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Review Of Nikken Business

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

Nikken is a network marketing company that is focused on the health and wellness industry. Often, when the subject of the Nikken business opportunity comes of, someone will mention the 5 pillars of Health. What this is referring to are: Healthy Body, Mind, Family, Society, and Finances.

Isamu Masuda is the founder of Nikken. His vision started with helping people who suffered from sore feet, and the fatigue that extends to the entire body. After a series of events, evolved the first Nikken product called Magstep.

After Magsteps, which was created in 1975, other products followed in 1978 by KenkoCreator, and in 1979 by the original KenkoPad, which led to the introduction of Kenko Sleep technology.

In 1989, Nikken opened its first North American offices. The Nikken business opportunity has been around for 30 years now and is celebrating 20 yeads in the United States.

Nikken Business Opportunity:

There are 3 ways to become a participant of Nikken. You can become a customer, a member, or a independent nikken consultant.

Customer: place an order to purchase one of the Nikken products through an Independent Nikken consultant. Once you have a Nikken account, you can place an order by yourself any time or contact your consultant for assistance.

Member: As a member of Nikken, you receive discounts on all product orders. You als get access to a monthly newsletter and your own account on the member web site.

Independent Nikken Consultant: You must first signup through a Nikken consultant, then submit an online form. Once you are approved, your next step is to decide how you want to start your business. You have four options.

1. Consultant receives:

20% discount on product purchases.
Ability to earn up to 25% retail profit
Nikken business success kit. Cost $35.00
Potential to earn rebates, bonuses, and overrides.
Advantages of owning a business of your own

2. Consultant with Starter Pack: cost $512.00

You receive all of above, plus additional products and tools to get you started with your Nikken business.

3. Consultant with Builder Pack: cost $1672.00

All of what consultant benefits and everything in the Starter pack), plus more products and tools.

4. Consultant with Professional Pack: cost $2790.00

All of above (Consultant benefits and everything in the Builder Pack) plus

Basically, Nikken’s business philosophy is as follows. First you invest in your own business by using the Nikken products. See how they work; how they improve your health and your family’s health. Next you:

1 Share your product story with others.
2. If your prospects like what they hear, they get their own Nikken products through you.
3. Nikken distributes the products that are ordered to your new customer/consultant.
4. Nikken pays you according to the number of referrals you have made.
5. Then your new person duplicates you.

Nikken Products:

Some of the Nikken products include the following:

Advanced magnetic technology:

Elastomag wraps, functional jewlery, Kenko magnetic pads, kenko powerpatch, kenkoseat plus, magboy, magcreator, kidstrides, magsteps, magstrides, nikken magna-charger, selected kenko sleep system products.

There are also products that include negative ion technologoy, kenko sleep technology, magnetic biaxial rotation, RAM technology, far-infrared technology, aire wellness technology, PiMag Water technology, CarioStrides technology, Kenzen wellness organic-based nutrition, and true elements swiss organic skin care.

Nikken Compensation Plan:

There are six ways to make money in Nikken.

1. Retail profits
2. Wholesale profits
3. Residual Income
4. Tax Deductions/Benefits
5. Performance & Leadership bonuses
6. Incentive Programs that pay your car and your home.

There are a number of levels in the Nikken home business. Starting from lowest to highest is direct, senior, executive, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, and royal diamond.

The Nikken compensation plan consists of a stairstep breakaway compensation plan, which can be very confusing to explain to a new distributor. One aspect of such a comp plan as this is that once a distributor achieves a certain level, they then breakaway from their personal sponsor. At this point, the sponsor will receive a small percentage of what the new distributor’s group is selling. What this means is that if you choose to become a Nikken independent consultant, it will be necessary to recruit on a continuous basis or face having your checks decrease each month.

Nikken Training:

Nikken does offer training to its consultants. There is available online training through their Nikken University. You will learn how to use various online tools; such as live web camera to host your own web meetings.

They also provide conference calls that will teach you how to recruit and retail .

They also have business trainings that can be downloaded onto your mp3 player as well as in pdf formats. Here you will learn how to approach new people, how to invite them to partner with you, and how to conduct effective one-on-one meetings, and much more.

They have training coaches and events that provide additional trainings for those who are interested.

Conclusion:

Overall, I think that Nikken business model is one that can generate a lucrative business to anyone who is seriously interested in building a successful business. It will take work, as any business does, but much of the marketing that is taught is primarily offline.

It is the Nikken training that I don’t agree with because, again, many people will not want to or acquire skills in offline marketing. Of those that do, many of them will not have the aptitude to learn the offline marketing. This is not to say they are stupid by no means. It is just that offline marketing is not for everyone. Why not give your members more choices as to how they want to do their marketing. There are many ways one can use the internet to market their Nikken business. Nikken does have online training, but unfortunately, they do not teach online marketing. Instead their online training teaches you how to use offline marketing and it teaches you how to connect with those using a tool to hold meetings with individuals you connected with using primarily offline marketing.

Why not use the online training to teach online marketing. Teach new Nikken consultants how to use press releases, articles, videos, social networking sites and more. These are effective marketing methods that can be used to market Nikken. For those interested, look for online marketing resources that will teach you skills in applying online marketing strategies. There are many to choose from. In addition, most of these online training resources utilize what is often referred to as a funded proposal system. A funded proposal system is a way that you get paid by the various affiliate programs provided, even if no one joins your opportunity, you still can make money. The truth is, 97% of the people you share your products and opportunity with will say no; no matter what kind of marketing you engage in; offline or online, so why not learn how to monetize those who say no to your opportunity. Overall, this will help you with your bottom line because if your business partners are making money and generating prospects to share their products and opportunity with, this means they are more likely to stay in business with you.

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Overview Of World Financial Group WFG

Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

World Financial Group (WFG) is a financial services organization based in Duluth Georgia that markets investment, insurance, and mortgage products through a network of associates in the United States and Canada. WFG is a network marketing company that utilizes a system known also as multi-level marketing (MLM). WFG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aegon.

Aegon is an international life insurance, pension and investment group. lt is based in The Hagu, The Netherlands, with businesses in more than 20 markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

World Financial Group (WFG) Opportunity:

To become a World Financial Group associate, you must be recruited by another member of WFG. lt costs $100 to join as an WFG associate. lf you want to become to enroll in the Professional Development Center (PDC), it will cost an additional $199.00, but you can decline to do so.

The next step is to schedule for a for a Series 65 exam. The cost is $120.00. You have up to 120 days to take the exam. The next step is to sign-up for the Virtual Series 65 Study Course. This an online course and it will cost $79.00. There is a 20% discount code for WFG.

Once you pass the Series 65 exam, you then need to register for FINRA. To fill out the IAI (Investment Advisor Representative) application fee cost $45.00. Then you will need to get the registration kit. To get the IAI kit, there is a background check done. Once you are approved, you will be approved with IAI. At this point, you will not be able to conduct IAI business until you have been approved and your approval is sent either through email or letter.

All representatives who seek affiliation with IAI must apply for the state where you live and where the branch is located, that is if the branch is different from the state. Again there is a fee and the fees vary depending on your state. The fee can vary between $8.00-$235.00. The $235.00 is for Texas, not sure why.

Once you are approved in your state, you are eligible to conduct IAI (Investment Advisor Representative ) business in every state except DC, NC, NJ, and TX. As an IAI, you are federally registered, but there is a separate registration required for new branch offices. Fees vary again. For further information on the this and more, visit: (www.bizanalyst.net/TaxPros-WFG/Presentations/IAI_Series65_FastTrack.pdf)

WFG has a step-by-step blueprint that was developed to help associates build and grow their WFG business. The WFG Business Format System shows you how:

To build a strong WFG business
Grow a client base
Recruit new associates to the business
Mentor new associates
Develop a game plan for success

and much more…

WFG helps guide an agent through the process of building a sales organization:

Broker-Dealer Services: is a WFG affiliate broker-dealer who offers customers a variety of securities-related products and services.
Active Money Management: is an investment advisor representative (IAR) with WFG’s affiliate, investment Advisors international. You are a fee-based, independent advisor who spends time working with your new and existing customers.

WFG Compensation Potential:

WFG Income Opportunity: includes a number of incentives, including supervisory overrides, trails and renewals, as well as participation in bonus pools and stock programs.

Producer Stock Purchase Plan (PSPP): This program allows World Financial Group associate to use up to 25% of his or her commissions payments to purchase stock.

ln addition to rewards, WFG associates are recognized for their hard work and success.

WFG Training & Support:

World Financial Group offers several opportunities for associates to learn how to obtain their insurance licenses and securities registration, get their businesses operational, and find out about the latest trends in technology, product development information and more. Below are some of the trainings offered:

WFG University : source for various trainings. The website for WFG University includes tools, products, and speech archives that will help. Some of the kinds of types of trainings offered are:

Training modules
Training events
Licensing/PDC
Continuing Education
Inspire Network

Director are rewarded with an exciting trip to QMD Academy at WFG’s executive headquarters. QMD Academy, the associate’s first step toward field leadership, is an intensive, 3 day training meeting that helps the new QMD learn leadership and business building skills and strategies that will help him/her to grow a business and team.

WFG Convention of Champions: WFG’s biggest annual event. It last 4 days and includes training sessions and business building workshops, designed for both the associates and established financial services professional alike.

Conclusion:

Based on my initial vies of World Financial Group (WFG), I say it looks to be legitimate, but I will add that it is always important that you do your due diligence prior to joining any company. I did see some information regarding scams and suits against WFG. Often these kinds of issues stem from disgruntled former members, so don’t take to heart everything you see. First be sure the negative statements made against any company are true.

Next, although I do agree that WFG has a lot to offer, it will require payments of fees for registrations of various trainings and licenses. lf this is what you want, then it will be necessary that you attain the education and licenses so that your business is legitimate. lf you have any questions about the process of getting the education and licenses, call support or contact your Manager.

Lastly, the information I looked through did not mention how to go about finding customers for your WFG business. Based on how most MLM’s and network marketing, I assume that this is going to require you to know how to connect with people, family and friends, etc. lf you don’t have a problem with this, then by all means, use the tools and whatever trainings given by WFG, and get to work. But, if you want an alternative method and do mind using the internet to build your business, look for a online marketing or training system that offers the following:

Training via webinars and videos.
Includes a funded proposal system or a sales funnel so that you can earn an income while building your business.
Teaches you how to grow you list of leads, build relationships with those leads, and market to those leads = Attraction Marketing principles

Even if you are good at making sales, since WFG is a MLM, this means your success is going to be mostly based on those who join you. lt would be to your advantage to provide some flexibility to how you go about marketing. Not everyone who joins you will want to do a lot of “belly-to-belly” type marketing. ln the end, having such a marketing system available will help you with your bottom line and thus, achieve the success you are looking for in your business.

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Review Of lgnite Business Opportunity

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General lnformation:

Ignite Energy was formerly established in the year 2005. lt is a subsidiary of Stream Gas & Electric Stream Energy in Texas. Ignite markets, through a network marketing business model, electricity and gas.

lgnite Business Opportunity:

To get started costs $329.00. There are 5 Position Qualifications. They are:

1. Director: Purchase the lgnite Services Program for $329
2. Qualified Director (QD):

Personally enroll four accepted pre-verify, pending or active Energy Accounts
You may substitute your lgnite Homesite for two Energy Accounts

3. Trained Qualified Director (TOD)

Achieve QD status
Complete Power Plan Training Modules in Power Center

4. Managing Director (MD)

Personally enroll 10 accepted pre-verify, pending or active Energy Accounts
Personally sponsor 3 Directors
Have 12 Directors in levels 1-5

5. Senior Director (SD)

Achieve MD status
Personally enroll 15 total accepted pre-verify, pending or active Energy Accounts
Personally sponsor 3 additional Directors
Have 2 MDs in levels 1-5 of your coded MD organization

Each residual Energy Account is worth one point toward meeting your personally goals, including promotions to leadership positions and eligibility of all parts of the Ignite Compensation Plan. Homesite for two Energy Accounts for the purpose of promotion qualifications and triggering Quick Start and Business Builder Bonuses.

You must qualify each month to receive MEI and Leadership bonuses. lf you don’t then a one month grace period will apply the next month.

To build your organization, Ignite recommends marketing to friends and family. ln others words, word of mouth or belly-to-belly marketing. As an lgnite Associate you receive materials and training to help you get started. This includes a Power Pack training kit, live training and events.

You also have access to a team called Associate Support and access to the Ignite Power Center, which is Ignite’s online business tool.

lgnite Compensation Plan:

Ignite pays Quick Start Bonuses when you enroll personal Energy Accounts and it pays Business Builder Bonuses for helping your personally sponsored Independent Associates enroll Energy Accounts.

Quick Start Bonuses:

You become a Qualified Director (QD) and earn Quick Start 4 $100 when you personally enroll your first 4 accepted pending or active Energy Accounts within 30 days of your start date. You can be one of the individuals within the Energy Accounts and you are allowed to substitute your lgnite Homesite for two Energy Accounts. lf you personally enroll 10, you will receive $100 for each who are either in pending or active Energy Accounts within the first 60 days of your start date.

Business Builder Bonus:

You can earn 4 ($100) for each personally sponsored Independent Associate you help become a Qualified Director and who enrolls her or his first accepted pending or active Energy Accounts within the first 30 days of starting. You can also earn Business Builder 4 ($10) on each Independent Associates who are on levels 2-5 that become Qualified Director and enrolls his or her first 4 accepted pending or active Energy Accounts within the first 30 days or his or her start
date. To receive Business Builder 4, you must be a QD.

Ignite Residual lncome:

You receive a monthly energy income (MEI) by enrolling customers and maintaining their Energy Accounts, as well as from Energy Accounts of the customers enrolled by the Ignite Indpendent Associates in your leadership organization up to unlimited levels. There is more to the compensation plan. What I have given here is a high level and some details. There are more details to the compensation plan and Ignite does provide videos that will make it more understandable. (To find out more: www.streamenergy.net/pdfs/Compensation_Plan.pdf)

lgnite Training:

Ignite does provide trainings, but much of the training is focused on using offline marketing; i.e. talking to friends and family, setting up meetings, etc. Much of the marketing remains your responsibility.

Conclusion:

Ignite appears to be a legitimate and good company. Just about all aspects of the lgnite business opportunity is there, but the one key piece that is necessary for ones success.

lf you are good at sales and talking to people and you don’t mind engaging in this style of marketing, you should do well. But, if this is not for you, you will struggle and even fail. lf you are truly interested in building a successful Ignite business, I suggest you take a look on how you can possibly use the internet to build your business. There are marketing systems that can train you on how to use the internet to build your business.

Marketing systems also provide a sales funnel which allows you to generate an income while you are building your business. This way, you don’t have to stay broke. Even if you are doing well with the using the offline marketing, keep in mind that your success is going to be based on the success of others in your organization. By providing more than one option to use for marketing, you are giving others the ability to select what they feel most comfortable with in building their business. No one should have to be forced to doing something they don’t like because more than likely, he or she will fail. By providing more options, you could in the long run, but helping your overall bottom line and this is essentially what having an ignite business is all about.

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A Review Of the Waiora Opportunity

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.

Retail Profit: Earn profits on customer purchases via retail sales.
Customer Rebates: Based on your customers’ orders, you can earn an additional 5%-10% each month.
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.
Pacesetter Bonus: People who set the pace can increase their monthly earnings by two, three or more times each month.
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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Partylite Business Opportunity Overview

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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What Kind Of Business Opportunity ls 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 Business Model Exposed

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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Nu Skin Opportunity Review

Posted on 14. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

Nu Skin Enterprises is a direct selling corporation headquartered in Utah. It 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 start-up capital from his own pocket. ln 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 Executive 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 with 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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TVI Express Opportunity Information

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by admin.

General Information:

TVI Express stands for Travel Ventures International. It got its start in 2009. They are headquarterd in London, United Kingdom. The company operates in over 50 countries around the world. The company has parterners 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 recrurring 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 trainngs.

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 amongs 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 compenstion 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 futher 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!