Joy Life International claim they are “backed by the third-largest direct selling company in China, Joymain Science & Technology“.

Joymain was founded back in 1993 although I’m not entirely sure who founded it. Currently Joymain is headed up by Chairman Wang You-Shan. Wang joined Joymain as Chairman in 2000 and credits himself as being a “Senior Engineer” with the Chinese Communist Party as well as a series of executive positions in various Chinese companies ranging from pharmaceuticals to textiles, health care and an “anti-unfair” competition regulatory body.

Joymain’s second in command is Vice-Chairman Zhou Xi-Jian who interestingly enough credits himself with positions in several MLM companies, including being a

• the CEO of Hong Kong based MLM company Winalite
• a “Millionaire Member” of NuSkin
• a “Sales Manager” at Amway
• a “President of Operations” in something called the “6-4-2 System” (appears to be a Chinese language based MLM mentoring program

Joymain’s CEO, Frankie Kiow (photo right), similarly holds a position in another MLM company being the President of NuSkin China. Additionally Chow is also

• a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (a political advisory body in China)
• Chief Consultant for the “China Direct-Selling Research Center” at Nanjing University
• Vice-President of the Cosmetics Chamber of Commerce and China Industrial and Commercial Associations
• Vice-President of the Foreign-Invested Enterprise Association in Shanghai, China

According to JoyLife USA’s website, Kiow appears to be heading up Joy Life’s USA operations.

I’m not sure what is required to run a MLM company in China but the management team of Joy Life do appear to be well-connected both politically and in special interest groups promoting and representing MLM, direct sales and network marketing in China.

Looking to expand under the banner of Joy Life USA, Joymain International (who currently claim to have 600,000 distributors) has recently made efforts to expand their international market share beyond Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philipines.

Read on for a full review of the Joy Life USA MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Free Hits Forever website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The domain ‘freehitsforever.com’ was registered on the 5th July 2012 and lists something called ‘SFI’ as the registrant, operating out of the US state of Texas.

The admin contact lists a ‘John Kirk’ and provides an email address pointing to another domain, ‘adslingers.com’.

Ad Slingers appears to be a paid to surf website rotator where members are paid a commission for each new member they sign up who pays for a “referral upgrade”.

The Ad Slingers was registered in August 2007 and also lists SFI as the registrant with John Kirk appearing again as the administrative contact.

As best as I can tell, SFI was a now-defunct payment processor set up by Kirk circa 2005 or so (more commonly known as “SFI Pay”).

A possible precursor to SFI Pay was another payment processor owned by Kirk called ‘Veripay Digital (‘veripaydigital.com’). Veripay Digital is now long defunct.

Finally also in 2005 Kirk appears to have had tried his hand at e-wallet fund exchanges with a company called E-TradeXchange (also long defunct). An interesting Q&A dating back to 2005 reveals some information on Kirk:

Q: Hello. What’s the name of the person who’s going to answer the questions?
A: John Kirk

Q: What’s your position in the program?
A: One of the owners

Q: Could you tell us a little bit about your (and all other members of thestaff) background?
A: We also own the SFIpay online payment processor. John Kirk has been a full time Multi-level Marketer since 1983.

Q: Why do you feel the need to have a referral incentive program?
A: Provides incentive to members to introduce new members

Q: If you’re involved in several business/financial activities, how is your portfolio structured?
A: This is no one elses business

Q: How large is your current capital?
A: It’s large enough

Q: What do you think about the longevity of your program?
A. It will be around for years

As I understand it, E-TradeXChange offered investors ROIs on their invested money. These returns were supposedly derived from fees charged on e-currency exchanges between members.

So far, so good! I’ve gotten about 9% return in the past day & 1/2.

If today is anything like yesterday, I’ll almost reach the 12% return mark by day’s end. Also, we don’t get our principal amounts back, which in turn funds the investment ETX investment pool to pay everyone their shares of the profits.

They have been paying me around 6% daily to my account since last week. Hopefully they will be around for a long time.

Now in my third day, I noticed my daily yield went up a full 1% from 5.9% to 6.9% yesterday. This one will have its peaks and valleys like any other business. It just needs more exposure to the public to get back into the double digits.

It would appear that after his payment processor and investment scheme ventures didn’t work out, Kirk ventured into pay to surf schemes. Free Hits Forever appears to be the latest incarnation, following Ad Slingers.

Read on for a full review of the Free Hits Forever MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Big UK Ad Shares website indicating who owns or runs the business, other than mention that the site is ‘owned by BigUK Group of Marketing‘.

I wasn’t able to find any information on BigUK Group of Marketing however if you click on the ‘Representatives’ link on the company website, you get taken to another website, ‘Big UK Invest’. Big UK Invest offers Ponzi’esque ROIs ranging from 115% in 1 hour to 540% in 180 days.

Both website domains, ‘bigukadshares.com’ and ‘bigukinvest.com’, have their registration set to private.

As always, if a MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money. [Continue reading…]

One of the more attractive qualities of a Ponzi scheme is that for very little effort, if any at all, members can earn a substantial return on their investments.

Splice this in with a MLM compensation plan and let the word spread virally through the industry and sooner or later you’re bound to attract the attention of other companies operating in the same sector.

With no strings attached membership wise, it’s no secret that many Zeek Rewards affiliates are involved primarily in other MLM opportunities that for some, forbid the cross marketing of any other opportunity to their existing downlines.

The stricter of these affiliate/distributor agreements even prohibit the mere participation in another MLM company altogether.

Nonetheless, as VIP point balances swell those playing the multi-opportunity stakes in Zeek Rewards and other companies are no doubt finding themselves in the challenging position of weighing up their primary MLM business with that of Zeek Rewards.

Simply put, it’s hard to ignore the returns Zeek Rewards pay out daily for what can easily be deemed passive investment income (via purchased customers and ad placing automation).

When you compare this to a traditional sales based MLM opportunity that relies on genuine customers (not harvested email addresses where the owners don’t even know they’ve been signed up and don’t have to actually purchase anything to be counted as customers), it doesn’t take long for the Ponzi’esque returns to overshadow the income derived from a legit opportunity.

With this unfortunately the inevitable happens and Zeek Rewards members look towards their own existing downlines  in an effort to grow their Zeek downlines.

There’s no quicker way to boost your own investment returns than to convince people you know to also invest and reap the passive commissions this generates.

Eventually enough members are involved in multiple companies that management can no longer brush aside queries from their field and in the most extreme cases, even find themselves being called on to make a public statement on the opportunity in question.

Two days one such executive was Monavie’s President of their North American and European markets, Randy Schroeder. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Power Cash Infinity website indicating who runs or owns the business, other than a Skype ID (‘nicholas.granger29’) that appears on the FAQ section of the website.

The domain registration for ‘powercashinfinity.com’ lists a Nicholas Granger as the domain registrant operating out of Brooklyn in the US state of New York. This name matches the Skype ID on the Power Cash Infinity website so I’d say it’s a safe bet that Nicholas Granger is the owner of Power Cash Infinity.

Granger has in the past promoted ‘The Power of 31‘, a MLM opportunity that is recruitment based and has affiliates market $225 candles with a cancer survivor story.

As far as I can tell this is Granger’s first MLM company launch as an owner/admin. Read on for a full review of the Power Cash Infinity home based business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Global Wealth Factor website indicating who owns or runs the business.

On the ‘About’ section of the company website, Global Wealth Factor merely state that:

The foundation of Global Wealth Factor are the attributes of Empowerment, Integrity, and Results. The Admin Team highly reflects these values with tenacious dedication.

You have 3 highly responsive admin member’s, and a host of administrative support and leadership in place.

Global Wealth Factor, behind the scenes, benefits from the combined 20+ years of networking and administrative experience.

No further information is provided as to who these three admins are so that they’re claimed accomplishments and track record can be verified.

The domain ‘globalwealthfactor.com’ was registered on the 19th January 2012 and simply lists ‘Global Wealth Factor’, operating out of a PO Box in the US state of Pennsylvania as the domain owner.

The technical contact for the domain however lists a ‘Chad Warrren’. A few Google searches later I found Warren, along with Karen Kinnaman and Kyle Nichols (left to right in the photo below) as the three admins of Global Wealth Factor:

Karen Kinnaman has partnered with Secret Stash Factory Admin Kyle Nichols and Chad Warren and the dynamic threesome have created something truly spectacular to present to the online marketing community.

Kinnaman owns and runs the blog ‘A True Profit’ (atrueprofit.com), where the above information was sourced.

Other than a whole lot of personal promotion and professing that he’s ‘never quite grasped the marketing side of things‘ on his blog ‘workwithchadwarren.com’, I was unable to find anything suggesting what companies Warren has previously been involved in.

Meanwhile Karen Kinnaman seems to have been involved in mostly recruitment based opportunities dating back to as far back as 2005. MLM Opportunities Kinnaman has previously promoted are

• ROI Unlimited (recruitment scam)
• GVO (membership based commissions from memory but genuine services offered)
• Pyxism (matrix based recruitment scam)
• Infinity 800 (matrix based recruitment scam)

Kinnaman also claims to have been involved in “legal cash gifting” on her social network profiles (just “cash gifting” on LinkedIn):

Kyle Nichols seems to be known best as being the creator of ‘Extreme Cash Coaching’, a membership-based pyramid scheme that was launched in 2009 and appears to have collapsed in the same year (if the recent payouts data on the homepage is anything to go by).

In the same year Nichols also launched “You Can’t Say No”, a <$50 recruitment based scheme which also collapsed shortly after launch.

Following that Nichols launched ‘Secret Stash Factory’ in 2010,  yet another recruitment based opportunity that paid out 100% of its commissions from membership fees.

Curiously enough Nichols also seems to also have a history as a baseball player. [Continue reading…]

YouDazzle don’t have a proper company information page, instead only mentioning in an offhand blogpost and press release that the company’s CEO is Cary Cole (photo right).

In order to find out where YouDazzle are operating out of, one must visit their Facebook page where the company provides a street address in the state of California in the US.

I couldn’t find anything MLM related on Cole so I’m not sure what his experience is in network marketing or running a MLM company is, however he has served as CEO over at Broncus Technologies since 2001.

Broncus Technologies credit themselves as being ‘founded with the goal of developing and commercializing minimally-invasive medical devices for lung diseases‘.

Read on for a full review of the YouDazzle MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Neucopia state that their name is derived from the latin word ‘copia’, meaning abundance. Neu is apparently ‘new’ in German so I guess the idea here is “new abundance”.

Neucopia list their company address as a virtual office suite in the state of Nevada in the US and is headed up by CEO Rich Cook (photo below right), who the company undersells as having

a background of success after success (and) becoming a top income earner multiple times over in the network marketing arena.

Rich is a leader’s leader…(who) excel(s) in virtually everything he does (and) create(s) friendships with everyone he meets.

I tried to research Rich Cook’s MLM history and didn’t really turn up anything.

Curiously, the domain ‘neucopia.com’ has was registered on the 15th May 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Back in June 2012 though Neucopia affiliate ‘Kevin’, who claimed Neucopia was ‘not a scam, nor a spam!!!!!, wasn’t selling anything and was merely looking to ‘recruit…people to join us‘,’ stated that Rich Cook ‘actually lives in San Diego, CA‘. [Continue reading…]

Foreword: On September 9th 2012, Zubaduba got rid of the compensation plan reviewed here and relaunched with a new business model that strongly resembles a Ponzi scheme.

This review is kept intact in the interest of preserving the company’s history. /end foreword

There is no information on the Zubaduba website indicating who owns or operates the business.

The domain ‘zubaduba.com’ was registered on the 26th June 2012, however the domain registration is set to private.

As always, if a MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money. [Continue reading…]

In May 2010 Liberty League founder Brent Payne launched Avant. Avant operates in the personal development MLM niche and market a series of personal development courses to customers.

Since their launch Avant hasn’t really taken off and seems to have floundered on the coattails of the MLM personal development boom of the early 2000s.

Late last year in November Payne brought on Michael Hamburger as a “co-founder”, following his departure from Wealth Masters International but the outcome of that partnership in terms of company growth and distributor success is unclear.

In a move perhaps indicative of Avant’s lack of overall traction Payne recently launched Real Estate Worldwide and today we’re taking a look at Payne’s new company.  Read on for a full review of the Real Estate Worldwide home-based business opportunity. [Continue reading…]