Skinny Body Care Review
Skinny Body Care Review
Skinny Body Care is a fairly new MLM, founded in January 2011. There seems to be a lot of buzz about this company, so I decided to do some of my own research for this Skinny Body Care review.
The first thing that raises a red flag for me is when I go to the corporate website and there's no information. If you go to skinnybodycare.com, you have to either enter a distributor's number or your own email address to even get past the home page. You can click on the "Contact Us" tab, but it only lists addresses for product returns, one in Utah and two out of the country. That doesn't sit well with me. Why the secrecy? They should want to tell anyone who goes to their website all the information possible about their company, including the address and phone number of the company headquarters. (They are headquartered in Texas, as I found by doing some more searching on the Internet).
The website also does not list any information about the company's founder or management team. I was eventually able to find out that Skinny Body Care was founded by Ben Glinsky, who has been associated with several other MLMs and appears to have left quite a few disgruntled people in his wake.
As its name implies, Skinny Body Care's product line is in the health and nutrition niche, more specifically weight loss. There are already many MLMs specializing in this type of product, so this is a crowded and competitive niche in the industry. Skinny Body Care seems to be banking on two things: 1) there will always be people want to lose weight fast without exercise or diet and 2) there are always people who want to make money without really working for it.
Skinny Body Care's flagship product is called Skinny Fiber. They call it "the ultimate weight loss solution". The company promises this product will flush toxins from your system, melt away fat, reduce your appetite, and boost your metabolism. The ingredients are Glucomannan, a natural fiber, Caralluma, an appetite suppressant, and Chá de Bugre, their "Brazilian secret" which is supposed to melt away the fat by increasing your metabolism.
If you are familiar with multi-level marketing, I don't have to tell you that this "ultimate" weight loss product is absolutely nothing new to the industry. I'm sure you'll hear people swear that Skinny Fiber works, but you could find just as many people who would say the same thing about other MLM weight loss products, not to mention weight loss products one can buy for a lot less money from GNC or Walmart.
Skinny Body Care has a 3 X 8 matrix compensation plan with a Powerline system. In a matrix comp plan people fall under you from the top to bottom and left to right. So, in theory, as people above you sponsor people, they fall under you and as you sponsor they fall under the people below you and so on. This is called "spillover". The problem with spillover, however, is that as the matrix gets wider people have very little chance of ever getting spillover. It sounds very enticing to people to be able to join a company where all they have to do is sign up and do nothing and they'll be rich, which is completely impossible.
Over and over, this phrase showed up when I researched the Skinny Body Care comp plan online: "...a new distributor can earn income up to $1618.50 per month, without sponsoring a single distributor as long as they are on autoship..." That is utter nonsense. If someone tells you that if you simply join the company under them and hang in there, you'll get spillover and make $1618 a month by doing nothing, you should run in the other direction. As more and more people realize that banking on spillover is a mistake, they'll cancel their auto-ship and drop out of the business.
The only people who have any chance of making the kind of money Skinny Body Care is claiming you can make without doing anything are the company founders and distributors who signed up at the very beginning of the company. The problem with presenting the compensation plan this way is that they are eventually going to end up with an organization of people who never recruit anyone new and simply sit and wait for their check. Guess what happens then? Bye-bye, Skinny Body Care!
Bottom line: If you didn't get in at the beginning of this company, you have to actually work to earn a check. If you like the product and like to sell and recruit others to sell, go for it. But don't expect to get rich quick, and don't expect this company to be around for very long unless they radically change their compensation plan and the way they present their business opportunity .