Mike Filsaime Franchise model secret

Just wondering the same thing. $2,000 is a lot to spend for a product, and if it takes 2 months to find out it is not working, a lot of wasted time as well.

The link to the webinar replay is The Franchise Model Secret By Mike Filsaime just in case someone wants to look at the vid and give their opinion. And no, it is not an affiliate link, it is right out of Filsames email.
Thanks,

So has anyone actually purchased one of the three packages he is offering? any results?

I have not bought-in. Not because I don't think it's worth it, but because it's right before Christmas. Even if you make sales you have to wait to be paid, and I need all the extra money we have right now:-)

I would like to hear from someone who did buy and how it's going, too, if there is anyone here who did?

Happy Thanksgiving to those in the states.

Tracy

I don't like his products. I must admit he can sell like the best, but it's all on emotion. Imho this product is highly overpriced. He gives you resell rights of some products he own. So you still need to get traffic to your squeeze page. Traffic that will make him money. You are just an affiliate driving traffic for his websites.
If you're thinking about it you are paying to be an affilliate.

I don't know Mike Filsame, but I do appreciate accuracy, so I have to say that if you buy this package, you're not really paying to be an affiliate. There's more to it, and it takes the investment of 2 hours or so of your time to get the full picture. It has more resemblance to a franchise, than a mere affiliate program, without the royalties

The product is a $47 dollar package that is mailed to the visitor for free. Then if they sub to Mike's newsletter, you get $23 and Mike gets $7. So there is that aspect of being an affiliate. But then if your prospect responds to a coaching or other upsells on the backend, you keep 100% of that profit.

So it's more like a souped-up hybrid of your standard affiliate program, that puts you in business instantly with your own site on your own domain, and takes care of the hard/expensive/time consuming parts for you. I know enough about IM to know that if properly promoted, you WILL make money with this package. And so will Mike, as he should for putting it all together. It is too pricey for me, too, so I agree with you there, but there's a bit more to it, and I would look closely if you have more $ than time right now:-)

Have a great night!
Tracy

Even though this is not to evaluate whether the Franchise platform can be profitable or not for you, in case you did not realize, the truth is you did not participate of any real webinar:
The webinar was not really live, it was not "real time" at all. It was a video he pre-recorded and by means of a new script made it appear as a real time webinar.
If anyone wants to know what script does the trick,I'll tell you. Very ingenious, only that by the time many marketers start using it, it will not be a trick anymore.

Hey Mike Ambrosio ...perhaps you can help me, seeing I'm getting no response from the support desk.

I requested a refund for the Profit Platform due to concerns with the quality of the free CD's. I got an initial response from Steve, 'Support Associate' saying: "We would love to discuss this with you in person, so if you would please provide your phone number and the best time to call, we will be happy to talk to one on one and come to a resolution with you." The further wording of the email does not inspire confidence in their 'refund guarantee: "To see if you qualify for a refund, Please submit your original receipt as an attachment to your reply back to us. (or copy and paste it into this ticket) If you have already submitted this , thank you." (I had sent my original receipt with my refund request).

I replied (ten days ago now) with a number I can be contacted on and the best time, but I have not been rung. I have since emailed support twice more, requesting to be informed the status of my refund, but there has been no response. For such a high priced product, I don't believe this level of support is acceptable.

So, I have to say that so far it is my experience that Mike Filsaime is quick to 'talk the talk', but not so quick to 'walk the walk' when to comes to their 'no questions asked' refund guarantee.

If you can help resolve this, I'd certainly appreciate it Mike Ambrosio. I'm not able to PM you as I haven't mede enough forum posts yet.

Thanks

Hi. I bought this. I was super excited about it. On getting into the websites, I found that the video for each product was exactly the same, just with a different voiceover, a different image of the product. The same pieces of the jigsaw puzzle going together on the video, so yes, whilst it was professionally produced, that was my first moment thinking.. hmm.. hold on a sec...

I bought this at the £389/month price platform. About a week after I had bought it I got a call - on my cellphone in London, from the US - from someone trying to 'help me' by selling me on some $8000 product. This was the 2nd time I thought, hmmm... not liking this. Obviously I didnt buy it but they were quite persistent.

Honestly I have heard nothing but good things about Mike Filsaime and of course he seems to be a great marketer, but I just felt like a statistic, a number on his list to be milked for as much as he could get out of me by his 'team' with no regard for my situation, personality, feelings, etc.

Went from bad to worse. I then got an email saying my credit card had been declined. But call this number and they could 'help'. I called it since 1. I have free calls to the US and 2. I wanted to give them a piece of my mind and say How dare you lie to me and say my card was declined, you already have the payment LOL...

Ive never seen tactics as sneaky as that. The person I spoke to was dismissive, buck passing and really pretty rubbish.

Anyway in terms of the product, I found the disc making drop shipping people to be expensive, absolutely inflexible, unprofessional - they got my name wrong within 5 mins from a direct email, took nearly a week to not even process my order, communication was crap from start to not even finish as they didnt make it that far... the actual interface was OK to make the website with, but like some other people here I found I just kept thinking how many other people would be doing the same thing?!

Finally one last note I wanted to add, its now nearly 4 months since I bought this and got a full refund (even a refund was hard to get, they tried offering me a discount, etc etc, Im like no FFS, just give me my money back ASAP please!!) - and I just got a call tonight from someone 'from mike filsaime's team.'

After I told them my experience, they said they werent actually part of his team but work with lots of high end IM 'gurus'. LOL.

Anyway had a reasonable chat, I told them there was no way I was buying any high end product, they kept going for a bit, my last words were' sorry, Im starting to get a bit bored of this conversation now... ' (after about 15mins on the phone) - to which they hung up.

So, one last jot of respect for his customers from Mike Filsaime. Thanks a lot! Hope my experiences shared helps people. Its really sad when people get so far removed from their customers that this happens. BUt at the same time, I think its up to you to make sure it DOESNT happen. Mike has not bothered to do this. I'd bet a fair amount of money Im not the only one this has happened to either. ANyone?? :-)

Have a great day y'all and make loads of money :-)

Hi Guys, I bought Mike's system about 2 weeks ago... no make that 3. I have been jumping through the loops to get the system in place, takes a bit of time, but I am about to start promoting. But guess what.... I hadn't checked the quality of the free give-aways that are supposed to help use build our mailing lists and lead people into purchasing the high end products on the back end. Well guess what, the give-aways are rubbish. I just checked a few this morning in preparation (I know I should have done this right away after purchasing - unfortunately there is no to do this prior to purchase, I assumed they would be of the highest quality coming from Mike) and discovered the stuff is written by some one who is obviously not a native English speaker and the videos seem to be voiced by a computer reader program. Very painful to listen to. So needless to say I am pulling the plug on this today and counting my losses as lessons learned. The system that Mike has put in place is great, the websites, the back end, and I have learned heaps just from setting it all up but I am to embarrassed with the very low quality of the give away I can't proceed with it any further. Well... got to go and get my refund. Cheers

The Franchise Model Secret By Mike Filsaime

AKA – The PlugnPlay or Plug in Profit Platform.

I bought the 5 site package after getting really hooked emotionally during the webinar when Mike talked about how he was there to help all those struggling to make it but hadn't yet. I should have left the webinar then and there and done some research before pulling out my credit card. But it's hard to do when you think the webinar is live – turns out it wasn't. Mike and co are running these so called webinars almost everyday. I have come across more invites to these 'exclusive' webinars at different places around the net since. Not only is Mike using this kind of system but so are other marketers at this time. So be careful... almost none of them are live anymore.

As a side note: I have been on training webinars where they are teaching how to run webinars to make them look live and tactics to handle the question and answer session to re-enforce the illusion. It's all about smoke and mirrors these days so be wary of committing to a purchase when you are feeling under pressure and that this “live” webinar is your only chance to get the deal – it's not. Learn to walk away when you are emotionally engaged. Do the math, talk to others, check out the Warrior Forum, do some research.

During the webinar he goes in-depth on how he is successful and we can trust him. How he is different from all the rest. Talks a lot about the franchise model and how he is introducing it to internet marketing so we get a ready to go business-in-a-box when we pull out our credit card. I thought great, just what I have been looking for. The products looked OK, though restricted to the IM market, but what we weren't shown was the content of the free giveaways which are supposed to help build our list and give us people to upsell to on the backend. So as I said, looked great, but you can only see/read/view the content once you have purchased. Big mistake on my part. Why didn't I see that during the presentation we were never shown the actual content of these free packages? On the internet now a days the quality of free content is going through the roof so anything that is being given for free has got to be tops. This stuff isn't.

Problems with the free content include very poor level of English. Obviously written by some one whose first language is not English. Some didn't even make sense until you re-read it and try and work out what they are trying to say. I was very disappointed in the quality from that perspective but also that content of the reports/DVD/videos is very low, fluff almost, compared to what anyone could find searching on the net themselves. And out of date. Quotes from 2008 resources and statics. Not exactly current stuff. In addition the voice over for the free video trainings sounds like a computer reader program – very disturbing and difficult to listen to. That combined with the fact the text is poor quality English to start with – it's a nightmare!

I have asked for my money back of course, in case you are wondering, and would recommend others do the same and for those considering.... to walk away. I have asked for a refund but I am not getting anything like the level of support and action you would expect after having forked out such a large amount of money. The support team had been always quick to respond when I had questions about the system, getting things setup etc, but when I came to asking for my money back.... very slow to get back to me and or give me a status update. Hopefully I will be able to post something positive here soon about the refund request.

The Franchise Model Secret By Mike Filsaime is not a franchise or a business-in-a-box in reality but more a way for you to pay a high fee to become an affiliate for Mike and his empire.

See other comments in this thread for more reviews and user/buyer comment.

Since I bought his AffiliateDotCom last year, I had to contact his helpdesk as I had a little problem with my recurring billing. I was transferred straight to the affiliate Manager for the problem to be dealt with. Towards the end of the call I was offered the Franchise Model "Profit Platform" in last October (I believe). I hadn't heard of it, before he mentioned that to me then. He then tried giving me a link and date to a future "so called webinar" but I refused to accept stating the time variation. He then instantly provided me with a replay link. Wow!...at this moment I was just thinking - how can I have a replay of a future webinar? He was telling me something like - this is Mike's new product after the AffiliateDotCom and won't last long so I should take action immediately.

Well, I watched the whole webinar. The affiliate manager rang me back the next day, as he had my number and asked me how I felt about the product. I said the product looks good but I didn't have enough money to buy. He then came down to bargaining - and said how much were I willing to pay for? How much money did I have then? or words to that effect. After a few minutes of conversation he offered me the course for $1500 (unlimited version).

When I still refused to take the product, he clearly shown me an attitude and hung up on me. That was utterly unexpected and totally unacceptable behaviour from someone who is trained for the Affiliate Manager and has been working for someone who is an IM Guru?

I watched the webinar for three times as Mike is so convincing but still didn't buy because of the attitude of that Affiliate Manager. But now after seeing reviews from warriors who tried and tested the system, I am glad that I didn't by it then and I would rather like to thank that affiliate manager for being rude to me and saving me $$$$.

Kind Regards,

Rabindra

By chance, I got an invitation to "The-profit-platform", and I must say the webinar is VERY well conducted, built up, etc, in order to get you in the bying mode..... which I was in after the webinar......as well as the concept looks very professorial, and he even talks about how he had pros to do all the initial videos for the different landing pages you can choose to setup

But when I took a deeper look into it, it seems that "The-Profit-Platform" aka "Quadratic-formula" aka "Franchise model secret" are the same...

And I wouldn´t mind that, except when i read the threads it seems that the initial free gifts in this turnkey system is outdated, and of very poor quality/language...... And whats even bothers me more, is that the thread ends very sudden, after months of comments, but without MikeAmbrosio (Mike Filsaimes rep?)
presence.

So does anybody know if this has been fixed??
And NO ONE have given any feedback that they actually make money with it or not, or if it brings traffic in, how it converts etc.......

Mike is claiming that for every lead/visitor, you will earn 75 $, from the sales funnel setup, even though you initially give a CD-rom away for free (except S&H)

Is there anybody who have purchased it, who is willing to submit some testimonial now ?

Glad I checked this thread out!

As for the software, it must be the same he now sells as the Evergreen Business System.

check the link http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...-thoughts.html

There the claim they will be around forever, and let nobody down, and will be the leading edge in the webinar-game..........even though there´s no recurring fee
Is that worth believing?

Clarethwaiths and Harlan....Thank you for coming forward on this one:-)

I have dug some more into this specific marketers, his methods and reputation, and must say I am very pleased that i didn´t buy :-)..... as your post clearly shows as well.

Now i can fully understand, why no ones has posted ANY success stories regarding this product.

i have bought it at the full price and i have a few subscriber to the mdc newsletter but the thing that i dont like is the call center , it make me sick when someone call me because i have bought a product and must give my cell phone number , they try to sell me something none of these people are sucessful internet marketer, they are train but they are not sucessful im if you know what i means so why i would like my clients being call by them, its a nonsense, pardon me it's my 2cents

Hi...

I've addressed Mike's franchise model on another thread and just came across this thread today. While not trying to repeat the comments above I have purchased the system... had BIG problems getting it running... and needed assistance along the way.

BUT... I expected that.

Mike's offering a franchise model... not an automated money machine that you just switch on. Get real... he's sharing with us a sales funnel that works for him and the software he has developed to make it possible to replicate what he does... easily.

When did anything online work first time?

The CD's ... are varied.... some good, some weak... I agree. But you can go out there and source some great PLR for a few dollars more...and make your offer original. I had a new video created for $10.

It is a slick marketing vehicle that works. You just need to personalise it. If you believe you have any creative and marketing skills and are determined to build a business online this is the sweetest product you can find.

If anyone wants to know how I'm making money with it... PM me anytime.

If you want a very similar product at a fraction of the price (the poor man's version) I can redirect you towards that also... just ask me.

I know a couple people who bought in. They were both impressed with the amount of info included, but have not yet been able to get on the right track themselves.

Gurus have an uncanny way of milking money out of people. It's all hype and targets the emotion. They teach you one thing but you have to buy this more expensive product to make it work, if you buy that another more expensive product should be bought, it never ends. Sad because it's selfish and people who have less gets victimized.

The input from all of you is what makes this forum special, I almost
bought this but thought I would check here at the WF first and I'm
glad I did. Needless to say I am not buying. The guy has no
good comments about his product. I also unsubscribed to all of his
future emails as well. Let us continue to help each other to weed
out those in this industry who have products that should never be
sold on the market place.

Thanks All