The Personal Blog Of Kay Thomas Brown
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What a week it has been. Have you heard about the new MLM sensation online The Empower Network? Well let me tell you I am a member, though it is not to be I have decided, at least for now. Is it possible for a MLM company to become to successful so quick that it implodes in upon itself?
If you want to read a good Empower Network review
then Google search Empower Network and pick out AlanCosens dot com his Empower Network review. It is extensive and probably the most thorough there is presently.
I want to tell you something though. The compensation plan is based on obtaining membership with First Data Merchant Account services. A member is directed as task one of applying for a merchant account. This allows referrals to sign up, pay their $25 or $100 fee and receive the payment in their bank account as a 100% commission right now.
What is the problem with that? Absolutely nothing, unless you can not obtain a merchant account with First Data. Nothing unless your only other option is to utilize PayPal which has strict policies against Multilevel Marketing Companies. This is a known fact of PayPal and right in the Empower Network members area where one can choose to utilize PayPal as a payment option it states that Empower Network does not endorse or recommend using PayPal.
So is there a problem with getting a merchants account with First Data for the Empower Network. Emphatically yes! Picture this, thousands of new members all at once flood First Data with applications to obtain their merchants account. How many people does First Data have working on this task? One that I know of. His name is Clay King and if ever the term that a person is swamped at work apply’s, it presently applys to Mr. King.
What is Empower Network founders Dave Wood and Dave Sharpe doing to alleviate the merchant account problem?
Well they have weekly conference calls where roughly 1000 members and guests receive a very impressively choreographed presentation by Dave Sharpe and Dave Wood along with members who have raked in a lot of cash with in the first 2 weeks.
What is my problem with the presentation? Okay from everything that is said on these conference calls by the Founding Dave’s, a guest can leave with the definite impression that one can be earning possibly thousands of dollars the very next day if they join today. Now if you combine that with the core checklist of tasks that all new members are directed to download and follow almost immediately after joining, where the first core goal directs new members to apply for their First Data Merchants account.
Here is what I copied and pasted here for you to read right out of the Empower Network Core Check list commitment number one. A long with the instructions on how to apply line for line for ones merchants account. New members are told this in writing:
“Your merchant account will be automatically approved if it is submitted before 5pm EST. If it is submitted after that time – you will get yourapproval emails before noon the next day, 7 days per week.”
Does this not lead one to believe that ones merchant account and the potential to earn commissions begins like the very next day? The reality of the situation in most all of the thousands of new members is that they submit their application and do not hear a word.. like for weeks!
In my own case 9 days had elapsed when I finally got fed up enough to with draw my application. Initially my application was tentatively approved with the requirement that I submit to First Data identity verification documents which they told me upon receipt of them, that I would after one business day receive my Welcome Email from First Data and from that point, it would just be a matter of a few minutes to complete the set up where my Empower Network business could then take credit card payments.
Well that was 6 days ago. I was told by First Data that I was welcome to re-apply after all the hoop la settled down. So this is my first post on Ogabb. Though Ogabb has been a domain of mine for awhile it has served other purposes and will continue to do so. But I have decided to use it as my personal forum and blog and welcome you to leave comments and to contact me.
Thank you
Kay Thomas Brown
kbnet56@ogabb.com
405.473.7119
