Stay at Home Moms & Melaleuca

Melaleuca, The Wellness Company is a $887 million nutritional, cosmetic, and personal care products company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA.

Melaleuca was listed on the Inc. 500's list of fastest-growing companies in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 and today is one of the largest and most successful privately owned companies in Idaho.
History

Melaleuca, Inc. is not the first Melaleuca based company. A previous company began under the name "Oil of Melaleuca, Inc." offering a single product called "T36-C5 Melaleuca Oil" which was formulated from extract of the melaleuca alternafolia shrub-like tree, commonly known as tea tree oil. This former company operated as a standard multi-level marketing company whose literature made health claims the FDA would not approve. The company sold products whose uses and benefits were not verifiably documented. There were also exaggerated claims of the efficacy of the active ingredient, tea tree oil, and claims that the company was a sole source of the same, creating an impression of privileged access to a unique product.[2]

Melaleuca sales history from 1985 through 2008.

In 1985, the company was taken over by Frank L. VanderSloot who dissolved the previous company, created a new marketing plan to support consumers, immediately launched an initiative to bring the company's product line into compliance with FDA regulations, and started this new company under the name of "Melaleuca, Inc.". He made the compensation plan more favorable to Marketing Executives, by establishing Consumer Direct Marketing. Independent Marketing Executives were no longer required to sell products but instead became preferred membership enrollment facilitators. Since VanderSloot has taken the helm, Melaleuca has experienced consistently increasing sales and revenues and expanded internationally.

Melaleuca now has over 2,500 employees as well as sales offices in Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and United Kingdom and grossed US $887,000,000 in sales in 2008. [3] Melaleuca began sales in Singapore, Netherlands, and Jamaica in 2006
Products and business model

While initially based predominantly on melaleuca plant extracts, the product line has since expanded beyond this initial focus. Melaleuca sells products including household cleaners, personal care items, pharmaceuticals and nutritional supplements. The company markets itself as being earth-friendly, and many of their products are certified organic and Kosher certified. They also launched a cosmetics line in partnership with fashion designer Nicole Miller in August, 1999.

Melaleuca has been outspoken against the abuses inherent to multi-level marketing and the damage they can cause. By contrast, Melaleuca does not allow inventory loading (a practice used by many multi-level marketing companies encouraging them to purchase sometimes thousands of dollars worth of inventory), limits the marketing chain to 7 generations, and prohibits "breakaways" (another practice commonly found in multi-level marketing). Melaleuca also does not require its marketing executives to maintain an inventory. In order to earn commissions from one's customers, marketing executives must produce a minimal number of 35 product points per month (the equivalent of about $45–55 each month) to remain an active Independent Marketing Executive. This in turn qualifies the Preferred customer to receive a 30%-40% discount off the regular purchase price of their personal product purchases. The company also offers their preferred members an opportunity to earn up to 10% of their monthly product order back in "Loyalty Shopping" dollars. After earning $100 in Loyalty Shopping dollars their first five consecutive months, new preferred members are allowed to redeem their earned Loyalty Shopping dollars towards products.

The products Melaleuca produces today are typically everyday, consumer items such as shampoo, hairspray, and cleaning supplies. Independent Marketing Executives and Preferred Customers of Melaleuca, Inc. say that the minimum required level to receive this discount is compatible with average household and personal monthly use.

According to Melaleuca, the company focuses on developing products that support wellness through a healthy lifestyle and products that are safer for your home. For the conscientious household, the company focuses on researching and bringing to market cleaning products that are environmentally friendly and use more natural ingredients. Melaleuca touts that its products perform as good or better than what is found at the local grocery store, but without the bleach, lye, or other chemicals typically found in other brands.

The company has developed an extensive line of nutritional products such as vitamin and mineral supplements which claim to promote heart health, cardiovascular, and blood pressure supplements, and a glucosamine product for healthy joints. They also have developed products using natural ingredients that the company claims support healthy vision, healthy prostate, healthy urinary tract, as well as other nutritional supplements. It also has a body and bath product line, beauty and makeup line, and weight management line.

Melaleuca uses a direct-to-consumer delivery model, where a customer can place an order via telephone, fax or online (over the internet) and products are delivered to their door via UPS or national mail carrier.

Income Opportunity - Sharing Wellness With Others


When you see a great movie, are you excited to tell your friends about it? Do you recommend your favorite restaurant to your brother or tell your neighbor when there's a sale at the grocery store?

Melaleuca provides a business opportunity based on this same principle. When you find something good, you recommend it to your friends. The movie theater or the grocery store doesn't pay you to do it-but Melaleuca does. That's what we call Consumer Direct Marketing.

Introducing Products to Others

Melaleuca's financial opportunity is easy to understand. When you find a new customer and help them join Melaleuca, you will receive a commission on each order. The more customers you enroll, the more commissions you earn. Melaleuca also offers bonuses and incentives for helping other customers start a business.

This type of marketing has many advantages. Our convenient catalog delivery system allows health-oriented customers to shop for over 300 household products and have them delivered directly to their door. The customer does not pay for advertising, trucking, middle-man mark-ups or store display costs-and products cost less. In addition, since each order comes straight from the manufacturer, the products arrive fresh and you save time and money that otherwise would be spent in the grocery store or drugstore. You are sharing wellness with others each time you enroll a customer!

Achieve Financial Wellness

Most of us, at one time or another, have longed for the opportunity to be our own boss and have more control over our financial lives. To people all around the world, the thought of getting out of the 9-to-5 corporate mindset and taking over their own financial destiny has great appeal.

Unfortunately, more often than not, the biggest barrier preventing most people from generating income isn't a lack of desire, drive or initiative. It's simply a lack of money. Not having the financial resources needed to purchase basic business assets-inventory, equipment, real estate, etc. - means they can't produce income and get their businesses off the ground. The lack of start-up cash locks them, their children, and their children's children into a frustrating cycle of "working for the other guy" where they can never really get ahead.

However, Melaleuca is in the business of breaking that cycle and redistributing opportunity. We've created a unique business structure that allows you to begin earning additional income, achieve your dreams of self-sufficiency, and gain the flexibility and control you've always wanted. You don't have to worry about start-up costs and inventory-you simply begin referring customers to Melaleuca.

Thousands of average people have recommended Melaleuca's wellness products to their friends, and have started earning a residual income. We celebrate and publish the accomplishments of our Marketing Executives in our annual income statistics report. Their income may help them pay for gas and groceries during the month, provide dance lessons or braces for their children, save for college education or retirement, or may even replace their full-time income. By alleviating these financial pressures they can focus on the things in life that are more important than money.

The Truth About Monavie

MonaVie is a nutritional beverage company distributing beverage products made from blended fruit juice concentrates with freeze-dried açaí powder and purée through a multi-level marketing (MLM) business model. In 2009, Monavie, Inc. was ranked eighteenth on Inc. magazine's 500/5000 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S..

Company overview

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.

In September 2009, Monavie, Inc. was ranked eighteenth on Inc. magazine's 500/5000 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies (based on claimed revenue from 2005 to 2008) in the United States (#1 in Food & Beverage category; #3 in revenue)[9] However, as a privately-held company, MonaVie isn't required to publish financial data, making such claims difficult to judge.[6] In June 2009, MonaVie CEO Dallin Larsen was one of eight Utah business owners to receive the Entrepreneur of the Year in the Utah Region award from accounting firm Ernst & Young.[13]. In Novemember 2009, Mr. Larsen was announced as the National Entrepreneur of the Year for Emerging Markets, by Ernst & Young.

Product overview

The MonaVie product line includes bottled juices, MonaVie Original, Active, and Pulse, in addition to gel pack versions of these products and an energy drink, EMV.

A patent application for Opti-Acaí, a primary product ingredient for MonaVie juices, was submitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2004 by developers Alexander G. Schauss and Kenneth A. Murdock.[15] and approved by the U.S. Patent Office on July 21, 2009.

Distributor earnings



Monavie products are sold by non-employee distributors who are eligible to receive commissions based on product sales. Individual distributors are encouraged to build their own sales networks by recruiting new distributors to sell the products (referred to in multilevel marketing parlance as a "downline"); the recruiter can, in theory, receive additional commissions based on sales by their downlines.

Regarding the earnings prospects for Monavie distributors, a Newsweek reporter commented that, based on MonaVie's 2007 income disclosure statement, "fewer than 1% qualified for commissions and of those, only 10% made more than $100 a week." More than 90% were counted as wholesale customers, whose earnings Newsweek said were mostly discounts on sales to themselves. According to a top recruiter, the dropout rate in 2008 was around 70%.

According to an article published by the Hartford Courant by author Janice Posada on July 19, 2009 called "Acai's Payoff", the Monavie 2008 income disclosure statement shows that about 45% of the company's distributors earned an annualized average check of less than $1,600, and 37% took home about $2,000; approximately 2% earned an annualized average check of more than $29,000, and just 7 out of 80,000 distributors (<0.01%) took home more than $3 million.[18][19] In an article published in Deseret News, Monavie Executive VP Henry Marsh responded to Newsweek's analysis of distributor earnings, stating that "...more like 14 percent..." of distributors make a profit COME JOIN TEAM SUCEESSWAVE
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Global Virtual Opportunities & Team SuccessWave

A Letter From Bram Smith

Okay guys…

I can confirm that GVO is the most incredible company I have ever worked with

I just drove out to the GVO offices, waltzed right in and asked for Joel, and had a sit down with he and Mike (you will know Mike if you’ve been following Joel’s blog, which you should be).

I didn’t know what to expect really. I brought with me a list of questions I know that a lot of people have surrounding the GVO launch.

Joel is cautious when it comes to announcing an exact date that GVO will go into pre-launch, but I can tell you that I am more pumped than EVER about this company now.

I sat down at Joel’s computer and got a sneek peak of the GVO back office, marketing tools and products. People, it ROCKS!

If the thought has even entered your mind about dropping out of GVO before we even get to prelaunch it would be a HUGE mistake.

After a tour of the facilities (with PLENTY of room for expansion), Joel, Mike and I sat down in the “green room” and I grilled him for what must have been close to an hour.

If you have ANY questions about the GVO compensation plan, the products, and why this is such an excellent opportunity, believe me — I got them answered for you.

We even took a trip to the white board in Joel’s office for a detailed explanation about the compensation plan, and boy am I excited about what I found out. Turns out there were several perks I wasn’t even aware of.

Since the video turned out so long and we ended up doing it on the much nicer GVO video cam than my Flip cam, Joel agreed to have his video production guy produce the video for me.

I can’t wait for you to see it because you’re going to be as jazzed as I am by what you hear.

You don’t know the half of it yet!

One thing I wanted you to know NOW before you even see the video is that the commission stats you see in your Kiosk back office do NOT reflect everything properly. (but they should soon)

You will receive a 50% fast start bonus your first month for each of your personal referrals. Right now that’s not showing.

Here are some other KEY things about the comp plan I’m sure you will want to know…

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- 2×10 forced matrix (meaning people in your upline OR your downline may contribute to your overall income as they refer more and more people)

- %5 commission on EACH of the 10 levels. A full matrix is 2046 people, or over $4,500 per month if every person is on the LOWEST price-point product package — and if you didn’t refer ANY of them.

If you referred some of them, you earn 20% of what your referrals earn too (matching bonuses). This is in addition to your normal matrix commissions.

- For every 14 Titanium members in your organization, you get another position in the matrix. You can save these up in a pool and use them (position them) where you want to and WHEN you want to.

This is great, for instance, if you want to put one of these “bonus” positions directly under a heavy-hitter you refer, or if you want to use it as incentive by placing it under a friend or family member and then start building it so you build your income AND theirs, or rewarding a hard-working member in your group by placing one of your bonus positions under them.

And ah… this is KILLER. If you’re really going to get cranking and promoting GVO, you will LOVE this. Each month, GVO will put 10% of company net profits into a bonus pool. I don’t know that it has an official name yet, but we’ll call it the heavy hitter bonus pool for now.

The TOP 20 referrers each month will share in this pool equally.

NOT the top earners, but the 20 people with the most personal referrals for that month — so even someone BRAND NEW to the company could potentially hit on this bonus their first month.

I can’t make promises about the size of this pool or what the bonus to each qualifying affiliate will be, but I can imagine it getting VERY big, VERY fast based on what I’ve seen already.

For an easy hypothetical example, if GVO has net profits of $1 MILLION in a month, then the bonus pool for that month is $100,000, which is split equally by 20 people who referred the most new members for the month.

Thats $5K in addition to your normal fast starts, matrix commissions, and matching bonuses. If you can't tell by this email that I'm excited, just wait until you see the video.

I grilled the heck out of Joel for you. What I planned on being a quick hello and tour of the office, and a few answers to pressing questions turned into a full blown tell-all about GVO (except the future stuff Joel has up his sleeve, and believe me, although I can't talk about it — it's exciting and will mean even MORE income to you).
I’m telling you folks… I'm pumped. If you're not, check your pulse — there's probably something wrong with you.
Joel will send me the video as soon as it's produced, and I'll be sure to pass it on to you as soon as I can.
Start telling people about GVO now and get a serious head start before we even go into per-launch. Now is the time!

Bram Smith





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So what is GVO or Global Virtual Opportunities? Before I answer that, let me ask you a question. If you have your own online business, what is the most essential service you are likely to have?.....

How about web hosting! Thats right, web hosting....so if we accept that serious online buisnesses need web hosting, how would it be if you could build a profitable online business by promoting a solution that is attractive to, well anyone who needs to host and market their websites.

You see this is an hosting package with a difference, and thats down to the quality of the tools provided in the package, more on that in a moment.

Now back to this providing a business opportunity, to have longevity for recurring income each and every month you need for people to be party to a good quality product that is essential to

their working activities and that provides a quality solution, and that is why the impending launch of the GVO system is going to be a winner for anyone who gets in there early.

You can see a video that lays out this opportunity here: GVO

So why would the GVO or Global Virtual Opportunity be appealing for web masters to join, lets take a closer look at what it offers:

With your GVO membership you also get:

* Personalized Autoresponder System

* Online Virtual Conferencing

* Online Video Hosting and Video Producer

* Website Downtime Monitoring

* Unlimited Hosted Domain Names

* 15000 Meg's of Web Space and 200000 Meg's of Bandwidth (that's alot!)

* Unlimited MySQL databases

* Unlimited Sub-Domains

* Unlimited Email Accounts

From a business perspective you are rewarded in a number of ways, and you can get into the system for $1, and because of how the system works it is possible to see results, even if you have not promoted at all, through the spill overs from other referrers.

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MAKE YOUR DREAMS A REALITY

You have the power and the opportunity to change your life.
You can make anything you want of it.
It's not difficult, it just takes some effort.

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Develop a personal plan that focuses on what you want,
not on what you have.

Your imagination will show you how to turn possibility into reality.
Visualize your goals and your subconscious will work
toward making those mental picture come true.

When you picture yourself as vividly winning,
that alone will contribute immeasurably to your success.

Knowing your destination is all you need to get there.

Introducing The GDI Matrix Buster & Team SuccessWave

Here's the honest truth… to succeed online you must be able to build your own list of prospects. I don’t care what business you are promoting – you must build a list and I’m not talking about your babysitter, the pizza guy, your kids teachers or the gas station attendant. You must be able to build a list of people that WANT to know about your business!

Without the ability to build your own list, you are:

1) leaving money on the table and
2) potentially losing your new members to another person working the same biz and
3) losing commissions you deserve to receive for years to come

You must be able to provide a solid system for your team members in order for them to succeed. I created Team SuccessWave to help my team and other GDI members.If you are currently with GDI but getting nowhere and you would like to try our team, there are options. Unfortunately we can only build teams for people in our organization but don't loose hope. In the short terms system that I gave my GDI team members to use to build their downline. What started out as a ‘test’ when I started GDI turned into a system that had existing GDI members calling me day and night asking about it. I’ve even had people from other GDI teams on my conference calls because they were curious as to how my system worked.

Because we strongly believe that the more you give to others the more you will receive, we decided it was time to join. We held our weekly team webinar a few days ago and I asked my team what they thought about us joining the Matrix Buster and adding the free system to the team . This GDI Matrix Buster works!

Team SuccessWave were talking about this decision a year ago and I guess we were just really pumped about GDI Matrix Buster & how this free system can help our team SuccessWave & many other people that dont join the team and are still apart of GDI.

So, this is an open call to all GDI’ers out there…. if you've ever wanted to use my team system, it's now available to you! No charge. The only expense is your autoresponder and you have to have one of those anyway to build a list. You don't have to use the one I recommend – you don't even have to use one at all! So, if thats the case then this system will be 100% free for you. However, if you choose the autoresponder I recommend, you will not be sorry because you'll get weekly checks like clockwork for your efforts. The one I recommend costs less than $20 per month and you can get that back within 30 days if you enroll just one GDI member or system user!

I will never charge you a weekly, monthly, yearly, one time offer, blah blah blah to use this system. Ever. It is free to use. Even if you are already a member of GDI – you can use this system absolutely FREE without switching sponsorship. Consider it my early gift to you.

Go here to get it setup. It'll take about 45 minutes or so to get it setup depending on how fast you read and follow directions. Team SuccessWave is confident that it will work for you like it has worked for me and my team members.