Planet Influence operates within the academic MLM area of interest and claims it’s “the Netflix of environmental safety”.
The corporate offers a company tackle in Malta on its web site.
Our headquarter is in Malta’s unique Good Metropolis, the brand new hub for worldwide IT.
Heading up Planet Imapact are co-founders Aron, Stephan and Christian Steinkeller (proper), and Oscar Dalvit. Adrian Szumski serves as CEO.
Collectively referred to as the Steinkeller brothers, the trio made a reputation for themselves selling Organo Gold.
The Steinkeller’s popularity took successful once they left Organo Gold to launch Conligus, an MLM penny public sale pyramid scheme.
They then went on to utterly trash what was left of their reputations by stealing thousands and thousands by the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Right this moment that is what the Steinkeller brothers are greatest recognized for throughout the MLM business.
Amid an ongoing investigation by Italian authorities and reported ties to the mafia, the Steinkeller brothers abruptly deserted their OneCoin downline in Might 2017.
As per a press-release issued by OneCoin company asserting their departure;
Aron, Christian and Stephan Steinkeller will retire from the community advertising and marketing enterprise to go long-term on new thrilling, confidential mission, exterior the MLM enterprise.
On the time the brothers have been reported to be stealing round $2.5 million a month from OneCoin victims.
Since OneCoin the Steinkellers have lay low. Planet Influence seems to be their return to the MLM business.
Oscar Dalvit has expertise launching and operating MLM corporations.
In 2017 Dalvit launched Bilpix, an try to mix MLM with pixel billboard promoting.
Probably as a result of language obstacles, I used to be unable to place collectively an MLM historical past for Adrian Szumski.
Learn on for a full evaluation of Planet Influence’s MLM alternative.
Planet Influence Merchandise
Planet Influence sells an app subscription they name “Planet Influence Academy”.
In keeping with the corporate’s web site, Planet Influence Academy offers entry to:
movies and illustrative and informative movies … printed in digital format, in addition to educating supplies – together with on-line programs and webinars – regarding ecological and environmental points/points, in addition to the notice of the Shoppers in direction of them and their schooling to “eco-friendly” behaviors, coaching movies that remedy issues or make on a regular basis life simpler, referred to as “Life Hack”, at all times regarding the aforementioned points.
The platform additionally offers Clients with an prompt messaging service (“chat”), by which it’s attainable to work together and talk with different customers of the Academy Service.
The content material offered by Planet Influence Academy is supposedly put collectively by Earth Alliance Basis.
The Earth Alliance Basis is buying the licenses totally free from third celebration trainers that assist the inspiration by sharing their information, and in alternate, the Basis offers these contributors with recognition and publicity.
The preliminary worth of the programs contained within the platform might be over 2000€, licensed, and such content material and worth might be expanded every month.
Planet Influence advertising and marketing materials claims Earth Alliance Basis is integrated in Switzerland.
The founding father of the EAF Basis is Robert Bock. President of the inspiration is Elia Ponti.
The muse is … managed by an unbiased board, topic to all guidelines and rules.
A Planet Influence Academy app subscription retails for €60 EUR a month.
The service may be accessed by the cellular app or Planet Influence web site.
There’s additionally a “reforestation service” out there.
The Service – promoted and managed by the Earth Alliance Basis, straight or not directly, by different organizations and establishments – is aimed toward favoring the reforestation and reforestation of the lands as talked about earlier or plots of land.
Retail pricing for reforestation shouldn’t be offered.
Planet Influence’s Compensation Plan
Planet Influence take 40% of subscription charges and use that to fund the corporate’s compensation plan.
Fee Qualification
To be able to qualify for commissions, every Planet Influence affiliate should preserve €120 EUR value of retail subscription quantity a month.
If an affiliate maintains a subscription themselves, month-to-month qualification is diminished €60 EUR retail subscription quantity.
Planet Influence Affiliate Ranks
There are seven affiliate ranks inside Planet Influence’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Affiliate – enroll and meet fee qualification necessities (see above)
- Ranger – generate 60 seed factors inside a 12 months
- Protector – generate 120 seed factors inside a 12 months
- Guardian – generate 250 seed factors inside a 12 months
- Champion – generate 500 seed factors inside a 12 months
- Hero – generate 1000 seed factors inside a 12 months
- Legend – generate 2500 seed factors inside a 12 months
Seed factors are generated through subscription companies bought on ranges 1 and a pair of of the unilevel group.
For every €60 EUR in gross sales quantity generated on these two ranges, one seed level is rewarded.
The seed level acquisition timer begins when an affiliate indicators up. It restarts every year on an affiliate’s sign-up date.
Residual Commissions
Planet Influence pays residual commissions through a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a unilevel group, 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 group.
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.
Planet Influence caps payable unilevel group ranges at fifteen.
40% of all subscription charges paid by retail prospects and recruited associates within the unilevel group are paid out as follows:
- ranges 1 and a pair of – 8%
- ranges 3 and 4 – 5%
- ranges 5 and 6 – 3%
- ranges 7 to 14 – 1%
Notice the above percentages usually are not percentages of 40% however relatively the total subscription payment paid (collectively the odds paid out throughout fourteen ranges add as much as 40%).
Notice that Planet Influence restricts what number of unilevel group ranges an affiliate earns residual commissions on.
These restrictions are based mostly on rank:
- Associates earn on as much as two unilevel group ranges
- Rangers earn on as much as 4 unilevel group ranges
- Protectors earn on as much as six unilevel group ranges
- Guardians earn on as much as eight unilevel group ranges
- Champions earn on as much as ten unilevel group ranges
- Heroes earn on as much as twelve unilevel group ranges
- Legends earn on all fourteen out there unilevel group ranges
Planet Influence Membership
Planet Influence fund the Planet Influence Membership pool with commissions earned by unqualified associates.
This consists of each associates who usually are not fee certified, in addition to commissions generated on unilevel group ranges an affiliate isn’t certified to earn on.
Two thirds of this fee quantity is positioned into the Planet Influence Membership pool.
Ranger and better ranked associates earn a share of the Planet Influence Membership pool every month, professional rata based mostly on what number of seed factors they’ve acquired.
For extra info on seed factors consult with “Planet Influence Affiliate Ranks” above.
Becoming a member of Planet Influence
Planet Influence affiliate membership is €60 EUR.
Conclusion
With thousands and thousands stolen from victims and their skilled popularity in tatters, Planet Influence feels just like the Steinkeller brothers’ mea culpa.
The idea of Planet Influence itself is additional not permitting any form of funding and ROIs interpretations by untrained or incompetent associates.
In absence of any funding autos reminiscent of tokens, cash, or buying and selling mechanisms (which aren’t a part of Planet Influence and by no means might be), it isn’t attainable to advertise these typically dangerous – meant or unintended – enterprise practices.
To redeem themselves, the brothers have turned to the surroundings.
The one downside is whereas the intentions behind Planet Influence may be noble, it doesn’t undo the previous.
That mentioned, whether or not the Steinkeller’s previous elements into your determination to affix Planet Influence is as much as you.
I’ve introduced it up as a result of analysis into firm house owners is a crucial element of MLM due diligence.
Planet Influence hinges on the viability of its app service, which I really feel even with out understanding content material specifics may be overpriced.
Because it stands Planet Influence present no details about the content material Earth Alliance Basis are getting ready.
Certainly apart from what’s offered in Planet Influence’s advertising and marketing materials, particulars on Earth Alliance Basis are sorely missing.
On the time of publication Earth Alliance Basis’s web site is simply a picture placeholder.
EAF’s web site area was registered in April 2019, utilizing the identical registrar as Planet Influence’s web site area.
In abstract, we have now a comparatively unknown entity that’s solely existed for a number of months. EAF can’t put collectively its personal web site, but supposedly they’re cranking out surroundings associated content material that justifies a €60 EUR a month price ticket.
Proper.
I wouldn’t contact it with a barge pole as a retail buyer. You may really feel in a different way however given what we all know, I’d must ask why?
Sometimes in these conditions we see associates as the one purchasers. What they’re really shopping for into the enterprise alternative, making no matter its hooked up to irrelevant.
Planet Influence nevertheless requires every affiliate to promote at the very least one subscription, or two in the event that they themselves aren’t a subscriber.
With at the very least 1:1 parity between affiliate spend and retail, Planet Influence does steadiness out retail necessities. This steers it away from pyramid scheme territory, assuming retail gross sales are literally capable of be made.
Oh and in case you’re questioning, for now the deforestation stuff doesn’t have something to do with the enterprise alternative.
The license features a service of reforestation that’s offered from our Earth Alliance Basis accomplice, extra informations the place the reforestation service is offered might be out there on the EAF basis web site ranging from 1st november 2019.
All in all it’s exhausting to miss the Steinkeller’s previous. That is pure hypothesis on my half however the cynic in me can’t assist however query if the EAF angle isn’t a entrance for some sort of cash laundering.
The Steinkellers stole thousands and thousands by OneCoin, and what higher approach to transfer a few of that round than a Swiss environmental basis.
Once more, pure hypothesis on my half.
Objectively there’s no purpose to not take part in Planet Influence, granted you discover worth within the app service subscription.
Planet Influence is a dedicated, severe, and bonafide new MLM alternative, with the facility to unite folks by a pure, good and secure enterprise group; with a better goal at its core.
We hope that by this course of, we additionally essentially altering the ethics of the MLM business, and with that its popularity and impression in our world.
Planet Influence will lead by instance; with hopefully many to observe.
If just for the Steinkeller’s involvement, proceed with warning.
Replace twelfth October 2019 – Since we printed this evaluation the Earth Alliance Web site web site has been up to date with precise content material.
Planet Influence CEO Adrian Szumski has reached out to us with the next assertion:
The Earth Alliance Basis is an unbiased public entity with its personal basis statutes, solely separate from Planet Influence Worldwide Ltd.
All details about the Earth Alliance Basis is publicly out there on www.earthalliancefoundation.com/paperwork together with statutes, paperwork and common monetary audit updates.
The Earth Alliance Basis is a public, absolutely clear basis regulated in accordance with Swiss legal guidelines.
The muse shouldn’t be privately held, in reality the inspiration, after its inception, shouldn’t be owned by anybody and has no scope for revenue in accordance with Swiss Regulation and is absolutely accountable and clear in accordance with its statutes.
The only real scope of the Earth Alliance Basis is to contribute to and defend Planet Earth and its surroundings through the use of its assets to guard, save & restore surroundings and habitats throughout the globe.
All of the assets of the inspiration are made publicly out there frequently as a way to be absolutely clear and compliant.
With respect to self-funded fee qualification, Szumski writes;
As for now till the affiliate realized to know the system the very first buy of every affiliate for him/herself qualifies him/herself for this primary month.
After that preliminary order any future private buy of the associates doesn’t depend or qualify for energetic standing, neither for the affiliate straight or for his/her upline sponsor.
I initially learn this as an affiliate’s personal buy doesn’t depend after the primary month in direction of qualification.
Upon nearer inspection of the language nevertheless it seems to only exclude extra purchases (i.e. if the affiliate bumps up their spend to €120 EUR a month, solely the preliminary €60 EUR is counted).
That is on par with what we famous in our evaluation conclusion.
Lastly, right here’s a bit extra info on the €60 EUR a month membership payment:
Of every 60 EUR buy 40% goes straight in direction of contribution of saving the planet through the Earth Alliance Basis.
For every buy prospects will obtain a certificates detailing out the realm / land / parcel they’ve been contributing to save lots of, defend and reforest.
Moreover, for purchasers the acquisition of the product turns into much more enticing as a result of apart serving to the planet the shopper can get different advantages instantly: Every buy will obtain a direct added worth of a specifically designed hospitality voucher for members to create added advantages for our members.
Which means that each 60 EUR straight interprets into 75 EUR value of hospitality vouchers which may be accessed through an unique member portal and are redeemable for resort bookings at vastly discounted charges (compared to normal charges accessible through any resort reserving web site).
Nonetheless having hassle seeing Planet Influence as one thing apart from the Steinkeller brothers utilizing the surroundings as a PR device.
If you wish to launch new ventures with the purpose of getting “constructive affect on all the MLM group, probably even a catalyst for change”, tremendous.
However till you make amends along with your OneCoin victims and the thousands and thousands you stole from them, I feel you’re overestimating folks simply conveniently forgetting the previous few years.