BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WATCH - Key Persons
Amanda O'Brien has been selling on eBay for about four years, so she's writing from experience.
Andrew Malcolm Shaw has 7 current directorships, a number of which are in the same companies as Greg Ballard, and which also all seem to be in the property field. Like Greg Ballard, Andy Shaw has a long list of 13 previous directorships in companies which have now been dissolved, many of these being the same companies as those shown for Greg Ballard.
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- President of My Net Universe Inc
Andy Cauthen, president of My Net Universe Inc which owns My Shopping Genie, was previously involved with a US mlm business called YTB Your Travel Business International.
In August 2008 a civil action was filed by the Attorney General of California in the Superior Court of California against YTB Your Travel Business and certain of its officers and founders, including Andrew Cauthen, stating that:
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- European Land Sales / UK Land Investments Group
Bruce Bise, who holds the position of Master Distributor with My Shopping Genie, has a chequered history, since he was jailed for 7 years in Arizona for felony forgery and fraudulent schemes artifice.
Bruce Bise then became involved in a string of multi level marketing schemes, including:
Celebrity Galleries International Inc, which sold reproductions of celebrity photographs printed with an ink-jet or giclee system. This company was set up in May 2005 and disappeared at the end of 2007.
Get Moving Today, where Bruce Bise was president and CEO. Get Moving Today, which sold web portals, auto responders, pain pills and the "fridge diet", was set up in 2002 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2003, leaving its distributors high and dry. Bruce Bise said that bad checks and auto-drafts caused the crunch.
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- Chairman, Trading Edge World Wide Ltd
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- China Trust Commercial Bank
David Freed, CEO of My Shopping Genie was also National Marketing Director for Get Moving Today.
Gill Fielding seems to have made an important logical error in her sales material. She says "let's say you get the rate of return I've experienced in some trading months of a massive 30% (that's 30% per MONTH)". Then Gill Fielding makes the wild, illogical leap to a figure of over a million pounds (£1,279,647) based on an initial stake of £25,000 and a return of 30% EVERY SINGLE MONTH for 16 months. Please explain Gill Fielding's justification for quoting a figure based on an ongoing consistent return of 30% which, by her own admission, she has only achieved herrself in "some trading months".
Gill Fielding then goes on to give figures for her Financial Robot with a lower initial investment of £5,000 and a lower (but still consistent, month by month, every single month) 10% profit rate, and she quotes the sums achieved of £15,692 in 12 months, £42,249 in 24 months, and £154,563 in 36 months. Please explain how these figures can be realistic, because surely it's in the nature of financial trading that you make profits in some months and losses in others? Or are these astonishingly consistent results from the Gill Fielding Financial Robot based on the results of one of her friends, since she says that "One of my friends has been trading exactly this way"? If so, can you provide evidence of this?
Gill Fielding says that people can get started with her Financial robot system with a starting bank as low as £1,000. Please explain how this can be realistic.
Gill Fielding is a Chartered Accountant, a qualified teacher and coach. She manages "The Wealth Club" through a company called The Wealth Company Ltd and "Very soon! Gill is in a well-known TV documentary on Channel 4." Nicola Cairncross's website reveals that this documentary is called The Secret Millionaire.
This is what Gill Fielding says on the website at www.certainshops.com:
"I became a Passive Client in early 2005. I bought my first property through them in July 2005 at £82,000, they spent just £2,000 doing it up and it was re-valued 6 months later at £110,000. At that time I drew out £23K and there has always been a tenant in the property. I am now eagerly awaiting property number two. I really like what Passive Investments do for two reasons, firstly, I know from my own experience as a Chartered Accountant and as a presenter of financial information, that the basic type of properties they buy - i.e. the 1 and 2 bedroom flats and houses, over time produce the best return on my money both in terms of income yield and capital growth. Secondly, I don't have to do anything!
This is brilliant for me as I am a busy person with my own business and a hectic family life, with a husband and 3 kids and I just don't have the time to build my property portfolio very quickly. So I am delighted to say that I've never even seen the property I've bought from Passive but of course I have seen the profit, so I can't wait for the next property to arrive!
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- HBP Marketing Ltd Issue 10, 3
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- Camelot Direct Marketing, Mike Taylor, Entrepreneur Syndicate
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- Trainee Product Finders, Future World UK, Wealth - Center, Fraser Hay
John Van Deurzen, who has been on a road tour around the UK promoting My Shopping Genie in Birmingham, Manchester and Scotland, is one of the founders of My Shopping Genie. John Van Deurzen was previously the top Canadian money earner with SkyBiz, reputedly earning over $1,000,000 a year.
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- the Professionals Review Extract from
Keith Cotterill is one such "discoverer-immediately-turned-salesman".
Keith Cotterill says that he started teaching himself about financial trading after a business he'd started in 1987 went down after only 18 months when his friend left town, leaving him with debts.
Keith Cotterill says, "I still had only moderate success at best for the first few years. And then in 1997 I hit upon a startling discovery ... one that catapulted me out of poverty and into complete financial independence by the time the new millennium dawned".
By "the time the new millennium dawned", Keith Cotterill had published what he describes on his website at www.dttptrader.co.uk as "two best selling books" - one called Don't Tell The Professionals and another called The Hidden Secrets of Market Trends ........ (review continues)
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- TSM Communications, Opportunities4Wealth Magazine, Www.Opportunities4wealth.Com
So far we have not received any reply from Anders Berglund. However, if and when Anders Berglund does reply, his reply will be posted here.
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- Ten Minute Trader Review Extract from
- Writer
All you do is switch on your PC at 7pm, and take 5 minutes to go to a website Matthew Bird tells you about, check through the Ten Minute Trader 6 point checklist and if you get just one tick then that means there are small profits to be had and you can then place a simple trade which takes another five minutes. Then you switch off your PC - no nail-biting anxiety about whether and when to exit your trade. Matthew Bird says his system will enable you to pick up profits of between £150 and £550 a time between one and three times a week.
He calls it fall-out trading: "All we're doing is waiting for a fall-out signal that shows us that the City Traders are forcing the market up or down ... then we place a bet that the market WON'T swing the other way."
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- Director of Passive Investments
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- Entrepreneur - US Trademark Battle Continues
Spencer Michael Consultancy Ltd, Spencer Michael, Tudor Rose Solicitors, Neil Cloutman, Emerald Investment Group, St. Pauls Property Developments Ltd, Property Investors Courses Ltd, Instant Millionaires Programme, IMP
1. As Steve Howson says, the reference to "business opportunities" in the first line of the BOW review of Passive Investments is confusing. It was a mistake, and the word "business" has now been removed so that the opening sentence now simply reads as follows:
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- Streetwise Marketing, DiVergence Profit System, Arbitrage Opportunities Advisory Service - Feedback Received
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- Website Marketing Bible Issue 2