MLM News Blog: January 2008

Building a List of Subscribers with Traffic Exchanges

Pithy advice on using free and low-cost traffic exchange programs to build a list of subscribers to your e-zine or newsletter. A nicely designed Squidoo Lens, the site also features hand-picked resources to accelerate your list-building machine.

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Carbon Copy PRO Blog

I publish my sales statistics--revenue, expenses, and profit on my CarbonCopyPRO Blog. I believe it's important to provide real numbers so that prospects for a business opportunity have an approximation of their potential ROI (Return On Investment).

My ROI for the 10 weeks since I started using Carbon Copy Pro is 262%. Thus for every $1000 I have invested in advertising and other expenses, I have realized a $3620 profit.

In the last 10 weeks, I have spent $2462 for advertising and other expenses and realized a profit of $8784 (revenue is $11210).

Now, of course, my results will not be the same as your results. You might earn more or less than I have. (Click here for the complete Income Disclaimer).

Contact me with any questions.

All the Best,

Mark
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Mark D. Worthen, Psy.D.
Charlotte, NC

Note: Computing ROI is rather counter-intuitive, e.g., you might think the profit would be $1000 x 2.62 = $2620 but it is actually $1000 x (1 + 2.62) = $1000 x 3.62 = $3620.

The equation to compute ROI is: (Net profit – Expenses) / (Expenses). See my blog for more details.

Turn-Key Lead Generation Yields 58% Profit

Describes a "turn key" lead generation program in the form of a direct mail (post card) campaign that has resulted in an average 58% profit after two months.

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Network Marketing Training

An article on how to use Web 2.0 marketing trends to build MLM online for free easily without posting loads of content.

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Len Clement's MarketWave Alert #90

Reprinted below is Len Clement's MarketWave Alert #90.

I highly recommend subscribing to Len's MarketWave Alerts and purchasing some of his products. He's one of the smartest, most ethical leaders in the network marketing industry.

Len's contact information is as follows:

MarketWave, Inc.
Len Clements
Founder & CEO
marketwave@cox.net
800-688-4766
http://marketwaveinc.com

Here is MarketWave Alert #90:

Usana Vindicated

Company has Minkow & Anti-MLM Zealots on the Ropes after Three Punch Combination

January 14th, 2008
For those of you not familiar with the attack waged by ex-felon Barry Minkow on Usana, and most recently Herbalife, and indirectly against the entire MLM industry, please check my Rebuttal Reports at http://www.marketwaveinc.com/articles.asp.

Minkow's 86 page report that declared, among other things, that Usana was an illegal pyramid, caused the SEC to begin an "informal inquiry" about 10 months ago, and was also the catalyst to two shareholder law suits against the company. Forbes, and the New Zealand based National Business Review, also reported that the FBI was investigating Usana.

On January 3rd Usana announced that one of the shareholder lawsuits had been dismissed with prejudice (meaning the complaint can't be refiled). Usana filed a motion to dismiss, but before a judge could even rule on it the plaintiff agreed to not challenge the motion and drop the case. The basis of this suit was that Usana was an unsustainable illegal pyramid.

On Friday, January 11th, Usana issued a press release announcing that the SEC had closed their investigation and found no evidence of wrong-doing. No accounting irregularities, no disclosure issues, and no evidence of illegally operating a pyramid scheme - all in direct contradiction to claims made by Minkow and his team of anti-MLM zealots.

Within an article* published by the Wall Street Journal after the SEC announcement, it was further revealed that, according to their sources, there is currently no FBI investigation. Allegedly the FBI had, upon first receiving Minkow's anti-Usana materials, indicated they would inquire about them. According to the article, Minkow now admits that the FBI subsequently told him they were leaving the investigation of Usana to the SEC, and were not going to pursue it.

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Commentary:

Since everything Team Minkow claims is wrong and/or illegal about Usana could conceivably apply to all network marketing companies, I have always considered his attack not just on Usana, and more recently Herbalife, but the entire industry. Had any of his allegations gotten traction - such as, when most products are sold to distributors that makes the company an illegal pyramid - we might have had a major challenge ahead of us.

Usana's war is not over by any means, but this one SEC battle will most likely be the defining one. Virtually everything the remaining shareholder and "distributor" suits are accusing Usana of were surely part of what the SEC was looking at. Currently the judge in Usana's case against Minkow is mulling over Minkow's motion to dismiss, which may succeed. Not because the case had no merit, but because Usana is suing Minkow on stock manipulation issues rather than libel so the standard of proof is extremely high. But this SEC decision certainly can't help Minkow in his pursuit of a dismissal. And the "distributor" suit was a joke even before these latest developments. The two lead plaintiffs are an ex-Usana product customer, and a guy who is working with Minkow who openly admits he suffered only $500 in damages - and that's from refunds Usana refused to pay him on product he never returned!

Of course, the shorts, trolls, and general anti-Usana antagonists on Usana's Yahoo! stock board are already spinning their goofy, face saving theories (pay offs, incompetent or uncaring regulators, etc.). They're still not willing, or able, to accept the most obvious, logical reason for why the SEC could not find any evidence of Usana's MLM business model being illegal, or in any way wrong.

Because it's not.

Len Clements
MarketWave, Inc.

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Google SEO MLM Expert Recruited By Mike Dillard

Google SEO Expert Fernando Ceballos was recently recruited as the inhouse SEO advisor for the brand new Magnetic Sponsoring community site. In his article he makes a shocking statement about some of the content members are posting.

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