iBizWave Preview

(Calling this a "Preview" because a "Review" suggests I've seen and tried this service, and it's currently in beta to only a few users. So I'm commenting based on what they have shared so far.)

I've come across a new "all in one" marketing tool (still in pre-launch) called iBizWave that the early adopters are of course hyping up so you'll join. And the problem is, even while you're conceptually told what will be included, you cannot see it in action yet.

So as usual, I'm concerned that people are so geeked by the possibility of income from referring something, there is no care about the quality of the product. They'll refer it before they use it.

Now based on this screen shot, it does look like they've put together a professional user interface:

What I saw suggests that the monthly cost will be anywhere from $25 to $100 per month. At the moment, there is a $125 start-up fee and then a monthly cost of $50/month for their Silver package, which begins getting charged 30 days after your start-up fee. And yet, the ONLY thing apparently available at this time is the system for promoting other people into iBizWave. (Maybe you can already use it for e-mail marketing???)

Eventually, the Silver package will include:

• Dashboard / reports / training
• Publisher (appears to just be an integrated WordPress site however, which you can get for free)
• Contact manager and e-mail marketing (can't tell how large a list you can grow or what features it includes)
• Social marketing platform
• The ability to sell this to other people.

Because I haven't worked with the platform, I can't say how useful it will be for others, but to me there are much more affordable ways to do all of this. Use WordPress, Blogger, or (my favorite) Weebly to build a free site. Weebly is extremely easy to use.

Then use something free like Hootsuite to manage multiple social accounts if you're using them. And for e-mail marketing / autoresponders, use TrafficWave, which is already established with excellent deliverability rates and gives you unlimited lists and unlimited subscribers for $17.95/month. Now you're saving a whole lot of money.

Maybe you need the training. Maybe you like the all-in-one platform. But if you're looking for a cheap and easy way to pull the essentials together, this option does it.

Still looking for an income opportunity? TrafficWave as a standalone a high-value product -- which can go on anybody's established website, or gives people their own landing / capture pages -- has a multi-level referral program if you want to share it. And if you bring enough team members to TrafficWave (details on request) after joining through my link, I will develop you a professionally written series of autoresponders for YOUR business ... no extra charge. You won't be getting that anywhere else.  ;)