Arbonne Review – the products and compensation plan of Arbonne International
Arbonne’s an old “monster mlm” as I like to call it since the company itself has been in existence for over 20 years, and their MLM component is old as dirt, too.
This is a bit of a disorganized Arbonne review since it’s not an mlm business, I’ll be looking into or researching beyond the scope of writing about their products, their ingredients and compensation plan.
Arbonne built their business the right way, for way back then: they did it mostly offline, belly-t-belly, house party style, and the reason I deem that as the right way to “do” MLM is that’s where all the real fortunes were/are made. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve run into some upline’s upline who’s making 6 figures a year, sometimes 6 figures a month with their mlm business, and yet, it’s THEY who are impressed with me for my “internet marketing skills”. But they’re clueless about online marketing for MLM business promotion and yet are sitting in some pretty lofty positions within those companies.
I digress.. suffice to say, times have changed, and more people are using the Internet for their information sources which leads me to Gripe #1 about Arbonne International.
Arbonne build their company up the old school way and that’s what made them grow so well, and so fast, almost making them a competitor to Mary Kay and Avon companies, and that’s also similar to how and why Monavie grew so fast.
However, the difference between Arbonne and Monavie NOW, is that Monavie’s lifted the restrictions on their IBOs and are allowing more online marketing to be done of their behalf, whilst Arbonne has continued to tie the hands of their IBOs by heaping some pretty ridiculous restrictions on what the people promoting Arbonne itself can do.
Arbonne’s argument has typically been, “hey we’re mainly an offline company and we’re trying to protect our brand” by not having to act as a watchdog for all their affiliates and IBOs that would be spreading the “Arbonne International love” via the internet. There’s copious tomes of content to moderate and regulate if a big company like Arbonne were to open the gates of information lockdown and release their affiliates out into the Internet, allowing them to claim all sorts of things that may or may not be true, or 100% positive.
Arbonne products, and the Arbonne Internetional company:
Arbonne sells skin care cosmetic products, and/or aroma-essentials (think of aromatherapy or essential oils). Their product line is pretty stouts and the products are good> not bad. As with any type of product that distributed with the mlm distribution model, there is a mark up, just like there’s a mark up when an offline store sells a product above cost
Arbonne product line
Here’s a list of some of Arbonne’s products and the categorized sampling of what they’re offering :
As you can see by the screenshot to the left Arbonne’s products fall into the following categories:
- Anti-aging products
- Skin hydration (I think this means exfoliation, but I’m a guy who’s nowhere’s near being a “metero”, so this is my best guess)
- Detox
- Blemishes
- Baby products – cool thing to offer since treating baby skin is important especially when they’re so new to us, and “brand new”
- Weigth Loss
- Nutrition
Here’s are some specific product names for some Arbonne products, mos tof which tested well with some skin care reviews sites I read to research this Arbonne review
- Arbonne Awaken Sea Salt Scrub – aromatherapy product
- Arbonne Facial Scrub- facial scrub
- Arbonne Intelligence
- Arbonne Thermal Fusion (Enzyme) Mask
- Arbonne NutriMinC RE9 System
- etc…
Do their products measure up, are the Arbonne cosmetics and other products, quality products?
Yes they’re good products, yet overpriced when compared against what similarly effective products would sell for in the “real world”, but that’s business, and that’s the MLM business for ya/us…
The Arbonne Compensation Problem, err…PLAN…
The Arbonne Compensation Plan is a unilevel plan. There is no limit on the number of people allowed to join a team or on the number of people a sponsor may place on his or her team, and performance-based incentives and distributors’ bonuses are included. However, certain conditions must be met before an associate can reach higher levels of compensation.
A network marketer’s chief goal is to produce income from his or her business that equals or exceeds their present salary and provides a smooth transition from the workplace to the network marketing company. To achieve a goal of $5,000 per month, it is necessary to understand Arbonne’s Compensation Plan.
Arbonne offers a 4% override of your downline’s sales. In addition, there is a 35% discount on the price of the product. The Arbonne Compensation Plan contains 5 levels of Independent Consultants. It is important to note that these figures apply only to those Arbonne Independent Consultants who are eligible to earn bonuses and overrides.
Using Arbonne’s Compensation Plan and the goal of $5,000 income per month, let’s assume you sold $2,000 worth of products at a 35% profit margin in a month. This would amount to a gross profit of $700, leaving you $4,300 short of your goal. To achieve your goal of $5,000 per month income, and considering that there is only a 4% override of your downline’s sales, you would need to have 55 people continuously producing sales of at least $2,000 a month, every month. This will require a tremendous amount of effort on your part, and is an important factor to take into consideration.
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