Euphony Benelux N.V, based in the Netherlands and Belgium save 860,000 businesses and residential customers money, every single day.

Euphony helps saving money with an innovative international range of services which includes Fixed Line, Mobile, VoIP, Broadband, Energy and Credit Cards.

Euphony is since March 2001 active in the Netherlands and Belgium and offers telecommunications and energy services for competitive pricing, both to consumers  as to corporate accounts.

In Januari 2010  Euphony Benelux NV has been established through a management buy out.

Frank van der Wege (CEO) Koos de Vink (Investor) and  Barclays Bank are the new owners. Euphony vendors are solid partners such as Verizon, KPN, Greenchoice, Mobistar,  Luminus and Aspire.

Euphony Benelux NV has offices in Antwerp, Naninne ( Belgium) and Nieuwegein. Euphony has 150 employees and has a network of as many as 5,500 independent Business Consultants. If you want to save money on your Energy and Telecommunications bill, Euphony could be a great choice.

Euphony has a Direct Selling Compensation plan, where you get paid over your team 10 levels deep. If you like Direct Selling and Telecommunications then it might be smart  to look into the opportunity in depth.

Frank van der Wege – CEO Euphony (left)

Top consultants in Euphony are Geoff Liberman, Jean-Philippe Hulin and Gert van Oppen with an estimated annual earning of $ 500,000+each.

Corporate address: Euphony Benelux N.V. Meentwal 15 3432 GL Nieuwegein The Netherlands Phone +31 306036870

Chris and Josephine Gross are the co founders of networking times, a bi-monthly educational journal focused on personal growth and professional development.

Networking Times is available on the newsstand in North America (in major bookstore chains) and online to subscribers worldwide. Networking Times is published by Gabriel Media Group.

The Gabriel Media Group is founded on the vision of "Global Prosperity through a Philanthropic Economy." This idea conveys that, in addition to its purpose of providing superior products and services, business has a social responsibility of co-creating a sustainable world that works for everyone with no one left out. In other words, they are a not-only-for-profit business.

Chris and Josephine are great Ambassadors for the Direct Selling Industry, and they work with influential clients authors, educators, speakers, producers, entertainers and pioneers of all kinds who are making a difference in the world of Direct Selling.

They are connected with VIP's as Bob Proctor (The Secret movie) Tom Schreiter, Art Jonak, Rod Cook, and John Milton Frogg.

Chris and Josephine have been fabulous keynote speakers on the First European Direct Selling Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Guest Author: Jean Philipp Hulin

Imagine mastering some easy and rejection-free instant prospecting techniques…

*You'll be discovering one of these in this message, keep reading…*

How great and stressless life would be? How fun would it be to make your team grow fast with only qualified, motivated and really-willing-to-be-serious-about-the-business prospects? Well, these techniques do exist. So, here is an example that works LIKE CRAZY.

This is the "$15.000 Pay Raise Test" story. You meet someone. After a while, both of you start to talk about the family, the work, etc.

Here is what you can say:
YOU: "Hey, by the way… Have you ever wanted to be wealthy enough to retire and stop committing to work every day?"

THE OTHER: "Well… Yeah, I've been dreaming about that for years, but you know, I'm just average so I guess I should forget about this kind of dreams…"
YOU: "I've been told about a '$15.000 Pay Raise Test', wanna see if you can pass it?"

OTHER: "The $15.000 Pay Raise Test!? Oh well… Why not? Go ahead!"
YOU: "Imagine being at your work. The boss comes at your desk and ask you if you would agree to have a pay raise. What would you say?"

OTHER: "That will NEVER happen! But of course I would say yes…"
YOU: "Great! Here is your boss idea: all you have to do is attend a training 3 times a week. It would last something like 10 hours a week and it's a 12 month training. Your boss says that you would have to pay a $500 fee for the whole 12 month training but if you graduate, he would offer you a neat $5.000 per year raise starting next year because you would be more skillfull than your colleagues. What would you say?"

Here is where magic happens: what you just described is an 'average start in MLM' but with words and situations easy to rely to for any worker. If the person you're talking to answers 'NO I wouldn't accept', you're not facing a good prospect and you can say the test is over. Your prospecting is done; you have your answer. The best part is that your prospect doesn't even know you've just been prospecting him! If he says 'Yes, for a $5.000 per year pay raise I would do it', then you're facing a pre-qualified prospect.

But now, you have to check if he would be seduced by the MLM concept.  Here's how to do that:

YOU: "Excellent! The Pay Raise Test is almost finished and you're doing great. So, now you would say 'yes' this means that you would attend this training 3 times a week during a year. After that, your boss would give you the $5.000 per year raise. But you're not finished yet. After you graduate, the boss comes to you again, and here he goes: "now you've complete the training, I would like to know if you would agree to teach what you learned to 5 co-workers. This means you would have to train them 3 evenings per week for 12 month, just like you did the past 12 month. When they graduate thanks to your teaching, I would offer you ANOTHER $5.000 per year pay raise." So, what would you answer?"

THE OTHER: "Gee! I would say YESSSS!"
YOU: "Excellent! Here is now the last part of the test: your boss asks you if you would accept to train your 5 'students' next year to be able to teach the exact same training to 5 co-workers each. If you say yes, it would take you 3 evenings per week for 12 month but you would receive ANOTHER $5.000 per year pay raise. This means you would have added $15.000 to your yearly income in 3 years only. What would you do?"

THE OTHER: "Gosh! I would do it! $15.000 extra per year is huge!"

At this stage, you know you're facing a highly qualified and motivated prospect who felt in love with network marketing without even knowing it. What do you want to do next?  Well… It's up to you: you can offer your friend a prospecting book to read, a CD, a flyer or you can invite him to meet that 'mysterious' guy who specialized into helping average people to create above average income without asking their boss…

From all the previous alternatives, let me explain you why the last one is my favorite. When you invite your prospect to meet with one of your upline sponsors, you instantly prove him that MLM is a TEAM business. If you can invite one of your upline sponsors to help you, your prospect will rapidly understand that he would also be authorized to do the same.

And, last but not least, you would be using a great success principle: "The stranger is the expert". Even if your upline sponsor is in the business for a couple of week, he will have much more credibility into your prospect eyes than yourself. And since you want your offer to have the most possible credibility, you want your upline sponsors to come along with you to explain what is MLM to your prospect.

Hope this will help you make your MLM career more fun and enjoyable…

Fortune High Tech Marketing (FHTM) is based in Lexington, Kentucky, and was founded in 2001 by Paul Orberson.

FHTM offers products, services and opportunity to people across the United States as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico.

FHTM is a pending member of the Direct Selling Asociation.

FHTM offers a wide range of products and services for Independent Representatives to market to their customers, from the True Essentials line of health products to Dish Network’s television service to The Wireless Shop’s selection of name brand providers.

Kevin Thompson the MLM Attorney:

It was bound to happen at some point. Unlike the last lawsuit I posted about Fortune High Tech Marketing (which turned out to be a hoax), the below class action lawsuit against FHTM is legit.

I pulled it off of Pacer, which is where American court documents are made publicly available.

The complaint is long but the allegations are simple:

1) Fortune is allegedly a pyramid because:

a) Sales Culture: The sales culture focuses predominantly on recruitment over selling. An accomplished sales rep in FHTM was quoted as saying: “We’re not looking to sell you something; we’re looking for team members.” The lawsuit is basically alleging that the field completely disregards selling and that the recruitment culture is standard behavior in the FHTM organization, which leads to serious misrepresentation.

b) Pay plan does not lead to true external sales: There are no real incentives in the pay plan for selling to nonparticipants. Allegedly, the reps are required to accrue 3 customer points before they climb the ranks; however, those points are accrued by the reps themselves….one point is gained by simply paying for access to the company’s website for back office support.

c) Commissions from Training fees!: I just wrote about this last week about why it’s a bad idea to pay commissions on sales aids. The lawsuit alleges that FHTM pays commissions when “certified trainers” train their downline managers (after the downline managers pay a $200 fee). Since the training fee has no relevance for nonparticipants, the plaintiffs are arguing that this is mainly a clever transfer of money from new investors to older ones, which is illegal.

I cannot predict if the allegations will prove true or not because I know very little about the FHTM model; however, it seems like the complaint focuses squarely on the FHTM policies and the pay plan, which means there’s not much wiggle room for FHTM. It will be hard for them to defend their practice of paying commissions on training fees, which I think is their largest problem.

FHTM reps habitually say “we have former state attorney generals on our legal team.” Allow me to address this point: simply because a company has hired “former AGs” as their attorneys, it does not mean that those AGs understand the industry. AGs have countless responsibilities and they might not understand the nuances in MLM law. I’m not saying FHTM’s lawyers are incompetent.

I am saying that if there’s any truth to these allegations, any attorney with knowledge of this field would have either gotten FHTM on the right track a long time ago or would have withdrawn his or her representation. If the former AGs were recently hired, it’s a different story (clearly they lacked the time to clean up the house). However, if they’ve been on board for several years….it’s not good.

In this Binary downline there are 733 sign ups, 385 links and 348 rechts, a nice balance. The volume in both legs 6,875 and 6,650 points. 1 case Monavie, 4 bottles (1 month supply) counts for 100 points, therefore the retention rate (Distributors/ monthly autoships) is > 75%, which is very high.

Never ever share as a distributor your backoffice with the world unless you like to be terminated,  it is company confidential information…..

Bart Hungenaert is a top networker living in Bruges, Belgium and has been active in MLM since 2004.

He has personally sponsored 88 people into the business. He has a passion for the industry and is known for his honest, tell-it-like-it-is approach.

An avid believer in personal development, he loves training and coaching new networkers so they can grow into personal development and master sponsoring techniques that really work.

As a former European Karate Champion he is intrigued by the similarities that occur when training a martial art and training to become a network marketing professional, which is in his opinion not so different.

He is currently in the process of writing his own book called "Netwerk Marketing Coach" which will be a guide to achieve personal success as a network marketing professional for aspiring MLM leaders in the Netherlands and Belgium. 

Bart has been a great promotor for the first edition of the European Direct Selling Congress. A great guy to work with!

His book: Netwerk Marketing Coach will be available soon

Daniel Mueller

Daniel is one of the top earners in Europe with an estimated annual earnings of $1,500,000 and since 2001 involved in Unicity.

Daniel has a team of approx. 45,000 people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Co Founder „Networker for Humanity “- a foundation of Top Networkers and Top Trainers, with the objective to help people who can not help themselves. 

He has been an awesome keynote speaker on the first European Direct Selling Congress amazing the entire audience of professional network marketers with his Vision presentation.

A great ambassador for the entire Direct Selling Industry.

In Unicity he works close together with Sven Goebel an other Top Earners within Unicity.

Jean Philippe Hulin, is one of the top leaders in Belgium with an estimated annual earnings of $450,000. A native French speaking net worker living in the beautiful city of Liège, Belgium.

He has a deep understanding of the Direct Selling business. A great promotor of the entire industry working close together with Top Earner Geoff Liberman.

Bright, young, full of energy. Jean Philippe brought a large team in at the European Direct Selling Congress.

A top independent Business Consultant with utilities company Euphony Communications, which provides highly competitive landline telephony, Internet access, mobile communications and energy (gas & electricity) services to residential consumers and the small business sector.

His team is about 2.500 people and has gathered more than 100.000 customers.

Jean Philippe is the author of 2 MLM best sellers in the French lanquage: "Comment Devenir Riche Sans Gagner à La Loterie"  (How to get rich without winning the lotery) 38,000 copies sold and counting.

"La Liberté Financière en 7 Etapes" (7 Steps to Financial Freedom) in his new second book, 5,000 copies sold and counting.

Tom Schreiter has been a great inspirator for his books.

Geoff Liberman

At the age of 56, Geoff has become a leader in the networkmarketing industry, earning a substantial seven-figure income. He is an UK citizen, living in Manchester

Geoff was introduced to Euphony later in life at the age of 43 after setting up and running a number of dance schools.

Developing a sales and marketing business, selling environmental products for six years with NSA where he worked together with the grand lady of network marketing Paula Pritchard

Over the past 13 years with Euphony, he has directly introduced over 90 friends and associates to the company, which has grow to date to several thousand active consultants in his team. One of his awesome team members is Jean Philippe Hulin.

Geoff as keynote speaker on the European Direct Selling Congress brought up a very smart suggestion.

Nobody like's to be mentioned as a "downline", therefore it would be much better to change this to "team", and he is absolute right!

An awesome Ambassador for the Direct Selling Industry and a very nic guy to meet!

Kevin Thompson is a Top MLM attorney, entrepreneur, and agent of change. He specializes in providing legal services for start-up network marketing companies, with a deep understanding of the changing legal landscape in the MLM industry

Kevin has extensive experience in the industry and helps entrepreneurs launch their businesses on solid legal footing.

Prior to starting The Law Office of Kevin Thompson, Kevin gained valuable experience while serving as Chief Counsel for Signature Management Team, LLC, also known as Team.

Team is one of the largest providers of sales aids for distributors in the network marketing industry. While at Team, Kevin worked closely with Amway and Mona Vie’s compliance departments to ensure Team’s marketing materials passed regulatory review.

Also during his tenure at Team, Kevin helped guide the company through commercial litigation with Amway.

He’s recently published a widely read, 80 page ebook on the changing state of the law in the network marketing industry. Read the ebook here, free of charge, to learn more about the laws in the industry.

Kevin Thompson has been keynote speaker on the first European Direct Selling Congress, his topic:

"The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Amway: lessons learned from one of the world's oldest MLM."