Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing

Always on the lookout for inspiration and opportunity, I stopped by the magazine/book rack at Staples and this one caught my eye. One headline read “How to Make Money By Saving Money”, this was one of the selling points for me and after checking that the others didn’t look more impressive, I purchased it.

I was excited to begin reading, the feature stories looked very interesting and I was hungry for money making ideas. When I finally got to sit down with the magazine my excitement turned to disappointment when I realized the entire magazine was a come on for Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (FHTM), a network marketing company. I flipped through the entire magazine full of success stories, a little bit of product information and from what I could tell, no contact information or website. I thought at least if I could find a website, I could by-pass all the fluff, find out what this is all about and make a decision on whether this was worth while to persue.

I have to admit the health products and organic shampoo intrigued me. That, combined with the tech products, conflict me. And the fact that I couldn’t easily find contact info ticked me off. Oh, and that blurb on the front cover, “How to Make Money By Saving Money”, I can’t comment on it because I found nothing in the magazine that referred to it. Now maybe if I read this thing front to back I would feel differently but so far reading any further feels like a chore rather than an exciting peek into what might be a very good opportunity.

I popped in the “free dvd” hoping to get more information. In hind-sight I would hardly call it free since I paid $5.95 for what I am now considering a sales pitch of some sort.
One of the first things I heard was that the “sole purpose” of this company is to help people. The bottom line is not determined by how much money it makes but by how many lives it impacts. That sounds really good but is hard for me to believe. They don’t want to make a lot of money but they want others to. Again, the dvd, is loaded with success stories but I still don’t know exactly what’s involved.

Has anyone heard of or dealt with this company? Any comments? Can anybody answer for me: how does it work?