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September 11, 2009

Reverse 411 Sites

A reverse phone book is basically a directory which allows you to look up someone’s name and other personal details by using that person’s phone number alone. There are various types of such directories and people tend to find them very useful for a number of different reasons. Some make use of such directories for security purposes, such as the verification of the identities of people or company representatives who have called them. Others use these services purely for inquisitive reasons. You might have received a call you suspect is a prank call and you might simply want to find out who is doing the calling.

Many reasons exist why a person might find a reverse phone look up service convenient. People using online dating services might want to enquire more about people of interest. Parents might use it to keep track of whoever is on the phone with the children. Spouses may use this service if they are suspicious of certain calls to their husband or wife. There are also people who simply use these directories to check their own data and check what is stored about them online for everyone to see.

A reverse cell phone number search service makes it possible to look up name, address and other info with onlya cell phone number to start from. Sometimes such services offer additional information as well, sometimes they don’t, in any case, at least you should expect to get a name to match the cell phone number you are searching with. These directories are useful for many purposes, which is obvious from the multitude of similar services offered and the popularity of them. Compare to how the old style physical yellow pages and phone books have been useful throughout the years, reverse lookup services serve an even much more crucial need.

The majority of reverse phone directories make sure they offer a valuable service. The majority provide a starting point similar to a search engine and give you full control of all the personal data you want to find, whenever you need it. People are always surprised by the simplicity of these interfaces, behind the surface lies comprehensive and detailed information. It’s also great that you don’t have to be a CSI detective or a member of the FBI to access information that can really make a change in your life.

People have their various reasons for choosing to use one reverse cell phone directory or the other but the basics of the matter is that the directories they choose to use, supply them with the needed information that they’re looking for such as an address and a name to match a particular phone number.

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March 20, 2009

Isn’t MLM One of Those Pyramid Schemes?

This is a question that we often get asked.  And the answer of course is “Definitely Not!”  Though MLM and pyramid schemes may seem to share some similarities, there’s a BIG difference which makes MLM legal and pyramiding ILLEGAL.

In pyramid schemes, income is generated solely on the process of recruiting others into the pyramid. Sometimes a product or service of questionable value is involved, but you are most often buying into the right to recruit others and collect money.

This is illegal!  Also, in pyramid schemes, those who get in first and are at the top win, while everyone else loses.

In a legitimate MLM company, representatives are paid only on the movement of products or selling of services, not merely recruiting.

Sometimes, there’s also compensation based on the training and managing of your marketing team.

Also, in an MLM company, no matter where you are positioned or when you joined, you can advance to the very highest income levels, and pass those who sponsor you.

Multi Level Marketing is nothing more that a business model that uses independent distributors with a multi level commission payout plan to move products from production to the consumer.

But you ask, “Isn’t the shape of an MLM organization similar to a pyramid?”  And the answer to that question is yes, but that is true of all hierarchical organizations.  For example, the shape of all normal businesses is in the shape of a pyramid.  There is something like a President or CEO, several Vice Presidents, more Division Directors, Group Directors, and finally the workers that make up the bulk of the workforce.  Each level down has more people at that level.

The same holds true for governmental departments, and the military.  At the top of a governmental department, there is the Secretary, then Deputy Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, heads of lesser groupings and then the mass of workers.

All these organizations are shaped like a pyramid, so it is not the shape of the organization that makes a difference.  It has to do with the actual selling or not selling of products of value.  If real products are being sold and consumed, and the movement of these products from production to the end consumer is the primary purpose of the business, then generally the company is a legal entity.

If the primary purpose of the company is to simply recruit more and more members and there is no real product of value being sold, then you have a illegal operation.  Chain letters are an example of this kind of activity. 

What makes a MLM company different from a traditional retail company is the manner in which the sales force is paid. In traditional retail and direct sales companies, the salesperson is a company employee and earns a commission on only the products he or she sells directly.  In MLM companies the salesperson is not an employee of the company, but rather an independent distributor.

The magic of MLM is that independent distributors earn commissions not only for their own efforts, but also on the efforts of other distributors that they recruit into the business.  Earning 1% of a hundred peoples efforts is always better than earning 100% on your own efforts, as John Paul Getty noted.

The term “multi level” comes from the process where by one distributor recruits other people to become distributors and the new distributors are placed under them in what is known as a downline.  Each distributor is paid a retail commission on the products they sell themselves, and a wholesale commission on the products their downline sells (down to some designated level).

The larger downline a distributor can recruit, the larger will be his or her commissions as they will earn a wholesale override commission on all the products moved by their downline organization down to the designated level.  These commissions can add up quickly for distributors with large downlines.

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