Modere MLM Review – Another Health And Wellness Scam?

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You are doing research on Modere because someone approached you about it and you want to know if this company is legit or a scam. That’s what we’re about to find out.

If you have been here before, welcome back!

Thank you for taking the time to check out my Modere review!

One of the common questions I get asked often is if Modere a scam or not.

We’re going to take the next few minutes to take a look and get some answers.

The main concern I have for people who are researching this opportunity is that I don’t want them to get burned. In the profession of network marketing, anything could happen.

A company ends up shutting down in a few months due to bad business decisions for being non-compliant, compensation plan change, or the company not paying it’s distributors.

Even worst, your direct sponsor or upline leaves the company. Leaving you hanging to dry.

I understand that many of you are new. Sometimes we are not in a position to make a solid business assessment due to inexperience.

Additionally, I am going to offer you a way for you to escape the ‘9 to 5’ if you decide that this company is not for you.

More information about this program will be at the end of this post.

You landed on this blog because you are thinking about joining Modere because someone approached you about it or you just want to try out their products.

Unlike all the other Modere reviews on the internet, this is completely third party unbiased.  I have no relationship with this company what so ever so when you read this blog post all the way through and pay attention, I can assure you that I am not going to ask you to join or buy.

By the time you have read this unbiased review, you will be able to decide if Modere is a fit or not. I do not promote, nor I am affiliated with Modere.  I stand neutral in the current development of the Modere business.

With that said, let’s dive in!

What is Modere?

Modere is an MLM company that focuses on Health And Wellness. Modere became a re-branded company from Neways International. Neways was founded in 1992 but it was acquired in 2013 by Z Capital.

This transformation includes completely new ownership, management, branding, styling, pricing and growth strategies as well as a new name, business model and compensation plan.

After the transformation, Modere was officially launched in February 2014.

Modere is similar to Nu Skin, Rodan + Fields, Neora and Jeunesse.

Who is Robert Conlee?

During the NeWays transition, Robert Conlee stayed on as the owner of Modere and CEO.

Some of Robert’s past experience included CEO of Xango and President of an MLM company called Nu Skin, so we know he has a lot of experience in the MLM industry.

Who is the current CEO of Modere?

As of January 12, 2018, Asma Ishaq as of the CEO of the Modere company.

She was previously the President of the company’s Collagen Sciences division and the Chief Industry Relations Officer.

She is succeeding Robert Conlee as the CEO of the company.

She has a ton of experience in skincare and nutritional supplement development, product development and formulation.

She was on the DSA Board of Directors, a committee member of the Council of Responsible Nutrition and an advisory member of the International Fragrance Association of North America.

She was also the co-founder of Jusuru back in 2009.

She seems to have a great deal of knowledge of the industry that Modere is in and offers a great experience and top management skills. In my opinion, I feel Ishaq is a great fit.

Modere Product Line

Committed to their clean label “Safe and Effective. Live clean.”, Modere has made a conscious choice to leave out unnecessary and potentially harmful ingredients commonly found in conventional formulations.

Examples include sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), triclosan, petrolatum, parabens, phosphates, formaldehyde releasers, among numerous others.

Though commendable, I believe it is something consumers would expect of an MLM company, considering how over the top their pricing always is. In fact, all MLMs will boast of superior quality products, pure and beneficial ingredients, complemented with the latest technology, backed by intensive testing and research in their labs.

Now, let’s take a look at the wide range of products available in Modere:

• Collagen Sciences – their new generation of collagen, in the form of Liquid Biocell drinks and gel, and creamers.
• Health and wellness – multivitamins, probiotics, dietary supplements, meal replacements, body sculpting packages, etc.
• Personal care – skincare, haircare, makeup remover, eye care, etc.
• Household care – laundry wash, fabric softener, dish wash, surface cleaner, etc.

What is the Modere M3 Body System?

M3 is designed to help users achieve weight loss through a healthy diet and by making small lifestyle adjustments such as reducing daily caloric intake and increasing physical activity.

Modere’s M3 products focus is on clean standards. According to the company it does not contain any controversial substances and is both vegan and gluten-free. The M3 products include the following:

• Burn – A morning thermogenic made with ingredients shown to boost metabolism
• Sustain – An afternoon protein snack replacement shake designed to control cravings and help you feel fuller longer
• Sync – A delicious chocolate-flavored evening fiber drink that optimizes digestion

The Modere M3 is a product line for the Mediterranean lifestyle that Modere launched which is a complete weight loss system.

It is also known as the M3 Body System.

Each of the products that are included in this selection has a specific ingredient blend that is designed to help you lose weight.

These ingredients include:

• Protein
• Olive juice extract
• Coffee bean extract
• Chromium picolinate
• Cocoa bean powder
• Guarana seed extract

One of the statements that the company website claims is when you take the M3 challenge and follow the diet plan to the tee, including taking the right supplements, you will be able to lose 52% more weight loss compared to using any other programs.

Modere Compensation plan

The Modere compensation plan offers a unique splitting of retail and downline affiliate volume, split between two individual unilevel structures.

Various performance-based bonuses are also on offer, along with two revenue-sharing pool that shares in can be qualified for.

Modere Affiliate Membership Ranks

There are ten affiliate membership ranks within the Modere compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

• Social Marketing Consultant 1 – maintain 100 PV a month, 500 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment) and recruit at least one affiliate
• Social Marketing Consultant 2 – maintain 100 PV a month, 1000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment) and recruit at least one affiliate
• Social Marketing Consultant 3 – maintain 100 PV a month, 2000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment) and recruit at least one affiliate
• Social Marketing Team Leader – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit at least one affiliate and maintain a total monthly GV of 3,000 (max 1500 from any one unilevel leg)
• Social Marketing Director 1 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least one Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliate and maintain a total monthly GV of 12,000 (max 7000 from any one unilevel leg)
• Social Marketing Director 2 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least two Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates and maintain a total monthly GV of 25,000 (max 15,000 from any one unilevel leg)
• Social Marketing Director 3 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least three Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates and maintain a total monthly GV of 50,000 (max 35,000 from any one unilevel leg)
• Elite Social Marketer 1 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least three Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates and maintain a total monthly GV of 100,000 (max 70,000 from any one unilevel leg)
• Elite Social Marketer 2 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least three Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates and maintain a total monthly GV of 200,000 (max 140,000 from any one unilevel leg)
• Elite Social Marketer 3 – maintain 150 PV a month and 3000 GV a month (down three levels of recruitment), recruit and maintain at least three Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates and maintain a total monthly GV of 400,000 (max 280,000 from any one unilevel leg)

Note that PV stands for “Personal Volume”, and includes an affiliate’s own purchases and that of their retail customers.

GV stands for “Group Volume” and included sales volume generated by an affiliate’s downline.

Rank Advancement Bonus

Modere pay out a Rank Advancement Bonus at the Social Marketing Team Leader and Elite Social Marketer 1 affiliate ranks.

The Social Marketing Team Leader bonus is paid out over three months ($250 each month), assuming an affiliate maintains the rank during this time.

In a similar fashion, when an affiliate first qualifies as an Elite Social Marketer 1, they are paid $4000. If they maintain this rank over the next two months, they are paid an additional $4000 each month for a total of $12,000.

If an affiliate does not qualify in the second month, they can still receive a third-month bonus by re-qualifying before the start of the third month.

A matching bonus is also available to Social Marketing Team Leader ranked affiliates. This bonus pays out a 100% match ($250) on the three Rank Advancement Bonus payments made to newly qualified Social Marketing Team Leader affiliates.

No matching bonus is paid out on the Elite Social Marketer 1 Rank Advancement Bonus.

Retail Commissions

Retail commissions paid out by Modere range from 10% to 20%.

Each retail customer order generates points in the customer unilevel, with affiliates able to earn a bonus percentage on these points.

How much of a bonus percentage is paid out depends on how many total points have been generated by retail customer orders that month:

• less than 300 points = 10%
• between 300 and 499 points = 15%
• 500 points and over 20%

Additionally, at least 100 PV is required to qualify for the 15% and 20% commission rates.

Monthly Selling Reward

For affiliates who maintain at least 100 PV in sales volume a month, a Monthly Selling Reward cash bonus is available.

The bonus is paid out based out an affiliate’s retail sales volume and acquired customers:

• 1000 PV in retail sales and 5 customers = $100
• 2000 PV in retail sales volume and 10 customers = $250
• 3000 PV in retail sales volume and 15 customers = $500
• 5000 PV in retail sales volume and 25 customers = $750
• 7000 PV in retail sales volume and 35 customers = $1000

If an affiliate receives a Monthly Selling Reward bonus for three consecutive months, they are also paid an additional bonus equal to the lowest bonus paid during those three months.

Eg. If an affiliate qualifies at 2000 PV ($250) in one month, 5000 PV ($750) in the next and then $3000 PV ($500) in the third, they are paid a $250 bonus in that third month.

Breakout Bonus

Modere’s Breakout Bonus acts as a defacto recruitment commission. When an affiliate recruits a new affiliate, they receive a 25% bonus on any product orders made within the newly recruited affiliate’s first 30 days with the company.

A 10% commission is also paid out to the recruiting affiliate’s upline.

Any customers acquired by a Modere affiliate also generate the above commission percentages, tracked via Customer Points.

Residual Unilevel Commissions (affiliate volume)

Residual commissions in Modere are paid using a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

In turn, if any level 1 affiliates go on to recruit new affiliates of their own, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team. If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Modere cap payable unilevel levels at eight, with how many levels an affiliate is paid out on determined by their affiliate membership rank:

• Social Marketing Consultant 1 – 3% on level 1
• Social Marketing Consultant 2 – 3% on levels 1 and 2
• Social Marketing Consultant 3 – 4% on levels 1 and 2
• Social Marketing Team Leader – 5% on levels 1 to 3
• Social Marketing Director 1 – 5% on levels 1 to 3 and 3% on level 4
• Social Marketing Director 2 – 5% on levels 1 to 3 and 3% on levels 4 and 5
• Social Marketing Director 3 – 5% on levels 1 to 3, 4% on level 4 and 3% on levels 5 and 6
• Elite Social Marketer 1 – 5% on levels 1 to 3, 4% on levels 4 and 5 and 3% on levels 6 and 7
• Elite Social Marketer 2 – 5% on levels 1 to 4, 4% on levels 5 to 7 and 3% on level 8
• Elite Social Marketer 3 – 5% on levels 1 to 5 and 4% on levels 6 to 8

Residual Unilevel Commissions (retail volume)

Modere split the sales volume generated by affiliates. Affiliate volume is paid out via the unilevel described above, and retail customer volume is paid out via a separate unilevel.

This unilevel functions in the same manner as the affiliate volume unilevel, however Modere cap commissions at five levels rather than eight.

Again, how many levels an affiliate can earn down depends on their Modere affiliate membership rank:

• Social Marketing Consultant 1 – 3% on level 1
• Social Marketing Consultant 2 – 3% on levels 1 and 2
• Social Marketing Consultant 3 – 4% on levels 1 and 2
• Social Marketing Team Leader – 5% on levels 1 to 3
• Social Marketing Director 1 and 2 – 5% on levels 1 to 3 and 3% on level 4
• Social Marketing Director 3 and Elite Social Marketer 1 – 5% on levels 1 to 3 and 4% on level 4
• Elite Social Marketer 2 and 3 – 5% on levels 1 to 3, 4% on level 4 and 3% on level 5

Unilevel Bonuses

Referred to as a “Dynamic Bonus”, Modere pay Social Marketing Team Leader and Director ranked affiliates a 5% bonus on their unilevel level with the most volume.

Note that only this bonus only applies to the first three unilevel levels of an affiliate’s unilevel team (paid out on both the customer and affiliate unilevels).

A second unilevel bonus, referred to as the “4 & More Builder Bonus” pays affiliates a percentage bonus on unilevel volume generated by their fourth and onwards strongest unilevel legs.

The three strongest legs (volume-wise) are discounted, with the bonus paid out on the fourth and onwards legs as follows:

• Social Marketing Team Leader – 2%
• Social Marketing Team Directors (1 – 3) – 3%
• Elite Social Marketers (1 – 3) – 4%

Note that this percentage bonus is paid down the full length of the unilevel leg, irrespective of how many levels deep it runs.

Leadership Development Bonus

The Leadership Development Bonus is a generational bonus available to Social Marketing Director and Elite Social Marketer ranked affiliates.

The bonus pays out on the unilevel and Breakout bonuses paid to affiliates within a generation.

A generation is defined as all affiliates in any given unilevel leg, up until another affiliate of the same or higher rank as the affiliate qualfying.

Eg. If you are an Elite Social Marketer 1 ranked affiliate, your unilevel generations in each leg continue until another Elite Social Marketer 1 or higher ranked affiliate is found.

Using this model Social Marketing Director ranked affiliate to qualify for a bonus on one generation, and Elite Social Marketer affiliates on two.

Percentages paid out are fixed, dependent on an affiliate’s membership rank:

• Social Marketing Team Leader – 10%
• Social Marketing Director 1 – 12%
• Social Marketing Director 2 – 14%
• Social Marketing Director 3 – 16%
• Elite Social Marketer 1 – 18%
• Elite Social Marketer 2 – 20%
• Elite Social Marketer 3 – 22%

Note that these percentages apply to the volume being paid out on, not to the affiliate qualifying for the commission.

Eg. Even if an affiliate is at the Elite Social Marketer 3 rank, they will still only ever be paid 10% on the volume generated by Social Marketing Team Leaders.

As such, the maximum percentage payout is that of the rank of the affiliate qualifying for the commission (payable only on the volume of the affiliate who ends the generation (they are at the same or higher rank as the qualifying affiliate)).

Revenue-Sharing Pools

There are two revenue-sharing pools in Modere, with affiliates able to qualify for shares in them as follows:

Weekly Activity Pool

In order to qualify for shares in the Weekly Activity Pool, a Modere affiliate must purchase 300 PV worth of product when they sign up, be a customer who purchased a Beauty Box ($79) and then purchase 250 PV worth of product as an affiliate, or generate at least 2000 monthly retail PV and have 10 retail customers.

Shares in the Weekly Activity Pools are earnt either by signing up 8 customers who each spend $500 or more, or by recruiting three new affiliates.

Both these qualification criteria can be met over a rolling four week period.

Finally, a monthly minimum of 100 PV (either via autoship or retail sales) is also required.

Note that Modere does not specify how much money is put into the Weekly Activity Pool, other than to “guarantee” a $5000 minimum.

Leadership Activity Pool

Open to Social Marketing Team Leader or higher ranked affiliates, one share in the Leadership Activity Pool are earnt when a recruited affiliate anywhere in their downline qualifies for shares in the Weekly Activity Pool.

Modere don’t explicitly clarify this, but I believe shares are awarded per affiliate who qualifies for shares in the Weekly Activity Pool, not per share earnt in the pool itself.

Finally, an affiliate must themselves have qualified for at least one share in the Weekly Activity Pool to qualify for a payment int he Leadership Activity Pool.

Modere does not specify how much money they put into the Leadership Activity Pool.

What are the pros and cons of Modere?

Here are the Pros:

• Member of the DSA
• Modere is accredited with the BBB since November 2018 and has an A+ rating
• environmentally friendly approach
• the compensation plan rewards Social Marketers for great customer sales which is acknowledged through different ranks and bonus payments (promoter title)

What Are The Cons:

• the required monthly auto-ship of at least $100 is a no-go for me
• the earnings potential/profit margin is very low according to the income disclosure
• there is no indication of what kind of training Modere provides to Social Marketers
• more and more MLM companies are selling via social marketing so Moderes approach is not so unique anymore
• despite an A+ rating on BBB, there are several complaints  regarding customer service, refund issues, and product quality

How to join Modere

To promote Modere to make money through the compensation plan that they provide you will have to pay the initial startup price of $29.95.

Modere will encourage you to purchase a Builder Package starting at $399, this will provide you with personal volume that will get counted toward your compensation plan qualifications.

My Final Thoughts

Before you decide to join Modere. I would recommend that you try out the products first. See if it’s a fit for what you’re looking for.

If you don’t believe in the products that you are selling, chances are others wouldn’t. Makes sense, right?

If you’ve decided that you want to join Modere, you must have the following if you want to succeed:

• A support team and system that will help build your business.
• A mentor that will take you by the hand and help you reach your dreams and goals.
• A constant flow of new leads and prospects that want to join your business.

It is not easy to be successful in the Modere business and which is why more than 95% fail.

If you feel the person you are going to sign up with is not going to be able to give you the necessary tools to help you succeed…

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Modere Is Not A Fit For You?

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Last but not least (drum roll please)…

I would love to hear from you if you are looking to join Modere or if you were an affiliate.

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The feedback will help out those who are doing research on the company.