If you’re a network marketer and you’ve been in business for awhile at some point you may be offered a chance to buy mlm genealogy lists. Many people consider these to be the creme de la creme of mlm leads because they are people who are already familiar with our industry. However there are some things I feel it is important to warn you about.

Tonight I received a phone call offering to sell me MLM Genealogy leads. Let’s call this woman Ms. B.

Ms. B. told me she had a list of YTB people to sell. She said she had heard some bad things about YTB and that the company might be shutting down. She said she had about 8400 names, phone number, email, and address for YTB people to sell and she was calling me because she thought someone in my company might be interested in them. She thought these people might be looking for a new opportunity.

Being an ethical guy, little warning bells started going off in my head…

After she gave me her pitch I asked a few questions.

Question 1.
Why aren’t you using the leads yourself? Why are you trying to sell them?

Ms. B answered.
She has a lot of MLM experience but she prefers to be a leads broker and she has a lot of experience brokering these kind of leads. Her family were MLMers but she never really got into that side of the business.

More warning bells are going off for me. Why doesn’t she do MLM? Did she sell these to family members or friends already? If they are so great why isn’t she working them?

Question 2.
How many times are you going to sell these leads?

Ms. B answered.
Anyone selling you leads would be lying if they said they didn’t sell them multiple times. However she said since it was a small list she would only sell these 3-6 times and would give me 3 months exclusivity before selling them to anyone else in my company.

This was pretty honest. She is right leads companies sell leads more than once.

Question 3.
How fresh are these leads?

Ms. B answered.
18-24 months old.

More warning bells are going off now. If they are 18-24 months old, why are they just now going up for sale? Has she been selling them for the last 18 months? Did the person generating the leads already milk the leads as much as they could before selling them off to someone else?

Question 4.
How were these leads generated? Were they from an existing YTB members genealogy list?

Ms. B answered.
These names were generated from web sites of YTB members on the internet. Someone wrote a program to capture the names, emails, phone, and address of YTB members from the internet.

At this point I’m livid with anger. You see I run web marketing web sites for my company. I HATE people like this. This person is what we call a “scrapper”. They scrape the content of web sites. They find someone who has YTB marketing web sites and they scrape the content to find the name, email, address, phone, etc.

If you’re someone like me that runs marketing web sites for team members of my company, what happens is this person points a computer program we call a “bot” which is short for robot. They point the bot at your web site. Then the bot tries a bunch of different combinations of usernames until it find someone that exists. It then scrapes the content off the site for the name, email, phone, etc. and puts that info a database. It then continues trying more variations of usernames.

Besides this being unethical it is also a computer attack. They generate tens of thousands of requests or even hundreds of thousands of requests on the web site in order to find a few thousand names. It can even temporarily break a web site, cause a web site to perform poorly, etc.

In addition I feel this is unethical behavior. I feel that people who try and steal genealogy lists are bad apples. I would hate for someone to attack my downline and try and steal them all away for some new opportunity and I would never want to do that to someone else.

Ms. B. couldn’t believe that I was upset. She couldn’t believe that I didn’t understand that this is they way business is done. She claimed that because this information was freely available on the internet that I was upset.

Needless to say the phone call ended shortly thereafter and I won’t be recommending anyone to her.

I hate people like this. She isn’t a networker so she has no idea how dirty her behavior is. She can never truly understand because she doesn’t have a downline. Or maybe this is one reason why she doesn’t do MLM herself and only brokers MLM genealogy leads.

What do you think? Have you ever bought a genealogy list? Have you ever bought lists that were generated from spamming/scraping web sites? Have you ever had someone attack your downline to try and steal them away to another company?

- Ben

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We’ve had a lot of comments on my article: Local Ad Link – Scam or Legitimate Advertising Opportunity?

A few of our readers have had some pretty interesting arguments.  Several felt that Local Ad Link (LAL) was a scam and were claiming bounced checks.  Others (mostly people SELLING the service) were talking about how great LAL is.  They talked about how LAL had problems and was in beta and things were getting better all the time.  They also talked about customers who were happy because they saw themselves listed on Google.

A couple criticized me and said I don’t know what I am talking about.  One criticized me for recommending people invest $47 in a Perry Marshall training on how to properly do their own PPC advertising.  Keep in mind that the top package at Local Ad Link costs $200 A MONTH.  I was recommending a training program that someone would buy one time and would give them a good understanding of why LAL is a scam.

Some other people recommended I do my homework.  They didn’t think I knew what I was talking about.

So let me clear up a few things…

I’ve been doing pay per click probably longer than most of you have been on the internet!

I’ve been on the Internet since 1993. I’ve owned my own internet service provider (1995-1996).  I created a search engine of soccer web sites which I sold for 5 figures in 1999.  I’ve been doing pay per click since Overture was called GoTo.com (Overture was bought by Yahoo and is now Yahoo’s PPC service.)  GoTo.com got started doing PPC in 1998 and I started with them in 1999.

Here are some reasons why I continue to think Local Ad Link is a bad investment.  I won’t call it a scam for now but I’ll continue to say LAL is a rip off and is for people who don’t know any better.

First and foremost…

Most LAL customers are basically buying ad placement on Google NOT clicks!  They are happy just to have their web site listed on Google. They don’t realize that there advertisement may not be getting clicked on AND even if they do click on their ad they have to go to Local Ad Link first before getting to their web site!  Since LAL is basically reselling Google ads Google requires them to go to the LAL web site first, then on to their web site.  Most of the LAL customers are too ignorant of internet marketing and PPC so they don’t realize how bad this is for them. This also effects the page relevancy which I’ll talk about in a moment.

Second, LocalAdLink provides a limited number of keywords and you must pay more if you want more keywords.  LocalAdLink limits you to 3 keyword phrases.  You should only pay more for more clicks NOT more keywords. That way you can buy keywords that are not clicked on very often and you can buy a bunch of them. Therefore you can buy a bunch of cheap keywords.  LAL instead charges  you based on the number of keywords you buy regardless of whether or not you actually get any clicks from them! (In the search engine world we call these long tail keywords and they can be some of the most profitable keywords to bid on.)

Third, You cannot select negative keywords which allow you to exclude certain negative phrases from your ads. PPC experts know that negative keywords are just as important as the keywords you want people to use.  Negative keywords allow you to weed out freebie seekers and people who are wasting your money. For example, you can setup negative keywords like “free” or “hacks”.  If you were selling cellular phones for example you wouldn’t want people who are looking for cell phone hacks to waste your advertising money.  LAL does not allow you to select negative keywords.

Fourth does Local Ad Link allow you to pick exact matches? I doubt they do since they don’t allow you to do negative keywords.  Basically there are 4 types of keyword matches at Google.  Broad match which would match any keywords were “cellular” and “phone” appear in the search.  Phrase matches where only phrases that match “cellular phones” appear in the search and exact matches which are only “cellular phones” and no other matches so it would exclude “free cellular phones” or any other 3 keyword searches.

You might be saying Local Ad Link defaults to “broad searches” so that’s best but in fact this is a major flaw in the LAL system. Because they are by default doing broad searches it means they are paying for a lot of extra clicks that are not effective clicks.  Since LAL is basically reselling Google PPC ads and they are wasting money on broad matches, they will run through their advertising budget faster!  If they used phrase matching, exact matching, and negative keywords the advertisers would get fewer clicks but they’d get better quality clicks.  LAL would save money.  LAL is trying to show a lot of clicks to their advertisers which is actually the OPPOSITE of what you want to do in PPC advertising! You don’t want a lot of clicks you want HIGH QUALITY clicks that lead to sales!

Fifth, LocalAdLink offers limited zip code selection and charges you based on how many zip codes you select. PPC should charge you based on the number of clicks you receive not the number of zip codes. You should be able to pick as many locations as you want!  If you pick a zip code of a high end neighborhood for example you might not get a lot of clicks.  For example I know of a neighborhood in Boston’s Back Bay that is very exclusive.  One city block has it’s own zip code!  Needless to say you wouldn’t get very many clicks by targetting that zip code, but anyone who clicked would be a millionaire and would be the kind of audience you would want to target.

Finally and perhaps worst of all is the fact that Local Ad Link provides a negative relevancy on your advertising. Google has a page relevancy or advertising relevancy rating. This essentially means that if you link your ad to a crappy web site you will show up lower in the listings.  It also means that if you’re ad gets more clicks than your competition you might be able to bid less on the ad and get rated higher on Google’s search engine listings. LAL is providing a negative relevancy because they are performing in a role of intermediary.  Linking to your page at LAL isn’t as good as linking directly to your web site is.

When you click on a LocalAdLink advertisement you are taken to LAL’s web site! This is the WORST possible thing to happen. MANY MANY MANY people who click on your ad will get to LAL and will NOT click through to your web site. You have a short period of time to get someone’s attention and making them click through LAL before they get to your web site adds complexity.  This means you’ll be paying for a lot of people to visit your web site that will never actually get there. They will get to LAL and click back to Google, click away to another link, etc. BUT you’re paying for them to visit your web site and they NEVER actually get there. (Actually LAL is paying for them and that is one reason why they will never succeed at this game financially unless they rip off a lot of users by providing them far less advertising for their money.)

Let’s say LAL is a good web site. Let’s say the design is good. Let’s say they Let’s say do a good job of getting people to click on your link  and go to your web site.  A GREAT result would be 80% of the people who click through get to your web site… That basically means you’re paying for 20% of the people to click on your add that don’t actually get to you. That’s 20% LOSS.  That’s 20% BREAKAGE.  What if the site isn’t any good? What if 50% of them fail?  Should you pay for a 50% failure rate? Should you pay for a 20% failure rate?

Here are some other good articles on whether or not Local Ad Link is a scam:

http://www.forestmarie.com/why-localadlink-is-a-scam-localadlink-review-local-ad-link/

http://hubpages.com/hub/Local-Ad-Link-Scam

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/427/ripoff0427685.htm

http://www.idowebmarketing.com/local-ad-link-review-its-a-scam-people-heres-why/

And some message boards where there are a lot of complaints.

http://www.feedagg.com/feed/138261/Local-Ad-Link-Scam-Comments

http://scam.com/showthread.php?t=80303

Some of these go back to the discussion of bounced checks, bad support, and technical problems with Local Ad Link.  I haven’t used it so I can’t talk about those things.  My analysis is based on sound PPC advertising practice.

I dare anyone with a strong background in PPC to tell me that using LAL is better than doing your own PPC advertising OR hiring a firm who charges you a small percentage to manage your ads for you.

- Ben Fitts

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Local Ad Link - the newest advertising FAD

Many of you have probably heard of the latest advertising gimmick, Local Ad Link. (NOT an affiliate link.)

In my opinion Local Ad Link is just a FAD that most businesses should avoid.

First of all people contacting me about Local Ad Link are idiots.  They’re telling me it’s ok if I don’t like it. I should buy a position and market it to others anyway. Hello?  McFly?  Are you there? Don’t you realize that if you are telling me to do it anyway just to make some money, this screams out “SCAM” to me.

Second of all, the advertising packages with Local Ad Link are HORRIBLE.

$50 a month for 3 zip codes and 2 search terms
$100 a month for 10 zip codes and 2 search terms
$200 a month for 50 zip codes and 3 search terms

Here is my big problem with this.

If you know anything about Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising you can get a better deal for yourself.

My dad has a web site for granticrete countertops.  He is only licensed to do these in Rhode Island and Connecticut.  So we have a simple pay per click campaign setup to target keywords in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

#1 My dad can buy more than 3 search terms.  We’re currently targetting 24 terms.
#2 My dad can target more than 3, or 10, or even 50 zip codes. We can target as many as we want.
#3 My dad spends less than $10 a month on average on his pay per click ads.
#4 My dad can specify the landing page! He can have a page that’s unique to Connecticut or a page that’s unique to Rhode Island.

Now take a look in comparison to LocalAdLink.  My dad targets the entire state of Rhode Island for example. He’d have to pay $200 a month to get even close to that with LocalAdLink.  Yet my dad spends less than $10 a month.

Are you getting the picture?

Do you see why this is a big scam?

How is LocalAdLink getting their ads on Google in the first place…. Pay Per Click!  Basically what you are paying LocalAdLink for is having them manage your advertising for you.  If you a computer novice then maybe LocalAdLink is for you… but if you are someone who is willing to learn you’d be much better off actually investing the $200 in Perry Marshall’s Definitive Guide to Google Adwords. In an hour’s time you could manage your own PPC ads and save yourself hundreds of dollars a month AND do more effective ad campaigns than you’ll get with Local Ad Link!

And I haven’t even gotten into the real Pay Per Click tricks like customizing your campaigns based on your keywords, sending them to a landing page that targets that keyword, etc.  Local Ad Link sends you to their site (because they need to bump up their search engine and alexa ratings to convince more people to advertise!)  The person then has to click on a link from local ad link to be taken to your actual web site! So Local Ad Link is adding in an extra step in the process and you’ll loose some of your prospects right there!

Is Local Ad Link a scam? No. It’s not a scam but it is a company that is specifically targetting ignorant business owners that don’t know much about how to market online.  Personally that’s the kind of company I like to avoid. AND who the hell wants to go door to door selling internet advertising anyway? YUCK!

- Ben Fitts

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The scam otherwise known as Chat to Text is back. I hate it and I recommend all of you avoid it.

This is a facebook application that allows you to get facebook chat messages sent to your cell phone. It costs $6 and has an MLM payplan associated with it.

Here is one example of why I hate it.

I got an email yesterday from a friend.  She is not a technical person.  In fact she has told me she hates being on the computer all day.  She is an outdoors person. She likes being outside. She enjoys traveling.  She enjoys meeting people and networking face to face, NOT working on the computer all the time. She explicitly told me she doesn’t want to spend a lot of time on the computer.

Yet this woman emailed me and asked me to take a look at Chat to Text.  This is a woman who doesn’t want to be on the computer all the time and yet now she is promoting a product that puts your computer chat on your cell phone.  If anything it’s the exact opposite!  This woman wants to try and get away from the computer and yet now she’s getting text messages on her cell phone?!?!

I feel like the ONLY reason she is pushing this crap is because:

1. Someone she knows probably sent her the link.

2. She hasn’t thought it through.

3. She is promoting it because of the MLM component and the ability to get paid for referring others.

In reality this is a product she won’t use. This is a product she actually won’t like at ALL!  Yet she is promoting it to others!

Chat to Text is one of the worst examples of MLM scam and is what causes people to not like MLM.  The majority of people promoting this JUNK aren’t even going to use it.  They are just promoting it for the MLM. That is how MLM get’s a bad name.

I encourage all of you to boycott Chat to Text.  Next time someone asks you emails you about Chat to Text send them here to find out why what they are doing is so bad for our industry.

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I hate to say I told you so, but I did.

Yesterday I wrote about the latest MLM fad and encouraged you to avoid it.  The fad is called Chat to Text.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one that didn’t think this was a good idea.  Facebook shut down Chat to Text yesterday.

I quote from the Chat to Text web site.

UPDATE – Facebook just shut down the application as of 9:42pm Eastern Time Monday, Feb. 2nd. Don’t worry, everyone that paid already will still receive their commission as per our agreement. But let’s get this back up and running…this is a way for ALL of us to make money. As you all know, MLM is legal and MLM works…this was exploding and Facebook may even have felt threatened by us.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! POST YOUR COMMENTS TO THIS NEW FACEBOOK GROUP – WHAT DO YOU THINK???

Email Facebook to tell them this is a legitimate business model that doesn’t violate any terms. Read Facebook’s terms for yourself, ChatToText doesn’t violate ANY of them! Here is the email they sent, a 5-second copy/paste email:

————————To the developer of ChatToText, application ID #43000236800,

Your application has been disabled for violating Facebook terms and policies.

For further information, please email platform-policy@facebook.com .  Please note that attempting to recreate this application may result in further action.

Sincerely,

Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support

And just as Chat to Text is trying to create buzz and get support for their application there are groups of people forming who are trying to make sure they stay banned from Facebook.

Here is the group you should join if you want to keep Chat to Text off Facebook.

The problem with Chat to Text wasn’t that they charged money for a facebook application but that they were doing MLM.

You might wonder why I am upset by this. I do MLM and make a full time living doing MLM.  My issue with it wasn’t that it was MLM but that there wasn’t any real residual income here to be made.  All the money was up front money from selling the application AND it was an application that I felt I’d never want to use.

To be honest I don’t do much Facebook chat anyway. Why would I want Facebook chat to come through to my cell phone? That’d be annoying to me and I bet a lot of people would start to use the application, find text messages to their phone annoying and turn it off.

I felt like a lot of people were promoting it not because they liked the product but because they wanted to make money referring the product to other people. Or perhaps even worse, the product was only $6, so “why not” try it.  That’s a pretty bad way to build an MLM.  You will end up with a lot of unhappy people when they realize they wasted their money.

Apparently I was right.

If you are an established MLMer you have to beware of the junk you promote.  Several of my friends started promoting this junk.  One was even promoting it as “Facebook has gone MLM”. You have to remember that your reputation is more important than a quick paycheck. WHO CARES IF I CAN MAKE A PROFIT PROMOTING IT.  It takes bigger guts to not promote something.  If I don’t have to promote every little thing that comes up it shows I’m serious.  And I have a better reputation.

Remember the old tv commercials “When EF Hutton talks people listen”?  People would be at a restaurant eating. It would be very noisy.  Then one of the guys would start to talk and everyone would suddenly stop talking to hear what he had to say.  Then the voice over would come on and say “When EF Hutton talks people listen”.

That’s how you want to be perceived. You want people to listen to what you have to say.

What do you think? Do you think I’m crazy? Do you think ChatToText will be back on Facebook?

- Ben Fitts

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The latest MLM fad

Heads up people,

It’s the newest MLM fad that I encourage you to AVOID.

It’s called “chat to text” and it’s a new facebook application that allows people to visit your facebook page and then send you chat messages.  They sales pitch says you don’t even have to be at your computer you can receive the chat messages via text to your cell phone.

UHM. Hello?  I don’t WANT chat messages sent to my cell phone.  That would be extremely annoying! It could also get expensive if you aren’t on a flat rate instant messaging plan.

Once again this is something I think that people are promoting because there is a business opportunity/affiliate program associated with it.  Everyone pays $6 to install the application to their facebook page.  I don’t think they are promoting it because they really think it’s a good idea.

It SOUNDS like a good idea but in reality I bet a lot of people who start using this chat to text will end up turning off the damn thing off when it gets too annoying.

Just my 2cents.

I could be totally wrong here of course but I’d rather not be the person out promoting the latest junk all the time.  I’d rather be the person who people trust because I don’t promote every junk program to come to me in email.

Sure it’s only $6. That’s actually the psychology they are using.  For $6 most people will just say yes and do it.  Even if they don’t like it and don’t use it, it was just $6 right?  It’s the same principal behind $7 secrets. They sold a bunch of cheap ebooks and products for $7 because it minimizes returns, minimizes support, etc.  It doesn’t mean those products were any good.

Agree? Disagree?

- Ben Fitts

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This is a continuation of a blog post I wrote yesterday about an MLM expert (Kim Klaver) promoting non MLM products. (See the original post here.)

Now here is what you may not understand.

First of all if Kim Klaver is a JV partner for this launch she is making 60% of all initial sales and the recurring on this sale. (Yes this is not only a $47 one time sale but they will also upsell you on a monthly membership.)

Second of all this is a non MLM product. It doesn’t teach you how to sell your MLM products, recruit people, sponsor up, get more traffic to your web site, develop leads, etc.  What it teaches you is how to sell products on Clickbank.

What is Clickbank?  It’s for internet marketers mostly.  If I was selling an ebook or software product I can put it on Clickbank’s marketplace.  Clickbank handles the sale for me and pays me a month or so later.  Clickbank also helps manage my affiliates and their sales and pays my affiliates for me.  Clickbank is a great service, but what does it have to do with MLM?

Nothing.

The Clickbank inner circle is all about teaching people to make money online “selling Clickbank” products. but let me ask you something…

If you want to learn more about building a massive MLM enterprise… Why would I direct your attention to a product that has nothing to do with building an MLM?

This is a mistake I made a few years ago when I was starting this blog. I covered all sorts of topics not just MLM. It was too confusing. There was too much going on.  I was sending out too much information.  I was promoting all my friends products and stuff and some of it was just because they were my friend. Some of my friends would start a joint venture with me on some of my projects.  In exchange they’d want me to help promote their products. Sometimes I’d promote something I wasn’t sure was a good fit just because I felt I had to pay jmy friends back.

This is the mistake Kim Klaver is making now.  She’s gone from being an old fashioned face to face network marketer to become an internet marketer. Now that she’s gotten into the internet marketing world and now she’s trying to do too much.  She’s lost her focus.  AND it doesn’t look good that she’s a joint venture partner making 60% commissions selling you on something that will only distract you from building your MLM business. Again I made this mistake myself.  (see this article from September 2007 where I apologize for my lack of focus)

Let’s put this another way… if you were a real estate sale coach teacing people how to sell real estate… and you suddenly started to pitch people on selling cars… It’d look kind of strange right?  To me that’s what Kim is doing.  She’s an MLM coach who is now pitching people on selling ebooks and stuff through Clickbank which has very little to do with growing an MLM enterprise!

If I was a real estate person taking her training and I started to suddenly try and sell cars, it’d probably effect my real estate business, right? I probably wouldn’t sell many homes because I’d be busy selling cars.  Sure I might learn some sales skills, but at the cost of hurting my primary business.

Kim Klaver. I implore you to regain your focus.  Get back to your roots.  Just because you’ve started to get involved in internet marketing doesn’t mean you should promote every internet marketing deal you see.  If you have to tell people that the sales letter is bad, then it’s probably a good sign that the product isn’t a good fit for you to promote.

Again I relate to this because I found myself making the same mistakes.  So please take this advice with the respect that it is intended.

Kim, I invite your reply.

- Ben Fitts

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Kim Klaver did it again.

She’s now promoting a product that has nothing at all to do with MLM.  She’s telling people on her list to buy a product called clickbank innercircle. In fact she is aggressively promoting this product. Just look how many links she has in this “newsletter”.

Here is her latest newsletter in it’s entirety for you to read.

Peek inside an inner online world of young-spirited nutty people making money and having a wild time.

Don’t read their sales letter please. Just scroll to the bottom and give them your $47.

That is, IF you have always been curious about the inner workings of two ways to make income online – with no overhead – online.

1.  Affiliate marketing. That’s where you offer someone else’s product or program for sale, and they pay you a percent of the sales you make.  It’s kind of like what you do with direct sales and NM.  Only
1) this is with digital products. E.g. eBooks, online videos, online audios, so no shipping; and
2) you can choose to sell programs from different creators.

2.  Find people with big, big lists who will market your digital product or ‘how-to’ program for you, and make hundreds (and sometimes, thousands) of sales you never would have made before.  You might pay out 40-50% for each sale someone else makes.  But 50% of $10,000 is much better than 100% of zip.

Anyway, I have been curious about all of this for several years. I’ve spent several hundred hours trying to get inside this inner circle to see how this thing worked.

I once sent my friend Frank Kern an email asking how cb worked. I couldn’t even see how to sign up, much less make anything with it.

Anyway, there’s a chance to see into the inner workings of this community by one of its young stars… For $47. The sales letter is absolutely young-boy wild, with big red and blue bold type and lots of screaming in the hopes of getting your attention. Here’s what I’d do: Skip the entire sales letter (unless you can stand it.) Scroll all the way to the bottom, and ORDER THIS THING. Right now. It’s worth the money just to see how they make all this money, step by step.  I did. Here. I am going through it right now, and it’s worth the $47 just to get a good look at how this online economy works and how you might just want to be part of it…You might have your own “how to” eBook that one of the superstars will sell for you – to HER big fat list. It’s $47 right now. In two days, it will be $67, they said. In 5 days, $97 Multiple ways of earning income seems to be a very good thing to me. Why put all your eggs in one basket? I check out lots of things, and this is a wonderful introduction to an inner circle of happy and wild folks making money online and having fun. Some of you might just fall madly in love with some of this.  Uh, like I have.

Fondly, Kim Klaver

So what do you think about this?

Do you even know what Clickbank is?

Just curious what you guys think before I chime in.

- Ben Fitts

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I just received this email.  I wanted to warn you guys of this.  This is definitely false advertising.

Hello Ben,
I saw your website last night and I have a couple of quick questions. Could you call me
when you have a minute?
Betty Snow
519-977-3639

I’ve decided to start blowing the whistle on these so called MLM experts.  They recruit by methods like this.  They want to sell me on their “system” yet their system includes false advertising!

If you google the number above you’ll find it doesn’t belong to Betty Snow. it belongs to Leo Silverstri.  When you google Leo you’ll find he is a network marketer selling a recruiting system.

Now here’s the big problem.

#1 the email above is misleading. It sounds like they are interested in my business but they aren’t.  They just want to sell me.

#2 the phone number given is not Betty’s but is Leo’s. Call the number and he’ll tell you that Betty Snow is one of his associates and she must have seen one of my web sites. So they don’t even know what web site they found you on.  That’s a big clue that they don’t care about you or your web site.  All they care about is you are a network marketer and they have a system to sell you.

Why would I want to buy a recruiting system from someone that has to “spam” to recruit? They’re may not even be a Betty Snow!  They could just be using software like SEO Elite to find people who have web sites on a topic like MLM or network marketing and spam those people automatically.

So their recruiting system begins with misleading advertising and spam.  That doesn’t sound like the kind of recruiting system I want to use!

Have you had any experiences like these? Let’s start a network marketing hall of shame and blow the cover on all these people!

- Ben Fitts

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