Turbo Membership Review: Did Delavo Make it Worth $147?
Tuesday
Jun 2, 2009
John Delavera released the much anticipated new version of JVManager/ Fantasos last week with an even newer name: Delavo. No ego there at all. He culminated this event with an even bigger change to his very popular Turbo Membership. A PLR and Resale Rights membership which entices new internet marketers to join forces with the Turbo Community to start onthe path to success Turbo style.
I bought into the hype and after doing a lot of research on Fantasos and the Turbo Membership for months, I decided that this was the right time to try the Turbo Membership out and see if it really was worth the price.
The price for me before it changed this week was $97 per month. You now have to pay $147 per month for this membership. That’s $1764 per year in case you were wondering.
Is it worth it? I’ll get to that in a minute because there are a few points to go over first.
The Turbo Membership sales page at: http://www.turbomembership.com is very good. It will make you want to pay for the membership right away. It offers so much it is almost too good to be true. In fact, I believe it is. Most of what you find inside when you join this membership is a confused array of items which are hard to navigate through. part of the reason is that Delavo/ Fantasos, while being a great software product, is not seamless in it’s design. The memberships you receive as part of the Turbo Membership must all be accessed through the Use-Sell.com website. You have to access each site and the email you receive as a new member points you towards a site which shows you a 1-10 type list of items to go through with the membership, but it doesn’t tell you much else. Then, there is the Blue Book.
The Blue Book is hyped to be the ultimate in Internet Marketing knowledge and it will suposedly point you towards riches you have only dreamed of. Wrong. The Blue Book starts off by telling you that the best way to start is to sell more Turbo Memberships. Yes everyone, put more money in John’s pocket before you do anything. The second step in the Blue Book is to start promoting the Turbo line of products in which you receive 95% Commissions. Then, once you have built up some cash, you can use the PLR products in the membership to sell or to create your own products to sell.
Does this sound like anything new? Not to me. Everyone is pushing this magical way to make money on the web. It is true, the formula works. But in this case, with the hype, I was expecting a whole lot more. Believe me, there isn’t.
To be honest, I have been through quite a few membership sites and I was very disappointed by the low quality of the product offerings here. Let’s walk through a few.
The PLR Product and Software you get each month are OK. Not bad products, but not great. They are your standard PLR stuff. The 4PLRpermonth items are decent and I would pay the $27 for it. Not bad at all. StealtheseArticles and the others like Software4Profit and Software Gold Club are just plain junk. In order to get anything out of the Software Gold Club, you actually need to pay for an upgrade that still isn’t worth it. Most of the software is old and very outdated stuff that isn’t worth anything to anyone.
The 400 products that are in the Turbo Profit Vault are there, but you won’t see them. You see, this part of the membership is built on a points system. You get 1000 points for a Bronze Membership and 3000 points for a Gold each month. You get the Bronze as a Turbo Member. What does this mean? With most products in the vault you will require anywhere from 800-1500 points to get a single product. In other words, you have to stay a Turbo Member for a long time to get the products you want. At $147 a pop, it just doesn’t seem worth it.
I could run down a list of sites which offer way more in value than this one. Yes, Delavo is a high quality platform. There is no doubt. Is it worth $147 for the life of your business? Not even close.
My recommendation is this: Get the Free Download of Delavo while you can and pay for one or two of the Plugins you will need. Yes, you will pay $97 per Plugin or more, but in the long run, it’s more economical to go that route. Go to the Warrior Forum and get a Warrior Special Offer for a solid PLR Membership or go to PLR Wholesaler and get all of John Delavera’s products through that site for a one time fee. He does a great job of keeping the new stuff flowing and you pay a fraction of the price. The site owner is a Turbo Member. Let him pay so you don’t have to. It is the best route to take. A site like Niche Empire is also a great choice for fresh PLR at a great price.
If you want to skip the Delavo hassles and get a similar set of features, you could do worse than Rapid Action Profits Member Plus. I recommend it.
The thing that surprised me was that the Turbo Membership included Hosting and an autoresponder account at TurboReaponders.com (an Aweber branded site). As of June 1, 2009, these items are no longer included. So where did the value go? Considering you could get the membership without them previously for a lower price, i can’t see what was added to increase the value of the memberhsip to $147. The new Turbo Dashboard is complete junk. You can go through the 1 sentence to 1 paragraph 32 point system in 15 minutes. I don’t know why they wasted their time with it. Nice graphics and that is about it.
The Turbo Membership is very complicated to navigate. Especially for beginners. Delavo itself is a project itself if you are a beginner. I’ve been around awhile and I am still trying to figure it out completely. There are a lot of other products which have more value and information.
The Turbo Membership is not a great place to start.
UPDATE: (June 8, 2009): As I continue to monitor the evolution of the Delavo launch, there have been a few workshops which would allow up to 15 people to attend and learn more about Delavo. The Plugin package which will take your Delavo installation and turn it into Fantasos 1.18 is still available for $997 (see here) and now, the first of what appears to be some very expensive, yet minor, addons for your Delavo installation.
After a visitor clicks on a Buy Now button on your website, they will be taken through the Delavo ordering process. This is a 3 Step process in which the buyer selects their product, pays, and then receives the product. Today, John Delavera has released Templates for this process (see here). At $27 for each template, this is beyond pricey, but don’t worry, you can get all 10 Order Page Templates for the one time offer “Special Price” of $197. If this is the “Special Price” I would hate to see the full price. These Order Templates should be part of the base Delavo installation, but should be an indicator of the Marketing scheme for Delavo which will include a lot of big ticket items with little punch. Watch the YouTube video attached to each Template and you will see there is really nothing special about them, but I am sure there are tons of people lining up to buy once again. (*Be advised, this is the price being offered to the Free Delavo mailing list, I am sure current Turbo Members are being offered a much lower price.)
If this is how much a basic Order Template is going to cost, imagine what you will end up paying by the time you are done customizing your Delavo install.
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