Thanks V, for remembering that I am a fitness consultant, and also for your gracious post. My interest is more in the product, which promotes health and goes hand in hand with my business, than with making money. I'd never want anyone to see me as a 'huckster' LOL.
Luckie: As a fitness consultant or personal trainer you should be well aware that the only things people need to remain fit is excercise and a proper diet. Everything above and beyond that is just trying to sell something to make money. The company you tout here to Steve is nothing but a pyramid scheme to make you the trainer sell their products and promote others to do the same. The organinc teas, etc. can be purchased by anyone where organing teas and foods are sold and should not involve you pushing a particular product. You certainly can recommend to your clients to purchase a certain brand in a store, so why go through the charade of you having to purchase the product and then resell or try to get others to resell the product for a so called comission which you will probably not see. Most people who purchase products in this fashion end up either using it themselves, giving it away or throwing it away due to them being stale due to lack of sales on their part. My suggestion to you is save your money, promote healty diets and excercise and your clients will be very happy with you as their trainer and promote you in that fashion to their friends, vs. the trainer who keeps trying to sell you something while doing all other items. Which reputation would you prefer from your clients?
My husband recently started selling catalogue jewelry under this system to make some extra cash while he's still in school. My personal observation by looking at him and some other people involved is that you CAN make good money, but only if you're very active in recruiting (and supporting) the people "under you". If you do it purely based on your own sales, you can make some decent extra cash, but not enough to support yourself. Jorge has made a couple thousand pesos extra in the last month or 2. Nothing amazing, but not bad for a few hours of work. The lady who recruited him I believe supports herself on the money she makes. She has invested a good amount in buying a lot of the actual product to display. She supports those under her by lending them these items for small parties (like tupperware parties, but with jewelery), and taking in some of the earnings. She also trains them on good sales techniques and winning company benefits. I agree with gabesz and Steve that the people at the top of the pyramid are the only ones who truly benefit. If you're looking to make decent money, you have to work hard to get to the top of your own pyramid, but it is possible.
Ok, well it seems the owners of this are associates of a guy charged by the FTC of making misleading eanings claims in a previous pyramid scheme. Pyramid Promoter Settles FTC Charges The product doesnt appear to meet FDA approval guidelines. The product appears to be distributed from the garage of a private house in Vegas. The current owners were involved with previous MLM schemes such as 14dailyplus and cyberwize which have multiple reports of people losing a lot of money. Ripoff Report | Scams, Frauds, Reviews And Consumer Complaints On Company: 14 Daily Plus Have a detailed read of: Holton Buggs is back. Hide your money and run Err, no thanks
Note the following on the quote which I underlined and show in red. You need to invest a great deal of your own money to show the actual product. This is how the MLM works. The lady who recruited the husband will sell him or rent him the products to show and that is how she makes money. But in order to make money she must have many like the husband of Gringation to offset her own expense if the investment that she must have made. And the key is very active promition of the product which could take up a lot of your time. In all honesty if you want to make money go to Sams or Costco buy the organic teas they sell there and resell those by the package and you will make money on that and its easier then trying to convince others to buy your product and then sell it to others. So yes its a bad idea. And the info that Steve found about the company further holds that this is nothing but a get rich quick scheme where you or anyone like you Luckie will not be Lucky.
My thought on MLM, as Steve more or less said without saying it in his first post on this thread, is that: AT SOME POINT, SOMEONE HAS TO SELL SOMETHING. And of course I mean the product and not the concept of MLM. People buy a ton of Amway and that made DeVos a billionaire. It would surprise me if even 1% of the MLM deals out there ever make people a peso by someone actually buying a product; let alone buying it more than once. I am not pimping Amway but I remember my mom bought laundry detergent, was happy with the product's performance and cost. I have no idea how she bought it or how it got there but this one item worked for her. DeVos bought the Orlando Magic NBA team many years ago, even though he did not live in Orlando. But he is very philanthropic and made a huge impact on the Central Florida community through his family foundation through millions of dollars in donations. He must have been doing something right at some point. That said, MLM is not for me. Sort of like time share as far as appeal.
