MonaVie Compensation Plan Review

Today we are going to take a look at the MonaVie compensation plan.

If you would like more information how how network marketing compensation plans work in general, take a look at this post entitled how to evaluate a network marketing compensation plan.

I have heard a lot of people say how MonaVie has one of the most lucrative compensation plans in the network marketing industry. After all, if one of the top leaders in Amway left to join MonaVie, it MUST be good right?

A compensation plan isn't good just because a heavy hitter leaves his or her company. What makes a compensation plan good is it makes it easy for the new people to get started and make $500 to $1000 a month. That's the "sweet spot" in network marketing because if you can get enough people on your team making that type of income, the large majority of them will stick it out.

So let's take a look at the Mona Vie Compensation Plan and see how it matches up.

MonaVie is a network marketing company that markets a suite of health and wellness drinks that are desgined to boost the overall health and performance of the body. As a Monavie distributor, you are compensated based on your ability to make sales personally and in your organization of the MonaVie products.

The first way you get paid is through retail sales. You buy the products wholesale and you can turn around and sell them retail to your customers. An original bottle costs $32 wholesale and you can retail it at a price of $39. Here is a link of all of Mona Vie's products and their wholesale and retail prices. You can get the price down to as low as $27.50 if you order 8 bottles at a wholesale price of $220. You can get the price down even lower if you place a bulk order. For example, the largest bulk order for a case of Monavie original is $955 for 48 bottles, which gets your price down to a little under $20 a bottle.

In order to take advantage of most of the compensation plan, you will need to sign up for an autoship of MonaVie products. You need to buy a minimum of 4 bottles every 28 days ($120) but if you want to maximize the compensation plan you need to buy a minimum of 8 bottles every 28 days ($220). So that's an annual commitment of $1560 to $2860 in product. That's on top of whatever you spend on the marketing tools, your web site, etc.

Just so you know, Monavie recommends that you drink 2 ounces a day and the average bottle is 25 ounces. Therefore, you will consume about 3 bottles a month yourself if you drink the minimum recommend by the company.

Mona Vie uses a binary compensation plan. Binary plans are great for top distributors from other companies who move their teams over to the new company. The reason why is because as a top leader you can structure your organization so that you max out the compensation plan and make a lot of money quickly.

However, for the average distributor who is just getting started building their business from scratch, a binary plan is not a good plan for you. The reason why is because of the way the compensation plan is structured.

With a binary compensation plan, your organization has two lines of sponsorship. You have a left line and a right line. You get paid whenever BOTH lines of sponsorship meets a minimum amount of sales volume. In Mona Vie, you earn commissions whenever BOTH lines of sponsorship accumulates at least 500 GV. GV stands for group volume and it is based on the total amount of PV (personal volume) accumulated by distributors in your group.

What's a PV? It's a point value that Monavie assigns to products that you order. For example 1 case (consisting of 4 bottles of juice) equals 100 PV.

So in order to get paid on your team, your team would have to buy a minimum of 10 cases of Monavie juice in a single week evenly distributed in both lines of sponsorship within your organization. When this happens you will earn a commission of $50. For every 100 PV above 500, you will earn an additional $10 and this maxes out at $10,000 for the week.

Keep in mind BOTH lines of sponsorhip need to have 500 GV in order to get paid. If one line of sponsorhip has 10,000 GV and the other has 200 GV, guess how much money you make? Absolutely nothing. They do allow you to carry over volume to the next week and continue to carry it over until you reach 500 GV.

Now one good thing is that because everybody has only 2 lines of sponsorship, that means that if you have someone in your up line that recruits a lot, there is a good chance that you are going to have distributors placed underneath you. Of course, that will only happen if you also happen to be in that leader's "weaker" organization.

There's also an Executive Check Match that allows you to earn commissions based on the people that you sponsor up to 7 levels deep. To become an Executive you will need to have a minimum of 2000 GV in BOTH lines of sponsorship.

Basically the way this works is Mona Vie has to pay out at least 50% of its commissions to the sales force. With a binary compensation plan because a lot of people miss out of getting paid in a given week because they don't have the necessary volume in their weaker leg, a lot of the money ends up not getting paid out.

To compensate for this, what MonaVie does is the remaining money that didn't get paid gets assigned to the Executive Check match and gets paid to the Executives in the company. The check match is a floating percentage and the percentage will be different every week because its based on what got paid out and what didn't get paid out for the week.

Therefore if you are an Executive and you don't have any executives on your team, you earn a check match on EVERY distributor in your organization that received a pay check from MonaVie that particular week! However, the downside is that the check match can never exceed the volume from your lesser leg.

So now that you know how the Mona Vie pay plan works, lets see how it matches up to the areas I evaluate in this blog for compensation plans.

1. How easy is it to make $500 to $1000 a month?

Since you make about $11.50 for each bottle of juice you sell (if you buy the 200PV autoship), to make $500 in a month, you will need to sell 43 bottles of juice in a month personally. Of course the average person isn't going to sell 43 bottles to 43 different people a month. You just don't have enough time in the day to do that if you are part time.

Therefore, in order to make $500, you will need to sell cases of Monavie, not just a single bottle. If you sell 1 case (consisting of 4 bottles) to each of your customers, your profit would be $29 a case. To earn $500, you will need to sign up 17 customers a month.

Let's look at the numbers and see what your sign-up ratios will need to be to move 17 cases a month to 17 different customers...

50% - 36 people a month (9 per week)
25% - 68 people a month (17 per week)
10% - 170 people a month (43 per week)
5% - 340 people a month (85 per week)
1% - 1700 people a month (425 per week)

These numbers are pretty high for a part timer. You won't stand a chance if you aren't signing up at least 10% of your customers.

Therefore, the only real way you are going to make $500 a month in MonaVie in most cases is by recruiting. When you recruit, you can get your distributors on that 200PV autoship because they know they have to do that in order to maximize the compensation plan. Any compensation plan where its difficult to earn $500 a month without recruiting is a red flag to me.

2. How much does the product cost and how much does it cost to get started as a distributor?

A bottle retails for $39, which I think is pretty expensive in my opinion. Since a bottle is only going to last you a little more than a week, that works out to $3-$4 a day. That's almost what you would pay for Starbucks coffee daily (which I also think is pretty expensive as well). By the way, there are Acai based juices that you can get for significantly less than that. Here's an Acai Juice product that you can buy for $13.99 and it will last you an entire month.

The fee to get started as a distributor is only $39, which is pretty reasonable. However, as I mentioned previously, in order to max out the compensation plan, you are going to have to buy over $2000 a year worth of juice.

3. Is there competition for your products and services?

There's a tremendous amount of competition for MonaVie's products. I just showed you a similar product that costs less and lasts longer. There are other network marketing companies that have juice based products as well that all claim the same or similar health benefits that MonaVie claims. The health and wellness juice market is a highly competitive market.

That being said, it is highly competitive for a reason. The reason is there is a tremendous amount of demand for health juices. There are literally millions of searches done on Google a month for keywords that are associated with health juices. So there's certainly a lot of interest. The key is to get those people to try the MonaVie product and hope that they have a good experience with it. If they do, they will tend to stay on it and you will make money as a result.

In short, I personally would only recommend MonaVie if you really have a passion for the product. Maybe you might have tried it and noticed a significant improvement in your health. Maybe you just really enjoy the taste. If you really love the product and you would buy it even if there wasn't an income opportunity attach to it, MonaVie can work for you.

However if you are just joining because you heard that you can make some money I would recommend that you pass on it. The compensation plan in my opinion isn't all that impressive. I think Tahitian Noni and Xango (two network marketing companies with juice products) have a MUCH better compensation plan than MonaVie if you are interested in a juice company.

I personally would never do a juice company because I just have no interest in paying that type of money every month to drink a juice that is suppose to give me health benefits. I'm of the opinion that if you eat a good balanced diet, you don't need any of that stuff. That goes for all of these health and wellness companies, which is why I have never joined any of those companies.

The real value, in my opinion is offering a service. People flake out on product orders all the time. However, if you offer a service that people need, they are going to keep it and pay for it every single month.

The compensation is much better as well. For instance, in my company I make $207 on a $36 a month product, plus residuals. In MonaVie, you sell a $39 bottle of juice, you only make $7. Your juice customer would have eventually buy almost 30 bottles of juice just for you to make what I make on ONE sale of my service.

Also note that I said plus residuals, which means if they keep the service, I continue to get paid a percentage of that $36 every month. This is on TOP of the $207 I make on the initial sale!

Unlike MonaVie, I don't have to balance the volume of my team in two seperate legs to get paid. In fact, if I recruit a brand new distributor, place them directly under me and they go out and sign up ONE customer (even if that customer doesn't join the business) I make up to $170 on that one customer!

I also get paid Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday as long as my team or I made sales that were processed the day before.

In Monavie, you would need to have over 3000PV from BOTH lines of sponsorship just to earn that kind of money.

If you haven't decided on a company yet, I encourage you to take a look at what I consider to be one of the best network marketing compensation plans that I have ever seen. Keep in mind, I have reviewed HUNDREDS of companies personally so I've seen almost all of them. I'm not saying its the best because it sounds good. I'm saying its the best because I've actually looked at a lot of other compensation plans and compared them.

If you are currently involved in Monavie and you aren't happy with it, feel free to look as well. However, please keep in mind, I have a personal policy in that I don't sponsor people in other network marketing companies who haven't been with their current company for at least a year unless you have a VERY GOOD reason for leaving (i.e. company going out of business, etc). I am a firm believer that you need to stick to and commit to building a network marketing business for at least a year before you can truly evaluate it and determine if it is right for you.

If you are involved in Monavie and you are happy with it, congratulations! I would love to assist you in building your business. I offer a free report that will show you the 7 ways that I personally use (and teach to my team) to have as many prospects as I want to talk to about my network marketing business. These strategies are generic, which means that they can be used in any network marketing company. In fact, I know that many leaders in MonaVie who are having success are using many of the same strategies that I use, so that's called a clue that they work.

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