jeffreylant

Being a naturally curious person I am always keen to look at and test products, including methods of marketing and selling – I have a self imposed rule that I would never promote or try to sell anything I wouldn’t be prepared to buy myself so I expect others to act in the same way.

Needless to say, anything that sounds too good to be true normally is……….

I would also go so far as to say that I would rather not be in this business than be in the business of selling c***p to people with the associated fall out afterwards.

I recently came across an email Ad asking if I wanted 50,000 visitors to my website, I thought why not have a look, no one would turn down the chance to have 50,000 visitors, would they?

Anyway, I have copied the email promotion below, which indicates that for attending the Webcast you get 50,000 visitors pouring into your website! Great I thought, theres some big claims here, lets have a look!

50000 visitors email

Anyway, I attended the Webcast, and listened to Dr Lant – what I could glean from the Presentation was that he said his base was in a posh district where current and ex US presidents had studied law (I thought his office was based in Edmonton, which according to my geographical knowledge of North America is in Alberta, Canada, no where near Washington/New York districts – around 2000 miles away.

Also the office in the background of the Webcast didn’t look exactly plush, plenty of clutter, not normally what you would see in a professional marketing pitch, even the scammers do that bit well!

My videos aren’t too much to write home about but then again I am not in the business of claiming to run an empire that gets 5 million visitors to my site every day and anyone who listens to my presentation will get 50,000 visitors, enough said!

The basic model  of the business seems to be that you pay $97 per month, for this you get a website, a load of sales material such as squeeze pages and some digital products you can sell with agents to close your sales?

What does he mean by ‘agents to close your sales’? I thought if you are selling products online in an automated way then why would you need people closing down your sales online unless you are trying to convince people to join to join Worldprofit?

So my presumption can only be that his more senior associates put pressure on you to join WorldProfit, making this is an online pyramid selling system.

The next part of the pitch was Dr Lant using hard sell techniques to close the sale with help from online agents, with patronsing questions such as, “whats the problem don’t you have any money” then to others on the Webcast “hey everybody Peter has no money” – Clearly this is an old fashioned pressure selling technique, give the pitch and remove the reasons for people not wanting to buy from you. I think I’ve seen this kind of behaviour with the awful time share sellers whilst on holiday.

My answer was simple, “I need to do some research and Due Dilligence” to which the reply was “You don’t need to do that, its been done already” and “Peter, what are you thinking? You are making a big mistake”

In the closing part they put the point across strongly how they are approved by the Edmonton Business Bureau – This is a Business Authority/Regulator  in Alberta, whilst it may show that they are a real company it doesn’t tell me the criteria they are measured on and certainly doesn’t have a worldwide remit.

I’ve seen it before in business, its quite easy to tick all the boxes if you know the world of business and you know the criteria they base their assessment on, it doesn’t necessarily tell you how and whether the business is a viable proposition.

Anyway, my initial view is that this is an expensive hosting company that gives you a turn key website in which you can try to sell a load of digital products, most of which you can probably get free from giveaway sites and your sales for which you get help are based on recruiting more people to join Worldprofit.

I don’t want to criticize Worldprofit but I would like to hear if there is anyone out there who IS making money in an ethical way, not just by selling memberships.

On another note I entered this Blog’s address into their goody bag and in about 5 days have only received around 23 visitors according to my Google analytics account, a far cry from the promised 50,000 visitors!

Anyway, as it stands I for one would not touch this with a bargepole unless someone can convince me otherwise; the Internet Marketing world like many other business sectors does need to be cleaned up, if everyone followed the approach that you should be known, liked and trusted and prepared to give something up front and not just take your money the world would be a much better place.

Any unbiased views from REAL people on this site would be more than welcome.

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