My experience with it taught me to always go with my gut feeling before you join something like this, especailly if there are “red flags” that you want to ignore because the “idea” seems too good to pass up.

I’m also aware of what the right ingredients are for a successful network marketing Company. I now use my Company website to educate and inform unsuspecting people about what they need to look and watch out for with MLM Companies.

I am pleased I waited and found a better opportunity, Tomorrows Home Business, where you do not have to make or receive phone calls and the business model although similar to ITV Ventures is different in that the company takes all of the calls and then sells the customers to you for $50. You make 21% on all future sales by the customers you purchase.
Does it work? It does for me and I have only just started but I can already see the future returns.

Rich people buy businesses already established. This is the opportunity for poor people to buy an established business by buying individual customers.

ITV ventures will make some people a lot of money without doubt but not me I cannot sell over the phone to save myself.

For anyone looking to signup in ITV Ventures, I have written a free report which will give you an inside view. This isn’t my primary business, so I tell it like it is, no hype here.
http://www.waywealthy.com/itvventures

Please email me at Holly@DoThisToday.com for any of the following:

- A full overview of why ITV Ventures is set to grow quicker and larger than Mary Kay & Avon.

- A full list of all the fees and expenses involved.

- Explanation of the Comp Plan, Home Agent Program, and Why I am a Leader on the Top Team

- Why I am so thankful for Kevin Trudeau’s loyalty to Donald Barrett even though he has no legal ties to ITV

Basically,
everything you need to know about
ITV Ventures.

Again, the biggest danger here is FTC compliance, most likely. It may take them 6-18 months to catch up with the company, although I expect it may happen faster, at TV speed.

That is a very good observation and it will be good to hear how ITV people keep their groups together. It seems that with any MLM, it is the leaders who develop the systems and support to keep their groups together (as they should, since they are essentially independent Sales Managers and that is what they are paid commissions for doing!).

I find this ITV news particularly interesting because of how they have a patent pending for directing the infomercial calls to distributors at home. I had wondered if that was possible in two other ventures I was in.

One never really got off the ground, it was an MLM that partnered with an infomercial company to sell what is now called the Lifewave patches. I am not sure what fell apart with that original deal, but the distributors were to get infomercial clients placed in our downlines and from that point we were to service them.

This has also been done by groups within an MLM company, probably one of the biggest who did this was in Seasilver. Brett Rademacher’s group did very well with this mostly with radio infomercials and some TV infomercials. His infomercials were instrumental in the nationwide acceptance of Seasilver as a product (and the $350,000 per month income he was receiving after just 2 1/2 years). In fact, 7-8 out of 10 of the people in Seasilver were customers, and with a very high re-order rate!

Distributors in his group got involved with these infomercials via co-ops, so you had to pay to get these infomercial customers. But the cool thing was you got CUSTOMERS who had already placed an order, not just leads. Professional call centers took the orders and placed the customers in the co-op participants’ sponsorship. From that point, they were YOUR customers and you would do the follow-ups to check on them after they received their product.

I was in Seasilver, but didn’t participate in the co-ops. I found it much easier to sell Seasilver locally because of the national advertising that was happening. My sponsor reached a $5000/month income in 5 months by participating in these co-ops and also internet lead generation co-ops.

I am not sure I would want to take the live calls from TV customers; that would be interesting, to say the least! A friend had an 800# that was one digit off from a Coral Calcium number and she talked to the strangest people! And the infomercials run at ALL hours! So how does ITV do that? How do they make sure enough distributors will be taking calls at the times the shows are airing?

What I am excited about now is that, after very much research based on what he learned after Seasilver was targeted by FDA/FTC, Brett Rademacher has picked an established company with a solid product and competive pricing. He is starting infomercial testing this summer in preparation for major activity this fall.

The trick with the residual income side of an MLM is, of course, having a good product. Even though ITV has 12 products now and may have up to 150, are the products good enough that people will keep buying? What happens if you can’t accept phone calls for a while (vacation/sickness/etc.)? And are the health products being promoted with strict adherenence to FDA & FTC laws?

Personally, I think having a professional call center trained to handle calls AT ALL HOURS will probably work better, especially for people with full-time jobs and limited time to build their residual income, home based business.

It will be interesting to hear how ITV reps do. I think the volume they will generate because of the TV infomercials will make up for a lot that may be lost to any mediocrity the products may have (ie, potential lower repurchase rates). People DO love buying from infomercials!

Thanks for bringing us this news Chuck.