If you want to be budgeting then you are probably familiar with most of the usual systems: finding coupons, comparison shopping, buying in bulk, etc. Those systems are not bad but they are only sometimes the most practical or even the best way to save money. Any adept shopper knows that for ultimate results you must use ALL the tools at your disposal. That is why I would like to tell you about a new system most of you have potentially never heard of.
In the recent years the expansion of the Internet has really shaken up the marketing world. One great difference has been the popularity of “affiliate programs” which for those who are unaware is essentially a payment given to the promoter when he is sends a sale or referral. These programs are everywhere at this time, perhaps the most well known is the Amazon Program but even small-scale e-commerce stores have these setup now.
Now lots of of you are already connecting the dots and might be interested what would happen if you joined as an affiliate and purchased something from yourself… As you might guess the reward in this case works out to be a discount on the item. But, the problem is that in many cases this would not be practical because the amount of work that goes into joining one of these programs will generally not be worth it if you just plan on purchasing ONE thing. Also, some affiliate programs support buying from yourself while others frown on it… and may even kick you out of their program.
I would not suggest going around and joining each individual affiliate program for every seller that you normally shop at. Though, I would not be saying this if I did not have something truly intriguing to share with you all.
Here is where the Blastoff Mall comes in. Blastoff Network is a new site that launched in October that is perfect for saving money shopping online. You join for FREE and then can browse through the Blastoff network mall which contains links to over 300 different online stores (at the time of writing, there are probably even more now) including Best Western , iTunes, Target, Starbucks, and Barnes & Nobles. Each of them marked with a certain reward % which you are entitled to.
I haven’t looked at each individual store but I have checked many of them and can say that in a nutshell what Blastoff Network has done is create a “meta-affiliate” program whereby they signup to lots of different affiliate programs–then you can shop through any of their “partners” and get a percentage of the incentive. When you purchase a product you might be get roughly 30% of the reward paid to Blastoff for your purchase. You don’t have to join the program first which can often take days or more and approval is never guaranteed. They make it so simple and easy–they definitely deserve the 30 percent or so of the reward that they actually keep.
It is a free, easy, accessible way to save money doing the shopping you would potentially do anyways. In Addition if you use the link in the Blastoff Mall it takes you straight to the shop’s official website where you can use any savings coupons you have to save even more.
But hold on? that’s just 60 percent of the payoff, what about the remainder?! I’ll get to that. In a dandy marketing move Blastoff has chosen to create an affiliate program of their own. By inviting people to Blastoff you are entitled to a small portion of the incentives earned when they buy anything up to ten levels deep. This is taken from that remaining part of incentive and is divided evenly among the ten people in that person’s invite chain. Which works out to be 1/10 of the 30-40percent of payoff that is not given to the first purchaser and Blastoff Network.
These “mini-payoff” individually don’t seem like a lot and for plenty of purchases will be less than 1.00, but that’s moolah you would not have had before and even if you only introduce a handful of people if they each introduce a couple people, the amount of people in your network that you are eligible to earn commissions from grows fairly radidly. I.E. if you invite three people and they each introduce three people by the time you get down to level 10 you have 3^10 people which is 59,049 people who might buy something and you would get a incentive, pretty amazing huh?
I could see this seriously getting big and people who sign up early will obviously have the ultimate change because if your friend does it before you then you wont earn any of the payoff when they buy something.
The thing is that I would recommend this to people even if there were no payoffs paid unless you personally bought something yourself because in the end it is discount, just like using a coupon or buying something on sale. The only difference is that you can use it in addition to both of those techniques. What it really comes down to is this: it is free it can save you money… why not do it?
That being said, they do payout payments based on what people who you introduce buy… So, rather than go to the main sign up page and let that extra moolah to Blastoff Network, sign up using my profile page so I get the credit. I really would appreciate it!! 
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