This call, presented by Presidential Leader Bud Massengale, dates from around the end of August, 2006. This is indicated by Massengale’s mention of the September 8th/9th launch being 37 days away.
In this “National Overview Call”, Massengale lists states that have added agents in the run up to launch, other than the usual states of Oregon and Washington.
Massengale states that this is the “opportunity of a lifetime” and that “TMII and MadeBig.com is gonna change the way we do business on the Internet.”
“Get to Salt Lake City,” (for the launch weekend at the Grand America Hotel), urges Bud.
Bud then claims that MadeBig is an “Internet company, not a company on the Internet” and also that it is a “major player”.
“None of these magazines say Madebig.com…..yet. But they will.” (Obviously they never did or would and the media were not even invited to the launch event in Salt Lake City which tells a story).
Bud waxes on about the Richi Roane myth, stating that “a bunch of us that have been around this a long time think Richi Roane is a genius.” (Obviously Bud Massengale is either easily impressed or doesn’t understand true genius. Roane’s record speaks for itself).
Massengale describes the process of testing software and websites, using the terms alpha testing and then beta testing more or less correctly. He again refers to Roane as a “genius”.
Bud offers the non-fact that 600 stores are listed in the MadeBig stores module and describes them as “major, major retailers.”
“They see what we’re getting ready to do and accomplish” (when in fact they had no idea and did not care because they were simply affiliate links anyone can add to any website).
Massengale describes the run up to launch as “like being in front of a tidal wave of success”.
Ron Sabin is invited to join the call and describes pre-launch as an “incredible journey.”
The number of 5,809 beta agents recruited to the date of the call is listed and the term “incredible opportunity” is used yet again.
Massengale takes over again and says “If people are halfway smart, if they have any kind of vision at all…” (they’ll grasp this opportunity. In fact the smart ones avoided it all together and lost nothing.)
Bud Massengale ends his pitch with an honest closing line.
“You don’t have to be an Einstein and I’m living proof of that.”
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