ACN has quietly acquired Workforce Nationwide.
The announcement was made on ACN’s FaceBook web page on January eighth:
What’s instantly unclear is what this implies for Workforce Nationwide distributors going ahead.
I first discovered of ACN’s acquisition of Workforce Nationwide from a reader earlier at the moment.
In an try to verify, my first port of name was Workforce Nationwide’s web site. Nothing there, so I moved onto their social media pages.
Workforce Nationwide’s YouTube channel hasn’t been up to date since March 2019. Workforce Nationwide’s Fb web page is repeatedly up to date, nonetheless there’s no official announcement.
Reasonably the primary point out of ACN was a “Tremendous Saturday” occasion on January 14th:
When following Workforce Nationwide’s January FaceBook posts, this comes out of the blue.
Equally there’s nothing about Workforce Nationwide on ACN’s web site. The one acknowledgement of the acquisition is the beforehand referenced ACN FaceBook put up.
One fascinating dialogue concerning the merger I discovered comes from Justin Weeks and John Melton.
Weeks is a former Workforce Nationwide distributor. He left the corporate in August 2020.
Melton is a former ACN distributor. Each Weeks and Melton are actually Modere distributors.
Weeks’ and Meltons’ dialogue occurred in a video titled, “The TRUTH about ACN absorbing Workforce Nationwide”.
The video was uploaded to Weeks’ YouTube channel on January seventh, 2022.
Preserving in thoughts there’s a bit of selling happening, right here’s some related commentary between the 2;
Justin Weeks (talking on Workforce Nationwide): Lengthy story quick, one of many issues (Melton) requested me that basically hit house was, “Justin, I perceive you’ve had success … however how many individuals in your staff are profitable?
And it was embarrassing to say. I might rely on one hand how many individuals, out of 1000’s of staff members, y’know had been having success.
There wasn’t a whole lot of duplication occurring. It was like pulling enamel to get somebody began in (Workforce Nationwide).
We had been doing the old fashioned house shows. We began performing some Zoom assembly nevertheless it was a whole lot of travelling, three-way calls, simply a whole lot of stuff that nobody needs to do. And it simply isn’t simple to do.
John Melton: Let me guess Justin, most of these calls and conferences revolved across the alternative to earn money?
Justin Weeks: Sure, that’s precisely what it was.
John Melton: There wasn’t an entire lot of emphasis on prospects and it was all about being profitable, recruiting, recruiters to recruit recruiters. And it was all about y’know, the hype and the likelihood to get wealthy.
In the meantime the general public are spending greater than they’re making. They usually’re pissed off.
They’re attempting to remain constructive, however on the finish of the day it was laborious to earn money (Workforce Nationwide’s) compensation plan.
Which is humorous, as a result of your organization (Workforce Nationwide) simply partnered up with my outdated firm (ACN) – which was the identical means!
It was all three-way calls, house events, house conferences, resort conferences. And it was all about being profitable.
On the finish of the day when you had been simply getting prospects, there actually wasn’t a lot compensation.
To not go off on a tangent, however I discovered Melton’s feedback considerably ironic given how he markets himself on his private web site:
Justin Weeks: Proper, precisely. And that’s what it was all about.
Y’know lately … as of yesterday or the evening earlier than final, I heard that the corporate that John, really I used to be with my firm about the identical time John was together with his firm, he walked away for related causes, after which his outdated firm simply absorbed my outdated firm.
And y’know I’m listening to all these tales from all these folks. And I simply really feel like there’s lots of people on the market John, which are confused, probably being misled.
There’s lots of people that I care about proper now, that’s [sic] being informed one factor; that, y’know mainly their firm is gone.
Their firm is gone. It was absorbed. However they’re saying, “Oh, now it’s… that is the “2.0” model of your organization”, which … that’s not the case.
Their firm’s gone, as of in a couple of weeks.
They’re being informed all this stuff and being puffed up about this new alternative that was at all times in existence, earlier than their firm was absorbed.
However now it’s this new massive factor, they usually’re being informed all this stuff … as a result of clearly they need to preserve their family tree construction. They need to preserve their enterprise going.
John Melton goes on give a spiel about ACN. He states that the corporate is “scuffling with recruiting”.
BehindMLM reviewed Workforce Nationwide in April 2013. Whereas we discovered a complicated compensation plan, there wasn’t something overtly suggesting recruitment was a spotlight over retail.
Our ACN evaluate revealed a equally complicated alternative, largely as a result of its sprawling measurement.
Workforce Nationwide marketed low cost memberships. I suppose these will simply be built-in into ACN’s product vary.
At time of publication Workforce Nationwide’s web site and social media pages are nonetheless on-line. Justin Weeks’ feedback counsel this gained’t be the case for lengthy.
CEO Angela Chrysler made an look on Workforce Nationwide’s FaceBook web page on January eleventh.
Within the livestream, Chrysler exhibits off her “ACN gear”. She goes on to clarify what’s occurring going ahead;
One week in the past Workforce Nationwide introduced that we’ve entered right into a enterprise relationship with ACN.
So TN and ACN are coming collectively … what does that imply?
Which means we’re gonna proceed to serve our prospects for the month of January, however then in February you’ll have entry to ACN perks in case you are a member.
Chrysler does state she’ll be round to “assist” Workforce Nationwide distributors, however doesn’t make clear whether or not she’ll have an govt function inside ACN.
Workforce Nationwide was based by Richard (Dick) Loehr in 1997 and finally launched as a standalone MLM firm in 1999.
ACN’s acquisition successfully brings an finish to the twenty-two yr outdated firm.
Workforce Nationwide is the second MLM firm acquisition by ACN in six months. It follows Kynect Power final August.
Replace twenty fourth January 2022 – Justin Weeks has deleted his “The TRUTH about ACN absorbing Workforce Nationwide” video.
I did have a hyperlink to the video within the article however as such I’ve disabled it.