VmDirect Affiliate

VMdirect provides Video email services and associated products like ''live broadcast'', ''video chat'' and ''video blogging'' and other services to consumers and business customers. As an Independent Affiliate you are generally free to operate your business as you see fit but it is to a mutual advantage if you accord to the highest standards of integrity and fair practice in your role as a VMdirect Affiliate.

The possibilities

Helloworld is an good Video media service if you are just a customer. If you sign up for Vmdirect, I would recommend signing up for the basic starter pack which is retail customer only commission pack.. Then while others are trying to sign on other affilaites you can sneak under the radar and start snatching up retail customers.  In my dissapointment with the 3x8 matrix portion of the business I neglected to give the retail portion an honest effort.  So, instead of retail customer just being 30% of my focus I could have put 100% of my focus into it.  Who knows what could have happened.  I don't know too much about the competition but I would have researched that first to see if helloworld would have been worth selling all by itself.

The VmDirect Positive

  Before I say goodbye, I will give Vmdirect a little bit of credit for their affiliate login site. I thought their layout was decent. They have a nice point and click interface to view  your affiliate downline and retail customer info. A good up to date info page on Vmdirect along with affiliate videos discussing the business and they have a decent tutorial learning center to learn how to use their products and market your business.  They appear to have worked very hard on their affiliate Video Media Site. I guess to keep you interested I suppose.

  Now, with that being said it bafffles me completely to why they chose to use a "pyramid scheme" type of marketing for their product. They should have just stuck with retail customer commissions. Perhaps raised the payout to 30%. or you would just make commisions off your personally enrolled affiliates only. That way there would be no pyramid scheme involved whatsoever. Perhaps, someday we'll find out the reason for it. I could only assume that they want to beat out other  "Video media" start-ups to the door. I believe AOL, MSN, Google and Yahoo and many others have this type of media but it's still somewhat in it's infancy. Perhaps, these companies have better products or will soon surpass Vmdirect in media quality and they knew they just couldn't compete down the road. I don't know. It's all very sad, nonetheless.

So there you have it.  Buyer Beware. Don't say I didn't warn you.