Daily Deals MLM companies were popping up all over the place in 2011 but with the market relatively saturated (both MLM and non-MLM), today I don’t think there’s one I’d count as having taken off with any real traction.

2012 has been a bit quieter on the Daily Deal front however there still appears to be some interest in the niche. Today we take a look at new Daily Deals MLM upstart Royalty Texts, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

Get Cash Connected was launched in May 2012 and is run by CEO and founder Ron Walsh. Operating out of Canada, Get Cash Connected promises a 100% cash payout claiming that ‘the money is all in the pay plan’.

Other than that very little else is provided about the Get Cash Connected opportunity unless prospective members surrender their contact details.

Walsh (photo right) is probably best known for a prior opportunity he launched called ‘EZ Wealth Solution’. EZ Wealth Solution launched in 2007 and promises to make its members ‘become very wealth, by selling other people’s products‘.

Once again information wise nothing much else is divulged save that these product sales are priced at $47, $97, $247, $497 and $997.

Typically when it comes to these types of 100% commissions the company requires a monthly membership fee and via a compensation structure, then has members gift money between themselves (usually via a 1-up or 2-up compensation structure).

Is Get Cash Connected any different? Read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Keionics 9x website indicating who runs or owns the business, other than the following vague marketing spiel:

Keionics, is a group of professionals – from one of the world’s largest industry, touching the 8 trillion dollar mark by the end of this year, and is expected, to double by the year 2014, namely, The Travel Industry clubbed up with professional group of Alternative Career Industry Experts.

From what I can gather, ‘Keonics 9x’ is a MLM business opportunity attached to parent company ‘Keonics’. Keonics themselves don’t seem to offer anything different so for the purpose of this review I’m just going to refer to Keonics 9x as ‘Keionics’.

The domain ‘keionics.com’ (Keionics 9x merely runs off the subdomain ‘9x.keionics.com’) lists a Thailand office address under its WHOIS registration info:

Domain name: KEIONICS.COM

Delta Infotech
ITF Silom Palace Building
160/142 12th Floor Silom Road
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 TH

‘Delta Infotech’ however appear to be an Indian firm run by a one Mr. Arun Mehrotraa. Back in 2011, the Keionics domain registration listed Mehrotraa by name along with an Indian based address:

Domain name: KEIONICS.COM

Registrant: Delta Infotech
C/O Arun Mehrotraa
15-248-B Civil Lines
Kanpur, UP 208001
IN

Additionally on his Facebook page, Arun Mehrotraa lists himself as a ‘Coordinator’ at Keionics:

The same appears on his LinkedIn profile page too:

Putting two and two together Mehrotraa appears to be the person behind Keionics. Why Keionics supposedly has a Thailand based business address when he himself is based out of Uttar Pradesh in India though is unclear. [Continue reading…]

Founded in late 2010, Smart Matrix System pairs the concept of prepaid cell phone airtime with a matrix MLM compensation backend.

There is little background information on the company provided except that their corporate office is supposedly based in Houston, Texas in the United States (no specific address is provided). The domain ‘smartmatrixsystem.com’ is registered anonymously in Panama.

Smart Matrix System lists its CEO as ‘Cynthia Solomon’ and CFO as ‘Jarina Mohammed’, however I was unable to find any further information on these two people (specifically any background in MLM opportunities).

Read on for a full review of the Smart Matrix System MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Operating out of Ontario in Canada, TrueStar Health was founded in 2001 and originally functioned as a pay-to-use health information website.

Headed up by CEO Tim Mulcahy, throughout the years TrueStar claims to have supported

many weight loss clinics, health clubs, doctors, chiropractors, nutritionists, personal trainers and various other health providers in offering health care services to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

Mulcahy (photo right) credits himself with ‘25 years experience in direct marketing and motivation‘ and prior to TrueStar,

co-founded Ontario Energy Savings Corporation, play(ing) a significant role in organizing and growing the company from a start-up in 1997 to a TSX publicly listed company.

In 2011 TrueStar abandoned the pay-to-use model and instead shifted to a free information model. During this time the company also introduced a vitamin range and launched a MLM opportunity (TrueStar Wealth) using the established TrueStar Health brand.

Today we take a look at the home business side of TrueStar Health with a complete review of the TrueStar Wealth MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

At the core of any MLM business should be the marketing and sale of products or services. If you can sell those products and services due to your efforts and genuine demand, then all the more power to you.

Keeping that in mind, when a company describes its products or services simply as ‘a non commissionable requirement for compliance‘, things don’t look too good.

Read on for a full review of the Wealth4AllTeam MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

It’s generally accepted that if you want to enjoy soft drinks, you’re going to have to consume a whole bunch of who-knows-what that generally speaking, isn’t going to be good for you.

With most soft drinks on the market containing ingredients that read like the components of a chemistry set, the prospect of healthy soft drinks certainly got my attention.

Hoping to capitalize on that idea comes MLM startup NOCA Now. Read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

Way back in 2010 the Australian Competitive and Consumer Commission (ACCC) decided to put a stop to the promotion of TVI Express in Australia.

With no officially registered local presence, offices or staff, the ACCC instead were left to target the national top three local promoters. In May 2010, the ACCC won an injunction that prohibited promotional ringleaders Lualhati Jutsen (also known as Teddi Jutsen), Tina Brownlee and David Scanlon from ‘promoting the scheme (TVI), accepting payments from new “members” or paying other participants’‘.

Wanting to make an example of the top promoters and put a stop to the promotion of TVI for good, the ACCC took the trio to court and alleged that they had been willing promoters of a pyramid scheme, which is illegal in Australia.

After eighteen months in the Australian legal system, last November the case against Jutsen, Brownlee and Scanlon ( right) came to a head with Justice Nicholas ruling against the trio.

I am satisfied that the single most important inducement held out to prospective members of the scheme in this case was the prospect of them making money, large amounts of it, by encouraging other people to join who would have to pay a membership fee to do so.

The vacation representation was misleading or deceptive or likely to” mislead or deceive because “people would not expect the travel certificates to be of no value”.

I am satisfied that the TVI Express System was a pyramid-selling scheme.

The decision against the trio (the company itself initially promised to refute the ACCC’s claims but later abandoned Jutsen, Brownlee and Scanlon leaving them to defend themselves), was a landmark decision in that it was the first time promoters of a scam had been successfully found guilty in an Australian court.

Following the November ruling a period of six months would then pass before a court handed down a sentence. [Continue reading…]

As a result of our continuous coverage and analysis of the Zeek Rewards MLM opportunity here at BehindMLM, over the past few months several questions have arisen that to date have remained unanswered.

Today we take you behind the scenes at Zeek Rewards and reveal some of the more pressing issues that have surfaced:

Did OFAC really have anything to do with the recent banning of members? What is behind some of the relationships between well-known figures in the MLM industry and Zeek Rewards, exactly how much fraud are Zeek Rewards dealing with, how do they address it, is the company still vulnerable and if so, why?

Read on as we explore these very questions and more. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Resort Cruise Club International website indicating  who runs or owns the business.

The domain ‘resortcruiseclub.com’ however was registered on the 5th of April 2012 and lists a Randal Williams from Prosperity Formula LLC as the domain owner.

Randal Williams (also known as Randy Williams, photo right) first popped up BehindMLM’s radar as one of the co-founders of the recruitment scam Fast Profits Daily. Teaming up with Brett Robinson and Scott Chandler (who had just quit as founders of AutoXTen, another recruitment scam), Williams launched Fast Profits Daily back in September 2011.

Less than six months later, in February 2012 Fast Profits Daily was relaunched as Profit Racer Pro. Profit Racer Pro used the same recruitment commissions model as AutoXTen and Fast Profits Daily before it.

The problem with the business model behind all three companies was that once new members stopped signing up, commissions dried up and the companies fell apart.

Now just three months after the launch of Fast Profits Daily it seems the company has stalled and Williams has decided to launch yet another company, Resort Cruise Club.

Is Resort Cruise Club International just another recruitment scam bound to fail in just a few short months like William’s other MLM ventures, or has he learnt from his mistakes and launched a viable product-based company this time around?

Read on for a full review of the Resorts Cruise Club International MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]