Ultimate Prospector

From their website www.ultimateprospector.com:

“Ultimate Prospector is an advanced personalized marketing and contact management system.  It has been designed to enable you to stay focused on making the sale and growing your business while leaving the time consuming sorting and shifting of prospects to the automatic features of the system.”

This system is everything they say it is.  Which is exactly why it did not perform very well in this evaluation.  The criteria used here was meant to evaluate systems that provide Internet marketing support. The Ultimate Prospector does not.  This system tracks interactions with prospects and manages the information about those connections in just a few quick clicks away. In this area focus the Ultimate Prospector system should fair OK.  Let’s see.

I hope you enjoy this review of  Ultimate Prospector.

Branding – How well does the system brand YOU as an expert?

Personal branding in the Ultimate Prospector is available in the back end of prospect interactions.  On the front end, you get five capture pages. Each page  targets a different market niche.  After a prospect submits the capture page form they land on a marketing/sales page.  You can choose the default marketing page provided by the system or prospects can be directed to a page of your creation. This is where personal branding and customization are possible.

Personal branding options are also available with email messages you can send out.  (The actual auto-responder series connected to your capture page does not appear to be customizable.)

Personal branding on the marketing/sales page and in the optional out a series emails leaves you lacking in branding yourself.

Income Streams – How does the system generate cash flow?

There appear to be no income streams with this system. You can get the system free when you help five people use the Ultimate Prospector.  You do this by having people use your affiliate URL.  (Here is mine: http://inetin.EasyHomeBusinessIdea.com/join )

Within the system there are places to purchase leads. There does not appear to be any affiliate or shared commissions for purchasing these leads.

Capture / Landing Pages – What brings qualified people in?

The capture pages were beautiful professionally designed and very attractive.  The page was informative and persuasive but not too pushy. I did not test the conversion rate of the landing pages.  The capture page form required 14 fields of information.  This  many fields will causes the prospect to express their interest by taking time to complete the entire form.  This will likely be a higher quality lead but is also likely to have fewer people complete the process. No question leads coming to the system will really have a desire to get to know you. I wonder a little if the message on the page is compelling enough for people complete the form.

While waiting for the landing / marketing page an attractive flash animation played while a page and information was being processed. The default landing / marketing page informed me I’d be contacted by somebody soon.  No additional sales information nor additional directions were given.  I felt like this left me unsure what to do next but wait. This is a customizable portion of the site so I’m looking to make the landing / marketing page introducing me and the solutions I provide.

As soon as the capture page was submitted a lead came in the back office reflecting the new person.  The recent site activity listed the new prospect.  When clicking on the prospect It showed the pages and times of visits.  The other information collected on the capture page was included in the customer profile. This provided a complete picture of the prospect.  The customer profile page also showed local information (weather and a map) useful for when you go to contact the individual.  Is also a strong section for keeping notes.

Relationship Building – How do you establish a relationship with your list?

The Ultimate Prospector has a strong relationship building, customer interaction tracking system.  There are key data elements the system maintains on each prospect.  Aside from basic contact information, the system encourages the use of custom fields allowing additional information in the system.  Details from the capture page include such things as the best time to contact, the reason for their filling out the capture page, their desired income, their level of interest, the available time and the amount they are willing to  investment.

The work flow and accessibility of information are strong in the system.  There are classifications for pipeline stages with such things as interested, qualified, member customer, voicemail, follow-up, and archive.  They also offer connections to the social media of your prospect.  Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are available in the contact management solution.  By using tabs the spaces is kept clear with only the information you need at your fingertips.

Some systems tout that the autoresponder messages build a relationship.  The system does not.  In fact autoresponder series is only seven are eight messages long.  The strength of the system is in its support for phone and personal interaction tracking.  This is done through events to do this and notes.  They also encourage direct e-mail with a feature called one touch e-mails.  Duplicatable interactions are encouraged through customizable phone scripts.

Usability – How does the system support your work in the system?

The system is very easy to use.   Organization of task groups and information type organized by tabs is helpful.

The light coloration and gradient element style ads to professional feel.  The screen to responsive except in the case of loading the entire list of leads.  As the number of leads increase the page load time also increases.  But that’s to be expected.

On the capture page users experience rigid and strict on its validation rules.  For example I put my Google voice vanity number as my phone number.  When trying  the form I was informed that this phone number was not from the state and I said I was in.  This is strong and horrible if I’m really interested in that really is a phone number I use from a correspondence and I’m not going to be able to enter the system. not good.

My 800 number was also rejected with the same validation instruction.  Finally, after entering my actual phone number which is grounded in the state I live, I was able to submit the form.  This really made it difficult for a potential prospect to even get their information into the system.  Making the validation less stringent might help more people make it past the capture page.

On the other hand while importing leads the data integrity controls were exceptional.  This import function is very strong.  It had predictive field mapping which seemed accurate enough.  There was also the ability to add a custom field in the mapping. This was very strong.  It also forced you to assure every field had been considered before allowing you to do the upload.  Uploads speed was not lightning fast but what you want on a web upload import solution.  At the end, of the upload the system provided immediate feedback on the number of accurate uploads and the number of errors.  The fields not imported or place in to a report for download.  Nice.

The error log generated by the system was downloadable and showed not only the errors records but it included the reason for the error. It was protecting against duplicates as well as invalid information from invalid e-mail addresses.

The more I worked with the system the stronger the interface and work flow appeared to me.

System Training – How do I come up to speed with the system?

While the system is simple to use and straightforward, there is not any system training.  There could be some direction on ways to use the list tools or ways to perform some tasks. There was none.

System Support – When I get stuck what help can I expect?

The system support does not appear to be directly assessable from inside the back office.  On the front end landing page for the ultimate prospector you find contact information through toll free number,  Frequently Asked Questions and a How It Works  focus mostly on answering questions of perspective system purchasers.

I do not find a system specific help section except for the contact phone number and the sales materials.  I did not try their customer service.

Internet Marketing Training – How do I generate Internet leads?

The Ultimate Prospector is not a system built around teaching or coaching Internet Marketing.  Is a system focused on building a relationship with your customer through the use of their tools.  Accordingly, there is no coaching or training on how to promote your site or how to generate traffic to your site.  The capture pages do not accommodate personalized or company specific search engine optimization.  This is not entirely true.  Responsive Data is more than happy to work with companies and individuals to prepare and optimize capture pages. This customization in not part of the system out of the box.  The lead capture pages exist and it is up to you the system user to bring people to those pages.

Personal Development Training – Will the system support my growth too?

Ultimate Prospector has no personal development training built in to the system.  You can learn a lot by analyzing the prepared marketing materials like the emails and the phone scripts.  There really is nothing geared specifically to guide you through your personal development while working with the system. This is a robust tool prepared for use with corporations with no need for personal development training.

Overall Impression – So Jim, What do you think?

The first impressions of the system are very strong because of clean, crisp up front functional is impressive.  This system was built to help manage a large number of leads and prospects.  Customer relationship and prospect interaction management shines in this  system.  It has one of the stronger customer relationship support and building systems of all the systems I’ve reviewed.  The interface of this system make it very easy to use.  Many other systems could learn from Ultimate Prospector.

All the features you need are within easy reach.  The ease of use and crisp design provide an overall good impressed. Area examined by this evaluation but not part of the system include, personal branding, creating your own capture pages, getting help in your Internet Marketing strategies and training on how to generate more traffic and get more leads.  When you try to move into these other areas, common in many lead generation systems, you see Ultimate Prospector falls short.  These criteria may not matter to you or your company.  It is clear that half of our evaluation criteria does not match the software solution were evaluating.

As a contact management solution the system is for strong.  It probably has the easiest to use interface for creating notes and tasks and events for Prospects all from a single interface.  It also provides single click access to email, phone scripts, notes and other features to assist you as you tracking interacts with your customers and potential customers.

Ultimate Prospector

After getting over the high quality of the front end capture pages and the graphically rich back office I found a strong system focused on Leads and managing leads.  This system is not strong in the area of Internet Marketing. Like most system, it depends on how you prefer to  grow your business.  Your needs will determine your preference in a system. Given the strengths and weaknesses of this system it just may meet your needs. Please check it out.

Best of success,

INterNET INvestigation: Lead Generation Systems

http://inetin.com

Another trend in the network marketing industry is collaboration.  According to Mike’s announcement What Works Now Short-Cut System will incorporate information and insights from some of the top Network Marketing leaders.  The combined knowledge of Deagan Smith, Ann Sieg, Jonathan Budd, Mike Klingler, Mike Dillard and others means the monthly mailing will likely be filled with the best knowledge available.

Here is the announcement made to affiliates:

Stay tuned for more information and direct links to the new program.
Mike Dillard Confesses to being a Frustrated Online Marketer

• 2010-02-10 MLSP Intro Templates Updated
• 2010-02-10 New Conquer The Internet Funnel Templates
• 2010-02-10 Conquer The Internet DVD Has Been Released

These updates announce the new capture page / sales letter for the “Conquer The Internet” marketing campaign.

This is good marketing. It shows lifestyle, success online and promotes the MLM Lead System Pro MLM Lead Generation System.  An important point to note is that the new campaign is now directed to the small business and anybody trying to make money online.  In the update announcement they put it this way:

“…the ‘Conquer the Internet Intro’ template is written to anyone seeking to make money in an online business.”

This is clearly an effort to enlarge their audience. It looks to me as if they have hit the right pain points for their target audience.  These guys are genius marketers and they know what they are doing.  See for yourself!

Norbert Orlewicz

Todd Schlomer

Brian Fanale

At http://inet.biz you can see this new capture page among the many new pages from The 7 Figure Networker system.  Compare them yourself.  You can see first hand the wide variety of lead capture pages MLM lead generation system provide.

Best of Success!

Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform by Jason O’Toole adds the Epic Sponsoring Platform to the free Prospex system.  The advance functionality of the system has been added over the last 8 months.  I was invited to participate with the initial “beta” group.  Each week a new features rolled out.  The system evolved to include nearly every feature of the MLM Lead System Pro and the 7 Figure Networker (higher scoring system in the initial investigation) while maintaining the unique FREE elements of Prospex and it’s foundation in Social Media integration.

Training on Prospex focuses on the most recent practices for using social networking sites and tools for driving traffic.  Epic Sponsoring Platform adds Keyword research,  Article Marketing, personal branding, campaign management and much more.  You still get blogging, Facebook and Twitter training and the most direct ways to automate some of your social networking.  Jason just plain delivers on the best ways to bring people into relationships of trust.  This advance system delivers on attraction marketing through social media and effective Internet marketing practices.

The Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform still has network marketing training with top level network marketing professionals offering both free and fee training to support the building of a downline.

Branding – How well does the system brand YOU as an expert?

The Epic Sponsoring Platform upgrade buys you personal branding on capture pages, autoresponders and system videos.  While Jason O’Toole still in most of the back office videos, it is easy to position you as system “Success Coach” working with Jason.  The back office continually shows the “Success Coach” prominently on the back office home page. page.  Because you are on the capture pages and in the back office you are associated with other network professionals in the back office.  This expert by association does much to advance you as an expert.

Income Streams – How does the system generate cash flow?

There are now more than 12 potential income sources in the back office on top of those in the Prospex system.  Because the Epic Sponsoring Platform is fee based there is a commission from users of the system.  The tools suggested in the base level Free training suggest using many of the tools with earning potential to the Epic member.  Epic members also earn a higher percentage from each income source.  Moreover commissions not paid to free members of Prospex roll up to the first Epic member.  This provides for profits from those who come into the system but do not choose to upgrade to the Epic Sponsoring Platform.

Some of the Income is derived from affiliate links is residual income stream in nature.  The affiliate programs from Prospex remain. These are mostly network marketing trainings by professional network marketers.  Many of these trainings are free.  Then there are inexpensive ebooks and some full training systems.

Currently, there are 2  eBooks, 4 CD/DVD Courses, The Master Mind Session, The Amazon aStore,  and 15 Business Tools ( Classified Ads, Conference Recording, Web Hosting, Autoresponder) as funding sources. The integration of the Amazon aStore into the Prospex Library is a nice touch.  (See an example)

Epic member the income opportunity is greatly improved income potential over the initial Prospex system.  An increased number of programs suggested throughout the trainings, higher commissions,  and the roll up of commissions to Epic members adds considerable value to Epic members.

Capture / Landing Pages – What brings qualified people in?

The capture pages for the Epic Sponsoring Platform member are 90% customizable.  The landing pages allow personal branding through customizable text and videos.  The system has 4 capture page templates. These templates can be pre-populated with the default information used in these templates as a good starting place.

Each customization can be placed in it’s own unique campaign.  Campaigns keep their own set of statistics to see the capture page traffic and conversion rates.

Relationship Building – How do you establish a relationship with your list?

The list building model of this tool is very strong.  There is both an internal system and you it can connect to an external auto-responder system.  The relationship building tool is made up of a separate pop up windows for notes, calendar events and email messages.

Clicking on the phone number allows you to schedule a call for a prospect on the calendar.  It sends you an email reminder of appointments if you want.

There is power in the ability to track your interactions with referrals you have brought into the system. More thatn working with them in the system you have the ability to export information as needed.

The system connects to an external auto-responder provides an excellent way to build and strengthen your relationship with system users.  The system comes with 2 several customizable auto-responder series to build the relationship on autopilot. Some may be disappointed in the number of auto-responder messages if they believe email is the best way to strengthen the relationship.  Due to the encouragement of the system to build the relationship through social media, phone and other means the auto-responder is not the main source of relationship building.

Usability – How does the system support your work in the system?

The system menu system is improved by consolidating the top menu choices. The left menu still changes based on the top menu choice. After choosing a top link like “Getting Started”,  the left sidebar links  becomes the submenu of “Getting Started”. Choosing “My Account” reveals a longer list of links and a promotional bit in the left sidebar.  The left menu really provides a type of top to bottom checklist for system setup and training when in the task directed menu items were selected.  The left side show promotional and training resource links when informational type links are picked on the top menu.

Working with the system allows a smooth transition from prospect focus, to marketing campaign management, to   training resources and step-by-step system / marketing setup.

System Training – How do I come up to speed with the system?

System training is in the form of videos and step-by-step instructions under the “Getting Started” link.  Like other systems, Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform gets you started with simple steps and progresses through the “free” Prospex level trainings for the firm foundation for the advanced marketing strategies of the Epic Sponsoring Platform.

The system training is an integral part of the marketing plan.  All system training builds toward marketing.  The videos, which step you through the training, make mention of marketing implications throughout.

System Support – When I get stuck what help can I expect?

There is not a specific support service in the Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform.  No FAQ,  no forums, no ticket system.  There is only a “Contact” link.  The system is simple enough you don’t need support.  When there were questions or issues they are quickly resolved by sending in the contact information.  Responses returned within 24 hours.   Good answers and issue resolution.

There was even a new feature added in days based on a single suggestion. Responsive.

Internet Marketing Training – How do I generate Internet leads?

The attraction of the Prospex system is its cutting edge marketing coaching in simple strategies for Internet Lead Generation AND training and support for traditional Network Marketing values.  The purpose of all the online / offline activities and training focus on building relationships so people know, like and trust you.

The entire Internet Marketing Training from the free Prospex system only takes a few hours.  In those few hours the tools and techniques are delivered with a larger vision. The path to progress and success was not muddled with the typical barrage of many possible ways to work.

The advanced strategy training continues to flow in a natural progression. Epic membership add advanced strategies  on generating traffic through “Traffic School”. Traffic School includes advanced strategies in Keyword research, Email Marketing, Massive Twitter Traffic, Video Marketing, Forum Marketing, Classified Ads,  Article Marketing and List Building.  The power of these strategies are the efforts to provide massive traffic. The strategies follow a similar pattern so they are easy to add in as needed.

Personal Development Training – Will the system support my growth too?

This system is one of the few that provides on an ongoing basis.  Weekly teleconference calls also provide coaching on growing your Network Marketing business.  Even those calls dealing with Internet Marketing seem to circle back to the root purposes of  serving by leading, building relationships and growing your Network Marketing Business.

The  Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform training continually invites personal grow.

Overall Impression – So Jim, What do you think?

The Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform ($49.95 monthly) is a strong advocate of traditional network values in the modern evolution of social media. The social media centric foundation training and tools coupled with the advanced traffic generation techniques make this solution what many network marketing companies need but don’t know they want.  this system provides a systematic growth pattern for distributors.  It keeps true to the fundamental principles of network marketing while promoting the application of new technologies. The Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform is poised as a strong answer for the best of both worlds.

Open a free account and take advantage of a cadre of network marketing experts working around a simple but strong lead generation system.  Begin laying the foundation for your success as you grow to need the advanced traffic techniques of the Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform.

Best of success,

Teach Jim
INterNET INvestigation: Lead Generation Systems

http://inetin.com

… but now we’re getting ready to roll out “Phase 2″ of all the AMAZING things we have planned for 2010.

Starting tomorrow, we’re going to have a whole new set of capture pages, and a new sales page we’ll be implementing into the 7 figure Networker.

Some of these new capture pages are going to replace OLD capture pages… because we think these new ones will convert even BETTER then our previous ones…

And we actually want to minimize a few of the choices so you guys are only focusing on the most PROFITABLE pages, and the ones that are going to make you the most money when you promote. So be on the look out!

Because we’ve created some new pages SPECIFICALLY in mind to help people who want to earn more money from affiliate marketing, and we’re leveraging some unique members stories that will help increase conversions across the board.

On top of this… we’re also going to be rolling out “Sales Page Conversion Tracking” across all your campaigns. This means you’ll now be able to see how many of your leads are converting to sales, and what your sales conversion % is on all the traffic you send.

You can see he is definetly out to help system users profit through working smarter.  Maybe we all could learn a little from the direction he is taking the 7 Figure Networker.

So many of us think a system needs lots of choices.  Somehow we conclude the more choices the better our chance of success.  Instead working smarter by tracking our efforts and cutting back to the most effective efforts will actually let us use our time more wisely AND reap the results we desire.

Always a joy to learn from the decisions we see system owners making.

(Disclaimer: links in this post are affiliate links which may benefit the author.)

Despite this foundation the Prospex system was weak on personal branding, earning potential and technical and tactical tools. This limited Prospex users from flying high with proven Internet Marketing practices. That all changes Thursday, February 4th, 2010 with the inclusion of the Epic Sponsoring Platform (ESP), Prospex opens a “professional” path for expanding far beyond the beginner. Prior limitations of the free Prospex solution are now pathways to profound performance through the ESP upgrade.

The Epic Sponsoring Platform adds personal branding, campaign management, advanced split testing and other advanced tactical tools for generating and working with increased traffic. When you sign up with the Prospex Epic Sponsoring Platform, new tools and training used to implement specific Internet marketing techniques are available. The ESP also raises dramatically the earning potential of ESP members with over 12 potential streams of income.

The easily upgrade to the Epic Sponsoring Platform (ESP) provides a direct path to an expanded set of tools, associated strategies and accelerated earning possibilities while maintaining the same interface and functionality users are used to in the Prospex System.

More than just resources, the Epic Sponsoring Platform prepares you for the next steps in your Internet Marketing efforts. Steady steps through the advanced tools, resources and training allow you to scale your efforts to “epic” proportions.

Epic Sponsor members also enjoy a tight community of coaches and calls offering instruction on the best ways to apply effective strategies.

Epic Sponsoring changes the way to look at Prospex. As a stand alone system, Prospex was the best free solution for people getting started with Internet Marketing. Now when individuals outgrow the Prospex System they make the simple upgrade to the Epic Sponsoring Platform to realize the fruits of advanced tools, techniques and training.

More than just a tight progressive path for personal growth and development, this path points you all the way to advanced Internet Marketing action and results. With the Epic Sponsoring upgrade, member’s earning potential also jumps up. Earning income through the system adds to individual’s success.
Success achieved in this system can be easily duplicated due to it’s simple progression.

If you care to learn more about Prospex or the Epic Sponsoring Platform sign up for a free account at EpicSponsoring.net

View a video about the system:
Prospex Now Has ESP!

Disclaimer: Teach Jim is a success coach in the Prospex Learning Community and may profit from purchases made in relation to the Epic Sponsoring Platform presented at epicsponsoring.net. Opinions expressed regarding this product have the potential of being skewed by system membership. It should be noted the author is a member of all the systems investigated here at inetin.com.

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