VM Direct Founders Craig Ellins and Amy Black
July 6, 2007 | By Monika Mundell | 2 Comments »
It all started 10 years ago with a dream. Amy Black and Craig Ellins wanted to provide a service in the video industry that would revolutionize the world in years to come. They started with a simple inch square size streaming video.
The idea was to change the way we were communicating in those days. So they launched a company called “hello network”. Their vision was to bring streaming video to the masses and make it affordable to all. They have since come a long way. Early day hurdles only made them more determined to succeed and see this baby rolling big.
When 9/11 happened the world stopped and so did Craig Ellins and Amy Black. For about 2 months their business was abandoned, only to come back full force with the launch of what’s known today as VM Direct in November 2001. Around that time their paths crossed with a guy by the name of Richard Kall. Richard is a network marketing legend and has risen to the top of multiple network marketing companies. When they met Richard they realized that in order to make the VM Direct business model absolutely huge they needed to create an aggressive marketing plan with viral possibilities. So the MLM target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://gobala.linktrackr.com/buildingonabudget-mlmrkeywords">MLM VM Direct was born.
Offering services like video mail, live streaming media, pod casting, video blogging (mo-blogging), video IM, webmaster program and other useful technical stuff they have come a long way in their quest to dominate the marketplace. VM Direct is now a public company on the NYSE.
Amy and Craig have managed to go from creating a simple video email to developing a full force video application suite that would satisfy the most skeptic person. Their product is now fully compatible with any browser and player. Supported by Ajax you won’t need any download. You can watch the emails, videos and live broadcasts straight from your computer.
VM Direct has currently around 1 million customers using their products worldwide as HelloWorld customers. VM Direct Distributors account for approx 15,000 and growing strong. They have just recently launched Ireland and Italy for their business opportunity and are trading in 11 countries for distributors.
To see more and read about their products and opportunity you can visit VM Direct
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I Seriously doubt the integrity of this Blog. It states that there are 1 million customers using these products. I would love to see the figures that back this up. If this is correct then I would expect this to be reflected in the traffic figures for the website on http://www.alexa.com. In reality the traffic figures are far from on the rise but are shown, at best, to be on a steady decline. The writer of this blog should issue the Actual verified figures and not just pull a high number out of the hat. I doubt that any such verification is available and therefore put my trust in alexa.com
Hi Roy,
Thank you for your comment. Albeit a cautious one. You can be assured that there is nothing wrong with the integrity of this website. We go to great length of doing research using search engines, press release news and personal knowledge to write our articles. In the case of VM Direct, their current Alexa ranking is sitting on 30,030 (as of today) it has slipped it’s traffic ranking by 6,159 in the last 3 month. Which indicates a stagnancy. This is normal in any business.
The fact that they have around 1Mio customers remains. Those include also the distributors as they are also customers.
The reason you might not see this reflected in Alexa could also be because the product is named helloworld. Helloworld is a subsidiary of VM Direct. VM Direct is the business opportunity and Helloworld is the product. Hopefully this makes sense to you now.
Wishing you Success
Monika