The Total Takeover Review: $50 a month gifting
The Total Takeover launched in November 2013 and is headed up by admin Matthew McMills.
McMills has a YouTube account, with videos uploaded over the past year revealing affiliate membership to TVC Matrix, a $9.95 or $19.95 a month recruitment scheme.
About a year ago, McMills also appears to have launched something called Internet Guru University (evidently from inside his car).
The Internet Guru University website is still up over at “internetguruuniversity.com”, however the site advises that the program is “sold out”. Going off the content posted on the site, it appears to be some sort of membership-based training platform.
With the launch of The Total Takeover, whether McMills is still involved in TVC Matrix as an affiliate is unclear.
Read on for a full review of The Total Takeover MLM business opportunity.
The Total Takeover Product Line
The Total Takeover has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market affiliate membership to the site itself.
Bundled with The Total Takeover affiliate membership ($50 a month) is access to “valuable and powerful information”.
The Total Takeover website suggests this information is related to blogging, local business advertising, Google ranking, “how to sell tangible products”, lead scraping software, training video webinars, “the ability to add $1000 to your monthly residual in less than 14 days” and “gold nuggets gurus don’t want you to know”.
The Total Takeover Compensation Plan
The Total Takeover compensation plan revolves around affiliates paying eachother $50 a month. Within this core mechanic is a reverse 2-up compensation plan, requiring participants to pass up two payments out of their first four.
Every affiliate who recruits new affiliates into The Total Takeover must pass up their 2nd and fourth recruitment commissions to their upline (the affiliate who recruited them).
Note that this also holds true for an affiliate’s personally recruited downline, who must also pass up their 2nd and 4th recruitment commissions to the affiliate who recruited them.
After an affiliate has passed up two recruited affiliates, they then earn on every personally recruited thereafter.
Joining The Total Takeover
Affiliate membership to The Total Takeover is $50 a month.
Conclusion
Are you new to the internet and are you tired of never making a dime? Feel like you keep investing, just to see your dreams come falling down?
How about getting one hundred percent of your investment back, with the very first person that you introduce to The Total Takeover?
Whilst I wouldn’t necessarily refer to participation in The Total Takeover as admin Matthew McMills does above, taken from a marketing video that plays on The Total Takeover website, I would classify it as a $50 a month gifting scheme.
This is best illustrated with a screenshot from The Total Takeover’s compensation plan video:
The system will tell you who to send to, how much (and) where.
The Total Takover’s written compensation plan material only drives the gifting nature of the scheme home even further:
All members pay each other directly. No going through the company.
Regardless of what The Total Takeover bundle with participation in the scheme, what you have is undoubtedly a cash gifting scheme.
Participants pay the person who recruited them $50 each month, with said payment thus qualifying them to receive $50 payments from people they recruit.
Throw in the reverse 2-up compensation plan and their $50 a month payment also qualifies them to receive gifts from those their recruits recruit. This of course means they also have to pass up gift payments to the affiliate who recruited them too.
TVC Matrix pays out commissions on recruitment, whereas this is a little bit different. If I had to take a guess I’d say McMills got fed up of sharing his commissions with the company, and decided to just have everyone in the scheme paying eachother. Hence The Total Takeover was born.
Once the new recruitment stops at the bottom of the scheme, those who aren’t getting monthly gifting payments passed up will stop paying their $50 a month, which means the people above them stop getting their $50 a month.
Once this trickles up far enough, boom goes the dynamite.
Hmmm I don’t know about this one. One red flag for me is that there is no actual product being sold here. This looks like something that can possibly collapse after the food chain breaks.
This is as obvious of a gifting scheme as it gets. In the members area, you are told to ‘gift’ $50 to your recruiter, and then replace their paypal with yours.
Not only is the whole system against Paypal TOS, it is a lie on top of it because because they even suggest people to send $ as a friends or family.
Here’s a post I saw about it on MMG. Oz can probably add this to the review. From user asta411 that seems to be quite active on there:
Hi,
I am an TTT affiliate and I felt good about spending $50 for the product I am getting. I am also an affiliate with DS Domination. Both are training programs on how to make money online.
My brother has made over $3000 selling on ebay in 2 months (zero experience in selling on ebay and network marketing). So basically you can easily make (as proven by my brother in 2 months) over $3000 with just one LEGAL AND LEGIT method being taught inside TTT.
There is also training on SEO, how to make a website, how to make a capture page, how to drive traffic, how to generate leads, how to broker services on craigslsit, how to sell websites, etc etc etc…
The $50 is not the gift its the money making methods in the inside that is being gifted. Like I said my brother made over $3000 in 2 months with using only one method inside.
If learning on how to make that kind of money online for $50 a scam then what dpo you call College education?
So what is our product? Its worth well over $5o.
If you have anymore questions ask away. You dont know what you dont know.
What you “got” is irrelevant. What you paid for is qualification to earn $50 from new gifters you recruit into the scheme.
ORLY? Pray tell how much of your $50 went to the company to pay for said “money making method”, and how much of it was gifted to the person who recruited you into the scheme?
So your saying that this recruiting scheme is not legitimate verses other recruiting schemes out there?
Every thing is a scheme…shoot how many people lost money because of the mortgage and real estate schemes? How much money was lost from people being gifted money but had there house repo’d because they were sold a dream house they could not afford?
Further more how many Network Marketing Companies out there can you make 6 figures without recuiting?
It looks as if the only problem you see is with the compensation plan?
This compensation plan has been around for at leaast 4 years that I know of. You might know but I have not heard of any companies being shut down by FTC from this compensation plan either.
Im no expert on this comp plan so maybe you have more insight thats based on facts from legitimate resources like the FTC and not some browsing on the muddy internet where people can post anything and twist things around (like media;))
Yup. “Other recruiting schemes” are irrelevant.
Oh please. Those excuses might help you sleep at night but they won’t here.
Strawman argument.
“But the authorities haven’t shut us down yet so we’re legit” is yet another strawman argument.
Oh indeed I do. Here’s what the FTC have to say about your recruitment driven pyramid schemes:
Thankyou, come again.
http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/inv08-bottom-line-about-multi-level-marketing-plans
lol
Perfect I did state you can make 6 figures without recuiting by using the product alone;)
Again the money my brother made was made without recruiting and by using the info in the product.
What anybody made outside of the MLM opportunity is irrelevant (wholly including any income derived from third-party companies external to the MLM opportunity).
All that matters is revenue flow within the company itself, specifically how revenue is created and then paid out as commissions.
In a recruitment scheme revenue is generated from affiliates, with affiliates paid by the company to recruit. Once again, whatever else is attached to that is irrelevant.
So your brother made $3000 with DS Domination and because TTT ‘talks about Dropshipping’ that makes TTT legit. Are you seriously this dense?
First off you can’t even compare DSD and TTT in terms of the training/software/support and such. Second, you pay DSD to access DSD, in TTT you pay ‘someone else’ directly. The nature of the business models is entirely differently.
Finally, this Matthew McMills has ZERO credentials to be teaching anything. He has been proven to be a scammer multiple times already from making fake videos (going to model homes claiming that it’s his house) to outright stealing content and selling as his own (kinda like what he attempted with DSD but failed) and of course with the PLR software that he resells claiming its his own.
Overall, you’re paying ‘someone’ for access to something that Matthew McMills doesn’t even have.
But anyway, TTT is not something anyone has to worry about for long – Paypal is already investigating them, and their traffic is in the gutter 😀
Dense? So funny how people are disrespectful on the internet. smh
John Q. I would like ask you what your resources are? If you need a resource I can be one as I have both products;) TTT does not ‘talk about dropshipping’. TTT trains on how to drop ship.
Is the training up to par with DSD? The answer is no. But DSD when it launched is not up to par with how DSD is today. Stuff is being added all the time and stuff will be added all the time to TTT.
Will TTT be able keep up with what DSD has to offer? In my opinion, no. However the theres stuff in TTT that I didnt know about and have added to my arsenal 🙂
Having dropship training doesnt make TTT legit. It has been established that the problem here is the comp plan and I have claimed to not be an expert in that area.
I agree there is no comparison of the 2 companies. One is focused solely on dropshipping and the other has a buffet of marketing strategies and online making methods and software to promote any business and to make money witout recruiting. Dropshipping is just 1 method TTT has.
And you know all this how?
How do you know its a model home and not his actaul home?
How do you make a fake video?
What content has he stolen?
Are the owners of copanies like 5linx or lightyear wireless or Momentis or FHTM (closed down by FTC) a stealer of content from ACN? ACN is the leader in telecommunications if you didnt know. They all have some of the same products and training.
What did he steal from DSD? Matt has been dropshipping for 3 years. Did you know Roger taught these methods before DSD? Did you also know that there are other very good programs out there that teach dropshipping? So if anyone starts a dropshipping company is a stealer of content?
Bottom line is that TTT has a ton to offer and is helping alot of people make money online. Matt has spilled his guts and has overdelivered. If you want to call TTT a scam when people are making money and getting more results then they ever have then lets talk about what a scam is.
Both DSD and TTT are of the same Cost offset model and are the only 2 companies with this model. And its changing the industry because how fast the cash flow is being generated and being generated without recruiting.
What will result of Paypals investigation?
Paypal going to shut down TTT?
I have 3 payment options: Payza, dwolla, and paypal.
“But anyway, TTT is not something anyone has to worry about for long – Paypal is already investigating them, and their traffic is in the gutter :D”
Hey John, just wanted to let you know that The Total TakeOver is compliant with Paypal regardless of people calling into Paypal. The investigation is over…
Now if we can see if the comp plan is in compliance…
All i know is that when money is exchanging without the transfer of a good or service then its not legit.
That’s not true. Plenty of Ponzi and pyramid schemes involve the exchange of a good or service as a cover.
This is off the wiki site:
I know this is an MLM blog but do you know anything about affiliate programs Oz?
@Gene
I don’t care what the “wiki site” says. Plenty of pyramid schemes have attached products.
I charge $100 to join my pyramid scheme and pay you $25 down four levels to recruit new affiliates. Oh wait, I attach a bag of dog shit to the $100 affiliate fee.
Not a pyramid scheme? Fail.
And co-incidentally, your own link betrays you:
When you pay commissions on the recruitment of new affiliates have no retail, “enrolling other people” (recruitment) becomes your “primary”.
Deuce fail, thanks for playing.
And you can learn all of this on WarriorForum for free.
Your point?
lol its like everyone has a chip on their shoulder in here 🙂
Being skeptical of unsupported claims is very different from having a chip on their shoulder (and looking for a fight).
lol at people who can’t tell the difference.
“Being skeptical of unsupported claims is very different from having a chip on their shoulder (and looking for a fight).
lol at people who can’t tell the difference.”
Well calling people dense and Oz acting like he got something on me is not traits of skeptism.
Hey Oz do you know anything about affiliate marketing?
This site isn’t for discussing affiliate marketing (single-level), we discuss MLM opportunities. There are plenty of other online spaces for you to discuss affiliate marketing on.
The Total Takeover is still a $50 cash gifting scheme. Nobody is paying $50 a month without said fee qualifying them to recruit others who will pay them $50 a month.
Whatever they attach to that is wholly irrelevant. No chips, no need to have anything on anyone and as dense as you want it to be.
Thanks for the info on The Total Takeover. A friend was trying to get me involved. Obviously he failed to investigate before he joined. I did, so no thanks!
Did Paypal finish their investigation? I almost joined. I am so glad I didn’t. I truly value this site Oz. You have saved me from so many online scams. Unfortunately, I didn’t find this site until I was already with Zeek but thankfully I didn’t lose anything. My investment was very small. 🙂
@joshq
you should get your facts right before putting someone on blast. i’m not saying you don’t have a point about matthew mcmills (google him it’s not hard to figure out) HOWEVER…austin zulauf is a well respected leader in this industry with a lot of integrity.
Did you ever think the reason he wouldn’t talk about TTT is because he isn’t going to bash someone online to get even? He doesn’t have to. he is the top earner in viewtrakr and a few other companies and has personally mentored me. never have i worked with such a great leader as austin.
I remember when TTO first started, and the payments were structured as you said. I just peeked at the site a few minutes ago after a long time, and it is a one time $100 payment now.
From the FAQ:
Aside from the “Fee’s” spelling error, the set up looks more legit now. I have heard of people benefitting from the training content.
So 50% of the $100 affiliates pay to join?
They’ve gone from gifting to recruitment-driven pyramid?
…. my friend asked me to help him sign up with this, using my bank card. He reimbursed me cash.
Long story short, after signing up, I was charged double, one of the charges, which equalled the same price was an international charge.
I’m trying to sort it out now. However, I do not trust this TTT company. Just sayin’.