King Soap Review: Natural soaps and recruitment
King Soap is a new MLM company that operates out of the US state of Utah.
The company is owned and operated by Randy Major. Whereas King Soap operates in the health and wellness MLM niche, Major’s past two MLM ventures have been in the social networking niche.
In 2011 Major (photo right) launched Treehouse social which was then replaced by Social Paycheck in late 2012.
Social Paycheck was a pay to click advertising network attached to a social network. With value to the advertiser at zero, when reviewing the Social Paycheck opportunity I placed a big question mark on the long-term viability of the business.
Not sure what happened with the company but just a few short months after launch Major appears to have decided to try something different with King Soap.
Read on for a full review of the King Soap MLM business opportunity.
The King Soap Product Line
As the name suggests, King Soap market a range of soaps. King Soap claim that their soap
is 100% hand made and comes in natural and vegan recipes, each bar is hand packaged and wrapped, weighing about 4.8 ounces.
It is unclear though whether or not King Soap themselves manufacture the soap or simply buy it from a third-party.
Strangely enough prices for the soaps aren’t given on the company’s online store, with each soap instead costing a “credit”.
The King Soap Compensation Plan
King Soap are a bit vague on the details of their compensation plan, stating only that
Depending on what level your membership is you can make between $5,000 and $15,000 a month.
The King soap matrix can be entered only by signing up for a membership. We offer 3 types of memberships; Gold, Silver and Bronze.
You make money for each referral on each level. You get more for the silver members only if you are a silver or gold member. You make more for gold members only if you are a gold member.
Combining the credit prices given for soaps and the above compensation plan information, it appears King Soap revolves around the recruitment of new affiliates, who in turn for paying their monthly membership fees are assigned credits which they can then purchase soap with.
The matrix used by the company to organise recruited affiliates is a 3×7, which places an affiliate at the top of the matrix with 3 legs branching out under them (level 1).
In turn these three legs branch out into another three legs (level 2) and so on and so forth down 7 levels.
King Soap affiliates are paid per recruited member they have in their matrix, with commissions dependent on what level of membership recruited affiliates are paying at (Bronze, Silver or Gold).
King Soap do not provide specifics on what the commission rates are for each level of membership.
Joining King Soap
Affiliate membership to King Soap is available at three levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Unfortunately King Soap do not provide the cost of each level of membership.
Conclusion
With King Soap’s products costing “credits” and seemingly the only way to receive credits being to sign up to the company as an affiliate, there’s a big question on the retail side of things in the company.
If affiliates cannot retail the soaps to customers, that essentially delegates the product to an irrelevant side-effect of a recruitment driven pyramid scheme.
King Soap affiliates sign up at either the Bronze, Silver or Gold level, recruit others to do the same and then earn a monthly commission paid out of these membership fees.
If affiliates at the bottom are unable to recruit new affiliates and subsequently stop paying their monthly membership fees, their uplines stop earning commissions and then they too stop paying their monthly membership fees – and before you know it the entire pyramid has collapsed.
Being the third MLM company launch of his one would think Randy Major might have figured out the fallacy of recruitment driven schemes, however unfortunately with the launch of King Soap, that appears to not be the case.
Without a retail offering, like Social Paycheck I don’t really see King Soap lasting all that long.
I just discovered KING SOAP tonight while using Copyscape to find and call out sites that are STEALING my content and posting it on their own sites.
I own The Natural Bar Soap Company, (BarSoapNatural.com), and am the author/creator/owner of every last word of text that is on my site. I am an at home mom with a Chemistry degree who loves the art of making really awesome soap.
I and my customers have referred to myself as “The Soap Alchemist” for years, and I have used the trademarked taglines “Naturally Adventurous Soap” and “Adventurously Natural Soap” to describe my 100% natural ingredient soap bars for the past two years.
I spent time researching not only the process of soapmaking and ingredients, but also good SEO practice, part of which includes having UNIQUE CONTENT. That is why I rely on Copyscape to help me find infringing companies like KING SOAP and shut down their use of my UNIQUE content.
I am disgusted by owners of get-rich-quick sites who STEAL CONTENT for their own use. You can imagine, therefore, my DISGUST at finding my entire web page, including the words “Our Soap Alchemist” and “Naturally Adventurous Soap” BarSoapNatural.com/natural-soap/ duplicated in its ENTIRETY on the King Soap website, kingsoap.com/whynatural.php which is registered through GoDaddy to Randy Major.
In fact, the meta description in Google results also contains MY CONTENT as does the King Soap homepage. I find it ironic that the King Soap website has an entire section about “Ethics” while at the same time stealing, posting and using content without permission.
If you really want to f*** with them, get a lawyer to write a letter to their ISP demanding a DMCA takedown of their website for infringing content. 🙂
Writing a lawyer should only cost you very little, a few hundred at most, probably only $100. You can also check on LegalZoom if they have any templates you can buy and/or refer to cheap lawyer local to you.
You can be nice and write them directly, but I find it more… satisfying if you mess with them at the ISP level.
Send your letter to both though. 🙂 IMHO, of course.
Hey there K. Chang– Thanks! I love your suggestions. I filed a claim with Google using their DMCA Complaint process. Not very difficult, and hopefully effective.
I also contacted the domain registrar, alerting GoDaddy as well. I figure that I’ve reported it. It’s up to Google and GoDaddy to decide what, if any, action they’ll take.
The Google complaint will at least generate a record in the DMCA log, serving as a warning to others who might try to infringe, and also, a record of me defending what is mine.
If you don’t take action when someone infringes on you, the courts may not take future claims very seriously.
I also called the owner of the site… and he said he’d have to “talk with his developer.”
My nice side can imagine that his developer is perhaps the one responsible for lifting my content. BUT, ultimately, the site belongs to the owner, and under copyright law, he is responsible for knowing what’s on his site, and complying with the law.
I hate that this took me away from soapmaking for the whole day! Unfortunately, as my business grows, I find myself having to deal with more and more of these crappy parts of being an entrepreneur. I think I need a long, relaxing soak in my tub with a bar of awesome soap… 🙂