Awakend fails to supply possession and company data on its web site. The corporate additionally fails to supply a company deal with.
On the “contact us” part of their web site, Awakend states it has “restricted assist”. Any questions are to be directed to Awakend uplines.
Awakend entered prelaunch in early August. That is cited as a purpose for restricted assist.
Contact Us
We’re in an thrilling prelaunch part with restricted assist! Please contact your upline chief with any questions.
Two months in and that excuse is stretching skinny.
Firm possession and company particulars, assist and on the very least the place you’re working from are fundamental necessities for due-diligence.
For those who’re accepting distributor enrolments this data must be able to go earlier than you prelaunch.
BehindMLM coated Awakend’s prelaunch on August 18th. Given Awakend’s disclosure failures, we’re counting on my earlier analysis.
Awakend’s prelaunch company advertising and marketing efforts are headed up by Danelle Meoli and Chip Macgill.
On social media Meoli refers to Awakend as her firm. Such to the extent there are different Awakend homeowners and co-founders, they haven’t been publicly disclosed.
In August BehindMLM famous eight admins of Awakend’s official company FaceBook group. Right this moment that’s been whittled right down to 4; Danelle Meoli and husband Scott, David R Teodosio and Ashlee Headlee.
Underneath the Meolis you might have a bunch of their former Exp Realty and NewULife downlines.
So far as I can inform, everybody who was positioned earlier than Awakend’s public prelaunch is tied to Meoli by way of her previous MLM firms.
Whereas Meoli is predicated of of Connecticut, Awakend could also be primarily working out of Texas.
I’ll replace if Awakend ever will get round to offering shoppers with a transparent image of firm possession and its possession workforce.
Failing which:
If an MLM firm will not be overtly upfront about who’s working or owns it, assume lengthy and arduous about becoming a member of and/or handing over any cash.
Awakend’s Merchandise
Awakend’s flagship product is the load loss complement Zenith.
Zenith is marketed on the premise that obese individuals are leptin resistant. Leptin is cited as
a hormone made by fats cells that regulates foot consumption & vitality expenditure by speaking with the mind.
The idea is that obese individuals have an excessive amount of leptin, creating leptin resistance over time.
Zenith “gently decreases” leptin ranges, decreasing leptin resistance and enabling the hormone to work because it ought to.
Awakend don’t present retail pricing for Zenith on their web site.
Up to now the one pricing revealed in Awakend advertising and marketing is $135 a month for distributor autoship. That is presumed to be a wholesale worth, suggesting Zenith’s retail pricing might be increased.
Awakend’s Compensation Plan
Awakend’s compensation plan pays on retail gross sales and recruitment. Residual commissions are paid by way of a binary workforce.
Further performances and rank bonuses are additionally obtainable.
Awakend Distributor Ranks
There are fourteen ranks inside Awakend’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Distributor – enroll as an Awakend distributor
- Certified Distributor – keep a 100 PV private order over a rolling five-week interval and recruit two distributors (positioned one on either side of the binary workforce)
- Amber Director – keep a 100 PV private order and generate 1000 GV in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and keep two personally recruited Distributors or increased (positioned one on either side of the binary workforce)
- Crystal Director – keep a 100 PV private order and generate 2500 GV in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and keep 4 Distributors or increased (positioned two on either side of the binary workforce)
- Sapphire – keep a 100 PV private order and generate 5000 GV in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and keep 4 personally recruited Distributors or increased (positioned two on either side of the binary workforce)
- Emerald Director – generate and keep 200 PV over a rolling five-week interval (100 PV should be personal order), generate 7500 GV in weaker binary workforce aspect quantity over a five-week rolling interval, and keep 4 personally recruited Distributors or increased (positioned two on either side of the binary workforce)
- Ruby Director – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 10,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and keep six Distributors or increased (positioned three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 20,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and keep six personally recruited Distributors or increased (positioned three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Blue Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 50,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and keep eight Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Double Blue Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 100,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and keep ten Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Triple Blue Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 250,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and keep ten personally recruited Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Black Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 400,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and keep ten personally recruited Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Double Black Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 700,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and keep ten personally recruited Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
- Triple Black Diamond Govt – keep 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and keep 1,000,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and keep ten personally recruited Distributors or increased (min three on either side of the binary workforce)
PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV is gross sales quantity generated by an distributor’s personal orders and retail buyer gross sales.
GV stands for “Group Quantity”. GV is PV generated by an Awakend distributor and their downline.
Retail Commissions
Awakend distributors earn commissions on the sale of Zenith to retail clients.
Awakend states:
The fee quantity is the same as the retail worth much less the wholesale worth.
Given Awakend hasn’t disclosed the retail price of Zenith, we are able to offer you particular retail fee quantities.
Recruitment Commissions
Awakend distributors earn commissions on recruitment of latest distributors.
- recruit a distributor who indicators up with a 2 Bottle Starter Pack and earn $25
- recruit a distributor who indicators up with a 4 Bottle Starter Pack and earn $50
Awakend additionally has pre-launch founder positions working into 1000’s of {dollars}:
- Important Founder – $1295
- Premier Founder – $2495
- Elite Founder – $3495
Presumably recruitment commissions are additionally paid on these choices. If that’s the case, particulars aren’t supplied on Awakend’s web site or of their compensation plan.
Residual Commissions
Awakend pays residual commissions by way of a binary compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations a distributor on the high of a binary workforce, cut up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary degree of the binary workforce homes two positions. The second degree of the binary workforce is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary workforce are generated as required, with every new degree housing twice as many positions because the earlier degree.
Positions within the binary workforce are crammed by way of direct and oblique recruitment of distributors. Be aware there is no such thing as a restrict to how deep a binary workforce can develop.
On the finish of every week Awakend tallies up new gross sales quantity on either side of the binary workforce.
Offered a minimal of 500 GV exists on either side of the binary workforce, distributors earn 5% of generated gross sales quantity.
As soon as paid out on, quantity is flushed. Any leftover quantity carries over into the next week (capped at 3,000,000 GV).
Matching Bonus
Awakend pays a Matching Bonus on residual commissions earned by downline distributors.
Awakend pays the Matching Bonus by way of a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations a distributor on the high of a unilevel workforce, with each personally recruited distributor positioned straight beneath them (degree 1):
If any degree 1 distributors recruit new distributors, they’re positioned on degree 2 of the unique distributor’s unilevel workforce.
If any degree 2 distributors recruit new distributors, they’re positioned on degree 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Awakend caps the Matching Bonus at seven unilevel workforce ranges, based mostly on rank:
- Sapphire and Emerald Administrators earn a ten% match on degree 1 (personally recruited distributors)
- Ruby Administrators earn a 15% match on degree 1 and 10% on degree 2
- Diamond Executives earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on degree 3
- Blue Diamond Executives earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on ranges 3 and 4
- Double Blue Diamond Executives and better earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on ranges 3 to 7
Rank Achievement Bonus
Awakend rewards distributors for rating at Sapphire and better in line with set timelines:
- qualify at Sapphire Director and obtain $100, do it inside 5 weeks of signing up and obtain $500
- qualify at Ruby Director inside ten weeks of qualifying as Sapphire and obtain $500, do it inside 15 weeks of signing up and obtain $1500
- qualify at Double Blue Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Ruby and obtain $1000, do it inside 30 weeks of signing up and obtain $5000
- qualify at Triple Blue Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Double Blue Diamond and obtain $2000, do it inside 52 weeks of signing up and obtain $10,000
- qualify at Black Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Triple Blue Diamond and obtain $3000, do it inside 78 weeks of signing up and obtain $25,000
- qualify at Triple Black Diamond Govt inside forty-five weeks of qualifying at Black Diamond and obtain $10,000, do it inside 110 weeks of signing up and obtain $100,000
Way of life Bonus
Diamond and Triple Blue Diamond executives who qualify and keep rank for ten consecutive weeks qualify for the LifeStyle Bonus.
- Diamond Executives obtain $750 a month
- Triple Blue Diamond Executives obtain $1500 a month
To keep up the Way of life Bonus, rank should be met over a rolling five-week interval.
Becoming a member of Awakend
Primary Awakend distributor membership is $50 yearly.
New Awakend distributors also can enroll with a Starter Pack:
- 2 bottles of Zenith Starter Pack = $260
- 4 bottle of Zenith Starter Pack = $500
Presumably till prelaunch ends, Awakend Founder positions are additionally obtainable:
- Important Founder – $1295 (4 bottles of Zenith, Sapphire Director rank for 1 yr and an Awakend NFT)
- Premier Founder – $2495 (8 bottles of Zenith, Ruby Director rank for 3 years and an Awakend NFT)
- Elite Founder – $3495 (12 bottles of Zenith, Diamond Govt rank for five years and an Awakend NFT)
As detailed above, Awakend’s Founder positions have distinct monetary benefits over common distributor membership.
Awakend Conclusion
There are primarily two classes of weight reduction merchandise; those who straight contribute to weight reduction, and those who help major weight reduction methods.
With respect to Zenith, Awakend instructs shoppers to
use Zenith at the side of a reduced-calorie food plan and common train program.
This locations it into the latter weight reduction product class.
This isn’t a nasty factor nevertheless it’s vital to notice that, such to the extent Zenith assists with weight reduction, if the food plan and train aren’t saved up, it’s a short lived resolution.
And at $135 a month wholesale, a considerably costly one.
That is under no circumstances distinctive to Zenith as a product. The underside line is if you happen to can’t keep a nutritious diet and train, Zenith isn’t going to do a lot for you long-term.
This raises the query of, if you happen to’re capable of keep a well being food plan and train, do you want dietary supplements like Zenith to start with?
For those who implement a reduced-calorie food plan and incorporate train – in case your day by day calorie consumption is in a deficit, that’s you’re burning extra energy than you’re consuming, you’re going to drop a few pounds interval.
In that sense Zenith is an urge for food suppressant. For those who want that to curb your urge for food I’d argue there are far cheaper suppressant choices obtainable.
One may argue focusing on leptin discount is more practical however that brings us again to self management. Zenith and different urge for food suppressants aren’t long-term options to weight administration.
If you wish to keep a wholesome weight, you need to make a acutely aware resolution to vary your food plan and train. Sticking to that is a long-term resolution.
Clearly the load loss trade is value trillions globally, so individuals are shopping for dietary supplements like Zenith. Personally such that you just really feel the necessity to spend on weight reduction merchandise, I feel the you’re higher off straight focusing on your food plan.
One different level to notice with Zenith is it’s closely marketed on the outcomes of a 2008 research and patents.
This a an advanced and intensely messy concern, relationship again to over a decade.
The lengthy and the wanting it’s Zenith initially made its debut as Max WLX within the 2000s.
Max WLX was a part of Max Worldwide’s MLM providing.
This fell aside on or round 2010, leading to a bitter authorized feud involving a number of events.
BehindMLM has already coated the saga throughout a number of articles:
As of September 2022, a California Courtroom confirmed “the rights to the Patent stay unsettled.”
A trial to resolve the problem as soon as and for all is presently scheduled for March twenty eighth, 2023.
BehindMLM maintains Awakend shouldn’t have launched till the patent concern is resolved in its entirety.
Shifting on to Awakend’s compensation plan, it’s sadly a typical autoship recruitment pyramid scheme.
This begins with pay-to-play:
- Awakend’s founder packs correlate potential earnings straight with how a lot is spent; and
- Awakend distributors are compelled to take care of a month-to-month order to qualify for commissions.
Lively – This implies you keep at the very least 100 PV inside a 5-week rolling interval.
This 100PV should be a private order (doesn’t embrace Buyer CV).
Having a 100 PV Subscribe and Save order is one of the best ways to take care of lively standing. (Ozedit: “subscribe and save” is what Awakend calls autoship)
Pay-to-play in an MLM alternative is a powerful indicator of a pyramid scheme.
Within the case of Awakend, that is signing up, having to position a month-to-month product order to qualify for commissions, after which getting paid to recruit others who do the identical.
Awakend establishing its compensation plan as an autoship pyramid scheme, makes “retail” statements like this come off as pseudo-compliance lip-service:
As a brand new Member, your focus might be on creating a base of retail and most popular clients.
You’ll additionally concentrate on serving to your downline generate quantity by way of gross sales.
Additional driving house the shortage of retail focus in Awakend is there being no retail pricing on the corporate’s web site. For the final two months the one product orders Awakend has taken in are distributor orders.
And you’ve got Danelle Meoli on social media bragging about Awakend’s “document breaking gross sales”:
Except you’re trying to quick monitor an FTC investigation, I wouldn’t assume how rapidly you’ve construct a pyramid scheme is one thing you’d wish to publicly brag about.
The FTC may be very clear on MLM firms with out vital retail gross sales exercise being pyramid schemes.
An autoship recruitment compensation plan virtually ensures an MLM firm won’t have vital retail gross sales.
The very last thing I wish to contact on are Awakend’s NFTs.
Regardless of being a heavy advertising and marketing level in prelaunch company webinars, there’s no point out of NFTs on Awakend’s web site.
Right here’s Danelle Meoli introducing Awakend’s NFT providing;
Whoever opens an organization in community advertising and marketing and direct gross sales, and marries internet 3 know-how, NFTs … whoever does that first, it’s gonna go viral. It’s gonna rock the trade.
Our backoffice is the primary within the historical past of direct gross sales to really have the know-how in our backoffice, all built-in. It took months and it’s now ours. We will take crypto if we wish. We will promote NFTs if we wish.
Different firms are going to take this idea and run with it. You’re in an organization that’s actually, it’s uh historic what we’re doing.
Once I first got here throughout this in August I known as it out as a scummy money seize.
Awakend hope to flog 22,222 NFTs. This gives an on the spot cashflow vary of $28.7 million to $77.6 million. Thrive merchandise are bundled with Founder’s Packs, so we are able to knock a bit off – however we’re nonetheless speaking tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in revenue.
Awakend may simply as simply scrap the NFTs and worth their Founder’s Packs accordingly however dId YoU hEaR? eVeRyOnE’s DoInG wEb3!
If making tens of thousands and thousands on the sale of cartoon jpgs wasn’t scummy sufficient – the first good thing about proudly owning an Awakend founder NFT is “first entry for future NFT launches”.
That’s proper, the ten of thousands and thousands Awakend hopes to generate in its prelaunch is for North America and Canada solely. The corporate seeks to monetize every nation it launches into, with a brand new set of NFTs
And by paying 1000’s now, Awakend’s founder distributors get the privilege of paying extra money for extra NFTs in every nation Awakend migrates to.
I stand by my authentic sentiment. The NFT aspect of Awakend stays a scummy money seize. And an odd one at that, given Meoli isn’t overtly a cryptocurrency advocate.
Supposedly, Meoli’s brother David
works on the NFT firm which can doubtless create the NFTs… known as Whisp.
I don’t learn about Whisp. The one crypto associated Whisp I discovered was a crypto cost firm that launched in 2019 and has since collapsed (it’s web site has been transformed right into a crypto spam weblog).
What does match is Danelle Meoli’s brother being a crypto bro (no pun meant). Awakend’s NFT providing may be very a lot misplaced.
Robust “Danelle, embrace your brother!” vibes.
In any occasion, whoever’s behind Awakend’s NFTs the corporate is extraordinarily secretive about it. On only a go to to Awakend’s web site you’d don’t know the NFTs exist, or that founders are shopping for monetary benefits over rank-and-file distributors.
For those who paid 1000’s for an Awakend NFT, pondering you’re going to get wealthy discovering better fools in different nations, hopefully the belief you’re already the best idiot isn’t too massive of a shock.
Toss in a pay-to-play autoship recruitment enterprise mannequin and the unresolved Zenith patent mess, and also you’re left with an MLM alternative finest averted.