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Welcome to 3Vi's team website. 3vi is an independent distribution group for USANA Health Sciences. USANA is a world wide leader and expert in the nutritional and health wellness industry. USANA offers a wonderful and unique opportunity for many entrepreneurs from all types of backgrounds, skill levels, ethnic groups, age groups, and social environments who seek for bettering their health and wealth! With top rated business systems, numerous awards and credentials, and one of the highest quality products in the market today, USANA offers its independent home based associates unlimited power and potential to do anything that we desire and dream of. 3v International is a network of independent business entrepreneurs doing business all across the United States as well as other International Markets.
We are currently working on a Marketing Strategy aimed at partnering up with Models, Modeling Agencies, Hair Salons/Stylists, Massage Therapists, Dermatologists & Fashionistas. Some of you might not know but Loretta Wilger Asmus is a former International Model and currently is the owner of Looks Cosmetics, Looks Salon, & Looks Image & Modeling Consulting.
Loretta is well known in this industry and will work for great validation of USANA & Sense' products.
USANA Ruby Director Lloyd Singer sent us this great photo of Loretta Wilger Asmus, president of Looks Cosmetics, Image & Model Consulting and new USANA Associate, showing off R3 at her recent event.
Lloyd writes: Her office is literally next door to North Central College’s Wentz Concert Hall and Fine Arts Center in Naperville, Illinois. She is world renowned. Loretta recently held a showing for Ford Modeling Agency and had over 800 young models come through her doors. Loretta has completely taken on the Sensé product line and is now directing and consulting all of her models to use Sensé!
Lets See if the rest of the MLM Public Stocks are DOWN... Who would be buying Bazi Stock?
EVER HAD YOUR MLM KIDS MURDERED!
Editor's Opinion Note: Extremely painful time for top leaders like Tom Chenault and Garret McGrath who bear the emotionally painful brunt of cruel acts like this to their downline. It's not the money to them, that they can do anywhere. Let's put it this way - it is like having your children murdered while you watch. I have been there........ Rod
[XELR8 LETTERHEAD]
January 19, 2010
To: XELR8 Independent Distributors
Re: XELR8 Multilevel Marketing Program
After careful consideration, the Board of Directors of XELR8 has determined to pursue an alternative business model resulting in the discontinuation of our XELR8 Multilevel Marketing Program in its current form, and has asked me to inform all XELR8 Independent Distributors of this decision. As a result, the current XELR8 Compensation Plan will be terminated effective February 28, 2010, and you will be offered the ability to participate in a program to be announced on a national call on February 3, 2010. At that time you will be offered an attractive incentive for you to continue to enjoy XELR8 products as well as compensation for existing and new customers that you introduce to Bazi.
Although the current XELR8 Compensation Plan remains in effect until February 28, 2010, please be advised that no new Distributors may be enrolled as of the date of this letter. While you will no longer be able to enroll new Distributors, you, and your customers (both existing and new customers) may continue to order XELR8 products. Commission and bonus payments earned prior to the date of this letter will be paid according to the current XELR8 Compensation Plan. Commission and bonus payments earned after the date of this letter through February 28, 2010 will be paid on or about March 15, 2010. Following the payment of these commissions and bonuses, no further bonuses or commissions will be paid to any XELR8 Independent Distributor under the current XELR8 Compensation Plan.
Although the Company has elected to terminate the current multilevel marketing program, XELR8 products will continue to be available through Independent Distributors through February 28, 2010, and other direct marketing channels to be announced on our national call on February 3, 2010. If you are enrolled in our AutoShip program, you will continue receiving your monthly AutoShip order until such time as you elect to cancel your participation in the AutoShip program. Preferred Customers will also continue to receive their automatic monthly orders until such time as they choose to cancel their Preferred Customer Agreements. If you wish to cancel your monthly AutoShip order, please send your notice of cancellation to us at 480 South Holly Street, Denver, Colorado 80246. Alternatively, you may fax or email your notice of cancellation to us at (303) 316-8078 or support@xelr8.com. Please include your Distributor ID Number in your notice of cancellation.
As mentioned above, XELR8 intends to continue distribution of our products through Internet sales and other direct marketing channels. As our thanks to you for your support over the past several years, you will be offered the ability to enroll new customers after February 28, 2010 and receive compensation under a new compensation plan at a preferential compensation payout to be announced on February 3, 2010. If you are not on our AutoShip program, you may still enroll as a customer under our AutoShip program by contacting our Customer Service Department at 888-935-7808 or email support@xelr8.com.
In closing, I want to thank ALL of our Independent Distributors for their support of XELR8. While the decision to terminate our multilevel marketing program was not a decision that any of us at the Company wanted to make, ultimately it was deemed necessary to insure that our products remain available to support the health and vitality of our customers. We are extremely grateful for your efforts to spread the word about XELR8 products and wish you success in your future endeavors.
As we are building our business, focusing on our goals and WHY's and really just minding our own business, all of the sudden you get a thorn poking at you. Yes, it's from an old friend or business partner getting really aggressive on you about this company called "MonaVie" that sells a "miracle" "Jungle Juice" that is breaking all sorts of records and that people there are making mad money.
As a new rep in Network Marketing, this can sound very confusing and also very tempting. However, for an experienced Network Marketing Rep, this story seems all too common and very old. We have heard that noise before - many times- and have seen all the smoked mirrors. The same thing over and over again, promises of wealth & recognition, and the mud slinging about the company you are in and the upline leaders you are working with. All lies and deception using bait & switch techniques to get you to join their company.
So what should a you do?
First off, don't promise them anything and don't offer any information about your company, team, upline leaders, promotions or events. They will use whatever you give them to spin it and hook you. Just tell them you are very happy and satisfied where you at, END OF STORY.
"Bait & Switch" Techniques (otherwise known as "The Dark Side of the Force") You will hear things like: "Come see a meeting with my company, and I'll go see one of yours.."
"Come meet up with me and my "friends", we are gonna hang out.."
"Come meet up with me and my friend and let's talk about business ideas, we can help each other out.." Don't fall for any of these attempts to trick you. Once you are in the lion's den, they will sick their best hyena on you to pressure you, lie and make false promises to you.
A simple "hang out" can turn into something we call an "Ambush One on One" or a "Bushwhack" Definition: To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush.
Just when you think you and your "bro" are having a burger at Red Robin, in walks your "bro's" upline dressed in business casual clothes with a Laptop and a briefcase. At this point you have that bewildered look, and you think in your head ... ahh shit. Your hands start sweating, your heart starts pounding in-sync with a Paul Van Dyk trance track and random thoughts start running through your head. You are unprepared for this ambush and they got you surrounded. You look to your left and you see that some of their goons have been there all this time! Then you give your "bro" the evil eye. He looks at you and says in a fake simi-confused tone of voice, "Hey man, I didn't know he was gonna be here..what a surprise!...haha". The Upline then starts to interview you and ask you very personal questions. You start thinking of an escape plan but you don't want to come off like a panzy. Here you are, feeling like a Vietnam War P.O.W., getting interrogated. Now you are trying to think back to that one training you attended when Duke was talking about how to handle these situations. Your mind goes blank! You are now strapped on for the ride... or are you?
MLM Combat Training: The Truth Behind the Lies: MonaVie
Let's start with MonaVie's founder, Dallin Larsen. In order to understand all the deceptions, you got to understand the origins of this company. Source: Click Here
MonaVie juice was launched in January 2005 by multi-level marketing (MLM) company Monarch Health Sciences, which was founded in 2003 as a distributor of diet and weight loss supplements. Also in 2005, the executives of Monarch founded MonaVie LLC/MonaVie Inc., a privately-held MLM company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The newly formed company took over the bottling, distribution, and marketing of MonaVie juice products. Both Monarch Health Sciences and MonaVie, Inc. were founded by Dallin Larsen, who graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. degree in finance.[10] Larsen previously held senior executive positions with the MLM companies Dynamic Essentials and Usana. According to company sources, MonaVie juice was developed by Ralph E. Carson, now the company's Chief Science Officer.
* Here it's important to note that Dallin Larsen is the brother of USANA Top Producer, 10 Star Diamond Director Collette Larsen, & Uncle to Zachery Ross.
Dallin Larsen and Dynamic Essentials/Royal Tongan Limu
MonaVie CEO and founder Dallin Larsen was previously a senior executive with an MLM company that sold a similar juice product prior to being shut down by the FDA for illegal business practices. According to Newsweek correspondent Dokupil, Larsen, who was “a 20-year-veteran of the multi-level marketing industry", "left a senior post at another juice company in 2002, a year before the FDA destroyed the company's ‘bogus products’ that were being falsely promoted to treat ‘cancer, arthritis and attention deficit disorder’." The company in question, Dynamic Essentials, distributed an MLM juice product known as Royal Tongan Limu juice.[6][24] According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Dynamic Essentials, from 2001 to 2003, had illegally advertised that Royal Tongan Limu ””was clinically proven to cure, prevent, or treat a range of diseases and disorders such as allergies, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease.”[25]
Pyramid scheme allegations
In spring of 2008, Larsen formed a business partnership with former Amway distributor (Quixtar in the US) Orrin Woodward, founder of an Amway distributor sales network company known as TEAM. Woodward subsequently became a distributor and speaker for MonaVie, mixing his TEAM organization structure and distributor sales tools (e.g. sales brochures, audio/video recordings, etc.) concept with MonaVie's compensation plan. In 2008, Forbes magazine reporters Emily Lambert and Klaus Kneale noted:
“Team is one step ahead of all these juice selling schemes. It is a pyramid atop a pyramid. It is selling motivational aids to help MonaVie vendors move the juice. But wait. If you can't earn back the $258 you've spent on the motivational lectures by selling $39 juice bottles, you could earn it back in another way—getting people to buy $258 motivational lectures. If you're good, you flog the lectures to other people, who sell them to yet others. Everybody gets rich. Everybody, that is, except the last round of buyers. That's the theory, anyway. The reality is that a mere 1% of Team members make any money from involvement with the firm.” [8]
Regarding pyramid scheme issues, Lambert and Kneale elaborated:
”In a 1979 regulatory action involving [Amway], the Federal Trade Commission attempted to draw lines between legitimate and fraudulent pyramids. The ones that are legit focus on getting revenue from consumer goods sold to retail customers. The FTC did not, however, define ‘retail’ in that case. That leaves plenty of wiggle room for guys like Orrin Woodward; he counts the vast majority of people in his pyramid, who seemingly try but fail to make money, as retail customers..” [8]
Litigation
The company, its executives, and various senior distributors were involved in five lawsuits between 2007 and 2009.[24][26][27][28][29][30][30][31][32][33] MonaVie was the plaintiff in trademark infringement suits against rival companies Fruitology (2007) and Amazon Thunder (2007) and was the defendant in false advertising suits filed by Amway (2008), Imagenetix (2008), and Oprah Winfrey/Mehmet Oz (2009).
On July 11, 2007, Monarch Health Sciences, the company that launched MonaVie, filed a lawsuit with the Utah district court against rival açaí juice manufacturer Amazon Thunder,[26] alleging that owner/founder Todd Reum had made “harmful, false, and defamatory statements" about MonaVie which "purportedly injured Monarch’s reputation”.[27] The suit sought $75,000 in damages. On November 15, 2007, the Utah district court ruled to dismiss the case against Reum.
On November 8, 2007, Monavie, Inc. filed a trademark infringement suit against Fruitology, a rival acai beverage (Fruitavie) manufacturer, in Utah District Court. Monavie voluntarily dismissed the suit on March 20, 2008.[28]
On March 17, 2008 MonaVie preemptively filed a lawsuit with the Utah district court asking for a ruling as to whether Quixtar Inc. and Amway Corp. had been over-reaching the boundaries of its non-compete agreements and address whether or not such agreements are enforceable for independent distributors.[29]
On March 18, 2008, Quixtar North America filed a multi-count federal court complaint against the MonaVie company and 16 of its distributors (John Brigham Hart, Lita Hart, Jason Lyons, Carrie Lyons, Lou Niles, Farid Zarif, and 10 anonymous defendants) for unfair competition.[30] The complaint alleged that MonaVie competed unfairly by making false claims about its products.[24] According to a company press release, MonaVie filed to dismiss the Amway/Quixtar lawsuit on April 15, 2008.[34] On November 12, 2008, MonaVie et al. filed a lawsuit in the Colorado District Court against Quixtar[31]
On May 5, 2008, the MonaVie company, its board of directors, and several of its senior distributors were sued by Imagenetix, Inc. for $2.75 billion over trademark infringement arising from false claims that Monavie Active juice contained the ingredient Celadrin.[30][32] The case was settled out of court and the lawsuit was dropped on May 20, 2008.[35] On June 2, 2008 Imagenetix announced that it had entered into a new business relationship with MonaVie, the terms of which were not disclosed.[36]
An August 20, 2009 article in the Chicago Sun-Times reported that television celebrities Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Mehmet Oz filed suit against 40 companies that are either selling açaí or related products, with their name endorsements on them." According to their complaint, such companies are "fabricating quotes or falsely purporting to speak in Dr. Oz's and/or Ms. Winfrey's voice about specific brands and products that neither of them has endorsed." [33] Monavie Inc. was one of the companies named as a defendant in the lawsuit.[37] Winfrey’s website elaborated that “consumers should be aware that neither Oprah Winfrey nor Dr. Oz are associated with nor do they endorse any açaí berry product, company or online solicitation of such products, including MonaVie juice products."
Winfrey and Oz have filed suit against 40 companies either selling açaí or related products, with their name endorsements on them.
According to their complaint, such companies are "fabricating quotes or falsely purporting to speak in Dr. Oz's and/or Ms. Winfrey's voice about specific brands and products that neither of them has endorsed."
"Consumers should be aware that neither Oprah Winfrey nor Dr. Oz are associated with nor do they endorse any açaí berry product, company or online solicitation of such products, including MonaVie juice products," a statement read on Winfrey's Web site. "Neither Oprah nor Dr. Oz are associated with nor do they endorse any specific resveratrol product, company or online solicitation of such products. Any companies that misrepresent their affiliation are making false claims."
The Products
Customer Retention: The "jungle juices" average yearly customer retention rate is typically between 5% to 7%.
If you have been in the Network Marketing/MLM realm long enough, you will hear about Financial Services companies WFG (World Financial Group), PrePaid Legal Services and Primerica. Although these are great companies, in a bad economy dealing with financial services is very challenging.
Here is the companies' profile:
Primerica Financial Services Inc. $2.2 billion Country: United States
The largest financial services marketing organization in North America, Primerica provides financial products and services, including term life insurance, mutual funds, variable annuities, loans, long-term care insurance and legal services to 6 million clients.
The way we break it down is by these 3 criteria: Industry, Company & Products.
Industry: Financial Services
PROS: Financial Industry
CONS: Financial Industry
Although the financial industry can be very lucrative, the US (it's main Market) is in a Recession! How can you expect to become successful when the 95% of people are cutting down on expenses. Massive unemployment, downsizing, pay-cuts also contribute to less spending on luxury services.
Company: Stable? Is the Timing right?
Primerica was founded in 1977. Is this Market saturated? The answer is yes. When you are looking for the right opportunity, you want to make sure and see....Is there still opportunity?
The Graph below is an example of how important Timing is in a company. Primerica is already in the Final Stability Phase. It's already a Billion dollar company, which is a great thing....for them...but not for you.
There are four stages of growth in a company.
The first stage is called Formulation. This is where the company starts and many have a very difficult time of getting off the ground.
During the second stage-Concentration, a capital investment is usually needed to keep the company growing. It is a very tumultuous stage to get through.
Which is why most companies never get to the 3rd stage: momentum. When a company hits $50M a year, approximately $4M a month, it enters into the Momentum Stage, the most exciting stage of a company’s growth.
The beginning of Momentum is called the Tipping Point. Some examples of companies that have hit the tipping point are Nike, Reebok, Calvin Klein Jeans, Federal Express, AOL. Momentum is a 3-5 year period of time that happens only once during the lifecycle of a company. It is when the company grows from $50M per year to a ½ billion or more.
The fourth stage of growth is called Stability. This is when the company’s growth continues but levels off. So as you can see now is the time to act on this opportunity.
Recent News: Primerica getting "pumped" and "dumped" by Citigroup.
“Over the past few weeks, Pandit has been told to simplify the company’s structure and raise capital come what may,” a Citi insider said on Friday.
With Citi’s shares languishing 75 per cent below their value a year ago, an equity issue would be a hard sell and could fatally undermine investors’ confidence in the company.
Mr Pandit, who has pledged to move $400bn of unwanted and toxic assets off Citi’s balance sheet, has tried to dispose of some underperforming businesses such as Primerica – an insurance marketing agency – but without success.
Ok so I had to post this up because this my all time favorite Lamborghini and it's For Sale locally!!! This is a very RARE opportunity! DAAMN! OK, let me get a grip on myself! I will pay a visit to see this crown jewel personally! I just thought I'd share this!
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Loretta Wilger Asmus & Sven Asmus
