Simple Profit Setup – Profit or Scam?

Today, in my Inbox, popped a message encouraging me to download a free handbook that would bring me more website visitors, more signups and more money than I would know what to do with! Naturally I had to investigate…

The premise of Simple Profit Setup is, at the outset, quite simple. It follows a variation of viral and network marketing that, if carried through correctly, is often very successful. A good example of viral marketing is 7 Dollar Expert which does, indeed, work brilliantly.

Simple Profit Setup seemed to follow the same mantra, which is where I got interested. The idea is that you promote the free handbook via your own squeeze page and website rebranded with your affiliate links to Simple Profit Setup. When you sign up to the program you’re given all the details necessary to create your site and landing page and how to drive traffic to it. So far, so good.

Where it all falls down, however, is in the detail. Basically the owner of Simple Profit Setup has gotten greedy. Because, to sign up, you have to run through hoops which involve:

1. Registering a domain with GDI ($10 a month – you’re kidding me)!

2. Opening an autoresponder account with GetResponse – (fair enough).

3. Join the New Plan Network – a network (yuk) marketing plan for $10 a month.

4. Join PROFITmatic – (I have no idea why, other than to put more money in the owner’s pocket).

All along the way the emphasis is not on marketing products, providing solutions for people’s problems, giving out valuable information or anything else that could be considered worthwhile.

No, the emphasis, as with all these ‘network’ plans, is to ‘build your downline’. In other words the sole purpose of the Simple Profit Setup is to recruit as many people as possible to 1., 3. and 4. above. Of course, as you build your downline you build in more people under the site owner, and so his income grows.

Now I have one thing to say about network marketing – it is unbelievably hard work recruiting people and it usually fails. The only people making money are the people at the top of the tree who got in early. The ones doing the work are the poor sods who are trying to harness recruits, and that’s tough, believe me.

So, as an example of viral marketing, Simple Profit Setup fails on many counts. My advice – stay away from this one.