Auto Recruiting Platform Review: SMS leads?
There is no information on the Auto Recruiting Platform website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Auto Recruiting Platform website domain (“autorecruitingplatform.com”) was registered on the 7th of August 2011, however the domain registration is set to private.
Further research reveals Auto Recruiting Platform affiliates naming Don Glanville as the owner of the company:
Why this information is not available on the Auto Recruiting Platform website is unclear.
Glanville (right) first popped up on my radar back in 2010 through his involvement in GiveOpp.
GiveOpp tried launched with a super-secret marketing strategy under the guise of providing ‘communities with sustainable agriculture, water resources and social well-being‘. This approach ultimately failed to gain any traction, resulting in GiveOpp flopping shortly after launch.
Read on for a full review of the Auto Recruiting Platform MLM business opportunity.
The Auto Recruiting Platform Product Line
No product information is provided on the Auto Recruiting Platform. Further research reveals the company appears to be marketing an SMS lead capture platform.
As the name of the opportunity suggests, Auto Recruiting Platform’s lead generation platform is designed to help those who use the platform “recruit” new people into various income opportunities.
Retail doesn’t appear to exist within the opportunity, with participation as an affiliate and access to the lead generation platform all falling under the one $249 fee.
The Auto Recruiting Platform Compensation Plan
The Auto Recruiting Platform compensation plan revolves around the recruitment of affiliates and ongoing payment of membership fees.
When an affiliate pays Auto Recruiting Platform $249 to join, $100 is paid to the affiliate who recruited them and $100 is paid to their upline (the affiliate who recruited them).
After paying this $249 fee (which is an ongoing monthly fee), an Auto Recruiting Platform affiliate then qualifies themselves to receive $100 commissions on every new affiliate they recruit.
If any of these new affiliates recruit new affiliates the original affiliates receives a residual $100 commission.
In a nutshell, the Auto Recruiting Platform’s commission structure can be summarised as a two level capped unilevel MLM compensation plan.
Joining Auto Recruiting Platform
Auto Recruiting Platform costs $249 a month to participate in as an affiliate.
There appears to also be an additional (and optional) $100 a month charge if an affiliate wishes to participate in a company run lead co-op (sharing of company generated leads amongst affiliates who pay the additional $100 fee).
Conclusion
Over the years Don Glanville has been marketing lead capture opportunities (directly and indirectly) primarily targeting email. Now he’s decided to whack on an SMS component to the concept and what you have is essentially the re-branding of his “Reverse Funnel System”.
This is evident in the use of “RFS” on various pages of the Auto Recruiting Platform website:
Even Auto Recruiting Platform’s “manifesto”,
is the exact same manifesto Glanville used for GiveOpp (2010) and before that the Axiom Marketing Alliance:
The basic gist of the Reverse Marketing Funnel is to provide as little information as possible about whatever it is being used to market, until a lead has voluntarily opted into the system.
The spiel being used to market Auto Recruiting Platform is Glanville himself claiming to be sharing a “business in a box” that generates him a monthly residual income in the millions.
In a marketing video on the Auto Recruiting Platform website, Glanville claims he’s never shared “the entire thing” before.
After a lead has opted into the system, Auto Recruitment Platform charge a $4.95 fee to access more information. This is done in an attempt to weed out those they feel are not truly serious about the opportunity.
Such is the emphasis on maintaining total secrecy that affiliates are
threatened with a $250,000 fine if they reveal information about the other participating affiliates.
At no time can a RFS™ member use the name of another RFS™ member for any reason.
Members are strictly forbidden to mention in anyway during the sales or recruiting process or in casual conversation the names of other RFS™ members either active or inactive.
Members with RFS™ are given totally anonymity to operate within the RFS™ association 100% anonymously.
Any member found to have leaked out to a non member of RFS™ the name of another RFS™ member including members with celebrity status will be charged a fine up to $250,000 per instance and held liable for breaking our anonymity polices, which is grounds for immediate and permanent termination.
Again note the use of “RFS”, which has been lazily copy and pasted from previous incarnations of the system.
On the MLM opportunity side of things there’s nothing inherently wrong with offering a lead capture platform, even with Auto Recruiting Platform’s super secret reverse funnel approach. It’s a service and people pay for it.
The red flags with Auto Recruiting Platform begin with the complete lack of transparency and disclosure on the company website. In the world of MLM today this just isn’t good enough and should instantly set off alarm bells.
Compensation plan Auto Recruiting Platform is your simple two level recruitment dependent commission structure.
Affiliates are paid to recruit new affiliates, and are paid out residually down two levels. Level one is their personal recruits and level 2 is their personal recruit’s recruits.
Once affiliates at the bottom are unable to recruit they stop paying their $249 a month, meaning those above them stop getting paid. They stop paying their monthly fee and before you know it the entire scheme has collapsed.
In Auto Recruiting Platform affiliate’s marketing attempts there no doubt going to be mention of income to be made by attaching the platform to various other recruitment orientated MLM opportunities out there.
Note that any such claims have nothing to do with how commissions are generated and paid out in Auto Recruiting Platform. Whether the reverse funnel lead generation platform works with other systems is not the issue here, it’s how Auto Recruiting Platform pay out their affiliates – which appears to be solely on the recruitment of new affiliates.
That unfortunately drags the Auto Recruiting Platform MLM opportunity into pyramid scheme territory, which anyone thinking about signing on as an affiliate should take into careful consideration.
I have been reviewing this for the past month looking at it to use it as lead and sales tool for my own company. So I have been through the process (to demo the capabilities of the technology and sales process) and have spoken to several people who are using it. So let me add some information in your report.
1- there is probably no information on the main site because they are in Beta and have not roll out their retail services.
2- It does have a 2 level affiliate type compensation for those who want to become a reseller. Right now in beta they are just adding some beta resellers who are licensed to resell all their services to individuals, small and large organizations which they have not rolled out yet.
3- Out of the 8 people I interviewed, most of them are like me looking to use the platform as a tool to generate lead and sales for their own businesses. They hopped on as a reseller because of the reduced pricing on the services available during the beta stage.
A couple of them are looking to use it as a platform for their network marketing organization. My own company is my focus so I have no interest in the reseller license program and a couple hundred bucks I’d save on the services is irrelevant to me at my stage.
4- I have reviewed the creators past as we have company policies of due diligence. Out of all the systems he has created, only one was unsuccessful. The philanthropic based idea he had seemed to be ahead of its time and did not work.
I have had some home runs and my share of duds as well so that is par for the course in business. But all the systems he has created for these companies put those companies on the map, so he has a good track record in my book.
I didn’t really see the MLM view on this but obviously othesr do. Probably as I am not in the market for that.
That is what I got. As for the technology and the system, I can use those services. From what I can gather we currently use multiple services from muliple companies that cost us 5 times the amount and its not as cohesive or comprehensive as this.
Cost savings is not my real concern, is what we can do with the platform technology as just a 2% gain in our sales process is significant.
Since its in beta, its to early for my company, but when they get out beta, we will be testing their platform technology.
As I understand it ARP beta launched mid this year. 6 month beta? Hmm.
Has anyone been paid a commission within the scheme? If so, then any claim of beta with no retail is a farce to cover up a recruitment-driven scheme that is in actuality currently paying on recruitment.
Don Glanville??
The same snake who cold shanked folks with Mikey Hamburger over at Liberty League International and owned a lead company as an EC member that was selling incentivized crap to his own folks.
LOL … good luck
I see Glanville and the term “living legend”…
I worked LLI … he is one of the most dishonest business folks I’ve ever encountered. A complete fraud who lies as well as most elected GOP officials.
RUN … RUN … RUN and hide your wallet when Glanville calls!
ARP has been paying out commissions for a while now. I know this because a guy on my FB friends list post screen shots every time he gets one. The whole “beta” thing is just a cover in my opinion.
So right here, right now ARP is functioning as a pyramid scheme – shuffling affiliate membership fee money around amongst those who recruit the most.
This article is a joke… Like most of the articles on this site, it is not accurate.
I have been paid over and over from ARP, and there is an actual product that is very valuable to me. They have SMS text responders, mobile custom funnels, tracking software, outsourcing resources, traffic sources, and so much more.
Paid for doing what exactly?
How many non-affiliate retail customers have you sold an Auto Recruiting Platform product and/or service to?
Oz… Quit being so narrow minded. Of course all the income I have made from it, has been from referring other affiliates.
As an affiliate… you have access to all the products. It is in beta, with the official launch coming any day now. If i was into “retail” sales I would sell crap on ebay or would get a job.
That’s a pyramid scheme.
You can try to justify it by labelling those who call you out on it as “narrow minded”, but Auto Recruiting Platform is what it is – a recruitment driven pyramid scheme.
(Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempt removed, this is not the place to throw childish insults around)
Don’t forget Glanville was the creator of ‘Ty Coughlin’s Reverse Funnel System’, the lead generator for Global Resorts Network
Glanville ran with the “stars” over at LLI and he was right at the front of the pack encouraging folks to take out 2nd mortgages on their homes.
Donny babe is a complete scam snake who takes a back seat to no one in this industry.
The list of folks that Glanville has fleeced money as a “Leader” in this industry is long and bloody.
He ran with his good buddies Tony Rush, John Lavina, Michael Hamburger and Gene Braxton with claims of 7 figure annual incomes and were talking folks in getting 2nd mortgages on their homes to join the LLI pyramid scam.
Glanville is a MAJOR LEAGUE con artist !!
I was with AutoRecruitingPlatform and was out within 3 weeks. I felt it made sense. The constant ohh traffic is coming became mundane hearing it. I believe the concept is good but looking at the history of Don I decided to move my cheese elsewhere.
Also, I am not a fan of their merchant First Data. I imagine most with ARP dont understand it will take 4 months until they can cancel with First Data through ARP without a $125 in fees. Its common to have the excitement until you see the “blood” splatter on the wall with reality.
Just proceed with caution is all I have to say.
Dale
Does the name “Charles Ponzi” mean anything to you?
Let me get this straight……No product or service being sold? Income derived solely from recruiting affiliates? Company details shrouded in secrecy and a founder with a known history of relieving decent people of their savings?
Not Today Thank You. Good bye!
If anyone is attempting legal action against Don or any of the dozens of organizations he’s behind with this scam and you need evidence or more information, comment here with contact information and I will consider reaching out to you.
Having seen the true extent of his greed and lack of morals, I will be cautious in making contact, but I may be willing.
I have no doubt there are numerous federal crimes he’s guilty of, the least of which not being massive tax evasion and I can shed significant light on his operation.
Oh Oh! The One and Only Don! On craigslist. I wonder if there is a job or he is fishing….
Are you looking for a exciting fast paced career in the tech startup world?
Am I imagining things, or has this program now been re-booted as Income Offer 4.0 (IO 4.0)?
I was putting a project together with Don and just as we were ready to launch he went “dark” on me.
I should have Googled his name at the outset but a trusted friend endorsed him and I went with that.
Unfortunately my trusted friend lent Don 50K so he is in worse shape than I am but I admit to being frustrated.
Has he EVER done anything successful or productive?