$89 water bottles + pay to play subscriptions


YEP Tribe stands for “Younger Entrepreneurs Undertaking”. The corporate launched on or round mid 2019.

YEP Tribe doesn’t present a company deal with on its web site. The corporate’s official Fb web page nonetheless is managed from the US and Bangladesh.

Heading up YEP Tribe is CEO and President, Jimmy Ezzell. Ezzell’s LinkedIn profile additionally credit him as one in every of YEP Tribe’s co-founders.

In accordance with Ezzell’s YEP Tribe company bio, he’s

an inspirational chief who has the grasp ability of portray a transparent image of his imaginative and prescient whereas inspiring others to take motion on their very own desires and targets.

In accordance with his LinkedIn profile, Ezzell is predicated out of Kansas within the US. That is presumably the place YEP Tribe is operated from.

Ezzell (proper) has a protracted historical past within the MLM trade. His private YouTube channel particulars involvement in a number of firms relationship again a minimum of eleven years.

These embrace

Learn on for a full evaluation of YEP Tribe’s MLM alternative.

YEP Tribe’s Merchandise

YEP Tribe markets annual and month-to-month memberships.

  • YEP Plus Journey – $147 yearly
  • YEP Professional Journey – $347 yearly
  • YEP Professional Month-to-month – $97 a month
  • Yep Professional Annual – $897 yearly
  • Model Valet Fundamental – $747 after which $247 a month, gives entry to fundamental on-line advertising and marketing providers
  • Model Valet Plus – $2497 after which $447 a month, gives entry to upgraded on-line advertising and marketing providers with “plus coaching”
  • Model Valet Professional – $4997 after which $747 a month, gives entry to “professional” on-line advertising and marketing providers with a “promo video”, “e mail advertising and marketing design” and enterprise and advertising and marketing evaluation

What YEP Plus and the YEP Professional memberships present entry to isn’t clarified on YEP Tribe’s web site or of their compensation plan.

YEP Tribe’s Compensation Plan

YEP Tribe’s compensation plan revolves round promoting subscriptions to non-affiliates and recruited associates, in addition to affiliate recruitment itself.

Commissions and bonuses in YEP Tribe are calculated off of gross sales quantity (BV).

Corresponding gross sales quantity with every of YEP Tribe’s subscriptions are as follows:

  • YEP Plus Journey – 75 BV
  • YEP Professional Journey – 175 BV
  • YEP Professional Month-to-month – 50 BV
  • YEP Professional Annual – 450 BV
  • Model Valet Fundamental – 375 BV preliminary subscription after which 125 BV a month
  • Model Valet Plus – 1250 BV preliminary subscription after which 250 BV a month
  • Model Valet Professional – 2500 BV preliminary subscription after which 375 BV a month
  • Begin Affiliate membership – 75 BV
  • Enterprise Affiliate membership – 225 BV
  • Founder Affiliate membership – 750 BV

YEP Tribe Affiliate Ranks

There are ten affiliate ranks inside YEP Tribe’s compensation plan.

Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:

  • Silver – generate 5000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 1500 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Gold – generate 12,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 3600 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Sapphire – generate 30,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 9000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Ruby – generate 70,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 21,100 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Emerald – generate 150,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 45,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Diamond – generate 300,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 90,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Blue Diamond – generate 1,000,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 300,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Black Diamond – generate 1,500,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 450,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • Government – generate 2,500,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 750,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month
  • International Government – generate 5,000,000 BV in collected weaker binary group aspect quantity after which keep a minimum of 1,500,000 BV in new weaker binary group aspect quantity a month

Be aware that after preliminary qualification is met, if an affiliate can’t keep the corresponding month-to-month rank BV, they’re ranked decrease based mostly on how a lot BV they generate.

Recruitment Commissions

YEP Tribe pays as much as 40% on BV generated by recruiting a brand new affiliate.

  • recruiting a Begin Affiliate generates 75 BV
  • recruiting a Enterprise Affiliate generates 225 BV
  • recruiting a Founder Affiliate generates  750 BV

Particular recruitment fee charges are tied to whole BV manufacturing by an affiliate:

  • the bottom recruitment fee charge is 20%
  • generate 750 BV and obtain a 30% recruitment fee charge
  • generate 1500 BV and obtain a 40% recruitment fee charge

As I perceive it qualifying BV might be from each recruitment and retail purchases of obtainable YEP Tribe subscriptions.

What isn’t clear is whether or not the above BV qualification is one-time or month-to-month.

The Matching Bonus (see beneath) is restricted based mostly on “enrollment quantity”.

Given the Matching Bonus qualification tiers are the identical as residual commissions, this means that YEP Tribe solely counts affiliate recruitment bundle quantity when figuring out residual fee charges.

YEP Rising Star

The YEP Rising Star bonus is a recruitment oriented bonus.

YEP Rising Star pays associates who join on the Founder tier with a $100 bonus for each two Founder tier associates they recruit.

Regardless of the linear $100 bonuses paid out, YEP Tribe caps the YEP Rising Star bonus at $812.50.

Residual Commissions

YEP Tribe pays residual commissions by way of a binary compensation construction.

A binary compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a binary group, cut up into two sides (left and proper):

The primary stage of the binary group homes two positions. The second stage of the binary group is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).

Subsequent ranges of the binary group are generated as required, with every new stage housing twice as many positions because the earlier stage.

Positions within the binary group are crammed by way of direct and oblique recruitment of associates. Be aware there isn’t a restrict to how deep a binary group can develop.

On the finish of every week YEP Tribe tallies up new BV generated on each side of the binary group.

Associates are paid 15% of BV generated on their weaker binary quantity aspect.

  • Starter bundle associates can earn as much as $1500 per week
  • Enterprise bundle associates can earn as much as $7500 per week
  • Founder bundle associates can earn as much as $32,500 per week

Matching Bonus

YEP Tribe pays a Matching Bonus by way of a unilevel compensation construction.

A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a unilevel group, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned immediately below them (stage 1):

If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel group.

If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.

YEP Tribe caps the Matching Bonus at 5 unilevel group ranges.

The Matching Bonus is paid as a share of residual commissions earned throughout these 5 ranges based mostly on private recruitment efforts:

  • join as a YEP Tribe affiliate and earn a 30% match on stage 1 (personally recruited associates)
  • generate 750 BV in private recruitment bundle quantity and earn a 30% match on stage 1 and 20% on ranges 2 and three
  • generate 1500 BV in private recruitment bundle quantity and earn a 30% match on stage 1, 20% on ranges 2 and three and 15% on ranges 4 and 5

Management Bonus

The Management Bonus is a bonus share paid on BV generated throughout the primary 5 ranges of the unilevel group.

For particulars of the unilevel group see “Matching Bonus” above.

The Management Bonus begins on the Sapphire rank as follows:

  • Sapphires earn a 5% Management Bonus
  • Rubys earn a 7% Management Bonus
  • Emeralds earn a 9% Management Bonus
  • Diamonds earn a ten% Management Bonus
  • Blue Diamonds earn an 11% Management Bonus
  • Black Diamonds earn a 12% Management Bonus
  • Executives earn a 13% Management Bonus
  • International Executives earn a 14% Management Bonus

Becoming a member of YEP Tribe

YEP Tribe affiliate membership begins at $147 after which $47 a month.

  • Starter ($147 after which $147 a month) – bundled with advertising and marketing coaching, entry to advertising and marketing occasions and entry to a reduction journey and buying portal
  • Enterprise ($447 after which $97 a month) – identical as Starter however with “limitless excessive finish incentives”
  • Founder ($1497 after which $97 a month) – identical as Enterprise however with entry to an “all inclusive personal 10x mastermind” occasion

There’s additionally FLUX affiliate membership, which is similar because the choices above with features a month’s provide of three consumable drinks:

  • FLUX Starter ($377 after which $47 a month) – identical as Starter however features a month’s provide of three consumables
  • FLUX Enterprise ($677 after which $97 a month) – identical as Enterprise however features a month’s provide of three consumables
  • FLUX Founder ($1727 after which $97 a month) – identical as Founder however features a month’s provide of three consumables

Conclusion

A go to to YEP Tribe’s web site reveals retail gross sales are clearly not a spotlight.

The primary button a customer see is “turn into a member”, which ends up in affiliate recruitment.

YEP Tribe’s web site does have a “manufacturers” web page, which splits off to separate web sites.

I clicked via Axiom8 and located a sanitizer being offered for $59.91 for a pack of three 1 oz. bottles (30 ml).

I feel everyone seems to be considerably extra conscious of sanitizer pricing since COVID-19 surfaced in late 2019.

Axiom 8 is 99% efficient in opposition to human coronavirus.*

*Human coronavirus just isn’t COVID19 and is a surrogate.

For sure $59.91 for 3 oz. of sanitizer is ridiculous.

This prompted me to go take a look at the opposite linked model web page, Flux.

Clicking Flux takes you a “store” part of YEP Tribe’s web site, which so far as I can inform is solely accessible by way of the model web page hyperlink.

Flux is dietary dietary supplements plus a water bottle. Three of those water bottles will set you again $89.

The dietary tablets are $47 additional for a thirty-day provide.

You’ll be able to advertising and marketing buzzword it up all you need, $89 for 3 water bottles is a tough promote.

In abstract, we’ve merchandise that in my view are on no account retail viable – which explains why they’re shoved off to the aspect.

YEP Tribe is about recruiting associates, having them pay for a month-to-month subscription and incomes commissions on these charges.

No details about YEP Tribe’s “retail” subscriptions are supplied on the corporate’s web site. I solely got here throughout them within the firm’s compensation documentation.

There’s a part on YEP Tribe’s web site for “memberships”, this boots you to a different web site and assumes you’re prepared to enroll.

The pseudo-compliance service is TripValet, an organization Jimmy Ezzell based again in 2017.

TripValet is the same old low cost journey providers fare, which for sure no person has been serious about for the previous 12 months and a half.

Even with out COVID-19 restrictions, $897 yearly only for entry to journey reductions is once more a tough promote at retail.

Cementing the core focus of YEP Tribe is associates having to have a subscription to qualify for commissions:

Your YEP Unbiased Enterprise Membership Begin-Up Charge covers the associated fee related to establishing and servicing your corporation and lets you conduct enterprise in any nation by which YEP operates.

It’s essential to keep an lively subscription with the intention to have entry to your YEP again workplace and to obtain commissionable disbursements.

That is pay to play, additional emphasised by how a lot an affiliate spends on membership dictating how a lot they’ll earn:

You’ll be able to solely make as a lot as your bundle percentages lets you make.

Regardless of the rest, pay to play in MLM is the inspiration of a pyramid scheme.

You join as a YEP Tribe affiliate, take out a subscription (pay extra, earn extra), after which receives a commission to recruit others who do the identical.

Retail might be ignored, as there are not any retail qualifiers wherever in YEP Tribe’s compensation plan. The enterprise alternative is entrance and heart, with merchandise pushed off to inactive aspect web sites.

As I write this YEP Tribe’s main web site has an Alexa rating of 728,750. The standalone Axiom8 web site has a rating of 1.7 million.

This isn’t stunning. Exterior of the buried away model graphic hyperlink, Axiom8 isn’t talked about wherever on YEP Tribe’s web site or of their compensation plan.

As a possible YEP Tribe affiliate, it’s best to have the ability to confirm the dearth of retail focus your self.

Merely ask your potential upline what their retail subscription/product quantity is vs. what they’re incomes on unilevel group affiliate subscription quantity.

This isn’t a sophisticated query, so take a non-answer or hesitation as affirmation they aren’t centered on retail.

Which in flip would imply that affiliate is working their YEP Tribe enterprise as a pyramid scheme.

YEP Tribe themselves must be specializing in retail gross sales over recruitment, however as we’ve mentioned above that isn’t the case.