I really don’t know what to make of Mili Ponce and her Social Media Profits system.
She has earned herself quite a good reputation as being ‘one of the most sought after social media experts in the world’, who often speaks at conferences and seminars all over the world.
She claims to have made over two million pounds from marketing through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
In the article preceding an interview with Mili Ponce, Carly Taylor from socialdivamarketing.com says of her: ‘It’s funny because Mili Ponce was the interview I was most intrigued about because of her notoriety … [but] it was like chatting to a friend. That is the beauty of Mili and why people love her so much… Because they can RELATE to her. There is no hype. No drama or sugar coated nonsense, just straightforward advice and solutions and a real warmth that shines through. I can see why she is so popular.’
You see my issue with her is that her sales-page for her Social Media Profits course is crammed full of hype and drama. It’s really one of the worst I’ve ever seen. By the end of the over-long sales patter (6,800 words – I kid you not – I used to write essays half that length during my English Literature degree!), you have little idea of what she’s selling, other than it’s some sort of ongoing course about making money through social media sites, in particular Twitter.
She spends 2,500 words giving us her life-story, emphasising how hard it was coming from Peru to live in Cambridge and bringing up her daughter, working five jobs at all hours of the day, and then says: ‘Now to cut a long story short’! …Let me just quote that again, out of sheer disbelief: ‘Now to cut a long story short’! Five-hundred words for your back-story would have been cutting it short! She goes on to talk about a seminar she went to about ‘Financial Freedom’, which was the catalyst for her to pursue money-making in the social-media world.
‘Within my first 25 DAYS I banked US$800 playing around with it… By the 5th MONTH I was banking US$10,000 A MONTH… In MONTH 6 I banked US$50,000 in just an hour using it… And together with a friend of mine, in just 9 MONTHS had taken over:- ONE MILLION DOLLARS!’
No hype? I don’t know about you but I equate SHOUTY CAPITAL LETTERS to hype.
She then provides screenshots of ‘proof’ of earnings, lists the bonuses you’ll get and offers the course at an ongoing cost of £29.95 a month. This is quite an expense, month-on-month, but if she really has made this amount of money, I was intrigued, despite the fact she has given nothing away about how she actually makes the money.
A couple of days later I received two DVDs (each lasting about 35 minutes), an audio CD (10 minutes) and the first module (80-page booklet). This consisted of an introduction to social media sites and how you can build up followings to promote your businesses and products through. It still did not tell me about the system Mili uses to make her money.
So far, so pedestrian. Obviously, you have to commit to payment to learn anything of any use.
So, after accessing Module 2, perhaps I’m being a bit harsh, but I wasn’t overly blown away. She clearly is an expert in the field and much of what she says makes sense. She shares her knowledge of how best to build up your followers on Twitter and ‘likes’ on Facebook, and when I implemented this, I did see some results.
However, I do not like the nature of this product, in that I have to pay £29.95 a month and am never sure exactly what I’ll be getting next and if it will be of any real use to me. I can foresee myself working my way through each month’s module, siphoning out the filler to locate those golden nuggets of information. I wouldn’t mind so much if it was half this price, but I really can’t see it being worth the money. £29.95 a month soon adds up and I cannot see how I’ll be making the predicted $10,000 within five months.
Hello Mili Ponce Here, I just wanted to say, the Social Media Profits is my course but promoted and sold by a business partner not me, you do get my course and me after you buy it, but it is a course that is only sold and distributed by a business partner and he does all the promotion , selling and processing of it.
He is a marketer and promoter so as any business will, marketing is used. But I do like you to know, I am here if you want to ask me any questions and I do care about what people say as I do not want to give the wrong impression. If you think it is not for you I can tell you it is only for 1% of every group of people that buys it because only 1% takes action and does 100% what we teach, nobody that has done 100% of what we teach has not made money (not millionaires as I do not teach to be a millionaire, only to make an income from the internet), the problem is people let life get on the way, or are not motivated enough, don’t have the right mindset to finish what they start, or they give up just when they were about to make it.
It is not for everyone and we are happy to cancel any memberships if you feel it is not for you.
All the best
Mili
Hi Mili
Thank you for the clarification and if we have any questions from our readers about this i’ll be sure to pass them on.
Hello,and am I addressing Mili?
I bought the system 10 months ago, but I have only recently started to implement the system properly, starting in January 2013. I am on Module 4, and working through it as thoroughly as I can. I even paid a computer expert to help me for an hour yesterday,and tuition is not cheap! As I have almost paid for the entire course, I feel that I may as well try and see it through,especially as I have the time. I have also received support by emails, but I wish I could have a phone number to ring when I am stuck or confused.
The last support letter told me to pile through the modules,and that I will make money when all the ‘dots’ are joined. I have spent many hours working on the system,and I intend to pursue my dream.
There are many doubts that still exist, and only time will tell whether or not this scepticism is justified. I am still wondering how and when the product ” I am promoting” will be seen by a buyer,how the free gifts will be received,and how and when will income materialise. Some assurance and encouragememt is much needed.
Meanwhile I shall plod on, and I can hear people questioning my sanity ! Having paid,and having time on my hands,I may as well keep my dream alive. I was encouraged to read what Mili says about following instructions literally and not giving up. I would love to hear from others who are in a similar position.
Come on Mili, get in touch and talk to me!
Regards,
Mukul
I agree with Sara too much hype and not enough meat. The second installment wasn’t any better than the first more fluff and filler and I emailed to cancel but got no reply and noticed my card was charged. Not happy at all with this setup. More than likely will be piecing together some “great reviews” online soon.
Dave
I subscribe to the course. I was all fired up at the begininning and quite exited to start, particularly after reading through an amazing sales letter. When the first module came it just seemed to be a repeat of the salesletter without giving anything away in regard to training. So I had to wait a whole month impatiently before the next one came along. I received 2 at once the next time which meant that I would definetly have a start at some actual training. I found the start of training quite clear and easy to grasp. I’m not a techie person so I appreciate clear step by step instructions (which is provided here). I began to follow the setting up of twitter and an accompanying website to detail. I got stuck on a process and emailed for help. I sent an email to support which I then had to wait for it to be forwarded to the product owners to get a reply. When I finally got a reply I was told that they were no longer using a particular website which was in the training manual and then supplied me with the website which is now being used! As I said before I follow everything with internet marketing step by step. Because there was no instructions for this new site in the manual I felt thrown off course (thought I was doing ok up until that point). I felt that I wasted alot of time learning a set up process which was no longer in use. I was told in the email response that the new website set up is much the same as the old one, but by now I lost confidence. I hope to get back on it again to see if I can really get it off the ground, but I need a lot of hand holding. Phone support would be
nice to talk to a supportive human being.
It would be nice to hear from some people who have been on the course for a white, and hear their success stories, I am waiting for module 2 on this course and I think if this course works, it would be well worth £29.99 per month, it remains to be seen, I will come back and let you know how I get on.
One thing is for sure, if we keep doing what we’ve always done,we will stay in the same position, we need to take a new direction and maybe milli is the one to point us there I hope so.
Gary
I agree, an email contact or phone number would be a great help ….
For the ones that are asking for an email, and email address was sent to you by mail in one of the books. I can’t put it here because it is only for our students and this blog is public. By writing to that email you can ask for a video and a diagram we have, which is in one of the monthly books too, where we explain the whole system how it comes together.
For the ones that say it is not enough meat I hope you appreciate people pay £5000 for the same course which can make them a lot more than that, so to make it fair but available to people that can’t pay that amount, we have divided and extended the course long enough so you can have access to it paying a lot less but of course it will take many payments and many modules to get the all the content, because the value of the content is a lot higher than what is paid.Pretty much like paying in installments, it was the only way to be able to make it available to everyone.
We are not and I repeat we are not teaching people how to press button, make money, we are teaching people marketing, we are teaching people digital marketing so they can sell anything they want online! How much you can make is up to you, depending on the product and the amount of marketing you build up. Simple, and it is how it works for any business online or offline, home business, local business or corporate.
Have you seen how much a marketing course costs? The last marketing course I took cost me £10 000, and it wasn’t even as much content as our full course has. The full course is more complete than any digital marketing course I ever heard of, we have many marketing agencies buying this course and implementing this with their clients. They get shocked of how much more they learn than what they actually new and they are marketing companies.
I am sorry, there is not get rich fast without the work put into it and the effort and the time, this is a marketing course like any other, so there is no chance to judge it as “doesn’t work” or ” it is not worth it” because the content is purely a digital marketing course like any you can get in a school, then apply to any product.
This system is implemented not just by people making a business online but by marketing companies all around the world. We didn’t invented it we learned from them and now we teach it to others.
Just this last weekend we had 2 marketing agencies from London coming to our workshop and they have this course and they say they have learned so much and it is helping them incredibly with their clients. More than they ever thought they could do in social media.
I am sorry to disappoint you all if you wanted a fast button make money, this is a real business to be run and managed, which needs to be set up, tested , tweaked and grown, in how long you can make sales, it depends on the amount of hours put into and how well is learned. We can’t guarantee you will implement it as it is shown, neither how long it will take you because that depends on entirely the student. People make sales after a month, 2 months, 5 months, 6 months, 1 year etc, depending on when they implement it and how much time they put, it will not be the same if you put 1 hour a week or 1 hour a month than 1 hour a day.
If testimonials are needed, pretty much every corporation, chain of restaurants, cafes, supermarkets are testimonial to it. It is all about bringing people’s attention to your website using online marketing and then get them to give you their details (reward cards….why do they give reward cards when they could give the same discounts without a card ? and they give silly excuses on what the card can do for you…) to build a list which is what our course is about.
We are not teaching to make a social media business, that is not at all, social media is a 10th of the business, it is an email marketing business, just like Costa, Tesco, Sainsburys and many other companies, amazon, ebay etc. do after you sign for their reward card. Building a list to then sell to you again and again.
That is the idea, bring people from social media to your website where you can capture their details in exchange of something for free, and then by email sell to them your products.
That is in summery the whole course.
Nothing invented by us, nothing to do with press button make money, purely a digital marketing course like any other, which it is for sure worth a lot more.
People that know me know that I am very direct and I say things as they are, and this is how things are.
In any business all you need to do is believe in what you do and focus on the positives and deal with the difficulties without giving up so you can continue the journey. If you focus on the negatives, nothing will work. Not even something like this which is proven by thousands of companies, local businesses and home businesses. Ever heard of people selling on online shops? Selling clothes online?, selling , cupcakes online? How do you think they do it?
Digital marketing, so to all of you I wish you realize that you are learning marketing, chose your product and market it as much as you can with the strategies we show you and that is all it takes like with any promotion of a product.
I am here to answer any doubts you may have. I don’t expect you all to like the course as it is not for everyone, if the mindset is not there, no matter what you try will not work.
I change my life for ever not learning how to do marketing online, but by doing personal development for years and reading personal development books that helped me to understand that it is up to me for anything in my life to change, nobody can help me, only myself.
All the best for all of you guys!
Regards,
Mili
Do you have courses so that it is possible to meet and be instructed in person?
Of course, if you are still interested contact me on mili@cambridgeonlinebusinessschool.com
please help. i have your course and am stuck on month four. i also do not have the last month yet. i am behind and am suffering from precrastination and concentration as well as no confidence in myself to succeed. YET!. As i have so many problems on my head but i know some of them can be solved, if only i can complete the course and make a success of it. please help milli. yours.