Meet Nishanth Muraleedharan, Entrepreneur

Nishanth Muraleedharan aka Nishani is an entrepreneur with the mission of helping people work from home, make money online, and have financial freedom. You can learn more about him at http://nishani.in His latest project, ReferEntrepreneurs.com, is a a social networking site for entrepreneurs which also pays them every month, and it will be launching later this year.

1. How did you become interested in focusing your efforts on helping people work from home?

I've been working online from 2007 onward, and I find that most of the programs available online are all a scam, and if there is a good program, then we can make only few cents out of it. If you want to make good money online, then we should promote some MLM products, and we need to create a huge down-line. This is only possible for very few who have a very big email list and a marketing background. But for normal people who are looking for work from home options, these are not viable options. Hence, I was thinking of helping people who can get maximum help on minimal effort. Keeping this in mind, I've come up with my new Business Social Networking site, ReferEntrepreneurs.com.

2. What resources will be available on your soon-to-launch site, ReferEntrepreneurs?

I don't want to ruin the suspense by listing all the features here, but I can tell you that there will be options for earning good money every month on autopilot. We have options to make money for premium members as well as basic members who can join the site for free. Also, we are working hard on adding the features to offer entrepreneurs a place to grow their business and at the same time earn money while socializing and sharing ideas with other likeminded entrepreneurs! It will bring a lot of exciting features. Stay tuned! It will be worth waiting for!

3. Have you always been interested in entrepreneurship--what first caught your interest about it?

In my school days, I stayed with my grandparents as my father was working in a bank and used to get transferred all over India as part of the job. I was totally drawn towards business from my childhood days. My grandfather was into the textile business, and I used to see him doing business from my childhood days, which also attracted me toward business. Throughout my childhood, I was surrounded by entrepreneurs. All of my uncles on my mom's side had multiple businesses, which led them all to be successful.

Growing up, I was always thinking about what I could do to change my lifestyle. For years, I couldn't come up with anything. Now I've chosen online business as my career as this is the only business which doesn't have any restrictions of place or locality to do business. You can do your business on your laptop from anywhere in the world. You can truly live your laptop lifestyle.

4. Why is creativity so important for people who want to work for themselves?

Only those who are creative and innovative can become filthy rich for their whole life and pass on their fortune to coming generations!

If you are not creative and innovative, you will always have to depend on someone else's programs to make money, or you have to work for someone else for your whole life!

If you are making money from someone else's program, then it is the same as working for someone else and making the program owner's rich. It is true in the case of working for any MLM business or any revenue share programs or any business where you are just a member and not the owner!

So I would suggest if you are creative, and if you have an idea which can change this world, then implement it, so you can create millionaires, too, with you making billions.

5. For someone who has always wanted to work from home but doesn't think that he/she can afford to do this, what is your advice?

My advice for newbies those who want to make money online is to study well which program is giving more returns for the time you spend on it. Also, then get in touch with the top earners in that program and copy them, follow them, and get mentored by them. You will be successful.

Also my advice to all budding entrepreneurs is...

Always have the desire to do something innovative. Think how technology can impact people's life. Take real world examples of Alibaba, Flipkart, Uber, etc. How a simple idea brings about a change in our living. And simply put, "At least go out and give it a try with your own ideas maybe for a couple of years. There is no harm, and rather there's a lot in return. So TRY STARTING UP NOW!!"

"If you are not playing with all in, you are really not playing."

"Everyone is special. Try to find what makes you special. If you know, then keep nurturing it, or else keep trying to find it."

Also, if you are now doing a day job, don't quit the job to start the business until you reach a point where you can make a living off of what you are doing and what you love to do. Until then you need a job. So quit only once you are at that point where your business can support your daily life and all the unexpected expenses!

Thanks, Nishani!

Meet Paul Fredrickson, Author and Researcher

Paul Fredrickson has been researching multilevel marketing for 13 years. His research indicates that virtually all MLM companies including Shaklee and Herbalife, operate much the same way as a pyramid scheme. His focus is on Shaklee reviews, which the company itself appears to design. His research shows that hundreds of fake review sites have been built by companies to block unbiased information from consumers and past participants. For more information, check out http://shakleemlmreviews.pyramidscheme.wiki.

1. What first got you interested in wanting to learn more about MLM companies?

My interest in MLM began as the result of my sister's involvement with Shaklee in 2013. Loretta is the loveliest person one could hope for in a sister, but I think the issue was that she naturally trusted people; we were raised by a Baptist minister in Illinois farm country. Our mother worked from home turning our small farm's produce into jams and flavored ciders to sell. So when a "friend" offered her a "business opportunity," she believed everything he claimed was true. The money would be fast, and there would be plenty of it. She was excited to start her own business.

It was a combination of Loretta's excitement over this investment coupled with her lack of any plan set off the alarm bells for me. I began to do Google searches for MLM experts including Jonathan Brand, Bob Fitzpatrick, and others. Mr. Brand was able to speak with me by phone briefly when I asked his advice about Loretta.

And I guess that was the first time I understood how organized fraud is allowed to dupe American consumers. Brand, Fitzpatrick, and Taylor shared the same expert opinion. They arrived at it independently of one another, and each of the top US pyramid scheme experts explained the exact same thing in various levels of detail. They top minds in MLM fraud explained that the members of US oversight committees in congress annually agree not protect US consumers from multilevel marketing fraud, but rather, to accept lobbying, meaning bribe money, from the central pyramid scheme lobby or Direct Selling Association aka the DSA. This is astounding to me still. I built the Shaklee products and MLM reviews sub-domain at pyramidscheme.wiki in order to test a theory that the American rule of law can be restored one day by the FTC or Federal Trade Commission.

2. When and why did you decide to set up your website?

I decided to set up the website after my sister lost the remainder of her college savings chasing the business opportunity. Of course she was chasing something that others could see didn't exist, and she was losing the money my father and mother always worked so hard to earn and put away for her. I was left with this sinking feeling which stemmed from a dark place, from the reality that despite having a physical office in Washington DC and a realistic logo on the letterhead used by its employees, the FTC was not and is not a legitimate consumer protection agency. The laws against pyramid schemes in Section 5 of Federal FTC law already makes Shaklee and Amway and 1000 other MLMs illegal. But known, named politians are taking money from the pyramid scheme lobby/DSA in return for allowing criminals to scam people like my sister out of their entire savings. She lost more than $10,000 since they brainwash victims to buy.

3. How can consumers tell the difference between real and fake reviews of MLM companies?

That's an easy one--thank you for that. If a review of an MLM company contains widget links or any links to MLM tools systems or ways to build your MLM downline, it is a scam. Leave the site, and try again to find a real MLM review. I have learned that all MLM companies want to manipulate Google into showing fakes high in the list for these specific searches:

"[MLM name] + products"
"[MLM name] + reviews"
"[MLM name] + complaints"
"[MLM name] + scam"

In other words, I had to make a website that came up high on the first page of results for the searches, "Shaklee products," "Shaklee reviews," "Shaklee complaints," and so on. So I did this, and now the site is getting tons of traffic. I have never seen one of my sites get so many visitors each day. I'm spreading the truth for free, and I'm doing it in memory of Loretta because I loved her very much. I always will in some ways--you know how family is. It's for life and her memory is with me wherever I go.

If an MLM review site suggests that more than 1% of the scheme's participants will earn back their initial investment or buy-in cost, it is a fake reviews site, so move on to the next. This is because Brand and Taylor have shown that more than 99% of MLM participants fail to make their investment back, and this statistic appears to be true of the MLM industry as a whole.

4. What can people do when searching on Google and elsewhere to find unbiased information, rather than information put out by the companies themselves?

This is a great question, although a slightly harder one to answer. It has an answer, though. If you suspect that information you're viewing online is biased, follow the links on the page to see if they try to sell you anything that would tend to compromise the author's credibility. If you see any site claiming that a company is not a scam, it is a fake. If you see any site that encourages you to join an MLM rather than run from all multilevel marketing, it is fake. This is rather simple to determine because all MLM companies are illegal pyramid scams. I have not seen one exception to that rule. Any site claiming the opposite is fake.

5. For someone who is looking to start a business (or join an established business as an independent consultant, etc), what would you suggest they do when it comes to researching business opportunities?

The first thing is to understand that the entire fraud industry is competing to come up high in Google for the search "business opportunity," so you have a breed or variety of scam that tries to imitate something very specific, "business opportunity." You will not have good luck searching Google for terms such as "income from home," "residual income," "home income," "be your own boss," and so on, because the SEO for these terms is rigged by about 1000 MLMs, all of which are fraudulent chain recruiting schemes.

So I suppose the best answer I have on how to tell the difference between a legitimate business opportunity and a fake is to keep in mind that:

1.All MLM "home business opportunities" are fakes. If it looks good and you find out it has anything to do with MLM, run away and warn your friends. It's a fake, just another MLM scam.

2. Look at the compensation plan. If it requires you to buy any products to qualify for commissions, it's a scam.

3. If the compensation plan requires that you use a different system of measurement for money, it's an MLM scam, run. For example, if you have to convert US dollars to "PV" or "Personal Volume Points," watch out: it's a scam. This is done so that participants get the illusion that they are spending "points." It works because the simple act of figuring out what you've spent vs. the commissions you've earned now requires decimal conversions between real currency and make believe company points. That makes it harder to realize that you're spending 80-$100 for every $15 you earn back in commissions--get it?

4. Look for unfamiliar pairing of nouns where each is capitalized. Jonathan Brand refers to this as proprietary (made up) language. If your compensation plan introduces a bunch of new capitalized nouns that have different, special meanings in the context of the comp plan, you have a scam. Examples include, "Team Bonus," "Diamond Leader," "Upline," "Downline," "Business Leader Pricing," "PV," "Point Value," or anything similarly made-up and ridiculous sounding, it is a scam. I hope this helps readers to make good choices down the road.

Thanks, Paul!

Forever Living Products: A Different Kind of Company

Forever Living Products was founded in 1978 on little more than dreams and hard work. It was designed to help anyone who wanted a better future to attain it on their own. As of this writing, over 9.5 million distributors worldwide have discovered the power of Forever Living's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Millions of people are enjoying more fulfilling, healthier, and wealthier lives, thanks to a small business that began with only a dream.

The supplements offered through Forever Living are designed with healthy, energetic living in mind. The supplements come in different forms such as powders, capsules, and energy drinks--the idea is to support your nutrient levels throughout the day. Aloe vera is one of the key ingredients in their products, but check out their website to learn more about the different natural ingredients they utilized.

More than 30 years later after the company was started, Forever Living is a multi-billion dollar company with a presence in over 145 countries. They manufacture and sell dozens of exclusive, beneficial wellness products based on one of nature's purest gifts--aloe vera. Their business opportunity compensates people for sharing their products with others.

Better health. More wealth. A secure future.

Meet Allen Vaega, Entrepreneur and Network Marketer

Allen Vaega is an entrepreneur and master network marketer living in Canberra, Australia with his wife Emma Ciaravaglia and son Oryin.

Allen and his wife found Wings Network through a recommendation and was simply impressed with the business model and product offerings. He describes the Wings Network compensation plan as the best in the industry and says that he and his family are very happy where they are right now.

Learn more about the Wings Network in the following video.

1. How did you first become interested in network marketing?

I was interested in making money fast as I was in a bad way. My brother showed me what he was doing, and I immediately gave it a try. This was in 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand. It has provided me personal development tools and financial security ever since.

2. How has the revolution in smartphones influenced the multilevel marketing world?

The impact of the smartphones revolution is enormous, and Wings Network is simply taking advantage of this opportunity through network marketing. Network marketing will be the preferred marketing model for future businesses internationally. After all, why would anyone gamble company profits for any other type of marketing if they could guarantee the movement of their goods and/or services with a predictable outcome?

3. What is the Wings Network?

Wings Network is the first mobile MLM company in the world. It's a digital MLM Company and the marketing arm for all of Sergio Tanaka's (billionaire owner) digital and software businesses world-wide.

4. Why did you decide to join the Wings Network, and how has it helped your business?

After reviewing the Wings Network model and business products and infrastructure, I'd be crazy NOT to take advantage of this opportunity.

5. For others who are looking to get started with network marketing--or who are already in the business but want to improve their results--what would your advice be?

Move NOW... This window of opportunity requires immediate action and foresight. You snooze, you lose! Join us today... Contact me and let's make money!

Thanks, Allen!

Introducing Network Marketing Team, an MLM Advocacy Group

Since I started this blog back in November 2012, I've talked with a lot of entrepreneurs, some of whom make all or part of their income from work in multilevel marketing (MLM). In case you aren't familiar with MLM, in the words of Wikipedia, the term refers to situations where "the sales force is compensated not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of the other salespeople that they recruit."

If you are someone who is good at networking, MLM can be a solid opportunity for you. But there are countless network marketing companies to choose from, so how do you pick one that might be a good match for your interests? Network Marketing Team is a group of multilevel marketers who describe themselves as an advocacy group. They have an informative website which gives details on many different companies, including facts like the kinds of products the companies sell, the cost for getting started as a salesperson, and more.

On their website, Network Marketing Team also provides useful tips and resources, covering topics such as effective email marketing and ways to efficiently manage your business.

What I like most about the site is that the emphasis is truly on information. The site isn't trying to sell you anything or get you to sign up for specific MLM programs. I think it's a good starting place to find out about the different companies that are out there--and to find pointers on how to grow your business.