Plexus Summary

What is Plexus Worldwide?

Plexus Worldwide is a company started in 2006 in Arizona and is a MLM company. 

Being a MLM company, they don't spend money on advertisement and marketing. Instead they allow people to sign up as distributors and to sell the products themselves. They get a commission on each sale and a commission when they recruit people into the system.

This type of business scheme is riddled with problems and I'll explain more later on but most people just end up losing money. 

Most MLM's don't last more than a few years so the fact this company has been around for 13 years is a plus.

There's been some controversy with Plexus in that time, however.

The FDA warned Plexus to take down some of the health claims made on their website for being false. 

The America Cancer Society asked them not to use their name in association with their Breast Check Kit and The Environmental Research Center filed a lawsuit claiming Plexus hadn't properly disclosed their products contained lead.

The ethics of this company are certainly questionable. 

Is Plexus A Pyramid Scheme?

Not all MLM's are pyramid schemes.

Some people like to brand any and all MLM's one but it's not true. So I'm not going to say Plexus is a pyramid scheme (which would be illegal) and instead has similarties and elements of one.

The picture below explains what I'm talking about:

As you can see that looks like a pyramid and it is. BUT only a part of the commission structure looks like the above picture at Plexus (the part that involves recruitment).

If recruitment was the only way to make money, you'd be in a pyramid scheme but you can sell Plexus products directly to customers and earn a commission that way. 

Recruitment is where the money is, however, and you'd have a hard time being successful without recruiting. 

Success Is Rare At Plexus

MLM's are very flawed and this type of system produces a few big winners while the rest make little money or lose money. 

More established MLM's usually come with an income disclosure form where they show the percent of people making money and if you want to read Plexus' income disclosure, click here. 

The chart below sums everything up:

There's various ranks you can achieve at Plexus that are based on your performance (sales + recruitment). 

As you can see 82% of people never get past the first rank of Ambassador and only make on average $300 FOR THE YEAR.

This comes out to $25 per month and less than a $1 a day (again this is what 82% of the people who join Plexus make).

The next group is the Senior Ambassador which makes up 5% of all people who've joined Plexus. They make $1707 for the year which comes out to $142 per month and about $4 per day.

After that we have the Silver Ambassador which makes up nearly 9% of the people at Plexus. This group makes $3778 for the year which comes out to $314 per month and about $11 per day.

So 96% of people who join Plexus make less than $11 per day and the overwhelming majority makes less than a $1 day.

Does this sound like a business you want to get involved with? Of course not.

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How Much To Join Plexus?

If there's one good thing about MLM's in general it's that they're usually pretty cheap to join.

This is especially true when you compare the cost of joining a MLM to starting a brick and mortar business. The first is a few hundred and the second costs $100,000 on average. 

Technically it only costs $34.95 annually to join Plexus but there's more expenses you'll have to pay. 

In order to make sales you'll need to buy the products and there's various packs you can purchase from Plexus, which are:

• Tri-Plex Welcome Pack – $133.95
• Double Tri-Plex Welcome Pack – $233.95
• Slim & Accelerator+ Welcome Pack – $133.95
• Double Slim & Accelerator Welcome Pack – $233.95
• Slim & Boost Welcome Pack – $133.95
• Business Booster Welcome Pack – $233.95
• Slim & X Welcome Pack – $133.95

There's another hidden cost as well. In order to be eligible for commissions you need to sell $100 worth of products per month.

It's going to take you months before you're selling that much which means you'll have to sign up for autoship.

This means $100 worth of products will be sent to you every month and you have to pay for it. 

This can add up fast if you aren't selling well and you can lose a lot of money if you aren't careful. 

Plexus Compensation Plan

MLM's are notorious for having very complicated compensation plans. If you're unfamiliar with MLM jargon it's going to be really hard for you to understand how you make money with Plexus.

If you want to read the plan for yourself, click here. 

You can also watch the video below to learn more:

I don't think it's important to understand the ins and outs of the compensation plan and instead I'm going to just summarize the most important parts. 

Affiliate Rank

The first thing to understand here is the different ranks you can achieve at Plexus.

If you read this entire article you saw a graph above that indicated there's 10 different ranks you can achieve (83% percent don't get past the first rank and 96% don't get past the third rank).

You get to the next rank by reaching certain goals. For instance, to go from Ambassador to Senior Ambassador you have to recruit and maintain two commission qualified affiliates. 

To get from Senior Ambassador to Silver Ambassador you have to recruit and maintain 3 recruits. 

This goes on until you reach the Diamond Ambassador rank which requires you to recruit and maintain 7 commission qualified affiliates and have a total downline volume of 4500 GV. 

Retail Commissions

One of the ways you can make money with Plexus is by selling their products directly to customers and earning a commission. 

The percent you get is determined by how much you sell. Here's what you earn based on how much you sell:

• Less than $100 = not qualified for commissions
• $100 to $499.99 = 15%
• $500+ = 25%

Recruitment Commissions

When you get someone to join your downline and they buy one of the product packs you get a 50% commission on it.

You also get upline commissions which means you get commissions when your recruits recruit up to 3 levels.

Residual Commissions

This is the part of the scheme that is closest to a pyramid scheme and is also where the majority of the money is made.

The commission structure here is based on an unilevel structure and looks like the following:

How many levels you can earn from depends on your rank. If you're a Senior Ambassador you earn down to level 3.

If you get up to Senior Ruby Ambassador you get can earn up to 7 levels of your downline. 

Various Bonuses

There's various bonuses you can earn as well including a Rank Achievement Bonus (bonus you get when you go from one rank to another), Bonus Pool, Sapphire Bonus Pool, Diamond Bonus Pool, and more.

These bonuses aren't that important to know until you're already making money with Plexus. 

Plexus Products

If you're planning on selling for Plexus you should probably understand what products they offer. 

They're most known for their Slim product which is an appetite suppressant and used for weight loss purposes. 

There's plenty of other products offered too including:

Weight Loss

This is where you'll find the Slim as well as fat burner pills, vanilla and chocolate whey protein and other products. 

Nutrition

In this section they offer various products that supposedly help with your nerves, different vitamins, probiotics and more. 

Skincare

They offer a line of skincare products known as Joyome as well. There's various products here that help with different products. 

Personal Care

In this section is two different creams and a breast check kit. 

Combos

This section mixes and matches the various products and let's you save by combining them. 

One thing I would say about these products is they are pretty pricey and I don't think you'll have an easy time selling them.

Most people will think they're too expensive. 

What I Like About Plexus

I'm not a fan of Plexus and think you should skip this opportunity but there's things I like about it including:

• Established: MLM's come and go and it's not uncommon for them to disappear over night without warning. This means people can lose their income overnight. Plexus has been around for a while and probably won't fold anytime soon.

What I Like About Plexus

There's WAY more not to like here than to like and the main things I don't like include:

• Expensive products: Weight loss is already a crowded market and it'll be hard to enter it. It gets even harder when you're selling expensive products too.
• Autoship: When you first sign up you'll need to autoship products until you can sell $100 a month to be commission eligible. This cost quickly adds up and will likely put you a few hundred in the hole right away.
• Will have to bother friends and family: Many close relationships get ruined because of MLM's. People don't like to be brought into schemes and that's what will happen if you want to make money with Plexus. 
• Low success rates: Barely anyone makes money with Plexus. In fact 83% that do make money make LESS THAN $1 A DAY.

Is Plexus A Scam?

So at the end of the day you're probably wondering if Plexus is indeed a scam.

I think it's very close and there's definitely somethings that make this MLM very close to a pyramid scheme but I don't think it's a complete scam.

Instead I think it's just a bad business opportunity. 

Some people do make very good money with Plexus but it's rare. Most people either lose their money or make less than a $1 a day.

That's not good.

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