Like the company I am with charges a $39 enrollment fee. No money from that goes to anybody but the company. The sale of products or services are the ONLY way commissions can be paid on.

That is what happened to YTB and now FHTM. I think there are several other big companies that I have seen that will be looked at eventually because their comp plan also pays distributors commissions off the enrollment fees.

Chris

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I think we all need to see many many testimonials to get true belief in that product.

Or maybe it could be the next big thing?? (ha)

Thanks for the post my friend.

Wayne Vassell, signing out…

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With XLER8 recently shutting down their mlm operations as well I hope this not the beginning of a new disturbing trend.

Time will tell I guess.

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Some of FHTM’s products do not lend themselves to high commission rates. That doesn’t mean that money isn’t being generated from the volume of product (or service) being moved.

For that matter, FHTM has their own line of nutritionals. They are taking advantage of their established network to profit handsomely from this product line.

At the heart of the FHTM business, the owners are establishing a distribution network for the products so that they (the owners) can profit from the sale of the products. Like any sales organization, there is a balance between what the owners take in and what they distribute to the field. Maintaining that balance is one of the keys to continuing to grow.

I don’t want to come off as a cheerleader for Fortune. Actually, I have some good friends who were top earners with Fortune and left precisely because they felt the pay plan didn’t compensate them well enough for the long haul.

My beef is with the states who take this kind of action. They stop a company from doing business before they get a hearing. I think this is unfair. For the most part, I think it is about control and regulation. If multi-level companies were regulated in the same way as insurance companies, then these AGs wouldn’t care if 90%+ of the reps made little or no money and wasted their time. As long as the state got to extract their fees and maintain control, everything would be fine.

I am positive that Fortune’s ownership has spent a lot of money to be sure they are within the law. I am also positive that Fortune, like most MLM companies, has representatives who mis-represent the company’s policies and compensation plan to the public. For the sake of this industry, I hope that these type of decisions do not become the norm. I realize this is not a black and white case, but most in our industry are not. I just want to see AGs side with entrepreneurialism over heavy-handed bureaucracy.

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Only time will tell as none of us have a crystal ball, but I like putting the odds in my favor and that is by doing good due diligence. I too got a chance to meet the founders and after conversing with them I found it refreshing to meet true business people who who want to help the world and do business at the same time. And to claim, as some of you have in previous posts, they they are all hype are grossly mistaken. In an industry where hype is the standard, I found their non-hype approach truly refreshing.

And the product working is a given, because without a product which works, nothing else matters. But if you have a good product and not all the other qualities that I mentioned above which ASEA has, the company will go nowhere. You don’t have to look to far in this industry to see that. Many companies have outstanding products but little else, which shows in their non existent numbers, growth and longevity.

It is true that ASEA has only done some preliminary testing and studies, (you can find the documents in their back office), they are backed by millions of $ of research and 25 overlapping patents. You don’t get all that will just “salt water” as so many are touting in previous posts. If you’re going to criticize, you really should do some homework before shooting from the hip, otherwise it just makes you look bad.

While you’re add it why don’t you Google, ‘redox biochemistry’ or ‘redox signaling’ to see all outside independent research that is being done in this body of science which ASEA so brilliantly is tapping into with their product.

And they are currently in double blind studies to further back up their initial findings. And even if those studies show half of what they initially found, it will shake the industry.

Good luck to all of you in this amazing industry of Network Marketing. I wish you all the best success.

Markus
Chicago

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Now, that’s a WOW.

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When Michelle first tried ASEA…she went into this expecting it NOT to work. She was very surprised…because even (the last company) did not work for her. Did she promote (that product)…no she did not. “I cannot promote things that don’t work”.

Whatever Ty…I guess you do what you “feel” you gotta do. (If that’s what works for you)

Matthew

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It is my agenda to expose companies that use hype with no substance to promote their product and business.

It is my agenda to tell the truth and offer my opinion and you can look back at the archives over the last 6 years to see if I am right or wrong.”

Obviously you have not done a very good job with your agenda in regards to Asea. Redox Signaling has a tremendous amount of substantiated research behind it. There is plenty of science behind what reactive molecules do. And there is scientific proof that ASEA contains a stabilized set of the reactive molecules your body produces are is necessary to the Redox Signaling processes going in your body.

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