Gery Carson, Strong Future International (SFI) Founder, Corporate Headquarters Photo Deception Part II

It appears that Gery Carson relocated Strong Future International's headquarters. As with the previous location, SFI is portraying an entire building as its "headquarters".

The impression here is that they are "so successful", that they have taken up a larger building to accommodate the larger leadership and staffing required to run a growing business. This is what they have on their website as their headquarters:

The angle that the photograph was taken, given where the sun was located at, was an attempt to make it more difficult to read or make out the words on the building. However, by searching their address on the Internet, and zooming in on the resulting map, you can get more details on what the building says:

Details, not available on SFI's  website, become available here. You can make out the following: New Horizons, Grand Central Court, and Konica Minolta. Going around the side, and looking at the building from the street, you get the name of a different organization.

"Liba" as seen from the street, and then turning left from the street, you can see both "Liba" and the front of the building that SFI insinuates is their "headquarters":

You can see the "New Horizons" and its symbol on the corner. Going around the building, via "street view", does not provide a hint that SFI is there. However, that doesn't mean that SFI is "not" in that building. It's just an indication that SFI is not as big as it insinuates itself to be. Otherwise, as a big-name organization, with lots of money to spare, SFI would be able to get its name displayed on the side.

Chances are that as with the previous headquarters location, SFI is renting an office inside Grand Central Court. An Internet search for "Grand Central Court" leads to a rental listing for office space.

Office space, at Grand Central Court, rents for $6.00 through $12.00, negotiable. Granted, this could simply be advertising the two available spaces that they had as of the search for this facility. Thompson Realty Group had two offices available for renting, one was at a $12.00 rate, and the other was at $6.00 rate. Looking at the floor plans, they had different office sizes, which would command different rates.

For an organization that insinuates having lots of wealth to distribute to members, SFI appears to be cutting corners real steep with regards to costs. Or, this arrangement may be perfect for an organization like SFI, where the main thrust of operations is multilevel marketing. One would think that given how SFI portrays itself, they would have a headquarters building to themselves.

Gery Carson, Strong Future International (SFI) Founder, Corporate Headquarters Photo Deception

On Gery Carson's Strong Future International (SFI) webpage, you see a photograph of a nice one-story brick building. The photo caption indicates that it's SFI's "corporate headquarters."

From Gery Carson's Strong Future International (SFI) webpage. It's listed as the corporate headquarters for SFI

Strong Future International tries to give an impression that they are doing very well. They are doing "so well" that they have a nice, brick building with plenty of surrounding space. Not only did Gery Carson have plenty of space inside, but he had plenty of space surrounding his corporate headquarters building.

You have grass on one side and a large parking lot on the other side. The photo gives an impression of a multi staffed operation.

However, a Google search of 8251 Northwoods Drive, Lincoln, NE 68505, SFI corporate address, shows something different. Google maps showed two buildings, side-by-side, that look similar to the one shown on Gery Carson's Strong Future International website.

Google Maps marks the address obtained from Gery Carson's Strong Future International (SFI) Webpage. The building is part of Northwoods Plaza, which has a collection of buildings containing suites for businesses to rent. 

In the same area, three additional buildings stand on the opposite side of the parking lot. A roundabout separates these rows of buildings.

The three buildings on the other side are larger versions of the one listed for SFI's address. This looks similar to a shopping district. In fact, a real estate listing on loopnet.com lists this as "Northwoods Plaza."

Loopnet.com listed one of the bigger buildings, in Northwoods Plaza, as being up for sale for well over $1 million. In the description, the building is described as having a high-quality tenant base.

In other words, multiple tenants occupy different suites in those buildings.

LoopNet, loopnet.com photo for 8251 Northwoods Drive, Lincoln, NE 68505 at Northwoods Plaza. Suite 200, SFI Corporate Headquarters' location, is just one of the suites in that building. 

SFI's address had a Suite 200 listed. Loopnet.com had a listing for the building, but not up for sale. 8251 is the number listed on the building. Strong Future International listed a Suite 200 as their address. It's obvious that the building in SFI's photo isn't entirely Strong Future International's.

Instead, Gery Carson's SFI is renting one of the suites inside of building 8251. Even if the window, to SFI's suite, is visible in the SFI photo, it's not detailed or identified. Strong Future International leaves that information out. Most viewers will think that the entire building is SFI's corporate headquarters.

That's not true.

So, if Strong Future International had any business ethics in them, they would not try to claim an entire building as their headquarters. Instead, they would've posted a picture featuring Suite 200 as their corporate headquarters.

Strong Future International (SFI) website photo for Gery Carson, the founder. This photo appears dated, and doesn't look much different from the one used on SFI's website last decade. 

If Gery Carson's Strong Future International is being deceptive about its headquarters, what else is it being deceptive about?

Strong Future International (SFI) website insinuating that the whole building is their headquarters.

SFI is a Multilevel Marketing Scam!

SFI, or Strong Future International, is just another MLM scam. If you look at their claims and numbers, you'll see that things don't add up.

Before the following link went defunct, I managed to get a quote:

http://www.miragebbs.co.uk/info/faq.htm

"Over $10 million has been paid to SFI affiliates in the last two years alone."

The copyright date ends at 2006. Here's a simple way to see that they're an MLM scam.

Lets say SFI has 10,000 affiliates arranged in an MLM pyramid. (There's actually more affiliates than that). Since each affiliate brings more in, that number's going up exponentially. For this scenario, let's say each earns $4,000.00. Four thousand dollars is almost half of what you need to clear six figures.

SFI implies that you could make a 6 figure income through them. SFI used to stand for "Six Figure Income" before it changed to "Strong Future International."

Back to the scenario.

We have SFI disbursing four thousand dollars a month to ten thousand affiliates. This totals $40,000,000.00 a month; which comes to $480,000,000.00 a year; which comes to $960,000,000.00 over two years.

Already, we could see that their ten million dollars over two years raises red flags. These numbers show that this is a scam, people could see one of two things.

The first possibility is that SFI is paying scant amounts to its affiliates. The second possibility is that very few people get paid well, while the majority gets little to nothing.

Let's work this backwards.

Divide $10,000,000.00 by 24 (monthly over 2 years). We get $416,666.67 a month. SFI pays $416,666.67 a month to 10,000 people.

SFI has more than 10,000 affiliates--8 million according to one claim.

So split that $416,666.67 among, say, one million people. You don't get much per person when you divide $416,666.67 among a million people. Now, in this scenario, let's say that more and more people are getting $5,000.00 and higher checks. This is per month.

Remember, this is happening within $416,666.67. So, the more people we get, making more than $5,000.00, the less remains to be dividing among the rest. No matter the breakdown, SFI pays out an average of $416,666.67 a month in this scenario.

What if SFI affiliates managed to easily achieve six figure incomes?

Say 10,000 SFI affiliates drew $4,000.00 monthly. SFI would have to disburse $40,000,000.00 a month just for payroll. Since they imply that you could make six figures, double that $4,000.00 monthly number.

In order to remain with the $416,666.67 a month figure, less people will have to get paid.

If people are making six figures with SFI, they'll be breaking SFI's bank. SFI would have to disburse over 80 million dollars each month to back their claims.

Realistically, they won't be able to afford that. They'd have no choice but to adjust their compensation fees:

http://www.businessprogramreviews.com/sixfigureincome.html

The link's dead. But it contained an article where someone saw his compensation go from $2,700.00 to $230.00 a month. He ended up killing his girlfriend before committing suicide in jail.

Here is another reality -- you can't gain affiliates in your MLM downline forever.

Sooner or later, you'll run out of people to recruit. Once you reach that limit, the market is completely saturated. The whole system falls apart. The majority loses out and a small minority at the top make out like bandits.

What business, in its right mind, would saturate the market with its own stores? What company would set its stores up to compete against each other at each other's expense? Employers, or people looking for independent contractors, hire just enough, then stop.

Here's how the SFI MLM scam takes place.

Each EA is a customer. SFI rewards EA's for being repeat customers. If you stop buying, you lose your EA status. SFI promotes you to leader status if you bring more repeat customers in. In this case, anybody in your down-line, that achieves EA status, is a repeat customer that you captured for SFI.

The real objective is to get people to remain Executive Affiliates status or higher. These people are SFI's repeat customers.

When SFI rewards an Executive Affiliate, by promoting them to one of the leadership positions, they're not doing it for their leadership abilities. SFI is rewarding them for bringing more repeat customers in.

SFI is one big MLM scam. It's designed to fool people into doing a couple things.

First, it fools them into thinking that they're "running a business." In reality, these people are SFI's repeat customers. Second, SFI tricks people into marketing for them in order to bring more customers in.

Not only are SFI affiliates buying from SFI, they're saving SFI on marketing costs.

It's like having people do all your marketing legwork, to include marketing expenses, just so that they could remain your customer.