Blastoff Network – Another Scam or the Real Deal?
ByI’m not one to write long and drawn out reviews on the latest network marketing companies, so I’ll keep my review on Blastoff Network as brief as possible.
First, let me just say that this is NOTHING new! Amway/Quixtar has had this same “universal online shopping mall with multi-level payouts” concept for a while. Then other companies such as “My Power Mall” and “(crap there was another one, but I can’t remember..”) rolled out their versions. It’s a great concept too: “If I’m going to spend the money anyway, might as well get paid a bonus back on it, right!?”
And then comes the realization: if you’re going to purchase from the 3rd party story (Best Buy, Target, etc) through the shopping “gateway” (in this case Blastoff) there isn’t going to be much of a margin that you save. Usually payouts to “regular” online affiliates is 1-3%. Not bad, better than nothing right?! But now split that with 20 people in a downline?? Everyone’s fighting over 2 cents!?
Cutting to the chase – buying stuff from the 3rd party companies is NOT worth it. Instead of having the product when you need it (NOW), you’re paying extra for shipping (some of the time it’ll be free) only to get 2 cents back on the product. THAT is a waste.
Most companies that work this way have to have their own product line (Amway’s energy drinks, toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent, etc…) with a bigger profit margin so you can make more money. Now instead of cutting up 1-3% into small little bits, you’ve got more like 10-30% to work with – depending on the company/product/etc. But now you’ve got to get people to stop buying Crest and start buying “Blastoff toothpaste” or whatever. Again, good concept – but it’s not as easy as they describe.
The worst thing with these companies is you need to recruit a small country in order to make any REAL money with it. And it takes you between 5-20 years to do it ( :: cough -JOB- cough:: ).
Don’t get me wrong: I’m NOT against MLM! I’m not against Blastoff or Amway or whatever company. But you’ve got to understand that the fortunes are being made in more Direct Sales (or what many people call “GPT: Get Paid Today”)-type comp plans where you’re paid MUCH more early on in your business.
Example: when someone joins my primary business opportunity, I get paid $1000. And when they sponsor someone I get paid $1000. Do the math. How many people do I need to sponsor to make $5k/mo, and how big does your mlm business need to be to make that? Usually it’s the difference between 5 people and 150 people. Make sense?
Either way, I’m not here to sell you on a business – Blastoff Network or otherwise. What you 100% need to realize is that without LEADS, your mlm business is going nowhere.
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9 Comments
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Leave your comments down here! Get heard! What’s YOUR opinion on this company?
October 24th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Well yes you are right in a way, but they are more then just a mall as you describe. I agree it may be annoying getting spammed over and over with it but you have to realize all of Pre-Paid Legal who had 100,000 people at their event in vegas all got a Blastoff site at the convention. So a bunch of non internet savy marketers are all inviting everyone they can which means massive invites in the network marketing world. There is a bigger plan then it may seem with blastoff.
Your right though you won’t make much with it if anything at all until you have a downline of 100,000 people but I do believe one of the funding partners of this company Pre-Paid legal is a for real company and their comp plan has been endorsed by Robert Kiyosaki as the greatest he has ever seen (I have video proof of that). So take it for what its worth Blastoff may not be profitable but there is a link on every blastoff home page that says “Legal Help” and when this is on pizza hut boxes October 26th to get their free home page every time anyone ever needs legal help they will see that link. Then someone purchases a $35.95 plan and they pay out $252 on that. Not bad at all…
There is obviously more to it but not something I really want to go into on a comment for I don’t normally defend or promote any company up front. Its all about building your brand and selling “You Inc”.
Make it a great day!
Mike Hobbs
October 24th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Hey Mike! Thanks for being the voice of reason!
I didn’t know Blastoff had anything to do with PPL. I’m still not sure why they’re correlated (almost sounds like how Success U and World Ventures joined forces recently): http://www.adam-holland.com/blog/2009/04/29/world-ventures-buys-out-success-university/
Oh, and Kiyosaki is awesome btw.. Him and Trump are doing alot to make mlm more “mainstream”.
Lets see how Blastoff pans out!
Thanks, Adam
October 25th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Hi Adam, I found a bit more on PPL’s relationship with blastoff.
They are really unrelated on the surface. But what MLM start-up wouldn’t want to leverage the existing network of a successful public company? And what successful MLM company wouldn’t want to leverage a start-up that can help their members use the Internet and their contacts more effectively?
October 25th, 2009 at 3:22 am
hey Adam…
I agree that there are a ton of people
that don’t make much big money in the industry
just ‘blasting-off’ on facebook all day
and bugging their network and not leading with value,
yada yada yada, you know the drill.
Here’s a basic inside scoop from a guy
who struggled a lot in PPL doing BS hotel
ra ra ra meetings and stuff…
Then focused on the direct sales side,
offering the valuable service (ppl & ID theft)
to smaller local biz’s as an employee benefit.
Instead of recruiting 2-5 people per week and
dealing with a ton of attrition, I learned my
little hustle and have been doing more just on my own
a few B2B calls…
a 15-20min power point presentation
and usually sign up 5-10 memberships
(30-50 avg. attendance)but have signed up
as many as 48 in a bigger room at once.
X $172 each at my promotion level
was $8200 for a solid 45min.
bla bla bla….
so here’s the scoop on blastoff partnership:
half of it is hype…
the company is up front that
you won’t make six figures
with this “magic viral network”
BUT… and its a big but… TWO COOL THINGS:
1)there’s a totally free version where people
don’t become a rep, but can STILL make
(2-5% on any purchase over $25 on ref’s)
not a big deal, but it helps spread the
landing page.
2nd cool thing) If you ARE a qualified rep,
when the blastoff homepage presents the
product / biz opp presentaion,
they can sign up right from there on the spot
or opt-in to our autoresponder series.
when a sale is made, no matter how “deep”
from all the “free” affliates, the PPL
sales & new full members ROLL up to the
first qualified rep!
I have only made 2 sales like this so far,
but this is the cool part. one was on my
9th level!…
so 8 degrees of separation
between me and people who were NOT motivated
to make a substantial difference in their lives
lead me to ONE quality new team member.
and I didn’t have to dress up for a hotel gig
or give away a bunch of $5 dvd’s to do it.
The memberships rolling up to reps is the
focus of the marketing system & dashboard.
(MUCH MORE than the small hookups from target,
cell phone carriers, best buy etc etc.
so here’s a lil insentive for the people to
upgrade to become a full PPL rep for another
$129, free blastoff members get paid 1-3% on
10 levels, whereas real reps get a higher %%%
and can earn commissions up to 20 levels deep.
I’m not counting my eggs
on the whole blastoff system
as far as %%% on purchases, BUT…
I think it will double or triple
reps ability to gain more memberships
from roll-ups 20 levels deep.
I haven’t seen the other companies “dashboards”,
but the blastoff ones are pretty cool.
I can run twitter and facebook in a panel
TweetDeck syle and get custom sports,
monitor email accounts,
world news, magazine articles that i can customize.
I know one of my buddies got sucked into the hype
of efusjon with their viral social media facebooks apps
and isn’t making jack shit.
bottom line, i haven’t even really figured out how
to use the system but i made a $224 commission
from someone i never would have ever been able to connect
to on my own and rolled up from 8 people
who never joined as a rep, just to use a free service.
and still haven’t talked to them on the phone.
and above all, its been a cool lead source.
one membership so far, but I also have 20-something
emails and phone numbers to call back and touch
bases with to answer questions…
20 leads that i otherwise wouldn’t have yet
in 3 days since i upgraded my PPL/blastoff registration.
It’s more for undercover marketing and
referrals that will lead to memberships.
the %%% hookup for free ref’s
is just a motivator for them to
spread the word about saving some dough
(before people spend $$$ online for holidays anyways!)
without actually fronting any start up costs.
the oppourtunity / / membership video’s
are defaulted on the dashboard
(but can be minimized)
if someone is interested in either or both,
they can see who they know, that knows someone,
who knows me, so there’s less fear of
”getting sucked into one of those things”.
Its more of a feeder or marketing program /
with its smaller perks.
anyways… what’s your take on GVO hosting???
I’m already dropping $40-60 bucks
per month on that stuff
and thinking about switching to one
with it all linked up in the same system
tons of big marketing names use kiosk,
the parent company and now there’s a comp plan atttacted.
I know your old success U. buddy daegan &
bram smith are pretty pumped on it.
what’s your take on all the blastoff stuff,
now that ya have a lil glimpse of why it was created???
p.s. I just got the 123 power system (from someone else)
and that’s how I came across you.
I know a guy in nebraska who uses direct mail with PPL
and is killing it with memberships. he targets lists
of buyers, as well as people who are dealing with custody
battles, irs problems and home loans that have fallen into default
and could be in the market for representation.
have you used the direct mail system with 123 to promote GRN yet???
peace out.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:45 am
@Lanyss – then here’s a question for you: is this move by PPL a display that their weakening/losing ground? That they now need to partner up with another company to stay afloat? (just being argumentative here, because I KNOW PPL’s stock (ticker: PPD) – although it took a plunge at the beginning of this month – is still very strong compared to so many other stocks out there..)
@Erick – don’t let other people know about direct marketing! I don’t want ‘everyone’ to know my secrets! haha
Yes – I’ve done ALL SORTS of stuff w/ postcard marketing and more with almost every aspect of my business (I promote a few biz opps, but also tangible products and services as well – multiple income streams
Shoot me an email and I can get you some REALLY good resources.
All the best,
Adam Holland
October 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Adam,
Sorry, I have no inside information on any weakening of PPL. I don’t think wanting to expand their sales is necessarily a sign of that. I do know they are pushing this new network pretty hard because they have front and center promotion on it. Nothing beats free marketing. Unfortunately they didn’t do their due diligence and partnered with a company that can’t keep the service running.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Just a note, Pizza Hut is also promoting Blastoff heavily starting today: flyers on pizza box tops, and check their website too: http://www.PizzaHut.com.
They’re advertising as more than just an online shopping mall, also a homepage with all kinds of apps on one page.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Funny , PPL has not ever mentioned Blastoff ever since a few days after the hyped up launched fizzled. At the PPL convention ,Blastoff was introduced to team up with PPL. PPL said this was going to be huge, I hear nothing but silence now – go figure. where did all that hype and talk go?