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Arbonne International is another skin care and cosmetics multi-level marketing company (MLM). They are nowhere close in size to the big two, Avon and Mary Kay, but they have been experiencing pretty rapid growth in the sales force. In 2005, they had around 350,000 independent consultants.
Like other MLMs, Arbonne has a bona fide product offered, but the “big money” comes via recruiting. However, the money doesn’t seem so big. The average commissions earned by the majority of the sales force are well under $1,000 per quarter per person.
At the very top levels of the sales force, commissions of almost $100,000 per quarter were paid to each person, but there are very, very few who ever reach that level. Company statistics say that only 0.04% (four one-hundredths of one percent) of the sales force is at that level.
The company advertises the products as being “botanically-based.” Arbonne also touts the fact that their products contain no mineral oil. These are used as major selling points, but again, the focus appears to be on recruiting new sales force members and encouraging those members to “invest” heavily in inventory.
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