The Renegade System by Ann Sieg provides an excellent foundation for building an MLM business through attraction marketing. This is a simple system with the basic required components. For the one time price of $68.00 the system provides extreme value.
Ann Sieg has provided a system giving users what they need to practice her teachings from her books “The Renegade Network Marketer” and the “Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto”. It falls short of becoming a powerful system for advanced users because of its simplicity. Once you apply all the training and resources provided, you will need a more advanced system to make it really work for you.
Branding – How well does the system brand YOU as an expert?
This system heavily brands Ann Sieg. While the system user enjoys having their name at the end of the free books, the book is clearly written by Ann to promote Ann and her strategy for using attraction marketing to buid a MLM business.
As in other sytems with weak personal branding, users of this system will need to use resources outside the system to build their expertise in the eyes of their prospects. This can be done by edifying the person you are referring to on the capture/landing pages and their products.
Income Streams – How does the system generate cash flow?
Cash flow opportunities are more extensive in this system than most. There are 8 promotional programs to bring people into the system and 27 or more affiliate programs in the “backend” sales system and three major affiliate systems: “Click Bank”, “Commission Junction” and Amazon.
The products in the system are related to setting up an Internet marketing effort. Additional opportunities exist in Internet/Information Marketing. Most of the products are one time sales. The few products with potential residual income will likely be purchased by more advanced users who have outgrown the system.
Capture / Landing Pages – What brings qualified people in?
One size fits all. For each product in the system, there is only one capture page heavily branded with Ann Sieg and no chance for the system user personalization.
There are no capture pages for products provided by third party vendors. These are typically geared to help system users anyway. The user needs to create their own landing pages/autoresponder(if desired) to promote these outside of the system.
Relationship Building – How do you establish a relationship with your list?
The system does collect lists of people. There is a different list for each product offered in the system. A person expressing interest by downloading a free book gets added to the list for that product. There is little users can do with the list except run a few reports and export the data. There is NO autoresponder (although Awebber is an affiliate product of the system). There is also no note taking capabilities or other tools supporting relationship building.
No phone script a or instructions on what to do next after people are on your list. This is a disappointment. Particularly where Ann helps you get the leads in and provides a rich environment for teaching you how to attract people.
Usability – How does the system support your work in the system?
Clear menus with straightforward navigation was useful. Most of the pages are written like Ann’s books or one of her long sales letters with inline text links. Most information is presented in pages laden with too much text. This makes it difficult to jump from step to step as some web readers will be inclined (like me).
System Training – How do I come up to speed with the system?
At this time, there is an annoying series of ads on the home page that make it hard to get to the 10 Step Overview located below the series of sales pitches.
The 10 Step Overview provides a good starting place. The steps are clear and information helpful. Flow through the information may be a little slow for technically savvy users. There are also several places for getting distracted through the text links. These links do not open in a separate window so be careful it is easy to get lost.
System set up does not require technical knowledge. It is really an orientation to the system and how to use it in building your business. The small step progress is useful to new users.
System Support – When I get stuck what help can I expect?
There is an external Support Suite system that opens in a new window. It has a Knowledge base, News, Downloads, Troubleshooter and submit a ticket area. This area requires a separate login. There are no link back to the main system area making it a little confusing initially. The “Support Suite” looks and feels like a forum. It looks like only official information is released on the site with no place for personal comments. Be sure to discern between official and informal information in forums.
Internet Marketing Training – How do I generate Internet leads?
This area jumps a critical component. It assumes you know how to move forward. With just a quick statement or two the training jumps into online and offline methods of “Advertising” to generate traffic. The training and resources landing pages misses a great opportunity to provide users with strategic direction and the key steps to success. Too bad. Instead, the user is left to begin making strategic marketing decisions on their own without enough information.
Users choose from various online and offline strategies. Each strategy is described. The system provides a rich set of resources and helpful hints on how to succeed. These by themselves are worth the price of the system.
Personal Development Training – Will the system support my growth too?
Due to the detail information in Ann’s trainings, I thought there would be more larger picture, strategic direction. There is no mention of a marketing plan, a content development plan, nor any strategies for managing the tasks, budget or expectations involved in running successful marketing campaigns (on or off line). My greatest disappointment with this system is the gap between the vision / dream of success and the tactical/technical implementation. It seems goals, expectations and a road map would make the program complete.
I worry the NEW Renegade University Pro system with its click-by-click guidance may also miss critical goal/direction expectations training opportunities.
Overall Impression – So Jim, What do you think?
The program provides an excellent, simple solution for promoting Ann Sieg and her quality information products. If you can make it through the long pages of “Sales Letter” like text, you will be enriched and prepared to succeed. If you limit your focus to a few simple strategies you will probably find better success than if you try to absorb all the system has to offer.
I’m glad I purchased this system because of the rich resources and Ann’s simple story. It is written masterfully and should be required reading of all who want to be ‘Atrraction Marketers’.
The Renegade System provides a great foundation for building your MLM with “Attraction Marketing”. It helps you understand how to use information marketing product. It lays the beginnings of thinking differently about generating interest in you and your prospective business opportunity.
I am disappointed by the gaps in personal progress, strategic direction and ongoing personal support. Like many of these systems, the personal touch gets lost despite the warm writing style used throughout the site. Video segments could soften this as well as ongoing webinar/teleseminar trainings/recordings.
Get this system and use the resources for building your tools and skills for effective advertising and traffic generation.
Best of success,
Teach Jim
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