Success is a few millimeters away!

This is a powerful video by Tony Robbins.  He is going to share with you that a few millimeters can make all the difference.  If you are ready for a change then click play on this video!

Jim Rohn teaching on Personal Development

If you are struggling in your current career then I highly recommend this video!

Rants: The Gifting Club

Willy Nelson Jr

written by Willy Nelson Jr.

Over my years in Network Marketing I have been approached about a half dozen times with a pyramid scheme.  A good ole fashion money deal…in fact as recently as a week ago a good friend called me to let me know they were doing better than ever!  Of course the conversation went to the obvious, what’s changed in your life?  This friend had made gangster income in a short time.

It’s easy to be lured into such a deal…but with my knowledge and having the resources in my life to get the answers I quickly passed on the promise of fast cash and incredible amounts of money delivered to the door daily.

I have had other friends lose upwards of $20K in deals very similar!  The owners and top earners go to jail…and everyone else is left holding the bag.  This particular friend lost every dime and was not repaid one cent.  I wanted to pass along what the FTC fraud division had to say about them.

With today’s current economic situation, only getting worst it’s a haven for such deals to pop up all over the place… Be careful out there!

Always remember there are plenty of legit company’s out there and with a lil elbow grease you can make an incredible income!

Onward and Upward!

FTC Consumer Alert

The Gifting Club “Gotcha”

When is a gift not a gift? When it’s a “gotcha.”

In a scam spreading throughout the mid-Atlantic states and the Pacific Northwest, people pay to join a “gifting club,” billed in promotional materials as a private club with members eager to help new friends — often from within their own neighborhood or church group.

In reality, the clubs are illegal pyramid schemes. New club members give cash “gifts” to the highest-ranking club members, with titles such as “captains.” And they’re promised that if they get additional members to join the club, they, too, will rise to become captains and receive money – far more than they initially paid to join the club — from newer club “friends.”

The problem is that, like most pyramid schemes, illegal gifting clubs must continually recruit ever-increasing numbers of members to survive. When the clubs don’t attract enough new members, they collapse. Most members who paid to join the clubs never receive the financial “gifts” they expected, and lose everything they paid to join the club.

Don’t Get on the Receiving End of a Gifting Club “Gotcha”

Promises of quick, easy money can be a powerful lure – especially when it comes with the additional benefit of new friendships.

If you’re approached about joining a club but you aren’t sure if it’s an illegal gifting club, the Federal Trade Commission reminds you to:

• Consider that a legitimate gift has no strings attached and is not an “investment.”
• Avoid being misled into thinking a gifting club is legitimate because the ads say that members consider their payments a gift and expect nothing in return. This is an attempt to make an illegal transaction look legal.
• Be wary of success stories or testimonials of tremendous payoffs. Very few members of illegal gifting clubs or pyramid schemes ever receive any money.
• Take your time. Don’t buckle under to a high-pressure sales pitch that requires you to join immediately or risk losing out on the opportunity. Remember, solid opportunities – and solid friendships – aren’t formed through nerve-wracking tactics.

To File a Complaint

If you’ve been victimized by a gifting club promoter, contact your local consumer protection agency, state attorney general and Better Business Bureau.

The FTC works to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. To file a complaint or get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. Watch a new video, How to File a Complaint, at ftc.gov/video to learn more. The FTC enters consumer complaints into the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database and investigative tool used by hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Rants: ???Binaries???

Willy Nelson Jr

written by Willy Nelson Jr.

Anyone that has known me for any length of time knows where I stand on this compensation plan.  Now, there are many leaders within the profession that love the binary compensation plan, I just happen to HATE it.  This post is simply my opinion but every statement I will back up with the reasons that I feel the way I do about it.  I welcome comments from other leaders because I think it is good to get both sides and then make our own educated opinions.

Let me start off by telling you that there are very few things that I HATE because that happens to be a very strong word.  But let me delve right in to the reasons why I feel the way I do.

First off, there are only a few binaries that have made it the long haul.  Why?  There are a lot of reasons for it in my opinion.  First,  only a few people at the top make a lot of money and the average person does not make one dime…when I say not one dime, that is a literal term.  Because to qualify for a paycheck you must cycle.  A cycle means that you have enrolled usually 3 people into the program on your weak side, sometimes more than that and then sometimes less but that is a good average.  By industry numbers, the average network marketer enroll 2.1 people into their primary company.  So they never cycle.

Second,  the company pays you on your weak side.  So you build a business working with those that you introduce to the company and only get paid on the side that is the weakest.  Where is the fairness in that?  I have a friend and former business partner that joined one of the more well known binaries right now about 4 years ago.  We have spoken a few times about the company.   About a year ago, he asked me to speak with his good friend and enroller about their company.  I agreed.  She told me all the wonderful things about the company and why I should join forces with them.  In the conversation he shared with me that his volume was 96,000+ and I thought to myself….WOW he must really be doing good for himself!  I was shocked to find out that it was quite the contrary!  After we finished the call, we had a call after the call.  I asked the big question…so with a volume of $96K what does that pay you?  He said I am too embarrassed to tell you…I was stunned!  So I gave him an out…I said what was your best check.  So he shared with me that his BIGGEST check ever was $1000…No I am not missing any 0′s in that figure.  His volume was $96K but only $10K in his weakest line.  The company pays 10% on the weakest line.  This is a good example of a person who works very hard at what he does and is now mad out our profession.  MAKES ME FUME!

This is a compensation plan for the big recruiter…if you are not a big recruiter you should not even consider this plan.  I have another former business partner that recently joined the NEWEST best company on the market.  In and out in exactly 2 months!  Why, did not make any $$$.  HMMMM he brought in a big recruiter personally but that was it!  Now his dreams of big riches, GONE FOREVER!  If you have an upline that is pouring people into your strong line and you are a consistent big recruiter then you can make some cold hard cash!  Simply put the average person does not make it and the extraordinary will…This is a recipe for Disaster, in my humble opinion of course.

More to come in future rant posts on binary compensation plans!

Til next time keep building!

Onward and Upward!