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Written by Jimmie Burroughs 
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Of course nothing is perfect but things are counted perfect if they meet certain standards. For example, a diamond is counted perfect by federal guidelines if it reveals no flaws when magnified 25 times. So when I say a perfect MLM, what I mean is that it meets certain standards. Below are 10 standards for determining the quality of any MLM.
- Solid company or new subsidiary of a solid company
- Strong base of experienced leadership
- Free training available
- Uni-level building plan with a limit on the levels deep
- Fair comp plan
- Unique product
- A competitive price on the product
- Sole distributor of the product
- Strong emphasis on sales of the product rather than recruiting
- Sticky
Solid company or new subsidiary of a solid company
To become involved with a brand new company at ground floor is an enticing idea and it can pay off big but the downside is that 95% of new companies fail within the first 5 years. To invest your time and money in a company that will go out of business in the next 5 years is not something you would want to do. Therefore it is extremely important to get involved with a solid company that will be around for the long haul. It is preferable that the company has already established its longevity or is partnered with an established company.
The company I consider to be the perfect MLM is Nerium International, a subsidiary of Nerium Biotechnology, Inc . Nerium Bio-Tech has been around for a long time and has an established reputation for being a solid company. It launched a new networking marketing company August 29, 2011 to distribute a revolutionary new anti-aging skin care product that took 5 years to develop and is clinically backed.
The Company is a biotechnology company primarily involved in the development of oleander-based products and cancer research.
The Company is a reporting issuer in good standing in the Province of Ontario whose shares are not listed on any stock exchange or quotation system. There are 31,544,681 common shares and 500,000 Series “A” Convertible Preference Shares issued and outstanding following the completion of the private placement. –Nerium Biotechnology, Inc. site
Strong base of experienced leadership
Also extremely important is the leadership base. The CEO of Nerium International is Jeff Olsen. If you are not familiar with Jeff Olsen, you definitely need to do some research on him. Jeff, probably more than any other person, has shattered records throughout the MLM Industry. He has helped to develop more millionaires and six figure earners in the industry than just about anyone else. He and Eric Worre founded The People’s Network (TPN) that eventually merged with Prepaidlegal.
Jeff is widely known for his book, The Slight Edge. His philosophies on success have been the keystone for many other successful entrepreneurs. I highly recommend you check this book out: The Slight Edge is PHENOMENAL!
Co-Founder/President: Dennis Windsor
Senior Vice President, International Operations: Trevor Schofield
“Partner”: Nerium SkinCare, a division of Nerium Biotechnology
Free training available
While many past and present MLM companies have made a fortune on selling training materials to their distributors, Nerium International offers them free to their distributors or for a small fee for advanced training.
Uni-level building plan with a limit on levels deep
The unilevel matrix is the only one that offers fairness to everyone. The binary plan is the one gaining a lot of popularity today but it is also unfair because it can be used to build power legs which are helpful to some but harmful to many especially the novice who is not familiar to the building techniques of MLM. Watch the video by Jeff Olsen as he explains the fairness of the unilevel building system.
Nerium Internation limits the number of levels in the matrix to 10. Beware of companies who offer payouts to infinity.
Fair comp plan
A fair comp plan is one that allows the company to be a violable company and yet give the distributors a decent opportunity to make a good salary. The comp plan is based on unilevel that pays up to 10 levels deep; fast start, matching, and other bonuses. Customers simply refer three on autoship and theirs is free for life. Review Nerium Compensation plan. For the single page compensation plan overview: CLICK HERE Get your product for free when you get 3: CLICK HERE
Unique product
Probably one of the most important features of Nerium is the product, NeriumAD, which is the greatest new discovery to come along in the past 20 years in the anti-aging skin care industry.
It is the only one that has scientific, clinical proof of its effectiveness which is phenomenal. Most skin care products are glad to have a 3% to 5% effective rate and NeriumAD has been clinically tested to have as high as 60% in some categories.
NeriumAD took 5 years to develop at the cost of millions of dollars and the growing and processing of the plant is so expensive and technical it is probably going to be the only product of its kind for years to come. Check this video.
A competitive price on the products
Anti-aging skin products are sold from very low prices up to around $200. Nerium is in the mid price range making it very competitive especially when you consider that no other skin care product can anywhere near produce the results that NeriumAD will based on scientific, clinical proof.
The big problem with most any MLM product is the inflated price. For example, I was involved with a Nutritional MLM and paid as much as $24 for a 4os bottle of a product that I liked and still use today. The problem was I found the very same product online except in an 8oz bottle for $11.95, twice as much product for half the price.
Most products sold by MLM companies can be found at shopping centers at a discount price which makes selling the products very difficult for distributors.
Sole distributor of the product
I was with a nutritional company when Resveratrol an anti-aging product first came out. I thought man this is going to be a great opportunity. I was wrong because as it turned out resveratrol was a rather simple product to produce and soon everyone was selling resveratrol including the health food stores and for a lot less in most instances than I could sell it for.
Nerium International has exclusive international rights on NeriumAD and consequent new products that will come along with the Nerium Oleander ingredient. You can’t buy this product at Wal-Mart or on the Internet of in fact anywhere else but from a Nerium distributor.
Strong emphasis on sales of the product rather than recruiting
I’ve been involved with 6 MLM companies and Nerium is the first one that offers a chance to earn well from just selling the product to preferred customers. That certainly is a healthy sign of a legitimate MLM company when there is an emphasis on the product. This product is such high quality and in such demand that making long term customers is so much easier than the majority of MLM companies.
Sticky
By the term sticky I mean that the attrition rate is so much lower than the average MLM Company. I learned from my beginning in this Industry that building a downline was like trying to fill up a bucket with water that was full of holes. The average stay for distributors and customers in most MLM companies is one year. On the other hand it has been reported that some customers use the same skin care products for up to 17 years.
The anti-aging industry is overtaking all other direct marketing businesses and is projected to be greater than all of them put together in the next three years. While there is pleanty of competition, there is also plenty of opportunity for a new anti-aging product, clinically backed that is predictive of its results based on science.
Anti-aging skin care just in the United States is a multi billion industry projected to be larger than all other direct sales combined within the next 3 years.
Visit my company website if you are interested in learning more or would like to join my team in this exciting new adventure: http://otobefree.nerium.com/ : You may also contact me here.