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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. 

If you read this Blog on a regular basis, then you know I am not one for pushing a lot of Marketing hype.  On May 17, 2009 however, everyone should be hyped.  If you have ever wanted to centralize your entire online marketing business with a product delivery/ membership/ complete affiliate solution, then on May 17, 2009 you should be ready because John Delavaro is releasing his next generation Internet Marketing platform that day and giving it away for FREE.

Let me explain.

John Delavaro is one of Internet Marketing’s Big Guns.  He has dominiated with his Turbo Membership empire for the last couple of years and has done it with the single best Internet Marketing Membership and Product delivery suite on the market.  It was originally called JV Manager, progressed to his monster platform called Fantasos (or JV Manager II).  Now he is releasing Delavo.

If you have read my article on what I consider to be the 3 Top Membership site software products on the web, then you will know that the only reason I said that Fantasos was not my number #1 pick was because of it’s cost and because it was a “hosted” solution. This kept it out of reach for a lot of new internet marketers.  Plus, with a hosted solution, you didn’t have any independence from John’s business.  You had to stay with him.  I didn’t like putting all my eggs in someone else’s basket.

That has all changed.

John has listened to the market and is now releasing what is expected to be the next generation in Internet Marketing software.  It will allow you to centralize your business and affiliate programs, regardless of what server your websites are on.  It will give you every option imaginable from shopping carts, to single sales page sites, to complex memberships, to a complete payment and affiliate solution for your business which will allow you to run your business from one single software script.  John is touting this as the only solution anyone will need.  based on what Fantasos could do, I believe him.

So how much is it going to cost?  Well, here’s the deal.  For one week and one week only, John is giving this new Internet Marketing Platform away for Free.  Yes Free.  Absolutely Free.  What’s the catch?

The only catch is that you have to sign up in advance here:  Delavarian Marketing

When you get to the site, it will have a video to watch.  I watched two of the videos and I can tell you that they made almost no sense to me whatsoever.  The important thing is to click on the sign up link, submit your information, and then confirm by clicking on the link in the email you receive.  After you confirm, you will receive an email outlining that you are now eligible to receive 1 Free License of Delavo.

Here is what I received in my email:

By just being a subscriber to this list you are entitled
to 1 free license of DELAVOtm – John’s new turbo platform,
based on Fantasos(R) core machine.

You will receive the instructions on how to get this bonus
through May 17 to May 24.

After this event, John’s website says that Delavo will only then be offered through his Turbo Membership site.  Even if you are just a tad bit curious, you should sign up.  As I said before, I am not one for a lot of hype, but this is beyond hype.  This is a must do for any Internet Marketer.

If you are wondering why all the text in this post is crossed out, I have several striking reasons that will definitely enlighten you.

First:  After receving the email that was for my free copy of Delavo. (It didn’t say that it was for Delavo.  It was an email from the Use-Sell.com website that is the hub for all of John Delavaro’s business.  The email just had a link to the Updates page for JVManager 2.)  Well, the email link didn’t work.  I contacted Customer Support and was told my link would work eventually.  Once the link did work, I read through a very confusing system that finally led me to my download of Delavo.  Now, be advised that before you can register your license for Delavo, you have to pick a top level domain and you cannot switch your installation of Delavo from this Domain unless you pay a $47 domain change fee.  Nice huh?

Now, if that wasn’t enough, the user forum for Delavo was just shut down yesterday (May 31,2009).  It seems that Free and limited information given to Free users was too much for John Delavaro and his associates.  They didn’t like that people were using the Forum to share information about Delavo.  I know; it shocked me too.  People sharing information in a forum dedicated to a product. Nonetheless, John Delavaro shut down the forum, so now Free users will have to rely on another forum (like the WarriorForum) to help each other.

Here is the real kicker.  After getting Delavo and installing it, I found that it is indeed the base installation.  If you want to use it for your business, it is ready to go.  If you want any special functionality; you are gonna have to pay for it.  I just received an email telling me how I can pay a nifty $997 to revert my Delavo install back to the last (and what appears to be final) version of Fantasos (JV Manager 2).  Fantasos 1.18. 

If you were looking for a true Freebie here, well then I guess we were all snookered. I believed it too.  I was wrong.  All the Free Release of Delavo was for was to get you to install it, see the huge potential, and then get you to pay the large fees which the Plugins will cost you to add increased functionality.  That being said.  Delavo is a high quality product.  But if you want to add special features to your products like One Time Offers and other neat Marketing tools, you will have to pay for the Plugins.  If you are happy with Delavo the way it is, which is a fine product, then you will not have any problems.  Except maybe support.

I also tried the Turbo Membership and I have to say that I was extremely unhappy with it.  I will be writing a review here about it in a day or so, but the bottom line is this:  They took away some of the features like hosting and the Autoresponder account and increased the price from $97 to $147.  I don’t see where this membership is even close to being worth $147.  Most of the products you get to resell are just plain junk or rehashed PLR products.  My opinion.  One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.  I’ll let you be the judge.

 You can Still Sign up here if you think it’s worth it:  Delavarian Marketing

If you don’t know what RAP or Rapid Action Profits is, you are definitely way behind the power curve on easy Internet Marketing profits and list building.  RAP is based on John Ledger’s very popular $7 Dollar Script, but now the guys at RAP have taken their product to a new level with a Membership site capable version called:  Rapid Action Profits Member Plus.

First off, if you don’t know about the $7 Script concept or RAP, let me give you some background info.  The $7 concept is based on the premise that most individuals will buy a product, which appears tobe highly valued or a product with little value for $7.  It is cheap enough to make people buy and then a squeeze page is used to get this buyer added to your mailing list.  Now on top of this, you can instantly create affiliates which now can make 100% Commissions off of the product you are selling, but not the One Time Offer.  OTO’s are always placed on the backend of the product sales process and this is where the continued profits are.  Multiple sales can be created and recreated by constantly mailing the list with new products which are still a measly $7.  Eventually this adds up to quite a bit of profit. 

The RAP script, now in Version 3.0, has taken this to the next level and now you can give your affiliates a tools page and they can get stats. Commissions can be manipulated, Joint Ventures can be made, and the possibilities are endless for continually promoting to PAYING customers as opposed to Freebie seekers.  RAP is an outstanding script which has made many Internet Marketers a lot of money over the last few years.  Now, enter RAP Member Plus.

RAP Member Plus is the newest offering which allows you to not only add the original RAP functions to an unlimited number of websites, but now you can roll any of these sites into a Membership site with a one time payment or recuring billing.  You can make stand alone membership sites out of pre-existing sites, new sites, Wordpress blogs, and pretty much any site or directory you want.  You can take any RAP site you have and with one click, you can add that particular site or product to any RAP Member Plus membership site you have.  This all comes with a complete Administrative backend where you can easily manage it all.  This is a one time purchase as well.  Once you buy this you will never have to buy it again.  It can be used on as many sites as you want and the upgrades are free for life!

I personally use the RAP script on numerous sites and it is essential in my Resale Rights/ PLR product offerings.  As people buy, they are always encouraged to buy again.  I ussually keep my prices in the range of $6-30, so don’t think you are required to sell at $7.  That was just the original concept.  I actually sell a few products at over $100.  There is no limit.  Plus, with the PAYPAL Instant Payment Notification Plugin, you can guarantee there will not be any fraudulent sales.  The downloads are secure and you can even time when you want content delivered with RAP Member Plus.

Email addresses can be collected with every sale and the One Time Offer function is built in to make everything easy.  In fact, this script is so easy that you don’t have to have hardly any technical knowledge at all.  As hard as it is getting to get new Resale Rights products on Clickbank, this is the single best way to guranatee repeat sales and profits.  I like to offer my affiliate 100% Commissions on low end products to get tons of traffic to my more expensive One Time Offers and it also gets them on my list.  I end up raking in more profits this way then I did when I was trying to make a ton of money per sale.  It is a strategy that works.

CHeck out the features of the basic Rapid Action Profits 3.0 Script and compare it to the new Rapid Action Profits Member Plus script and you will see how it can simply transform your Internet Marketing business and take it to the next level.  Highly Recommended!

Building Membership sites can be the most profitable of any endeavor you take on in Internet Marketing.  Black Hat and White Hat enthusiasts alike have made tons of cash from simple Membership sites which offer nothing more than recycled content to complex ongoing sites with new unique content.  Either way, if you want consistent, recurring income with little to no effort after you complete a website, then creating Membership sites can make you a steady stream of monthly cash like no other source of income can. For example:  If you had 3 Membership sites which cost Members at total of $49.95 per month for the 3 Sites and you averaged just 10 new members each month per site, you would be making $5994 per month after one year.  That is $71,928 a year!  Most people would kill for that kind of income and that is with just 10 new members at $49.95 spread across 3 sites with low monthly fees like $9.95 or $19.95 per month!

The important thing to remember is that when you create a Membership site, it should not be just focused on Internet Marketing.  Internet Marketing is actually a rather small niche when compared to the multitude of other niches which can be exploited.  Weight Loss, Acne Help, Art, Music, etc.  Most profits come from these sites and not the Internet Marketing niche.  You don’t have to be an expert in these areas to make a good site.  Just do what any good researcher would do and go find the information and then build your sites or hire a Freelancer from any freelance site and have them do it for you.

Having an easy way to build Membership sites is key.  After many trials and tribulations, I have found that not all Membership Site Software is created equal.  Not even close actually.  I have found that many sites which offer Membership site software or scripts are usually not as good as the Sales Copy on the website that offered it.  MemberFire is definitely one of the most disappointing products I have purchased as far as scripts go.

I have 3 Membership site software products that I can honestly recommend.  All of which have so many features that I cannot possibly list them all here, but I will give you the highlights and you can check the list of features yourself.  We all have different requirements, but all 3 of these give you the kitchen sink with features.

Update:  I am really surprised that no one called me out on this article.  I wrote this hoping to ellicit a response from people who have used these products as I have.  If you look below you will see that there are strike-through’s on my Number #1 and Number #2 rated Membership site software scripts.  That is because neither on deserves to be in the Top 5, let alone the Top 3.

Butterfly Marketing is a great script, unless you need support, which you will eventually.  The Support structure for any and all of Mike Filsaime’s products is subjective to how the support staff feels, or in my case, they may never repond to you at all if you are asking for something simple, like a REFUND.  Plus, while the Butterfly Marketing script is a pretty good script, you can get better for hundreds less that what they are charging for this.  This is a complete Rip-Off if you ask me.  Mike Filsaime is a great internet marketer, there is no doubt, but he is only looking for your money.  I mean, what magic does this script have that would make you pay $1000 or more for it?? The answer is nothing.  I will show you why in a minute.  The only decent product Mike Filsaime has produced is PayDotCom and he uses the data from that service to make more money for himself.

Fantasos:  Another great script if it were just a script.  With the first version of JVManager, John Delevara gave you a great script which has a huge number of features for internet marketers.  When he came out with version 2, it was focused on a strategy on how to make more money for himself and build on it using his Turbo Membership platform.  Now, not only do you either have to have his $97 per month membership to use the Fantasos/ JVManager 2 software, but if you don’t want the membership, you will pay $3000 to get the full hosted version.  Yes, you can get smaller hosted accounts for anywhere from $27 to $97 per month, but when you see the stripped down features, it points you right back to “why shouldn’t I justget the full $97 per month Turbo Membership?”  Great marketing, but your hosted version is tied in to John Delevara’s main Fantasos server.  This allows him to continually make money from you for the entire life of your account.  Once oyu are hooked in and your business is built, you cannot just pickup your business and move it easily.  John Delevara is counting on this.  Can you make a lot of money with his Turbo Membership?  Yes.  But if you want independencefor the long term, do not use this software.

So what are the REAL Top 3 Membership Site Software products?  Look below: 

1.  Butterfly Marketing:  I purchased this software 3 years ago and subsequently returned it.  It had so many bugs in the script that I kept receiving errors and just got tired of things not working.  A friend of mine told me to go back and revisit it about a year ago and I was surprised to see that not only was the software much improved, but it had so many new features that I was blown away by how much I could do with it.  If you want to create any kind of Membership site from any kind of website template, whether it is Flash or a standard Sales Copy type site, then this is for you.  You can created an unlimited amount of Membership sites.  You can use PayPal, Authorize.net, Clickbank, whatever.  You can have as many Affiliate Programs as you want, One Time Offer pages, upsells, a Help Desk, etc, etc, etc!!!  The main thing is you can host it on your server and you are not tied to anything except what you want to accomplish with the software.  It is extremely expensive if you buy it from the main website.  They offer it in a complete package with a ton of additional software, but even if you just buy the download version instead of the at home version, it will cost $797.  It is definitely worth it, no question, but if you want to get the best deal going on the entire package, go to The 7 Figure Secrets site and order the 7 Figure Secrets book for $7.95 (it gets shipped to your house).  You will see a check box when you order which asks if you want to see an offer for 85% off on some great software.  Click that box and then turn down the One Time Offers they present you with until you get to a page where you are offered the 85% Off Offer.  There is where you will find the Butterfly Marketing 2.0 Membership site software with the very impressive $497 Hyper Plugin and Upsell Plugin with the Full at-Home Package (not just the download version) and you also get the complete $1297 7-Figure Code DVD Series (100 Hours of how to use membership sites to make money) all for $897.  Yes it is $100 more than just the download, but the additional products you get for a measly $100 are more than worth the extra money.  You have to know what you want with this deal, but this is the only back door method I know to get this kind of software package for that low of a price.

Most of us don’t want to spend this kind of money on Software and I don’t recommend doing so unless you are completely dedicated to making money with this type of system.  But when it comes to Membership site software scripts, there are none better.  But there are other options.

1.  Instant Member:  This script is easily the best on the market.  For $197 you will get a script that you can litterally run your entire business with.  From Download Protection, to having control over your Members area with multiple levels of membership over numerous domains, one installation of this software can take care of all of your sites.  One Time Offers, Upsells, Cross-Sells, back-end administration, 3rd party Autoresponder integration, Clickbank, PayPal, etc., this is an all inclusive product.  You have to check out the features to see if it fits your business model because it doesn’t have everything possible, but it has more than most.

2. Fantasos(formerly known as JVManager):  This Membership site software is part of the Turbo Membership Network (also known as Use-Sell).  JVManager 2 Fantasos is different than JVManager 1 in that it is a hosted solution versus just being a script you can install on your server.  The Fanatsos platform has so many features and allows oyu to link multiple membership sites to each other, offer multi-tiered affiliate programs, create Joint Ventures, and just like Butterfly Marketing, has more features than you can shake a stick at.  It is even more expensive than Butterfly Marketing if you purchase it outright.  If you buy your own hosted version, at $2997, you can sell additional hosted versions for 100% profit from your account for $27-$97 per month.  But, just like Butterfly Marketing once again, there is a more cost effective option.  If you purchase the $97 per month Membership at the Turbo Membership site, you will get a mountain of resell Rights Products and the ability to receive 95% Commissions from over 200 Sites sponsored by John Delevara, the owner of the Turbo series of websites.  You have to go to the site to truly appreciate what $97 per month will buy you. 

2. DLGuard:  DLGuard is almost on par with Instant Member with its features, but it leans towards being a secure script for creating and implementing digital products from Mini-Sites more so than Memberships.  You can create unlimited Membership sites with one installation of DLGuard, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not as integrated as Instant Member.  I love this software because with one installation, I can use over 15 different payment processors.  plus, once I create products I can use them over and over on different sites with having to upload the product to another location.  You can litterally upload all of your products to the Amazon S3 site and serve them to 100 different Membership sites if you want.  You can do this to a certain extent with Instant Member too, but it is so easy with DLGuard.  My favorite feature of DLGuard, is that I can copy products an serve them using copies of the same website with Clickbank, PayDotCom, 2Checkout, PayPal, etc.  Thus creating more avenues of income.  So, depending on what your business structure is, you might thing that DLGuard should be rated as the Top Membership site software instead of Instant Member.  It is all in what feature set fits your business model.  So check them both out.

3.  EBizac:  Now if you’re saying to yourself that each of the above options are way out of your league and you are looking for a more economical way to run your Membership sites, then the EBizac hosted solution is for you.  With EBizac (which was just released a few months ago) you get a complete business platform which includes a complete shopping cart, multiple site capable, download protection, affiliate program creation, complete autoresponder, and Customer Support Help Desk solution.  It also has a long list of features and currently costs a mere $29.95 per month.  The Autoresponder that is integrated into the system is as good as any I have used on the market and has a long list of features which I believe could sell for $29.95 per month by itself.  You can create an unlimited number of sites with this hosted solution, but the key is, you don’t actually host any of your sites here, you just used the autoresponder, link tracking, affiliate program, members areas, and customer support features there.  Otherwise you host everything else wherever you want it.  You can run affiliate programs with Clickbank or independent programs or both simultaneously with this solution.

With all of these Membership site options, you cannot expect to make a lot of money without a good Autoresponder solution.  As you see with EBizac, it is already included, but with the other 2 options it is not.  Aweber and GetResponse (my favorite) are the 2 best Autoreponder solutions on the market.  It is important to get with an Autoresponder company and stay with them because you can build a large list over time with tons of messages built into the system which are very difficult to replicate if you continually change providers. 

As with any software, your Membership site software needs to fit your company or business model.  Take a look at the solutions here and see what fits.  EBizac is good for the beginner, while, Butterfly Marketing Instant Member and DLGuard are good for a complete business solution.  Fantasos is built with the Resell Rights/ PLR focused entrepreneur in mind.

Take a pick and enjoy!