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Herbalife Review

Herbalife International is an MLM (multi-level-marketing) / network marketing company in the niche of weight loss, energy, fitness, nutrition and personal care. It was established in 1980 by Mark Hughes, who was concerned with his mother’s unhealthy struggle with weight loss. Today, the company sells its products through a network of over 1.9 million independent associates in 70 countries worldwide. Quite impressive.

Herbalife has grown rapidly over the years. Within its first two years, it recorded $2 million in sales and went international by starting distributorship in Canada. Mark Hughes started a charity foundation in 1994 dedicated to helping children worldwide. After his death, Herbalife was taken over by Golden Gate Capital and Whitney and Co. LLC in 2002. Michael O. Johnson became CEO in 2003 after 17 years with the Walt Disney Company. Under his leadership, the company has doubled its sales from $1.1 billion to over $2.2 billion.

Herbalife believes that health issues like obesity and heart problems are a result of improper diet and lack of exercise. The company advises people to follow a good exercise regime apart from consuming its weight management products. Herbalife’s core products are Formula 1 nutritional shake mix, Formula 2 multivitamin complex and Cell activator.

Formula 1 shakes are soy based products with proteins, fibers and essential nutrients and are suggested as a meal replacement product. It is available in about 15 varieties including vanilla, chocolate, fruit and wild berry flavors. Formula 2 tablets contain optimal doses of vitamins, antioxidants, folic acid and minerals like calcium and iron. Cell Activator capsules increase the efficiency of the vitamin intake and stimulates cellular metabolism.

Other products are targeted for specific health problems of men, women and children including medications for digestive health, immune system and stress management. Herbalife also markets personal care products like skin revitalizers, anti-aging creams, body and hair essentials and fragrances.

The company’s products are not available in regular drugstores but can only be availed through a distributor or a direct order to the company. Individuals from any stream or occupation can become a Herbalife distributor. All distributors receive detailed training on products and sales.

Herbalife As A Business Opportunity

As a distributor, you are responsible for direct sales of the products. You can also become a Herbalife sponsor and appoint multiple distributors under you. You will then receive a share of all the earnings of the distributors under you. However, if the distributor makes predefined revenue, he will breakaway from your downline and becomes an independent sponsor.

Herbalife’s products are high quality and therefore are also expensive. As with most MLMs, if you want to become a distributor, you must evaluate the initial costs and your ability to get a big downline.

Is Herbalife A Scam?

No! While I personally wouldn’t join Herbalife, absolutely nothing in my research has suggested or implied Herbalife International is a scam. I don’t see any fraudulent activities in any of their marketing or distributor correspondence. From my research, it is a very legitimate company and a worth while business opportunity.

Herbalife Marketing?

While Herbalife (mistakenly known as Herbal Life) is not a scam, you may have trouble marketing it as the culture of the company is old school. I would strongly suggest you learn attraction marketing to build your Herbalife business. One good way to do would be by picking up a copy of Magnetic Sponsoring because it will teach you how to implement attract marketing and “attract” Herbalife distributors to you.

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This letter is directly addressed to all media outlets who engage – are allow from your editors and moderators – the suppressing of the network marketing industry. And, to the moderators at “scam dot com” who are a mission to constantly bash anyone making real income from home, you’re especially included.

I just had the absolute privilege of relaxing on this fine Saturday afternoon in the comfort of my home office having an intimidate discussion about media negativity towards the network marketing industry also known as the MLM ( or multi-level marketing) industry.

In this home office sits my desk, made of solid wood and filled with valuable information. In fact, thousands of dollars of personal growth and Internet Marketing training that has made me damn near invincible to anything life throws at me. This same office has a view of my back yard and our pond, which contains a variety of fish and ducks that I like to feed sometimes. Other times, their wobbling and quacking annoys me.

I really love my home office. It’s cozy, comfortable, peaceful. I’ve made tens of thousands of dollars from this office this year alone. As a child who grew up on food stamps and welfare in a ghetto with the odds against me, I defied the odds and have become a success story and a testimony that the key ingredient to doing anything spectacular is the desire to do so…

Unfortunately, you’ll probably never experience this success because you’re, quite frankly, too damn negative. And it’s really getting old. It’s childish, naive and it’s just piss-poor journalism. In your mind mind lies your own personal belief system, which has been shaped by your own life experiences, failures, wins, losses and people you’ve chosen to surround yourself with…

Your reasons for your negativity toward our industry and toward success stories like myself are your own although I bet you have no real support of your frivolous claims.

That said, I can – and will – respect that…

At this point in my life, I have a grasp of social dynamics and human psychology to know your ‘follow-the-leader and blast everyone not struggling as much as me’ influences render you absolutely incapable of accepting success in an industry you don’t understand. And not only are you incapable of accepting success, you’re 100% irrelevant to my own success.

But, to those who haven’t ‘gotten it’ it yet and to those wanting to come on board to this industry and learn a new set of life skills, you’re a bad influence to them and I’m writing to you for them…

Now if you’re just an MLM hater and you constantly write about MLM complaints or network marketing scams because you’re angry, not happy, or if you’re just a loser that’s addicted to drama and struggle, you can stop reading now – this message will not influence you.

On the other hand, if you’re a journalist who writes negatively about the network marketing industry based on logic and statistics and you feel you’re doing your viewers a service or you’re helping them out, I can respect you, but let’s dig deeper…

True, the statistics will show that 97% of people fail to make more money than they make. And I doubt that will ever change. It’s true that this industry is difficult. Is anything that can absolutely make you financially free easy? With those stats laid out, please consider the other side of the equation …

Failure is NOT Mutually Exclusive to Network Marketing

97% of people work at a job and never succeed at business. And most businesses fail. There’s no need to write negatively about my industry based on the stats because, let’s face it, it is a business and as a business, it’s an entrepreneurial endeavor; and the game of entrepreneurship is not for the get rich quick seekers and it’s definitely a challenge. Period.

Before I close this down and go out for a night on the town, I wanted to share some successes with you of people I’ve been influenced by in my cozy home office…

Real World Superstars

In my home office, I have talked to incredible people who I revere as mega superstars. What some of them have done will remain in mind forever as a testament to the human spirit and the power in of our minds…

I’ve had the privilege of coaching and developing Craig Martin, a business owner who is learning Internet Marketing and investment skills he will be able to use for the rest of his life and leave an incredible legacy for his family…

In my home office, I chat and collaborate with Mark Worthen, one of the greatest team leaders I’ve ever met and someone who really cares about his team – and even those not in his team…

I’ve chatted and collaborated with Melanie Milletics, an Internet Marketing ace and someone who drastically helped me become the success I am today. Because of this industry, Melanie is no longer bothered by alarm clocks – and she gets to stay home all the time and take care of her family…

In this home office, I collaborate with Aman Tensue and Tom Miller, two young guys who will become millionaires before they are 30 because this industry has provided them a business model that their incredible passion and desire will absolutely thrive in …

And I’ve spoken with Mike Dillard, a multi-millionaire, who waited tables and struggled for seven years before making it big. Because of this industry, Mike will never have to work a job a day in his life again. He will never worry about money again because of this industry.

And there’s many, many more …

As you know, the human mind receives a lot of clutter, thoughts, philisophies going into it. It’s very frail…

Representing the media, a lot of people regard your opinion as fact because unfortunately that’s what they were thought. They don’t know that you’re just an average person who wakes up and goes to work. They don’t realize you’re human too and struggle to pay bills or have bad days.

So with that power, consider how many Melanie Milletics or Mark Worthens or Craig Martins you may have already turned away from this industry…

Imagine if Melanie or Mike was influenced by your position as an authority figure and never got started in this industry. That’s scary. Not only because they’re successful, but because they’ve provided the blueprint for others including myself.

We both know the power of negativity all too well and the affects it can have on good people. We all know negativity sells. But I’m going to ask you to do something that you’ll probably find difficult.

The next time you begin to write something negative about our industry, direct it at the MLM pimps, gangstas and network marketing con-artists. Or direct it at a poorly ran company. There’s plenty of those…

But please don’t call the MLM or network marketing industry a scam or illegitimate. Stop telling people they can’t make it here – that’s a lie. Network marketing, MLM, direct sales, etc…are just vehicles. If you must bitch, and I’m sure your employer requires it, bitch at the drivers, not the vehicle themselves.

It’s not in good taste, it’s poor journalism and there’s plenty of negativity out there as it is. We don’t need anymore.

So please stop.

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