Free Life International – A Brief Review of the Company and Products

FreeLife International is a network marketing company founded in 1995 by Ray Faltinsky and Kevin Fournier. The company initially launched with a focus on vitamins and nutritional supplements, but has since switched it’s focus to marketing products containing juice from the Chinese wolfberry, also known as the goji berry.

The latin name for the wolfberry is “Lycium barbarum”, and the plant is a member of the family Solanaceae, which includes plants in the deadly nightshade family (potato, tomato, eggplant, deadly nightshade, chili pepper, and tobacco). Wolfberries have been traditionally used in Chinese herbal medicine for nearly 2,000 years, and are considered to be a safe food substance.

Although the wolfberries themselves contain polysaccharides and carotenoid antioxidant compounds which are shown to have beneficial properties in vitro, as yet there are no substantiated studies that prove the various wild claims that have been made regarding the medicinal and anti-cancer properties that Chinese wolfberries are purported to possess.

However, a recent study did conclude that consumption of Goji berry juice produced subjective feelings of increased well-being in the test subjects. Even so, the researchers conducting the study stated that further research and data would be necessary since no physiological changes could be detected in the test subjects.

The FreeLife Business Opportunity Selling GoChi Juice

As a multi-level marketing company, FreeLife International offers a home business opportunity that centers around selling their products to retail end-users, who are encouraged to purchase the products on a monthly “autoship” subscription basis. Autoship programs are prevalent in network marketing companies that sell consumables, as it tends to stabilize distributor sales volume and income.

Unfortunately, industry statistics show that the average customer only stays on an autoship subscription approximately three months. This indicates that a FreeLife distributor would have to build an organization by recruiting mostly other distributors, who would then have a vested interest in continuing to use the products and would therefore be more likely to retain their monthly product subscription.

Although it is possible to build a substantial income with a company that adheres to this business model, for the average person this is a highly improbable outcome. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of network marketing distributors are able to succeed at these types of business models.

Having said that, the cost of entry to become a FreeLife distributor is quite low at around $40, and the company clearly states that distributors “can earn anywhere from a few dollars to a five-figure monthly income.” According to the 2007 annual income statistics posted to the FreeLife International website, the average entry-level distributor earned $104.48 in 2007, and only the top 3.5% of distributors in the company earned any substantial income (upwards of $60,203.12 annually).

In Conclusion

That FreeLife International sells nutritional supplements that are as good as any on the market is without question. However, the verdict is still out on the health benefits of their flagship product, “GoChi Juice”.

With regards to their business opportunity, FreeLife is similar to most other multi-level marketing companies in that they follow a business model that favors the small percentage of distributors who are highly skilled marketers and sales persons, who are able to build huge downline organizations. Unfortunately, most distributors in these companies will fail to make any significant income at all, despite their efforts.

It is for that reason that this author left the traditional network marketing business model behind and instead chose a business model that allows even the average person to create an above-average income.

If you’d like more information on which company I personally recommend, feel free to contact me at my website listed below.

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iLearningGlobal – A Brief Review of The Company and Products

iLearningGlobal is an online network marketing company that offers a business opportunity marketing their web-based digital education content. The company concept is to deliver high-quality, digitally delivered content using various media platforms, including:

• Audio
• Video
• Ebooks
• Webcasts
• And blogs

The company claims to be able to offer high-definition video content via the internet using their “iLG Signature Video Theater”, free of load times and buffering. The content of the educational programs iLearningGlobal delivers centers around a few central themes:

• Motivation
• Personal Development
• Self-help
• Business and Management Topics
• Marketing and Advertising
• Multi-Level Marketing and Network Marketing

iLearningGlobal As A Business Opportunity

iLearningGlobal offers a business opportunity and compensation plan that is quite similar to that offered in other network marketing companies such as Amway, Melaleuca, and Herbalife. The compensation plan is based around the purchase of a monthly access membership to the educational content provided on the company website. Distributors, known as “Mastermind Marketers”, make money by recruiting others to join the company in order to have access to the same educational content and services.

The iLearningGlobal compensation plan pays from 3% to 7% commissions seven levels deep, so long as the distributor meets the business volume qualifications for payment at each particular level. The entire payment plan is based around the “monthly autoship” premise, which is no different from similar plans being offered by more traditional companies that sell skincare or nutritional products.

iLearningGlobal Pros and Cons

There are some definite positives regarding the iLearningGlobal opportunity.

iLearningGlobal Business Opportunity Pros

1. iLearningGlobal Is A Completely Digital Company. As such, all products are delivered with a minimal amount of overhead, which allows the company to pay out more in its compensation plan to its distributors. In addition, since there is no physical product to deliver, the only distribution concerns the company will have are with regards to signal bandwidth on their website servers. Companies such as YouTube and Google have clearly demonstrated that delivering millions of video views per day online is possible with today’s high-speed internet technology and servers. So, this should not be an issue for the company.

2. iLearningGlobal Sells An “In Demand” Product, in the sense that self-help, business, and motivation topics have been and will continue to be popular products in the consumer market.

3. iLearningGlobal Is Offering Quality Content From “Name” Authors and Speakers. Some notable names in their lineup include Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, and John Gray, just to name a few.

Cons and Drawbacks to the iLearningGlobal Business Opportunity

4. iLearningGlobal’s Content Delivery is Based On Streaming Content. While in the long-term, streaming content will be readily accessible using mobile broadband technology, it remains to be seen how quickly that technology will be widely available to the masses. Currently, with high cost of mobile broadband devices and access, such technologies remain out of reach and impractical for the average consumer. This in turn limits access to the content iLearningGlobal provides to the user’s home or office computer.

It is a fact that in today’s busy world, most consumers prefer to take their entertainment with them, listening to MP3s in their car or while working out. It is doubtful that iLearningGlobal will offer downloads of their content to their users, since allowing downloadable content would cut into the retail sales their authors and contributors rely on for the majority of their income. Thus, this limits the access users will have to their content, which could result in high attrition and poor retention. With retention being a necessity for autoship based compensation plans, it could make it difficult for distributors to build strong and solid downlines in their organizations.

5. iLearningGlobal Requires You To Build A Large Downline To Make A Significant Income. In order to make any sort of significant income with iLearningGlobal, a distributor would have to build an organization of many first level distributors, who then in turn build their organizations many levels deep.

Past history with companies such as Amway and Herbalife has proven that this is possible, but not probable, for the average distributor. Generally speaking, it takes many years to build such an organization, if the distributor is in fact ever able to do so.

The Truth About iLearningGlobal

While iLearningGlobal does look to become a player in the network marketing industry, it still follows an outdated business model that makes success extremely unlikely for the average distributor. Considering the fact that there are much better alternatives, such as the G.P.T. model, it would be advisable for all but the most experienced and skilled network marketers to steer clear of this opportunity.

If you’d like more information on what I believe to be a solid alternative to the traditional network marketing model – one that the average person can do well at – feel free to contact me using the contact information below.

About the Author:

The Network Marketing Maverick helps average networkers build above average incomes through savvy business training and advice that flies in the face of conventional industry wisdom.

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