I have never been able to recommend a particular lead source because all my signups for MWP are generated from my own website.

Also, I never recommend something unless I have tried it myself and had good results.

Today I have decided to test a lead source for you and report back the results. This means that if it doesn’t work, it’s my money down the drain rather than yours

I have purchased 75 Pre-Enrollees for a cost of $150 from Rachel Long’s CashExpand.com websie

I am NOT recommending that you do this as well because I don’t yet know if these leads are any good!

Over the next few weeks I will monitor the progress of this and see whether or not any of these members upgrade. I’ll keep you updated in this blog post.

Update Thu 21st Jan:

Today I purchased 75 leads for $150. This is a recurring monthly Paypal subscription, but the good thing is, PayPal is easy to cancel so if it turns out that this is not profitable I can cancel before the next payment. I put a reminder in my Outlook diary to make this decision in 3 weeks time. After purchase I had to send an email with my name, Paypal email address and the URL of my website.I entered the URL of my MyWorldResults lead capture page and added a source code to the end of the URL so that I could track it.

Update Tue 26th January

I’ve now received a total of 69 pre-enrollees from this campaign, none of which have upgraded to a full member. It has only been a few days, so I am going to be giving it more time, but my gut feeling so far is that these are very poor quality leads. My upgrade rate for my own leads has been closer to 20%, with many people upgrading within a day or two of pre-enrolling.

Disturbingly I received an email from one person just an hour or so after I received notification of her as a pre-enrollee. The email said “”What is this about? I didn’t sign up for this and don’t want it. Please remove me immediately”. This is rather worrying given that these leads are supposed to be people who voluntary optin to your lead capture page. I’ve also emailed a fair number of these people personally to welcome them and have received no response or questions from anyone (unusual for me) and a few of the email addresses have bounced.

I’ll post another update here as soon as I see progress.

Update 26th February

It has now been over a month since I ordered the leads. The end result has been a total of 68 Pre-Enrollees and 1 Upgrade. My conclusion from this experiment is that this lead source is extremely poor. A $25 commission in return for spending $150 on leads is certainly not a worthwhile investment, so based on this, I do not recommend this lead source.

Here is a screenshot showing some of the source statistics from my MyWorldPlus account. You can see the lead source from Cash Expand is highlighted:

So far with My World Plus I am finding that leads from my own website convert better than anything else I have tried. I am not saying that you shouldn’t buy leads, just that if you do, be very wary and be sure to try out a small number of leads first and don’t commit to a large payment or a recurring payment unless you are very sure about the quality.