Back when we were buying leads (see our earlier scam article) and making hundreds of calls per day, we collected some of the goofy and downright stupid things people would tell us. Some days it was the only way to stay sane – have a good laugh!
If you’d like to add one of your stories, [...]
Goofy MLM Story 1: Bill Has To Go
Get Rid of the Chatter – Think and Grow Rich!
Every week we join our Mentoring For Free ‘Mental Cleanse’ for an hour to discuss a chapter from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill.
The Mental Cleanse, hosted by Michael Dlouhy, is a mastermind group as Hill recommends. ‘Mastermind’ is a lofty title for a bunch of everyday people who get together to try [...]
Is Gifting a Scam? Part 2 from Canada
In our last post about gifting, we promised to keep you up to date on our communications with Industry Canada and the Office of the Attorney General (AOG) for New Jersey.
We wrote to both agencies because we have a friend we want to save from getting into trouble by choosing the wrong venture.
Here is the [...]
The Dog Who Chases Two Rabbits …
In his book Success in Ten Steps, Michael Dlouhy says,
The vast majority of network marketers who get convinced of the brilliance of the idea that they need multiple streams of income wind up instead with multiple streams of outgo!
Michael explains how we can waste time and money searching for more and more opportunities. Loss [...]
Is Gifting a Scam? Part 1 Snapshots of Gifters
We’ve just had another Skype conversation with a gifter who advertises on YouTube with a video of his wife opening up the FedEx envelope, taking out the magazine, opening the magazine to an envelope, and then opening up the envelope to show hundreds of dollars in cash.
She then proudly displays the cash to the [...]
MLM Leads Are A Scam! Part 2
From 2000 to 2004, we bought thousands and thousands of MLM leads from at least nine different vendors. We spent $11000 in 11 months, and $21000 in total over five years. We made no money then, and we have no residual income today from buying and contacting those leads. (See part 1)
Inspired [...]
Our Reply to Persistent Pete
Every week we send out an invitation to our weekly free training call hosted by Michael Dlouhy and Richard Dennis of Mentoring For Free. These generic skills calls are an hour long and cover topics like The Colors of Personalities, The Five Pillars, Compensation Plans, Internet Marketing, and Business Models Drive The Behavior.
Every week [...]
A Question We Should Ask of Any MLM – The 10k Question
When we take a job or a salaried position, we know what our hourly wage or our annual salary will be before we start. If we buy a business, we will have projections and reasonable estimates of income.
Why is it that when we start a home based business, we don’t even think about asking [...]
MLM Leads Are A Scam! Part 1
Michael Dlouhy is the founder of Mentoring For Free and the author of Success in Ten Steps, Powerful Networking Secrets, and The 35 Biggest Mistakes in MLM. He is also our personal friend and mentor.
We thank Michael for inviting us to join him in an expose of the biggest scam being perpetrated on [...]
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