Information is projected to be the next billion dollar industry!!! Through detailed training, we will teach you how to create an income with Business Makers. This will give you extra money and investment money. We will guide you to other opportunities and help you create multiple streams of income. How much does it cost? It only costs $25 per month to be a member of Business Makers. Because information is delivered via internet, there will be no refunds on monthly drafts. How can I pay for my Business Makers' membership? All payments will be drafted and commissions paid to your StormPay accounts.. These payments will be automatically deducted every month on the date of your first payment. To open your account CLICK HERE. Is this an international opportunity? Yes, Business Makers is an international business. Because we are using the power of the internet, our product...information can be accessed via internet anywhere in the world. What does the $25 monthly fee get me? For a small monthly fee of $25, you will receive a membership in Business Makers, a Business Makers' website, your own TurnkeyPC marketing system, back office, mini network marketing lessons, earn commissions, and join pre-selected opportunities as a team, creating multiple streams of income. How much of the $25 is commissionable? $20 of the $25 membership fee will be paid monthly through signup bonuses, matrixes, and matching bonuses! That is an 80% payout!!! How can Business Makers payout such high commissions? That is simple! Thanks to technology opening the world of information and websites, we do not have to count the cost of packing, shipping, or product cost! Who is a personally sponsored person? A person is your personally sponsored when, through your on or offline efforts, go to your personal website and join the Business Makers opportunity. What is a matching bonus? A matching bonus is money paid to member on the 5*3 matrix of their personally sponsored. You can sponsor someone on any level (even out of your matrix) and receive dollar for dollar matching bonus on every dollar they make on their 5*3 matrix. How do I qualify for a Matching Bonus? All a person must do to qualify for a matching bonus is to personally sponsor people into the Business Makers opportunity! Will I make a matching bonus off someone in my 5*3 matrix that I did not personally sponsor? A force 5*3 matrix is known to promote spillover from upline sponsors. This is when someone above you enrolls a new member of Business Makers that falls into your matrix. When this happens, the matching bonus is paid to the sponsor and not you. However, you will still receive the correct matrix payout for that person! What is a 5*3 forced matrix? As explained on the Compensation page, a 5*3 forced matrix is your business center. Forced is meaning that you may only have 5 recruits under you. A sixth recruit would fall under one of your first positions and so on. You are only paid matrix commissions on your first three levels. If I do not personally sponsor, and there are people in my matrix, will I make money? Yes, if you have received members in your 5*3 matrix from upline recruiters, you will be paid the matrix commission for them! What is our next opportunity? This is truly the most exciting part of the Business Makers opportunity! Plans are being made and negations in process. It will all be revealed to you in the future. All you must concern yourself with is building your Business Makers opportunity and the next business will be built for you!!! How can I signup for the next opportunity? At the proper time, Business Makers will accept applications for the next opportunity. This information will be made available to you in the future. What happens if I do not signup through Business Makers? If you choose not to follow the procedure and directions for entering the 2nd opportunity, you will lose the benefits of our team. How much will the next opportunity cost? All this information will be given at the appropriate time How do I quailfy to move into the 2nd opportunity? The way you qualify to join the 2nd opportunity is by building a Business Makers' organization. To enter the next opportunity, your Business Makers payout must cover your Business Makers' monthly fee and the monthly fee of the 2nd opportunity. Will there be more opportunities to join in the future? YES! YES! YES! But...leave all of that to us. That is our part. We review several business everyday in order to select the right business for our team. We will take care of all the work and let you know when to join. How do I promote Business Makers offline for FREE? Simple, just let enough of your friend and family know about the opportunity until at least 5 of them join! Make a list of 100 people and invite them to view your website and allow you, or a upline member, present the opportunity at a certain time. How do I promote Business Makers online? Many efforts are being made to design plans for online advertising. However, at this time, we STRONGLY encourage you to do all your recruiting off line for FREE. Why should I try to personally sponsor 5 people? That's the plan! Everyone that desire success with Business Maker should set their first goal to find 5 people. As everyone does this, it will cause downline and incomes to explode. What if my 5 personally sponsored do not fall on my first level? Although it is optimal to have your first five under you as your personally sponsored, it is not required. You may sponsor however many you can and on any level. How can I contact Business Makers? You may contact Business Makers by email @ support@mybusinessmakers.com How do I delete my account? You may delete your account by sending your email information to support@mybusinessmakers.com. Once your money has been withdrawn for the month, it will not be refunded. To stop a StormPay draft, we must receive notice 2 week prior to draft date. How often will I get paid? During pre-launch this is subject to change. Payments will be cut off on the 16th. Your StormPay accounts will be funded on the 25th. What is the most I can make with Business Makers? Income potiental is limitless with Business Makers. Why sould I help my team build more than 3 levels deep? A little FYI... The 2nd opportunity will pay $15,000 per month on a full 5*4 matrix. None have to be personally sponsored. What is network marketing (or multi-level marketing)??? Multi-level marketing, also known as MLM or Network Marketing, is an alternate channel for a manufacturer to deliver its products/service to market. (Other channels include retail storefronts, catalog shopping, and door-to-door sales.) Depending on the particular company, the MLM channel may provide both word-of-mouth advertising and distribution. Why would a company choose the MLM route to product/service distribution? There are several good reasons: - Low overhead. There are virtually no up-front advertising costs. Unlike a typical retail company, the MLM company doesn't have to spend massive amounts of money to "pull" customers in. Instead, it pays distributors to "push" the products/service out into the marketplace. In addition, the company only has to pay the distributors for *results* -- that is, a percentage of products/service actually sold. Ordinarily an MLM company will use the money that *would* have gone into advertising to pay its distributors. (Using Procter & Gamble as an example: I have an unconfirmed report that says P&G;'s sales in 1992 were $25billion. Their advertising budget was $10billion. So they spent 40% of their sales on ads. MLM companies typically pay 40-80% of their sales volume to their distributors.) - Low distribution overhead. Typical retail companies generally use: a series of national, regional, state, and local warehousers to distribute their products/service to the retail stores. Each of these intermediaries wants to make a living, and marks up the cost of the products/service. Using P&G; again: my unconfirmed report says that a tube of Crest that sells for $2-3 in a store costs P&G; roughly 13 cents to manufacture. If it sold for $2, 40% (80c) would go to advertising, leaving $2 - 80c - 13c = $1.07 for distribution costs and P&G;'s profit. - Rapid growth. A well-managed MLM company can grow at an amazing: rate -- as much as 20%, 50%, even 100% per MONTH. (In fact one of the biggest reasons for MLM company failure is inability to keep up with explosive growth.) It would be difficult or impossible to generate this kind of growth in an overcrowded retail market. - Specialized and motivated "sales force." There are hundreds of thousands of products cramming the shelves of retail stores. It's almost impossible for a new products/service to make a dent in the market, unless the company spends megabucks on advertising. Also, many MLM products need more explanation than can be done in a 30-second TV spot. A person-to-person word-of-mouth campaign can solve both of these problems. That's the company's perspective. For the individual, MLM can offer an opportunity to build a part-time income source that can, with enough effort, grow into a significant income. With hard work (and a little luck) you can earn incredible incomes. How? MLM is all about "a lot of people doing a little bit." In an MLM you are rewarded for the sales you create -- not only directly, but indirectly as well. You get profit for any retail sales you make, plus you get a bonus on the sales made by people you enrolled into the company, and people they enrolled, and people THEY enrolled, and... By getting a small percentage of many people, your income can grow to a very large number. But wait. It's not that simple. It takes a lot of time and work to build up a group (called a "downline") in any MLM. What's more, even if you're a real hard-working go-getter, YOU can't do all of it. You can't enroll the 90,000+ people in this group by yourself. Each person has to find 5 of his own -- and the sad truth is, most people are not that ambitous. It's hard to find the ones that will work. So it's almost unheard-of for someone to actually build an idealized group like this. Some "legs" in the downline will build faster than others, and some will grow slower. If you don't work hard yourself, you might never start ANY legs that go anywhere. But that's the concept: a whole lot of people doing a little bit each, and you getting a small reward on each one. If you have the initiative and work ethic to build that group, you can make a very nice income in MLM -- maybe even get rich. But MLM **IS NOT** a get-rich-quick deal. It DOES take a lot of work, and most people won't put in the work it takes. The large majority of people will never get rich; quite a few hardly make a dime. But the beauty of it is, as long as you pick a good company with a good product or service, the size of your success is up to YOU. Is MLM a scam? Is it legal? Is it moral, ethical, etc? The short answer is: maybe. This is the cause of 99% of the flamefests, arguments, and general disagreements about MLM. Many people contend MLM is immoral or unethical. Many Attorneys General (who ought to know what they're talking about) say a properly-run MLM is perfectly legitimate and ethical. Who's right? The truth is, MLM is not inherently good or evil any more than capitalism is good or evil. Both can be done ethically, and both can be done unethically. It depends on how a particular company is designed and managed. Since the MLM industry is very young (about 40 years old), the law is still in flux. There are admittedly many MLM companies that are nothing more than scams, get-rich deals for the owners and their cronies, glorified chain letters, etc. Some of them even manage to skirt around the legal issues and avoid prosecution. There are other companies that have legitimate products/service, and may have been in business for many years, but which are run in such a way that many people get burned -- old ladies investing their retirement funds to buy a garage full of products, and so on. Most people would agree these companies, or at least the distributors that do the questionable practices, are not very ethical. On the other hand, there ARE many companies that are run legitimately, legally, and ethically. They produce good products that are valued by customers, and give many people the opportunity to improve their financial situation. The anti-MLM people will often assert that MLM companies and people sell unrealistic fantasies of income potential, recruiting "cannon fodder" to fatten their upline's bonus checks. This view is understandable, but misses one critical point: in general, the new person has the SAME OPPORTUNITY to build a group as the fatcat upline guy. The upline has worked hard, maybe for years, to build the downline that is now rewarding him so richly. The new person has invested maybe a couple of hundred bucks and a few hours. It's only fair that everyone starts out in the same place -- AT THE BOTTOM -- and everyone has the SAME chance to build a downline of their own. The major exception to this is in the theoretical case of "saturation." In this situation the company has grown so much that a large percentage of people who would be interested in enrolling have already enrolled. (NOTE that this does NOT mean "EVERY person is enrolled"!) The new person has a much harder time finding new recruits than the upline person did N years ago. The new person has several choices go with the established company, and live with the saturation; go with another company that has no saturation problems; or give up. On the other hand, while it may be a bit harder to find new prospects when a company is mature, the new person who joins the mature company has MANY more tools and support mechanisms available to him/her than the "old hands" did back at the start of the company. There are probably also many more products, more professional literature, etc. While those pioneers may have had wide-open spaces to settle, they also got more arrows in their backs. It works out pretty evenly. In actual practice, saturation is very seldom a problem. It may be easier or harder to find new prospects for a particular company in a particular location, but there are very few cases that are actually "saturated." The thing to understand is that saturation is not a clear-cut, yes-or-no situation; one company may be CLOSER to saturation than another, but neither might be actually "saturated." The anti-MLM argument often runs calculations of exponential growth, and demonstrates that the entire population of the planet will be enrolled within a short period. This is an intellectual exercise rather like the example of "one pregnant mosquito could carpet the earth in mosquitoes by the end of the summer." In other words, in actual reality, it doesn't happen that way. The growth rate is normally much slower than people realize (especially once a company gets larger), and slows down as a company approaches saturation. It may get harder to enroll new people in a large and near-saturated company, but NO company in the history of MLM has ever grown fast enough to exhaust its potential marketplace. More people turn 18 every year in the United States than are enrolled in all MLM companies combined. So far, at least, the growth of MLMs hasn't kept up with the growth of population. So, bottom line: In the opinion of many people, MLM *can* be done legally, morally, and ethically. It can also be done unethically and illegally. Choose your company carefully. But isn't it wrong to keep bringing in new participants, rather than concentrating on selling a product like "regular" businesses? Many anti-MLM folks think that the only purpose of ANY MLM is to enroll new people, instead of selling a products/service. What they don't understand is that ENROLLING NEW PEOPLE *IS* HOW YOU SELL THE PRODUCT IN MLM. If you focus only on selling, it isn't MLM -- it's plain old sales. Nothing wrong with that; it's just not MLM. MLM works with a DIFFERENT PROCESS than typical sales. Rather than finding a few people who sell a ton, you find a bunch of people who sell a little. (And, since each sells so little, self-consumption can account for a significant portion of those sales.) Enrolling new people, and building downlines, is how you find the people who each do the small amount of sales. (Note: EACH do a small amount of sales.NOT just the "suckers on the bottom". In any legitimately-run MLM, ALL people, from top to bottom, contribute to the sales effort.) Product still gets moved -- that's how bonuses get paid in a legitimate MLM -- it's just done in a different manner than in traditional sales or retail. MLM works differently than traditional methods, but just because it's different doesn't make it bad. It's just DIFFERENT. Just like franchising was different from traditional retailing, and was considered to be a scam for many years. But when properly implemented, franchising is not a scam; it's a very effective way to do business. Similarly, when properly implemented, MLM is different from traditional retailing AND franchising, but can be a very effective way to do business. What's the difference between MLM and Network Marketing? Most people would say the terms are synonymous. MLM is an older term, and has taken on negative connotations in some people's minds. Network Marketing is preferred by some who are trying to avoid this stigma. Some companies, such as Amway, consider "Network Marketing" to be a specific form of MLM: namely, combining a "network" of outside suppliers (AT&T;, Coke, Reebok, etc.) with a network of "marketing" folks (the distributors). How can you succeed in MLM? Short answer: Work diligently, work consistently, and don't give up. Long answer: all companies are different, and what works in one company might not work in another. You should learn from your upline -- ask them what works and what you should do to succeed. Draw on them for help. They've found out from experience what works and what doesn't, and they're interested in your success. The fundamental ideas, though, are the same in any company. Do what a distributor/associate/whatever is supposed to do in your company -- retail products/service, sell services, consume products, whatever -- and find others to do the same. Teach them to do what you do. *Duplication* is the key to success in MLM. You're not supposed to go out and enroll the world, or sell something to everybody on the planet. You're supposed to find a FEW people who want to build a business, and help them do it. More importantly, teach THEM to do what a distributor does, AND go out and find a few people to work with, AND teach those new people. Until you have "taught your people to teach their people to teach," you have not really duplicated yourself. Keep plugging away. Unless you're incredibly good at this, it will take time to build a group. It takes time to find good people and teach them what they need to know. Sometimes your best people will give up and drop out. Sometimes it can be very discouraging. Sometimes you may be tempted to give up. (And if your company isn't working very well, maybe you should. But if the company's working well, and others are succeeding, you need to take a look at what YOU'RE doing that isn't working. It may be that you wouldn't do any better in another company, even if the grass looks greener, because you're doing the wrong things.) It is a sad fact that a very small percentage of people who enroll in any particular MLM will succeed big. This is NOT, however, a fatal flaw of MLM; it's a reflection of real life. 90%+ of small businesses fail within 1-5 years -- and the owners lose a whole lot more than the few hundred dollars an MLM person typically invests. 98%+ of corporate employees will never achieve executive levels. 95% of 65-year-old retirees in the US (according to insurance & Social Security statistics) are dead or broke. The sad fact is, very few people succeed big in ANY endeavor. Most people simply will not do what it takes to succeed. MLM is no different in this regard. However, many people get into an MLM with the idea that it's some kind of "easy road to riches". It's not. It takes work. It takes time and dedication. But most people don't see that, either because their sponsor misled them with rosy predictions of instant wealth, or because they chose to hear the easy story. People like this enroll and don't do anything, or give it a try but give up after a few months. This is where the vast majority of "MLM failures" comes from. The biggest problem with MLM is that it's "too easy" to get into it (usually no more than a few hundred dollars), so it's "too easy" to get out. With only a few hundred bucks committed, it's easy for someone to say "Ah, heck, I talked to 4 people and none of them were interested. This doesn't work! Guess I wasted $200." You should approach your business as if it was a "real" business, one that you had invested your life savings into. If you had sunk $200,000 into your MLM business, would you let 4 "no"s stop you? NO WAY!! You'd get back OUT there and KEEP working until you MADE it work, because you had too darn much money in it to give up! Well, guess what? That's what makes MLM work too -- that dedication to keep working until you make it work. If you work consistently, and effectively, and build your group faster than the faint-hearted people drop out, your group will slowly but steadily build. And if you've taught your people the correct ideas of "work consistently, work effectively, and teach your people how to duplicate your efforts", you should see a consistent rate of growth. It will probably take longer than you'd like (hey, that's the way life works!), but as long as you keep working at it, your income will eventually build to the level you want. The problem is, most people don't do this. Most people who get into MLM give it a half-hearted try, then give up the first time they get a "no" and complain that "It doesn't work." Only the people who determine to put in the effort, and actually DO what it takes to succeed, will stick it out and end up on top. © 2003 Business Makers. All Rights Reserved

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