Entries for April, 2010

Revealed: The GiveOpp.com business opportunity

A couple of days ago, reader Kat left a comment over at OzSoapbox regarding a supposed new MLM business opportunity start up involving John and Shannon Lavenia of ex-EMC Polaris Global fame; Heard John and Shannon Lavenia are raiding the Polaris nest also with some new business they are launching this week Oz .. everything [...]

LiveSmart 360 – A Prelaunch Overview

In just 17 days a new MLM company is set to launch, LiveSmart 360. Up until recently details about this new company have been scarce. Whilst a little bit of information has been released, unless you’re willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement there’s not that much to go on. Today I thought I’d take a [...]

Polaris Global Marketing Scam blog suspended

Sometime over the last 48 hours Rhamnousia’s ‘Polaris Global Marketing Scam?’ blog has been suspended for a violation of WordPress’ terms of service. Initially I thought Polaris Global might have thrown some weight around to get the information removed but after having a quick look at the terms and conditions it seems to be just [...]

How Polaris Global can restore some of its credibilty

Over the past fortnight we’ve seen two attempts by Polaris Global to combat some of the criticism the company has received under its various names over the past twelve months. The first was the setting up of ‘Polaris Global Facts‘ and the second a blog post by Lisa Molina attempting to defend Polaris Global with [...]

Polaris Global distributor uses Scientology defense

Rhamnousia posted an interesting entry on the Polaris Global Scam wordpress blog yesterday briefly analysing content supposedly put out by Polaris Global. Rhamnousia addressed some points that appeared to be from a list or series of information published by Polaris Global itself, or one of its distributors. There wasn’t any source credited for the information [...]

Dubli Unique Bid Auctions: What are the pros and cons?

One of the two types of auctions made available to buyers on Dubli is the Unique Bid auction. In Dubli’s Unique Bid auctions buyers place bids with Dubli credits over a fixed length of time the auction runs for. At the conclusion of the auction the winner is the buyer with the lowest unique bid. [...]

Comparing eBay and Dubli: A buyer’s perspective

In my last article on the Dubli Network I had a look at some of the claims and comparisons made by Dubli against online auction heavyweight eBay. For the most part Dubli seem quite confident that their different styles of auction from the traditional eBay model will be more fun and benefit buyers. These two [...]

Polaris Global: Why the name change from PGM?

About a month ago now a new company website for Polaris Media Group popped up for a few days. Titled ‘Polaris Global Marketing’, it seemed to be a more lightweight streamlined clone of the multimedia heavy Polaris Media Group website. Coupled with reports from Polaris Distributors shortly after the Macau Influence Live conference that the [...]

Comparing Dubli to Ebay: Profit on an unproven model?

Being an auction site, one of the most common comparisons Dubli Business Associates make is that between Dubli and eBay. Not surprisingly Dubli itself do this, their business opportunity site states that The conventional online auction model as used by eBay is worth $79 billion (about 62 billion euros) annually. Companies such as AltaVista, eBay, [...]

The most overlooked factor in choosing a MLM business

For someone looking at getting into MLM marketing, the biggest decision they are going to make is deciding which MLM business to join. When contemplating various businesses there’s one factor that’s often overlooked but I believe is more important then business profits, company member numbers or even the products or services you’ll be marketing. Forget [...]