Four Corners Alliance Group Compensation Plan v2.0
When TelexFree abandoned its Ponzi scheme business model, Four Corners Alliance Group emerged as a popular contender for affiliates to join.
BehindMLM’s original Four Corners Alliance review was published in early 2013. After launch the opportunity all but died, only to be resurrected when one or more US-based TelexFree affiliates decided to pitch it as a reload scheme.
Following a few requests via email to revisit the company, in light of purported compensation plan changes, today I thought we’d take another look at the business.
Read on for an updated review of the Four Corners Alliance Group MLM opportunity.
The Four Corners Alliance Group Product Line
One of the more obvious tell-tale signs that products were secondary to the Four Corners income opportunity itself. Labelled “Products 1 to 16”, no specifics were offered.
Today there’s a bit more information about “Products 1 to 16”, with the company now referring to them as a “Financial Education Set”, spread out over six levels.
In a nutshell you’re looking at an ebook library
encompassing Financial topics ranging from mindset and motivation, with a unique business emphasis to help you reach your full potential and explode your income, online and off – all the way through to financial education which will turn the balance in your favor and have your money working for you
No author information is provided, so whether these are actual self-contained ebooks or rehashed PLR articles bundled together is not clear.
In any event, that Four Corners Alliance Group or someone within the company had anything to do with the creation of the books appears to be slim.
There’s also a $29.95 newsletter for sale, which the company claims is
a vibrant, information packed, monthly financial and lifestyle newsletter.
Finally, Four Corners Alliance Group affiliates are given a replicated storefront, through which they can earn commissions off the company’s newsletter and ebook sales.
The Four Corners Alliance Group Compensation Plan
The original Four Corners Alliance Group compensation plan revolved around a 16 level matrix. Affiliates recruited new affiliates, and then through the matrix earned commissions when said recruited affiliates spent money.
This has now been cut back to a 6 level matrix, however the basic principle of the compensation plan remains the same.
Product Commissions
Utilizing a 4×6 matrix, Four Corners Alliance Group pay out commissions on recruited affiliate purchases of one of their six product levels:
- Levels 1 and 2 costs $10
- Level 3 costs $25
- Level 4 costs $60
- Level 5 costs $150
- Level 6 costs $300
How they pay out commissions however is a little strange. Four Corners Alliance Group uses a 4×6 matrix, but from the looks of it affiliates can only earn so many commissions per product level.
A 4×6 matrix places an affiliate at the top of the matrix, with four positions directly under them (level 1)
In turn, these four positions branch out into another four positions (level 2), and then again for level 3 and so on and so forth down a total of 6 levels.
Each of the six matrix levels corresponds with a product level, with the amount of positions on each level dictating how many commissions on that particular product level a Four Corners Alliance Group affiliate can earn.
- Level 1 – $4 per affiliate purchase of level 1 product, 4 positions = $16 total commission
- Level 2 – $4 per affiliate purchase of level 2 product, 16 positions = $64 total commission
- Level 3 – $10 per affiliate purchase of level 3 product, 64 positions = $640 total commission
- Level 4 – $24 per affiliate purchase of level 4 product, 256 positions = $6114 total commission
- Level 5 – $60 per affiliate purchase of level 5 product, 1024 positions = $61,440 total commission
- Level 6 – $120 per affiliate purchase of level 6 product, 4096 positions = $491,520 total commission
Typically we look at MLM matrices top-down, but here it makes more sense to look from left to right. Each level has a certain number of commissionable spots on the matrix, and once full an affiliate is no longer able to profit from selling products at that particular product level.
Note that a 100% match is also offered on the matrix commissions earnt by personally recruited affiliates.
Newsletter Commissions
The $29.95 affiliates pay for their monthly Four Corner Alliance Group newsletter is commissionable. Similar to the product commissions, newsletter commissions are paid out using a 4×7 matrix (one additional level).
This is more of a traditional amtrix, with spots in the matrix filled via affiliate recruitment (direct or indirect). How much of a commission is then paid out on the affiliate purchase of a newsletter is determined by what level the paying affiliate sits on the matrix:
- Levels 1 to 4 – $1 per affiliate
- Levels 5 and 6 – $2 per affiliate
- Level 7 – $4 per affiliate
As with the product commissions, a 100% match on personally recruited affiliate’s newsletter commissions is also offered.
Conclusion
I think the notion that anyone who is not a Four Corners Alliance Affiliate is going to purchase their ebooks or newsletter is a bit of a stretch. Or at the very least not in any significant number.
What you’re then left with is a simple affiliate recruitment scheme, where, under the guise of purchasing a newsletter, Four Corners Alliance Group affiliates simply recruit new affiliates and as long as everyone pays their $29.95 monthly fee, everyone (except those at the bottom) gets paid.
The product layer is offered in addition to this, and being a one-time cost at any given level (and capped further by the structure of the matrix), is unlikely to be as attractive as the newsletter fee commissions (hence the bigger matrix offered).
The match could prove lucrative though if enough recruited affiliates are convinced to part with hundreds of dollars for ebooks.
Evidence of the newsletter being little more than a front for the monthly payment of fees to be distributed as commissions via the 4×7 matrix are evident in Four Corners Alliance Group’s own marketing material:
The newsletter is a convenient way to cover your monthly affiliate qualifying volume of 10PV.
In order to qualify for commissions, affiliates are required to generate 10 PV a month in sales. This could be a sale of either level 1 or 2 of the products, but given that this is a monthly recurring requirement, as above, it’s far more convenient to just pay the fee yourself and receive a newsletter.
Not only does that keep an affiliate commission qualified, but it also keeps the commissions rolling each month.
With there likely being little to no retail taking place within the opportunity though, this drags Four Corners Alliance Group into pyramid scheme territory.
That TelexFree investors are seemingly flocking to the business is certainly strange, I’d have thought Ponzi schemes would be more their thing.
“Zeek Rewards” is now PENNY MATRIX. Tracy Davison ran to the Philippines to perpetuate another scam on unsuspecting and desperate people.
Ok you have a little of your information wrong. There is no monthly fee NONE!!! I am in it and I am sure.. Stop putting out wrong information..
Well you’re full of shit then.
From the 4 Corners FAQ:
Matrix positions serve as the defacto cost of membership, with additional recruitment commissions paid out of optional newsletter fees.
Products 1-16 are bundled with the matrix positions, but are neither here nor there. Retail activity is virtually non-existent with the cost of matrix positions being what it costs to participate in 4 Corners as an affiliate.
There are a few things that are inaccurate. After the initial $18 out of pocket, you do not pay for anything else (out of pocket).
All other fees come only out of commission. The monthly newsletter only starts when you have made the money. The 10v is every 90 days not every month.
If you are putting a little effort into the business, you will make a good profit.
Oh and I have downloaded the ebooks and they have plenty of great information in them.
You still pay for it.
Which is money you’d otherwise pocket, ie. you pay for it.
To trap more of your money in the system.
By recruiting people, which is a problem.
If you have a problem with recruiting people into an $18 one-time out of pocket business,then please don’t ever think about doing any MLM business. You won’t succeed.
The thing about 4Corners is that, the $18 initial out of pocket fee is in itself an attraction to your prospects. Do not sign-up any1 who cannot jump on the offer.
Afterall, it’s just $18. If they’d rather spend it on pizza, let them and move on to the next person who can understand the power of this system.
Succeed at what? Recruiting someone into a pyramid scheme?
If that’s your goal please GTFO of this industry.
the fact you have an issue with someone actually spending it on something tangible like pizza speaks volumes to begin with.
Hi, I’m thinking of joining 4 corners, from what I have seen its worth $18.
To me this is not a ponzi scheme because you are getting product for your money. Whether you can get it for Free or not you still getting it.
The decision to go with there suggestion and reinvest your money back into the system to make more money is up to you, and you would be silly if you don’t. At least they show you a system where you can grow a measly $18 out of pocket to over 500k. I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere.
The fact that you only put $18 out of pocket and the rest of the investments comes from your profits is what makes it worth a shot. You don’t have to sit forking out cash for auto responder fees and hosting fees.
I admit it won’t be easy especially on the 4th level. But I will probably get more from this than by playing a lotto ticket.
Whether or not products are bundled with investment positions has no bearing on whether Four Corners is a Ponzi scheme.
Using newly invested funds to pay off existing investors does.
Ponzi schemes are a dime a dozen. Look harder.
The review identified it as a recruitment scheme. “Ponzi scheme” was about TelexFree.
From the conclusion:
The argument about “getting products” doesn’t really make any sense.
Your own description clearly showed that the primary function is about something else.
So when we describe it as “recruitment scheme” or “pyramid scheme”, it’s actually the most correct way to see it.
It’s usually a wise idea to check Alexa ranking first, unless you singelhandedly have some other plans for how to blow new life into it?
alexa.com/siteinfo/fourcornersalliancegroup.com
Hi i am in 4 corners alliance, I have paid my one time payment of $18. this attracted me to this business.
I paid $1180 to start in another mlm business and i had to pay $96 a month to stay in the business. This is one of the fastest growing mlm business in the market.
I couldn’t stay in because it was sucking cash out that i didn’t have. after a year i had to pull out, so i lost all that i paid into the business and the points that i had accumulated which if i had enough i would have cashed it in.
So can anyone question anyones reason for jumping into 4 corners alliance.
Why you “jump in” is irrelevant. How you make your money is what matter, and in Four Corners Alliance that’s by roping new suckers into the scheme.
Anyone can question anything.
My question to you would be – why would anyone think they can earn a fortune from a one time spend?
If you look in your back office you will see even the top leaders are struggling to get signups this late in the game.
Plus if you have no list and no skills at recruiting to build one.
You will have no chance to build an income with this at all.
Despite how the site hypes up the easy lifetime income.
Doesn’t matter if it’s mlm or (Ozedit: we only discuss MLM here.)
I had wanted to join this 4 Corners until one of my friend who have completed his level 3 of 64 and also have completed his level 4 of 256 but have not received the compensation of both level 3 and 4 told me what his fears are and the series of interactions he had with the 4 Corners who told him that he can only receive the commission of level 3 only when the people on his line 3 get to purchase level 3 products and so on.
Then I reasoned within myself what that could mean only to find that the answers are that “IT IS ONLY WHEN I HAVE FILLED UP 256 AND 1024, THAT IS LEVEL 4 AND 5 THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO GET $640 WHICH IS THE COMMISSION OF LEVEL 3 NOT EVEN THE COMMISSION OF LEVEL 4”.
Therefore I ask… Why will 4 Corners expect her member to generate $4608 which is the total cost to complete level 4 of 256 and $18432 which is the total cost to complete level 5 of 1024 before they will compensate the just one person on the tree with $640…
Does that look like a business… I need your explanations since you are asking people to join this platform.