The Melaleuca MOM Team

I have been doing some research and I am simply going to list a number of points and comments regarding Melaleuca and the MOM Team. The points I make are based on my 15 years of experience with Direct Sales and Network Marketing.

1. Melaleuca is an MLM. If the company pays bonuses on more than one level, it is an MLM. Consumer Direct Marketing is nice sounding word for describing MLM.

2. Associates of Melaleuca and the MOM Team are required to sell products in order to have a legal business. If someone attempts to recruit you by saying there is no selling, they are at best misinformed and at worst, lying. It appears that the MOM Team and many in Melaleuca try to hide behind the sales requirement by saying the the company, (Melaleuca), handles the product fulfilment. The truth is if you don't have customers, you have an illegal business according to the FTC.

3. The MOM Team does not mention on their websites that they are in any way affiliated with Melaleuca. As a matter of fact, according to a couple of sources, they are not allowed to mention the name.

4. The Mom Team and Melaleuca deals in points, yet in presentation talks as if dollars and points are one in the same.

5. The Mom Team website gives few specifics on the business itself.

What I am unclear on is whether or not the MOM Team charges for any of it's training, motivation, websites, meetings, or materials. Aside from the training aspect, the MOM Team has many of the red flags that I would watch out for when evaluating a MLM company.

Comments

[Jaime]

I have been contacted by someone from the MOM team and they do charge-$29. Of course I was told no selling!

[Chris]

Tribble with his dribble..once again

I notice that folks that are with Melaleuca say it's not an mlm but folks that are in mlm always want to make it seem like Melaleuca is mlm.

I think people hate mlm and mlm'ers know that. So they are afraid of Melaleuca as it is not an mlm so they say "Melaleuca is an mlm" when it is not.

Ever notice how NOBODY in Melaleuca agrees its mlm it's only mlm'ers that say it. I have never met anybody in Melaleuca that will say it is. You think you'd find one person.

That means it is not. Sorry guys you are wrong again. You must be in mlm lol :-)

[Ty]

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet...and it's name is Donald, you can be pretty sure that it's a duck.

Melaleuca is MLM and to me, that is not a bad thing.

[Amber]

The $29 is not a MOM team charge, it is your Melaleuca enrollment fee. Just like Sam's and Barnes and Nobel have an enrollment fee to be a preferred customer. All Training is free. It all depends on how good your trainer is. Selling is pushing products and personally doing all the work for getting them those products. This is a referal business. You refer them to Melaleuca, help them enroll and then they buy their own products. IF you are being told your price and points are the same, you are being told wrong.

[Ty]

Since when is selling "pushing the products"?

As a Melaleuca rep. you are required to have customers.

The customers don't find Mel by osmosis.

It doesn't matter whether the company fulfills the order (99.9% of MLM's do that today), it's still sales.

[K.L.]

Perhaps Ty, you could listen to a presentation about Melaleuca before making these wild assumptionso Also, how can you say you've done a lot of research and points you make are based on your experience with an MLM, which Melaleuca is not. Hey,and by the way,Melaleuca has been inducted into the Inc. 500 AND the BBB halls of fame

[Lisa]

Melaleuca is not MLM. You get paid for the amount of work you put into it and the results you create. A person who enrolled me can actually do more poorly than I do if she decides to stop working on her business. I disagree with the notion that there is no selling. You are stil doing sales whenever you a referring, presenting, recommending, and closing.

[Lisa]

I am not with the MOM team. I also wanted to clarify 1 other point. I said the person ahead of me may not do as well as I do if she decides to stop working her business. I'd like to expand on that. She may not do as well as I do if she stops working on her business too early. My point is there is plenty of room at the top. It doesn't matter when you start it's like anything else. Credit is given to you when credit is due.

[Ty Tribble - MLM Blog Author]

Lisa,

Nothing you said disqualifies Melaleuca is an MLM.

Melaleuca pays on Multiple Levels in a matrix compensation plan.

Sorry kids, that makes it an MLM.

[Heather]

An MLM is different from a Network Marketing because with an MLM your downline cannot progress faster than you or you don't get paid. Melaleuca does NOT work like that. Those companies force you to "out market" your downline, otherwise you don't get paid look at Quixtar and others like them where if your downline signs on more people than you, then you are out. As far as the selling we don't sell anthing, that involves collecting monies, making deliveries, stocking inventory etc. With The M.O.M. Team we help people understand about dangerous chemicals in thier house hold products they currently may be using and inform them that's it if you think it's sales, sorry, it's not, that's free information!! We provide a service that acutally helps people to breath better, feel better and live healthier lives. It's actually an honorable job and I LOVE IT!!
Thanks

[Ty Tribble - MLM Blog Author]

Heather,

I always love Melaleuca people. They always have some reason why the company is not MLM, but that reason really is either not true (such as getting paid on people growing faster than you) or the reason has nothing to do with the definition of MLM.

Selling has nothing to do with filling orders, stocking inventory or making deliveries.

Selling is s part of the process by which organizations persuade customers to purchase their goods and services.

If you build Melaleuca, YOU SELL.

You can play with the words all you want. Melaleuca is MLM and Melaleuca reps sell.

[shelly]

I have been a melaleuca customer for 3 years and just love thier stuff. I recently decided to step into the revenue sharing and have been enrolling people.

I think Melaleuca is a mlm company...an outstanding one.

I have participated in a few mlm companies in the past and it was almost impossible to actually make any kind of substantial income.
Melaleucas compensation plan makes it much easier to earn real money...sure you have to work for it, but it is acutally attainable, unlike others I have been involved with.

I can name many but one good thing about melaleuca is noone can get hurt because they have safeguards in place. For instance, I got suckered in to buying a ton of products about $1,400 dollars worth a few years ago with another company-nuskin pharmanex. Melaleuca forbids that. The most anyone can buy is a 300. dollar pack which is all personal use stuff. As far as getting paid on downlines...a good thing. Better we- the satified users and the referrers (is that a word?) get the dollars than those big advertisers! Thats how I see it...we are the advertisers. Whats the big deal here? Its a great company with really good rockn' products.

That tough and tender not only cleans up the kitchen like you would not believe (with out all the toxic stuff thats in 409 and the rest,) it washes bird doo right off your car sooo easily, kills ants instantly and roaches roll over and die...(a big deal here in Hawaii :)

Tub and tile works better than any of those nasty caustic lime aways and the like ...really it works sooo well. The Dental line!!! Oh my God! My mother has gum disease...now she does not have to get 6 of her teeth pulled. Thats a big deal. I could go on and on about the products.

As I said, I was just a loyal customer for 3 years befor I started turning other people on to it. It's a good thing.
Shelly

[Shelly]

One thing...think I made a mistake. I think you can actually buy 2 of those 300 dollar packs, but not sure on that because I have never seen anyone do it. And that value pack is only available for purchase within the 1st 2 months of your enrollment. After that they will not allow you to purchase it. It won't go up to your cart on line..I tried to buy it recently...thats how I found out.

One last thing...every thing is very price competive...their cleaning line is actually way less expensive than the neurotoxic/carcinogin stuff thats on the shelves! If anyone would like to take a closer look and become a customer... (forget the business if its not for you)...Come on now, be nice... hey why not?! (couldn't resist)...
shelly808@hotmail

[Justina Knowles]

I say what does it matter? Melaleuca is not about being a MLM or not it is about using and having safer products for your home, body and planet.

[kate]

I too love the Melaleuca products and the type of business it is...I reached the level of Director and spent alot of money investing in the business. Although i continue to love/use the products, when i called my upline to get going again in the business after a break, i never recieved any calls from my 'Mom Team'. Two days later my sister called wanting my opinion on another direct sales company and looking at it I decided to pursue the MonaVie business and haven't looked back...i still love my Melaleuca products, but MonaVie financially makes me the money I dreamed of!

[Froy Torres]

I've been in sales (non MLM) companies - and aside from decent salaries, my possible commissions are 2-3% for new customers, and 1-2% for repeat business. My friends/relatives have all done the; Avon, Tupperware, Jafra, Shaklee, Amyway/Quixtar, Renaware and Herbalife. All great products in their own catagories. However - in Melalueca an awesome business case is that you consume what you're already consuming, only that you're making a brand switch. The products are concentrated and last rather long vs. generic and even brand names. This is coming from someone that hates MLM 'opportunities' ok guys. The sales factor is this; You become a membership facilitator. {that's it}. Here's why this works. With our cars, shoes and clothes, we get very used to the 'branding'. Do we really care what cleaning products we use? In most cases I can tell you that not many people care what brand cleans their floors, so long as it's affordable, and that it cleans. Melaleuca offers products that work at reasonable costs, plus environmentally friendly. Sales Solutions practices say that you must have a 1) good product, 2) competitive costs & 3) a consumer demand/need to be fulfilled by customers.
The products offered by Melaleuca are goods that you are already consuming - if you have any questions email me: redorange122@gmail.com - no membership purchase required - hahaha.