History

Q1 2007

The new Rich Generations™ Success Coaching and Training and Affiliate program is officially announced and Pre-Enrollment applications start to be accepted. Excitement continues to build as ABCIncome and its clients prepare for 2007 to be the best year ever!

Fall/Winter 2006

Our clients express almost unanimous enthusiasm for the forthcoming Rich Generations™ Success Coaching and Training and Affiliate program. ABCIncome prepares to phase out service offerings for people building MLM businesses, while rewarding loyal clients by offering existing clients an upgrade path to the new and better program at little or no cost.

Q3 To Q4 2006

ABCIncome focuses intently on improving its system even further to produce the highest possible signup rates and results for its clients, and also starts working on rolling out a significantly enhanced Affililate program as well as a Web-based version of its popular business building and success coaching and training program that started all the way back in the mid 1990s. These two offerings, based on ABCIncome's Rich Generations™ Success Coaching and Training program, offer clients an in-house, non-MLM alternative to the added steps and complexity of applying ABCIncome's services to another company's traditional MLM model. Despite MLM's proven 50+ year track record it is still not understood and sometimes even misunderstood by some, and even in today's Internet age still primarily revolves around traditional person-to-person, face-to-face business building and sales techniques. Whereas Affiliate and/or Affiliate referral marketing was designed from the ground up on and for the Internet and the World Wide Web. Affiliate based marketing is a perfect match for ABCIncome's ground-breaking online marketing system.

Summer 2006

The trend continues as ABCIncome demonstrates that it can produce well over 100 new signups a day for its clients with plenty of room still planned for expansion.

Just by way of contrast and illustration Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, a company that was on track to beat Excel's earlier phenomenally successful record, and whose independent representatives ABCIncome offered our services to for three years, took six years to reach approximately 50,000 MLM representatives by the end of 2006. Multiply by one year the maximum daily signup levels that ABCIncome has demonstrated it is able to produce and it equates to the capability to add 50,000 new signups in just one year!

Spring 2006

ABCIncome reaches its highest level of signups to-date, reaching as many as 140 new signups per day, representing hundreds of new customers.
 

Fall 2005

ABCIncome undergoes its third major Website upgrade in three years with a crisper look and technology designed to make future updates and continued expansion easier. All constraints are removed from the system, and all systems are go to meet the huge demand that has continually been expressed by people who all say the same thing, which is that: "They've been waiting for someone to come along and develop a system just like this one!"

GRPMAX, L.L.C., the parent company of ABCIncome, relocates its offices from Jackson, Michigan back to Grand Rapids, Michigan where the company first started over 25 years ago. While we'll always have fond memories of the small-town, family-friendly atmosphere of Jackson (pop. 36,000), Grand Rapids, the second largest city in Michigan, offers the amenities, location, and services that make it easier to attract and employ the best and brightest Information-age workers and professionals.

Spring 2005

Over $1 million dollars in orders are received even before the system has been widely promoted. The system is kept intentionally constrained while additional infrastructure is added to make sure that it is able to handle the huge demand that has been expressed by those wanting to use the service.

Fall 2004

The system starts to transition from testing into preparation for making it fully available to the public.

2003

ABCIncome goes live on the Internet as the domain name that will eventually be used for the new program, still primarily in test phase. By now the program is attracting attention and interest from network marketers as well as companies interested in using such a system. Many are anxious to start using the system, but Phil is determined not to make it widely available until the time is right. 

2001-2002

Testing begins on the various ideas and pieces that will eventually go into making up the new business building system. Various aspects of MLM, Internet marketing, computer and Internet and Web technology and programming are tested, including various marketing and advertising tests.

1995-2001

Phil draws heavily on the methods and technologies created in his technology business, GRPMAX, L.L.C., to further develop his concept of an automated, hands-off MLM business building system, while still looking for the perfect MLM company or vehicle to which to apply the system being developed.

1994-1995

Combining prior knowledge and marketing skills along with writing skills to develop more effective training methods and materials, Phil builds a downline of 4,000. Not as big as some, but definitely a successful effort, and from scratch, with no people being brought over from other organizations. Equally if not more important, the training methods and materials developed by Phil allowed many others to achieve their goals, many experiencing success for the first time. It was during this time that Phil met Paul Orberson, who would later found Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing, the MLM company that Phil would next identify as the "perfect" MLM opportunity.

Excel indeed proved Phil's predictions accurate by becoming one of the most successful companies both in network marketing as well as American business history through the early to late 1990s.

Despite success, and a training program that worked, Phil noticed that industry wide a very large percentage of the people who started MLM businesses did not attain any significant degree of success. He turned his attention back to his computer technology business and went back to the drawing board to design a hands-off system that would allow virtually anyone to be successful and generate income.

1994

Using the same exhaustive analysis techniques developed from business consulting, Phil selects Excel Communications as the MLM as close to "perfect" as possible at the time and makes his first serious effort at MLM.

1980s to 1993

While working as a computer consultant and best selling computer book author ABCIncome Founder Phil Covington becomes intrigued by the potential of MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) through friends and associates who are million dollar top producers in the industry. He dabbles here and there in a number of opportunities while learning more.