Zillionaire.com infomercial
Everything is Terrible found this funny infomercial from a long gone company Zillionaire.com, pushing a site called dotplanet.com ("the world's only lifestyle destination portal").
If George Bush would have ran an Internet business in the late 1990s, he would have had the same spiel and delivery style of Zillionaire.com CEO Hubert Humphrey (Not the politician):
"I firmly believe that Dot Planet is the most powerful phenomenon to ever hit the Internet. Our goals are just mind-boggling. We will be the fastest portal to ever hit one million users, two million, three million and all. Our vision is limitless. And I'm totally convinced that Dot Planet will be just as well known in the very near future as America Online. Microsoft, Yahoo, and it's all because of one thing: out great Zillionaire Internet army."Here's an interesting 1999 article from Investment News about Hubert Humphrey and Zillionaire.com. Humphrey now runs a company called WLG International. From perusing the WLH site, I can't make heads or tails of what the business does: "WLG International has the Quantum Compensation Plan, which is specifically designed to help associates build and grow their 'business within a business.' One of the most powerful compensation and promotion plans in marketing, it offers a unique blend of great Personal Contracts, Infinity Overrides, Generational Overrides, Bonus Pools and Equity Sharing Pools – featuring a 100 percent gross payout to the field." Huh?
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Here is a snapshot of dotPlanet from 1999 - The best part... Check out the date above the news area:
108? Damn you Y2K!
very truthful: "as well known as Americaownline, Macrosaft and Yaowho"
The last page of the this brochure has the kicker:
http://www.wlg-online.com/content/PDFs/WLG/CompEx.pdf
$150 to join, $20 a month to participate... in what exactly?
Obviously a scam.
sigh... still remember the first multilevel marketing presentation I attended at the request of a friend. At the end she asked what I thought and I just said "You want to be a sheep or a wolf?" She didn't buy in.
It's a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme. Those things are incredibly sophisticated these days, but the best way to really make a buck in MLM is to keep things so obscure that nobody can tell if they're making any money.
Quantum Compensation - clearly this refers the notion in physics of a quantum as an indivisible quantity, the smallest possible amount of something.
So, in light, this would be a single photon - you can't have less light than one photon, and still have light.
In money, this would be the Zimbabwean penny - you can't have less money than one Zimbabwean cent, and still have money.
So, you sign up, pay your dues for however long, and at the end of it all, you are compensated with one quantum of money.
Amway without the soap.
#7 dragonfrog - that was awesome
hey, they stole the lucasfilm logo!
Mark, you are awesome! Thanks so much!
Here's this guy's house:
http://www.homesoftherich.net/2008/07/la-reve-georgias-finest-mega-mansion.html
The man lives in his very own hotel...
This is pretty neat:
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_gmg014
check out the # of employees and annual sales..
Did anyone else see the fatal mistake in that commercial? Yup, no booby cleavages.
Zillionaire Internet Army.
just saying..
It was the utterly non-convincing people on the street that made me laugh. "I'm an out of work porn actor with absolutely no ability to make scripted lines sound natural, how can I get in on this interweb dream factory I've been hearing about?"
What he needs is an army of Zombillionaires.
I tried to go to Zillionaire.com to sign up, but I couldn't find the register link? Anyone else having this problem?
GAINSSS... GAINSSS.....
@Starcadia: They also undersell all the magical aspects of the internet.
Pleas if anyone could help me I would really like to sign up, but I can't find the link! I want to make my internet dream a reality!
Zombo.com beat him to it.
How to get the dreamlife of your dreams using the Internet.
rickmatt: wow. that house just screams "nouveau riche". About the best thing that I can say about it is that it's not as bad as Mike Tyson's former mansion in Ohio.
@Takuan: hahahahahahah!!!!
It is totally accurate. And that's because "zillion" is a fun number, not a real one.
You have a zillion dollars in your pocket right now. If only you believe. Or, as we called it in Kindergarten, "pretend."
And there were boobays. You just weren't dreaming hard enough.
Pyramid scam with scientology like operations and possible hidden scientology connection. The words "Leadership Infinity Overrides" are the first clue, also checkout Lightyear Alliance a virtually identical operation.
"If George Bush would have ran an Internet business in the late 1990s, he would have had the same spiel and delivery style of Zillionaire.com CEO Hubert Humphrey..."
And if Barak Obama had run a internet presidential campaign in the early 2000s...oh...wait...
it's pretty obvious what wlg international does.
it separates fools from their money.
No, that isn't bush style. That is televangelist/megachurch pastor style. Chillingly similar, actually. Other than it being a mass of clipart and Mammon worship, of course.
I had a former co-worker try to run "a business within a business", he of course got fired.
"I firmly believe that Dot Planet is the most powerful phenomenon to ever hit the Internet."
This quote made me laugh, simply because every internet-related blog that I read has a new thread every day about the "website that is going to revolutionize the internet". This saying is almost as campy and played out as political buzzwords.
ACTING!!!
"Huh?"
It's all standard MLM jargon. Which is possibly the weirdest aspect of this. They're not trying to recruit new suckers, they're going after people who've done this before. People who are familiar with the jargon, have doubtlessly gotten burned before, and still believe that the next MLM will work for them.
There's a whole subculture, and they just. never. learn.
These people are in Los Angeles doing Primerica real estate and investing scams now.
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The Net is a lucrative media and provides a great platform for marketing opportunities online. However, there are quite a few legitimate businesses and thousands of scam. One has to be very careful when choosing one.
If you’re trying to establish if an opportunity is legitimate or a scam, there are a number of things you have to do. It is not an easy job, but it is to your advantage to invest some time researching the opportunity before wasting your time and money. For example, type scam followed by “name of business” (with double quotes) into Google and you will get a lot of posts about people who were victims or unsatisfied with the results.
Use common sense, scam sites look so attractive and offer great rewards and returns in a very short time. Example would be $10,000 in two weeks, Too good to be true.
Good Luck