The “Google of Shopping”?
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CUSTOMER & REP NUMBERS
WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY TO SEE A PRICETAG?
DUBLI'S COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
CORPORATE INFO
PRESS
WEB TRAFFIC
NEW NETWORKING HYBRID MODEL
LEGAL
WHAT'S THE RISK?
DubLi is a privately-held company, so any data they share is voluntary. Furthermore, releasing data may only harm their growth, by alerting competition to their success.
CUSTOMER & REP NUMBERS
Below we have included documented data from active DubLi websites, with links, which provide the EU customer count and then we project the USA numbers. Of course, if DubLi put up fraudulent info and it was discovered, they'd be liable and worse, their company would fail as people found out they couldn't trust the people running the company. Plus, their contracts with major name-brand companies, such as Yahoo, Apple, Sony, etc., most likely depend upon accurate reporting of customer traffic. So for several reasons, we're confident in the numbers being posted.
- EU Customer Count: At the company's site, Official Customer Count, originally posted on Oct. 19, 2008, you can see "In Europe, the customer base to associate base is 85 to 1." Also, at http://www.dublinetwork.com/1-22/e-conomy_booming, just posted April 1, 2009, the second-to-last paragraph says, "DubLi.com’s select test market in Europe saw 2.3 million customers come in just eight months."
- EU Rep Count: Without much effort, you can then figure out there are about 27,000 reps in Europe (2.3 mil. divided by 85). The company announced way back on Oct. 17, 2007, that they had surpassed 10,000 reps, so to triple that to nearly 30,000 18 months later is very likely.
- USA Rep Count: Slides from Tom Ashlock's back office, of which I have screen shots, from June 2008 to March 2009, show growth to approx. 4000 reps. Tom had anywhere from 80 to 90% of the whole country under him, so our current count should be a little over 5000 here in April. With compounding and a little experience watching networking companies grow, we expect that to number in the tens of thousands by year's end.
- USA Customer Count: 0! Well, we have a little trickle, maybe tens of thousands, but in May 2009 we begin flooding the market with credits to attract customers.
WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY TO SEE A PRICETAG?
- Do you use a Shopping Search Engine? If so:
- Find your lowest price.
- Did you save $10 to $20?
- Is the item offered in a Dubli auction?
- Is it worth 80cents (80cents for a DubLi credit) to see if you can save another 20%, 30% or more?
- Costco: Started in 1983; by the end of 1989, its sixth year: “Costco became the first company ever to grow from zero to $3 billion in sales in less than six years.” Today, CostCo has: 50+ Million customers, $64 Billion total sales annually. “$50 annual membership fee includes one household card”: $50 x 50 million customers = $2.5 billion, before anyone buys anything in the store!
- Find anything you can buy online, faster
- Fun, entertaining shopping
- 50% to 100% off potentially savings on new items!
- Free credits for referrals!
CORPORATE INFO
- Revenue: No data is available.
- Financial backing: Active Capital Partner Ltd. (Financing)
- Business Registration: DubLi.com LLC (Holding), 702 West Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, Registration no.: 4153725
- MarketWatch.com: "MediaNet Group Technologies, Inc., operating the largest online mall and affinity program platform through its BSP Rewards subsidiary, today announced that it has further expanded its client base with the implementation of a new partnership with DubLi, an international e-Commerce auction site and direct sales marketer."
- JordinSparkesCharities.com: DubLi.com partnered with Jordin Sparks, winner of the American Idol competition at 17, for DubLi’s first every charity auction in December of 2008. The Unique bid auction ran from December 1st to December 26th. Over 2,000 customers participated; netting $2,000.00. DubLi contributed 100% of the credits spent, 100% of the proceeds, and added an additional $3,000 to create a donation of $5,000.00 to Spark’s Charities. The check was given to Jordin Sparks by CEO Michael Hansen in Phoenix, Arizona in January of 2009." http://www.dublinetwork.com/1-18/news
- DubLi Inside Magazine (pdf)
You won't find any reliable traffic data from Alexa.com, since most people are visiting rep websites, not the actual www.dubli.com site, and Alexa can't add up total traffic to affiliate sites (we checked this before we joined DubLi). Even so, the Alexa traffic numbers for DubLi are growing rapidly, up 21% in the first quarter of 2009.
NEW NETWORKING HYBRID MODEL
- No Weekly Hotel Meetings
- No monthly orders or autoships
- No monthly quotas
- No other expenses, fees, charges
- Independent Attorney's Opinion On DubLi and Gaming Laws (pdf)
- Response-to-Negative-Press (pdf)
A pragmatic approach to consider your risk: if you spend $800 (or $3200 if you're bold) to join DubLi, what do you get for your money? For $800, you get 800 credits, which can be used to shop and get many things of value. If you don't like the business, simply use your credits and you may break even or come out ahead, but you're really not exposing yourself to anywhere near 100% loss.
The DubLi North America Leadership Team
Dean Mannheimer, Phoenix, AZ, DubLi USA Vice President and Master Franchiser, first DubLi USA Rep. “In 28 plus years of being in the direct selling/Network Marketing system this is the first new business model we have seen. To find a model that is consumer-driven, not associate-driven, is a first. To be in a business that can generate true residual income because it actually has a retail customer component is what we have looked for our entire career. Plus, the ability to earn as much money as we have in as short a time as we have been with DubLi, dwarfing anything we have earned in the past, is remarkable. The even better news is we have just started to build the consumer base, which is where the large income stream will come from on a residual basis. DubLi is a company for the New World that is now taking shape.”
Tom Ashlock, MD, Portland, OR, Founder/President of Lariat Software, started with DubLi towards the end of June, 2008, became a DubLi USA Vice President March, 2009. He owns a software company that does back office software for marketing companies, which is how he found out about DubLi. He signed in through DubLi Europe, since DubLi USA didn't launch until Oct. 4. He said, "We've done software for a lot of MLM companies, and unfortunately, we've done software for companies that have been shut down," leading to his point that he has a very good basis to know in the MLM world what will last and what won't. He also said that because of his software business, he knows what the revenues are of most MLM companies. He said he's "never seen a ratio in network marketing anywhere close to DubLi's 85 to 1 customer-to-distributor ratio." (That ratio is for Europe - the US is too new to have in place a customer base like that, but give it a few more months ...)
Brad Doyle, Las Vegas, NV, CEO of Business Web Solutions, LLC (BWS), joined DubLi in Dec., 2008. The first major BWS project was the online version of Robert Kiyosaki's popular board game, Cash Flow 101. Since that time BWS has patented the most successful online game for business and sales organizations, PowerPlay Game, the patent pending iPresenter presentation software, and a web-based membership website with 3000 subscribers. BWS evolved naturally from the Technology Development Group (TDG), formed in March of 1994. Brad was the TDG co-chairman along with Amway COO Tom Eggleston, and with teams from both BWS and Amway Corporation they conceptualized and implemented the Quixtar business model. Brad is also the CEO of 212° Training, LLC, which serves as a consultant to the Direct Selling Industry. Clients include Amway/Quixtar, Univera Life Sciences, AIM International, L'Bri, Arbonne, Shaklee, Global Hot Buys!, Dale Carnegie Training, and Next Level Sales.
Jim Pare, Frederick, MD, became a DubLi Rep in Dec., 2008 and became a DubLi USA Vice President December, 2009. He has been in network marketing for 32 years and has developed worldwide marketing organizations of tens of thousands of associates and he has spent many years as a motivational speaker, teacher, trainer to audiences as large as 80,000. In less than 4 months, Jim had more than 1000 reps join his DubLi organization.
Jim McCarron, Frederick, MD, CEO of Atlantic Funding Corporation, joined DubLi in Dec., 2008 and became a DubLi USA Sales Director May, 2009. At the very early age of 18, Jim dove into the entrepreneurial role, starting McCarron Enterprises, Inc., which eventually grew to two restaurants with more than 60 employees and over $1 million in annual revenue. He later became Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the second largest home builder in the nation. Currently, Jim is CEO of three companies, Atlantic Funding Corporation (Commercial & Residential Lending), Advance Merchant Capital (Commercial Lending), and Legacy Properties (Real Estate Investment & Management).
Alan Breen, Austin, TX, joined DubLi in Jan, 2009 and became a DubLi USA Sales Director in July, 2010. Alan is a graduate of Presbyterian College with a degree in Business Administration and Economics, where he attended on a football scholarship and lettered 4 years. He is also a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Civil Engineering. Alan was owner of Breen Construction Company in Atlanta, GA, for nearly 15 years before before moving into web design and Internet Marketing. He is co-founder and principal with www.findgreen411.com, an online B2B company in Austin, Texas. Alan first became acquainted with Direct Sales when he attended Dr. Charles King's Network Marketing University in the Fall of 1996 at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He spent nearly 8 years with NSE full time before moving into Web Design and Search Engine Optimization. The significance, as well as the uniqueness of DubLi's business model has brought him back into the direct sales industry.