I like PortalFeeder. As everyone knows, if you are on any sort of email list, PortalFeeder 2.0 (yes it’s an effing affiliate link) opens it’s doors in a day or so. I’ll try to explain how I see being a member of PF.

If you are making $5K a month, then I don’t see how you need PortalFeeder. (Then again you probably aren’t reading this blog either.) What I mean by that is you probably already have a system that is making you money. Double whatever you are doing and make $10K.

On the other hand if you are making, say, $700-1,200, then PortalFeeder may give you the tools to “take it to the next level” or whatever stupid expression you want to use. PF can definitely be the “system” that takes you to the $5K a month level.

The Good: The management rocks. Absolutely rocks. They are helpful. They quickly answer your questions and comments. The training is amazing. Well made videos. Easily readable PDFs. The tools: Even if you didn’t want to build a portal (website) you would still have access to tools like Blog Feeder and Article Feeder which will get you traffic to your websites. There are no better tools to “announce” your website that I know of. And there are other tools like a directory submitter, web page analyzers, link analyzers; all kinds of crazy stuff that the PF team have come up with to make your website better and help drive traffic to it.

The Bad: The cost. The dollars you put into this are huge. It’s really an investment. If I wasn’t making any money online, honestly I wouldn’t join. Even though it could help you make money I just couldn’t see spending the cash on it without being able to cover it. No way I’d take this money away from my dinner table. If you have mad money or money to throw away and want to see if you want to get into the online business then, sure, go for it. Or send it to me. Whatever works for you. But outside of that, I would already be making enough to cover at least half the entry fee.

The Ugly: This whole system is based around tokens. This is the little pieces of code that tells the software where to put stuff in your website. From articles. To links. To ads. Everything. They build your page. I hate them. I keep it super simple. And you can keep it simple and build a great website with the templates they provide. But you can also get just as confusing and fancy as you want. Again there is terrific training on this. And there is help for the asking. Just post on the forum and you’ll get your answer. I just find tokens a drag. But it’s just a matter of getting used to them and then I’ll wonder how I did without them.

What I am trying to do is figure out how to best use PF with blogging. They don’t really cover that YET. I’m actually going to be helping Jason K. with figuring all this out. Blogging is covered a bit in training but it is used in conjunction with, maybe as a subdirectory or subdomain, from your portal site. I want to use it as my main site like I do now (ala PLRPro 90-day). I want a “Super-Blogging” platform. I think they’ll get there.

PortalFeeder reeks of quality. You really do get what you pay for. You just have to square yourself with the money you are going to drop on the system. It’s a ton. If you decide to take the plunge, grab the videos quickly and school yourself. Don’t fall behind and just get a portal on the web. Don’t worry about pretty or anything. Follow the training and just put it up. Do something. I get the sense that so many people in PF just hang around and study and read the forum and do nothing else.

Anyway, it’s hard to say if you should join PortalFeeder. So many emails are going to come at you that the price is going to rise soon, or the doors are going to close or people are making tons of money because of it or your guberu will try to entice you with their own bonuses so they can get the reoccurring commissions. (By the way, I see very few “super gurus” contributing in the the forum. You know, the ones telling you how great PF is. Don’t read that wrong. The PF forum is one of the best, if not best, I’ve been privy to be a member of. The big names just aren’t in there. And that’s OK. The trainers that count are.) You really have to decide if you need better tools to do what you are doing now to build your websites. You certainly don’t have to use PortalFeeder to be successful, but it just makes things easier and saves you time.

So the cost is high. The value is just as high. If you want to work. Join. If you don’t think you have the motivation and this is just another “thing” you’re buying in the hopes of online riches. Don’t join. There is nothing push button about this. I know how the thinking is on that. There is no secret in PF. Just tools to help you do your work.

Questions? Ask away.