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OllieWinchester

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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http://www.omnypresence.com/

It has been recommended to me by someone I trust. I know the website doesn't give away a great deal but I wondered if anyone had ever heard of it. I'm intrigued, but it requires quite a healthy financial commitment, although the rewards sound worth it. I have a fair bit of healthy cynicism but wondered if anyone had any views?

Original Poster

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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Far too vague IMO.

OllieWinchester

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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In addition, I just found this which explains a little bit more.

Omnypresence blog said:
OMNY presence

running a business from anywhere and everywhere

You mean I can do this from anywhere?
Hi, my name is Tom Cassidy and yes, we do have a
have a business that generates between 500/mth and 10,000/mth GBP for individual franchisees.

It can be run from anywhere in the world. All you need is a fast internet connection (and a computer!)

It is a financial services business.

Lead generation system provided.

Before you request further details, you will need to answer YES to the following questions in order to qualify:

Do you have access to 20k GBP?

Do you have the self-discipline to run your own business?

Do you have a compelling reason to be location independent?

If you can honestly answer yes to these questions, please send

an email to tomcassidy AT mac DOT com

(this is to prevent spammers…..)

Best Regards

Tom

OllieWinchester

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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anonymous said:
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As far as I understand they provide training and software to enable to you to get in touch with people who have quoted for mortgages or life insurance on line on sites such as moneysupermarket.com, comparethemarket.com etc. With these leads you then contact the person who has made the quote and tyr and deal them into a mortgage/life insurance policy. You then get paid a commission fee by the company whose product you have sold.

I spoke briefly with the above named guy earlier today, he is a friend of a friend, and definately is not based in Lagos.

Eric Mc

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292 months

Wednesday 11th August 2010
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OllieWinchester said:
http://www.omnypresence.com/

It has been recommended to me by someone I trust. I know the website doesn't give away a great deal but I wondered if anyone had ever heard of it. I'm intrigued, but it requires quite a healthy financial commitment, although the rewards sound worth it. I have a fair bit of healthy cynicism but wondered if anyone had any views?
What do you have to do to earn your money?

OllieWinchester

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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No, I am not an IFA but I have a little experience selling insurance based products in the motor industry. As I understand it, part of the initial investment is used to train you to the relevant standard. I'm intrigued by it, but as I said I'm pretty cynical at the moment. I'd love to be proven wrong though...

OllieWinchester

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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Eric Mc said:
OllieWinchester said:
http://www.omnypresence.com/

It has been recommended to me by someone I trust. I know the website doesn't give away a great deal but I wondered if anyone had ever heard of it. I'm intrigued, but it requires quite a healthy financial commitment, although the rewards sound worth it. I have a fair bit of healthy cynicism but wondered if anyone had any views?
What do you have to do to earn your money?
You have to follow up leads and (I'm presuming) pair people up with an appropriate policy.

In simple terms, as it was explained to me the software generates details of people who have been online and got a quote for, say, a mortgage. You ring them, if they are willing you ask them a load of questions relevant to the policy they are looking for, and then pass these details to the mortgage company. They hopefully send you a fully formed quote with monthly paymenst etc which you present to the potential customer over the phone. If they are willing to go ahead then you send a courier with the documents to them, they sign and the docs go to the mortgage company. In due course, they pay out your commission.

don4l

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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OllieWinchester said:
I spoke briefly with the above named guy earlier today, he is a friend of a friend, and definately is not based in Lagos.
Is he based in a mid terraced house in Camberley?

If so, then it is unlikely that he has had many people give him £20k.

Don
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Eric Mc

125,338 posts

292 months

Wednesday 11th August 2010
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OllieWinchester said:
Eric Mc said:
OllieWinchester said:
http://www.omnypresence.com/

It has been recommended to me by someone I trust. I know the website doesn't give away a great deal but I wondered if anyone had ever heard of it. I'm intrigued, but it requires quite a healthy financial commitment, although the rewards sound worth it. I have a fair bit of healthy cynicism but wondered if anyone had any views?
What do you have to do to earn your money?
You have to follow up leads and (I'm presuming) pair people up with an appropriate policy.

In simple terms, as it was explained to me the software generates details of people who have been online and got a quote for, say, a mortgage. You ring them, if they are willing you ask them a load of questions relevant to the policy they are looking for, and then pass these details to the mortgage company. They hopefully send you a fully formed quote with monthly paymenst etc which you present to the potential customer over the phone. If they are willing to go ahead then you send a courier with the documents to them, they sign and the docs go to the mortgage company. In due course, they pay out your commission.
So you are basically a tele-sales person trying to persuade someone to invest in particular financial products.
Don't people who sell financuial products now have to pass various exams and have certificates of competence?

Or is the "overseas" element of this an attempt by the main compnay to circumvent some of these UK regulations?

Eric Mc

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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I'm amazed no one's ever tried such a scheme before. Sounds like a real winner.

Hold on... I'm getting a fuzzy picture of some large object.... wait a minite... it's getting clearer.. ah yes... there it is.....









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AJS-

15,366 posts

263 months

Wednesday 11th August 2010
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Ask yourself this: If it is a profitable venture, and they provide the support and training then why aren't they employing people to do it, providing the training and making the money themselves?

Better yet, ask your friend.

don4l

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Wednesday 11th August 2010
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I've had a great idea.

I can guarantee you that you will gain £10,000.00 if you take me up on this.

Instead of giving £20,000.00 to this "friend of a friend", why don't you just give me £10,000.00 towards my next car. If you do this, then you will be £10k better off, and I will have a much nicer car. Everybody winsthumbup How cool is that?

Don
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Nickellarse

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216 months

Thursday 12th August 2010
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don4l said:
I've had a great idea.

I can guarantee you that you will gain £10,000.00 if you take me up on this.

Instead of giving £20,000.00 to this "friend of a friend", why don't you just give me £10,000.00 towards my next car. If you do this, then you will be £10k better off, and I will have a much nicer car. Everybody winsthumbup How cool is that?

Don
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I only need £5K so you will be £15K better off with me.

rofl

Seriously though, if you have £20K sat ready to invest then why don't you just think about what you enjoy doing, write a business plan and do it your self.

OllieWinchester

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Friday 13th August 2010
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Just to clarify, I don't have £20k to invest, and even if I did then it would almost certainly not be going to this guy. I'm just intrigued really.

Lots of good points, well made.

Cheers guys...

bigdaddy123

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189 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Don, terraced house in camberley? Sounds like you know him and don't like him?!

Did anyone ever take this anywhere to see how it turned out?

mig25_foxbat2003

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238 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Www.paaleads.com sell leads from Money Supermarket. They have a web portal where you can choose what product you want leads for, and you can even break it down by the age and location of your desired customer.

I'll do you a discount as I'm a bit late onto the thread - call it £15k, and we're even. I'll take cash, cheque, Paypal or Zimbabwean dollars.

ETA - If you want to speak to Mr Cassidy himself about his proposition, give him a shout on +44 0208 1337448 or drop into the doubtless bustling operations centre of the "Omnypresence Group" - 3 Valroy Close, Camberley, Camberley, Surrey GU15 3TL. This information is freely available...

If you want a job selling insurance, go work for a broker on salary + commission. You won't have to invest £20k for a start, and you can actually make a fair few quid if you go to a successful intermediary (tip - car insurance is a rubbish product, go for Life, mortgages or PMI).

Edited by mig25_foxbat2003 on Wednesday 6th October 18:36

bigdaddy123

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189 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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foxbat - where did you find that info? i couldn't see it on the website. did you have a chat with him? you don't seem impressed? he seemed pretty genuine in the videos on the site, so i'm not sure it's a big scam. that said i'm far from sure that it isn't!

surely though the 20k gives you something in return other than just a training course. there must be costs associated with getting in a position to broker insurance, surely that's a part of it? otherwise, you're saying they're asking people to give them 20k for a training course or something similar?


mig25_foxbat2003

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Thursday 7th October 2010
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If you're keen mate then go ahead, but as I say:

- If you're keen on being an IFA then work out yourself what you need to do to get FSA regulated, and work out yourself what it's going to cost.
- If you're just speculating, go work for a brokers on commission and see if you've got the touch. Plenty of people don't - I know, I used to manage some of them.
- If you're not sure what you're getting yourself into - keep your £20k firmly wedged in your pocket.

HTH,
Russell