I think it’s necessary to issue a warning against some rather repetitive information on the internet that could become very misleading.
All over popular forums, blogs, and other internet article platforms, I’m finding authors who are essentially claiming that the company is going to fill your entire Berry Tree matrix for you- whether you recruit people or not- and you will automatically begin to earn $1336 every month after a 20 month period. There are many variations of this statement, but most follow the same idea.
However, this is NOT a safe promise, and the chances of this happening are extremely unlikely. Here’s why…
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Let’s examine the mathematical aspects of this statement:
To earn $1336 residual each month, a member must have his tree completely filled. This requires 8 people on Level 1, 64 people on Level 2, and 512 people on Level 3; totalling 584 people.
Currently, the Berry Tree has a little over 10,000 full (or upgraded) members. This means that in order for each new Berry Tree member to be guaranteed a full tree in 20 months, the company must recruit at least 5,840,000 members; i.e. 584 x 10,000 within this time period!
And, sorry folks. I don’t mean to put a negative twist on the company efforts, but from a realistic MLM point of view, this is a very careless projection for a new-blooded company that is just initiating corporate advertising. One of the training calls mentioned that the company’s goal is to turn our 10K organization into over 100,000 people by 2009. That’s a 1000% increase; not necessarily an easy or guaranteed level, but it is at least a possibility.
Let’s compare that 100K to the 5-6 Million mark mentioned earlier. Now we’re talking about a 50,000 – 60,000% increase compared to 1000%!
Starting to see the flaw with the “lazy $1336” promises? It’s quite far from a realistic 20 month goal!
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However, there is one true 20-month guarantee with the Berry Tree…
Perhaps specific advertisers and Berry Tree endorsers are confusing the matrix with the bonus pool requirements. It is true that anyone willing to commit to 20 months of autoship as an upgraded member will receive 10 berry member credits and thus qualify to earn from the Bronze bonus pool every month.
Yes, this is, in fact, guaranteed, because berry member credits can never be depleted or taken away. But, there is quite a difference between the bronze bonus pool shares and monthly residual income from a filled-tree. After all, we’re talking about $100-150 compared to $1336-1600 per month.
And, I certainly don’t mean to make light of this 20-month bonus. A guaranteed $50-100 and free product each month is certainly nothing to sneeze at. However, it’s more than necessary to clarify that people shouldn’t be expecting $1000s per month within 20 months if they do not plan to help build their own business.
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This entire warning relates back to some of my past encouragements and articles, which point out that those who are willing to put the effort into building a Berry tree team are going to reap the highest rewards.
Regardless, please don’t allow yourself to be deceived by promises of thousands of dollars with little to no work; which applies no matter what business or investing arena you may choose.
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– Ryan
RyzAutomatic@yahoo.com
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Allen Taylor
Thanks, Allen. Glad to have you with us!
– Ryan
nice work, brother
The bonus pool you are talking about is for the Bronze level. By remaining in the program even longer, one eventually gets to higher levels, such as Silver and Gold, where commissions are higher.
Also, it is possible to get there in half the time (for instance, 10 months instead of 20) by also buying some “quick start” package and paying higher fees. I call them fees to make the explanation easier, but product is included for that money. If you do that, you have to pay the same fees as for the Berry Tree, plus about $10 for an Automatic Builder Web site, plus an order of Nutronix products. The value of this order is measured in “commissionable value”, not in dollars, and the actual price tends to be higher than the number of “commissionable value” points, but you can order whatever you want. You must order at least 40 or at least 100 per month (commissionable value, not dollars), depending on the upgrade you buy. Or you may choose the one that is 550 once and 100 per month thereafter.
If you choose this “quick start” program, you get to Bronze in 10 months, not 20 (that is, if you don’t recruit anyone). It takes another 15 to get to Silver. In 50 months, you get to Gold (that is, if you don’t recruit a single person, as if you do, it takes less time). So you will, eventually, make as much as $1336 per month, or something in that range, at some point just by participating. It just takes longer than you may have thought.
I forgot to mention that no, the current commission levels for the bonus pools are NOT in that range, as discussed under other threads. So while you actually would advance in the system more or less as explained above, you should NOT expect the $1336 per month just out of the bonus pool, as my message may imply.
The compensation plan will be explained more in detail Saturday at 11.
If you have an Automatic Builder site, now, in the upper right corner, it says Go to AB Berry Tree, and you can go to the Berry Tree site of Automatic Builder. From which you can go back to the Nutronix site by clicking on Go to AB Nutronix.
New Berry Tree members get the site for free during the first 30 days, and the number of remaining days will appear on their site. Presumably, since we can go back and forth between both sites, we only have to pay for one site, if we are both in Nutronix and in the Berry Tree. They did not say anything about that, though.
Hello Matt
I’m a member of The TST team below is a person that came into the main training room and posted the following I could not ban him from the room there is nothing wrong with this site for him to say what he said but I wanted to let you know.
I told him that I was going to have him banned
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Dick Hertz just signed in.
– [5/25/2008 10:42:27 PM] Dick Hertz says:
– [5/25/2008 10:43:04 PM] Dick Hertz says:
Matt Yonan is a Liar…1336 per month?? My ASS!! Impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jo ANN Lamb just signed in.
– [5/25/2008 10:44:02 PM] Dick Hertz says:
Another Bullshit Hyped up Company!!!!!!!!
dattu just signed out.
dattu just signed out.
– [5/25/2008 10:46:17 PM] Dick Hertz says:
F*** all of you liar’s..with your misleading deception!!! All another MLM=Many Losing Money
Dick Hertz just signed out.
Hello Ida,
Interesting that this “Dick Hertz” fellow quoted our article and yet the article itself made no reference to Matt Yonan. This specific article was written to warn people about greedy, misleading Berry Tree representatives; not against the leaders themselves.
Anyway, the TST conference software is partially run by Gary Smith. You should contact him and ask him to view this individual’s IP address in his conference room backoffice. Then if this individual continues to cause trouble, Gary or another moderator can simply ban his IP from the TST connection.
You can reach him at: GarySmith4u@yahoo.com
– Ryan
More “good” news. Twelve people people (who are not Bremner, Yonan and company) each qualified for an equal share of the $15,000 Bonus Pool offered by The Berry Tree, Nutronix and AutomaticBuilder (BNA).
The bad news is that many other people did not qualify. In fact, I actually find it pathetic. For the whole program, it’s not such a large sum. Also, why wasn’t it used to give us all money instead of discreetly cancelling our bonus pool? And meanwhile, I have ordered the cheapest 100-cv package even though it’s not what I would have liked, just to spend less this month while still meeting the requirements.