Awakend fails to supply possession and company info on its web site. The corporate additionally fails to supply a company tackle.
On the “contact us” part of their web site, Awakend states it has “restricted assist”. Any questions are to be directed to Awakend uplines.
Awakend entered prelaunch in early August. That is cited as a purpose for restricted assist.
Contact Us
We’re in an thrilling prelaunch part with restricted assist! Please contact your upline chief with any questions.
Two months in and that excuse is stretching skinny.
Firm possession and company particulars, assist and on the very least the place you’re working from are fundamental necessities for due-diligence.
Should you’re accepting distributor enrolments this info must be able to go earlier than you prelaunch.
BehindMLM coated Awakend’s prelaunch on August 18th. Given Awakend’s disclosure failures, we’re counting on my earlier analysis.
Awakend’s prelaunch company advertising and marketing efforts are headed up by Danelle Meoli and Chip Macgill.
On social media Meoli refers to Awakend as her firm. Such to the extent there are different Awakend house owners and co-founders, they haven’t been publicly disclosed.
In August BehindMLM famous eight admins of Awakend’s official company FaceBook group. At this time that’s been whittled all the way down to 4; Danelle Meoli and husband Scott, David R Teodosio and Ashlee Headlee.
Beneath the Meolis you’ve got a bunch of their former Exp Realty and NewULife downlines.
So far as I can inform, everybody who was positioned earlier than Awakend’s public prelaunch is tied to Meoli by her previous MLM firms.
Whereas Meoli relies of of Connecticut, Awakend could also be primarily working out of Texas.
I’ll replace if Awakend ever will get round to offering shoppers with a transparent image of firm possession and its possession crew.
Failing which:
If an MLM firm just isn’t brazenly upfront about who’s working or owns it, assume lengthy and arduous about becoming a member of and/or handing over any cash.
Awakend’s Merchandise
Awakend’s flagship product is the burden loss complement Zenith.
Zenith is marketed on the premise that obese persons are leptin resistant. Leptin is cited as
a hormone made by fats cells that regulates foot consumption & vitality expenditure by speaking with the mind.
The idea is that obese folks have an excessive amount of leptin, creating leptin resistance over time.
Zenith “gently decreases” leptin ranges, lowering leptin resistance and enabling the hormone to work because it ought to.
Awakend don’t present retail pricing for Zenith on their web site.
Up to now the one pricing revealed in Awakend advertising and marketing is $135 a month for distributor autoship. That is presumed to be a wholesale worth, suggesting Zenith’s retail pricing shall be larger.
Awakend’s Compensation Plan
Awakend’s compensation plan pays on retail gross sales and recruitment. Residual commissions are paid by a binary crew.
Further performances and rank bonuses are additionally out there.
Awakend Distributor Ranks
There are fourteen ranks inside Awakend’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Distributor – enroll as an Awakend distributor
- Certified Distributor – preserve a 100 PV private order over a rolling five-week interval and recruit two distributors (positioned one on each side of the binary crew)
- Amber Director – preserve a 100 PV private order and generate 1000 GV in weaker binary crew facet quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve two personally recruited Distributors or larger (positioned one on each side of the binary crew)
- Crystal Director – preserve a 100 PV private order and generate 2500 GV in weaker binary crew facet quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and preserve 4 Distributors or larger (positioned two on each side of the binary crew)
- Sapphire – preserve a 100 PV private order and generate 5000 GV in weaker binary crew facet quantity over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve 4 personally recruited Distributors or larger (positioned two on each side of the binary crew)
- Emerald Director – generate and preserve 200 PV over a rolling five-week interval (100 PV should be personal order), generate 7500 GV in weaker binary crew facet quantity over a five-week rolling interval, and preserve 4 personally recruited Distributors or larger (positioned two on each side of the binary crew)
- Ruby Director – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 10,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and preserve six Distributors or larger (positioned three on each side of the binary crew)
- Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 20,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve six personally recruited Distributors or larger (positioned three on each side of the binary crew)
- Blue Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 50,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and preserve eight Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
- Double Blue Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 100,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and recruit and preserve ten Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
- Triple Blue Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 250,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve ten personally recruited Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
- Black Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 400,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve ten personally recruited Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
- Double Black Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 700,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve ten personally recruited Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
- Triple Black Diamond Govt – preserve 200 PV (100 PV should be personal order) and generate and preserve 1,000,000 GV over a rolling five-week interval, and preserve ten personally recruited Distributors or larger (min three on each side of the binary crew)
PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV is gross sales quantity generated by an distributor’s personal orders and retail buyer gross sales.
GV stands for “Group Quantity”. GV is PV generated by an Awakend distributor and their downline.
Retail Commissions
Awakend distributors earn commissions on the sale of Zenith to retail clients.
Awakend states:
The fee quantity is the same as the retail worth much less the wholesale worth.
Given Awakend hasn’t disclosed the retail value of Zenith, we will offer you particular retail fee quantities.
Recruitment Commissions
Awakend distributors earn commissions on recruitment of latest distributors.
- recruit a distributor who indicators up with a 2 Bottle Starter Pack and earn $25
- recruit a distributor who indicators up with a 4 Bottle Starter Pack and earn $50
Awakend additionally has pre-launch founder positions working into 1000’s of {dollars}:
- Important Founder – $1295
- Premier Founder – $2495
- Elite Founder – $3495
Presumably recruitment commissions are additionally paid on these choices. If that’s the case, particulars aren’t supplied on Awakend’s web site or of their compensation plan.
Residual Commissions
Awakend pays residual commissions by way of a binary compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations a distributor on the high of a binary crew, cut up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary degree of the binary crew homes two positions. The second degree of the binary crew is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary crew are generated as required, with every new degree housing twice as many positions because the earlier degree.
Positions within the binary crew are stuffed by way of direct and oblique recruitment of distributors. Notice there is no such thing as a restrict to how deep a binary crew can develop.
On the finish of every week Awakend tallies up new gross sales quantity on each side of the binary crew.
Supplied a minimal of 500 GV exists on each side of the binary crew, distributors earn 5% of generated gross sales quantity.
As soon as paid out on, quantity is flushed. Any leftover quantity carries over into the next week (capped at 3,000,000 GV).
Matching Bonus
Awakend pays a Matching Bonus on residual commissions earned by downline distributors.
Awakend pays the Matching Bonus by way of a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations a distributor on the high of a unilevel crew, with each personally recruited distributor positioned immediately underneath them (degree 1):
If any degree 1 distributors recruit new distributors, they’re positioned on degree 2 of the unique distributor’s unilevel crew.
If any degree 2 distributors recruit new distributors, they’re positioned on degree 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Awakend caps the Matching Bonus at seven unilevel crew ranges, primarily based on rank:
- Sapphire and Emerald Administrators earn a ten% match on degree 1 (personally recruited distributors)
- Ruby Administrators earn a 15% match on degree 1 and 10% on degree 2
- Diamond Executives earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on degree 3
- Blue Diamond Executives earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on ranges 3 and 4
- Double Blue Diamond Executives and better earn a 15% match on degree 1, 10% on degree 2 and 5% on ranges 3 to 7
Rank Achievement Bonus
Awakend rewards distributors for rating at Sapphire and better in keeping with set timelines:
- qualify at Sapphire Director and obtain $100, do it inside 5 weeks of signing up and obtain $500
- qualify at Ruby Director inside ten weeks of qualifying as Sapphire and obtain $500, do it inside 15 weeks of signing up and obtain $1500
- qualify at Double Blue Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Ruby and obtain $1000, do it inside 30 weeks of signing up and obtain $5000
- qualify at Triple Blue Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Double Blue Diamond and obtain $2000, do it inside 52 weeks of signing up and obtain $10,000
- qualify at Black Diamond Govt inside thirty weeks of qualifying at Triple Blue Diamond and obtain $3000, do it inside 78 weeks of signing up and obtain $25,000
- qualify at Triple Black Diamond Govt inside forty-five weeks of qualifying at Black Diamond and obtain $10,000, do it inside 110 weeks of signing up and obtain $100,000
Life-style Bonus
Diamond and Triple Blue Diamond executives who qualify and preserve rank for ten consecutive weeks qualify for the LifeStyle Bonus.
- Diamond Executives obtain $750 a month
- Triple Blue Diamond Executives obtain $1500 a month
To take care of the Life-style Bonus, rank should be met over a rolling five-week interval.
Becoming a member of Awakend
Fundamental Awakend distributor membership is $50 yearly.
New Awakend distributors may enroll with a Starter Pack:
- 2 bottles of Zenith Starter Pack = $260
- 4 bottle of Zenith Starter Pack = $500
Presumably till prelaunch ends, Awakend Founder positions are additionally out there:
- Important Founder – $1295 (4 bottles of Zenith, Sapphire Director rank for 1 12 months and an Awakend NFT)
- Premier Founder – $2495 (8 bottles of Zenith, Ruby Director rank for 3 years and an Awakend NFT)
- Elite Founder – $3495 (12 bottles of Zenith, Diamond Govt rank for five years and an Awakend NFT)
As detailed above, Awakend’s Founder positions have distinct monetary benefits over common distributor membership.
Awakend Conclusion
There are basically two classes of weight reduction merchandise; those who immediately contribute to weight reduction, and those who help major weight reduction methods.
With respect to Zenith, Awakend instructs shoppers to
use Zenith at the side of a reduced-calorie weight-reduction plan and common train program.
This locations it into the latter weight reduction product class.
This isn’t a nasty factor but it surely’s essential to notice that, such to the extent Zenith assists with weight reduction, if the weight-reduction plan and train aren’t saved up, it’s a brief resolution.
And at $135 a month wholesale, a considerably costly one.
That is under no circumstances distinctive to Zenith as a product. The underside line is in the event you can’t preserve a nutritious diet and train, Zenith isn’t going to do a lot for you long-term.
This raises the query of, in the event you’re capable of preserve a well being weight-reduction plan and train, do you want dietary supplements like Zenith to start with?
Should you implement a reduced-calorie weight-reduction plan and incorporate train – in case your each day calorie consumption is in a deficit, that’s you’re burning extra energy than you’re consuming, you’re going to shed weight interval.
In that sense Zenith is an urge for food suppressant. Should you want that to curb your urge for food I’d argue there are far cheaper suppressant choices out there.
One may argue focusing on leptin discount is simpler however that brings us again to self management. Zenith and different urge for food suppressants aren’t long-term options to weight administration.
If you wish to preserve a wholesome weight, you need to make a aware resolution to alter your weight-reduction plan and train. Sticking to that is a long-term resolution.
Clearly the burden loss trade is price trillions globally, so persons are shopping for dietary supplements like Zenith. Personally such that you simply really feel the necessity to spend on weight reduction merchandise, I believe the you’re higher off immediately focusing on your weight-reduction plan.
One different level to notice with Zenith is it’s closely marketed on the outcomes of a 2008 examine and patents.
This a an advanced and intensely messy challenge, relationship again to over a decade.
The lengthy and the wanting it’s Zenith initially made its debut as Max WLX within the 2000s.
Max WLX was a part of Max Worldwide’s MLM providing.
This fell aside on or round 2010, leading to a bitter authorized feud involving a number of events.
BehindMLM has already coated the saga throughout a number of articles:
As of September 2022, a California Courtroom confirmed “the rights to the Patent stay unsettled.”
A trial to resolve the difficulty as soon as and for all is at present scheduled for March twenty eighth, 2023.
BehindMLM maintains Awakend shouldn’t have launched till the patent challenge is resolved in its entirety.
Shifting on to Awakend’s compensation plan, it’s sadly a typical autoship recruitment pyramid scheme.
This begins with pay-to-play:
- Awakend’s founder packs correlate potential earnings immediately with how a lot is spent; and
- Awakend distributors are compelled to take care of a month-to-month order to qualify for commissions.
Lively – This implies you preserve no less than 100 PV inside a 5-week rolling interval.
This 100PV should be a private order (doesn’t embody Buyer CV).
Having a 100 PV Subscribe and Save order is one of the simplest ways to take care of lively standing. (Ozedit: “subscribe and save” is what Awakend calls autoship)
Pay-to-play in an MLM alternative is a powerful indicator of a pyramid scheme.
Within the case of Awakend, that is signing up, having to put a month-to-month product order to qualify for commissions, after which getting paid to recruit others who do the identical.
Awakend establishing its compensation plan as an autoship pyramid scheme, makes “retail” statements like this come off as pseudo-compliance lip-service:
As a brand new Member, your focus shall be on growing a base of retail and most well-liked clients.
You’ll additionally concentrate on serving to your downline generate quantity by gross sales.
Additional driving house the shortage of retail focus in Awakend is there being no retail pricing on the corporate’s web site. For the final two months the one product orders Awakend has taken in are distributor orders.
And you’ve got Danelle Meoli on social media bragging about Awakend’s “file breaking gross sales”:
Until you’re seeking to quick monitor an FTC investigation, I wouldn’t assume how rapidly you’ve construct a pyramid scheme is one thing you’d need to publicly brag about.
The FTC may be very clear on MLM firms with out vital retail gross sales exercise being pyramid schemes.
An autoship recruitment compensation plan virtually ensures an MLM firm is not going to have vital retail gross sales.
The very last thing I need to contact on are Awakend’s NFTs.
Regardless of being a heavy advertising and marketing level in prelaunch company webinars, there’s no point out of NFTs on Awakend’s web site.
Right here’s Danelle Meoli introducing Awakend’s NFT providing;
Whoever opens an organization in community advertising and marketing and direct gross sales, and marries internet 3 expertise, NFTs … whoever does that first, it’s gonna go viral. It’s gonna rock the trade.
Our backoffice is the primary within the historical past of direct gross sales to truly have the expertise in our backoffice, all built-in. It took months and it’s now ours. We will take crypto if we would like. We will promote NFTs if we would like.
Different firms are going to take this idea and run with it. You’re in an organization that’s actually, it’s uh historic what we’re doing.
After I first got here throughout this in August I referred to as it out as a scummy money seize.
Awakend hope to flog 22,222 NFTs. This gives an on the spot cashflow vary of $28.7 million to $77.6 million. Thrive merchandise are bundled with Founder’s Packs, so we will knock a bit off – however we’re nonetheless speaking tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in revenue.
Awakend may simply as simply scrap the NFTs and worth their Founder’s Packs accordingly however dId YoU hEaR? eVeRyOnE’s DoInG wEb3!
If making tens of hundreds of thousands on the sale of cartoon jpgs wasn’t scummy sufficient – the first advantage of proudly owning an Awakend founder NFT is “first entry for future NFT launches”.
That’s proper, the ten of hundreds of thousands Awakend hopes to generate in its prelaunch is for North America and Canada solely. The corporate seeks to monetize every nation it launches into, with a brand new set of NFTs
And by paying 1000’s now, Awakend’s founder distributors get the privilege of paying extra money for extra NFTs in every nation Awakend migrates to.
I stand by my authentic sentiment. The NFT facet of Awakend stays a scummy money seize. And an odd one at that, given Meoli isn’t overtly a cryptocurrency advocate.
Supposedly, Meoli’s brother David
works on the NFT firm which is able to probably create the NFTs… referred to as Whisp.
I don’t find out about Whisp. The one crypto associated Whisp I discovered was a crypto cost firm that launched in 2019 and has since collapsed (it’s web site has been transformed right into a crypto spam weblog).
What does match is Danelle Meoli’s brother being a crypto bro (no pun supposed). Awakend’s NFT providing may be very a lot misplaced.
Robust “Danelle, embody your brother!” vibes.
In any occasion, whoever’s behind Awakend’s NFTs the corporate is extraordinarily secretive about it. On only a go to to Awakend’s web site you’d do not know the NFTs exist, or that founders are shopping for monetary benefits over rank-and-file distributors.
Should you paid 1000’s for an Awakend NFT, considering you’re going to get wealthy discovering higher fools in different nations, hopefully the conclusion you’re already the best idiot isn’t too massive of a shock.
Toss in a pay-to-play autoship recruitment enterprise mannequin and the unresolved Zenith patent mess, and also you’re left with an MLM alternative finest prevented.
