I am posting an e-mail message that dad (Mike Akins) wrote for one of our leaders. I thought you may be interested in the information. It hasn't been edited for grammar and it was written late at night for consider. I have removed the name of the leader that it was written for as to address privacy concerns. Angelia
Hi ------------,
I would be glad to share information on the three companies that you mentioned.
Eniva provides a very good drink. There are a number of good drinks. The challenge with this nutritional formulas is that they can be copied very easier. If this drink does well there will be a couple hundred copycats.
Morinda experienced this saturation of the market with copycat drinks. Morinda has continued to grow only because it has expanded into more than 60 international markets. A great number of Morinda upper level leaders have moved on to other opportunities because their downlines are unwinding.
Another challenge in trying to include so many different nutrients, Eniva has rendered most of these nutrients less valuable to ones health. When you examine research, you find that there is a threshold of how much of each nutrient it requires to experience its full benefits. There is such a small amount of the phytonutrients in a daily serving that renders the formula more of a marketing tool than a impactive health formula.
4Life Research provides a product that is unique and more effective. The bovine/avian formula is protected by strong patents. With Transfer Factor these patents are more significant than with your "everyday" patent. Every other nutrient in the world has other herbs or nutrients that can do the same thing as it can. You may have a patent on that particular formulation but if other nutrients can do the same thing what good is the patent.
No other nutrient in the world brings information into the immune system of the experiences of another being. Transfer Factors bring into the human immune system information on tens of thousands of experiences of the cow and chicken immune system. You may compare this to receiving hundreds of vaccinations.
Also transfer factors are regulators of the immune system and related body systems. Transfer factors are like a conductor of a band while other nutrients are like the various instruments in the band. The conductor makes sure the instruments work in synergy in order to produce music. Transfer factors regulate all of components to create ultimate health.
Although eventually there will be other bovine formulas it will be 16 more years before a bovine/avian formula will come to the market after the expiration of the patents. Unlike Vibe, Transfer Factor will not have dozens and even hundreds of copycats to compete with.
Transfer Factor has a great influence or impact on one's health. Transfer Factor regulates most of the immune system activities, antioxidant production within he cell and cellular detoxins. When you compare the influence of a vitamin, herb, mineral or phytonutient on the immune system or health there isn't any comparison. Examine the study comparing 196 nutrients to Transfer Factor. The very best nutrient was only able to increase the efficiency of the immune system by 48% while TF+ increased it by 248%. Since then with the addition of the avian formula TF+ has increased to 437%.
The effectiveness of the product will create more retention. More retention will create more income and longer lasting residual income. Eniva cannot touch 4Life here.
The pay plan is ok but 4life's pay plan is much more scientifically targeted to address the seven categories of distributors. You can read about this on the PN website in the link Science Behind the 4life Pay Plan." When comparing pay plans keep in mind that the $49BV is actually $100 wholesale and you paid on BV. Eniva pays 22% on its first three levels while 4life pays 32%. With the Power Pool and bonuses there is more assistance for the start-up distributor with the 4life Pay Plan. All the start-up bonuses are available to the leader4life without any required enrollments.
The three level volume requirements are important for solid growth downline. Experienced networkers are known for their strategy of sponsoring and great number of people and then only working with fast movers. This strategy is duplicated downline. This creates a heavy attrition, thin downline cluster growth and with most of the volume running beneath your pay levels. The three level requirements to penetrate your 4th level ensures that leaders will work with a greater number of people that they have enrolled and help their first couple levels do the same thing. The end result is a fuller (more compressed) growth pattern, less attrition and more volume within your pay levels.
It is obvious that the Eniva program is developed more around marketing than the realities of more success for a greater percentage of networkers. This maybe due to the backgrounds of the owners and management. 4Life's owners and management have a background of humanitarians and research scientists. Their focus is on true results and doing what is best for the majority of networkers.
The NuSkin subsidiary Pharmanex offers the Lifepak with nano technology. Royal Body Care offers nano technology and a number of other companies are bring this technology to the public. The sales strategy is faster absorption and sometimes a claim of more absorption.
First of all transfer factors are so small that pass right through the digestive system and into where they are needed very quickly and totally. Lets look at the reality of smaller and faster. This is sales talk more than a better benefit.
What if the first day you consume a vitamin formula one formula is absorbed 20 minutes faster? Once the slower formula is absorbed the 20 minutes faster doesnt really matter to one's health. Faster or smaller doesn't mean more is absorbed.
Sometimes slower mean more absorption. Think about the membrane portals in the linning of your small intestines where most nutrients are absorbed into the blood. If you flood these portals with nutrients too fast, some of the nutrients will pass these portals by and go into the colon area. Sometimes slower is better.
What about smaller? The functions of your cells, immune system and body tissue are developed over thousands of years by environmental influences. The receptors on cells and tissue are developed to accommodate the ingestation of nutrients into the cells. These receptors are the right size for the nutrients that mankind has consumed from its environment for thousands of years.
Think of a room is like a cell and the doorway to the room is like a receptor by which nutrient pass into the cell. Let's say that the doorway is developed to accommodate six foot people. Now let's say that a "nano" midget passes through the doorway. If you fill the room with six foot people or three foot people, when the room is filled it is filled. You don't have more flesh in the room by packing it with three foot people than with six foot people.
You don't get more nutrients into your cells through nano technology. You get it there faster but not faster isn't necessarily better. Nano technology is available to a number of nutritional companies. Transfer Factor technology isn't. Transfer factors can impact your health many times more than plain nutrients. Transfer factors are already nano sized by nature.
It is very easy to see the advantages of 4life's pay plan when compared to the Pharmanex pay plan. NuSkin became very difficult for new distributors to work because of the number of existing distributors so they created the subsidiary Pharmanex. Now Pharmanex is in the same spot.
For Mor was one of the programs that Professional Networkers test-marketed. For Mor grew to about 1 1/2 million dollars in sales and then in the early 2000s fell to around $700,000 per month in sales. The pay plan is lopsided. It does address the needs of all seven categories of distributors. The 45% is much less when you compare BV to wholesale for its primary products.
The program doesn't attract experienced networkers from all seven categories. What you end up with is a lopsided downline with too many grassroots distributors and not enough mid-level leaders to train and manage the growth.
There has been a ton of leaders that have tested ForMor in its earlier stages that have left it. The products are me-too products. They have not real in house scientific team and have to work through consultants to find new products. There are always following the trends instead of setting them. Its number one distributor from 1996 through 2003 left and is now in my downline. He was a faithful follower but had to face the realities involved in the chemistry of ForMor's strategies.
I could talk more time to even provide more details but this should be enough for anyone that understands the dynamics of success in network marketing. If you prospect doesn't relate to what we have to share keep in touch with them. If they join one of these three companies most likely they will be looking again in 2 or 3 years.
4Life is proven to be the ultimate program. After 39-years in this industry and investing 1/2 million dollars in researching this industry, I know a winner when I see one. I helped develop many features of this program. I haven't seen anything come close. It requires a humanitarian heart and a open mind to create a program like 4Life's. I have proven my concern for all distributors through the vast support that I provide. No one else invests what I do to support one's downline partners. My heart is on display. This program is an extension of this heart. The management at 4life have the same paradigm.
I appreciate your leadership -----------. You are a very good sponsor and upline leader. I hear from your downline how you labor over your downline partners. You are growing very fast and solid. You will be at the top one of these days. Keep doing what you are doing.
Highest regards,
Mike |