Here’s a list of various websites I adminster or otherwise help maintain and a little back story to each one.

www.asgard.net

This is for Asgard Web Technologies LLC. It’s primarily been a web hosting and domain registration company but I’ve recently sold off that side of the business. I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with the company and site.

www.thetruthaboutamway.com

This is the site I’m probably best known “on the internet” for. I originally started a site about Amway back in 1999 when I started an Amway business in Australia and got sick of reading misleading, false, and over-generalized crap about Amway all over the ‘net. That site went when I sold off my ISP, Ambience, and moved to Sweden. In 2002 while I was living in Paris I had a lot of spare time and looked up Amway info on the ‘net and again got caught up in discussions with Amway critics. After a while I started up www.mlmfacts.net as a pro-MLM, pro-Amway discussion site. It eventually fell by the wayside. In 2006 I again got absorbed in debates with Amway critics. I soon realised that they kept raising the same topics over and over, often even after I’d already provided evidence they were wrong or over-generalised. I figured it would be easier to reply once on my own site and then just link to it, so I started www.thetruthaboutamway.com (TTAA). I originally started it using Joomla site as I wanted to learn about Joomla for some other products (namely using it for Asgard) and eventually it had blogs, forums, news, all sorts of stuff. Last year I decided to turn it into a straight blog usign WordPress and separate out the forums to Amway Talk and news to Amway Watch. TTAA currently gets over 12000 visits a month from over 8000 unique visitors, so it’s a pretty popular site.

www.amwaywiki.com

Some years back a former IBO by the name of Eric Janssen started up a Wiki dedicated to information on Quixtar. He was a (mild) critic of the Amway/Quixtar business, as where some other folk that he gave admin rights too, but the site soon became a valuable resource, quickly being filled with huge amounts of info about Amway and Quixtar and various folk involved with it. To their credit the admins maintained a fairly non-biased stance in running the site. Only info that could reasonably be backed up was allowed on the site, no outrageous rumours or gossip. This had an interesting effect – a site run by critics that tried to remain factual started getting complaints it was too pro-Amway and must be run by Amway corp themselves! I registered the name amwaywiki.com back in 2006 and suggested to Eric it be pointed at quixtarwiki but it never happened. Eventually the quixtarwiki admins all lost interest and it became little more than a spam haven, so I setup amwaywiki.com as a new repository of factual Amway info. It uses the standard MediaWiki software used by Wikipedia. The site’s becoming more and more popular (over 10000 visits a month) and I think will soon overtake TTAA in traffic.

www.amwaytalk.com

Amway Talk is a PHPBB3 forum dedicated to discussion about Amway. I was using Fireboard on The Truth About Amway joomla site but decided for a dedicated forum PHPBB3 was a better option. I’ve only recently installed statistics tracking so I’m not sure how popular the site is, but in the 5 months since I set it up in July there’s been over 5500 posts, so it’s keeping busy.

www.mlmfacts.net

This was originally the URL I used for the pro-Amway site I setup in 2003. I kept it pointing at TTAA until recently when I setup a new MediaWiki. Amway Wiki has proved so useful I decided a similar resource for the network marketing industry as a whole would be useful. I haven’t yet had time to start adding content or promoting it, but the framework is up and ready to be used.

to be continued ….