Today I’m doing a review of a new software called Cloud Prospect Machine.

Now before I get into the video review, I want to clarify that I was a little mixed up on the name of this software. All of the promotional material for affiliates calls this Cloud Prospect Machine, however in the software the logo says SEO Command Center. I had not realized that the logo SEO Command center shows on all this vendors products.

Ok guys I’m going to ask you all to forgive me but there was a lot to test in this product and it took me forever to go over everything and make the review video. So I’m going to keep the text portion of this review a little short and just highlight the important parts.

First what is Cloud Prospect Machine? Its a software that is designed to be a business in a box that takes advantage of Googles latest Mobilegeddion algorithm update. The basic idea is that you can find people who need website updates, contact them, and then provide them with a mobile friendly site. I really liked the concept because there are for sure a lot of people who are going to want and need these services. The way it lets you provide these services is by using several tools that are built into the software. Im going to quickly summarize my findings on each one of them.

Mobile Prospector: This where the major work is done. This is the section where you search by keyword to find sites that need a mobile update. In my testing this tool worked. But its quite inefficient. When testing it asks you the number of results you want returned. You can select between 10 and 100 (in increments of 10). The problem with this tool is that asking for 10 results does not mean your going to get 10 people you can potentially contact. It means that the software will (seemingly randomly) scan 10 websites. Some of them may already be mobile friendly and some of them may not.

Also just because it returns some results of sites that are not mobile friendly does not mean its going to be able to find contact information for the sites. For example in the search above. I asked for 10 results. Of those 10 only 2 where non mobile friendly and possible clients. Neither of them had any contact info though so the search was a complete waste. I had to start over, do another search with the same keywords and get a new list of random sites. Another thing I noticed in a different search is that there seems to be no logic when it selects the site its going to scan. For example, it scanned mobile.pizzahut.com. Given that the scanning is a intensive and time consuming function I would have thought that there would have been some logic to filter out domains that are unlikely to be needing these services (such as subdomains named mobile)  but there is none that I can see. So as I said, this works (mostly) but is quite inefficient and for sure could have been done better.

Mobile Site Builder: This seemed like it would be a cool thing. After all your are going to need to have a service to provide people once you find them. The mobile site builder I believe is designed to be that service. I say believe because I could not test it. Why? Because this seems to work on a ‘slots’ system (which is basically credits) and there where no slots for building more sites in the JV access I was given. In order to get more slots you have buy them at a cost of $25 per 5.

Im actually a little confused about this because in JVZoo there is an OTO product listed for the mobile builder that is a monthly charge, so Im not totally sure whats going on with that. I messages Simon Warner on Facebook (the only one of the partner vendors I had contact info for) for clarification and for some slots to test with but he never answered me. So the only thing I have to go buy for this review is what the software says. Which is $5 per slot purchased in 5 slot increments.

Also I noticed that you dont actually get the code for the mobile site you build. It seems that you have to change the DNS of the domain your working on to point to their servers. This means if they ever go down or have server issues you might be in trouble. I think a safer (and free) approach would be to just install WordPress on a clients site and use one of the thousands of free mobile responsive themes.

As I said the testing of this tool is incomplete and leave some questions since I did not have proper access to it but I tried to give as much info on this aspect of this software as I could.

Site Auditor: This is suppose to generate reports for potential customers to show them the problems with their site and hopefully entice them to hire you for your services. It requires a Mandrill (email provider) account to send the actual reports which I did not have and I could not figure out how to get it to let me download my reports (you can see me trying in the video)

Yellow Pages Lead Finder: This is a tool that is designed to let you search for potential customers by keyword and location. It works well and it returns local business’s with their name, address, phone number, and URL if they have a website.

This I believe is an OTO and honestly I dont see why you even need this in the first place let alone need to pay for it as an OTO. Anyone can go to yellowpages.com, Google, or dozens of other directories and do this same kind of search for free. While it does not hurt that they put this in there it does not really bring much value in my opinion. This does have a one click button that lets you filter the results into the ‘Local Listing Analysis’ tool (more on that later) but is that enough to justify this tool? Im not so sure.

Analyze Local Listing: This is a tool that I liked and that worked well. It lets you enter a local business name and it will search and find if that local business has a website and if it does it will test to see if that website is ranked in popular networks.

This is a good tool to have since you can use it to find if local clients need a website or SEO services and I thought it was cool that they included it.

CPM Advanced: I have no idea what this is. As of the time of this writing (8.5 hours from launch) there was nothing in this section.

On Page SEO Scanner: This is the final tool and one that I got really excited when I saw. You enter a website URL and it will generate a SEO report and analysis. Well at least that’s what it says, or at least what I was lead to believe:

I expected it to give me some cool report that detailed common SEO errors on my site. Things like not using <h1> tags, or not entering proper meta tags or forgetting to put alt descriptions in my images. Basically I expected it to scan my site and find SEO errors that need to be improved. But I was let down. All this really does is list your sites internal and external back links. While this might have some value for SEO its not what I expected. My expectations for this tool it seems where far to high.

Ok so what do I think of Cloud Prospect Machine over all?  Over all I dont love it or hate it. I think its ‘ok’ not awesome but not terrible. While I think its interesting concept I also think its going to be a fair amount of work to make money with this.

Also I just think it needs some more tweaking and fine tuning. For example he Mobile Prospect tool could have been made a lot more efficient by filtering out domains it scans with logic or by caching results so that each search for the same keyword does not return results that have already been found to not be mobile friendly.

Efficiency is a major factor here. Why? Because you have to understand that these people you are contacting are not looking for your services. Unlike a product such as say: Arbitrage Underdog where people are actually posting and looking to have a service provided, these people are not seeking to have mobile update services provided to them (well they may be but you cant know if they are). In essence what you are doing is cold calling them. Even worse your not cold calling them, your cold emailing them! In fact you have to convince them that they actually need your services bad enough to hire you.

While some will be receptive many will not care, wont get your email in the first place, or will have other things to worry about. Like you know, running their business. In short you are likely going to have to send out a lot of contact attempts to get a client. Because of this speed and efficiency is super important. This is largely lacking in Cloud Prospect Machine.

While everyone needs to make a purchase decision on their own based on their perceived value I personally do not think I would have been happy with this had I bought it.

It think its going to be a lot more work to get a client than people expect. As I said these people are not coming looking for you. You are sending them unsolicited emails, they dont know you, they dont trust you, and they where not actively looking for you. I have experience writing job proposals to clients because of my years as a freelance developer. Even though I was one of the top rated freelancers (in the 98th percentile)  on most of the freelance sites I often had to write 30-40 proposals just to get a job, and this was with people who where saying they wanted to hire someone. With this you will likely have to send out a couple hundred and talk to people personally (hope you have good sales experience) just to get one client. I mean its not like your going to send out some emails and suddenly your going to get flooded with orders and people sending you money.

Also I thought it was uncool that the mobile page builder was limited the way it is. Had they included that it would have added a lot of value to the offer because that alone would have been something you can use no matter what. But they chose not to include it and to make it a pay per use service.

Personally after giving this a lot of thought (I even slept on it over night before deciding my final opinion) I just cant get behind this one. As I said I would not be happy if I purchased this and as such I cant recommend other people buy it either.

UPDATE TO VIDEO REVIEW: I just noticed as I’m finishing this review they now have the correct tutorial videos in the software and they have made them more easy to access, at the time of me testing they where not in or easy to access. Also I want to be fair to the product and point out that when I was testing there where no tutorial video’s available, so something such as the Site Auditor which I could not get to work may be more easy to use had I had them.
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Brett Rutecky

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Brett Rutecky is a full time online marketer, web developer, and entrepreneur. He has developed scores of Facebook apps, dozens of custom web sites and hundreds of scripts.

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