Network Marketing Business School Distributor Contest

Network Marketing Business School is launching a new distributor contest to help you to build your business. As a brand new company, NMBS is designed to be a training web site for distributors looking to learn how to build their network marketing businesses.

The company is launching two contests. Each contest will run for a period of 12 months and network marketing distributors may enter the contest each month during the contest period.

Contest #1 – Best Network Marketing Article of the Month

The first contest is for the best network marketing article of the month. To participate in the contest all you have to do is submit the best network marketing article that you have written for the month.

Each month, Network Marketing Business School will select a topic for participants to write about. They will then review each article submitted to the web site and declare a winner.

Even if you don’t win the contest, it will still be of benefit for you to submit an article to the contest. Each article submitted to the contest that is considered worthy of publication will be featured on the company’s web site, not just the winner. This gives you free exposure as you will be able to submit a bio and link with your article.

For the month of January 2009, the article topic is “Overcoming Objections.” The winning author will be notified and will need to submit a photo and information necessary to provide the author with their prize.

So what is the prize? The winning author will be featured on 30 high traffic web pages owned by Network Marketing Business School. The winning author will also receive a page where he or she can share their story. They will also be to pre sell visitors back to their web site.

Contest #2 – Networking Competition Contest

Not a good writer? No need to worry! You can still enter contest #2 without necessarily being a good writer. In fact, to win contest #2, you don’t really need to have any specific talent or skill set. All you need to do is enter and follow some simple instructions.

To enter this contest, all you need to do is promote Network Marketing Business School on your web site, blog or social networking profile page. You don’t have to link to the home page if you don’t want to. For instance, if there’s a specific training page you like, you can link to that instead.

A word to the wise – only promote programs or products you truly feel will be of value to your visitors.

Valid links include links on your web site, links on your social networking site profile page like Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. You can link on your blog or link on a discussion forum in your signature.

To qualify, simply submit the URL where the link is at and you will be entered into the contest. Each month, the company will select one of the links at random and the winner will receive the same prize as the winner for the best author contest.

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Ad Surf Daily – Legitimate Victim Or Illegal Ponzi Scheme?

 By Mike Klingler

Ad Surf Daily, a company that offered an opportunity selling advertising was recently halted by the US Attorney’s office in Washington DC. The government is charging the company with operating as an illegal Ponzi scheme and seized all company assets back in August.

Typically whenever you hear about companies being shut down, you see all different types of reactions. Defenders of the company criticize the government and support the company. Detractors bash the company and applaud the government.

Currently all assets controlled by the company have been seized by the federal government. The case is currently in court and a judge will decide on whether or not Ad Surf Daily is a legitimate business or an illegal Ponzi scheme. 

Similar to a pyramid scheme, a Ponzi scheme is illegal whereas a multi level marketing company (mlm) which is frequently confused with pyramid schemes, is not only legal but an excellent business model.

Ad Surf Daily - Legitimate business or Illegal business operation?

Ad Surf Daily was founded in 2006. The company is an internet marketing company that sells advertisements. As a member you could buy advertising from the company to promote any product or service. In return you could reduce the cost of your advertising or even make a profit by surfing the web and looking at other advertisements.

This year the company experienced incredible growth. Early this year they were at over 20,000 members. By the time they were forced to halt operations they had over 100,000 members.

Ad Surf Daily certainly has its fans. Since the shut down, there have literally been thousands of letters or phone calls made in support of the Ad Surf Daily program.

The government’s complaint is that the service that Ad Surf Daily offers isn’t a legitimate service. Instead, it is simply set up as a front for the true purpose of the business, which is to launder money illegally. The reason is because of the way the compensation plan works.

Ad Surf Compensation Plan – Lucrative Payout or Illegal Ponzi Scheme?

The company charges $1 per ad unit. An ad unit allows one person who is surfing the program to view the web site that you are advertising. To qualify to get paid that day you must purchase advertising and you must also view 24 web sites a day.

The company takes the total amount collected from its members for selling advertising. 60% of that amount is divided by the amount of units sold. Then each person who bought units receives their amount paid to them provided they viewed their required 24 web sites.

As an example, suppose the company sold one million ad units in a day. 60% of that amount comes to six hundred thousand dollars. This number divided by a million comes out to 60 cents. Each member is paid back 60 cents for each ad unit he or she purchased.

Here’s where it gets dicey. If you recruited someone into the Ad Surf Daily program, you also received a 10% commission off any advertisements they purchase. If they recruited someone, you received a 5% commission off the advertisements their recruit purchased.

So let’s say I invested $1000 and bought 1000 ad units. I would get $600 of my investment back. You have the option to take the money out or leave it in your account. If you leave it in the account and the company earned the same amount the next day, you would earn an additional $600. This continues until you earn 150% of your initial advertisement, in this case $1500.

Now let’s say I recruited 5 of my friends who also purchased 1000 ad units each. I make 10% commission from their purchases, which is $100 each. For 5 friends, that comes to $500. That means I have now gotten $1100 back.

Now my 5 friends also recruited 5 friends each. Their 5 friends brought 1000 ad units as well. I make 5% commission from their purchases, which is $50 each. 25 friends times $50 each comes to $1250.

Therefore, just by you purchasing $1000 in advertising, referring 5 friends and they refer 5 friends, you make $2850 from your initial $1000 purchase.

Here’s the problem according to the government’s viewpoint. How can the company continue to afford to pay out 150% to each member? They can only do so if they recruit additional members. Do these members have a legitimate interest in the advertisements or are they primarily interested in making money?

The government’s argument is that they can only pay out 150% if they continue to recruit new members and that the majority of these members simply care about getting their 150% payout and not about advertising their business.

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MLM Companies: How To Write A Review Of Your MLM Company Without Putting People To Sleep

By Terri Stallcop

Choosing a Network Marketing CompanyWhy write a review of your MLM Company? Why do people write reviews about anything - book reviews, product reviews, movie reviews, etc.? People make a living from just writing reviews so there must be a reason; a good reason.

MLM Company Reviews Are In The News

There is a huge demand for MLM company reviews now because of such dramatic, almost daily, changes in our economy. The increase in demand for news and reviews about MLM companies is a pretty awesome responsibility for us. What is it that people are really searching for when they seek information about your MLM company?

Remember what we used to say in order to keep from screaming at a horror show, “It’s only a movie, it’s only a movie.” Movie reviews are one thing. The horrors of the economy for some people are another.

It is critical for those of us in the MLM industry to address the need. When people search for information about MLM companies, it’s probably not just their curiosity. It is perhaps a problem that we can help them solve.

Write A Critical Review of an MLM

If today, right now, you were considering a specific MLM company to build your entire future on, beginning this week, you would want to find valuable information in a hurry! It would not be one of those times when you would say “just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.” Just the facts would put you to sleep.

Write a critical review of your MLM company and products. Does that sound like bad advice? Professional critics are paid to be critical. Movie critics are not always movie bashers. They are if they don’t like the movie. But a critical review isn’t always criticism. Some movies get rave reviews from the toughest critics.

Movie reviews help people decide what to do for a couple of hours. It is extremely important that we realize that writing a review of our MLM company is perhaps helping people decide what to do for the next few years.

Write A Biased Review of Your MLM Company: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Honesty is the best policy. Honesty from us is so valuable to the reader because we speak from experience. If we don’t do that, who will? Not the network marketing company and not very many distributors. Most distributors think writing a review of their MLM is a chance to advertise. They don’t realize writing 101 – know your audience. Write for them. Be sure to provide a valuable, honest, critical review – what you like as well as what you don’t like about your network marketing company and your products.

Don’t Advertise In An MLM Review

Don’t write a review for the purpose of promoting your network marketing company, you or your team. Do that in your marketing content but not in a review. If your reader searches for a review, they are looking for a critic. Someone who has been there and will tell it like it is.

Movie critics go to the movie and then write about it. If they haven’t seen it yet, why do we need to hear advertising from them? We can just watch the trailer and all the promotion out there that only money can buy.

A review should be a review, biased by and based on experience. Don’t let your reader down. Write to help them weigh the pros and cons of your MLM company, giving them an honest, straight forward review of what you know. If you write like that, your reader will stay awake, be inspired, and maybe even decide what to do because of you. Who knows, the reward for your integrity could possibly be a new recruit!

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Terri Stallcop RN, MSN, CNAA is a nurse and business owner. She started her career in critical care nursing, then after a few years she received a master’s degree in nursing administration. She spent the next several years in healthcare systems as director of nursing and now, though “retired,” she is still building teams to promote health and wellness worldwide. As an avid Internet network marketer, she is building a global business, providing Internet marketing training for her team.