Mona Vie Complaints - I Didn't Find Many But What About Value?
Mona Vie offers a nutritional products that are marketed via a multi level network of independent distributors. The benefits attributed to Mona Vie juice and Active include living longer, having greater energy and reduced aches and pains and, if you are a distributor, making money.
The company is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and was founded by Dallin Larsen. The business plan is hailed by some industry professionals as very generous and the most innovative and lucrative plan ever devised. The plan allows for multiple ways to earn weekly income, listing numerous levels: direct sales, bulk order bonus, first order bonus, star maker bonus and team commissions for a start. If you get that far, the bonuses get more complicated, but supposedly will steadily increase your income.
The Mona Vie juice costs $30 to $40 per 25 ounce bottle and the difference between wholesale and retail prices allows for a mark-up of about 15 percent. Bulk purchases qualify for lower pricing and earn bonus points. Obviously, the idea is to incentive volume purchases and reward those who move a large volume of product.
The recommended dosage of the juice in order to achieve the claimed benefits is one to two ounces twice daily. At that rate, a bottle would last about a week. The key ingredient is acai berry, from the Brazilian Amazon. Acai is considered to be a super-food due to high levels of antioxidants. Other fruits are added to created a juice blend which tastes great to some people.
Health benefits attributed to the product include boosting your immune system and improved resistance to serious conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, blindness, cancer and other chronic illnesses. The company literature that I read refrained from making such claims. Some people believe that antioxidants are helpful in slowing aging.
Many people in the USA fail to consume the recommended servings of fruit and produce daily. It follows that nutritional supplements can be a benefit when diet does not deliver all the needed nutrients. Attention to detail is important in comparing nutritional products. I noticed that the Mona Vie literature lists relatively few nutrients compared to a multi-vitamin product.
Although the primary benefits of the Mona Vie product are said to stem from antioxidants, the ORAC score of a serving of Mona Vie was not stated in the material that I read. Clearly, acai berry has high ORAC value but it is still important to know the ORAC value per serving. As for vitamins and minerals, the Mona Vie literature indicated that one serving contains 20% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C, 1% of the sodium and 3% of total carbohydrates.
For the price of Mona Vie, I was expecting much fuller coverage of all the vitamins and minerals and a stated ORAC value per serving. Based on what I have seen, the product delivers a very narrow amount of diet supplementation at a high price. The liquid multi-vitamin supplement that I use, which is also an MLM product, costs only $30 delivered for a whole month's supply and covers all the vitamins and minerals as well as phytonutrients and antioxidants (2500 ORAC per serving). The Mona Vie juice looks very weak in comparison.
Those looking for an antioxidant supplement or business should check out Xocai healthy chocolate with 3582 ORAC value in each square. I suspect that it is easier to sell people on the idea of substituing healthy chocolate for other candy in order to get their antioxidants than getting them add a costly juice.
If you feel that your home business should have a consumable product that people need and want and that is good value, then you may have some concerns over the cost / benefit aspect of Mona Vie. However, the company is very successful which makes it clear that they know how to market and build a distributor organization.
It is easier to promote a business when the products are better value than what people can find elsewhere, have strong appeal (who doesn't like chocolate) and are something that people are already spending money on.
In conclusion, I do not see Mona Vie as a fit for me but one has to respect the success that the company and their distributors enjoy. Those that see value in the product will be best positioned to succeed with it.
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Chris Gatenby is an online marketer focusing on home business. Be sure to consider two of his recommended home businesses referred to in the article: Xocai Chocolate and GBG Nutrition & Weight Loss.
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