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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: accountclosed who wrote (54667)4/5/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Ah, yes -- that's a good one. Imagine how much smarter they must be today... John Stuart Mill, watch out! -mb



To: accountclosed who wrote (54667)4/5/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug  Respond to of 132070
 
this is how stoopit inut marketing is...

>>This is NOT A JOKE! Not April Fool's! Please read: it could
mean lots of money for all of us. My attitude here is that the
whole operation takes about 10 minutes...if it works, we all
make money...if it doesn't what have you lost? Go ahead
and take a few minutes to sign up and let everyone else
know about it.

This e-mail is about a new company that has a
completely mindblowing business model. A friend of mine
met with them a few weeks ago and signed a non disclosure
agreement after reading the company's business plan. They
are now launching their service tonight.

Without sounding corny or salesy, I want to encourage
everyone to
read this e-mail as soon as possible, because you can make
a lot of money and the earlier you sign up, the more you can
make. This is not a joke or a trick, it's not play money or
worthless stock. It's cash. The e-mail is long, because the
concept needs explaining, but once you read it, you'll be
stunned at how simple this is.

We've all witnessed how the Internet is changing the rules of
the
game. Well a bunch of Stanford Computer Science PhDs are
changing the way advertisers pay to reach consumers.
Throughout time, advertisers have paid anyone who can
aggregate a large quantity of people. TV Networks, Radio
Stations, Magazine and Newspaper publishers, whoever can
do it. The consumers, who advertisers are paying to reach,
never get a dime of that money. These guys are changing
that. They're essentially going to "unionize" consumers, so
that consumers get paid by the advertisers, not the
companies who aggregate those consumers. This idea is
so simple that it's crazy. But it will work and anyone can
sign up for free and make serious money. Please keep
reading. I know you think I've lost my mind, but keep reading.

This company is called AllAdvantage. Just go to
alladvantage.com Here's how it works. It's completely
free to participate. You don't have to buy anything, you don't
have to sell anything, you don't have to change your web
usage. If you go to their site and sign up, you'll have to enter
you name, address, and the member number of who referred
you. [That's me, Member ID# ARO-662]

You'll get your own Member ID number, and you'll soon be
sent a little file to download, which appears as a long thin
window that'll be open below your web browser. In this
window will be a standard online advertisement, a rectangular
banner like the one's you see on most web sites. You can
open it or close the window whenever you'd like, but for every
hour you have that window open, you'll get $0.50. Up to 40
hours a month, you could make $20 a month. Nice so far,
but that's just the beginning.

They are doing a pyramid payment plan to create a model
where everyone is getting everyone else to sign up.
Remember, it's completely
free to participate, and you can always choose whether or
not you want the window open. They'll pay you 10 cents for
every hour that a person you refer has this window open. For
anyone those people refer, you get a nickel for every hour.
For everyone they refer, you get a nickel also, and so on
for 4 levels. This will generate big money for people who get
in early.

AN EXAMPLE
Let's say everyone has 10 people who joined entering their
Member ID
number. And let's also say everyone has this window open
for 10 hours a month. You could easily make over $50,000 a
month! Here's how.
--You're on the web with this window open for 10 hours
a month. 50 cents an hour is $5.00
--The ten people who were referred by you have it open for
10 hours a month, that's 100 user-hours. 10 cents per hour is
$10.00
--Each of those 10 refer 10, that's 100 people, each on for
10 hours a month, that's 1000 user hours. 5 cents per hour
is $50.00
--Each of those 100 refer 10, that's 1000 people, each on
for 10 hours a month, that's 10,000 user hours. 5 cents per
hour is $500.00
--Each of those 1000 refer 10, that's 10,000 people, each
on for 10
hours a month, that's 100,000 user hours. 5 cents per hour
is $5,000.00
--Each of those 10,000 refer 10, that's 100,000 people,
each on for 10 hours a month, that's 1,000,000 user hours. 5
cents per hour is $50,000.00
That's it. $55,565.00 per month. Just for getting 10 people
to
sign up and put your number in as who referred them. And if
you get more people, you make more money. There's no
limit. They're counting on the fact that you'll get tons of
people. There are over 50 million internet users, and many
have multiple PCs. People who get in early, could literally
retire.

WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS?
You're probably thinking that they'll have to pay out hundreds
of
millions of dollars to people, and your right, they will have to
pay out
hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers. But don't look
at it from the macro level. Look at it from the micro level. It's
so simple. AllAdvantage is paying 80 cents for every hour a
user
has this window open. (50 cents to the user, 10 cent to
whoever referred them, 5 cents to the person who referred
them, 5 cents to the person who referred them, 5 cents to
the person who referred them, and 5 cents to the person
who referred them). Every 20 seconds, a different ad rotates
into the window, so 3 ads every minute, 180 ads every hour.
If they can sell the 180 ads for more than 80 cents they're
instantly profitable, and they'll be able to sell the ads for
more. That's it. That's the whole thing. If they sell $10 million
in advertising, they'll distribute $9 million or so to the users,
and keep the rest. Everyone wins.

Companies who rely on advertising spend a lot of money to
attract an
audience, and build and staff a product. AllAdvantage is just
going to pay you as a valuable consumer and reward you for
attracting an audience. A TV Network might put 90% of
their ad revenue into programming and operations, and keep
10% as profits. This company will give 90% of their ad
revenue to people who use them, and keep 10% for
themselves. I told you it was simple.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?
Why not? It's completely free, and you can make a lot of
money, finally
getting paid for advertisers to reach you. It doesn't effect or
interrupt
your time on the web, you still spend the same time surfing
as you always have, the same way you always have, the
same sites you always have. The only difference is that you
can have this window open below your web browser if you
want to, and you'll get paid for it. And if you tell a lot of
people who also sign up, you'll get paid even more.

THE SOONER THE BETTER
No matter when you sign up for this, you'll make some extra
money. But the people who sign up earliest, will make loads
of money. People are probably going to get very creative
about how to tell as many people as quickly as possible.
Some people may rent out e-mail lists and send it out to
thousands of people at a time, or mention it in chat rooms or
user groups. Others are spreading the word on college
campuses and internationally. Who knows?
The more you sign up the more you make, and the more
they make.

IS THIS A PYRAMID SCEME?
It's really not. It's kind of built on a similar premise, but it's
totally free. There's no scheme! You don't pay anything or
sell anything or spend your time any differently. In a pyramid
scheme the last people in, lose. With this, the last person in
still gets cash every month. Just not as much as the people
who get in early. Just sign up, tell friends, and keep the
window open if you want to. Advertisers will pay money to
be in that window, and you'll get a very nice share of that
money. You may have seen similar ideas where companies
are giving away stock, or other things. This is different.. It's
real.

OK, the race is on. My Member ID number is ARO-662
Please go to
alladvantage.com and sign up using my member ID
number. [ARO-662] You'll be issued your own user number. Then cut
and paste this email, changing the URL and the member ID
number to your user number, and e-mail it to as many people
as you can think of. Or mention this when you're talking to
friends, or in a chat room, or where ever! The more people
who sign up, the more advertising revenue AllAdvantage
generates, and the more we all get paid. Don't ignore this
because it's "too simple" or "too good to be true". If you
have any questions, please just go to the site and check it
out. It's self explanatory.

So go ahead...check it out...SIGN UP!!! What have you got
to lose?!!!! Let's all get rich!<<