Sorry for the delay… I’m certain many of you have been waiting for our new sucks dot com web sites; http://www.search-entrepreneurs-sucks.com, http://searchentrepreneurssux.com, and our blog http://blog.searchentrepreneurssux.com since we became aware of the new name of the sleazy old company. Rest assured that our new sucks dot com for Search Entrepreneurs, (yes, you missed a few domains) are up and operational. Same Dog, Same Fleas, New name… not like we didn’t predict it. Find us on Google if you put in the <keywords= Search Entrepreneurs Sux or Sucks> or just use this search link: Search Entrepreneurs .
Health Career Agents is still alive and kicking, I guess. The company is still showing as active with the Missouri Secretary of State and the “re-scam” … (I mean resales) website is still operational. Out of curiosity, is Search Entrepreneurs, Inc. now contracted to support the Health Career Agents membership since Career Agents Network ceased to exist? Just for informational purposes, it appears that Brian Marchant-Calsyn is also undergoing somewhat of a name change. He isn’t using “Marchant” as part of his last name and also tends to spell his first name BrYan. It would also appear that he is planning on sticking around the digs on Topping Road. Although he conducted a “Moving Sale” last July it doesn’t appear that the house is listed anywhere on the market. Couple that with the fact that he just paid his tax bill of more than 15 thousand dollars in November and it seems he’s settled in for the Winter. Anyone interested in owning property next to him should line up for the Tax sale on his adjacent property (at 1803 Topping Rd.) in the late Summer, when it is sold for 3 years of delinquent taxes.

Paul Helm wrote a piece for the website today that discussed metrics. Metrics are extremely valuable tools in establishing and maintaining a business. They are also of great value when you are looking at the statistical information regarding a business opportunity. Let’s look at the metrics involved with Health Career Agents. You may remember that this is now Career Agents Network, as they had to modify their name to slither out of Missouri.
I’m glad Paul Helm can actually get the posting dates correct in his “NEWS” today. This was actually posted on the same day as the date imprint states. Try to keep your calendar straight Paul, at least something in what you say should have truth and accuracy.
Paul Helm does some seemingly fancy math with his most recent post in the “News” section of their website. In writing about the U. S. staffing industry and the amount of revenue they generate during a year the dollar figure of 160 Billion is mentioned. As the President of a company, Mr. Helm should know the difference between revenue and profit, and the fact that much of a staffing company’s revenue goes back out the door in the form of wages to the personnel. He should also be intimately aware that most of the people engaged in the business he is aligned with and promotes are in Permanent Placement and not Staffing.
Quick facts:
• In terms of specialist recruitment, the total global market is estimated to be worth US$29.6 billion on a net fee/gross profit basis.
• The US recruitment industry derives around 81% of its revenues from placing temporary/contract employees while only around 19% is derived from search and placement recruitment companies.
Further, Mr. Helm as part of the previous company, Health Career Agents (now Career Agents Network), should discuss the numbers associated with, and failure rates in the ”business opportunity” he promotes, such as:
The number of dollars many people paid to become a member of Health Career Agents and feel they were scammed.
The estimated percentage of members that converted to Career Agents Network from their affiliation with Health Career Agents without it being part of the “loan forgiveness” offered by the financing arm of Health Career Agents in exchange for the waiver of liability for misdeeds contained in section 2 of the agreement.
The estimated percentage of Health Career Agents member no longer active in their business, don’t have a business email address, and many of which never earned their slice of the “pie”.
The known number of members out of more than 1,000 that have been associated with this scam and made an income by being “grandfathered in” through the various name changes and corporate slitherings since the formation of “The Internet Recruiting Group”.
The actual date of Helm’s posting, not 9/15/2010 as published. If you can’t get your facts straight, getting the date correct must be equally problematic.
I was watching the CNBC program last night “American Greed” which focused on the Kansas City Pharmacist that was diluting the chemotherapy that cancer patients were receiving. Over the course of time he had amassed some 18.7 million dollars in wealth by cheating people out of the medicine they had paid for and needed.
As with some cheats, scoundrels, and scammers, Robert Courtney, was found guilty and sentenced to prison for 30 years. Others seem to escape the judicial system, whether because of their “lesser evils” or the laziness of attorney generals to prosecute them. Whether a scammer is diluting drugs or deluding buyers the effect is the same, enriching themselves at the expense of others.
In another posting among her seemingly sporadic and inane writings, Charlotte Byndas discussed the question “does money equal happiness?”. The blog posting was in response to a recent study which claimed that above $75,000 in annual income the incremental happiness is negligible. I think that the appropriate follow-up question would have to include “Does being scammed out of $50,000 create unhappiness?” It would be something she should address since she has personal experience with hundreds of people that feel precisely that way about her and the company she headed up as Chief Operating Officer, Health Career Agents. It was, in her own words, her “baby” and she was therefore responsible for the destruction it created in many personal lives.
Some people survive their cancer even though given diluted drugs from Robert Courtney. Some people survive in recruiting even though given a deluded business model from Charlotte Byndas.
Some people survive no matter what, It doesn’t lessen the fact that they were scammed.