Thursday, July 14, 2005

Has it really been three months?

I honestly can't believe it's been three months since my last post. I've been earning hundreds of dollars direct deposited into my account thanks to my earlier work with Vemma and sort of put aside the marketing aspect. I'm not back into for another few months full-time. Let's see what happens.

I wonder if I can replace my current job with Vemma alone? We shall see...

I think I might bring Vemma into work and have a sampling party. You should try some. What are you waiting for? Go. Why are you still reading this? Buy Vemma.

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Vemma Customer Feedback

I got an email today from my first Vemma customer and wanted to share what they had to say:

Ty, I received my product yesterday and tried it this morning. Great flavor. It's a great way to get nutrition as I usually take caps or tabs. I enjoyed taking my "best shot" from the cool shot glass. The package is appealing to the eye and the product is definitely packed with nutrition. I'll let you know how it affects me over the next week or so.

Thanks for the feedback! My wife and I have been talking about the appeal of a liquid vitamin for about a week now. Neither of us has missed a day of taking Vemma since it arrived. Vemma does taste good and I look forward to taking it in the morning. It's kind of fun. I'm not sure if I mentioned it before but Vemma comes with a shot glass and you pour 1 oz. of Vemma Mangosteen Plus and 1 oz. of Vemma Essential Minerals in your shot glass and down the hatch.

You should try some. Really. What are you waiting for? It's not like I have never given you a link. Go. Why are you still reading this? Buy Vemma.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Networking Times Article on Vemma CEO

The new Networking Times magazine has an article on Vemma CEO, BK Boreyko.
Here is a snip:

Of all of the benefits of network marketing, time freedom was the greatest gift for the Boreykos. In February 1994, matriarch Dottie Boreyko was diagnosed with a brain tumor. In May of that year, says BK, “she went to heaven.”

“I got to spend every day with her during those months,” recalls BK. “I traveled with her to specialists and spent precious time with her. If I’d had a regular job, there’s no way I would have been able to do that. You can’t put a price on this: to be able to spend the last three months of your mom’s life at her side.”

Even in her last days, Dottie was thinking of others. She asked her family to be sure to take care of their distributors. Perhaps she had a foreshadowing of the challenges ahead.

Ten days before Christmas in 1994, there was an emergency conference call from the Boreykos’ networking company. They learned that the company they were affiliated with was going into bankruptcy. There would be no more monthly Christmases, at least not from this particular enterprise.

“Grown men were crying on the conference call,” recalls BK. “My dad was 68, retired, had his whole life wrapped up in network marketing, and now saw it starting to unravel.”

The Boreykos huddled. They looked for an opportunity of high integrity and promise. They wanted one that was being led by a distributor or someone with a distributor’s mentality.
“Distributors think differently from corporate guys. Corporate guys look at bottom line numbers and distributors look at marketing. Without great marketing there will be no bottom line.”

With no models in sight, the Boreykos stepped up to the plate and started their own company. Brother Jason and sisters Lynne and Karen kept their mom’s last wish: “Do something to help people.” As co-founders, they set their company’s mission: “to enrich the quality of families’ lives.”

“People thought we wouldn’t make it. They’d say, ‘These guys don’t have any corporate experience, they don’t know how to run a company.’ Our secret to success is that we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than we are. We can hire people who know shipping, IT, customer service. We hire someone who can make sure commission checks are run on time—and we’ve never been late in 10 years. We have a great senior staff.”

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Vemma Experiment Site Statistics

Unique Site Visitors
Total: 223
Average Per Day: 27
Average Visit Length: 4:03

Search terms that found the Vemma Experiment
Vemma
Compensation Plan
mlm companies ratings
mlm binary compensation plan
BK Boreyko
mlm pay plan
powerline mlm
vemma
http://www.myvemma.com/vemmabrett
vemma comp plan

Other info: 7 site visitors went on to watch the Vemma Extreme Financial Makeover.

Vemma sign ups: 22 (Placed by Vemma Upline)

Total money spent: $120 for start up, website, and first months product

Thursday, March 3, 2005

Vemma Ingredients

So, Vemma Guy, what's in these bottles?

  • Full spectrum of antioxidant vitamins
  • Mangosteen and pericarp extract
  • Aloe Vera
  • Green Tea
  • 65 major, trace and ultra-trace plant-sourced minerals
  • Over 40 different xanthones
Vemma Mangoteen Plus


(% Daily Value)
Vitamin A 5000 IU (100%)
Vitamin C 300 mg (500%)
Vitamin D 400 IU (100%)
Vitamin E 60 IU (200%)
Thiamin 1.5 mg (100%)
Riboflavin 1.7 mg (100%)
Niacin 20 mg (100%)
Vitamin B6 5 mg (250%)
Folate 800 ncg (200%)
Vitamin B12 15 mcg (250%)
Biotin 300mcg (100%)
Pantothnic Acid 10 mg (100%)
Selenium 140 mcg (200%)
Proprietary Mangasteen, Whole LeafAloe Vera, and Green Tea Blend 25.2 g

Vemma Essential Minerals

Proprietary Mineral Blend 959 mg
Carbon, Calcium, Sodium, Sulfur, Magnesium, Choride, Bromide, Fluoride, Iodine, Potassium, Nionium, Aluminum, Iron, Phosphorus, Silica, Manganese, Boron, Strontium, Titanium, Tungsten, Copper, Zinc, Tin, Zirconium, Molybdenium, Vanadium, Chorium, Selenium, Nickel, Cobalt, Lithium, Gallium, Barium, Yttrium, Neodrmium, Hafnium, Cadmium, Thorium, Antimony, cerium, Tellurium, Beryllium, Samarium, Dysprosium, Erbium, Bismuth, Gadolinium, Ceslum, Lanthanum, Praseodymium, Europium, Luteium, Terbium, Ytterbium, Holmium, Thallium, Thulium, Tantalum, Geranium, Gold, Platinum, Rhodium, Rubidium, Ruthenium, Scandium, Silver, Indium.

The Vemma Nutritional Program combines both of these products. In your Vemma Nutrition Program you'll receive a 32oz bottle of Mangosteen Plus and a 32oz bottle of Kiwi-Strawberry Essential Minerals®. Fill your Vemma™ shot glass (included in your program) half full with Mangosteen Plus and fill the rest with Essential Minerals for your daily power shot.

Vemma comes with a 30 day empty bottle money back guarantee. Try some.

Two New Vemma Business Partners

It looks like my Vemma upline has placed two new business partners in my right leg. I need to personally register one person in each leg in order to be eligible for bonuses. I have a handful of contacts from the website that I need to follow up with. I guess this pretty much means that I will be working my left leg and my upline will work my right leg.

It was a neat feeling to check out my back office and find a couple of people signed up.

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Vemma - Question

The MLM Experiment's first question:
I recently saw Financial Makeover but my computer has no sound. It looks like some kind of binary. Can you e mail more detailed info. I don't wish to talk with anyone at this point. I do appreciate the use of people figures in the comp plan diagram. However, I think a comp plan should be understood at first glance.

Here is my answer:

The compensation plan is a 2/3 - 1/3, 6-3, binary compensation plan that pays $20 per cycle. Whenever 6 bottles move in one leg and 3 bottles move in the other leg, you earn $20. You also make $5 from each order placed by the folks you personally enroll and $16 for retail sales for the first bottle and $8 a bottle thereafter to an individual.

The full compensation plan is explained at http://www.myvemma.com/vemmabrett (just click on "Join Vemma Now"). The typical pitch with regards to the Binary compensation plan is usually related to "spill over", whereas your upline will build one of your two legs for you, leaving you one leg to focus on.

Hope that helps!

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Vemma - The Product

Vemma is delicious. My plan is to do a 30 day trial and to determine if the product makes me feel any different. I have also given a little thought to benefits of a liquid supplement for children.

I started to do some research on the Vemma product and here is the corporate information:

Mangosteen, known as the "Queen of all fruits" has been used for centuries by Asian health practitioners for its nutritional benefits and delicious flavor. Combine the antioxidant rich power of mangosteen with plant-sourced minerals, aloe and green tea and you've created the ultimate nutritional foundation. Introducing the Vemma Nutrition Program – Essential For Life! It's now well known that taking multivitamins with minerals on a daily basis is vital for long-term optimal health. The Vemma Nutrition Program provides two powerful liquid formulas that make it easy to get the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants you need to form a solid nutritional foundation. Each product is bioavailable (body-ready), delicious and easy to take!

In your Vemma Nutrition Program you'll receive a 32oz bottle of Mangosteen Plus and a 32oz bottle of Kiwi-Strawberry Essential Minerals®. Fill your Vemma™ shot glass (included in your program) half full with Mangosteen Plus and fill the rest with Essential Minerals for your daily power shot. Who knew taking care of your body could be so easy?

Saturday, February 19, 2005

Saturday's finally here!

OK, so I had a rough week at work and it made me realize how much I'd like to be my own boss. This vision will certainly help me drive my business.

I bought a few redirect URLs this weekend to help advertise my Vemma site:

If you click on the links, the first two will take you to my the site provided by Vemma. However, the third link is another attempt at marketing the Vemma idea to people who are solely interested in growing a business and care a little less about their health.

I'll post more later. I need to go to the gym!

Friday, February 18, 2005

Vemma - Communication

I received two emails from Vemma corporate today.

Email one was from customer service:

Thank you for your recent order with Vemma! Your order has been received and is being processed. We are pleased you have chosen to shop with us and know that you will be pleased with our quality-guaranteed Vemma Nutrition Program.

The other email was a welcome message from Vemma President and CEO, BK Boreyko:

Congratulations on your decision to join the Vemma Team! You have taken the all-important first step that can lead to an extraordinary life for you and your family. I'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce my two wonderful sisters Lauren and Karen. They're co-owners of Vemma and I know you'll love them when you meet them at the next event.

My commitment to you is that our Home Office Team will work hard every day to meet and exceed your expectations of us. Our job is to help you make your goals and dreams a reality. It is in this spirit of partnership that motivates us each day to provide you with the very best service, support, tools, systems and training available.

The email goes on to talk a little about the product and free marketing website. Then BK takes a minute to remind us (Vemma Members) not to keep this a secret and invite people to our websites

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

The Vemma Compensation Plan

There are 3 ways to earn compensation with Vemma:

1. Retail Sales - The enroller of each customer would receive a Customer Bonus of $16 for the first order and $8 for every additional order shipment when one Vemma Nutrition Program is purchased, $32 for the first order and $16 for every additional order when the two pack is purchased, or $50 for the first order and $30 for each additional shipment when the Family Pack is purchased.

2. Team Building Income - Consistency Bonus: On every order of your personally enrolled member's Autoship orders, you, as the enroller, will be eligible to receive a $5 Consistency Bonus on orders of one Vemma Nutrition Program, a $10.00 Consistency Bonus on orders of two Vemma Nutrition Programs, or a $50 Consistency Bonus on orders of the Family Pack if you are active and have qualified your membership.

Cycle Bonus: At the end of each volume period (week) , the Vemma computer searches down your left and right groups and whenever three sales in one line and six sales in the opposite line occur (sides can switch back and forth), you are eligible to earn a Cycle Bonus of approximately $20. You can cycle as many times a pay period as you earn! You must have an active membership , and have qualified your membership to earn this bonus.

Enroller Matching Bonus: This unique feature of our pay plan allows you to be eligible for a 10% matching bonus on all of your personally enrolled member's Cycle Bonuses! To qualify for the Enroller Matching Bonus you simply increase your personal Autoship order to two Vemma Nutrition Programs ($120.00) and have four active members ($60) who you personally enrolled within the past 52 weeks.

Second Tier Matching Bonus: Not only can you earn on the people that you personally enrolled, but you are eligible to earn a 10% matching bonus on all of your personal enrollees' personally enrolled member's Cycle Bonuses! When your personal Autoship order is two Vemma Nutrition Programs and you have six active members ($60) who you personally enrolled within the past 52 weeks. The two members used for qualification and the two members used to qualify for the Enroller Matching Bonus will count toward this bonus. Also, the two additional members can be ANYWHERE within your structure.

Instant Sponsor Bonus: For the first sale only, the immediate upline sponsor will receive a $5.00 Instant Sponsor Bonus on their frontline new member's purchases, including purchases of the Family Pack. Subsequent orders will be paid out in the existing Cycle Bonus. Neither activation nor qualification is required for this bonus. This bonus will pay out only once in the lifetime of each member.

Top Producer's Bonus Pool: Each member who enrolls a minimum of $400 in new sales in a volume week will qualify for a pro-rated share of a Bonus Pool made up of a percentage of total Vemma sales volume in that period

3. Global Bonus Pool - Earn even more with these 12 week bonus pools that set aside 2% of overall Vemma sales to encourage team cooperation! To qualify for a share of each bonus pool, you must meet or exceed the cycle requirements listed below for the twelve week period. Each level of this bonus you qualify for also entitles you to a share of the previous bonus pool with the possibility of earning a part of all four pools.

...and the corporate explanation ends....

In MLM-speak, Vemma sports a 6/3 cycle Binary compensation plan with $20 payments per cycle. In semi-english that means you build two "legs", placing business partners in depth under others. The pitch in a business like this is that your upline will build one of your legs, sometimes called a "powerline" or "powerleg", leaving you to focus on placing people in one leg. Obviously we will watch this closely.

Read more about the Vemma compensation plan or email your questions to vemmabrett-1@yahoo.com.

The Vemma Experiment - Day 2

The Vemma Experiment is a project to journal about my experience with a Network Marketing start up. The experiment part is the fact that I am doing 100% of the marketing for this new business on this blog. So follow along with the Vemma Experiment, as you and I see if it is possible to build a profitable Network Marketing business by talking about it on a weblog.

Vemma Experiment by the numbers:

To Date Unique Blog Visitors: 52 Average Time of Visit: 1:59

Number of people that went on to watch the Vemma Presentation: 2
Number of customer orders: 0
Number of business sign ups: 0

Total time invested in the Vemma Experiment: 30 Minutes

Total Money Spent: $60 (sign up and first months product autoship including free website)

The Vemma Experiment is not in the top ten pages on Google under Vemma. (I would like to think of other search words to track, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.)

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

The Company - Vemma

Vemma, (pronounced vee-mah) is the name of the product and the company that not only launched today but will be at the center of the Vemma Experiment.

Vemma, The Product: A two part liquid nutritional system, Vemma actually stands for Vitamins, Essential Minerals , Mangosteen, and Aloe. Formula one is called Mangosteen Plus, a patent pending antioxidant and multi vitamin formula. Formula two contains 65 minerals necessary for optimal health. Sound too good to pass up? Buy Some!

Vemma, The Company: Vemma is a brand new, ground-floor opportunity from the creators of New Vision, a 10-year-old international leader in health and wellness with over $1 billion in total retail sales.

New Vision has built a solid and dependable company with a great reputation in the networking industry. In an industry that sees a failure rate for start-up companies of over 90% in the first year and over 98% within five years, New Vision is celebrating its tenth year of profitable success. Even more impressive in this industry, New Vision has paid out almost $400 million to its members, without ever being late on delivering royalty checks or promises.

Both New Vision and Vemma are owned by BK Boreyko and his sisters Karen and Lauren. As the children of successful network marketers Ben and Dottie Boreyko, the founders have literally grown up in the industry. At the age of seven, BK began helping his parents in their Amway (now Quixtar) business. By the age of 18, he developed his own Amway distributorship to the PS Direct level. And by his early 30’s he and his family launched the next generation of network marketing — appropriately called New Vision.

(Information taken directly from the corporate website)

The Vemma web presentation titled "Extreme Financial Makeover" can be found here. It's pretty funny, really. I get the feeling that the presentation is making fun of other hype filled presentations.

I will end today's post with my main concern at this time:

Is there really a market for this type of nutritional supplement system outside of people that want to build a Network Marketing business? I spend a lot of my time telling people that the average person would never spend $75 on a bottle of vitamins and now I appear to be marketing a nutritional system that sells for $60 (free shipping for customers). This should be interesting.

Tune in tomorrow for first day website statistics and a quick look at a compensation plan, that some industry people might call a scam.

For more information on Vemma, send an email to vemmabrett-1@yahoo.com. Please keep in mind that I plan on posting all questions and answering them on this site.

Welcome

Welcome to the my Network Marketing experiment. The premise is simple; journal my experience with a well-known Network Marketing company and use this blog as the only means of marketing the product and business.

Before I get into some of the details of this project I want to let others know that I have tried Network Marketing before and was pleased with the results. I will be devoting no more than two hours each week to this blog. More than anything this is an experiment to see what happens if I consistently journal about this new product and business.

The plan is to track as much data as possible. I will post how many hits this site gets, current Google rankings by keyword, and how many people purchase product and sign up for the business on a regular basis. Other posts will contain information directly from the company and some posts will contain my personal observations and opinions.

So tell all your friends and family. The Vemma Experiment is about to begin.