M & G Home Business Review: $49.95 marketing
M & G Home Business launched as an MLM company in February 2014 and is headed up by “admin” Michael Flores.
Note that Flores’ name does not appear anywhere on the M & G Home Business website, but does appear on affiliate emails and the company’s domain registration.
Flores (right) lists himself as the owner of “mandghomebusiness.com” through Begin Marketing. A corporate address in the US state of Pennsylvania is also provided.
Begin Marketing state on their website that they offer “the best email marketing leads and PLR products”. Attached to the business is a single-level affiliate deal, which is attached to a $9.95 a month “Premium Membership”. Lead subscriptions are also available, “starting at $29.95 a month”.
Glenn Manger is named as Flores’ partner on several M & G Home Business affiliate sites, which is presumably what the “G” in the company name stands for.
Often credited as “marketers”, neither appear to have any experience running an MLM business opportunity. Working together though, both seem have a number of years experience generating MLM email leads (the Begin Marketing website was registered in 2000).
Read on for a full review of the M & G Home Business MLM business opportunity.
The M & G Home Business Product Line
M & G Home Business has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market affiliate membership to the company itself.
Bundled with M & G affiliate membership ($49.95 and then $39.95 a month), is access to a “marketing system”:
This completely automated marketing system will make you money by building you a profitable opt-in list and by advertising whatever you want to advertise.
The M & G Home Business Compensation Plan
The M & G compensation plan revolves around affiliates paying membership fees. The initial fee charged is paid directly to the affiliate who did the recruiting, with subsequent monthly fees paid out via a 2×10 matrix.
Recruitment Commissions
Everytime you refer someone to M & G you get paid 100% of their $49.95 startup cost.
As per the above explanation, taken from M & G Home Business’ compensation plan material, whenever an M & G affiliate recruits a new affiliate they are paid $49.95.
Matrix Commissions
Residual commissions in M & G are paid out using a 2×10 matrix.
A 2×10 matrix places an affiliate at the top of the matrix with two positions directly under them (level 1):
These two level 1 positions branch out into another two positions each (level 2), and again for level 3 and so on and so forth down a total of ten levels.
Each filled position in an affiliate’s matrix represents a recruited affiliate, with M & G paying out a monthly residual commission out of membership fees paid by all affiliates in the matrix.
Note that M & G Home Business do not specify anywhere on their website exactly how much of a commission is paid out via the matrix.
Joining M & G Home Business
Affiliate membership to M & G Home Business is $49.95 and then $39.95 a month thereafter.
Conclusion
With no retail revenue being generated that means 100% of the commission revenue paid out by M & G Home Business is sourced from affiliates.
Due to the “100% commissions” nature of the initial recruitment commission, this drags M & G into cash gifting territory. Affiliates buy into the scheme for $49.95 (100% of which goes to the affiliate who recruited them), which then qualifies them to receive 100% of the buy-in fees charged to any new participants they recruit into the scheme.
The matrix back-end adds a recruitment-driven pyramid scheme hybrid element to the pay plan, again paying out commissions with affiliate membership fees and rewarding those who recruit the most (directly or indirectly).
Once those at the bottom of the scheme realise they can’t recruit anyone, they stop paying their monthly fees which then means those above them stop earning commissions. They in turn stop paying their fees with this net effect trickling up the entire company.
Once it reaches the top?
Kaboom.
Yup…That’s why you want to find the ones that are willing to find there 2…that’s what keeps it going. if they are not willing to find there 2…don’t sign them up.
Even a retail store relies on customers to come in month after month, the customers don’t come in, the business folds. So whats your point?
Affiliates != retail customers.
P-p-p-pyramid scheme.
The system I looked at did the recruitment itself? The new members had to sign up themselves through the automated system. “Just plug it into the internet and it will start making money automatically, 24/7/365”. 🙂
The marketing video didn’t mention anything about that you had to FIND people to signup. It was very specific on that part, the system itself would do the work without any help from the member. If it produced the average 1 new signup per month, you would have 2,048 people in your team after 12 months.
The only problem is that it’s not able to live up to that promise for more than a few months.
I have some questions about the m and g program
It appears to be what I have been looking for. Is it recommended to only promote one program with this system or would it be OK to promote 2 programs?
Does it integrate with autoresponders like Aweber? ( which is what I currently use now) or is it a separate self-contained system.
Thanks for your input
Probably best to contact M&G with those questions. We’re not tech support.
So Oz is that scam or not? As mentioned nothing is said about the requirement of finding people as the system claims to do that for you but the question is, i think is that just BS sales talk or is something actually happening in the background without the users efforts?
Whether the system finds you people (email addresses) or you find them, that sounds like a recruitment dependency to me.
If you’re not selling a product or service to retail customers then you’re probably in something you shouldn’t be.
Thanks for the quick reply 🙂
Do you do requests?
Maybe you could check out the MLM Socialzing.me
Very interested to hear about that one 😉
I do take review requests but it will probably be a while before I get around to reviewing Socializing (list is pretty backed up).
Understood 🙂 Great work btw
M&G is an affiliate for mrlister.wpengine.com. The opportunity is just a method to attract the right type of people. You would have paid appr. the same price if you had bought the product in normal retail sale (monthly subscription).
When you sign up, you will become a lead yourself, a target for the same type of spam you’re planning to send out yourself. You will become a “quality lead” = you’re both willing to sign up for an opportunity, willing to pay, willing to give personal information.
The idea isn’t to join program like that yourself, but to be the one harvesting those leads and selling them to others.
M&G is actually a great company and many of my associates over 188 and 60 direct have had a lot of success with it. Just like anything people join people. If you dont call or text people it is not likely the autoresponse system will convert them.
I myself have made over 2,000 but the link I attached is a video from my first few weeks. Every system has its hiccups but paying $40 a month for 400 leads a DAY 12,000 a MONTH is NOTHING compared to even other lead systems out there.
If you’re recruiting to earn, you’re in a pyramid scheme.
Too bad about the whole recruitment-driven business model then.
How many of those 60 direct / 188 total did you bring in from other programs, e.g. from Total Takeover?
“Have had” indicates that it actually worked better from the beginning, but it doesn’t currently produce the expected results?
The conversion ratio seems to be 60:1,000,000 = 0.006%. You will need between 15,000 and 20,000 leads to get 1 signup. People don’t seem to be very eager to join people here?
So despite the system being sold on the basis of them doing it for you that claim is just a front to saying “The Leads we give you will not convert from our crap so you have to do it yourself” and then where does the whole done-for-you system come into play?
Isn’t it a contradiction that you are contacting a lead to inform them of a done-for-you system?
Might it be possible that someone wanting to try email marketing for their book or game or whatever might wish to try their system? Isn’t that a service?
I see ‘income opportunity’ red flags. But I disagree that no service exists for all people.
The problem here is it’s impossible to tell whether you’re a client/consumer, or a seller/distributor/recruiter, because often, you’re BOTH, and that means the company can never PROVE it’s not a pyramid scheme, much like Herbalife (which is being investigated by DOJ and FBI, in addition to SEC and FTC) can’t prove it’s not a pyramid scheme through proof of real retail.
If it had proof, it has 16 months already to present it. Instead, we just get results extrapolated from surveys, and renaming lowest rank of distributor as “customer”.
As this is NOT about Herbalife, I’ll stop here. But the point is if you can’t tell who’s the “ultimate consumer” and who’s a distributor, and the lines are all blurry, then perhaps you don’t know WHY did people join… and it just MAY be a pyramid scheme, despite the product/service being real…
I joined M&G Home Business when it first launched and was on top of the pyramid, I maxed out my matrix and I only recruited 1 personal referral, the rest are spillover from the matrix.
I was making GOOD money from the spillover and then just recently trouble in paradise…M&G did not pay me the full commissions I earned from the matrix and they said it was a technical error in the system. I had duplicate commissions which is not supposed to happen.
So I asked other affiliates who I knew were in the program also and they told me they have duplicate members in their matrix also who they earning from. So why did they only pay me a MEASLY $100 instead of $900 last month?
I am not sure and will never know because Michael Flores (M in M&G) refuses to fully explain to me why. So I sent a cancellation email and told them to pay me what I am owed, but instead of doing that, they basically canceled my account and refused to pay me. Plus Michael Flores customer service skills suck balls, he is very unprofessional.
I have never met Glenn Manger and I do not know how he looks like, but when you send in a support ticket, the only person that answers it is Mike Flores, if he chooses to reply back.
So DO NOT JOIN M&G unless you was to be placed at the bottom of the matrix and receive useless crap leads..
Funny Oz. You miss the entire point. You focus on the compensation plan which OF COURSE relies on recruiting. What you are completely missing is
(Ozedit: Evidently nothing. When the compensation plan is focused on the recruitment of affiliates and getting paid to recruit, nothing else matters.)
Nope, you missed the point. You’re in MLM, which means MARKETING, what the last M stands for. And that means SELLING.
If you’re not selling, but recruiting, then you’re not in MLM. You put the cart before the horse.
And that’s why we call it a pyramid scheme. The primary function of the business isn’t about selling products or services to consumers, but about selling the opportunity to income opportunity seekers.