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iClubBiz was launched in April 2013 and operates in the travel club MLM niche.

The company is based in the US state of Iowa and is headed up by owner Jeffrey Evers (also known as Jeff Evers).

On the “about us” page Evers claims to have ‘been working on the iClubBiz program for over 10 years‘.

We launched a member benefit company in 2007, a nutraceutical company in 2009 and a travel company in 2010.

No further information is provided.

Read on for a full review of the iClubBiz MLM business opportunity.

The iClubBiz Product Line

iClubBiz have no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market membership to the company itself.

iClubBiz affiliate membership provides access to the “Sunset Beach Travel” travel club, which is also owned by Jeffery Evers (and is presumably the travel club referred to as having been launched in 2010 on the iClubBiz “about us” page).

The Sunset Beach Travel club website doesn’t directly offer visitors any travel services or bookings facilities. Whether or not they are actually operational is unclear.

Two other products are made available to affiliates and they appear to be remnants of Ever’s nutraceutical offering from 2009.

Aqualyte is a coral calcium supplement that is added to water. iClubBiz claim that Aqualyte

turns drinking water into a power anti-oxidant and even neutralizes the chlorine content in your tap water!

Ionyte is an “organic mineral complex” that iClubBiz claims ‘contains the lifeforce and energy’ of our food.

Both Aqualtye and Ionyte are sold to affiliates for $75, which includes a 3 month and 6 month supply respectively.

The iClubBiz Compensation Plan

The iClubBiz compensation plan primarily revolves around the selling of $75 iClubBiz affiliate memberships and any volume generated on the sale of iClubBiz’s nutraceutical products (also $75).

Before an iClubBiz affiliate can earn commissions, they must personally recruit two new (paid) iClubBiz affiliates.

Once qualified, affiliates are paid commissions using a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of the structure with two legs branching out directly under them. These two legs form the basis of two teams (or sides), right and left:

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Through recruitment of new affiliates, a binary team can grow down a theoretically unlimited amount of levels.

Commissions are calculated weekly and are paid out when a $75 affiliate payment on either side of the binary (1 from the left team and 1 from the right team) is matched.

When this occurs an affiliate is paid a $12.50 commission.

Note that any unmatched $75 payments carry over to the next week where they have the chance to be matched again with payments from the opposite side.

Commissions generated via the binary compensation structure are capped according to an affiliate’s membership rank:

  • Qualified Affiliate (recruit 2 paid affiliates) – $1000 a week
  • Director (recruit 4 paid affiliates) – $1500 a week
  • Producer (recruit 8 paid affiliates and have 4 paid affiliates in at least three direct recruitment legs) – $2500 a week
  • Achiever (recruit 12 paid affiliates and have 4 paid affiliates in at least three direct recruitment legs) – $5000 a week
  • Executive and above (recruit 16 paid affiliates and have 4 paid affiliates in at least three direct recruitment legs) – $12,000 a week

Binary Matching Commissions

A matching bonus is paid to affiliates on the binary earnings of affiliates they personally recruit into the company and recruits they bring in (up to a maximum of 5 “generations” (levels) of recruitment).

The iClubBiz binary matching bonus is paid out on the binary earnings of recruited Producer ranked affiliates and higher, with the bonus percentage determined by the affiliate’s own membership rank:

  • Producer – 1 generation (personal recruits), 10%
  • Achiever – 2 generations, 5%
  • Executive – 3 generations, 5%
  • Presidential  (recruit 20 paid affiliates and have 4 paid affiliates in at least three direct recruitment legs) – 4 generations, 5%
  • Executive Presidential  (recruit 24 paid affiliates and have 4 paid affiliates in at least three direct recruitment legs) – 5 generations, 5%

Joining iClubBiz

Affiliate membership to iClubBiz is free, however affiliates should consider that they are most likely going to find themselves “self-qualifying” themselves by paying $75 to “activate” their membership.

Conclusion

What do you do when you’ve got leftover products from a nutraceutical startup and a travel club reseller you started a few years back?

Well apparently if you’re Jeff Evers you combine the two offerings and whack on an MLM compensation plan.

What we’ve essentially got with iClubBiz is a $75 pay-to-play recruitment scheme, with affiliates earning commissions on bringing new recruits into the company.

The arguments against this would be that no purchase is required to “activate” an affiliate membership and that the company’s products are purchaseable by affiliates outside of initial membership.

The first argument can be dismissed due to the simple mechanics of the opportunity. The iClubBiz compensation material states

There is no purchase requirement to become an IBO.

However the same document also then goes on to say that

the over whelming majority of our Members purchase that Autoship themselves.

Having an option that nobody is using is as good as not having it at all. The reality is that “the overwhelming majority” of iClubBiz affiliates are treating the opportunity as a $75 pay-to-play scheme.

As for products being purchaseable outside of initial commission qualifying membership, it is quite clear that a travel club membership subscription, coral calcium supplement and organic mineral complex are an odd assortment of products.

Outside of qualifying themselves for commissions I believe you’d be hard-pressed finding a target market for either of them, as evidenced by the fact that they’re now combined following Evers attempts to market the products stand-alone over the last few years.

Further evidence of this exists in iClubBiz’s marketing material. Taken straight from the company’s “system” webpage, iClubBiz lay out an income plan for prospective affiliates that has them “meeting friends or their friends”, getting them to join for free, relying on “fear of loss” to get them to upgrade and then teaching them “everything you learnt”.

Free affiliate positions are placed into a binary and are able to recruit, the “fear of loss” marketing strategy comes into as free affiliates are “purged” after four weeks of not upgrading (paying $75).

What does this have to do with products? Well you’ll note the complete absence of them in any of the iClubBiz marketing material.

As the company’s compensation plan explanation states,

It’s always all about the $$MONEY$$

Join as an affiliate, pay $75 and recruit others who do the same. Meanwhile even on a mathematical level iClubBiz doesn’t seem all that attractive, $150 goes into the company and $12.50 is paid out to the affiliate who generated the revenue.

Recruitment, no retail and an 8% commission? There’s not really a lot to like here.

 

Update 4th March 2019 – At the request of a reader BehindMLM published an updated iClub Biz review on March 3rd, 2019.