SQIP is going to be big for sure. If you don’t know about it, Sqip is a new social media network including a communications program that is claimed to be better than Skype, Yahoo, Google and any others.  The owners’ investment claims are not small, either. They compare SQIP’s investment potential to stock bought in Microsoft, Google and Yahoo before they became ‘big’ during the years following.

SQIP’s about-to-be-launched Messenger is claimed to be ‘state-of-the-art’ and superior to Skype and all the chat and social networks put together. Messenger incorporates online communication, collaboration, networking and entertainment and paid advertising; it’s expected to draw in a hundred million free users within 2 years, plus five million or more ‘PRO’ paid subscriptions.

This is of most significance to SQIP’s ‘stakeholders’ including ordinary free members who have already bought equity in the corporate in the form of PEPs (Private Equity Points), and who are expected to achieve a high rate of return on their investment. Whereas there are not any guarantees (as with any investment in stock), even a modest minimum holding of 100 PEPs at one euro each, around a hundred and forty dollars total, could be worth four hundred times that by 2011. Or not!

SQIP will change from private ownership to become a UK-registered PLC during 2010. Because the claimed payout on sale of equity shares is so high, it’s better to not even mention it here. Get all the main points direct from the SQIP website and make your own assumptions. Personally, I think it’s worth the risk, but it might not be right for you.

I began a small investment in SQIP from its inception in 2009. Since then, I’ve kept abreast of events and received regular bulletins from its CEO, Christian Fortune (good name!). I’m quite certain this is not a scam but of course there aren’t any guarantees that the suggested income will ever materialise.

In order to benefit more than just by being an affiliate, I supplemented my free PEPs to reach the minimum needed by January 31, 2010, when the offer was to end, to reach a hundred euros worth. Now I am a stakeholder and in line for a share of future profits from various totally different streams inside the SQIP program.

There is a further potential benefit. If the owners of SQIP receive an ‘offer they can’t refuse’ to sell the company before it goes public, stakeholders may indeed see a windfall they weren’t expecting. As this has been on the cards from the start, that is another reason I decided to get my stake in SQIP.

Anyone could have joined until that date by paying cash or paying for their €100 ($140) equity in five monthly installments. This offer has now expired, but a few 500 PEP blocks have become available for 500 euros each due to refunds to investors who decided for whatever reason not to increase their holding to a minimum 100 shares.

Find out more about the whole SQIP program and what it could mean to users, affiliates and stakeholders by visiting the Sqip web site through my member’s link, but I get nothing unless it all happens as the owners have planned it.

If you decide to be part of SQIP, you automatically get your own link and can recruit a ‘down line’ and optionally earn from Messenger advertising; there is no obligation to buy or sell anything. Stakeholders also get free PRO membership to Messenger with all its many innovative features.

If you are primarily an investor rather than an active participant, you can just sit back and wait, but there are Sqip features and Messenger facilities that practically anyone will enjoy using  for free. Visit the SQIP website where you can join for free and see just what Messenger has to offer. If you’re interested in the 500 PEP offer, then you probably need to act quickly. There are a lot of current members who have enough faith in SQIP’s future value to want to increase their equity.