Rhamnousia posted an interesting entry on the Polaris Global Scam wordpress blog yesterday briefly analysing content supposedly put out by Polaris Global.

Rhamnousia addressed some points that appeared to be from a list or series of information published by Polaris Global itself, or one of its distributors.

There wasn’t any source credited for the information so I hit up Google and it wasn’t too hard to find the source. Turns out Lisa Molina has published a new entry ‘Information or MIS information Age – the internet and Polaris Global‘ on her blog ‘Molina Family – Mo Lifestyle’.

It’s worth noting that around the time of Polaris Media Group’s launch in September 2009, many distributors started their own blogs in an attempt to bury negative information about Polaris on the internet. Most of these blogs are now defunct as their owners realised that a hell of a lot of work and research goes into running a blog properly.

Lisa’s last blog entry prior to this one was September 9th, 2009 indicating it was also on the defunct blog pile. I’m not sure why she’s chosen to resurrect it now.

Whatever the reason, I read through the complete set of points Molina had written about and couldn’t help but notice they all seem to reflect the tenants of Scientology’s ‘attack the attacker’ policy.

Intentional or just wild co-incidence? [Continue reading…]

One of the two types of auctions made available to buyers on Dubli is the Unique Bid auction.

In Dubli’s Unique Bid auctions buyers place bids with Dubli credits over a fixed length of time the auction runs for. At the conclusion of the auction the winner is the buyer with the lowest unique bid.

Today I thought I’d take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of this auction model. [Continue reading…]

In my last article on the Dubli Network I had a look at some of the claims and comparisons made by Dubli against online auction heavyweight eBay. For the most part Dubli seem quite confident that their different styles of auction from the traditional eBay model will be more fun and benefit buyers.

These two factors are primarily what Dubli are basing their confidence in the success of their business model on.

Are buyers really better off using Dubli’s Xpress and Unique Bid auctions?

Let’s have a look. [Continue reading…]

About a month ago now a new company website for Polaris Media Group popped up for a few days. Titled ‘Polaris Global Marketing’, it seemed to be a more lightweight streamlined clone of the multimedia heavy Polaris Media Group website.

Coupled with reports from Polaris Distributors shortly after the Macau Influence Live conference that the company was about to change names, again all signs seemed to point to Polaris Media Group changing it’s name to Polaris Global Marketing.

However less then twenty four hours after I wrote about the Polaris Global Marketing website, the website went dead.

No official word was made until the ‘Polaris Global Facts‘ website was put up by the company just a few days ago. Originally sporting the no longer used Polaris Global Marketing logo, the Polaris Global Facts website now displays the new Polaris Global logo. The Polaris Global Marketing domain was also redirected to the Polaris Global domain, which is a rehashed version of the original but short lived Polaris Global Marketing website.

Confused? I know I am!

At least one Polaris Global distributor has had enough and vented their frustration over on Rhamnousia’s Polaris Global Marketing blog;

I’m leaving the company too. Whichever company it is.

I purchased business cards and advertising for Polaris Media Group, with the website address on the card. Then I purchased business cards for Polaris Global Marketing, with the website address on the cards.

No way am I purchasing business cards for Polaris Global!

Understandably, two name changes in just over seven months has left a lot of people asking ‘why‘? [Continue reading…]

Being an auction site, one of the most common comparisons Dubli Business Associates make is that between Dubli and eBay. Not surprisingly Dubli itself do this, their business opportunity site states that

The conventional online auction model as used by eBay is worth $79 billion (about 62 billion euros) annually.

Companies such as AltaVista, eBay, Google, Amazon and Yahoo are now household names with their market value in excess of $50 billion (about 38 billion euros). There is no reason why DubLi.com won’t be on that list in the very near future.

eBay revenue in 2008 alone was $2.07 billion (about 1.5 billion euros), showing just how lucrative the online business has become over the course of the last decade.

Seemingly, Dubli are attempting to enter the market on the back of a proven auction business model. [Continue reading…]

For someone looking at getting into MLM marketing, the biggest decision they are going to make is deciding which MLM business to join.

When contemplating various businesses there’s one factor that’s often overlooked but I believe is more important then business profits, company member numbers or even the products or services you’ll be marketing.

Forget all the external factors and focus on yourself: Are you going to feel comfortable marketing this MLM business? [Continue reading…]

Nobody seems entirely sure at this point whether or not Polaris Media Group is actually going to go ahead with the name change to Polaris Global Marketing.

The Polaris Global Marketing website has been showing the Drupal maintenance splash page now for a few weeks after briefly appearing live for a few days.

Having said that reader ‘I was scammed too’ has informed us that a new website, Polaris Global Facts – Due Diligence has gone up and it refers to Polaris as Polaris Global Marketing complete with new logo. Polaris Global Facts accuses the internet of being full of “misleading information and accusations” in regards to Polaris Media Group.

Of course following this bold statement at the top of the page is then a series of “misleading information and accusations” from Polaris Global Marketing itself. [Continue reading…]

Firewalking has been around for thousands of years and has been undertaken for mostly religious and medicinal reasons. In the modern era it has also been used for motivation and in the arena of personal development.

The centrepiece of Lifepath Unlimited’s three day personal development conference Breakthrough is the uninspiringly named ‘FireWalk’. In Firewalk attendees of Breakthrough are invited to walk across a bed of heated coals.

Personal development or flashy gimmick? [Continue reading…]

Dubli market themselves as a reverse auction shopping portal with a business opportunity attached for prospective Dubli Business Network Associates.

Dubli is based in Europe and have a market in Europe, the US and more recently Australia. They also seem to have somewhat of a shady failed past in China.

With claims like;

• “Dubli is a business opportunity where anyone can establish their own business in a competitive market; with little if no risk”
• Dubli is “poised to change the rules of the online shopping game”
• The use of “ingenious ideas” by Dubli
• “When DubLi.com takes off, it will go stratospheric” and
• frequent comparisons to eBay’s multi billion dollar business model

you’re probably expecting big things from Dubli. Let’s take a closer look and see if they deliver. [Continue reading…]

What is personal development to you?

For most people it’s the evolution of wherever you are at in life now, to wherever you are trying to get to. Within this journey there are many facets to personal development and many areas in your life that you can personally develop in.

Regardless of what personal development means specifically to you though, the idea that it can be taught or coached via a multi level marketing business is just downright misleading.

I was watching a marketing video the other day, just one of the many research activities I undertake when writing for OzSoapbox, and as I was watching it hit me square in the face.

I literally paused the video, thought about what was being said and concluded that this, right here, was the problem with trying to promote personal development through a multi level marketing business model. [Continue reading…]