Comments on: Orrin Woodward’s Team Would Tear Up A Binary Plan

By: DW

DW — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:57:43 +0000

Ty, I remember you were engaged in two-team compensation plan debates/discussions before and you always violently frowned upon non-unilevel payplan biz opps.

How/what clicked in place... & got you aligning more & more with True Modern Day business building strategies???

Perhaps you blogged on this "revelation" before. Care to reply / post that blog link???

By: Kelly Savard

Kelly Savard — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:33:11 +0000

Very nicely written article. I am a member of TEAM. Many people don't understand that TEAM is not Quixtar. TEAM is a leadership development company who have in the past and currently conduct legitimate business with network marketing companies offering a "product". TEAM never was Quixtar and it will never be Monavie. We simply are a leadership development business who happens to be really good at building communities of people. I feel badly for those of you who can't wrap your heads around what we do. In everything good, someone's got to find the bad. I'm a better person all around for the experience I've gained from TEAM. There is word that the leadership tools are being decreased by 60-70%. That would be nice, but the original price for their tools are well worth the investment in to my future.

By: Ty Tribble

Ty Tribble — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:29:49 +0000

I suspect that MonaVie is part of a larger plan. Just a guess.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:36:02 +0000

Well, Ty, you called it. Looks like Woodward, Brady and Marks are going to be going after the MonaVie opportunity. This comes as a schock to the majority of TEAM builders who had been hearing that the new shopping portal that TEAM would be using would be announced soon. No shopping portal, just another MLM. On Woodward's blog, he is stating that he won't actually be able to start this new opportunity until late March because somehow his injunction has been extended. Not sure when Brady, Marks or any of the other TEAM leaders are going to start.

It's worth mentioning, when asked in the comments section if TEAM builders are going to be joining MonaVie in the same order as they are placed on TEAM, Woodward's response included things like:

"I am sure if we went to Team and asked them to set up meetings or set up seminars, they would do it. What Team does outside of our new venture is for the Team management to decide," and "We will start our own opens that are not Team opens, but our new company when the time is right."

Is he distancing himself from TEAM? On the TEAM business homepage, there is an announcement for a "featured guest speaker" at the next Leadership convention. One has to wonder if any of the old TEAM leaders will be there speaking...

Definitely check out his blog and this new announcement. The comments are worth checking out too, just to get an idea of what people's responses are. Mostly positive, because they love their leader. Some even compare him to Jesus Christ.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:43:16 +0000

Where is he buying his product from now?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:23:02 +0000

Either way, I'm sure that a majority of TEAM builders would like to know if one of the main principles of the business (not a leadership principle, but an actual "this is why we're different" principle) was going to be changing. From all the chatter I hear, no one suspects that the business is now going to be product driven. I think everyone still assumes that it will work very similarly to the way it did with Quixtar - make money buying what you're already buying for yourself while taking advantage of e-commerce trends. I've even heard them talk about some of the new "partner stores" that TEAM will be affiliated with.

Apparently the new way of business is supposed to be unveiled in early to mid-February. That's only a couple of weeks away.

What is in store for TEAM? What are they going to be doing? Everyone is wondering. Is it going to be just shopping on the internet, which I know for a fact a majority of TEAM builders still think. Or, is it going to be a new product driven MLM? From what I've read on the internet, that seems to be what's going on.

Two very conflicting scenarios....

By: Ty Tribble - MLM Blog Author

Ty Tribble - MLM Blog Author — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:03:44 +0000

I suspect that they have been talking it already. Honestly, it's not a big deal. I never go out of my way to "sell" products, yet I have dozens of customers.

Find a unique (preferably patented} product and allow the product to sell itself by handing out samples.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:45:44 +0000

So, Ty, you are saying that TEAM would in fact have to change their tactics and make it clear that the business is product driven. That to be in the business, you would have to be selling a product and would have to maintain a certain level of volume from customers.

This is interesting to me because, like I stated above, so far they have stressed that the business is not about selling products to people. That you can succeed just by maintaining a volume that is based on your own household consumption. But this is not the case anymore? Just to be clear, whatever they decide to do, it will be a product driven business? You are right Quixtar products were over-priced, which made it all the more easy to sign-up because there was a constant reminder from TEAM that you didn't have to sell any products, which would have been very difficult.

I'm just wondering if this is another one of the many things that's going to be changing for TEAM.

By: Ty Tribble

Ty Tribble — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:29:55 +0000

If the product is good and priced fairly, real customers will come as a result of building your business and handing out samples of your products. If the products are priced too high (like Quixtar), customers are hard to come by.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:23:39 +0000

I think the big issue with TEAM being involved with another MLM is that it would be very hard for them to utilize the "you don't have to sell anything" tactic that they have used so far. This is why it was so easy for them to recruit. One of the first things they stressed, at ALL their meetings, was that you don't have to sell anything, the business was not "product driven" it was "people driven". How is this going to go down with another MLM?