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Carbon Copy Pro Scam – The Dirty Truth Revealed

Carbon Copy PRO is a new automated turn-key marketing system founded by Jay Kubassek, a successful network marketing entrepreneur. It provides an absolute solution for promoting business opportunities with a leading direct sales company. Since its release in October 2007, the company sales increased 350%.

This revolutionary marketing system eliminated all the difficulties that distributors could have been through when promoting their business opportunities. In traditional direct sales systems or MLM (Multi-Level-Marketing), recruiting down lines and convincing people to buy their useless products are what stopping people from succeeding.

With the traditional network marketing system, you have to acquire the ability to convince people to join your business to be successful, which means only 1 out of 10 MLM distributors will make it to the top, simply because they are more talkative or clever than the others.

For example, in traditional network marketing system, you have to personally call your leads or prospects to close the sale, but in Carbon Copy Pro, they hire experts to call your leads for you. Carbon Copy Pro simply eliminated all the human variables that could happen in this direct sales business.

How Does Carbon Copy Pro Work?

1. When visitors see your capture page, they will be attracted to the incentives of making money from a legitimate home business. The prospects will simply submit their name and email address, and find out what this business is; they become “leads.”

2. Your prospects will then watch a video that motivates them and read through all the testimonials and have a general idea of what it is (but they still don’t know what the real business is). In the next page, they will watch another video about why they should join us. If they are interested, they may submit their application with $49 application fee so they can find out what the real business is. This is a fee to eliminate all the tire-kickers or Curious George who are not serious about building a business. You will make $30 commission from this $49 application fee to lower your advertising cost. The whole process is called “funded proposal.”

3. When a lead applies to join Carbon Copy PRO, within one business day, the Carbon Copy Pro call center will phone this applicant, and make sure he or she has gained access to all the information. This applicant will also be scheduled to talk to one of the Millionaire Mastermind Group (MMG) members. You basically don’t have to do anything.

4. If the leads did not apply to become a member, they will still receive follow-up emails from your auto-responder to inform them about this business opportunity. They may find it interested and submit their applications later. All the emails are professionally written for you by our Carbon Copy Pro experts.

5. This system is probably the most powerful leads generator and has the highest conversion rate.

It is NOT a scam

1. The company has a clean record with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

2. The company has never been investigated or sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

3. No actions by a State Attorney General has ever been taken against the company, nor are there any pending investigations.

4. The company has is a United States of America Corporation based in Texas. It’s not some fly-by-night, off-shore sham.

5. The company is a member in good standing of the Direct Sales Association, the leading trade organization for direct sales companies.

6. Industry leaders such as Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring and MLM Traffic Formula fame and Jeffrey Combs of Golden Mastermind Seminars are associated with the company

Mike Dillard’s Testimonial

“I’ve never seen another business where someone can plug-in to a simple marketing system and generate a full time income within their first 30 to 60 days.”

“This is the only business model I can whole-heartedly recommend to anyone who wants to earn a significant income from home.”

Bullworker The German Secret Weapon To Build Muscle Mass

Old Style Muscle Building

Back in the late 1960’s a German named Gert F Koelbel, invented an exercise device called the Tensolator which later on was renamed the Bullworker. This device was based on using the principles of Isometrics or Static Contraction.

Bullworker sales took off like a turbo charged skyrocket, reaching sales of 4 million by the middle of the 1980’s.

What’s remarkable about this is that they never used T.V. advertising. The Bullworker was mostly sold from ads in comic books, some wrestling and bodybuilding magazines.

The Greatest

Even the “Greatest” Muhammad Ali used the exerciser and became one of their spokes model. Our current Governor of California Arnold “The Terminator” Schwarzenegger also used and modeled for the Bullworker. As well as Bruce Lee and a host of other celiberties of it’s day.

Olympic Hope

In addition the German Olympic Power Lifting team of that time trained with the Bullworker and some feel that the incredible results and medals they achieved was mostly due to their Bullworker training. But, The most visible proponent of the Bullworker was actually Bruce Lee who at that time was a weight-training fanatic, until he injured his body doing an exercise called “Good Mornings.”

Warning Will Robinson

If you don’t know what a “good morning” is, let me describe the movement. Take a barbell and place it behind your neck and then bend forward from the waist to till your head is at approximately waist high.

Today no one should do that exercise since it has been recognized as a very dangerous exercise. So, why haven’t you heard of this muscle building miracle?

Steroids And Isometrics

Well, even thou Bob Hoffman and many of the U.S. Olympic Power lifting were using the principles of Isometrics and achieved many wins. Isometrics fell into disfavor. This is fairly common in the fitness community. It seems we’re always on to the next fad or novelty. Today Isometrics, which is one of the few training methods that actually was backed by science (Muller, Hettinger Isometric Studies) has made a resurgence and so has the Bullworker.

Better Than Ever

Since the patent for the product ran out years ago and a resurgence perhaps due to baby boomers a new “hybrid” Bullworker has recently emerged. It’s called the Bully Xtreme Home Gym and it offers all the features of the old Bullworkers and then some.

Of course there has been much more learned regarding the proper way to build muscle mass, so their training program has been totally redesigned, including adding the knowledge and expertise of an NPC Nationals Champion and NPC Judge.

Because over 29 different exercises can be done in a seated position this has made the Bully Xtreme a very popular home gym for people that are incapable due to injury, disability or distance to finally get a an incredible muscle building workout in their home. In fact anyone any age can use this portable home gym and besides it’s a piece of history.

Incredible as it seems this exerciser gets the job done

Electronic Cigarette Timeline

E-Cigarettes: A Brief Timeline

Electronic cigarettes are basically a new phenomenon in the United States, and a lot of people (including smokers) still have not heard about them. But they have been around for years in other parts of the world.

Here is a brief timeline of the electronic cigarette (e-cig for short):

2003 – Beijing based SBT Co. registered a patent for the first e-cig.

2004 – Ruyan, another Beijing company, is now the head; they merged with SBT Co to become SBT Ruyan Technology & Development Co.

oMay 2004: Ruyan sells its first cigarette in China; sales for 2004 total 1.7 million US dollars.

2005 – Sales reach 17 million US dollars

2006 – Sales reach 37 million US dollars

oApril 2006: Ruyan introduces the e-cig in Europe

July 2009 – The FDA releases a warning against electronic cigarettes and states that they may be unfairly marketed to young people.

January 2010 – A federal judge stops the FDA from blocking e-cigs coming into the country from China.

February 2010 – FDA files an appeal of Judge Leon’s ruling.

March 2010 – US Court of Appeals overturns Judge Leon’s ruling, giving the FDA the power to ban e-cig imports.

I wanted to share this information because a lot of people might be interested in e-cigs, but dont want to try something completely new, fearing that it hasnt been properly tested or might be unsafe. But as you can see, the e-cig has been manufactured, tested, and distributed long before its arrival here in the United States.

Hope this helps any of you who are sitting on the fence wondering if you should give them a try.

POS system and its advantages and disadvantages

If you are considering starting a business – whether it be a small or big one – you may consider about getting a point of sale system or POS system for you to use.

What is a point of sale system anyway?

Well, apparently to make things easier and for you to not get too worked up in your business, systems have been devised and invented to do so. There are different kinds of point of sale systems that exists nowadays; it is pretty much useful when it comes to terms of inventory while some point of sale systems are useful when it comes to terms of salary.

As amazing as point of sale systems sounds and before you go rush to the store that sells one – you should at least consider a few things first before doing anything; like knowing the different advantages and disadvantages for example:

Advantages

The main or primary advantage of getting a point of sale system would be the fact that everything will surely be smooth and not to mention organized when it comes to your business.

There are systems of POS that can be used for inventory and you can be assured that everything from your stocks that have huge value or low value will surely be listed. Also, you won’t have a problem with salary or what is due to your employees, since POS systems have a version or kind of system that is dedicated to make things easier for you – the employer – in terms of payment.

Disadvantages

On the other hand, when it comes to disadvantages – the only thing that business owners can say about POS systems is that it needs to be maintained from time to time and not to mention updated, for that matter.

To add, the one who should operate the point of sale system should be one that has been trained to do so – imagine what would happen to it in the hands of someone who does not know what to do much less know what he is doing?

There are quite a lot of companies that offer point of sale systems – like the Fedelta Point of Sale systems for example. Why don’t you check out their website – fedeltapos.com – and weigh the advantages and disadvantages in getting a point of sale system for your business! I just hope whatever the decision is, it could greatly improve your business as a whole. Even more you will not regret about it.

Accounting Scenarios & Facts

To be considered –available,” property taxes must have been collected either during the government’s fiscal year or within sixty days of year-end.

For its fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, Twin City levied $500 million in property taxes. It collected taxes applicable to fiscal 2007 as follows (in millions):

June 1, 2006, through September 30, 2006 – $ 20

October 1, 2006, through September 30, 2007 – $440

October 1, 2007, through November 30, 2007 – $15

December 2007 – $4

The city estimates that $10 million of the outstanding balance will be uncollectible. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, how much should Twin City recognize in property tax revenue (in millions) in its general fund? $490

Assume the same facts as in the previous example. How much should Twin City recognize in property tax revenue (in millions) in its government-wide statement of activities? $490

Central City was awarded two state grants during its fiscal year ending September 30, 2007: a $2 million block grant that can be used to cover any operating expenses incurred during fiscal 2008, and a $1 million grant that can be used any time to acquire equipment for its police department. For the year ending September 30, 2007, Central City should recognize in grant revenue in its funds statements (in millions): $3

Assume the same facts as in the previous example. How much should the city recognize in grant revenue in its government-wide statements? $2

Assuming that a government will collect its sales taxes in sufficient time to satisfy the –available” criterion, it would ordinarily recognize revenue from sales taxes in its governmental fund statement on the date the merchant must remit the taxes to the government.

Assuming that a government will collect its sales taxes in sufficient time to satisfy the –available” criterion, it would ordinarily recognize revenue from sales taxes in its government-wide statements when the underlying sales transaction takes place.

Accounting Exercise

The recognition of revenue from fines does not necessarily reflect the amount –earned” by merely issuing tickets.

In August 2008, the last month of its fiscal year, Goldwaithe Township issued $88,000 worth of tickets for parking and traffic violations. Of these, the township collected $45,000. It expects to collect an additional $20,000 within sixty days of the close of the fiscal year and to collect $3,000 subsequent to that. It will have to write off the balance. The tickets are due; the protest period expires on September 15.

1. How much revenue should the township recognize from the tickets issued in August 2008?

Goldwaithe Township should recognize $65,000 in revenue from tickets issued in August. This accounts for the $45,000 collected nad the $20,000 expected to be collected within sixty days.

2. How might your answer change with respect to the township’s government-wide statements?

With respect to Goldwaithe Township’s government-wide statements, the township would recognize $68,000 is revenue from tickets issued.

For additional information about Arizona tax returns, contact the Phoenix CPA offices of Jacobsen & Wachterhauser, an Arizona accounting firm.