I know how this can turn some people off; I too was new to such offers once and a complete newbie at money-making offers online.

So I decided that today I’d write about the actual, factual evidence for Blastoff, not just more hype. (Like I admit you may find elsewhere on this blog.)

So if you came here today looking for hard facts and real answers about what blastoff is and if it is worth your time, read on… You can even turn off your hype-scanners and filters for the duration of this page.

Fact you need to understand #1: Blastoff serves different roles for different people.

Some people, namely the people you heard all of the hype from, are looking to make money with blastoff, building a ‘business’ by building their downline inside Blastoff.They want you to join Blastoff from their email or by going to their page, because if you do, they make a tiny percentage of the cash you spend on online purchases in Blastoff ever after.

Other people, and this really should include everyone online, should enjoy setting Blastoff as their homepage (portal page) because it offers so much more than any home pages before it. For instance, the My.Yahoo.com, Microsoft Live, AOL, and Google home pages all offer neat widgets and gadgets like the ability to set backgrounds, choose the news feeds that interest them, see a quick-view of local weather, and some even show a preview of their email. Blastoff goes way beyond this by letting you watch TV and videos, Listen to internet radio, play video games, and best yet, chat with your friends through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr.

Still other people want the Cash-Back shopping. Blastoff has a “Mall” area on your page there that includes the top 400 Online Merchants and is growing daily. (Yes, WalMart, Starbucks, Sears, iTunes, they are mostly all there already.) So if you are a Blastoff member and shop online in your own page’s “mall,” you not only get exclusive shopping deals, but you make a percentage of the sale back in the form of a check from Blastoff each month. It can be quite addictive.

Fact you need to understand #2: Blastoff makes it all too easy to spread the word.

The one thing that Facebook did that allowed it to generate 100 Million Users in 9 months flat was their innovative contact-importing technology. They gave new members a way to upload their existing friends and contacts and send out invites to them all quickly and without a lot of thought.

Facebook did a great job, of course, but Blastoff has taken this technology and run with it much further. Where Facebook was limited to 5 (I believe, there may be more now) ways to import your contacts, (such as from your outlook software, your hotmail account, and so on) Blastoff has at least 10 different sources, including a way to simply upload a simple spreadsheet with any email addresses you happen to have lying around.

This is the reason why your inbox has filled up with this email:

Email from Blastoff sent to the world in Oct/Nov 09

It’s just too darn easy to send it.

Keep in mind that there are only 220 Internet users in the world today. Facebook invited 100 million in 9 months, and those are just the ones who ACCEPTED these invites… Surely a billion or three invites went out during that timeframe.

Now Blastoff makes it twice or three times easier to send out invites, so it is likely that all 220 Million internet users will receive this email at least once in the first 9 months since Blastoff’s blast off in October 09.

Fact you need to understand #3: Blastoff pays people to spread the word, too.

If that weren’t enough reason for your inbox to fill up with Blastoff emails, here is the mother of all incentives: Unlike Facebook, Blastoff additionally pays people, in the form of downline earnings, to send out those invites! I cannot imagine what it would have been like if facebook had paid users for sending out invites. Surely the additional incentive would have driven them all the way to 220 million in the same amount of time.

Fact you need to understand #4: Blastoff additionally secured 4 big Corporate backers to advertise it.

As if the viral invites system wasn’t good enough, Blastoff has arranged for 4 giant corporations to push Blastoff to their customers in November 2009 as well. Pre-Paid Legal, (with its’ 100,000+ associates, all who have lists of prospective clients) the United Way, the Dallas Cowboys, and Pizza Hut will all be promoting Blastoff directly too.

They have not made it public why they chose these particular four Corporations, or what the terms of those arrangements are. However it is pretty obvious that Pizza, Charity, Football, and Legal services serve different demographics of the world and will therefore do a great job together of spreading Blastoff to the most people possible.

So if you take facts 1-4 together, it’s easy to see now why your inbox is completely stuffed with those Blastoff emails.

Fact you need to understand #5: What’s In It For Blastoff…

Most people searching for the truth will start with this question, but I figured I’ll end with it since the ramifications are so large.

Normally you wouldn’t think that a little 1-page website would have such huge aspirations, but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Blastoff is out to become the #1 website online, beating out Google.com and the other most-visited websites on the web.

Thankfully there appears to be nothing evil about this plan, they just want to have the best online real estate, like Donald Trump would like to own the world’s best hotels. In Blastoff’s case, they won’t be collecting rent, however, they will get paid in two ways:

1. That big, honking ad banner on the upper-right hand side of every Blastoff page. Make no mistake, this 300 x 250 pixel box is about to be the very most expensive ad block online, bar none. It will be shown to the largest amount of people online, in and out every day, and better yet, when they first open their web browser, not at the end of their browsing session when they are tired and unresponsive. I can only dream about what kind of revenue they will generate selling out that ad space… Surely enough to make them very successful.

2. Their share of the Mall purchases. All of the stores in the Blastoff mall are affiliate programs on some huge affiliate network out there somewhere. These affiliate programs each pay their affiliates a little higher percentage than what Blastoff knocks off in it’ Cash-Back and Downline Earnings offerings.

For instance, let’s say Sears.com is in your Mall with a 2% cash back offering. That likely means that you could go find the affiliate program online in an affiliate community like Linkshare.com or Commission Junction for a bit higher, like 4%. What blastoff is doing is giving you, the member whose mall it was purchased from, half of their affiliate earnings in the form of a cash-back check after a month, and then deducts a little more (such as another 1%) for your referrers, and keeps a percent for themselves. Not a bad deal.

I know what you are thinking; yes, you could bypass them and join the affiliate program yourself to get the whole 4% commission, but trust me, it’s not easy. First of all, they have rules against buying from your own link, and they track IP addresses to make sure you don’t. Secondly, your website has to apply to these sites, and bigger stores like Sears don’t want piddly little 10-people-a-day websites selling for them. Finally, it’s just a lot of work to find and post all the right links before buying through them. Most feel it’s not worth the trouble.

But for Blastoff to get 1% of a commission from 200 Million people’s portals? For EVERYTHING they shop online for? Wow… They may make a billion a year in profit from that alone. Good thinking, Blastoff!

So all in all, what you really need to know about Blastoff is that they are providing a few services for free that everyone will likely be using in the near future. In return, they hope you buy through their web pages and click on their ads, which is exactly the same business model Google enjoys. Everything so far appears on the level, and they do appear to be completely unstoppable. If you own Google’s stock, now might be a good time to consider dumping some. Their ad space is about to become less valuable.

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Take special note of the short film at 4:25 where he shows the embedded film for wordpress & facebook widgets… It’s by far the best recruitment tool yet!

Also, look at that awesome landing page (at 3:25 in this video) that people will be landing on after you send them invites… Wow, very good stuff!

Other notable points taken from this update film:

• They estimate between 25 and 50 Million emails going out on the launch day, which is why they had to set back the launch. (0:20)
• Even before Pre-Launch, the BlastoffNetwork.com  domain is in the top 2000 most-visited websites already. (1:15) Actually, I see it at about 1,877 in alexa already!
• 3 Spam Compliance Tips to help your email marketing. (1:50)
• The MAIL services that you’ll be able to import contacts from include Google accounts, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Outlook .csv exports, any vCard export, and even your own manual entry spreadsheets. (3:03)
• The contact system is very automated, so if you load up more than 250 invites, it will automatically pull down the next invite on the list to send to once an existing invite has accepted your invite! (3:50)
• There will be many other Widget-type marketing tools for blogs and social networking sites to help you recruit Blastoff downline members (4:00)
• Merchants accepted to blastoff are now over 400! (4:42)
• The Band behind all of this cool Blastoff music (Polyphonic Spree) is giving all blastoff members a free album download. (5:02)

This was a really exciting update, I hope they let me keep the film here forever. Even though there was a launch delay this update keeps pulses high and expectations soaring!

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Given that Social Media is obviously an unstoppable force that is already dominating the world and will continue to gain additional time in each of our daily lives, you’d think that the previous internet home page portals like Google, Live and Yahoo would have capitalized on this fact by now and inserted things like your Facebook and twitter panels in.

No such luck. I’m sure they WILL do so in the future, if for no other reason than to play catch-up to Blastoff, but the fact is that they did not do so in time. To little, to late. They will never regain that market share… Ever.

Why? Because Blastoff pays its users. Cash in the form of rebates and downline earnings… Google, MSN, and Yahoo have no desire to build their own vast networks with all the individual merchants like Blastoff has done, and it may in fact be breaking their own laws to do so because they have to keep their search results unbiased.

So, since they didn’t do so before now, and since Blastoff will always be able to offer more incentive to its users, and especially since everyone WILL know about Blastoff well before Google and it’s ilk catch up and put social media panels in their portal page, Blastoff simply won. End of story.

So what exactly does Blastoff win?

The largest ever prize on the entire internet. The very best, most expensive ad placement space online. Everyone’s Home Page. Google ads aren’t even close… Getting your ad on the front of Blastoff portals would be the online equivalent of placing an ad on every billboard in the world, at once. All of them.

I just know that Google especially is kicking itself right now, and GOOG stock is going down soon once the shareholders realized how big Blastoff gets and how fast.

The one thing that could ease that drop-off in Google’s stock price is when Blastoff announces who will be the Search Engine that they offer through their portal… They are currently in negotiations with Google, Bing, and other search providers and I’m sure it’s in Blastoff’s best interest to sit on that decision until after the 27th.

The bottom line here though is that Social Media and Blastoff are a match made in heaven. Don’t be surprised how useful you find your blastoff page once you get yours… We’re all addicted to ours here and can’t imagine going back to the old way of using a my.yahoo.com portal page and then leaving it to go to facebook, youtube and Twitter!

That would just be downright uncivilized.

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientists to see that there is some kind of connection between the two companies, so today I thought I’d explain exactly how the two are related.

Pre-Paid Legal has been around since 1972, and to date it’s been very successful, as far as any network marketing company (a.k.a. direct sales or MLM) goes. It’s even traded on the NYSE as PPD, which is doing great these days. Meanwhile Blastoff, which started out totally unrelated, was building its’ portal a couple of years ago when it met with Pre-Paid Legal representatives to talk about a possible synergistic partnership.

What Blastoff could bring to the table was obvious; the perfect platform to make every home page  in the world theirs, which means the most valuable online real-estate on the web.

What Blastoff needed, however, was a way to distribute it quickly. Very quickly, before a competitor could copy and start to compete with it themselves. It wouldn’t be the first time this has happened.

That’s where Pre-Paid Legal (PPL) fits in, they have a huge network of associates that would be more than happy to spread the word about Blastoff. -In exchange for some of that valuable real estate:

PPLs Ad on all PPL Blastoff Pages

Shown actual size, this large banner above will likely only be shown on the Blastoff portal pages of PPL Associates, as a tool to recruit their PPL downline.

This deal was struck to give all PPL associates access to Blastoff early and they’ve had it since September 13th, 2009. Since then they’ve all been rushing to get their existing PPL downlines into their Blastoff downlines and gathering their other lists of mailing addresses to start pushing it to the world on October 12th.

As of October 12th, PPL associates will have an advantages, especially since they are preparing for the push in advance. That is why we signed up with PPL, so that we could get this advance push time ourselves.

For the 14 days between October 12th and October 27th, anyone receiving an email invite from a PPL associate, or someone they recruited, can become a member and send invites to members themselves.

After this time three other organizations, the United Way, Pizza Hut, and the Dallas Cowboys all get similar deals of exclusivity from Blastoff too, but of course the cat is already out of the bag, at least as far as the email invites go.

Meanwhile, for coordinating this huge Launch on the 12th, Blastoff is giving PPL a huge gift of a link on every page, presumably forever, that looks like this:

PPLs Link on the Blastoff Portal Page

This large link on the front of EVERY Blastoff portal is going to bring PPL a lifetime of free traffic that is roughly equivalent to purchasing the #3 AdWords spot from google… For every search term ever made!

All in all, I’d say it’s a match made in heaven, and both companies are going to do very, very well for this deal. If there was any doubt that PPL had enough exposure to become the #1 direct sales company of all time, that worry can be put to bed, and trampled on now. And if there was any worry that Blastoff could get enough initial momentum to go fully world-wide viral, PPL, all of you, and even Pizza Hut, the United Way, and the Dallas Cowboys will all ensure that this awesome portal is going to be the #1 most viewed web page online.

Since it will best operate as a home page, the collective portals of all Blastoff members should easily outpace YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, and even Google  as the #1 site online by the end of the year.

Yes, you have really arrived in the right place at the right time. Be ready on the 12th!

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