Chances are if you're reading this, you want to know what happened to Success University.  A lot of websites have been devoted to whether or not Success University is a scam, and if it was business opportunity that 'the average person' could market and actually make money.  I even had a Squidoo page about Success University while I was still a member.  The business worked for me and many others on my team.  For the first time ever, we all were seeing success in the online Internet marketing world.

Success University was founded by a man named Matt Morris, and he made the following statement abouttheir opportunity:

I joined Success University in June of 2008..... before I knew anything about online marketing.  I had been involved in another network marketing company at the time; quite frankly, I was failing miserably.  I was reading some online advertisments about how I could join Success University for just $2 and take a 14 day trial.  I had seen the ads for Success University before, but the ad that I saw really caught my attention.  So, I joined, and the $2 trial fee was donated to a Feed the Children charity, which I thought was a good cause - and I had 14 days to review the opportunity before being charge $49.95 each month for the training materials.  

Because I joined a team of established Internet marketers, I was able to learn even more about how to market online.  Our team's director provided a lead capture page system (which he charged for, of course), but it worked and I went from failing to succeeding.   
I remained an active member of Success University for a full year, and managed to recruit over 121 people into the business.  I was floored by the amount of information made available in their mailed materials as well as their online training center on how to market online.  I became a sponge, and soaked up all the information I could about personal development and Internet marketing.   I received weekly and monthly checks.  I was listed in their industry magazine as a top enroller.  It was awesome.

What inspired me about Success Unviersity is that it could be marketed as a generic business - one that could help people already invovled in a network marketing company finally see success in their primary business.  With all the training provided in their back office, there was no longer a need to order books online on how to succeed, there was no reason to go to the library and check out books / books on tape about personal development and how to be successful in MLM.    There was no reason to scour the Internet looking for that next eBook that was going to save the family budget.  Success University had it all.

On June 1, 2009 (just 1 year after I originally joined the company), Matt Morris merged Success University into WorldVentures, a network marketing travel business.  All the training that was once provided by Success University exclusively to its members was now going to be part of the back office training for a travel business.  All existing members of Success University were given a membership into WorldVentures so they could receive discounted rates on all sorts of travel around the world and market that opportunity to others looking for a work-at-home business.  All existing members of WorldVentures now had access to the Success University training library.   It sounded like a win-win for everyone involved.

This may all sound great and wonderful, and for some people it was.  I don't like to travel.
Never have. That's why I didn't join a travel business..... I joined Success University.

The $2 free trial disappeared, as did the ability to market WorldVentures online.  You see, only people that have reached a certain level in the company can market online. Apparantly, 121 enrollments in one years time was not enough for me to be allowed to market the business online.  They have very strict rules about that, as well as having to use the company's replicated pages only - unless you have reached an enormous amount of new enrollments using the old-school network marketing techniques like bugging friends and family, passing out flyers and giving away business cards like they are free.  Cold calling, the three-foot rule... you get the idea.  I've been there, done that and bought the tee-shirt.  No thanks.  Hey, if that's your gig... more power to you.  It's just not for me.

What else happened?  Well, when the merger was complete, the commission structure changed.  In the past, I would receive monthly binary commission checks for all my hard work in the past for my recruiting efforts and so did my downline.... well, those checks disappeared.   Basically, my residual income disappeared.  Thanks Matt Morris.  

I'm sure Matt Morris is a great guy and all that, but business is business.  

And I understand that.

And because I devoted one year of my life to building a residual income that was taken away from me, I no longer feel comfortable marketing a business that I had no intention of joining in the first place.

So, I started looking for a business to join that would pay real residual income -- for life -- and one that was immune from self-competition.  What I found really shocked me.... because it was a company I had joined before, and quit many times.  I implemented what I learned while a member of Success University to market my newly found business online.

Apparantly all those days and nights I spent learning and soaking up information on how to market a network marketing business online finally paid off.   Thank you, Matt Morris.
 
Within 3 weeks of joining this 'other business', I managed to generate 723 new prospects for my business and several of those prospects joined me in this new business before they even spoke to me.  I used only free advertising methods to achieve this.  

I developed my OWN system for generating new prospects and enrollments online, and shared this system with a few of my team members.  They followed the instructions I had given them, advertised the same capture page I was using, and they had the same results.  

So, I decided that I would provide this very same system FREE to everyone involved in the business.

Unlike my previous upline, I decided that I would not charge anyone to actually use the system.  It would be 100% free to use, and the only added expense would be that the person using the system would need their own autoresponder.  Everyone always told me that 'the money is in the list', but they would never tell me how to build my own list without charging me six arms and two legs for the knowledge.  And, the system I created allows the system user to build their own list and make money before the prospect even joins them in the program.  

Many people hit a 'road block' when it comes to what email messages to send to their prospects after they opt-in to their list.  I've solved this problem for the system users because everyone using the system can copy 100 days worth of messages right into their autoresponder by entering a code.  Simple and easy.

Remember how I became a sponge and soaked up all the information I could about how to market online?  Well, I found a fool-proof way for anyone to build their own list, and for anyone to be able to provide something of value to those new prospects even if they had no idea what they were doing.  Seriously folks... this really works.

I made the leaderboard my first week with this new company and received a nice bonus commission check.  I hit the leaderboard again the next week - got another commission check.  Many of my downline did as well.  It's pretty neat, and satisfying to see my downline succeeding as well.   And this 'new company' is not really new at all.  I just didn't know what to do before... and now I do!  Thank you Matt Morris.