How Does Multiple Income Funnel Work? A $407 Non-Affiliate Test

Warnings are cheap. Alston had already made a video telling people to “just be careful” about Multiple Income Funnel, and looking back at it, he felt like a grumpy old man lecturing teenagers before prom. Easy to warn. Much harder to actually test the thing. So he decided to stop talking and start spending.

After a commenter named Michelle Robach left a detailed breakdown in the comments, including the note that some MIF promoters are “your typical pump and dump types” while others are not, and that you definitely need money to be successful in it, Alston made a decision. He found what he believed was Michelle’s YouTube channel, “Powered Up Success,” and purchased through her affiliate link. No existing email list, no YouTube audience promotion, no affiliate link in the description. Just a fresh account, real money, and a spreadsheet to track every dollar. What followed was a $407 lesson in how these systems actually work.

What You’ll Walk Out With

The exact cost to join Multiple Income Funnel and activate every income stream
A breakdown of what Easy One Up actually costs at each level, from $30 to $2,500
What TechSpot AI is and why it cost far more than the $10 advertised monthly plan
How Traffic Authority fits into the system and what you pay if you don’t already have it
Why Alston skipped Traffic Authority’s traffic and bought solo ads from Udemy instead
The total out-of-pocket cost before a single dollar comes in
The honest reason to be cautious about building on someone else’s platform
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The Setup: Why a Warning Is Not Enough

Alston’s earlier Multiple Income Funnel video ended with a vague “be careful” and no firsthand proof. He did not like how that came across. His standard for critiquing something is actual experience and actual knowledge, and he had neither when he recorded that first video. So when Michelle’s comment showed up with real detail, he paid attention.

Her note explained that Profits Passport, a related program, shut down because the creator of Easy One Up did not want people showing income proof and back-office screenshots. David Sales’s promotional videos were reportedly 90 percent income claims. That context mattered. It told Alston that the world around MIF had already seen at least one casualty, and that some promoters would say anything to get a sign-up. Her comment also made something clear: this program costs real money and is not for everyone.

Rather than respond with another opinion, Alston chose to go in cold. He would enter as a complete beginner. No emailing his subscriber list. No affiliate link in his video description. No using his existing audience for sales. His only advantage would be one paid traffic source he would set up himself. If MIF was genuinely 100 percent beginner-friendly as claimed, this test would show it.

What Multiple Income Funnel Actually Is

Multiple Income Funnel is a system created by Mac, designed to bundle several online income tools under one roof. The premise is that instead of building one income stream, you set up four at once. Each stream is a separate product or service you recruit other people into, and you earn commissions when someone signs up under your link. The framing is that because there are multiple streams, your income is more stable than relying on a single program.

In practice, MIF is a funnel system that connects four tools: the MIF membership itself, Easy One Up (a digital products company), TechSpot AI (a text marketing bot), and Traffic Authority (a done-for-you traffic service). You do not create products. You do not deliver services. You promote the funnel to other people who then pay to join, and you collect commissions when they do. Each stream has its own pricing structure, which is where costs can add up fast.

Income Stream 1: The Multiple Income Funnel Membership

The base cost to join Multiple Income Funnel is $49 per month. That is what Alston paid through Michelle’s link after entering his email on her landing page and going through the checkout flow. The moment he landed in the back office, the first thing Mac’s system asked was whether he wanted to upgrade his membership for $350 per year, which would raise his commissions from $20 per month per referral to $200 per year per referral.

Alston declined. He wanted to test the cheapest version possible to see what someone with limited resources would actually experience. At $49 per month with $20 commissions per referral, you need to bring in more than two new members every month just to break even on the membership fee alone, before accounting for any other costs. That math gets harder to ignore once you see what everything else costs.

Income Stream 2: Easy One Up

Step two inside the MIF back office was to set up Easy One Up. Easy One Up is a digital products company with a tiered pricing structure. You can only earn commissions at the level you have purchased, so if you join at the cheapest level and someone you refer buys a higher level, you pass that commission up to whoever brought you in. The levels at the time of this experiment were:

Elevation: $30
Elevation Elite: $110
Vertex: $275
Vertex League: $550
Vertex Pro: $1,100
Vertex Live: $2,500

Alston joined at Elevation for $30. He noted that Michelle appeared as his sponsor inside the Easy One Up dashboard, which made sense since he purchased through her link. The system then directs you to promote Easy One Up to anyone you recruit, but here is the catch Alston called out: there is no training inside MIF that shows you how to actually promote Easy One Up. You are told to sign up and go promote it, but what you are promoting and how you talk about it to someone who has never heard of it is left entirely to you.

Income Stream 3: TechSpot AI

The third income stream inside Multiple Income Funnel is TechSpot AI, a text message marketing bot. When Alston reached this step, the back office played a video from Jeff about what TechSpot AI could do. The monthly plan options started at $10 per month for the basic level and went up to $25 per month for a higher tier. He selected the $10 plan.

But when he went to mark that step complete, the system asked whether he had made a payment and to which method. Then came the upsells: reseller rights, usage credits, a la carte add-ons at two cents per credit. By the time he had finished setting up TechSpot AI to the point where he could actually use it to promote the program, he had spent $185 on the bot, not the $10 or $25 the monthly plan advertised. He also ran into a situation where his payment appeared to go to Jeff Reese rather than Michelle, which surprised him. There was no training inside the dashboard explaining what to do with the bot after signing up, and no clear guide on how to run an actual campaign with it.

Income Stream 4: Traffic Authority

The fourth component is Traffic Authority, which bills itself as a done-for-you traffic service. Alston had already purchased Traffic Authority during a previous program he had tested before this experiment, so he did not have to buy in again from scratch. He simply logged in with his existing credentials and linked his username inside the MIF back office.

For someone coming into Multiple Income Funnel with no prior history, Traffic Authority would be an additional cost on top of everything else. In his previous analysis, Alston estimated that buying traffic through Traffic Authority would cost roughly twice what you would pay if you sourced solo ads independently. That is why he chose not to use Traffic Authority’s traffic for this experiment and instead looked for a cheaper option.

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Buying Traffic: The Solo Ads Experiment via Udemy

With the four income streams set up, the next challenge was traffic. Without an email list, a YouTube audience, or any existing following, Alston needed to buy clicks and send them into his MIF funnel. He chose to use Udemy, a solo ad marketplace, rather than Traffic Authority because the price per click was significantly lower.

Solo ads work by borrowing someone else’s email list. You pay a seller a set rate per click, they send an email to their list on your behalf, and people who click land on your opt-in page. The quality of those clicks depends heavily on which seller you choose. Alston filtered the Udemy marketplace by looking for sellers who had received verified sales within the last three to four days. He also prioritized sellers offering 100 percent T1 traffic, meaning the clicks would come from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. First-world countries with higher purchasing power are more likely to convert for an English-language offer like MIF.

He selected a seller at 59 cents per click and added a prime filter, which sends the traffic through a second round of cleaning to reduce spam and bot clicks. His budget was $150, which bought him 225 clicks. He pointed those clicks at his Multiple Income Funnel link and set up the campaign to start on May 11. That $143 order pushed his running total past $400. He noted as he entered the number: “What could I do with $407 if I invested it into YouTube or something else?” He did not answer the question out loud, but the implication was clear.

The Real Cost Breakdown: $407 Before a Single Sale

Here is every dollar Alston spent to get Multiple Income Funnel fully operational, sourced directly from the spreadsheet he built on camera on May 11:

Multiple Income Funnel membership: $49 per month
Easy One Up, Elevation level: $30 (one time, at the lowest tier)
TechSpot AI text bot, including credits and setup to enable promotion: $185
Traffic Authority: $0 for this experiment (already purchased in a prior test)
Solo ads via Udemy, 225 clicks at 59 cents: $143
Running total: $407

That $407 does not include what Traffic Authority would have cost a brand-new member, and it does not account for what happens in month two when the $49 MIF fee recurs. Someone who also bought Traffic Authority traffic instead of Udemy solo ads could easily spend $600 to $800 before seeing a single dollar come back. Alston had estimated $500 or more in his previous warning video. The actual number landed even higher once the TechSpot costs became clear.

Honest Drawbacks

Alston flagged several problems after completing the setup, and none of them were speculative. They came directly from what he experienced inside the back office:

No training on the products you are promoting. MIF tells you to join Easy One Up and TechSpot AI, then go promote them. It does not teach you how to explain digital products, run a campaign, or handle objections. If you have never done affiliate marketing before, you are on your own.
The cost compounds fast. The $49/month entry price is not the real cost. By the time you activate every income stream and buy enough traffic to see real results, you are several hundred dollars in before the experiment even begins.
The bot had hidden gotchas. Alston described the TechSpot AI setup as a “nice little gotcha” more than once. The $10 monthly plan alone was not enough to actually promote the program. Credits, reseller rights, and confirmation steps inflated the cost to $185.
You are building on someone else’s platform. If Multiple Income Funnel shuts down tomorrow, you are left with a list of leads who opted in for MIF specifically. They do not know you, you do not know them, and sending them emails about anything else could increase your spam rate and damage your sender reputation.
The commission math at entry level is unfavorable. At $49 per month and $20 commissions per referral, you need to bring in more than two new members just to cover the monthly fee. That does not include traffic costs, bot fees, or Easy One Up renewals.

What Alston Said Before He Left the Screen

After placing his solo ad order and calculating the $407 total, Alston summarized his position in a way that is worth repeating word for word. Everyone is telling you how much money they are making, but they are not telling you how much money they are spending. And they are not telling you that they have a list of 50,000 people they are marketing to. The people at the top of programs like this already have audiences. Their results are not replicable by someone starting from zero, and they are usually not transparent about that gap.

He also raised the affiliate marketing skills question directly. If you want to learn affiliate marketing, learn affiliate marketing first. Do not go buy into a funnel system before you understand how to write subject lines, build a landing page, or warm up a cold lead. If the program disappears, what do you have left? The skills you built while promoting it are the only thing that survives. If you skipped the skill-building step and went straight to promoting someone else’s funnel, you have money spent but no transferable foundation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does it cost to join Multiple Income Funnel?

The base membership is $49 per month. There is also an annual upgrade offer at $350 per year that increases your commissions. On top of that, you need to purchase the other income streams (Easy One Up, TechSpot AI, and optionally Traffic Authority) to have the full system active. Total startup costs in Alston’s experiment came to $407 before any traffic was delivered.

What is Easy One Up and do you have to buy the highest level?

Easy One Up is a digital products company that operates on a pass-up commission model. You can only earn at the level you have purchased. If you join at Elevation ($30) and someone you recruit buys Vertex Live ($2,500), that $2,500 commission goes to your sponsor, not to you. Buying higher levels gives you access to higher commission checks, but also requires more upfront investment.

What is TechSpot AI?

TechSpot AI is a text message marketing bot that is one of the four income streams inside Multiple Income Funnel. The advertised entry price is $10 per month, but Alston spent $185 getting it fully set up and activated to the point where he could actually promote it. There were credits to buy, a confirmation process requiring his referrer to approve his payment, and additional upsells along the way.

What is Traffic Authority?

Traffic Authority is a paid traffic service integrated into MIF as the fourth income stream. It sells solo ad-style clicks at a premium. Alston already had a Traffic Authority account from a previous test and did not need to purchase it again. For a new member, it would be an additional cost on top of everything else. Alston estimated that Traffic Authority clicks cost roughly twice what you would pay buying solo ads independently.

Is Multiple Income Funnel actually beginner friendly?

The system claims to be 100 percent beginner friendly. In practice, once you are inside, you are told to sign up for the income stream tools and go promote them, but there is very little instruction on how to actually do that. There is no training on how to write ad copy, warm up cold traffic, or explain the products to someone who has never heard of them. Beginners may find themselves spending money on traffic before they understand how to convert it.

What are solo ads and how did Alston use them here?

Solo ads are a paid traffic method where you pay a seller to email their list on your behalf. You pay per click. Alston used the Udemy solo ad marketplace, filtering for sellers with recent verified sales, 100 percent T1 traffic (United States, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada), and a prime filter to reduce junk clicks. He bought 225 clicks at 59 cents each for a total of $143, pointing traffic at his MIF funnel link.

What happens if Multiple Income Funnel shuts down?

This was one of Alston’s main concerns. If MIF closes, you are left with a list of leads who opted in specifically for that program. They do not have a relationship with you personally. Emailing them about unrelated offers could increase spam complaints and hurt your sender reputation. Programs like Profits Passport, which operated in the same space, have already shut down. Building your entire online income on a single third-party platform is a real risk.

Should you learn affiliate marketing before joining MIF?

Alston thinks yes. His concern is that MIF teaches you to promote MIF, not how to do affiliate marketing in general. If the program disappears, you have spent money but have no portable skill set. Learning the underlying mechanics of list building, email marketing, and paid traffic before joining any high-ticket funnel system gives you something that survives whatever happens to the program itself.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “How Does Multiple Income Funnel Work 2021 – Nonaffiliate Multiple Income Funnel Review,” YouTube, May 2021
Multiple Income Funnel back office (accessed May 11, 2021, per video)
Easy One Up membership levels, as shown in the video checkout screen
TechSpot AI pricing, as shown in the video sign-up flow
Udemy solo ad marketplace, accessed May 11, 2021, per video
Commenter context from Michelle Robach, cited in the video opening