Is Adaptogenix a Scam?

What The Heck Is an Adaptogenix?

Adaptogenix is a network marketing company who’s mission it is “to provide uniques and patented designer products based on adaptogen science.”  And its not only the name of the company that I had to look up.  I had to find out what the science was that this company bases its products on.

Adaptogenix was launched in March of 2011 as a privately owned venture and then bought up by Youngevity sometime in August 2011.  Adaptogenix products are based on adaptogen science.  Adaptogen science is apparently the science that identifies certain plants or herbs that may have the ability to increase the body’s resistance to stress, trauma, anxiety and fatigue.  Its a good thing they chose the network marketing method, there are plenty of new people who suffer from all of those.

Adaptogenix’s products include Renu IQ which is a beverage supplement containing a blend of resveratrol (don’t ask I have not idea what it is), vitamins, and adaptogens.  They also have a product that is a blend of organic coffee and several adaptogens called Tazza Di Vita.  Adaptogenix claims that the products are useful and contain powerful anti-aging effects along with other health benefits.

Adaptogenix Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan

To join Adaptogenix and become a distribute you have to sign up through an existing distributor.  This is actually a pretty good deal because it helps with recruiting and keeping the existing distributors motivated.  There is a one time $55 membership fee and once you sign up your required to personally purchase at least $150 in product each month in order to continue to receive retail commissions.  Can anyone say autoship?

The Adaptogenix compensation plan is a 3 X 12 matrix meaning that each distributor has up to 3 distributors directly under them on their 1st level.  They can also earn a ‘fast start bonus’ commission every time a new personally sponsored distributor place an order at the time they enroll.

Adaptogenix isn’t the first to use the autoship or mandatory order method to keep their sales and distributors actively purchasing.  But I guess the real question is, is the product worth it.  Only current Adaptogenix buyers know the answer to that question.

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Greenfoot Global Scam?

Going Green With A Greenfoot Global Review

With the advent of all things green these days it was only a matter of time before network marketing companies like Greenfoot Global took on the challenge and created products to jump on the bandwagon.  And yes Greenfoot Global isn’t the only company doing it, but hey I found them first.

Greenfoot Global is a based in Henderson, Nevada and markets their product called EnviroTabs.  They claim that the product can help reduce your emissions and improve fuel efficiency.  With the rising costs of fuel who doesn’t need that right?

On the company’s website EnviroTabs is described as “an organometallic metal conditioner that acts as a burn rate modifier which catalyzes fuel.”  In english I think all the means is that it makes the fuel burn clean and more efficiently.  The product is in the form of a tablet that you just plop into your fuel that before you fill it up.  They are sold in packages of 10 for $24.95.

Now Greenfoot Global’s company goal is it mission.  “Dedicated to marketing products that leave our planet greener, provide our customers substantial savings and offer our independent entrepreneurs a sustainable long term business opportunity.”

Greenfoot Global Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan

Greenfoot Global has several different levels of enrollment options in place for those looking to join.  Individuals may enroll as a retail customer, Independent Distributor, or Active Distributor.  The Independent distributors must purchase a website and training package for $49.95.  They can then purchase products at wholesale prices and are paid commissions on all the retail products sales they make through their website.

Active distributors must fulfill all requirements of an Independent Distributor and also generate at least 100 points in personal sales volume in any one month in order to qualify to receive downline commissions and bonuses.  So as I understand it, its best to start off as an Independent Distributor then gather some customers who are regularly buying the product before you start recruiting.

While Greenfoot Global is certainly not the first “green” network marketing company I am pretty sure they won’t be the last.  The product they offer has some potential but there are many competing products so Greenfoot Global needs to help its distributors by establishing a marketing plan that allows the consumer to compare results against other products of the same type.

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Rastelli Direct Review

Rastelli Direct Review – Fine Foods Meets Network Marketing

So I love to cook when I’m not trying to generate leads online so doing a Rastelli Direct Review is making me hungry.  The company says their goal is “to make available to you and your family at home the same great steaks, pork, veal, chicken, lamb, seafood and other products Rastelli Foods has sold to many of the world’s highest rated restaurants, steakhouses, resorts and hotels for years.”  After flipping through the site, I just might need to find me a distributor to stock my freezer.

Rastelli Direct is based in New Jersey and is a member of the Rastelli Foods Group that consists of a family of providers of fine foods.  The company sells directly to consumer through its “Independent Business Partners.”

When researching for my Rastelli Direct review I found that Rastelli Direct delivers premium steak, seafood, poultry, pork, veal, lamb, and other foods directly to customers.  The company processes all of their meat products from start to finish.  They hand trim, process, pack and ship their products in their own facilities.  So by the time it reaches you all you have to do is slap your steak on the grill and enjoy.

 Rastelli Direct Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan

The compensation plan is pretty typical for this type of company.  Rastelli Direct Independent Business Partners can earn 20% commission on all their personal retail sales.  They can also earn 2-5% on purchases and sales made by customers and Partners they enroll.  And don’t forget the bonuses based on sales volume and rank.  With this compensation plan, if you don’t want to recruit Partners, you can surely make a lot of money just selling the product.

Enrolling as a Rastelli Direct Independent Business Partner isn’t that expensive either.  The signup consists of a one time fee of $49.95 for start up.  Then there is a monthly fee of $9.95 that pays for your personalized web site support and your account management.  Not a bad deal really considering the potential earning if you market the product correctly.

So if your looking for an easy way to get food to your house while your making your millions on the internet, consider using Rastelli Direct to have it delivered to your home.  If your a member of Rastelli Direct share your results and challenges in the comments section, I would love to hear from you.

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Celebrating Home Review

Celebrating Home, not Martha Steward’s MLM Company

Celebrating Home is an interesting network marketing company indeed and looking into it more and more if I didn’t already have my own I would certainly consider joining.  And the reason I say is that the products are awesome and best of all evergreen.

What the heck is an evergreen product you say?  That’s an easy one actually, its a product that there will always be a need or desire for.  Think about it, as long as there are house people are always going to want to add their own unique flavor to via the use of several decorative touches and that just happens to be what Celebrating Home provides.

Celebrating Home Review – The Company

Celebrating Home is a direct sales company that is currently based in Marshall, Texas (god bless Texas) and was created as part of a business deal.  You see sometime in 2009 the founders of Home & Garden Party purchased Home Interiors & Gifts and combined to two companies to create Celebrating Home.

Since then the company has expanded greatly throughout the country.  With over 50,000 representative across the nation it doesn’t currently show any signs of slowing down any time soon.

With all kinds of products ranging from tabletop stoneware, entertaining accessories, candles, framed art, home decor and gourmet food there doesn’t seem to be end to the ways one could make money with this company.  Celebrating Home representatives sell their products via in-home parties, catalog parties, fundraisers and online sales.

Celebrating Home Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan

Joining the company is pretty easy.  New Celebrating Home “Designers” may choose from several different base kits that all cost $119.  Now at the time of this writing they were offering a special where each kit only costs $77 so if you were thinking about joining or just picking up something cool for the house the time is right to do that.

The compensation is equally as attractive.  As a Celebrating Home Designer you have the ability to earn 30-45% commissions on your personal retail sales.  And if you start sponsoring people into the business you have the opportunity to earn sponsoring bonuses and override commissions on the sales of your team.

Overall, I really like this company and how their business is set up.  And the Celebrating Home products aren’t half bad either.

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My Lead Company Review

My Lead Company Review – The Company

I, like most people in network marketing, have been on the everlasting quest of obtaining more leads for my business in order to build my downline, My Lead Company review will address this companies attempts to find a solution to that problem.

There are many “systems” that have been created over the years by online marketing “guru’s” that have attempted to help people like  you and me solve the age old network marketing issue of not having enough leads to talk to.  Everyone knows that the more times you get to present your business the more your chances increase in actually getting a sign up.

My Lead Company sells leads to network marketers that can be used to promote their primary business.  They also provide you with the ability to build a secondary income at the same time.  They do this by selling lists of leads and enrollees from its marketing associates personal websites.

They provide the enrollee a link to promote and then that name the enrollee generates is added to a pool of leads which is in turn given out to it members.  The problem that I see with this concept is that lets assume you join.  And there are 50 other people who join.  All of those people are bound to get duplicate leads.  These leads are going to be unresponsive to your calls because 5 or 10 other marketers have called them as well.  It frustrates the prospects.  Perhaps after My Lead Company review the company will address this issue but their FAQ page doesn’t cover it as of yet.

My Lead Company Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan

Enrollment was actually an easy process.  At least it was when I was checking out the company because they hadn’t yet gone ahead with their full blown public release.  Now however, the leads are for sale and you do tend to get a lot of emails daily telling you to get signed up and buy leads.

When researching My Lead Company review I learned that a lead subscription is required to remain active and you have to pay for that on a weekly basis.  The packages start at $24.95 for 200 weekly leads and go up to $199.95 for 5000 weekly leads.  I wouldn’t suggest investing in that unless you have a call center setup to make your initial phone calls.  Seems like a lot of your money and leads would go to waste otherwise.

My Lead Company review found that the compensation plan is really straightforward actually.  Then you sign up your placed directly under the last person who signed up.  Meaning that everyone in the company is in one downline and new people are added as they join.

As an “Marketing Associate” you will earn 50% commission on the first order from everyone who purchases leads from their website.  And Daily commissions are paid on sales volumes.  There is also an opportunity to qualify for bonus pools if that is something your interested it.

Overall I find the program to be slightly flawed, even if the website is pretty cool.  My main arguement it the multiple handing out of the leads as I discussed early.  As well as the fact that there is no recurring commission.  If you do the work to bring someone in you should enjoy the benefit of 50% throughout the life of your signup.

In the end I would say give this one a look and if you just can’t find a way to get leads any other way perhaps this company might be for you.  My Lead Company review however indicates there are more long term ways to generate leads and make money then this one.

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Cash Texts Review

Cash Texts Review – Is This Even Right?

No let me start by saying that I have never been one to bash a network marketing company but when I first heard of this company in pre-launch I had to check it out to give you a unbiased Cash Texts review.

The company isn’t really releasing all the much information about it at all.  Doing my due diligence I couldn’t find information on who owns it.  I couldn’t find information on the domain registrant, or even the executives of the company.  And this threw up all kinds of red flags on my bs-o-meter very very quickly.

Any professional network marketing company would put all that information up front for free.  They want to get people excited about their company right?  I have done a few other company reviews but this Cash Text review is my personal warning to stay away from this company.

Cash Texts Review – Couldn’t even get a video done right

When you join a network marketing company you want to know that they are stable enough as a company to support you and your downline.  After all, when you put your name or brand behind an organization you are going to want to know that the owners are putting their money up as well to ensure that you succeed.

But in the case to Cash Texts you can clearly see that its a ploy to get your cell phone number so that they can send you text after text about some offer or another everyday.  And with the rising costs of cell phones plans these days, there may or may not be associated charges with that.

I don’t normally judge a book by its cover but in this case I will gladly make an exception.  Here is the video that they put on their site.

Now of course there may be some young upstart behind this company.  But when you are trying to do more research about a professional organization you expect to find more that an YouTube video on site that looks like a five year old made it.  My Cash Texts Review is that you walk away from this one and find a more open company to get involved with.

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ZeekRewards Review

Why Do A ZeekRewards Review?

I get this question all the time from other network marketers on why do reviews like this ZeekRewards review and the answer is a simple one.  Traffic.  You see there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people searching for different companies that use the network marketing model.  My goal with the reviews is to bring them to my site, versus yours, to gather information on their company of interest.

This builds trust with my brand as a knowledgeable resource on the internet that they can turn to when moving through the maze that is internet network marketing.  So by writing a ZeekRewards review I hope to gain that trust.

There is also another more important reason.  That is that over the course of my ten plus years being involved in network marketing I know that companies come and go.  As a matter of fact there have been fortunes lost because of this very fact.  You will hear them all around if you listen well enough about people who built their entire livelihood around one company only to loose it all.

This isn’t their fault.  Poor management at the company level has resulted in bankruptcies, closures, or even worse.  There are even companies who use the network marketing model to build their brand and customer base only to change the way they do business.  Leaving their loyal networks out in the cold.

But these instances are few and far between.  The only reason I mention them is that you have to be aware they are possible.  So knowing about other companies from posts like my ZeekRewards Review allows your to preposition yourself should your company go under.

This ZeekRewards Review is pretty good if I do say so myself.

ZeekRewards is actually a part of another company, Zeekler.com, and its a penny auction site.  ZeekRewards is its network marketing division if you will that allows members to purchase bids and sell them to new members to earn commissions.

Zeekler as actually launched when the company purchase iTicketBid and they assumed all the responsibility of fulfillment on outstanding auctions.  They have move from several different auction formats over time including penny auctions, reveal price auctions, falling price auctions, premier auctions, and VIP auctions.

The bid packs that ZeekRewards members sell contain bids that can be used on Zeekler.com online auctions and they have an approximate value of 65 cents according to the company.  With the mass marketing of penny auctions via the internet and more mainstream methods like print and television.  There are a lot of people who would be interested in purchasing these.

ZeekRewards Review – Enrollment and Compensation Plan.

When researching the company for this ZeekRewards review I actually found that there are four different enrollment options to get started with this company.  Each of the different options offers a different bonus pool and bonus points.  There is Free Affiliate, Silver Affiliate ($10.00 per month fee), Gold Affiliate ($50.00 per month fee), and Diamond Affiliate ($99.00 per month fee).

Now I have to admit I have never paid to be an affiliate for any product or company on the internet but as I understand it the more you pay the more commission you get, or so you’d think right.

The ZeekRewards compensation plan pays commissions on purchases through their Zeek Rewards online retail store.  Affiliate commissions are paid at 20% on any Diamond, Gold, or Silver membership referred.  And in order to qualify for the commission you must hold a Silver, Gold, or Diamond ranks and post an ad for Zeeker.com that day.  And also have to have sold a bid pack or given away VIP bids on the day that the commission is earned.

Personally after researching this company its clear that this one isn’t the one for me.  As I learned just from my compensation plan research there seem to be a lot of things that have to happen at the same time in order to get any commission.

My ZeekRewards Review final opinion is pass on this one unless your sure you can presell you referrals and meet all the requirement daily.

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Keyword Research Sucks!

What Is Keyword Research?

When I first started using the internet for lead generation I had a lot to learn and by far the hardest thing was keyword research.  The fact of the matter was that there were many different ways to do it.  And all of them were actually doing nothing but confusing me so I avoided keyword research like the plague.

The problem was that I had to learn the hard way that keyword research is by far the most important thing that you do online.  All the pretty graphics, pages of content, or monetization of your site mean nothing if you get your keywords wrong.  The search engines won’t know what the page is about so they index it for wacky things nobody is searching for.  Your visitors go to your site only to find out that the information there has nothing to do with their search and they leave never to come again.

But keyword research doesn’t have to be all that complicated IF you break it down into simple steps.

Now there are two things that I take into consideration when I chose my keywords.  One, am I looking to sell a product?  Either my own or someone else’s.  This is important because if your targeting buyer’s you need to find buyer keywords.  That’s why product reviews are so valuable to site owners.  If your taking the time to search for “Sony Digital Camera a70 review” then your already half way there to buying that product.  You already know the model number.  Your just looking for that last bit of justification to purchase right?

The second thing I take into consideration when I do keyword research is lead generation.  Now this is important if I am looking to capture emails.  This is why I entered internet network marketing in the first place.  So when I do content on one of my sites its for the purpose of providing value to my readers in the hopes that they will sign up for more information from me.  Then perhaps I can build a strong relationship with them and perhaps get them to join me.

But regardless of the purpose of my keyword research, I follow this method because it works for me.

As you can see my method is simple and effective.  I use two tools and that’s it.  I don’t second guess myself and don’t let keyword research bog me down.   I hope you found my keyword research method useful, how do you do your keyword research?

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Facebook and Google’s Targeted Search Results

What Facebook and Google Are Doing For Targeted Search Results

When the advent of social media and how it effects your lead generation there has been a new focus by Facebook and Google to provide you with targeted search results.  They are doing this by playing with the algorithm’s of their respective sites in such a way as to attempt more individualize what you see in your “news feed” or on the Google search results pages.

But is that something you really want when your searching the web.  And more importantly, how does that effect your traffic that comes from these two very powerful websites?  Targeted website traffic is by far the best so how do we ensure all of our SEO is worthwhile when we are trying to position our sites in targeted search results?

Social Influence in Targeted Search Results

I truly believe that the writing was on the wall a long time ago that Google planned on integrating social media into its search results when they created the rel=author relationship integration with your Google profile page.  What it did was allow your friends to see your posts in their search results.  The concept was that if you interacted with a person via Google services then you by default indicated to the search engine you like that person’s content.

Google also is using 55+ different indicators to provide you with individualized targeted search results.  The results ending up being that if you do a search for “fuzzy pink widgets” and your friends do a search for the same keyword.  You will end up looking at different results.

Now there are people who don’t agree with this new method of obtaining targeted search results in your Facebook news feed or in Google.  Watch this short video.

Now as you just saw in the video there is a call for Google and Facebook to take out their idea of what we are interested in and let us as user’s make the decision.  Free the targeted search results, let us choose what we want to see. Don’t presume based off out past conversations or clicks what we are looking for.

These methods of identifying our interests also have implications in the pay per click marketing arena as well as SEO.  How are we to more specially target our audience?

There are more questions then answers right now when it comes to individualized targeted search results.  What are your thoughts?  Do you like the new method?  Or do you think Google and Facebook should adjust the way the do business and go back to more generalized targeted search results?

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Google Announces New Google+ Changes

Is Google+ Even Worth Checking Out?

There are many people in the internet network marketing world that are against the implementation of Google+ but it has to be said that the search engine company has really hit a home run with some of the features in its new social media network.

The problem for Google+, and maybe it more a problem for the marketers, is that network marketers are thinking that somehow Google+ was intended to replace Facebook.  And the fact of the matter is the folks over at Google+ know that there is no way that is going to happen.

So they are challenged to come up with new and exciting features to add to there ever growing collection of options in order to not compete with Facebook.  But rather to offer things that perhaps you can’t find on Facebook.

Google+ Launches Three New Cool-Guy Tools

The first new addition to the social networking site is the ability to see what everyone is talking about.  Google calls it their “What’s Hot” function and if you are a Twitter user its pretty much the same thing but it a better tracker.  Also, if you remember when Google was indexing Tweets and they were in the search results under “hot topics” or something like that.  Well this new what’s hot function to Google+ brings that back.  There was no indication however, if this feed would be added to the search engine results like the Twitter integration was, but either way if your marketing and need something to write about this is an excellent resource.

Check out the video Google+ threw together to explain this bad boy for you, and after this I don’t want to hear about how you don’t have anything to write about.

The next Google+ addition is a interesting function called Ripples.  Now this thing works on posts that you select as “public” and to do that when you share Google+ automatically enters you most used circles.  There is a drop down arrow there, all you need to do is select pubic.

Then you put up your content and using Google+ Ripples you can watch the activity that your post generates.  Everything from comments, notifications, and friends sharing it with other friends.  This truly is a cool function, imagine what you can do if you knew how far your content is spread and with whom.  You can generate more content on that same subject and then be able to generate more targeted traffic and leads then you can handle.  I can tell you that I am implementing it.

Ok this third and final thing isn’t really any spectacular unless you don’t already have your own favorite picture editor, but the Google+ Creative Kit is a neat little tool that allows you to add effects to all your photo’s.  I like it, since all the photo’s I take on my smartphone are automagically sync’d with my Google+ account.  This tool allows me to change some effects, or add text to my photo’s and really engage with my Circles.

Remember, Google+ isn’t designed to replace your beloved Facebook.  Its merely another means to connect with people whom you want to share your product or opportunity with and if you choose  to ignore Google+ your leaving a lot of money on the table.

What is that you say, there aren’t as many users on Google+ as there are on Facebook?  Nope there sure aren’t but if you ignore 40 million people your ignoring the significant traffic source that Google+ is, as well as all the wonderful back links you get.

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