Yoli Founder Daren Falter’s “2009 Network Marketing’s Best Companies Review.”

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2009 Best Companies in MLM Review

By Daren C. Falter

Thank you for studying my articles and my book. By doing so, you have proven that you are genuinely interested in becoming educated about network marketing. Hopefully, this book has helped you to better understand emerging trends in network marketing. I also hope that you learned some valuable techniques for selecting the right network marketing company for you.

Using the criteria found in these articles and in my book, I reviewed over four hundred of the most popular network marketing companies. This was quite an undertaking. I gained valuable insights about the industry that have helped me continue to evaluate opportunities more accurately and objectively. Although many companies scored highly in testing, many did not. Some programs didn’t make the top ten, top twenty, or even the top four hundred. Some didn’t make any list other than my black list.

Although many of the following programs have significant flaws that would keep them from being recommended as top opportunities today, they are worth listing. The top ten opportunities are worth evaluating seriously, and only the top five scored high enough to be considered superior companies. I update this list as new information becomes available. However, these updates are only accurate at the date of publishing. I realize that there may be companies that were doing fantastic at the date of publishing, but within as little as two weeks, a company can get into big trouble. So please excuse any information that has become inaccurate. Be sure to check http://www.networkmarketingbook.com for updates, corrections, and additions.

One of the reasons I conducted such a thorough study of over four hundred programs was to pick the number one company in network marketing for the purpose of pursuing an independent distributorship. Although I believe in developing multiple streams of income, I truly believe that you should commit to one network marketing opportunity at a time and give it your heart and soul. Please review the following pages to find a list of the top programs in network marketing today.

The following is a list of my top picks in North America for 2010. It’s no coincidence that none of these companies are start-ups. In fact, all of these companies are 4-30 years old. Be sure to study Chapter Seven of my book again to understand why start-up companies are high risk.

You also see that there is a strong focus on health and nutrition products among these top companies. I spent a lot of time in Chapters Five and Six of my book explaining why health and nutrition is the most viable industry today. It’s also interesting to note that although many of these companies have from fifty to over one thousand products in their line, nearly half of these thirty companies utilized a single flagship product or a single line of products to produce momentum growth.

Over one third of these companies still produce a majority of their revenue through a handful of products, sometimes even just a single product. Most of these companies feature a unilevel, breakaway, or binary compensation plan, or a hybrid plan which is a combination of two or more. Be sure you study Chapter Eight of my book carefully so you can understand the pros and cons of each before making your ultimate choice.

In Chapter Nine of my book, I outlined many strategies and tools for scrutinizing the company’s management team. Although we don’t have room to comment on each below, know that this is the most important criterion of them all. The experience, integrity, and ambition of the founders of these top thirty companies is as varied as their product lines, but these companies have all show some level of determination to get where they are today. Be sure to carefully check out each of the founders on your own. This is the key to a long, successful career in network marketing, and in finding a successful match for you.

Finally, every company featured in the top thirty has phenomenal products or they would not have made the list. You can rest assured that these are some of the best products in the world, and I would use and recommend all of them (and I actually do use and recommend many of them).

Success leaves clues, and so does failure. Make sure you study this book inside and out so you can understand why some companies survive in network marketing and some don’t. Being featured on this list of the top thirty companies in network marketing for 2010 is an honor but there are no guarantees that these companies will continue to grow and thrive. Odds say that several of these companies will make poor choices over the next five years and sabotage their existing momentum, and possibly even go out of business. Continue to apply the strategies for scrutinizing network marketing companies outlined in my book and articles and you’ll drastically increase your chances for selecting a solid, long-term winner every time.

Daren’s Top Thirty – Listed by year of launch, most recent to oldest

Companies with the * have achieved special recognition based on superior performance over the last five years. Not all of these companies are doing well presently but most are likely to survive long term. Statistics show that a few of these top thirty companies will go out of business over the next five years.

Company   Founded Products/Services Offered Compensation Plan

Max Int’l 2006 Nutrition, Glutathione Accelerator Binary Hybrid
Agel 2006 Nutrition, Gelceuticals Binary Hybrid
*Monavie 2004 Nutrition (Acai Juice) Binary Hybrid
*SendOutCards 2003 Automated Greeting Card Delivery Unilevel
Vemma 2003 Nutrition Binary
Scent-Sations 2002 Soy Candles, Gifts Unilevel
VitaMark 2002 Nutrition (LimuPlus) Unilevel
*XanGo 2002 Nutrition (Mangosteen Juice) Unilevel
Isagenix 2001 Weight Loss, Nutrition, Skin Care Binary
ForeverGreen 2000 Nutrition, FrequenSea, O3 World Unilevel
Unicity 1999 Nutrition (Enrich-1985/Rexall-1993) Breakaway
4 Life Research 1998 Nutrition (Transfer Factor, Riovida) Unilevel
Univera (Oasis) 1998 Nutrition (Ageless) Unilevel Hybrid
Youngevity 1997 Nutrition (minerals, Vitale, Wallach) Unilevel
Tahitian Noni 1996 Nutrition (Noni), Personal Care Unilevel
Immunotech 1996 Nutrition (Immunocal) Unilevel
New Vision 1995 Nutrition (Forte, Mangosteen Plus) Unilevel
FreeLife 1995 Nutrition (Goji Juice) Personal Care Unilevel
*Usana 1992 Nutrition (Essentials), Personal Care Binary
Market America 1992 Nutrition, Variety Breakaway
Mannatech 1992 Nutrition (Ambrotose, Manapol) Unilevel Hybrid
Amazon Herb 1990 Nutrition (rainforest herbs) Unilevel
Young Living 1989 Essential Oils, Nutrition Unilevel
Reliv 1988 Nutrition (Reliv Now, Slimplicity) Breakaway
Melaleuca 1985 Household, Personal Care, Nutrition Matrix (5×7)
*NuSkin/Pharmanex1984/98                  Nutrition (Bioscanner), Skin Care                            Breakaway
*Arbonne 1984 Skin Care, Personal Care Breakaway
Oxyfresh 1983 Nutrition, Dental Hygiene Breakaway
*Herbalife 1980 Nutrition (ShapeWorks, Formula 1) Breakaway
Forever Living 1978 Nutrition, Skin Care (aloe vera) Breakaway

The following is a list of companies that have paved the way for younger opportunities to follow. Our hats go off to these industry founders who have all survived at least thirty years. I’d rather select any of these grandparent companies than join most of the less proven, unstable companies in MLM. Some of these even made my top thirty list above, despite their maturity, and they are still giving some of the younger companies a run for their money.

Notice how much more diverse the product industries are. Household consumables dominated the market during the 1960s and 1970s. Also notice that all of these older companies feature a traditional breakaway compensation plan. A dieing breed, the breakaway is one of the most widely used plan in network marketing. This is mainly due to the fact that it was the only choice up until about 20 years ago.

Primerica 1977 Financial (stocks, insurance) Breakaway
Watkins 1977 Household Items Breakaway
Nikken 1975 Nutrition (health magnets) Breakaway
Nature’s Sunshine 1972 Nutrition (Thai-Go, Enzymes, Vitamins) Breakaway
Pre-Paid Legal 1972 Legal Services/Bought TPN Breakaway
NSA 1970 Household, Nutrition (Juice Plus) Breakaway
Mary Kay 1963 Cosmetics, Personal Care Breakaway
Amway/Quixtar 1959 Household, Soap, Catalog Shopping Breakaway
Golden Neo-Life 1958 Nutrition (Diamite) Breakaway
Shaklee 1956 Nutrition (VitaLee) Breakaway
Fuller Brush 1911 Household Products Breakaway
Avon 1886 Cosmetics, Personal Care Breakaway

Popular MLM Companies in 2009-2010

Please note that I do not necessarily endorse or recommend any of these companies. This is simply a list of the most popular and recognized network marketing companies as of 2010.

Company Name                     US Phone #             Corporate Website

4Life Research 888-454-3374 www.4life.com
ACN 248-699-4000 www.acninc.com
AdvoCare 972-478-4500 www.advocare.com
Agel 801-563-3366 www.agel.com

Amazon Herb                        800-835-0850       www.rainforestbio.com

AmeriPlan                             972-702-9856         www.ameriplanusa.com

AMS                                       405-842-0131         www.amsonline.com

Amway                                  616-676-6000         www.amway.com

Arbonne                                949-770-2610           www.arbonne.com

Avon                                       212-282-5100          www.avon.com

Biometics                               805-383-3535          www.biometics.com

Body Alive                             877-562-2725           www.bodyalivenow.com

Body Wise                             801-466-8300           www.bodywise.com

Chews 4 Health                     800-918-6778        www.chews4health.com

Care Entre                              972-915-3200       www.careentree.com

Creative Memories               800-468-9335     www.creativememories.com

Cell Tech                                541-882-5406           www.celltech.com

Cognigen (Bay Hill CC)          206-297-3900       www.cognigen.com

Cyberwize                               941-371-1010         www.cyberwize.com

Discovery Toys                      800-341-8697       www.discoverytoys.com

DWG                                        702-262-5555       www.dwginternational.com

EcoQuest                                800-989-2299       www.ecoquest.com

Eniva                                       763-795-8870       www.eniva.com

Enliven                                    800-548-5746       www.enliveninternational.com

Enlyten                                   888-436-5983       www.enlyten.com

Essentially Yours             604-759-5000           www.eyicom.com

eXfuze                               561-626-4515            www.exfuze.com

ForeverGreen                   801-655-5500       www.forevergreen.org

Forever Living                  800-309-2057    www.foreverliving.com

ForMor                              501-336-0077      www.formorintl.com

Fortune Hi-Tech              859-422-7008       www.gofortuneonline.com

FreeLife                             203-882-7250       www.freelife.com

Fruta Vida                          512-266-1944     www.frutavida.com

Fuller Brush                       620-792-1711    www.fullerbrush.com

Gano Excel                         626-338-808     www.ganoexcel.com

Genesis Pure                      801-492-5888      www.genesispure.com

Genewize                            888-488-9493      www.genewize.com

Golden Neo-Life D.           510-651-0405       www.gnld.com

Goldshield Elite                 866-218-8142       www.goldshieldelite.com

Goyin                                   808-944-6552        www.123goyin.com

Herbalife                             310-410-9600      www.herbalife.com

Heritage Health                 970-484-7120       www.heritagehealthproducts.com

Ideal Health (Trump Ntwk) 800-768-7667        www.idealhealth.com Immunotec                            450-424-9992          www.immunotec.com

Infinity2                                  800-572-0501         www.infinity2.net

InnerLight                              801-655-0601       www.innerlightinc.com

Internal Creations                 480-284-8295       www.internalcreations.com

Jerky Direct                           888-395-3759       www.jerkydirect.com

Kiiera

Isagenix

Legacy For Life Lets Get Fishing Life Force

Life Plus Lifestyles LifeVantage

818-217-3005

856-983-6900

800-557-8477

702-450-5905

800-531-4877

870-698-2311

800-461-3438

866-460-7241

www.kiiera.com www.isogenix.com www.legacyforlife.com www.letsgetfishing.com www.lifeforce.net www.lifeplus.com www.lifestyles.net www.lifevantage.com
Limu Company, The 866-852-4832 www.thelimucompany.com
Longevity Network 702-454-7000 www.longevity.com
Mannatech 972-471-7400 www.mannatech.com
Market America 336-605-0040 www.marketamerica.com
Mary Kay 972-687-6300 www.marykay.com
Matol (Now Univera) 800-363-6286 www.matol.com
Max Int’l 801-316-6380 www.maxgxl.com
Medifast 800-209-0878 www.medifast1.com
Melaleuca 208-522-0700 www.melaleuca.com
Monatau 888-778-7432 www.monatau.com
Monavie 801-748-3100 www.monavie.com
Moxxor 949-362-0889 www.moxxor.com
MXI (Xocai) 775-971-9903 www.mxicorp.com
NHT Global 604-533-4425 www.nhtglobal.com
Natures Pearl 336-998-2386 www.naturespearlproducts.com
Nature’s Sunshine 800-223-8225 www.naturessunshine.com
New Vision 480-927-8999 www.newvision.com
Neways 801-423-2800 www.neways.com
Nikken 949-789-2000 www.nikken.com
NSA 901-366-9288 www.nsaonline.com
NuCerity 713-961-9080 www.nucerity.com
NuSkin 801-345-1000 www.nuskin.com
Nuriche

OceanGrown

801-765-8845

941-921-2401

www.nuriche.com

www.oceangrown.com

Omnitrition 972-702-7600 www.omnitrition.com
Orenda 480-889-1001 www.orendainternational.com
Orovo 877-466-7686 www.orovo.com
Oxyfresh 800-333-7374 www.oxyfresh.com
Pharmanex 801-345-1000 www.pharmanex.com
Pre-Paid Legal 580-436-1234 www.prepaidlegal.com
Primerica 770-381-1000 www.primerica.com
Pro Image 800-323-3681 www.proimageteam.com
Pro Young 760-598-7029 www.proyounginternational.com
Qivana 801-610-4600 www.qivana.com
Quixtar 616-787-7000 www.quixtar-inc.com
Reliv 636-537-9715 www.reliv.com
ReVita                                  Royal Body Care Scent-Sations SeaAloe SendOutCards SenSatiaFruit Shaklee

Sib

904-269-3240

972-893-4000

866-207-2368

800-299-8256

801-463-3800

620-665-7900

925-924-2000

801-542-7500

www.re-vita.com www.royalbodycare.com www.scent-team.com www.seasilver.com www.sendoutcards.com www.sensatiafruit.com www.shaklee.com www.sibu.com
Simplexity (was CellTech) Sisel

Somalife StemTech Sunrider Symmetry Synergy Tahitian Noni

Take Shape for Life

Trivani Ultra Unicity Univera Uri

800-687-1107

801-423-5555

250-491-5090

541-850-1700

310-781-8096

800-796-6387

801-431-7600

801-234-1000

800-572-4417

888-874-8264

816-876-2573

801-226-2600

877-627-4749

435-586-8125

www.simplexityhealth.com www.mysisel.com www.somalife.net www.stemtechhealth.com www.sunrider.com www.symmetrydirect.com www.synergyworldwide.com www.tahitiannoni.com www.tsfl.com

www.trivani.us www.ultraselects.com www.unicitynetwork.com www.univeralifesciences.com www.uriinternational.com

Usana

Vemma/New Vision

ViSalus

Vision For Life Vitamark Waiora Watkins

Wellness OneWorld

Winalite

World Ventures

Xelr8

XanGo

Yoli

Young Living

801-954-7100

480-927-8999

877-847-2587

405-949-1777

281-220-1240

866-699-2467

651-776-7632

763-780-8080

020-22268338

702-486-7355

303-316-8577

801-816-8000

888-295-9009

801-418-8900

www.usana.com www.vemma.com www.visalus.com www.v4l.com www.vitamark.com www.waiora.com www.watkinsonline.com www.wellnessoneworld.com www.winalite.com www.worldventures.biz www.xelr8.com www.xango.net www.prelaunchinsider.com www.youngliving.com
Youngevity YTB Travel Zrii

Zurvita

800-982-3189

618-655-9477

801-878-8099

713-464-5002

www.youngevity.com www.ytb.com www.zrii.com www.zurvita.com

Again, these companies are not necessarily endorsed or recommended by me. This is simply a list of popular companies. If the company you’re evaluating is not listed here, it is possible that it’s still worth looking into. Great companies are popping up all the time. However, proceed with extreme caution since the chances of that company surviving are less than one percent.

About the Author

Daren C. Falter is the author of the network marketing industry-wide best seller How to Select a Network Marketing Company. Daren has been a consultant to the network marketing industry for over 12 years and a student and participant for over 20 years. Daren has built downline organizations into the tens of thousands of distributors with several different companies. Daren is a popular convention speaker and trainer. You can visit Daren online at his blog at  www.networkmarketingreview.com. You can also order Daren’s best-selling MLM book at www.networkmarketingbook.com.

Daren recently launched a new network marketing company, Yoli, Inc., near Salt Lake City, Utah. Daren and his four partners are excited to introduced the worlds most nutritious beverage using patented BlastCap™ Technology. For more information about Blast Cap Technology, Blast Caps, or Yoli, visit Yoli at  www.prelaunchinsider.com.

Copyright ©2009 DC Falter Marketing, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ATTENTION: Breaking News!

Daren Falter will be launching a new company called Yoli. We will be introducing an incredible new nutritional formula in the form of a delicious functional beverage using Mikel Anderson’s patented Blast Cap Technology. The founders of Yoli are Robby Fender, Daren Falter, Rick Eisele, Corey Citron, and Michael Prichard. To find out more about Yoli Blast Cap Technology, visit www.prelaunchinsider.com

Kingsley Ennis is one of the  few “hand selected” FOUNDING DISTRIBUTORS that are helping to launch this new company … and you can join him and one of the fastest growing teams in all of Yoli at the very beginning of this great network marketing adventure!

With a background in the Seminar Industry and 12 years of Noteworthy Success in Network Marketing Kingsley is the Author of “Split Second Marketing” & “Your Extreme Advantage”. You can listen to them FREE at www.usahomebusinessexperts.com

QUESTIONS ABOUT YOLI?  Email kingsley@goyoli.com or call 717-303-5710.

Have you heard of these companies? Monavie, Xango, Nuskin, Usana, Tahitian Noni, Freelife, Melaleuca, Max International, Agel, Send Out Cards, Vemma, Scent-Sations, Forevergreen, Pharmanex, Isagenix, Univera, Herbalife, Amazon Herb, Arbonne, Mary Kay, Vitamark, New Vision, Unicity, Mannatech, Oxyfresh, 4 Life Research, Longevity, Life Plus, Forever Living, Forever Green, Youngevity, Nikken, Immunotech, Reliv, Shaklee, Nature’s Sunshine, Pre-Paid Legal, NSA, Amway, Quixstar, Cyberwize, Gano Excel, Genewize, Goyin, Kiiera, Legacy, Life Force, Market America, Matol, Neways, Nuriche, Ocean Grown, Qivana, Sibu, Sisal, Stemtech, Visalus, Waiora, Young Living, Zurvita, Trump Network. Visit www.networkmarketingreview.com for commentary and reviews.

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