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Poker Training Network- Why Should You Join?
First of all, let me clarify what Poker Training Network is NOT.
PTN is NOT about gambling.
PTN is NOT about making money from playing poker.
With that said, why should you get involved with Poker Training Network? Here’s 9 compelling reasons why.
1. Rubbing Elbows with Celebrities – Jenny McCarthy, Shannon Elizabeth, and Jim Karol are all distributors of PTN. Montel Williams has become the co-owner of the company. Who better than a common household name celebrity motivational speaker to pitch for you?
2. Recruit Using Facebook Game – PTN All-in Room is currently in beta testing, soon to be released. Quite a change of pace in recruiting. Do people play games on Facebook, you ask? Zynga, the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker, is estimated to be worth $4 billion.
3. 50% Payout – One of the benefits of information product is the generous payout rate. Any products with individual cost, packaging and shipping will shrink your commissions, and any payout larger than 50% will not be able to sustain the company.
4. Let’s Clarify “Unique” – We’ve all heard of how new and unique some opportunity is. PTN actually is unique, in fact it’s the sole MLM in a huge market as poker.
5. Instant Networking – If you play poker or know someone who does, you are instantly connected to a network of other poker players. Poker fits right into a business such as MLM where networking and relationship building are critical.
6. Learn Poker in Your Spare Time – You get to learn poker and improve your game in your spare time and still be working on your business.
7. Watch Poker in Your Spare Time – You get to watch poker on TV to study your business.
8. Play Poker in Your Spare Time – You get to play poker and network and build your business.
9. Laughter is the Best Medicine – In poker, you socialize and have fun. Laughing is the simplest and easiest therapy that does not cost anything, require any products or equipment. After all, you work hard so you can have fun. Why not have fun working?
The sooner you start, the more of this huge market you’ll get to have. To learn more about Poker Training Network, continue reading below.
Free to Play, or Pay to Play, What's The Future? (Page 1 of 2)
Everyone Loves Free
Is the big budget, high profile, pay to play MMO dying a long and painful death? There’s no getting around the fact that the market and gamers can only support so many pay to play MMO’s, and very few gamers have the time or money to play more than one MMO each month.
In the past year we’ve seen Turbine’s Dungeons and Dragons Online forced into transitioning into a free to play model (subsequently leaping to the number three spot on the list of most popular MMO’s according to the NPD group).
Not long from now, Lord of the Rings Online will also be going the same way as DDO, not because it was failing, but because the move proved incredibly popular and profitable for that game.
A year ago, Sony Online Entertainment launched its family friendly entry in the genre, Free Realms, which has proved to be a smash hit, drawing in millions and millions of players.
But why the success? Simple. Nothing draws the masses in like the word “free”. It’s like offering “no strings attached” AoC gold, or it’s like when you’re at the supermarket and that bored looking attendant shoves a free ice cream cone at you, or one of those little hot dogs on a toothpick. Sure, they might have been sitting there all afternoon, and you have no idea what they taste like or where they’ve been, but dammit, they’re free!
This is the way it is with MMO’s as well. All you’ve got to do is slap the increasingly popular “free to play” sticker tag on it, and all of a sudden gamers are talking about your game and actively rooting for it to be good. The truth is that to most gamers, a decent free game is as valuable as a good pay to play game, there are simply too many pay to play massively multiplayer online games on the market asking for people’s hard earned dollars, and right now free games stand out and create a buzz.
Pay Won’t Go Away
That isn’t to say however, that the pay to play MMO is going entirely the way of the dodo. Pay to play is a proven model, and it’s not going anywhere. If the current pay to play MMO’s on the market start getting into trouble, they can always do what Dungeons and Dragons Online did to breathe new into their sales… go free to play.
The fact is that there are two sure fire ways to survive in the pay to play space.
The first, most difficult, and most profitable, is to become the de facto standard, the one MMO that defines the genre, the one that everyone wants to play.
Right now, that MMO happens to be World of Warcraft, 7 years ago, it was EverQuest. The standard bearer is always judged by a separate set of rules, actually, the truth is they make their own rules, and its loyal subscriber base is always willing to plow through quest after quest, raid after raid to earn XP and WoW gold.
There are secondary and tertiary successes, but MMO’s like Warhammer Online, Age of Conan and Aion don’t see anywhere near World of Warcraft’s phenomenal level of success.