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Plug-In Profit Site Review
Author: matt60818 Jun
Plug-In Profit Site was designed by Stone Evans who claims to have made big money online. My first impression of Plug-In Profit Site was that is was yet another glorified package of e-Books and software that will apparently make us all rich. Upon reading through the site this initial impression was re-enforced in some ways, but I did find myself thinking Plug-In Profit Site has a clever system. It involves you signing up for a whole stack of affiliate programs in return for some affiliate marketing products.
What does Plug-In Profit Site offer?
There are a whole variety of ‘bonuses’ offered which are designed to persuade you that you are getting a good deal such as e-Books, basic training videos, software, a ‘website traffic generating system’ and access to an “internet marketing warriors site’. That site is different to the the Warrior forum where there is a members-only Plug-In Profit Site support forum, to which access is granted. Stone Evans claims this alone is worth $500 a year, but in reality having a forum for members really isn’t anything special (although it is useful).
As well as these pretty average products there are some slightly more interesting ones:
I was glad to see SFI is one of the affiliate programs Plug-In Profit Site requires you to sign-up for, although I struggle to see what the Plug-In Profit Site e-books and training could teach you that SFI cannot. Below is Stone Evans’ proof of payment from SFI.
Looking at Plug-In Profit Site for what it really is
All of the bonuses and frilly edges are all well and good, but what is the site really about?. Put plainly, Stone Evans has built a system where he acquires large numbers of affiliate sign-ups for affiliate programs (like SFI). He does this by bribing them to join with all of the ‘bonuses’ he offers, which cleverly have the added plus of teaching and helping his affiliates to make more money with the various affiliate programs, or at least encouraged enough to remain members.
What do I think of this method?
I would think that it’s a nothing more than cunning strategy for him to find success with affiliate money making programs. However, the ability to have your own Plug-In Profit Site is an interesting one and opens up all sorts of possibilities. I can see potential problems with this though, for example the duplicate content must mean search engine traffic is very limited for affiliates. That matter is very much open for debate.
Stone Evans kindly allows you to join all his affiliate programs (through his affiliate links) for Free!… There is a single fee of paying for web hosting for your own Plug-In Profit Site which costs $24.95 as well as the small cost for domain name registration.
Apparently the whole Plug-In Profit Site package is worth $1,250.00. However, as with almost all websites of this nature the given ‘retail value figure’ must be taken with a truck full of salt.
The Testimonials
I don’t normally pay much attention to the testimonials, but one was made by Jeff Schuman from Team-Schuman.com, who I have been in contact with before. I actually wrote a testimonial on team-schuman.com myself. However, in writing that testimonial I didn’t actually have to know very much about Team-Schuman.com, (i.e. it’s surprisingly easy to reel of a paragraph of how happy you were with something! - while avoiding lying). Testimonials are another thing where that truck full of salt will be needed.
Conclusion
Plug-In Profit Site has avoided the Internet scams section by it’s sound business model, but there is no way I can recommend it. This is because learning how to make money with affiliate programs can be done for free with sites like SFI and from blogs, whereas Plug-In Profit Site costs at least $24.95. All of the affiliate programs he recommends can be signed up for free, the information he gives can be found for free so effectively that $24.95 is for buying your own Plug-In Profit Site, which in my eyes is not worth it. If anyone tries it has tried it I would love to hear from you. What you do think about Plug-In Profit Site?
7 Responses for "Plug-In Profit Site Review"
matt , your review is exactly what i have thot so. I dont think this is a good idea to join since we need to pay for $24.95 for domain & hosting.
anyway i was waiting for your review so now i think i decided not to join at all hahaha
Matt - I read your review and although I agree with some of what you say in it I just wanted to give another opionion on it
I joined the Plug-In Profit site program 3 years ago and can say that it has made a major contribution to me being able to quit my day job (just a few weeks ago in fact). The affiliate programs within the site are quite powerful and I would also say that the combination of the training and support are second to none. For me it definitely has been worth it.
Thanks Suzanne, do you think Plug-In Profit site is still worth it and isn’t out of date 3 years on for newcomers?
Suzanne,
Could you have done it all without them? That really would be the deciding factor in this debate. If you feel that it was worth it and you feel that you needed them, then the program is legit! I have subscribed to the thread feed, so be sure to drop another comment, as I am looking forward to your response.
Garry,
that’s a good point, it adds a bias if the buyer already had the necessary skills to make the program succeed.
I don’t think I would need the program. However, sometimes people are willing to pay money to quickly learn things that have taken me months to learn on my own.
To me, the $24.95 isn’t worth the money… but to others that can afford it and don’t have time to invest into learning on their own… maybe a program like this is good.
Suzanne,
So, your success took you three years to accomplish using the pips site? How much money did you put into it before you started to see any ROI? I was just curious because that program seems like a lot of duplicate content and I’m sure that anyone just coming into that program will not be able to duplicate it right away. That will cause much of the newbies to give up and feel like it was a scam.
just my curiosity…
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