How long before I can start earning money?

You can start earning as soon as you start promoting… and refer new members through your affiliate link.

The above, taken from MTKline’s FAQ page, sets off alarm bells almost immediately and should be enough to send most MLM marketers running for the hills.

For those of you who want to know more, read on for a full review of the MTKline MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

For the past few months Speak Asia supporters have predicted the legitimacy of the company on one thing and one thing only.

The fact that the EOW has not filed a chargesheet against Speak Asia.

Worringly, Speak Asia members assert that because nothing has been filed and the fact that a showdown between the EOW and Speak Asia in the Supreme Court is just days away, this means that the EOW have nothing on Speak Asia.

Ergo, this means that Speak Asia are simply going to waltz into the Supreme Court and be given clearance to restart their pyramid scheme again.

Shattering this fantasy of course are reports quoting officers of the EOW that have appeared over the past fortnight.

Combined with earlier reports that filtered in over the past month or so, the divide between reality and the illusion Speak Asia has been force feeding it’s members since the authorities moved against them couldn’t be deeper. [Continue reading…]

One of the seemingly hot properties of the internet marketing world right now is the Daily Deals coupon niche.

Whereas the traditional business model for the Daily Deals companies relies on attracting businesses to utilise the network with professional marketing teams, those in the MLM industry have taken note and attempted to pair the Daily Deals niche with MLM network marketing.

Most of these companies tend to focus on Groupon like online networks, choosing to deliver their Daily Deals in much the same manner. This model is proven and easily accessible.

Today however we’re going to take a look at ‘Text Cash Network’ who seek to pair the Daily Deal niche with an online backend, but instead of the internet will deliver their deals and coupons via SMS.

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

Avant first announced its prelaunch back in May last year, roughly 18 months ago. I’m unsure of when the company officially launched but it was sometime in the second half of 2010 under the leadership of Brent Payne, founder and CEO of the company.

Since then nothing much seems to have happened over at the Avant camp. Brent Payne launched a lead store last year in August and the company slashed their prices in February earlier this year… but for the most part Avant seems to be lacking momentum as a whole.

Hoping to inject some new life into Avant, in the last 24 hours it’s been announced that Michael Hamburger has joined the company.

Note that Hamburger lists himself as both as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Co-Founder.

COO… ok, but co-founder? Avant went into pre-launch eighteen months ago… so just how on Earth is Michael Hamburger a co-founder? [Continue reading…]

Mannatech is an established player within the MLM industry and with that experience comes the weight of a company that is nearly two decades old.

Primarily trading in glyconutrient based products (plant sugars) and existing in an age where longevity is fast becoming a scarce commodity in the MLM world, today we take a look at the Mannatech MLM business opportunity and review it – warts and all. [Continue reading…]

Shopping Malls. We arrive at them, buy stuff and go home. We meet people for a cup of coffee. Or perhaps we need some inspiration for a gift and hope that a few hours wandering around aimlessly will provide some much-needed inspiration.

Whatever the reason, if I attempted to draw a relationship between MLM and shopping malls you’d be right to assume I’d be drawing a pretty large bow to compare the two with.

Enter India’s NMart, who attempt to do just that and today we’re going to take a full review of the NMart MLM business opportunity.

So why does a shopping mall need MLM? Let’s find out. [Continue reading…]

When I first reviewed That Free Thing back in April, it was immediately apparent to me that without an actual product of its own, That Free Thing members were simply selling membership to the service.

As a result of this, it was the business itself being sold and as the That Free Thing compensation plan clearly spelled out, members were directly paid a commission based on how many people they brought into the company.

Sales of membership were directly tied into recruitment so essentially with That Free Thing they were one and the same. The ‘free stuff’ side of That Free Thing didn’t really matter, all you had to focus on was recruitment.

After amassing an alleged 450,000+ members it seems the recruitment side of the business has started to die down and the company has decided to try throw its hat into the coupon and ‘daily deal’ markets.

Today we’re going to take a look at what that means for not only That Free Thing members but also the company at large. [Continue reading…]

Following the collapse of WMI in Norway earlier this year, the sudden and unexplained departure of WMI Pure CEO Deanna Latson in late July, Wealth Masters appeared to dip into a well-observed lull.

One month later in August, WMI founders Kip Herriage and Karl Bessey announced that they were going to issue Wealth Masters shares via an IPO.

At the time I speculated that this was most likely due to a badly needed injection of funds into the company. With WMI’s venture into finance with Opes Partners failing to gain any real traction and the year long delay it’s taken to get WMI Pure off the ground… speculation has fueled rumour that Wealth Masters is having an internal revenue crisis.

Well, as with most things where there’s smoke there’s fire and contrary to Herriage and Bessey’s claims that WMI is ‘debt free’, turns out there’s some truth to this one folks.

In a recent email that came across my desk, an explosive exchange between former WMI Chief Operating Officer Mary Dee and Karl Bessey reveals that there are indeed revenue problems within the company.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg…

Read on for a rare insight into the corporate workings of a MLM company. A glimpse, if you will, at what really goes on behind the fake smiles, extravagant conferences and oft manufactured positivity of Wealth Masters International. [Continue reading…]

If you’ve ever owned a vehicle and gone to an auto shop, you’ve no doubt seen those fuel additives they always stock in the tiny bottles near the registers.

Full of wild claims and promises of slashing your fuel costs, the cordial looking fluid in the bottles are all to easy to pass over as mere snake oil.

Really, I’m going to experience huge savings and increased engine life just by adding something to my petrol tank?

One such fuel additive company however not only promises all this and more, but they also  claim to have documented and certified evidence of it all.

With XFT fuel additive as their flagship product, today we’re going to review the SynTek Global business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Speak Asia’s COO, Tarak Bajpai was put in the awkward position of having to be the public face of Speak Asia after he was arrested back in late July.

With Speak Asia’s Gobal CEO, Harendar Kaur and its Indian CEO, Manoj Kumar both hiding overseas from Indian authorities, Bajpai at first played the hero role (who could forget the solid reasoning of ‘we are bound to win and we’ll definitely win’), but soon himself hid from the authorities in a hospital.

Heralded as the saviour of Speak Asia, it seemed strange that Bajpai all of a sudden needed medical treatment and subsequent hospital care.

Had Bajpai not have been arrested, how then with the hospital care he allegedly needed was he to lead Speak Asia to victory as its members envisioned?

For months now Bajpai had remained in Jupiter Hospital in Mumbai under doctor’s orders. Still wanted for questioning, it appears Speak Asia’s lawyers had decided feigning medical emergency and then using it to avoid questions was the best course of action to keep Bajpai out of reach of the Indian authorities.

Likewise they pulled a similar stunt after website operator Rajiv Mehrotra was arrested too.

For now, it seems anyone with valuable information that might help either the EOW or CID with their criminal investigations is either shipped off to Dubai, or claims they have some sort of medical emergency that needs to be attended to, whilst subsequently hiding out from the authorities in hospital recovery rooms.

Unfortunately for Speak Asia, all procedures have a recovery time and for Tarak Bajpai, his was up. [Continue reading…]