Empower Network @ BehindMLM

Consider: You run an MLM company and offer two products, a WordPress installation for $25 and affiliate training for $1000. Affiliates pay $19.95 to join as an affiliate, and must either purchase or sell both products in order to receive commissions on the sale of said products to newly recruited affiliates, or retail customers. And [Continue reading…]

The MLM blogosphere is populated by a handful of individuals who, either directly or indirectly keep regular contact and bring you their respective coverage of the happenings in the MLM industry. It’s a wide-spread of viewpoints but together I think we do a pretty decent job of covering what needs to be covered. I can’t [Continue reading…]

When it comes to children as a marketing tool in MLM, thankfully the practice is generally frowned upon. By and large it leaves people with a bad taste in their mouth as it’s difficult to distinguish the technique from out and out shameless exploitation. One of the more recent examples would be pairing of children’s [Continue reading…]

Not all multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. If the money you make is based on your sales to the public, it may be a legitimate multilevel marketing plan. If the money you make is based on the number of people you recruit and your sales to them, it’s not. It’s a pyramid scheme. –US Federal Trade [Continue reading…]

In what was a completely random discovery during my daily MLM industry news and research trawl, a few days ago I stumbled across information indicating that Google might have begun cracking down on Empower Network videos uploaded to YouTube. Following the banning of one Empower Network affiliate’s YouTube account, a thread on the Google product [Continue reading…]

Alex Pereira joined Empower Network around October 2012 and regularly publishes articles to his Empower Network blog under the account “arkam77”. Pereira also had a YouTube account which he recently uploaded some marketing videos he’d created, which he then embedded into his Empower Network blog. Ultimately of course the goal was to recruit new Empower [Continue reading…]

In keeping with general tabs on the MLM industry as part of my research and what not here at BehindMLM, I process a lot more material on a daily basis than I write about. One particular video came across my desk a week or so ago. Despite being published a year and a half ago, [Continue reading…]

Despite frequent requests to review Empower Network over the past year, I’ve consistently knocked back further analysis of the company initially believing it not to be MLM. I briefly looked over it initially and all I saw was a blog platform members sold for $25. When people contacted me about it this is what I [Continue reading…]