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Majority of Nigerians in MLM companies today have joined at least three different companies in the past 3 years. It is rare to see those who have stayed with a particular company for up to five years. They run from one company to the other. Looking for the so called hottest, newest in town. This is not how to make a fortune in the industry. If you are serious about making a mega income from Multilevel Marketing then do yourself a huge favor by printing this material and read them carefully. I am about to disclose to you the secret formula for success, known only by a select few to make millions of dollars, disclosed for the first time ever!
There are six proven parameters to success in MLM. Before you join any company they must strictly meet up the six parameters. Once you have found one stay there forever and you will amass a great fortune!
1. They are health and wellness companies. This is not surprising! Traditionally, the biggest checks have been earned by the greatest number of people in health and wellness companies. It’s more true today than it ever has been as there are some unique events taking place in the world today that are converging to turn the wellness business into the next trillion dollar industry!
First, you have the aging of more than 1 billion “baby boomers,” individuals born between 1946 and 1964. “Boomers” are the largest demographic audience in the world and the group with the most discretionary or spendable income. What are they interested in? Looking younger, living longer, being healthy, and leading a more active lifestyle.
Second, you have the failure of health care systems to keep people. Third, you have the increasing cost of health care. Fourth, you have new bugs and viruses coming at us such as Swine Flu and Bird Flu. Fifth, you have new discoveries and studies that validate the efficacy of various plants and fruits in fighting disease and aging. Sixth, more and more doctors are recommending supplementation in lieu of recent scientific studies and because the soil our foods are grown in today are minerally deficient due to such factors as soil erosion and over-farming.
As a result, people are taking a more proactive role in their health and sales of nutritional supplements and health products have skyrocketed! According to Paul Zane Pilzer, noted economist, best selling author, and advisor to several U.S. Presidents, “More millionaires will be created in the wellness industry this decade than were earned in the real estate boom of the 80’s or the Internet gold rush of the 90’s.”
Could you make some money marketing travel, telecommunications, online shopping, video email, skin care and make up, and a host of other products or services? Sure, but you’re not interested in making some money, remember? You’re looking to make a smart business decision, one that increases your chances for success and that maximizes your potential to earn the biggest income possible!
2. They have a limited number of products. Once again, hardly surprising. It’s easier for the average person to learn about a few products than it is to learn about and effectively promote 30-40-50 products, several hundred products, or several thousand products.
In fact, the fastest growing companies over the past 10 years originally launched with just one product or a few products geared around one concept, and even to this day, still have only a few to maybe a half a dozen to a dozen products at the most.
Are there some companies that have 30-40-50 products, several hundred products, up to a few thousand products? Yes. You’re not interested in some companies, remember? You’re interested in what types of companies have had the greatest growth and the most success, and those are companies that have a limited number of products,
3. They have a “binary” (2 team) pay plan with matching bonuses. This too is hardly surprising if you have a basic understanding of the 4 types of pay plans that have dominated the industry over the 30 years.
Be sure to read my next write up which discusses all 4 types of pay plans, especially the difference between the pay plans of “old school” companies like Tasly, Tienshi, Dynapharm, Edmark, Oriflame, Neptune, FLP, GNLD, and DXN . You’ll be shocked at your discovery!
Most exciting, you’ll discover why binary pay plans have not only created the fastest growing companies in network marketing history, but have also created the biggest checks for the greatest number of people in the shortest period of time!
4. The company is at least 3-5 years old! You should avoid ALL new, start up, groundfloor network marketing companies! Why? 98% of ALL new MLM companies FAIL in their first 2-3 years! You don’t want to be a guinea pig in someone’s grandiose scheme or grand experiment!
Remember, you’re looking to make a decision that puts the odds of success in your favor, not make a decision that forces you to beat the odds in order to succeed! Whenever you try to beat the odds, you’re virtually guaranteed to fail! Jumping on the latest, greatest, hottest, new company is trying to beat the odds! You’re betting that some new company you get involved with is going to be the rare 1, perhaps 2 out of 100 new companies that will survive at least 3 years!
Did you know that you can get better odds gambling in a casino! Let others make the mistake of jumping on the latest new, start up company that claims its going to be the next billion dollar giant! (There’s a huge difference between an established company being new in a country and a new company just launching or being a few months to a year old.)
Have You Ever Been Told the “Big Lie?”
Don’t fall for the “big lie” that many people involved in new, groundfloor companies promote: “It’s those who get in at the beginning when a company first starts who make the big money.” It’s NOT true!
First, most of the top earners at the older, more established companies are NOT the ones who were in when those companies first launched 10-20-30-40-50 years ago! For example, Dexter Yeager has been with Amway since the 1960’s and has the world’s largest Amway organization, yet he is not the #1 earner! Amway’s #1 earner is from Taiwan and he didn’t join the company until 1982, around 20 years after Dexter first got started!
Geri Cvitanovich was the 2nd person to ever sign up in Herbalife, starting with the company back in 1980, yet she is not the #1 income earner! Enrique Varela and Graciela Mier from Mexico are the top earners, even though they started in Herbalife 10 years after Geri first signed up!
USANA had been in business for 15 years before Rita Hui became a distributor, yet, within 3 years, she zoomed to the top of USANA.
So, don’t fall prey to the big lie that it’s those who get in at the beginning that make the most money! It simply isn’t true! New, groundlfoor, start up companies know there’s a 99% probability they won’t be in business 3 years from now, so they have to try to hook you with something that will appeal to your greed-now you have the facts so that you’re no longer fooled!
Second, if that new, groundfloor company is not in business 2-3 years from now, how can you create a lifelong residual income or make a fortune if the company is no longer in business to pay you? Let us others take the huge risk of joining a new, groundfloor company and try to beat almost insurmountable odds, but not you! Besides, if their “hot, new deal” is a such a good opportunity today, it will be even better 3 years from now, IF it lasts that long!
You’re looking for a company that is at least 3-5 years old, old enough that it has passed the 3 year mark where 98% of companies fail, and yet young enough for you to be able to work your way to the top and stand out, be someone special, and create a legacy income as well. (You could choose a company that has been around 15-20-25-30 years or longer, but they already have thousands of leaders! You’d get lost in the crowd! It would be difficult to rise through the ranks and stand out, let alone create an extraordinary income.)
5. A company who have achieved upwards of $100 million in yearly sales. If there is a “secret,” this would be it: You’re looking for a health and wellness company that is about to achieve or has recently achieved upwards of $100 million in yearly sales!
Why is this $100 million number significant? Historically, whenever a company hits $100 million in yearly sales, they almost always triple to quadruple in size in the very next 12-18 months, and at that point, double in size again in the following 12-18 months.

Discover When the Fortunes in MLM Are Really Earned!
It’s called the “3 year window,” a period where the company will experience back to back periods of hyper-growth once it breaks the $100 million yearly sales mark, skyrocketing from $100 million in yearly sales to $300-$500 million in yearly sales, all within a short time span of around 36 months.
More importantly, the “3 year window” is the period when the initial wave of extraordinary incomes and lifelong fortunes are created!
In addition, in some cases, within 5 years of the 3 year window occurring, companies have gone on to generate $1 billion or more in yearly sales. Imagine riding a company’s growth from just $100 million in yearly sales to $500 million to $1 billion a year or more in yearly sales! This is how you create extraordinary yearly incomes and earn a fortune! You select a company to get involved with based on certain criteria, especially timing, and you position yourself to take advantage of its hyper-growth phase. You don’t jump from company to company on a whim or emotion like others do!
So, you’re looking for a company that is at least 3-5 years old and about to achieve or has recently achieved upwards of $100 million in sales because, based on history, you now know what’s likely to occur to that particular company over the next 3 years! They are likely to triple to quadruple in size in the next 12-18 months, and, that point, double in size again over another 12-18 months. It’s like having a crystal ball and being able to see the future before it arrives!
While others are chasing the “latest, greatest, hottest, new deal” and likely to see that company fail within 2-3 years, leaving them to start all over again, you’ll be positioned with a company about to enter its “hyper-growth phase,” increasing your chances for building a large, successful organization and earning an above average to extraordinary income! You’ve guaranteed your shot at success while they’ve practically guaranteed their failure, unless they get lucky, and no smart entrepreneur bets their success on luck!
Can you see where knowing this valuable information gives you a huge, competitive advantage over others who don’t have this formula? You can either use this information to your financial benefit or others will use it to their benefit at your expense!
Finally, anytime that you know something is likely to occur before many others, and that you can benefit financially from that event, and you don’t take advantage of such an opportunity, shame on you! It’s what every entrepreneur dreams of-being in the right place at the right time and knowing about something lucrative long before others find out!
6. ) Finally, there’s Team and Culture.
In network marketing, there's a popular saying:
"Beginners look for Compensation Plan;
Veterans look for Company; and
Experts look for Team and Culture."

Yes, real experts in network marketing always look for a strong team to join because they believe that when they are on the right team, regardless of company, products, or pay plan, they'll move ahead much faster and achieve the long term success they desire, especially if they’re involved with an opportunity where all 6 keys to success are in place.
Although when you pursue a network marketing opportunity, you are in business for yourself, you will never be in business by yourself. We believe very much in teamwork and mentoring. There will always be capable mentors around to guide you!
So, be selective about who you enroll with and whose team you join because who you listen to, who you surround yourself with, who coaches and mentors you can have a profound impact on your success! Make sure the top leaders have both experience and a proven track record of success! Just because someone has been in the industry for 5-10-15-20 years does NOT make them knowledgeable, let alone successful!
Speaking of success, are they “one hit” wonders who haven’t had any success in the past 10-15-20 years and are still riding on their laurels or accomplishments from the 1980’s or 1990’s, or have they been able to repeatedly build successful organizations and achieve top levels of achievements during their career?
In addition, be sure they have a duplicatable system, the tools necessary for you to succeed, a culture of success, and that you have access to both the leaders as well as their meetings and trainings!
NOTE: Make sure you read the final part of this article about few companies that meet up with all the six parameters to success. Don’t miss it!

WoodcrestMayor: Be careful bro.He revealed very little cos he wants pple to contact him for more(my take,might be wrong).Besides,he's been in it for so many years;where do u think u'll be on the ladder?#My2Cents

Read my post carefully I said I have been in the industry for 14 years and almost quit! I now mentioned why I joined another one about 90 DAYS AGO not 14 years ago! I now believe more in educating people rather than just recruiting people to join d so called newest, hottest opportunities around. Most people do more than 3 mlm withing 3 years because they want to join early. You can never succeed that way.

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Ayodebconsult@yahoo.com

bros12345: As at my last count, there have been well over 50 MLM or network marketing companies in Nigeria. Many have gone completely obsolete while many are barely just there.

Chances are many will still come and go.

Nigerians seem to never learn from the outcomes of these companies. They will always join the latest one in town. Blame it on poverty and government carelessness.

220 Diseases, One Cure...For Real?

In this country, a small boy in China can just put together a small concoction and come and tell us it cures 220 diseases and before you know it, we’ll be running around promoting the concoction.

I do have a beef with MLM companies, not because of anything but because they have become permanent vehicles to siphon people of their little hard earned cash.

The Get Rich Lies in MLM

I’m sure a couple of us here have tried to get rich with some of these network marketing companies. There is always that impression that this is going to be the "wave of the future", a business model that is gaining momentum, growing in acceptance and legitimacy and, as its promoters claim, will eventually replace most other forms of marketing and sales.

The impression is further sealed as we see some people who claim to have gotten cars and would be travelling the nations all because they belonged to the MLM Company.

Many people seeing that now go as far as registering their brothers, sisters, children, spouses, and friends and so on. Working hard to get their own cars, they eventually get disappointed as they realize that people are not joining anymore

Here are 4 Reasons MLM Companies Don’t Work on the Long Run

1.The Products and Services are expensivemlm2

People don’t seem to see this. However, it’s true that these network marketing companies build into the products the so called commission they will pay you. This makes the prices of the products out of the proper rate.

How many times have you bought a sachet of tea, like lipton, something you should buy less than N20, you ended up buying it N100 or more?

2. The Products Do Not Add Value in the Long Run

Most times the products involved in these MLM companies that promise heaven just don’t live up to it.

Some years ago, my mother got sick. I sent her money to go to the hospital but she went for Tianshi products and lied to me she had started treatment.

The so called Tianshi supplements didn’t work. It was at the point of death that my Mum opened up to me and we had to rush her to a teaching hospital. We ended up spending over half a million naira to save her life.

These vitamins and so called natural teas never replace the place of proper checkup and treatment when someone is sick. The vast testimonials you see in the trainings are hand picked cases that the details are not often known.

3. MLM Strains Relationships

Just introduce 5 people and let the 5 people introduce 5 and bam, you are on your way to Bahamas, right?people-linked

Only if that was easy.

Building a network is not easy especially if the players are required to pay to be in the network.

4. Favors only the Early Entrants

This is why MLM becomes a pyramid scheme at the end of the day. The profit made from the product sales are not enough to make up for the compensations in the system.

To really make it, you have to recruit people. And those people have to recruit people. So the late joiners are left as the brunt bearers.

Final Thoughts

As should be obvious from this article, these are my opinions only. I am only familiar with a few MLM opportunities, and I happily admit that I did not get the joining level.

I am very open-minded, and I’m sure many people have good experiences with MLM.

That said, if you are involved in MLM or are presented with an opportunity please consider my points above, try to cut past all the hype that is likely to be associated with the presented opportunity, and use your own mind to decide the value of the opportunity.

Source: http://businesscandle.com/beware-of-mlm-business-opportunities/

Wow you are very correct! This is my 14th year in the industry. I have made a fortune anyway but this cannot be said of everybody. I almost quit the industry because I am not happy to see just me been successful while others fall by the way. Then, I was fortunate to come across an American can guy from Texas who shared with me what now proved to be the turning point in my life. He has been in the industry for more than 32 years! He has seen it all. He revealed some secrets that other companies will be ready to pay him a million dollars to keep secret! It is called Six Parameters to Success in MLM! This guy is making over $100,000 monthly in a particular company and he is not among top earners in the company. As a matter of fact in my first 90 days I start making about $1,200 monthly! My team are happy because they are earning beyond what they ever dreamt of. You cannot believe it, it is free to join the company he recommended! It is against the ethics of this company to recommend their products as a drug. We were warned it is a food supplement and not meant to replace your drugs and regular exercise. In fact, we are encouraged to use our products ourselves instead of selling them to others. How I wish other companies follow this fine example then my people will not remain poor. Thanks for your very candid observations!

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THE INCOME POTENTIALS:
This business enables you to make about $1,200 or N211,000 monthly within the first 90 days of registration. This company pays to infinite level unlike other companies that stop at the 8th generation or less. You can do it like me on part time basis while still doing your regular job or business. We have bankers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, journalists and international business men and women already doing the business. Vemma is the easiest MLM Company in Nigeria now. Thanks to the power of binary and spill over. It is not unusual to bring just 2 persons into the company and be earning on over 100 people as downlines! Vemma pay weekly not in the middle of next month for what you do this month like other MLMs. You have a back office of your own to monitor your business in almost 60 countries of the world. You are also given a website of your own to promote your business. I have downlines already in the United States through my facebook campaign.

THE PRODUCTS
The Products are like a healthy energy drink. It’s not in a tablet form like other health supplements by MLM companies FLP, TIENSHI, SWISSGARDE, GREEN WORLD, ORGANO GOLD, trevo, EDMARK etc. Their products are cheap to produce and difficult to dissolve and be absorbed into your system. Vemma products are capable of:
1. Boosting your immune level/relief from HIV
2. Normalizing your sugar level/relief from diabetes
3. Slows down ageing rate/makes you look beautiful
4. Increases your intelligence rate for academic work
5. Helps to improve fertility in both male and female
6. Supplies your daily requirement of essential vitamins and minerals that you need for a healthy and balanced life.
7. Helps to fight menstrual pains, etc.
REGISTRATION
Register is FREE. Register online by following the procedure below:
1. Log into www.ayodeb.vemma.com
2. Click on GET STARTED
3. Click on ADD TO CART
4. Click on CHECKOUT
5. Click on CREATE AN ACCOUNT
6. Put your Contact Info
7. Put your Account Info
8. Click on CONTINUE
9. Click on PROCEED TO PAYMENT
10. Click on PLACE ORDER
11. You will get an ID number and also an Order number. Please write them down, it’s important. Call me while registering if you encounter any problem.
ACTIVATION:
You have to activate by ordering your pack with a minimum of N15,000 and you will be given the pack to either use for your health or sell at desired amount to make a profit.
ATTEND OUR FREE SEMINAR TO UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
You have to attend the seminars and invite someone to come and look at the opportunity with you. You can also activate at the seminar venue.
Contact me for the seminar nearest to you. Attendance is free.
FOR MORE DETAILS:
Call me (Mr. Ayo Rainsmaker) on 08027336912, 07066037172 or email me at ayodebconsult@gmail.com

GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: MAKE A MINIMUM OF $1,200 OR N211, 000 A MONTH ON PART TIME OR FULL TIME BASIS. ASK ME HOW BY CALLING ME ON 08027336912, 07066037172, OR EMAIL ME AT ayodebconsult@gmail.com
Hi Folks, I want to introduce you to a great business opportunity that originated from Arizona in USA by B.K. Boreyko in 2004.

THE INCOME POTENTIALS:
This business enables you to make about $1,200 or N211,000 monthly within the first 90 days of registration. This company pays to infinite level unlike other companies that stop at the 8th generation or less. You can do it like me on part time basis while still doing your regular job or business. We have bankers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, journalists and international business men and women already doing the business. Vemma is the easiest MLM Company in Nigeria now. Thanks to the power of binary and spill over. It is not unusual to bring just 2 persons into the company and be earning on over 100 people as downlines! Vemma pay weekly not in the middle of next month for what you do this month like other MLMs. You have a back office of your own to monitor your business in almost 60 countries of the world. You are also given a website of your own to promote your business. I have downlines already in the United States through my facebook campaign.

THE PRODUCTS
The Products are like a healthy energy drink. It’s not in a tablet form like other health supplements by MLM companies FLP, TIENSHI, SWISSGARDE, GREEN WORLD, ORGANO GOLD, trevo, EDMARK etc. Their products are cheap to produce and difficult to dissolve and be absorbed into your system. Vemma products are capable of:
1. Boosting your immune level/relief from HIV
2. Normalizing your sugar level/relief from diabetes
3. Slows down ageing rate/makes you look beautiful
4. Increases your intelligence rate for academic work
5. Helps to improve fertility in both male and female
6. Supplies your daily requirement of essential vitamins and minerals that you need for a healthy and balanced life.
7. Helps to fight menstrual pains, etc.
REGISTRATION
Register is FREE. Register online by following the procedure below:
1. Log into www.ayodeb.vemma.com
2. Click on GET STARTED
3. Click on ADD TO CART
4. Click on CHECKOUT
5. Click on CREATE AN ACCOUNT
6. Put your Contact Info
7. Put your Account Info
8. Click on CONTINUE
9. Click on PROCEED TO PAYMENT
10. Click on PLACE ORDER
11. You will get an ID number and also an Order number. Please write them down, it’s important. Call me while registering if you encounter any problem.
ACTIVATION:
You have to activate by ordering your pack with a minimum of N15,000 and you will be given the pack to either use for your health or sell at desired amount to make a profit.
ATTEND OUR FREE SEMINAR TO UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
You have to attend the seminars and invite someone to come and look at the opportunity with you. You can also activate at the seminar venue.
Contact me for the seminar nearest to you. Attendance is free.
FOR MORE DETAILS:
Call me (Mr. Ayo Rainsmaker) on 08027336912, 07066037172 or email me at ayodebconsult@gmail.com

This is a complete REVOLUTION! I can now smile!
How to Make More Money Faster and Easier, Get Paid Weekly,
Plus Win a Beautiful, New C-Class Mercedes With VEMMA!
VEMMA’s pay plan is based on a simple concept: enroll at least 2 people (more if you’d like), build only 2 teams (a left team and a right team, sometimes referred to as “legs’), and teach those 2 people to do the same! In other words, teach 2 to teach 2 to teach 2!
It sure beats having to enroll the 80-200 people you typically have to recruit in the “old school’ companies in order to build the 8-20 teams they generally require you to develop in order to reach the top and earn the maximum income in their program.
So, there’s no question VEMMA has an easier pay plan for you as well as the average person! VEMMA’s pay plan is also far more lucrative!
Chances are if you have previous network marketing experience that you had at least 2 teams in a previous opportunity, but since the typical “old school” companies require you to have 8-20 qualified teams to earn on all levels, you were only paid on a few levels as you were anywhere from 6-18 teams short, depending on the company. As a result, you earned next to nothing. In fact, even if you had 2 extremely productive teams, you’d be lucky to make $1,000 a month in a typical “old school” program.
So, what can you earn in VEMMA on the production of your 2 teams? The answer is up to $35,000 a WEEK and that’s just in one part of the VEMMA pay plan! If you’re going to build 2 teams, which would you rather earn? Perhaps a $1,000 at best in the typical “old school” company or up to $35,000 a WEEK in VEMMA?
Finally, VEMMA also pays you faster as you can get paid WEEKLY compared to the “old school” companies which you pay the middle of next month on what you do this month!
So, if an easier program, more money, and faster pay sounds good to you, you’re going to love VEMMA! It sure beats working the “old school” opportunities where you have to work harder to make less and then have to wait longer to get paid!
We Create Millionaires! You Could Be Next!
Some companies in Africa claim to be making millionaires, but can't prove it! VEMMA can! As you can see, our Vemma Achievement Awards Night ended with tremendous excitement as BK Boreyko, the founder and C.E.O. of VEMMA, congratulated Vemma's Top 25 lifetime income earners on stage at our recent convention held in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Top distributors in 60 countries are earning up to $40,000 USD a week and more, up to $2 million USD a year and more, and as you can see, career earnings of up to $8 million USD or more after 6 years with the company. Are you next?
People from all walks of life are achieving trememdous success and earning above average to extraordinary incomes on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis! Whiles these incomes are not typical, and there's no guarantee you'll earn income as your results will be based on your individual efforts and a variety of others, it nice to know what's possible if you're ambitious, motivated, teachable, and coachable!
Let’s review the main aspects to the VEMMA compensation plan.
The “Binary” or 2 Team Cycle Bonus!
Here’s how it works! You have a position in the computer and there are 2 empty spots directly below you, one to your left and one to your right. The same is true for all the other members.

Once someone is placed in each of these positions, either by you or someone above you such as your sponsor, enroller, or an upline leader, then any people you personally enroll at that point have to be placed below one of these 2 individuals! You simply start placing people one on top of the other down each side of your 2 teams.

As you, those above you in the leg you�ve been placed in, and those below you continue to personally enroll additional people, the new members are placed below someone in one of your 2 teams, which we call �spillover.�

One of the main advantages to a binary plan is that you can take advantage of the recruiting efforts of those above you as they help you to build one of your 2 teams and you in turn do the same for those that are placed on the far left and far right of your 2 teams, thereby automatically helping them to build 1 of their 2 teams or legs.
Since it is quite common in any pay plan to have one team or “leg’ that grows bigger and faster than others, the advantage of a binary plan is that if this occurs, you can focus on building the smaller or weaker team or “leg” whereas in a typical “old school” program you’d have to develop another 7-19 teams or “legs’, depending on the company.
As a result of its design, the VEMMA pay plan encourages building depth and teamwork! And the best part is there are no levels-you get to count the sales of ALL those below you in each of your 2 teams, regardless of who enrolled them and put them there, what product they sell, or what country they’re in!

If they are below you in one of your 2 teams, you get to count the points on their product orders towards your income! Think of this as “unlimited depth or levels!” The sales of everyone in your downline counts towards your income!
Here’s how it works! Each product order has a point value. For example, a one month supply of VEMMA Mangosteen, known as a “1 Pack,” has a point value of 60 QV. The computer simply adds up the total points generated on the orders of everyone below you in your left team and your right team every week.
When one of your 2 teams has generated 180 points or “QV” and your other team has generated 360 points or ‘QV” you complete a “cycle” and earn $22-25. Any points above 180 and 360 are applied towards the next 180/360 cycle. You can cycle once a day, 10 times a day, 100 times a day, 1,000 times a week. Obviously the larger your 2 teams are and the more productive they are, the more points they will generate each week, the more cycles you will complete, and the more you will earn in “binary” or “2 team cycle bonuses.”
If one team has the required number of points but the other team doesn’t, provided you are active, the computer banks the points and adds the points your 2 teams generate the following week, and if, at that point, one team has accumulated at least 180 points or QV and the other team has accumulated at least 360 points or QV then you complete one or more cycles depending on the total number of points in each of your 2 teams. If not, then the computer banks the total points generated to that point and adds the points your 2 teams generate the following week, and at that point if one team has accumulated at least 180 points and the other team has accumulated at least 360 points, then at that point you would complete one or more cycles, depending on the total number of points in each of your 2 teams.
Volume (points) you have not been paid even accumulates from one month to the start of the next month so that you can eventually get paid on those points whereas in an “old school” company they flush any volume you have not been paid at the end of each month, you lose the opportunity to earn an income on that volume, and you start the first of every month at ZERO!
And the best part is, unlike the ‘old school’ companies which don’t pay you until the middle of next month on what you do this month, you can get paid WEEKLY in VEMMA! Pay periods start on Friday and end on Thursday night at midnight. You can earn up to $35,000 per week in two team cycle bonuses on your position.
2 Team Cycle Bonus Qualifications
How do you qualify to earn your weekly 2 team cycle bonus checks? That’s easy! You need to be “active” with 60 QV every 4 weeks and have one personally enrolled active member in your left team and one personally enrolled active member in your right team. That’s it! Once again, in the typical “old school” company you have to have a certain amount of personal volume plus anywhere from 8-20 qualified teams, depending on the company, in order to earn a sizable income!
2) Matching Bonuses!
The “2 Team cycle bonus” is just one of 8 different ways to make money in VEMMA. Matching bonuses, which are also paid weekly, are the second. You can qualify to earn 10% on the weekly 2 team checks earned by those you personally enroll (first tier) and 10% on the weekly 2 team checks earned by all those they enroll (second tier!
For example, you enroll Peter, so regardless of where he might be positioned in one of your 2 teams, for the purposes of the matching bonus part of the pay plan Peter would be on your first tier. Peter earns a 2 team cycle bonus check for $1,000 for the week on the production of his 2 teams. You would be eligible to earn a 10% bonus on Peter’s 2 team cycle bonus check that week, which amounts to $100.
Peter enrolls Sue, so Sue, regardless of where she might be positioned below you in one of your teams, for the purposes of the matching bonus part of the pay plan Sue would be on your second tier. Sue earns a check for $500 for the week. You would be eligible to earn a 10% bonus on Sue’s $500 check or $50. So, in the above example, you would earn a $100 bonus on Peter and a $50 bonus on Sue! There is no limit as to the number of people you can earn matching bonus checks on.
First Tier Matching Bonus Qualifications: Active with 60 QV and qualified with 4 personally-enrolled active members, with one in each of your 2 teams, the two anywhere) If a Member does not meet the eligibility requirements to earn it, the Enroller Matching Bonus will compress to the first eligible upline Enroller.
Second Tier Matching Bonus Qualifications: Active with 60 QV and qualified with 6 personally-enrolled active members, with one in each of your 2 teams, the other four anywhere) If a Member does not meet the eligibility requirements to earn it, the Second Tier Matching Bonus will compress to the first eligible upline Enroller.
Earnings of the Matching Bonuses up to $5,000.00 USD in a four-week rank advancement period will not require specific structure or rank qualifications. To be eligible to earn the matching bonuses in excess of $5,000.00 USD in a four-week rank advancement period, a Member must earn and maintain the "paid as" rank of Platinum or higher.

3) Fast Start Bonuses!
The third avenue of income that pays weekly is ‘Fast Start” bonuses, which are paid on the first order only of those that you personally enroll. You can earn a $10 “fast start” bonus on every 1 pack (a one monthly supply of VEMMA Mangosteen) that is ordered by someone that you personally enroll.
For example, you personally enroll John and on John’s first order he purchases a single VEMMA Mangosteen “one pack” (a 1 month supply). You would earn a $10 bonus on that 1st order only. Let’s say that John decides to purchase 2 of the VEMMA Mangosteen “one packs” on his first order. You would earn a $20 bonus on that first order only.
The other sources of income are cash bonuses that are paid either one time or quarterly. Here are some examples:
One Time Rank Advancement Bonuses!
Each time you fully qualify for a rank you receive a one- time cash bonus, which ranges from $100 at the Silver level of achievement all the way up to $250,000 when you reach the top position, Pinnacle.
Here is a breakdown of the one- time cash bonus you can receive after qualifying at a new rank for TWO consecutive four-week Rank Advancement periods. These bonuses increase at each rank with the following rewards:
Two Consecutive Four-Week Periods No of Circles
Silver 5 $100 USD
Gold 10 $250 USD
Diamond 20 $500 USD
Platinum 50 $750 USD
Star Platinum 75 $1,000 USD
Executive 100 $1,500 USD
Star Executive 175 $2,000 USD
All members who reach a rank of Platinum and above will need to be active with a 120 QV.
After qualifying at a new rank for SIX consecutive four-week Rank Advancement periods, a one- time bonus will pay out for those members who maintain a minimum of one member "paid as" Star Platinum in their personally enrolled downline on each side of their business. These bonuses increase at each rank with the following rewards:
Six Consecutive Four-Week Periods
Presidential $3,000 USD
Star Presidential $5,000 USD
Ambassador $10,000 USD
Star Ambassador $15,000 USD
Royal Ambassador $25,000 USD
Star Royal Ambassador $100,000 USD
Pinnacle Leader $250,000 USD
Global Bonus Pools!
These 12-week bonus pools encourage team building and cross line cooperation by rewarding leaders with a bonus that encompasses 3% of overall VEMMA sales. To qualify for a full share of this bonus, memberships must meet or exceed the cycle requirements shown below. Each level of this bonus a Member qualifies for also entitles them to a share of the previous bonus pool up to a share of all five pools.

chiboy11: To tel u d truth I dey fear all dis MLM scheme badly

I fear them too! Until I disvover this:
"Revealed! Shocking Secrets “Old School” MLM Companies
Don't Want You to Know About Their Compensation Plans!

Discover How to Make More Money Faster and Easier,
Get Paid Weekly, Plus Win a Beautiful, New C-Class Mercedes!
We’re about to blow the lid off of one of the industry’s dirty little secrets! You’ll be shocked, perhaps even angry, but it’s time someone “spilled the beans” and told you the ugly truth or you’re destined to experience continual frustration and disappointment!
My friend, here it is: if you’re currently in an “old school” company, you’re working harder than you should have to, making considerably less money than you should, and having to wait longer to get paid less!
In fact, unless you get lucky, you’re virtually guaranteed to fail in most “old school” companies and don’t even know it because the deck has been stacked against you!
Unfortunately, most people don’t have a basic understanding of the different types of compensation plans and it’s one of several major reasons as to why they fail! In order to increase your chances for success in network marketing and earn the biggest income possible with the least amount of difficulty, it’s imperative that you know the “playing field” and the rules of the game, especially when it comes to the compensation plans of “old school” companies!
This section contains critical, eye-opening information essential to your success, so be sure to read every word as you’ll be amazed at how much knowledge you acquire! You’ll discover the 4 main types of compensation plans and their characteristics to help you choose the correct pay plan.
Choose wrong, and you’ll end up working harder to make less and then have to wait longer to get paid! On the other hand, choose right and for the first time you can immediately begin to earn more money faster and with the least amount of effort-you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to create an above average to extraordinary income and within a short period of time!
In fact, you’re about to discover the one type of pay plan that has not only created the fastest growing and most successful companies in MLM history, but is also responsible for generating the biggest incomes in the shortest amount of time for the greatest number of people!
Ignorance versus Stupidity!
One Can Be Overcome-the Other Will Cost You a Fortune!
Ignorance is not knowing any better and you end up doing something you shouldn't really do. Ignorance can be corrected with knowledge, information, and experience. Stupidity is knowing better (knowing you shouldn't do something), but you go ahead and do it anyway.
Here’s a quick A-Z guide of the 4 most common pay plans in the MLM industry and why, whether you’re new to network marketing or a seasoned pro, you should avoid 3 of them if you want to increase your chances for success and maximize your income earning potential!
After today, you’ll no longer be able to claim “ignorance” about pay plans, particularly companies with what we call “old school” pay plans. If you decide to sign up in an “old school” company in the future, that would be stupidity and you deserve to fail!
1) “Matrix” Plans
Matrix plans limit the number of people you can have directly below you on your 1st level and they also limit you to the number of levels you can get paid on. For example, if someone says, “we have a 3 by 9 matrix pay plan,” it means you can only have 3 people directly below you on your 1st level and you can earn an income up to 9 levels below you.
The first number mentioned always denotes the maximum number of people you can have on your 1st level or front line, which in the above example is 3. Once those 3 spots directly below are filled, either by you or someone above you, any people you enroll at that point have to be placed below one of those 3 people.
The second number always delineates how many levels deep you can get paid. In the example of a “3 by 9” matrix, you can only have 3 people directly below you on your 1st level and you could earn an income on up to 9 levels below you.
If they have a “4 by 6 matrix plan” then you can only have 4 people on your 1st level and they will pay you up to 6 levels deep. If they have a “5 by 7 matrix” you can have up to 5 people on 1st level and you could get paid on up to 7 levels below you.
Here’s the only thing you need to remember about “Matrix” pay plans: Historically, they’ve NEVER worked! Over the past 30 years thousands of companies have launched with a matrix pay plan, and regardless of whatever unique feature it contains, they’ve never worked! (The sole exception is a company called Melaleuca, which is the only network marketing company with a matrix pay plan to achieve any significant, long term success!)
Any time that something only works once, despite being attempted thousands of times, is that a sound business model to use, let alone follow? NO! We call something that has only worked once a fluke! Remember Einstein’s definition of insanity? It’s to do the same thing over and over, expecting to get a different result!
Anytime you see a company with a matrix plan you know 2 things: First, they have owners who are not very knowledgeable about our industry, let alone pay plans or they wouldn’t be promoting a matrix pay plan! Second, the plan is destined to fail! Don’t be a guinea pig in someone’s experiment!
Furthermore, matrix pay plans are considered “gimmicky” by regulators in the U.S. as well as internationally, and they are most often associated with “money games” and illegal “get rich quick schemes!”
Nobody in their right mind would get involved with an opportunity that has a “matrix” pay plan! If someone approaches you with a program that promotes a matrix pay plan, do yourself a huge favor and run!
2) “Unilevel” Plans
Unilevel plans have been one of the more popular pay plans over the past 30 years. In a unilevel plan, you’re not limited as to how many people you can enroll and put directly below on your 1st level, but you are limited as to how many levels you can get paid.
If a company says they have a 10 level unilevel plan, then you can get paid a certain percentage on each level up to 10 levels below you. If they have an 8 level unilevel plan, then you can get paid up to 8 levels below you.
3) “Stairstep Breakaway” Plans
The Stairstep Breakaway plan, which first gained major popularity in the 1980’s, is similar to a Unilevel plan in that you can enroll as many people as you’d like and put them directly below you on your 1st level, but instead of getting paid on a certain number of levels of people below you, you get paid on a limited number of levels or generations of people who reach a certain level of achievement (manager, supervisor, etc.) and achieve “breakaway” status.
Since they have now “broken away” from you, their volume no longer counts as part of your total group volume, but the company will pay you a percentage on their group’s production, usually 5%. Typically, you can earn on 3-5 levels or generations of people below you who reach a certain level of achievement and reach breakaway status.
“Old School” Companies Will Make You Work Harder, Pay You Less,
and Then Make You Wait Longer to Get Paid! Here’s Why!

The one common denominator that both the Unilevel and Stairstep Breakaway Plan have is that typically, depending on the particular company, you have to build anywhere from 8-20 productive teams in order to reach the top and maximize your income earning potential!
Here’s the problem today: Since only 1 out of every 10 people you enroll will do anything of any consequence, the general rule of thumb is that whatever the number of teams the company requires you to build to reach the top and maximize your income earning potential, you need to multiply that number by 10 to give you the number of people you will have to personally enroll in order to have a chance at building that number of teams!
For example, many companies in Africa that have either unilevel or stairstep breakaway plans require you to build 8-20 teams in order to earn the maximum income, which means you’ll need to personally recruit from 80-200 people in order to give yourself a realistic chance at building 8-20 teams!
Good luck with that one, my friend! You’ve got a better chance of being hit by lightning! 20-30 years ago when there were only a few dozen legitimate opportunities, you could recruit large numbers of people, but today there are several thousand network marketing companies, all vying for your prospects attention! There’s 100 times more competition today than 20-25-30 years ago. It’s not as easy to recruit 50-100-150-200 people as it used to be!
Perhaps you’re a superstar and you can personally enroll 80-200 people, but here’s one thing we can guarantee you: the average person you recruit won’t! How do we know? According to the Direct Seller’s Association (DSA), the average person is only going to recruit 2-3 people, which means they’re only going to build 2 or 3 teams on average.
If they are signing up in a company that requires more than 3 qualified teams for them to reach the top and earn the maximum income, they are doomed to FAIL before they even start! How you do stretch 3 teams into 8-20 teams? You don’t! Neither do they!
What “Old School” Companies Don’t Want You to Know
About How Their Compensation Plans Work!
As a result of not having the 8-20 qualified teams they require, you end up getting paid on only a few levels, and the income on the rest of the levels that you could have earned, had you been fully qualified, ends up in the pockets of a big leader above you or the company keeps the money!
My friend, have you ever had this happen to you? If you’ve worked an “old school” company, we bet you have!
Finally, to add insult to injury, at the end of every month, whatever sales volume you are not paid on they flush, you lose the opportunity to earn an income on those sales forever, and they make you start the first of every month at ZERO! True? True!
Worse, they make you wait until the middle of next month to get paid on what you do this month! Ouch!
These are the reasons why we call companies promoting a unilevel or stairstep breakaway plan “old school” companies. It doesn’t make them “bad” companies. In fact, we could recommend some company’s products. We just wouldn’t build a business with them! They have 20th century pay plans in a 21st century world! You end up having to work harder, to make less, and then have to wait longer to get paid less!
Some examples of “old school” companies in Africa include Tasly, Tienshi, Dynapharm, Edmark, Oriflame, Forever Living Products, GNLD, Ardyss, Amway, Herberlife and DXN, just to name a few.
By the way, beware of false claims that many distributors make that their company pays out 65%, 72%, and the like! They are giving you theoretical, perfect world numbers, what the company would be liable to pay IF everybody in the company met all the requirements, built the required number of teams to reach the top, and they had to pay on every level, which the company knows is NOT going to happen as only 2% qualify for maximum income!
The truth is 98% of people will not qualify for maximum income because they will fail to meet all the different qualification and maintenance requirements! They’re not going to recruit 50-100-150-200 people in order to build the 8-20 qualified teams that most “old school” companies require in order for you to earn the maximum income.
As a result, most “old school” companies actually pay out from the low to mid 30% range to around the low 40% range! So, don’t fall for the hype of “we’ve got the most lucrative pay plan in MLM history and our company pays out 70%” that some espouse!
Use some common sense! Typically, a company has 20% in product costs. Another 20% in overhead (rent, employee salaries, insurance, etc.) That only leaves 60% left to pay commissions and to earn a profit. Let’s assume the company wants to make a 10% profit. Now they’re down to only being able to pay 50% of the revenue on product sales towards commissions!
The truth is a company will go broke if it is marketing a product that has to be physically made and they pay out much more than 50%! If they’re paying out considerably more than that, then you can be assured of one of 2 things: Either they have very little cost in their product, which means they have an average product at best, OR, they have very little left in profit in which to run their company, pay for future expansion, etc. Neither of these 2 situations is desirable for long term success!
The only exception to this is some opportunity that promotes a product that is not consumable and where there’s virtually no cost to make the product such as an e-book, information package, certificate, or some other type of virtual product that can be sent over the Internet.
One final point: Remember, your success is NOT going to be based on how great you or a few of your team members are, but rather on the efforts of lots of average people, each doing a little! You need to have a compensation plan that positions both you and them to earn the biggest income possible with the least degree of difficulty! Well, that rules out the “old school” unilevel and stairstep breakaway plans!
All of which leads us to the binary plan, the one plan designed for the average person and which has created the biggest incomes in the shortest period of time for the largest number of people in the history of network marketing!
4) Binary Plans
Binary plans first appeared in the early 1990’s and quickly gained in popularity, helping to create some of the fastest growing companies in MLM history! Over the past 10 years the binary plan has been enhanced with several new features such as “matching bonuses,” making it the ultimate compensation plan for both novices and seasoned pros alike.
In fact, the biggest incomes being earned today by distributors are in companies that have a binary plan with matching bonuses! Although there are several versions of the binary plan (we recommend what is known as a 1/3-2/3 binary plan), the concept is still the same: Build 2 teams, a “left team” and a “right team.”
In a binary plan, you can enroll as few as just 2 people, putting one person in your left team and one person in your right team, and you only build 2 teams, far easier than the 50-100-200 people you’d have to enroll in a typical “old school” company in order to build the 8-20 teams they require for you to succeed.
In addition, there are no levels in a “binary” plan. You get to count the sales of all those that are below you towards your income, regardless of who enrolled them and where they are positioned below you!
Here’s how it works: Each product order has a point value. The computer simply adds up the total points generated by each of your 2 teams every week to determine how many cycles you’ve achieved and then pays you the appropriate amount.
If you do not have the required points in each team to complete a cycle, provided you are active, the computer banks the points and adds them to the points your 2 teams generate the following week. At that point if your 2 teams have generated the required minimum amount of points, the computer determines how many cycles you’ve achieved and pays you the appropriate amount.
And the best part is companies with a binary plan pay WEEKLY! If you want an easier program to work, want to make considerably more money, and want to get paid faster, then you’ll love the binary pay plan!

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Hair, breast milk and eggs are doubling as automated teller machines for some cash-strapped Americans such as April Hare.

Out of work for more than two years and facing eviction from her home, Hare recalled Louisa May Alcott’s 19th-century novel and took to her computer.
Enlarge image Bodies Double as Cash Machines With U.S. Income Lagging: Economy

A doctor marks which kidney to remove on a kidney donor in Baltimore, Maryland. Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

“I was just trying to find ways to make money, and I remembered Jo from ‘Little Women,’ and she sold her hair,” the 35-year-old from Atlanta said. “I’ve always had lots of hair, but this is the first time I’ve actually had the idea to sell it because I’m in a really tight jam right now.”

The mother of two posted pictures of her 18-inch auburn mane on www.buyandsellhair.com, asking at least $1,000 and receiving responses within hours. Hare, who also considered selling her breast milk, joins others exploring unconventional ways to make ends meet as the four-year-old economic expansion struggles to invigorate the labor market and stimulate incomes.

In all but two quarters since the beginning of 2011, “hair,” “eggs,” or “kidney” have been among the top four autofill results for the Google search query, “I want to sell my...,” according to Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at New York-based ConvergEx Group, which provides brokerage and trading-related services for institutional investors.

While Americans can legally sell hair, breast milk and eggs, the sale and purchase of a kidney in the U.S. is against the law.

“The fact that people even explore it indicates that there are still a lot of people worried about their financial outlook,” said Colas, who tracks off-the-grid economic indicators. “This is very much unlike every other recovery that we’ve had. It’s going to be a slow-grinding, very frustrating recovery.”
Source: bloomberg.com

1. Ayman al-Zawahiri

Despite the whittling away by drone attacks of "al Qaeda central" in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the group's leader remains vocal and active in trying to harness the disparate affiliates that claim the al Qaeda name.

Source: al Qaeda leader urged affiliate to 'do something'

Terrorists spreading ideology on Twitter

2. Nasir al Wuhayshi

For someone thought to be about 36 years old, Wuhayshi's terror resume is already extensive. Once bin Laden's private secretary in Afghanistan, he returned to his native Yemen and ended up in jail. But not for long: He and several other al Qaeda operatives dug their way out in 2006. He went on to to help found al Qaeda in Yemen, and began launching attacks on Yemeni security services and foreign tourists, as well as directing an ambitious attack against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.


3. Ibrahim al-Asiri

Not a household name, but one that provokes plenty of anxiety among Western intelligence agencies. Al-Asiri, a 31-year-old Saudi, is AQAP's master bomb-maker, as expert as he is ruthless. He is widely thought to have designed the "underwear" bomb that nearly brought down a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, as well as the ingenious printer bombs sent as freight from Sanaa, Yemen, and destined for the United States before being intercepted thanks to a Saudi tip-off. The bombs were so well hidden that at first British police were unable to find one device even after isolating the printer.

Most dangerous terrorist in the world: al Qaeda's master bomb-maker



4. Ahmed Abdi Godane

Godane, aka Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, became the leader of the Somali group Al-Shabaab at the end of 2008. Traditionally, Al-Shabaab has been focused on bringing Islamic rule to Somalia, and as such has attracted dozens of ethnic Somalis (and a few Western coverts) from the United States and Europe. But Godane appears to be refocusing the group on terrorist attacks beyond Somalia, against the east African states that are supporting the Somali government -- especially Uganda and Kenya -- and against Western interests in east Africa.


5. Moktar Belmoktar

Since then, Belmoktar's fighters have launched attacks on a military academy and French uranium mine in Niger in May, despite losing much of their freedom of movement after the French intervention in Mali in January.

Belmoktar is unusual in combining jihadist credentials with a lucrative business in smuggling and kidnapping. He is often called "Mr. Marlboro" because of his illicit cigarette trafficking, and is thought to have amassed millions of dollars through ransoms for westerners kidnapped in Mali.

Reward offered by the U.S. government: up to $5 million for information leading to his location.

6. Abu Muhammad al-Julani

While Belmoktar might have been on the fringes of a "most dangerous terrorist list" a year ago, Abu Muhammad al-Julani would not have been anywhere near it. But as Syria has descended into a state of civil war, al-Julani's group -- the al-Nusra Front -- has emerged as one of the most effective rebel factions. Formed in January 2012, it is a jihadist group with perhaps 10,000 fighters, many of them battle-hardened in Iraq. It has specialized in suicide bombings and IED attacks against regime forces, and its success has attracted hundreds of fighters from other rebel groups.


7. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

One factor that may influence the growth and potency of al-Nusra is its relationship with fellow jihadists in Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was publicly at odds with al Julani over the regional pecking order earlier this year, asserting that al-Nusra was part of his group, a claim swiftly rejected by al Julani. Western intelligence would like nothing more than dissent between these two groups. Close cooperation between them across the long Syrian-Iraqi border -- the goal of al-Zawahiri -- is the nightmare scenario.

On the battlefield in Syria, cooperation between the two groups appears to be continuing, especially in towns like Deir Izzor in eastern Syria.


Reward offered by U.S. government, which lists him as Abu Du'a: up to $10 million for information leading to his location.

8. Sirajuddin Haqqani

Shifting from the Middle East to the Afghan-Pakistan border regions, several groups are positioning themselves for the exit of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan next year. Among the most dangerous is the Haqqani Network, responsible for some of the deadly attacks in Kabul in recent years. A 2008 coordinated suicide bomb attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul left six dead. Another strike in June 2011 killed 12 at the InterContinental Hotel.

Reward offered by U.S. government for information leading to Haqqani's location: up to $5 million

9. Abubakar Shekau

Shekau's inclusion recognizes the growing tide of Islamist militancy in West Africa. For the last four years, he has led Boko Haram, a Salafist group in northern Nigeria that has begun cooperating with other groups as far away as Mali.

Opinion: Should U.S. fear Boko Haram?

But its main focus remains churches and other Christian targets, the police and the moderate Muslim establishment in northern Nigeria. Just last month, suspected Boko Haram fighters broke into a college in Yobe state and murdered more than 40 students as they slept.

In 2010, Shekau warned that the group would attack Western interests and the following year it carried out its first suicide bombing -- against U.N. offices in the capital, Abuja -- killing at least 23 people. The group has also kidnapped and killed several Western hostages. While Bokko Haram is not an affiliate of al Qaeda, Shekau has made clear his sympathy for the group's goals. The United States made him a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in June 2012.

Nigeria's peace 'the peace of a graveyard'

Two caveats here: there are conflicting reports that Shekau was killed in an August raid by Nigerian special forces. But a video that appeared weeks later purported to show he was still alive. And Boko Haram's leadership structure is opaque at best; it's unclear how much control Shekau himself exerts over its fighters.

John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, wrote last month that so far "Boko Haram has shown little interest in the world outside of Nigeria and the Sahel. But the situation in Nigeria is dynamic, and it is possible that closer ties will develop between al-Qaeda and elements of Boko Haram."

"Boko Haram" means "Western education is forbidden" and reflects the group's utter rejection of modernity and Western influences.

"Hostile to democracy, modern science, and Western education as non-Islamic, it is highly diffuse," Campbell said of the group. "For some adherents, religious, even apocalyptic, themes appear to be paramount."

Reward offered by the U.S. government: up to $7 million for his location.

10. Doku Umarov

Doku Umarov leads the Caucasus Emirate (CE), a Chechen group dedicated to bringing Islamic rule to much of southern Russia.

The U.S. State Department named Umarov a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2010, and said subsequently he was "encouraging followers to commit violent acts against CE's declared enemies, which include the United States as well as Israel, Russia, and the United Kingdom."


Reward offered by the U.S. government for information on his location: up to $5 million.

daz_york: If you don't know what you're talking about, pls don't talk. The organisation is an immensely wealthy real estate/publishing/hedge fund operation which depends on extraction of money for books, magazines and "worldwide work contributions" from its captive market of 7 million plus "interested persons".
They have suffered financially recently after losing billions in the American real estate market crash and several multimillion dollar payouts to settle child abuse cases in Australia and Canada. In addition their income base is shrinking because many of their old members are dying and their young are leaving in droves. Hence, the whip is being cracked from HQ to bring more people in for the sinking ship to be propped up.
They are broke and haemorrhaging money and have even been forced to sell their new York HQ. They are selling this to their members as a move to a new headquarters to "further the work" etc etc but in actual fact, maintaining that Brooklyn skyscraper is just too expensive when their members are not able to remit more money than they are and the next generation of mugu are running away in their tens of thousands. The new HQ places emphasis on "natural lighting" and "energy saving" measures ostensibly for environmental protection reasons but in actual fact, it is because they are broke and falling apart.
So before you start shooting off your mouth about their grand "projects" around the world, try to at least gain understanding of the Bible-flavoured door-to-door sales ponzi scheme they are running.
And don't quote me if you have no meaningful contribution.

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