Zija Review - Is MLM Success A Sure Bet With Zija?

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Zija International a fairly new company in the world of MLM was started in 2006 as the latest in a long string of successful network marketing companies founded by nutritional industry pioneer Kenneth Brailsford.

Mr Brailsford who is the founder and president of Zija was formally the cofounder and president of Nature's Sunshine a highly successful old world MLM that has been around for over 40 years and more recently was the Founder and President of Enrich International.

Now we know of course that the nutritional and health products re huge in today's market, and of course there have been no lack of MLM companies who have tried to tap into these markets, some successfully and some not.

On the successful side, companies like Nature's Sunshine are well known for product development and high qualify supplements so I am sure you can feel fairly confident the latest offerings developed by Kenneth Brailsford are probably pretty good stuff.

The Zija products pretty much all revolve around the Moringa plant, an exotic little bush that is pretty much grown worldwide that you have probably never heard of before.

This key ingredient from the research I did actually looks pretty amazing. Moringa contains antioxidants, minerals and amino acids and according to the Zija website people have reported "improvements in skin, digestion, eyesight, mental clarity, and overall well-being, plus a reduction in symptoms associated with fatigue, arthritic-like conditions, and aging" to name a few of the effects.

They also report that this odd looking bush contains "7 times the vitamin C of oranges; 4 times the calcium of milk and twice the protein of yogurt" and also includes many other vitamins and minerals, and not one or two but all the essential amino acids.

That being said, you need to put that aside for a moment and decide whether or not having a really good nutritional product is the key element behind what will make a network marketing company succeed and more importantly is it going to put the big bucks into your pocket?

The Zija compensation plan

The Zija compensation plan is a pretty basic Hybrid- Binary where you get paid binary "Team Commissions" on your weak leg and then also receive additional commissions based on a unilevel structure that allows you to tap into the movers in your organization no matter what leg they are in with a matching check bonus that goes down 8 levels in your sponsorship tree.

This has been a very popular form of compensation plan with many nutritional MLM's and Superjuice companies over the last few years because it combines the best elements of both the powerful compression factor of a MLM unilevel structure that has been around for almost forever, with the more win-win appeal of binary structure where you can receive direct commission benefit from team members who are below you in the binary tree even if you did not place them there yourself.

Many recent MLM companies have used this structure including MonaVie, eXfuze, Evlov Health, and Xowii to name a few although the only one I know of who really ramped this type of compensation plan up was MonaVie but it did prove its ability to pay almost a million dollars a month to top leaders.

The key elements of the Zija compensation plan

Zija Direct Sales Commissions

Zija Binary Team Commissions

Up to 15% based on lesser leg volume

First Order Bonus (FOB)

Fast Start sponsor ship bonus of 10-20% when you enroll someone and they buy a product package

Leadership Check Match

This is based on a uni-level pay structure pays down to 8 generations of a matching percentage of your leaders checks based on bonus pool limitations

Builder Bonus

Special one time perk when one of your team achieves Builder level.

Diamond Pool

This is a profit sharing pool for the top leaders where they can share in pool of 4% of global commissionable volume

Zija Volume Order Rebate (VOR)

10% when your order is over $250 in a month

Multiple Business Centers

This feature allows you to in a way sponsor yourself and buy into the business again by placing additional distributorships beneath your existing one thereby double dipping the compensation plan.

So the compensation plan Zija uses obviously is capable of pushing some big checks as long as the volume is there.

So that brings us to a discussion of generating continuing sales volume in a MLM company and of product types.

Nutritional products are of course a MLM industry favorite. They seem to be everywhere and of course they are all chasing that reported "Trillion Dollar" market that Paul Zane Pilsner talks about in his popular books.

So Zija seems like a deal made in heaven right?

Well maybe.

I believe in full disclosure when I do an MLM review and I believe if you are going to be spending your time and money and possibly betting your future on a MLM company you need to know all the facts not just the glowing ones so I try to give all the pluses and minuses.

Every product type in the MLM industry whether its, nutritional, skin care, technology or telecom all have pretty specific growth curves that in fact are a direct result of the product itself.

The reason is that only half of the job of getting to the money is building a huge organization, that of course is the daily grind or prospecting and presentation.

However once your MLM organization is in place you now have to hold it in place and a significant number of distributors have to keep ordering the product or your income stream can become a revolving door as they drop out.

The perfect storm in a MLM opportunity is of course where the "Wow" effect of the product is large, the product is demonstratable in its effectiveness where people actually feel or see a difference, and as a result even if they stop doing the business and recruiting new reps because they find it too difficult, they happily stay on the product.

Now if you have all these factors then you ongoing business building efforts will always reward you with a higher and higher check every month.

If your distributors drop out as of course many will and at the same time go off of the product then it can be hard to hold on to a stable income stream.

Now even through nutritionals are a huge popular market, they tend to be more of a logic sale product.

I mean who every ate a supplement and woke up the next morning and said

Wow! My life has changed, I feel wonderful.

It does not generally happen because nutritional supplements are of course good for us, and we read the studies and we know we should take them, but people fall off the wagon all the time.

Now there have been nutritional products with immediate Wow feeling effects however those left the market when the US banned Ephedra based products.

Most nutritionals are either strictly logic products or the feeling effect is a gradual over time kind of effect like "I think I feel better".

If you look around the industry I think you will see this quite clearly. Nutritional companies boom, and then tend to plateau without winning the prize of hitting the billion dollar mark.

Now there are of course ways to mitigate this effect such as blending your product mix by bringing in skin care and other product types with more consumer longevity and of course introducing new products and staying ahead of the curve.

So in summary, I guess I am not sure there are any perfect deals in the MLM industry but there are a lot of very good ones and Zija appears to be one of those.

So if you are ready to take your business and income to the next level you need to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business. Today there are hundreds of millions of people online and many are probably looking for a business just like yours, imagine for a moment just being able to reach out an tap just the smallest fraction of that huge traffic and bring it to your business.

Exciting thought isn't it?

The good news is that you can learn how to use the internet as a tool and generate tons of leads to power your business by using powerful Online Marketing Systems that will teach you how to use the internet as a powerful resource for your business.

When I first started using online marketing systems I generated over 3000 leads, sponsored over 50 new reps and generated over $30,000 in affiliate commissions in just a few months. For a inside look at some of these powerful marketing strategies check out my free Video Training Bootcamp

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NuSkin Comp Plan Review - Can You Still Make Big Money With Nu Skin

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I guess the big question many people have when taking a look at a MLM business like NuSkin is if the Nu Skin compensation plan is really that profitable, and can you actually make money with a company like NuSkin?

I mean let's face it, NuSkin is not exactly a new deal, they have been around for over 25 years and there are so many variations of MLM compensation plans that have been developed over the last few years, can an old standard Unilevel compensation plan still get the job done?

OK so let's discuss that, but first let's gets some facts straight about MLM compensation plans. There are in today's market so many different variations of network marketing compensation plans you could fill a pretty big book just analyzing them: Binary, Hybrid-Binary, Matrix, Forced Matrix, Top Tier MLM, Hybrid Top Tier MLM and so many blends and variations of them its staggering.

But look, just think about it in general terms, does it really matter if it's a Unilevel or a Binary, or a Binary with a Directors match or daily cash paying matrix? They all pay good money.

Every company you look at in the MLM industry has top earners and they all make the big money once they get an organization up and running and growing explosively.

NuSkin's compensation plan has of course stood the test of time, and it is profitable. When you look at the compensation that the top reps with NuSkin have pulled over the years, the numbers are pretty staggering.

I have friends in NuSkin who have earned over $40 million dollars, and the ranks of their $20 million dollar club are pretty full also.

However that's just one part of the picture. The NuSkin compensation plan has proved its ability to generate big dollars but it is not necessarily the easiest to build.

Building For Bucks - NuSkin Compensation Plan Optimization

I think the better question when you join a particular MLM is how do you maximize the compensation plan for that company?

Every type of compensation plan in MLM requires a slightly different building strategy to maximize it, so let's discuss what you need to do with NuSkin to get to the big bucks.

Now just so you don't think that I am talking out of school here, I will point out that NuSkin was my first MLM and I did become a 7 figure earner with them within my first 3 years. I also have no current affiliation with them so this is not a commercial for the company.

So how do you max out this baby?

Tapping The NuSkin Money Vault

Well with a "Unilevel" or "Stairstep Breakaway" system like NuSkin uses you are basically tapping a rectangle of production. You can only tap to a certain depth so greater income comes from having a larger front line which then spreads as it goes down kind of like a pyramid (I love that word) which in turn gives you a larger group to tap. The larger your front line the larger your base.

Now with their version of a "Unilevel" there is no limit to the number of people you can have in your dowline, but you can only tap to a certain depth in the structure. To tap the depth you have to build your front line (personally sponsored distributors) to a certain width and you must have a certain number of your front like distributors achieve certain production quotas and become NuSkin Executive Distributors.

NuSkin Executive Distributors

There are also two classes of distributors in the NuSkin comp plan, the regular run of the mill distributors and Executive distributors (or as the are sometimes called, breakaways).

Now when you sponsor someone you do get a commission based on what they do, but you cannot tap their dowline until you earn the right by becoming an Executive distributor (there are volume requirements).

Once you are an Executive you can now tap your entire NuSkin group of regular distributors with no limit in depth, this is called your "Circle Group", however you are limited in being able to tap Executive distributors based on how many Executives you have on your front line.

Now if you sponsor someone and they really take off, and become an Executive and there are Executives below them, you can't get paid on that extended downline of Executives until you generate more Executives on your front line.

And so begins the race

Now when you start this footrace you have to think strategically and move fast or you will leave money on the table.

You have to build width on your front line quickly so you can tap the depth of your group but at the same time you have to support and stimulate a certain amount of depth or there will be nothing there to tap.

Go Wide Fast!

Now I found the best building approach for comp plans like NuSkin, is to go wide fast and at the same time reach down one or two levels and support the depth.

One key point here, never ever stop personal recruiting to manage your group. That is the death of an MLM business.

The Sifting Process

So the first step in building this structure is to sift your prospects to find your distributors.

Now in a unilevel program, everyone you sponsor goes on your front line, and starts an additional leg of your business. So the more people you sponsor the wider the top of your structure is.

Next you have to sift your distributors to find the people who actually do something. Then you sift those reps to see who the 20% Percenters are. They are the ones who are actually serious about building an organization.

Now at this point if you are an Executive, you are tapping your entire organization as deep as it goes but this is not where the big money is since most of this group will be doing small volumes or just using the product.

NuSkin Executive Qualification & Breakaways

The 20% Percenters are the ones who will become the basis of your income stream and they will generally go into Executive qualification and become what is called a breakaway Executive.

Now when a distributor becomes a "break away", the commission you were making on their NuSkin group can drop from as much 14% down to 5%.

Ouch!

This is a dramatic reduction of course and is just the way break away systems work, but the theory is that you are making 5% of the group production of someone who is a business builder so it should actually be more.

Now once you have one NuSkin Executive on your front line you can tap 5% on any Exectuvie and their groups on your first level only.

To tap 2 levels of Executive distributor commissions you have to have 2 breakaway Executives on your first level and so on.

With 1 executive on your front line you are a "NuSkin Gold Executive" and can tap a 5% commission on your front like executives entire group volume. There are different rank designations NuSkin depending on how many front line executives you have "Ruby", Emerald, etc, with the top rank being achieved when you reach "Blue Diamond" one you have 12 Executive break-aways.

The maximum depth you can tap on the NuSkin comp plan is 6 levels of Executives and you have to be a "Blue Diamond" and be 12 Executives wide on your front line to do that.

Rollups & The Compression Factor - The Road To Big Bucks In NuSkin

Now of course there is a reason they call it a Breakaway, and that is because it does not matter where a distributor is in your group or on what level they are, when they become an Executive they will break away from their position in the dowline and roll up beneath the next qualified Executive in the structure.

So in effect if you snooze you lose. If you sponsor a hot distributor and you are not an Executive and they qualify before you do, you lose them as an Executive and they roll up the line.

That means bye-bye Executive bonus on that rep, and by the way, in NuSkin, once it's gone its gone forever.

If you are a big player this compression actually works to your benefit since all the power in your downline will roll up and compress below you.

Where did you think the big NuSkin checks came from?

So the money is in the Executive groups, and you want a lot of them within your 6 level payout.

In the end it's a 5% ballgame in NuSkin as it is in most MLM's, but with a large enough group that can amount to big bucks.

NuSkin Group Building Tips

Once again build wide fast is the best approach here and as you will discover not everyone you bring in will be a mover so I recommend you set your goal on sponsoring 6 to 10 reps a month and then sift that group down to find your 20% Percenters.

Now the best way to achieve the big bucks in NuSkin is to implement "The Law of Large Numbers". You need to develop some advertising or marketing approaches that will generate 80 to 100 leads a week and then use leveraged sales funnels to sift that traffic down to the serious prospects and then of course to the 20% Percenters.

Now there are of course a lot of NuSkin distributors who still use more of the "Old School MLM Marketing" approaches, of doing mostly warm market or situational marketing however success using one off presentations in my book will get you there however it just takes a lot longer.

The MLM Success Model

So if you analyzed the income streams of top MLM distributors including those in NuSkin, you would find some interesting numbers. Over 70 percent of them by my analysis derived over 2/3rds of their income stream from 1 or 2 key distributors that came into their group.

Interesting eh?

Such is the nature of the "Standard MLM" compensation plan. In that MLM model, your search and success is predicated on finding the mythical 1% Percenters, those people who will come in and explode your group. However if you use traditional approaches, face to face, warm market, etc, you are doing one off presentations and it can take you a lifetime to surface one of them.

So using high volume strategies and automation and leverage gets you there quicker.

So the lesson here is that if you are courting success in any MLM business, you need to use a high volume lead generation approach to get a large enough flow of leads on a daily basis to power your business plan.

Now the best way to do that in today's market is to use online marketing approach.

So in closing I guess that there has been very big money earned by aggressive Nu Skin distributors in the past and that being a well run, very creative company,I have no doubt that distributors will continue to profit in the future.

Success in NuSkin or any MLM business hinges on your ability to structure it as a real business and to have a high volume lead generation system in place so you can look beyond just your friends and family for your success.

So if you are ready to take your business and income to the next level you need to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business. Today there are hundreds of millions of people online and many are probably looking for a business just like yours, imagine for a moment just being able to reach out an tap just the smallest fraction of that huge traffic and bring it to your business.

Exciting thought isn't it?

The good news is that you can learn how to use the internet as a tool and generate tons of leads to power your business by using powerful Online Marketing Systems that will teach you how to use the internet as a powerful resource for your business.

When I first started using online marketing systems I generated over 3000 leads, sponsored over 50 new reps and generated over $30,000 in affiliate commissions in just a few months. For a inside look at some of these powerful marketing strategies check out my free Video Training Bootcamp "

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Norwex Review - MLM Cleaning Products? Shades of Amway Save Me!

Norwex, is a Norwegian MLM company that touts its miracle cleaning products through a network of independent distributors, is still growing and to date shows no signs of slowing down.

The company was founded in 1994 in Norway, and it has gained customers and consumers around the world, becoming popular for its unique cleaning and personal care products that have made it a household name in some communities.

Viking marketing from Norway to North America

First founded in Norway, Norwex has accumulated a following of more than 20,000 distributors, and expanded into multiple international markets including North America in 1999.

Now let's face it, cleaning products don't have a lot of sex appeal, but somehow these cleaning products whose main product promo seem to be that they both safe and effective, seem to have struck a cord with some in the home business industry.

MLM cleaning rags, what's next?

Now Norwex products are not what you would expect from a MLM cleaning products company, the main thrust of the product line are the Norwex "Microfiber Cleaning Products", which are according to the company website, an almost magical product that goes beyond "surface clean" with the innovative use of silver particles integrated into synthetic microfiber cloth.

Norwex recommends that you use the Microfiber cleaning cloths and clean using "water only" and that those silver microfibers will do a better and safer job without any chemical cleaners.

Shades of the MLM dark past, it almost sounds like the ill-fated "Laundry Ball" that was touted by an MLM company that industry legend Jim Fobair started years ago.

In that company the "laundry ball" was supposed to take the place of laundry detergent through the clever use of magnets to create an electro-static charge in the water, aligning the molecules and causing the dirt to just fall out.

Actually Norwex has one of these also, which they appropriately call a "Magnet Ball".

Oh well I always liked the idea even through it was never really clear that it actually worked.

The second branch of the Norwex product line is comprised of Organic Personal Care Products, and of course in the personal care line they also have these silver microfiber towels and washcloths etc.

Norwex Products - Clean Your House Then Clean Your Face!

Now with the personal care products, Norwex goes beyond the cleaning rags and offers soaps and shampoo products that carry the organic and safe product focus. The literature states that they offer a modern approach to the personal care regimen that involves "deep cleaning" of the skin and that attempts to leave customers as clean as the Norwex cleaning products may leave their houses.

Norwex cleaning up after accusations

Norwex recently got the negative spotlight focused on them when the company found itself being accused of propagating a large scale scam with their products and marketing approaches. According to the accusations, Norwex was not actually selling products, but instead just sellingstarter kits for $200 dollars.

Good grief you regulators, grow up! That's a lame claim from the 1960's before people ever understood MLM

Norwex made the regulators happy when the company clarified that actual products were indeed being sold, and that these products were complimented with a free starter kit to enhance the sale of the products and the buyers experience in using them.

The company also said that these kits were used - alongside real products, not instead of them - to motivate sellers toward action, and to inspire them towards the types of sales that Norwex wishes for anyone venturing forward with the company. The kits were used to help foster a team attitude among sellers, and to continue growing the Norwex brand.

The company said that with these starter kits, the distributor is able to gain credibility and knowledge of the products, and they have the chance to endorse the products on their own before selling them to others. These also help the distributors to maintain their distributor status every three months, which they must do by earning at least $250 over this period.

Sounds like a sensible Norwegian way to respond. Take that your regulators!

So the big question, can you actually make money with Norwex?

Now the Norwex business model is not exactly mainstream. It is actually a throwback to the old days of the Network Marketing home party plans. However even in today's high tech market where recruiting is done worldwide without ever meeting your prospect except to maybe view them on Skype, the home party plan is still alive and well.

Norwex Compensation Plan

Norwex Distributors can make up to a 35% commission for product sales and distributors can also earn free products once they have sponsored another distributor who sells at least $2,000 worth of products in their first 90 days. There are also bonus programs for the business builders.

Future prospects?

Well from all appearances the company is solid, I mean it's been around for over 18 years, and the product niche (home cleaning products) is huge and the product is unique (Silver microfibers), so I would have to say they are a pretty safe bet for a home business.

Now keep in mind that distributor cultures vary dramatically from company to company and to succeed in Norwex I am sure your upline is pretty much going to have you do the home party plan approach.

Now although I am not a personal fan of the home party plan approach to network marketing, there are a number of companies that have used it successfully over the years and many of the distributors really like the personal nature of this type of sales.

Keep in mind however that your warm market list is only going to take you so far and when you have blasted through that, unless you learn some other marketing strategies to power your Norwex business and generate new leads you are going to be out of gas.

So if your goal is to generate a big income with a company like Norwex, you are going to have to have to have a powerful marketing strategy to sponsor a lot of reps.The bottom line is of course that no matter what MLM you build you need to power your success with a lot of leads rather than relying on the remote chance that you will find a killer producer in your warm market or lurking around the grocery store.

The best way to do that in today's market is to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business and generate leads. There are several very good MLM online marketing systems such as My Lead System Pro that can give you the boost you need to map your course to top earner status.

So if you are ready to take your business and income to the next level you need to learn how to use the internet to leverage your business. Today there are hundreds of millions of people online and many are probably looking for a business just like yours, imagine for a moment just being able to reach out an tap just the smallest fraction of that huge traffic and bring it to your business.

Exciting thought isn't it?

The good news is that you can learn how to use the internet as a tool and generate tons of leads to power your business by using powerful Online Marketing Systems that will teach you how to use the internet as a powerful resource for your business.

When I first started using online marketing systems I generated over 3000 leads, sponsored over 50 new reps and generated over $30,000 in affiliate commissions in just a few months. For a inside look at some of these powerful marketing strategies check out my free Video Training Bootcamp "

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