Entries for November, 2010

WMI launches WealthJournals.com… but why?

About a week ago now, Wealth Masters International hired out SEO expert Ryan Nelson as Vice President of ‘Internet Strategy’ and launched a new website campaign ‘wealthjournals.com’. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for those unfamiliar with the concept is the optimisation of a web presence to dominate search engine rankings for particular chosen keywords. SEO is [...]

TVI Express moving to ‘the world’s top server farm’

There’s a lot of outrageous claims made in the MLM industry. Some of them are deceptive, some of them are disheartening, some of them are outright lies and some of them… well, some of them are just comical. I was browsing through some information about TVI Express the other day when I couldn’t help but [...]

WMI expanding into nutrition, insurance & finance

Wealth Masters International (WMI) have thus far existed with the sole purpose of providing ‘access to world-class education, tools, experts, experiences and opportunities that empower individuals to create success on their own terms and achieve true freedom in all areas of their lives‘. Up until now however, this has been achieved through education via self [...]

Solution2011: GiveOpp launches not so new product line

GiveOpp was launched on the 4th of July this year and is the brainchild of a series of ex-Liberty League and Polaris Media Group (now known as Polaris Global) members. There’s CEO Mark Cosby and marketing guy Don Glanville, both of whom were prominent members of Liberty League back in its hey day. Also it’s [...]

5 WMI policies you should be be familiar with

As a new distributor of Wealth Masters International, or any MLM company for that matter, there’s a whole bunch of material you need to familiarize yourself with. Amongst the profit potentials, marketing materials, the product itself, backoffice, compensation plan and beginning to build your business, it’s easy to over look the policies and procedures of [...]

ProjectGiveOpp plagiarizes blog content

A post from Project GiveOpp popped up on my radar recently and I was a bit surprised it’d already racked up 24 comments within 24 hours of being published. Curious I took a few of the comments and punched them into Google. Not surprisingly it turned out the content had been stolen from another website [...]

WMI in Norway: The long road to regulatory oblivion?

Earlier this year, Wealth Masters International opened up it’s first satellite office in Oslo Norway. With an estimated 1000+ strong local member base, things seemed to be going quite well for WMI in Norway. As 2010 progressed however things started to take a bit of a downturn and from about April the Norwegian regulators began [...]

WMI’s advertising standards: Why the iron grip?

Recently I’ve started writing about Wealth Masters International and one thing I’ve noticed in particular about this MLM company is that they’ve got an exhaustive list of policies members must adhere to. One particular list is their Advertising policies which outlines 9 extensive rules WMI members must comply with when promoting their business. In designing [...]

Members claim BON has no jurisdiction over TVI Express

Following the Bank Of Namibia’s claims that TVI Express is an illegal pyramid scheme, members of TVI Express lawyered up and rolled out threats of a class action lawsuit unless the bank met their demands. Through their lawyers, Metcalfe Attorneys, members of TVI Express demanded that the bank meet with them and retract their public [...]

TVI Express warns legal action over BON pyramid claims

Late last week the Bank of Namibia warned Namibians against participating in TVI Express. The bank claimed that TVI Express was nothing more then a pyramid scheme and stated that in the whole, selling of purported products or services is a small component of the business models in the scheme and therefore designed to defraud [...]