I am a little behind on my commitment to blog all week about Firepow, but don't worry. I will get all of the information out there and answer all of your questions — even if it stretches into the weekend.
To be completely honest with you, the first time that I saw Firepow, I wondered what in the world could be worth $100/month or more a month. I had a hard time getting throught the long sales letter. And, I don't like to buy software with recurring cost, and I really don't like to spend $100/month. So my initial reaction was “Yikes.”
Just to be clear, at the time of this writing, Firepow costs $147/month for the Premium membership and $117/month for the basic membership. I have arranged a Firepow discount with Andrew for my readers that saves you $25/month. So, when I say “$100/month or more, know the cost depends on the discount and what offer you pick.
Whether or not Firepow is worth the cost is a personal question. Anyone who tells you differently is just trying to sell you something. It's all about return on investment (ROI). If you invest $100/month in Firepow, will you get back more than $100 in savings or profit? It really is that simple. Don't be confused by all of the other crap out there. You should only buy Firepow if you think it will make you money (good ROI).
In order to understand the ROI, you need to first understand what Firepow is.
From my point of view, Firepow is a tool targeted at people that want to create and manage “lots” of niche websites. Whether “lots” is 5 or 50 or 500 is a question we will explore later. It is certainly possible to make use of Firepow on a single authority site, but my feeling is that the best use of Firepow is across multiple niche blogs.
To make Firepow worth the money, you need to create 5 blogs that make at least $20 a month. Or, ten blogs that make $10/month. Or, 20 blogs that make $5/month. You get the idea. The cool thing is that creating 20 blogs with Firepow that actually get traffic looks amazingly easy.
Firepow Is Three Things (at Least)
From my point of view, Firepow is web-based software for creating and managing blogs, creating content, and promoting those blogs.
- Creating and managing blogs: The first thing that you do when you log into Firepow is create a blog. Firepow is based on WordPress. Enter some key information (URL, FTP information, Blog title, and some keywords), pick a theme, pick some plugins, and click “create”. A new blog is created instantly. It takes me hours to set up a blog, download the software for themes and plugins and get everything up and running (including AdSense) for a new blog. Firepow does this in 5 minutes (or less). This is the ultimate in “one click setup” because it includes far more than just the initial install of WordPress. There are tons of plugins (some unique to Firepow) and lots of cool options. But suffice it to say that you can get a fully featured blog up and running in minutes.
- Creating content: One of the critical items that a new blog owner faces is getting some initial content out there. For this problem, Firepow offers several unique and creative solutions. You can “automatically” republish content from Article Directories, you can get content from RSS, and you can create your own blog posts using “cut and paste tools” from various sources. Pretty slick. You can create your posts right in the Firepow interface without ever logging into WordPress.”
- Promotion: Ranking in the search engines is the key to organic traffic, and backlinks are a key to ranking. The Firepow premium network includes access to the Firepow “blog network.” I will be covering this in a future post, but know for now that this provides backlinks in a way that is “similar” to article marketing (but you have much more control over the content and links). You can also automatically promote your blogs via RSS and social networks. This all looks really powerful to me.
There are some other really cool features like task plans that help you organize and manage your blogs and an amazing support forum. More on those things in a later post.
The Bottom Line On Firepow
So, that is my personal opinion on what Firepow is. To summarize, Firepow is software that allows you to rapidly create, manage, populate and promote niche WordPress blogs.
Over the next few days I will be getting more into what Firepow can do and why I think it is cool.
What are your questions about Firepow? Let's make sure that we get all of them answered.
Very expensive Mark.
One would want to be very sure of earning a high return from Firepow.
What’s your build and return rate like?
Advantages? Disadvantages you’ve met
Hey Mark – if you would give us the difference between the basic and premium memberships in your words.
I think the question for me that may be true of others as well is… will Firepow help me overcome technical and traffic issues I’ve had in the past that kept me from being as profitable as I would like, and, if so, how quickly will that happen? I think you’ve explained kind of a “worst case scenario before” so no need to belabor that issue.
Andrew’s case studies have been interesting to say the least (I’ll leave the niche he selected alone, however), but I don’t know if the traffic he’s generated has resulted in profit? Thanks.
Mark, I appreciate you reviewing this product. Here are my questions prefaced with a statement.
I currently am a member of traffic kahuna for $147 per month, With that I get some cool features but the best one is the blog network that I can post anchored links to.
The network has 1400 niched blogs in it. I write an article, place links in it, and blast it to the network (there are limitations of course because of duplicate content). On average, I can get about 40 anchored links per article with in the traffic kahuna network when I use their text spinning feature.
The links are dripped every 6 hours. At any given time, I have 10 articles dripping in and this builds lots of links very very quickly. The links are quality because they are keyword anchored with in a post.
I would consider switching to Firepow if I knew how many blogs were in their network and of what quality they are. Can I get keyword anchored links posted on these blogs? How easy/difficult is it to actually post?
Also, can I submit my own blogs to their network and get the content that others are posting?
I really don’t care about the automated blog building feature so that is not a selling point for me at this time.
AL
Kent — I will summarize the difference between the basic and premium memberships in my own words next week. Sorry for the delay.
Al;
Yes, you can get keyword anchored links, and you can get other people’s content. Not sure about the number of blogs — it is many hundreds, but not more than 2000 (I think). I will find out.
Thanks,
Mark
Firepow sound quite interesting.
Would you mnd to share the link of one of the blogs you have created with Firepow ?
Thanks in advance
ciao
alex
Hey Alex;
Funny you should ask. Yes, I will do that (maybe tomorrow). I am creating a blog just for that and making some video. I was just selecting a niche and registering a domain name. Any suggestions on a niche? I was thinking about “Christmas lights” since it is almost Christmas time in the US.
Any suggestions of something you would like to see?
Regards,
Mark
Mark, how do the features of Firepow compare with WordPressDirect?
mark,
ima newbie in im…very2 new…i dont understand…if im using firepow..do i have to buy my own domain name?? or can i still use the free ones from wordpress?? say chocgirl.wordpress.com ??? can u email me?
It’s so amazing to see how people use Firepow 🙂
I’m one of Firepow developer 🙂