Saturday, November 22, 2008

Melaleuca Business Review - Scam Or Legit MLM?

By Brian McCoy

Are you looking for a home based business opportunity to get involved with and are curious as to whether or not Melaleuca is a scam? This article will give you an honest review of the company.

1) Melaleuca Home Business

Melaleuca is a company based out of Idaho Falls, Idaho. The company has an emphasize on health and wellness. Melaleuca presents itself as a home business opportunity by marketing their product line through MLM or network marketing.

2) Melaleuca's Products

The Melaleuca products are vast and varied. Items include anything from nutritional supplements to personal or home care items. Many of the Melaleuca formulations are all natural as well as friendly to the environment. Some people are claiming to have received positive benefits by consuming the products, such as relief from many inflammatory based complaints.

3) Compensation Plan

The Melaleuca business opportunity contains a multi-level, open-ended matrix compensation plan. The issue with the comp plan is that it can't be easily understood by most. The other issue is because it is a matrix compensation plan and spillover will happen at some point, many times this can encourage laziness. An example of how this could work is when a hard working person will be sponsoring lots of people under his team and so they in turn may receive a small check. Some team members may then assume that because they received income for doing nothing, that no work is involved in building a successful MLM business. Some people do well with the matrix plans, but many struggle.

Conclusion - Melaleuca seems to have a decent line of products. However, their pay plan is where many people get tripped up. As far as MLM companies go, the Melaleuca pay plan is not as distributor friendly as some. One thing that is just as important as a great product, is an easy to understand and workable comp plan. - 15478

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