AiYellow Review: No retail and a useless directory
On the AiYellow website, the company details a history spanning back to 2005, which appears to be when a management board got together and decided to go ahead with the company.
No idea what happened over the next three years but in 2008 the company claims it was incorporated in the US. Another three years of marketing to third-world countries and AiYellow finally announced a global launch to take place in June, 2012.
I’m not exactly sure why they had to announce a global launch, given the company was already claiming it’s affiliates had already generated $50 million in cumilatative revenue globally as of June 2012.
AmarillasInternet and AiYellow were co-founded by President Martin Naka and Vice-President Rick Cabo. I had a look for any signs of a history in MLM but was unable to find one for both men.
Trying to establish where AiYellow (and parent company ‘Amarillas Internet’) are operating out of is anything but a straightforward task. The company has two primary domains, ‘aiyellow.com’ and ‘amarillasinternet.com’, with both listing different registrant addresses for ‘AmarillasInternet Corp.’
aiyellow.com (registered on the 9th December, 2010) lists
5545 Whitsett Ave #1
Valley Village, California 91607
United States
whilst amarillasinternet.com (registered on the 12th January, 2007) lists
25 SE 2nd Ave. Suite 410
Ingraham Building
Miami, Florida 33131
United States
Meanwhile the AiYellow ‘Terms and Conditions’ state that
AmarillasInternet Corporation (has) its principal headquarter office located at: 990 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 503, Miami Florida 33132
but at the same time also mentions that AmarillasInternet is ‘an American privately held corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware‘.
No address in Delaware however is provided by the company, with the Delaware business registration (file number: 4625981) only providing an agent address for ‘Delaware Intercorp’ in Newark.
One would think addresses in two US states was enough, but AmarillasInternet is also registered in Florida as a ‘Foreign Profit Corporation’ (EIN: 263779909), giving an entirely different address again, this time in Argentina:
NAKA, MARTIN S
JULIO A. ROCA 95, VILLA GRAL BELGRANO
CORDOBA, ARGENTINA AR 5194
Muddying things up even more is the fact that AiYellow co-founder and President Martin Naka (photo right) also appears to have a presence in Montevideo, Uruguay:
Domain Name: CAMARAMERCOSUR.ORG
Registrant Name: Martin Naka
Registrant City: Montevideo
Registrant Postal Code: 1374
Registrant Country: UY
Spanish is the official language of Uruguay and this also explains AmarillasInternet and AiYellow’s heavy South American presence, and the fact that most of the information online regarding the two companies is in Spanish.
What on Earth is going on with AmarillasInternet and AiYellow in the US I have no idea but Uruguay and Argentina at least kind of make sense, given that both country’s official language is Spanish, which is the language most of the information about AiYellow and AmarillasInternet online is in (not to mention the company’s strong presence in South America).
Read on for a full review of the AiYellow MLM business opportunity.
The AiYellow Product Line
Online business directories are nothing new and have been around for almost as long as the world wide web itself. These days the market is flooded with business directories clamouring for a slice of the marketplace and mostly operating on a free-to-list platform.
Typically businesses are added either via opt-in or automation and are grouped by location and then industry niche.
Claiming to be ‘the internet yellow pages’, AiYellow’s AmarilloInternet business directory is none of that.
Charging $30 to $325 for a listing, AmarilloInternet simply classifies business listings by country, in order from most recent entries to oldest. At the time of publication, here’s what the US directory looks like:
And here’s an individual directory listing:
Note that I didn’t break the image in the listing, that’s how it came up (it was the first listing I clicked on).
Listings are capped at 60 a page, are mostly in Spanish (despite being US business listings) and are not grouped in any order. Oh and there’s no search either, begging the question who on Earth is using AmarilloInternet and why?
Prices for an ad listing on AmarilloInternet are as follows:
- Standard Ad – $30 annually
- Premium Ad – $200 annually (Standard ad + photo gallery, video hosting, social network listing and coupons)
- Premium Plus – $250 annually (Premium ad + business hours, delivery advice, viewer able to leave phone number, testimonials, listing of payment options and user-voted ad ranking)
- Premium Plus VOIP – $300 annually (Premium Plus ad + voip calling feature from ad listing)
- Ad Super Plus – $325 for 3 years (Premium Plus + “increased ranking and performance“)
The AiYellow Compensation Plan
AiYellow provide affiliates “retail” commissions, residual commissions via a unilevel commissions structure and a series of incentive bonuses.
“Retail” Commissions
The basic idea behind AiYellow’s “retail” commissions is that you decide what level you want to join the company at, pay your membership fee, which is actually the purchase of a bunch of business listing “codes”, and then sell these positions to businesses who want to create a listing on AmarillasInternet to make a profit.
AiYellow explain this process as a percentage ROI on the money you initially pay the company:
The above table pretty much lays out the three membership options new members have open to them, Standard, Premium and Director.
- Standard Membership is $30 with members receiving 5 ‘Standard Ad’ codes ($6 a code)
- Premium Membership is $200 with members receiving 5 Premium Ad codes ($40 a code)
- Director Membership is $1000 + a $30 admin fee with members receiving either 50 Premium Ad codes ($20 a code) or 350 Standard Ad codes ($2.85 a code)
As above in the ‘Products’ setion of this review, Standard Ads retail for $30 each and Premium Ads for $200 each, and by reselling the ad codes purchased from AiYellow at retail this is how an AiYellow member makes their money.
Once a member has sold off all their ad codes, they then have the option of purchasing codes in bulk as above, or individual “higher-end” ad codes.
Residual Commissions
Residual commissions in AiYellow are paid out everytime a recruited affiliate purchases ad codes to resell.
In order to qualify for residual commissions, AiYellow members must meet the membership requirements applicable to their membership rank. There are five primary membership ranks in AiYellow and along with their qualification requirements they are as follows:
- Standard Membership – must purchase 1 Standard ad package every 30 days
- Premium Membership – must purchase 1 Standard ad package every 30 days
- Regional Director – must purchase at least 1 Director ad package every 365 days and 1 Super Plus ad package every 30 days
- National Director – must have recruited at least 6 Regional Directors, purchase at least 1 Director ad package every 365 days and 1 Super Plus ad package every 30 days
- International Director – must have recruited at least 5 National Directors, purchase 1 Director package every 365 days and 1 Super Plus ad package every 30 days
AiYellow use a unilevel commissions structure which means that every personally recruited affiliate is placed directly under their sponsor, forming their level 1. If any level 1 affiliates recruit new members, they are placed on the affiliate’s level 2 and so on and so forth.
How much commissions an affiliate earns depends on what membership level they buy into the company at (note that the figures below include both initial ad code purchases and repurchases).
- Standard Membership (only able to earn on Standard Ad code purchases) – $15 on level 1, $7.50 on level 2, $1.25 on levels 3 to 5 (dynamic) and $1.25 on Standard Ad code repurchases
- Premium Membership (earn on Premium and Standard Ad code purchases) – same commission on Standard Ad codes as Standard Membership, $10 on a Standard Ad code purchase paid out on 5 levels (dynamic) and $3.50 on Super Plus ad code sales paid out on 5 levels (dynamic)
- Regional Director Membership – same commissions as Standard and Premium members, $40 on Executive packages paid out on 5 levels (dynamic), $7 on an Ad Super Plus package sale paid out on 5 levels (dynamic) and $200 Director package commission paid out on personally referred sales (level 1 only)
- National Director – same commissions as Regional Director members, $3 bonus on personally referred (level 1) Standard ad package purchases, $15 bonus on personally referred (level 1) Premium ad package purchases, $50 bonus on personally referred (level 1) Director package purchases, $10 bonus on personally referred (level 1) Ad Super Plus package purchases, $7 paid out on personally referred (level 1) VOIP ad package purchases and a 10% matching bonus paid out down 5 levels
International Directors earn the same commissions as a National Director, with some slight increases to the commissions paid out:
- Standard ad package purchase bonus increased to $6
- Premium ad package purchase bonus increased to $15
- Director ad package purchase bonus increased to $100
- Ad Super Plus package purchase bonus increased to $20
- VOIP ad package purchase bonus increased to $14
Note that AiYellow don’t define what an “Executive Package” is in their compensation plan or product material, other than stating it costs $600 plus a $25 admin fee.
E-vouchers
Every time an AiYellow affiliate recruits a new affiliate who buys in at the Premium or Director membership level, they receive a membership e-voucher.
This e-voucher allows them to recruit their next affiliate free of charge (the e-voucher value is that of membership itself, however a $10 and $160 admin fee still applies to the Premium or Director vouchers respectively).
When a Director affiliate qualifies to become a National Director, the company additionally provides them with two Director level e-vouchers ($160 admin fee payable on each).
Note that standard monthly/annual requirements and all associated costs still apply to e-voucher members after their first month).
Corporate Lifetime Director Pool Bonus
There are two membership levels beyond “International Director” with both being eligible for participation in Corporate Bonus Pools.
These Corporate Bonus Pools are made up of localised revenue generated in the country where the eligible affiliate is based.
- Lifetime Director 1 Star (must have 1 International Director in downline and have recruited 1 Regional Director) – a share in a 3% pool of company profit
- Lifetime Director 2 Star (must have either 2 International Directors or 1 Lifetime Director in downline and have recruited 1 Regional Director) – a share in 3% pool of company profit and 1 share in an additional 1% pool
- Lifetime Director 3 Star (must have either 3 International Directors or 1 International and 1 Lifetime Director in downline and have recruited at least 1 Regional Director) – a share in 3% pool of company profit and 1 share in two additional 1% pools
- Lifetime Director 4 Star (must have either 4 International Directors or 2 Lifetime Directors in downline and have recruited at least 1 Regional Director) – a share in 3% pool of company profit and 1 share in three additional 1% pools
- Lifetime Director 5 Star (must have either 6 International Directors or 3 Lifetime Directors and have recruited at least 1 Regional Director) – a share in 3% pool of company profit and 1 share in four additional 1% pools
Note that there are no monthly purchase requirements at the Lifetime Director membership level.
Corporate Ambassador Pool Bonus
Whereas the Lifetime Director Pool is only made up of localised revenue of AiYellow, the Ambassador pools are made up of global company profits.
There are three Ambassador levels, with each providing an additional share in a company bonus pool:
- Ambassador 1 Star (must have at least 1 Lifetime Director 5 Stars in downline and have recruited at least 1 Lifetime Director) – a share in 1% of global company profits
- Ambassador 2 Stars (must have at least 2 Lifetime Director 5 Stars in downline and have recruited at least 1 Lifetime Director) – 1 share in two pools of global company profits (1% each pool)
- Ambassador 3 Stars (must have at least 3 Lifetime Director 5 Stars in downline and have recruited at least 1 Lifetime Director) – 1 share in three pools of global company profits (1% each pool)
AiDreams Rewards Program
On the sale of every ‘Executive Ad Package’ purchased ($600) in your unilevel team, AiYellow award affiliates points which can be then redeemed either for a car, travel or electronic goods bonus.
AiYellow do not provide specifics on how many points are needed for what bonuses and as mentioned earlier, do not specify what an Executive Ad Package is other than its cost.
Joining AiYellow
Membership to AiYellow is available at three levels:
- Standard Membership – $30
- Premium Membership – $200
- Director Membership – $1000 + $30 admin fee
Note the membership level bought in at directly effects the commissions made available to affiliates (see compensation plan explanation above).
Conclusion
One could almost forive the worrying paper trail that spans several US states and international countries if AiYellow had a substantial product that could be considered competitive in today’s online directory marketplace.
Recent global launch or not, the simple fact of the matter is that AiYellow’s business directory in its present form is a joke. And a bad one at that.
Lacking basic functionality such as industry niche categorization and even the most basic of search capabilities (search is non-existent altogether), it would seem the least amount of effort possible has been put into the development of AmarillasInternet.
With an abundance of free online directories available offering a far superior user experience, there’s no way known AmarallasInternet could survive without the attached AiYellow MLM business opportunity.
And that brings us to the biggest red flag of all when analysing AiYellow: 100% internal consumption.
As AiYellow describe the sales process of ad packages themselves,
you earn income by purchasing AiYellow Ad Codes at a discounted wholesale price and then reselling them at a retail price.
Functionally 100% of the revenue going into AiYellow is coming from company affiliates, who are then free to try selling their purchased ad codes for extra money or ignore them altogether.
This is reflected in AiYellow’s compensation plan, which only pays out commissions on the purchase of ad codes by company affiliates. It’s also evident in the way AiYellow present the money made on the sale of ad codes as an affiliate’s ROI in the company, rather than product sale with accompanying sales commission.
What happens after the affiliates have paid the company is not factored into the AiYellow compensation plan commissions structure.
When you consider that 100% of the revenue going into AiYellow is essentially from affiliates, this is a red flag business model wise in that it means functionally it is only affiliate money being shuffled around and paid out as commissions to other affiliates.
The nature of AiYellow’s compensation plan relying on affiliate pre-purchasing ad codes to sell is reflected in the weighted recruitment requirements and monthly and annually required ad code purchases within the plan.
Compensation plan wise what affiliates do with their ad codes doesn’t matter, so long as they keep purchasing them each and every month via forced purchase requirements.
You could make the argument that the selling on of ad codes to businesses for directory listings (discounting for a moment how no business in their right mind is going to pay $30 let alone $300+ for an AmarillasInternet directory listing), qualifies as a retail commission but falling outside of the AiYellow compensation plan and commissions structure this is clearly not the case.
It’s the equivalent of buying a can of coke from a supermarket, selling it to someone on the street for a small profit and then claiming the supermarket paid you for selling the can of coke.
What you did with your can of coke after you paid the supermarket for it doesn’t factor into their business model, much in the same way what affiliates do with their ad codes doesn’t concern AiYellow.
A poor product, complicated corporate structure with offices all over the place and a compensation plan that’s 100% funded by affiliates raises too many flags as far as I’m concerned.
Approach AiYellow with extreme caution.
Amarilla is “yellow” in Spanish. 🙂 The problem is nobody would bother searching through this when they can search on Google or Yahoo. This is bullsh__.
I find it hard to believe that you would write a negative article about a company with out doing your due diligence.Especially being a (So called) industry expert.
I have been in the MLM industry for over 23 years and have never seen so many average people actually earning an income.
As to the company’s global expansion.Yes we are opening over 100 new countries in the coming months. How do I know this? Because I am one of the ones that put this expansion into gear.
Can you name me 1 MLM company that can do business with Paypal?
The answer is NO. I think Paypal did their due diligence to accept Amarillasinternet. So,if anyone reads this report ans wants the Real facts. I’de be more than happy to answer any questions.
Regards,
Peter Le Floch
National Director, Aiyellow
1. I don’t think I’ve ever referred to myself as an industry expert. With your 23 years, I believe it is only you who sees this as of importance.
2. The very fact that I did my due diligence on AiYellow is why this article got written in the first place.
3. I couldn’t give a rats if people were making money or not, that’s not a criteria in my analyisis, evaluation and review of the AiYellow business model.
As it stands AiYellow has a completely useless business directory that nobody in the English speaking world is using and no retail arm meaning it’s full of internal consumption problems (and no outside revenue source).
Google Zeek Rewards and you’ll see how completely irrelevant that statement is.
The fact that they hired a MLM guy as “National Director” means… what exactly?
That like Wazzub, the whole thing is full of MLMers, not real execs?
Or “national director” is a pretty bogus position?
Oz. Was not trying to discredit you. Just making a point.
4 years ago Aiyellow was also unheard of in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking country’s.Today they are the number 1 # online yellow pages directory’s in those countries.
Why?
Because they have a superior product to ANY online Yellow Pages directory and the price point is less than half the cost of a basic ad in traditional local Yellow Pages.
So,most company’s that expand their operations into new country’s tend to have the same kind of growth. So. Yes you are right! Not many people know about AiYellow in the English speaking world. BUT…IT WILL HAPPEN. And has already started.
We actually have a great team started in Australia headed by a gentleman who was once a territory manager for Australia’s current leading Yellow Pages. For almost 30 years!
So it may be a year or 2,but you will be hearing about AiYellow down under in a big way!And the reason is simple. Proven track record, SUPERIOUR product and much much lower cost to the competition.
And for your info, Aiyellow will be launching a brand new portal for the AiYellow domain name on Nov.15th.
Redesigned website with improved features and our portal will be one of the top 10 search engines on the net.
Also, Nov 1 st we will be launching a brand new AiYellow paycard debit card for affiliates and customer in partnership with a federally insured bank in the U.S. This card will not only allow affiliates to use their account as a merchant account to accept payments by customers who pay with debit or credit cards or even paypal.
It will also have a payplan tied into it where affiliates will earn on every single retail transaction made by members of their downline OR by customers who use the card ANYWHERE. By the way, The card will be international. A first in Direct Sales and MLM.
Another BIG reason that AiYellow has been so successful is that unlike the majority of MLM companys which base volume on mostly new sign ups and not sales. AiYellow reps actually can sell the product. Because of a VERY LOW price point and VERY HIGH retail profit. Most MLM company’s have overpriced products that the average person cant sell.
So the track record of success with AiYellow is a combination of all of the above. Plus we are the only company using Direct Sales and MLM in the Yellow Pages market.
And the final comment I’ll make. AiYellow is endorsed by the INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Again….a first in MLM.
Its only a question of time before AiYellow becomes a household name around the globe.It may take a few years….but it will happen. Like it did in the latin speaking country’s.
As for the comment about Zeek….
Everyone knows that it was only a question of time before Zeek would be closed. The payplan was not legal.And the program was unsustainable. When it first appeared, I looked at it and SAID NO THANK YOU!
As for the comment comparing AiYellow to Wazzub….lol
I dont think that I’ll comment on that mess. Find me JUST ONE respected networker that is in that program today. Or…find me ONE person who has earned a single $.
Aiyellow did not HIRE me to be in the program. They knew that in order to achieve their goal of expanding internationally,they needed a seasoned networker to teach other affiliates how to build a network globally.
I was just fortunate to be asked to help start and to advise the company (along with my associate) what needed to be done by the company.Which they did by the way.
And my title of “national Director” was solely achieved by HARD WORK over the last 6 months.
Everyone has the right to have their opinions on any given company. Its good for business. My opinion is based on my experiences over the years and AiYellows proven track record. For over 3 years it has been a HUGE SUCCESS! And its only the beginning.
Time will prove it!
To your Success!
Peter Le Floch
I dunno about the non-english speaking world but the concept of online “Yellow Pages” is dead and has been for some while now.
When you can just Google search a business that makes business directories redundant.
Hi Oz
Please search on google for:
mediterranean restaurant bryanston
new motorcycles east rand
tile treatment gauteng
branded clothing east rand
grelhados faro ( portuguese )
liquor store bryanston
As you can see all of them come in the 1st page on google, thats the power of AiYellow, all our clients will get the best rankings in all the search engines.
You told about people search on google, its true but to be on google you must advertise in some place like a business directory as AiYellow, or you can pay to Google Adwords, but the prices they charge small companies cannot affort, thats why AiYellow is a solution to all the companies.
Getting good results with affordable price and great tools.
Our ads: aiyellow.com/holeshotmotorcycles
We offer a 6 page website like this: youngproperties.amawebs.com
All this for only $200 and our profit is up to $185 every year ( because client must renew the ad every year, so even in Direct Sales we get a residual income )
Regards
About the question WHO SEE AIYELLOW?
Search in alexa.com for: amarillasinternet.com And you will our worldwide ranking is 2600
We have now more than 150.000.000 unique visitors in AiYellow in only 4 years of business, and now with our worldwide expansion these numbers will increase exponentially, its a matter of time.
Regards
Viriato
International Director and CEO in South Africa of AiYellow
@V
Like I said, a business directory might work in boonies, but it isn’t going to cut it SEO wise in the English speaking world.
You also doesn’t address the 100% internal consumption problem.
Please don’t waste my time with Alexa rankings, for all we know affiliates like checking the website.
Oz
You are entitled to your views.
The problem is that our numbers are a FACT. Ranking. # of members . Over 750,000 paid listings and growing every day. And over $55 million paid to affiliates.
So the Title of you review : “No retail and useless directory”
ARE FAR FROM THE TRUTH !!!
Three quarter’s of a million retail customers BACK THAT UP.
And by the way we have a 95% annual renewal rate among those paying customers!
I challenge you to come up with numbers that prove Viriato and I wrong.
Doesnt matter to us nor our members.
Regards,
Peter Le Floch
There’s NO mention of AiYellow or AiAmarilla on ICCwbo.org website.
There’s some print on AiYellow’s website about ICC picked Iridis Advertising of US to start back in 2005, but there’s no link between AiYellow and Iridis.
Seems you need to study your material properly.
So what? That aborted opportunity “Wazzub” was as high top 2000 as well…
All that measures is your “INFLUENCE”. it doesn’t measure your profitability or legitimacy.
Mr.Chang
Aiyellow started as an idea and a part of the South American chamber of commerce. In which our founder Mr. Martin Naka was the president.
He then took it private.
Not going to argue with you. Numbers dont lie. Wazzub never paid anyone. Aiyellow has paid out over $55 million to affiliates. Paying out approximately 78% of revenue to affiliates through Direct Sales profits and the compensation plan. Bottom line that NUMBERS DONT LIE and $ talks.
I respect your opinions. But have to dissagree.
Regards,
Peter Le Floch
@Peter
Not here it doesn’t, only the business model matters.
Your retail sales were all internal money paid by affiliates, solely to participate in the compensation plan. AiYellow don’t have a retail option, with all ad packs prepaid by affiliates from the company first who then have the option of reselling them.
That and the residual commissions paid out are just recycled membership fees.
Infact all I’m seeing here is “we’ve exhausted the south american market and now need to expand elsewhere…”
Good luck with that. I think you’ll find there’s little to no demand for an online business directory these days, but with an income opportunity attached you might have some luck recruiting affiliates to keep the business model rolling.
Problem with that though is… well, y’know.
Oz, let me ask you, do you know what it means the word RETAIL?
And $55 million paid to our affiliates is only commissions in the network, because the volume of sales were $69 million in the end of the year 2011.
We’ve exhausted the South American market? Are you aware of what you are saying?
In South America we have more than 50 million companies and our total number of clients until today is 750,000, so we are far away to exhaust that market, this is just the beggining of a great business, but like any other big company they want to expand to all the countries, and just for your information we have already license to operate in 174 countries.
As Peter told you before, the numbers talk for themselves but we must respect the oppinion of everybody, because if everybody like YELLOW what suppose to happen to the RED colour?
Regards
Yep, it’s when customers not participating in the business scheme buy products.
The way AiYellow is set up, only affiliates buy pins from the company. There is no retail level.
By “sales” you mean affiliates buying pins from the company. Hardly sales now is it.
Yep.
Assuming every single one of those companies wishes to join your online directory is a fallacy.
In short, you’ve run out of recruits in South America and appear to be wanting to expand globally on a two-bit looking business directory that simply wont cut it outside of South America.
Oh really, someone issued you a global internet license? Let us know who the issuer was please.
As far as I could see, the only “sales” seems to be to the participants themselves buying membership packages and “Ad Packages” / “Ad Codes”? Or have I missed something there?
The commissions seems to be based on when the “products” are sold to the members themselves, not when they’re sold to external customers.
A DIRECTOR package like “50 PRM Codes or 350 STD Codes” will be relatively worthless if “You sell for $10,500” mostly are about imaginary sales, hardly any retail sales at all.
The identifiable stream of money is mostly about members recruiting other members, being paid for the purchase of relatively worthless “membership packages” directly or indirectly connected to the recruitment.
Any external sources for revenue seems mostly to be theoretical, i.e. “option to sell in retail” and “estimated profit” if the Ad Codes are sold in retail.
But then again, I may have missed something here?
Still doesn’t explain the link to ICC. Are you saying that because one of the founder was head of an ICC regional office, ICC endorses this business? If so, where’s the press release of this endorsement? Or is this thing merely “implied”?
And Zeek paid out nearly 99% of its revenue to its affiliates… only proves it’s a Ponzi scheme. Your counter-evidence is not very good.
Evidence talks louder than opinions. I have explained why your “evidence” don’t mean what you think they mean. Got any more?
I’ve explained why AiYellow may be in trouble legalwise as it is NOT compliant with US MLM-related regulations.
It really needs to hire a US MLM attorney ASAP.
http://amlmskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-legal-is-aiyellow-good-question.html#more
Aiyellow another way to get easy money – I doubt about its clean and sustainable business model with all this regional, national directors…
Im sorry but if you wanna invest or work in Aiyellow, I would def. suggest you to deepdive in their business model, and not jump into “buying” options bc you can make a 10x in benefits.
Its amazing how people like you become so mediocre just because you feel afraid of loose something in your business because other business is conquering the market with a REAL CONCEPT OF DIRECT SALES and NETWORK MARKETING.
If you are expert as you say in this industry, you should know that the worst thing you can do as an EXPERT is tell bad things about something you don’t know.
AiYellow ( AmarillasInternet Corp ) is a company who provides a REAL product to REAL clients, not leaving from the consume of a product through the network ( most of the MLM businesses in the market ) using Direct Sales as the base of the business, the Network Marketing concept is just the way to growth the team faster worldwide.
One thing is for sure, this is not a GET EASY MONEY business, and if we have so many Regional, National and International Directors is because the concept is working ( for the last 5 years ) and the company keeps simple the compensation plan to everybody to grow.
I challenge all of you to go deep into the business model and Compensation Plan ( like A SCHEME suggested, shame that he suggest but do not follow his own advices ) and after that you can talk about AiYellow
Companies as McDonalds, HP, Sony, Apple, etc… are with us since the beginning of the business, and I believe they know more than all of us together about what is a REAL COMPANY or a simple SCHEME (Ozedit: spam removed)
I wish you all the best and I advice you to spend your time better looking for solutions to your lives instead of trying to create problems to others, be a real MAN/WOMAN.
It’s amazing how people like you can throw around the terms “direct sales” and “network marketing”, yet fail to understand the laws and other issues that govern such around the world.
Did AIYellow join DSA yet? Do you even know what DSA is?
Do you know what Amway Safeguard Rules are? How about “FTC vs. Koscot”?
You know very little about network marketing and direct selling. Don’t pretend otherwise.
K Shang, it seems you need to learn a little bit more about this industry and what it is DSA ( Direct Sales Association )
I manage this business in South Africa and work in this industry for the last 17 years, so i can tell that i have some knowledge of this industry.
DSA is a private organization to ADVICE Direct Sales companies and if a company wants to be listed in their websites using their logo, its simple, pay a yearly fee to them, send the documentations of the company and VOILA…. You are a company certified by DSA ( if you want i can send you the required documents to be part of DSA and the contacts )
And as a member of Amway ( i was 17 years a go and a great school ) i advice you also to learn to respect other companies instead of destroying, MLM members must protect the industry instead of creating wars between companies.
Thats why the name of MLM is so bad in the world, because people dont realize that when you talk bad things about any company you are talking bad about your business model.
Regards
Can you name some of the real products? All I found were different “Ad Packages” / “Ad Codes” sold to the participants themselves (for retail purposes?).
How many of those products have you sold to real CLIENTS?
* How many PRM Codes?
* How many STD Codes?
* Other products?
BTW, normal businesses don’t grow “teams”, they grow a “client base” or “customer base”.
You’re not conquering any such market. You’re selling TRADITIONAL search engine results (as generated by AIYellow) and ads. Neither has anything to do with network marketing.
Guys, I will not waste my time with someone that are looking a way to burn the name of a serious business. With time you will realize who is AiYellow.
Regards
Truth is truth. If you don’t understand the truth, then perhaps you don’t understand the “seriousness” of whatever business you’re trying to “protect”.
And in any case, you ALREADY DID waste your time (and ours) by throwing around random accusations without ANY evidence to back up your side (generalities about network marketing doesn’t count, as you haven’t even PROVEN that AiYellow is network marketing).
Isn’t that what cartoon villains say? Like “You’ll see, I’ll show you my true power some day”?
Seems like this guy posted a comment on my blog back in October 2012.
My 2 questions were relatively “normal”. I even left an open space for you where you could have added the parts I had missed, e.g. the “Gold” AdCodes.
You’re not wasting your time if you have factual information to offer about the company or product you’re trying to promote? You wasted your time in your first post, by posting bold statements you weren’t prepared to defend.
The difficult question about how many clients YOU have could easily have been deflected by “I don’t have many, but I have sold a few [type of ads] to small companies in the last few months. More experienced sales people usually sell 1-2 per day”.
People aren’t REALLY interested in knowing how many sales you have made personally, but they are interested in seeing how relaxed you are about that type of questions (whether you’re trying to give something that looks like an honest answer, or is trying to avoid the question).
Experienced people will normally try to give me SOMETHING. Normally they will try to direct the attention away from themselves (so they don’t have to answer too difficult questions), and try to direct the attention over to areas where they feel “safe”.
And questions about products is an area where you normally should feel relatively safe, even if you’re not among the most experienced.
“I’m not very experienced” will limit the types of question I can ask without looking completely stupid. I use a similar strategy in discussions when they become too detailed, but I have several different variations of the same strategy.
“More experienced sales people” is a method to direct the attention away from yourself, but here you can direct the attention TOWARDS something (if you have something you will prefer to show). I found a Youtube video with 45 minutes of sales training (youtube.com/watch?v=ZRwQxML_8J4).
The video is relatively basic, but it’s clearly about selling products and only partially about the network. It can be used to SHOW people that at least some are focused on selling products.
Yawn… here we go again.
Never happened.
Sure it is. Recruit new affiliates, convince them to buy ad codes and get paid.
No retail and who cares what they do with the codes.
As for Sony, blahblahblah. Did they actually buy codes or did some crackpot affiliate just create fake profiles with the codes they bought.
You can put anything up in the AiYellow directory if you have an adcode, which affiliates sucked into the scheme most definitely will.
Recruit, recruit, recruit, profit, profit, profit.
Actually it’s because pyramid schemes like AiYellow continue to be marketed to the general public, most of which smell a scam a mile off.
“Hi there, want to join my MLM business? It’s got real products!”
“Do I have pay money myself and recruit others?”
“Yes… well uh.”
“Oh god, not another one…”
After going over the business model and compensation plan, I’m fully aware of what AiYellow is.
And there’s the dummy spit. Toodles.
Hello Oz
I can see you are very smart with your beautiful conversation, but i can see easily from where are you coming.
But not clever enought to realize that companies like Sony dont aloud to use their names in any portal without authorization, and most of them are with us for the last 5 years. Also if AiYellow was a illegal scheme for sure they would not be with us.
Regarding recruit, recruit, recruit any company in the world, traditional or Network Marketing company need to recruit to expand the business but the focus of this concept is Direct Sales selling adverts to companies and professionals, thats why in only 5 years of business we have more than 1,000,000 clients in our business directory.
And please dont come with the talk ” You can put anything up in the AiYellow directory if you have an adcode ”
Specially in the advertising industry, if you use the name and details of a company without authorization you will be in big trouble, all those clients are payed clients and who sold the adverts? Affiliates of AiYellow.
Most of the members in this company are only selling the product without building network, we have the freedom to choose what we want to do.
To answer M Norway, i have a client list of more than 250 clients and getting a rate of renewals anually of 92% now, with this i have a passive income thru sales of over $50,000 / year and even being now the Coordinator of this business in South Africa i still keep selling the product, its the base of this business and we must make sure that the main focus is the product and not the network.
As M Norway said in his post, we have not 1 but a few videos on Youtube ( search for AiYellow sales techniques / How to build an ad in AiYellow / How to sell an advert ) trainings that we provide daily to our teams in webinars (Ozedit: recruitment spam removed) because our main focus is the product.
I work with this company for the last 4 years and with my experience of 17 years in this industry i never saw a company providing a concept based in Direct Sales with so amazing product to our clients and an amazing profit in Direct Sales.
Network is just the way to expand the business and of course we and any company needs that concept to growth.
Regards
You’re answering the wrong question.
You’re claiming that if companies use the products (i.e. you have name brand clients) the company has to be legal. You don’t seem to realize a company can still be illegal if it has an illegal comp plan (i.e. pyramid scheme).
No they don’t. Existing sales staff can find new clients. You only need to recruit new sales reps if existing sales reps are not making any new sales, only keeping existing clients.
Where is this documented? Or is this your personal observation (thus, anecdotal evidence)?
Sony didn’t use their name, some random AiYellow affiliate did.
Don’t waste my time suggesting multinational corporations are wasting their time with pyramid scheme directories.
We’re not talking about “any company”, we’re talking about AiYellow.
The “but everyone else is doing it” argument won’t work here.
Yeah, because every business directory in the world goes and asks every business featured whether or not they can list them.
Right.
You’re not selling anything. You’re buying virtual directory listings from the company. There is no retail.
The business directory/recruitment commissions model has been done before. I have nothing against business directories, it’s the affiliate-funded commission structure that’s the problem.
The entire Zeek claim of Alexa rank, touted on almost every ‘opportunity call’ was bogus because you had to login daily to perform various tasks like placing ads and so it inflated the web traffic.
@Viriato
This isn’t the place to linkdump spam.
If you’re just going to ignore people responding to you then I think we’re done here.
These guys have now come to South Africa and are selling their advertising and link packages to the masses. What is so funny, is that they choose LOW COMPETITION and LONG TAIL searches to explain to users how they benefit their business.
HA. Suckers. Paying a fortune to get a ranking for a FOUR word search query when all the domain names etc is available and you can use a BLOG with a domain name to get the ranking for the cost of a domain name.
The ”agents” or ”reps” they get to work for them are like a clan of brain washed zombies quoting amazing figures of stats which makes little sense to them let alone anyone with an IQ higher than a cactus plant.
Good luck to them, and sadly for the people they sucker into doing a ”webinar” and signing up, all I can say is … use Google dudes, these guys are ripping you off!!!
Oh dear. Sounds like they’ve exhausted South America, breaking out into North America didn’t work for them and now they’re looking for easy pickings in Africa.
Nothing illegal at selling something worth almost nothing at inflated prices. Immoral yes, but not illegal (unless misrepresentation was made)
Revenue wise there’s no retail. It’s all just affiliate money.
You recruit new affiliates, get them to buy codes and off you go.
Ahahahahahahha
You guys are really funny, i love to see people wasting time talking about something without knowledge, but the good thing about this is, you are talking about AiYellow.
At least someone talks about it, and it was always proved that if someone talks about you there is only 2 main reasons FEAR or PASSION
P.S – Danie, i know that you are trying hard to prove that your portal is better than ours but the way you are going its not the best way, better work harder in your business to see if you can offer better conditions to your clients
Regards
So AiYellow are lying about their business model and compensation plan then?
Really…? So we’re just gunna start pulling stuff out of our arses now?
Good luck with that chief.
lol @ Oz
No worries, I just found out about them yesterday, and I am on it. Millions my A$$
@ OZ
Have you ever read our business model and compensation plan at all? I don’t think so, it seems you are just following the informations provided by the responsable of this website.
I advice you to read and then comment, unfortunatly im not aloud to post here any link to give you the access for that information, I’ve tried before but it seems the system doesn’t aloud that
This is why I can see you don’t know nothing about AiYellow ( AmarillasInternet ), South America is the strongest market of AiYellow and only 2 years a go we’ve started our Worldwide Expansion.
2012 Aiyellow was rewarded as the BEST BUSINESS MODEL BY OFFICIAL ENTITIES in Peru and Colombia
ENTREPRENEURS magazine has recognized AiYellow 1 of the 200 best businesses from home
Etc, Etc,…
You can start and you will never stop your research to get anything wrong with AiYellow, in only 1 year of business in South Africa we are recognized has 1 of the 3 best online advertising options in the market, but
GO FORWARD WITH YOUR RESEARCH
Regards
Of course I have.
Have you?
You just waffle on like a silly prat spouting PR nonsense. If you think the review is inaccurate, feel free to point out where.
I’m not interested in your spam linkdumps, just point out consisely where the review isinaccurate. And good luck with that, given that it was based directly on the AiYellow compensation plan.
Yes, that’s what typically happens in these affiliate-funded schemes. They exhaust the local market and then have to “expand” into new territories.
The US expansion seems to have flopped, perhaps you’ll have better luck recruiting new participants in South Africa… TVI Express had a decent enough run there, till the authorities caught up with them.
PS. You’re completely wasting your time spouting off AiYellow’s PR credentials here. All that matters is the business model, which you appear to be ultimately clueless about.
Put down the cup of koolaid and let’s discuss the compensation plan shall we.
Hey Oz,
Update from South Africa,
What is being used as a marketing approach is the Alexa stats, with 2.3 clicks every second and all that.
When using the same Alexa statistics to question their massive 2% return from organic searches on LinkedIn discussion, some of the regional directors of the company gets really personal and insulting.
Luckily, words mean little when quoting stats. Before the link was taken down, I have managed to get a screenshot of the way that these guys intend to muscle into the SA market place
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1_vB33-IvfHFjf692Rl_cfOfuJTmrSXNOoP6phIsiyCR4QL0-DCxMVWDUqIYp/edit?usp=sharing
I have collated some lovely data from their marketing approach, their muscle keywords and how they deceive the SA public at large.
The issue is this for me :
How can ONE Alexa ststistic be used as FACT, whilst another is not? I don’t believe in Alexa, simple to manipulate anyway, but if this is your main marketing hype, you are in for a rough ride.
Really enjoy this blog, shows up high when you just type AIYELLOW on google.co.za so will do my best to add some more links and fluff to spread the love.
Keep it up!!
@Viriato Duarte
Maybe you can enlighten me on this following on your statement
The statistics from alexa used to market your business success in South Africa: alexa.com/siteinfo/aiyellow.com#
tells me that a search for a single listing aiyellow.com/florafarm
contributed a massive 3.34% of your search traffic.
It also states that as far as search traffic is concerned, the domain managed to attract a massive 2% of traffic from searches.
What is even more interesting is that if you have been in SA for a year, and Alexa is calculated on a 3 month stat, why is your 3 month traffic stats from searches down 69%?
Second question is this.
According to the same stats you use to market your site in South Africa, (2.3 clicks a second and all that) do you tell advertisers that the main site that serves the ADVERTISEMENTS only account for less than HALF of the traffic to the site?
Are these Alexa stats also shared with would be advertisers?
If I had to do a survey of the listings you have made, and confirm with them my assumption that you would not just use the Alexa traffic rank as a marketing tool, but also the lack of organic searches, then I assume they would be able to confirm that?
And lastly, (sorry Oz) where do the company stand legally as far as representations and comments made on public forums as representatives of the company?
Re. percentage of search traffic – AiYellow is about affiliates buying ad codes to fund the scheme – recruiting new affiliates to do the same after they’ve done so.
Forget about just SA, site-wide the AiYellow domain only had 1.9% search engine traffic over the last 30 days. The business directory is all but an irrelevant front.
Interesting – what a read. I joined aiyellow last week, decided to do more research this week and came across this site. thanks for all the info.
It seems Mr. Duarte is very good in avoiding questions. 🙂 Or is that very bad at it as he simply refuse to acknowledge them?
A person who doesn’t realize his argument is full of holes is a fool indeed.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein
Seems Mr. Duarte is throwing out the same excuse “you just don’t understand” repeatedly hoping for a different result?
Hello gentlemans,
Mr Duarte is not avoiding questions, its busy selling adverts to real clients and providing REAL support to the team, teaching the new members how to sell adverts and how to build teams and duplicate the knowledge.
Also I will not try to answer more questions if you are not willing to understand how AiYellow really works, it will be my pleasure to spend time with you if you really want to know if AiYellow is a real business or a scheme, but until now non of you showed any interested to see if its a real business or just another scheme.
What I’ve seen until now is a group of people trying to destroy the good name of a great and REAL opportunity, but I believe and I know that the time will answer all of you this questions.
In this way I can dedicate my precious time to help and teach our worldwide team how to do this business in a honest, serious and profitable way to members and clients.
Thank you and wishes of success to all of you, because i achieve already my own success.
You did a fairly decent job answering my questions, around post #25-#33. I haven’t checked the rest of the discussion other than browsing through 2-3 posts.
The Sony argument has met resistance all the time. Scams will typically add a lot of well known brands to add false “credibility” to its own company. You will find hundred of companies here using the same method, claiming to have been “verified” by big companies.
@Kasey
Pretty much. Too busy recruiting affiliates and getting them to purchase ad listings to waste his time with those that just “don’t get it”.
Yep, SAME excuse, AGAIN.
Your failure, in this case is not able to understand that other people can reach a different conclusion than you without them being “wrong”. They are merely “wrong to you”.
As you (repeatedly) failed to provide evidence that they are wrong, as you merely repeated (3 times now) “you just don’t understand”, perhaps you should consider that it is YOU who “just don’t get it”.
(Ozedit: derail attempts removed)
To Oz,Chang and Danie every client i have set up an add for have never been so happy. They all get found on Google, they can manage their own little web page profile by uploading their own pics and videos.
If it was so bad why do they all renew. This product sells itself, you are a microdot on the grid that no one listens to so you need to try ruin a company that is growing extremely fast.You can say what you want to but at the end of the day we sell this product on success stories.
Even if this was a scam and you were right..think now plz just try, what have these clients who have been given their own little profile and are so happy with the results they seeing got to lose if its working for them.NOTHING!! the add is profesional,maybe go take a look 🙂
If this add wasnt good and it didnt come with the amazing features it did,i wouldnt do it.The real scam is in if the add itself is bad..But its GOOD and all the companies i have signed up,are very very happy with the results. That to me is why we sell them with honesty. Have you tested an add?? have you actually tried it?
No you rephrasing some other turkey who re phrased someone else.
If a person doesnt want it,they dont have to take it.we would set them up a demo which ranks on Google at our expense.They can choose.
Why so much hate?? You dont sound clever aswell,So get back to packing shelves at wallmart your lunch break is over sheep 🙂
I cant believe Viriato is even wasting his time talking to you.
Horseshit.
Albeit not 100% accurate, Alexa puts search engine traffic for aiyellow.com at 1.8%. Even if we add a 10% variance the search engine value of the aiyellow is less than used toilet paper.
Because they’ve been given the profile. Affiliates pump money into the scheme via purchased ad codes, dump listings onto whatever businesses they can and get paid with new affiliate money, directly proportionate to how many affiliates they recruit and how much they spend on ad codes.
At 1.8% search traffic AiYellow is a complete failure as a business directory. Let’s not pretend anybody but affiliates visits the website, and they only do so for the income opportunity.
All analysis on BehindMLM is 100% unique. I know it is because I write it.
Seeing as the analysis of AiYellow was based on their compensation plan the only turkey here is the turkey of an affiliate funded Ponzi scheme you’re participating in.
Oz, I don’t know which Alexa you are using to make your research, but what Alexa says is not that what you are saying, AmarillasInternet ( AiYellow for Spanish countries ) is the 2,000 website most seen in the world and one of the 25 websites most seen in some countries:
SEARCH IN ALEXA UNDER “SITE INFO” FOR: Amarillasinternet
And if you want to check the ranking of AiYellow domain ( 2 years of existence ) search in Alexa for AiYellow:
Google Analitycs says also that we have in average 400,000 unique visitors a day ( since active affiliates are only 100,000, it means that even if all affiliates look to the portal in a daily bases we still have 300,000 different people looking to our portal in a daily bases ), this is a very good toilet paper my friend.
I really advice you to dedicate your time packing shelves at wallmart like Wade said, because as a MLM expert you are an AMATEUR, and we will continue filling our pockets with the money coming from SATISFIED CLIENTS
Regards
Im talking about my ads i do have ranked well above others on google, and that the customers have been VERY satisfied…. my add,my add. Its very simple.
Anyways im not going to argue with you.. Im not even going to come back here. Call me what you want i couldnt care.
But Aiyellow is doing wonders for me and its doing wonders for the businesses i have signed up. I LOVE AIYELLOW AND I ALWAYS WILL.
sorry to dissapoint you
Cheers Guy
@Wade
Of course you are. Your ads, your money. That’s what AiYellow is about, paying the company money as an affiliate and then getting other affliate’s money as a commission.
You could have saved us some time instead of crapping on about the SEO benefits of the business directory. 1.8% search traffic, what a crock.
@Viriato
AiYellow shows 1.8% search traffic. Vistior wise it’s all South American affiliates with Spain thrown in.
AmarilliasInternet shows 5.8% search traffic. Vistitor wise it’s all South American affiliates with Thailand thrown in.
Pretending like there’s any search engine value in the business directory is a joke when 94.2-98.2% of the traffic the domain is getting is affiliates participating in the income opportunity.
With the value of the business directory completely debunked, raw traffic stats become entirely irrelevant as they only demonstrate the level of affiliate recruitment going on.
In summary, AiYellow is the same recruitment driven affiliate-funded scheme it was when I wrote the initial review.
(Ozedit: derail attempt removed)
I have said nothing about SEO. You cant even read.. I have not gone on about SEO at all you the one who brought it out in my comment hahaha,i was just describing a happy client 🙂 who loved the QR code, Voip loved monitoring their pics and all the other AMAZING things their adds have done for them 🙂
I would sell these ads even if it wasnt a MLM business.
It’s always amusing when scamsters trip up over themselves.
And I quote:
Crapping on about the SEO benefits of a business directory that receives 1.8% search engine traffic?
Priceless.
Nah. You only pump money into AiYellow to get your share of the suckers recruited in after you.
Affiliates pump money into AiYellow that gets paid out to existing affiliates, based on how much they themselves pumped into the scheme. What happens in addition to that is irrelevant.
What is it with South America and scams these days? My BS meter goes off the charts everytime I get into a discussion with one of these clowns.
@Oz
I think we gave you already a lot of proves about the legality and how powerful it is the product we sell in AiYellow, but until now you haven’t gave us any proof of what you said in your posts ( but this is understandable because you see AiYellow conquering the market and you need to protect your own business burning the name of other businesses you consider threats)
I believe we’ve lost already to much time with you, we’ll speak more when you present us proves of your comments like we did.
Regards
Uh, when did that happen chief?
You lot crapped on about the search benefits of the business directory. 1.8% and 5.8% search engine traffic? What a load of crap that claim turned out to be.
Nevermind AiYellow’s affiliate funded compensation plan. Affiliate pay AiYellow for AdCodes and are paid with other affiliate’s money when they purchase codes.
Don’t waste my time claiming retail when the business directory is a complete and utter failure. Hell if the comp plan is still the same retail doesn’t even exist, all monies paid to AiYellow come from affiliates.
How well AiYellow conquers the pyramid scheme market in South America is neither here nor there.
Oh, if that were only true.
Yet, here you are, trying to get people to listen.
Incongruous much, Wade ???
The problem is that you use sales arguments designed for small business owners, rather than “identifying the right type of arguments”. Some ideas that are acceptable in South America (and South Africa) can be less acceptable in the U.S. and in Europe.
We have a hard time believing in some of the ideas, e.g. the International Chamber of Commerce, the Alexa results and the value of listings for any commercial purposes. Small business owners can probably accept ideas like that, but you don’t exactly hit the target here.
I tried to USE amarillasinternet.com, and searched for 2 well known business names “Ikea” and “Zara”. The yellow search function is absolutely dead, the white one only returned “Didn’t find any match. Are you sure you have spelled the name correctly?”. It isn’t exactly very user friendly.
It simply isn’t designed to be a user friendly search engine. Its main function seems to be about promoting itself and act as a “proof” (something that can be used as part of sales arguments). I didn’t find the “business logic” I was looking for, only “self promoting” and “social proofs”.
I clearly have trouble believing in the idea that customers are using the website actively as a search engine. It simply didn’t reflect that.
Alexa shows that most of the users are visiting the website from school. That doesn’t sound like the most valuable market for most businesses, it sounds more like a Pay To Click solution, a method to artificially drive up the results so you can use it as a sales argument.
Sub domains didn’t tell me much, but I’m posting it anyway.
Search on Google for:
New motorcycles east rand ( 3 clients of AiYellow in the 1st page )
Branded clothing east rand ( 3 clients of AiYellow in the 1st page )
This is to show you the quality and rankinks in search engines, regarding Zara and Ikea if they are not listed with us they will not come up for sure, only the clients who payed to be listed.
Search for hotel, restaurant or any other product or service and you will find the companies listed with us.
Regards
1.8%-5.8% search engine traffic.
Nobody cares about longtail keywords nobody ever searches for.
I found some DataClick PPC de Amarillas Internet – GRATIS videos. They can partly explain visitors and other Alexa statistics.
AIyellow / Amarillas Internet have too many dishonest methods to be attractive to most experienced business owners, e.g. the PPC solution. Methods like that actually makes it more difficult to sell the service itself, other than to some “low hanging fruits”.
It isn’t a very good sign if you need to PAY teenagers for visiting the website and clicking on ads. It will heavily reduce the “value” of all the other statistics.
It also explains some of the statistical results, e.g. the very stable frequent variations “work 5 days / 2 days off”. Most of the visitors seems to be teenagers trying to earn some money by clicking on ads / visiting the website / other paid activities.
I tried to use amarillasinternet as a normal user. I was looking for “IKEA” and “Zara”, not for motorcycles or branded clothing. I even checked the “Search for business name” option (and I also tried to uncheck it).
The 3 clients in the first page are probably related to the PPC program? “Low hanging fruits” will probably follow your instructions, but I didn’t.
Well at the end of the day our product “aiyellow” IS working better than other online business directories.I have tried and tested other online business directories and “I” have found it to be more affordable, more insight into the businesses actual product, by using photos, videos and many more things.
If the product is good which it is, it should be uplifted instead of beaten down.
And i actually laughed at how you tried to twist that sentence. I never said we sell SEO, i said my clients who ive signed up have all hit first page Google. I know SEO and the prices people are paying for it!!
Best was “Ill just use the keywords from my blog” seriously stop writing before you think 🙂 You can grind this topic till your ears and fingers bleed but at the end of the day, When i set up an ad for a customer i see the amount of hits they get and just how powerful the ad is. In otherwords “i didnt read about it i went and tried it”.
I know that you are talking rubbish if you think you know of a better online directory.If so please tell me about it!!!Some of these comments people have said how bad the ads look ?????????????? seriously?????.
Aiyellow has done such a good job of creating a professional ad and to get taken down by trolls on the net is sad.
(Ozedit: derail attempt removed)
Anyways Ive had enough customers phoning me and thanking me. I sell this product from success stories like ive said.
Think yellow and you’l be free 🙂
Nobody said you sold SEO, you were trying to tout the legitimacy of the business directory based on it’s SEO effectiveness (rankings). That was exposed as pure bullshit.
1.8-5.8% search traffic? No, it isn’t. As a business directory AiYellow is a complete and utter failure.
The only measure of success for a business directory is getting the businesses it lists found. AiYellow has clearly fails on this front unless you punch very specific longtail keywords into Google. Which nobody is doing, hence the 1.8-5.8% search traffic the domain gets, as opposed to 94.2% affiliate income opportunity traffic.
Throwing up random longtail keyword searches the domain ranks for that nobody ever searches for does not change that.
Unfortunately when your compensation plan revolves around affiliates pumping money into the scheme via ad codes, with no retail activity – the business directory doesn’t have to be effective, it’s just a front.
I’m from South Africa and I used the (so called) directory to do some real life searches using terms like town names, etc.
The results were as expected: very few if any any relevant results.
It is clear to me that the east rand blah blah links
are used extensively to convince poor suckers/affiliates about the so-called success of iayellow (AIY).
Here are some examples of results I obtained:
1) “Polokwane” (a Provincial Capital – comparable to Denver, Colorado [Polokwane has more than 1 million people living within a 30 mile radius]) -> 3 results, all in Gauteng (another province)
2) “Curry” (Expecting a few results centered around Durban, where a substantial proportion of the Indian South African Community can be found [Gauteng is home to the bulk of the remainder of that community] -> 1 Result, in the Cape Province near Cape Town
3) “computers” -> 28 hits for the whole country (ROTFLMAO… in the small town where I live there are more than 20 companies and individuals that can sell you a/fix your Computer [and of the 28 ‘hits’ you can ignore a few for having nothing to do with computers, including this one created by a sucker: aiyellow.com/MobiMarketing/
the sucker/affiliate actually used the AIY logo and the add reads
At that point I stopped wasting my time.
Viriato / Wade:
1) There is no product (see above)
2) Affiliates pump money into the scheme via purchased ad codes, dump listings onto whatever businesses they can and get paid with new affiliate money, directly proportionate to how many affiliates they recruit and how much they spend on ad codes. [Oz Quoted]
3) Since there is no real product the Amway rules don’t apply, hence AIY did not attempt the running this ponzi scheme in the USA.
4) Fellow South Africans – STAY AWAY!!
The search button is completely dead for the yellow pages. Try it yourself?
“Better than others” can be about almost anything. You obviously have more teenagers than most other business directories clicking on ads, links or whatever they are paid to click on.
I searched for “Flowers east rand”. I found the first aiyellow on page 4. It will generate very little results for a business.
I searched for “mobile phones east rand”, and didn’t find any hits in the first 5 pages.
“Amount of hits” should preferrably be about real customers looking for a business, not about teenagers trying to earn some money through PPC.
I’m simply reporting what I find. It looks very impressive if I follow specific instructions for what to search for, but it fails if I try to search for other things.
Where do visitors go on aiyellow.com:
I had to do one more search:
Term : Tyres
1st hit for an actual place you can buy a tyre: Supa-Fit
Google Results [for South Africa ONLY] for “Supa-Fit” shows AIY on page 2, after at least 2 other online business directories.
LOL
Case closed
So 1.8%-5.8% search traffic, of which only 38.2% visit the directory.
Yeah… nothing suss.
To be fair …
Search results showed SOME small companies listed in aiyellow = SOME retail sale (not only recruitment).
But it also showed quite the opposite of the “successful company”, “valuable service”, and all the other BS.
The Alexa rank in various countries are based on PPC rather than people using the service, to make it LOOK more successful than it really is. It’s simply based on misleading people.
For a merchant, fake clicks will actually lower the value of the service, making it more difficult to calculate which types of efforts that effects. It will also make the service less valuable for internet users, it doesn’t reflect the reality.
It’s a new variation of “fake it till you make it”. It usually ends up as a “fake it” habit, the “till you make it” will never become a reality.
Affiliates buy adcodes from the company and then create listings. There is no retail.
What business is going to pay to be listed in a business directory with little to no search visibility?
You don’t sell “be listed in a business directory”. You can sell “increased numbers of customers visiting your shop”, via the idea “interested people will easily find your ads when they’re searching for ‘new motorcycles East Rand’ on the internet”. You can also sell the functionality of the service, e.g. how easy it is for the merchant to use and how well it will adjust to his needs.
Don’t sell “products”, sell IDEAS, people’s OWN ideas. Business opportunities are selling people’s OWN ideas about income and success, they’re just delivering some solutions to them, people’s OWN ideas about what a solution can be.
MLM is about people’s own ideas about doing the recruitment work once, and earning a residual income for life from other people’s work, growing month by month, until they don’t really need to work themselves. They can just collect the paycheck each month, or they can potentially hire someone to collect it for them.
Yeah but other than the token listings, affiliates aren’t paid for signing up businesses. They’re paid when those they recruit buy ad codes.
Create some listings you can show off when you run around the internet proclaiming how great the directory is and you’re set.
What, no search traffic? Oh.. uh… um… wanna buy some ad codes?
I’m not affiliated to AIYellow ( YET )!
I wonder if the writer and those supporting his argument, even joined the program to be able to do a review?
I’m an old hand at Marketing, and always find these type of reviews Ill informed to say the least.
Let me school you a little: You cant write a review on something you yourself did not use. What you wrote is an opinion piece, which is 100% Biased! Opinions are just that: An opinion, and as such means ZERO!
I am sorry mate, but I’ll be joining BECAUSE OF the counter arguments!
You have been OWNED!
I suggest you actually join a program, and THEN use it, and THEN you write your review only AFTER you DID what the program TRAINS you to do!
LOL this is like a food critic writing his piece based on what the restaurant’s website says…. LOL!!!!
“Owned”?
An MLM business model is based on mathematics. I don’t need to join anything to review the model and follow the money.
Money goes in and money goes out, with the compensation plan identifying what it is affiliates actually get paid to do. In AiYellow that’s recruit new affiliates and get them to purchase a bunch of auseless pins (invest).
This… worries me.
Try to be more SPECIFIC about something of some significance, rather than posting a general opinion about how you see it yourself?
You’re welcome, but please start with yourself first, so you will follow the same sets of rules you want to teach others?
I believe we first should agree on that opinions are commonly used in normal communication and normally will have a FUNCTION. Your own post was FILLED with opinions.
This website isn’t designed to REFLECT viewpoints like that, it’s designed to ALLOW them among other types of viewpoints.
If you expected to find a website reflecting your own viewpoints 100%, including your flawed ideas, you have misinterpreted the primary function of this website.
“You cant write a review on something you yourself did not use” is clearly an opinion. It reflects your PERSONAL opinion rather than the realities you can see all around you, i.e. it reflects your IDEAS rather than the world as it really is.
“Technical reviews” will primarily be based on technical desciptions. Price oriented reviews will primarily be based on comparing prices. Personal reviews will primarily be based on people’s personal experience with something.
Your ideas of what people can or can’t do are simply too narrow minded to be functional. We can allow it, but you can’t expect us to reflect those types of ideas.
Maybe it’s time to grow up?
Your ideas don’t make much sense? Many of the programs reviewed here are actually fraudulent schemes, e.g. some hybrids between Ponzi and pyramid schemes. Many of the programs will primarily train people to mislead themselves.
I just went back and checked AiYellow because somehow my little blog post is now #3 link when you search for AiYellow on Google. 🙂 And it’s drawing a lot of comments from AiYellow defenders. Some even used the “you’re hurting a lot of people with your lies” argument. 😀
If anything, AiYellow have gotten worse. They now have a pay-per-click program, where they pay people for clicking on ads they provide. (i.e. they inflate ad clicks on the ads sold). ppc.aiyellow.com
My update is here:
NOLINK://amlmskeptic.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-2014-update-on-aiyellow-is-this.html#more
I made a comment about that in posts #70 and #75.
Viriato Duarte used search hits as a sales argument, “it shows the value of the service”. I tried to search for other search strings than the ones he recommended, and they only showed very poor results.
What Viriato Duarte tried to prove was “People are actually using AIyellow when they’re looking for products or services on the internet”.
I showed him that the “people” mostly were teenagers trying to earn some pocket money through the PPC program, rather than customers looking for goods or services.
Viriato Duarte probably tried to use the sales argument he use himself when he’s trying to sell to small businesses. But we’re not that type of audience, i.e. we don’t believe in the same ideas as “small business owners” or “income opportunity seekers”.
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I will add some general info about sales methods, e.g. that sale basically is about reflecting the ideas people already have about something, about “commonly shared ideas, shared by a specific target audience”.
Some small brick and mortar managers may not have the required knowledge to separate “good ideas” from bad ones.
(addition to my previous post)
GENERALLY ABOUT SALE
Sale is about selling IDEAS = the ideas the customers have themselves about how things work and what they need.
Most people have relatively vague ideas, they don’t know exactly how things really work or exactly what they need. So selling is actually about “closing the gap” between what the seller has to offer and what the customer believe he want.
Small brick and mortar company managers may believe in certain ideas, e.g. they know they will need to do SOME marketing to stay alive as businesses but they don’t know exactly WHAT or HOW (they only know WHY).
If people have vague and incomplete ideas or beliefs about how things work then they will more easily accept almost ANY solution. They will be “low hanging fruits”, vulnerable to more or less useable offers. Many small brick and mortar managers have already decided that marketing is a wise idea (they have already partly said “yes” to that part). But they usually don’t have enough knowledge themselves to separate “good ideas” from “bad ideas”.
“Closing the gap”
“Closing the gap” between what the seller has to offer and what the customer believe he want will typically require some specific social skills, i.e. the seller must first accept to see it from another viewpoint than his own before he successfully can bring in the right types of arguments. He must first reflect the customer’s own ideas, and then he can add his own solution as a part of the same idea.
Sales people, recruiters, “coaches” and “internet gurus” all use simplified ideas. They’re all trying to deliver the ideas people already believe in, “solutions to what people BELIEVE they want” (whatever that might be). It’s actually much easier to sell “common beliefs” to people than to sell more specialized ideas.
COMPLICATED BUT SIMPLIFIED IDEAS
I do the opposite when I’m analysing details. Then I will first be looking at available factual information, rather than at the ideas people have (e.g. the idea “penny auctions are highly profitable”, or the general ideas about “value” that were discussed somewhere).
The ideas people have themselves are often vague. They have probably done SOME thinking, i.e. they have usually managed to come to a conclusion and they usually have SOME factors supporting that conclusion. Breaking it down into details is a method to make flawed ideas attackable (it’s much easier to attack weak parts only than it is to attack a complicated idea as a whole).
“Not selling”
I’m not selling anything here on this website, i.e. I should avoid using the same ideas as I normally would have used in sales.
In sales, I would most likely have “reflected” the ideas people already have about something (e.g. “Penny auctions ARE really highly profitable”, “Value IS about the personal value people feel when they buy a product”). But I wouldn’t have done it directly like that, I would have done it indirectly.
“Breaking it down into details”
“Breaking it down into identifiable details” is also what this website is doing in the reviews. If it had tried to sell those opportunities it would have needed a quite different style and quite different types of arguments.
“Breaking it down into details” will allow people to look closer at specific issues (typically that’s about owners, products, rewards, recruitment). People promoting something will use the opposite idea, they will prefer to make the details vaguer and focus on some major ideas (e.g. “powerful compensation plan”, “strong leadership”, “next big thing on the internet”).
“Different parts of the brain”
Logical arguments should normally act as a “counter poison” against emotional ones. That idea also works the other way around, i.e. emotional arguments may act as “counter poison” against logical arguments, in that they focus on what people want to believe in rather than on logical details.
“Life changing opportunity” types of arguments may actually work on some people, if it’s exactly what they want to believe in. It may work on SOME people, but others will be able to detect some flaws. An idea like that will work because it’s a vague reflection of the ideas already shared among the true believers.
“Vague reflection” = people will fill in the details themselves individually, but all true believers will believe everyone are talking about the same ideas they believe in themselves.
Factual reviews vs. “anti promoting”
Factual reviews should normally work better than “anti promoting”, because it will activate different parts of the brain (parts that are less compromised by some beliefs).
“Anti promoting” will typically focus on simplified emotional ideas, trying to activate the same parts of the brain as where the problem initially were generated and most often is located (in OTHER people’s brains).
“Anti promoting” may work if it’s using “commonly shared ideas”, common among a specific target audience. It means that “anti websites” will attract a very specific audience, typically the people who already believe in similar ideas.
I’m talking about “MLM the Nightmare” types of websites here, not about the factual types of “anti websites”. Both promoting and anti promoting will normally prefer emotional “power arguments” rather than detailed logic.
Listen, I know for a fact that people involved in WCM777 are also involved with AI, so even if this article wasn’t enough proof, I can’t ignore that fact.
Also xplan card in Brazil which sells prepaid credit cards and also has strange products.
Also, I checked on that alleged south american chamber of commerce way back when and it didn’t even exist.
Finally, they claimed to have many “real” clients in South America. Six years into their venture, they list 11 (eleven) restaurants in Buenos Aires.
guiaoleo.com.ar (niche leader) lists 5955 restaurants.
Care to elaborate?
I have for the first time looked at all the writings above. I joined AiYellow for free and let it lie to see what happens, as I have been in mlms before and made good money and lost some as well.
I recently started selling Internet ads with the codes I purchased and I am happy with the results I am are getting for my clients.
I 1st build an ad, test it and then sell it after it proves to work. I have not even tried to get other people to join as agents and I am not really interested in that side of the business at this stage.
All I can say is that the business works and now I suddenly got 4 ads to do in one day.
I am not dependent on getting others to join before I earn. The direct sales work as businesses get the results.
You build an ad… and then sell it.
Yeah, cuz that’s how internet advertising works. Nothing suss.
So, we get excellent results. Aiyellow is to be recommended. Why try to knock it?
closed loop ‘advertising’ never works.
Because the ads have nothing to do with the compensation plan. Which focuses on affiliates investing in worthless credits and then recruiting other investors to get paid.
As I said, I am not in it for the mlm, but purely selling advertising that works and I get paid for my effort. I am totally independent from having to recruit anyone, but I can if I want – not HAVE TO. It works for me and my clients get real results.
Selling advertising to affiliates = recruiting.
And let’s not kid around. Nobody is visiting AIYellow’s useless classifieds site. Any claims otherwise are delusional.
It’s possible to sell directory listings to external clients. That’s why AIyellow had all those sub domains I listed in post #75, e.g. they pay teenagers to click on internal ads and generate some fake results affiliates can use as part of sales arguments.
19.7% of the activity was about that, about teenagers visiting the ppc subdomain, clicking on internal ads and/or visiting external websites to earn some pocket money, generating fake traffic as “proofs” for that AIYellow actually works.
The fact that they do produce fake results indicates that at least SOME affiliates are trying to sell directory listings to external clients. Johann is probably telling the truth about his own work in post #96.
It doesn’t mean Johann has interpreted it correctly, e.g. the part about a system that works. But he’s probably telling the truth as he sees it himself.
Alexa statistics:
AIYellow.com, February 2015:
AIYellow.com, September 2013:
It’s impossible to draw any conclusions from the Alexa statistics, but teenagers clicking on ads had a more significant function in September 2013.
In September 2013, it was possible to identify a retail function. It still is, but it has become less significant in the last 18 months (or they can have reorganized the system, making it more difficult for outsiders to point out those fake results).
The Pay Per Click was actively marketed in 2013, e.g. in Youtube videos. Example:
NOLINK://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtuV2VutGs
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Amarillasinternet.com, February 2015:
Other domains, not very active:
Old people may use “Business Directories” like Yellow Pages, i.e. they won’t necessarily change the habits they have had for many years (before internet). They will bring most of their habits with them when they start using the internet.
The typical merchant listed in the examples have been small, local businesses:
When I tried to search for “flowers east rand” and other products, I didn’t find any AIYellow clients in the first 3 pages.
Well, if nobody sold an ad from AiYellow to anyone in the flower industry, you will probably not find it there as yet.
Only when the ad is done properly and performs, does it come up and can be seen.
So, I do not just sell an ad, but work at it to make sure I get the results, before I can sell it to my clients and I usually get them on the first page on Google or at least within the first 3. If I cannot prove to them that their ad works, I cannot sell it to them.
I am sure anyone can understand that.
The problem is the fake results produced by the PPC Pay Per Click opportunity. The search results you’re showing to merchants are primarily based on “manipulated search results”, e.g. on paying teenagers and others to click on ads (or respond to search terms in similar ways).
People in general don’t use “Yellow Pages” anymore when they wish to buy products. Some old people may still use it because of some habits they have from “the good old days”. It may still have some function in SOME countries because of some local factors.
“Yellow Pages” had a function many years ago, before internet became commonly used by people in general. It doesn’t have that same function today, most internet users will find other solutions much more useable.
If people in general don’t use it to search for products to buy, then it doesn’t have much value for a merchant as an advertising medium either.
Paying teenagers to produce some fake results for specific search strings will actually reduce the value of the service. It may trick some small, local businesses in the short term, but methods like that will not work in the long term.
If you use enough keywords you can get almost ANYTHING to first page of Google search results.
The question you need to ask yourself… will an average shopper use those keywords? Or will they just walk/drive down to their local shop?
If it’s something they never bought before, do they really search Google for a place to buy it locally, or do they call their relative / friend asking for recommendation? Or do they search Amazon or their local equivalent online dealer?
Face it: AiYellow is a solution in search of a problem that no longer exists. Yellowpages are dying already. VIRTUAL yellowpages have been dead for years with advent of Yelp and AngiesList. AIYellow just don’t realize it’s dead yet.
“flowers east rand” gave 0 results.
“flowers east rand aiyellow” gave 2 results.
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“groceries east rand” gave 0 results.
“groceries east rand aiyellow” gave 3 results.
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“rent a truck east rand” gave 0 results.
“rent a truck east rand aiyellow” gave 3 or 4 results.
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I also tried searching for some other products, but I can’t list all.
If I am looking for a product or a service, I google it in the area I live/like to buy – no matter if I know AiYellow/the supplier. I go to the place who comes up closest to me and if it was an AiYellow ad, then it has done the job.
Alexa estimate search engine traffic to AiYellow domain is 9.9%.
Top search terms are “web design east rand” and “water filters east rand”.
What’s the bet most of that already insignificant search traffic is generated by AiYellow affiliates using those two search terms as affiliate recruitment tools?
That’s probably how most people do it. They google a relevant search string. Very few will visit any “Online Business Directory” to search for businesses or products.
Even “online price comparison tools” have relatively few regular users. People will use Google as the primary tool, and a few may potentially use other services as secondary tools.
@ johann
drop the pretense.
oz, has provided an example of your ‘yellow pages’ listing, and you know it is piss poor. in today’s day and age, nobody uses such low quality, ‘searchless’ listings.
the truth is, you all sell the ‘directory’ to each other, and nobody either ‘consumes’ this product for personal use, or sells at ‘retail’.
ponzi/pyramid scheme. why argue?
Compared to the local “Yellow Pages” in Norway, gulesider.no:
Sites linking in were mostly non-marketing websites, e.g. Wikipedia, ancestry.com = based on information rather than on marketing.
2 of the keywords were related to a map service.
Hahahaha …… Not all people are mlmers. I have not sold ANY thing to an associate or tried to get an associate for AiYellow. I have plainly shown business owners how AiYellow works and sold them the advertising and they are happy.
If you think a business owner is going to buy into a mlm as a sideline, you have to be kidding – no sir, they have their own business to worry about and I am there to help them.
I still don’t understand how you’re selling them advertising you create before approaching businesses.
It’s like me creating a generic hamburger advertising campaign, claiming to see results and then approaching McDonalds about selling the campaign.
Sounds ass-backwards.
Hahahaha …, are you trying to say you are earning margins, from selling AiYellow at retail, month after month?
name five businesses that bought your piss poor product at retail.
you have NO downline johann? and your’e happy enough to go hahaha?
who are you trying to fool ?
I personally have no problem believing that people are still ignorant of the way Internet really works.
Guess those business owners figured AiYellow couldn’t hurt, because they never realized owning a domain name and web design are so cheap now.
So in a way, you are cheating them, albeit they don’t realize it because they think they’re getting a good deal. But then, it may not be healthy to think about such.
Not to mention FB, etc.
As you mentioned earlier, directories are yesterday’s news and even if that weren’t the case, there are many directory sites that offer free listings and, in at least some cases, are considerably more user friendly/professional looking than AiYellow appears to be.
So yeah, no reason to believe AiYellow is anything more than a scheme with a directory attached.
Maybe the owners had something different in mind when it launched a number of years back, then realized they were a few years late to the game and were entering an already saturated market … so decided to go the “MLM” (scheme) route to survive.
Did the “AiYellow paycard debit card” mentioned in comment #6 ever see life?
I have TRIED it a couple of times, as part of the discussion here. It isn’t user friendly at all for consumers, e.g. it has a ranking system not based on relevance to the consumers but rather based on payments from merchants.
(not a complete list, only an example)
No payment = not listed at all (only small, local businesses are listed)
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Standard = lowest rank (1 ranking point)
Standard + additional service = higher rank (1+1 point)
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Premium = high rank (10 points)
Premium + additional service = higher rank (10+1 point)
– – – – – – – – – – 5 years – – – – – – – – – –
Gold = highest rank (50 points)
Gold + additional service = highest rank (50+1 point)
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* High rank listed before low rank.
* Same rank listed chronologically (which merchant paid first)
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For a consumer, the user friendliness is “sub standard”. You generally don’t find what you’re looking for as a consumer, even with multiple search attempts. You will find irrelevant search results listed among the relevant ones, e.g. a Hair Salon and a Nail & Beauty shop listed under “Flowers”.
Positive factors:
* It’s relatively affordable for merchants. Prices from $30 for one year (STD) up to $1,000 for 5 years (GOLD).
* It’s probably more user friendly to merchants than it is to consumers.
I never joined AiYellow for the mlm. I have been in advertising photography for many years and now I can offer my clients an extra service.
@Johann
As Anjali requested, can you provide even one example of your retail advertising success stories? Where y’know, the company being advertised is not an affiliate of AiYellow (or the ad itself was not placed/purchased by one).
I first see my client and show him how AiYellow works. If he wants it, I build him an ad.
If he is not sure, I make up an ad with his details, etc. If he is happy, he buys it.
So you sell them on the design of the ad, not so much its effectiveness.
Or in other words, you’re schlepping clueless idiots who don’t know any better. Rightio…
@johann
a peter floch [may be a company man], has commented in the earlier part of thread that: “Over 750,000 paid listings and growing every day. And over $55 million paid to affiliates.”
now, the Quality of your yellow pages is unforgivably poor.
why have no funds been used to ‘improve’ the directory to keep up with the times?
may i answer this, before you, please? – because the directory is not worth the empty internet space it hangs in! its just a widget product tagged to your recruitment scheme.
nobody Cares about the Quality of the product, because they are not selling or buying the product, but only the opportunity to make easy money.
at least have the grace to dress up your product a bit, if you want to come in here harping about its greatness.
Hello ONZ,
Please, you can update your information about AmarillasInternet today.
A hug.
This pyramid scheme is still going?
What’s there to update, has the business model changed?
I see South America and Thailand are still propping it up. Wake up people… The AiYellow directory is just as useless now as it was back in 2012.
6 years and confined to a just a few countries. Sounds like “Onecoin”.
I remember some guy contacting me to list my business into this crap.
I always asked him why would I pay to join this to do what I am already doing for free?
Somehow it always came back to how much I could earn.
Yet earn from what exactly?
So one of these people contacted me to promote their token. They have an ERC-20 token, but can’t find the Smart Contract and in order to buy it, I need to contact a third party.
What. In. The. World
Yeah unfortunately a lot of collapsed MLM scams are being resurrected and repurposed as cryptocurrency scams.
If the business model makes no sense it’s probably your typical MLM crypto pump and dump.
I Guys I’m from Portugal,
I was looking for the historic of AiYellow and find your post, I can update that de model of selling publicity (LOL) is changing for cryptocurrencies – ytc.aiyellow.com/#start – Can anyone now something more about them?
Thanks
RM
Somebody mentioned it a while back. If there’s a website now I’ll add it to the review list.
Prediction: Just another MLM crypto scam being pitched to the collapsed AIYellow affiliate database.
Guys I went on Google, to attest what they said.
I clicked the restaurant and motorcycle he mentioned, and they all appeared on Google..
if it is working for others, why can’t you mind your own businesses and stop criticizing other moving business..those who tried and are happy with it should go on with it..
Or did aiyellow or anyone asked you for a loan or forced you to join or advertise on aiyellow?
Anyone can add businesses to a directory. It’s not evidence of a viable retail product.
Especially when retail doesn’t exist in AiYellow’s business model and directories haven’t made any sense on the internet for at least the last five years.
Perhaps you should take a step back and reflect on why someone pointing out AiYellow is a pyramid scheme upsets you so much.
There is a new skin it seems now, the info on: gdc.coop
Global Digital Cooperative? Why keep the old AI Yellow branding and then launch GDC simultaneously?
There’s a lot of waffle on that website for what is essentially a failed crypto reboot of a failed internet business directory pyramid scheme.
So same guy who was the marketing director bullrun io is the ceo of this company. He is the ceo of the new CLASHNODES io