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Scam Poetry: The Time I Was Recruited to the Cult of Amway ⚠️

Published: January 27, 2024; Updated: June 11, 2025 Filed Under: Audio, Marketing, Sales, Scams

Illustration of a speaker holding a microphone on stage at an MLM conference

18 years ago I was recruited to what is perhaps the most dangerous modern cult freely operating in over 100 countries with protection from the USA’s FTC and masquerading as a “business”.

A Story of Seductive Social Media Success and Neglected Email Strategy 🏚️

Published: December 6, 2023; Updated: January 22, 2024 Filed Under: Marketing, Operations, Sales, Social, WordPress

Image of business people gathered around a hole in the ground

As much as you love social channels, be smart by strategically optimising business operations, sales processes and leads with website email forms.

Nuisance Calls, Emails and Empty Promises: The Bungling Incompetence of Yell.com πŸ™‰

Published: December 12, 2017; Updated: September 25, 2024 Filed Under: Legal, Marketing, Sales

Nuisance Calls, Emails and Empty Promises The Bungling Incompetence of Yell

I’ve honestly had it with Yell, or hibu, or whatever their trading name is. This outfit doesn’t understand the meaning of the words “please stop calling me”. Their services are rubbish too.

How to Set Up Recurring Debit Card Payments with PayPal 🔄

Published: January 14, 2015; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Operations, Sales, Video, Web Development

PayPal Recurring Payments Debit Cards

Are you a small business wanting to sell services on a recurring/subscription basis? PayPal can handle this for you, and uses a secure debit card gateway…

Leverage Seasonal Sales Trends

Published: September 16, 2014; Updated: October 22, 2016 Filed Under: Marketing, Sales

Seasonal trends

How the peaks and dips of seasonal sales trends offer a window of opportunity for pushing sales…

Create a Twitter Automatic Voucher Code System

Published: March 26, 2013; Updated: May 13, 2015 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Sales, Social, Web Development

How to Create a Twitter Automatic Voucher Code System

Using Twitter and the Twitter API you can customise their website embedded widgets feature and turn it into a DIY voucher code display system…

Increase eBay Feedback and Search Engine Ranking

Published: March 9, 2013; Updated: February 27, 2015 Filed Under: Internet, Sales

Increase Your eBay Feedback and Search Engine Ranking

Here’s a technique many eBay sellers use to quickly increase feedback. The positive reciprocation between sellers/buyers helps them stand out in product listings…

Increase eBay Clicks With YouTube Videos

Published: October 6, 2012; Updated: May 3, 2016 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Sales

Increase eBay Sales with Embedded YouTube Videos

If you’re selling an item on eBay, think about filming a video of the item with and uploading it to YouTube. Most mobile phones have a camera so it’s achievable…

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