Marketing and Networking University Review: $64.95 mash
The clunkily named Marketing and Networking University bills itself as “the number one educational site for online success”.
Launched a couple of weeks ago, the company lists Beau Buckley, Steve Lawson, Fred Mandl and Aron Prins as co-founders on its website.
Beau Buckley’s Facebook profile contains promotional material for ViewTrakr:
ViewTrakr is a video-sharing opportunity that focuses on affiliate recruitment. Launched earlier this year, ViewTrakr appears to have gone into decline shortly after launch.
Alongside ViewTrakr, 2014 saw Buckley also promoting M&G Home Business:
M&G Home Business sees affiliates pay $49.95 a month to join and then receive commissions for recruiting new affiliates.
In addition to also being involved in ViewTrakr, Steve Lawson was recently promoting the MLM social network Tsu.
Prior to that Lawson was involved in the Internet Lifestyle Network (recruitment-focused feeder for Global Resorts Network), Visalus, DS Domination, Xplocial and Empower Network.
Fred Mandl was promoting Staged on YouTube a few months ago (a platform the “hijacks” video content and plasters it with ads).
In addition to Staged Mandl has been involved in ViewTrakr, Internet Lifestyle Network and Empower Network. Two marketing videos targeting Herbalife affiliates also appear on Mandl’s YouTube channel.
Earlier this year Aron Prins (right) launched IM Suite ($497 WordPress plugin library).
Launched around May 2014, today the IM Suite website advertises that it has 29 registered users. Prins is/was also an Empower Network affiliate.
It’s obviously no co-incidence that Marketing and Networking University’s four founders have been in a lot of the same MLM companies. After finding limited success, it appears they’ve gotten together and decided the best approach going forward is to launch their own opportunity together.
Two corporate addresses appear on the Marketing and Networking University website, one in Australia and one in the UK. This would appear to correspond with where three of the four co-founders are located.
Read on for a full review of the Marketing and Networking University MLM business opportunity.
The Marketing and Networking University Product Line
The Marketing and Networking University has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market affiliate membership to the company itself ($64.95 and $49.99 a month).
Bundled with Marketing and Networking University affiliate membership is access to a series of internet marketing tools and training.
The Marketing and Networking University Compensation Plan
The Marketing and Networking University compensation plan pays affiliates to recruit new affiliates into the company.
A direct commission is offered on the recruitment of a new affiliate, with a residual monthly commission paid out via a 3×7 matrix.
Recruitment Commissions
Marketing and Networking University affiliates are paid $50 per new affiliate they recruit.
Matrix Commissions
Residual commissions in Marketing and Network University are paid out via a 3×7 matrix compensation structure.
A 3×7 matrix structure places affiliates at the top of a 3×7 matrix, with three positions directly under them (level 1):
These three positions in turn branch out into another three positions (level 2), and so on and so forth down a total of seven levels.
Positions in the matrix are filled via the direct or indirect recruitment of affiliates, with commissions paid based on what level a filled position resides on the matrix:
- level 1 – $8 per filled position
- level 2 – $4 per filled position
- level 3 – $3 per filled position
- levels 4 and 5 – $4 per filled position
- level 6 – $5 per filled position
- level 7 – $6 per filled position
Joining Marketing and Networking University
Affiliate membership with Marketing and Networking University is $64.95 upfront and then $49.99 a month thereafter.
The Marketing and Networking University website mentions $139.95 a month “business upgrade” option, however it was not available at the time of publication.
Presumably “business upgrade” affiliates will earn more via the company’s compensation plan once the option is released.
Conclusion
Let’s start with the obvious, Marketing and Networking University is a mishmash of opportunities the four co-founders have been involved with as affiliates over the years.
The blogging platform is likely to be a simple multi-user install of WordPress on the Marketing and Networking University domain. This pretty much what Empower Network launched with, complete with promises of SEO dominance (that never eventuated).
WordPress is free, and paying someone $49.99 a month to blog on their domain with a free blogging platform is just as ridiculous today as it was when Empower Network was doing it back in the day (and soon will be once again).
The social network? Tsu.
The “lecture hall”? Training from the co-founders and affiliates who signed up early.
And that’s pretty much it. Even the comp plan is basically a rehash of M&G Home Business ($49.95 upfront recruitment commission with residual matrix commissions).
Not that M&G Home Business are the first to come up with this model (far from it), but it’s obvious enough where the various inspirations behind Marketing and Networking University originated from.
As to the compensation plan, you’re basically looking at cash gifting on the front-end and a recruitment-driven pyramid scheme back-end.
When a new affiliate joins Marketing and Networking University they pay 100% of their affiliate fee to the affiliate who recruited them.
Taken from the Marketing and Networking University compensation plan:
When you refer someone to become a student at MNU (Ozedit: recruit an affiliate), you will receive 100% commission on the $50 joining fee.
The $14.95 is gravy for the co-founders.
Then as long as recruits pay $49.99 a month, that money is distributed out via the matrix. Of course those who joined and got to recruiting early receive the most benefit (they’ll have the largest matrices), as with any pyramid scheme.
M.N.U have incorporated a 3×7 forced matrix into their affiliate program.
You will earn monthly residual from the $49.99 monthly fee from those within your matrix.
At no point are products and services being marketed and sold to retail customers.
100% of the revenue generated by Marketing and Networking University is derived from affiliates and paid out according to their personal recruiting efforts and that of their up and downlines.
Once recruitment slows down, those at the bottom of the matrices will stop paying their $49.99 a month fees. This means those above them stop getting paid and, if they cna’t find anyone new to recruit, they too will stop paying their monthly fees.
This effect slowly trickles up the company-wide matrix until an irreversible collapse is triggered.
No doubt Beau Buckley, Steve Lawson, Fred Mandl and Aron Prins have grown tired of hopping from opportunity to opportunity and seeing nobody but the company owner’s and their “got in early” buddies make any money.
Now they’ve decided they want a slice of the ownership pie and so you have the launch of Marketing and Networking University.
What happens next is up to you.
This is almost a textbook example of the illegal “referral selling”… Pay in, then get paid contingent on recruiting others who buy the same thing.
MNU is a great company with great founders. There is nothing illegal about this program.
You failed to mention the Course Creation Center, where people can come in and create pro looking courses, The Marketplace where people can BUY and SELL products, the Blog is actually quite powerful, with a vast array of marketing tools and email marketing tools. Do some better research please.
Who said anything about legality? MNU offers no products or services to retail customers and pays affiliates to recruit new affiliates.
Has nothing to do with the compensation plan.
Third parties selling products still means MNU itself is offering nothing at a retail level.
I agree, WordPress is quite powerful. It’s also free.
Charging for it is a riot.
Address the recruitment-driven nature of the Marketing and Networking compensation plan please.
People recruit by promoting the product and services here at MNU….
“At no point are products and services being marketed and sold to retail customers.” Maybe because you’re reading the COMPENSATION PLAN PDF….read about their products and services next time…
Could you find a better picture of me please 🙂 Prefer without the gotee:)
Answer the other questions please.
ARON PRINS WAS NEVER IN EN lol…where are you getting your facts from? Fakebook?
@Chris
Whatever comes after “people recruit and get paid for recruiting” is irrelevant.
The products and services bundled with affiliate membership are irrelevant.
Marketing and Networking University affiliates are paid to recruit new affiliates, nothing negates that.
Well then there’s some major content hijacking going on. Why is Prins so focused on marketing Empower Network and “badass” branding?
https://www.google.com/#q=aron+prins+empower+network&start=0
In particular, check “empowernetwork.eu”, an replicated EN affiliate page (redirected) which lists “IHeartIM” as the referring affiliate in the footer.
That domain is registered to Aron Prins. You’re full of shit son.
@Steve
I chose that particular video for the title. Not so much how you look.
edit: I’ve used a smaller image, that should help with any vanity issues.
Honored to have made the cut, once again!
And btw, re-check that domain: let me know if you’re interested 😉
Well at least you got the beautiful picture of me right.
Thanks for the motivation also, because we will be dropping even more products, services and values. If you even looked into it all you would know MNU offers so much value it’s crazy. Soon we will be having accountants, financial consultants, trainers, industry leaders, putting together tailored courses and doing webinars teaching people value of money.
We also offer video hosting, auto-responders, front end sales builders, web design & development. Hey if you want a discount on your site to make it even better come be a student at mnu and you will get a wonderful discount.
But what we have already in production with syndication suites, mobile marketing platform and so much more all for the students and oh and other big surprises, even you might even think about becoming a student of MNU 😉
(Ozedit: spam removed)
@Aron
Why? The point was made.
@Beau
None of which addresses paying commissions on the recruitment of new affiliates and residuals on their monthly affiliate fees.
You need to look up the definition of “referral selling” then. Here, I’ll even throw you a link:
— R&R Law Group mlmlaw.com/library/guides/Primer.htm#referral
UMMM i was actually never in herbalife in my life haha were exactly are you getting your facts from ??
This seems extremely poorly researched makes me rethink all those reviews if’e seen about other companies now too…
Heres a list of all the companies ife been apart of in my career..
amway
liberty league
polaris global
mlsp
isn
dsd
en
iln
viewtrakr
staged
m&g
gin
i have also done a bunch of affiliate based marketing…
If your reading this review right now i strongly urge you to do your own due diligence as this review is very uneducated :).
@Frederick
Why do two marketing videos for Herbalife appear on your YouTube channel?
Let me guess, you were just promoting it “for a friend”? Or were you misleadingly targeting Herbalife affiliates to rope them into your own business?
Fess up.
(and using a Halo 4 trailer to pimp Empower Network, lol I hope this isn’t what you lot are “teaching” over at MNU…)
Interesting that Austin Zulauf is the featured lecturer at MNU.
It wasn’t too long ago that he was pimping The Total Takeover.
Now we see what happens when the uneducated MLM Junkies get together and collaborate.
I realize that you are proud of all the programs you have been a part of, but seriously you had to be a total failure at them. It could not be the fault of the programs, because everyone knows if someone fails, they didn’t work hard enough and can’t follow directions.
But you had me on the floor laughing about your being in GIN. I thought your being able to join and rubbing elbows with: The Brotherhood, The Bilderberg Group, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Freemasons, Yale University’s Skull and Bones, The Illuminati, The Trilateral Commission and all the other “secret societies would have made you a gazillionaire.
You mean Kevin lied? ROFLOLOL!
And we are supposed to believe you and follow your advice can make people joining this joke millionaires? Seriously?
Your track record speaks for itself, and it sucks.
I joined this with excitement few weeks ago. The first so called “course” (called article in my world) was made by Beau Buckley.
Short after the start something made me test some of the phrases in his course to see if it was available anywhere else… And hurray for Uncle Google. I found the EXCACT SAME “course” (except from the tools that was changed to recommend MNUs tools) from another online marketer.
On that website you could buy the rights to all his material for a one time payment of 9.95$
I wonder where they get all the other content from ???
Did they make it themselves or did the buy the rights other places also ???
Well… I just canselled my membership.
I see this “university” as a collection of articles and amateur videos. Absolutely not worth 50$ per month.
I’ve been following Steves FB for a while… Never have I seen so much clutter attemp to sell the fantastic “University” So many words – so little valuable content.
I find it so freaking funny all of these losers keep pointing out that they actually SUCK as marketers.
Did you see their Leader board? lol That’s about as big of joke as they are.
The ILN crew none of them made money. They failed the same damn thing that actually had training from people who HAD success. Not program hoppers.
Yeah let me sign up with this bunch of douchebags….smh
This is what is wrong with out industry. We have some great programs/companys/opportunities But lets let every jerkoff and their brother start a “new concept” of the same companies out there… and lets allow NOBODYS to teach something that they actually know nothing about.
You might want to update this review. I joined recently and have been a top earner in a couple programs. One of the reasons I joined was because of the products and value been offered to customers.
There is a customer level of $25 where no affiliate program is offered.. You get access to the 10k lead storage and dynamic autoresponder which is a good AR based on the abilitys to migrate lists based on actions.
So based on that alone it removes the PYRAMID scheme that alot of reviews based on. Secondly the blog platform has alot of tools and plugins that you CANT get for free. The seo abilitys in the blog platform surpasses EN platform because unlike EN, MNU platform allows for individual SEO whereas EN does not allow that..
They alos have a custom landing page creator with the custom ability to enter in your own AR or use the inhouse.
lots to update on brotha. Do your due dilligence. I would be more than happy to chat with ya if you like.
@Gene
Uh no it doesn’t.
Nothing removes the pyramid scheme element of MNU so long as this is happening:
Furthermore, nobody is paying $25 (a month?) for a WordPress multi-install. The only people using MNU’s platform are affiliates which, as an affiliate yourself, you’ll be able to confirm (if you’re willing to be honest about it).
Furthermore the best SEO plugins for WordPress are free, so you lose out there too.
Basically MNU is still a recruitment-driven scheme, except now it has a pseudo-compliance $25 offering that nobody will sign up for.
@gene
Merely having an option is no excuse if few people use it. Ref FTC vs Burnlounge .
The MNU boys still think it’s okay to steal money from others by relaunching their recruitment driven pyramid scheme every few months and adding another useless payment level.
Don’t really care whether you agree with Multi Level Marketing or Not thats just your issue.
but for your information we have numerous people signed up onto our $25 level that gives them their own Autoresponder service and Facebook Group Poster, aswel as a course creation system that enables them to host their courses and sell them from our platform.
Please do your due dilligence before righting your reviews and try and keep upto date on these changes..
Care to provide a percentage? Again, I recommend you read the decision FTC vs. Burnlounge on whether merely having such an option could have saved the company.
Speaking of the law, who’s your MLM legal advisor for the company?
Please don’t tell me you don’t have one… That’s be… ironic.
The $50 monthly membership option offers 100% commissions which makes MNU an illegal cash gifting scheme.
New members rely on recruitment in order to earn commissions; and, those already in the scheme rely on new and existing members to continue paying their monthly memberships in order to get paid. If members stop paying their monthly membership fees, nobody gets paid and the entire scheme falls apart.
Due Diligence = DONE!
but you DO care. you posted instead of ignoring this blog.
Q;Whats funnier than people having no clue what a pyramid/ponzi deal even is?
A: The people that decide to work with them.
Its brilliant! A group of people who have NEVER been successful at ANYTHING in networking, leading people who are even less successful. ha ha
I have built organizations in the UK. I can say from experience that personality wise, they are allot more low key over there than other places.
Perhaps its this element that keeps them hiding behind computers and falling for this crap over and over.
Perhaps they just cant make anything work with a legitimate company because they have the demeanor of a tree stump.
As harsh as it sounds its really nothing personal. Im just making an observation. Its nothing a little, actual, legitimate WORK cant fix.
Another funny part, is these very same people who are promoting these things, will make posts talking about how tired they are of the “ponzi deals”.
They get on a soapbox about the lack of integrity and lack of ethics in the networking world. ha ha.. I think Steve even did one today.
The people that chime in, in agreement are blatant, known ponzi people. Their words, in contempt of “those deals”, are absolutely priceless, ha ha..
C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S !!!
That would be like Hitler making a post about how sick he is of the leaders that think that THEIR race is superior to others. Its funny as hell, yet very disturbing at the same time.
Or Jack the Ripper posting about how he hates violence against women, ha ha.
I am wondering if they actually have a mental problem, they really dont know how to do simple math, they just dont care, or that they are being that much of a low life that they are purposly trying to deceive people.
Whats NOT funny is how short sighted these guys are. With as much work as they have done to date on their 100 different deals.
If they werent so hung up on trying to get rich quick. If they actually respected the advice of people who have actually succeeded, they would have made a million dollars 10 times over by know and would continue making it.
So much wasted tallent and credibility. It’s really ashame.
Hey common sense. 100 deals ? I’ve only ever been in two developed strong team. Then a few months in had a vision to create an authority platform…
MNU can stand on it’s own two feet without an affiliate plan. With organic traffic and running paid advertising the membership is growing.
Because we also have a course creation center it’s also like udemy enabling us to make 10% on each sale.. and with the tools and more to come… The platform is so much more.
and to say hung up on get rich quick ?.. I’ve invested hours upon hours developing this platform to making it the ultimate platform for the niche..
Been working on this and only this for past 15 months and going to be putting insane hours this week to making it better…
But again you will come back with something. But why do we get up in the morning huh ? To make money we all do..
We either fight each other in the rat race or we’re fighting each other in the digital race..
You can call it what you want which you no doubt will.. But i know how incredible this platform is, how far it’s come in development and where it’s going to go if i keep putting in the hardwork…
You have you’re own hidden agenda with the niche but me i don’t it’s a great niche if doing it the right way and that’s what im trying to do..
The MNU boys have cognitive dissonance. Their core belief that it’s perfectly legal to run a MLM gifting scheme is strong.
They’ve been presented with new evidence that works against their belief and they can’t accept it. To protect their core belief, they rationalize, ignore and deny anything that doesn’t fit into their core belief.
What’s sad is that they are going to continue scamming people until the authorities step in. When that happens, ignorance will no longer be bliss.
@Beau
Yet here we are, with a particularly dodgy compensation plan no less.
@Beau You may very well have a good product. No where in my comment do I mention otherwise.
FHTM had a couple good product’s too so whats your point? How is that relevant to running a paid for recruiting pyramid scheme?
You may have only been in a couple different companies but that does not hold true for your counterparts. You are guilty by association my friend.
Yes, you have spent thousand of hours on this just to flush it down the toilet by backing it with a shady marketing plan. Exactly my point.
Im not calling it what I “want”. I am calling it what it IS. Its not opinion, its math.
If you believe that much in your product. and you are not a ponzi player like the other guys then take the product and run. Take it to a legitimate company and get as far as you can from the people that are leading you down an endless path of ridicule, controversy and potential legal trouble.
The comp plan is NOT compliant, PERIOD!
If i had an ulterior motive, I would be identifying myself here rather than choosing to remain anonymous.
For the record, Aron Prins jumped ship and erased all evidence of his participation on his Facebook Timeline.
The new co-owner is Jeff Robb of Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada). Another MLM Junkie associated with iPas2/Empower Network.
(Ozedit: Waffle not addressing the MNU MLM compensation plan removed. If you wish to discuss Clickbank do it elsewhere.)
All the “tools” featured at MNU can be had elsewhere for either free or a pittance or with your website control panel.
It is a pyramid scheme just like the rest and it will eventually implode just like the rest leaving people disillusioned and poorer.
Here’s an example from Facebook of their cognitive dissonance.
They can’t see what they talk about in themselves or their scheme:
‘cognitive dissonance’ The “pot calling the kettle black” PERFECT!
I KNEW there was a term for that.. Awesome. Thanks for sharing that. Ive been trying to put a label on that for some time now. 🙂
another pyramid crumbles but not due to saturation….
I doubt that they will be issuing refunds; but, they did post on Facebook that MNU is now free to use.
Mr Lawson’s accompanying video assures that full refunds will be issued (for the annual membership), and explains that its only for 1 or 2 people!!! So not exactly massive take up.
He’s now carrying out ‘due diligence’ on a new opportunity, one with longevity!
When will he learn that no ‘pyramid scheme’ will have longevity.
I wonder how many children from 3rd world countries they ‘educated out of poverty’?
vimeo.com/101868986
Deluded…….
ps. perhaps start with learning the difference between your and you’re !
So uh what, now MNU is just an email capture site (with an attached now literally worthless suite)?
@Oz, MNU is not a worthless site by any means. Why don’t you go check it out.. ?
It’s a powerful platform offering marketing tools, courses and the ability for others to create and sell content. Now we have opened up ourselves to the general public user base is growing fast, traffic is climbing..
We have our own way of monetizing. But this platform can be a real industry leader..
Seriously go check it out bro instead of bagging on us..
So powerful that even with an income opportunity attached you couldn’t sell it?
I’m just being real here chief.
They’re back to illegal pyramid scheme hopping:
Steve Lawson just joined My Advertising Pays (MAPS), Frederick Mandl is looking hard at IPAS/Empower Network with Jeff Robb and Beau Buckley is still trying to figure out how to bait and switch (monetize) MNU.
yeah he made a public announcement about it:
when MAPs crashes i hope lawson wont turn around and tell his victims that garrity and derbyshire gave him false information. these guys love each other when recruitment is good, and start blaming each other when things start stalling.
they are just hogs that feed together at the trough, they are not ‘good friend’ to anybody.
Steve Lawson still thinks that illegal Ponzi/Pyramid scheme programs are an “industry”:
“It’s win or lose in this industry and I intend to win!”
As you say @anjali they are all ‘great and true friends’…Deluded !
Great friends – deluded
Entrepreneurs – deluded
Marketeers – deluded
Business owners – deluded
‘It’s not a pyramid scheme’ – deluded
Mr Buckley & Mr Lawson – deluded
Stupidity should be painful:
Mr Lawson announces ‘the secrets is out’!
Amid huge publicity (in his mind anyway) Mr Lawson has gone public!
His primary business will be, *fanfare* the National Wealth something something something…..yeah yeah, another ponzi/pyramid….
Good luck with that Steve….
Stay tuned for the next instalment in the relentless ongoing failure saga.
Go and get a proper job, like a normal person.
Right. Steve Lawson announced that National Wealth Center (NWC) is his primary pyramid scheme program now and My Advertising Pays (MAPS) is his secondary Ponzi scheme program.
Fools rush in where fools have been before…
Having had 25 yrs of full time experience in this incredible industry and helping thousands of people understand exactly how a to build a strong networking organisation with a good solid long term reputable company.
I can testify that NMU is one of the company’s I am proud to work with and align my business associates too.
This industry is now well over 60 years old and turning over billions of dollars annually, company’s like NMU are here to support the legions of new people joining the industry often for the first time, all for the simple reason of earning some extra income which are the grass routes of the industry.
Finally I have no time and there is no place in this industry for the dream stealer’s that post most of the rubbish on these kind of sites.
Anyone who has issues with this industry should talk to a true professional first, before reading some of the rubbish that’s posted on sites like this!
Bit of an indictment against your experience if you’re fishing for opportunities with a lack of retail viability.
And as per other readers, didn’t MNU crash some time ago now?
So you’re taking a retail absent business model and preying on people who don’t know any better. That’s what 25 years of MLM experience has taught you? For shame.
After 25 years, poor Paul doesn’t know that MNU isn’t a company.
It was an illegal pyramid scheme PROGRAM; and now, it’s nothing but an email capture site used by the MNU boys to recruit others into the next illegal pyramid scheme PROGRAMS they’re participating in.
As Co-Owner you guys are so far from the truth.
Yes MNU was an MLM company. We are owners of honesty and transparency but the MLM was not what this company was destined for. It is now a digital marketing company.
Offering quality marketing tools constantly being upgraded and worked upon, we offer courses and users can create and sell there own. We offer Traffic Packages, and Digital Marketing Services, i.e SEO, Adwords, Web-Dev, PPC and set up packages with Account Management to come.
This is a legitimate company.. If some of you guys did some research you will see how far MNU has evolved..
Catch up boys…
So, MNU is trying to teach people how to participate in illegal pyramid schemes according to the “National Wealth Center Business in a Box” Course.
The MNU boys just keep gargling at the fountain of knowledge instead of drinking and catching up with what’s really honest, transparent and legitimate.
So instead of MLM, you’ve moved upstream to be a supplier to MLM, but you still feed within the same pool, eh?
No evolving going on according to Frederick Johann Karl Mandl:
“So this morning i revealed that i have chosen Traffic Monsoon as a secondary online income source and advertising platform..”
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@K Chang,
Here’s an example given by Beau Buckley himself showing how they’re all still feeding in the same pool:
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Again You’re research is very Poor DJ,
Fred hasn’t been an owner since November. And in regards to my post yes people are utilizing our traffic services methods to build there business.
This is what you call in digital marketing terms offering a service.
Are traffic will be expanding into local businesses and also account management. I’m personally adwords certified and a expert in my field of digital marketing
You guys just need to give it up. You failed so bad..
Again your research is very Poor DJ,
Fred hasn’t been an owner since November. And in regards to my post yes people are utilizing our traffic services to build their business.
This is what you call in digital marketing terms offering a service.
Our traffic will be expanding into local businesses and also account management. I’m personally adwords certified and an expert in my field of digital marketing.
MNU is on a whole new level man and you guys need to catch up.. Once was an MLM, now a fully fledge digital marketing company offering tools, services and much more..
You guys just need to give it up. You failed so bad..
Uh, MNU the MLM business opportunity collapsed and now you’re desperately trying to salvage what’s left.
What nobody wanted with an attached income opp, you seem to think people are dying to purchase retail.
But uh yeah, everyone else that failed. No worries champ.
Can you remove this post please immediately. Otherwise will be taking maters further with false accusations against our company. We run a completely legitimate digital marketing company.
Many many things have changed since we first arrived on the seen. We are expanding our reaches into multiple niches and rapidly developing to compete with large digital companies, on not only services but with our tools.
Please remove this OZ.
Best of luck with that Beau. The review and comments are clearly dated.
You want to argue history never happened? See you in court.
You have been allowed to post those changes. People reading the article will most likely read your comments too.
I browsed through the first few comments. It seems to be a rather “balanced” audience making comments here, exactly what you can expect on the internet.
If you no longer is offering the income opportunity, then people won’t be reading the article either. The article is primarily about the opportunity side of the business as it was in November 2014.
* If the opportunity doesn’t exist anymore, then people won’t have any reason to search the internet for information about it either.
* If the opportunity does exist in a modified version, then people may find both the November 2014 article AND your comments.
Articles like that will eventually become “outdated”, but there’s no reason to make changes to them.
It could have been a reason to make changes if a huge number of people had asked questions about some new details. But very few people have asked questions about MNU, so people don’t seem to be interested at all.
Which part of that act? 🙂
As said this fall under the defamation act. And I’m entitled to escalate this matter further due..
Please read the follow:
This will fall under libel. When a individual types our name this is right underneath and can be damaging to our company.
We will do anything to protect our reputation moving forward as a company. We were completely legal as an MLM, and now as we have eradicated that model and evolved into a growing digital marketing company, thus confirms our case even further and by law we are in our own right to have this taken down
I will proceed with this matter if need be if we can’t settle this outside of court.. So i hope you make the right decision and remove MNU from your site.
Regards
Beau
How excellent, Beau gets to explain the finer details of how his his
scambusiness works to a judge.Your intention IS to get this in front of a court, isn’t it, Mr Buckley.
Surely after such strong language, you’re not going to wimp out by merely sending a threatening letter from an ambulance chaser, are you ???
and oz is entitled to defend himself when escalated. pretty simple. being an internet bully isn’t going to get you far.
Beau, first of all the legal threat is a non starter. Even if you could afford to pay someone to try to string together some manner of complaint under US law it might come to disappoint you that Oz isn’t a ‘Merican.’ But you or your attorney can rack up a ton of frequent flier miles crossing and recrossing the Pacific. But you can afford that, can’t you?
But what’s worse than that is these childish, empty threats make you look very unprofessional.
I’m pretty sure that you are trying to present yourself as a competent, savvy individual with oratorical prowess and the sort of expertise in your industry that people should feel grateful to pay you for sharing with them.
What you don’t want to do is come off like some whiny little fake it till you make it, jumps from one half assed scheme to another, pretending to be something your not small timer.
Which I regret to inform you is pretty much how you are making yourself look here. And perhaps elsewhere as well.
@Beau Buckley
But how has your reputation been harmed here?
The article and some comments don’t reflect how you like to see yourself as a “successful internet marketer and coach”? That may be related to that the article is a review of the opportunity, it’s not about how you like to see yourself.
Reviews about “How Beau Buckley likes to see himself” can be bought from some websites. We don’t sell reviews like that here.
It’s a quite normal review of the opportunity. It only contains relevant info for people looking into it as an opportunity.
* “Owners” may be relevant
* “Product line” may be relevant
* “Compensation plan” should be relevant, with all the details.
* “Joining” should be relevant.
* “Conclusion” should be relevant.
Your own comments can be relevant too. Comments from other people can be relevant.
You have failed to look into a few relevant parts of defamation laws, e.g. they don’t cover factual information published in a normal context. So we can point to hundreds of similar reviews and show that the reviews actually have a quite normal function.
You failed to look into intent requirements. It could have been different if this website had been put up to specifically target MNU and the individuals behind it with some false information. But we can show that we cover hundreds of companies or opportunities, all in a similar way.
A court will most likely accept the type of material we cover, e.g. many articles are based on ongoing court cases “from beginning to end”.
You must look at the weaknesses in your own case, “How your case will work in reality against a skilled opponent”.
Here’s an alternative to defamation = false light.
“Intended to protect the plaintiff’s mental or emotional well-being” sounded more like what you were looking for, e.g. you can claim that your emotional well-being depends strongly on some specific factors, and we didn’t cover those factors correctly.
“It’s misleading. I have established a reputation over the years as a successful internet marketer and coach, and the review didn’t reflect that correctly. I feel harmed!”.
@Beau Buckley
MNU is offering solo ads to people who are participating in illegal pyramid schemes such as National Wealth Center.
Try explaining that to a Judge in Court. SMH
Here’s one more factor …
“Marketing & Networking University“ will not look good in a complaint to a court. A court will not see it as a real university, but rather as someone pretending to offer “higher education” — falsely trying to borrow some undeserved credibility by using certain reserved words (the word “University” is a reserved word in many countries).
A court could have dismissed a case because of that, if a defendant had brought it up in a Motion To Dismiss. A court will usually not waste its time on resolving disputes among wrongdoers. You will not be allowed to profit from your own wrongdoing.
It could have been different if you had operated a real university.
Here’s the type of services offered … (from Facebook)
Marketingandnetworkinguniversity.com may have some reputation among the male population with some college, browsing from home, in some countries (based on Alexa).
Global rank: 88,837
Local rank: 3,408 (Australia)
But that reputation doesn’t seem to be shared among the general population in those countries, so it doesn’t really have any general reputation to protect (relevant for a lawsuit).
How about a sermon on the Right to Be Forgotten statues.
Beau Buckley simply refuses to learn. He still thinks MNU was “completely legal as an MLM”.
Steve Larson is currently participating in two illegal pyramid scheme programs, My Advertising Pays and National Wealth Center.
Beau Buckley is currently looking for other MLM Junkies to coach them on how to find more uneducated victims.
The MNU boys have established reputations as MLM Junkies. This MNU review definitely reflects this fact correctly.
@Beau
Like I said, you want to argue history never happened in court, be my guest.
I stand by everything written in this review as the whole truth and nothing but the truth as per the relevant publication dates, which are readily on display.
The truth is the ultimate defense against defamation claims, and I suggest you actually consult with a lawyer – who will tell you the same.
They haven’t established any where I come from. That’s why I had to check Alexa. I come from “general population”. 🙂
is this the same ‘steve lawson’ involved in mybinaryprofits.com with well know ponzi pimp/no legitmate ever ken russo?
@M Norway
You might want to check Traffic Monsoon’s Alexa rating.
Beau Buckley and Steve Lawson are pimping it now, too.
So Mr Laswon and his business partner, and self proclaimed Digital Marketing Expert’ (and ex. criminal according to his riveting’ email biography series ‘Ex Convict, Now Rising Entrepreneur’) are now peddling NWC and the ‘congruent’ (their favourite newly learnt word!) Traffic Monsoon.
Jesus these guys are truly MLM junkies, lurching from rip off to rip off….
Mr Lawson even has videos proclaiming Charles Scoville is misunderstood and has learnt from his previous mistakes…. madness.
has Mr Lawson seen the light?
youtube.com/watch?v=YH8hi2epdww&feature=youtu.be
Of course he hasn’t, he just thinks Traffic Monsoon is going to provide an income…..
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Steve Lawson can’t seem to totally let go of all the illegal programs he participates in.
So, by building Traffic Monsoon for Charles Scoville, Lawson just contradicted himself in that video.
All he’s done is dump MLM Ponzi schemes in favor of HYIP Ponzi schemes.
anyone else following this car crash?