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How the Mighty Have Fallen

Robert Dean spent the better part of 8 years in one MLM company and became an "industry legend." I don't mean to understate his success, he made several million and recruited a very large organization. He branded and marketed his T.O.P.G.U.N. Team so that he was selling motivational training materials not only to his own downlines but to MLM'ers outside his company. Dude was bankable.

Then in 2008 or 2009 he left the company he had such success with and moved as many of his followers and fans to another MLM company. Memory fades with time but I recall one of his boasts was that the group he brought into the new company were responsible for $70K in product sales in their first 24 hours. Numbers like that get noticed in the industry.

Since 2009 Robert L. Dean, Jr. has jumped from one company to another like a drunken sailor in a whore house. I'm not his personal biographer but credible sources place the total number of MLM companies he's repped for between 12 and 14. Compare that to one company from about 2001 to 2009.

MLM companies will pay for field leaders. The deals are almost always cut in private and they are not always all that ethical. Paying cash to make someone jump and more cash for the number of people they can bring with them is sorta industry standard. But sometimes other inducements are offered, advantages and preferential treatment which put the rest of the affiliate force at a (further) disadvantage. It is impossible to know the terms of the deal that brought Robert Dean to Kannaway. We do know some sort of new "training center" is being opened for Kannaway reps in Robert's home city. These training will almost certanly not be free.

When Robert jumped from his first company to his second in 2009 he made a very big splash. Each and every jump after that one has been a bit smaller. Lets assume Kannaway is only his 11th new company since 2009, not only is his following smaller, but the profile of the companies he's getting bought by is declining as well. His (current) last company was TalkFusion, their primary product is video emails. That might have been worth something before everyone in the world could imbed a YouTube vid in an email and most of TalkFusion's affiliate growth is not in the USA, Canada or Europe. Folks, TalkFusion is a piss poor pathetic company but last April, Robert took their money and told as many people as would listen to him that TalkFusion is the next big thing. Today, Robert is taking Kannaway's money and telling people it is the next big thing. 8 months from now we can see what will become Roberts next big thing.

Oh, and for no fewer than the second time Kannaway is getting kicked to the curb by their merchant processing. ADP TotalPay is cutting them off and it isn't a "mutual agreement." I've seen enough videos like that before to read between the lines and despite what Jeff Rodgers claims, ADP (and the issuing bank) has not decided not to "support our industry" which would imply not doing business with MLMs, Kannaway's issuing bank is cutting ties with Kannaway in particular. The number one way to lose merchant processing is chargebacks, MLMs (young ones in particular) are considered high risk to begin with and if chargebacks get over 1 or 2% it's time to look offshore for debit and credit services. But hey, that let's Jeff pretend this is all part on their plans for international expansion.