Profit Lance Updated Review – January 2008
I want to take the time to provide an updated review on the Profit Lance product. The last post I wrote on the product was back in March 2007. Since then, I have received a lot of positive feedback from people using the product. Ever since I brought the product I have been playing around with some of the techniques to see different ways of generating revenue. [[pageindex]]
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Let me first begin by telling you about the program. In my past posts I went into a lot of detail. Well I’ll try to avoid that here. Most people really want to know what Profit Lance is without having to read thousands of words.
What is Profit Lance?
Profit Lance is a program that teaches you strategies to make money primarily off two things: 1. Affiliate commissions from products sold through Clickbank, and 2. Google Adsense.
That’s really it in a nutshell. So if you are like most people, you would still have no clue what I am talking about. Most people don’t know what either Clickbank or Google Adsense is.
What is Google Adsense and how do you make money with it using Profit Lance?
To get an understanding of what Google Adsense is you could read a past post that I have written about it here and here.
I have to tell you that Mike Andrews, the creator of Profit Lance, makes it sound easy to make money off Google Adsense using the stuff he provides in his program but its really not the case. We were actually emailing each other back and forth about it. I argued that Google’s duplicate content filter would prevent someone from making money with the Adsense ready websites he provides. He disagreed. I still maintain my position as I have tested the filter system and wrote about it here. Look, unless you are either going to have thousands of people visiting your website every day or build hundreds of sites, you are not going to make so much money through Google Adsense. In the past year I made a total of $500. That’s in an entire year. That’s not a lot of money. Mike states in his program that he has around four hundred active websites. Well that’s probably how many you will need to make money through Adsense.
What is Clickbank?
Clickbank is a website that sells all sorts of e-products. They have products in every category from Home and Family to Money and Employment. People could earn commissions as high as 75% for promoting the products sold on the site. The great thing about Profit Lance is that the program explains in great detail what Clickbank is and how it works.
Also the program tells you how to select the best affiliate product.
How do you make money through Clickbank using Profit Lance?
What separates Profit Lance from other money making products is that the program doesn’t just tell you how to make money through the clickbank program, it actually walks you through the process of doing it.
In this screenshot, the first link takes you to the Clickbank registration page. Unlike Google adsense, Clickbank does not require you to have a website before signing up for the program.
The second link in the screenshot above takes you to your Profit Lance account page where you will enter your Clickbank ID.
Now here is where Profit Lance shines. Once you have entered your information into the program, Profit Lance actually provides you with already made websites that you could promote right away. These websites contain your affiliate link so if anyone purchases Profit Lance through your website you make money.
Here is an active link to the website in the screenshot above.
The link doesn’t contain my affiliate ID so don’t worry about me trying to make off it. On the other hand, the link at the bottom of the page does have it.
Now a word of caution is necessary here. As I have mentioned in my previous posts on the product, these website are really provided for you to experiment with making money through affiliate commissions. Its advisable not to buy the program just for these websites. In the words of Mike Andrews himself:
I have spoken with a few people and they told me that they implement the strategies provided in the Project, Learning Center, and Articles sections of the program to make money instead of just using the generic sites provided with the course.
Profit Lance also provides a built in web creating tool that allows you to create your very own landing page. While the landing page is still hosted by one of Profit Lances domain names i.e. netsalleries, bezoogle, thebizreview.net you could any text and color you want.
Here is a sample page I created using the Profit Lance landing page creator. While the program doesn’t allow you to add images you could still add as much text as you want. However, if you want to create some real looking websites the program offers some really nice looking website templates.
Click here to see what the actual template looks like. You could literally create your own customizable MarkWarrenWebsite with this tool and template. The amazing thing is, the program provides video tutorials to help you configure every component of the site.
There really is so much you could do with this program.
My main issue with the program, as I have mentioned a few times before, is that many people are learning the skills to create tons of bogus review sites solely for the affiliate commissions. I highly doubt that people are purchasing tens of products, testing them out, getting real honest testimonials, getting solid results, and writing an honest review. I have seen lousy products getting great reviews over and over again from people who never really researched or used the product.
Video Tour
If you are interested in watching a Video Tour of the program click here.
Testimonials
Over the course of the last several months I have been getting positive feedback from people who have used the course.
Here is what people, real people, (I know this cause I have their email and IP addresses) have to say about the product. These people have either emailed me or left comments in the blog posting on this topic.
Christine (IP address: 71.xx.xx.166 )
Skills are what Mike teaches, you can make quick money fast, but, I wantted to train and LEARN what I am doing. I am so glad that I came across the Profit Lance System. Mike is an incredible teacher, who is a REAL genuine, person with integrity! Skills are what a person learns, for LONG term training and results…..
Mihalis (IP: 24.xx.xx.246 )
Being an honest person, that is my nature and I can’t change that, I always wanted to learn how you can really make money on the web without just having to get other people to buy what you just bought, which on most cases it was nothing anyways. It was just the membership, if you can call it that, to that club that sells nothing of substance really. It seems that the Profit Lance satisfies this requirement.
John T (IP address 165.xx.xxx.13)
I feel that the Profit Lance system is a very good course suitable for beginners and intermediate affiliates. The only thing that I disliked about the course is that it is overloaded with too much information that are not really needed. Examples are the 3rd party ebooks.
John L(IP: 218.xxx.xx.1 )
Hi rommo..
I also bought the Profit lance system about 4 months ago, and i felt it was a worthy investment! I’ve made money from that program by promoting referral signup services, as well as from the program itself.. What i like most about the system is that it really gives you very practical, hands on steps to implement PPC campaigns, article marketing etc, and also for you to practice with the premade sites and Adsense package…
However, the only downside is like you all mentioned. There’s too big a chunk of info especially for newbies to absorb. But it took me some time before i got the hang of the navigation.
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Where can I go If I am a profit lance member who is stuck on something? I bought this program through your link several months ago and I emailed you with a different question back then but never heard back. Is there a members chat place? Please reply… I want to move forward but can’t due to being in this rut.
Hi, I dont recall getting an email from you a while back. If you sent me an email I didnt respond then I apologize.
As far as I know, there is no members chat place. If you have a question why dont you try emailing mike from profit lance directly. Another alternative would be to visit the forums at digitalpoint.com and ask your question there in one of the appropriate forums. If you have a more specific question then let me know.
HI Ari
I have also purchased the profitlance course, the thing is the information is good but still I haven’t found a way where I can start making money from using the system.. For example if I were into fitness sports how can I use clickbank to make money from this? Because everything just looks like information to me, I want to move forward where I can apply some moves!!
Ok, lets see if I can help you. The profit lance system should show you how to look for products which are popular (spying on competition project) and then it advises that you create a landing page (website) either with the tools provided with the program or by registering your own domain name and building your own sites. Then you need to advertise using google adwords. Its really not a simple process and does require work. If you want a more detailed answer/explanation then send me an email via my About page.
I’m very interested in starting this program but I have a couple of concerns. First, I have no business experience at all but have always wanted to do my own thing. Is this a good starting place or will I end up in a rut like Anonymous due to my inexperience? Second, I’m also concerned about the support. If you do experience problems do you rely totally on help from others that have purchased this program? That is a strong concern for me because most legitimate programs provide some type of support… I would like to to hear from Ari as well as beginners to the program.
Thanks for your responses.
robm24
Hi robm24,
first, anonymous actually emailed me and told me that she actually heard back from mike and all is well.
I think you could learn a lot from the program. He starts from the basics and goes up a bit. I know his information is helpful as people have told me that they’ve been successful with it.
1. if you get stuck you could always try and contact mike.
2. you could send me an email
3. if you dont like the program you could request a refund from clickbank. they are prompt and giving refunds.
Ari thanks for the quick response. I think I read you saying you were skeptical on another post and I think I am too. No experience plus skeptism leads to fear. Fear is what keeps people from doing things in the first place. Maybe I will hear from some other people in my situation. Then I can make the big leap. I have always wanted my own “business” and I think the internet is truely the way to do it. Thanks again!
robm24
Hi Ari, Thanks for keeping me posted on what others have said since my first post to you. Yes Profit Lance is a great program. Yes Mike did get back to me and yes it is worth all people claim it is. It takes time to learn and there is a lot to it. I realize that anything worth having is worth working for. I chose not to go for the pay per click, because money is a big issue for me. so there is more that goes into this route. The other ways Mike also teaches. I am so close to grasping things well enough that I know it will work soon. I still stumble on things, but I just keep it in my head that every day I am even closer then I was the day before. If ever there was such a thing as a helpless newbie. I am that person. Or should I say was?(that person) I am working on a Web site now my first ever and several months ago I couldn’t even tell you what a blog was or anything to do with marketing.. So NEWBIE is not an understatement at all. I was scared too. I have learned so much now and continue to learn new and cool things every single day. Mike sends a lot of updates and new short cuts all the time, his emails were not all going through before. He also tells members about new products that are available both on his site and in e mails. Things that make things easier or even more helpful then past techniques. So if anyone has the drive to succeed, then Profit Lance is the trustworthy way to get very good and very useful information. Don’t let fear stop you. It is better to take your time and learn something well then it is to fall for another one of those get rich quick scams that are out there where they say you don’t need to do anything and you’re on auto pilot and all you need is to drive traffic to the site. I have tried several of then and they only end up making money off of me and I get no where. Just try driving trafic for anyones site if you don’t even know how to do that. Now I know several ways to gain traffic. This is just one of the many valuable thing I have learned from this program. I won’t end up clueless like that any more.
Ari, Keep up the good work with your site because it is helpful and I just wanted to post so people knew that Mike is there and that even a newbie can better them selves with this. You don’t have to know anything when you start out. He teaches you from scratch. I didn’t, one ounce of marketing info. but now I know a lot, and it’s all because of Profit Lance. I truely love this program and I trust it completely. That is something I have never been able to say for any other program I have tried.
Anonymous
thanks for the detailed feedback. I hope the program works for you.
What do you get with PL. Do you get CD’s or do you get all the info off the internet.
Hi Tobey,
when you sign up for the program you get access to the online members area. The video above should show you what the program is like.
The link to the video should be working now.
Hi there,
Just a note to congrat you on an excellently informative review site. As so many before me, I have turned that corner where I realised I no longer want to work for a boss, and want a free lifestyle. However, unlike many others, I did not go into the decision to do online marketing blindly.
Instead I have been doing extensive research on various ‘Moneymaking’ offers, much of my research being via review pages, sites etc, like yours. Profit lance is all over the place, and has a very strong presence. Most of the review sites I have visited sing (worthy) praises for the program. I’m not too naive to know that joining the program via their sites will earn them commisions, which they deserve for doing the work. I guess what I want to say i that I really appreciate your review page for reasons of credibility. You give an unbiased opinion, without coloring it in, AND do not ask me to sign up to Profit Lance via your page, to maintain your credibility. Reading your reviews have helped me in reaching an overall opinion and decision.
Thank you.
Albé.
Hi Ari,
First of all, Nice page of profit lance reviews. Although it helped to make my decision in purchasing this program, I am still wonder, does it heavily focus on clickbank.com? or can the system still be used with other affiliate program??since my country does not on the list of clickbank.com.
Thank you
PL does not heavily focus on clickbank.com. It covers many different ways to set up and run an online business, affiliate or otherwise. That’s the one thing that sets this program apart from most others. It focuses on long-term learning & education about various forms of internet marketing. It does not concentrate on any one aspect of IM.
The one thing that I have been somewhat disappointed in with the PL is that some of the information on there are outdated. Mike doesn’t add that much new stuff to it as he said in the sale letter, which was written when he created in early 2007, I think.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s still alot of very useful information there in the learning center. There are some great resources, video tutorials, ebooks to download & read, tools, templates, etc.
Mike provides you with a lot of ready made adsense sites. However, I tend to agree with Ari. It seems like an awful lot of work for very little profit.
Bottom line, PL is not a scam at all. It teaches you a lot, and was worth every penny I paid for it. Good luck!
Bobby
PL is really best place to start an e-business. It’s been a few month now since I’ve signed up for this course and I don’t regret spending money on it. And yes, Mike is responding to emails.
Any updates for us rommo? Have you been making a good amount of income using this system?
I just purchased PL and now still thinking if I will have a success with it. Pay Pal is not available because my country is not in the list of Pay Pal.
Ned
Hello Ari,
I see that Aiv has had a response from Mike in August, can someone please let me have the correct email address for him. I am getting desperate. I submitted a comment to you and have had no response either.
With thanks,
Hopelyn
I still have had no luck with getting in touch with Mike from Profit Lance. From reading your site, it seems quite a few people do not think it is a scam – but with the difficulties I have experienced in geeting in touch with him, I am beginning to feel apprehensive. Also, I agree with Bobby – July 31st that there has been no updated information from Mike since the site was launched in 2007. However, to move on, as you investigate scams on working on line – have you any recommendations as to a good company to join up with for data entry on line – where all is required is to fill in forms with the information provided by the company? If so, could you point me in the right direction, it seems it is going to take some time to get going earning wise with Profit Lance, so I would like something legitimate that will bring in a modedrate steady amount and which I can do in the evenings and at weekends. Maybe some of the people who write in to you might have advice to offer. I look forwrd to hearing from you.
Dear Anonymous,
Your comment is long, detailed and complimenary – were I a sceptic I could almost believe you were Mike!! Could you therefore help me with one query, what is the correct email to contact Mike? I have tried mike@profitlance.com with no luck whatsoever. If you have an alternative address could you share it with me please. Like you I am anxious to move forward but am reluctant to take the next step if I cannot even contact the owner of the programme. I have read that if this is a problem, then one should be wary as it is a sign of a possible scam. Please put my mind at rest on this if you can with a legitimate workable email contact for Mike.
With thanks.
Hopelyn
Hopelyn,
I dont think that Anonymous will see your comment. He/she hasnt been around since March. As for the email you have listed for mike, my guess is that he no longer answers that email as he probably gets hundreds if not thousands of emails everyday. His product has been around now for two years now. It might just be that profit lance is past its prime already.
My suggestion is to go to the blankinkproject http://www.theblackinkproject.com/register.php and sign up for the early notification of the new course that will be starting some time in the near future. The current course is closed as it already has more than 2000 people registered. I can tell you right now that the information is amazing. The best thing is that its absolutely free.
For the mean time take the free course at http://ubercamp.com/tutorials/. The information is extremely helpful and amazing. Read through the course and you’ll know what to do.
Listen, if you cant move forward with profit lance then get a refund from clickbank and check out the courses I mentioned above. Email me if you have any questions.
I share the frustration of purchasing a two year old product and not being able to e-mail Mike to get any update information. Guys that sell courses and are not responsible to have some sort of support or keep the site updated should be black listed. I will seek a refund if I cannot get support from this guy. The stuff good and you can learn allot with a bell or whistle here or there but hardly unique. Maybe in 2007 but not today. It may be time to look elsewhere.
Sounds like Romo is only one who spoke to illusive Mike. Why not share that info with us, since you are not promoting the program, eh? Or are you in a clever sort of way?
Hopelyn Goodwin,
Hopefully you have purchased the program by now and are making money as opposed to getting all nutted up about wether to buy the program. But if you haven’t, I purchased the PL a long time ago and continue to find new material every time I get back on to explore. I have bought many programs in the past that do not even come close. It seems to me that Mike takes pride in his product and isn’t there for the quick buck. I get the feeling he wants a satisfied customer. I had a series of emails with him where he was very helpful and responded quickly. I just trust the guy.
Like most newbies I used to
think that everything on the Internet should be free,
especially information and assistance. Sending 5 pages worth of questions and expecting a response to every one of them is something I’m guilty of. But if anyone were to purchase a $77 e-book from Donald trump and ask the same questions of him directly, how do you think he would respond? Or
would he even respond?”
Just get it. It’s guaranteed after all.
Me again.
just read Aye Jay’s comment. You guys seem like a bunch of complainers. The program is worth it’s $77. It’s worth more than that. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT for something under $100?