Rise Community operates within the advertising and marketing instruments MLM area of interest.
The corporate gives a collection tackle in Texas on its web site. The identical web site cites Rise Community’s founders as Hitesh Juneja, Kevin Hokoana and Jason Rose.
Lengthy-time readers will acknowledge Juneja, Hokoana and Rose from their DS Domination days.
DS Domination launched in 2013 and mixed dropshipping coaching with pyramid recruitment.
Two years later recruitment slumped. This prompted Juneja, Hokoana, Rose and associate Roger Langille to launch Choices Domination.
Just a few months later Roger Langille, largely credited as DS Domination’s dropshipping guru), cashed out and left.
Choices Domination noticed Juneja and Hokoana pivot into securities fraud. This continued with the launch of Infinii in late 2015 (Choices Domination was launched earlier that very same 12 months).
A month after BehindMLM printed its Infinii assessment, the corporate introduced it was dropping its securities fraud providing.
By mid 2016 Infinii was on the rocks, prompting a reboot launch of Choices Domination as Infinii Digital Sign Forge.
For essentially the most half, Infinii and its related corporations seems to have gone underneath or been wound down by the tip of 2016.
Not likely certain if Juneja, Hokoana and Rose launched something MLM associated over the previous three years. Issues had been reasonably quiet till the current Rise Community launch announcement.
Learn on for a full assessment of Rise Community’s MLM alternative.
Rise Community’s Merchandise
Rise Community has no retailable services or products, with associates solely capable of market Rise Community affiliate membership itself.
Rise Community affiliate membership gives entry to advertising and marketing instruments and is meant for use with Unbox.
Unbox is represented as an unbiased third-party service provider ecommerce platform.
“Enterprise Facilities” revealed in Rise Community advertising and marketing shows embrace Metabolic Design, Naturally Important Oils, Regenefi, fee processing & administration, TORT and authorized reduction, digital content material and BlockCommerce.
Unbox affiliate membership prices a further $99 after which $39 to $299 a month.
A $99 one-time non-affiliate membership possibility can also be out there.
Rise Community’s Compensation Plan
Strictly talking, Rise Community’s compensation plan is one-level deep and never MLM.
You join as a Rise Community affiliate for $47 a month, and receives a commission $25 a month per affiliate you recruit.
I’m counting Rise Community as an MLM firm although resulting from its interconnectivity with Unbox (extra on that within the assessment conclusion).
Unbox associates pay $99 after which $39 to $299 a month.
Commissions paid on non-affiliate and affiliate Unbox members are as follows:
- 100% fee (minus fee processing charges) on preliminary membership charges paid
- 40% on residual membership charges paid by personally recruited associates
A ten% matching bonus is paid on Unbox commissions earned by downline associates.
Unbox’s web site states the matching bonus is paid on ‘the primary 4 generations of your group’.
Primarily based on the knowledge Unbox gives on its web site, whether or not these generations are unilevel group ranges of rank-based generations is unclear.
Becoming a member of Rise Community
Rise Community affiliate membership is $47 a month.
Unbox affiliate membership is on the market at three price-tiers:
- Professional – $99 after which $39 a month
- Elite – $99 after which $99 a month
- Enterprise – $99 after which $299 a month
The first distinction between the completely different Unbox affiliate membership tiers is earnings potential (decrease tiers are gimped).
Conclusion
What initially struck me as odd about Unbox was a reference to reward playing cards on considered one of Hitesh Juneja’s Rise Community shows.
A typical reward card sees a person pay a retailer or processor for credit score, which is saved on the equipped reward card itself.
Digital reward playing cards function in the identical method however use a code as a substitute of a bodily card (some bodily playing cards have codes printed on the again of them).
What caught my in Unbox was associates having the ability to generate reward vouchers with out making any fee.
This appeared extraordinarily odd, and extra in step with a voucher than a present card.
Certain sufficient with a little bit of digging round I used to be capable of verify Unbox’s reward playing cards have been truly vouchers.
The opposite factor I discovered unusual was Juneja occurring about waiving the $99 charge to affix Unbox.
In an official Rise Community webinar Juneja categorically states;
You may have your Unbox enterprise which you’re gonna be constructing, and we’re going to show you all about it – however we don’t personal that, that’s not our firm.
Unbox has its personal web site over at “joinunbox.com”. Within the “About Us” part of Unbox’s web site the corporate states it
is a product of Data Applied sciences, LLC, which was established in 2019 with the partnership between J & H Bssiness Institute [sic] – a 12 12 months previous agency behind a number of ecommerce and digital content material platforms, and Pramana Capital (Pramanacapital.com), a multi-billion greenback fund targeted on buying and partnering with progressive, future-focused tasks.
So Unbox is owned by Data Applied sciences, which in flip is a component owned by J&H Enterprise Institute and Pramana Capital.
On LinkedIn Hitesh Juneja cites himself as a co-founder of J&H Enterprise Institute Corp.
This shouldn’t come as a shock, because the “J” in J&H Enterprise Institute stands for “Juneja”.
The “H” stands for Hokoana, as Kevin Hokoana is the opposite co-founder.
So by way of J&H Enterprise Institute and despite what Juneja is telling individuals, Juneja and Hokoana are half house owners of Unbox.
So what in regards to the different supposed proprietor, Pramana Capital?
Weeeeeeeeeeeell…
Pramana Capital’s web site area registration was final up to date in July 2019. Peter Shamoon is listed because the proprietor, by way of an tackle in Chicago, Illinois.
I ended there as a result of there wasn’t something overtly linking Shamoon to Rise Community.
What I do wish to draw your consideration to now although is the “reward card hyperlink” within the Unbox reward card display shot above.
The corporate identify Metabolic Design seems, which is presumably one of many retailers Unbox has partnered with to populate their ecommerce platform with.
Metabolic Design has its personal web site, which reveals it to be a CBD oil service provider.
An tackle in Cyprus is supplied for Metabolic Design LTD. Nicely, truly this tackle belongs to Highworth Cyprus, a “company service supplier”.
We offer our shoppers with the related data and experience required to help them with the formation of corporations nearly wherever on the earth.
The supplied contact tackle for Metabolic Design itself is the identical as that of Rise Community and Unbox.
Oh, did I overlook to say Rise Community and Unbox additionally share the identical Cypress, Texas tackle? (there’s a Cypress/Cyprus joke in there someplace).
Anyhoo, guess who owns Metabolic Design’s web site area?
Yup… Rise Community co-founder Jason Rose.
Now earlier than we proceed I wish to level there’s completely nothing flawed with what Hitesh Juneja, Kevin Hokoana and Jason Rose have arrange.
My situation is the dearth of ethics in disclosing any of this to potential associates. Particularly Juneja seemingly mendacity about solely proudly owning Rise Community.
Essentially between the three of them, Juneja, Hokoana and Rose seem to quadruple dip each time a Rise Community affiliate sells or purchases one thing by way of Unbox.
First there’s a white label retailers populating Unbox’s ecommerce platform – though to be truthful whether or not any cash passes between these retailers and Unbox is unclear.
Then you could have Unbox promoting white label service provider merchandise to retail prospects and/or associates, producing one other income layer.
On prime of that you’ve each Rise Community and Unbox membership charges.
That’s 4 potential sources of in home income from only one Rise Community signup.
Once more, not unlawful though the FTC would possibly take situation with the dearth of disclosure (Hitesh’s false representations withstanding).
With all of that out of the way in which, there’s nothing notably exceptional about Rise Community and Unbox’s enterprise fashions to touch upon.
It’s the identical or comparable advertising and marketing materials Juneja, Hokoana and Rose have been pushing since DS Domination.
Little doubt stuff has been added and brought away, however the roots could be traced again to 2013.
From a retail buyer perspective, if vouchers are being generated on demand, that cash must be made up someplace.
This lends itself to Unbox’s white label service provider merchandise being overpriced from the get go.
I’d like to offer you some concrete examples, however Unbox gives no instance pricing to the general public on its web site.
The take-away nonetheless is that the retail aspect of Unbox is questionable. Rise Community itself seems to be a single-level pyramid scheme owing to there being no retail providing.
It’s all a bit messy to be sincere, and a big a part of that is because of how Rise Community and Unbox have been arrange.
DS Domination loved preliminary success owing to it being a brand new MLM idea. There’s no “dropshipping” hook so to talk with Rise Community and Unbox, so I’m probably not seeing this pan out the identical.
Juneja does go on in regards to the genius of providing reward playing cards to potential prospects to get them to purchase in his webinars, however as mentioned these are simply vouchers.
Strategy with warning.