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- MULTILEVEL MARKETING NETWORK SIMULATOR v2.00--06/91
- Copyright 1990, 1991 by Lynn R. Vandermeulen
- All Rights Reserved
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- KEYWORDS/CATEGORIES/REGISTRATION
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- MLM MULTI MARKET BUSINESS INCOME COMMISSION SALES ASP SHAREWARE
- Categories: Business, Marketing, Work at Home.
- Registration US $39, International $40.
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- PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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- Examines and compares MLMs for income potential.
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- A no holds barred look at MLM. Demonstrates through simulation
- how downlines can grow to yield a 6 figure income in a hostile,
- competitive environment. Users input details of marketing plan,
- product acceptance, promotional budgets & strategies. Program
- projects downlines, costs, commissions, purchases, cash status
- monthly for each individual member. Warns of unprofitable
- situations. DOS 640k, color or mono, any disk drive, printer.
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- USER SUPPORT
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- Support by: Mail, CompuServe, 24 hour telephone message line.
- User receives current disk, printed manual and technical support;
- May contribute material for possible inclusion in a subsequent
- release. Registered user's next version upgrade comes at no
- additional charge.
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- PRODUCT HISTORY
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- MULTILEVEL MARKETING NETWORK SIMULATOR (MLSIM) was born of an effort
- to understand how to distinguish good marketing plans from bad ones.
- By applying the author's observations of costs, commissions, and
- downline reports from several MLM companies over a five year period,
- it is possible to estimate how certain key elements might affect
- overall profitability and reward for participants. A number of
- studies, first programmed in 1987 on a Radio Shack MC-10,
- were combined and adapted to take advantage of the IBM PC's power
- and capacity. Releases to date are summarized below. We welcome
- user suggestions on future development of this product.
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- Version Date Comments
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- 1.0 04/90 For review purposes only--not widely distributed.
- 1.1 05/90 Initial Shareware distribution.
- 2.00 06/91 Major upgrade in response to user comments. Expanded
- coverage of breakaway plans. Features user suggested
- marketing plan with exceptional potential. Improved
- displays.
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- AUTHOR INFORMATION
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- Author Lynn Vandermeulen holds degrees in engineering and computer
- science from Yale and Hofstra Universities. In 1969 He left the
- defense industry to help found a service bureau providing computer
- services to small business. In 1983 he was attracted to a heavily
- promoted MLM program offering a wide variety of consumer products
- and billed to be the kind of opportunity that "occurs only once
- in history". While his performance placed him consistently in the
- top 1% of the distributors, he found that not only he, but even the
- top distributor in the company, were making very little money.
- A lesser effort in another MLM venture soon started producing better
- results. Applying his skills as a freelance programmer he set out
- on a series of computer studies which culminated in the early
- versions of this program.
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- Shareware Product: MULTILEVEL MARKETING NETWORK SIMULATOR (MLSIM)
- Contact: LRV Company, PO Box 631, Nesconset NY 11767 USA
- CompuServe Mail: 76615,600 L. Vandermeulen (INSITES)
- Telephone Message Line: 516 360 9178
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- ASP SERVICES
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- L. Vandermeulen, author of this program, is a member of the
- Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure
- that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to
- resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting
- the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
- help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not
- provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the
- ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon MI 49442-9427, or send a
- message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
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- their address. ASP members are required to report address changes to
- the Executive Director of ASP. Questions about an author's address
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