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noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:51:00 +0000

YOLI Featured as the MLM Company of the Month
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noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:18:00 +0000

Another unique item on ebay! Not sure if anyone is using this technique!

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Paul Orberson Collectible?

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:20:00 +0000

I saw a few items on ebay related to Network Marketing and thought this one was quite interesting. How collectible it is I'm not sure.

EXCEL COMMUNICATIONS MLM Ticket Stub 6/24/1998 Pyramid - eBay (item 110585978581 end time Sep-20-10 18:38:26 PDT): "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

is fantaz a scam ??

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:34:00 +0000

Fantaz ( Fantaz.com)

A new Network Marketing company in pre launch that will apparently be distributing online games, tournament games and fantasy sports via their propriety network.

On the surface it seems like a legitimate business model. Fantaz states there are
217 million gamers world wide, and that $4 billion is spent annually on fantasy sports.
Fantaz claims their model will push dollars that normally go to the big gaming companies into your pocket.

I have been able to determine the following:

The Sept 1 launch has been delayed due to technical issues with the integration of
some of software components.
A new launch date has not been given.
They will soon start inviting ZBO's to a private beta to get a more real time / real world testing of the system. They will remedy any problems and invite a much larger group of ZBO's in and repeat the process until they feel they are ready to go for a real public beta and then for a full blown launch.
In less than three weeks there have been almost 7,300 pre-registrations.

All in all it looks like Fantaz a great opportunity for anyone looking to strike it rich in online gaming. The company has signed on a big list of celebrities and according to the last company email has spent 4 yrs and millions of dollars to bring it to where it is today. Unlike a lot of pre-launch MLMs whose domain names are registered for 1 yrm fantaz.com does not expire until 2014. It would be nice if the company would add a privacy statement and earnings disclaimer to Fantaz.com. Also I can find nothing on the people backing and financing Fantaz, can't some of the founders put a bio up on the site?

eFusjon Closes M.L.M. Operation

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:50:00 +0000

eFusjon Closes M.L.M. Operation

eFusjon, which launched in September of 2008, has notified their distributors that as of September 1st, 2010 they are discontinuing their M.L.M. operation and all independent distributor agreements will be terminated.

See the email notice here:

http://tinyurl.com/eFusjonNotice

Commentary:

There are two comments within the eFusjon notice that are particularly interesting.

First, note the reference to Section 7 of their Distributor Agreement: "The Agreement shall continue in effect between the parties hereto until either party terminates the Agreement..." (emphasis added). This means that all along eFusjon has had the ability to terminate a distributor, group of distributors, or all distributors, at any time, for any reason. Most new distributors assume this means they can terminate their distributorship any time they want, for any reason (this assumes, of course, they have even read their Distributor Agreement). This clause, which is actually quite common within Distributor Agreements, is rarely used to dump a distributor without cause, but rather is added specifically to cover this very situation - the company abandoning the M.L.M. compensation model, or going out of business all together.

But here's the comment that was surely the most offensive to eFusjon reps:

"The goal was to market these products through independent distributors via the M.L.M. direct sales business model. Distributor performance, however, has been steadily declining for over a year now, and as a result, so has the Company's revenues. The Company can no longer maintain a marketing model that is not generating the funds needed to grow a viable business. In short, the Company's M.L.M. business model is no longer a sustainable marketing strategy."

So, eFusjon's decline has nothing to do with their experimental compensation plan that required several revisions, including at one point a significant payout reduction? Or the fact they based their plan on a forced matrix, which historically has had an almost 100% failure rate? Or the fact they entered the already saturated "exotic fruit beverage" and energy drink segments of the M.L.M. market on the downside of the curve? Or the fact that eFusjon management openly promoted the program as one that required "no training" and little effort? I was present on a conference call when eFusjon's CEO exclaimed "Don't sell it, don't pitch it... We get calls everyday from people who think they were overpaid because they didn't do anything. But that's how this company works." They promote a plan that requires little effort, then blame the distributors when they apply little effort?

It was also disturbing to peruse the net today and see all the still active eFusjon distributor websites with claims such as:

"Destined for Greatness!... Efusjon is completely self-sufficient and 100% debt-free. In its first year, Efusjon was one of the fastest growing network marketing companies, exceeding $30 million in sales, and we're still beating sales projections!"

They were clearly blindsided by this decision.

It's also odd that eFusjon management didn't attempt to merge the remaining distributor base into another company, which is a distributor income saving, if not face saving, measure that failing M.L.M. companies often take. This is only speculation, but the way this was handled would suggest they pulled the plug too late and there was no significant distributor base left to merge.

Len Clements
Founder & CEO

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Fantaz Launch coming up

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:23:00 +0000

Online games have gone MLM. Fantaz is set to launch sometime later this year. They have signed up numerous celebs including:

Football:

* Terrell Owens (Bengals)
* Larry Fitzgerald (Cardinals)
* Matthew Hatchette (Vikings/Jets/Jaguars)
* Darren Sharper (Saints)
* Chad "Ocho Cinco" Johnson (Bengals)
* Takeo Spikes (49ers)
* Robert Griffith (Vikings/Browns/Cardinals)
* Hines Ward (Steelers)
* Troy Polamalu (Steelers)
* Deshea Townsend (Colts)
* Carlos Emmons (Eagles)
* Ryan Clark (Steelers)
* Reggie Wayne (Colts)
* Willis McGahee (Ravens)
* Willie McGinest (Patriots/Browns)
* Patrick Willis (49ers)
* Harold Morrow (Vikings/Ravens/Cardinals)
* Will Blackwell (Steelers)
* J.R. Redmond (Patriots)
* Kyle Turley (Saints)
* David Dunn (Bengals/Steelers/Brown/Raiders)
* Kevin Henry (Steelers)
* Marcus Stroud (Bills)

Baseball

* Tim Lincecum (San Francisco Giants)
* Mike Leake (Cincinnati Reds)
* Hunter Pence (Houston Astros)

Basketball

* Bryon Russell (Jazz)
* Mitch Richmond (Warriors/Kings/Wizards/Lakers)
* Cuttino Mobley (Clippers/Nicks)
* Cedric Ceballos (Lakers/Pistons/Heat/Buzz)

Music

* Soulja Boy
* Uncle Luke
* Fab 5 Freddy
* Raekwon
* DJ E-Feezy
* Hitt Squad
* Miss Paris (singer/rapper/poet/painter)

Movies/TV/Comedy

* Claudia Jordan (model/actress)
* Tamala Jones (actress)
* Chico Benymon (actor/musician)
* Kevin Hart (actor/comedian)
* Alton Glass (writer/director/filmmaker)
* Speedy Caldwell (actor/comedian)
* Tammy Torres (model/actress)
* Tiffany Upshaw (model/actress)
* Velicia Misher (model)
* Jackie Long (actor)

Brands/Companies

* Title Sports Drink
* Moves Magazine
* Dawn Dickson
* Dawn Marbury (celebrity blogger)

With all those names this must be worth taking a look at.

Fantaz Signup

Michael Cooper Flies the Coop - Now Cooped Up

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:06:00 +0000

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LEGAL VICTORY FOR DISTRIBUTORS
Not All Cause for Celebration
Also, Tax People Founder Finally Imprisoned

Michael Cooper Flies the Coop - Now Cooped Up

For those of you who remember Renaissance, a.k.a. The Tax People, you might also recall that its founder, Michael Cooper, was found guilty by a federal jury of about half of the 148 counts against him, including mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy - back in February of 2008, almost four years after his indictment. Much of that delay had to do with Cooper's extended stay (on the lam) in Mexico.

The relevant MarketWave Alert is HERE.

Now, over two years later, Cooper has finally been sentenced. He received 20 years in prison, restitution of $10 million to the IRS, and a forfeiture judgment of $75 million.

A local news report can be found HERE.

A comprehensive recap of past local news reports can be found HERE.

Although TTP was initially hit by the Kansas AG in 2001 for, among other things, being an illegal pyramid scheme, which is what got them shut down, it is interesting to note that what ultimately got Cooper and his cohorts sent to sit in the corner for big people was the fraudulent tax advise they were teaching. For example, start a business teaching people how to take business deductions by starting a business teaching people how to take business deductions. So no, it wasn't Cooper's illegal pyramid scheme that eventually did him in. It was tax evasion. As Tom Cruise's character said in "The Firm", it isn't sexy, but it has teeth.

Victory in Legal Battle for Reps - In a War We Don't Want to Win!

A recent decision (HERE) by the 9th Circuit Court in the case of POKORNY V. QUIXTAR (3:07-CV-00201-SC) ruled Amway's (called Quixtar when the case was filed) policy that forced distributors to resolve disputes by private arbitration to be "unconscionable" and unenforceable. So now this class action can go forward through the legal system and eventually, if not settled, before a jury.

There is one rather remarkable comment made within the Circuit Court's decision. The court, referencing a previous case, stated an agreement, or any portion thereof, is procedurally unconscionable if "the weaker party is presented the clause and told to 'take it or leave it' without the opportunity for meaningful negotiations... Thus, we have said that a contract is procedurally unconscionable under California law if it is 'a standardized contract, drafted by the party of superior bargaining strength, that relegates to the subscribing party the opportunity to adhere to the contract or reject it." In other words, practically every M.L.M. distributor agreement is "procedurally unconscionable" and unenforceable under California law!

This decision is certainly a legal victory for distributors, and creates legal precedent that will very likely cause a more rep favorable rewriting of P&Ps throughout the industry at least related to our dispute settlement options. What's more, it demonstrates that even if we, as distributors, sign our Distributor Agreements and thus declare our agreement to all parts of it, that doesn't mean all parts can be legally enforced. Companies are now on notice that you can't make your P&Ps ridiculously one-sided and grossly unfair just because you know most reps won't even read them, and will hardly ever object to them even if they do.

Having said that, we all really should read the Policies & Procedures before we join an opportunity, and if they are ridiculously one-sided and grossly unfair, don't agree to it! Many companies are counting on us all just rubber stamping this step. If enough don't join because of "unconscionable" P&Ps, and make it known that's why they are not joining, these companies will soften their policies all on their own.

So yes, let's celebrate the rep's victory in this particular battle, but before we get too excited, let's consider why this war is even being fought.

In Pokorny v. Quixtar (Amway), the plaintiff is alleging that Amway is committing fraud and guilty of RICO violations because they are operating an illegal pyramid scheme. The basis for this pyramid claim is that in Amway the large majority of distributors lose money, and that most of the commissionable products are being purchased by distributors, not sold to non-participant retail customers. Of course, they are citing the infamous "Webster v. Omnitrition" decision (1994) where the - guess who? - 9th Circuit Court of Appeals opined that M.L.M. companies should only pay commissions on products retailed to non-participants in the business opportunity. This decision overturned a lower court's summary judgment in favor of Omnitrition and remanded the case back to the court for trial (it was eventually settled privately). Fortunately, at least up until now, this was just an opinion and did not create any significant legal precedent. This case, however, absolutely could! In fact, the "expert" hired by Amway's opposition is Robert Fitzpatrick, an über-anti-MLM-zealot who founded the Pyramid Scheme Alert organization. This is the same Robert FitzPatrick that Barry Minkow hires every time he shorts the stock of a public M.L.M. company then needs to publish a negative report to cause their share price to drop.

If someone incidentally creates a cure for cancer while trying to formulate a poison to destroy all life on Earth, should we be celebrating the cure, or raging against the poison? Or both? All I'm saying is, let's be careful about who and what we're rooting for here.

Len Clements

Founder & CEO

MarketWave, Inc.

THE M.L.M. SKY IS FALLING!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:05:00 +0000

THE M.L.M. SKY IS FALLING!
Chicken Littles are Crying Wolf - Again

First it was CODEX alimentarius which, if proposed standards were adopted, was going to destroy the dietary supplement industry in the United States by classifying all our nutritional products as drugs. It passed, and it didn't.

Then there was the FTC's New Business Opportunity Rule which proposed that all business opportunities, no matter what the initial costs were, would be subject to the same level of disclosure as are franchises (currently any required purchases of less than $500 exempts the program from such disclosure). One prominent constitutional attorney spoke frequently on radio shows, conference calls and before live audiences where he matter-of-factly exclaimed that the FTC was enacting this new biz opp rules solely and specifically to "destroy the network marketing industry" and it was being "fast tracked" to expedite our industry's demise - by the Summer of 2007. Instead, the proposed new rule, which was introduced in April of 2006, languished for another year before the FTC eventually exempted all network marketing companies.

More recently it was Senator John McCain's (R-Arizona) "Dietary Supplement Safety Act". Supposedly, this act would have given the FDA authority to unilaterally ban any dietary supplement, or all dietary supplements. A month later, after objections from the supplement industry and discussions with others, such as Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senator McCain withdrew his support of the act.

Now we have Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) allegedly embedding language in "The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009" (H.R. 4173) that will give unchecked power to the FTC (not FDA) to ban any, or taken to its illogical extreme, all dietary supplements. According to the same two or three articles that have went viral throughout cyberspace (creating the illusion there are thousands of opposing commentaries) Waxman added this last minute language, after the bill had already passed the House and was about to go before the Senate, to "terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies". Here's the problem with this one: It doesn't.

I've searched the original version of this bill (all 1,279 pages) as well as the bill currently before the Senate (all 1,705 pages). You can find both HERE. There is not one word related to dietary supplements, nutritional products, DSHEA, or the word "Health" in any context (other than where Federal Employee Health Benefits is mentioned). Here's what's going on...

Waxman did add language to the already House approved bill, but the language is designed to give the FTC more power by essentially allowing it to write its own laws without Congressional approval. Presumably this is to allow the FTC to act more swiftly when they find evidence of corporate malfeasance (related to "Wall Street"). It appears that only two or three bloggers and op-ed authors within the dietary supplement arena have extrapolated from this that the FTC could use this new found power to regulate without oversight the dietary supplement industry as well. They even go so far as to claim that Waxman's motive for this added language is specifically to that end. Most commentary is titled "Health freedom alert: Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill", or words to that effect.

I forgot to mention, the word "vitamin" also doesn't appear anywhere in the revised bill.

So yes, technically, the power to enact law without Congressional approval would give the FTC the power to ban any or all dietary supplements, because it allegedly gives the FTC the power to ban or or all of practically anything! But, in fact, there is not one word anywhere in the bill that even remotely has to do with specifically dietary supplements, or the health and nutrition industry in general. It appears that paranoid conspiracy theorists are assuming this is the real reason Waxman added this language. Their evidence? In the past Waxman has called for additional oversight of dietary supplements by the FDA (see HERE). Along with dozens of other politicians over the past several years.

There's one other thing to consider here... The FTC already has the power to essentially create law without Congressional approval! That's precisely what the New Business Opportunity Rule will do (as far as to whomever it eventually applies to). Right now the FTC requires dietary supplement marketers to "scientifically substantiate" their claims. They can change their standards to meet this requirement at any time, and without congressional approval (although still a lengthy process).

Having said all of that, the practice of sneaking in last minute language to enact a law that has nothing what-so-ever to do with the bill being considered is an abhorrent and not uncommon practice. The ability for the FTC to enact regulations that are, for all intents and purposes, the creation of law, without Congressional approval, is also worthy of our concern and distain. But we all should already be objecting to this, because its already happening, and has been for decades! So when you see all of those email pleas and blooger links sending you to petitions, or informing you how to protest to your representative, absolutely do it. But protest the right thing, for the right reason. The FTC already has enough unilateral power, and no significant revisions, under any circumstance, should be made to a bill that's already passed the House and is now before the Senate. That's what we should be protesting.

Network marketing, and our health and nutrition products, are going to be around for a long, long time. The sky is going to stay right where it is.

Len Clements

Founder & CEO

MarketWave, Inc.

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Master Business Coach, Thomas Sarno

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:41:00 +0000

Talk Less-Say More
A Unique Approach to Prospect Generation

I know I've been sending more training announcements lately than Alerts about industry news, and that's going to change soon (as soon as I unveil my new website, which you're going to love). But like all those links in the Resources section of my website, I only recommend to you things that I sincerely believe are of value to you and your business. No one pays me anything for these endorsements. And based on the feedback I received from my recent "Lead Generation" call I did for the ANMP, there's no question that this is the topic you need, and want, the most help with. So, please consider this:

Most people simply talk themselves right out of the business...

They talk too much when approaching prospects, making appointments, showing products
and presenting the business opportunity.

Then, they fail to attract and keep good business partners because they talk too much, say the
wrong things and train folks the wrong way.

Stop doing that.

Attend the upcoming teleconference call with Master Business Coach, Thomas Sarno, who
will (in less than an hour) teach you a refreshing new way to get prospects to look at and be
attracted to your business.

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You'll learn a simple and delightful five-step way to approach people, make appointments,
give presentations and train your business partners with this subtle yet powerful new language
strategy.

This teleconference class called, "Talk Less-Say More" is will take place on:

Tuesday, July 13th at 3:00 pm ET (noon PT).

To register, click on the link below or copy and paste in into your web browser.

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(Bridgeline information will be sent to you via email after registering)

If you have team members who need help with their business, feel free to forward this email
to them as well!

Thanks for all your support.

Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.

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THE M.L.M. SKY IS FALLING! Chicken Littles are Crying Wolf - Again

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:27:00 +0000

I forgot to mention, the word "vitamin" also doesn't appear anywhere in the revised bill.

Network marketing, and our health and nutrition products, are going to be around for a long, long time. The sky is going to stay right where it is.

Len Clements

Founder & CEO

MarketWave, Inc.

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MLM Forums attacked by Chinese spam bots!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:21:00 +0000

HOME BASED BUSINESS FORUMS Moderator FreeFireMike is reporting repeated and vicious phishing attacks. He's had it with these foreign spammers, and he's kicking some tires and lighting some fires over it!

It amazes me that folks ignore rules .... post the crap they do .... see the warnings ... get deleted and banned ... and still come back to do it again.

And it's not only the spammers who are feeling the heat:

It would help if the Moderators of individual boards would police their areas more diligently. But that isn't happening. I'm doing it all.

And all you spammers , phishers , and spam bot operators take note of a few other things..... Mike is reminding members of:

I will make you disappear.

I can see all your details

I'm really pissed

Read the damn rules Got it?????!!!!!

I myself have never served as a forum administrator. I'm sure there have to be some benefits that exceed the headaches presented by the spammers. Heck - anyone with an e-mail account or blog has to deal with spam on a regular basis...just hit the delete key and move on.

Also, if you're looking for a good forum to join or you're a Chinese spammer, here is the link:

MLM Forum or 传销论坛

9 Outstanding Network Marketing Books

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:30:00 +0000

New books on Network Marketing are published almost every month. Here's a list of some of the most read:

1. Your First Year In Network Marketing - Mark & Rene Yarnell (270 pages) One of the STAPLES of the industry.

2. Network Marketing For Dummies - Zig Ziglar (376 pages) Another STAPLE of the industry.

3. Guerilla Multilevel Marketing - Jay Conrad Levinson (269 pages)

4. Wave 3 - The New Era In Network Marketing - Richard Poe (253 pages) -

5. How To Make Big Money In Multi-Level Marketing - David Roller (183 pages)

6. Successful Network Marketing For The 21st Century - Rod Nichols (182 pages)

7. Inside Network Marketing - - Leonard W. Clements (177 pages)

8. The Greatest Networker In The World - John Milton Fogg - (150 pages) - Should be required reading.

9. The Ultimate Guide To Network Marketing - Dr. Joe Rubino (311 pages) - Fanstastic Book.

Numis Network

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:54:00 +0000

If I ever kept a record book on such matters, the number of requests for my "opinion" on Numis Network might be a contender for the #1 spot, at least this year for sure. So, even though I've had to take my "watchdog" hat off the last few months (in lieu of my "distributor hat"), and after spending the last few weeks actually trying to get my facts straight before commenting publicly (I hate the taste of foot), for what it's worth, here's my take on Numis...

I participated in a public, but not well publicized, debate call with the Numis leadership a couple of weeks ago. You can hear the call HERE. Also on the call were Shannon Denniston, Troy Dooley and attorneys Spencer Reese and Kevin Thompson. I think Numis cofounder Jake Kevorkian and his team won some major credibility points by just agreeing to this call. They represented themselves and their company admirably. They also made a great case for why the coins themselves are a legitimate, viable product. As an avid baseball card collector I can vouch for the fact that, although they are arguably an "investment" (I could have made a nice living buying and selling cards in the early 90s, before the bubblegum bubble burst around '95), I collect them simply because a Nolan Ryan rookie card, or a 1957 Hank Aaron error card, are just cool to own. I can easily see how folks might feel the same way about silver coins.

So no, Numis is not the same thing as all the gold & silver deals that have been shut down in the past (American Gold Eagle, Gold Unlimited, etc.). They are not simply selling an alternative form of American currency (like selling a Susan B. Anthony dollar for $1.00), nor are they selling vouchers in lieu of coins.

Having said that, I still don't understand why anyone would buy them from Numis when just a few minutes of shopping online can almost always find you a lower price. I surveyed several of the coins offered by Numis and found there to be a very narrow channel of pricing with Numis being on the high side of, but almost always within, that channel. And yes Numis-folk, I did consider the grading service. For example, the average price of a 2010 MS70, which Numis sells for $99.00 was $92.44 (9 dealers and 20 closed eBay listings). The average price of the 5 ANACS rated coins (2 dealers, 3 eBay), the service that Numis uses, was $80.98. Numis's own Mike Mezack was on HSN selling the identical coin for $99.95. I'm not saying Numis isn't competitive. They are. They're just selling something that has very little margin that can be purchased at the same or lower price from numerous other sources.

So, since there is no significant margin on these coins the M.L.M. pay plan has to be based on something else. The only other thing that is commissionable, and indeed is where the large majority of distributor income is derived, is the "Fast Track Collector's Kit". I'm not at all convinced that this kit is a viable, stand alone product of any real value to a non-participant. I'd still like to know how many of the kits have been sold to someone who is not a Numis distributor. This kit contains:

1) "A beautiful, Graded Coin Attaché Case to safeguard, carry, and display your growing collection with pride."

Such cases can be purchased retail for about $60.00 and are offered separately by Numis for $59.95.

2) "Your first MS70 Silver American Eagle to start your collection."

This is the 2010 MS70, Its market value is between $80-$100.

3) "Access to the 'Coins Are Cool' video training series. This training system will teach you about numismatic coins and the industry."

Although I've heard this is a great training series, there is an overwhelming amount of numismatic training and educational material available online for free.

4) "Membership in the Silver Coin Of The Month Club, which automatically delivers to you a perfectly graded, certified silver coin from one of the world's leading mints each month."

These coins can be purchased individually, so although a nice convenience, it's just a convenience.

The coin collecting part of Numis I actually like. The M.L.M. part, though, is almost entirely based on selling these overpriced $325 Fast Track Kits (which over $200 in bonuses are paid out from). The legality of Numis ultimately rests on the motive for buying these kits. Are thousands of people buying it right now because they actually want it, and would have purchased it anyway even if there were no income opportunity, or are they buying these kits because they are part of the $495 package to be an Executive distributor?

Here's a question that was never asked on the call, which I'd still love to get some feedback on: When the Executive package went up from $299 to $495 last month, and bonuses were also raised, what was added to the Exec. package to account for this supposed 66% increase in value? Was the Fast Track Collector's Kit included in the $299 Exec. package?

There's also been a lot of chatter online about the fact that over 30 million 2009 Silver Eagles were minted, almost 7 million 2010s have already been minted (and will likely end the year at around 20 million), thus something can't be of great collector value if it is not rare. But in Numis's defense, it's the highest possible MS70 rating¹, meaning the coin is virtually flawless, even under a microscope, that causes a coin to go from it's silver content value (in this case around $20) to the $99 value, or what ever it is for that particular coin. There's also such things to consider as whether or not it is a "first strike", meaning one of the first coins for a new mintage to come off the line (supposedly the die that's used by the mint wares down over time), and which grading service came up with the MS70 grade (there are several such services with varying degrees of credibility). After having read up on this pretty extensively I've come to the conclusion Numis is not at all being misleading in anything they're presenting. The numismatic grading industry is! For example, this "first strike" or "early release" BS. Besides the fact the dies are often changed throughout the year, a coin is either MS70 or it isn't. It's either flawless, or it's not (perhaps due to a worn die). Nonetheless, Numis is using ANACS, widely considered to be one of only four "A" rated grading services. I think that's grading them on a curve.

Numis is also extremely vulnerable to SEC ire when it comes to claims of "increasing value" or anything that would suggest their product (gold and silver coins) are a good "investment". This has contributed to the demise of gold & silver coin deals in the past. Numis corporate did a great job of defending the corporate position on this, and they do appear to be proactively trying to educate their reps in this area. But it's not what comes out of corporate that they need to be concerned about. State and federal regulators go by what's actually happening in the field, not what is suppose to happen. And so far, it doesn't look good. The "investment" angle is being employed by numerous Numis reps. Just Google Numis plus "[great, good, best] investment". There are many websites already in gross violation of this policy. Numis is going to have to have one of the largest and most active Distributor Compliance offices in the industry. But let's give them the benefit of the doubt for now and see what they do. A great test will be to check in 90 days from now and see how many of those hundreds of websites are still making the same claims.

Numis's response to this was that they were in no different a position that any dietary supplement company who is prohibited from making disease treatment claims. I disagree. Precious metals, especially bullion coins, are commonly marketed as investments and as a great hedge against inflation. I understand that Numis is selling numismatic (collector) coins, not just bullion coins, but the collectible is still composed of something well known, and well marketed, as a great investment. So the analogy with supplements is flawed in that supplements don't contain, for example, penicillin or Acetaminophen (Tylenol). If they did they would have a substantially greater challenge keeping their reps from making antibiotic and anti-pain claims. The product Numis is selling is composed of gold and silver, which is by its very nature considered an "investment".

As a collector (trading cards now, coins and stamps in the past) I like the overall concept of Numis. However, some products and services, no matter how valuable, just don't lend themselves well to an MLM opportunity. Travel, for example. There's simply no money from the actual travel left to create any real income opportunity in the comp plan (around 3-5% of the actual cost of travel goes into the plan), so such deals compensate by adding a several hundred dollar "training package", or "travel booking website". Both of which are entirely distributor-centric, and thus ultimately gets the company in legal trouble. Same with the old long distance service MLMs. The service itself injected literally pennies into the pay plan (typically you got less than 1% of an average $25 monthly phone bill). So, they added several hundred dollar "training" packages, and paid $100-$250 "coding bonuses" from those packages. Numis now has the same challenge. The coins themselves have very little margin, and add little to the plan. So to compensate they came up with a $325 "Fast Track Collector's Kit" that appears to have a net cost of around $120 (assuming Numis is getting the best coin prices and quantity discounts on the cases). That's how they can afford the total payout of around $200 (on average, it could be more).

All legal issues aside, when the primary source of income in the MLM plan is a one time occurrence (the $325 kit) this also does not lend itself well to long term residual income. That usually involves making a sale once and that sale generating income for months, years, or for life. Like selling a "potion" or a "lotion", using it up, and then reordering it. For these Collector Kit related bonuses to continue there must be an ongoing, never ending flow of new, first time customers (distributors?). It's kind of like selling a water purifier or any other type of non-consumable hard goods - which is why virtually all MLM companies that have sold such products have migrated to the ol' "pills and potions" (NSA, Nikken, etc.). Yes, I know $6.00 from each monthly coin sale is paid from the binary plan. But again, that can only be because Numis is buying them at the low end of that price channel and selling them on the high end (giving them every benefit of the doubt in that none of that ongoing six bucks is also coming from the one time Collector Kit purchase, or worse, the high margin $75 distributor entry fee or the higher margin $119 annual web access fee). But, again, you can also access the low end of that pricing channel (just check eBay) right now, without having to pay anything to Numis.

On a completely different front, there's also the issue of non-exclusivity. Unlike "potions" that have their unique nanopolyxanphytosaccharides (or what ever), or "lotions" that have their proprietary puppy placenta proteins (or what ever), a 2010 MS70 Silver Eagle is a 2010 MS70 Silver Eagle. That is, if Numis does make this work there's inevitably going to be numerous Numis knockoffs. What's going to happen when there are several M.L.M. companies all competing for the same limited supply of Numismatic coins? My guess? The coins will become even more deemphasized within the pay plan in lieu of the high margin "collector kits", membership fees and training. And as more and more companies compete on that level - and more and more of them overprice their kits, fees and training to support an even higher pay out - they'll all start popping up on regulatory radar screens again. But I'm prophesying. It's just a theory.

Will Numis reign in their numerous renegade reps who inevitably will and are making investment claims? Will anyone of any actual legal authority ever question the value of the $325 Collector's Kit to a non-participant in the income opportunity, and the motive for purchasing it among those who are participants? What will be their conclusion?

These are subjective questions. For now, they are a matter of opinion. You've got mine. Now we'll have to wait until someone who's opinion actually counts decides to buzz in.

Time will tell. It always does. It just takes its time.

Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.

Magnetic Sponsoring™

Come Back Jack

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:39:00 +0000

Wow, I could not believe my eyes. Jack Weinzierl, a top earner and great leader is calling it quits! Well here it is in his own words:

Jack Weinzierl is No Longer Building a Network Marketing Business
Posted by Jack Weinzierl in EIRO Research

From the subject of this post, you may have thought I was going to go on a long rant about broken promises and all sorts of issues that critics focus on in the network marketing industry.

Actually, I have a great deal of respect for the leaders, companies and products in this industry. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find a better company than EIRO Research.

Are there companies that do not reflect excellence in the industry?

Of course, as there are in every industry quite frankly, but the industry provides opportunity to millions of families and product innovation around the world. I will be forever thankful for the friends that I have developed through this industry, over the past 10 years as well.

Here is what it comes down to for me. I stink at network marketing!

It is not the company’s fault, not my upline’s fault and not the products’ fault. I am good on the marketing, SEO and lead generation side, but not very good on the networking side of the equation.

It is called “network marketing” for a reason and quite frankly, it is a relief for me to finally come to have this revelation. I am closing the door to this chapter in my life. I am not a victim. In fact, I have learned more about people and business than I ever did getting my MBA through this industry.

After almost 10 years in this industry, I was thrilled to find a company called EIRO Research where all the components are in place. The one ingredient not in place, however, was my passion to truly do whatever it takes to build a successful network.

I have been praying over this and really seeking His plan for my life. I also realized that anything that was not aligned with that plan was a distraction for me. Maybe you can relate?

I will be focused on SEO, lead generation and iphone/mobile apps for traditional business owners, ministries and Christian authors, as well as for leaders in the network marketing industry for 2010. That is what I am passionate about and where I can have the most impact. It is also what keeps me up until 2 am many mornings.

If you have a business or ministry where you need an SEO optimized blog, a comprehensive SEO and social media plan executed for you generating highly targeted leads, send me an email and let me know about your company. I will be more than happy to give you a F’ree consultation, after I review your business.

I am taking 6 new clients for January, so let me know over the next 48 hours so we can review your business and reserve one of the spots for you. After I review your business for no charge, I will demonstrate how I can put you on page 1 of Google in the ORGANIC search results and I will do so at no charge. Once you see this in action, you will want to engage us to dominate many key words for your business and in your market.

I have few regrets from my years in this industry. I am so thankful and grateful for the friends that have come into my life through this great industry and I am thankful for the skills that I have developed through these businesses that my clients can now benefit from. Every experience, good and bad, was a building block for me.

My one piece of advice for every subscriber and blog reader is find your passion and His plan for your life and remove any distractions. Don’t do anything 1/2 way. I am 42 years young and I have to ask every day if I did everything I could to help others, serve and glorify Him.

If you are looking for a stellar network marketing company, EIRO Research has all 5 key essentials in place. Email me and I can direct you to an excellent representative.

In Service,

Jack Weinzierl, MBA

Were gonna miss you Jack!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:56:00 +0000

Fortune High Tech Marketing has been ordered to cease and desist operating in the State of Montana according to a report from the AP:

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana has ordered a Lexington, Ky.-based company to cease operations in the state, accusing it of running a pyramid scheme.
Monica J. Lindeen, the state Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, says Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing took nearly $1.9 million from at least 1,295 Montana participants between July 2006 and June 2009.
Lindeen says the company lures new members with income opportunities with companies such as Dish Network and General Electric. But, she says, members only benefit if they recruit others to join in the alleged scam.

This action comes on the heals of North Dakota taking similar action back in December where the

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has issued a Cease & Desist Order against Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing of Lexington, KY and its principals Paul C. Oberson, Jeff Oberson, and Thomas A. Mills for violations of North Dakota transient merchant, consumer fraud, and home solicitation sales laws. The Order was filed late yesterday, December 10, 2009.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:34:00 +0000

Brig Hart's 10 Steps to Success

Wow almost 5 yrs since Brig Hart brought his Road to Blue Diamond Tour to Dallas. Brig spoke to over 200 attendes which was a big crowd for Monavie. As everyone knows Brig has had a long and successful career in Network Marketing starting with Amway / Quixtar in the late 1970's and most recently with Monavie. At the meeting in Dallas Brig shared his 10 steps to success that can be used for whatever business you are promoting. It appears that the 10 steps are still working for Brig and Lita as they are now Monavie's highest earning couple.

Show The Plan- You can do all the other steps, but unless you Show The Plan (STP), your business won't grow. Set and Make a goal to be a Go-Getter by showing the plan a minimum of 3-5 times a week.
Personal Use- Your organization duplicates you. You should be your own best customer. Set and achieve a goal of $200-$300 of personal volume- 2 cases.
Retail Customers- Sharing your products and resources with clients and customers is a key element to your personal profit. Set and achieve a goal to develop and regularly service 3 to 6 customers.
Listen to CDs- Distributors who want their businesses to grow will listen to CD's everyday. These are for both husband and wives. Set and achieve a goal to be together and participate in the word of the week program, (WOW). Remember, a positive CD a day keeps the negative away!
Begin Reading- Reading is vital to your personal growth. In renewing your mind, you will find yourself being transformed. Read the books, The Magic of Thinking Big, How To Win Friends and Influence People, The Go-Getter, and Think and Grow Rich. Make it your goal to read one new book every month. You will become what you read!
Meeting and Conferences-Association, knowledge, motivation and inspiration are the keys to your growth. Set and a achieve a goal of attending every business meeting and conference possible, from home and open meetings to local and regional conferences to major weekend business conferences.
Counsel- Be teachable: set and achieve a goal to counsel once a month with your active, growing upline. Counsel with the wise, and become wise. This will help you keep your business on track.
Total accountability and Integrity- Let your work be your bond. Be dependable to both your upline and your downline. Remember, your personal integrity is the key to your team, and your the team is the key to your success.
Relationships- Relationships are the glue of the business. No one will care how much you know until they know how much you care. Become a friend, and you will have friends. Build a friendship, and the people will build the business. Friends do what friends do!
Have faith- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. Faith will move mountains and create large organizations

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MLM Traffic Formula Review part 3

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:33:00 +0000

Module 5: Paid Traffic Strategies

Webinar 1: Pay Per Click Marketing Basics

How to use these FREE and inexpensive tools to quickly uncover profitable keywords that your prospects are currently searching for online.
The pay per click marketing blueprint, that if used (Correctly), can create a stampede of instant and extremely high quality traffic to your website nerve center.
How to avoid the Google “stupid tax” and never pay more for a lead than you should!
Should you kill the campaign or do you have a winner on your hands? Here's how to analyze your results.

Webinar 2: Banner Advertising

Get 7x more quality traffic with banners than pay per click and search engine traffic combined? Find out how our guest is doing it!
Find out how this internet multi-millionaire gets huge results with a tactic, once thought outdated and ineffective, and why according to him, it’s easier than ever before to get targeted leads and traffic.
The _____ __ or _____ ___ rule you MUST obey if you want to make banner ads work for you.
How and why visitors that click on banners will behave differently than any of your other traffic and what you must do to convert them into leads.
Why banner advertising is a more reliable traffic source than Google.
Webinar 2: Other Paid Advertising
Advertising co-ops: How to use them to explode your personal business with $10,000 to $50,000 in free paid advertising without spending a dime.
More to be announced!
Bonuses & Resources:

The PPC Campaign Blueprint
How To Uncover Profitable PPC Keywords
Scientific Marketing Report
BONUS REPORT!
Summary:

In Chapter 5, we’re going to focus on producing paid traffic. This is the quickest way to start generating a lot of traffic to your website to begin testing your offer.

This is where the rubber meets the road and you begin to really pay attention to what you learned in Chapters 3 and 4, namely copywriting, tracking and split-testing.

And just to give you an idea of how powerful this chapter will be, consider this…

We’ve produced up to 600 leads per day, from 1 single source of traffic. And that doesn’t include traffic from affiliates, or social networking sites.

Chapter 6: Social Media Traffic

Webinar 1: Leveraging The 7 Largest Social Media Websites

Find out how and when to use “The Big 7” to quickly gain a massive following and create a steady stream of traffic.
Social media marketing best practices. Break these rules at your own risk! Why 99% of the marketers out there have this all wrong.
The exact formula used by some of the top social media mavens to quickly expand their networks and reach thousands of people daily.
The inner working of Twitter and how micro-blogging is fast becoming the most popular social media traffic source.
How to use Facebook to get exposure, gain credibility and engage your network to interact with you and drive targeted traffic to your “Nerve Center.”
And much more!
Webinar 2: How Social Media Fits In With Your Marketing Strategy

MLM Traffic Formula 2.0 blueprint and how social media fits in with the big picture.
Your questions answered
Bonuses & Resources:

The Social Media Marketing Blueprint
Directory of Top Social Media Websites
Summary:

Social media, if used properly, can get you a steady flow of quality traffic.

A LOT of traffic.

In fact, we’re going to cover several different ways to produce traffic for your websites with social media. As we go through this chapter, you’ll learn how to use websites like FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and many more social media websites to drive hoards of targeted traffic to your “Nerve Center.”

By the time you complete this chapter, you will have a social media strategy that clearly lays out how and where social media fits into the big picture of your business.

Chapter 7: Video And Other Multi-Media Traffic

Webinar 1: Everything You Need To Start Creating Kick-Butt Video

Here’s a very short list of equipment you can pick up for under $300 that will allow you to create and publish high-quality videos in just minutes!
How to quickly create simple VIDEO REPORTS that you can give away or even sell to grow your list!
How to get over your fear of being “taped” and why you’re NEVER too ugly, old or dumb to be on video. And no, it doesn’t matter if you’re shy, English is your second language, you have an obnoxious lisp, or any other “reason” you might think you shouldn’t be on video.
5 easy things you can do to make your video quality look ten times better.
A comparison of the different types of video you can create, the pros and cons of each and in what situations you want to use each.
Webinar 2: How To Turn Your Videos Into Massive Traffic, Leads And Cash

How to get your “video podcasts” listed in the iTunes directory, accessed by millions of people every day!
How to use video sharing websites to quickly shoot up to the first page of major search engines for just about any keyword or phrase. (This is an extremely effective way to drive search engine traffic to your Traffic Formula Nerve Center.)
How to use edu-tainment (educational entertainment) to create value, build credibility and make your videos go VIRAL!
How to “respond” to other people’s videos and instantly access traffic from the most popular videos.
Bonuses & Resources:

The Video Marketing Blueprint
My Top Video Recommendations
Quick-Start Checklist
Summary:

Video marketing is one of the simplest ways you can use to start driving massive targeted traffic to your Traffic Formula Nerve Center.

Not only can you attract new prospects, but it’s an extremely effective method for building credibility and trust because it get’s people engaged in ways other media just can’t.

I have several close friends who all have built multi-million dollar businesses by creating and marketing video, and they are going to show you how video gets people engaged and interested in ways other media just can’t.

If you use it the way we show you in this Module, you’ll be well on your way to generating leads.

Chapter 8: Search Engine Optimization For Non-Geeks

Webinar 1: How And Where To Find Targeted Traffic On The Search Engines

Discover the 3 simple things you MUST do to get Google to send you FREE targeted & ongoing traffic to your MLM Traffic Formula Nerve Center.
Learn the ONE simple technique we use to find “money keywords”, which will convert to cash, leads and distributors. GUARANTEED!
How to avoid wasting time on the 90% of keywords, which will NEVER convert and will only result in dead beat leads and loads of wasted time.
The secret to exploiting social media to blanket the top 10 search results on Google for your target keywords, even if you don’t have a website!
Revealed! The SEO 2.0 formula we’ve used to passively drive traffic, create leads and distributors WITHOUT actually having to do SEO.
The right way to use social media to get Google to automatically push your rankings way past your competition, even if their SEO is better than yours.
Bonus! Get the inside scoop on some astonishing SEO results and see REAL evidence that Google is launching a hostile takeover of social media, and how you can profit from this.
A comparison of the different types of video you can create, the pros and cons of each and in what situations you want to use each.
Webinar 2: How SEO Fits In Your Business Model

A “big picture” look at how and where SEO fits in your business.
Your questions answered
Bonuses & Resources:

The SEO Blueprint
My Top FREE SEO Resources
Quick-Start Checklist
Summary:

The beautiful thing about search engines, is everything you’ve done up to this point with social media and video marketing, has already given you some beneficial search engine attention.

Now in this section, it’s time to kick it up a notch and begin implementing some very simple search engine strategies that will really start helping you increase your visibility and rankings.

This chapter really takes the technical stuff out of SEO and teaches you the simple steps to grow your traffic naturally, organically and for the long haul.

Chapter 9: How To Harvest Money From Your List

Webinar 1: How To Automate Your Follow Up And Maximize Your Results

My proven step-by-step formula for creating autoresponder emails guaranteed to get the most opens and clicks.
How to combine an autoresponder with social media marketing to set up your own distribution channel.
Mike Dillard’s top 10 secrets to creating long term and profitable relationships with his list.
The “pipeline” marketing method, and how your marketing system will work on your behalf to sort, qualify and convert your leads into distributors and customers.
Bonuses & Resources:

Mike’s autoresponder template
The Pipeline Marketing Blueprint
Quick-Start Checklist
Summary:

At this point, you’ve got your own nerve center in place that’s producing leads for you, and you have 14 different sources of traffic sending prospects your way each and every day.

Well now I’m going to show you how to combine an email autoresponder, and your social media presence, to set up your very own distribution channel.

Now things are going to get very exciting, because this is where you’re going to learn how to set up a virtual selling machine, that builds a relationship with your prospects for you, and then turns them into paying customers and distributors automatically.

To give you an idea of the power this Lesson contains, I wrote a series of emails that goes out to my prospects each day automatically about 2 years ago.

And every single day, those emails produce $10,000 to $20,000 in income, without any direct involvement on my part. I literally set it up once, and it’s been working on auto-pilot ever since.

This is exactly what I’m going to show you how to do in this module.

So at this point, you have a state-of-the-art marketing machine in place that’s based on our nerve system strategy.

Traffic’s coming in. Leads are being produced, and those leads are being turned into cash producing customers of your products or business opportunity, 24/7 automatically.

Everything’s getting better and better everyday thanks to the optimization strategies you learned in Section II.

Things are good.

And now that you have so many leads coming in, I’d like to spend our next lesson together, revealing everything I know about turning those leads into new distributors.

Chapter 10: How To Sponsor More Reps

Webinar 1: Getting Prospects To Chase You

How to minimize your time and maximize your sponsoring results with my simple 3-step prospect to team member or customer conversion method.
Fearless Sponsoring Tips, Techniques and Tactics: why being shy or afraid to talk to people on the phone isn't an issue.
How to instantly get credibility and respect when talking to a prospect on the phone.
Bonuses & Resources:

BONUS #1
Quick-Start Checklist
Summary:

In this lesson, we’re going to solve your biggest challenges when it comes to sponsoring. I don’t care if you’re shy on the phone, or if you just don’t have a lot of extra time yet thanks to a day job, I’m going to show you exactly how I managed to build the 2nd largest downline in my primary opportunity, sponsoring 4 out of the top 5 income earners.

Using my techniques, sponsoring will become effortless because your prospects are going to be seeking you out. They’re going to be calling you, and you’re going to be in control of the entire process.

You’ll never have to feel like an awkward sales person again, or make another unwanted cold call to strangers.

This is the culmination of everything we’ve been building up to.

You’ve learned how to produce a ton of traffic using multiple different sources. You’ve learned how to turn that traffic into leads using your nerve center. You’ve learned how to monetize your leads and produce customers using automated technology, and now you’ve learned how to sponsor distributors and build a team.

By the time you finish this module, you’ll having everything you need, and then some in order to build a successful, profitable business from home, using the exact same techniques and strategies I have.

MLM Traffic Formula 2.0

MLM Traffic Formula 2 - Review Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:30:00 +0000

Module 3: Copywriting Mastery Formula

Webinar 1: Mike’s 7-Million Dollar Copywriting Secrets

How to write killer Google Ads that cream the competition, and pull the hottest leads directly to YOUR website like hypnotized zombies. (And then you'll want to use these 2 copywriting secrets to magnetically attract them to you and your organization effortlessly).
The simple short-cut methods for writing headlines that are almost certain to hook your readers by the eyeballs and suck them in.
Check out my multi-million dollar copywriting "swipe file". This little known resource is top secret, not for sale, and isn't published anywhere. The only place you'll find its location is in this course.
12 simple steps to writing sales letters that convert readers into customers and distributors.
What to do if you absolutely suck at writing copy and don’t want to do it yourself.
And much more!
Bonuses & Resources:

Quick-Start Checklist
My Multi-Million Dollar Swipe File
Summary:

Once we create your nerve center together, I’m going to teach you the one skill that’s allowed me to make over $7,000,000 in the last 3 years which is something you’ve already been doing your entire life, which is writing.

But now I’m going to teach you how to write letters and emails that sell for you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at no cost.

Once you learn my secrets to writing persuasive sales letters and emails, you’ll be able to sit down, write a letter, and make money any time you want with the push of a button.

If you think that sounds too good to be true, then consider this… I’ve built the 2nd largest downline in my primary opportunity and made over $5 million dollars in the last 15 months alone, without making a single prospecting or sales call.

All of those results came from simply writing letters and emails that do all of the telling and selling for me. I’m going to share all of my best secrets and strategies, including a simple series of emails that produced over $554,000 in income in less than 5 days.

That means these emails produced over $100,000 per day in income, and I’m actually going to give these emails to you in Chapter 3, so you can study them and use them in your business.

Module 4: How To Make More Money With The Same Traffic

Webinar 1: Scientific Marketing Simplified

How to set up basic tracking for all your ads and sales letter on your “Nerve Center.” This is easier than you might think, takes 2 minutes to set up and you only have to do it one time… ever!
The bulletproof tracking methods that work like a crystal ball, so you know for certain which ads are bringing you the most money and which ads are sucking wind.
Where and how to find the 3 most important performance metrics you MUST know and improve in order to annihilate your competition.

Webinar 2: Simple Split-Testing Tactics

Learn why this, ladies and gentlemen, is THE #1 secret to paying less for traffic and leads, leaving your competition in the dust, and making more money for each and every visitor to your website!
How we improved the profitability of one campaign by 400% with one simple tweak on our website. It took less than 2-minutes, and will make us hundreds of thousands of dollars this year!
Here’s what factors to test first, second and third on each advertisement, your capture pages and sales letters! AND follow along step-by-step as we set up a split-test before your eyes in less than 30 seconds!
Bonuses & Resources:

Quick-Start Checklist
Scientific Marketing Report
Sample split-test charts
Summary:

I’m going to teach you how to get more results from the exact same amount of traffic, for less money and less time.

This technique is commonly known as split-testing.

And I know that might sound a little technical or intimidating, but it’s not.

In fact, I’ll be showing you how to set up your very own split-test within minutes, and to give you a massive advantage over the competition, I’m going to give you 10 of our winning split-test results during your training which you can use on your sites immediately to increase the number of leads and sales they generate.

MLM Traffic Formula 2

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Module 1: The MLM Traffic Formula 2.0 Revealed

Webinar #1: The MLM Traffic Formula Master plan

Discover the simple formula that will help you eliminate information overload, so you know EXACTLY how all the marketing pieces of the puzzle fit together.
How to instantly immunize your business against attrition and competition forever.
The one and only guaranteed way to create a real, long term residual income in network marketing. (This has nothing to do with your opportunity, downline, or products which are never guaranteed).
You, Inc: Your step-by-step process for creating a totally unique and magnetic online presence.
And much more!

Webinar 2: The Market Discovery Formula

How to quickly find and tap into the most profitable markets on the internet using these 5 simple and free internet market research tools.
How to get inside the mind of your market! Discover their hidden most desires, fears, pain, problems and challenges and find out what and why they buy!
How to uncover and exploit gaps in your market place and use this intelligence to outwit your competition.
Bonuses & Resources:

MLM Traffic Formula Picture Blueprint
Quick-Start Checklist
Summary:

In this section, I’ll be giving you the step-by-step blueprint you’ve always wanted for your business.

If you’ve been experiencing information overload… Like there are just too many pieces and things to learn and think about, that you want to just throw your hands up in frustration, I understand how you feel, which is why I’m going to give you my personal blue print that will finally solve this problem for you once and for all.

By the time I’m done going over it with you in your first chapter, you’re going to feel this weight lifted off your shoulders because you’ll know exactly how to combine all of the most powerful marketing sites and services in the world together like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, PPC, and more, into a systematic machine that sucks in traffic, converts that traffic into leads, and then turns those leads into new distributors and instant cash.

Module 2: Your MLM Traffic Formula Nerve Center

Webinar 1: The Automatic Prospecting System “Nerve Center”

How we generate 400+ leads every single day with the “Traffic Formula Nerve Center” strategy.
Watch as we pull back the curtain and reveal our entire business model for the first time so you can see how a 7-figure marketing company looks from the inside.
And much more!
Webinar 2: How To Set Up And Automate Your Marketing Nerve Center

Get your website up and ready to start capturing leads for you in just a few hours totally free and no experience necessary.
How to put your marketing system on complete autopilot to sort, qualify and pre-sell your leads for you so you can focus on generating traffic.
How to create specific landing pages for different types of leads like product customers, other network marketers, or people looking specifically for your opportunity by name.
Bonuses & Resources:

Bonus Webinar: Fast Start Leads & Cash
Quick-Start Checklist
Mystery Bonus #1
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Summary:

I’m going to show you how to create the heart of Traffic Formula 2… which is what I call your nerve center.

I wasn’t going to get into a lot of detail about our nerve centers, because this is cutting-edge stuff, and Tim Erway and I honestly debated whether or not we wanted to show everyone how to do this, but in the end, you won, which means we are going to reveal this incredible strategy to you.

All I’ll say is this…

Think about your nerve center as a next generation capture page, that’s also an automated traffic magnet that grows in power over time. The more you use your nerve center, the more free traffic, leads, and cash you’re going to produce.

And the best part, is that creating your nerve center is extremely easy, and that it’s going to simplify your online marketing duties in a very big way.

MLM Traffic Formula 2.0

Mike Dillard's PPC Domination

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:57:00 +0000

If you’re not producing at least 50 new leads per day, in less than 30 days using our techniques, you can contact my office here, and request a full refund. No questions asked.

If you don’t get the results you want, you don’t pay a dime.

It’s that simple. Fair enough?

I thought so…

Now let me give you a taste of what you'll learn when you watch these videos:

How to "glide" through setting up your first AdWords account in 13 minutes or less—even if you've never used the Internet before.
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The easiest way to make money with Google AdWords when starting out.
How to make your AdWords advertising 100% FREE. (And, in fact, actually make you money every time you run your ads!)
A sneaky way to use AdWords to get dozens of MLM leaders to eagerly send traffic to your websites. (And without having to speak with them, make any special deals with them, or pay them anything.)
A neat little way of using your computer's spell check function to make your Google ads draw twice as many clicks. (And no... this has nothing to do with actually checking your ad's spelling.)

PPC Domination

MLM Bootcamp

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:41:00 +0000

In just 7 days you will learn:

To discover the tactics and strategies of Magnetic Sponsoring™ which enabled me to build a $250,000 business within 4 months.

How to become the hunted instead of the hunter, and have customers and prospects literally calling you, ready to join.

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Why I REFUSE to pitch networkers on my opportunity, yet why they CALL ME to join my organization.

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Review

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:40:00 +0000

I thought I would give my readers a more comprehensive look at the Magnetic Sponsoring™ program from Mike Dillard. What inspired me to do this was a recent search query on my blog traffic report. A reader came to my blog via a search on Google for "what is magnetic sponsoring." So, just exactly what is Magnetic Sponsoring?

Simply put, Magnetic Sponsoring™ is a lead generation and cash flow system designed for Network Marketers from all companies. We all need leads, and we all need cash flow. Cash flow is especially important when you're trying to get your business off the ground. Generating your own fresh leads is much more rewarding than purchasing leads. The MS system also teaches you how to Sponsor. Hey, you can generate leads all day, but if you can't sponsor anyone...!

I could go into the history of Magnetic Sponsoring™,
and if you are really interested in the history, Mike talks about it in the book. For example, Mike was waiting tables and struggling with his network-marketing business. But now, when he sees a sports car he likes, they deliver it to his front door three weeks later!

Recently, the MS system also got a complete makeover and was relaunched as MS 3.0. There are some great new tools, such as a completely new state-of-the-art back office that allows you to track your traffic, leads, and commissions in real time.

This is one of the lead-capture pages that comes free with the affiliate system. The commission on this product is around $200!!

The new back office for MS 3.0 is created so that you can get started immediately in utilizing the system. The affiliate links page lists all the capture pages now available. More are coming! Including the much-anticipated Black Belt Sponsoring Course!

In addition to the Magnetic Sponsoring™ book that you receive by mail, your back office in packed full with other goodies! The MLM Domain Secret e-book itself is worth the cost of the entire Magnetic Sponsoring™ system!

The is the lead capture page I currently use - it works great:

In summary:

Magnetic Sponsoring™ is a lead generation and cash flow system for Network Marketers.
The system retails for less than $40.
You get a whole bunch of things you need for just $40: a book in the mail, several e-books, the closed door audios, lead capture pages, and complete and comprehensive instructions for making it work.
You also are given access to a state-of-the-art back office system that allows you to track your leads, traffic, and commissions in real time.
Also, Mike pays you $20 commission whenever someone purchases the course from your affiliate site and around $200 if they pick up a copy of the MLM Traffic Formula.

Pick up a copy of Magnetic Sponsoring™

Mannatech Settles with Texas AG

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:53:00 +0000

Mannatech Settles with Texas AG
Company will pay $6 million, Bench Caster Back in July of 2007 the Texas Attorney General filed a civil complaint related primarily to product claims and sales practices that took place mostly from 2002 to 2006. Under the proposed settlement, which is still pending court approval, Mannatech will pay $4 million to consumers as restitution and $2 million to cover the expenses related to the AG's investigation. The settlement does not include any fine or penalty.

Also, former CEO and founder Sam Caster did receive a civil penalty of $1 million and is prevented from serving as an officer, director, or employee of Mannatech for the next five years.

The TX AG notice can be viewed here...
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=2858

Mannatech's Press Release can be viewed here...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mannatech-Reaches-Settlement-bw-14482794.html

Commentary:

This action by the TX AG, which originally sought to shut the company down, was entirely due to medical claims made about Mannatech products, not their multilevel business model.

Note in the FTC's press release (not Mannatech's with the sharp edges smoothed off) it notes "the state's enforcement action also cited Mannatech for encouraging product 'testimonials' that exaggerated its products' healing effects." So once again, personal testimonials are not safe haven. It is (right or wrong) not one's "first amendment right" to make a medical claim, even if it's an honest portrayal of what you believe the product did for you.

The FTC notice goes on to state, "Mannatech agreed not to advertise or otherwise claim that its dietary supplements can cure, treat, mitigate, or prevent disease."

Until someone changes the rules, we should all agree to this!

Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.

Matol Aligning with Univera

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Matol Aligning with Univera

Oldest Canadian Multilevel Company
Will Merge Network, Products

January 14th, 2009
In a press release published today Univera announced their acquisition of the Matol Botanical International brand, as well as their distributor network and product line. The release stated that Univera had "...entered into a binding agreement to acquire specific assets and the distributor network..." of Matol. The "strategic alliance" involves the merging of the Matol distributor organization into the Univera network and compensation plan, as well as the combining of the two product lines.

The full press release can be found here:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1846004.htm

Commentary:

I've always been a big fan of Matol and considered them to be one of the good guys in the network marketing industry. I've also enjoyed their Km product, practically to the point of addiction back in the mid-90s. It would seem to go without saying that Km would be adopted by any acquirer of Matol's product line, but when the acquirer has their own liquid botanical product (Univera's is called Xtra), and such an assurance to present Matol distributors was curiously absent from the press release, it does require saying. Based on my conversation with Matol Chairman and CEO Robert Bolduc, Km will certainly remain as one of the key flagship products in the combined line. Also, Univera is only acquiring the distributor network and product line. All other aspects of Matol Botanical International will still exist (R&D, medical division, etc.). In fact, Matol still intends to celebrate their 25th anniversary this summer.

Matol launched in 1984 and experienced strong momentum from the late '80s to mid '90s. Corporate conflicts resulted in the departure of Sam Kalenuik and Anthony Jurak, both members of senior management who subsequently launched their own competing companies. This was soon followed by the departure of the Boreyko family from atop their distributor ranks, who went on to found New Vision (Vemma). By the late 90s, when the entire industry's growth was slowing, Matol had also slumped considerably. Matol's opportunity for a resurgence in the new century was likely hampered by the onslaught of competitive "jungle juices" that now pervade this industry. This is in spite of the fact that Matol's Km was actually the pioneer of the "nutritional beverage" product category (this was almost two decades before the Noni juice craze began).

Univera was launched in 1999 as Oasis Wellness Network, which changed their name to Oasis LifeSciences in 2004, and in early 2006 changed their name again to Univera LifeSciences. In 2001 their was a cyber-net cast into the internet, jointly conducted by the FTC and FDA, called "Operation Cure.all" which snagged a couple of network marketing companies for making medical claims. Oasis was one of them. Today both Univera's and Matol's web sites and marketing materials appear to be clean of any such claims.

Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.

Shaklee Loses Major Endorser

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Liberty) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:59:00 +0000

Shaklee Loses Major Endorser

Harvard Anti-Aging Researcher Quits Board

December 30th, 2008
A prominent Harvard Medical School scientist quit the scientific advisory board of Shaklee last week claiming they misused his name to promote one of their anti-aging drink products.

David Sinclair, a geneticist who conducts longevity research, joined Shaklee's advisory board last August and has spoken at a Shaklee convention about the antioxidant resveratrol, which is an ingredient in Shaklee's Vivix drink product. When The Wall Street Journal contacted Sinclair and questioned his apparent endorsement of this product he resigned from his position with Shaklee. Sinclair told the WSJ, "This decision was prompted in significant part by my recent realization as to how my association with Shaklee and my research have been used contrary to the intents and purposes of my agreement... To my dismay I have found numerous uses of my name and reputation on the Web and in other media that implies endorsement by me of Shaklee's Vivix product". Although no legal action has yet been taken, Sinclair is quoted in The WSJ as stating, "I have engaged counsel to deal with this matter and have demanded that Shaklee cease using my name."

In a statement to The WSJ, Shaklee disagreed with Sinclair saying, "every implied product endorsement was in Dr. Sinclair's own words, and every Shaklee use of his name - whether in print or video - was preapproved by him in keeping with our agreement."

A Harvard spokesman said the agreement between Sinclair and Shaklee was reviewed by Harvard, and confirmed that "The Harvard name is not allowed to be used to endorse products, and faculty and researchers are not allowed to use their affiliation as a means to endorse a product."

The Wall Street Journal article can be viewed here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123025446150734561.html

Commentary:

Did Shaklee corporate overstep the boundaries of their agreement with Dr. Sinclair? Did Dr. Sinclair "endorse" Shaklee's Vivix product?

Well, thanks to the advent of cell phone video we don't have to wonder. Just watch HERE.

Although Dr. Sinclair never specifically mentions the Vivix brand, he does pretty clearly imply that he's talking about a specific Shaklee product, or products. Dr. Sinclair will likely have to answer to Harvard as to whether there was a conflict of interest here, and the fact Sinclair was paid to be on Shaklee's board probably won't help his case.

But here's the bottom line: They're both right. I can find zero evidence that Shaklee, the company, has in any way imbued more credibility to their Vivix product than Dr. Sinclair already has in his own words. But then, when I went online and reviewed what's out there regarding Dr. Sinclair and Vivix I surely saw the same thing he's referring to when he said "To my dismay I have found numerous uses of my name and reputation on the Web... that implies endorsement by me of Shaklee's Vivix product."

In other words, it's the fault of Shaklee distributors for assuming Dr. Sinclair's clearly implied endorsement, as seen on the video, was legitimate and sincere.

Len Clements
Founder & CEO
MarketWave, Inc.