Aug 13
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Check out this picture. From the camera angle do you have any trouble seeing some red flags. From the 
photographed persons angle, maybe he could not see those red flags. The closer he looks the more likely it is that he will notice that he is in trouble. He should be more than just a little concerned.
The California Attorney’s General office raised the red flags on YTB, aka Your Travel Biz, recently with a 25 million dollar law suit. Now mlmwatchdog reports that a 100 million dollar class action law suit has been filed by a St. Louis legal firm and that the Illinois AG is working with the California AG.
MLM Watchdog Story
The red flags were being rasised on YTB long ago. There is no reason anyone should be caught off guard. Check out this link. Reality Check
Critical thinking network marketers that I know had no problem seeing the red flags right away years ago.
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\\ tags: Attorney General, Illegal Pyramid, MLM WatchDog, Red Flags, Scam, Your Travel Biz, YTB
Aug 06
What do we have here. A ponzi scheme? An illegal pyramid? Any wrong doing at all?
On August 1st, reports came in that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia had frozen all assets of Ad Surf Daily, also known on the internet as ASD.
No charges have been filed. But likely only because the investigation is still in progress.
Read all about it in the local newspaper’s internet site. Hopefully this site will be available at this link for a while. If not, just do a google search.
REPORT
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: ASD, Mentoring For Free, MLM WatchDog, Pyramid, Scam
Aug 05
I have been teaching people how to avoid pyramid schemes and scams for years. You only need to know some basics to avoid these pyramid schemes and scams. It’s like having your own crystal ball.
“YourTravelBiz.com operates a gigantic pyramid scheme that is immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else,” Attorney General Brown said. “Today’s lawsuit seeks to shut down the company’s unlawful operation before more people are exploited by the scam.”
The above quote comes directly from the office of the Attorney General for the State of California. You can view the news release here…. http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1596&
Knowledgeable people in the network marketing industry immediately reported, YTB, or Your Travel Biz, as being a pyramid when they first looked at the program. The same was true of Burnlounge, another publicly traded illegal pyramid. When they were sued, they terminated the MLM program within days in hopes of surviving. Note that YTB had just last month announced plans to change to a franchised based pay plan. See http://www.ytb.com/downloads/franchiseInfo.pdf
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: Attorney General, Crystal Ball, Illegal Pyramid, MLM WatchDog, Pyramid, Scam, Your Travel Biz, Yourtravelbiz.com, YTB
Jul 25
I’m sorry. I mean to say…… Electronic Income Reducer.
Almost all of us have it. What we are really looking for is MLM Success. We want and need that proven duplicable MLM system. We want and need that like minded successful network marketing mastermind group.
But many allow the electronic income reducer to get in our way.
You know, the idiot box, the boob tube, the tube, the TV, the television set.
First, this electronic income reducer, is one of the biggest time wasters we experience. The one thing that can not be replaced. When we use time, it’s gone for good. Hope you used it wisely. We don’t even know how much of it we have left.
Second, this electronic income reducer, can create our beliefs. That’s right. Much of what we believe comes from our sources of influence. The news can influence us greatly. Advertising can influence us. Why else would they keep advertising to us if they were not successful at influencing us?
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: 30 Day Mental Cleanse, Critical Thinker, Electronic Income Reducer, Mental Cleanse, Mentoring For Free, MLM Success, Network Marketing Mastermind, Proven Duplicable MLM System
Jul 24
What is keeping you from moving forward in your business? Have you discovered why you need a 5 pillars company? Do you know the difference in a proven duplicable MLM system for success and those that just
call themselves one?
Do you understand your MLM compensation plan, and know how many people you actually need to reach your desired income so that you can put together a business plan?
Do you feel like a hungry pride of lions is holding you back? That’s kind of where I was for years, until Mentoring For Free. Now I build my business easily and consistently and you can too.
Learn all the skills you need to build your MLM business from Mentoring For Free. As the name suggests, It’s Free.
You start with an ebook, Success In 10 Steps. The ebook is generic. No companies or products are mentioned.
If you like what you read, then you can plug into free audio training. Also generic.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: 5 Pillars, free audio training, free training calls, Mentoring For Free, MLM Compensation Plans, Proven Duplicable MLM System, Success In 10 Steps
Jul 18
This week we lost one of our own. Our good friend Ken Huggins passed suddenly 
this week.
Ken was a good man, friend to all and a great asset to our team.
On Thursdays’ at 3pm EST, while Penny and I were doing our training call, Ken was always there making sure the conference bridge was working properly. He posted information about our call to the web site so everyone would no what our training would be about.
Always positive, never a bad word to say about anyone, and always looking for ways to help the team. Everyone was Ken’s friend.
Team mates don’t get any better than Ken. Ken is the perfect example of the kind of people drawn to Mentoring For Free, a mentor with a servant’s heart.
The picture was taken on our team cruise last February in the Caribbean. We will miss you Ken.
It’s later than you think.
Don’t forget to tell the people you care about, just how you feel. Don’t put off building your business if you have a family that needs the support of the business. You never know how much time you have.
It’s later than you think.
written by Don Standard
Jul 17
How important is it to put yourself in the best possible position for MLM Success? How important is it to choose a 5 Pillars MLM company to build? What is the value of experienced MLM management with integrity?
YTB is in the news again. They always do a great job of putting a positive spin to distributors on negative news. Can they do it again.
On July 15, 2008, Mr. Scott Tomer, Chief Executive Officer of YTB International, Inc. (the “Company”), announced that the Company is contemplating the replacement of its referring travel agent (”RTA”) business model with the implementation of a franchise operating system, potentially in 2009.
From Rod Cook and his MLM Watchdog site, we get more news on YTB. I am just going to send you to his site and let him show your what is going on and let him comment. After all he is well respected in MLM and loves to bring information to the people. Rod exposes MLM companies doing wrong. He exposes scams. But he is not one sided. He backs up companies being unfairly attacked.
Here is the link to the MLM Watchdog YTB Reports.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: 5 Pillars, MLM Success, MLM WatchDog, Rod Cook, YTB
Jul 16
Everyday it seems there is a new ground floor MLM Opportunity announced. Find your direction to MLM success with this new one of a kind business opportunity. We have a patented advanced compensation plan, a product used by over 200 million people daily in the US alone. And with our proven duplicable MLM system, no one will be left behind because we do 95% of the work for you.
Sound familiar?
Today someone asks me to check into this new ground floor MLM opportunity for them. Where do all these gamblers come from? Don’t they know that the failure rate for new companies is around 95% during the first two years. Already this guy could be looking at only having one chance in 20 of making it to the third year with his business.
Oh, but not this new ground floor MLM opportunity. These guys have been around since 1999. They adopted the retail business model for their product. It didn’t work, but you know what, the MLM business model is what they should have gone with.
Here is what I found out in a few short minutes.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: Compensation Plan, Ground Floor Opportunity, MLM Business Model, MLM Success, Policies and Procedures, Proven Duplicable MLM System
Jul 14
The Kingpin Strategy may be the key to unlocking your MLM Success.
Even when you have everything in place like the best MLM company, with the best MLM management, the best MLM compensation plan, the best MLM products, perfect timing, and a proven duplicable MLM system, there will still be logjams in your business.
Just as you are facing logjams that are blocking your Success in MLM, the lumber industry constantly deals with logjams as well. Briefly, the best way to move the logs from where they were cut, to the mill, may often be to float them down a nearby river.
In doing so, there are inevitably logjams that happen along the way. The lumber companies have learned that these logjams can be caused by a single log that gets stuck in a position to block the entire flow of the logs down the river.
This one log is called the kingpin. Move the kingpin, sometimes just a little, and you free up the entire logjam.
Your business can be the same way. One little thing can be the difference in whether your business is moving forward or not.
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written by Don Standard
\\ tags: Best MLM Company, Best MLM Compesation Plan, Kingpin, Mentoring For Free, MLM Success, Proven Duplicable MLM System, Success In MLM
Jul 13
Include The Color To Success principles in what ever Proven MLM Success System you choose. Any Proven MLM Success System will be even better using these principles. Because…..
One question I’d hear over and over was,
”Why Do Some People Succeed, While Others NEVER Do?”
And the answer….
(an excerpt from chapter five of the book, Success In 10 Steps, by Michael Dlouhy.)
Nail Your Prospect’s Passionate Sweet Spot
I learned everything from Tom “Big Al” Schreiter. I plugged in, absorbed
it all.
I’d listen completely to his albums while driving. I’ve made a ton of
notes driving down the Interstate.
Never crashed, either.
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photographed persons angle, maybe he could not see those red flags. The closer he looks the more likely it is that he will notice that he is in trouble. He should be more than just a little concerned.
