FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What is Network Marketing.

Network marketing, multilevel marketing and referral marketing all follow a similar pattern. Instead of having a retail shop, a company allows people to purchase goods or services with the right to enroll other people to also purchase the goods, for which they receive compensation. This means that the sums paid to warehouses and retailers are paid to the individual marketers instead.

This method is used by many big companies. There are a variety of compensation programs, but the simple scheme is binary. This means that you recruit two people [two legs] and they each recruit two and they each recruit two, etc. Some people recruit more than two, and some recruit none, so there is an uneven flow from each leg. You work to keep them balanced under you so that you receive the maximum compensation available.

Is this pyramid selling?

It’s unfortunate that pyramid management (normal and legal) and pyramid selling (always illegal) sound a bit alike. Think of any business. There is a General Manager at the top, then a few Managers, then some Regional or Assistant Managers, then a lot more Staff. If you draw it out, it looks like a pyramid. The Army is the same. Nearly every organisation is. All network marketing, multilevel marketing and referral marketing is.

In network marketing, each person purchases product with the right to sell. Each person gets the product which is something they have chosen which has a substantial commercial value.

The problem arises when network marketing has no end user benefit. Either the product is grossly overpriced, deceptive, or has no intrinsic value. A famous case in point was an “Aeroplane Game” where you purchased a seat in an imaginary plane, and sold seats to other people. If you sold enough seats you got to be Captain and made a lot of money. But if you purchased a seat and failed to sell enough to be Captain, you lost the lot. You had nothing and you had paid out. This is criminal and is pyramid selling.

If you are working with a network marketing company you will receive product and you can then sell to others. Bringing others into the organisation is not something everyone finds easy!

So what’s new with Joint Venture Group?

You can recruit people by -
Direct personal contact
Advertising on the internet or other means
   through Joint Venture or others
Benefactoring – you pay to have someone you know become a member
Purchase of a member through Joint Venture Group’s AAP Program
Joining a Team Building group.

This means that if you are unable to personally recruit or don’t like to, you can still build a group under you and gain the financial benefits.

There is also overflow from active people above you, but this is occasional because people above you have to spread their extras thinly – there are a lot of empty spaces under them!

Tell me about Joint Venture Group

JVG was founded by Norman Ball, and is a new group. This will tell you something about Norman Ball.

Norman was born and raised in Canada.  He and his wife of 40 years, Dianne, settled in Western Canada but spent many years in Ontario, Washington State, California and Arizona.

His late teens and early twenties were spent in military service including several years in Europe and then a ten year stint in management within the food service industry.

 For the last 35 years, Norman has been a network industry leader as a publisher, owner, trainer and participant.  He has built organizations of 50,000 collectively, personally sponsored over four hundred representatives and has trained over 250,000 entrepreneurs.  As a publisher to the industry, he examined close to 3,500 network marketing companies and consulted with several others.

Norman has also owned and operated a medium sized contracting company and was the camp manager for Noranda mines in Northern British Columbia and the CEO for Crystal Clear Window Works in Toronto Canada. 

He was formerly a private pilot and was certified as a chef.  Norman was also the Chief Operations Officer for a high tech company operating in a dozen international markets. 

He received notoriety by carrying the Olympic torch to the 1988 Calgary Olympics and again when he was acknowledged by hundreds of mayors, Governors, premiers, Canadian Parliament and the White House for walking over 8,400 miles at the age of 59 to help children dying in the streets.

  Norman’s MLM history as a top producer and some accomplishments.  1970 to 2009

 Golden Products.  Bestline.  Amway. Strong producer in Amway and top producer in Bestline.

 NSA:  National Marketing Director (one of Canada’s top producers)

 Founder/Director 'Toronto Success Center' (Highly successful, highly profitable business center).

 NTC: Top producer (Canada/USA). Income pegged at $47,000/mo. 1980ish.

Prosperity Network: Published a trade magazine to MLM industry.

Co-owner/CEO.  Utel Communications (Pittsburg) Long distance (hostile takeover-1984)

Excel Telecommunications (USA/Canada) Strong producer in US.  So-so in Canada.

Pre-Paid-Legal: (one of Canada’s top producers)

Toronto Success Center (re-established) Managed successfully until charity walk.

Walk of Hope  (http://www.walkofhope.org 

NISCI: Owner. Innovative waste storage system.

Gano Excel.  Zija Int’l.  Limited success. 

Nordiba Joint Venture Group Inc Founder/CEO.