subject: Has Herbalife.Com Changed Its Ways? [print this page] For a company that stayed with the old school tactics of buying business cards, holding in house seminars and asking anyone and everyone you come across about your Herbalife Business Opportunity, Herbalife has certainly made some significant advancements in some of their recent developments at Herbalife.com.
They have definitely upgraded the consumer friendly interface their website, herbalife.com, presents yet they are still a little stuck on the past. I honestly believe they invested too much in fancy graphics and intricate programming when that money should have been more equally dispersed into new product developments and a second look at their compensation plan.
Although this is clearly true, it is not necessarily a bad thing. In putting the pot into building out an entirely renewed internet campaign and refreshed site, they have regained some attention in some of the more profitable countries within the MLM industry after slowly yet surely losing it.
If Herbalife can take advantage of its renewed exposure and get some more updated products and diet plans on Herbalife.com they can definitely revive some of the bigger markets that they had lost traction in. Herbalife is still growing steadily in some of the less tapped market places of South American and Middle Eastern/African Countries.
The question is whether or not Herbalife sees itself for what it is. They're means of sales has become a bit outmoded. What they're doing is still the breakaway structure that is also used by Shaklee, Nuskin, NSA, and Amway. Newer companies are opting for uni-levels and binaries instead.
It is also this antiquated payment plan that has forced many US distributors to abandon their businesses, simply because the time and effort they were putting into them was not worth the pay they were receiving from them. This caused a domino-effect of lack of faith in the company, and thus distributor decline, and falling sales.
Herbalife has not changed their compensation plan any, but in an effort to counteract this, they have added some "bonuses" to their plans. While these do have the potential to pay off in a big way, they will do little to help the new distributor, because they are geared to people who are already making hefty sales. In order to be a "Qualified Producer" you must have 2,500 Personally Purchased Volume Points in 1 to 3 months. So you have to be willing to put in the time, and stay on top of everything to get that many sales.
There's a new way to be qualified as a Supervisor as well. It means racking up five thousand Personally Purchased Volume Points in the first year, with at least a three month minimum. Then you are qualified for the rank of Fully Qualified Supervisor, which entitles you to a fifty percent discount.
These are solid incentives. Nonetheless, an out of date product line can hamper any salesman, no matter what the benefits.
Herbalife will be top notch when they devote at least six figures to a stronger product line.
