Is Power Lead System a scam? – Affiliate program or Pyramid scheme
At A Glance
Name: Power Lead System
Website: www.powerleadsystem.com
Owners: Neil Guess / Michael Price
Training: Yes
Tools: Yes
Support: Yes
Price: $30 / month OR $54 / month + Upsells
Recommended?: No
Intro
Power Lead System is one of the newest addition to the online making-money opportunities that was founded in 2013, by Neil Guess, in collaboration with Priceless Possibilities by Michael Price. The only information that I was able to unearth for Neil Guess is that he is an internet marketer. However, Michael Price is a whole different story.
Price is the founder of Priceless Possibilities, which offers the ability for internet marketers to capture leads / referrals effectively using capture pages and to grow their online business and income.
Priceless Possibilities was combined with Power Lead System to offer a more robust platform that will offer so much more to the marketer.
Power Lead System is an MLM (multilevel marketing), where they appear not to pay people upon recruiting, but upon selling of their product, which looks like good news to me.
However, because it is a done-for-you system, very little can be customized and therefore, it will look exactly like the others that use the same tools as you. You will not really be able to build something that can become your unique BRAND.
Tools
The tools in general that you will be using would be the lead pages that incorporate videos, auto-responder, ability to create unlimited number of sales pages and create and design sales funnels.
Let me explain; in order for any of these tools to work for you, you will need a website because this is the basis of finding success online and to have the ability to reach more people on the internet.
Yeah, you can argue that you can promote via Facebook and other social platforms but people will not go looking for you unless they KNOW you are there on these platforms. So you will end up spamming a lot of other people’s posts.
The best way to get known is through the search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo) through the use of keywords, where people are actually looking for what you have to offer. And this is done through a website.
Unfortunately, it is very hard for lead pages to get ranked in the search engines because there is limited content on these pages, that search engines deem “not helpful” to their audiences. Even those people with lead pages will invest in a website so people find them FIRST, to then lead them to their lead / capture pages.
OR, they will invest in marketing on Google Adwords, Youtube and Facebook Ads, that cost MORE money.
The same goes for the auto-responder; there is no use for it unless you have a website / lead page that will “Capture” the email addresses of your visitors. The auto-responder will then automatically send them the information or product that you promised them in exchange for their emails.
That’s what an auto-responder does; it RESPONDS to whoever signs up and delivers the item you promise them in a timely manner.
My point is…
… that the Power Lead System is certainly NOT designed for beginners in the online industry. It is geared towards “entrepreneurs” that already have the knowledge of how to operate online and who are in need of these tools to make their online businesses better.
From my point of view, as an affiliate / online marketer, the tools are not ground-breaking. Much better tools can be found online to promote your business, if you are already knowledgeable about making money online.
Training
The training is nothing to be boastful about either. These videos are simple how-to’s that revolve around how to lightly customize (change the words and colours ) the sales pages and can be really be found all over the internet, or mostly integrated with other systems that you may already be using.
The training, just like its tools, are not geared towards total beginners but towards marketers who are ALREADY online entrepreneurs that want to improve their reach, their visitors and their sales. Therefore, don’t expect for the training to go too in-depth.
You should already have some knowledge before thinking of paying for the products within this platform.
They teach you how to use the tools and show you how to make some changes here and there but nothing that would be worth the monthly fee that you would be paying. There is nothing within this system that would help you build a sustainable BUSINESS online.
Support
I have not found any complaints about their support, although there is no chat and no email. You can only communicate with them via opening a ticket that their support team will look into. And usually, you cannot expect them to reply within 24 hours.
This kind of support in my opinion, is very crappy. If you are a new member, trying to get support, then it might not be such a big deal to wait 24 hours to get a response. But as an established marketer, 24 hours is a long time and could cost you a lot of money.
Many other programs have a 24/7 phone line OR instant chat available to help its members.
Therefore, I can conlude that, however good their people might be in resolving the issues I might have, resolution in a timely manner is very important to prevent losses and is something that should be taken under serious consideration.
Affiliate Program or Pyramid Scheme?
An affiliate program is where you get paid commissions when somebody buys a product that you have promoted or recommended. You only get paid ONCE. Additionally, there are NO FEES to join an affiliate program. You get PAID instead.
A pyramid scheme is focused on recruiting and bringing in people to the scheme where new members need to PAY to join. As the person who recruited them, you also get paid for the sales that they generate.
For example, I recruit you and you recruit a friend. I not only make money from my own sales, I make money from YOUR sales and YOUR FRIEND’S sales as well. This is a pyramid scheme, if the SALES are done by recruiting other people.
Now, Power Lead System is NOT a pyramid scheme because it has a legit product that it promotes. Therefore, it is called a multilevel marketing (MLM) system. However, I am not a fan of how they make you PAY to receive the “right” to sell their products. It would also be easier to sell if the actual products were on-par or better than others you can find online. But that’s not the case.
These systems are very hard to make money with because it is your upline / recruiter / sponsor who is making more money than you. Taking this system for example, a compensation of $20 is awarded for every new person that you recruit but not every single 20$ compensation will go to YOU.
Every other sale goes to your upline, even if YOU made all the effort to get people to sign up. That does not sit too well with me. This is also NOT called being an affiliate.
I found it odd that I could not directly join through their website and that I needed to be “invited” by somebody else, who would become your sponsor or recruiter. This to me, puts emphasis on recruiting.
How much do I pay?
As a person who only wants to use their products, the monthly fee for you is $30. But if you want to be able to make money promoting Power Lead System, you will need to pay an additional $24.
You could also opt to pay only $24 for the “right” to promote Power Lead System to others but how would you promote it if you have no lead pages, no sales pages and no auto-responder? It would make sense if you already had a website (where existing entrepreneurs comes in, not newbies) but if you have never tried the system and don’t even know how the system and its products work, then how would you be able to properly and effectively promote the system?
Therefore, the only way to REALLY promote and make money with Power Lead System is to pay the full $54 ($30 + 24) monthly so you get well acquainted with the products and so that you can use them in your marketing campaigns.
Not only do you need to pay $54 / month, but there are also upsells to this program. For the “Diamond” level, you will need to purchase another product called Free Ad Secrets for a one-time fee of $147, which actually does not guarantee any income.
The second upsell up from Diamond, is the Platinum and in order to achieve that rank, you need to pay $497. At the end of the day, you would have to spend $54 / month to make the most of the program PLUS $644, which is rather expensive in my opinion.
Final Opinion
Power Lead System is not a scam and can be useful to the already-seasoned marketer for lack of other products to use to improve their business, although there are so many other superior products on the market that these do not even come close to. I like how you can use these products to promote anything that you want.
However, I do not recommend this program because of the fact that it is an MLM system, that is mostly designed to make the people at the top rich while you are doing all the hard work. Yes, you can eventually become somebody at the top, just like them, but the chances are very slim and you need to really be good at recruiting to be able to become one of these people and unfortunately, Power Lead System does not truly teach you how to do that.
Affiliate programs are not something that you need to pay into, it is something that you should be able to join for free. You get paid instead for your hard work of promoting the products. I also do not like how half of the sales that you make actually go up to your sponsor.
There are upsells that many newbies will not be able to invest into, and they offer no guarantee that you will make money by investing into these upsells. Many people can argue that you need to spend to make money but I do NOT believe in upsells, specially if even they can’t guarantee that you will make money by using these products.
There is also no originality in the products that they have “ready” for you and therefore, you cannot create your own BRAND and AUTHORITY online. There isn’t much you can change or customize because of their done-for-you system.
Does a system that TRULY teaches you how to build a business online exist?
Yes, it does! It is the way that I have personally been making money online and it is called Affiliate Marketing. The advantages of affiliate marketing is that people will come to YOU because of the products you offer. You don’t have to buy inventory, you don’t have to deal with customers, you don’t have to invest a lot of money.
What you DO need on the other hand, is the patience to learn and watch your business grow, as it will not be an overnight feat. You will not be making $1000 in 2 days. It requires a lot of hard work, dedication and a passion for your related niche, to make it work.
The best thing, is that you can remain a free member for as long as you like. You NEVER have to pay a single dime and you could still make money.
This training platform is called Wealthy Affiliate!
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At the end of the day, if you really want to try out Power Lead System, the ball is in your court. However be advised that they do ask for a payment option, even if you only want to access the free 7 days trial, and you cannot pay via Paypal. The training platform I recommend, does not EVER ask you for that and there is no pressure on you to upgrade.
I hope that you have found this review helpful. If you have any questions, please by all means, leave them in the comments section below and I will get back to you. I am also curious to know for those of you who HAVE used this system, how it is working out for you.
Cheers to your success,
Reyhana
Hey there Reyhana,
I have been wanting to join this program but something kept me from it. So I decided I should get a review on it and see if it is a program I can rely on.
Now I see why fate didn’t want me to join it.
It is a multi level marketing program, which is one the techniques that got me scammed almost $5000 a few years back. The upsells have also confirmed to me that this is not for me.
I will check out wealthy affiliate as an alternative. Thanks for the info here.
Hi Dave. I’m really glad you listened to your gut feeling on this one. Sorry to hear you got scammed. I have been scammed quite a few times too and it does not feel good at all, though not in MLMs. I have been involved in MLMs but found out later that it just was not for me.
I’m glad that you are deciding to check out Wealthy Affiliate because it one of the best platforms online that will teach you everything of what you need to know to have a beautiful and successful website. Please update us on your progress so others can see live how Wealthy Affiliate is helping you.
Thanks for dropping by!
I agree that systems that are all done for you with very little customization is something you should be wary about.
As you said you don’t own website, plus it’s hard to stand out against the crowd when everyone’s looks the same.
I also don’t like you have to pay money to make this system work — which 99% people don’t know how to do effectively.
Thanks for dropping by Michael.
I definitely agree, that it is hard to stand out when all the lead pages look the same. This does not promote a lot of originality for a product so expensive.
And like you said, a lot of people don’t have the money and even if they do invest in it, the training is not enough for them to make use of it effectively. If a landing page does not get ranked in the search engines for you to be able to get free traffic, then the only other way to go is to invest in paid Traffic, which would be even more money and can add up very quickly if you don’t know what you’re doing.
I have been around so many internet schemes offering financial success. I lost hundreds of pounds believing this was the right one, but it never was.
I was just about to give up when I came across Wealthy Affiliate. I am here to stay as I think its the best online business. Wealthy Affiliate does make financial dreams come true if you willing to work on your business.
After reading your review on Power Lead System in my opinion it does not even come close to what Wealthy Affiliate has to offer.
Richard, I am glad that you have found THE best platform on the internet in the end, which is Wealthy Affiliate. I agree with you, that Power Lead System does not come close at all to what Wealthy Affiliate has to offer. I know that there is money to be made with many systems out there but that it is only a matter of time before the whole system comes crashing down as they become saturated.
Hi,
Thanks for a great article. I think it’s vitally important to educate people on this type of program. Your article is well written and certainly educated me about Power Leads.
I noticed you mention Wealthy Affiliate, is their training methods in eBook form or videos? I prefer a visual method to learn and think I would be interested.
Cheers.
Darrin, thank you for visiting. I’m glad you liked this post. I certainly think that it is important to educate people who are looking for legit ways to make money, and not only for the short-term but for the long-term.
Wealthy Affiliate is one of the best training platforms online, where you get to learn in the form of videos mostly. The majority of people are visual learners and videos are also much faster to go through than reading.
However, there are also pieces of text to complement the information in the videos, and I can assure you that they are super handy. I am much more comfortable then, because I don’t have to worry about pausing the video all the time because all the important points are in written form right after the video.
Hope this helps you!
This is totally a copy of a Filipino Online business before I found Wealthy, as a beginner you will stamble because training are unlock, lock of support and you need to pay amount for upsells ranging to $1000 for Platinum level.
What knowledge you gather no web hosting you need to open in other. For you to invite people you spend money for FB ads, Google adwords, its crazy, Yes you are earning but you are fooling others and that against my Principle. For you to learn online marketing by way of Wealthy Affiliate, my #1 recommendation.
As a writer, I found this site useful in describing useful writing markets for paid gigs quickly monetized but only once per work product. The WA recommendation was good and very familiar. The site is something that I failed to find in the last month as I was searching for writing work, I don’t know why.
Hello John. Thank you for taking the time to go through my website. I’m glad that you found the information useful. Wealthy Affiliate is pretty popular online and might have been the reason why you found it to be familiar. It is one of the best affiliate marketing training platforms.
As for you not able to find this website, I want to let you know that the website is relative new. So this might have been a reason why you weren’t able to find it as easily.
Thanks for dropping by!
Thanks for the review. I think, it’ll be hard to make money through this system though it is legit. As nowadays lots of such money making systems available online and maximum of them are not legit. People are afraid of these scam sites.
As per my opinion, the affiliate marketing model is best and people also want to go for this. Sites like Wealthy Affiliate are really best platforms to learn online money making techniques through affiliate marketing.
Hi Himbru. I agree, that it will be hard to make money with this system, because the products that you will be promoting are only sub-par to the many that are available online nowadays. The price point, if it was lower, could have been an argument point that it may be worth it, but the price that it is at rightnow, in my opinion is not worth it.
I agree with you, that affiliate marketing is the best way to start your journey online. It has made people a lot of money and that’s only growing. Wealthy Affiliate is the best platform to learn from if you want to try affiliate marketing. Please do share with us your journey so far.