Free and Powerful – Trap For Young Players

Unless you’ve been under a rock, this program has been everywhere and anywhere over the past month or so and I was intrigued by it, so I took a closer look.

Free and Powerful is essentially a sales funnel for GDI, a MLM program that has been around for eons in Internet Marketing terms and is a $10 monthly payment program that has earned SOME people a lot of money, but the point is that to earn good money with GDI, you need an army of trained  affiliates recruiting for your downline.

Will you receive $50 in your Paypal account after signing up?

No

You have to earn another $50 before being paid.

Now let’s consider this carefully.

To earn that $50

You either have to spend $97 to “flip your your power switch” and earn $40 commissions on every referral that chooses to flip theirs or remain a free member and earn $17 on every member who flips theirs.

To be frank a $40 commission on a sale item of $97 isn’t great.  In fact, it is at the lower end of the industry.

Let’s do some maths and see what’s going on here

Let’s say you join Free & Powerful and  elect to “Flip You Power Switch”

You have spent$97

You have $50 owing to you from Free and Powerful

You sell a Power Switch option.  You earn 40% commission on the sale that is $38.80.

You now have 88.80 owing to you from F & P and you have earned F&P $58.80.  (Don’t forget they’ve already earned at least this much from you already when you elected to flip your power switch).

You still don’t have enough money to cash out, so you have to sell another Power Switch Option.

When you do you earn $38.80, bringing the amount owed to you to to $127.40.  At the same time you are earning a tidy little sum of $58.80 for F&P who have now earned at least $176.40 from you.

How hard is this?

Well let’s think about it.

The vast majority of people who get involved with this are going to try and promote it using the generic pages generated by the system.

So they advertise it and network it as best they can.

Here is a fact.

It will take at least seven times for a person to view a site before they take the slightest interest in it.

Now if everybody is advertising the same page, who benefits from all the work?

Free and Powerful that’s who.

Everybody else id branding their business.

And in effect F& P is nothing more than a very clever sales funnel for GDI.

I don’t have a problem with that, particularly if you’re already promoting GDI, but a free $50? Nah, it’s not happening mate.

If you get in to this you’re going to have to work hard.

What about the Power Switch?

The Power Switch is effectively selling advertising space for business opportunities.  On the face of itit sound like a good idea, and I spend a lot of money on advertising and I can tell you that there are many people like me ready to spend $97 on what they consider to be an effective advertising resource.

I wont be spending $97 here simply because all the focus and everything points to GDI.  I can spend $97 elsewhere and get more targeted effective advertising

Is GDI a scam?

NO

Is Free and Powerful a scam

NO

Are they worth spending time on for a new Internet Marketer?

Err No.

I think I’ve covered the free and powerful angle sufficiently as for GDI, it may be suitable as part of an overall marketing plan and strategy but not as the only plan.

Time and time again I see people get sucked into a business opportunity without doing the preparation first.  They are doomed to fail.

To start in this business you need four things.

1. A high level domain name.  this mean.com or .net
2. Webhosting.  Host Gator offer plans starting at $4.95 per month. (Beats GDI by a fair way)



3. A quality Autoresponder service.  Their are three worth looking at.  Traffic Wave, AWeber and Get Response.  Traffic Wave is my choice.
4. A full marketing strategy based upon what you are capable and able to do.

MLM programs may be part of your strategy, but they are not for everyone and should be part of the solution.  Not all of it

Just my opinion.

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