Yesterday, Valerie Underhill, owner of Marketing Pond announced that, since My Power Mall is no longer a free program, she has removed it from the Marketing Pond list of programs. Marketing Pond is a downline builder for free online programs, and since Ginny Dye announced their new policy that members signing up for a mall after December 17, 2007 will now be required to make a purchase every month to keep their mall, it no longer qualifies as free. Although I think it may make it a little tougher to get and keep referrals for MPM now, the referrals you do get will be guaranteed to be active. I guess, something had to be done. What good is it to join a program like MPM and then not shop in your mall. Nobody shops, nobody earns. The MPM program has some potential, but only if people utilize it and support it. There are those who bash MPM, saying it's just a bunch of affiliate banners grouped together and "duping" people into joining up and shopping under Ginny's affiliate banners to make her rich. My opinion?.. so what? It's not a new idea. Ginny didn't invent the affiliate "mall" concept, and if she can build it up and make it successful, and if people join and use it, and people make money, what's bad in that? I'm not really enthused about the mall part, personally, but if the Debit Card program works the way I think and hope it will, that could be the key that revs My Power Mall up and gets it running. If you can manage to get a decent number of referrals, they all get referrals and they all purchase their cards, that's one income stream right there. Then, if we are allowed to fund our card and use it purchase things that are not in the actual mall, like from local merchants, and earn on those purchases, that will make it easier to earn and those purchases will qualify members for their monthly purchase requirement as well. Are you likely to earn big money with MPM? Not really..I could be wrong, but in playing with the income calculator on the site, from what I can see it takes 5-10 referrals each getting 5-10 referrals and spending a minimum of 30.00 to 40.00 a month each up to Level 4 before you really see any significant cash. Unless you get lucky and your referrals really start shopping and referring, and then you might get something out of it before level 4. It's still kinda a wait and see thing, since MPM is pretty new.
Another "mall" program that is still listed in Marketing Pond that I think has a lot of potential is Big Crumbs. It works the same way as MPM, refer, shop and earn rebates, etc., but it has some things that MPM doesn't have. First, you can shop on EBAY and earn money back! I love Ebay..so, that really works for me. Ebay power sellers can also add their pages to Big Crumbs for people to shop from. They have been around for 2 years, and they are more of a social networking type community, with forums and ability to link with other members, etc. They have a much easier to navigate and more attractive site, and I think the rebates and percentages you earn are larger than most places as well. Their mall works better for me, because I tend to shop a lot on Ebay. They have less stores than MPM, but they have all the good ones, so just another option to think about.
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