ForeverGreen launched in 2004 and are based out of Utah in the US.

Additionally the company has several branch offices, located in Mexico, Columbia, Singapore, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.

Heading up ForeverGreen is Founder, CEO and Chairman, Ron Williams (right). According to William’s ForeverGreen corporate bio, he has had ‘25 Years of success in the Industry‘ and involvement in Nuskin (1980s), Neways (1992-1997 as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing), Young Living Essential Oils (1997-1998 as a Senior Executive) and Brain Garden (health and nutrition).

Ron Williams launched Brain Garden in 1998, however the company was sold a few years later with Williams going on to launch ForeverGreen in 2004. In 2006 ForeverGreen purchased Brain Garden, integrating the business into ForeverGreen’s operations.

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

YouGetPaidFast launched in September 2013 and is headed up by admin and owner Paul Darby.

Darby operated YouGetPaidFast behind the parent company “Unimax Services”, with an address provided on the YouGetPaidFast website in the US state of Texas.

The Unimax Services website (“unimaxservices.com”) was registered in 2006 and for almost a decade has been the platform Paul Darby has used to launch numerous business opportunities.

These include The Best Traffic of Your Life”, Save Your Daughters (??), Encer Agency, The Net Millionaires Social Network and Websites on TV.

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

Infinity DryWash initially launched in mid 2012 and paid affiliates $4 a month per affiliate recruited into their downline, payable down six levels of recruitment.

In June of 2013 Infinity DryWash sought to re-invest itself and appear to have relaunched with a new compensation plan.

Location wise, Infinity DryWash state on their website that they are

a marketing company with head office in Mexico and a dispatch facility in Scandinavia.

No further details on Infinity DryWash’s Mexican head office of dispatch facility are provided on the company’s website, however the Infinity DryWash website domain (“infinitydrywash.com”) provides a corporate address for an “Eco Green Marketing” in Bandhagen, Sweden.

Adding a bit more confusion to the company’s location another location provided in the footer of Infinity DryWash’s website, which points to a US based address in the state of Texas.

No explanation as to why a US based address appears on the Infinity DryWash website is provided.

Heading up Infinity DryWash is CEO and Founder, Carlos Widen. On his personal blog (“carloswiden.com”), Widen states

Carlos Widén is a veteran in the world of network marketing. He started his career back in New York City back in 1992 with a company called NSA which stills operates successfully to this day.

He was very unsuccessful working NSA his first year and instead of making money, he managed to loose money. The problem was that he had borrowed $2000 USD from his father to get started to purchase 40 water filters and had not sold or recruited any distributors his first 12 months.

He was just about to quit the business but was convinced by his friend Jeff to give it one more shot.

Today Carlos´s distributorship now spans over 20 countries. He not only works as a Network Marketing affiliate but also owns his own Direct Sales Company too.

Carlos’s story is often used by other distributors and companies to demonstrate the unlimited potential of network marketing. It is a recognized story in the industry of Network Marketing.

On his LinkedIn profile Widen credits himself as CEO and founder of EcoGreen Marketing, and lists his location as Stockholm in Sweden.

An Infinity DryWash affiliate link is also present in Widen’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that he himself has a position in the company’s compensation plan.

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The Last Cycler launched in September 2013 and reveal in their FAQ that

TLC is owned and operated by Mike Peever of Ontario, Canada.

Peever is credited with being ‘an online marketer since the late 1990s‘ and ‘a program owner/admin for 7 plus years‘. Multiple schemes are credited to Peever’s name, including Steps2Infinity, MyPaycheckWeekly.com, ICCycle.com, CashTextAds.com and IncrementalCash.com (recruitment-driven matrix schemes).

Peever first popped up on BehindMLM as the admin behind Cash Club International. Cash Club International launched in January 2012 and like Peever’s other schemes, revolved around affiliate recruitment and commissions tied to filling a series of matrices.

The Cash Club International website is still online today, however a decline in website activity indicates the stalling of matrices around late 2012.

This decline no doubt continued into 2013 and is the primary reason behind Peever launching The Last Cycler.

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GeniusMax launched in September 2013 and according to their website

was establish (sic) by Max Harris an online internet marketer and an online entrepreneur for the past 3 years.

A “certificate of incorporation of a private limited company” for England and Wales under the company name “Maximum Revenue LTD” is provided on the GeniusMax website, with the company using certificate number 08651952.

A Google search on the address provided on GeniusMax’s certification reveals multiple corporations using the same address, indicating that it’s a virtual office.

As a measure of legitimacy, such certificates should be taken with a grain of salt as they are available online to anybody for as little as £15.00, with “same day service” available for an additional fee.

Further research into Max Harris didn’t reveal any additional information about his MLM history, despite GeniusMax claiming entrepreneurial activity over the past three years.

The GeniusMax website domain (“geniusmax.com”) was registered on the 16th of August 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

Given the UK incorporation, virtual address, private website domain registration and generic sounding nature of the alleged admin’s name, I’m treating the details GeniusMax provide on their website as suspect.

This is due to the high frequency of dubious companies registering themselves offshore with a generic anglo-saxon name with no verifiable history in the MLM industry.

As always, if an 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…]

Fuel Network International launched in September 2013 and claim to be based out of the US state of Nevada (Business ID: NV20131540390).

This however appears to be a rented address, as the address provided on Fuel Network International is the same as the agent used to register the company in Nevada.

A “Jennifer Peterson” is listed as the “Manager” on Fuel Network International’s incorporation filing, with the company confirming her as the person who incorporated the company on their website.

I did find a Jennifer Peterson on a long-abandoned Empower Network blog (affiliate account “jennifer-peterson”), however I’m unsure if it’s the same Peterson who registered Fuel Network International.

It is noted that the Fuel Network International website domain was registered on the 28th of August 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

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There is no information on the Shopper Club Online website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Shopper Club Online website domain (“shopperclubonline.com”) was registered on the 6th of August 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

It is noted that the Shopper Club Online terms and conditions state that

any claim relating to Shopper CLUB Online’s web site shall be governed by the laws of the European Union without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

This indicates that the person(s) running Shopper Club Online are based out of Europe.

As always, if an 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…]

VSN Extreme launched in August 2013 and is headed up by “creators” Desmond Akil Smith and Dana LeBleu. On her Facebook page, LeBleu claims to be “in a relationship with Desmond Akil Smith”, so Smith and LeBleu (below right) appear to be a couple.

On the VSN Extreme website it is claimed that

after successfully pioneering the traffic industry for over a year, Desmond Akil Smith and Dana LeBleu have personally created massive online income streams and have built a huge following of dedicated loyal followers.

They have personally helped thousands of marketers go from “zero to wealthy” in as little as a few weeks.

Smith appears to have joined Empower Network in late 2011, with affiliates in his downline claiming he  and claims to have earned ‘$26k with Empower Network in just 90 days‘.

Smith went on to launch the Viral Success Network in 2012, which is what VSN Extreme appears to be the latest incarnation of.

Viral Success Network cost between $49 to $200 ($100 monthly) and was attached to a single level 40% commissions affiliate opportunity.

VSN Extreme appears to be a business reboot, with Smith ditching the single-level affiliate plan for an MLM business model.

Where VSN Extreme as a company are located is unclear. On the VSN Extreme website an address in the US state of Virginia is provided for “VSN Extreme, LLC”.

VSN Extreme’s Terms and Conditions however state that

These Terms and Conditions shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California.

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One of the problems with running an MLM company that pays out commissions from affiliate membership fees, is the constant requirement of affiliate recruitment to ensure those who joined recently get paid.

On the value side of things, with the attached product or service having little to nothing to do with the compensation plan or how affiliates are paid, there’s little in the way a company can do to increase the commissions paid out to affiliates.

As demonstrated by MyFunLife, pretty much the only thing a company can do, short of scrapping their recruitment-driven compensation plan, is to start charging affiliates more money. [Continue reading…]

As the Zeek Rewards train wreck catapulted along at full-speed towards an inevitable conclusion, here in the MLM blogging world the credibility of one of the oldest MLM blogs today was being called into question.

In the face of straight-forward analysis that revealed Zeek Rewards was nothing more than an affiliate-funded Ponzi scheme, Troy Dooly’s backflip over the legitimacy of Zeek Rewards baffled the MLM blog world and its readers.

After an initial critique in December 2011 in which Dooly explored some of the blatant red flags evident in the now infamous Ponzi points compensation plan, from April 2012 headlines like this were the next to appear on MLM Helpdesk:

• “Zeek Rewards CEO Paul Burks Clarifies Blockage Of Countries & Deactivation of Affiliates Accounts” (April 2012)
• “FTC Issues Consumer Alert On Penny Auctions Which May Explain Why Zeek Suspended Some International Affiliates” (April 2012)
• “NMBJ Breaks Story On Zeek Reward Income Disclosure Statement & Customer To Affiliate Ratios” (April 2012)
• “Zeek Rewards Update: Zeek 101 Suggested Behaviors” (June 2012)
• “Zeekler Penny Auction House Numbers Show The Real Story Behind Zeek Rewards” (June 2012)
• “Breaking Zeek Rewards Alert: Clearification From Last Night’s Zeek Rewards Leadership Call” (June 2012)
• “Seth Godin Shares Explains What Dallin Larsen Founder Of MonaVie and Paul Burks Founder Of Zeek Rewards Have In Common” (July 2012)

Things over at MLM Helpdesk kind of quietened down as the SEC noose around Zeek Rewards tightened in August. However, as evidenced above, the bulk of Dooly’s coverage on Zeek Rewards noticeably read like press-releases. These sorts of “articles” typically provided by MLM companies and reserved for publication on spammy marketing sites.

My personal favorite?

“Zeek Rewards And Their Affiliates Seem To Have Been Hit By International Cyber Crime Gangs & Bloggers With Possible Hidden Agendas” (April 2012).

Turns out some bloggers did indeed have hidden agendas, although they weren’t the bloggers Dooly was talking about. [Continue reading…]