The MLM forums, news groups, mailing lists and ezines are full of salivating references to how the current global financial crisis (GFC) is driving desperate people toward home based business and Internet based business opportunities.

If you’re in search of an opportunity to cope with the GFC, especially if you’ve lost your job or nest egg… please, please, please, please, PLEASE be extremely wary!

While this blog promotes NO specific network marketing opportunity, I do try to make it abundantly clear, through FREE information and professional insider insights, that there are very few MLM opportunities that this old warhorse would even consider, let alone join.

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New posts have been few and far between in recent months. There are good reasons for this. Let me give you a quick rundown.

First, I’ve given highest priority to a succession of family and personal challenges, from illnesses to relationship issues. As the current patriarch of the Counsel family I have obligations that I refuse to ignore or shirk. Those obligations only expire with me.

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I’ll be presenting a private, 2-day workshop program for a network marketing company in Malaysia on 17-18 July (I’ll be away from 14-20 July), as well as an open meeting on the Saturday evening.

I’m looking forward to visiting Penang, “the pearl of the Orient”, for the first time. I’ve been to Malaysia before, to Kuala Lumpur and to Langkawi island (up the west coast from Penang, which is also an island, connected to the mainland by a causeway). Here’s a photo of Penang taken at twilight…

The stunning 60-storey Penang Global City Center

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A new Giveaway event launched last Thursday, 21 May — The Ultimate MLM Giveaway. It claims to be the first MLM giveaway event online and, for all I know, that could well be true. But you have to wonder about a fledgling event that positions itself as the ultimate!

I’m sceptical of any Giveaway events these days.

The concept is sound enough: download free products — ebooks, reports, software, graphics, audio and video files, memberships, etc — in exchange for subscribing to each contributor’s mailing list. The quid pro quo (fair exchange) is that the contributor gets to build their mailing list faster and bigger in exchange for giving away free products or services.

What tends to happen these days, unfortunately, is that very few big names in marketing choose to allow their names or products to be associated with Giveaway events because of the poor reputation of Giveaway events, with a couple of notable exceptions.

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One of the “joys” of blogging, especially on topics like MLM, is the occasional “knocker” who lands on the site and takes a swipe at anything that catches his attention. He doesn’t bother to get the facts — or even to think much. He just lets fly with a barrage of bile.

I often refer to these people as “MLLLLMs”… Mindless, Lily-Livered, Low-Life Morons. They don’t even bother to check whether a blog has a moderated posts policy. This one does. So their verbal vomit gets flushed with all the spam and other malodourous excrement that occasionally oozes from the pipes. Read the rest of this entry »