FDA says to not drink Magic Power Coffee   

Coffee from the Magic Power Coffee MLM could actually be deadly.

  

If the Magic Power Coffee MLM was on your radar screen, sorry better look at something else.      

FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid Magic Power Coffee
Product marketed as sexual enhancement is contaminated with potentially dangerous ingredient      

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Is World Ventures a Scam?

World Ventures is a MLM Travel Company founded in 2005 by founders Mike Azcue and Wayne Nugent. The company is located in Plano, TX.   Members can book and sell travel through their websites.

Their flagship product is their “Dream Trips Membership“.  A Dream Trip is luxurious trip to exotic destinations, it could be cruise, or something else special.  The trip is offered to the members at a discounted price.  It costs $199 to become a Dreamtrips member and then $24.95/mo is automatically billed to you unless you cancel.

Their other product is called the “Leisure Travel Consultant” or LTC for short.  This package will give you a website called Rovia that you can use to book your own travel and sell travel to others.  This allows to become and internet travel agent, competing with Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz.  It costs $199 as well and $24.95/mo.

From time to time, Worldventures will offer sign-up incentives so that you may get both packages for the price of one.

The opportunity

The compensation plan is based on a binary MLM plan.  Generally, this is an easier compensation plan for most people to work with and make money.  You can get a full look at the compensation plan by clicking here.

If you read some of the forums, one of the caveats that many people point out about the company is that you can book similar trips to a Dream Trip through websites like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz for the same price or less and you won’t have to pay $300 per year for the privilege of doing so.  In fact I tried to use their website to book an airline trip once but was able to find a better price elsewhere.  However, to be fair that can happen with any vendor and  the travel industry is a huge industry in the trillions of dollars, so there is room for everyone.

The big question that most people ask themselves when reading this is if World Ventures is a scam or not.  In other words, will they lose their hard earned  money if they join.

Well, it is certainly possible to lose money with World Ventures as it is with any business venture.  However, that does not make World Ventures a scam.

The big drawback that I find about World Ventures is that they don’t teach any internet marketing skills.  They mainly teach a system of getting your friends and family to take a look at the company.

That is a good method and works well for some.  It would only be fair to point out that many the top leaders in World Ventures have  used that method.  However, for many people that method may not work very well.  They may be members of the “NFL” club (No Friends and Family because you already talked to them about a half dozen other opportunities).

Other people may want to work faster and smarter and they want to learn how to  leverage the power of the internet.  People like that or people within World Ventures that want to be able to grow massive residual income using the internet should probably use a system like this one.  CLICK HERE

I recently heard that there are over 200,000 people per week online looking for an opportunity.  So, if you are considering World Ventures and it suites you, I say go ahead.  However, you will definitely want to employ a marketing system like My Lead System Pro if you hope to capture some of the folks that are out their looking for a business opportunity like you.  You can learn how to get  20-30 leads per day with a system like that.

IF you want another point of view,  Steve Hawk did  a nice review over here.

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“Is the Numis Network

Business Opportunity

a Scam?”

I really like the idea of buying gold and silver right now as a hedge against an uncertain future.  Our world economy is so uncertain that even the once mighty U.S. dollar looks shaky.  Our country’s (speaking as a US citizen) deficit spending has me worried.  Even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted that the spending it is not sustainable. 

In fact, I was surfing You Tube and came across this video that kind of confirmed my beliefs.  It is about an hour, so if you don’t have time to watch it now, be sure and bookmark this page so you can come back. 

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So, what does this have to with Numis?  First of all, I am not saying that it is a scam.  (I will leave that to those that have more expertise than me -- click here)   However, using it as a method of collecting coins and as a business opportunity has me shaking my head a little bit.  Why do you ask? 

Let me explain… 

If you look at the way that any MLM is structured, there has to be a markup on the product to pay all of those levels of people above you. 

Now, don’t get me wrong.   Mark-up is good.  It is the American way and all businesses must make a profit to stay in business.   However, with most MLMs that mark-up is excessive. 

Typically, an MLM has a lotion or potion that they wrap a story around – you know it goes something like this. 

“Until now, the juice of the mailooki plant has only been known to the Kailuka indians who live deep in the Amazon rainforest over 1000 kilometers from any other human. This tribe was discovered only recently and scientists across the globe have been studying them because they all live to be over 120 years old. The juice from this miraculous plant has been found to have amazing healing properties…” 

I know I may seem a little cynical, but I have heard versions of that story so many times attached to the latest miracle cure from so many companies.  Of course the MLM companies have to concoct that story so that can justify selling you juice for $100 that they know you can get from your local vitamin store for $20.  And of course, they must sell it for $100 so that they can pay all of those multiple layers. 

However, aren’t silver and gold coins a little different?  After all, a graded coin from Numis is the same as a graded coin from a dealer except 

• the Numis silver coin has a business opportunity attached to it and
• you will pay more for it.

Some Numis Network marketers are using videos featuring Rich Dad author Robert Kiyosaki  recommending that people purchase silver and gold, as a hedge against inflation and an investment.But don’t be misled, Mr. Kiyosaki NEVER recommends that you purchase graded numismatic collectible coins. 

His gold and silver advisor Michael Maloney, who wrote Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver, advises that you purchase bullion bars and coins, NOT graded numismatic collectible coins. 

In the book he states “I think that anyone buying ‘brand new collectibles’ is being taken for a ride“ and advises to “Steer clear and don’t buy into gold and silver network marketing plans“. 

 

BTW, this company is generating a lot of controversy.  There is read  thread on Better Networker here.   Another blogger, Jon Pomitz almost joined Numis and changed his mind, he lists his reasons here.  A coin collector, Tami Burris brings up some good points here. 

So, in my thinking it makes more sense to make your money elsewhere and buy your coins cheap.  You can buy 5 coins for the price of one coin with Numis.  After all, if the dollar really collapses and becomes worthless, who is really going to care where your coins came from.  It will only matter that you had more of them than the next guy. 

Voiparty Review – can you create residual income here?

Voiparty is a new network marketing company that has a little different business model than most MLM companies.  Does that make it scam? – Not really.

Every company in the market has a product. Most network marketing companies use their distributors as the distribution system. The members of the company (the distributors) buy or sell the product and that is how the company makes money.

However, the nature of Voiparty’s product is that their product is not bought or sold by the distributors. Read the rest of this entry