Your earnings with Shaklee don't have to end at 6 levels of passive income! Once you have reached the rank of Senior Coordinator, you will qualify for the Infinity Bonus. With this monthly incentive, you can earn as much as 8% commission from the business of every sales leader in your down line. There is no limit on this bonus, it is paid on infinite levels

If 20% PGV bonuses, 6% Leadership bonuses and 8% Infinity bonuses don't sound good enough, then there's still more. As well as all the cash payments, you can also qualify for luxury holidays and cars all paid for by Shaklee.

Will You Make Money With Shaklee

It is possible to make money, but we believe that it's very unlikely that you'll turn a profit with Shaklee. While it is possible to make good money once you reach the higher leadership ranks, but Shaklee has not disclosed how many members reach this level. We suspect that like most MLMs, only a very small percentage of members will ever achieve significant levels of income.

For starters we look at all the money being paid by the dream plan. When you buy products from Shaklee, 20% of what you pay will go to the first director in your upline (and there may be others layers who get their respective PGV too). Then 34% will go toward paying the top level leader and infinity bonuses. 54 cents from every dollar you spend with Shaklee will go to leaders in your upline.

From the remaining 46 cents per dollar, Shaklee has to pay for producing and shipping their products, price in their own profits, sending leaders on holidays, paying for leaders cars, and in the event you qualify, pay you some PGV bonuses too. All these payments are included in the price they charge you for products. This leads us to believe that Shaklee products are expensive when compared to similar products offered by competitors

We decided to evaluate the Shaklee business opportunity using Dr Jon Tayolors 5 Step MLM evaluation. This test is designed to find out if new recruits are likely to make any money. We found that Shaklee raised all five red flags in this assessment. We will look at each of the red flags and why we believe they are a concern in more detail below

Red Flag 1 - Constant Recruitment of New Members

When you join Shaklee, you will be encouraged to recruit friends and family right away. The FASTTrack bonuses are designed to help get you recruiting immediately. To make money in Shaklee, or any MLM, you will need to convince people you know to buy the products. Not all of them will agree, and some will be offended. Inevitably, some of your relationships with these people will be damaged.

Another problem we have with the concept of endless member growth, is that in reality it simply doesn't work. It's like a perpetual motion machine, it sounds good in stories but in reality it is far from being a possibility. No matter how good a system is, it will eventually reach the point of saturation. As the number of participants grows, it will become increasingly unlikely that new members will ever turn a profit.

Dr Taylor found that 99% of participants in any endless recruitment chain, will lose money

Red Flag 2 - Promotion Through Recruitment

In order to reach the levels of Shaklee where it is possible to earn a good income, you will need to convince others to join below you, at lower ranks. This means that you can only succeed if there are enough people below you spending money on product. Many of these people will never turn a profit, some may even experience financial distress. In order to succeed in MLM, you will put others in financial difficulty.

Another problem pointed out by Dr Taylor, is that this creates what we call 'synthetic demand' for the products. You've probably never seen the products promoted without the business opportunity. Members are not trying to sell products to the retail market, they are focused on growing their downlines. If you've been introduced to Shaklee, or any MLM, was it to show you the products, or to show you the business opportunity?

Without retail consumers, the only source of profit becomes your downline. The Shaklee Dream Plan appears to be quite generous, but the money to pay for all these incentives, comes from other members. We calculated that more than 54% of funds paid by new Shaklee members is paid to their upline.

To us, the dream plan looks like a zero sum game, you can only make money if someone below you is losing it! The Shaklee Dream plan states that 'top Business Leaders make the lion’s share of their income from Leadership and Infinity Bonuses' In other words, most of their money comes directly from Shaklee members in their downline.