Thursday, December 11, 2008

Bogus Biz-Ops Abound!!!!!!!!

I am amazed at how much junk mail I get every single day from people promising to make me rich..............like yesterday!

I HATE those scams!!!
.....I've been scammed once or twice myself......they just make it sound soooooooo good!

So how does Trivita compare to all the bogus promises of wealth and prosperity with no effort and no investment?

Don't look at this company if you are looking to get rich quick...you won't get rich quick. To me that's a good thing....I don't want someone making me promises that seem too good to be true.

Don't look at Trivita if you want to build a business with no effort.....you are going to have to invest some of your time and some of your energy and some of your money. Well at least, you will earn more if you put more into your business. Some people are satisfied to just invest money and let Trivita do the rest...it works, it's just slower and less profitable. It's your business, you decide.

Don't look at this company if you want to direct sell....the business affiliates in this company do not have to sell the products. (great products, over 60 of them, but we don't sell them). Trivita sells their products through Television infomercials, radio, and print advertising... and they follow up with the customers too.

With Trivita you can join today and have customers tomorrow and you never have to tell another soul about this opportunity to make a good income. In other words, it's not an MLM. It's a customer based business, not an affiliate based business. The good thing about this aspect of Trivita is, if you choose to introduce others into your business and build your business that way....you are still not dependent on them sticking with it for you to make money because if they leave, their customers stay and you still make money on the customers' purchases.

Finally, unlike all those SCAMS and CASH MACHINES and GUARANTEED MILLIONAIRES and LAZY MAN'S ROAD TO RICHES.......Trivita is a 9 year old company with a 35 year old parent company founded by and run by people of integrity.


Do your own research...I challenge you to find negatives about Trivita. I tried and I failed.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Can I make money with Trivita?

Probably more to the point to anyone reading this blog....Can you make money with Trivita or Can anyone make money with Trivita?

Well, I'm certain nobody is going to get rich quick with Trivita. In fact, the Trivita websites and phone conferences and recorded calls are very clear on the point that this is not a method to get rich quick.

I'm thinking that anyone can make money with Trivita if they are willing to invest in their future. You've heard that it takes money to make money. With Trivita you will have to invest a certain amount of money....how much money, time and effort you invest in your Trivita business will directly impact how much money you make in return. I mean, doesn't that make sense? Isn't that the way it is with any real business?

With Trivita, you have a choice. There are different ways to make money. Maybe all you want to put into your business is money....that will work. Maybe you want to invest minimal capital and instead want to build your business through introducing others to the business or to the products......It's your business; you decide.

The difference here is the business model of Trivita is much stronger than what you find in any other home-based business model. Trivita is a customer based business. This is not like any other home-based business or like any multi-level marketing or network marketing format I've found. And it is this difference which makes it possible for anyone to make money with Trivita.

YOU get to decide how many customers you want to profit-share with Trivita.

YOU decide how much money you want to make.

Details on the Trivita Business Opportunity HERE

By the way....after several more weeks of investigation...no sign of any scams with Trivita!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Is TriVita a SCAM???

I'm a skeptic. In my opinion, you've got to be if you are looking to find a home-based business. The scams are EVERYWHERE!! I get solicitations in my in-box daily for the latest get-rich-quick scheme/scam. "Earn $20,000 in 2 days, guaranteed! No Risk!" I wonder why I'm skeptical?

So, whenever I begin to look at a new opportunity I've heard about, I assume it's a scam or a pyramid scheme or the products are worthless or they'll be out of business in a month or two. I've seen these things and more happen too many times and I've been ripped off and lied to and worse. Probably anyone who is looking at home-based businesses has had the same experiences. And my first move is to look for proof of the scam. I ask myself, what's the catch and I begin with internet searches. And that's what I did with TriVita. I encourage you to do the same. Look for yourself and see what you can find! This blog is about my "due diligence" in researching this opportunity.

I did searches linking the word trivita with words like scam, beware, rip-off. Then I did searches using variations on scam with Sublingual B-12 and Super Sublingual B-12, Adaptogen 10 Plus, Nutrafruits and Leanology which I believe are their top selling products. I wanted to know if people who bought their products liked them or hated them. Did they think they worked? Did they send them back for a refund? I wanted to know if people complained about getting ripped off or about some other aspect of customer service. I found no complaints about Trivita. People seem to love the products and many have apparently been using Sublingual B-12 for years and talk glowingly about the health and wellness benefits they've experienced. Additionally, the products are doctor developed and many of them are backed up by third-party research.

Then I researched them with the Better Business Bureau or BBB. How many complaints? Were they settled satisfactorily? What type of issues? Are they members of the BBB? TriVita is a member of the Better Business Bureau and has very few complaints.

I also did searches on the founder, Michael Ellison and the Parent Company, Ellison Media. I wanted to know how long Trivita and Ellison Media have been in business and I wanted to know as much as I could find out about Michael Ellison and his son, Marcus Ellison who is company vice-president. Are these people ethical? I found no suggestions that these men are anything but ethical, legitimate business men. In fact Michael Ellison apparently founded this company in response to his own health crisis and a desire to help others to live healthier and gain wealth. The "tri" in trivita is for three aspects of health and wellness (physical, mental and spiritual) and he has written a book called "10 Keys to Creating Health and Wellness" which promotes the foundational values of this company. Ellison Media has been in business for over 35 years and Trivita has been in business for 9 years. I was very pleased to find that these are not Start Up companies! I found no hints of scandal.

I went to scam watchdog type sites to see if there were threads about trivita. Then I actually started a thread on Scam.com asking for anyone to tell me if they had been ripped off by Trivita. These guys love to trash illegitimate business opportunities, network marketing and mlm type home-based businesses. I wanted them to tell me whatever they had found or could find negative about this company, products, opportunity, etc. The responses were helpful in their skepticism and in guidance toward other business analysis tools, they were skeptical of the claims of Trivita as I expected, but nobody told me that Trivita is a scam or that they have been ripped off by Michael Ellison or that the products are just more snake oil. In fact, I believe that I was able to find a satisfactory answer to every objection and question they raised. Read it for yourself!

Finally, I wanted to analyze THE MAJOR QUESTION and the point to all my research: Can I make money with Trivita? I'll discuss this in my next post.....









Monday, October 6, 2008

Digging for Gold

I'm convinced there must be a way to escape the rat race. I'm scouring the web looking for gold. Mostly I'm finding pyrite(fool's gold). I've tried several Network Marketing Businesses. I've been scammed, I've been misled, I've failed on my own because I just didn' t want to do what they said it took to succeed.

I've owned my own brick and mortar businesses and worked those 7 day weeks. I've made money that way but it wasn't worth it to me to spend that much time and energy working.

So now I'm back to the 9 to 5, but looking for a way out. And I'm convinced....There is a way out for me.

I'm thinking I may have found it....