Quick shot review of the Profit Miracle sales page.
What is a quick shot review? Quick shot reviews of sales pages for products like The Profit Miracle are designed to teach you how to analyze sales messages more critically.
The Profit Miracle Claim: Copy the easiest way to make money that’s automatic.
While the methods taught in the Profit Miracle can lead to residual income, most of them require quite a bit of WORK up front and hardly “automatic”.
HOWEVER, I tend to not way sales letter claims too heavily in the internet marketing/make money market, because even the best product owners often feel they have to resort to hype in order to sell their products competitively in a market where most customers DO seem to respond to hype.
Techniques taught in The Profit Miracle: This is really MORE important than the actually BIG HEADLINE CLAIM to me. So, I look at the techniques taught in The Profit Miracle and they make sense and COULD lead to the types of income shown in the screenshots – especially if you include paid methods such as Google Adwords.
Testimonial analysis: The first thing I look for here is the possibility of stock photos on the sales page. None of the photos look like stock photos and I recognize some of the names of people giving testimonials. However, I don’t know enough about them to weigh the significance of their opinions.
I did notice that one of the people giving a testimonial, “May C.” from Los Angeles appears on an Astrology consultation site here:
May C. listed as “Fanny” on Preditavi
And “May C.” also apears as “Viola” on what I believe is a webhosting site here (it’s in German):
May C. listed as “Viola” on RedFishCMS
I checked Archive.org and tried using Google’s custom date range functions to try to determine which sites were using the photos first, but couldn’t come up with anything definitive.
And even if I spoke french and attempted to contact “Fanny” to ask about the picture on the astrology site vs The Profit Miracle site that wouldn’t necessarily tell me anything as it would be difficult to validate any statement “Fanny” made.
“As Seen On” statement: The Profit Miracle claims to have been “Seen On” Yahoo!, AOL, Entrepeneur, CNN, USA Today, MSNBC, and on “TV”
When I see this claim I assume that if they WERE in fact seen on these sites, it was because they ADVERTISED on them – unless they offer definitive proof otherwise.
Check of security seals and other seals:
- The Adwords Qualified Individual logo does clickthrough to Jamie Lewis’ listing on Google.
- None of the security seals are clickable. Valid security seals will be clickable through to the companies listing on the company issuing the security seal.
- Online Business Bureau. Just note that this is not the BBB.
Price check: Sales page states one-time fee of $77, although according to the affiliate section of the site it looks like there are higher-priced options available including one that involves a monthly fee.
Ease of getting a refund: Since The Profit Miracle is sold through ClickBank getting a refund is easy, since if you have a problem getting a refund directly from the merchant you can get a refund directly through ClickBank.
Best guess after reviewing The Profit Miracle sales letter:
The techniques taught are established proven online marketing techniques. They can lead to some amount of “set and forget” income, BUT the “SET” part is likely MUCH more involved than the sales letter would make it appear.
I can’t comment on the quality of the training without having the product, however if you were to purchase this product for the one-time fee of $77, ClickBank has a 60 day refund policy at this time and if you don’t get refund satisfaction from the merchant, you can refund through ClickBank. I wasn’t sure about their rebilling cancellation policy, so I looked it up and here’s what it says:
“If a customer requests a refund, the money for the requested transaction is refunded back to the customer. If the refund is for a recurring billing product, then the return policy allows for the most recent payment to be returned. Multiple payment returns can be provided as long as they are within the standard 60 day return period. A refund on a recurring billing product will also result in a cancellation.
If customers request a cancellation for their recurring billing product no future rebills will be charged to their account. Keep in mind, a cancellation will not generate a refund – it will only stop any future rebills.
Please do NOT abuse ClickBank’s refund policy (they’ll block you from purchasing anyhow if you do).
Sponsored link for The Profit Miracle:
Two comments:
1) How can you review a product without BUYING it? While I applaud your attempt to help people think about the ad copy, this can hardly be considered a review.
2) As of this day, the OBB (Online Business Bureau), the logo of which is posted on the Profit Miracle site as a “trusted” member, has Miracle Profit rated as a red “beware” site, due to unresolved customer complaints. Do check these things out before buying Profit Miracle Machine.
CZA,
The post clearly sales its sales copy review. It’s actually rare that I post an affiliate link or make a “guess” without buying the product, but I understand your point. All the other actual product reviews on the site are based on buying the products.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a sales copy review where I’ve done what I did here.
Sales copy reviews are incredibly valuable and some of the data from ones on the site you are on (WorkAtHomeTruth) have been used by consumer organizations such as the National Consumers League, the FTC in one of their recent operation shortchange cases, and as research by National Media (MarketPlace and 20/20).
Ultimately I shouldn’t have mixed the fish and put a “guess” at product with sales copy. Although I have NO problem NOT RECOMMENDING a product if I see sales copy rife with major issues as was done back in my NOVEMBER 19, 2008 write up of Google Money Tree here which was picked up on by the National Consumers League, but ultimately not shut down until July of 2009.
More recently was the write up of DataMoneyOnline.com.
Having covered thousands of flogs and done detailed write-ups of hundreds of questionable sales pages I’ll take it upon myself to allow for a minor mistake here and there. That’s the beauty of a (mostly) uncensored blog. People with additional details to add like you can come and flesh out any potential errors.