My Power Mall

Everyone's seen-or at least heard of-those online mall portals. You buy from the online stores in "your" portal, and you earn discounts or rewards. Some even earn you cash back. What makes My Power Mall different, you wonder? The fact that, as you're earning a little pocket change for yourself, you're also earning to help the Worldwide Community. They have a program called "One Child at a Time". A percentage of what is spent in your Mall goes toward the constantly building fund for the child being sponsored, at that time. Every Power Mall owner contributes. When the amount is reached that is needed, another child will be helped.

The founder and CEO of My Power Mall is a woman named Ginny Dye. She runs the foundation called "Together We Can Change the World". She worked, for many years in this organization, utilizing what she called "Shop for Charity Day", to help raise money for those in need. One day, she realized why it wasn't doing so well. In her words, "People want to help others, but they also want to help themselves." That's when she came up with the idea for My Power Mall. An online shopping mall-or "portal"-built on the rebate system. The stores you can buy from in this portal give you rebates on your purchases. A small percentage of that goes into the humanitarian efforts Ms. Dye has going on. The only catch is you must make one purchase per month-no matter how small.

My Power Mall has its pros and cons, just like anything else out there. It's not really a "money-making opportunity" or a "biz opp", because you're not really making much money. You buy from one or more of the stores, and, after about 14 days, the rebate is credited to your account. After it builds up to about $25 or so, you can request payment. For someone with not a lot of money to spend, it doesn't build up very fast. I've been with them for 3 months and have made 13 cents. It's set up sort of like MLM-though not exactly. You can sign people up under you, and get a small percentage of their rebates. And on down the line, to seven levels. Unless you're paying a small monthly fee for a World Changer Mall. You get bigger rebates, then.

The bad thing is, there may be over 1000 stores in this mall, but there are a lot you'd like to see that aren't there. There's no Wal-Mart, because they refuse to give rebates. K-Mart's there, though, and so is Target. Amazon.com isn't there, because they have their own programs. But BarnesandNoble.com is there. It's a give-and-take. And some products are hard to find. For example, you need to buy toilet paper. Oh, boy! You've got your own mall that will give you money back for your purchase. HMM. Try finding toilet paper in your Mall. When you do, you can't buy just a 4-pack or a 24-pack. In order to buy it online, you have to buy about 64 packages of toilet paper. Who buys THAT much toilet paper, at a time?

The idea is sound, though. If you have enough Power Malls under you, you can make some decent pocket change. This is NOT a "get-rich scheme". And you're told that, up front. They let you know, if that's what you're looking for, then go elsewhere. This is a way to give something back, while you get something back. You can even sponsor non-profits, like your church. By getting the information from them that you need and setting up a Power Mall under you, in their name. Of course, this means you have another Mall to promote. But the money made from that Mall will go to the non-profit. It's a great on-going fundraiser. Church members can buy from that Mall, and raise money for things the church needs. Great idea. Set one up for your child's school, and parents can buy from that Mall to raise money for the school. So many ways it can go.

Ginny's idea is for people to set up their own Free Business Center (their personal mall), then set up another one beneath them. That will be your "giving center", as she calls it. Direct others to this site, to buy from that Mall, to raise money for any charity you like. That way, people "pay" your charity, first, then you. You can buy from your own mall. Or set up a Mall beneath you for your children, and buy from that mall too. Raise money for their college funds.

As I said, it's a great idea. After all, if you convert all of your regular online shopping to using your own portal, you can get decent money back. If you convert some of your in-store shopping to online shopping, through your Mall, your money back increases.

Check it out: www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/153074

Just do yourself a favor, listen to it all. Study what's there. It may be for you; it may not. But it's worth checking into.

You can get a look at the Mall, itself, here: www.mypowermall.com/mall/153074