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Original date:
Thursday February 2, 2006

 

Update: Magnificient Money, Sean Gum & Ronald Curtis, Jr

Taken from my Blog, Working at Home on the Internet

After posting about my experience with the Magnificient Money Affiliate Program the other day, I was inundated with E-mails. It seems that not everyone had the same good experience with Sean Gum and Ronald Curtis Jr.

I started by responding to the E-mails personally, then I realized that the problem was much bigger than I originally thought.

For those of you that Sean and Ronald still owe money, I am going to provide what information I have. I don’t know if it is still good contact info now or not, but here it is:

Magnificient Enterprises Inc., 2637 111th Ave., Allegan, MI 49010 USA

Phone: (269) 978-2716

E-mail: sean@magmoney.com (mail return or refusing to answer)

The programs that I know of are: magmoney.com, ulosefast.com, fortunedreams.com, mailorderwork.com

I will not vouch for the validity of this, but it seems Sean has started a new company.
http://www.millionairestudyguide.com/

There may be a way to contact either Sean Gum or Ronald Curtis Jr at that site.

Maybe I was just lucky that no one ever signed up or purchased anything through my affilliate links, as it seems that people are still owed a LOT of money.

Original date:
Tuesday January 31, 2006

 

Magnificient Money Shutting Down

I received an E-mail yesterday morning from Sean Gum. Effective 2/1/2006 the Magnificient Money Affiliate Program is shutting down.

This probably doesn’t mean much to most of you, but it does to me for a couple of reasons.

1. Sean introduced me to Blogging.
When I first started looking for something to do in the field of Working at Home, Internet or otherwise, I came across the Magnificient Money Affiliate Program. It was not the first, but Sean took an active interest and had good contact information.

He sent me E-mails with suggestions on how to make money online. He suggested starting a blog on Blogspot.com. Of course, he wanted me to include my affiliate links for all the programs, which I did.

Another introduction was to PayPal, which in turn, gave me a way to get paid.

2. Sean gave me a list of places to submit the Blog for exposure.
I listed the ones I submitted to some time ago (here). He explained the importance of having my site listed with RSS feeds (also in that post). He always followed up with an E-mail to keep abreast of my progress and always had words of encouragement.

All of this was FREE.

He did suggest an automated program ($250) to have posts submitted everyday. Even though I declined that offer, telling him I would rather write my own posts, he continued to be supportive.

All of this sounds like the perfect business relationship for an MLM. And it is, if the product is something that will sell. The problem is, I got plenty of clicks, but no one signed up for the program (at least not from my links).

So, even though I had already made the decision to discontinue the relationship (not profitable), I Do Appreciate the fact that Sean Gum took an active interest. He gave me direction and a means to Working at Home on the Internet.

The unfortunate outcome, yet again for another Affiliate Program, is to close up shop. We seem to be seeing this all too often, something with good potential leaving the ranks of Internet Business.

This is the latest…
Although they say the problem should be fixed and you can publish, you get an error that tells you that your post has been saved, BUT… you have to come back in 10 minutes to Publish your post.

Saturday, February 04, 2006
As many people will have noticed, we’ve had significant hardware trouble over the past couple days. We have tried to keep all of you informed about the status of the service and our efforts to correct the problems. Unfortunately, today’s problems were widespread enough such that we were unable to provide ongoing updates. One of the things we’ll be doing in the short term is to come up with ways to prevent this.Eric details the chronology below. There is one residual issue related to the outage: some legacy users have domain associations between Blog*Spot and external domains. These associations are not functional at this time.In addition to working on this problem, we’ll also be making the necessary changes to guard against the outages we experienced over the past 48 hours. We will provide updates on our progress as changes are made. I sincerely apologize for the downtime - in the past six months I feel we’ve made significant strides to limit this type of failure. We obviously have more work to do and carrying it out will be our highest priority.
Posted by Jason at 23:12 PST
Blogspot is again experiencing problems - we are investigating.Update, 8PM: We have restored all of Blog*Spot, save one of our filers. This means that some blogs will still be unpublishable and inaccessible. Our engineers are continuing to work on this problem.Update, 11PM: Blog*Spot servers are restarting now and connecting with the filer. All blogs should be publishable and accessible within the next 20–30 minutes.[So how has everyone else’s weekend been? —Pete]
Posted by Eric at 16:04 PST