If they were "off the chart" it would have gained positive media attention and investors. neither has happened.
I disagree about the positive media attention part. You know the media. If it bleeds, ...it leads.
...and if it's not bleeding, ...they'll stab it to make sure they've got blood for the 6 o'clock news.
As for investors, ...you don't know who Randy & Wendy are do you?
They locked this up before anyone else could get a shot at it.
Network marketing products typically can not make it on their own.
Of course not. They need the right mgmt behind them, impeccable timing, field leadership, duplicateability.
The thing is, there is more to a network mtkg company than merely it's products. Too often companies jump to network mkt their products because they want the exponential growth it produces, without even taking into consideration whether or not their product is even appropriate for the network mktg arena. Just because they fail, does not make network mktg bad, ...it simply means it was the wrong business model to apply to that particular product or service.
Best example I can give you of 2 similar products designed to do the same thing. One would flop in a network mktg arena, while the other one would thrive. Viagra. There's a product that would flop in networking. Why? Because one guy will never admit to another that he was experiencing challenges in that area. viagra needs to be advertised on TV, radio, internet etc., etc., Potential users have to be told to "Ask their doctor..." ...and even then, some men would never talk to their doctor, or fill a prescription at their local pharmacy. They'd prefer to buy it off the internet, have it delivered anonymously in a plain brown paper wrapper.
Women on the other hand would never walk into a store looking for a Viagra type product for women. They'd be more prone to talk with a girlfriend rather than some stranger. A network mktg distribution channel is perfect for a product like that. put it on a store shelf though, and she'd avoid it like the plague. Same product... 2 different target markets requiring 2 different marketing strategies.
And this is of course assuming you have the right mgmt team at your helm. Cause it takes much more than just a great product. you can have the best product since sliced bread, but if you don't have the right team from a corporate standpoint, you're not going to make it, ...as so many others have discovered. Typically most network mktg companies are run by salespeople, former networkers who are good at sales, but they know nothing about managing a business. Or worse, ...you could have a corporate type who has never been out in the field and therefore does not have a good understanding of what is required on the corporate end, to enable success. There are so many factors that go into play, ...another is timing. You could have the right product, at the wrong time, ...and still flop. This product could never have succeeded in the consumer market place 50 years ago. People didn't care about saving money. The price of fuel wasn't such that it could justify let alone compell consumers to want the savings. today, the timing is perfect, ...because now it costs people more money to NOT use it, than it does to use. In addition, 50 years ago, we didn't understand what smog was, ...or what global climate change was. Now we do. We hadn't reached peak oil with a global awareness of the necessity to do what we can to thwart climate change, and the imperative to consume less fuel. Now we have, ...and this awareness, and this concern is not a local phenomenon, ...this is happening on a GLOBAL scale! There are factors that are converging together to create the perfect storm of opportunity unlike anything we have ever seen, or likely ever will see again!
They survive under the guise of selling opportunity. The "selling of product" is driven by the "Network Marketing Structure". In order to profit from your downline you must purchase a certain amount of product.
Some don't only survive... there are elite companies like ours that THRIVE!. What drives sales is as variable as there are consumers. But when you can find a need, and meet that need, that's opportunity. When you can find a problem, ...and solve that problem, ...that's opportunity. Do you have a problem with opportunity? I should hope not, ...especially living as you do in "The Land of Opportunity". We have as broad an appeal as one could ever hope to find, ...because we have something for EVERYBODY!!! Everybody uses fuel in order to get from point A to point B. Everybody want to breathe cleaner air. Everybody wants to do what they can to thwart global climate change, ...and everybody wants to increase their income... whether it is to pay for that $70 tank of fuel, ...or cover the costs of expensive health insurance coverage for their family (if they can get it) ...etc. In our case, what is driving sales is our product and what it does for consumers, distributors, the environment, and the impact on people's lives. It meets so many needs and solves so many problems simultaneously on a GLOBAL scale. I don't know what your needs are, ...only you can determine that. You might not care about the price of gas, cause you ride a bike, or you have a company car and your employer pays for your fuel. {shrug} ...so reduced fuel expenses may not be your most pressing concern, ...but that being the case, ...you'd have to be completely blind not to realize that for people ALL OVER THE WORLD, fuel, it's availability, and it's rising costs, ARE a concern... A HUGE CONCERN! Maybe you're not looking to save money yourself, ...maybe you're just looking to MAKE money by helping other people to solve their problems with the high price of fuel. I don't know. I do know there is opportunity here, and any company that does not provide real opportunities and benefits to it's customers is one that is not going to survive. I'll tell you straight up... what appeals to me more is the income potential available from the business more so than the $180 - $200 I save in fuel for every $20 I spend on the product.
This requirement to achieve certain quantifiable benchmarks is a product of legislation, not networking. If there was no requirement to move product, what would you have... just a bunch of people shovelling money about without a valid product or service that people c/would buy as a standalone product or service without any opportunity attached. Who in their right mind is going to do that? That's a pyramid, and that is illegal. By the way, there is no requirement to purchase product. Product purchases are optional. There does however need to be a benchmark set in terms of what your business will achieve in sales per month, ...and these sales requirements can be met with retail sales to end line users, ...backoffice orders, or through a monthly autoship to ensure consistent qualification, and replenishment of personal use inventory, or enough to share with others. Not such a bad thing when you think about it. If I don't purchase that $20 product, it's going to cost me an
additional $180 - $200 in fuel costs, just to travel the same distance. That's a pretty powerful enough incentive on it's own, to re-purchase, and to ensure I never run out of the product, ...and that's without even looking at the income potential from the product.
All advertising is at it's end "Word of Mouth". Remember the 3 Budweiser lizards? The quickest most effective way to get "WOM" for a product is television advertising. They can't advertise on television because the product benefits aren't measurable and they would have to say that in a disclaimer on the commercial and thus no-one would buy it. Otherwise, prudence at the very minimum, would dictate you put it on TV because you would create the largest buss for a product like that IF in fact it truly worked.
It pure logic, Jag, not assumption.
What I'm saying is that however logical your conclusions may seem to be to you, they are flat out incorrect, because you are working within the wrong paradigmn. you're a straight retail guy. I understand that, however there is a certain paradigmn or set of rules & assumptions you are making that flat out don't apply. The environment you may want to create for retail is not one you would want for networking, and vice versa.
You are trolling for recruits because of it really did work people would be kicking the door down to get it from you.
Funny you mention that. There's a guy I know out in Quebec. just a couple weeks ago he shared this with someone who used the product, and didn't see any results on his 1st tank. He came back and said this stuff is bogus it doesn't work. my friend said just keep using it. One afternoon he's in his office with people, and he hears someone banging on his door, ...and I mean BANGING! He normally won't answer the door or his phone when he's got someone in his office, but this banging was so loud and disruptive that he had to excuse himself. He got up and said I think someone is breaking into my house I have to check this out. He gets to the door, opens it, and it's the guy who previously said it was all crap. The guy was standing there all flushed, and breathless, and the only thing he said was:
"IT WORKS!" Some do the cyberequivalent, skyping me from Europe at 4:30 in the morning to tell me it works! Dah! I already know that. {lol} You ask them "Do you know it's 4:30 in the morning here? and they're like "Ya, ...but I want to enroll
NOW! It's gotten to the point where I've left myself constantly on 'AWAY' so I can choose what calls to take and which can go into voicemail. You have no idea what's going on here. People won't know if it works until they actually use it and see for themselves. When someone uses it, and can turn around and tell someone they know eyeball to eyeball "Hey, I've used it myself, ...and I can tell you it WORKS! This is real! When companies are seeing their fuel consumption going down, on regular runs that they done for years, they take notice. When you're regularly burning between 530 - 580 litres of fuel on a regular run you've been doing for years, ...it doesn't matter what the price of fuel is, ...that's how many litres of fuel your trucks are going to burn to haul the same load to wherever it's going, ...and all of a sudden, your records start showing that those same trucks are now completing the same run, yet consuming as much as 70 litres LESS fuel per trip, ...same identical trip
You notice that!
If that's a placebo, ...well then that's the kind of placebo you want, ...one that impacts your checkbook!
It gets even better, when you realize what's coming down the pike. When you understand that governments are going to be looking to fund underfunded areas on the backs of the transportation industry. Pulling random rigs off the roads... flipping their gas pedals back to rev the engines to see how much smoke comes out the stacks. If your rig smokes, you're paying a hefty fine. That's a problem when you're barely keeping your trucks on the road as it is. What can you do? There is a world of opportunities here to meet the needs of so many. This is mass market appeal on a global scale, ...just depends on what it is you want out of it.
You don't think every trucking company and consumer isn't looking for way out of this gas crunch? They all are.
Oh OzmO, ...I don't think, ...
I KNOW!, ...believe me I know. That's why I'm in this business! Mark Twain once said "The secret to getting rich is to find out where everybody is going, ...and get their FIRST." One of my mentors Tim Sales puts it more succinctly, ...Tim says "If you can predict, what a billion people are going to want to buy, ...you can create fortunes" You see, we have an inexpensive product that everybody wants, and everybody needs. A product that going to help you do your part by reducing the amount of pollution you're putting into the air, it's gonna improve the performance of your vehicle, it's gonna save you money on fuel, ...there's an opportunity to make some money as well. A product that feeds quite a number of birds with one worm, and the most incredible timing story in the history of network marketing. Ya, ...everybody is going to hear about it... eventually... they just haven't heard about it yet, ...and that's OK. They will. It's simply a matter of when they do hear about it. Our products basically do 2 things, ...they identify a few needs in the marketplace, ...and they meet those needs. But don't take my word for it... prove it to yourself.
If what you were selling truly worked you'd have millions of testimonies by now and the product would have gained national attention in the US.
{LOL} In the USA where some of y'all are soooo spoiled?
Where you think $3/gallon gasoline is expensive?
where some are so jaded and skeptical, they can't even be bothered to click a link on a website?
The only attention it has gained is the AG in Texas.
There you go again. The AG in Texas was not concerned with us at all. They were concerned with a "johnny come lately" trying to pawn off toxic mothballs and detergent to an unsuspecting public. They were concerned about them making untested and unproven claims, ...and even more despicable... using religion to sell their phony stuff. The Texas AG was not concerned about us in the least. We ran into a challenge about 90 days after we started doing business. The demand for our product was so strong, we couldn't manufacture it fast enough to meet the demand, ...that's when the cons came out of the woodwork, and tried to duplicate our success with their toxic placebos.
Ministry of defense in Ukraine? Com-on, a wooden nickel could corrupt anyone in that country. As for Norman.......He's an also ran looking to pad his decedents inheritence.
and with this cynical attitude, you wonder why it hasn't become a household word in USA so far,
...where your pampered posteriors have had the blessings of some of the lowest fuel prices in the world (with the exception of Iran where they just started rioting over a recent 25% increase that put their fuel prices up to an astronomical 40 cents per gallon)
But I must say you've stood by your product long enough to peak my curiosity some what. How much is it? 
{LOL} OzmO, ...please visit through the video tour of this
website. Don't worry about re-registering for the tour, you're already registered. Just put your eMail addy in the box on the lower right and it will let you in.
ps - And please check your eMail: date: June 12th, Subject: Just look at what we've accomplished so far.
