Posts Tagged ‘Ann Sieg’

Review: Freedom Duplicator

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Freedom Duplicator by Rod Moore is a straightforward simple system with all the elements needed to succeed.  Rod’s approach to the system and how it will help is a little different than most systems out there.  He really seeks to add extreme value and a tool worthy of your consideration.

When you get started with the system you actually get the training first. A nice approach.  You are enrolled in the MLM Attraction Marketing University at no charge.  Once you sign up you receive over 20 emails with links to training video links.  Each builds upon the prior.

Actual upgrade into the Freedom Duplicator System was difficult.  There were no direct links to the system sign up page.  All the links I could find pointed to the MLM Attraction Marketing University sign up page.  (Conversion rate into the program would likely be stronger if the link to the Freedom Duplicator Members area also had a Sign Up link.)  Upon request he sent me out the link.  Now we can jump into investigation of this system.

Rod is a personable individual with a helpful attitude. He was more than willing to talk on more than one occasion via Skype.   He is practicing what he suggests in the Attraction Marketing University Introductory section on Attraction Marketing.

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

Rod Moore is heavily branded in the system.  He is in every video and he is expounding his wisdom in the MLM Attraction Marketing University.

The capture/landing pages are entirely customizable.  You can add all you want about your expertise.  Just know you will want to introduce Rod Moore as a trusted expert because your people will be seeing his face throughout the MLM Attraction Marketing University frontend to the Freedom Duplicator System backend upgrade.

Income Streams – How does the system generate cash flow?

The primary source of income in this system are sales of others into the system.  This is the only source of ongoing income unless you include an ongoing income producing product / service in your custom links.

The other affiliate programs in this system are OK.  They are affiliate links from Mike Dillard and Ann Sieg’s programs.  Recently, Rod added the ability to add your own affiliate links.  This is powerful as you can include any program you desire.  (I put  a few in, but have not tested their integration.)

Flexibility in this area helps the monitization potential of this system.

Capture / Landing Pages – What brings qualified people in?

The system provides 7 “Index” pages. Each has a related “Promotion link”.

  • Main Index Page – Long Copy
  • Forget Renegade University
  • Blank Template Page 1
  • Main Index – Short Copy V1
  • Dominate The Search Engines V1
  • Attracting Twitter Leads
  • Facebook Attraction Marketing

The promotional link points to the primary Freedom Duplicator Capture page which is really the MLM Attraction Marketing University “Free” enrollment page.  This is in keeping with what Rod teaches about having a single marketing funnel with an “irresistibly offer”.

As you can see these “Index” pages leans toward specific needs of network marketers online.  You have control over the information in the subsections of these index pages.  A very nice feature.

After people are on your list you can send them messages which contain links to the other affiliate programs you put into the system.  This is in keeping with Mike Dillard’s Traffic Formula training.  Build your list.  Build your relationship.  Monetize your list.  Rod would have you include various affiliate links in follow-up emails.

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

Your relationship with your list is strengthened by your agility to follow up with appropriate notes and ratings in the lead management area.

More than just an autoresponder, this system has fields for “Best time to call” and “Next follow up date”.  hHe also as a link to “Send Mail”.  In other words the system supports on and offline relationship building.  You have the freedom to add notes into the system at will.

Strengthening relationships is a key element of what Rod teaches and what his system supports.  All this is done in the Freedom Duplicator System.

There is NO way to own the list.  You cannot export the information in “Your” list.  This raises the question of whoes list is it really.  All the valuable Customer Relationship data is managed in a system you do not have complete access to.

This is a weakness that could be easily resolved with export capabilities.

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

Simple and straightforward.  Nothing difficult here.  There is no real workflow direction to the system.  Instead there are always available links that give you what you need.  (The term Index Pages for your Capture / Landing pages took some getting used to).

There was no clear way to get help or assistance.  No place to ask questions or see the questions others are asking.

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

Training on the actual system setup is under the Training tab.  There is a system Overview video.  Some technical videos on registering and forwarding a domain.  After the domain name stuff it jumps into setting up your profile.  (It seems to me the order of these should be reversed.)

The final system set up videos deal with “Working With Your Leads” and “Sending Group Emails”.

All setup and introductory information is done by video.  Like other systems investigated I see this as a weakness.  Video is great for the first time through but it is horrible for users who need a check list or reference.

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

Training in video is the only thing I can find in terms of support.  The answers might very well be in the video, but if I cannot find it It will do me little good.

No FAQ.  No online community. No live chat.  No phone number.  There is NO system support visible.

I guess you are left contacting Rod directly.

Internet Marketing Training – How do I generate Internet leads?

This system is very strong on simple, straightforward training. The Partner Training Centre has 7 simple steps. The “Fast Start”  Marketing area deals with 10 fastest strategies to get started.  The “Advanced Marketing Strategies” include 14 strategies. (Several of these are tagged with “Coming Soon”.)  Training on system customization gives you what you need for making the system work for you.

Weekly Webinars are listed in the Training Centre also.  There are no dates and it looks like they have only had three of these webinars.  (This looks like it is not being updated lately.)

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

The system provides guidance on “Developing a Marketing Plan”. Rod Moore does give strategic direction.  He also differentiates between tactical and strategic actions.  The system is always reinforcing building relationships.  Non of these trainings deal with personal development they go a long way at helping.

Setting of goals and setting expectations on the work involved to accomplish the goals are mentioned and suggested in the system. There is no personal goal tracking system other than the fact Rod Moore covers these “directional” type topics.  This fosters personal growth.

Overall Impression – So Jim, What do you think?

The system is simple, but very workable.  It is not cluttered with a lot of hype or complicated systems configurations.  There is power in this system simplicity.

Control over the landing pages is fantastically simple.  Tracing your integration with your leads.  Very strong.  No ability to export your list stinks.  Training is very strong.  All video training makes reference and reminders a little difficult.

The training is fairly basic and will likely never be extreme unless Rod brings in specialists.  This may appear to be a weakness.  Actually, by keeping the training simple and focused on the essentials there is less confusion and more ease in implementation.

I like this system. I like the way Rod Moore models and focuses on Attraction Marketing.  There are weaknesses like incomplete trainings, no video notes and Rod’s sometimes slow delivery when you are wanting more, now! (likely a personal problem for this investigator).

Freedom Duplicator at $37 per month this provides everything you need to use attraction marketing as a mechanism for building your Network Marketing Business.  The price is fair when compared to the $47 or $49 charged by other systems which are not as strong in the building a relationship support materials.

If a team determines to use this tool they will not be disappointed until they want exact step by step direction on a single path to success.  This system gives you multiple ways to get people to enter your relationship building funnel there is a chance you may get lost (Just too many sources).

The marketing plan and goals are useful at providing direction but not strong enough to drive you down a single path until you have achieved success.

With the recent addition of your own affiliate link customization and the ability to adjust the landing pages this system can serve all your needs.

Best of success,

Teach Jim
INterNET INvestigation: Lead Generation Systems

http://inetin.com

Popularity: 30%

Review: MLM Mastermind System

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The MLM Mindmaster System by Jonathan Budd is a complex, advance system allowing for personal branding and lead generation.  The flexibility of the program gives you a lot of options. The complexity of the program requires greater effort in mastering the system.

The benefits of the system are strained by the demands it places on the system user.  Written by Internet marketers, the system relies heavily on online strategies.  There is no mention of working off line to build your business.

Because of the greater complexity the system will need to exceed in training and support to give full value to users.  Let’s see how Jonathan and crew tackle the challenges of meeting user needs.

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

The Mastermind System prides itself on allowing personal branding.  Many capture pages are 100% customizable. The default sales pages are less “brandable”.  Users can control where the sales pages go.

Using this system provides personal branding possibilities, but this takes a huge amount of work.  It is likely Jonathan Budd will end up in the face of your system visitors unless you make the effort at branding.

Income Streams – How does the system generate cash flow?

13 programs are included in the system.  4 of the programs provide residual income.   All of the programs are good for networkers.  There is no way to add your own product, nor your own affiliate program links.

With the funded proposal, one of the key elements of these systems you would think a system priding itself in personalized branding would allow for personalized affiliate links.  Maybe someday.

Capture / Landing Pages – What brings qualified people in?

The capture pages in this system are touted as being “High” conversion pages.  With the high level of personal branding and the quality of the default sale pages users should be left with the task of driving traffic.

There are 12 regular capture pages, 3 customizable pages (1 video page, 1 bulleted list page and 1 image/bullet list page) 10 dynamic keyword pages and some autoresponder email campaign pages.

Matching the right sales letter to the campaign becomes a real task as the letter templates are not readily visible at the point of selection.

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

The system does not have a built in auto responder or way to add information on leads introduced into the system. The external autoresponder (Aweber or GetResponse) becomes your list and the way of dealing with your leads.

There are no directions on what to do with your leads outside the system.   The campaign management portion of the site displays statistics about the campaign, but no individual lead information.  You have to go into the autoresponder software to follow up on leads.

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

The startup and marketing course flow is not real clear as you are taken to a page with no navigation and shown things to do requiring navigation. It would probably be ok in a different window, but the navigation is gone because it opens in the same window.

Help is mostly through content sensitive video. At a certain point, the videos become tiresome and you just wish there was a quick text page with a short list of next steps.

Campaign customization is challenging because you do not see the item you are personalizing in the context of the template.  If you could see the template place holders while making changes, the difficulties of personal branding would be gone.

The dropdown menus work well except the descriptions are not clear.  Advertising slide out menus list some specific services and marketing strategies.

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

System set up and training are initiated on a page without the menus.  Like other systems there is too much techinical work done out of context for new system users.  A marketing / setup hybrid training with hands-on set up action path would better serve anxious new users.

There was recently a change allowing Awebber to interface with the system and there was no announcment obvious on the home page.  It would seem like system upgrades would be found on the site.

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

There are several methods of getting assistance.  The system Frequently Asked Questions, the user community and the formal support request.  The formal request system is the same external Support Suite used by Ann Sieg’s The Renegade System.  This is a dead end navigation point because there are no links on the Support Suite site back to the Mastermind System.  Worse yet, the Support Suite does not open in an external window.  It opens in the window you are working on the system with.

Internet Marketing Training – How do I generate Internet leads?

Training is mostly done by video.  There is little effort to give visual hints, tips, clues or checklist  for the trainings.  There are several experts with their wares on the site.  Most of the larger programs and third party products are available for purchase.

Each are of Internet Marketing implementation is filled with resources similar to those in other programs. There is little beyond the video of how to do Internet Marketing in that arena.  Strategy, ways to approach marketing and what to expect while marketing are not revealed.

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

Personal progression and development are mentioned in a few of the videos as Jonathan is discussing some other topic.  There is no marketing plan, content development plan and little to set forth the realities of what it takes to succeed.

Individuals are left to rely on the forum participants and the next “latest” technique video put out by the system leadership.

Overall Impression – So Jim, What do you think?

The deeper I get into this system the less I like it.  The lack of strategic direction and all support in video wears on me the longer I work with the system.  It is fabulous the system can be custom branded, but mapping campaign content fields to template fields could be much cleaner.

Jonathan is constantly producing new content through webinars and other events.  These additions to the system are in the training center under posted training archives.

The large number of brandable capture pages and  the rich library of training resources provide excellent value for the price.  The trainings sometimes wander a little as live, on the fly events will.

The MLM Mastermind System is a rich tool with advanced capabilities and customizations for personal branding. The steep learning curve with only loose direction will leave some users struggling a while to master  the system.

This is a strong program. Direct efforts to market to system users is distasteful. Complications of complexity require a precise training program.  Such a complete training program is missing so the ratings on this system suffer.

This system and its strong branding capability draw me in until I try to apply personal branding.  It is harder than it seems.  The system then looses some of its appeal.  If there was strategic direction and expectation, then I would know what to expect and excel at getting on with it.

Give it a spin for the 7 day $1 trial.  Grab some of the training first, then go about setting up the system if it works for you.

Best of success,

Teach Jim
INterNET INvestigation: Lead Generation Systems

http://inetin.com

Popularity: 52%

Review: The Renegade System

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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
INterNET INvestigation: Lead Generation Systems

http://inetin.com

Popularity: 20%