Nowsite Review: Royaltie AI marketing platform rebranded
Nowsite provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.
In the footer of Nowsite’s website the following copyright text appears:
© 2021 Nowsite – Marketing. , Lodge Industries LLC & Hiram Lodge Enterprises Corp.
BehindMLM came across Hiram Lodge Enterprises Corp in our May 2017 Royaltie review.
Both Hiram Lodge Enterprises Corp and Royaltie are owned by Justin Belobaba.
Why this isn’t disclosed on Nowsite’s website is unclear.
The only place Belobaba’s name appears on Nowsite’s website is on the company’s training and events calendar:
On Facebook Nowsite goes by “Nowsite Royaltie”:
The page was renamed from Royaltie Now on to Royaltie Nowsite on July 2020. Royaltie Nowsite was renamed to Nowsite Royaltie on August 2020.
Royaltie launched in mid 2016. The MLM company’s flagship company was a gimmicky bluetooth marketing spam beacon.
That ran its course and in mid 2019 Belobaba unveiled a new AI driven marketing suite.
Nowsite, having ditched the Royaltie branding on its website, appears to be the current iteration of that original mid 2019 offering.
Read on for a full review of Nowsite’s MLM opportunity.
Nowsite’s Products
Nowsite markets a marketing suite they claim is “automated, integrated and AI-powered”.
Various components of the suite are broken up into different “nerd” categories:
The offering focuses on website creation, SEO, SMS marketing, social media management, blogging, email marketing, CRM and online advertising.
Access to Nowsite’s marketing platform is $47 a month of $444 annually ($37 a month).
Add-ons include:
- 30 minute session with a “marketing nerd” – $30
- creative services (people write your content for you) – “starting at $30”
- SMS marketing bundle – $10 a month
- additional email marketing (up to 15,000 emails a month) – $5 a month
- retargeted ads (“keep your prospects coming back with online ads targeted exclusively at your website visitors”) – $12.50 a month
- 10,000 ad package – $50
- 25,000 ad package – $112.50
- 50,000 ad package – $200
Nowsite’s Compensation Plan
Nowsite’s compensation plan pays on marketing suite subscriptions taken out by retail customers and recruited affiliates.
Nowsite Affiliate Ranks
There are six affiliate ranks within Nowsite’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Bronze – recruit and maintain one affiliate earning at least $100 a month
- Silver – recruit and maintain two affiliates earning at least $100 a month each
- Gold – recruit and maintain four affiliates earning at least $100 a month each
- Platinum – recruit and maintain six affiliates earning at least $100 a month each
- Sapphire – recruit and maintain nine affiliates earning at least $100 a month each
- Diamond – recruit and maintain twelve affiliates earning at least $100 a month each
QuickStart Bonus
Nowsite affiliates earn a one-time $20 commission per “full-price” customer they refer.
Residual Commissions (restricted)
To qualify for restricted residual commissions, a Nowsite affiliate sell and maintain three subscriptions.
Nowsite pays restricted residual commissions down two levels of recruitment (unilevel).
Residual commissions are based on sales volume (BV) attached to Nowsite subscription payments.
- $47 a month plan = $20 BV
- $444 annual plan = $177.60 BV
- add-ons = 15% of purchase price in BV
Residual commissions are calculated based on total BV generated across levels 1 and 2 of their unilevel team.
Note that residual commissions aren’t equal to the BV generated.
Rather, Nowsite affiliates are paid based on the highest residual commission tier generated BV triggers.
Nowsite’s residual commission tiers are:
- $50
- $100
- $200
- $400
- $1000
- $2000
- $3000
- $4000
- $6000
- $10,000
- $16,000
- $20,000 (BV over $20,000 paid at a rate of 75%)
E.g. If a Nowsite affiliate generated $2500 BV in a month, they would trigger the $2000 residual commission tier.
For that month that affiliate’s residual commission would thus be $2000.
Residual Commissions (unrestricted)
Whereas restricted residual commissions above are limited to two unilevel team levels, unrestricted commissions pay on total unilevel team volume – starting from level 3.
- Gold ranked affiliates earn a 1.25% unrestricted residual commission rate
- Platinum ranked affiliates earn a 2.5% unrestricted residual commission rate
- Sapphire ranked affiliates earn a 5% unrestricted residual commission rate
- Diamond ranked affiliates earn a 7.5% unrestricted residual commission rate
Joining Nowsite
NowSite affiliate costs are not disclosed on its website.
Justin Belobaba previously disclosed that Royaltie charged $4.95 a month for affiliate membership (January 2020).
Nowsite Conclusion
One positive for consumers since the Royaltie days is that Nowsite has slashed the pricing of access.
In January 2020 Royaltie was charging $87 to $327 a month. Nowsite’s $44 a month (less if annual) is pretty much half-price.
The compensation plan has also been simplified, although referring to associated affiliate costs as an investment probably isn’t compliant.
Unfortunately many of the issues we covered in our January 2020 Royaltie review persist in the Nowsite rebranding.
Justin Belobaba personally responded to these criticisms a few days post publication.
I maintain that being a faceless corporation is not a good look for an MLM company.
I couldn’t verify Belobaba’s claims pertaining to retail customers, nor can I today.
We most certainly do have a huge retail customer base. In fact, less than 10% of our customers are enrolled as affiliates.
What I can say is there are no retail customer qualifiers in Nowsite’s compensation plan.
When combined with the fact that historically marketing suite MLM company’s wind up full of affiliates who invariable use the suite to market the opportunity itself, I’m not convinced on Belobaba’s representation alone.
As a prospective Nowsite affiliate, the best you can hope for is to ask how many active retail subscriptions your potential upline has.
Next weigh that against how many affiliates they’ve recruited with active subscriptions.
What you’re looking for is a rough 1:1 ratio at least. If retail is lacking or is dwarfed by affiliate subscription volume, there’s a problem.
Belobaba is on the record stating 90% of Royaltie subscriptions were held by retail customers.
That was firstly in January 2020 and secondly, neither Royaltie or Nowsite ever published an Income Disclosure Statement (to the best of my knowledge).
One last thing I want to address was my raised criticism of Royaltie’s then webpage building service (that continues to be offered under Nowsite).
Here’s what I wrote on January 11th 2020;
Without digging to much deeper into Royaltie’s suite, the company offers a website building service.
Royaltie’s own website is built on WordPress, specifically the free JointsWP theme.
That’s not to rubbish WordPress (BehindMLM runs on WordPress) or suggest custom coding went into Royaltie’s website, it’s just not what I’d expect from a digital marketing company.
From the surface, it seems much of what’s available through Royaltie is template driven. Again, nothing wrong with that – but that’s not what Royaltie are pitching.
I’ll leave it there. If I’m missing something value-wise in Royaltie’s digital marketing offering though, let me know below.
In response to that, Justin Belobaba stated on January 14th;
Our website is in wordpress because we need a site with multiple tabs, and we have not yet built that capability into our own platform…but it’s coming soon.
Here’s the source-code of Nowsite’s website today, over a year and a half later:
Make of that what you will.
I just signed up and spoke with one of the “nerds”. I really was hoping for integrations and AI but there are no integrations and the AI is really for SEO and some other minor marketing.
Also, users have to input the same information in multiple locations such as the digital business card and website.
I was hoping to enter the information about our company and maybe integrate with another software we currently use and then the AI would kick in to create a new site, create the digital card, and perform marketing but doesn’t work that way here.
You have to hire someone from their company at an extra cost to do each of these. I don’t want to be a marketing expert.
I want to do what I do best and delegate the rest. If you want the same, this is not the company to use.
If you want to do it yourself with templates and easy to use tools, then this maybe the company for you.
The well-known serial fraudster Otmar Lindner from Velden in Austria uploaded this video to his YT channel on November 24, 2023.
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youtube.com/watch?v=68THpeHDeB8
Otmar Lindner also promotes other dubious projects such as Rubik Cube AI (trendbow.com) – GetFit Mining – Hamster Kombat – TONCOINS with TONfree – XSignal – JokerX – ROXXTTER Club – Flyback Solutions – PentaWorld – Zenith Zing – VARA – Cili by Design – EmpowerLife – LiveGood – CycleSider etc.
His YT channel contains 244 videos.
youtube.com/@otmarlindner8135/videos
We should memorize the face of this cheat!
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Will the scam now continue on myainow.site? The domain was privately registered on August 30, 2023.
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The visitor statistics of myainow.site from August to October 2023 with the list of countries: United States 29.70%, Germany 26.78%, Canada 19.91%, France 10.63% and Mexico 8.10%.
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Currently myainow.site has only 101 visitors per day.
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Some quotes from the website.
The website also contains this 40-minute video:
The first speaker in this video is Eric Worre, followed by Justin Belobaba.
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Oz wrote:
Has Justin Belobaba lowered the prices?
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app.nowsite.marketing/get-started/my-ai?af=6b6997&preferredLocale=en&_gl=1*u7m50u*_ga*NzA2NDYxMzMxLjE3Mjc3MjQwNDc.*_ga_7DCQZTWRKC*MTcyNzc3MDIxNC41LjEuMTcyNzc3MTMwOS4wLjAuMA..
With how pervasive AI is that first movers advantage (“huh, what’s this new AI stuff?”) is long gone.
AI in MLM is just piggy-backing off a known model. Probably cheaper to just interact with the source, whatever it is.
Video from March 28, 2024.
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youtube.com/watch?v=XONbmUWmW1M
@creativeLEDmarketing commented:
The Official Nowsite YT channel has 7,850 subscribers, but this video only had 749 views.
The last video was uploaded to this channel on May 15, 2024.
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What can I learn from a video that is only 79 seconds long?
The Official Nowsite YT channel with 88 videos has existed since May 2017, but the oldest video is from November 2021. What scam did Justin Belobaba previously promote on this channel?
Note. nmpro.ai redirects to nmpro.nowsite.marketing/get-started/my-ai/nm-pro?coupon=nmpro_ai&org=5a3155f50cbe4a0f98ee439a
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In addition to the Club4You scam, Annegret Blöcher from Dillenburg in Germany also advertises the Nowsite scam. Video from November 1, 2023.
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youtube.com/watch?v=8JfSOtv-CLU
Because Annegret Blöcher is too stupid to answer questions, she has of course deactivated the comment function under the video.
PS: A separate commentary follows on the scammer Claus Anton Mayer mentioned and shown in the video.