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1. Vemma Leads

Qualifying Vemma leads can be one of the most time consuming and cost-intensive parts of running a networking or MLM business. Buying the so-called "phone qualified leads" can be very expensive. So is there a better way to build a Vemma, Arbonne, Quixtar, Nu Skin, MonaVie, Big Planet, Uptrend2u, Send Out Cards, or 10-in-One-Vitamins business without buying leads? Yes! Buy customers instead of leads.

The Home Business Marketing Group has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. Those customers are already purchasing products; they are not leads. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

The Home Business Marketing Group teaches delegation, not duplication, to build a large organization. The Home Business Marketing Group is the first off-shoot of The Home Business Marketing Group, architects of the marketing plan, now being implemented by The Home Business Marketing Group. Members of the Home Business Marketing Group work together for the good of the whole team. This synergistic approach is something you will never see in other MLM companies. Quite honestly, you will see the exact opposite, every members fighting over the same prospects.

Vemma® is a wonderful company with fantastic products, great leadership, and a generous compensation plan. Vemma® is a fantastic company and also has a tremendous leadership team. I'm sure I could look at all of the companies listed above and say the same thing about each one of them. I can also say the same thing about what their leaders, and top income earners say, buy leads, and duplicate what your sponsor does. The problem with that type of philosophy is not everyone is the same. How can the average person duplicate what a top recruiter can do? They can't! That's why the majority of MLM businesses fail. They teach duplication, and duplication does not work.

What does work is having an organization of top loaded with customers, not reps. What does work is delegation, not duplication. What does work is teamwork, not one person doing it all. Having enough customers to bring in revenue works; teaching delegation rather than duplication works; and working together as a team works. It's a proven fact, and I have seen it first hand.

The majority of MLM companies, like Vemma® are great. Their products, for the most part, are of the highest quality. Their leadership is usually the best found in the marketplace. But their teachings and training methods are old school and simply do not work.

Take the high-tech approach to building a large business through teamwork, delegation, and customers, and stop spending your time trying to convince the few interested leads, you may get, to take action and make a purchase. Customers already know what they want and are sold on your product. It makes good business sense to buy customers and stop buying leads. It truly is the ultimate way to build a business.

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below. When someone calls, tell them Jeffrey Sloe sent you!

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor to The Home Business Marketing Group
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
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2. Send Out Cards Leads 731

Business opportunities are created when you have a product or service that fills a need in the market place. Send Out Cards fills a huge need:

American Greetings, a multi billion dollar greeting card company, conducted a study to find out the buying habits and needs of their consumers. They found that the average consumer buys 10 greeting cards per year but has a need for more than 70 greeting cards. The 2 primary reasons they don't buy 70+ cards per year is due to 1) inconvenience, and 2) They forget. Obviously, Send Out Cards has created solutions to those problems and built a distribution system that will educate people on how to use their system. You can be a part of that system, fill a consumer need and make big money.

Send Out Cards® offers a Ground Floor In-Home Opportunity. You can make money from your home by sending out cards and sharing this unique concept.

A testimonial about Send Out Cards is found on Google:

...This time I decided to join and watch, rather than jump in and promote. I sat back for six months to see how the company progressed, all the while watching how they implemented new technology. I've also put all the services they offer to the test.
I watched as they made adjustments to their program based on member feedback, something you rarely see in this industry. And finally, I watched their site transform into the professional presentation that it is today.
What I experienced, was the surprising effectiveness of their product, for BOTH personal use, and business use. This can be hard to find in today's "business opportunity" marketplace. And this is the main reason I am recommending SendOutCards to you today. The service will save you time. It will save you money. And when used correctly it will MAKE you money. Potentially serious money...

Send Out Cards® allows you to earn an income seven different ways. All that is required of you is the desire, motivation, and discipline to work from home. The seven ways to earn an income are: 1.) Customer Direct Retail Profits; 2.) Retail Profits from Preferred Customers (Paid Monthly); 3.) Coaching Bonus From New Distributor Accounts (Paid Weekly); 4;) Coaching Bonus from New Distributor Accounts (Paid Weekly); 5.) Treat em Right Seminar Bonus (Paid Weekly); 6.) 7-level Volume Bonus paid on Greeting Cards Sold (Paid Monthly); and 7.) Leadership Volume Bonus paid on Greeting Cards Sold (Paid Monthly).

Not only can you earn money by direct selling, but you can earn money by signing up and supporting other distributors.

If you are building a Send Out Cards® business, you can purchase real time leads. There are Lead Generation sources for Premium Surveyed Real Time Leads on the Internet, just Google Send Out Cards® Leads.

Some of the MLM Leads are fresh, responsive, and definitely interested in pursuing a Home Based Business. You can also find what the lead sources call "by far the hottest Business Opportunity Leads available anywhere!"

Real Time Leads provides the most advanced sorting options and features available in the industry. Many companies have Real Time, database interactive ordering systems, that are state of the art and allows their customers full access to every lead they have.

Leads cost about $1.50 to $2.00 depending how many you buy. I have also seen phone surveyed leads cost at or near $5.00. That is way too much money to pay for a lead.

I don't buy leads. I buy customers. They cost $50 each. Half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part.

If you would like to learn more about buying customers, go to The Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

3. Quixtar Leads

Have you ever wondered - If there was a better way to build your Quixtar™ business than buying leads?

Have you had any success buying Quixtar Leads and trying to convince them to join you in your Quixtar™ business? Personally, I hate calling leads. I have discovered that buying customers instead of buying leads is a much better way to build a home business. I don't have the expense of buying leads and making long distance phone calls only to get rejected. Buying customers that are already purchasing the product is the only way I will do business now. You can go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and see why.

Quixtar™ is a great company for many distributors. Quixtar™offers an exciting business opportunity. Anyone with a passion for success can join one of the most respected network marketing companies in the industry. Quixtar is a $1 billion company and the number one online health and beauty retailer.

There is a slight problem with most network marketing companies. The Quixtar™ leaders, like all other MLM company leaders, teach duplication. Here's the problem; duplication is a myth. Building a large organization through duplication just does not happen. Why? Not all people are the same. Each person has his or her own unique gifts, talents, and passions. Not everyone is a great recruiter, which is what it takes to build a massive organization. You may be the best recruiter for your Quixtar™ leads, but can you train and retain all of your Quixtar™ distributors to be able to do what you can do? Simply stated, you cannot! Duplication DOES NOT work!

I have two suggestions for you: 1. Stop spending your hard earned marketing dollars on leads, and 2. Start building a business through delegation, not duplication. Consider the concept of buying customers, not leads, so you can focus on your team, not selling products, or recruiting people not interested in their own business. Let me explain!

The Home Business Marketing Group has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. That's paying customers already purchasing your products; they are not a lead. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

The Home Business Marketing Group teaches delegation, not duplication, to build a large organization. The Home Business Marketing Group is the first off-shoot of The Home Business Marketing Group, architects of the marketing plan, now being implemented by The Home Business Marketing Group. Members of the Home Business Marketing Group work together for the good of the whole team. This synergistic approach is something you will never see in other MLM companies. Quite honestly, you will see the exact opposite, every members fighting over prospects.

Take the right approach to building a large business through teamwork, and stop spending your time trying to convince the few interested leads, you may get, to take action and make a purchase. Customers already know what they want and are sold on your product. It makes good business sense to buy customers and stop buying leads. It truly is the ultimate way to build a business.

This is free information by one of the most successful people in the industry, Tom Prendergast, CEO Inetekk. Do yourself, not to mention your business, a favor and listen as Tom lays it out step by step in plain speak. No bragging or boasting - Just fact.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to the Home Business Marketing Group website.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

4. Vemma Leads 121

Quality companies that produce products and provide income opportunities to the public can be found all over Google. Vemma™ is one of those good companies. Joining their business opportunity would be a good idea if the company had a good prospecting plan in place to acquire Vemma Leads. The last thing you want is to end up with the sole responsibility of building your business through Vemma Leads.

The number one reason people join a MLM or Network Marketing Company is to create an additional stream of income. Most new reps pour their heart and soul into their new business. They soon find out that they have to sell the companies products and then convince people to join their organization. YIKES!

The new Vemma™ reps typically turn to purchasing Vemma leads to build their business. After a few calls, they find out that the leads have been called many times and don't want to hear from another person about another skin care, healthcare, or network marketing product or opportunity again. PERIOD! The new reps dreams and hopes of making a secondary income is shattered. The leads that have been purchased are tired and sold over and over again. These Vemma leads have been pretty much picked over but even if they aren't once you get the lead, you still have to call them and sell them on your business.

I personally don't want to call any Vemma Leads.

That's why I buy customers and not Vemma Leads. I refuse to purchase a lead and call anyone. I have done it and don't like it! I have heard stories of people being hung up on, cursed at, and had to listen to people tell then that they wish they could get off the list that is being sold. So when you buy the list you are not getting a quality name but a name that has a history of being sold over and over again to unsuspecting people who are trying to build a business.

Are you sick of spending money on worthless Vemma Leads? What if I told you there was a better and more exciting way to build your business? What if you could buy customers, instead of leads? Would that be a revolutionary approach to the same old problem that ALL network marketers face?

The Home Business Marketing Group

The Home Business Marketing Group has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. That's paying customers already purchasing your products; they are not Vemma Leads. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

The Home Business Marketing Group is the first off-shoot of Its Good Business, architects of the marketing plan, and it is now being implemented by our roup. Members of the Home Business Marketing Group work together for the good of the whole team. This synergistic approach is something you will never see in other MLM companies.

For more information on this revolutionary way to start your business on solid ground, visit us at the Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
Vemma Leads

5. Uptrend2u Leads 1130

Uptrend2u Leads and Your Uptrend2u® Business

The success of your independent Uptrend2u® network marketing distributorship is directly related to relationships, relationships with customers, other Uptrend2u® associates, and the company.

Success is measured in many ways including lifestyle, financial freedom, and accomplishing personal goals. Tied closely to your business success is the company's distributor support structure and the method by which Uptrend2u® will compensate you.

Experience has shown that a simple, rewarding and well defined compensation plan is the key in planning your efforts for maximum return and effectiveness.

At Uptrend2u®, they have a very simple and straight forward compensation plan that achieves these goals. As you study the Uptrend2u Compensation Plan, you will find that it is very concise and easy to understand, which helps you when explaining to others. You will also find that the plan can lead to success and rewards for you as well as those who join your Uptrend2u® team. Here's some additional information on the Uptrend2u Compensation Plan:

Uptrend2u's compensation plan, the Uptrend2u® Compensation Plan, is one of the most dynamic and generous in the network marketing industry. From your first great day in the Uptrend2u® business, you can begin earning money. Whether your goal is to develop a retail client base, build and train an extensive network organization, or a combination of both, the Uptrend2u Plan offers you lucrative rewards. The rewards include: Retail markup potential, cash bonuses, sales overrides, generation overrides, and many other benefits.

Uptrend2u® obviously has all the bases covered when it comes to products, comp plans, fast start bonuses and all the rest of the elements seen in MLM businesses. Uptrend2u® is dedicated to assisting their distributors to become successful. Although MLM marketing is a tough game, you must be willing to work hard, never quit, and keep the information flowing consistently, in order to make sales.

How do you plan on building your Uptrend2u® business? Will you buy Uptrend2u leads from one of the many online leads selling companies?

Are you willing to make the cold phone calls to people you do not know, and face the fact of rejection on a daily basis? Do you have what it takes to make those cold calls? Will you ask ALL of your friends and family to join your Uptrend2u® business?

If you have a Uptrend2u® business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, you may want to change to plan B. I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, and in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive, and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

What if you NEVER had to buy leads, make the calls or convince others to join your business?

The Home Business Marketing Group, of which I'm a major part, teach our team members to buy customers, Not Leads! You can do the same if you will just go to the Home Business Marketing Group web site, fill out the form and come to one of our business opportunity meetings.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
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6. Quixtar Leads - 1127

Quixtar is a $1 billion company and the number one online health and beauty retailer. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs have earned more than $2.2 billion in bonuses and other incentives since 1999. They're backed by Quixtar and other IBOs who have succeeded before them and support them every step of the way.

Quixtar™, a subsidiary of Alticor, was created to give entrepreneurs the ability to have Web-based businesses of their own. The company's network of thousands of Independent Business Owners (IBOs) sells Quixtar's products in health, beauty, and other consumer categories. IBOs have generated more than U.S.$6.8 billion in sales since Quixtar was founded in 1999.

As a Web-based business, Quixtar™ has a strong focus on adopting leading-edge technologies. The company strives to provide IBOs with the best possible experience while maximizing the value of its technology investments. Since 1999, Quixtar has used Internet Information Services (IIS), part of the Windows Server® operating system, as its Web platform.

Quixtar™ is a MLM, Multi-Level Marketing opportunity. It is similar to a franchise except most franchises are granted exclusive territories or locations. However, in MLM a franchiser can usually recruit new franchises to add to their sales volume.

The goal of any MLM is sell some sort of product or service through non-traditional channels and recruit others utilizing personal contacts and then leveraging their reputation as a way to generate acceptance of the business opportunity.

The basic idea to making money in the business is to build a business volume where you earn a high performance bonus percentage and your down line earns a smaller percentage. For instance if you were in the 21% bonus level, you would like your downline people to be in a bonus level that is much lower than yours, say of 12% or 15%. This way you can pocket 6%-9% on the sales of your downline. If you are paying out the same percentage to your downline as you earn, you will not make any money. One needs to have his downline earning a much lower percentage than one earns to be able to keep a fair portion of the bonus.

What about buying Quixtar Leads to build my business?

Should I buy Quixtar leads to build my business?
What is the ROI (return on investment) that I can expect from purchasing Quixtar Leads?
How many other people are being sold the same leads, even though the leads are promoted as being fresh and responsive?

Are you tired of the hype, lies and misrepresentation from lead brokers? Why not consider the alternative?

Never Buy Quixtar Leads Again . . . Buy Customers Not Quixtar Leads . . . No More Cold Calling

Enter The Home Business Marketing Group! They teach you how to buy customers Not leads to build your home business. These are not distributors; these a real customers who want to buy products. It even gets better! You don't have to advertise for these customers or even talk to them.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

7. MonaVie Leads | 1123

MonaVie™ is a wonderful company with fantastic products, wonderful leadership, and a generous compensation plan.

Humanity has been waiting for MonaVie™. And MonaVie™ has a mission--a daunting one. It begins with helping people enjoy a greater degree of wellness. MonaVie delivers dense, abundant, powerful nutrients that are transforming lives with remarkable swiftness!

A global, surging demand for natural and SAFE health solutions guides another part of MonaVie's mission--enabling individuals to build a legacy for their families by taking the MonaVie™ message to the masses.

MonaVie's most renowned ingredient, the legendary Acai Berry, is one of the few Brazilian exports that can directly protect the mighty rainforest itself. As word of the extraordinary benefits of drinking MonaVie reaches across nations and oceans, harvesting the rainforest FRUITS will become wiser Brazilian commerce than harvesting the trees themselves.

MonaVie™ juice is an incredible product. Just imagine drinking juice, to improve your health? Drinking MonaVie juice is that simple to make positive changes in your health. We all know we should eat more fruits and vegetables. But lives are busy. Quick meals are often a necessity. Fresh produce is expensive in many locales. We tend to get bored with apples, bananas and oranges. Parents don't have time to enforce healthy eating habits upon their children.

Because of the powerful phytonutrients from the broad color spectrum of nutrient-dense fruits in MonaVie™, here at last is a product that might well make up for many of the diet deficiencies in countries around the world.

The MonaVie™ Compensation Plan, hailed by networking professionals around the world as the most innovative and lucrative plan ever devised, allows for multiple ways to earn weekly income. The Plan combines the power of a New Generation Binary and its unlimited depth feature, with the wealth-creating feature of unlimited width.

MonaVie™ Leads

If you have a MonaVie™ business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, you may want to rethink your strategy. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

Here are some clear facts regarding leads and network marketing. Most MLM companies operate in the same manner. You may even know what I'm talking about! A lot of business leaders tell you to buy leads from them to build your business? Well, let me ask you a question here. How much money have you spent in building your MonaVie business? Hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of dollars?

Are you sick of spending money on worthless leads? What if I told you there was a better and more exciting way to build your business? What if you could buy customers, instead of leads? Would that be a revolutionary approach to the same old problem that ALL network marketers face?

If you would like to learn more about buying customers, just fill in the contact form and come to our meetings on Saturday afternoons. You will learn the right approach to building your business on the net.

By the way, you can continue to drink your MonaVie™ juice, just make money in an entirely new manner from now on!

Home Business Marketing Group

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisor.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://www.healthfulchoice.com

8. Vemma Leads - 1116

Building A Home Based Business with Vemma

As the Internet matures, so too has the way in which home based business professionals discover new and innovative ways to promote their products or services. It's funny when you look at snail mail today; its such an old way of doing business compared to email, blogging, and the relatively new Blackberries.

Vemma was founded by BK Boreyko and his family. Vemma's parent company, New Vision, is a revolutionary leader in health and wellness. With over $1 billion in total retail sales, this company helped pioneer liquid nutrition over 12 years ago by introducing the #1 selling liquid mineral supplement in North America. Vemma's unique global wellness philosophy delivers a results driven product. Vemma is an established company with ten's of thousands of satisfied monthly consumers, and world class customer service.

The Vemma family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, a generous Compensation Plan, and great products, Vemma offers a unique opportunity that can help make anyone's vision for the future a reality. BUT, there is one BIG problem.

If I join this opportunity, should I buy Vemma Leads to build my business?

As the Internet matures, many individuals and companies are recommending their distributors buy leads, including Vemma leads. They believe if they buy the so called fresh and responsive Vemma Leads from lead brokers, this, in turn, will help build a long term and stable residual income. In my opinion, ALL lead brokers are the same. They take the Vemma leads you purchased, and re-sell them to several other unsuspecting business people. Then they take those leads and re-sell them to several other lead broker companies. This is a never ending cycle within the leads marketing companies. No matter what they tell you, they will re-sell your Vemma leads over and over again.

With that in mind, the questions that you should be asking yourself prior to buying any leads are as follows:

Should I buy Vemma leads to build my business?
What is the ROI (return on investment) that I can expect from purchasing Vemma Leads?
How many other people are being sold the same leads, even though the leads are promoted as being fresh and responsive?

Are you tired of the hype, lies and misrepresentation from lead brokers? Why not consider the alternative?

Never Buy Vemma Leads Again . . . Buy Customers Not Vemma Leads . . . No More Cold Calling

We are a team of Internet experts building long term and stable income, and we teach others to do the same. However, this is not a Free ride! The Home Business Marketing Group members are held accountable for specific delegated duties. We build as a team, so you will be following a business model of delegation, not duplication (what other busineeses teach), that the rest of the world utilizes to become successful.

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
Home Business
Vemma Leads

9. Quixtar Leads - 1109

Qualifying Quixtar leads can be one of the most time consuming and cost-intensive parts of running a networking or MLM business. Buying the so-called "phone qualified leads" can be very expensive. So is there a better way to build a Quixtar, Arbonne, Send Out Cards, Nu Skin, MonaVie, Big Planet, Uptrend2u, Vemma, or 10-in-One-Vitamins business without buying leads? Yes! Buy customers instead of leads.

The Home Business Marketing Group, http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. Those customers are already purchasing products; they are not leads. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

Quixtar™ is a wonderful company with fantastic products, great leadership, and a generous compensation plan. Quixtar™ is a fantastic company and also has a tremendous leadership team. I'm sure I could look at all of the companies listed above and say the same thing about each one of them. I can also say the same thing about what their leaders, and top income earners say, buy leads, and duplicate what your sponsor does. The problem with that type of philosophy is not everyone is the same. How can the average person duplicate what a top recruiter can do? They can't! That's why the majority of MLM businesses fail. They teach duplication, and duplication does not work.

The majority of MLM companies, like Quixtar™ are great. Their products, for the most part, are of the highest quality. Their leadership is usually the best found in the marketplace. But their teachings and training methods are old school and simply do not work.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

10. Prepaid Legal Leads - 1102

Generating leads for your prepaid leagal business if you have the right system and learn from the experts. There is no reason anyone should ever have to buy prepaid legal leads. With that said, you're probably wondering why. Before I tell you why, let me show you some of the "hype" that follows most mlm companies.

I was doing a search on Google for prepaid legal leads, and this is what I found. When I Cashed My Prepaid Legal Check, The Bank Teller's Eyes Popped Out Of Her Head. She Gasped: "You want this in CASH?!" Now what kind of nonsense is that? It's the kind of stuff that gives the network marketing industry a bad name.

As I continued to read the stuff on this site, I find that they have "the most receptive, thorough, responsive, truly real-time prepaid legal leads. These leads are inquiries from eager, ready-to-act prospects with pressing legal issues that need your help."

Now, if I was a betting man, I'd say that the last part of the statement was true and I'd bet that these people are facing criminal charges for some crime they have committed. This is just a hunch, and may not be true, but this is the way companies that sell leads try to deceive the honest network marketer. Let's look further into their site.

"We guarantee you'll find our leads the most productive and inexpensive anywhere, better than any other lead source." This is the same rhetoric you will hear from all the lead companies. I have yet to see a lead selling company that did not make this claim.

"If you've used another lead provider in the past, forget about them. After you try one order of our leads, you will be stunned at their high conversion rates and rock-bottom price."

Let me tell you, the high conversion rate DOES NOT happen. You need to make a lot of calls and have very think skin. If you can handle rejections well and wnat to make a lot of calls, then you can succeed with buying leads. However, plan on spending a lot of money on leads, because you will need a lot to make one sale, or sign up one rep.

The web site, leadtothetop.com (www.leadtothetop.com) charges $5.50 per licensed prepaid legal lead, and $5.75 for unlicensed prepaid legal leads. You can buy the leads in lots of 20 or 50, and each comes with a few free leads. That's kind of like saying, "our leads really aren't that good, so take a few extra." As I said before, leads a re very expensive.

I do not buy leads. I prefer to buy customers. And that's exactly what we do at the Home Business Marketing Group. We not only buy customers, we generate our own leads. We also teach delegation, not duplication, as with most network marketing companies.

If you have a Pre-paid Legal™ business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, think about changing to plan B, and buy customers, not leads. I've bought my fair share of leads. I've spent thousands of dollars on those leads, and in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive, and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

What if you NEVER had to buy leads, make the calls or convince others to join your business?

The Home Business Marketing Group, of which I am a major part, we teach our team members to buy customers, Not Leads! You can do the same if you will just go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, fill out the form and come to our Saturday business opportunity meeting.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

11. Arbonne Leads - 1026

Arbonne™ leads the way in the network marketing Industry for skin care. Many people are turning to a home based business to earn more money, to get large tax deductions, and be at home so they can raise their own children. To learn more, Google Wikipedia about work at home parents. If you are looking for a home based business, Arbonne™ appears to be a great company. Arbonne™ has great skin care products and may be a great choice in starting a home business.

Google Arbonne™ leads and Arbonne™ to find additional info about Arbonne™ or go to the Arbonne™ website. I give Arbonne™ two thumbs up in my personal Arbonne™ review even though I am in no way affiliated with Arbonne™.

When looking for a MLM company to be affiliated with, my personal opinion is to go with a well established company such as Arbonne™. Below you will find information about home based business leads, myspace leads, and buying leads to promote your home based business. My recommendation is to stop buying leads for your home business; there are other ways to build a downline and get more customers.

Arbonne™

Humanity has been waiting for Arbonne™. And Arbonne™ has a mission--a daunting one. It begins with helping people enjoy a greater degree of wellness. Arbonne™ delivers dense, abundant, powerful nutrients that are transforming lives with remarkable swiftness!

A global, surging demand for natural and SAFE health solutions guides another part of Arbonne's mission--enabling individuals to build a legacy for their families by taking the Arbonne™ message to the masses.

The Arbonne™ Acai Berry is an Incredible Nutritional Break-Through hidden deep within the heart of the Amazon Rainforest from Westernized society for centuries, we feel privileged in having the opportunity of finally introducing Acai Berry (ah-sigh-ee), the "Brazilian Mega-Nutrient," throughout the World.

To learn more about Arbonne, just Google Arbonne™.

Leads or Arbonne Leads

When trying to find leads, customers or people to join your business, the majority of people turn to buying leads. Buying leads to build a large business organization DOES NOT work! Now why would I say that?

First of all, it's a waste of money for any home business entrepreneur, because the ROI is simply not worth the effort and time it takes. You have to call Secondly, most of us will never be able to sponsor enough people with purchased leads to grow a substantial organization before we run out of money. Thirdly, even if we do sponsor people, how many of them will actually have the stomach to do what we have done? Not many!

To see what I'm talking about read an excerpt from an article I found online at http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-You-Buying-MLM-Leads?&id=874980.

As often happens I received a call from a guy that wanted to "talk shop" about the network marketing industry. As typically happens, he immediately launched into a high pressure sales pitch to get me to join his network marketing business. I let him go on for a while, then I turned the tables on him and led him through a series of questions.
The first question I always ask this type of person is this: "Are you buying MLM leads?"
Invariably I get the same answer over and over. Yes, I buy 100, 200, or even 500 leads a month - the answer varies per person. However when I ask the next tough question, how many people have you sponsored and how long have you been cold calling these leads, the answer is almost always the same - ZERO!..
..The cold hard fact is that most of us will never be able to sponsor enough people with purchased leads to grow a substantial organization before we run out of money. Even if we do sponsor people, how many of them will actually have the stomach to do what we have done? Not many!
In fact when I first got started I had spent thousands of dollars on leads, hours and hours on the phone and I was scared to death! I had no idea what I would do to help a new associate get started when I finally did sponsor someone. I felt physically sick when I realized that I was leading others down the same dead end path I was on.
You have doomed your MLM business to fail if you are purchasing MLM leads and only calling them one time - with no other way to make money if they don't join your primary business.

If you have never bought leads - don't start! Talk to people who have bought leads to build their home business and you will get many of the same answers, they wasted their money. There are plenty of options available to find people interested in a home based business. You could use free myspace work from home leads or simply buy customers not leads.

Myspace - Home Business Leads

Myspace home business leads are free and work great for building your home business. All you need are a few simple techniques when using myspace leads, and that should make all the difference in the growth of your business. Myspace leads do work! But, if you do not like contacting people you have never met, there is another option. You can do what I do, buy customers not leads. whatever you decide, both methods are outstanding for your home business.

Buy customers not leads

Stop wasting money buying leads, if that's what you are currently doing. Change your mindset and start buying customers. I buy customers and I have excellent results. Buying customers is probably the best and fastest way to earn income. Since the customers I buy are already buying and using a product, I DO NOT have to sell them anything. This is the easiest method that I have ever tried. I never go a month without getting new customers; I simply buy more customers. And now the best part; many of the customers I buy will become affiliate members and they will bring people into my organization.

When you buy customers and get your downline to do the same thing, you will see large increases in the size of your organization, and this happens in a relatively short period of time. If you would like to learn how to get your downline to see how effective it is to buy customers, visit The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com
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12. Prepaid Legal Leads - 1019

Pre-Paid Legal Services®, Inc. was one of the first companies in the United States organized solely to design, underwrite and market legal expense plans. For a low monthly fee of $26 or less, the Company's legal expense plans (referred to as memberships) offer a variety of legal services in a manner similar to medical reimbursement plans or HMOs.

The Company currently provides legal services to over 1.5 million families across the U.S. and Canada. Plan benefits are delivered through a network of independent provider law firms. Members have direct, toll-free access to their provider law firm rather than having to comb through a yellow-page style directory for a referral. Provider firms are carefully selected and the quality of service is closely monitored to maintain the high standards of Pre-Paid Legal.

If you have a Pre-Paid Legal business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

Here's a quote from one of the web sites (MLMLeadGenie) that sells Pre-Paid Legal Leads:

"Phone Interviewed Exclusive Prepaid Legal Real-Time Leads are custom generated to suit you and your group's business needs. These leads typically cost $6 - $12 per lead however for a limited period we have decided to extend a special pricing to your entire group. You can order Phone Interviewed Custom Prepaid Legal Real-Time Leads for as less as $3.50 per lead, that is a 50% saving over our retail prices!"

"Each Phone Interviewed Custom Prepaid Legal Real-Time Lead is generated using a custom script. Our in-house telemarketers contact over 25 prospects to generate 1 qualified custom lead. At MLMLeadGenie our first and foremost priority is to generate leads of the highest quality. We pledge that under no circumstances will we circumvent our quality control process."

A lot of business building leaders will tell you to buy Pre-Paid Legal leads from them, or they may direct you to a web site that sells leads. To build your business, you need more than leads, which were probably bought and sold several times. Well, let me ask you a question here. How much money have you spent, or are you willing to spend, on building your Pre-Paid Legal business? Hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of dollars?

At the cost of $4 for each Pre-Paid Legal lead, you could spend a fortune trying to find one distributor or customer. Personally, I DO NOT buy leads. I prefer to buy customers, individulas already buying and using the the company's products.

By the way, you can continue to use your Pre-Paid Legal™ products, just make money in an entirely new manner from now on!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to Buy Customers, Not Leads.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
The Home Business Marketing Group

13. Arbonne Leads - 1013

Arbonne™ is a direct selling company that operates in the United States, its territories and in Canada. Arbonne markets an exclusive line of high-quality skin care, color cosmetics, nutrition, weight loss and aromatherapy products based on natural and botanical principles.

Arbonne's dedication to integrity extends into the company's philosophy of helping protect our precious natural resources.. the Earth and our children. We are an active proponent of recyclable packaging, no animal testing and no animal products or by-products in our skin care products. Through the Arbonne™ Children's Trust, we contribute food and supplies to charitable children's organizations from funds raised through our network of Consultants (& matched by Arbonne™). Arbonne™ Consultants are changing people's lives, starting with their own!

The Arbonne™ family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, travel opportunities, a generous compensation plan and great products. Arbonne™ offers a unique opportunity that can help make your vision for the future a reality.

Arbonne's™ compensation plan, the Arbonne™ SuccessPlan, is one of the most dynamic and generous in the network marketing industry. From your first great day in the Arbonne business, you can begin to earn money. Whether your goal is to develop a retail Client base, build and train an extensive network organization, or a combination of both, the Arbonne SuccessPlan offers you lucrative rewards. The rewards include: Retail markup potential, cash bonuses, sales overrides, generation overrides, Mercedes-Benz Cash Bonus Program, travel and life insurance benefits.

Take control of your paycheck

In the corporate world, your pay raises and bonuses are determined by someone else. The Arbonne™ SuccessPlan is there to pay you for your business- building and product-retailing efforts. Let Arbonne help you get all the raises and bonuses you deserve!

Generating meaningful compensation as an Arbonne™ Independent Consultant requires considerable time, effort and commitment. This is not a get-rich-quick program and there are no guarantees of financial success. It is an opportunity that is shared by thousands who have chosen to embrace the Arbonne™ products and/or business. The success or failure of each Arbonne™ Independent Consultant, like any other independent business, depends on each Independent Consultant's own skills and personal effort. Arbonne™ is a product-driven company that strongly encourages people to try our products as customers before building a business.

Arbonne™ Leads

Here is the price you would pay for leads. This is typical of some of the top lead selling companies found on the Internet:

Quantity Cost Each Total Purchase
25 Phone Verified Leads 2.00 $50.00
50 Phone Verified Leads 2.00 $100.00
100 Phone Verified Leads 1.80 $180.0

Building a successful Arbonne business takes having enought people to talk to. With that in mind, the majority of top networkers teach their downline to buy leads. Turning leads into reps is not an easy task, especially if you are not a good phone person. It takes a certain skill to turn leads into reps, a skill most networkers lack. Lacking that one skill costs many would-be-marketers to bypass the MLM industry. Lacking that one skill is the reason so many networkers fail. Well I have good news for you; you do not have to call leads. As a matter of fact, you do not even have to buy leads.

We promote buying customers, NOT leads. We are a team of Internet marketers that work together, buy customers, and teach others to do the same. And let me tell you..this system that we have incorporated really does work. When I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part. And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
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14. Arbonne Leads - 1005

Testimonial found on the Internet:

Oh my goodness people!!!!! Have you truly tried any other products than Oil of olay. You are missing the point of Arbonne products. The first thing you notice is they have little to no sent which means they arent synthetic or perfumed. In ten years of Spa business, the only products that have come close to performing in the same class as Arbonne cost double what you pay for Arbonne. You have to break things down sometimes. Think about the products you buy at the stores; You are paying for Mass production, Marketing, Models, Packaging, Distribution, Sales Staff, and then the product.

The company is proud to state that all the Arbonne™ products are produced with the best natural ingredients such as herbs ad fruits.

The Arbonne™ family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, travel opportunities, a generous Success Plan and great products, Arbonne offers a unique opportunity that can help make your vision for the future a reality.

There are two basic ways in which an Arbonne™ Independent Consultant can earn compensation:
1. Through retail profit on sales of products purchased at discounted prices from the Company.
2. Through overrides and bonuses paid on a Consultant's product sales volume and the sales volume of other Consultants on their team ..also known as their downline.

As with any other sales opportunity, the compensation earned by Arbonne™ Independent Consultants varies significantly. The cost to become a Consultant is very low and people become Consultants for various reasons. Most notably, people become Consultants because it allows them to purchase our products at the lowest possible price. Others join to earn extra part-time income, while others join on a full-time, professional basis.

You can become an Arbonne™ Consultant for only $29. That fee includes the start-up kit! With effort and enthusiasm, you can become financially stable. If you have the desire to realize your dreams and change your life, you can't find a better opportunity than Arbonne™!

Arbonne's compensation plan, the Arbonne™ SuccessPlan, is one of the most dynamic and generous in the network marketing industry. From your first great day in the Arbonne™ business, you can begin to earn money. Whether your goal is to develop a retail Client base, build and train an extensive network organization, or a combination of both, the Arbonne SuccessPlan offers you lucrative rewards.

Leadership skills determine the level of your success and the success of your team. Learn how to develop strong leadership skills and apply them to your Arbonne business, and watch your business grow.

Top network marketers promote buying leads to build a successful Arbonne business. According to many networkers, buying leads simply does not work. You need tremendous telemarketing skills to build your business through buying leads. Leads very rarely turn into reps. You will need to call many reps to find one that is remotely interested in your Arbonne business, not to mention your products.

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
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15. Uptrend2u Leads-928

Uptrend2u Leads, Are You Buying Them?

Uptrend2u™ is an Internet-based multi-level marketing platform that allows you to build an international business from the comfort of your home or office. Our members consist of individuals from all walks of life, from financiers and managements strategists, to teachers, retirees and fresh graduates; by identifying their strengths and building on them, these passionate people are, today, proud owners of thriving Internet businesses.

Uptrend2u® is an excellent company, but like many other MLM or Networking companies the structure is set up to create huge costs on the distributors and little on the company. These companies try to let the individuals think that they are in their own business, then encourage them to spend their own money in marketing to attract their own customers. This forces the so called "new business owner" to spend their own money for leads or reverse marketing systems in hopes of bringing in new distributors. Throughout this whole process the marketing cost for Uptrend2u® is minimal.

Also companies like Uptrend2u® are not equipped to sell to the end user (the person consuming the products), but expect the distributor to do the job for them. This is very difficult since advertising and marketing can be very expensive. The traditional way of acquiring customers is to purchase leads. The independent reps then have to cold call the leads, and try to get people interested in their company or products. Another strategy is to bring in friends and family to the business and hopefully they will do the same. The end result of these combined strategies is rejection and a very small percentage of people signing up. If these particular strategies worked the majority of people entering a MLM or network marketing business would be highly successful. Instead they are not!

Buy Customers Not Uptrend2u Leads?

There is a new business model that eliminates all of the excessive expense and allows its business affiliates to purchase customers, individuals that are consuming the products. When purchasing a customer incentive lead the business affiliate begins to derive commissions from that customer right away. No MLM or network marketing company is allowed to sell directly to the consumer; products must go through the company's independent distributors. The company bears the expense of customer acquisition by having mechanisms in place that sell to the customer. The company then passes the customer onto their business affiliates for considerably less than the cost of a sold lead.

Although Uptrend2u® and many other MLM or Network Marketing Companies have good products their systems are usually lacking structure, with regards to enabling their distributors to create substantial revenue. If you would like to learn about buying customers instead of leads, I would like to invite you to a live online meeting. You can hear and see a presentation on how the system works. If you're interested, please go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and sign up. You will receive an email with the password to get into our Saturday meeting.

If you have any desire to have a successful Internet business, DO NOT pass up this opportunity. The presentation is free and informative! I have looked at many different business models, but I have never seen one as user friendly as this before. This business model surely is for the "little guy". If you're still interested after attending the meeting, please feel free to contact me. I will explain this opportunity to you further.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com

16. Vemma Leads - 921

Vemma Leads

Vemma® is positioned to make a huge, positive difference for countless people all over the world. And we're doing it the best way we know how. Through people helping people. Through a product that delivers on the promise of better health. And through an opportunity to create real wealth and time freedom for those willing to put forth some effort into something they can believe in.

You can either leave things the way they are or take massive action to shift to the life you want to live.

The choice is up to you.

Vemma's® unique global wellness philosophy delivers a results driven product. Vemma® is an established, family-owned company with ten's of thousands of satisfied monthly consumers, and world class customer service.

Here is Vemma's® mission. Founded by BK Boreyko and his family, Vemma's® parent company, New Vision®, is a revolutionary leader in health and wellness. With over $1 billion in total retail sales, this company helped pioneer liquid nutrition over 12 years ago by introducing the #1 selling liquid mineral supplements in North America.

You can get started on a great-tasting path to ultimate nutrition with the Vemma Nutrition Program® for only $60 USD plus shipping. Enjoy the convenience of Autoship to have your Vemma® products delivered automatically to your door every month.

The Vemma® family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, a generous Compensation Plan, and great products, Vemma® offers a unique opportunity that can help make anyone's vision for the future a reality.

Companies like Vemma® are not equipped to sell to the end user (the person consuming the products), but expect the their distributors to do the job. Sometimes this is very difficult since advertising and marketing can be very expensive, and not every distributor is a salesperson. Finding customers for the companies products or services can be a real challenge, especially for a new distributor that lacks product knowledge and sales experience.

The traditional way of acquiring customers is to purchase leads. The independent reps have to cold call the leads, and try to get people interested in their company or products. Another strategy is to bring in friends and family to the business and hopefully they will do the same. The end result of these combined strategies is rejection and a very small percentage of people signing up. If these particular strategies worked the majority of people entering a MLM or network marketing business would be highly successful. Instead they are not!

Vemma® obviously has all the bases covered when it comes to products, comp plans, fast start bonuses and all the rest of the elements seen in MLM businesses. Vemma® is dedicated to assisting their distributors to become successful. Although MLM marketing is a tough game, you must be willing to work hard, never quit, and keep the information flowing consistently, in order to make sales.

What about buying Vemma Leads to build my business?

Should I buy Vemma leads to build my business?
What is the ROI (return on investment) that I can expect from purchasing Vemma Leads?
How many other people are being sold the same leads, even though the leads are promoted as being fresh and responsive?

Are you tired of the hype, lies and misrepresentation from lead brokers? Why not consider the alternative?

Never Buy Vemma Leads Again . . . Buy Customers Not Vemma Leads . . . No More Cold Calling

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com

17. Quixtar Leads | 914

Quixtar® was launched in 1999. Their Internet commerce business model combines the commercial power of the Internet, and low-cost Independent Business Ownership (IBO) Plans. Quixtar® has a full-service infrastructure to help individuals reach their goals. Quixtar® is a division of Alticor, parent company of Amway™, Corp. Quixtar® was launched to combine the best aspects of Amway with the power and convenience of the Internet.

Quixtar® was founded by the DeVos and Van Andel families, who are among North America's leading entrepreneurs with numerous business ventures in direct selling, sports entertainment, real estate, lodging and hospitality, and other business sectors.

There are two ways to administer a Quixtar® business. In the old Amway™ business, everyone paid their downline their bonuses and also had to pick up product from their upline. Quixtar® started paying distributors directly and offering direct shipment to each distributor's home, but a few groups within Quixtar® still work by the old Amway methods. One such group is World Wide Dream Builders. This method is called "Standard fulfillment". The new Quixtar® method is called "Direct fulfillment".

The basic idea to making money in the business is to build a business volume where you earn a high performance bonus percentage and your down line earns a smaller percentage. For instance if you were in the 21% bonus level, you would like your downline people to be in a bonus level that is much lower than yours, say of 12% or 15%. This way you can pocket 6%-9% on the sales of your downline. If you are paying out the same percentage to your downline as you earn, you will not make any money. One needs to have his downline earning a much lower percentage than one earns to be able to keep a fair portion of the bonus.

The Quixtar®® Independent Business Owner (IBO) Compensation Plan rewards you for selling products and for sponsoring others as IBOs who will do the same.

Simple Steps to Success IBOs who grow the most successful businesses sell to non-IBO customers and sponsor, while experiencing the products by purchasing them for their own use.

Step 1: Learn. The only way to truly understand your products is to use them. Knowing what our products can do for you is important when presenting them as solutions for your customers. You'll also want to fully understand the compensation plan and Quixtar®'s business rules. Check out Quixtar® University to see other training options we provide.

Step 2: Sell. As your product knowledge increases, you will discover people all around you who need what you have through your Quixtar® business. Retail selling is the easiest way to make quick money through your Quixtar® business.

Step 3: Sponsor. For some of your friends, products provide the solution they seek. For others, the Quixtar® business opportunity will have strong appeal as they seek a business that can help them achieve their goals. When you sponsor them, you can be rewarded for the business volume they generate.

If you have a Quixtar™ business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

Quixtar® leads are opt in requests for more information from people who have visited the number one home based business directory on the internet, and requested more information via the SafeLeads program.

Lead pricing:
30 Leads - $48
50 Leads - $75
100 Leads - $140
200 Leads - $260

As you can see in the price list, leads are not cheap. That is why I hate leads and I do not buy leads. I buy customers.

I don't buy leads. I buy customers. They cost $50 each. Half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
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18. MonaVie Leads | 97

According to the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, the four most consumed plant foods (fruits or vegetables) in America are:
French fries, ketchup, pizza sauce and iceberg lettuce!

Is it any wonder that obesity has become an epidemic and that even children are now afflicted with many of the "lifestyle" diseases once reserved for older people?

Ok, we may all know we should eat more fruits and vegetables, but lives are busy. Quick meals are often a necessity. Fresh produce is expensive in many locales. We tend to get bored with apples, bananas and oranges. Parents don't have time to enforce healthy eating habits upon their children.

Enter MonaVie™, an exquisite health drink, destined to make a profound difference in the lives of countless people of the world. The formulators of MonaVie™, driven by a passion for helping humanity and bringing abundance into the lives of many, have created the consummate blend of health-promoting fruits from the four corners of the earth.

MonaVie's roots reach deep into the Amazon where the rainforest is home to one-third of the world's species of animal and plant life and where deforesting is threatening habitat and ecosystems.

Looking for a business opportunity? MonaVie™ has one of the most innovative and lucrative compensation plans ever devised, and it is hailed by some of the top network marketers around the world. It allows for multiple ways to earn weekly income. The Compensation plan uses the power of a New Generation Binary and its unlimited depth feature, with the wealth-creating feature of unlimited width.

If you have a MonaVie business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, you may want to rethink your strategy. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

What if I told you there was a better and more exciting way to build your business? What if you could buy customers, instead of leads? Would that be a revolutionary approach to the same old problem that ALL network marketers face?

To learn more, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisor.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
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http://www.healthfulchoice.com

19. Arbonne Leads | 824

Have you ever wondered - If there was a better way to build your Arbonne™ business than buying leads?

Have you had any success buying Arbonne Leads and trying to convince them to join you in your Arbonne™ business? Personally, I hate calling leads. I have discovered that buying customers instead of buying leads is a much better way to build a home business. I don't have the expense of buying leads and making long distance phone calls only to get rejected. Buying customers that are already purchasing the product is the only way I will do business now. You can go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and see why.

Arbonne™ is a great company for many distributors. Arbonne™offers an exciting business opportunity. Anyone with a passion for success can join one of the most respected network marketing companies in the industry. Arbonne has been in business 28 years and they specialize in Swiss Skin care and beauty products that are pure, safe and results oriented.

There is a slight problem with most network marketing companies. The Arbonne™ leaders, like all other MLM company leaders, teach duplication. Here's the problem; duplication is a myth. Building a large organization through duplication just does not happen. Why? Not all people are the same. Each person has his or her own unique gifts, talents, and passions. Not everyone is a great recruiter, which is what it takes to build a massive organization. You may be the best recruiter for your Arbonne™ leads, but can you train and retain all of your Arbonne™ distributors to be able to do what you can do? Simply stated, you cannot! Duplication DOES NOT work!

The Home Business Marketing Group, http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. That's paying customers already purchasing your products; they are not a lead. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

The Home Business Marketing Group teaches delegation, not duplication, to build a large organization. The Home Business Marketing Group is the first off-shoot of The Home Business Marketing Group, architects of the marketing plan, now being implemented by The Home Business Marketing Group. Members of our team work together for the good of the whole team. This synergistic approach is something you will never see in other MLM companies. Quite honestly, you will see the exact opposite, every members fighting over prospects.

For more information on this revolutionary way to start your business on solid ground, visit us at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

MonaVie™ is a quality company that produces products and provides income opportunities to the general public. To have a business opportunity with them would be a good idea providing the company had an exceptional prospecting plan in place. The last thing any new representative needs is ending up with the sole responsibility of building a business through the process of buying MonaVie leads.

People join MonaVie™, or any other MLM or Network Marketing Company, with the hopes and dreams of being able to create an additional income stream. Most individuals that join these companies pour their hearts and souls into their new business. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, they find out that they have to sell the products (become a salesperson) to others and also convince people to join their organization (become a recruiter).

The new MonaVie™ "business person" also finds out that they have to resort to purchasing leads. many of these MonaVie leads have been called many times and don't want to hear from someone else about another MLM opportunity and/or product. The leads that have been purchased are just plain tired of the phone calls, and they have been sold over and over again by the leads companies. Think about it! If a lead was so good why would the lead companies sell them for peanuts? MonaVie Leads can be purchased for less than a penny if they are purchased in large quantities. The sad fact is, these leads have been pretty much picked over, but even if they aren't, you still have to call them and sell them on your business.

Personally, I have called hundreds of leads, and I don't want to call leads anymore...

I don't like calling people and trying to sell them to come into my business. That's why I buy customers and not leads. I refuse to purchase another lead because I don't like calling these people. I have done it and don't like it! I have had people hang up me, curse at me, and I had to listen to people tell me that they wish they could get off the list that is being sold. So, if you are new to MonaVie, and are considering buying leads, the list of leads you are getting are not quality names but names that has a history of being sold over and over again to unsuspecting people who are trying to build a business.

I get business proposals all the time from individuals looking for me to invest in their business, or just to look at their business. Sometimes they are looking for me to give them feedback. With all do respect, what they are really looking for is for me to read their information, or watch their business presentation, and get excited about their business, with the hopes of me joining their organization. That usually DOES NOT work!

WHY?

Most of the opportunities are the same old thing, a MLM or Network Marketing opportunity that they have received from an associate that they want me to evaluate and give them my opinion. The bottom line is they are looking for an investment from me. When I look at them I see the same common thread running through each and every one of them. They are opportunities that require buying massive amounts of leads and lots of phone work. When I see this I stay away, because I like I said before, I don't want to call anyone and try to convince them to join a business that I know will not produce the promises that were made.

NOW THE GOOD NEWS - The one that got my attention!

Although I read the majority of business proposals, it's only out of courtesy. I NEVER recommend a business opportunity, not until I got one that got my attention. This one was different! It had a totally unique business model. It was a Nutraceutical Company that had a whole new approach to the MLM and Network Marketing Industry. I looked at the products and saw that they were powerful and promoted wellness. Although many other opportunities promoted wellness, this company was unique. They promoted Wellness and Wealth simultaneously.

As I kept reading I saw what really triggered my mind, and made me realize that this is a totally different approach. I saw their was no other MLM company that had anything like it. As I did my due-diligence, I could not find anything like this on the Internet, except the company proposed in the plan. What was this unique concept? They promoted buying customers, NOT leads!

Buy Customers not leads...

As I kept reading and learning, I found out that this company has the unique ability to sell direct to the consumer and then once the consumer buys the product they sell the customer to Business Affiliates. I searched the web site and read everything that I could trying to find out if I was missing something, or if my perception of this company was wrong. I never heard about buying customers and so I wasn't sure that I was reading it correctly.

I called several people to verify the information. I talked to a person who had been doing it for a while and he confirmed my findings. I do not have make phone calls to leads who don't want to be called. All I do is purchase the customer from the company and get the commissions.

I keep reading and trying to find the flaws in the system, but none were found. I went to a meeting at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and listened to Tom Prendergast talk about how he has gotten increased results every month for seven years, even though he was not working the business. In other words, his check had gone up every single month since he started, and all he had to do was buy customers.

I thought I have heard it all, but not this time. This is a new innovation to me, even though it has been around for almost ten years. As this catches on, I believe it will drive other MLM or Network Marketing Companies wild because they simply can't compete. I also believe that this is going to pull top producers away from their current MLM companies. I have heard many top producers are already looking at this business model and have plans to leave their existing companies. Why? The majority of network marketers DO NOT like making unnecessary phone calls. With this business model, you can never lose your customers since they are customers and not someone's downline. This makes your business stable and solid.

So, what does this have to do with MonaVie™? Absolutely nothing! But if you were considering joining MonaVie, you may want to take a look at The Home Business Marketing Group first. To do so, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and sign in. You will receive an invitation to the meetings. If you are still interested after attending the meeting, feel free to contact me. If I don't answer please leave a message and I will get back to you ASAP.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor for The Home Business Marketing Group
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisor.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
MonaVie Leads

21. Vemma Leads - 810

Vemma® leads the way in the network marketing Industry for health and wellness. Many people are turning to a home based business to earn more money, to get large tax deductions, and be at home so they can raise their own children. To learn more, Google Wikipedia about work at home parents. If you are looking for a home based business, Vemma® appears to be a great company. Vemma® has great health and wellness products and may be a great choice in starting a home business.

Google Vemma® leads and Vemma® to find additional info about Vemma® or go to the Vemma® website. I give Vemma® two thumbs up in my personal Vemma® review even though I am in no way affiliated with Vemma®.

When looking for a MLM company to be affiliated with, my personal opinion is to go with a well established company such as Vemma®. Below you will find information about home based business leads, myspace leads, and buying leads to promote your home based business. My recommendation is to stop buying leads for your home business; there are other ways to build a downline and get more customers.

Vemma®

Vemma® Inc.is a leader in health and wellness. With over $1 billion in total retail sales, this company helped pioneer liquid nutrition over 12 years ago by introducing the #1 selling liquid mineral supplement in North America.

Investing all the lessons learned over the last twelve years in product research and business concepts, Vemma® is primed to make the same intense impact.

After twelve years and over a billion in sales, Vemma's® mission isn't over, it's just beginning.

The great thing about Vemma® is that it's not just about great products, it's also about great people. The Vemma® family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, a generous Compensation Plan, and great products, Vemma® offers a unique opportunity that can help make anyone's vision for the future a reality.

Google Vemma® to learn more about the company.

Leads or Vemma Leads

To see what I'm talking about read an excerpt from an article I found online at http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-You-Buying-MLM-Leads?&id=874980.

As often happens I received a call from a guy that wanted to "talk shop" about the network marketing industry. As typically happens, he immediately launched into a high pressure sales pitch to get me to join his network marketing business. I let him go on for a while, then I turned the tables on him and led him through a series of questions.
The first question I always ask this type of person is this: "Are you buying MLM leads?"
Invariably I get the same answer over and over. Yes, I buy 100, 200, or even 500 leads a month - the answer varies per person. However when I ask the next tough question, how many people have you sponsored and how long have you been cold calling these leads, the answer is almost always the same - ZERO!...
...The cold hard fact is that most of us will never be able to sponsor enough people with purchased leads to grow a substantial organization before we run out of money. Even if we do sponsor people, how many of them will actually have the stomach to do what we have done? Not many!
In fact when I first got started I had spent thousands of dollars on leads, hours and hours on the phone and I was scared to death! I had no idea what I would do to help a new associate get started when I finally did sponsor someone. I felt physically sick when I realized that I was leading others down the same dead end path I was on.
You have doomed your MLM business to fail if you are purchasing MLM leads and only calling them one time - with no other way to make money if they don't join your primary business.

Myspace - Home Business Leads

Buy customers not leads

Stop wasting money buying leads, if that's what you are currently doing. Change your mindset and start buying customers. I buy customers and I have excellent results. Buying customers is probably the best and fastest way to earn income. Since the customers I buy are already buying and using a product, I DO NOT have to sell them anything. This is the easiest method that I have ever tried. I never go a month without getting new customers; I simply buy more customers. And now the best part; many of the customers I buy will become affiliate members and they will bring people into my organization.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729

22. Tampogo Leads

Tampogo is a new place to shop, save, and EARN!

According to Tampogo's affiliate's web sites, this is a new Networking Income Opportunity, designed to provide savings on everyday products you already use. Additionally, when you refer friends or family to TamPogo, you can earn income on everyday products THEY already use.

Tampogo is also:

It's simple to use.
No registration fees and no membership fees.
Amazing products people use everyday, at unmatched prices. Each product purchased provides an immediate payment to the Network Partners.
Network Partners and Non-profit Organizations can develop a significant income stream.
AND...a starving child somewhere in the world will be fed for one week every time an item is purchased through Tampogo.
Tampogo has nutritional products in the $20-$30 range, which will qualify for full commissions. They also have designer clothes, watches, and Austrian jewelry.

So not only does Tampogo allow you to make money by building an online business, they also provide food for the starving children of the world. How are the masses building their businesses?

That's what I look at before I get involved in any business, and I think you should do the same before joining Tampogo or any other home based business opportunity. Are the leaders telling you to buy leads, call your close friends, bug your family members, or just promote your business on the Internet and social networking sites? Whatever the case, you should never buy into someone telling you to buy leads.

Leads are very expensive and typically produce very little in the way of customers and/or business builders.

One Tampogo site I visited said "we will be providing FREE Business Builder Leads for our downline Team." Wahoo! That's just what I want to build my business, "FREE Business Builder Leads!" what exactly are "FREE Business Builder Leads?"

In order to find out, I took to the Internet, and did a search on Google and Bing. Here is what I found?

EXACTLY NOTHING!!!

Yes, the only thing I found is that every MLM opportunity said they would give their sigups "FREE Business Builder Leads." I haven't found out what those leads are but I can only imagine..some poor sucker's email address, that someone found on the Internet, or bought from some a lead scalper.

I've said it a thousand times - building a business with Tampogo leads is a waste of time and money. Leads are nothing but people that have had their email addresses sold and bought hundreds and sometimes even thousands of times.

I don't buy leads, because the majority of leads are worthless. I prefer to buy customers. They cost $50 each, half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

23. MonaVie Leads | 727

Solutions and Benefits for the MonaVie™ Representative

Through association and compliance any struggling MonaVie™ representative can succeed.

This post contains practical information on the benefits of the Network Marketer without Hype, Distractions and Wordiness. There is a 99.9% chance you are building your MonaVie™ business through the process of buying MonaVie™ LEADS, then converting these leads into MonaVie™ Reps in order to create a downline, several levels deep. The process of buying MonaVie leads is typical, not only with MonaVie™, but throughout the MLM industry. Top MLM leaders teach and continue to scream DUPLICATION, DUPLICATION, and more DUPLICATION, and buying leads is the foundation of this business model. Ironically, buying leads is the obstacle that stands in the way of success for the average marketer. Why? Most unsuspecting newbie marketers want nothing to do with learning the art of sales. Cold-Calling Leads is a brutal task you MUST endure to be successful in the typical MLM model.

Let me share a little information about buying MonaVie leads. If you purchased 10,000 Leads all you have to do is do the math concerning the time management. And that's just it. We consider our time just as valuable as money. After calling 100 leads and getting 100 rejections, that's 2 to 3 hours we will never get back. Common sense tells us this concept does not add value to our life and we discontinued the practice. The average marketer will jump from one opportunity to another hoping buying leads are not the foundation to become successful. Unfortunately, they find out that it is. They try once more to put on the sales hat, this time they'll purchase some motivational tape or book to stay the course. After a while, they are back where they started, frustrated without any returns on their investment.

So what's the solution?

In your typical brick and mortar business the cry goes out for location, location, location. So what would be the equivalent for a successful Online Business? It could very well be; customers, customers, customers, and I have a strong case to back that statement up. Online Marketing has lost its innocence by reason of the massive amount of scams and absurd programs that flooded the MLM industry. Venturing into these waters can be very nerve racking; even the seasoned veteran MLMer shutters at some of the programs out there, not to mention the novice opportunist. Reputation, stability and adaptation will interest the skeptic which is the key to surviving in this industry. There's an old concept that is emerging ever so quietly in this industry and it will change the core of the typical MLM theory.

How much more appealing would it be if you could bypass the Leads dilemma and purchase existing customers? I'm talking about customers already buying products and is handled by professional sales reps within the company. If everything else remains the same but for this simple change, would this add value to your life as an inspiring successful marketer?

Here is my recommendation to ALL MonaVie™ Independent reps:

- To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on a regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to hold their hand in any way. These customers are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them!

- You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the Internet. You focus on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort, not on acquiring customers.

There is a system available on the Internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience it daily. It's great not worrying about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called The Home Business Marketing Group.

I invite you to take a look at this successful approach to growing your business by registering at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com for a no-obligation preview of our business model.

This blog post is not a slam against MonaVie™; I deeply respect this company and its leadership who is leading the charge against proper skincare. MonaVie™ offers an array of products that promotes just that. Please read on to see how MonaVie™ positions itself as a premier company with great products. My only concern lies within the home-based business model and them promoting the purchasing of leads. I hope you will find this post helpful and inspiring towards your future endeavors.

MonaVie™ - The Company

MonaVie ™is a wonderful company with a terrific product!

Humanity has been waiting for MonaVie™. And MonaVie™ has a mission--a daunting one. It begins with helping people enjoy a greater degree of wellness. MonaVie™ delivers dense, abundant, powerful nutrients that are transforming lives with remarkable swiftness!

MonaVie's roots reach deep into the Amazon where the rainforest is home to one-third of the world's species of animal and plant life and where deforesting is threatening habitat and ecosystems.

MonaVie's most renowned ingredient, the legendary Acai Berry, is one of the few Brazilian exports that can directly protect the mighty rainforest itself. As word of the extraordinary benefits of drinking MonaVie™ reaches across nations and oceans, harvesting the rainforest FRUITS will become wiser Brazilian commerce than harvesting the trees themselves.

MonaVie™ - The Opportunity

MonaVie™ offers the most innovative and dynamic compensation plan in the industry. With 8 Ways to Earn Income and 50 percent of the sales volume paid out in distributor commissions, MonaVie™ is a powerfully rewarding opportunity!

8 Ways to Earn Income

1. Direct sales: Purchase products at wholesale and sell at retail price.
2. Bulk order bonus: Earn commissions from people you personally sponsor when they purchase a bulk order.
3. First Order Bonus: Earn money when a personally enrolled distributor places a first time order.
4. Star Maker Bonus: Earn $40 dollars when personally sponsored distributor makes the rank of Star.
5. Team commissions: Earn commission on the volume of the lesser leg through the Binary compensation plan.
6. Executive check match: Earn commissions on all persoanlly sponsored distributors and the distributors they personally sponsored, and so on, up to seven generations of executives, within your personal enrollment tree.
7. Leadership Pools: Become a Blue Diamond and receive a portion of 1% of the total company GV.
8. Multiple Business Centers: Earn commisions on up to four business centers.

What's more, MonaVie™ leverages today's most effective form of distribution-relationship marketing. With this person-to-person approach, you can share the benefits of the MonaVie independent business opportunity with others and be rewarded for doing so, based on your sales and the product sales of those in the organization you helped create.

MonaVie™ - The Compensation Plan

The MonaVie™ Compensation Plan, hailed by networking professionals around the world as the most innovative and lucrative plan ever devised, allows for multiple ways to earn weekly income. The Plan combines the power of a New Generation Binary and its unlimited depth feature, with the wealth-creating feature of unlimited width. And if that's not enough, MonaVie has created the Executive Check Match Program to reward our Executive Field Leaders. This program allows you to earn an Executive Check Match on the Team Commissions paid to Distributors you personally enroll, the Distributors they personally enroll, and so forth-up to 7 generations of Executives in your personal enrollment tree.

As your Executive rank increases, so too will the number of generations on which you will be paid Executive Check Match. You may earn Executive Check Match not only on Executives found on each of your personal enrollment tree legs but on Distributors at the various Star ranks as well. Never before has a plan been developed that so richly rewards Distributors for building both depth and width!

MonaVie™ Leads

If you have a MonaVie™ business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

I found this article about buying MonaVie leads on ezine artilces. Read what Burke Jones has to say about buying MonaVie leads. To read the entire artilce, go to http://ezinearticles.com/?Buying-MonaVie-Leads-is-a-Fools-Game&id=996510.

As a Mona Vie distributor, you are obviously in constant search for new leads to grow your MLM business. Most companies and uplines will tell you to head over to the nearest lead distributor and purchase some "top quality" leads for your MonaVie business.
Hold on to your wallet! Buying MonaVie leads is the quickest way to failure that I have ever seen. Sure it works for a very small percentage of distributors, but typically they have spent a bundle to learn the techniques and tactics required for this success. There are two reasons that your upline recommends buying leads for your Mona-Vie business - leverage and money...
...You see it works for your upline, because they have hundreds of suckers under them just like you (emphasis added). If a small percentage of their downline manage to sponsor someone it adds up to massive growth for their business. Unfortunately, you will probably never experience the same success...
...The real industry secret is that your upline is probably making a commission on every lead purchase you make...do you think that would add up to some serious cash? I bet it would!

You see buying leads is a fools game, just as Burke Jones's article suggests. I don't know about you, but I HATE buying leads. That is why I buy customers, NOT Leads.

To learn more, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisor.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
MonaVie Leads
http://www.healthfulchoice.com
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com

24. Arbonne Leads | 720

Testimonial found on the Internet:

Oh my goodness people!!!!! Have you truly tried any other products than Oil of olay. You are missing the point of Arbonne products. The first thing you notice is they have little to no sent which means they arent synthetic or perfumed. In ten years of Spa business, the only products that have come close to performing in the same class as Arbonne cost double what you pay for Arbonne. You have to break things down sometimes. Think about the products you buy at the stores; You are paying for Mass production, Marketing, Models, Packaging, Distribution, Sales Staff, and then the product.

The company is proud to state that all the Arbonne™ products are produced with the best natural ingredients such as herbs ad fruits.

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Arbonne Leads
More Arbonne Leads

25. Vemma Leads | 713

Vemma®, a powerful liquid antioxidant program!

Vemma's Essential Minerals® provides what the modern, convenience-driven diet may be lacking: over 65 major, trace and ultra-trace minerals in an ionic liquid form. The minerals are extracted from nutrient-dense plant vegetation that has been undisturbed for thousands of years. Then they are broken down into a bioavailable (body-ready) ionic state. This means the minerals are reduced to the smallest component that minerals can exist in and still retain their physical properties and are suspended into a completely dissolved liquid form. The result is a 100% ionic liquid mineral product that is easy for the body to use. This is important because as we age, the ability of the body to handle minerals declines, so body-ready minerals can be very helpful.

Mangosteen, known as the "Queen of All Fruits" has been used for centuries by Asian health practitioners for its nutritional benefits and delicious flavor. Combine the antioxidant-rich power of mangosteen with vitamins, plant-sourced minerals, organic glyconutrient-rich aloe vera and decaffeinated organic green tea and you've created the ultimate nutritional foundation.

Vemma® Leads are people who are interested in finding out more about a Vemma® business opportunity and have taken a "Tour". The Lead first fills in a 15 field questionnaire. They then submit their information and are instantly taken to a Vemma® Builder Confirmation Page where they can take a free tour, and become a prospect.

The Lead's information you receive is instantly entered into the rep's Vemma ®Builder contact manager. The rep is immediately notified by email that a new Lead has arrived. A promo code will show up as "PI", and the new prospect then automatically begins receiving VemmaBuilder auto-responder Messages.

Vemma® recommends that a phone call is made to the new Leads as soon as possible. According to Vemma®, a "Hot Lead" is the best kind of person to speak with about a business opportunity. Well, the Leads are received SECONDS after they press the submit button requesting more information on a home based business opportunity. If they are called soon enough, they are probably still taking the tour. According to Vemma®, the leads just don't get any Hotter than that! Have you heard this before?

I HATE Leads! I don't putrchase leads, I purchase customers!

They cost $50 each. Half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-Man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To learn more about buying customers, go to The Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com
Vemma Leads

26. Nu Skin Leads | 710

Nu Skin™ Enterprises, Inc. is a global direct selling company that operates in more than 40 countries throughout North and South America, Asia and Europe. The Company operates in three divisions: (1) the Nu Skin™ division markets premium quality skin care and personal care products; (2) the Pharmanex™ division is a science-based developer of nutrition products; and (3) the Big Planet™ division markets and distributes Internet, technology, ebusiness tools and digital photography products.

The Company markets its products through a network of independent distributors. For purposes of this summary, an Active Distributor is a distributor who placed an order for products, promotional materials or services or renewed their distributorship during the most recent three-month period. In the United States, the Company had an average of 52,887 Active Distributors during 2006.

Distributors can also earn commissions based on the sale of products by a distributor and his/her downline of sponsored distributors in all markets where the Company does business. The Company also sells promotional materials that do not generate commissions to distributors.

In 2006 the Company paid approximately $480,136,000 in commissions and sales compensation globally. In the same period, the Company paid approximately $83,712,937 in commissions to distributors residing in the United States.

Most likely, if your building a business, you are on a search for "MLM Leads For your Nu Skin Enterprises" business. Buying leads is what most MLM leaders teach their sponsored reps. That IS the philosophy of the MLM industry, sad to say.

Nu Skin™ Leads

Staying with the theme of the previous post, I found another web site of a company selling leads. If you thought the last post was interesting, this one may even shine a little more light on the subject of buying leads. This company is called Apache Leads. Below is what they say about their leads. See if this sounds familiar.

Apache Leads provides our clients with honest, reliable, innovative Network Marketing lead solutions. Providing our clients with cost effective pricing on MLM Leads, Network Marketing leads, debt consolidation leads, real time tour taking mlm signups, real time leads, surveyed leads, opt-in leads, phone interviewed leads and more has been a hallmark of our success.
We supply fresh MLM leads that close. We service many happy clients and conduct massive campaigns that generate high quality leads, Ameriplan leads, Coastal Vacation leads, Herbalife leads, Ecoquest leads, Xango leads, Vemma leads, MLM leads, Mannatech leads, Noni leads, Morinda leads, Neways leads, Nu Skin leads, Melaleuca leads, Monavie leads, Fruta Vida leads, Prepaid legal leads, Usana leads, Synergy leads, Eventis leads, Emerald Passport leads, Legacy leads, 4life leads, Lifeforce leads, Nikken leads, Mentors in Motion leads, Better Universe leads, Liberty League leads, and many more MLM leads.

Apache Leads is a US based business and we do have a US office.

We have been in the leads business since 2000, servicing the US and worldwide markets. So we have a lot of experience to make sure we are able to provide the very best in MLM Leads.

Here is some text from one of the pages relating to US real time leads:

US Real Time Leads: Real Time Leads, the absolute BEST MLM leads for calling! Now, you can talk with hot prospects the very instant they have expressed an interest in receiving info on a home business.
No more calling someone that has already talked to ten other network marketers or someone who requested info so long ago they have forgotten about it.
US Real-time MLM leads mean that the instant a prospect fills out a generic home business form on the internet, expressing interest in a home-based business and hits the "Submit" button, that info is emailed to you. If you're fast, they may still be on that website when you call them! Now, that's a hot lead.

And these US real Time leads will only cost you $4.90 each, if you buy 10. The price goeas all the way down to $4.36 if you where to buy 100. One Hundred US Real Time leads for $436.00. That's insane. I could buy eight customers, people already buing products, and still have some money left over.

Who cares if I get all of their informatiom, which includes;
First & Last Name
*Street, City, State, Post Code
*Email Address
*Telephone
*Date Of Birth
*Gender
*Best Time To Call
*Reason They Are Looking For A Home Business
*How Much They Are Willing To Invest
*How Many Hours They Can Put To The Business
*Their Interest Level
*Desired Monthly Income
*Date/Time Stamp & IP Address

What good is this information if the leads are young children, if the phone numbers are disconnected, or if the person has already been contacted by several marketers? Again, the reason I don't buy leads!

As mentioned several times within my posts, I don't buy leads; I buy customers. They cost $50 each. Half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-Man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To learn more about leads, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

27. Sunrider Leads | 76

Sunrider® the company

Since 1982, Sunrider International® has helped people around the world achieve success and financial independence with our rewarding business opportunity. Sunrider® is also a premier manufacturer of high-quality herbal products.

Sunrider® manufactures over 415 award-winning products for your health, beauty, and household needs. Each product is carefully formulated with owner expertise and manufactured with the highest quality control in our state-of-the-art facilities. Explore our product lines to find out how Sunrider® leads the industry with the most innovative, technologically advanced products available. Best of all, when you switch brands to Sunrider®, you can earn a great income!

Sunrider® Available products

Sunrider® herbal foods and beverages are world-renowned for their delicious taste and exceptional quality. Our best-selling herbal beverages, Calli® and Fortune Delight®, contain concentrated antioxidants to assist the body's natural cleansing processes. Vitalite SunBar® and VitaShake® nourish and cleanse your body with wholesome ingredients such as soy protein, coix fruit, and psyllium. These are just a few of Sunrider® Herbal Foods and Beverages. See a demonstration of our Fortune Delight®

Sunrider offers the most innovative, cutting-edge herbal concentrates available. Feel confident with Veros® and Bella®. Balance your body's five systems with Quinary®. Start your day with Sunrise®. When you eat any of our exclusive herbal concentrates, you will feel healthier, younger, and more energetic. These are just a few of Sunrider® Herbal Concentrates.

Sunrider® products are part of a healthy, active lifestyle. Super formulas such as Dr. Chen MetaBooster® and Vitalite® SportCap® help your body perform at peak levels. Whether you are trying to lose or maintain weight, our Vitalite® weight management program safely helps you transition into a permanently healthy lifestyle. These are just a few of our Active Lifestyle and Vitalite® Weight Management products.

Kandesn® and Oi-Lin® skin care products cleanse, balance, and nourish the skin for a radiant, healthy glow. Sunrider® use only the finest herbal extracts and vegetable-based ingredients available. When you try our Kandesn® and Oi-Lin® Skin Care Trial Sets, you will immediately notice a visible difference. Sunrider also offer a wide range of special skin care treatments, personal care, spa, and hair care products so you look and feel beautiful from head to toe!

The compensation

The wonderful thing about Sunrider® is that it's not just about great products, it's also about great people. The Sunrider® family is made up of thousands of individuals working to make their dreams come true. Through sales incentives and rewards, travel opportunities, rewarding compensation plan and great products, Sunrider offers a unique opportunity that can help make anyone's vision for the future a reality.

If you have a Sunrider® business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in reality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

Let me share some cold hard facts regarding leads and network marketing. Most MLM companies operate in the same manner. You may even know what I'm talking about! A lot of business leaders tell you to buy leads from them, or direct you to a web site that sells leads, to build your business? Well, let me ask you a question here. How much money have you spent, or are you willing to spend, on building your Sunrider® business? Hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of dollars?

Are you sick of spending money on worthless leads? What if I told you there was a better and more exciting way to build your business? What if you could buy customers, instead of leads? Would that be a revolutionary approach to the same old problem that ALL network marketers face?

By the way, you can continue to use your Sunrider® health and skin care products, just make money in an entirely new manner from now on!

The Home Business Marketing Group

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor.
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

28. Big Planet Leads | 622

The Send Out Cards® System is awesome and very easy to work.

Send Out Fun and Exciting cards with the click of your mouse.

Send Out Cards® is a System that allows you to send real physical greeting cards from the Internet. They are not those cheesy "E Cards". They are the type of cards people used before the Internet took the fun out of sending cards . These cards arrive by first class mail in an ENVELOPE with a STAMP.

You can send hundreds or thousands of cards at the click of a mouse. You can create custom cards with your picture and logo, You can insert gift cards and checks.

You could think of it as an autoresponder that sends Greeting Cards.

It is a fantastic tool for so many people including sales people, attorneys, realtors, insurance, dentists, chiropractors. Anyone who wants to be in front of people when they need their product or service and is ready to BUY should use Send Out Cards®. It's the best way to stay in touch, with customers, prospects, or leads.

Send Out Cards® - The Company

Send Out Cards is a network marketing company which provides postcards and cards which can be ordered online, yet physically delivered. Send Out Cards is wonderful because they have a retailable, in demand product at a reasonable retail price...not something all companies can claim.

Send Out Cards Opportunity

You can can also become a distributor for Send Out Cards®. The only purchase requirement to become a Send Out Cards® distributor is a $99.00 distributor kit. No product purchases are required. The distributor kit gives you a presentation folder, your own website. It also includes order processing, and credit card processing. You also receive product samples, instructions and policies and procedures.

Send Out Cards® Leads

Send Out Cards® leads will receive a greeting card welcoming them to this great business. Leads are usually purchased through lead generating companies. Most of the leads are very expensive and it's rare for a lead to turn into a customer, that's why I buy customers, not leads.

Leads typically run from $1.25 up to and including $4.95, depending on the type of lead you purchase. I never buy leads, because most leads never turn into a customer. I would rather buy customers, people buying product already.

Leads are just that, leads. Customers, on the other hand, are buying products or services. That is why I buy customer and NOT leads.

If you are new to buying leads, heads up.

What about your downline? Realize that your entire downline is not customers but distributors just like you. Are they all going to buy leads and do this too? Nope.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

Big Planet™ - A Fantastic Company Plan

Big Planet's main focus is on the digital media market. Digital Media is the next trillion-dollar growth market and the buyers today are more numerous than ever. The baby boomers plus the younger generations simply want to share and enjoy their photos and/or videos, and they're not afraid to open their wallets to do so.

Market trends show baby boomers have been product guzzlers for decades. From diapers to cars, this generation has impacted markets on all sides. Now more than ever, Baby Boomers are looking for better ways to preserve, organize, share and enjoy their precious memories.

We are entering a window of opportunity, one in which there can be massive growth for product sales and large-scale interest in digital imaging. This is the time to capitalize on the opportunity - this is the time to benefit from building your own business with Big Planet™.

Big Planet™ Leads are fresh & responsive, & all truly seeking information on starting a home-based business. They are quality leads, from 100% Opt-in sources, and are never generated through incentivization. The lead generating company guarantees that you will be the exclusive holder of the Leads for your primary Opportunity, they will never re-sell the same lead to anyone else who is promoting Big Planet™.

They have invested heavily into their Big Planet™ lead verification & validation process, so that you can be assured of a valid lead. Their system not only checks for fictitious content & email deliverability, but it also runs numerous checks against the prospects phone number (including address to phone number verification). A confirmation letter is then sent out to each prospect, double-verifying their request, & letting them know to expect your call. By actually emailing to each prospect, we can catch virtually all invalid or full e-mailboxes, guaranteeing you a fully deliverable lead.

Most lead companies will tell you the same thing, that is why I Do NOT buy leads, whether they are Big Planet™ Leads or not, they are most likely all the same. A laeads is just that, a lead. The majority of the leads never turn into customers; that is why I buy customers, not leads.

To learn more, go to Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvsiors.net
Leads vs. Customers
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Leads

30. Big Planet Leads | 525

Big Planet™ - A System that Works

Big Planet™ has a system that can work and can get results providing you put forth the effort. Big Planet's system is the same one used by Nu Skin™ and Pharmanex™, which has generated more millionaires than any other network marketing company. As mentioned previously, Big Planet™ is the only company where their main products are all technology based. They have a niche in an exciting marketplace.

Big Planet™ relies on word-of-mouth-advertising, where independent representatives contact family and friends to share their experience with their products. It's like recommending a good restaurant, movie, or book. The reps will sell the company's products to individuals that are interested, and if not interested, they will ask for referrals. The reps main source of leads is through referrals; it's like an expanded warm market, if you will. Family, friends, leads and referrals do not always turn into customers, because most of them don't have the same excitement about the products.

Let's take a look at Big Planet™ from a different perspective. What is Big Planet™ marketed their own products through different forms of media, such as, television infomercials, radio spots and magazine or newspaper ads, and sold their products to the end user. Wouldn't the individuals who bought their products be a customer of Big Planet™? Once they became a customer of Big Planet™, Big Planet™ could then sell their customers to independent reps who would then handle the customer relations and customer service. If this scenario happened, wouldn't it make a little more sense?

Well that's exactly what we do over at Home Business Marketing Group. Our leaders have put together a marketing plan that is driven by one of the largest juggernauts found anywhere on the Internet. The Veretekk system is that juggernaut and the driving force behind this adventure. We are in the process of accepting applicants, yes, we do interview all interested applicants, to join us in this undertaking.

To learn more, go to Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
Leads vs. Customers
Leads Generator
Leads

31. Send Out Cards Leads | 515

The Send Out Cards® System is awesome and very easy to work.

Send Out Fun and Exciting cards with the click of your mouse.

You can send hundreds or thousands of cards at the click of a mouse. You can create custom cards with your picture and logo, You can insert gift cards and checks.

You could think of it as an autoresponder that sends Greeting Cards.

Send Out Cards® - The Company

Send Out Cards Opportunity

Send Out Cards® Leads

Leads are just that, leads. Customers, on the other hand, are buying products or services. That is why I buy customer and NOT leads.

If you are new to buying leads, heads up.

What about your downline? Realize that your entire downline is not customers but distributors just like you. Are they all going to buy leads and do this too? Nope.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

According to the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, the four most consumed plant foods (fruits or vegetables) in America are:
French fries, ketchup, pizza sauce and iceberg lettuce!

Is it any wonder that obesity has become an epidemic and that even children are now afflicted with many of the "lifestyle" diseases once reserved for older people?

MonaVie's roots reach deep into the Amazon where the rainforest is home to one-third of the world's species of animal and plant life and where deforesting is threatening habitat and ecosystems.

To learn more, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, or fill out the form below.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisor.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
MonaVie Leads
http://www.healthfulchoice.com

33. Quixtar Leads | 413

Quixtar Leads, Are You Buying Them?

Quixtar™ has a system that gets results providing you put forth the effort and follow a set marketing plan. Quixtar's system is also used by Nu Skin™, Quixtar's parent company, and Pharmanex™, which has generated more millionaires than any other network marketing company. Quixtar™ is the only company where their main products are all technology based. They have created their niche in an exciting marketplace, technology.

Quixtar™ is an excellent company, but like many other MLM or Networking companies the structure is set up to create huge costs on the distributors and little on the company. These companies try to let the individuals think that they are in their own business, then encourage them to spend their own money in marketing to attract their own customers. This forces the so called "new business owner" to spend their own money for leads or reverse marketing systems in hopes of bringing in new distributors. Throughout this whole process the marketing cost for Quixtar™ is minimal.

Also companies like Quixtar™ are not equipped to sell to the end user (the person consuming the products), but expect the distributor to do the job for them. This is very difficult since advertising and marketing can be very expensive. The traditional way of acquiring customers is to purchase leads. The independent reps then have to cold call the leads, and try to get people interested in their company or products. Another strategy is to bring in friends and family to the business and hopefully they will do the same. The end result of these combined strategies is rejection and a very small percentage of people signing up. If these particular strategies worked the majority of people entering a MLM or network marketing business would be highly successful. Instead they are not!

Buy Customers Not Quixtar Leads?

Although Quixtar™ and many other MLM or Network Marketing Companies have good products their systems are usually lacking structure, with regards to enabling their distributors to create substantial revenue. If you would like to learn about buying customers instead of leads, I would like to invite you to a live online meeting. You can hear and see a presentation on how the system works. If you're interested, please go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and sign up. You will receive an email with the password to get into our Saturday meeting.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

34. Send Out Cards Leads | 46

Have you ever wondered - If there was a better way to build your Send Out Cards® business than buying leads?

Have you had any success buying Send Out Cards Leads and trying to convince them to join you in your Send Out Cards® business? Personally, I hate calling leads. I have discovered that buying customers instead of buying leads is a much better way to build a home business. I don't have the expense of buying leads and making long distance phone calls only to get rejected. Buying customers that are already purchasing the product is the only way I will do business now. You can go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and see why.

Send Out Cards® is a great company for many distributors. Send Out Cards®offers an exciting business opportunity. Anyone with a passion for success can join one of the most respected network marketing companies in the industry. Send Out Cards® is a custom card company that allows you to create masterpieces for you to share with the world.

There is a slight problem with most network marketing companies. The Send Out Cards® leaders, like all other MLM company leaders, teach duplication. Here's the problem; duplication is a myth. Building a large organization through duplication just does not happen. Why? Not all people are the same. Each person has his or her own unique gifts, talents, and passions. Not everyone is a great recruiter, which is what it takes to build a massive organization. You may be the best recruiter for your Send Out Cards® leads, but can you train and retain all of your Send Out Cards® distributors to be able to do what you can do? Simply stated, you cannot! Duplication DOES NOT work!

The Home Business Marketing Group, http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. That's paying customers already purchasing your products; they are not a lead. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

The Home Business Marketing Group teaches delegation, not duplication, to build a large organization. The Home Business Marketing Group is the first off-shoot of Its Good Business, architects of the marketing plan, now being implemented by The Home Business Marketing Group. Members of the Home Business Marketing Group work together for the good of the whole team. This synergistic approach is something you will never see in other MLM companies. Quite honestly, you will see the exact opposite, every members fighting over prospects.

For more information on this revolutionary way to start your business on solid ground, visit us at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

MonaVie™ is an exquisite health drink packed with the power of acai berries, destined to make a profound difference in the lives of countless peoples of the world. The formulators of MonaVie™, driven by a passion for helping humanity and bringing abundance into the lives of many, have created the consummate blend of health-promoting fruits from the four corners of the earth.

This article is not to knock, or put down, MonaVie™, but rather to educate network marketers on the value of buying customers instead of buying leads.

Typically I don't write about companies that sell leads, but after an associate of mine got an email from Ryan Holland of customleads.net, I had to make my point clear about buying leads.

Whether you buy leads for Arbonne™, Quixtar®, MonaVie™, Send Out Cards™, Big Planet®, Vemma®, or any other MLM company, ALL leads are the same, WORTHLESS. Yes, I said it, buying leads is costly and a waste of your time and money.

I have bought leads in the past, and let me tell you, even though the company claims that the leads are fresh and exclusive to you, they have been sold several, if not hundreds of times. I have never called a lead where I was the first person to contact them. As a matter of fact, I may have been the tenth person to call a so called "Fresh Lead".

Buying Arbonne™, Quixtar®, MonaVie™, Send Out Cards™, Big Planet®, or Vemma® leads will never help you grow your business. If you are determined, and a great telemarketer, you may get some positive results, but for the majority on home based business owners, it will never work.

While searching Google for MLM leads, I came across the web site of customleads.net. Here is an excerpt of what they say about their "Phone Verefied Leads":

"Our phone verified leads are red hot, qualified prospects waiting for your phone call. For any business that relies on networking or MLM, our pre-verified leads are guaranteed to be fresh, targeted and highly responsive, allowing you to maximize your conversion rates and achieve a real return on investment.
Qualifying leads can be one of the most time consuming and cost-intensive parts of running a networking or MLM business. With our pre-verified phone leads, you can be sure you're targeting interested, qualified prospects that are interested and eager to listen to what you have to say.
Leads are verified through our call center, and are told to expect a call from a representative about a home-based business opportunity - in fact, we find most of our leads actively look forward to speaking to you. Our prospects are screened by our call centre staff to establish their level of interest, before we go on to ensure they're good enough quality to pass on to you.
What's more, each an every lead has opted explicitly to receive your call, and has a real interest in getting started in business. Nowhere else can you find genuine, high quality leads this responsive."

After doing additional searches, I came across this article regarding the leads purchased from customleads.net:

"I found this lead company, customleads.net, while surfing the net. They claimed to have leads specific to my direct marketing business. Here is their exact claim on the website:
Phone Interviewd Ameriplan Leads
We provide Double Opt In - Called - Verified - Prospects For Your Ameriplan Business! We will send you PROSPECTS who have shown a strong interest in Ameriplan and have requested to be contacted by an Ameriplan Representative. Each prospect is called, interviewed and given an overview of the business by one of our Call Center Reps. This makes them a much easier prospect to close.
Benefits of our Ameriplan Leads:
Double Optin Interested Prospect
Prospect has been called and interviewed by one of our call center reps and has been given details about Ameriplan. You only receive prospects who have shown a strong interest in Ameriplan and have asked to be contacted by an Ameriplan Representative. Prospect is waiting for your call. Leads are Exclusive to you.
Our Ameriplan Leads are GUARANTEED!
We GUARANTEE you will get exactly what you Ordered! Actual People interested in your Ameriplan Offer!
Well, I did not get what I ordered. The very first lead I called was a child. If, as they claim, they interviewed these people on the telephone, they would have known this. When I complained, and asked for my money back, they told me they have a no refund policy. Even though it clearly states above that these leads are guaranteed. DO NOT buy leads from this company. They are ripping people off!!
Debbie
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
U.S.A. "

Here is the price you would pay for such leads from customleads.net:

Quantity - Cost Each - Total Purchase
25 Phone Verified Leads - 2.00 - $50.00
50 Phone Verified Leads - 2.00 - $100.00
100 Phone Verified Leads - 1.80 - $180.0

Leads are just that, LEADS! Very rarely will they turn into customers, and very few, if any, will ever join you in your business.

I don't know about your, but these leads are very expensive, not to mention worthless. That is why I buy customers, NOT leads. And any intelligent network marketer should do the same. This is only one example of the many companies selling leads on the Internet; they all claim the same thing. They are nothing but liars! They are just trying to rip you off!

STOP BUYING LEADS! THERE IS A BETTER WAY; BUY CUSTOMERS!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

36. MonaVie Leads | 330

Solutions and Benefits for the MonaVie™ Representative

Through association and compliance any struggling MonaVie™ representative can succeed.

So what's the solution?

Here is my recommendation to ALL MonaVie™ Independent reps:

I invite you to take a look at this successful approach to growing your business by registering at http://networkmarketing.aboutleads.net for a no-obligation preview of our business model.

MonaVie™ - The Company

MonaVie ™is a wonderful company with a terrific product!

MonaVie's roots reach deep into the Amazon where the rainforest is home to one-third of the world's species of animal and plant life and where deforesting is threatening habitat and ecosystems.

MonaVie's most renowned ingredient, the legendary Acai Berry, is one of the few Brazilian exports that can directly protect the mighty rainforest itself. As word of the extraordinary benefits of drinking MonaVie™ reaches across nations and oceans, harvesting the rainforest FRUITS will become wiser Brazilian commerce than harvesting the trees themselves.

MonaVie™ - The Opportunity

8 Ways to Earn Income

MonaVie™ - The Compensation Plan

MonaVie™ Leads

As a Mona Vie distributor, you are obviously in constant search for new leads to grow your MLM business. Most companies and uplines will tell you to head over to the nearest lead distributor and purchase some "top quality" leads for your MonaVie business.
Hold on to your wallet! Buying MonaVie leads is the quickest way to failure that I have ever seen. Sure it works for a very small percentage of distributors, but typically they have spent a bundle to learn the techniques and tactics required for this success. There are two reasons that your upline recommends buying leads for your Mona-Vie business - leverage and money...
...You see it works for your upline, because they have hundreds of suckers under them just like you (emphasis added). If a small percentage of their downline manage to sponsor someone it adds up to massive growth for their business. Unfortunately, you will probably never experience the same success...
...The real industry secret is that your upline is probably making a commission on every lead purchase you make...do you think that would add up to some serious cash? I bet it would!

You see buying leads is a fools game, just as Burke Jones's article suggests. I don't know about you, but I HATE buying leads. That is why I buy customers, NOT Leads.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

37. MonaVie Leads | 317

Building A Home Based Business with MonaVie™

MonaVie™ is a wonderful company with fantastic products, great leadership, and a generous compensation plan.

MonaVie™ juice is an incredible product. Just imagine drinking juice, to improve your health? Drinking MonaVie™ juice is that simple to make positive changes in your health. We all know we should eat more fruits and vegetables. But lives are busy. Quick meals are often a necessity. Fresh produce is expensive in many locales. We tend to get bored with apples, bananas and oranges. Parents don't have time to enforce healthy eating habits upon their children.

MonaVie™ leverages today's most effective form of distribution-relationship marketing. With this person-to-person approach, you can share the benefits of the MonaVie independent business opportunity with others and be rewarded for doing so, based on your sales and the product sales of those in the organization you helped create.

If I join this opportunity, should I buy MonaVie Leads to build my business?

As the Internet matures, many individuals and companies are recommending their distributors buy leads, including MonaVie leads. They believe if they buy the so called fresh and responsive MonaVie Leads from lead brokers, this, in turn, will help build a long term and stable residual income. In my opinion, ALL lead brokers are the same. They take the MonaVie leads you purchased, and re-sell them to several other unsuspecting business people. Then they take those leads and re-sell them to several other lead broker companies. This is a never ending cycle within the leads marketing companies. No matter what they tell you, they will re-sell your MonaVie leads over and over again.

With that in mind, the questions that you should be asking yourself prior to buying any leads are as follows:
Should I buy MonaVie leads to build my business?
What is the ROI (return on investment) that I can expect from purchasing MonaVie Leads?
How many other people are being sold the same leads, even though the leads are promoted as being fresh and responsive?

Are you tired of the hype, lies and misrepresentation from lead brokers? Why not consider the alternative?

Never Buy MonaVie Leads Again . . . Buy Customers Not MonaVie Leads . . . No More Cold Calling

Enter the Home Business Marketing Group! They teach you how to buy customers Not leads to build your home business. These are not distributors; these a real customers who want to buy products. It even gets better! You don't have to advertise for these customers or even talk to them.

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

38. Quixtar Leads | 39

Quixtar® is a $1 billion company and the number one online health and beauty retailer. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs have earned more than $2.2 billion in bonuses and other incentives since 1999. They're backed by Quixtar® and other IBOs who have succeeded before them and support them every step of the way.

Quixtar's Internet commerce business model combines the commercial power of the Internet, and low-cost Independent Business Ownership Plans. Quixtar® has a full-service infrastructure of to help individuals reach their goals. Quixtar® is a division of Alticor, parent company of Amway™, Corp.

Quixtar™ counts on its Web site to provide a location for IBOs to purchase products; in fact, nearly 80 percent of the company's sales come through the Web. The site also provides resources that IBOs need to run their businesses. Says Matt Behrens, Infrastructure Supervisor at Quixtar™, "For many of their IBOs, Quixtar™ offers the opportunity for a second income, which means that they have limited time for squeezing in visits to their Web site. They need to help IBOs make the best use of their time by providing content to them as efficiently as possible."

Making Money with Your Quixtar™ Business
You wouldn't consider your very own business unless it rewarded you for your time and effort. Put simply, the Quixtar™ Independent Business Owner (IBO) Compensation Plan rewards you for selling products and for sponsoring others as IBOs who will do the same.

You earn income from:
* Retail markup on product sales to customers
* Monthly performance bonuses ranging from 3% to 25% of business volume depending on your monthly productivity
* Monthly and annual leadership bonuses and other cash awards and business incentives based on group performance.

Simple Steps to Success
IBOs who grow the most successful businesses sell to non-IBO customers and sponsor, while experiencing the products by purchasing them for their own use.

Step 1: Learn. The only way to truly understand your products is to use them. Knowing what our products can do for you is important when presenting them as solutions for your customers. You'll also want to fully understand the compensation plan and Quixtar's business rules. Check out Quixtar™ University to see other training options we provide.

Step 2: Sell. As your product knowledge increases, you will discover people all around you who need what you have through your Quixtar business. Retail selling is the easiest way to make quick money through your Quixtar™ business.

Step 3: Sponsor. For some of your friends, products provide the solution they seek. For others, the Quixtar™ business opportunity will have strong appeal as they seek a business that can help them achieve their goals. When you sponsor them, you can be rewarded for the business volume they generate.

Quixtar™ leads are 100% opt in, have requested specific information on the company, and are never spammed by SafeLeads or our customers.

It takes an average of 20 calls to generate 1 Fresh Phone Interviewed lead. So you are calling the most qualified leads possible.

Each prospect includes name, mailing address, phone number, email address, best time to call, gender, and date and time they were contacted.

LEAD AGE: 0 to 72 Hours

You'll also receive the answers to these survey questions: * What their interest level is on a scale of 1 to 10: * The #1 reason they are looking for a home based business is: * If they like the information they receive, when would they want to get started: * In choosing the right business, the most important aspect of the company is: * In their opinion, how much money does it take to start a legitimate home based business?

Lead pricing:
30 Leads - $48
50 Leads - $75
100 Leads - $140
200 Leads - $260

As you can see in the price list, leads are not cheap. That is why I hate leads and I do not buy leads. I buy customers.

I don't buy leads. I buy customers. They cost $50 each. Half of what the results of buying leads conversion cost without all the time spent. I don't have to make any calls. I don't get rejected. I do not have good telemarketing skills. I don't need them. And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

39. Big Planet Leads | 32

Big Planet™ is a direct marketing company dedicated to bringing the benefits of technology to everyone. They fulfill that mission by providing compelling and innovative products that are designed specifically for non-technical people. As a result, each of their products and services are extremely easy to use.

Big Planet™ is currently focused on the exciting field of digital photography. With the convergence of the personal computer, the Internet, and digital cameras, the way people capture, view, and share their pictures has changed forever. Big Planet™ is currently developing a digital photo web site and product family that meets the needs of this rapidly growing market, making it easy to view, organize, and share precious memories. This site, together with photo preservation services and a variety of digital photo output options, create a unique and rewarding business opportunity.

Big Planet™ is a wonderful company with a terrific business opportunity, and a generous compensation plan.

Big Planet's mission is to bring the benefits of high technology to everyone. They do this by leveraging the latest technology trends and providing compelling and innovative products that are easy to use, so that everyone-not just people with technical skills-can fully benefit from them. As one of the only direct selling companies dedicated to the high-technology sector of the new global economy, they are uniquely positioned to provide interested individuals with the very best that technology has to offer.

Big Planet™ has one of the most generous compensation plans in the industry. It rewards for an individual's commitment to Big Planet™ premium products and effort in establishing a Big Planet™ Business around the globe. The Compensation Plan addresses the needs of both the part-time person who wishes to supplement other income and the entrepreneur who is looking for a potentially lucrative business.

As a Distributor someone can earn:
1. Fast-Start payments when you sell Fast-Start Product Packages to your customers and Distributors.** See example below:
2. $250 US ($275 CA) package price
3. 200 PSV
4. $50 paid to the seller

Up to 30% profit on Retail Customer purchases

5% commission on Level-1 sales volume generated monthly.

Big Planet™ Leads

Big Planet leads are 100% opt in, have requested specific information on the company, and are never spammed by the company generating them or their customers. You should contact the leads that have requested info on new MLM opportunities.

Big Planet™ Leads are fresh, responsive, & genuinely interested in pursuing a home-based business... by far the hottest Opportunity Seeker Leads available anywhere.

Each prospect has completed a full survey, giving you all the background information you need to close your new prospect.

In addition to this survey information, each Big Planet lead will contain the prospects name, full mailing address, email address, phone number, & time zone.

Leads can run from $1.50 up to $4.25, depending on the quantity and quality of leads.

If you are new to buying leads, heads up.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

If you would like to learn more about buying customers, go to Home Business Marketing Group, or fill out the form below. Someone will contact you shortly; when they do, tell them Jeffrey Sloe sent you.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
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40. Sunrider Leads | 223

Sunrider® the company

Sunrider® Available products

The compensation

If you have a Sunrider® business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in reality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

If you would like to learn more about |buying customers|, just fill in the contact form and come to our meetings on Saturday afternoons. You will learn the right approach to building your business on the net.

By the way, you can continue to use your Sunrider® health and skin care products, just make money in an entirely new manner from now on!

The Home Business Marketing Group

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor.
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

41. Advocare Leads | 216

Advocare™ - The Company

AdvoCare™ is a premier health and wellness company offering more than 70 exclusive nutritional and skincare products and a business opportunity that empowers individuals to explore their ultimate potential. With AdvoCare™, you can experience positive life changes in your health, your hope and your future.

If you've looked for solutions before, you'll quickly discover that AdvoCare™ products are unique. Every product is formulated with quality ingredients and based on elite research from around the world to ensure that AdvoCare™ stands apart as your authority on health and wellness.

Advocare™ Business Opportunity

The AdvoCare™ business opportunity is based on the belief that everyone deserves health, hope and a future. We all want to look better, feel better and make a positive difference in the lives of others. With AdvoCare™ as your vehicle, you can earn a substantial income and gain freedom to live life on your terms.

AdvoCare™ products are safe and effective. Because the products work so well, now you have the opportunity to earn income through product sales as an independent Distributor. You and your customers have access to AdvoCare™ products 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making it easier to maintain and build your customer base.

Your unlimited earning potential is based on your effort. You have the flexibility to choose when and how you will work your AdvoCare™ business. You can easily retail products to friends and family for extra income. You can recruit Distributors to join your team and gain a substantial income by earning a percentage of the sales of your team of business-builders. As you continue to build your business, your potential grows.

With AdvoCare™, you can achieve your goals. They offer you a proven, duplicable plan described in their Success System Guide, giving you the essential components of a successful AdvoCare™ business so that you can earn the income you desire. Many Distributors have already created a full-time business that has allowed them to create a life on their terms. Others have used part-time earnings to pay down debt or supplement their current income so they could start enjoying more options in life. You can too - they'll show you how!

People turn to AdvoCare™ for a number of reasons:
* To improve their health or that of their family
* To become debt-free
* To earn additional income
* To gain the freedom to spend more time with their family
* To have life on their own terms

Whatever the reason for joining AdvoCare™, everyone starts their journey at the beginning. Some begin with little or no knowledge of proper nutrition or with limited exposure to direct sales and may want to concentrate on product use. Others may jump on the "fast track" of the business opportunity and begin building a team right away. Whatever your experience or your purpose in becoming a Distributor, AdvoCare™ can be a valuable part of your life for the path you choose.

Thousands of AdvoCare™ Distributors are in business for themselves, but not a single one works alone. Sales tools and training opportunities will equip you for success. We'll help you build for the future. To achieve success with AdvoCare™, you don't have to be an expert salesperson. You simply work a proven system that guides you every step of the way.

AdvoCare™ Leads

Some, not all, AdvoCare™ leads are responsive opportunity seeker leads - NOT job seekers. They have requested more information on how to start their own home based Network Marketing business just seconds before their information is delivered to you. These AdvoCare™ leads are looking forward to either speaking to you on the telephone or receiving more information by email. For the best results call them as soon as you receive the lead. This is when they are the most receptive to hearing about a home based business. Plus, if you call them right away they could still be on the internet and they will be impressed that you called them so quickly.

Real Time Surveyed National Leads - 25 - $86.75 - ($3.47 per lead)
Real Time Surveyed National Leads - 50 - $139.50 - ($2.79 per lead)
Real Time Surveyed National Leads - 100 - $299.00 - ($2.99 per lead)
Real Time Surveyed National Leads - 200 - $578.00 - ($2.89 per lead)

As you can see by the price list above, AdvoCare™ leads can be very expensive. Personally, I HATE buying leads. I prefer to buy customers rather than buy leads.

You get fresh responsive Home Business Opportunity Leads delivered to you in Real Time. These Live Leads are delivered to you within seconds after they request more information - when they are the most receptive to your offer?when they are Hot! Our customers find Real-Time Leads like these to be an extremely effective, affordable, and duplicable way to build a large successful organization.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com
http://www.healthfulchoice.com

42. Nu Skin Leads | 215

Nu Skin Enterprises™ (pronounced new skin) NYSE: NUS is an American direct selling company, that sells cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and technology services. It was founded by Nedra Dee Roney and Blake M. Roney in 1984 and officially listed in the NYSE in 1996.

Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. is a global direct selling company that operates in more than 40 countries throughout North and South America, Asia and Europe. The Company operates in three divisions: (1) the Nu Skin™ division markets premium quality skin care and personal care products; (2) the Pharmanex™ division is a science-based developer of nutrition products; and (3) the Big Planet™ division markets and distributes Internet, technology, ebusiness tools and digital photography products.

Nu Skin ™markets its products through a network of independent distributors. For purposes of this summary, an Active Distributor is a distributor who placed an order for products, promotional materials or services or renewed their distributorship during the most recent three-month period. In the United States, the Company had an average of 52,887 Active Distributors during 2006.

Nu Skin Enterprises™ also runs a non-profit humanitarian organization called the Nu Skin™ Force for Good Foundation. The foundation's stated mission is to create a better world for children by improving human life, continuing indigenous cultures, and protecting fragile environments.

You can earn money with a Nu Skin™ business. There are two fundamental ways in which a distributor can earn compensation:
1. Through retail markups on sales of products purchased at wholesale prices; and
2. Through commissions (or bonuses) paid on one's product sales and the sales of other distributors in one's downline sales network

As with any other sales opportunity, the compensation earned by distributors varies significantly. The cost to become a distributor is very low. People become distributors for various reasons. Many people become distributors simply to enjoy the Company's products at wholesale prices. Some join the business to improve their skills or to experience the management of their own business. Others become distributors, but for various reasons, never purchase products from the Company. Consequently, many distributors never qualify to receive commissions.

The average commission paid to U.S. Active Distributors each month was $132.21, or $1,586.51 on an annualized basis. In 2006, the average monthly commission paid to U.S. Active Distributors who earned a commission check was $807.00, or $9,683.00 on an annualized basis. Note that these figures do not represent a distributor's profit, as they do not consider expenses incurred by a distributor in promotion of his/her business and do not include retail markup income. On a monthly basis, an average of 16.38% of U.S. Active Distributors earned a commission check. Active Distributors represented an average of 35.54% of Total Distributors.

Leads for Building Your Nu Skin™ Business

There are two primary problems suffered by the average network marketer:
* Lack of quality MLM Leads (prospects) and,
* Lack of quality MLM Leads (prospects).

So, most likely you are on a search for "MLM Leads For Nu Skin Enterprises", but I am here to tell you that ...

... Buying MLM Leads Is A Fools Game ...

Because Even If You Could Become Successful At Closing MLM Leads For Nu Skin™ Enterprises, It Is NOT An Easy Skill To Teach Your Team.

The good news is ... you don't have to buy MLM Leads For Nu Skin™ Enterprises and cold call to succeed in MLM. I guarantee there is a better way.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO BUYING LEADS, HEADS UP!

You will need to call hundreds of them to find one who is remotely interested. You need to have excellent telemarketing skills. You will need to take the abuse and rejection that you will receive from 90% of the people you call. You may be very good at telemarketing and rejection doesn't bother you. Personally, I do not know many people who can say this, and even if you are good at clsoing leads, the majority of people are not, meaning your business will be difficult, at best, to grow in this way.

What about your downline? Realize that your entire downline is not customers but distributors just like you. Are they all going to buy leads and do this too? Nope.

And when I buy customers, they appear in my downline with out any effort on my part. And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To learn more about leads, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

43. Nu Skin Leads | 112

Nu Skin Leads

Nu Skin™ leads the way in the network marketing Industry for skin care. Many people are turning to a home based business to earn more money, to get large tax deductions, and be at home so they can raise their own children. To learn more, Google Wikipedia about work at home parents. If you are looking for a home based business, Nu Skin™ appears to be a great company. Nu Skin™ has great skin care products and may be a great choice in starting a home business.

Google Nu Skin™ leads and Nu Skin™ to find additional info about Nu Skin™ or go to the Nu Skin™ website. I give Nu Skin™ two thumbs up in my personal Nu Skin™ review even though I am in no way affiliated with Nu Skin™.

When looking for a MLM company to be affiliated with, my personal opinion is to go with a well established company such as Nu Skin™. Below you will find information about home based business leads, myspace leads, and buying leads to promote your home based business. My recommendation is to stop buying leads for your home business; there are other ways to build a downline and get more customers.

Nu Skin™ Enterprises Global Sales Compensation Plan
One of the most generous compensation plan in the industry rewards for your commitment to Nu Skin™ premium products and effort in establishing Nu Skin™ Enterprises Business around the globe*. The Plan addresses the needs of both the part-time person who wishes to supplement other income and the entrepreneur who is looking for a potentially lucrative business.

Anyone can start the business at Nu Skin™ Enterprises with only a minimal initial investment. It is the business that requires zero inventory and overhead costs. Risk is low but the return can be exponential.

Companies like Nu Skin™ are not equipped to sell to the end user (the person consuming the products), but expect the their distributors to do the job. Sometimes this is very difficult since advertising and marketing can be very expensive, and not every distributor is a salesperson. Finding customers for the companies products or services can be a real challenge, especially for a new distributor that lacks product knowledge and sales experience.

Nu Skin™ obviously has all the bases covered when it comes to products, comp plans, fast start bonuses and all the rest of the elements seen in MLM businesses. Nu Skin™ is dedicated to assisting their distributors to become successful. Although MLM marketing is a tough game, you must be willing to work hard, never quit, and keep the information flowing consistently, in order to make sales.

What about buying Nu Skin Leads to build my business?

Should I buy Nu Skin leads to build my business?
What is the ROI (return on investment) that I can expect from purchasing Nu Skin Leads?
How many other people are being sold the same leads, even though the leads are promoted as being fresh and responsive?

Are you tired of the hype, lies and misrepresentation from lead brokers? Why not consider the alternative?

Never Buy Nu Skin Leads Again . . . Buy Customers Not Nu Skin Leads . . . No More Cold Calling

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

44. Quixtar Leads | 105

Solutions and Benefits for the Quixtar™ Representative

Through association and compliance any struggling Quixtar™ representative can succeed.

This post contains practical information on the benefits of the Network Marketer without Hype, Distractions and Wordiness. There is a 99.9% chance you are building your Quixtar™ business through the process of buying Quixtar Leads, then converting these leads into Quixtar™ Reps in order to create a downline, several levels deep. The process of buying Quixtar leads is typical, not only with Quixtar™, but throughout the MLM industry. Top MLM leaders teach and continue to scream DUPLICATION, DUPLICATION, and more DUPLICATION, and buying leads is the foundation of this business model. Ironically, buying leads is the obstacle that stands in the way of success for the average marketer. Why? Most unsuspecting newbie marketers want nothing to do with learning the art of sales. Cold-Calling Leads is a brutal task you MUST endure to be successful in the typical MLM model.

Let me share a little information about buying Quixtar leads. If you purchased 10,000 Leads all you have to do is do the math concerning the time management. And that's just it. We consider our time just as valuable as money. After calling 100 leads and getting 100 rejections, that's 2 to 3 hours we will never get back. Common sense tells us this concept does not add value to our life and we discontinued the practice. The average marketer will jump from one opportunity to another hoping buying leads are not the foundation to become successful. Unfortunately, they find out that it is. They try once more to put on the sales hat, this time they'll purchase some motivational tape or book to stay the course. After a while, they are back where they started, frustrated without any returns on their investment.

So what's the solution?

Here is my recommendation to ALL Quixtar™ Independent reps:

I invite you to take a look at this successful approach to growing your business by registering at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com for a no-obligation preview of our business model.

This blog post is not a slam against Quixtar™; I deeply respect this company and its leadership who is leading the charge against proper skincare. Quixtar™ offers an array of products that promotes just that. Please read on to see how Quixtar™ positions itself as a premier company with great products. My only concern lies within the home-based business model and them promoting the purchasing of leads. I hope you will find this post helpful and inspiring towards your future endeavors.

Quixtar® leads are 100% opt in, have requested specific information on the company, and are never spammed by SafeLeads or our customers.

It takes an average of 20 calls to generate 1 Fresh Phone Interviewed lead. So you are calling the most qualified leads possible.

Each prospect includes name, mailing address, phone number, email address, best time to call, gender, and date and time they were contacted.

LEAD AGE: 0 to 72 Hours

You'll also receive the answers to these survey questions:
* What their interest level is on a scale of 1 to 10:
* The #1 reason they are looking for a home based business is:
* If they like the information they receive, when would they want to get started:
* In choosing the right business, the most important aspect of the company is:
* In their opinion, how much money does it take to start a legitimate home based business?

Lead pricing:
30 Leads - $48
50 Leads - $75
100 Leads - $140
200 Leads - $260

As you can see in the price list, leads are not cheap. That is why I hate leads and I do not buy leads. I buy customers.

And the 10% of my downline that are distributors do the same thing. Man-O-man we are happy buying customers not leads!

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

45. Uptrend2u Leads | 1227

Uptrend2u Leads, Are You Buying Them?

Buy Customers Not Uptrend2u Leads?

To Learn more about buying customers, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
440-725-3729
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net
Quixtar Leads

46. UpTrend2u Leads | 1215

Uptrend2u® is a quality company that produces products and provides income opportunities to the general public. To have a business opportunity with them would be a good idea providing the company had an exceptional prospecting plan in place. The last thing any new representative needs is ending up with the sole responsibility of building a business through the process of buying Uptrend2u leads.

People join Uptrend2u®, or any other MLM or Network Marketing Company, with the hopes and dreams of being able to create an additional income stream. Most individuals that join these companies pour their hearts and souls into their new business. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, they find out that they have to sell the products (become a salesperson) to others and also convince people to join their organization (become a recruiter).

The new Uptrend2u® "business person" also finds out that they have to resort to purchasing leads. many of these Uptrend2u leads have been called many times and don't want to hear from someone else about another MLM opportunity and/or product. The leads that have been purchased are just plain tired of the phone calls, and they have been sold over and over again by the leads companies. Think about it! If a lead was so good why would the lead companies sell them for peanuts? Uptrend2u Leads can be purchased for less than a penny if they are purchased in large quantities. The sad fact is, these leads have been pretty much picked over, but even if they aren't, you still have to call them and sell them on your business.

Personally, I have called hundreds of leads, and I don't want to call leads anymore...

I don't like calling people and trying to sell them to come into my business. That's why I buy customers and not leads. I refuse to purchase another lead because I don't like calling these people. I have done it and don't like it! I have had people hang up me, curse at me, and I had to listen to people tell me that they wish they could get off the list that is being sold. So, if you are new to Uptrend2u, and are considering buying leads, the list of leads you are getting are not quality names but names that has a history of being sold over and over again to unsuspecting people who are trying to build a business.

WHY?

NOW THE GOOD NEWS - The one that got my attention!

Buy Customers not leads...

I keep reading and trying to find the flaws in the system, but none were found. I went to a meeting at http://networkmarketing.aboutleads.net and listened to Tom Prendergast talk about how he has gotten increased results every month for seven years, even though he was not working the business. In other words, his check had gone up every single month since he started, and all he had to do was buy customers.

So, what does this have to do with Uptrend2u®? Absolutely nothing! But if you were considering joining Uptrend2u®, you may want to take a look at The Home Business Marketing Group first. To do so, go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and sign in. You will receive an invitation to the meetings. If you are still interested after attending the meeting, feel free to contact me. If I don't answer please leave a message and I will get back to you ASAP.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor.
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

47. Vemma Leads | 1208

Have you ever wondered - If there was a better way to build your Vemma® business than buying leads?

Have you had any success buying Vemma Leads and trying to convince them to join you in your Vemma® business? Personally, I hate calling leads. I have discovered that buying customers instead of buying leads is a much better way to build a home business. I don't have the expense of buying leads and making long distance phone calls only to get rejected. Buying customers that are already purchasing the product is the only way I will do business now. You can go to http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com and see why.

Vemma® is a great company for many distributors. Vemma®offers an exciting business opportunity. Anyone with a passion for success can join one of the most respected network marketing companies in the industry. Vemma has been in business 28 years and they specialize in Swiss Skin care and beauty products that are pure, safe and results oriented.

There is a slight problem with most network marketing companies. The Vemma® leaders, like all other MLM company leaders, teach duplication. Here's the problem; duplication is a myth. Building a large organization through duplication just does not happen. Why? Not all people are the same. Each person has his or her own unique gifts, talents, and passions. Not everyone is a great recruiter, which is what it takes to build a massive organization. You may be the best recruiter for your Vemma® leads, but can you train and retain all of your Vemma® distributors to be able to do what you can do? Simply stated, you cannot! Duplication DOES NOT work!

I have two suggestions for you: 1. Stop spending your hard earned marketing dollars on leads, and 2. Start building a business through delegation, not duplication. Consider the concept of buying customers, not leads, so you can focus on your team, not selling products, or recruiting people not interested in their own business. Let me explain!

The Home Business Marketing Group, http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com, has the unique approach of buying customers and growing your business through a large retail customer base. That's paying customers already purchasing your products; they are not a lead. The concept of buying customers, not leads, ensures long term residual income for the life of the customer relationship.

Take the right approach to building a large business through teamwork, and stop spending your time trying to convince the few interested leads, you may get, to take action and make a purchase. Customers already know what they want and are sold on your product. It makes good business sense to buy customers and stop buying leads. It truly is the ultimate way to build a business.

For more information on this revolutionary way to start your business on solid ground, visit us at http://homebusiness.healthfulchoice.com.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor.
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

48. Vemma Leads | 1204

Qualifying Vemma leads can be one of the most time consuming and cost-intensive parts of running a networking or MLM business. Buying the so-called "phone qualified leads" can be very expensive. So is there a better way to build a Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, Vemma, or 10-in-One-Vitamins business without buying leads? Yes! Buy customers instead of leads.

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group.

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor.
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

49. Arbonne Leads | 1201

Arbonne™ Dedicated to Integrity

Arbonne™ is a cosmetics company. It was founded in 1975 by Petter Mørck in Switzerland. Abronne™ produces a number of high-quality skin and body care products developed by the best biochemists. For the very first time Arbonne™ products were sold in the United States in 1980. The company prefers the direct way of marketing its cosmetics to set the lower prices avoiding distributors. Among the other Arbonn™e products are hair care products, baby care products, anti-age products, make-up products, weight loss products, and a vast range of accessories.

The company is proud to state that all the Arbonne™ products are produced with the best natural ingredients such as herbs ad fruits.

Arbonne's dedication to integrity extends into the company's philosophy of helping protect our precious natural resources.. the Earth and our children. We are an active proponent of recyclable packaging, no animal testing and no animal products or by-products in our skin care products. Through the Arbonne™ Children's Trust, we contribute food and supplies to charitable children's organizations from funds raised through our network of Consultants (& matched by Arbonne). Arbonne Consultants are changing people's lives, starting with their own!

Arbonne™ has invested years of research into the refinement of their skin care products. Formulated in Switzerland, but made right here in America, Arbonne has skin care products that contain concentrated blends of herbal and botanical extracts. The ingredients are compounded to work in harmony with your skin. You'll never be without Arbonne™ once you try it!

Abonne's dedication to integrity extends to the company's philosophy of helping to protect the earth's natural resources. We are an active proponent of recyclable packaging, no animal testing and the use of no animal or human by-products in any of our products. Arbonne's skin care products are formulated without petrolatum, mineral oil, paraffin, artificial perfumes or harmful levels of preservatives. Contact your Arbonne™ consultant today! Your entire family will look & feel better!

Arbonne™ botanical skin care products are natural and contain unique ingredients. Arbonne offers world class products that work! Weight loss products, anti-aging products, men's skin care, baby products, balancing creams, and much more!

Arbonne™ Opportunity

Arbonne invites you to take advantage of the Arbonne opportunity to make a difference in your skin, your health and your finances. Arbonne enables you to choose your future. Become an Arbonne Independent Consultant today-take control of your future.

The cost to become an Arbonne Consultant is only $29 for the start-up kit! With effort and enthusiasm, you can become financially stable. If you have the desire to realize your dreams and change your life, you can't find a better opportunity than Arbonne!

Arbonne Leads

If you have a Arbonne™ business and are thinking about buying leads to promote your business, well, you may want to rethink that idea. You see, I have bought many leads, and spend thousands of dollars on those leads, but in all actuality, they were non-productive, expensive and I saw absolutely no ROI on my investments.

Here are some clear facts regarding leads and network marketing. Most MLM companies operate in the same manner. You may even know what I'm talking about! A lot of business leaders tell you to buy leads from them, or direct you to a web site that sells leads, to build your business? Well, let me ask you a question here. How much money have you spent, or are you willing to spend, on building your Arbonne business? Hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of dollars?

By the way, you can continue to use your Arbonne™ skin care products, just make money in an entirely new manner from now on!

To learn more, go to The Home Business Marketing Group. When someone calls, tell them Jeffrey Sloe sent you!

Jeffrey Sloe, Internet Marketing Advisor
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
http://internetmarketingadvisors.net

50. Vemma Leads | 1128

Vemma Leads

Google Voice Blog: Moving to Google Voice!

We are happy to announce that we have made a number of improvements to GrandCentral and are relaunching the service as Google Voice.

Google Voice Speaks of World Domination

Google Voice is a free service that offers "one number for life," so I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.

Get Ready For Google Voice

The folks over at Google are working on a new project called Google Voice. According to the Google Blog site the first beta testing will be for GrandCentral [...]

17. Depression Cooking Teaches
Check out Google Trends this morning, and you will see that Great Depression Cooking tops the charts. The television news anchors are starting to own up to the fact that we are in a depression, and not just your ordinary run of the mill recession.

Imports are down 24% and the economy in the US alone shrank over 6% in just one month. If you think there is any good news in this, it probably is only the fact we need to learn to individually become self reliant again. We can't sustain an economy where the only growth is in government.

If you have already lost your job, and are scratching your head as to what you will do when the unemployment insurance runs out, you may have figured out that it probably won't be a job like you had before. We are headed back to a more mercantile style society, where we each make and trade goods and services. Do you believe you can now start your own small office-home office based on new skills found learned and linked on the Internet?

If you are on your own SOHO quest, you may want to consider investing in and learning about working online. In many ways it is a quite separate and parallel economy. Almost unrelated to what is happening in the real world sector.

An alternative avocation is taking up the art of Depression Style Cooking.

18. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web
Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.

But I have been busy investigating. One of the schemes is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...keep looking. This had the potential to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.

Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This supposedly started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling you have to work it like any other business.

It still is in beta, so don't hope for much. I had numerous conversation with the owners and management team of this system about creating an inner circle training program. Alas, everyone wants something for nothing. You can generate free leads, but then you have to know what to do with them.

Check out my blog on the subject, too, at "The SpiderWeb System Information and Reviews".

19. How to Produce 365 Videos in One Year
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you have been involved in the blogosphere for long, you know that many bloggers are gravitating towards video aka Video blogs, Vlogs, Vidcasts, or a Video Podcast.

This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".

45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.

I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.

20. Prioritize Your Blogging for 2008
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Social Media Optimization)

Welcome to the New Year! I have been spending the last week planning for 2008, which has included changes to my blogging style. If you follow my blogs, you know that I have decided to concentrate on Digital Nomads and The Rugged Notebooks Blog as my main focus for blogging, and with less frequent posting to this blog and The Sovereign Journey.

This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.

One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.

I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.

If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad

21. Twelve Step Program for Email Addicts
(Archived in: Online Usability Reviews)

I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.

1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.

2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.

3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.

4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.

5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.

6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.

7. Never, ever, hit ‘Reply to All’ when you just want to send an email to one individual.

8. Don’t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.

9. Don’t make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.

10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.

11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.”

12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.

22. How to Build 10-Minute Affiliate Website Mashups
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you are searching for ways to be innovative with your online marketing, then here is another plug for many of the ideas featured at 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. No, this is not a paid post.

This is the good stuff, it's an addendum to the post on "30 Websites in 30 Days", and Mark calls this his YouTube-Ebay-Amazon Affiliate Website Mashup Thingy.

I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.

Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.

So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.

Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad

23. A SOHO Reprise of Honest Riches System
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home

You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.

Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).

"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.

Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.

Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.

To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.

24. John Chow Calls It Quits on Agloco
(Archive in: Weblogs and Business)

After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.

Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.

25. How to Build 30 Websites in 30 Days
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.

I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.

Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.

I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.

There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad

American Jobs: Going, Going...

Jane Birnbaum
2005
Reprinted from: AFLCIO.org

Corporations are escalating efforts to ship out jobs that pay well and build the middle class�and now they are aiming their axes at workers in the nation�s fast-growing white-collar sector.

The U.S. recession that began in March 2001 officially ended in November 2001, say the National Bureau of Economic Research and other analysts.

So why are so many workers still out of jobs?

�We�ve declared victory over the recession, and we�re still laying off a couple hundred thousand workers a month,� says Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). �If it weren�t so painful for so many people who are out of work, it would be hilarious. But it isn�t.�

The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when President George W. Bush took office, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs. Bush appears headed for the dubious distinction of being the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a decline in total employment during his term in office.

In the past three years, nearly one in five U.S. workers was laid off from the job, according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University�V University of Connecticut report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually, the report finds.

In July, a total of 15 million U.S. workers were either unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to job hunt, according to the Labor Department.

In contrast, within a year after the official end of the last recession in March 1991, the nation had embarked on six straight months of solid job growth.

This time, say economists, there are crucial differences: Companies are sending well-paying manufacturing and service jobs to countries with few, if any, protections for workers and the environment. And these jobs are probably not coming back.

�The movement of jobs and production overseas is handcuffing the recovery,� according to Mark Xandi, chief economist at Economy.com, as quoted in the New York Times.

�With NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and other trade deals of the last decade, American corporations are now tapping into a global supply of workers who can be trained to do everything from design to production, maintenance to marketing,� says Jeff Faux, economist and founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. �And while these workers become more productive, their pay doesn�t rise, because in many of these countries, to be a labor organizer means you risk winding up in a ditch with a bullet in your head.�

American jobs sent out of the country aren�t likely to return anytime soon. �As long as employers can take advantage of much lower labor costs in other countries, there�s no compelling reason to bring back many of these well-paying jobs,� says Ron Hira, an engineer and assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. �Policymakers seem to be at a loss as to what to do about this problem.�

Meanwhile, the Bush administration directs multimillion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthy while supporting trade laws that encourage offshore outsourcing. And even as Bush opposes unemployment insurance extensions for some 1 million Americans who have exhausted their benefits, his administration refuses to embrace job-creating programs that would repair the nation�s infrastructure and help balance devastated state budgets.

�The Bush administration doesn�t seem to care about jobs,� says Center for Economic and Policy Research co-founder Dean Baker. �To retain and create jobs, there have to be policy changes, and I don�t think this administration is willing to make them.�

Manufacturing: America�s Foundation Is Crumbling

�American taxpayers...do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs.�
�USWA President Leo Gerard

Manufacturing jobs traditionally have provided high wages and good benefits that allow workers to care for their families. But 2.5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since President Bush took office in early 2001.

Multinational corporations are transferring jobs to countries where workers earn low wages and have few or no protections. And small U.S. businesses are laying off workers or shutting their doors because they can�t meet foreign competitors� prices.

African American workers have been hit particularly hard. Because of manufacturing job losses, the unemployment rate among African Americans is rising twice as fast as it is for whites and faster than in any downturn since the mid-1970s. �The number of jobs and the types of jobs that have been lost has severely diminished the standing of many blacks in the middle class,� says William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and AFSCME secretary-treasurer.

Manufacturing job loss starts the downward spiral

The loss of good manufacturing jobs has ripped apart communities and permanently lowered living standards for families throughout the United States, including in Rockford, Ill., 70 miles from Chicago. The northern Illinois city is historically second only to Cleveland as a center for machine tooling, the making of tools used in machine manufacturing.

Machine tooling, which traditionally employs the most highly skilled manufacturing workers including members of the Machinists and UAW, is the bedrock of America�s manufacturing industry.

But the bedrock is crumbling. The Rockford area lost more than 20 percent of its manufacturing jobs�about 10,000�between May 2000 and 2003, according to MBG Information Services President and Economist Charles McMillion�s analysis of Department of Labor data.
General manufacturing jobs have been among those lost in Rockford, including jobs held by Steelworkers Local 745 members at the Goodyear tire plant. USWA members at Goodyear now number 750, down from 1,650 in 1999, before the corporation shipped the jobs to Asia and South America.

But most manufacturing jobs lost in Rockford have been in machine tooling. At Greenlee/Textron, which makes drill bits and tools for electrical contractors, about 180 Machinists now represented by IAM Local 1553 are employed today, down from about 900 in the late 1980s. The 112-year-old crown jewel of Rockford machine tooling�Ingersoll International�declared bankruptcy this spring and laid off 300 employees in Rockford and 70 in Michigan, leaving only skeleton crews of managers and a few contract workers.

�The lesson of Rockford,� says Faux, �is it disproves the free traders� argument that America could afford to lose manufacturing jobs in areas like textiles and steel because we would ultimately triumph in global competition by making the things hardest to make. In fact, those things are machine tools�and we�re losing them.�

A loss of manufacturing jobs reverberates throughout the community�and ultimately the nation. When manufacturing factories aren�t being built, maintained or expanded, jobs disappear in areas such as construction.

�Our union has about 30 percent unemployment,� says Mark Bramble, business agent for Electrical Workers Local 364 in Rockford. �Guys burn through their unemployment, lose all their benefits, get divorced and then go where the grass looks greener or settle for working as a greeter at Wal-Mart.�

A question of national security

There�s a sense of betrayal in Rockford these days. �Free trade was sold to America with the line that it helps us export more goods,� says Eric Anderberg, who manages his family�s 37-year-old machine tool company, Dial Machines Inc. �But what�s happened is the exportation of our jobs and means of production so multinational corporations can exploit foreign labor and sell their goods back to us.�

Today Dial employs 40 workers, down from 75 in the late 1990s. It recently lost work to a lower-bidding Czech Republic manufacturer that nabbed a contract making parts for a supplier of General Electric Wind Energy Corp.

Anderberg and other Rockford employers worry that a Chinese government-owned machine tooling company, which already has bought two divisions of Ingersoll International, may now be poised to buy another�one containing intellectual property, including high-level research and design and military technology. �I cannot understand how our government can justify not only the debasement of our manufacturing industries but also our national security in a time of war,� he says.

The Rockford community and U.S. national security would get a boost from Buy America provisions House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) added to legislation authorizing the 2004 Pentagon budget.

Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.), who represents the Rockford area and helped write the bill, says, �The Pentagon wouldn�t care if everything it buys is made in China.� Joined by armsmakers such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the White House says the Buy America provisions are �burdensome, counterproductive and have the potential to degrade U.S. military capabilities.� But the administration does not mention jobs.

�American steelworkers are also American taxpayers, and they do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs,� says USWA President Leo Gerard.

White-Collar Jobs: America�s Growing Export

Ask anyone which sector of the U.S. economy comes to mind as the most likely to be shipped overseas, and chances are he or she will say manufacturing.

But though the United States lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs since the Bush presidency beginning in 2001, U.S. corporations now are racing to outsource white-collar jobs�including work in computer sciences, engineering, entertainment, financial and medical services�to countries where workers earn far less.

Terry Antisdel was a Chicago-area engineering associate for Lucent Technologies Inc. and its predecessor AT&T for 35 years until his entire 42-member International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 81 was laid off in July. He figures his job will end up in India or China. �The words management used were a 'less-expensive offshore site,� � recalls Antisdel, who estimates Lucent will send a total of about 5,000 U.S. jobs offshore this year. �I feel let down,� he says. �Companies used to provide jobs for people, but now they�re just there to give money to executives, board members and shareholders.�

In late July, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), a Communications Workers of America affiliated group that helps high-tech workers win a voice at work, released a tape of a conference call in which IBM�s top human relations executives discussed transferring 3 million U.S. service jobs to countries such as China and India by 2015.

Testifying in June before a House Committee on Small Business investigating the globalization of white-collar jobs, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees President Paul Almeida said, �If these cost-saving jobs shifts are taken to their logical extreme, even American corporations should be wondering where their future consumers will be located and how they will buy the goods and services.�

A Forrester Research study predicts U.S. employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas in the next 15 years, up from $4 billion in 2000.

White-collar jobs going and gone

The jobs already are leaving. By the end of this year, General Electric will have sent a total of 20,000 aircraft and medical research and design jobs to India and China, according to Business Week. And the Accenture consulting firm, which incorporated in Bermuda after splitting from Enron accountant Arthur Andersen, plans to send 5,000 accounting and software jobs to the Philippines in 2004, the magazine says.

According to WashTech, Microsoft plans to eliminate at least 800 full-time call-center jobs near Dallas and shift the work to India and Canada in the next fiscal year. It would be the largest one-time firing of full-time Microsoft employees in the company�s history. WashTech says a Microsoft senior vice president recently urged company managers to �pick something to move offshore today,� though Microsoft publicly has repeated it will not lay off U.S. workers and send the jobs offshore.

While the Bush administration remains silent about offshore outsourcing, states such as New Jersey are considering corrective measures. New Jersey legislators acted after the state outsourced the electronic administration of welfare and food stamp benefits to a company that then sent the jobs to India. When New Jersey citizens called to ask about benefits, they were connected with Indian workers who gave Americanized names.

A bill authored by state Assembly member Linda Greenstein (D) would have required such offshore subcontractors to disclose to New Jersey residents their employers� true names and locations. But even this common- sense measure had no chance in the face
of massive opposition launched by Indian and American corporate interests, such as Verizon.

�We got a copy of an e-mail Verizon sent managers in New Jersey, thanking them for sending 1,800 e-mails opposing the bill,� says Don Rice, CWA�s New Jersey legislative coordinator. Activists and legislators hope to bring the bill to a vote before the legislative session ends this year.

U.S. security at stake

Offshore outsourcing of white-collar work also raises security concerns. U.S. firms are sending mapping and other such work to India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and other countries with lower labor costs, says John Palatiello, administrator of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services.

�This practice raises issues regarding access to data about the location of�Kcritical infrastructure by individuals in foreign countries who have not been through any degree of security clearance and where control of access to data simply does not exist.�

Bush�s January 2002 State of the Union address made clear the danger of access to data by unfriendly foreign operatives: �Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears....We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities�Ksurveillance maps of American cities and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America.�

Activists are demanding Congress review trade and tax policies that encourage white-collar offshore outsourcing. Without government intervention, warns Almeida, �short-sighted corporate policy focused on saving a few bucks in the short run will have an enormous deleterious impact on the entire U.S. economy.�

Low-Wage Jobs: Betray America�s Workers

Photo Credit: Ernie Englander/The New Press

Laid-off U.S. workers thrust into a hostile job market are discovering another ugly part of the American economy: low-wage work that pays too little to keep even a small family out of poverty.

Nearly a quarter of all U.S. workers labor in jobs that pay little but are essential to society. Sixty percent of these workers are female, and many are people of color. They care for nursing home patients and clean offices at night. They prepare food, answer call-center phones and care for our children.

These jobs generally pay less than the $8.85 hourly wage the U.S. government says it takes to keep a family of four out of poverty. Even so, many low-wage jobs offer only part-time hours, with few or no benefits. And workers in low-paying but essential jobs often are treated as disposable, quickly fired if they get sick or stay home with a sick child.

As more good jobs leave the country, the percentage of low-wage jobs keeps growing. By 2010, about 30 percent of working Americans won�t be making even poverty wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A Labor Department list of the 10 occupations likely to show the largest job growth this decade is dominated by jobs that typically pay poorly�food preparation, customer service, office clerking, security and food service.

This world of low-wage jobs and the workers who do them is illuminated in The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35 Million Americans, published on Labor Day by the New Press. �Traditionally, there was a promise in this country that if you worked hard, you could take care of your family,� explains author Beth Shulman, an attorney and former United Food and Commercial Workers vice president. �That promise has been broken�Kand we have built our national prosperity on their backs.�

No job is inherently low wage

Workers in low-wage jobs frequently are labeled as lacking skills and in need of training to move into better-paying positions. But while education is a traditional route to higher pay, Shulman contends no job is inherently low wage.
�Take autoworkers, who had horrible jobs that became good ones because of unions and social legislation,� she says. �The same thing must happen with currently low-paying service- sector jobs. In Las Vegas, for example, the housekeeper represented by the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees has decent wages and benefits thanks to unionization.�

Low-wage jobs tend to imprison the workers who perform them because of what Shulman calls a �piling on� of hardships. Workers in low-wage jobs are unlikely to have sick leave or health insurance or make enough money to afford reliable transportation or child day care. At the same time, they are likely to be in inflexible situations in which being late or missing work can result in a quick firing.

�It�s not just that you make less money in these jobs, but you have none of the basic things many of us take for granted, such as health insurance, time to care for a family member, adequate child care, some kind of retirement security, even a telephone,� Shulman says. �And this applies to one in four U.S. workers.�

Gap is growing between U.S. rich and poor

As low-wage work continues to replace jobs that pay well, the U.S. economy increasingly resembles that of a less-developed nation, with a wide gulf between rich and poor. Among all western industrialized nations, the United States has the greatest income and wage inequalities, with the best-paid 10 percent of workers making 16.6 times the amount made by the lowest-paid 10 percent, according to a 2003 analysis by the United Nations Development Program. �That�s the way we�ve been moving for some time now and continue to move,� says Heather Boushey, a Center for Economic and Policy Research economist.

To reverse this trend, the United States needs to change the rules of the game, according to Shulman. �For starters, we should immediately raise the minimum hourly wage to the poverty guideline for a family of four�$8.85 an hour versus the current $5.15 hourly federal minimum wage�and then have automatic increases so there�s not a big political battle every time it needs raising. Then, all Americans should have access to affordable health care. There are a variety of ways to do this, and we should just get it done.

�Finally, all American workers should be able to care for their children�to have access to affordable child care, and to stay with them when they�re sick or go to a PTA meeting without getting fired. The consequences for the children of today�s low-wage workers are enormous�they�re following their parents into this low-wage world.�

Companies in India celebrate
"loss of American jobs"

Mike Crane
December 2004
Reprinted from: Southern Party of Georgia website

In our previous article we reported how various companies in India were employed by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Re-election campaign (see: India claims big election victory and laughs at Americans).

One interesting comment that was documented in that article was:

As Vivek Paul, Wipro VC, said after the Presidential poll, �The elections are over and so is the rhetoric; it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans.�

Well a little research has found some estimates from within India about what that meant. First and foremost, it means that India is celebrating the "loss of American jobs." Folks, that is the jobs of friends, family or perhaps even your own.

Specifically on November 4, with time zone changes, roughly a day after the polls close the following was published in the India Times:

The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

And that is why they believe that "it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans." Does this mean that American companies put their plans on "hold" to minimize the impact on a close election?

But the folks in India gloat a little more:

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

A brief look at these numbers show what they call a documented American job loss of 48,237 for the first quarter of 2004. On an annual basis this would be 192,968 American jobs. And they expect American companies to now - step out - with their outsourcing plans.

Some will say that 192,968 jobs is not very many. But as you will see in coming articles that is just what is called BPO and is not the whole picture.

Lets look at the effect of three policies that affect American jobs:

Outsourcing - In this article it has been shown that it is at least close to 200,00 jobs a year for the BPO segment and expected to increase
H1-B visa program - allows high tech foreigners to take American jobs here without being counted in immigration totals. Used by many companies to train personnel for their foreign outsourcing programs. There are roughly a million H1-B visas active today.
Legal immigration of about 1 million a year and illegal immigration of about 3 million a year resulting in lower American wages and increased social costs.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are paying the salaries of the elected and appointed officials who are doing this to you. Is this what you want to pay for? If so, why are you reading material on this web site?

If not, you are being ignored!

It should be obvious to all that this trend can not continue forever. Are there any signs that it is getting better:

A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

That should answer that question beyond a reasonable doubt. Interesting that 15% of the outsourcing chief executives favor Red China! Remember these are the folks that make the big campaign contributions that have so much influence on many of your elected officials. How will you feel when YOUR job is sent to Red China?

If you do not agree with these policies you are being ignored and your elected officials are representing special interests more than you! If you believe that this is a serious problem it is time to get involved now. The longer you wait, the harder it will be stop these destructive trends.

The BPO and your elected officials are doing offshore calculus, are you?

BPO biggies do offshore calculus

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2004 02:13:09 PM]

India�s silicon valley is delighted to move out of the limelight. The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

BPO bigwigs are already computing the gains from mega-offshoring plans on hold waiting for US presidential race to be over.

Though most of the industry majors refuse to comment on who will safeguard their interests better, they feel that economic benefits of transfer of jobs to low cost destinations will now overshadow the political rhetoric against outsourcing in the run up to the US poll.

The US presidential election was fueling the protests against job losses due to transfer of jobs.

�American law will remain the same and the outsourcing will go up irrespective of who wins. Already, we see our clients getting ready for bigger offshoring plans,�� says head of a leading Delhi-based BPO firm. Insiders also feel the American clients might be more open to talk about their outsourcing plans to low-cost destinations like India now.

Though Kerry�s tax proposals that seek to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas could deter fence-sitter, analysts feel they are no more than short-term sentiment dampeners. After initially branding the shipping of jobs to countries like India and China as a threat to the US economy, Kerry has gone on record saying he can�t stop outsourcing.

Clearly, what is of greater concern is that a clear decision comes soon, irrespective of whether it favours Bush or Kerry. Though Bush is more popular, the $ 2.6 billion BPO industry is convinced that �it will soon be difficult to differentiate between Democrats and Republicans.

Obviously sector�s fate is closely tied up with the US elections, with US accounting for over 70 % of India�s IT exports. A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

Costly Trade With China
Millions of U.S. jobs displaced

Robert E. Scott
October 9, 2007
Reprinted from: Economic Policy Institute

Contrary to the predictions of its supporters, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or increase overall U.S. employment. The rise in the U.S. trade deficit with China between 1997 and 2006 has displaced production that could have supported 2,166,000 U.S. jobs. Most of these jobs (1.8 million) have been lost since China entered the WTO in 2001. Between 1997 and 2001, growing trade deficits displaced an average of 101,000 jobs per year, or slightly more than the total employment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Since China entered the WTO in 2001, job losses increased to an average of 353,000 per year�more than the total employment in greater Akron, Ohio. Between 2001 and 2006, jobs were displaced in every state and the District of Columbia. Nearly three-quarters of the jobs displaced were in manufacturing industries. Simply put, the promised benefits of trade liberalization with China have been unfulfilled.

As a matter of policy, China tightly pegs its currency's value to that of the dollar at a rate that encourages a large bilateral surplus with the United States. Maintaining this peg required the purchase of about $200 billion in U.S. Treasury Bills and other securities in 2006 alone.¹ This intervention makes the yuan artificially cheap and provides an effective subsidy on Chinese exports; best estimates are that the rate of this effective subsidy is roughly 40%. China also engages in extensive suppression of labor rights; it has been estimated that wages in China would be 47% to 85% higher in the absence of labor repression. China has also been accused of massive direct subsidization of export production. Finally, it maintains strict, non-tariff barriers to imports. As a result, China's exports to the United States of $288 billion in 2006 were six times greater than U.S. exports to China, which were only $52 billion (Table 1). China's trade surplus was responsible for 42.6% of the United States' total, non-oil trade deficit. This is by far the United States' most imbalanced trading relationship. Unless and until China revalues (raises) the yuan and eliminates these other trade distortions, the U.S. trade deficit and job losses will continue to grow rapidly in the future.

Major findings of this study:

The 1.8 million jobs opportunities lost nationwide since 2001 are distributed among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the biggest losers, in numeric terms: California (-269,300), Texas (-136,900), New York (-105,900), Illinois (-79,900), Pennsylvania (-78,200), North Carolina (-77,200), Florida (-71,900), Ohio (-66,100), Georgia (-60,400), and Massachusetts (-59,300) (Table 2A).
The 10 hardest-hit states, as a share of total state employment, are: New Hampshire (-13,000, -2.1%), North Carolina (-77,200, -2.0%), California (-269,300, -1.8%), Massachusetts (-59,300, -1.8%), Rhode Island (-8,400, -1.8%), South Carolina (-29,200, -1.6%), Vermont (-4,900, -1.6%), Oregon (-25,700, -1.6%), Indiana (-45,200, -1.5%), and Georgia (-60,400, -1.5%) (Table 2B).

China's entry into the WTO was supposed to bring it into compliance with an enforceable, rules-based regime, which would require that it open its markets to imports from the United States and other nations. The United States also negotiated a series of special safeguard measures designed to limit the disruptive effects of surging Chinese imports on domestic producers. However, the core of the agreement failed to include any protections to maintain or improve labor or environmental standards. As a result, China's entry into the WTO has further tilted the international economic playing field against domestic workers and firms, and in favor of multinational companies (MNCs) from the United States and other countries, and state- and privately-owned exporters in China. This has increased the global "race to the bottom" in wages and environmental quality and caused the closing of thousands of U.S. factories, decimating employment in a wide range of communities, states, and entire regions of the United States.

False promises

Proponents of China's entry into the WTO frequently claimed that it would create jobs in the United States, increase U.S. exports, and improve the trade deficit with China. President Clinton claimed that the agreement allowing China into the WTO, which was negotiated during his administration, "creates a win-win result for both countries" (Clinton 2000, 9). He argued that exports to China "now support hundreds of thousands of American jobs" and that "these figures can grow substantially with the new access to the Chinese market the WTO agreement creates" (Clinton 2000, 10). Others in the White House, such as Kenneth Liberthal, the special advisor to the president and senior director for Asia affairs at the National Security Council, echoed Clinton's assessment:

Let's be clear as to why a trade deficit might decrease in the short term. China exports far more to the U.S. than it imports [from] the U.S�.It will not grow as much as it would have grown without this agreement and over time clearly it will shrink with this agreement.²

Promises about jobs and exports misrepresented the real effects of trade on the U.S. economy: trade both creates and destroys jobs. Increases in U.S. exports tend to create jobs in the United States, but increases in imports tend to destroy jobs as imports displace goods that otherwise would have been made in the United States by domestic workers.

The impact of changes in trade on employment is estimated here by calculating the labor content of changes in the trade balance�the difference between exports and imports. Each $1 billion in computer exports to China from the United States supports American jobs. However, each $1 billion in computer imports from China displaces those American workers, who would have been employed making them in the United States. On balance, the net employment effect of trade flows depends on the growth in the trade deficit; not just exports. Another critically important promise made by the promoters of liberalized U.S.-China trade was that the United States would benefit because of increased exports to a large and growing consumer market in China. This market, in turn, was to be based on an expansion of the middle class that, it was claimed, would grow rapidly due to the wealth created in China by its entry into the WTO. However, the increase in U.S. exports to China has been overwhelmed by the growth of U.S. imports, as shown below.

Growing trade deficits and job losses

The U.S. trade deficit with China has increased from $50 billion in 1997 to $235 billion in 2006, an increase of $185 billion, as shown in Table 1. Between 1997 and 2001, prior to China's entry into the WTO, the deficit increased $9 billion per year on average. Between 2001 and 2006, after China entered the WTO, the deficit increased $30 billion per year on average.

While it is true that exports support jobs in the United States, it is equally true that imports displace them. The net effect of trade flows on employment must look at the trade balance. The employment impacts of growing trade deficits are estimated in this paper using an input-output model that estimates the direct and indirect labor requirements of producing output in a given domestic industry. The model includes 200 U.S. industries, 86 of which are in the manufacturing sector (see this paper's methodology appendix for further details).³

The model estimates the labor that would be required to produce a given volume of exports, and the labor that is displaced when a given volume of imports is substituted for domestic output.⁴ The job losses presented here represent an estimate of what sectoral employment levels would have been in the absence of growing trade deficits.⁵

U.S. exports to China in 1997 supported 138,000 jobs, but U.S. imports displaced production that would have supported 736,000 jobs, as shown in the bottom half of Table 1. Therefore, the $49 billion trade deficit in 1997 displaced 736,300 jobs in that year. Job displacement rose to 1,000,000 jobs in 2001 and 2,763,000 in 2006. Prior to China's entry into the WTO, an average of 101,000 jobs per year were displaced by growing trade deficits between 1997 and 2001. After 2001, an average of 353,000 jobs per year were lost.

Growth in trade deficits with China has reduced demand for goods produced in every region of the United States and has led to job displacement in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as shown in Table 2A and Figure A.⁶ More than 100,000 jobs were lost in California, Texas, and New York each. Jobs displaced due to growing deficits with China equaled or exceeded 2.0% of total employment in states such as North Carolina and New Hampshire, as shown in Table 2B. An alphabetical list of job losses by state is shown in Table 2C.

Figure A

Table 2c

Growing trade deficits with China have clearly reduced domestic employment in traded goods industries, especially in the manufacturing sector, which has been hard hit by plant closings and job losses. Workers displaced by trade from the manufacturing sector have been shown to have particular difficulty in securing comparable employment elsewhere in the economy. More than one-third of workers displaced from manufacturing drop out of the labor force (Kletzer 2001, 101, Table D2). Average wages of those who secured re-employment fell 11% to 13%. Trade-related job displacement pushes many workers out of good jobs in manufacturing and other trade-related industries, often into lower-paying industries and frequently out of the labor market.

Some economists have quibbled with job-loss numbers extrapolated from trade flows, based on the presumption that aggregate employment levels in the United States are set by a broad range of macroeconomic influences, not just by trade flows. There is a grain of truth to this�the trade balance is but one of many variables affecting aggregate job creation in the United States.

That said, the employment impacts of trade identified in this paper can be interpreted as the "all else equal" effect of trade on domestic employment. The Federal Reserve, for example, may decide to cut interest rates to make up for job loss stemming from deteriorating trade balances (or any other economic influence), leaving net employment unchanged. This, however, does not change the fact that trade deficits by themselves are a net drain on employment.

Administration officials and other economists have argued that the capital inflow that is the mirror-image of trade deficits supports jobs in the United States by keeping interest rates lower than they would be absent this inflow. During the late 1990s, for example, these capital inflows fought rising trade deficits to a draw in terms of aggregate employment effects, and, through much of the 2000s recovery, interest-sensitive industries (housing and construction, for example) have surely expanded more than they would have absent foreign capital inflows. While these claims may be correct from a simple accounting standpoint, they do not support assertions that trade flows are a useless indicator of job loss.

First, and most simply, it is just not true that foreign capital inflows always make up trade-induced employment losses one-for-one. In the 2001 recession and the jobless recovery following, growing trade deficits accompanied aggregate job loss, even as interest rates scraped historical bottoms. Clearly, low interest rates do not always translate into enough growth in investment and consumption in interest-sensitive sectors to always sterilize the impact of growing trade deficits.

Second, the job-loss numbers identified in this report are a good measure of just how unbalanced the U.S. economy has become due to rising trade deficits. Tradable goods industries have hemorrhaged jobs, while interest-sensitive, often non-tradable, industries have seen rapid growth. At that point in the future when trade deficits begin to close (and this will happen�it is only a question of when and how), the U.S. economy will need to return many of the jobs displaced by rising trade deficits out of non-tradable and into tradable industries. Moving millions of workers back and forth between sectors is no mean trick, and accomplishing it without a recession in between will be hard; trying to do it after another couple of years of deficit growth�and an even more lopsided U.S. economy�will be even harder.

In short, while aggregate employment in the United States may well not respond job-for-job with the numbers reported in this paper on trade deficits with China, these numbers provide insight into how much harder other macroeconomic influences have to work to eliminate the employment drag from these deficits, and they provide a good (and ominous) measure of how lopsided employment growth in the U.S. economy has become owing to the unbalanced U.S.-China trade relationship.

Conclusion

The growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced huge numbers of jobs in the United States, and been a prime contributor to the crisis in manufacturing employment over the past six years. The current U.S.-China trade relationship is bad for both countries. The United States is piling up foreign debt, losing export capacity, and facing a more fragile macroeconomic environment. Meanwhile, China has become dependent on the U.S. consumer market for employment generation, has suppressed the purchasing power of its own middle class with a weak currency, and, most importantly, has held hundreds of billions of hard-currency reserves in low-yielding, risky assets, instead of investing them in public goods that could benefit Chinese households. Its repression of labor rights has suppressed wages, thus subsidizing its exports and making them artificially cheap. This relationship needs a fundamental change: addressing the exchange rate policies and labor standards issues in the Chinese economy are important first steps.

April 2007

The author thanks Lauren Marra for her research assistance
and Josh Bivens and Ross Eisenbrey for comments.

This research was made possible by generous support
from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

Methodology

This analysis utilizes an input-output model to estimate the relationships between changes in trade flows and production that could support domestic employment. The analysis covers trends in goods trade, which is dominated by manufactures. Services trade is not considered because of problems with the data, and because many of the services traded involve returns to capital and intellectual property that have little or no direct effect on employment. In addition, goods trade dominates the nation's international accounts.

This study uses the model developed in Rothstein and Scott (1997a and 1997b). This approach solves four problems that are prevalent in previous research on the employment effects of trade. Some studies look only at the effects of exports and ignore imports. Some studies include re-exports (transshipments)�goods produced outside the United States and shipped through this country to other nations�as U.S. exports. The trade data used in many studies is usually not adjusted for inflation. Finally, a single employment multiplier is often applied to all industries, despite differences in labor productivity and utilization.⁷

The model used here is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment requirements tables, which were derived from the U.S. input-output tables that are published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These tables are adjusted to 2000 price and productivity levels (BLS 2007b), in real, chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A base year with 2000 employment requirements was used to estimate the employment content of trade in all years covered in this study. This assumption was needed to control for the effects of technology. This technique isolates the effects of trade on employment from pure technology effects. This model is used to estimate the direct and indirect effects of changes in goods trade flows in each of 200 industries. This study updates the 1987 input employment requirements table used in earlier reports in this series (Rothstein and Scott 1997a, 1997b).

This analysis requires four-digit, trade data based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (U.S. International Trade Commission 2007), deflated with industry-specific, chain-weighted price indices (BLS 2007a), which were updated using industry-specific producer price indexes (BLS 2007b).⁸ Trade data were downloaded from the U.S. International Trade Commission (2007) Web site in NAICS format. The data for 2006 are preliminary estimates; this report will be updated and expanded when the final 2006 trade data are released in June 2007. State-level employment effects are calculated by allocating imports and exports to the states on the basis of their share of four-digit, industry-level employment for 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2001).

The trade data were converted into chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A domestic employment requirements table for a particular base year was used to estimate the employment effects of trade in each year of the analysis, holding technology constant. The domestic employment requirement calculates the labor required to produce all of a given product within the United States. Thus, it reflects the complete labor content of output, including jobs indirectly supported in service industries. The base year of 2000 was chosen for this study because it was an approximate mid-point in the data covered in this study.

CPS data on employment by industry by was collected for each of the detailed sectors in the model. These data were used to calculate each state's share of national employment.

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Endnotes

1. These purchases financed about one-quarter of the U.S. $857 billion current account deficit in 2006 (the broadest measure of all U.S. trade and income flows). But for these purchases, the reduced demand would have put significant downward pressure on the U.S. dollar. A substantial depreciation in the dollar would begin to improve the U.S. trade deficit within a few years.

2. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer transcript. 1999. "Online NewsHour: Opening Trade�November 15, 1999."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/wto_11-15.html.

3. See Ratner (2006) for a more complete, technical description of this model.

4. For the purposes of this report, it is necessary to distinguish between exports produced domestically and re-exports�which are goods produced in other countries, imported into the United States, and then re-exported to other countries, in this case to China. Since re-exports are not produced domestically, their production does not support domestic employment and they are excluded from the model used here. See Table 1 for information about the levels of U.S. re-exports to China in this period.

5. This model assumes that everything else is held constant and the results are counterfactual estimates.

6. See the methodology appendix for computational details.

7. Other studies�see California State World Trade Commission (1996), which finds 47,600 jobs created in California from increased trade with Canada alone�have allocated all employment effects to the home state of the exporting company. This is problematic, because the production�along with any attendant job effects�need not have taken place in the exporter's state. If a California dealer buys cars from Chrysler and sells them to China, these studies will find job creation in California. However, the cars are not made in California; so the employment effects should instead be attributed to Michigan and other state with high levels of auto industry production. Likewise, if the same firm buys auto parts from China, the loss of employment will occur in auto-industry states, not in California.

8. Industry-specific producer price indices are unavailable for certain industries between 2005 and 2006. In order to construct price deflators for all 200 BLS industries, we used a combination of commodity PPIs and industry PPIs. For instance, NAICS-based industry 3331 (which maps to BLS industry 72) is composed of agricultural, manufacturing, and mining machinery manufacturing. To compute a price index for this industry, a trade-weighted average of the commodity indices for agricultural machinery and construction machinery was used as a proxy for the industry PPI. Industry PPIs were used wherever available.

Outsourcing Not the Culprit in Manufacturing Job Loss

Wes Iversen
December 9th, 2003
Reprinted from:Automation World

Productivity gains spawned by factory automation are driving a worldwide decline in manufacturing jobs, even in developing nations, says researcher.

For many Americans, the word �outsourcing� conjures up images of manufacturing job decline. But the United States is far from alone in losing manufacturing employment, points out Dan Miklovic (shown above), vice president and research director at GartnerG2, the business research arm of Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. �Recent studies show that manufacturing jobs are declining everywhere,� said Miklovic, during a Nov. 17 panel discussion on outsourcing, part of a Global Media Summit sponsored by Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee.

Over the past decade, U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 11 percent, Miklovic noted. But at the same time, Japan�s manufacturing employment base has dropped by 16 percent, while the number of manufacturing jobs in countries including Brazil have declined by some 20 percent, he pointed out. �And one of the largest losers of manufacturing jobs has been China,� Miklovic added. �We like to pick on China and say that all of these jobs are going to China, but they�re losing jobs in manufacturing as well.�

The reason for the job losses? Miklovic summed it up in one word: automation. Through automation, he said, �we are really doing a good job of improving the productivity of people.�

Miklovic reminded media attendees at the panel session that 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. population was at one time involved in agricultural jobs. But today, only 3 percent of Americans work in agriculture, yet they have turned the United States into a net agricultural exporter, he noted. �The same thing is now happening in manufacturing,� Miklovic said. �Through automation, through improved productivity, we�re driving the number of jobs down on a global basis.�

Job loss in India

Confirmation came from another panel participant, K. Muralidharan, senior general manager for Sundram Fasteners Ltd., a major Indian automotive parts manufacturer. In India, he said, growing use of automation is holding down manufacturing job growth despite the large amount of outsourcing work that is flowing to the country. �I find that outsourcing in India has actually cost jobs in Indian industry, though in the long term, it will probably have a positive effect on employment,� Muralidharan said.

Manufacturing employment remains at about the same level in India today as it was during the recession of the late 1990s, according to Muralidharan. �The Indian economy is booming now, and it is predicted that in the next five years, the curve will only be upward. But still, the jobs and employment are not really growing at the same pace,� said Muralidharan. �The economies of scale that have been created due to outsourcing from developed countries have forced Indian industry to take on automation heavily, which was not the case about 10 years back,� he said.

GartnerG2�s Miklovic noted that the use of automation contributes to a cyclical situation in many industries. When a U.S. manufacturer develops a new product, for example, the company has first-mover advantage for a time. But in the next phase, when other manufacturers enter the market, competition often shifts to price. In response, some U.S. producers may move manufacturing offshore to developing nations, to take advantage of lower labor costs. However, said Miklovic, they frequently find that the level of automation and technology available in developing nations is less than that of the United States.

This means that U.S. manufacturers who then invest in sophisticated automation technology at home can gain the upper hand for a time over lower-priced imports, thanks to the higher quality product allowed by the automation, said Miklovic. But the automation technology used in the developing nations eventually catches up, giving products produced there the advantage, he added.

�We see this in semiconductors all the time,� Miklovic said. �Semiconductors typically have been produced in Japan and Taiwan. But now there is a booming semiconductor market that�s starting in China.� While the density and sophistication of semiconductor chips produced in China cannot yet match that of Japan and Taiwan, said Miklovic, China�s technology is moving in that direction.

�Automation only works for a period of time,� said Miklovic. The lesson for manufacturers is that they must continually reinvest in automation and innovation, he said. �If you stand still, ultimately you lose.�

Inetekk a USA company

Thomas Prendergast
Fall 2007
Corporate Site: Inetekk.com, Inc.

Inetekk was built in America by Americans!

All programming done by Americans
Sure it cost us more to build the Inetekk technology by ourselves and outsourcing to US programmers and US software developers. The prospect of sending our work abroad was never a consideration. Primarily doing so we lose the security of proprietary development to another country were we have little if any legal control regardless of how cheap that option could be. Then quality and communications is another factor, but we are also sensitive to doing business within our culture because of the process of getting what we are looking for and having the ability to have laws in effect that protect our interest in getting just what we are paying for.

Customer support by Americans
We are constantly getting offers to do our work at deep discounts by these foreign nationals, primarily India, but we are not cheap price motivated. Even our support service is run by Americans in America. We may ad to our support from Australia, but that is because they can offer the needed time frame for that region, not a cost consideration, so we can offer 24/7 seamless support for our clientele. Plus we have many Australian and New Zealander subscribers using our services and we love their accents.

Collocation in San Jose, CA USA
When we first started building the Inetekk systems, we went from a shared server in Florida to needing our own servers. We could have co located our servers in a foreign company for 1/3rd the cost but we realized by doing so our proprietary technology and secured databases would be at risk. Not a good idea. So we contracted with a well know company in San Jose. This was expensive but a very good decision. As the Internet has grown, the necessity to keep your data well secured is of the utmost importance and again, keeping this service local has proved to be a very good decision.

Servers built in USA
As we started building our server farm, again quality and service were the key issue. We went to a local shop in San Diego and hired them to build them. The first server, unaware to us, was built from foreign parts and within weeks the server started having failure issues. From then on we have demanded that all parts be US made as best we could and we have never had issues since. Our farm now runs with US made servers like NetAps, Intel, etc.

IT services by Americans
As with any server farm and web systems, having good IT professional's is imperative, and again, we hired US IT database engineers and server engineers. Same reason as our security is key and far more important than cost. For example, to use foreign IT services cost around $10 per hour. US costs are around $150 per hour. In my humble opinion, you get what you pay for.

The bottom line is future forecasting. I subscribe to the belief that our customers deserve the very best. Not only in the quality of the service, or the best customer support, but also security and the dedication to keep Inetekk around for the long run delivering the very best.

It seems the the big corporations in the US have lost sight to this fact and are all heading for serious issues as they continue down this road to losing control of their companies to the quest for seeking the lowest prices regardless. Take the Mattel toy company for example. Not long ago all their toys were US built. Today, they have lost major market share because the toys the sell now coming from Red China are toxic and low quality. It is scandalous that our children are getting toys painted with lead paint.

The future is at risk.

Thomas Prendergast
CEO
Inetekk.com, Inc.

Your job is secure if you are your boss

Bill Repp
October 14, 2007
Reprinted from: commercialappeal.com

Q: I've been out of work for nearly five months, and the prospect of getting a job in my field (mechanical engineering) doesn't look good -- unless I want to move my family across the country. I've always wanted to have my own business, but I'm worried about the comparative lack of job security that goes with it. What's your opinion? I'm over 50 and in good health. -- Deidre N.

A: You have a lot going for you: you've always wanted to have your own business, you're over 50, and you have good health. Security? You don't have it now, and you didn't have it when you got laid off. I don't think there's anything more secure today than working for yourself. Companies will cut any costs they have to just to stay in business, and the popular trend for the past several years has been to cut staff -- fast. And consider this: when you work for someone else -- big company or small -- only a few people -- your boss and one or two more managers -- control your future security. But with your own business, if you lose a few customers, you still have others to back you up. I've always thought that having my own business gives me more security, not less, than I'd have if I worked for someone else.

Another stunning fact of life: at 50, you're more likely to be more successful at hiring yourself than trying to convince someone else to do it. Fortune magazine once ran a cover story: "Finished at Forty," detailing the corporate trend of hiring younger people. As one CEO put it: "Why should I hang on to someone who's over 50? He's tired of the long hours and wants to spend more time with his family. He probably hasn't kept up with the newest technology. I have to pay him $75,000 a year or more, and he argues with me. I can hire someone in his 30's and pay him $35 to $40,000. He'll work 60 to 70 hours a week without complaining, and he won't argue with me. This is a no-brainer."

What Do YOU Want?

My best advice: do what feels right for YOU. When you're motivated and committed to a career you really like, the money and security usually take care of themselves. There's a big difference in putting in 50-60 hours a week into a job you love, and one you just feel so-so about. If you don't look forward to going to work when you get up in the morning, you're in the wrong job. Life is too short to work at a job you don't like.

Think carefully about how you want to spend one-third to half of the rest of your life (your waking hours). It you really think it's time to have your own business, then write your answers to these questions. They'll also form the foundation for a good business plan -- an absolute must if you want to succeed.

How would you describe your business (name, location, product/service?)

How would you describe your total target market -- the customers who will be willing to pay you for your products/services?

What industry, local, or consumer trends or needs will you react to?

How would you analyze, and then describe your competition (how many; current prices; their strengths/weaknesses)?

What are your marketing and business goals?

What are your first-year growth problems -- and how will you solve them?

What finances will you need to start the business and keep it going until it can stand on its own? How will you get them?

What's your operating plan for the next five years? (At least half of the new businesses started each year fail within the first 12 months. You must plan for a long-term business.)

What's your management plan to control and develop your basic operation/service?

What equipment, inventory, labor, space, overhead do you need?

Talk to Your Banker

Once your business plan is ready, prepare your personal financial statement (all your assets and liabilities). Next. prepare a projected balance sheet and profit and loss statement for your business -- at least for the first year. Then it's time to meet with your banker.

A good banker can advise you on the likelihood of your succeeding in getting a loan. He or she can point you in the right direction to get additional information. An excellent source for learning about starting your own business is on-line: Search for "sba.gov" and you'll discover a site that has all you need to know to write your business plan and finance your business. You'll even have models of nearly 100 business plans to study and benefit from. The rest is up to you -- and your energy and commitment.

Bill Repp is president of Organization Development Group, and has extensive experience in creating and delivering programs in marketing, communication, team building and business writing. E-mail Bill Repp at billrepp@rochester.rr.com

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