I'm glad to be able to report what seem amazing and indisputeable results in many areas. I plotted four of these below. I didn't mention increased energy/stamina, circulation, and improvement in a long term nail disease. I hope you are as amazed as I am:
Average Sickness Downtime/Year Average Sleep Time Needed
Strong Allergy Reaction/year Average sustainable vocal range
I can't promise everyone will have the kind of results I've had. A local fellow took the product probably more than I did and it took a couple years for him to get to the level of resistance I've gotten to with allergies. I never took medication though but just suffered through it every year. The graph really is conservative also. I dealt with it a few days this year and that largely I attribute to the fact that right before that I had taken a trip where I failed to get more than half the maintenance level in me for a week. I left with no allergies when normally I'd have been suffering a lot. (Typically I blow my nose an absurd amount for a couple hours a day in 'spells' for the time listed in the chart roughly. However this year the WORST moments after my trip weren't anywhere near that bad.)
What I do know now after hearing a large number of concurring stories and hearing facts about the sourcing of Reliv's materials and that when it says something like "Niacin bound Chromium" on the label, it doesn't mean that they just put enough of that patented product in to get it on the label. Call the company that makes it. Ask them who puts enough in to make a difference! This company is making an integrable product. Not just a product that has all the right things on the label. These products are formulated to get results. And that's why this company is experiencing such fantastic growth right now. People have tried other supplements that were designed to sell products. And they used them for years with no significantly noticeable results. These products are apparently so well designed that they give the body an optimized nutrition that is designed to get the cells healthy. Not just produce a label that looks like it has all the right things on it.
About the Business
First, I'd become extremely bored with hearing presentations from direct marketing companies. Why? Largely because every one of them I've seen to date have products that require salesmanship to market. And what I mean by salesmanship, is that you have to convince the customer that your product is really better and HYPE YOURSELF into believing it..or...just out and out lie. Because all these companies have so many products and to think that each and every one of them is really better for every person out there is just absurd.
The other reason I so despise the concept of direct marketing in the past is the tendency for such companies to be organized such that those at the top are making millions and those at the bottom, even if they try their hardest, still can conceivably make less than 100 dollars. So many people I've talked to, it's been more like 8 dollars, including myself. Therefore, these companies thrive off telling people "it's all up to you!" then disappointing them such that within a year maybe they bail out typically and lose any investment they made. (I hear the 'wash out' rate is at least 98% in direct marketing companies)
On the other hand...what else is really wrong with direct marketing? Well, in a way, there are some really good things when you think about it. Were a company structured in such a way as to overcome the pitfalls listed above, the concept has some great attributes. For instance, the workers only get paid according to how much they work. No effort, no paycheck. Whereas in conventional jobs everyone gets paid about the same at the lower level, and often politics play such a strong part that you wind up fired if you work too hard! Someone feels threatened, etc. (ALso a person has control over their hours; removing pressure that causes health problems)
For those of you who are unaware, people are getting the picture. The Pharaceutical industry has been selling junk to people at a premium price. Junk that covers up one problem but spawns a host of others. Drugs that are not designed to work within our bodies. As a result, the natural health product industry has been exploding. I encourage you to go to the Reliv, International website and read about the history of this company. This phenomena has created a massive opportunity for those who want to help others find a *better way*
A friend of mine, Alex Rad began prompting me a couple months ago to join him at a convention in San Francisco. Normally I would have probed deeper and tried to figure out exactly what I was wasting my time with here. However I sensed something different and decided to just trust my friend and go on this trip. And I heard some of the most amazing health stories and began to understand the REASON why these stories well might be valid. (AS though knowing that it had brought some great results in my friend and his family wasn't enough.)
The man who developed Reliv's product "Classic" was a very sick and crippled man who conducted research to save his own life. He developed a very good food product which basically is designed to get our cells healthy again in a fallen world.
In the 1980's he genius of this man's effort was combined with a great business man who also received help from his product which he had begun selling in bags of powder. And the result is, a company which not only has a product that is producing phenomenal health results in the thousands of people who are using it, but actually produces a paycheck for those who choose to share the results they've had with others who need the same kind of help.
Reliv allows for involvement at several levels. A customer can have product shipped direct from the company at any time under the distributor number that referred them. When they order product in this way, a check is issued automatically to the distributor.
Distribution may be done at several profit levels ranging between 20 and 40% on retail. The 40% level is achieved when a retail volume of $5000 is established in one month. Most often this "Master Affiliate" orders the product for their own use and as their stock to share with others so they have the tools to develop the business. With shipping they pay around $3600 or so for this and their business kit. I'm told the average time of reordering is a month and a half. I personally have been so heavily involved in another business that I've spoken to a limited number of people and it's taken me quite a bit longer to move all that product. However everyone else in the organization I'm affiliated with has moved their product in much less time. My friend Alex is already making 1800/month average. One of the people he brought into the business with me early this year is catching up to him it sounds like. I am yet to hear about a Reliv distributor who has really applied themself and gotten burned out. Rather consistent increases seem to happen and not atypically on the order of doubling income in a year to year and a half for many years.
Master affiliates are also paid the difference between their profit level and the profit level of any distributor they bring into the company at a lower profit level. Say a 25% level distributor. 15% of all of their sales go to the person who brough them into the business until they do a 5000 dollar month and become master affiliates themselves.
Also, only at the master affilate level are avenues of income like overrides available. These people are developing sales organizations and they earn 8% of the volume of people they bring into the business. 6% on those brought into the business by that person. 4%, 3%, and 2% for the next levels of their organization. And that is as far as it goes. These businesses can be willed.
But one of the most STAGGERING aspects is that Reliv offers a 1 year money back guarantee to distributors at any profit level with 10% restock fee. Minimizing the risk for the new distributor. Think about that for a moment. If Reliv was like these other companies, how would they exist? If 98% of the people burned out and 11.5 months later sent their product back, Reliv would be bankrupt obviously. They make minor alterations on formula every several months. So they can't resell a lot of the stuff that comes back and they give a lot to charity instead I'm sure. I can't see how they would survive if even 50% of the people were disappointed!
This high level of success is achieved by not only having a superior product base, but also by the development of an extensive support network. Even the major towns in Montana now have weekly meetings for training and a meeting for presenting testimonies and the Reliv overview. As well as larger meetings where Ambassadors of the company do a training seminar. Regional conventions of a larger scale also take place a few times a year.
E-mail or call me if you'd like to hear direct testimonies from others who have found health results on Reliv. Or if you'd like to consider the greatest business opportunity I've seen. Blessings in Christ, -Bob