap ebooks, extremely vague. There is a lot of information. It covers different ways to make money, marketing methods, search engines, no cost marketing, low cost marketing. Despite all the content you are still left thinking "what the frick do I have to do next?". And I certainly never got any sense of direction after reading that ebook. Most ebooks of this type are just "introducers". They introduce you to the ideas or concepts, but you will find it hard to get going.
Internet Million Dollars
I bought this product because the sales page looked really really professional. Catchy music, real professional slick look, female voice over promising me that I'll be taught how to get rich. When I got the product it's just another ebook packed with a load of bonuses to make it look as if there is more value. In brief the product covered the same affiliate marketing technique that everyone else is discussing in their products. Again, like many other products you only get an introduction to the subject and there is much more that you are not taught, which is what you really need to know to make the kind of money that the authors are making. I find that a lot of products are like this. You only get told so much, and then you need to buy another product (an upsell) to get a step further. To be fair, it was nicely presented, but it did not go far enough to make it really worth the $50 I spent on it. The information is also a bit dated too.
I also discovered that there was some real dubious marketing involved with this product. A claim was made that this product has made 1,327 millionaires in 2006 in a so called press release. I will say straight out - "Bullshit!". If there were that many millionaires made with this program it would be prime time news. After investigating the names and companies mentioned in the press release such as "Watkins Analytics" on Google, I found no trace of them.
Instant Personal Cash
This was, I believe, an outright scam. I paid $97 for this ebook which gave nothing more than a basic introduction to affiliate marketing using Google and Clickbank. The book was so vague and gave very little away - leaving me (and others who bought it) completely in the dark. Back in those days when I was new, this really hurt. I was not happy with this product and tried to contact the author, Katherine Scott, and got absolutely no response. I was also encouraged to buy a website and hosting package from a related company to get started after buying the ebook. I believe this was another ploy to get more money out of me. This website no longer functions and redirects to some sort of charity page (thank God!).
Data Entry Pro, Top Paid Surveys
I did try at least a few of these data entry programs and two paid survey products. I can summarise them all in one word: Scam.
Other Products
There are so many ebooks that I have on my hard drive. To be fair I did make some very limited amount of money from one or two of the products mentioned above. But the products were not worth it. I bought the hype, not the product.
UPDATE (28th February 2007) - Duvet Dollars
This is a fairly new product and I bought it a couple of days ago (28th February 2007). It was being promoted on a few lists and I thought I'd take a look at it. Well this is very clever marketing for this product and a nice video too of "Victoria" sleeping under her duvet - how cute! What you don't see though is Victoria farting away under the duvet because that's essentially what this product is: hot air! Its an ebook download and just a typical rehash of all of the Adwords ebooks out there. Victoria's secret isn't about what she keeps under her duvet, its simply this: choose a product, use Google adwords to drive traffic and sit back and watch the money come in. The same vague info that every one else is pushing. This product is very annoying mainly because the marketing for it is extremely good and you would have expected something new and useful. Instead we get the same material found in other adwords books such as google cash, adwords confessions and so on. Extremely disappointing, a crap product given the hyped up sales page. Very vague, lacks detailed information and I know from my own experience that 95% of people will quickly blow money away because they simply don't have the skills needed to use adwords effectively. The ebook does not teach anything more than the basic idea and does not give any in depth skills.
UPDATE (29th March 2007) - Average Joe Income Package
I purchased the Average Joe Income Package two days ago as there was a little bit of hype about it. Unfortunately, its just another Ultimate Wealth Package type product. For a start, the author tries to make more money off you because he introduces you to basic ideas and then recommends you to buy other products through his own affiliate links. Almost every link I see in the download section is like that. The material is the same stuff in all the other products, an introduction to clickbank and using adwords. There is a small bit on Ebay (you have to buy other products through his affiliate links if you want to get started). This product doesn't really teach you marketing but just shows you how to blindly follow some steps with a chance of making a bit of money. There are some videos in some of the sections that show you some of the details. The members area is badly designed. This product is just an excuse to promote the authors own affiliate links so he can make more money from you by recommending expensive hosting, lots of other make money products like "wholesale dropshipping resources", and "adsense guides" and so on.
The Profit Lance Course
I came across the author of this course in one of the forums in early 2006 who was offering to teach some methods he was putting into some sort of online course. He wanted to test the effectiveness of the methods and whether the style, and content of his course was easy to follow. He was planning to launch a new product for later in the year and wanted to test it. I took this opportunity up.
This was at a time when I was trying almost everything. With a lot of products the topics covered are generally the same, so you will see similar topics discussed in the Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package and others. What I found with what became "Profit Lance" is that it is much more than a single ebook (or ebooks) that you download. It is a complete online course and system that is designed to give members a thorough working knowledge of internet marketing, instead of just a lot of theory that the other products presented.
Also, I haven't seen a more professionally designed website than the current Profit Lance members area. There is a wealth of information and the members area is divided into a learning area where you read and grasp the concepts and a practical / management area where you perform practical tasks.
Judging by the quality of the material and the way it is written and presented, the author proves that he cares and wants his customers to really learn the stuff and acquire what he calls "long term marketing skills".
I can totally relate to this, because after my goose chase for the last year and a bit and buying all that cheap trash, it makes sense. Sometimes I feel that by me believing that riches should come to me in a week or less, I've been manipulated by those "gurus" and "marketers" to buy their stuff, hoping to achieve just that. So its partly my own fault. But what's been drilled into me by the Profit Lance course is that to be really successful you have to educate yourself and build long term assets in an educated, informed and scientific way. It doesn't matter if you fail. That's part of learning.
There are a number of things that make this product light years ahead of the rest:
- Once you invest in the program you are not sold anything else that you need to start benefiting from the program straight away (unlike the other programs)
- You are given a complete set of already programmed and hosted websites. About 15 in total There is nothing to pay at all. The people at Profit Lance set it up for you as part of your investment in the program. I have to say that the website designs are absolutely brilliant. Clean, crisp and really appealing to look at. With the other programs (Rich Jerk, Forex Enterprise, Ultimate Wealth Package), although you have a "free" website (for which you have to pay hosting fees), you still have to create and write the content yourself. These sites are there to enable you to practice the actual skills in the course, which the owner says is the most important thing.
- There are certain practical tasks that the author makes you do. These tasks are aimed at giving you hands on experience with the techniques, but you are also taught the significance of these actions and where they fit into "the overall scheme of things". You simply do not get that with the other products. The author also reveals some really good techniques into how to do market research online.
- I really love this one - an online tracking software that allows you to enter and monitor your tasks and goals. Absolutely great for organizing your activities.
- The author makes a really great effort to respond to your questions and make sure you understand.
- Extremely professional tutorial documents
- There is a separate and growing article base that gives more in depth information on the core information in the course. I found this very valuable in helping to develop and grow my understanding.
- Recently, a new private members blog has been set up which gives some real great lessons in all areas, marketing, personal development and so on.
- The materials and the writing in the product really does make you feel better and gives you great encouragement as a person looking to be successful online.
- You can just straight tell from the professionalism of the site and the content that what you are getting taught is the real deal. It's what the "gurus" don't want you to know in case you reach their level!
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