Government stealing more money from citizens (digital download sales tax)

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 30, 2009 · 3 Comments 

I am at a point where I feel that our government is stealing from the citizens. Taxes are out of control. Once upon a time, there were no taxes in the United States. Then little by little, the government started enacting tax laws. At first the taxes were just meant to pay for services that [...]

The secret to recruiting for ShopToEarn

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Recruiting for multi-level marketing companies has become a game of strategy. How many times have you been invited to hear about “an opportunity,” but the person inviting wouldn’t tell you the name of the company? We’ve all heard about this tactic… The recruiters don’t want anyone to “pre-judge” or show up with opinions before they’ve [...]

Oh the cruel, cruel internets!

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 21, 2009 · 4 Comments 

The world of mommy blogging is all aflutter. Bloggers have been criticized and those responsible for dishing out the criticism must be shamed or sued or both!!!
For those of you who aren’t hip to what mommy blogging is… it’s blogging done by moms. Lots of them are just using blogging as a creative outlet or [...]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates Intuit, Quicken, and Quickbooks

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 15, 2009 · 7 Comments 

A few months ago, I posted a rant here about my hate for everything Quickbooks and Intuit. The problem is, however, that a lot of people use it (so that means I have to use it in many of my investigations) and there aren’t many good alternatives.
Intuit immediately got their PR people on my situation, [...]

Medifast and Take Shape For Life: Weight loss pyramid scheme?

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 14, 2009 · 11 Comments 

Earlier this year, Barry Minkow and Fraud Discovery Institute railed on Medifast, a company with a weight-loss plan being marketed with a multi-level marketing plan. The company was built primarily through marketing of the weight loss program through physicians. The Medifast executives realized that the MLM structure was their golden opportunity.

September 11 Tribute: Karen Lynn Seymour Dietrich

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 10, 2009 · 2 Comments 

Eight years later, and the emotion of September 11 doesn’t go away. I remember how I felt that day. How friends and I leaned on each other as we tried to understand the terrible act that was carried out.

Mona Vie: Don’t use our name in your URL, unless you’re Wikipedia (and we’re doing the editing)

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 3, 2009 · 17 Comments 

Earlier this week I wrote about the MonaVie lawyers going after bloggers who do unflattering critiques of the company. Their premise was silly: You can’t use our name in a URL. Here’s exactly what they said in their threatening letter to blogger “Lazy Man”:

Here come the MonaVie lawyers…

Posted by Tracy Coenen on September 1, 2009 · 5 Comments 

When will companies learn? Trying to silence critics of them with bogus threats of legal action just isn’t effective. We have something called “freedom of speech” here which guarantees us the right to speak our minds, so long as we’re being truthful. Yet that doesn’t stop multi-level marketing companies from trying to bully their critics.