Tonight Im writing a review of a new training called eCom Subscription Pro

This is a very unique product in the IM business, at least it is for me. I don’t believe I have ever seen one like it in fact. So after I went through about 1/3rd of the training I asked the vendor Jon Bowtell to have a live chat with me about it. You can check out or conversation and my video review below.

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Several months ago eCom products took the world by storm. When I say eCom products what I really mean is selling physical products on Shopify. Ever wonder why? Well he is basically what happened. The shorted version.

It all started when I guy was making some really good money online selling physical products on Shopify. Well one way or another this guy met up with a marketer in the IM world and they decided to sell a training that teaches how he does it and they sell a bunch of copies and make a bunch of money. Well this is all well and good and would normally be a happy ending (except in the IM world). At this point everyone is a winner. The guy got some side cash, the customers got to learn how a real Shopify store is run,  the marketer put some coin in his pocket for making it all happen. Everyone basically is a winner and everything is right and well in the world.

But then it happened. What always happens. Other marketers see that a bunch of money was made with a Shopify product and suddenly there are 500 other Shopify products teaching basically the same stuff, with very little new, and the obligatory screenshots that show gross sales not net profit. I have seen this happen many times. It happened with T-Spring, it happened with Fiverr, and it happened with eCom. One guy starts it and then every copy cat marketer decided to try to jump in with their own product to cash in on the new ‘trend’.

So honestly when I first heard about eCom Subscription Pro I was not to excited at first. Really I kind of judged it before I even looked at it. I thought to myself : Oh yay another eCom (aka Shopify) product .. just what the world needs. (not)

But the word ‘subscription’ made me curious so I decided to check it out and frankly now that I have I’m really glad that I did.

First of all, let me get it out of the way. This is not a Shopify training. This is not about setting up a web store. Its about selling a small number of products. Perhaps even just one or two of them as a subscription. Yes you sell physical products on a subscription. Consumable products. Products that people are going to need over and over.

The first thing that popped into my head when I started watching the training was ‘Dollar Shave Club’.  These guys are following the exact model that eCom Subscription Pro teaches. They sell a very limited variety of small, easy to ship consumable products (disposable razors) that people are going to need over and over.

This is not a new concept either. Its a very well proven concept. Shave Club is just one example. There are actually many examples. Cigar of the month, DVDs, Music, Book of the month, hygiene products, supplements, if you really think about it, you can probably come up with others. People have been selling small, easy to ship, consumable products on a subscription model for years.

There are a lot of advantages to selling a consumable product on a subscription model. First of all you don’t need a big store with tons of different products. Since what your selling is consumable and people are on a subscription getting it monthly you really only need one product. Also it lends itself better to long term revenue.

Think of it this way. If I have a jewelry Shopify store and I get a customer to buy a ring. That customer will never buy that ring again because she already has it. So the only way I can get more sales is to either add a new product that hopefully the customer will like (but there is no guarantee she will) or to find a new customer. What this means that my store is always struggling to either expand its inventory or expand its customer reach. Since each sale is a once and done income, the moment you stop expanding either reach or inventory your in trouble.

Now look at the subscription model. You have a small light wight product. It does not really matter what it is, it could be razors, supplements or just about anything. But its consumable. This means that unlike the ring it the first example the customer will need it again. So you don’t need to constantly expand your inventory or reach to get more sales. People are in a subscription model to replenish the consumable product you know they want since the bought it the first time. Sure your still going to want more customers like any other business but since each customer is an asset that brings in sales over and over you don’t need new customers. In short a customer goes from being a one time cash infusion as with a jewelry store into a monthly income for your business.

It does not take much to see how the subscription model not only simplifies things by limiting the need for a huge invintory but also makes really good financial sense.

eCom Subscription Pro teaches you how to set up a business to do this yourself. It covers everything you will need. From getting started, to finding a consumable product and sourcing it, and even explains how to get target traffic at a low and easily profitable cost.

Now in the interest in being totally  transparent I need to point out a few things about the members area I didn’t care for.

First was my pet peeve of the training videos having a little logo intro on each one of them. I still cant figure out why some people make us watch them over and over in their training videos. I dont need you to keep telling me the name of the product. I didn’t forget.

Second is the way the titled the training. The videos why very clear and easy to follow are broken up into modules. Each module is listed by number, so its module one, module two etc. This makes no sense. They should have some intelligent and easily identifiable names so that way if I want to revisit a section its more easy to find the module I need to go back to. In eCom Subscription Pro its even worse because they titled the video by number. So its module 1, then video 1, video 2 ,video 3 etc.

Now the vendor says you should watch them in order and this makes sense. But he neglected to anticipate that people might want to revisit and re-watch specific parts of the training. By having them titled and grouped this way its going to be hard to remember which video you need to watch if you need to go over something a second time. I frankly think this was big oversight on Jon’s part.

Despite these things though I really liked this training. Jon is a very good teacher. The videos are clean and crisp from a technical aspect and I found him very easy to follow. He explains everything you need in detail without rambling on, getting boring, or filling up with fluff.

So what do I think of eCom Subscription Pro over all? Well I love the concept. I love the fact that its not a new concept, its a proven concept  that companies have used for years. I also really like that with tech today anyone can get into it fairly easily. Anyone can build a site, source products low cost from China, and use Jon’s traffic methods and be in business. That is in fact what Jon is teaching. He is teaching, in detail, how to build an actual business. Because of this I’m going to say, if your looking to build a real business you might want to take some time to consider eCom Subscription Pro.

 A quick note about the reviews I do on this site. The product vendors give me access to their products for free in order for me to do my review. However I make no promises to them regarding the results of my tests or what I will write in my review. Should you click a link that takes you to a sales page for a paid product for sale this link will be an affiliate link and I will be paid a percentage of the sales price should you decide to invest in it.

About the Author

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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