I have so many people approach me about other business opportunities. I have been pretty good about analyzing the businesses and I’d like to provide you with information that can help you make the best decision for you on whether or not to join Mandura. If you’ll look on my post on Efujson, you’ll see I called it. Many folks jumped to it and now they’re looking for something else.
Mandura is the latest start up that people are jumping to and I was asked to take a look at it and here’s my thoughts. Mandura is a multi-level marketing company in the Health and Wellness sector that is based out of Utah. They promote a fruit juice that is said to be one of the best antioxidant juices on the market. With that claim in mind, is Mandura going to be the next big thing in network marketing, or will it be just another fruit juice company?
First of all Mandura’s a start up. On one hand that’s great because as we all know if you get in at the beginning you really have the chance to make the kind of income you dream about. Of course, most start ups fail and with the last one that I was in where I put 2 years of my time and resources only to have it close up, I will never be in a start up again. That’s just my word of caution with start ups but I know it will still attract many people like moths to light. The business I am in is a ground floor opportunity but with a proven business model.
Second of all Mandura is a one product company. The one product, coined “A Royal Family of Fruits” contains Durian, Mangosteen, Acai, and Blueberries. I’m sure it tastes wonderful and has some excellent anti-oxidant qualities, but aren’t there plenty of mangosteen and acai products on the market? Also, the problem with one product companies is if there’s a problem with the product, there goes your product. But the main problem that I see is it’s not a category breaker product.
The company I am with has over 50 different nutritional products and has a phenomenal Superfruit Juice that is a category breaker. It’s based on a cactus that the National Institute of Health has studied and there are over 278 peer reviewed scientific tests. Folks from all over the world are constantly come to the Sonoran Desert to study the cactus and other plant life because the Sonoran Desert is the only desert in the world that has such an extreme environment and what the plants produce to survive in the desert also help us.
But my focus here is on Mandura. One other concern I have about the product is that Durian seeds are toxic. Now I am sure that the processing will be done correctly and that won’t be a problem but that still bothered me to read it.
You also have to pay $10 a month for your Mandura website. I like to be with companies where you don’t have to pay for the website. You have enough costs as it is.
With the retail sales, from what I can see, In order to be eligible for this commission, your retail customer must purchase Mandura directly from the official Mandura website. You send your customer to one site but you are responsible for keeping track of your sales for your 1099. That was a red flag to me. I can’t see the IRS being too happy over that one.
But when you talk to someone in Mandura, one of the key areas that everyone is excited about is it’s compensation because it’s 1 line. After you join, everyone falls under you in one line. It’s a great concept but this is where it really starts to become a distributor based model – not a customer based model. I really see Mandura as a distributor based model and you have to have $100 on autoship to be active.
I am a firm believer in a customer base model. If your income is based on distributors, then when they stop working the business or jumping to the next shiny thing, your income goes down. A person who recently joined TriVita had thousands in his downline in another company but they slowly dwindled away and here he is again looking for something else. I know folks in TriVita who built up their business with customers and are making six figure incomes. I am not saying you’ll make that but the customer model is a stable model.
With my company I can place people anywhere I want to and help folks out but they can also acquire customers directly from the company. Not only that but we will be able to acquire affiliates from the company too when the infomercials start in another month. I see true duplication.
Oops – I keep getting distracted – sorry. The focus is suppose to be on Mandura but as you can see when I compare another business to TriVita, they fall short. I haven’t found one yet like it.
There’s no comparison.
And here’s an important point with TriVita – they follow up with your customers. They send them high quality color product catalogs every month; health journals every other month; weekly emails and specials. This is where the retention comes in with customers and with the catalogs, they are able to see all of Trivita’s other products.
And in TriVita, in order to rise up the career ranks, you only need to personally sponsor 3 people – that’s it!
I won’t go into the rest of the comparisons. For me the main points that I won’t be joining Mandura is:
- it’s a one product company,
- they don’t have a category breaker product,
- it’s a distributor based model, not customer based;
- they don’t follow up with your customers
- they don’t have infomercials generating customers for you
- you can’t acquire customers and affiliate members from the company
- and it’s a start up.
I am in a company that I haven’t yet found a comparison. TriVita has high quality nutritional products where you can acquire customers from the company and they do the follow up for you. TriVita is a generational business that will be paying me for years to come.
That’s why my commitment is to TriVita. With all the programs that people have approached me with, I haven’t been able to find a company like TriVita. TriVita has a commitment to excellence, to high quality products, to helping their affiliate members succeed and providing the best service for the customers and to truly help others experience better health, a better life and in following that path also achieving greater wealth to achieve their life purposes. I love their mission statement and I have embraced it completely. TriVita’s mission statement is: “To inspire people to experience wellness and to create wealth for their life purposes.”
With TriVita, I will not have to jump from business to business anymore and if you chose to join Mandura, I wish you the best of luck but if you want to be in a company that is about to take off from the infomercials to air soon on the product and the opportunity to international expansion, call me on 718-407-0035.
And if you do chose to join Mandura, I’ll leave the light on for you. 
Call me on 718-407-0035 and I can answer any of your questions and go HERE to read more about TriVita and to find out more about Nopalea, go to: www.trivitacactus.info.
Wishing you good health and great wealth!
Kathy
Independent TriVita Affiliate Member Katherine Smith ID# : 13158176
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