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Waiora Opportunity Overview

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General lnformation:

Waiora is a direct sales company that is involved in the healthy living industries. It was founded in 2004 by a small team of people. Waiora has more than 58 million distributors scattered across nearly every continent. The four markets that the Waiora opportunitiy can do business in include the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. The countries where products are for personal use only; meaning the products are retailed only and does not involve direct selling include Australia, Japan, Canada, Macau, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand.

Waiora Products:

Waiora offers nutritional products and personal care products. The products contain some rare and powerful ingredients; such as, zeolite, acai, goji, and peptides.

The nutritional products include the following categories: immune & detox, essential nutrition, targeted nutritionals, weight management, cardiovascular, cleanse, and digestive.

The personal care products include the following categories: skincents face, skincents body, and skincents systems.

Waiora Opportunity:

Getting started in Waiora is very affordable. The cost is only $29.95 to become a Waiora distributor. There are nine levels and 10 different distributor ranks. Below is the average annually income statistics from 2008:

Bronze: $720.00
Silver: $1,080.00
Gold: $2,391.00
Ruby: $10,037.00
Emerald: $48,514.000
Diamond: $124,873.00
Single Diamond: $277,343.00
Double Diamond: $554, 148.00
Triple Diamond: $923,668.00
Blue Diamond: $1,235,772.00

Waiora Compensation Plan:

There are 5 different ways to earn an income in Waiora.

1. Retail Profit: Earn profits on customer purchases via retail sales.
2. Customer Rebates: Based on your customers’ orders, you can earn an additional 5%-10% each month.
3. Fast Start Bonus: Earn a bi-week[ check. You can earn from 10% – 25o/o on the CV of your newly enrolled distributors and up to 10% on the new enrolled by the people you have personally enrolled.
4. Pacesetter Bonus: People who set the pace can increase their monthly earnings by two, three or more times each month.
5. Premier Program: Accelerate your financial potential by earning the Premier Bonus for every Premier you enroll; a 3rd level or FastStart earning (5%); and instant qualifications for the PaceSetter Bonus by simply enrolling one (or more) Distributor. (Must be a Premier to qualify.)

Waiora Training:

There is available online a training manual for Waiora distributors. There are a 8 chapters in the training. The subjects covered include: getting started with success, sharing the products, sharing the business, hosting a Waiora party, overcoming objections, getting your new members started, your tool kit, and strategy.

They also provide 3 way calls, CDs to pass out to your prospects, sizzle cards, trainings on using newspapers to build your business, trainings on letters and post cards, and third party resources you can use.

Conclusion:

Overall, the Waiora opportunity sounds like a good one. They seem to have everything in place to assist their distributors with their business. The business model is structured very well, from the products, compensation plan, and even trainings are provided.

One thing I will add is regarding the training. Most of the marketing trainings involve using offline methods. This means talking to as many people as possible. lf you are good at sales and/or have a very large list of people to talk to, you should do very well. The problem is, most people do not have either of these in place and thus, unless you are a quick learner or your are willing to learn sales skills, you are more than likely going to struggle.

Most people struggle in their business because many have never owned a business of their own before. lf you are ever going to succeed in any business, you must first make a commitment.

Jumping from one opportunity to another is only going to lead to more failure. Select an opportunity you think you will like, then the next thing to do is to focus on learning skills in marketing. You can use the Waiora trainings given or if talking to people is not you thing, you do have another option, which is to use the internet to build your business. There are marketing systems that will train you on how to use the internet to build your business. Most marketing systems also provide a sales funnel which will allow you to generate an income while you are going through your learning curve. You also have the option to do both online and offline marketing. But, whatever you do, stick to getting those marketing skills down.

Without marketing skills, you are guaranteed to fail. Skills in marketing are key to the success in business. Make a decision that you are going to learn these skills no matter what and in time, you will see better results in your business.

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The Best Way To Succeed ln Partylite Opportunity

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

The company was founded in 1909 by Mabel Bayberry, who was a school teacher in Cape Cod. She started making candles from wild bayberries in her home.

ln 1973, a subsidiary, named Partylite Gifts, lnc, was created. At that time, only three people were working in a tiny office. But, in 1 990, Partylite was acquired by Blyth, lnc. Today, Partylite Consultants number 68,000 around the world. The candles have expanded into an extensive selection of top-quality home fragrances and accents with 100 or more product per year.

The company has offices not only in the United States, but in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Poland, Norway, Austria, Australia, and Mexico.

Partylite Products:

Partylite products are centered around the home and fragrances. Their main products are scented candles and they have a large variety of colors and shapes. The company also has products for special occasions; such as, weddings and holiday events.

Partylite Business Opportunity:

To start a business in Partylite requires you to first signup as a Partylite Consultant. You can signup with no upfront costs. The kits can be earned by selling $500 worth of candles during the Partylite training period. The company also offers what is known as the “Brite Start” program. This gives the consultants the opportunity to earn more business tools and products by meeting certain quotas during the first three months of business.

As a Partylite consultant, you have two options to market your products. You can sell them offline or online. Marketing the products offline requires talking to friends and family, setting up parties, or both. Either way, if your goal is to generate a fulltime income, this requires you to network with a large number of people.

The company encourages selling through parties only and it requires a minimum dollar amount for each order, thus individual sales won’t generate much results in your business. lf you are outgoing and enjoy host parties and networking with people, you should do very well with host parties.

lf you choose to host parties, you demonstrate the products to the attendees at the party. Each consultant does receive guidance from a personal sponsor as well as ongoing trainings, a local support team and the option to launch your won website.

Partylite Compensation Plan:

Compensation consists of 25% of the profits from each party. High sellers are eligible for bonuses and rewards.

There are various levels in Partylite. Below are the average leader profits from 2008:

Unit Leader: $1 8,322-$63,770
Senior Unit Leader: $24,980-$62,1 10
Group Leader: $32,005-$1 I 1,431
District Leader: $42,573-$93,843
Regional Leader: $53,604-$88,970
Regional Vice President: $63,789-$101,192
Senior Regional Vice President: $142,501-$685,341

Conclusion:

The average person in Parlylite would not make much money. The Partylite consultants that do well would be those who love to interact with people and enjoy hosting parties, or who know how to sell. Others who do well acquired the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively market their business online.

lf you feel that you would be interested in becoming a Partylite consultant but not sure about the hosting parties, you too can learn how to use the internet to market your Partylite products online. There are online marketing systems that will train you on how to use the internet to build your Partylite business. Most online marketing systems also include a sales funnel that will allow you to generate an income while you are building your business. This means you won’t have to pay
out of pocket for many of the products you purchase from Partylite.

Whether you use online or offline to market your Partylite business, you are going to need skills.  Thus, training and a marketing plan are other issues that need to be addressed prior to you becoming a Partylite consultant.

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How Do You Make Money With Global Domains lnternational?

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General information:

To be honest, I was a member of the Global Domains business opportunity some years ago, but instead of sharing my views, I thought I would take an objective approach and share with you what I found based on research I conducted on the internet.

First, Global Domains international is a member of DSA and although it may seem like it, GDI is not an overnight success. It has been in business since 1982 and has been ranked 37th in Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies.

Michael Reed (CEO) and Alan Ezeir (President) are the two founders of Global Domains international.

Global Domains international Product:

The company promotes the “.WS” domain name extension globally. What is “.WS”? lt is a top level domain extension similar to “.COM”. When the internet was starting to develop, each country was assigned a domain name; such as, United States is “.US” and United Kingdom is “.UK”. The domain “.WS” is assigned to the Nation of Samoa. In fact, the Nation of Samoa receives a percentage of all the profits that GDI generates.

When Global Domains sells a domain name, it includes the web hosting URL forwarding, 10 email accounts, and a web site builder. Basically, one starts with a domain registration with a 7 day FREE trial. After this, you will be charged $10 per month.

Global Domains Income Opportunity:

You can earn from 5 levels and you can build as wide as you want. You are paid $’1.00 a month per person, which doesn’t sound like much at first. But say you signed up five people into your organization. That is $5.00 per month. lf each of them do the same, that is $25.00 per month, and if this continues through 5 levels, that is $3,125.00 a month.

Global Domains Bonuses:

They do offer a 7 day contest period whereby if you or someone else refers 5 paid affiliates, you get a bonus of $100.00. This is unlimited so you can get as many people as you want. The more you get, the more money you can make.

There is a Heavy Hitter Bonus that is paid out to any affiliate with 1000 or more members in any 4 week consecutive period. The bonus is $5,000.

GDI Training:

Based on what I have read, the marketing methods taught or that many use is chasing your family and friends and handing out DVD’s. This method, for most people simply does not work, lt also doesn’t do anything regarding addressing the high attrition rate. Most people new to a business opportunity cannot sell and without proper training, if you can’t sell, you are probably not going to make any money. To address this issue, one would need to seek other resources to get the
proper network marketing training

Conclusion:

It appears that GDI is a good company. I have heard that it is not easy to become a member of DSA. Is this a good opportunity to join? That depends on you. Most businesses require work and if you don’t mind working and learning new skills, which is a requirement of all entrepreneurs, then joining GDI might be fine. But, there is one missing element to this and it is the most important one, training.

To succeed in any business is going to require proper training. Since Global Domains International does not provide this, you will need to seek your marketing training elsewhere.  There is an online marketing system that can train you on how to use the internet to market your business. You will be learning new skills here, so the other element you must factor in is your willingness to stick with it and make it work. Learning something new is always a struggle at first, but if you ever want to succeed in business, you must first get the tools and skill-sets in place.

One additional advantage to using a marketing system is that it also provides a sales funnel that will allow you to earn an income from multiple streams while you are learning how to grow your business. This means not having to stay broke while you are going through your learning curve.  Once you have the marketing skills in place, it won’t be long before you will be generating a full-time income from Global Domains business.

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Ameriplan USA Revealed

Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

AmeriPlan Corporation is the nation’s premiere discount medical plan organization, saving its members millions of dollars in supplemental healthcare benefits since 1992.

AmeriPlan USA was started by two brothers, Dennis and Daniel Bloom, who were also twins.  It was launched in April 1993.  At the time, there were only two AmeriPlan USA Independent Business Owners (IBO’s), Dennis and Daniel.  Today, there are more than 55,000 AmeriPlan USA IBO’s that sell AmeriPlan’s program in all 50 states, except Alaska.

Individuals pay $11.95 per month, households $19.95 per month.  In return, AmeriPlan customers get up to 80% off their dental work.

The company has added a free vision program and a pharmaceutical program to the original package, and plans to add chiropractic discount program.

AmeriPlan USA has aligned itself with 30,000 dentists nationwide.  It also works with the pharmaceutical companies; such as, CVS, Target, Walgreens, and more. For eye, AmeriPlan has agreements with major names; such as, Pearle Vision, Eyemasters, and LensCrafters.

AmeriPlan USA Business Opportunity

Basically, to become an AmeriPlan USA Independent Business Owner, it will cost $50.00 and you continue to pay $50.00 per month which includes:

Business Benefits Package: resources in the industry to help AmeriPlan USA IBO’s build their business.  Many of the benefits are included at no additional charge as part of the monthly fee while others are available at a significant discount.

AccessSaver: All IBO’s have access to this program for only $14.95 per month.  This program offers discount services for dining, automotive, recreation, and shopping.

Complimentary Services & Programs: All of the IBO’s receive complimentary services and programs to:

- Corporate Services which include: application and processing & membership fulfillment, bank & credit card services, customer service, provider relations, and information technology.

- Discount Healthcare Membership: IBO’s also get with this healthcare programs, which has a retail value of $19.95 per month.

- Six E-commerce enable websites: Four to send member prospects to and two to send other business opportunity seekers to.

- IBO Back Office: where all online tools for AmeriPlan IBOs.  The site has information on their sales organization, commissions, training, forms, events, promotions, emails center, and much more.

- Training Web Site: this is where IBOs can get their AmeriPlan eKit which includes online tools and resources to help them with their business.

Sales Director Program: As an AmeriPlan Sales Director you are eligible for additional complimentary benefits including: 401K benefits, accidental death and dismemberment, and direct deposit banking.

Optional Business Benefits: Optional resources and tools to help with building your business.

- $45 IBO Kit which is mailed out to you, which has tools and trainings to help the IBO with his or her business.

AmeriPlan USA Products:

The kinds of services you get with AmeriPlan are: AmeriPlan Dental, AmeriPlan vision, AmeriPlan prescription, and AmeriPlan chiropractic.

Features: Since they are not an insurance, there are no forms to fill out, no waiting, no limits on your visits or your services, and no one is left out.

Costs For Each Plan is as follows:

Individual Dental which includes Dental, vision, prescription, and chiropractic cost $14.95 per month.

Dental Plus is for the entire household.  It includes Dental, vision, prescription, and chiropractic.  The cost is $19.95 per month.

Basic Wellness for entire household includes Vision, prescription, hearing services, and nurse line.  The cost is $14.95 per month.

Total Health for entire household includes dental, vision, prescription, chiropractic, physician care, ancillary services, hospital advocacy, and nurse line.  The cost is $39.95 per month.

Lastly, is the Total Health Plus, again for the entire household includes dental, vision, prescription, chiropractic, physician care, ancillary services, hospital advocacy, nurse line, auto club, identity theft assistance, and legal services.  All for $59.95 per month.

How the programs works is:

1. Locate a service in your area and make an appointment.
2. Go to the dentist and bring your AmeriPlan member card.
3. At the end of your appointment,  you pay the discounted fee to the dentist.

AmeriPlan Compensation Plan:

AmeriPlan pays a 30% commission on every member and IBO you sign-up for as long as they remain on the books.  You also have the ability to collect additional income based on your downline.

AmeriPlan’s traditional compensation plan for Independent Business Owners (IBO) pays a 30% level monthly residual commission on all personal business you write. Starting with the rank of Senior Regional Sales Director (SRSD), AmeriPlan’s lucrative overrides reward IBOs who develop new leaders in their down-line organization.

The various levels within AmeriPlan USA include:  Sales Director, Regional Sales Director, Senior Regional Sales Director, Executive Sales Director, Senior Executive Sales Director, National Sales Direct, and lastly National Vice President.

4 Ways to Get Paid:

1. APFlex Cycle Bonus: Once you qualify, you are eligible to weekly APFLex Cycle Bonuses. When you have $600 worth of bonus volume on one side and $300 worth of bonus volume, you will earn a cycle bonus check.

2. 100% Matching Bonus: When your team members earn a cycle bonus, you can earn a 20% matching bonus (paid weekly) on five levels of your personal organization.

3. Advanced Commissions: IBOs earn 20% and 30% commissions on all membership programs sold.  AmeriPlan pays out a 3 month advance (paid daily) to all IBOs on all Dental Plus, Basic Health, Total Health, SecureNet, and Freedom Pass Programs.  There are never any chargebacks in AmeriPlan.

4. Management Bonus Overrides: Once you have promoted to the 2nd Management (PIN) Level, which is Senior Regional Sales Director, you will earn a 15% Builder’s Bonus on all of your frontline RSD Teams. Additional bonus levels are added as you promote to NDS…NVP for a total of 34% in bonus overrides.

AmeriPlan Training:

AmeriPlan does offer trainng to its IBOs.  In fact, there are a number of websites that offer training to its members.  But, ultimately, it is up to the IBO to attend the various trainings.

The tainings include periodic opportunity calls, setting goals, how to sponsor 4 to 6 members by handing out DVD’s, discount program brochures, how to get people to watch your DVD, 3 way call, using scripts when calling prospects, and more.

Basically, the trainings teach IBOs how to invited prospects to a presentation, like the DVDs, opportunity call, IBO website, 3 way calls, etc.

Using such methods can be difficult for many people.  Using tools is great, but first you have to find the prospects to talk to and usually, like in AmeriPlan, it starts with family and friends.

If you are using these methods are you try using these methods without much success, don’t despair.  Many have used these methods and failed.  The problem is family and friends are should not be your target market.  Secondly, this sets up many IBOs, who probably have never had a business before, to fail.  Not a good start and ultimately, if they continue to deal with rejection and more failure, in 30-90 days, they quit.

But, there is an alternative way to building a business that will lessen the rejection encountered and decrease the pain of the business building process.  Using a marketing system, you use the internet to market your business.  You will also be trained on various marketing strategies that you can use to market your business.  In addition, most marketing systems provide a sales funnel that will allow you to generate an income while you are building your business. The money earned can be put back into your business so that you don’t end up going broke.

In conclusion, building a business is a lot of hard work.  Most people who are just starting a business with an MLM or network marketing company are never told the realities of this and they usually don’t find out until they have spent a lot of time and money trying to build a business.  If they were told, you would be able to filter out those who are just seeking to get rich from those who are serious about having a business opportunity.  This might help with the poor attrition rate one sees in the network marketing industry.

Skills are important, and one of the first things one should do, before they do anything, is to focus on developing their marketing skills.  Once those skills are learned, you will see a lot more success in your business.

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Review Of Nu Skin Opportunity

Posted on 14. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

Nu Skin Enterprises is a direct selling corporation headquartered in Utah. lt is also publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, with revenue over 800 million dollars. Nu Skin launched in
June of 1984. Blake M. Rodney started NuSkin with less than $5,000 startup capital from his own pocket. In October of that same year, Nu Skin incorporated. NuSkin Enterprises is currently a
global company, reaching many 41 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, to name a few.

Nu Skin Products:

There are more than 820,000 independent distributors who use, sell and recruit others to become independent retailers. Nu Skin markets skin, cosmetic, oral care, general nutrition, sports nutrition, weight management, botanical, and hair care products through three subdivisions; NuSkin, Pharmanex, and Big Planet.

NuSkin products are developed from natural ingredients. Much of Nu Skin’s earnings are spent on research and development of new and innovative products. They have even partnered with Stanford’s school of medicine for scientific research in dermatology, ethnobotany, and cosmetic science.

NuSkin Opportunity:

NuSkin business opportunity involves 2 things: retail marketing and sponsoring new distributors.

Distributors make money two ways:

1. Selling the products
2. Earning commission off the product sales of downline.

To get started in Nu Skin, it costs $35.00 with an annual fee of $20.00. However, you are required to move large amount of products to qualify for commissions. NuSkin enforces some stringent demands and quotas.

You don’t make money by signing up a new distributor. The money is generated when a product is bought or sold. This makes the company very product-driven. Therefore, its not the quantity of distributors you have in your group that is going to determine the money you make. You success is going to be determined by how successful your Nu Skin distributor is at buying and selling the products. You can sell the products at30% markup. The entire profit goes to you. The commission for you sponsor comes from the wholesale dollars you paid out for the products you purchased.

There are levels within the NuSkin business model. The first level is that a new distributor should shoot for is to become an Executive. An Excutive has 5 first level distributors who are reaching a specific sales volume. To move up from the Executive level, the group sales volume must increase and a number of the distributors in your downline must become “break-away” executives who have also created a downline.

There are 7 levels in NuSkin:

1. Qualifying Executive
2. Executive
3. Gold Executive
4. Lapis Executive
5. Ruby Executive
6. Diamond Executive
7. Blue Diamond Executive

NuSkin Compensation Plan:

As a NuSkin distributor you earn:

• Fast-Start payments when you sell Fast-Start Product Packages to your customers and distributors
• $285.00 USD ($325.75 CA) package price
• 2OO PSV
• $50 paid to seller
• Up to 30% profit on retail customer purchases
• 5% commission on L1 sales generated monthly

Nu Skin Training:

NuSkin University offers training to Nu Skin distributors. It is a comprehensive online training and education resource that is used to empower employees as well as distributors wih the knowledge hey need to become successful.  Nu Skin University consists of two main parts:

1. eLearning courses :products and business related online training courses and presentations.
2. online library : comprehensive Nu Skin product information database.

The NuSkin training program offers courses through e-learning system. A distributor can learn about products, skins care, health management. Having such knowledge will make it easier for the distributor to talk to prospects about the products, thereby helping with the selling of the products.  It is up to the Nu Skin distributor to enroll themselves into the online courses offered by the NuSkin University.

Skills are imperative success in business. This is why it is a necessity that the NuSkin distributor participate in as many of the trainings offered by NuSkin Enterprises. Finding people to talk to
may be relatively easy at first. Most network companies will suggest that you talk to your family and friends first, and this is fine, if you feel comfortable with using this type of marketing.

But, if you find that it is not easy to talk to your family and friends, and if you are struggling finding customers and prospects, you can always resort to using an online marketing system which will
train you on how to use the internet to market your business. Another added advantage to using marketing system, is that you can use the system to train your downline, thus, freeing you up to
focus on your marketing.

There is also a sales funnel that is provided within most marketing systems that will allow NuSkin distributors to generate an income while building their NuSkin business. Buying products for your Nu
Skin business will be a requirement, but the cost can be offset by the income generated through the sales funnel. Even if the offline marketing methods taught by NuSkin is the preferred method by some Nu Skin distributors, there are always going to be those individuals who prefer using the internet to build their business.  This is another advantage to incorporating a marketing system into a marketing plan, to allow flexibility in the marketing training to new NuSkin distributors.  Not everyone is the same so why attempt to teach everyone the same methods of marketing.  Let them make the choice as to the preferred marketing method.  They may even prefer to incorporate both, but at least they will have the choice available, which will make NuSkin distributors far happier than having to be forced to use marketing methods they don’t enjoy.  Happy distributors are more likely to stay.

As a business owner, there are many choices to make and it stands to reason that some of your choices may not be the best choice. But, this should not prevent you from moving forward. The key is to learn from your mistakes and to never give up. The failures and mistakes you make along the way during the business building process will inevitably lead you to success, that is if you learn from them and stay in the game. Ultimately, to win in business, you must always stay focused on your goals and believe strongly in your business and, most of all, in yourself.

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Prepaid Legal Business Opportunity Review

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

Prepaid legal services refer to individual or group employee benefit legal plan in which a member pays a monthly fee in exchange for access to a range of legal services on-call. Prepaid legal plans typically offer certain services for a fixed monthly charges; such as, legal advice and consultation, review of contracts, having a lawyer write a letter on a client’s behalf or the drafting of wills and other legal documents. Legal service plans may also cover legal representation in court; such as, traffic violation defense, automobile related criminal charges, defense and general trail defense, and the filing of motions. But, most plans require a client to pay extra for such services or cover a limited number of hours in court time.

Prepaid Legal Opportunity: To get started in Pre-Paid Legal, it costs $49.00 and you must fill out an application to enroll. What you receive are the following:

- Sales aids & materials to help you get started
- Certified Field Training
- Support from those on your team
- Home office support via the Marketing Services Team
- Access to a wide range of marketing supplies
- Online Associate Services, including communications and business documents.

As a Pre-Paid Legal Independent Associate, your primary responsibility is to educate and explain the various services offered by Pre-Paid Legal.

First, there are 6 levels. Jr. Associate, Associate, Sr. Associate, Manager, Director, and Executive Director.

To reach the level of Executive, you must have 3 legs beneath you with an active Director and 75 sales. You may count personal sales and up to 25 sales per leg containing an active Director or personally sell 75 memberships per month.

3 Ways To Make Money:

1. Market a Prepaid membership.

- Individual memberships – Legal Plans & Identity Theft Shield
- Employee Benefit Memberships
- Specialty Plan Memberships Legal Shield Rider, Business Plan, Home-Based Business Rider, Commercial Drivers Legal Plan, Law Officers Legal Plan

2. Receive override commissions when others in your organization enroll new Pre-Paid Legal Members and train new Associates.

3. Receive residual compensation on your personal and organizational membership sales.

Pre-Paid Legal Services:

lf you are not interested in the business opportunity offered by Pre-Paid Legal, you can use the services.

How It Works:

Members are served by a Provider Law Firm, which has been carefully screened and selected by Pre-Paid Legal.

If you have a legal issue, you simply use the Life Events Legal Plan, you call your Provider Law Firm directly at the toll-free number on their membership card when they have a legal question or problem.

Life Events Legal Plan: This is a plan that members use to access professional legal counsel by calling a toll-free phone number.

Cost: The cost for one year membership of Pre-Paid Legal is about $26.00 or less per month.

The Identity Theft Shield is $9.95 per month if you have a Pre-Paid Legal membership or $12.95 per month if you prefer to enroll in the identity Theft Shield without the legal service plan benefits.

Pre-Paid Legal Compensation Plan: As a Independent Associate you are paid anywhere from $50 – $182.00 on every $26 membership you sell.

At Senior Associate level, this means that if you market just 5 memberships per week, you receive $500 per week.

The breakdown goes as follows:

Jr. Associate: $25.00
Associate: $50.00
Sr. Associate: $100.00
Manager: $125.00
Director: $150.00
Executive Director: $1 82.50

There are Daily Payments where you are paid commissions, bonuses, and overrides. All payments are direct deposited to you every day.

There is also available Advance Commissions. This is when on a $26 membership sale, you are paid up to a total of $245.50.

For more detailed information on the Compensation Plan:

https://www.prepaidlegal.com/pdf/52532.pdf

Prepaid Legal Training: Prepaid Legal Independent Associates are trained by a Certified Field Training program which offers a “hands on” experience in learning how to present the opportunity and services of Pre-Paid Legal.

A number of marketing options are available. They include:

1. Showing the Pre-Paid Legal plan.
2. Signing up new members.
3. Sending the enrollment to corporate for processing.
4. You get paid.

When the membership information is received, commissions are deposited into your bank account.

ls Pre-Paid Legal The Opportunity For You?

Because the business model implemented is that of a multi-level marketing company means that in order to generate a lucrative income is going to require you to recruit a large number of people and make lots of sales per month. This means it is going to require a lot of work. There are good times and bad times in any business. Question you should ask yourself is “Are you serious about starting a business?”. lf no, then I say wait until you are ready. If yes, then there are other things you need to consider before moving forward with any opportunity like Pre-Paid Legal.

First, select a home-based business that fits your interests and talents. Examine what you want in a business. Also note that in selecting a business opportunity, look for one that has a number of years beneath its belt. Launches can be risky. More businesses fail than succeed and this is because MLM and network marketing is a competitive arena. Many find that they just cannot compete.

Also, most home businesses have three qualities: time management and money, continual income, and steady growth that multiplies. By managing your time effectively, you can reap the benefits from your efforts.

Starting a business part-time, as many do, is a wise decision. Don’t go full time until you know you are ready.

Lastly, skills, in particular marketing skills are extremely important. So, once you make the decision to move forward with a business opportunity, be sure to immediately look for training that will give an advantage to building a successful business. You can choose to market your business using offline methods. Most MLM’s do offer this kind of training. You also have the choice to use the internet to market your business. Most MLM’s don’t offer this, but you can look for online training resources on the internet. They are usually referred to as marketing systems or online training systems.

Most marketing systems will not only train you on how to use the internet to build your business, but they also will give you the ability to earn an income while you are developing your marketing skills. The income generated can be used to pay for your marketing so you don’t go broke.

In conclusion, whatever decision you make, be sure that you take your business seriously. Don’t make the mistake of treating your business like it is a job. The two are very different. (This subject is for another article.) As you move forward on your decision to start a business, you must also be sure that you are ready to learn new information about business and marketing and you are ready to work. After all, this is a business.

While you are engaged in the various aspects of your business, be prepared to fail, but don’t fear failing. Failing is one way serious entrepreneurs learn the most and grow the most. lt has happened to just about every entrepreneur at one time or another. lt is just the nature of the beast of being a business owner. lt is through our mistakes and failures that ultimately leads us to our triumphs and successes. Just keep this in mind as you endure the struggles of the business building process.

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Get The Facts About TVI Express

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

TVI Express stands for Travel Ventures International. It got its start in 2009.  They are headquartered in London, United Kingdom.  The company operates in over 50 countries around the world.  The company has partners with some of the biggest companies in the travel industry.  For example, Virgin, Hertz, Avis, Sheraton, Swiss International Airlines, Royal Caribbean, and Hyatt, just to name a few.

TVI Express Opportunity:

To enroll in TVI Express, you must first have a sponsor.  The cost to join is $250.00 USD if paid using a prepaid voucher. It is $275.00 USD if paid by Liberty Reserve or a credit card.  It’s a one time payment for a lifetime memberships and does not include any recurring costs.

People who are members of TVI Express are referred to as Independent Representatives or IR’s.  IR’s are given immediate access to the backoffice where you will have access to the various booking and search engines to start planning a holiday.  You also receive you onw marketing package and a self replicated website to start promoting the TVI Express Opportunity.

There are no products to sell.  TVI Express is an e-commerce opportunity allowing you to build the business around the globe.  But, you do have the other option of using off-line marketing strategies to build your business by conducting seminars and workshops about the opportunity.

As an TVI Express Independent Representative, you immediate goal should be to get 2 people to join you and then help them get two.  The TVI Express compensation plan revolves around a matrix.  (More about this later).

The company does have a strict criteria for the advisory board and will only allow members to join with a minimum one year commitment to the business.  The advisory board has access to trainings.

TVI Express Compensation Plan:

Traveller Board:

When you first join TVI Express, you are at position Level 1 of the Traveller Board.  You earn $250 commission and an evoucher worth $250, for a total of $500 as you exit the board.
As the board fills, it breaks into two sub-boards giving you an uplift to the next level. All that is required of you to qualify is to sponsor just two people.

Express Board:

When you cycle out of the Traveller Board, you get a position at Level 1 of the Express Board.  You earn a mega bonus of $10,000 credited to the Online Wallet the instant you cycle out of the Express Board.  You will also get re-entry into the Express Board for you to make another $10,000 in a revolving fashion.

Residual Income:

Once you cycle out of the Express board, you become eligible to earn Residual Income apart from the high paying Board payouts.  You start earning 5% of the group revenue from sales in your existing network, which goes up to 10% on every sale in your organization.  There is no limit to the number of levels.  This compensation plan pays until infinity.

Power Pool:

TVI Express offers 2% of the Global Revenue to its profit sharing pool which is distributed amongst all Presidential Associates.  The share of the revenue grows as time progresses. Currently, the pool offers $200,000 every month.

Incentive Programs:

TVI Express offers incentive programs too.  As you sponsor more people who get to the Express Board, you are given gifts ranging from laptops to yachts and private jets.  To earn the most in the TVI Express program you have to recruit as many people as you can, and the best way to do this it using proven marketing strategies.

TVI Express Training:

TVI Express does offer trainings to its members. First of all they do have a monthly ezine that is sent out to its members. The contents of the ezine include personal development, businss tools, products and services, network news, and IR feedback

There is a location you can go to that will allow you to download presentations that can be used for your presentations to your prospects.

They also provide videos that you can either present to your prospects or direct your online prospects to and let them watch these videos.

To be honest, this may be the one area I see as a weakness.  For a company that primarily uses the internet to market the TVI Express business, it is imperative that its members are taught to market their business or else their chances of failure increase.  Skills are extremely important, in particular marketing skills.

TVI Express gives their members replicated websites, which have proven to not be very effective on the internet.  If you are using the internet, or not, you must have something in place the markets YOU up front, not your business or your products and services. You want to have a business that separates you from everyone else and the only way this is going to be made possible is through marketing YOU because there is only one of you.  Why not have a system in place where a member of TVI Express can easily generate a website that markets them; that has their pictures, their story, etc.

Conclusion:

I believe that what TVI Express has in place is a good opportunity.  The one thing that does stand out is the compensation plan.  It looks as if you can generate an income very quickly, but the training is what is going to hurt them.  Without skills in marketing, you will be hard pressed to successfully build a business in TVI Express.

This is where I suggest using a marketing system that will provide the trainings and tools to help the TVI Express independent reps create a successful business on the internet.

With a marketing system, you get the following:

• Lead Capture pages

• Setup and host your website.

• Training on how to implement search engine marketing campaign.

• Provide SEO trainings, search engine optimization to give you top engine rankings.

• Trainings that will enable you to get your website ranked high on the search engines.

• Can also offer these to your prospects.

• Provide interactive webinars every Wednesday to further educate you on how to bring free traffic to your website and build a successful TVI Express business.

• Provides in-depth videos that will walk you through the various steps that will help you explode your business.

and so much more…

Another advantage that you get with using a marketing system is that a good marketing system will have in place a sales funnel.  A sales funnel is a way in which you can generate an income while you are going through your learning curve.  This is so that you don’t stay broke while building your business, which so many of us network marketers often face as new members of an opportunity who usually possesses little to no skills.  In fact, if you get good at generating leads, you can actually generate a full-time income. This means that not only will you be generating a significant income for TVI Express, but you will also be receiving a significant income from the sales funnel of your marketing system.

In closing, with the proper training, a TVI Express independent rep can create a successful TVI Express business in as little as 30-90 days, depending on whether they are a serious entrepreneur.  A serious entrepreneur is a person of action and will not mind rolling up their sleeves and engaging in activities that can bring about success in their business.  It really is up to you, the individual on how you want to proceed in building your business.  Remember, as a business owner, YOU are the BOSS!

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Agel MLM Opportunity Review

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Overview:

Agel Enterprises LLC is a nutritional supplement supplier and a multi-level marketing (MLM) company. lt started in March 2005 in Provo, Utah. Agel currently sells its products to 55 countries.

The product line includes nine different gelceuticals, which are the world’s first nutritional supplements that are suspended in gel. Agel also has the world’s first all gel care line with Ageless. The nine different products use proven ingredients to target specific specific maladies to do things; such as, reduce joint pain, promote heart health, increase energy, and reduce appetite. Some of the supplements are also notable in that they are both kosher and halal certified, making them acceptable to Jews and Muslims to ingest.

The company has become especially popular in lsrael and many Muslim countries, such as, Malaysia and Indonesia.

A Little History:

The founder of Agel is Glen Jensen. He previously worked in other MLM companies; such as, Nu Skin Enterprises and Neways. He recently joined the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations. ln September of 2008, the company moved its global headquarters from Provo, Utah to Lehi, Utah. The move was done to accommodate the rapid growth as well as to put it closer to Salt Lake City Airport.

Business Model:

To become an active Agel distributor, you must first order your Agel Roadmap. There are two choices, either the Executive Kit or the Personal Pack. You also have to setup your automatic monthly autoship.

Since Agel does follow the structure of a multi-level marketing business model, you more than likely will be instructed to make a list of 100 names, start a marketing campaign (with emphasis on recruiting people), and to commit to making at least two contacts per day.

Agel Training:

Monthly Product Webcasts conducted by Agel Corporate: This is every first Wednesday of each month where you get information on the various products from the experts.

Private Business Review (PBR) progam: Schedule a grand opening PBR in your home or somewhere else. The goal here is to build a team and do a weekly PBR.

Plug into Agel Business Brief (ABB) network: Participate in a local event or meeting. For those areas that do not have an available ABB, create one.

Participate in Weekly Leadership Calls: Be in contact with you local leaders regularly for updated information and motivation.

Book attendance at major Agel events: Agel World is held annually and regional Go Diamond Weekends are held periodically.

30 Minutes a day of personal development: To focus on your goals, review progress, and plan you day.

Agel Compensation Plan:

There are nine ways to make money in Agel. The Agel Comp Plan includes expense allowances, travel award funds, team volume commissions, matching bonuses, and luxury car fund.

To generate a commission, you must first be on autoship. lf you are on autoship, then you can earn an income through the following methods:

Retail sales: selling of the various products.

First order bonus: earn once you have recruited someone. If your new Agel distributor purchases the Executive Kit, you earn $200. If your new Agel distributor purchases the Personal Kit, you earn: $35.00

Each personal enrollment also counts towards your commission volume.

Executive Rank Qualifications: Each month 1% of Global CV is shared amongst team members.

To qualify for the bonus, team members must be either a Supervisor, Manager, or Senior Manager. An additional 0.5% of the CV is shared amongst those who qualify at Director or Regional Director.

Annual Leadership Retreat: Each year, usually the Diamond Director and above are invited to annual leadership retreats and other special events. Expenses are paid for and luxury accommodations are provided as you increase you level of success.

Expense Account: Another perk for those who are at the Senior Director level and above. This lump sum is paid monthly.

Senior Director: $500
Corporate Director: $1000
Diamond Director: $1500
Double Diamond Director: $2000
Triple Diamond Director: $2500
Quadruple Diamond Director $3000

The money is to help defray the costs of building your business.

Luxury Car Bonus: For those at Senior Director and above. This bonus is designed to pay for cars and related costs but you are not required to turn in any receipts and can use the bonus any way you want.

Senior Director: $500
Corporate Director: $1000
Diamond Director: $1500
Double Diamond Director: $2000
Triple Diamond Director: $2500
Quadruple Diamond Director: $3000

Team Volume Commissions: This is for residual income. Essentially, the compensation is a two-leg business structure. You earn 10% commission on your lesser leg, which means that for every unit of CV you accumulate in your lesser leg, you will receive ten cents back in Team Volume Commissions.

Leveraged Matching Bonus: You can earn up to 50% of the Team Volume Commissions being earned by any team members that you have personally sponsored, up to 7 levels down.

Conclusion:

Agel MLM Opportunity is an MLM company that seems to be a viable business for anyone interested, but it not one without is criticisms. Many of the complaints against Agel focus on excess predictions of sales volumes and resulting bonuses, high “buy-in” costs as well as the
complex compensation structure.

There have also been some complaints regarding the effectiveness of the Agel products.

Overall, many supporters and merchants who are involved in Agel say that it is a genuine, profitable multi-level marketing business opportunity. It has taken steps to address the complaints.

In essence, Agel offers a unique business opportunity for those interested. It is a viable opportunity and you can generate a lucrative income, but only through hard work and diligence.

I might add here that the trainings offered are not sufficient for many individuals who do decide to join. Most of the success generated will stem for using offline methods taught by Agel, which involves having a large list of family and friends and/or the ability to sell.

If none of these apply to you, you might want to consider using a marketing system that will train you on how to market your Agel business opportunity using primarily the internet. Most marketing systems also provide a sales funnel that allows its members to generate an income while growing their business. This will help offset any costs you encounter from your marketing, as well as you overall business.

If you use the offline or online marketing strategies to building your Agel business, you need to be open to learning new skills. This is the requirement of every entrepreneur.

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What Are the Benefits Of Being A Tupperware Consultant?

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General:

Tupperware is the name of a home products line that includes preparation, storage, and serving products for the kitchen and home, which were first introduced in 1946.

Tupperware develops, manufactures, and internationally distributes its products by its parent company Tupperware Brands Corporation and it is marketed by means of direct sales through a sales force of approximately 1.9 million consultants.

Tupperware is sold in almost 100 countries.  The top eleven consumers of Tupperware are:

Germany, USA, France, Mexico, Russia, Australia/New Zealand, Italy, Austria, South Africa, Japan, and India.

Business Model:

Tupperware is still sold mostly through parties, with rewards for hosts.  A Tupperware party is run by a Tupperware consultant for a host who invites friends and neighbors into their homes to see the product line.  The hosts not only qualifies for credit towards purchases, but are also rewarded with free products based on the level of sales made at their party.

To become a Tupperware Consultant, you must signup with another Tupperware Consultant.  Then, you are given two choices on how you want to start your business.  There is the option to purchase the Executive Business Kit for $119.99 or you can purchase the Business Kit for $79.99.

Tupperware Consultants are not encourage to keep inventory, but there is a push for consultants to participate in “sampling”.  New Tupperware products are featured each season and consultants are offered the chance to purchase these items at 35% discount, which is then counted towards your personal sales.

Starting out, the money earned is mostly through the sale of Tupperware products.  Overtime, after you have developed a team of Tupperware Consultants, you will earn much more, based on the performance of your downline.  You also have the opportunity to win trips, diamonds, cars, and cash bonuses.  As mentioned earlier, one of the additional rewards is a car.  Tupperware has a program called, Dream Drivers Program, that offers to those who qualify, the use of a company car with no payments and no insurance premiums.

Tupperware Consultant Training:

There are training courses to attend regularly and part of your training will be to learn about the various new products and promotions that are coming out.

There are also training sessions via conference calls and weekly meetings, during which some selling ideas are presented.  There is training offered online in the Tupperware sales support website, but this is up to the consultant to seek the online help.

Recruiting:

There is definitely a push for Tupperware recruiting.  Tupperware constantly provides spotlight on its “Royalty” sales force members.  Managers, DIQs, and Directors are referred to as “Royalty”.  You do not earn commissions, you earn “royalties”.  Tupperware has started recruiting the Hispanic population and has even added a whole “Hispanic Recruiting” section on its training site.

How Much Can A Tupperware Consultant Earn?

A party in the U.S. costs around $400.00.  A Tupperware Consultant can earn $100-$150 for a party that lasts 90 minutes.  If a consultant has a sales organization, he or she can earn $50,000-$70,000 a year, and some , who build their own sales organization, are making over $1 million.

Conclusion:

There are no requirements to becoming a Tupperware Consultant.  You just need to believe in the products and sell them.  You manage your own business and you can choose to work full-time or part-time.

Overall, the company seemingly is open for anyone to join.  The success rate was not mentioned, but I assume that if you have a lot of close friends and family, know a lot of people, or are just good at sales, you can do well in this business.

For those who don’t have a large group of friends or family, and you are not good at sales, you have two choices.  Either be willing to learn how to sale or find another opportunity.  I don’t think the trainings are going to teach you how to approach people and make a sale.  The training focuses primarily on learning about the products and how to host a party.  There may be some other trainings offered, but I didn’t see anything else mentioned.

For those who don’t have the large group of friends or family and who don’t want to do any selling, there is another alternative; a marketing system.  A marketing system offers trainings on using the internet to market your business.  In addition, a marketing system provides a sales funnel that would allow a Tupperware Consultant to generate income while he or she is learning the various online marketing strategies.  This means, no more staying broke while building a Tupperware home business.  This would lessen the impact of having to pay the $400 for a party to market your Tupperware products.  A marketing system can provide the income needed to not only support the online marketing, but it could help pay for other items necessary to building a Tupperware home business.

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Review Of Success University Boot Camp Training & More

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

Success University is a multi-level marketing program started by Matt Morris in January of 2005.  It has also been identified as a pyramid scheme by newspapers. Success University does not employ any professors and does not have any premises; instead members are offered online courses on topics; such as, success in business or physical well being.

Members have to pay an introduction fee and are encouraged to invite other people to join in exchange for part of the benefits.

According to study by the Bank of Namibia, Success University presents the features of a pyramid scheme, and they have estimated that about 88% percent of the participants eventually fail, with only a minority at the top of the pyramid, making benefits.  They declared Success University illegal in 2008.  In 2009, Success University has been acquired by World Ventures, a similar multi-level marketing program based on selling holiday opportunities.

Success University Compensation Plan:

As a member of Success University, you are enrolled as a student.  As you move through the course work and help others, you can earn an income.

Acting as an admissions councilor, you will share information and facilities personal development opportunities with the goal of enrolling students into Success University.  The program is a binary payment structure that possess some basic requirements.

To start earning commission, you must first enroll 2 students and have them placed on each leg of the binary structure.

There is a monthly tuition fee required from each member in the amount of about $50.00.

Weekly Fast Start Bonuses:

For every premium student you enroll, you earn a weekly fast start bonus that ranges between $20-$40, depending on the level you are at.  The higher the level, the more money you earn. You are paid the difference between you level and the next level below; meaning, the income you can generate from each leg is infinite.

Weekly Dual Team Infinity Bonuses:

Once you start enrolling, you are given access to a tracking center that keeps a close track on your sales within you organization. The tracking center has two teams, the left and the right team. As you generate a weekly income, you must enroll at least one student onto each team.  You can earn a weekly commission of $40.00 if you enroll six premium student.

You can earn up to $10,000 per week with the weekly dual bonuses.

Monthly Dual Team Infinity Bonuses:

Being a qualified premium student in Success University will allow you to earn $40.00 for every monthly tuition paid throughout your organization each month.

You can earn $40,000 per month with the Dual Team Infinity Bonus.

Success University Trainings:

Success University provides education on topics of business, finance, personal empowerment, and personal development.

You have the capability to take a number of courses that are either achievement or elective courses.  The achievement courses usually give you one lesson per day and up to about 20 lessons.  Whereas, the elective courses are normally audio and/or video presentation that last about an hour.  Each completed course will earn you credits.  Half of the credits must come from the achievement courses.  Once you have accumulated a specific number of courses, you advance to the next level.  But, before advancing, you have to pass a test, usually in multiple choice format, and pass with a score of 80%.  If you don’t pass, you must take the course again. Once a course is passed, you receive a certificate of achievement.

In Success University, you will learn personal and professional skills. Topics covered are business, sales, network marketing, and personal development.  The goal of these courses is to help become successful in your personal and professional life.

Success University does offer free bonus packages that cover other topics; such as, CD’s with instructions on building a network marketing business and sells strategies. There are also motivational CD’s with instructions on building a network marketing business and sells strategies.  There are also motivational CD’s that cover health and wealth subjects.

You receive training on building relationships with your prospects, and training on the compensation plan provided in Success University.

As a member, you have access to the back office that provides additional bonuses, resources, banners, ebooks, and more training that will help you with your Success University business. There are other trainings in your back office to help motivate you.

Also, provided in the back office is a document library that has all of the forms you need for your business, help desk, frequently asked questions, brochures, business cards, account management, lead manager, and boot camp training. There is also a Success University forum for support and first steps training to help you get started with your advertising.

Boot Camp Training:

When you join Success University, you will instantly have access to the Bootcamp trainings in your back office. The Boot camp trainings provide a step-by-step action plan to train you on building your Success University business.

Some of the contents of the Bootcamp action play covers various marketing strategies to help promote your Success University.  It is essentially shows you how to use the internet to generate leads for your business.

Without the ability of having access to information on the exact kind of marketing strategies taught in Success University, I cannot validate the types of strategies, but I did see one article that stated that the type of marketing taught in the boot camp are typical of affiliate marketing.  Those of you not familiar with affiliate marketing, the strategies used usually include blogging, pay-per-click, article submissions, video marketing, and more.  This same article also stated that offline marketing methods are taught.

Conclusion:

Overall, it looks as if Success University has recovered from its “pyramid” scandal. Although the payment plan seems typical of most network marketing and mlm company, what is not typical are the trainings.  Success University appears to provide good training for its members, which I believe is not only to essential to the members but also is essential to Success University.  Also, it is not just any kind of training; it is training on personal development and on marketing online.  These two trainings, once members put into use, will mean more success for the Success University student and which will inevitably help Success University’s bottom line.

In my view, the advantage a marketing system has over Success University is that not only does a marketing system train individuals on how to market their business using the internet, but it also provides a sales funnel that allows one to earn an income that can be used to pay for all of the marketing.  In fact, once one learns how to generate a significant amount of leads per day, he or she could earn a full-time income in just 30-90 days.  There is no waiting on building a down line.  All of this is provided while you are building your down line in Success University.  Once an individual goes full time working from home, the Success University student could be building their down line much more quickly because he or she has more time and more money in which to do so.

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