I was a member of Teamwork Revolution during the first few months of their beginning. It was basically a spin off of Revolutionary Matrix by a former successful GDI Marketer named James Al-Oboudi.
As far as I can see, initially James Al-Oboudi and some others started Revolutionary Matrix. For what ever reason James Al-Oboudi decided to part ways with Revolutionary Matrix and start his own little program (teamworkrevolution.com) which is still in business almost 1 year later.
In the beginning there was quite a lot of bad blood and a smear campaign against James Al-Oboudi. In my opinion he was innocent of all the false accusations and he presented a very strong and convincing case proving this. He was always professional and didn’t resort to foul language or sabotage or any sort of revenge which gave me more reason to believe he was an innocent victim of the attacks.
All in all it seemed some people were unhappy to see James go, as in reality it meant he took a lot of customers/affiliates with him and thereby a lot of money too.
So back to Teamwork Revolution. This program was almost identical to it’s counterpart Revolutionary Matrix in that it is a $10 per month forced 5×6 matrix mainly designed to compete head to head with Global Domains International Inc.
In doing so they have done a pretty good job, in my opinion, as both these programs offer a lot of advantages over GDI. However Teamwork Revolution DO have the advantage over Revolutionary Matrix because Teamwork Revolution offer a commission of $2 per person for the first 5 recruits allowing members to break even at 5, whereas Revolutionary Matrix offer $1 making it necessary to have 10 recruits to break even.
Their products are essentially the same ie web hosting with standard cPanel interface and MySQL, PHP etc. However most people know the same product is easily available for half or less the price than what they are offering it for. In reality, no one joins these schemes because they want the product, only a fool would do so. I personally have webhosting that is just as good, if not better, for less than half the price. Further, when I was with Teamwork Revolution they changed servers which interrupted my service and in my experience this seems to be a regular thing with these web hosting matrices. So anyone who genuinely wants web hosting will probably find it a bit troublesome to use.
Teamwork Revolution always paid me what they owed me so I have no complaints about that. I wouldn’t say Teamwork Revolution is a scam by any means, however I do take issue with the image that James Al-Oboudi is trying to paint for himself and his company.
When Teamwork Revolution first started it had a very nice feature whereby if someone randomly came to the TWR home page as the result of the owner James’ advertising efforts, those signups would end up randomly going under one of the members in the matrix, regardless if they were at the top or at the bottom, regardless of whether they had just joined minutes ago or joined months ago. This “lottery” was a nice feature and gave an equal chance to everyone regardless of their position.
However, a month or so later I noticed my signup page hits had significantly decreased. So I checked the home page and noticed the signups were no longer random but were going to one person specifically until someone had signed up at which point it would move on to the next person. I noticed the names of these people were the admins and people who were at the top of the matrix, not the “little guys”. I sent a private message to James about it and he said he didn’t know about that stuff as that was the technical side of things and I should contact the appropriate person. I ended speaking to someone named Cheryl. She told me this “new placement” method was better than the old one. Of course I dis-agreed as it didn’t benefit the “little guy” (a phrase that TWR loved to use – they claim to be all about the “little guy”). So needless to say I was annoyed when they changed their program in such a way that DIRECTLY did NOT benefit the little guy but benefited the company and the big guys at the top. When I didn’t agree with Cheryl she got angry and even insulting. In my experience people who try to hide a lie end up reacting like this. She was very condescending and patronizing and told me that I have no idea what I am talking about as I don’t have access to the traffic logs and I have no idea how the random sign ups are being allocated. However she was wrong. I watched where the random signups went over a 2 week period and those sign ups went to the members of the admin and other people who were at the top of the matrix. NONE of the little guys were getting those random signups anymore.
The reason for this was that the company makes less money if the signups are placed under people far down the matrix. It’s more profitable for a company to have a member high up within the first 6 layers. I won’t spend the time explaining that here, but it’s simple mathematics.
Now this isn’t to say it was impossible for someone to get a random signup. People were indeed still getting random signups, however only those people at or close to the top of the matrix were getting them. The “little guys” down at the bottom, under this new scheme, wouldn’t likely see any random signup for years to come. The old way was better for the little guy and more fair and that is a FACT. TWR would never admit to this of course as it goes against their “we are there for the little guy” motto, which I no longer buy into.
However, despite all this, when analyzing things from a purely business point of view TWR still have the edge over others. If I were to join a $10 per month webhosting matrix this would be the one as it has the best commission structure thus far. I’m sure it won’t be long before someone catches on and starts their own matrix slightly better and the cycle of jumping from one program to another continues. But until then feel free to try your luck at this. My prediction is your success will be short lived just as mine was with this and every other monthly payment program.
In defense of TWR they did make another move which did indeed directly benefit the members and as a result cost them money. Initially they were paying out $2 per member for the 6th level. After a few months James suggested changing the $2 payout to the 4th level instead. What this meant was the maximum monthly payout per position would be less, but everyone in this business knows it’s next to impossible to fill a matrix and make it to the 6th level. Therefore changing the $2 higher payout amount to the 4th level instead is a much more realistic goal but also costs the company more money as most companies put the higher payout at the bottom level knowing fine and well no one will ever reach it.
So in reality TWR confuses me. I initially bought into the “little guy” promise and even saw the above move as one that supported their motto. But then they go and directly take something away from the little guy ie the random signup system, and when questioned about it get angry and defensive and in my opinion lie and try to cover it up. So in the end I have no idea what to think. Perhaps James Al-Oboudi really is who he says he is and his co-workers/partners pull the wool over his face sometimes. Perhaps James is genuinely trying his best to do all he can for the little guy but his greedy business partners make adjustments to increase profits while keeping James in the dark. Who knows and who cares? I don’t.
As for me, I will stick with Work for $3. It has consistently paid me every month since starting and I am guaranteed to never lose any money ever as it is a one-time payment program. With Teamwork Revolution I made money in the beginning but then everyone dropped out because they expected instant riches and results. This is what most people expect and this is why these schemes don’t work. Recruiting people isn’t that hard, KEEPING them is the challenge. If you can’t keep them you are doomed to fail. With Work for $3 this isn’t a problem as it’s only a 1 time payment and therefore no one ever drops out, as there is no need to.
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