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Just got saw a great blog post about how to get started prospecting in your MLM even if you have no Internet leads.

Enjoy this info packed blog post from Ray Higdon.

By the way, I interviewed Ray for my book, Double Your Income, that will hit stores, Amazon, etc. in February.  The interview alone will be worth the price of the book.

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Ty Tribble is the founder of MLMBlog.net (launched in October of 2003).

His latest projects include:

• MLM Blog Theme
• Google Back Door Blueprints
• "The Factory" - coming Jan/Feb 2012

When this very thing happened to me and my team last January, I vowed to never let it happen again.  My solution was to find a solid company that has the potential for long term growth and momentum. 

This is going to sound harsh, but If you are thinking about jumping in with a "ground floor" start up, you really need to wake up.

The following start ups were considered ground floor opportunities that had some momentum at one time, now they are gone:

• XELR8/Bazi
• Efusjon
• EIRO
• Jus International
• YTB Travel
• iLearning Global
• iJango
• Burnlounge
• Bioperformance

The list can go on for a while, but you get my point.  

Here is the going out of business letter from Jus International/HAVVN President, Rick Durham:

Dear HAVVN family,

It is with great sadness and tremendous disappointment that I am informing you we have decided to shut down our HAVVN business operations. As you know, we have worked very hard for nearly four years to create a network marketing business with best-in-class products that would provide a genuine opportunity for all of our IBOs, corporate employees and shareholders. We have poured our heart and soul, countless hours, and millions of dollars, into making HAVVN successful. Despite our best efforts, it has become clear that HAVVN is not succeeding like we expected. Our US enrollments and autoship numbers are down significantly, and are showing no signs of improvement.

Please know that we have not made this decision lightly. We have spent many hours analyzing our current situation, and what we might possibly do to put HAVVN on a profitable course. We have concluded that it can’t be done without significant additional investment, which we are not willing to make at this point.

We recognize this decision will have a significant impact on many of you. I sincerely apologize for this. It is our greatest hope each one of you will find another opportunity that will fulfill your needs. I only wish we could have found greater success together.
Many of you feel passionately about HAVVN products and your health. For a limited time, we are providing access to order products at new prices on HAVVN.com.

It has been my great pleasure to know each of you, and to work with you. I appreciate all you have done to build HAVVN, and wish you every success in the years to come.
All the best,

Rick (Durham)

Amway has appointed PHD Singapore to head up their first advertising campaign in the region featuring Nutrilite.

Managing Director of PHD Singapore, Howard Smith, said"“We are very excited to be working with Amway. They have an exciting range of products and we are eager to start getting involved across all aspects of their media business and help them achieve their ambitious plans in Singapore.”

Amway's Singapore Country Manager had this to say...""We are very excited about our very first Nutrilite campaign, which will break in mid October on TV, MRT, outdoor and online. We have heard a lot about PHD and trust that they will be an effective partner to help us achieve our plans in Singapore."

Watch out Singapore! Here comes the American Way!

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Hello MLM Blog readers. I'm the new guy here, Vance. I want to thank MLM Blog founder, Ty Tribble for inviting me to be a blogger.  I've been in the industry for over 20 years and Ty's nickname for me is "Old School".

I am hoping to offer a little different perspective on the MLM News. Watch for me once a week or so.

Now on with the show.  I recently received an email from someone about a company called LifeVantage, thought I would share it with you and see what you think:

Thank you for taking time out to read my E-mail, now before you split please read below and open your mind.

As we all know, in todays world Cancer is becoming as huge issue for peoples well being a life. The great thing is that finally a company by the name of LifeVantage has created a product that has been PROVEN to not only put cancer in a head lock but also do many other fabulous things to the bosy on the inside such as decrease the amount of inflimation in the body, STOP the process that causes heart issues, helps the muscles recover faster for all those gym buffs and also reactivate old cell in the body that have turned off due too ageing.

We know that this guy is not the best of spellers, but outside of that, what do you think about his claims?

Yoli is primed for a big marketing push with their recent cover story on the cover of Home Business Connection.

The October issue of Home Business Connection, a national magazine connecting people who want to work at home with home-based business opportunities, selected Utah-based Yoli for this month’s MLM of the Month feature story.

Yoli is a nutritional business that combines the power of traditional word-of-mouth networking with hi-tech progressive marketing. The company launched in November of 2009 and has quickly asserted its position in the nearly trillion-dollar liquid beverage industry as well as the $100+ billion direct selling industry.

“Home Business Connection reaches hundreds of thousands of new readers every month who are actively seeking ways to earn money from home. We help them make an informed decision by featuring stand-out opportunities like Yoli, which combines a solid product line and powerful compensation plan and is backed by an influential team of seasoned entrepreneurs,” says Publications Director, Bridey Orth.

Read more about the Yoli opportunity in Home Business Connection, which is also available in a digital format at http://www.homebusinessconnection.com/online-edition.

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This from the Limu Nation blog:

This amazing group of elite individuals signed up the most new AutoShip Members last month. And just look at the representation of our Japan Members! We are proud of all of these individuals and thank them for their part in our mission to share LIMU™ with the world … one person at a time.

1 Tomiko Futamata Japan
2 Yoshiko Hosokawa Japan
3T Cindy H. & Robert Freeman Arkansas
3T Nan Edwards Mississippi
3T Hiroko Omasa Japan
6T Sylvia & Jamie Kemp Tennessee
6T Leonard & Romie Hughes California
6T David & Carla Rhodes Mississippi
6T Jon & Mary Dewbre Louisiana
6T Alicia Hunt Georgia

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Herbalife is opening a new extraction facility for botanical compounds in Hunan Province in China.

The new facility is expected to open in the second half of 2011. The facility is a joint venture with NatSource Chemicals and its principal Qun Zheng. The new extraction facility will purchase botanicals directly from farms in Hunan province and other regions, perform extraction and other conversion processes and then send these processed raw materials directly to Herbalife's manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, China and Lake Forest, California or to its third party manufacturers throughout the world, the company added.

The new extraction plant will produce botanical extracts including teas, guarana, chamomile, broccoli and bilberry. Herbalife is also in the process of entering into strategic supply agreements with farmers in Hunan and other provinces to provide traceability for its ingredients.

Herbalife's 80,000sqft facility in Changsha will be capable of processing approximately 8,000 metric tons of raw materials annually through extraction, purification and drying of powders and liquids. The new plant will create approximately 120 local jobs. The project received support from the Hunan provincial and Changsha City governments.

Source: COMTEX

- Dan Mitchell, MLM Blog Correspondent -

I am testing a new WordPress Plugin that allows MLM Blog readers to submit articles and news in a simple way.  All of the articles and news posts will be moderated, so don't try to sneak in spam or blatant advertising.

If you want to advertise at MLM Blog, go here.

If you want to submit articles, news and MLM rumors, go here (it's free).

This is very "beta" and I am hoping that we get some quality stuff.  If it turns out to be a bunch of spam, we will shut it down.

If this works, my goal is to turn this blog into a more user generated news and article site.  Fingers are crossed and all that...

- Ty Tribble
Founder - MLMBlog.net

Americas MLM Marketing Consultants Announce Four New Legal MLM Pay Plans

The Oracle of MLM Compensation Plans has fixed the problems with many mlm compensation plans today. The Binary, the matrix even the uni-level and home party comp plans have been brought into complete compliance and profit for everyone.

San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) June 14, 2010 -- Americas MLM Consultants and Rod Cook announced today the availability of four new Patent Pending MLM-Network Marketing Compensation Pay Plans. These new compensation plans are compliant in accordance with the new guidelines set forth by the FTC as well as the State Attorney Generals who have recently attacked MLM companies throughout the entire MLM industry.

Rod Cook, author, computer program consultant and creator of over 350 pay plans modeling Network Marketing and Party Plan compensation plans which determine the payout on four basic MLM pay plans and hybrids, has announced that he is releasing these patent pending compensation plans in order to stay in compliant with the new laws and to help MLM and networking marketing companies to succeed.

With the recent shut down of the ever popular Burn Lounge Pyramid drastic measure had to be taken to protect the integrity of the entire industry and Rod Cook of America's MLM Consultants took it upon himself to fix the problem. Cook stated that "we are here to help companies with our MLM Compensation Pay Plan Library which provides the most accurate information on MLM compensation pay plans and trends." You can view the library at: mlmconsultant.com/mlmlibrary.htm.

With a more revolutionary Binary compensation pay plan Patent Pending design by Rod Cook which was established to help save the Binary pay plan from legal attacks by AG's and the FTC and with the new court decisions coming out and making it a firm requirement to have customers, this changes everything for the industry. The new binary provides companies with a plan to stay compliant and to grow as a company.

Cook shares that "with the revolutionary new Uni-level compensation pay plan which includes some secret elements make it competitive with the Binary Compensation pay plan. Like the Colonel I have included the secret ingredient that will revolutionize this compensation plan,"

"The Matrix MLM Network Marketing Compensation pay plan has long been oversold," states Cook, "and now that is fixed and in compliance with the release of this new radical Matrix Compensation Plan . Any top Distributor can tell you that this is a great matrix because customers don't clutter up the matrix and money flows therefore creating more success for more people."

You may contact Rod or Marcie Cook of Americas MLM Consultants to discuss your unique compensation pay plan needs at: mlmconsultant.com/mlm_pay_plan.htm.

Seems a little mlm hocus-pocus, but you can judge for yourself, is CieAura an MLM Scam?

From the web site:

The CieAura Transparent Holographic Chip™ - employs a revolutionary technological approach to the re-alignment of two of the body's most important functions... the Human Life Functions and the Immune System Functions. Once these functions are re-aligned to where they should be for your given age, the immune system's ability to perform the removal of pathogens in the human body (Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi) is enhanced.

There seems to be a connection between the management of a company called LifeWave and 8ight.com (from another source):

In the meantime, those who look at the new pretender to the throne , CieAura, will see an amazing similarity to the LifeWave management offshoot company 8ight.com.

http://www.8ight.com/

As we know, Warren Hanchey was reported, by Joel in September 2007, to have come up with a similar range of products to LifeWave but using holographic discs.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/4333/P33/#252280

“Warren Hanchey has the following catalog of SCAM “holographic data disc” products:

1. An “action” disc (for improved strength and endurance),
2. A sleep inducing disc,
3. A weight loss disc, and
4. A pain relief disc

http://www.8ight.com/category_s/41.htm

That sounds like an exact copy of LifeWave’s SCAM product catalog. How low is this guy Hanche(y)? I mean, he has to SCAM people using his former employer’s SCAM playbook almost exactly.

What’s next, Hanchey? A DefenseDisc that gives a surgery free face lift and protects against malaria and hearing loss, and restores eyesight, just like LifeWave?”

Here we are a almost 2 years later with an upstart company selling a similar product.

How many more will jump on the bandwagon?

So what do you think?