Originally published October 16 2008
Review of Revolutionary Direct Sales Companies: Moxxor, Elements for Life, ShopToEarth and Amazon Herb Company
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) This is part two of a two-part article. Read part one first (www.NaturalNews.com/024515.html). Here, in part two, I'm reviewing emerging direct sales companies that are redefining the industry, sweeping away old-school network marketing and replacing it with high-integrity, quality-minded leadership.
For each company reviewed here, I include its strengths, weaknesses, company culture and my relationship (if any) with each company. I'll start with the most recently-launched company: Moxxor.
Moxxor
Products: Highly-concentrated green-lipped mussel extract, rich in marine omega-3 oils (other aquaculture products to arrive in the future)
Attractive to: Health and healing practitioners, moms, working professionals
Not suitable for: Vegans or vegetarians (marine lipids are from shellfish)
Company culture: Big into natural health, nutrition, fitness and abundance; attracting many health and healing practitioners, including doctors and naturopaths
Founders: Super healthy, high energy, positive attitude, really into fitness and nutrition
Strengths: Excellent financial backing, beautiful website, committed leadership, pristine product from New Zealand with phenomenal health benefits, brilliant binary compensation plan, pays out every week, raw processing protects nutritional quality of marine lipids
Weaknesses: Lack of sales tools (company is young), some software glitches in back office, product doesn't appeal to vegetarians, compensation plan is complex, but generous
Launched on: September, 2008
Enroll at: If someone else introduced you to Moxxor, enroll with them. If you're new to Moxxor, the NaturalNews team enrollment page is www.NaturalNews.com/Moxxor-Informat...
Moxxor is a brand new network marketing company based on a unique line of super-potent marine omega-3 oils grown in pristine aquaculture farms in the fjords of New Zealand. The company is so new, we don't yet have permission to announce it as an individual feature article on the home page (that's coming soon), but through our email announcements, we've already signed over 350 distributors and begun our weekly online audio training events (which are free, of course).
This company has a brilliant compensation plan, solid financial backing and a truly remarkable marine omega-3 oil that just blows away all the other sources of omega-3 oils I've ever seen. (According to the research, it's 248 times more potent than salmon oil in terms of its anti-inflammatory properties...)
You can read the surprising story on how I discovered Moxxor at www.NaturalNews.com/000002.html
Moxxor is part of this "new wave" of emerging network marketing companies because it combines a solid, high-value product with a generous binary compensation plan. It's the first binary company I've seen with a product so good that I'd buy it anyway, even without the direct sales structure. Until I tried Moxxor, I had never found any kind of omega-3 supplement that caused me to immediately feel a positive difference. But Moxxor did exactly that.
Moxxor is a very young company. NaturalNews was one of the founding distributors (we have no upline), and we have a direct line to the management team. In fact, I've been invited to be part of the product formulation advisory board, which means I'll be offering guidance on all future product formulations.
NaturalNews is providing tremendous benefits for people who wish to join Moxxor. Soon, we'll be running Moxxor ads on the website, educating people about the phenomenal health benefits of the green-lipped mussel oil, and giving them the opportunity to join Moxxor as either customers or distributors. Those who join the NaturalNews team before that public launch date will be in a position to benefit from the publicity we plan to provide on Moxxor throughout 2009.
I'm also hosting a weekly live audio event for the NaturalNews Moxxor team, and we're providing other team-building resources to help our distributors succeed: Articles, interviews, reports and more. This has already been going on for four weeks.
I believe Moxxor is poised to be the next $1 billion health product Direct Sales company, and I think its product is vastly superior to anything I've seen before in the same category. With the long-term addition of other aquaculture products -- all based on pristine, chemical-free formulations -- Moxxor looks to be one of the very few direct sales companies offering truly inspiring products combined with a generous binary compensation plan that makes it much easier for people to earn real incomes.
To enroll in Moxxor, contact one of our existing distributors from the list at: http://www.naturalnews.com/moxxor-i...
The Amazing Properties of Marine Lipids
You already know me as a critical thinker and skeptical journalist who asks tough questions about nutritional supplements. I've already asked ALL the questions on this one, and Moxxor exceeds all my requirements on product purity, potency, no fillers, no chemical solvents, no environmental harm and no nonsense. The product and all its ingredients have been fully tested for heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants. They show absolutely no detectable levels of any such substances.
Moxxor is a product that's grown in sustainable, eco-certified aquaculture farms off the coast of New Zealand. The green-lipped mussels filter out marine phytoplankton from the ocean water, concentrating the rich marine lipids found in that phytoplankton. The result is the most pristine, concentrated form of omega-3 lipids found anywhere in the world.
That's probably why Moxxor is the only omega-3 oil I've ever consumed that created a strong, noticeable difference in my own health. I've never seen a single product support such remarkable health of my skin and hair, and its ability to support a healthy response to inflammation is equally impressive: You'd have to take 248 capsules of salmon oil to create the same anti-inflammatory response from taking one capsule of Moxxor. It's really that powerful.
I've also personally noticed astonishing benefits in terms of healthy brain support, cognitive function support and positive mood. Have you noticed how incredibly productive I've been lately? I've produced more special reports, articles, interviews and content in the last 30 days than during any single month in my life. The difference, of course, is that I've been taking Moxxor every single day. (Don't take it at night, though. It can keep you up, full of energy and your brain filled with creative ideas.)
This is the product I've been waiting for. I've always said my top 3 supplements are Vitamin D, Astaxanthin and fish oils. Moxxor replaces fish oils (and it's a lot more ethical, too, since mussels are far simpler life forms than fish) and it naturally contains vitamin D. We are extremely fortunate to have discovered this product, and to be blessed with it here on our planet. I've spoken with several doctors who are already distributors with Moxxor, and they're telling me astonishing stories of children's behavioral disorders being balanced and normalized, children being able to learn more rapidly (improved brain function) and even people experiencing amazing levels of support for healthy cardiovascular function.
To my knowledge, these wide-ranging benefits have never before been made possible by a single supplement. But we shouldn't be surprised: This is Mother Nature's superfood! It's a concentrated, raw, unadulterated omega-3 oil from the ocean. It's a natural superfood from the nutrient-rich oceans of our healing planet, and Moxxor has now given us the opportunity to both personally benefit from its health-supporting effects and earn a real income sharing this good news with others.
We're going to be offering a lot more coverage of Moxxor and its products in the future. You'll see more articles, interviews and special reports about Moxxor on NaturalNews.com. This is an exciting company with a breakthrough omega-3 product that's more ethical than fish, more sustainable than krill, and far more powerful than salmon oil, flax oil or other common oils. For supporting brain health, balanced neurological function and cardiovascular health, I give Moxxor a five-star rating. You've got to try this product yourself to experience it.
Obviously, NaturalNews financially benefits from Moxxor, and we plan to use the funds to support and expand NaturalNews operations. If you'd like to join the NaturalNews Moxxor team, you can do so at www.NaturalNews.com/Moxxor-Informat...
ShopToEarth
Products: ShopToEarth is an affiliate portal that gives you access to a network of existing product companies including Dr. Bronner's, Nutiva, the Natural Dentist, and many others. You get paid affiliate fees on multiple levels (sort of like Commission Junction, but spanning multiple levels).
Attractive to: Working professionals, people who shop online, moms, etc.
Company culture: A bit on the macho side, but becoming more holistic over time.
Founders: Successful business men. Not very holistic in their own lives, but open to working with holistic companies.
Strengths: Unique business model is more like affiliate marketing than network marketing. No specific product to sell. Easy to explain the concept to others. No need to buy anything new; people simply buy what they already buy, but through the ShopToEarth portal. Easy to replicate online.
Weaknesses: Poor website design and navigation, gaps in the affiliate system (such as not being able to link to individual products), allied with many less-than-healthy companies, company is struggling with rapid expansion challenges due to its runaway success.
Launched on: March, 2008
Enroll at: If someone else introduced you to ShopToEarth, please enroll with them. Otherwise, go to www.ShopToEarth.net/NaturalNews (click my picture on the lower left of the page, then click "Join Now") or contact [email protected] to learn more (or call her at 209-710-8299).
ShopToEarth (also known as ShopToEarn) is a completely different direct sales model than almost every other company you've heard of. Rather than focusing its business model on a product, ShopToEarth focuses on a portal -- a website through which you purchase products you typically purchase anyway.
When you make these purchases, you get some cash back (anywhere from 5% - 20%, depending on the retailer), and you get "points." The list of online retailers is quite impressive: Aquasana, Apple iTunes, Audible.com, eBags, Heartland America, Musician's Friend, Office Max, Sunfood Nutrition (David Wolfe's company) and well over a hundred more. Retailers range the gamut from offering garbage to genuine high-end products (but more high-quality companies are coming on board soon).
Every time YOU get points from your online purchases, all the people above you get the same points (they get duplicated up through the binary tree). When one of your binary tree "legs" reaches 4800 points, you get a "Score!" check for $550. The person who enrolled you also gets another $50 bonus every time you score.
The ShopToEarth website is somewhat difficult to navigate. Website navigation text blocks use a Times font with a difficult-to-view shadow effect. The design of the site definitely needs a serious overhaul, but the company is already aware of that.
From an IT perspective, the website back-end has some difficulty keeping track of session cookies. The web servers seem to be down from time to time, and the company is working day and night to try to iron out its IT issues and scale up to meet the demand of its 40,000+ distributors.
The leadership of the company comes from the world of business, not health. This isn't a group of eco-friendly, super-healthy vegetarians with radiant skin. You're not going to find a bunch of guys wearing hemp. You will, however, see a remarkably capable group of business leaders who are very, very good at bringing together the right retailers with the consuming masses through an affiliate marketing structure that's innovative and unique.
The holistic sub-culture
Underneath the surface, there's something happening within the ShopToEarth company that you may find interesting: There's a growing sub-culture of eco-friendly, health-conscious individuals starting to gain traction within the company, and that's what interests me most about this company. I've watched ShopToEarth gain a lot of market penetration: It's signed over 40,000 distributors in less than six months. That's a huge distribution base, and it has value.
What kind of value? The value of bringing better-quality products to the masses. You see, if we can get more companies like Sunfood, Nutiva and Dr. Bronner's into this network, we can create new direct sales channels for yet more natural health companies that deserve greater recognition. And as it turns out, my upline (Suzy Karasik) is working hard with the company founders to bring more natural health companies into the ShopToEarth network. I can't tell you their names yet, but they are innovative companies I strongly support. They offer superfoods, vegan protein products, bee pollen, superfoods and many other natural health necessities.
Even now, consider who's in the ShopToEarth system:
Dr. Bronner's, Delicious Greens, Nutiva, Sunfood... these are four big names in the world of natural health. If we can expand this to six or ten names in the next few months, we could see millions of dollars flowing towards these companies through the ShopToEarth network. And that would help turn ShopToEarth into a genuine holistic shopping portal that's bringing Earth-friendly products to an ever-growing group of consumers.
Thus, I openly admit that one of the reasons I'm involved with ShopToEarth is because I hope to positively influence its future direction and make it more holistic, more natural and a whole lot easier to use. What ShopToEarth has right now is brilliant: It's a network marketing shopping portal that pays people to shop for the stuff they buy already. That's the brilliance of it, and with that simple foundation, I'm willing to give it time to overcome all its other shortcomings.
Yes, ShopToEarth has some serious challenges. It needs significant improvements in its website, e-commerce system, shopping pages and much more. Understandably, this is extremely difficult to accomplish when they've got 1,000 people a week signing up, and they're trying to deal with the tidal wave of customer service emails that inevitably accompany such a surge of distributors. So I don't blame them for being stuck right now. The question is: Can they overcome this surge and retool their site to be a world-class affiliate shopping portal?
Specifically, what they absolutely MUST create if they hope to succeed long term is:
• The ability for brokers (affliliates) to link to specific products offered by any merchant (like LinkShare allows, or any other affiliate marketing portal like CJ). For example, I should be able to link to Sunfood's Goji Berries, using a URL that embeds the merchant code, the product code and my affiliate code. This is an absolutely must-have feature for the company to succeed long term.
• The ability for brokers to build their own custom home pages that have collections of the specific products they recommend (like Amazon.com's A Store concept).
• A far easier "enroll now" button right on the broker home page, so that visitors can figure out where to go to sign up instead of having to click multiple times. Look at the simplicity of the Moxxor website for comparison: www.MyMoxxor.com/NaturalNews
• A single layer of retailer navigation on the home page rather than a confusing category column on the left, a drop-down retailer box on top and a "featured" retailer list on bottom. ShopToEarth would benefit from the book, "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug. Better yet, hire him as a consultant: www.Sensible.com
Assuming they get all this accomplished sometime in 2009, ShopToEarth could have a downright brilliant future. Think of it as Commission Junction with a never-ending commission. Cool concept. But can ShopToEarth overcome its immediate challenges and emerge as an online retailing powerhouse to compete with the likes of Amazon.com?
I've bet $448 that they can. That's the one-time broker fee. Once you pay that fee, you can then share this shopping portal concept with others, and you can earn points off their points (and the points of the people they enrolled, and so on), potentially making some serious money if enough people get involved.
The bottom line? ShopToEarth has potential. It's a very smart concept, and if you're already buying products from some of the companies it includes, it doesn't actually cost you anything extra on a month to month basis (you simply shop through your ShopToEarth page instead of shopping somewhere else). The company faces some challenges right now -- mostly stemming from its wildly-successful viral marketing structure -- and if it can overcome them, it could in many ways revolutionize affiliate marketing on the web.
That revolution will, I hope, include an ever-increasing list of impressive natural product companies. In the mean time, I'm already enrolled, and I've started purchasing Dr. Bronner's soap through my ShopToEarth portal. You can also buy Delicious Greens superfoods at a really good price through this system. (I've recommended Delicious Greens for quite some time.)
If you want to enroll under the NaturalNews team and benefit from the distribution tree we may create, go to www.ShopToEarth.net/NaturalNews then click on my picture at the bottom left of the page, then click on "Join Now" (top right). From there, you can enroll as a broker ($448), which will get you your own website URL, and you can start earning revenues immediately when other people purchase health products or enroll from your website.
If you have questions, contact the NaturalNews team organizer, Suzy Karasik, at 209-710-8299 or email [email protected]
P.S. I've just learned the ShopToEarth company is working hard on a Spanish-language website for 2009. If that's rolled out, it could instantly double the potential audience and set off a whole new wave of enrollment.
Elements for Life
Products: Superfoods, goji berries, raw cacao, marine phytoplankton, cordyceps, tonic gold and other superfood specialties
Attractive to: The younger superfood crowd: Most distributors are in their 20s or 30s, many are vegans or vegetarians
Company culture: High-vibration, global transformation visionaries. Extremely healthy, open-hearted and globally conscious individuals.
Founders: High vibration, into raw foods and green living, eco-conscious lifestyles, they wear hemp, not suits
Strengths: Very high integrity company, visionary leadership, commitment to use profits for global transformation projects, outstanding line of hard-core superfood powders and supplements, excellent website design, brilliant people at the helm, many high-integrity people involved in the organization
Weaknesses: Products are not as mainstream as companies like Moxxor, compensation plan isn't a binary tree structure
Launched on: July, 2008
Enroll at: If someone else introduced you to Elements for Life, please enroll with them. Otherwise, the NaturalNews team enrollment page is
www.noblelifeelements.com/cwc (additional phone numbers are given below if you wish to call someone who's already with Elements)
For many people, Elements for Life is a dream come true: A direct sales company offering all the superfood products they're buying anyway! Through Elements for Life, you can get colloidal gold, zeolites, marine phytoplankton, a superfood formula from Jameth Sheridan, raw cacao, Steve Adler's Sacred Chocolate, Tibetan goji berries, Inca berries, Sacha Inchi omega oil, raw maca, blue-green algea, cordyceps mushrooms and noni elixirs.
Many of these products are Sunfood branded. Others are in-house branded, and one product is from Healthforce (Jameth Sheridan's company). The prices paid for these products through Elements for Life is almost exactly the same that you'd pay through traditional superfood retailers like Sunfood.com. The benefit here, of course, is that you can earn an income stream while buying superfoods and sharing the Elements for Life opportunity with others. Getting started costs less than a hundred dollars, and the monthly purchase commitment is, like most companies, also a hundred dollars.
I don't know about you, but I already spend at least twice that on superfoods each month anyway. For me, joining Elements for Life was a no-brainer, since these are all the products I purchase and consume on a regular basis anyway. As a result, it didn't cost me anything extra out of pocket.
Unlike many newer direct sales companies, the Elements for Life compensation plan isn't a binary structure. Instead, it's a simple multi-level plan (called "fractal marketing" in this company, which actually makes more sense than the phrase "multi-level marketing"). You enroll as many people as you want, and that's your first level. All the people they enroll are on your second level, and so on. One thing that does make the Elements for Life plan work surprisingly well, however, is that while your first level commission is only 5%, your second level pays you a whopping 20 percent.
That encourages you to help your first level succeed so that they help create your second level (your second level is the real profit level). At the same time, the people you've enrolled have every incentive to help the people they enrolled create their own second level, too. The 5% / 20% structure turns the simple multi-level compensation plan into more of a teamwork structure than you might suspect.
High-vibration people
What's really impressive about Elements for Life is the caliber of people it's attracting. These are the raw foodies, the high-vibration, globally-conscious individuals like the ones I enjoy hanging out with at the annual Raw Spirit Festival. This is the hemp-wearing culture; the nutritional trendsetters and super-healthy raw foodies (like the wonderful folks at Dr. Gabriel Cousens' Tree of Life).
It stands in great contrast to the culture of organizations like ShopToEarth (earlier), which was founded by not-so-healthy business people who wouldn't even think of wearing hemp. The Elements for Life crowd, however, wouldn't even think of wearing suits!
I've recorded a couple of interviews with the founders of Elements for Life, by the way, and I'll be bringing those to you very soon. You'll really love to meet Adam, the co-founder of the company (with Chad). These guys are two of the most high-integrity individuals I've ever met, in any industry.
Speaking of high integrity, immediately after deciding to support Elements for Life, I pledged to direct all NaturalNews participation into a non-profit organization, where 100% of the revenues are dedicated to protecting health freedom and spreading the word about the healing power of natural medicine. I made this pledge live, on a phone call, with the following people conferenced in on the call: David Wolfe, Len Foley, Adam and Chad (the founders), Jim Kwik and Kevin Gianni.
Immediately, key business leaders from across the country enrolled under that non-profit position and started helping us build this revenue stream. We've got Liran, Lenette, Steve and many others on board right now, ready to help build the NaturalNews team (see contact information below).
I earn absolutely nothing from this. Neither does NaturalNews. 100% of the funds go to protecting health freedom in the form of grants to legal defense funds and other similar projects. You'll see our announcements in the near future on exactly where these funds are being directed. I can tell you right now they're being directed to a VERY important source with huge implications for the health freedom of every citizen living in North America.
If you'd like to join the Elements for Life team and help build our health freedom campaign fund, here's who to contact:
www.NobleLifeElements.com/cwc
West Coast or Hawaii: Call Steve 800-722-3410 ([email protected])
Steve lives in Hawaii. He and his team are superfoods experts who really live the lifestyle. Steve's website: www.noblelifeelements.com/win
Mountain or Central time zone: Call Lenette at 626-419-0766 ([email protected])
Lenette is a raw foods chef and nutritional coach who lives in Chicago.
Eastern Time: Call Liran at 917-916-2484 ([email protected])
Liran is an awesome business professional. Lives in New York. Really knows his stuff.
Who should join Elements for Life?
Elements for Life is the right business for those who are already buying superfoods and who plan to keep on consuming superfoods.
If you're already spending $100 / month on superfoods like goji berries, cacao, superfood powders, medicinal mushrooms, zeolites or other similar items, then Elements for Life costs you nothing new out of pocket. It's simply a new retail portal through which you can get these brand-name products in a way that can generate enormous financial benefits for a great many people.
Elements tends to attract a young, energetic group (lots of distributors in their 20s and 30s, like I mentioned earlier). They may not have as much business experience as the ShopToEarth founders (who are many years older and more experienced), but they have the integrity, the vision and the right intention for global transformation through conscious living.
In fact, if you're looking to join two companies, and you like superfoods but you also want to have a more mainstream appeal product at the same time, I would recommend joining Elements for Life and Moxxor. Together, you'll have the very best superfoods combined with the world's best marine lipids that seem to be lacking in the raw foods world.
Not everybody in the Elements organization, though, will support Moxxor because it's an omega-3 oil from a non-plant source. I could spend a whole article exploring this debatable issue, but let me say this from the point of view of a person who eats a 99% vegan diet: The one thing lacking in the diet of raw foodies is a really good source of non-plant-based omega-3 oils. Technically speaking, a raw foods diet should consist of raw bone marrow, since that's where brain-boosting DHA comes from. Human ancestors, of course, survived by eating healthy quantities of raw bone marrow on a regular basis. That's how they could grow babies with such large brains (no kidding).
Today, nobody is going to eat raw bone marrow (mad cow disease, anyone?). So the next best thing is concentrated DHA from an animal source, but that raises the issue of the ethics of consuming animal life forms. Mussels are a lot more ethical to consume than fish because they're far less complex organisms. In addition, mussels are not farmed in confinement, nor do they produce any pollution or runoff whatsoever. They're aquaculture farmed in a renewable way, not wild harvested in a way that depletes long-term populations.
And finally, do you know what green-lipped mussels actually eat? Marine phytoplankton! ...the same stuff sold by Elements for Life as a liquid supplement. Mussels concentrate the EPA and DHA in marine phytoplankton by thousands of times. So when you're consuming mussel oil, you're actually consuming a highly concentrated form of the marine oils found in marine phytoplankton. You'd have to drink thousands of gallons of marine phytoplankton liquid to get the same DHA in a single bottle of Moxxor.
But that's all my own take on the raw foods vs. fish oils debate. Moxxor is the only animal-based product I consume. Everything else I eat, drink or swallow is based on plants, and I'm a superfood junkie as much as anybody in Elements for Life. At the Raw Spirit Festival, you'll see me chugging Island Fire Noni right along with everybody else.
Adam and Chad told me, by the way, that they'll soon add even more products to the company's distribution line, so expect to see this company broadening its selection quite considerably over the next twelve months.
This is the early growth phase of Elements for Life
Elements is right now sweeping through the raw foods community, and yet they have fewer than a thousand distributors signed up so far. That means it's still early in the growth of this company, and they could easily reach 10,000 or more distributors in the next 12 - 24 months. If you're into superfoods, this is a good time to get on board with Elements.
By the way, if you want to meet the founders of Elements for Life and see me talk live about underground health secrets, join us all at The Best Weekend Ever - 3 in Anaheim, November 14 - 16. Check out the event here:
http://thebestlongevityever.com/mik...
Full disclaimer: Enrollment with Elements for Life does not financially benefit myself or NaturalNews in any way. (I'm not even a distributor.) 100% of the funds go to crucial health freedom campaigns and nutritional advocacy programs. Details of the grants will be announced on NaturalNews as they are given out.
How to enroll with Elements for Life
Enroll directly, if you'd like, at:
www.NaturalNewsElements.com
West Coast or Hawaii: Call Steve 800-722-3410 ([email protected])
Steve lives in Hawaii. He and his team are superfoods experts who really live the lifestyle.
Mountain or Central time zone: Call Lenette at 626-419-0766 ([email protected])
Lenette is a raw foods chef and nutritional coach who lives in Chicago.
Eastern Time: Call Liran at 917-916-2484 ([email protected])
Liran is an awesome business professional. Lives in New York. Really knows his stuff.
The Amazon Herb Company
Products: Unique preparations of rainforest herbs, plus a truly natural skin care line based on camu camu and rainforest herbs
Attractive to: A more mature crowd, lots of health practitioners, lots of healers
Company culture: High-vibration healers, naturopaths and globally-conscious visionaries
Founders: Amazon John Easterling is a high-integrity, visionary leader who works tirelessly to bring medicinal treasures of the rainforest to consumers in the western world.
Strengths: Amazing herbal product line, outstanding natural skin care line, dedicated mission to protect indigenous rainforest tribes, many formulas offer truly powerful, almost "magical" anti-cancer benefits
Weaknesses: Compensation plan is not as generous as some other companies, large size of corporate staff makes it slower to respond to distributor concerns than younger companies
Launched on: 1990
Enroll at: If someone else introduced you to the Amazon Herb Company, please enroll with them. Otherwise, I don't have a specific enrollment page, since I'm not a distributor for the Amazon Herb Company, but the primary person I recommend has a page at http://www.amazondreams.amazonherb.net (more contact details below)
Three years ago I met John Easterling, founder of the Amazon Herb Company. The Amazon Herb Company was completely different from anything I had seen before. The people were extremely well informed, the products were revolutionary and unique, the leadership was genuine and compassionate, and the company was actively involved in campaigns to save the Amazon rainforest while enhancing the livelihoods of the native people living there.
I never joined the Amazon Herb Company as a distributor, but I was so impressed by its actions and integrity that I wrote several reviews, authored a popular success guide read by thousands of its distributors, and even volunteered to speak their annual summit meeting. To this day, I consider the Amazon Herb Company to have one of the very best product lines ever offered by any network marketing company.
Of course, AHC isn't without its own challenges. Its compensation plan isn't as generous as many companies (its high-quality products cost a lot more to make), but there's no denying the remarkable potency and uniqueness of its product line (which I still use to this day).
Outstanding rainforest herbal products
I personally consume Amazon Herb products every day, including their amazing liquid tincture gelcaps and even their old-school liquid tinctures. Ingredients include renowned South American rainforest herbs like Cat's Claw, Sangre de Drago, Chanca Piedra, Catuaba and many more. Their camu camu is among the very best in the world. It's all grown in the rainforests of Peru, where Amazon John leads an annual retreat for top Amazon Herb distributors.
I used to host a page of recommended Amazon Herb distributors on NaturalNews.com, but I've since abandoned it because of so many complaints I received from Amazon Herb distributors about who should be ON the list or OFF the list. So now I just recommend two contacts that I know personally: The Terry Pezzi group in Tucson (www.amazondreams.amazonherb.net) which you can reach at [email protected] and the Joyous group on the East Coast (www.myamazonherbs.com) which you can reach at [email protected]
The bottom line on the Amazon Herb Company? It's a great organization filled with mature, high-vibration people who are extremely well informed (about the world, not just about herbs). It caters more to women than men, but there are quite a few successful men in the organization as well.
Perhaps the best gauge of my own opinion about the Amazon Herb Company is that even though I'm involved in a completely different direct sales company (Moxxor), and I have nothing whatsoever to gain from promoting the Amazon Herb Company, I continue to strongly recommend it to NaturalNews readers. That really says it all.
Are there other companies to look at?
Sure, there are lots of other companies to consider in the direct sales space. Juice Plus has an interesting product (although they won't tell me anything about the ratio of the ingredients in their formulation), and there are other networking marketing organizations coming online soon that I'll probably review.
I don't recommend Zrii, Monavie or Xango for reasons mentioned previously. Those companies are flatly obsolete, in my view. Consider this: My friends at Vitacost just released a new line of Smart Basics organic superfruit juices made with absolutely no fillers. Just 100% pure superfruit juice. Do you know how much they're charging for a 32 oz. bottle of organic 100% acai juice? I almost couldn't believe the answer myself: Just $16.68. That's half the price of Monavie, with probably ten times the acai juice. It sorts of makes Monavie look really, really overpriced and outdated.
Let's face it, folks: Acai, Mangosteen, Noni and Goji juices are no longer "exotic" little-known superfruits. You can buy them at grocery stores now! You can get the juices at amazing prices from Vitacost, and they're 100% pure with NO apple juice, no pear juice, no pomegranate juice. Just 100% pure superfruit juices. The age of Acai being exotic is over.
Perhaps in some ways, Monavie is now a victim of its own success. It was partially responsible for bringing Acai into mainstream consciousness, and for that, it deserves a lot of credit. But now that Acai is available everywhere (even at Costco), nobody who does the research is going to pay $30 for a bottle of pear juice with a shot of Acai in it. (At least nobody in their right mind...)
I welcome former Monavie distributors to join something far better: Consider the much brighter futures of the companies mentioned here. Moxxor is so young now that it hasn't even reached 1000 distributors yet. And Elements for Life is also young. Yet each of these companies could become the next Monavie-like success, in my view. They certainly have better products in my opinion. If you want to jump onto something new, innovative and far more impressive in terms of its products, consider one of the companies I've reviewed here.
What fits you best?
If you're seriously looking into building your own income from a direct sales / network marketing company, I strongly suggest you go through this list again and see what suits you best:
The Amazon Herb Company is enjoyed by more mature people in the healing arts. (Most distributors are in their 40's or 50's)
The ShopToEarth network is a better fit for more business-oriented, mainstream people who enjoy shopping online.
Elements for Life is ideal for a younger crowd, especially vegans, vegetarians and raw foodies (20's or 30's).
Moxxor is an ideal fit for almost anyone who isn't a vegan or strict vegetarian. It's a mainstream product, and most distributors are really into natural health. The NaturalNews team is the largest team within the Moxxor organization, and we provide weekly training and support for our entire group.
Then again, a direct sales company might not be a good fit for you at all. You may have had a negative experience with a "multi-level marketing company" in the past. If that's the case, I especially encourage you to check out these newer companies -- especially Elements for Life or Moxxor -- and see the difference for yourself. The new wave of network marketing puts the old school organizations to shame.
Network marketing is no longer something that has to be uttered under your breath when people ask you what you do. Today, with the leadership of innovative, high-integrity companies like the ones I've reviewed here, network marketing / direct sales is rapidly gaining mainstream acceptance as an efficient product distribution model that puts power and profits into the hands of the people instead of concentrating them into the hands of powerful corporations.
If you believe in the distribution of power to the People, and the freedom to earn as much money as you deserve -- without any artificial limitations imposed by someone else -- then you already believe in the direct sales model. Now it's only a matter of finding an organization (and product line) that's aligned with your own personal beliefs, then taking action to make your own dreams of success a reality.
Welcome to the new world of high-integrity people-to-people marketing, where the People determine their own futures and the wealth is shared among the many.
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