NewYou launched in mid 2018 and operates within the cannabinoid MLM area of interest.
The corporate relies out of California within the US and headed up by husband and spouse co-founders, Ray and Daran Grimm.
Ray Grimm Jr. (proper) first appeared on BehindMLM in 2017, as President and CEO of Laguna Blends.
Laguna Blends marketed hemp merchandise by means of My Membership 8.
A number of months after My Membership 8’s prelaunch, Ray Grimm Jr. disappeared from Laguna Blends’ advertising and marketing.
Laguna Blends doesn’t seem on Grimm Jr.’s LinkedIn profile, which dates again to 1988.
On his private web site, Grimm Jr. does acknowledge his stint at Laguna Blends, however solely as a guide.
In 2016, Ray started consulting with Laguna Blends and inside a 12 months grew to become President and CEO.
Laguna Blends was a CBD-based product firm positioned in Canada that below Ray’s visionary management acquired Isodiol, one other CBD-based product firm positioned within the US.
In consequence, Laguna Mix’s inventory went from .05 per share to over $2 per share throughout a two-year interval.
As per Daran Grimm’s NewYou company bio, she began in MLM as an Avon girl.
Beginning on the age of 17 years outdated as her neighborhood Avon girl, Daran has had a really profitable profession within the Direct Gross sales trade each as a Prime Revenue incomes distributor and firm proprietor.
Over the past three many years, she helped construct three multi-million greenback manufacturers within the well being and wellness trade alongside her husband.
Learn on for a full assessment of the NewYou MLM alternative.
NewYou Merchandise
NewYou market a spread of CBD oil merchandise.
NewYou claims the CBD oil it makes use of in its merchandise is 99.7% pure, THC free and organically grown within the US.
- Drops – “instantaneously provides the wellness advantages of excessive output USA-grown natural non-psychoactive Cannabinoids to any beverage or liquid you’re keen on”, retails at $49 a bottle
- CB2 – “incorporates greater than 85 totally different cannabinoids and terpenes synergistically blended with Avocado Oil and bursting with a tasty trace of pure peppermint”, retails at $89 a bottle
- Drops for Pets – cannabinoid drops for pets, retails at $29 a bottle
- Cafe Canna – ” deliciously wealthy natural Cannabinoid-infused non-gmo darkish roast espresso with Clinically Confirmed energetic elements to assist promote quick and regular weight reduction naturally”, retails at $86.25 for a field of thirty single-serve sachets
- Drops FX – “our proprietary mix of water soluble CannaBD PLUS vitality-enhancing Nutritional vitamins B3, B6, B9 & B12”, retails at $49 a bottle
- Soak up – “this urge for food suppressing Japanese root can take in greater than 200 instances its weight in water creating a way of fullness whereas serving to your physique take in and eradicate further carbs and ldl cholesterol within the course of”, retails at $80 a bottle
- Launch – “this pure phytonutrient cleanse is made with natural Clove, Cascara Sagrada, Agave Inulin, Rhubarb Root Extract, Slippery Elm Bark, Aloe Vera and different useful herbs that can assist you safely and successfully detox”, retails at $48 a bottle
Cafe Canna, Drops FX, Soak up and Launch may also be bought by means of Endo30, a $387.50 a month “weight administration system”.
The NewYou Compensation Plan
NewYou’s compensation plan combines retail commissions with a heavy concentrate on affiliate autoship recruitment.
Fee Qualification
With a purpose to qualify for commissions, every NewYou affiliate should both
- order 70 PV or extra value of product a month if ranked lower than Blue Diamond;
- order 150 PV or extra value of product a month if ranked Blue Diamond or greater;
- have 4 retail prospects on month-to-month autoship.
PV stands for “Private Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated by gross sales to retail prospects and an affiliate’s personal orders.
For the aim of fee qualification nevertheless, NewYou solely counts affiliate buy PV.
NewYou Affiliate Ranks
There are 9 affiliate ranks inside the NewYou compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Ruby – recruit two associates or join with both a Enterprise or Professional pack
- Emerald – recruit and preserve two associates and generate a minimum of $3000 GV a month
- Diamond – recruit and preserve three associates and generate a minimum of $12,000 GV a month
- Double Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of 4 associates and generate a minimum of $25,000 GV a month
- Blue Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of 5 associates and generate a minimum of $40,000 GV a month
- Royal Blue Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of six associates and generate a minimum of $80,000 GV a month
- Black Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of seven associates and generate a minimum of $150,000 GV a month
- Double Black Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of eight associates and have 5 unilevel legs with a minimum of one Black Diamond in every (will be personally recruited)
- Royal Black Diamond – recruit and preserve a minimum of 9 associates and have six unilevel legs with a minimum of one Black Diamond in every (will be personally recruited)
Alternatively the acquisition of a $500 Enterprise Pack qualifies a NewYou affiliate on the Diamond rank for 90 days.
The acquisition of a $1000 Professional Pack qualifies a NewYou affiliate on the Double Diamond rank for 180 days.
GV stands for “Group Quantity” and is PV generated by an affiliate and their downline.
NewYou counts GV down solely seven unilevel staff ranges. Additionally not more than 60% of required GV at any rank is counted from anybody unilevel leg.
Retail Commissions
NewYou pays a ten% fee on merchandise bought by retail prospects.
The NewYou compensation plan states the ten% is paid out ‘plus retail revenue when your Buyer purchases NEWYOU merchandise out of your web site‘, however doesn’t go into particular element.
Recruitment Commissions
If a newly recruited NewYou affiliate indicators up with an affiliate pack, the recruiting affiliate is paid a recruitment fee.
How a lot of a recruitment fee is paid out is decided by how a lot the newly recruited affiliate spends on their pack:
- recruit an Important Pack affiliate and obtain $20
- recruit a Enterprise Pack affiliate and obtain $100
- recruit a Professional Pack affiliate and obtain $200
Recruited Affiliate Autoship Commissions
Every NewYou affiliate is required to take care of a month-to-month autoship order to qualify for commissions.
NewYou pays a ten% fee on autoship orders of personally recruited associates.
Residual Commissions
NewYou pays residual commissions through a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a unilevel staff, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned straight below them (degree 1):
If any degree 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel staff.
If any degree 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
NewYou caps payable residual commissions at 9 unilevel staff ranges.
Residual commissions are paid on gross sales quantity generated throughout these 9 ranges as follows:
- Rubies earn 10% on degree 1 (personally recruited associates)
- Emeralds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on degree 2
- Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 and three
- Double Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to 4
- Blue Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to five
- Royal Blue Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to six
- Black Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to 7
- Double Black Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to eight
- Royal Black Diamonds earn 10% on degree 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to 9
Workforce Bonus Quantity
All NewYou associates have the chance to qualify for a $1000 Elite Group Bonus.
To qualify for the Elite Group Bonus a brand new NewYou affiliate should generate $3000 in affiliate pack purchases inside their first 30 days.
Affiliate packs are bought by newly recruited associates.
After the primary thirty days a $400 Energy Workforce Bonus will be certified for by producing $3000 in affiliate pack purchases a month.
NewYou associates can qualify for the Energy Workforce Bonus as much as 4 instances per week.
If certified on the Blue Diamond or greater rank, they’ll qualify for the Energy Workforce Bonus as much as eight instances per week.
Word that not more than 45% of required GV can come from anybody unilevel leg.
Becoming a member of NewYou
NewYou affiliate membership is $39.95 yearly.
New associates can alternatively join with one among three “cost-saving packs”;
- Important Pack – $100
- Enterprise Pack – $500
- Professional Pack – $1000
Along with bundled merchandise, signing up with a pack offers a brand new affiliate elevated revenue potential through the NewYou compensation plan.
Conclusion
NewYou as an MLM alternative has a powerful concentrate on affiliate autoship recruitment.
This begins with affiliate packs, which the corporate states is ‘The Quickest Option to Begin Sharing NEWYOU and Get Paid!‘
The “advised enrollment choices” are ranked from “good” to “greatest”, over signing up with out a pack.
This is because of buy of rank (elevated fee potential) and recruitment commissions tied to pack buy.
Each the Workforce Bonus Quantity and Quick Begin Bonus are tied to the recruitment of associates who join with a pack.
Necessary month-to-month autoship (70 and 150 PV) continues the concentrate on affiliate autoship recruitment, and can be blatant pay to play.
PERSONAL VOLUME (PV): Is the amount you could personally buy every month to obtain commissions
Pay to play is frowned upon by regulators, because it lends itself to stock loading (associates buying product to qualify for commissions over real consumption).
There is no such thing as a retail focus inside NewYou, with an affiliate ready to enroll, pay a month-to-month autoship payment after which max out the compensation plan by recruiting others who do the identical.
And given just about each fee inside NewYou is tied to recruitment (retail commissions being the only exception), that is what’s clearly prone to occur.
You must be capable to confirm this your self, by evaluating how a lot a possible upline is incomes on real retail gross sales every month, versus downline autoship orders (each straight and not directly recruited associates).
If retail commissions are dwarfed by downline autoship orders, which I believe they are going to be, that NewYou affiliate’s enterprise is working as a pyramid scheme.
With respect to NewYou’s merchandise, though they’ve totally different names, among the merchandise are very near what was supplied by means of Laguna Blends’ My Membership 8.
The “beverage enhancer” drops for instance look like fairly related, if not the identical product below a unique identify (Laguna Blends marketed Nano Drops for $19.95 a bottle).
This isn’t essentially a nasty factor… however keep in mind that My Membership 8 collapsed. With related merchandise, that actually places a query mark over retail demand of NewYou’s merchandise.
At this time Laguna Blends are referred to as Isodiol. The corporate nonetheless sells the identical merchandise supplied below My Membership 8, solely with barely totally different product names.
Of word is Isodiol additionally has a white-label division, that means any firm can model their merchandise.
I’m tempted to say that is what NewYou have carried out however couldn’t discover any info to verify it.
Once more, not essentially a nasty factor however simply remember that the earlier MLM try didn’t work out.
Whereas My Membership 8 had a comparatively easy compensation plan, NewYou is closely tilted towards recruitment.
The one purpose I can consider to elucidate that’s if NewYou’s CBD oil merchandise don’t maintain up on their very own.