Internet Marketing Business Strategies

In this Plug-In Profit Site review I explain the “Pros and Cons” of the PIPS Internet business opportunity.

The Plug-In Profit Site (PIPS) has enjoyed over 9 years of growth and is now one of the most well established work-from home business opportunities available on the Internet. It is also true that PIPS has helped a lot of newbies to start earning money working from home on the Internet.

The founder of PIPS, Stone Evans, developed the business model by finding the best and most lucrative affiliate programs on the internet, and building a plug-in profits website around them.

A key feature of PIPS is the affiliate sales page, which encourages prospects to sign up to five or six different affiliate programs as an (optional) part of the process of getting set up with the PIPS marketing system.

When you sign up with PIPS you also get a customized website which you can modify or completely redesign as you please. The site comes with your own domain name and hosting account.

Thus, PIPS seems to offer a quick and easy route into network marketing. The system enables anyone to earn money by working from home on the Internet.

The PIPS comes complete with training resources. There is the comprehensive “30 Days To Success Guide” which shows you how to build your PIPS business and start generating income. Then there are 47 Newbie Training Videos that are yours to download free as soon as you sign up.

Also, as part of your PIPS membership you get access to the Internet Marketing Warriors Forum. You can get your questions answered by an online community happy to share their knowledge and experience with you.

PIPS marketing tools include your own branded copy of Stone Evans’ Dotcomology e-book to give away to your prospects. Dotcomology is a comprehensive overview of how to build a successful Internet business. You also get an auto-responder, but you will need to upgrade to get 400 preloaded promotional newsletters to help you promote your PIPS business.

Why I Do Not Recommend PIPS

PIPS is a genuine online affiliate marketing business, but after working with it for three years, it is no longer one that I feel I can wholeheartedly or honestly recommend for the following reasons:

1. PIPS members have no control over which programs are promoted on the PIPS sales page. Over the last three years programs have been added and removed from the system numerous times. A lot of PIPS members have invested their cash into these programs and have diligently been promoting the PIPS sales page, as they are advised to do, only to discover that a program they signed up for because it was part of PIPS has been removed and a NEW program has taken its place. Of course, they are no invited to “sign up” to the new program and post their affiliate link. They now have to choose between joining another program and starting from scratch, or not joining a program and letting the person who sponsored you into PIPS take the commission any time someone signs up to it via their sales page.

NOTE: Before joining any multiple-stream program, check how much control you will have over the choice of programs that will feature on your sales page.

2. Your Leads Get Added To Someone Else’s List There is a newsletter sign-up form on the PIPS sales page. When prospects visit your page and sign up for the newsletter they are linked to your affiliate code, BUT they are added to Stone’s list! You are effectively building somebody else’s list and not your own.

NOTE: Before joining a multiple-stream program, make sure that your promotion efforts will build YOUR list first, not somebody else’s.

3. Too many marketing promotions. Another disturbing feature of the PIPS program is that as you go through the training you are constantly presented with marketing methods that involve spending more of your cash. They are all optional, of course, but on the other hand, they are written about in a very “enthusiastic” way even though many of them are NOT guaranteed to work. One way they are guaranteed to work, however, is to bring a regular flow of back-end sales and commissions to the program owners while draining inexperienced members of their hard earned cash.

NOTE: A programme or sponsor with your interests at heart will show you how to market your website without burning a hole in your pocket.

In conclusion, you can learn a lot from the PIPS program, and I know several people who succeeded online thanks to PIPS, but the verdict of this Plug-In Profit Site review is that the positives are now outweighed by the negatives, and anyway, there are also better alternatives available.

David Hurley