A recent trend in MLM opportunities these days is to offer training products (usually ebooks) to help internet marketers market other opportunities.

This works to the advantage of the company offering the training in that if things don’t work, they can always suggest it was the opportunity the marketer was trying to promote that was the problem, rather than a failure of the training tools they are providing.

Putting aside the rather disturbing trend in MLM to pair dubiously legal matrix based compensation plans with rehashed training tools of late, one common part of the equation that’s missing from these opportunities is an online platform to get started.

You can have all the internet marketing training tools in the world, but if you’ve got none of the technical knowhow, not even a helping hand to guide you, then you’re not going to be able to apply any of it.

HostThenProfit seeks to bridge that need by combining web hosting along with a series of internet marketing tools.

Designed to be a complete internet marketing solution for those in MLM, today we’re going to review the HostThenProfit business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

I last reviewed the BizOppers MLM opportunity back in June this year, they were getting ready to wind up their ‘phase 1 beta launch’ and hadn’t really announced what they were doing after that.

Fast forward a few months later and it appears BizOppers are getting ready to launch ‘phase 2’ of their beta launch… whatever that is.

Despite BizOppers having its own compensation plan attached to it, the company has decided to launch a seperate marketing arm they’re calling ZingBizPro.

ZingBizPro has its own website, compensation plan and members, so today we’re going to review the ZingBizPro opportunity itself. [Continue reading…]

A quick visit to the Skinny Body Care website doesn’t reveal all that much.

You’re presented with a bunch of login screens, a recently enrolled list on the side and not much else.

There’s an enticing ‘free tour’ option at the bottom of the page, but without a referring member ID,  you can’t do that either.

Apart from a few policy pages, there’s not really any information on the company itself, its products, the compensation plan, who’s running it or what Skinny Body Care is about.

All this despite an official company launch just a few weeks ago.

With a bit of digging around however it’s not all that hard to get a snapshot of the Skinny Body Care business and that’s exactly what I had to do in order to review the company.

Read on for my review of the Skinny Body Care MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Ironically, X4More state in their terms and conditions that the opportunity may not be used ‘in connection with chain letters, junk email, pyramid schemes, money games‘.

Want to know why? Read on for a review of the X4More business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Recently MyShoppingGenie announced a new and upcoming product, RocketGenie. Details have been scarce but from the bits and pieces that have been made public, RocketGenie appears to be a video email and conferencing product.

Initially I found this interesting as on the surface MyShoppingGenie appeared to be entering  iWowWe’s territory and going head to head with them.

Interesting enough to take note of… but not enough to investigate and do a write-up till RocketGenie launched.

Or so I thought. [Continue reading…]

TVI Express’ long fought battles with the authorities in Indonesia seems to have come to a head yesterday with the revoking of their ‘business license’.

Effective immediately, TVI Express’ business activities in Indonesia have been frozen. [Continue reading…]

Reports of MyShoppingGenie not paying its members started appearing on my radar shortly after I wrote about PreLaunch Australia and its connections to MyShoppingGenie.

From what I could gather, due to whatever reason, MyShoppingGenie company hadn’t been paying out its leaders for a while now. The worst of these accounts cited six months with others citing a few months or unspecified amount of time.

Hitting the internet in search of answers I wasn’t able to verify anything so I held off on publishing. MyShoppingGenie itself still seems to be operating as normal and company wise certainly aren’t letting slip any news payments being suspended to its members.

All that changed however when I was forwarded some revealing emails, not only confirming that MyShoppingGenie had stopped paying members, but also  citing the reason why. [Continue reading…]

Following the Zeek Rewards review I published yesterday, I got into an interesting discussion with BehindMLM reader ‘Colsta’ about the way he was using Zeek Rewards (you can read the discussion in the comments section of the review linked to above).

Completely ignoring the MLM business opportunity or penny auction side of things, instead Colsta (and presumably many others like him) chose to work the Zeek Rewards compensation plan as a pure investment opportunity.

I’ll go into exactly how this works in a bit, but after looking over the methodology involved… I can’t help but ask how this is going to be sustainable in the long term.

Not withstanding some pretty dodgy looking practices being undertaken by Zeek Rewards and Zeekler themselves. [Continue reading…]

A few months ago, Sam Fawahl, Bassem Tal and Adam Marks began the viral marketing campaign for PreLaunch Australia.

Designed to be the first public membership drive for the trio’s Beehive Strategy, PreLaunch Australia attracted an alleged 36,000+ free signups in just a few short months.

The company itself touted this as being ‘the largest global pre-launch in history’.

With a launch date of two weeks ago, over the last thirteen days,  anyone visiting the PreLaunch Australia website has been left staring at this;

So what happened? Did PreLaunch Australia actually launch? And if so… why haven’t they updated anything and instead chosen to keep their members and the public in the dark? [Continue reading…]

I’m not entirely sure why, but in what looks like an effort to expand the previous plan, iWowWe announced changes to its compensation plan last Monday which will come into effect starting October 1st, 2011.

Changes to the existing compensation plan include

• new joining options for new members
• the introduction of membership ranks
• a new infinity override bonus
• changes to the retail commissions structure
• expansion of the existing 3×7 matrix to a 3×9 model with possible additional legs
• changes to the matching bonus

Today we’re going to take a detailed look at the changes iWowWe have announced, along with a comparison (where applicable) to the old compensation plan equivalent being replaced and/or updated. [Continue reading…]