Breaking News: Ignite 360 Discontinues MLM Channel

May 11th, 2011

I just finished listening to a video from Troy Dooly where he announced that on May 1st 2011 Ignite 360 discontinued their MLM Channel and switched over to Direct Sales.

This follows the recent announcement from MLM Watchdog on May 9, 2011 that “Tru Chocolate goes direct retail kills off MLM sale“.  (Tru Chocolate is not the same company that is now part of Youngevity)

Two other MLM companies recently did the same thing.  EIRO Research about 5 months ago, and Xelr8 back in January of 2010.

The last major MLM that I remember previous to Xelr8 was when Metabolife started selling their products in stores back in 2000 and then dumped all their distributors in 2002.

While this is bad news for the representatives of these companies, it could be good news for the strong well established network marketing companies that are showing growth.

Brett Shelite
The HBB Advisor

Making Money On Internet – Can Real Money Be Made On The Internet?

March 29th, 2010

Hardly a day goes by that I am not asked at least once if the average person can really make money on the internet.

And my answer might surprise you.

While it may be possible, the AVERAGE person almost always does not and will not make money on the internet or from any form of home based business.

Why?

Simple… the average person is always looking for the next hot program to JUMP into.

The average person thinks they have to be one of the first to join something so they are always looking for start ups.

The average person wants to pay a few dollars ( or better yet nothing) to join a business but yet they want to and expect to get rich.

The average person joins a program but doesn’t want to spend any money or take any time to advertise.

The average person expects to join then sit down on the couch and watch TV and wait for the mail to arrive with their checks.

So NO… the average person does not do well with any type of home based business.  Doesn’t matter if the business is offline or online.

I know… I used to be average myself.
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Constantly Failing in Your Home Based Business or MLM?

March 27th, 2010

If you are then it is time to STOP.

Stop Failing
Stop Making It So Complicated
Stop Making Excuses

Making money from the comfort of your own him does not have to be difficult.  In fact it can be much easier than being or staying Just Over Broke in your J.O.B.

And if you are currently unemployed, underemployed, or simply looking for another job then STOP right now and consider this.

You can actually make more money on your own!

And the only reason people claim that making money from home is difficult is because they refuse to learn the skills needed for success.  And those who give up and blame it on the company they are with, or their upline or downline just don’t get it.
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How To Build A Real Lifetime Residual Income From Home With Your Home Based Business

March 25th, 2010

To my loyal readers.

As most of you already know, over the last several years I have been advocating multiple streams of income.

The reason for this is because several years ago I built up a large organization in a network marketing company.  The ownership and management of this company quickly let all of its distributors down and went out of business.

Knowing what I know now, I can honestly say that getting involved with that company should not have happened for several reasons.  First of all it was a start up.  So of course there was a strong risk involved.

Did you know that over the last 50 years that the Direct Sales Industry has been keeping records, that around 51 thousand direct sales companies have registered to do business in the US and Canada?  Of those companies only 75 has managed to hit the $100 Million mark in cumulative sales – NOT IN A YEAR – but in the lifetime of their company.

In addition to that, it is a well known fact that most companies fail within their first year and the majority of the ones that make it that far will close their doors by the end of their second year in business.

What does that tell us?

Obviously start ups are risky and almost never make it to long term success.

After getting burned by the above mentioned company I decided to forgo MLM all together and put most of my efforts into marketing direct pay companies that pay me off of my efforts.  And I have done very well with these programs.

But these types of programs are just like a J.O.B. in a lot of ways.  There just is no real leverage involved.

However, during the last few years I have known that if I truly wanted to achieve my goal of building a real walk away residual income that I would have to get back into network marketing.

 

Best of Luck to you all.

Brett Shelite
The HBB Advisor

Postcard Marketing – Is Instant Postcard Wealth Real?

December 16th, 2009

Hi Everone.

I just wanted to put up a quick announcement about my newest hub that I recently posted on hubpages.

You can check it out by going to Postcard Marketing – Is Instant Postcard Wealth For Real?

By the way if you are wondering how I am doing by following the exact instructions in the PCM course here you go.

I continue to receive opt-ins and sales on a daily basis.  So if you purchase the course and utilize the resell rights then you have a hot product that is proven to convert well.

In addition I continue to do postcard campaigns for a couple of my business opportunities that I promote and they continue to produce sign ups.

I am using several of the postcards that are suggested in the course and I purchased my list from one of the brokers mentioned in the course.

I have also discovered another broker that has some outstanding quality leads that are pulling very, very well for me.  I share this lead source to anyone who purchases the course from my Postcard Marketing site.

So yes… it really does work.

Best of Luck to you all.

Brett
The HBB Advisor