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What is Youngevity?
Youth and longevity. From the name itself, one could already conjecture the sort of business that Youngevity engages in.
Founded in 1997 by Dr. Joel Wallach, Youngevity is a manufacturer/distributor of health and wellness products. These products range from nutritional supplements and meal replacement shakes, to essential oils and powdered juice drinks.
The company also manufactures cosmetics like mineral makeup plus other household items that promote a general feeling of well-being in the home.
Some of Youngevity’s popular products include Beyond Tangy Tangerine CT, Rebound FX Citrus Punch, Beyond Osteo-FX, and Ultimate EFA Plus.
These items can usually be bought together in themed “Paks.” Each Pak contains different sets of Youngevity products that target specific health concerns that buyers want to focus on like weight loss, blood sugar, digestive support, and athlete performance.
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How Do You Make Money With It?
It’s important to note that Youngevity is an MLM (multilevel marketing) company, wherein people receive a certain amount of compensation for recruiting other individuals as downlines.
There is also a direct sales component to the whole scheme; official Youngevity members can purchase Paks and products from the company at a discount, which they can sell to others with a slight profit.
The official Youngevity website at www.Youngevity.com has an entire page that briefly outlines how people can make money with the program and what they’ll get when they initially sign up for it.
1. Once you’ve expressed interest in joining Youngevity, you need to contact the person who referred you to the company for further instructions. All new members start out as Associates, a rank which would give them the right to purchase from the entire Youngevity catalog of wellness products.
2. Read up about the company’s Compensation Plan, and know exactly how much you would need to sell per month to go up the ranks.
3. Get started on building your “virtual office.” Youngevity members get an Associate ID which they can use to set up a virtual back office to showcase their products.
4. Order and sell products. There is an Autoship feature that automatically ships in-demand products monthly.
5. Recruit and invite others to join as fellow Associates or Independent Marketing Directors (IMDs). This is where the MLM side of the business kicks in. The more people that Associates invite into the scheme, the more the income potential. As a member goes up the ranks, the compensation per referral also increases.
Are There Any Issues With It?
A word of caution first. The usual complaint that the public has about MLMs is that they are so close to becoming pyramid schemes if left unregulated.
MLMs are not scams per se (there are a lot of legitimate ones like Avon and Tupperware), but if its distributors are focusing more on the recruiting component then it ventures into illegal territory.
But back to Youngevity. The main problem with the company is that its distributors market products like they’re some sort of magical cure-all that can treat all sorts of diseases.
There are even some that claim that the Beyond Tangy Tangerine CT is even better than chemotherapy (implying that a mere juice drink is enought to cure cancer).
This kind of marketing is very dangerous, and not to mention, very illegal. These products are supplements and not medicines.
There are no known studies that have proven the efficacy of Youngevity products to cure any of the health problems and diseases that these distributors claim can be cured.
What are Others Saying Around the Web?
Understandably, there are whole websites dedicated to the debunking of the health claims that were set forth by Youngevity distributors.
Some even pointed out that Dr. Wallach, the founder of the company, is not even a doctor of medicine, but rather, a doctor of naturopathy which is a field that most scientists and medical doctors have agreed to be mere quackery.
A Google search of “youngevity.com review” will also reveal complaints from people who don’t like how the products are so expensively priced.
Final thoughts
There are legitimate MLMs out there, all of which can make you money without resorting to fraud and outrageous health claims.
Youngevity is certainly not one of them. Wealthy Affiliate can help you seperate the wheat from the chaff, and help you learn the proper way of making money online through online lead generation and other tried-and-tested methods.
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Thanks. This information was very helpful, since I’m about to help my daughter use the products for weight loss purposes. And a friend has been talking to me about a different yet similar system.
This is ridiculous lol. Chemotherapy is the real quackery.