Rapper Redman's involvement in ACN

We all know that Donald Trump's involvement in ACN is the reps' favorite argument in order to showcase the legitimacy of ACN. As I explained in another post, this is nothing other than a paid endorsement. I was contacted about a month ago by someone claiming the rapper Redman "joined" ACN and is now involved in the business too. At first I thought this was hard to believe and the only evidence available were a couple pictures of himself with some successful ACN reps.

Fast forward to last week-end and it was ACN's San Jose training event taking place. I got tweeted a video showing Redman doing some sort of motivational speech in front of the whole crowd and now I have no other choice but to realize he is indeed involved in this company. Here is the short video (the sound quality is low) :

To me it still looks like an endorsement. If you look at his Facebook and Twitter pages, there are no mentions whatsoever of ACN or any sort of opportunity. Why's that? When people are involved in ACN, the first thing you will see them do is promote the business to their friends and family through social media. I think the simple answer is that, since it's an endorsement, Redman will do everything he can to hype the crowd, as he would at a rap concert, but outside those walls he's not involved at all in the business and has no reason to share it with his fans and people following him.

As an example of why having big names is important to ACN, here is a Facebook post from a rep using this as a way to prove the legitimacy of his "business". This is how these endorsements are used and why you shouldn't always believe what you might be told.

Donald Trump for president!

Today, June 16th 2015, Donald J. Trumps has officially announced that he is running for president in the 2016 United States elections as a Republican candidate. Now I'm not here to tell whether he'll succeed or fail, but I can already predict one thing : the ACN fanboys will be (and probably are) all over this news.

I wish the best of luck to Mr. Trump, but let's not forget one thing : he is a businessman, not an ACN representative or even executive. He is a paid endorsement by ACN, a poster boy like Michael Jordan was for Nike. The exception is, Jordan actually used the product, Trump is not. But he showcased ACN's video phone on his Celebrity Apprentice show! Well sure he did, because he received a very good amount of money to do so. It's called product placement. In the event that Mr. Trump becomes president (let's be honest...), I am eager to see what will happen between him and the company; will they continue doing business together, or will he cut the ties?

To be continued..

ACN Europe Team Trainer fee

So it seems that ACN Europe dropped the Team Trainer fee (the initial sign up fee) to £48. It is unclear at the moment if this is a temporary or permanent change to ACN Europe's program, and also if it is going to spread to other countries. At the moment, ACN Canada, U.S., Australia and New Zealand still all have prices ranging between $400-$550.

If you know anything about this, feel free to let us know. In the meantime, we're looking into this and have updated the website with the appropriate notice. We'll make sure to do an update once we know more.

This is a good step taken towards making ACN a more respectable company but I think they are only doing this in order to reach more people because they've ran out of potential reps willing to pay $500. If they want to keep the cash flowing they need to get new people in the scheme. $50-$75 is still a fair amount to throw away that goes into the pockets of people you put your trust into