“Blastoff Network is going to explode virally. And when you plug in a network marketing company like Pre-Paid Legal, your downline organization is going to explode.  Get in now and ride the wave.”

That’s the kind of pitch that I have been getting for the past few weeks now.  So I decided to do some due diligence on the matter and evaluate this myself.

Here’s my short reader’s digest of the 2 companies.

Blastoff Network is operate by a Texas based company Blastoff Communications, LLC.  Blastoff is a new online affiliate shopping network, where the users can earn cash backs rewards and also earn small commissions when a user refers others to shop with Blastoff.

Blastoff announced a partnership recently at the Pre-Paid Legal 2009 leadership summit conference in Las Vegas.  Pre-Paid Legal associates will be able to use Blastoff Network’s home page to promote their Prepaid Legal services.

The whole idea is when Blastoff Network is shared out to one’s network, more people will have an opportunity to expose to the Pre-Paid Legal services.

Now with the facts laid out, let’s talk about it in particle terms.

Blastoff Network shopping network will grow gradually.  It is highly unlikely that it will take over the internet by storm.  It is just funny how many over excited PPD reps told me that Blastoff will overtake google and facebook in no time.

Blastoff Network is a paid incentive social network site.  Currently, every major website that grew virally have absolutely no paid incentive.  No paid social networking sites have  able to compete with the major sites like facebook, twitter, and myspace so far.

As a veteran network marketer myself, I understand that all successful network marketing teams are built through good leaderships and layers of leaders.

To grow a successful network marketing business like Pre-Paid Legal, one will need to be able to recruit a handful of leaders.  Blastoff network may potentially drip in a few customers over time.  But in order to attract the right leaders that will secure a solid residual in PPD, one will need to provide exceptional leadership and value.

In the end, Blastoff network is not a magic solution to Pre-Paid Legal associates to grow their businesses.  It is however a very good move on Pre-Paid Legal’s part because it is reviving a lot of excitement to many PPD associates. More associates will take more action when there are excitement.

However, any Pre-Paid Legal associates that wants to build long term wealth and solid residual business will still need to master the basics of recruiting and retailing.  Blastoff is not a magic solution that will eliminate the basics.

Blastoff is also not a replacement for internet marketing.  Successful internet marketers will know how to convert traffics to sales using direct response marketing. Simply sharing a online shopping network is just not scientific enough to grow a business.

In order to make internet marketing work to grow a Pre-Paid Legal business, one will need to learn how to self generate a minimum of 20 high qualify leads that are looking into the network marketing industry daily.