Blastoff: Will they really pay you to shop?

By Joshua Wood distancetohere.com

Do you want to have fun? Save Money? Make Money? All of these things and more are the goal of Texas-based startup Blastoff, LLC. At first glance, Blastoff appears to be just another company looking for an easy share of a multi-million dollar online marketing industry. They will offer cash-back to members who shop through their network of online retailers, and a percentage of the sales generated by referrals also gets handed back up to the referrer. So when you invite your friends, and they shop online through Blastoff Network partners, not only do they get cash-back on every order, but so do you. But is Blastoff just another incentive-based marketing scheme, or is it something more? Being the skeptic that I am, I did not put much faith in the idea of a multi-level social network centered around online-shopping… But since I’m a member of Prepaid Legal, I have access to a preview-account of the Blastoff Network anyway – so I figured I would take a look. (more…)

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