Blastoff Network - Viral Marketing Meets Network Marketing

Is the future of network marketing viral marketing? A Dallas Texas based company known as Blastoff Network is about to find out.

Network marketing is a powerful business model. According to a recent survey done by http://www.businessforhome.org they have documented 1500 people that have earned in excess of $25,000 in a single month. So there is no question that network marketing is a great way for the average family to create wealth.

However, there are some challenges as well. For instance, it does require an initial investment to get started. What if the prospect truly doesn't have the start up fee? Should they be excluded from an opportunity to change their financial circumstances simply because they have fell upon hard times?

What about prospects who simply don't have the time? Trying to get referrals to work through these people can be rather difficult. They might not be willing to share their contacts with you.

What Blastoff Network has developed is a platform that may very well address many of the biggest challenges network marketing distributors face. Their strategy may literally revolutionize how network marketing is done.

So how does viral marketing work? While network marketing is a form of viral marketing, in this case, I am particularly referring to some of the strategies that internet based companies use to promote themselves automatically similar to how a virus works.

A virus in an ideal environment simply replicates itself repeatedly. One virus becomes 2. 2 becomes 4. 4 becomes 8, 8 becomes 16, 16 becomes 32. Soon you have a massive infection and there is almost nothing you can do about it.

The same holds true for a viral marketing campaign. The campaign is able to easily replicate itself because people quickly and easily share the message with others. In no time, it goes from a few people knowing about it to millions of people knowing about it.

One of the best examples of viral marketing is the email website hotmail.com. The way it got started was very simple. You signed up for a free email account. At the bottom of every email you send out, hotmail promoted its services. Some of your email recipients also signed up for a free email account. The cycle continues.

First off, you do need to understand that no matter what you do there is no guarantee that any viral marketing campaign is going to be successful. A lot has to go in your favor. However, if you are the originator of a campaign that goes viral, you can set yourself up to make an absolute fortune.

There are two key elements that can make a viral campaign successful. The first is you have to offer something of value for free. YouTube is a perfect example. The website allows users to upload videos for free. Try hosting videos on your own web server and you will see how valuable this service is. If your video gets lots of traffic, the bandwidth fees alone could be in the hundreds of dollars a month.

The second element is you need to have a very easy way for people to share it with others. Facebook is a good example. As soon as you create a Facebook account, they ask you if you would like to import your email address book to search for friends on the network. Those friends in your address book that are not on the network get an invitation to join Facebook. When they join, they too have the ability to import their email address book quickly and easily. The cycle continues.

Unfortunately there has never been a legitimate viral marketing campaign with a financial incentive. Gift letters are a perfect example of viral marketing and can expand rapidly. However, they are considered illegal ponzi schemes and if you get caught promoting or starting one you can go to jail.

You may have remembered the chain letter in which Bill Gates was supposedly giving people money to forward an email to their friends. Millions of people got that email.

What if a network marketing business was able to give its distributors access to some of the same tools some of these successful viral marketing campaigns used? The results could be staggering!

Several companies have already done this with some success. For instance, Efusion is a network marketing company that is promoting a viral Facebook application that others are sharing on Facebook. ChatToText had a lot of success promoting on Facebook until they were shut down for violating Facebook's Terms of Services.

However, there are still several challenges that need to be addressed before we see a network marketing company use viral marketing to drive it into critical mass. I'm talking about the levels like an Avon or an Amway, where the company is close to or doing double digit billions of dollars in annual revenue.

How do you deal with prospects who don't have the money to get started? What about prospects who claim they don't have time to build a network marketing business? What about distributors who are already involved in another network marketing business? Most distributors know that the key to wealth in network marketing is to build one network marketing business.

What if you were able to offer an opportunity that was free to get started? I'm not talking about an opportunity that's free but then you have to buy product. I'm not talking about an opportunity that's free but if you want to earn overrides you have to buy product. I'm talking about an opportunity that was truly free to get started with no strings attached?

What if there was a financial incentive attached to that free opportunity? A financial incentive where you can help people simplify what they are already doing and save money at the same time? What if there was no financial requirement to be able to enjoy that financial incentive? Meaning you didn't have to qualify by making a minimum product order? If someone in your network buys, you get paid whether you buy or not?

What if you were able to offer a tool similar to Facebook or Twitter that makes it easy for someone to share the opportunity with their contacts by importing their email address book. That would eliminate the "I don't have the time" excuse, wouldn't it?

What if you offered something of value for free. Something that is so valuable even other network marketers would want it even if they weren't involved in your business opportunity? They would sign up for it.

I believe the product offered by Blastoff Network provides all of these elements and more!

Now here is the clicker. Remember the example that I gave with hotmail where at the bottom of each and every email sent on its servers, there was a link promoting people to get a hotmail email address?

What if the network marketing company that you are a part of struck a deal with hotmail at the beginning when they were first getting started? In addition to a link to hotmail, they also included a link to that network marketing company's website. What if every distributor in your company with a hotmail account, when they sent out an email, the link went to their distributor website where the person who clicks on it would sign up with them?

What if that distributors friends, family and contacts who signed up for a hotmail account, when they sent out an email, if they were not in your network marketing company, the link in their emails was your distributor website? As well as the people that signed up from their contacts. And their contacts? And their contacts? And so on and so forth forever and ever?

You would literally have people joining your team every month who you didn't even know all because you gave away free email accounts and helped your friends and family do the same!

This is exactly what Blastoff Network is doing. I know people paying $500 to get started in network marketing companies that offer what Blastoff Network is going to offer for free. So there will be a lot of people who sign up to join the network.

However, those who are distributors with Blastoff's partner company are really going to be able to benefit. When all of their contacts and their contacts and so forth sign up and join the network for free, they will receive free advertising for their products and business opportunity in a manner very similar to what I described with the above hotmail scenario.

To learn more about this revolutionary new platform that Blastoff Network has developed, check out these free Blastoff Network videos.

If this explodes I predict that you will see other network marketing companies flock to this business model. They will all begin to strike alliances with viral internet companies so that their distributors can capitalize on this new business model. This could literally explode the concept of network marketing.