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Monday, October 15, 2007

A Review of DollarzBlaster - A New Breed of MLM

I've tried many different methods for making money on the Internet. Even some things I pretty much knew wouldn't make money but just wanted to see how they "ticked". I want to share my exeperiences with you. Each step of the process explained and all results posted. This is an experiment in fertility of DollarzBlaster.

I want to say first off I am not a big fan of MLMs. I've tried a few in the past that had these "matrices" that just plain simple were too hard to fill. I do find MLM interesting though and they do seem to still be popular. One I keep seeing a lot of lately is DollarzBlaster.


I was so intrigued by DollarzBlaster I had to investigate it further. This is my findings and observations so far...


DollarzBlaster - An MLM With A Twist



One of my favorite methods for getting list opt-ins is to advertise on traffic exchanges. I can simply go to PageSwirl and plug-in a new eCourse I've written and just let it rotate through the 50 some TEs that I have memberships with.


About once or twice a week or so I'll actually surf 7 or 8 of them. I no longer have to surf them all because of my MegaList Traffic System, see the link at the top of this page, but I do surf about 8 of my favorites just to see what new Internet Marketers and Affiliate Marketers are promoting.


Over the last few weeks I've noticed this one plain simple splash page being shown on all of the traffic exchanges. At first I just ignored it and went on about my click-surfing. But I noticed I kept seeing this page on more and more on all of the TEs I surf.


So I stopped to read it about two weeks ago and BAM right off the bat I saw that it was another MLM scheme. So I clicked next and went on.


Last week I again saw an increased amount of the shows for this page so I thought to myself this must be getting popular. So I decided to Google it and see what people are saying about it. Of course the top results were people hawking their affiliate pages of DollarzBlaster so it took some deep clicking to finally find some real feedback on the MLM itself.


The first thing that I noticed when I found a real honest, or what appeared to be, review was that one guy actually did chicken out of their system and ask for a refund. Lo, and behold he was granted one within 24 hours. Now that was unique. All of the other MLMs I've ever tried claimed to have a refund policy as well but none of them actually follow through with it. In fact they run you through so many hoops of coaches, mentors, troubleshooting your sales pitch, and traffic advice technique strategies you finally just give up and chalk it up to a loss.


So this one aspect of their claim seems to be true. At least from this one review I read. I still wasn't convinced enough to take the plunge with yet another MLM so click ...next.


This past Saturday I was once again "blasted" with their splash page numerous times and once again intrigued enough to stop and read the splash page yet again for about the 4th time now.


I think one of the things that kept shying me away from the pitch is the splash page itself. I mean it looks like a beginner's personal webpage really. It has a solid black background with gaudy bright green, yellow, and red type for the text portions. OK and just to really give you the impression of personal webpage newbieness huge amounts of blank space with a few banners scattered here and there.


Well curiosity finally got the better of me so I decided to try it. I mean heck, its only $25 and I've sure blown a lot more than that on other IM and even MLM programs before.


How the system works is that you actually make two payments to join the MLM system. One is for $10 to the top sponsor and then a second $15 payment to the administration.


I gotta tell ya once you get through both of these Paypal payments don't expect to see any fancy return pages. The return page once you've made both payments is just like the pitch (splash) page. This kind of scared me at first because basically all the return page says is that within 2 to 24 hours you will be contacted with instructions on how to proceed. They didn't even ask me for any information at all. So this raised a real alarm with me that this may be a scam.


What happened next made my heart sink, and I just knew I'd been scammed. The admin email used for the $15 payment to Paypal was loni.anderson(AT)yahoo.com. I felt for sure I had just thrown away $25 when I saw this. So I went to bed and decided to actually wait the 24 hours and see what happens.


The next day, Sunday, about 5pm or so I got this email from a strange email address from AOL that from all appearances looked rather spammy itself. I almost deleted it immediately. The only thing that kept me from deleting it was the subject said "Heres your DB information".


Now I get tons of spam everyday but I've never gotten one with that subject so I clicked to open the message and thank goodness I didn't it was from the DollarzBlaster folks and it was the information they had promised to send.


So that was a good sign that they actually do reply back with what they promise. I suppose the reason why they don't ask any contact information is that they figure you will use a real contact address for Paypal so that is most likely the address to use for their contact back to you. Makes sense I suppose. I can see instances where this might not be true, but for 99.99% of the time at least this contact email from them will go to a real address somewhere.


Anyway back to my story. The email gave me two URLs. One was my custom URL that is a replica of the DollarzBlaster splash page but with the page's top link being directed to my Paypal address.


The other was a link to an intro page to their website that contained still more webpages that explain more about their system and how to get started. The big thing I got out of these pages, well actually there were two things.


One is that these people that run DollarzBlaster are very touchy about emails. If you nag them with too many emails or, from the impression I got, even one email about some often repeated question thats answered on their FAQ pages they will boot you out of the system. They repeat this statement several times throughout the information pages.


The second thing I got out of it is that you have to promote a temporary URL for at least 30 unique impressions before your account is activated with the system. They give you 30 days to do this though so there is ample time. I simply put mine on ILoveHits.com and assigned 100 hits so I knew for sure it would get at least 30 unique IP hits to the temp page.


There are two other key aspects to DollarzBlaster I learned within these information pages. One is that this is NOT get rich quick. In fact they tell you to really not expect anything for the first few days or even couple of weeks. But within 30 - 90 days you should start to see flourishes or spurts of Paypal payments coming in. And as long as you keep promoting the temporary URL every so often for at least 30 hits and constantly keep your permanent URL promoted you will always see spurts or bursts of Paypal payments every now and again.


This is due to the fact that by promoting the temp URL you are triggering an internal rotation within their system that will periodically feature your URL on their main site for extended periods of time.


The other key aspect is that by "joining" or rather participating they give you access to a download page of software as a bonus. the software on this page consists mainly of traffic generation and website promotion utilities, but there are a few other items as well.


In conclusion I want to state that I am not endorsing DollarzBlaster at this time but rather pointing out despite their cheap and ametuerish appearances they so far are real and honest. Its only been 24 hours since I've officially activated my account so I needless to say haven't seen any return. But then again I wasn't expecting one this soon either.


I know from personal experiences with other MLMs it is hard to sell the process of making money with them to the inexperienced or non-believers, so I don't expect this to be any different in that aspect.


As I get more information or results I will update this section of my blog. Hopefully with some good news of profits and wealth. As I stated earlier I am not endorsing this MLM just stating the facts as I know so far.


It is up to you the individual at this point to make up your own mind if you want to risk $25 in the hopes of getting $9000 as they claim. If you are interested in giving it a try please use this link


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Doing so will help me prove a point of good results that I can post back here and in effect help eveyone curious as they will see a real review with actual results. Ultimately this will be for the good of the whole MLM system.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi! Glad you made some money. I bought mine on Sept. 8, 2007. Did all, as instructed, then went above and beyond what they asked. My Dollarzblaster page has NEVER been put online, nor have they answered any emails for a refund.
For ME, this has been a HUGE pain in the butt scam.

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