Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Non Profit and Beachbody Make a Great Team!

There is a great opportunity for Beachbody Coaches and non profit organizations to work together to raise money for the non profit’s cause. The non profit organization is able to sell Beachbody products, and all of the commissions go directly to the non profit organization.
What makes this fundraising opportunity a “no brainer” for the non profit, is that it is completely free for them. Any 501(c)(3) non profit can get started completely for free, there is no start up cost, and no monthly fee that the non profit organization is required to pay.
There are over 1 million registered non profits in the U.S., think of all of the possibilities. School districts, churches, little league baseball, soccer, football, or basketball teams could take part in this fundraising opportunity. Instead of having a traditional “bake sale” to raise for your you kid’s soccer team, offer a healthy alternative and raise money with Beachbody products. In schools, instead of the students selling unhealthy pizza kits, popcorn, or chocolates, they could offer Shakeology and Beachbody’s popular workout programs.

Non profit organizations are signed up through a Beachbody Coach, who will then work with a liaison from the non profit. The Coach is responsible for helping the organization put together a marketing plan, and help come up the marketing materials that will be needed. When an organization decides to participate in this fundraising opportunity, the non profit’s business center acts the same as if they signed up as a regular Coach. The non profit organization gets a website to makes sales from, and all of the sales are considered team volume to the Coach that got the signed up the non profit. This is why a Coach would be willing to work with a non profit and help set up a marketing plan, they will be compensated in the form of team volume, which they could then earn bonuses on if they qualified. It is a win/win for both parties, the non profit gets the opportunity to raise money for their cause by being able to sell Beachbody products, and the Coach that introduced the non profit to the opportunity can potentially earn bonuses on all of the volume created from the non profit sales.
Some Beachbody Coaches have already signed up entire school districts. With the way this business model works, a Beachbody Coach could potentially grow a very large organization just from getting 2 non profits involved in this fundraising opportunity.
If you are a involved with a 501(c)(3) non profit organization and are interested in learning more…Go here and request a call back, www.mrsbeachfit.tripleresource.com. I will get back with you as soon as I can (within 24 hours) or contact me at 760-224-2534

Friday, February 3, 2012

Shakeology in Bloomberg Business Week!

I recently came across a great article about Shakeology, and the creator Darin Olien. The article talks about the business side of things and refers to Beachbody as a “multilevel marketing powerhouse”, which is awesome to hear because just few years ago Beachbody was considered a small start up company, at least the home based business opportunity side of it was.

The article went on to say that Shakeology creates $100 million dollars annually and that it is responsible for 20% of the company’s business. It also said that the numbers on Shakeology are growing at 100% annually, with no advertising. I guess that means you can credit the Beachbody Coach network for those great growth numbers, that is exactly how the business model of network marking is supposed to work.

The article also discusses the ingredients in Shakeology, and for the most part it gets great reviews from all of the experts that have looked at is. There is some controversy on what these “superfood” ingredients actually do and if they do anything at all. These ingredients have been consumed for thousands of years by indigenous people, but there has never really been and tests done on them. I’m not even sure if tests can be done a proper way. From what I understand, the critical biochemical functions performed by these superfood ingredients takes places on a molecular versus cellular lever. And because each cell is made up of trillions of molecules, these functions cannot even be detected with an optical microscope. This is why nutrition was ignored for so long, doctors and scientists simply couldn’t see what was happening on a molecular level. Of course, now there are electron microscopes that are available, and are just recently becoming widespread so we should have better scientific answers in the future.

There is one simple way to find out the effectiveness of the ingredients in Shakeology, simply test them. In the article, Beachbody’s chief science officer Bill Wheeler says, “we are conducting a full-scale clinical trial on Shakeology, 100 people, 100 days, double-blind. At a university medical school.” (Wheeler wouldn’t disclose when the results would be published.) That is great news and I can’t wait for those results to be released.

The article mentions the products Muscle Milk, and Ensure, and categorizes them as Shakeology’s competitor, although they note that Shakeology falls somewhere in between these 2 and that Shakeology isn’t actually a meal replacement shake, but more of a supplement. I was curious on what the people over at foodfacts.com were rating those 2 products and this is what I found. Ensure rated between 53-83 depending on which specific flavor you are drinking, and Muscle Milk rated between 52-81 also depending on the specific flavor being rated.

Great News! Shakeology beats both of the products mentioned above with a 95-97 health score at foodfacts.com. If you have never been on the foodfacts.com site before, go check it out, it is a great site that is very easy to use, and it is completely free.
I paraphrased the article slightly, but you can read the entire piece at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-adventures-of-superfood-man-01262012.html
or find out more about shakeology here: 
http://www.mrsbeachfit.tripleresource.com/