Downline clubs were basically easy to launch. They are still easy to launch today. Almost anyone could purchase an inexpensive script, inexpensive hosting, and toss up a downline club. This holds true today.

The difficult task was difficult because it was non-existent in most inexpensive scripts. People that enrolled in the downline club, were usually urged to participate in a business opportunity. This is where the difficult task came into play. If the script was not able to manage the task of correct placement of each downline member, the downline club owner was in for quite a chore. What took place then, no words can truly describe the long tedious boring task of program placement by MANUAL implementations. I can honestly describe this because I owned a downline club in which I experienced the boring feat. Imagine having thousands of members within a downline club that you own. Now imagine choosing upon a business opportunity for all the downline club members to join. Keep in mind, the members MUST join in correct order according to their date of membership and according to their sponsor. And now imagine sitting at the computer, 16 or more hours per day, sending instructions to members one by one...all the while, waiting for each one of the members to enroll in the business opportunity, send their biz op referral link back so that you can email it to the next member. Absolutely horrific task! This task can and did in the old days, take MONTHS to accomplish! And actually it was a never ending task because as new members enrolled in the downline club, the horrific process continued.

Some downline clubs today, are still practicing the old boring task of placement. It is needless to say, absurd. Remarkably more absurd is the fact, it was and is usually far from worth it. This unworthiness was and is simply due to the largeness of majority and minority. In otherwords, the downline club owner did not know who was going to join the chosen biz op and who was not. The MAJORITY never joins the biz op. And the MINORITY that does join, finds himself/herself in a world of confusion due to either misplacement or sponsors in the biz op that he/she has no past relationship/communication.

I could discuss how downline clubs of the above nature, contributed to the future of attrition in all online business opportunities due to the breakdown of communication. This is because confusion and lack of communication became common place in downline clubs. It was only natural to be in a state of mental confusion and experience agitated poor awareness. It is like doing the 'hoola hoop' while playing 'limbo stick'. And although many of these members gave up online business altogether, many did not. Some members proceeded forward to become successful owners of online programs, online companies, webmasters, programmers, web designers, newsletter publishers, mlm millionaires, and so on. I won't get into discussion here about the contribution of attrition by downline clubs but it did play a major roll in todays overwhelming and usually high dropout rates in various online business opportunities. The point of this paragraph also being, some of the successful people today in online business, started out as a hoola hoop head member in a downline club of years since past.

Probably one of the, if not THE BEST, downline club in years gone by was 'GHOSTSURFERS'. The last I looked, 'ghostsurfers.com' domain name was a price of $8,000. This downline club was fully automated, fun, easy, and its early focus was on FREE. Name an old free program to join and it was probably listed in Ghostsurfers. It was easy! Log in, click on the program list, click on a program, join the program, return to Ghostsurfers, enter your id in the program list. It was easy to build a downline. Ghostsurfers did implement an upgrade option but it was ridiculously affordable. They had games, contests, and even a chat room. Many relationships were built in Ghostsurfers. Some very successful online business people started out as a member in Ghostsurfers. Ghostsurfers was also one of the most ethical downline clubs. Eventually, I believe Ghostsurefers became caught up in its era. Too many free programs were launching. Too many paid business opportunities were looking more than good. After several years in operation, Ghostsurfers updated their website with a new design, implemented so many programs free and paid, that it was impossible for new members to join them all. Eventually, Ghostsurfers went down, forever.

Although many old downline clubs were so manually horrific, many were extremely ethical. And then came the rush of garbage downline clubs. The idea was, the downline club would create its own program for their members to join. Their thought pattern was 'why bring my downline club to a business opportunity when I can implement my own business opportunity-that way I can have my cake and eat it too'. I suppose that mentality made perfect sense IF it had an intelligent leg to stand on. The problem? Was the question. What sort of program can we create to make money that our downline members will join so they can make money? However, only the first part of that sentence was usually on the minds of the downline club owners in that era. The primary concern was how they were going to make money and not so much how their downline members were going to make money. Are you beginning to see how the BS in business opportunities evolved? Downline clubs began losing their ethics. Greed became the utmost importance. Downline club after downline club launched. It was almost an every day event....what new downline club is launching today?! Downline clubs would brag and boast like a rooster in a hen house...we have the best new hot program and you, our downline members will have the first opportune to join. And so while the members continued to promote and build their downline club downlines, they also waited patiently for the big hot new program to evolve. Not only such a promotional waiting game existed, the downline club would then implement an upgrade fee. This upgrade fee was usually based upon a greater higher position when the new program launched. Some times it was based on simply earning a buck from your downline that upgraded within the downline club. And still yet, some times it was based on simple idiotic tools that was implemented by the downline club. Ethics and the Real Care that many old downline clubs had for its members, now seemed to be gone, forever. Relationship building between downlines and uplines and all members, seemed to be gone. It became a frenzy for who can bring in the most members that will upgrade to receive simple idiotic tools so that when the hot new program launches, I can make even more greedy money. And these downline program owners all the while, sat counting the green backs... $100, $1000, $5000, $10,000, $20,000, $50,000, $100,000. Well, needless to say as this process continued, people not only got sick and tired of it, they got wise to it! Usually NO new program ever launched. And if the downline club did launch the hot new program, guess what it was? If you said 'more simple idiotic tools', you are correct.

Most of the good, ethical, solid downline clubs are gone. The year 2004 viewed a pitiful low amount of downline clubs launching. I created this page to share a little history with you about downline clubs. Visit this page from time to time to see future downline club reviews. I do not have all the time in the world but as I find time, I will update this page with downline club reviews. Do keep in mind, the reviews below are of my opinion. My opinion consist of hands on experience from the past, the present, and God willing, the future. We all have opinions and we all know what those are like. You won't find links to the BAD Downline Clubs listed below. I only place links to the BEST Downline Clubs.

BAD DOWNLINE CLUBS

1WorldLine aka OWL Downline Club - Probably the WORSE downline club of all time. NO downline ethics whatsoever. If you are searching to join an optin list in which you can receive whoopiedoos and hallabuloos.....this one is for you. If you do join, do not promote it. Your referrals will not be following you. In the good old days of downline ethics, this was known as 'downline theft'. BEWARE!