Declaration of Interests

Why we do it

We get lots of enquiries about how this web site pays its way, since there’s so little commercial activity visible here.

There’s our books and tapes and live training seminars and workshops, of course, but do they really cover the costs and make this massive web resource a profitable venture for us?

The short answer is no, they don’t.

But the real point is that they were never intended to.

The Profit Clinic MLM Help Centre (and Small Business Help Centre) are just what you see — a free source of useful, reliable information, insights, tools and training to help all network marketers, from all MLM companies, whose minds and hearts are open enough to benefit from these sites without feeling threatened.

We subsidise the sites heavily for one very simple reason… to help make this system of business better for everyone, and to expose the short sighted, the selfish, the greedy, the lazy and otherwise undesirable parasites that infest network marketing for what they really are, so that fewer people are sucked in and bled dry by these devious counterfeits.

In other words, we work on the principle that what’s better for network marketers in general has to be better for our own people in particular.

It’s about protecting and enhancing our right to do business as network marketers, and raising the standards of knowledge, conduct, professional attitudes and practices so that we actually have a future to work toward as legitimate, professional business people, free of heavy-handed, bureaucratic regulation and restriction.

Some people wonder if the site is really designed to be a sophisticated recruiting tool for my network marketing organisation.

No, it’s not.

In fact, the site was created at least two years before I joined my present network marketing program. I'm scrupulously careful to avoid this perception, because it is NOT what the site is about.

Yes, I’ve had people join me as a result of visiting here. But only a very small number, and only after lengthy two-way appraisal to ensure that it was best for both sides. The fact is that I decline around 70% of requests I receive from people wanting to join me because they’re just not ready for the kind of commitment required for their own success.

Those that have joined me have found that the site was really only one of many factors that influenced their decision. My other, more specific, company related sites, elswhere on the web, played a more important role in their final decisions.

So you can safely refer your people here. They won’t be poached. They won’t be followed up. They won’t be offered other opportunities. Their details won’t be used in any way except to purchase our publications and training materials or to subscribe to our generic newsletters or discussion lists — and only at their express request.

I trust that this explanation of the motives behind this major FREE resource are satisfactory for you.

John Counsel
CEO, The Profit Clinic