Internet Marketing Business Strategies

Infinity Downline review score, by David Hurley

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Peter Wolfing, the owner and designer of Infinity Downline, recently made a video in Central Park, NY, to give his personal “Infinity downline review” and to show you the face behind the program.

In the video, Peter Wolfing explains that a lot of people say Infinity Downline is a scam because they look at the 100% payout” and ask, “How can they possibly do that? How can they possibly do a 100% payout?”

Check out the video to hear Peter Wolfing’s explanation, then read my Infinity Downline review below:

“We are already spending money on advertising so we thought, ‘why not take that money and put it into Infinity Downline and have that program be the advertising budget?’”

Pay Plan

By putting their advertising revenue into developing Infinity Downline they were able to build a program and give the members 100% of the revenue. Nor are there any admin fees. 100% of the referral money goes to the promoters.

The pay plan is certainly attractive. You get instant payouts per sale plus residual income and you break even on your investment on your first referral because they pay you directly 100% of the $25 subscription fee when they sign up. Don’t forget, though, that you will be paying a monthly membership fee as well so you will need to make at least one sale per month to stay even.

Another nice point about the pay plan is that you can choose how you want your referrals to pay you.

Marketing Tools

So where is the benefit for Peter Wolfing and his team if they are not there to make money on the upfront part of the program? What his company, Multiplex Systems, are looking for is a pool of clients likely to be interested in exposure to their products.

They are quite open about that, but I think that is the weak point of the business from the point of recommending it to newbie affiliates. In the ID back office they have products that such as keyword-based lead-generation tools, autoresponders, telephone broadcasting, predictive dialling, postcard mailing systems and questionable products such as information “scrapers” that “scrape” (i.e. steal) information from other websites and reuse it in some form or another.

While Infinity Downline affiliates are not under any obligation to subscribe or purchase these services, it seems likely that when inexperienced marketers struggle to sell the Infinity Downline package some of them will be tempted to buy some of Multiplex’s marketing products.

Yet, there is no guarantee that any of those products will bring them any better results and many seem likely to push them further into the red. But, because they are inexperienced and frustrated, newbie marketers are the most vulnerable to the “quick fix” appeal of whatever instant marketing solutions they are presented with. I know, because when I was a newbie affiliate marketer I fell for a similar kind of sales practice and ended up wasting a lot of money – or buying an expensive education, if you prefer.

I don’t know about you, but personally, I don’t want to sell a business that is loaded with a minefield of “quick fix” solutions for unwary newbie marketers, especially as I neither use nor endorse several of the products on offer, or know of better alternatives elsewhere.

The Product

Another problem I found with the site was that the product, the “extensive library of audio and video training products” that you get as part of your membership did not meet my expectations. Sure, there were some interesting titles there, but in the audio section, a large number of the links to the recordings were broken, which suggested a lack of concern by the business designers for the core product.

If I am to pay a monthly fee, I want all the links to work and I also want to see the site regularly updated with new and compelling material yet I got the feeling that that wasn’t going to happen with Infinity Downline. So why should I pay a monthly fee for a static product with a large number of broken links? Also, much of the training is available free of charge on YouTube, via Google, or through Internet forums and other online resources.

Infinity Downline Scam?

Essentially, Infinity Downline marketers are pushing a pay-out plan, which is why some people think Infinity Downline is a scam. Personally, I wouldn’t call it a scam as there is a product, but nor would I recommend this business because the product has been thrown together to legitimize the pay plan, which in turn works as bait to attract a lot of minnows into the Multiplex net.

For my money, I would prefer to pay a little more per month and get really top class training in the form of a mentoring group with a proven track record for quality service, such as the Affiliate Power Group (which also has a generous affiliate program, by the way).

Affiliate Website & Tools

One more thing that I don’t like about Infinity downline is the affiliate promotional materials. Some banners would have been nice. Also, the website is brash and when I tested it on several traffic exchanges it was rejected by most of them on the first check as a “frame breaker”. Of those that accepted it, several of them soon banned it.

My verdict

Good pay plan. Pity about the rest of it. Not recommended.

David Hurley