Picking the Right MLM: The Risk/Reward Ratio

I am a probability kind of guy, and I like high percentages when I take a risk on a business investment. Choosing the right MLM means making the right investment with your time and money. This will lead to an immensely profitable pay-off at some point in the near future. Here are just a few things to look for:


1. Who is the Management Team: Bean Counters vs. Marketing Gurus

When you work for bean-counters its all about maximizing the profit per transaction. Sadly, this philosophy will ultimately demoralize the distributors as they watch their commission checks slowly disappear through comp plan restructuring and product dilution. The Bean Counters are there to maximize company profits and report to a CEO who was hired by the chief stockholders. You are there to make them rich, and once the company hits its profit goals they will always ask for more.

This is a Win-Lose situation whereby the company wins (short-term) and the distributor loses.

One of the Main Reasons I chose to be a RAIN International Distributor is because of its management team. Byron Belka is a dream come true. His goal is to create a billion dollar company. To do so, he realizes the company needs both a billion dollar product and a billion dollar comp plan. Both the company and the distributors are making money hand over fist because RAIN pays out 55% of its gross product revenue out in commissions to its Sales Force.  As a result, it is one of the fastest growing companies in the industry.

Byron was a distributor who bought the company. This is a key to finding the right MLM.


2. Who are the Company Owners?

In other words, who is investing in the growth of your company? Are they thinking short-term or long-term? Why are they involved?  Investors can kill a great concept, or they can nourish it. It takes deep pockets to grow a company, and deeper pockets to manage that growth.

One great thing about RAIN Internationalis that it is debt free. The owners include Byron Belka, Our Manufacturer,, Casey Whitaker (Back Office Software Company), Paul Hickey- Hickey Freihofner (Investment Banker & Bank), and David Dame (Sorenson Capital).

In fact, RAIN is the only MLM to have an Investment Banker put money into their organization. Most Investment Bankers consider MLMs too great a risk.


3. How much Debt does your company have?

High-Debt means high obligations which will impede and/or destroy any company's chance at growing in a competitive market place. RAIN International has NO DEBT! They are a pay as you go type of company. As you can see, minimal risk, based on the fact that an Investment Bank and a leading Financial Guru (look up Sorenson Group) have both invested in the company.

RAIN International, however, has access to unlimited funding should the need arise in the future. Clearly, RAIN will be a billion dollar company in the marketplace just based on the fundamentals I just explained. Minimal Risk- Maximimum Return.

Make sure you are in the same position before you switch companies or embark on your MLM adventure.

More in the Next Article.


Don't take unnecessary risk with your time and money! You Only have a limited amount of both! Make the Right MLM Decision!


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Picking the Right MLM: Riding the Right Trend With the Right Company

The market place is a fickle thing... it changes continuously and is always looking for the newest and greatest next thing. I have had the benefit of riding a few trends in my day.  Insurance, Real-Estate, Mortgages and now RAIN.

There is a difference between selling a need and meeting a need. 



Nutritional Supplements Reign Supreme:

In the MLM Industry, nutritional products reign supreme.  That is the wave. Consider this quote from Forbes:

"One of the fastest growing industries in the world is the nutritional supplement group, or more broadly known as Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements, or VMS. Producing about $32 billion in revenue for just nutritional supplements alone in 2012, it is projected to double that by topping $60 billion in 2021 according to the Nutritional Business Journal.

According to Partnership Capital Growth partner Brian Smith, a leading industry expert since 2000, the reason for the growth is it has gone mainstream. “Ten years ago, it was just the muscleheads and the weekend warriors. Now, it’s the full spectrum with men and expecially women,” he said."

Category Creating Versus Category Enhancing  

Category Creating Companies are the Billion Dollar Opportunity. They are the ones that bring the newest and best products into the market place. They are the Biggest Waves to ride.  Here are a few Category Creating Products.

1. Herbs: The first company to bring dried herbs into the marketplace is now worth billions and created  hundreds of millionaires from people like you and me. 

2. Pills & Capsules: Then came the pills and capsules. Again the same story. That first company is now worth billions and created hundreds of millionaires from those that caught the wave early on.

3. Essential Oils: Essential Oils came next. Same story.

4. Super Juices: Am I repeating myself?


Category Enhancers are "Me Too" companies that make the claim of  New and Improved or sell different variations in the same Category. They are catching the wave later and will never see anywhere near the same growth or revenue of the Category Leader.

Seed Nutrition & RAIN International: This is a category creating product in the marketplace. No other company sells seed juice. They use the fruit, berry, leaves, roots or stems. Yet, the seed is 20-40 more times as potent as the rest of the plant, and contains many of the nutrients lost as the plant grows and develops.

If you are selling a category enhancing product then you could make money, but nowhere near as much as if you are the first to market with a category creating product.


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Picking the Right MLM: Passion for the Product

The First Question you should ask yourself before starting any business is, "Do I Really Believe in This?"

If not, find something you really believe in first. Its Your Passion and Conviction that will convince people to buy your product. So ask yourself, do you really believe in the thing you want your friends, family and others to buy?

I never did an MLM before. RAIN was my first. I was in a horrible car accident that left me with multiple injuries. These injuries led to type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other serious health problems.  This is what I looked like before I started taking RAIN-SOUL

I was a sickly looking guy because I was sick. Then, I found a product that worked (RAIN-SOUL).

This next picture is me lifting over 1500 lbs with my legs.

If you want the whole story, you can watch the video here:


The Point is, I am bulletproof with the product I sell because I have a bullet proof testimonial. 

1. Conviction controls Commitment.

2. If You don't believe in what your are doing than find something you do believe in.

3.  How Would you rate your commitment to YOUR Product on a scale from 1-10?

4. If its not a 10 than why?

5. Do you Understand that To Be A Diamond You Need a 10?

I love my product for what it has done for me and those that I love. If you don't, than you can never reach the highest levels of compensation with your existing company and maybe its time for a change.

Life's too short to waste your time on things that really don't make a difference.

Reach for the Stars my Friends!

Paul A Drockton M.A.