Jeff and Michelle Altgilbers from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA are one of the top earners in 4Life and high up in the Business For Home Top 200 ranks at est. $200,000 per month.
His business produces $17 Million a Month.
Jeff started that with only $200 dollars in 18 months and went from broke to moving into a dream house.
He has earned over $12 Million in life time earnings and get paid out of 53 countries.
Ted Nuyten had the honor to interview Jeff and Michelle Altgilbers.
Jeff and Michelle, how did you got involved into the Network Marketing business? Who invited you?
I got involved back in 1978 with Forever Living Products by a friend. I did not know anything about MLM and keep in mind at that time it was pre-internet almost pre-anything other than the phone and post office.
What was your opinion about MLM before you got involved?
I did not have an opinion since neither I nor my first sponsor understood the business model. I understood you needed to sell the product and get customers. The concept of having a a distribution network was unknown to me then.
What is the secret to your success?
I have always believed the secret to success
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Paul Burks – ZeekRewards President Charged For Operating $850 Million Ponzi Scheme
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The president and founder of ZeekRewards, Paul Burks, has been indicted on federal charges for operating an Internet Ponzi scheme that took in more than $850 million dollars, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, USA
The criminal indictment was returned on 24 October 2014 by a federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte, charging Burks, 67, of Lexington, N.C., with wire and mail fraud conspiracy, wire and mail fraud, and tax fraud conspiracy.
Russell F. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, Charlotte Field Division and Thomas J. Holloman III, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) join U.S. Attorney Tompkins in making today’s announcement.
According to allegations contained in the indictment, from January 2010 through August 2012, Paul Burks was the owner of Rex Venture Group, LLC (RVG), through which he owned and operated Zeekler, a sham Internet-based penny auction company, and its purported advertising division, ZeekRewards (collectively “Zeek”).
The indictment alleges that Burks and his conspirators induced victims – including over 1,500 victims in the Charlotte area – to invest in their fraudulent scheme, by falsely representing that Zeekler was generating massive retail profits from
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Herbalife Will Ban All USA Reps Websites
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Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) is already dealing with the allegations of running a pyramid scheme, and has once again become the topic of discussion due to its new policy. This time, however, it’s for something that can counter the allegations.
As a part of its strategy to prove the allegations wrong and make its business model more transparent and understandable, Herbalife has come up with a new policy that is expected to be enforced on November 15. According to the reports from New York Post, Herbalife will ban all the websites run by USA distributors and will take their business to a corporate controlled website. The company designed the website goherbalife.com for specifically this purpose.
This website not only helps the company take the distributors’ business into its own hands, but will serve several other purposes as well. Herbalife has recently started to focus on improving its brand image and the use of direct marketing strategies. It is now taking new initiatives for building a strong relationship with the community and giving its consumers a feel of connection with the Herbalife brand.
This is because the website will enable the nutrition-products manufacturer to provide a consistent image of its brands. While earlier each distributor was presenting
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ViSalus Honored With Highly-Acclaimed W3 Award for Creative Excellence In Web Content
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ViSalus’ Content Marketing department received an esteemed 2014 W3 Silver Award in Copywriting for its Vi Blog and its blog extension program, the Vi Today’s Share.
The W3 Awards honor creative excellence on the web, and recognize the professionals behind the creative and marketing teams of the award-winning sites, marketing programs, social content and mobile sites. In its ninth year, W3 is the major web competition where companies submit content to be sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Artists (AIVA), an invitation-only, membership-based organization of leading web professionals.
More than 4,000 entries worldwide were submitted — many from Fortune 500 companies and international agencies and firms. Entries were judged by the AIVA in four categories with criteria upholding a high standard of excellence.
“We are so proud of our outstanding, hard-working and innovative team of marketing professionals,” said Blake Mallen, ViSalus Co-Founder and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. “From sharing exclusive interviews and company news, to industry tips and inspirational stories from within the Vi Community, our marketing team uses storytelling to show how we are transforming lives across the globe.”
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Global 1 Entertainment Successfully Launches Into The Fantasy Sports Market
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For the first time, a network marketing company is offering fantasy sports games.
G1E Fantasy Sports launched August 30, 2014 as an online and mobile platform by G1E, or Global 1 Entertainment, a worldwide network marketing company, headquartered in the USA and Hong Kong.
“This is unprecedented in the world of Direct Sales,” says Rick Maike, the CEO of Global 1 Entertainment.
“We wanted to bring our Independent Business Owners (IBO’s) yet another high opportunity product category that had zero competition in the MLM Entertainment field.”
It’s been a hit so far. The company reports a doubling of customers each week in the first month.
“This has been one of the most successful customer acquisition programs I have seen in the MLM industry over my last 20 years as a compliance officer,” said David Koerner, Global 1 Entertainment in-house Counsel and Compliance Officer.
“Our team in the field has really embraced this project because it is easy and fun to get people to play.”
Many of the customers playing on G1E Fantasy Sports are not Global 1 Entertainment IBO’s. They are just customers of G1E IBO’s. Each time an IBO or a customer plays a new game, G1E sends Business Volume (BV) to the upline.
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Topmodel Tyra Banks Launches Her Own Direct Selling Cosmetics Company
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Tyra Banks, is an American television personality, producer, author, actress, and former top model. She graduated from Harvard Business School’s three-year Owner/President Management Program.
Tyra first became famous as a model, appearing twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and working for Victoria’s Secret as one of their original Angels.
Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America’s Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and was the host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.
Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world’s most influential people by Time magazine.
Introducing her latest with a flashy video, rife with a jumble of made-up words and humblebrag hyperboles, Tyra heralds her new line as the future of beauty.
Part of Tyra’s cosmetics company is based on a model of direct selling. Representatives, which the model calls “beautytainers,” throw parties or set up online shops where they can sell Tyra-branded products to other people.
Tyra Banks according to her website:
“You can be one of the first Beautytainers by completing 7 easy questions. After that, be on the lookout for emails from me that keep you
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Total Life Changes Tremendous Growth In The USA
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The history of Total Life Changes dates back about 15 years.
The greatest growth of the company occurred just five years ago when CEO Jack Fallon shared his vision with Master Distributer, Armand Puyolt. Together, they laid the foundation for growth and within 4 years they expanded across all of South America, Asia, Korea, Africa, Europe and Canada. Total Life Changes now has offices in over 15 countries.
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Now, TLC TEAM USA is launching a series of exclusive events across the U.S. and South America. The Beautiful You Tour will feature the company’s hottest new product line, Iaso™ Impressions, a slimming compression garment coupled with Iaso™
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Blyth And ViSalus Founders Complete ViSalus Transaction
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ViSalus and Other Preferred Shareholders Now Own Approximately 90% of ViSalusTransaction Extinguished 2017 Redemption Obligation
Blyth, Inc. today announced that it and the Founders and certain other preferred stockholders of its ViSalus network marketing subsidiary have completed the exchange of all of the Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock of ViSalus for shares of ViSalus Common Stock.
On September 2, 2014, Blyth had announced that it and ViSalus’s Founders had reached an agreement in principle to effect the exchange which reduced Blyth’s ownership interest in ViSalus from 80.9% to approximately 10%, and increased ViSalus’s Founders and its other preferred stockholders ownership from 19.1% to approximately 90%.
In addition, the transaction extinguished the obligation of ViSalus to redeem the ViSalus Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock on December 31, 2017 for an aggregate price of $143.2 million which obligation had been guaranteed by Blyth.
In connection with this transaction, Blyth amended the indenture governing its 6.00% Senior Notes due 2017 to provide for the mandatory redemption of the Senior Notes on the earlier of March 4, 2015 and the date, if any, that Blyth consummates a new financing. Cowen and Company, LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Blyth in connection with such amendment.
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Sheila Medina – Plexus Slim Top Earner Interview
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Sheila Medina is Diamond Ambassador, the Top Rank in Plexus Worldwide compensation plan. Sheila is married to Ray Medina and lives in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
A Diamond Ambassador has personally sponsored and maintain 7 Qualified Ambassadors and have a minimum of 4,500 points in the organization, with 1,125 of those points coming outside of the primary leg. Sheila has a team of over 5,000 active team members all across the USA and Canada. The Plexus Convention 2014 in Dallas draw 8,000 distributors.
Plexus Worldwide, got its start eight years ago in Scottsdale, Arizona, and has since expanded into Canada and Australia. With a strong focus on weight-loss and pain-relief products, The direct seller generated 16,458 percent growth over three years, closing out 2013 with $159.8 million in revenue.
Sheila, how did you got into the Direct Selling industry, who invited you?
In 1996, married with two children, I decided it was time take control of my life. I was successful out in the corporate world but I had no time for myself or my family, so I joined a direct selling company and had 15 years of success.
In 2008 I became an ambassador with Plexus Worldwide when they were just a breast health
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Vemma Video Wins Videographer Award
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Vemma® has been presented with a prestigious 2014 Award of Excellence in the Company Overview category in the 18th Annual Videographer Awards.
“This is Vemma” tells the story of Vemma Nutrition Company, a health and wellness company that is “focused on providing innovative wellness products to enhance people’s health, while assisting to create an incredible life for those that want it,” explains Founder and CEO BK Boreyko. The “This is Vemma” video features BK Boreyko, the man behind the movement, who is passionate about helping people live the life they deserve.
“Vemma has a two-part formula for success that resonates with people in more than 50 countries around the world. The first part is enhanced health through supplementation, and Vemma delivers the results people are looking for with our entire line of healthy beverages.
The second part is the sharing of Vemma products. I devote my advertising dollars, literally millions of dollars every month, to the people who choose to champion our mission and promote the Vemma brand. The real power of our success lies in the simplicity of our business model,” says Boreyko.
Judging for the Videographer Awards was conducted by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), a