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Margot Lawrence

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  1. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

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    Hello everyone.  I had never seen the page that you just posted and yes that would get someone's attention.  I have been a member of the Your Viral Network for over one year now.  I was not asked to post anything by Matthew Graves.  I just felt like since I have been paid commissions that I should state that.  My results have been good.  Again, I appreciate the fact that the people I refer to his lists get added to my own autoresponder accounts.  This is the reason that I joined his lists, I had not seen any other safelists/viral mailers that did that.  I have noticed a few more of them lately and yes I joined them to.  I joined Unlock Your List, referred people to the list and was paid my commissions.  The instructions are posted on how payments are made and what the ceiling is.  And I was paid promptly.  I'm sorry that anyone has had bad experiences, I just wanted to say that I had not had it.  I have been a member of Marketing Checkpoint but was inactive.  Trying to learn how to make posts and do things in the forums.  I'm learning so that I can teach my own subscribers how to use this platform.  

     

    I have been a member of all of Darren Olanders sites and have great results there.  I have also been a member of Maryanne Meyers sites and have good results from them.  I've got a lot to learn and definitely appreciate the input, but I was not asked to do anything by Matthew Graves.  

     

    Donnie Ellis

     

    Hmm, on the one hand I'm glad to see that some people are being paid, but on the other hand I'm sad to see that Matthew is paying out commissions that have been recently earned while still owing commissions earned several years ago - obviously, the older debts should have been paid first.

     

    Donnie, don't you feel even slightly uncomfortable now that you know that the money that Matthew paid to you was, in effect, stolen from other people?

  2. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    It's actually disgusting that someone can get away with cheating people for so long, this thread was started like 14 months ago, but it's been going on for many years already... :(

     

    I know :-(

     

    When I started the thread, I thought that there might be some interest for a couple of weeks and that it would then tail off and the thread would die, as most other threads do. I had no idea that I'd find that Matthew Graves had ripped off so many people, in so many different ways, over the course of so many years.

     

    I don't know if Matthew is a member here, but I'm sure he must be aware of this thread. He has had 14 months to post a message defending himself, but, so far, nothing... :-(

  3. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    All I can say is wow! 

     

    Imo Matthew's intent was clear, which was to offer partnerships to fund each site launch. Now on the back end, revenue isn't coming in fast enough to pay back investors.

     

    This is speculation on my part but new site launches every month could be a sign of using new investor money to pay back other prior investors. If true, that makes it very ponzi-scheme-ish. I truly hope that isn't the case and once he brings the sites back up he can start paying.

     

    There were originally supposed to be only four partners on each site - Matthew and 3 others - each receiving one quarter share of the site's profits. There are already more than four partners on each site, and he's advertising for more - so, even if he used new money coming in to pay the original investors (which he hasn't!), nobody would receive the one quarter share that was promised.

  4. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    Is anyone able to login to his mailers or is it just me that's not able?

     

    I can log in to some of the sites, but not all of them. On the ones where I can log in, many of the site features are missing. I assume this is because there's still some rebuilding to be done after the server problem.

  6. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    Just adding my name to the growing list.

     

    I'm also owned a few hundred dating back 18 months.

     

    His excuse is that he doesn't have a payout method for international customers as I'm in the UK.

    When I suggest Bitcoin... no response.

     

    I think it's time he was taken down.

     

    I'm in the UK too, and there are plenty of ways to make international payments - he's just avoiding paying, making excuses.

  9. Matthew Graves.

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    Does MATTHEW GRAVES owe you money? If so, you're not alone!

     

    Once a respected online marketing "guru", Matthew has turned to the dark side in the last couple of years, and now owes large amounts of money to large numbers of people.

     

    His "Site Partners" scheme (or should I say scam?) appears to be a dead duck - I haven't managed to find a single partner who has received their earnings from the sites on which they were supposed to be partners, and the Facebook group for partners has had all members & posts removed - probably because all the posts were from people wondering when (if?) they would receive their earnings.

     

    Matthew doesn't have a proper support ticket system - a "red flag" in itself - and doesn't reply to emails from people asking for the money they're owed.

     

    Ironically, his mailers are well designed & have a good number of responsive members, so they are still worth joining - just don't bother paying for an upgrade, this man doesn't deserve any more of other people's money.

  10. Geographical Targeting - suggestions, please!

    in Affiliate/MLM/Network Marketing

    Posted

    My main business is Avon. Although it is a global organisation, it operates as separate companies in all the different countries. As I'm in the UK, I can only sell to customers in the UK and I can only recruit downline team members in the UK.

     

    I've tried Google, Facebook & Bing, but the geographical targeting doesn't seem to work very well on any of those - I've had potential customers & potential representatives from all over the world contact me. If I'm getting people from other countries contacting me, it means that much of my advertising budget is being wasted because people in the wrong countries are seeing my ads. I can't tell how much money is being wasted, because I have no idea how many people in the wrong countries are seeing my ads and NOT contacting me!

     

    I hate wasting money. And I hate paying money to big corporations who promise that my ads will only be shown to people in the UK and then show my ads in Lebanon, Sweden, South Africa and Pakistan (the four most recent non-UK applications from ads supposedly shown only in the UK).

     

    So, can any of you recommend any advertising companies who do ACCURATE geographical targeting?

  11. Traffic Exchanges

    in PTC & Traffic Exchanges

    Posted

    Tabbed browsing combined with powerful computers killed the traffic exchanges. In the 'olden days' - and yes, I'm old enough to remember - we could only surf one site at a time, so we had to actually look at the pages we were being shown while surfing. Now, with more powerful computers and tabbed browsing, we can surf twenty sites at a time, just flicking from one tab to the next and only looking at the buttons to click to collect the credits. And then we stop doing even that, because we realise that everyone else is doing the exact same thing and the credits we've collected are being used by people who are just flicking from one tab to the next and not looking at the page we're promoting...

     

    RIP traffic exchanges - you were great in your time, but your time has passed.

  20. Experience with Payza

    in Commons

    Posted

    I use PayPal a lot for my UK business and never had any problems with it. I have a Payza account but was locked out along with all other UK customers and have never used it since, and I now use STP for purchases that don't accept PayPal. STP was complicated to set up and took ages to verify, but now that I'm fully verified it's easy to use.

  22. scam

    in Scams, Rip-offs, and More

    Posted

    What sort of "proof" would you want for a scam? Screenshot of an empty PayPal account where someone has not been paid?

     

    I never believe the so-called payment proofs that so many people use in their advertising - so easy to create for someone who has spent an hour learning to use basic features of GIMP, Photoshop or some other image processing software.

  23. Autoresponder sequence

    in Techniques & Strategies

    Posted

    To a certain extent, your strategy should be tailored to the expectations of the list that you've built.

     

    For example, if people joined your list in response to a particular offer, follow up on that offer with 7 - 8 messages showing different aspects/features/benefits of your product/service over the course of a few weeks without confusing them with totally different offers. Only introduce other offers once you are sure that they have heard enough about the original offer to be able to make up their minds on whether or not to join/buy.

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