NuSkin Review


It seemed like a dream since 2 ½ years before that I had been struggling to try to learn the elusive business of network marketing and and had probably quit at least 6 times in the first 6 months and then I hit my stride and became a Blue Diamond and then a Hawaiian Blue Diamond (now known as “Team Elite”) in about 30 months.

It had been a dizzying ride as the company exploded into their momentum growth curve moving from about $50 million to almost half a billion and then a billion in the blink of an eye. It was the stuff dreams are made of, checks going up over 35% a month, your downline exploding, life was good.

Now I had been invited into the inner sanctum of the advisory board with 11 other company leaders. We sat there with the company founders Blake Rhoney and Seve Lund,  and they gave us some office memento gifts and then brought in balloons filled with helium and handed us the strings and a pin to pop them.

I think Jerry Campisi went first and “Boom” out dropped a little rolled up certificate telling you the amount of your check that month.  As we all popped the balloons and looked at the amounts in shock, they told us we had just broken all company records and had enrolled over 40,000 distributors that month alone.



If we are to believe what the leaders in the company, that are making huge amounts of money off of their large organizations are telling you, then you would believe that “the sky's the limit”. Now for them, that may be true, because once you have a large stable organization you are pretty well locked in, but what about the newbie? The distributor that is just joining a billion dollar company today, what does it mean for them?


Now they obviously did not know that I had already been in NuSkin, and that I had retired from active involvement years ago and had given my interest in the distributorship to my kids, but it brought up a good question because in today's depressing business markets all network marketing companies even the old giants are seeing renewed growth.

There has been a lot of buzz in the industry in the last few months about NuSkin! They are after all taking another run at the golden gauntlet, or should we call it the golden ceiling of MLM companies? Its somewhere around a billion dollars a year in North America.

If a company hits the mark in the MLM world and knocks the cover off the ball, they go through one of those S shaped growth curves I frequently use in presentations to show how companies pick up speed as they grow in popularity until they hit about $50 million a year in the North American market, where they break through a threshold point and explode.


These are the glory days in which just the sight of a FedEx truck driving down the street can make your heart start pounding like a jackhammer, and unleash a feeling of total euphoria  (MLM companies love to showcase success by sending top reps their checks by FedEx when then get over $5000 a month or so) .

Then it happens! Bam!

You hit the inevitable Golden ceiling of network marketing when the company hits about a billion dollars in volume. The company growth, at least in the North American market starts to slow and then plateau. From there most companies fall back about 15% to 25% in overall volume and then kind of sit there at billion or so.



1.    Retire and cash your checks: Stay in the game just enough to make your appearances at conventions and rally's, and talk about the good old days with other fortunate people in your group.



4.    Keep Building: Then there are the die hards! They just don't know when to stop. They keep building and pushing harder waiting for the 2nd momentum spurt, you know the one that takes the company to $5 billion. The problem here is that there are extremely few examples of this ever happening.




In all fairness to NuSkin, if anyone can do it they probably can. Having worked for several MLM's I would have to say that NuSkin stands out head and shoulders above them, they are a class A+ operation. They constantly have been able to reinvent themselves over the years but most of the true growth has been international.






However this time may be different, this time they are cycling back to their original product line Skin Care and Anti Aging, and in my book skin care being a visual, emotional, consumable product is probably one of the best of not the best product type you have have in a Network Marketing company, as long as the company does not have a culture that excludes men. If you do, then you eliminate half of your target market for distributors, not a good move.


Well it will be interesting to watch, NuSkin has their guns loaded this time. They have a lot of excitement going with the “Galvanic Spa” and they are rolling out yet another exclusive product, AgeLoc that they are rallying the troops around. They have even motivated many of the retired leaders who were already making crazy amounts of money to get back in the game.

There are many great opportunities in the MLM world today, and regardless of the company you choose to join, it's critically important that you learn how to market properly. Too many people in network marketing base the success of their business on pure luck and company momentum to make it happen for them. If you truly want to be successful in this industry then take the time to learn how to successfully market you business and don't leave your success to chance.

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