Quanta Review: Passups & personal development
When an MLM company goes into prelaunch, how they conduct their prelaunch is usually indicative of how the opportunity will fare come launch.
With this in mind, a visit to the Quanta website isn’t very promising:
You can login and… well that’s it. Hitting the website with an affiliate referral link isn’t much better, although it does provide a video that names the co-founders of Quanta:
Jim Lutes and Jim Britt feature on a number of official Quanta marketing videos, none of which appear to the general public on the Quanta website. If you want to see them, you’ve got to hit up the YouTube accounts of various Quanta affiliates:
Taken from Jim Lutes’ website (“jimluteslive.com”),
Say the name Jim Lutes and chances are a top performer in your company has attended one or more of his dynamic trainings over the last few years.
Having taught his branded form of human performance since the early 1990s, Mr. Lutes throughout his career to to (sic) sold out trainings on personal growth into worldwide markets.
Based in San Diego California Jim has taught seminars for, corporations, sales forces, individuals and athletes.
In addition, Jim has been involved in the Direct Sales industry for over 18 years as a sought out trainer and top company producer breaking records in the companies he has aligned himself with.
“My goal is to take that embryonic greatness that exists inside every person in America, foster it, empower it and then hand them personal strategies based on solid principles that allow them to take that new attitude and apply it to creating a life masterpiece”.
Uh… yeah, ok then.
Jim Britt meanwhile seems to have a thing for cracking codes:
Jim Britt is the author of numerous best-selling books and programs. Some of his many titles include Rings of Truth, Do This. Get Rich-For Entrepreneurs, Do This. Get Rich! for Network Marketers, Unleashing Your Authentic Power, The Power of Letting Go, and Cracking the Rich Code.
He is an internationally recognized business leader who is highly sought after as a keynote speaker for all audiences.
On the product side of things what we do know is that they are going to be orientated towards “personal development”, but other than that specifics are scarce.
In my research for this review I saw time and time again Quanta’s products glossed over as “the $25 product” or the “$100 product” by affiliates, so in any case they don’t seem to be all that important.
One YouTube video I saw shed some light on the $149 “Fusion Program”, marketing it as a combination of “The Power of Letting Go” and “Mind Masterpiece”, past personal development programs authored by Jim Britt and Jim Lute (individually).
Jim Britt sells The Power of Letting Go for as a CD set on his website for $247:
In a Quanta marketing video, Kyle McCue, credited as Quanta’s International Vice President of Marketing, claims
With the quanta program, you’re going to have the same knowledge that others have paid thousands of dollars for.
From what I’ve been able to piece together, here’s a rundown on Quanta’s product line-up:
Personal Performance Platform – $25 a month
Achievers Club Platform – $100 a month
Fusion Program MP3 Audio – $149 one time
The Experience Digitally Delivered Program – $495 one time (product doesn’t exist yet)
Going off of what we know about the Fusion Program, I think it’s a safe bet that pretty much all of Quanta’s product offerings are going to be rehashes of previously released Britt and Lutes training and personal development courses.
On the compensation plan of things, Quanta uses a perpetual 1-up plan. Each of the product offerings above acts as a level within the compensation plan, with affiliates required to either self-purchase or make a retail sale to qualify for pass-ups at that level.
Once qualified, affiliates then receive commissions from others they convince to buy-in at that level.
Every 2nd, 4th, 6th and every 5th “sale” thereafter is passed up to the affiliate who recruited you – leaving you the first, third, fifth and every other “sale” that’s not a perpetual 5th.
100% of the money paid is passed up and paid out as commissions, meaning that the possibility Quanta will just be filled with affiliates paying themselves $25, $100 or $125 a month is very real.
I couldn’t see any mention of an additional affiliate fee, so I have no idea if retail is even possible.
Even if it is though, Quanta is clearly not aimed at a retail market. There’s no information on the company’s website, with the opportunity being solely marketed on “ZOMG 100% FREAKING COMMISSIONS!”
Quanta themselves don’t appear to be too phased by this, wholly encouraging it by referring to affiliates buying in at various levels of the compensation plan as an investment:
And that’s not some affiliate mock-up either, that’s straight from the official Quanta compensation plan material they are currently providing affiliates.
So, you join Quanta, you buy your way in at all four levels and then you make money by getting others to buy in, who then go off and do the same.
Quanta sits at the top off the pass-up chain, skimming every 5th payment of those directly under them (who skim every 5th of those under them etc., etc., etc.).
Product? Who cares… just sign up a bunch of people and get them to gift you $125 a month (there’s no other word for “100% commissions”).
People who are going to crap on about how “this is no different to Empower Network” or “Quanta can’t be a gifting scheme because it has products!”, over to you…
(Empower Network has an affiliate fee but is still a gifting scheme if the majority of customers are affiliates, and plenty of gifting schemes attach products to themselves these days.
Bottom line? If you’re paying 100% commissions and have little to no retail, all you’re doing is shuffling affiliate money amongst those affiliates who have recruited the most.)
Footnote: What’s up with this MLM trend of two dudes placing themselves at the top of a giant pass-up scheme and going on and on about “100% commissions”?
Further research reveals a possible $25 affiliate fee to separate affiliates from retail.
Personally I’m still not seeing retail viability here. Just affiliate “investestment” at all levels and then recruitment of others who do the same.
With the whole personal development angle, goading those who don’t “invest” to hand over their money by calling them wussies might prove difficult…
More evidence retail is not viable and/or a focus within Quanta:
Recruit, recruit, recruit!
Find all that “low hanging fruit”!
I ended up with an interesting search string, after several tries. 🙂
“-jindo -lifepharm -inlife -callmd -sevenpoint2 -joylife -midas -renua -laminine -ganolife -regeneration -amega site:gss.us”
Here’s a list of sub domains:
QUANTA quanta.gss.us
AMEGA amega.gss.us
CALLMD PLUS callmd.gss.us
GANOLIFE BETA gano.gss.us
FREEDOM EQUITY GROUP freedom.gss.us
APRICOTS FROM GOD vale.gss.us
REGENERATION USA regeneration.gss.us
JOY LIFE INTERNATIONAL joylife.gss.us
JINDO jindo.gss.us
LIFEPHARM lifepharm.gss.us
HEALTH FIRST healthfirst.gss.us
MIDAS DIRECT BLOG midas.gss.us
INLIFE (formerly known as Revelle) inlife.gss.us
HEALTHY COFFEE USA healthycoffee.gss.us
SEVEN POINT 2 sevenpoint.gss.us
QUANTUM FIELD WORK laser.gss.us
BALI BODY bbody.gss.us
mentors.gss.us
YOUTH JUICE youth.gss.us
WHOIS FOR GSS.US
Registrant:
Barry Trottier
635 Brookline Ridge
Alpharetta
GEORGIA 30022
United States
Barry Trottier owns GreyStar Solutions greystarsolutions.com (gssmlmsoftware).
Some Alexa statistics for gss.us:
Most visited sub domains:
quanta.gss.us 78.42%
lifepharm.gss.us 19.07%
sevenpoint.gss.us 1.29%
Popularity (compared to behindmlm.com):
81,500 world (26,200)
15,200 US (8,900)
The popularity increased for a short period of time, 2 or 3 months, in mid 2012 and now in late 2013. The websites driving up the popularity in late 2013 sems to be:
* teamquanta.com (Lutes International)
* sharedmethod.com (Barry Trottier)
* macksupdate.com (DomainByProxy)
Searh engine traffic = 0.60% (clearly recruitment driven)
Keywords:
1. lifepharm virtual office 48.47%
2. amega 18.51%
3. ega true rinse 8.64%
4. midas direct 7.34%
5. mlm powder nutritional 5.38%
CONCLUSION
gss.us seems to have been specially designed as a marketing and hosting solution for short lived “junk” opportunities, but it probably has a clan of followers among some “true believers”. Quanta will probably fit well into that group.
Barry Trottier seems to be both hosting and promoting those opportunities.
I didn’t really know what to make of the whole “gss.us” domain usage. Kinda figured I’d leave it out and wait for a proper domain to be launched.
I’m having a hard time believing any MLM company is going to launch on a subdomain of an unrelated domain. Any legitimate MLM company anyways.
All of those sub domains probably have their own websites. The sub domains can have been used for pre launch purposes, e.g. as a solution to allow pre-enrollment.
Companies pre launched there seems to be extremely short lived, i.e. they seem to have very little momentum after the pre launch. I checked a couple of “Midas Direct” blogs, and they went dead after 2 months. It’s about business opportunities that simply won’t work in reality.
Ive Heard of Jim Lutes only because of social media. No one I know in My company or any other have ever “attended one of his trainings”.
Jim Brit made a few bucks on a deal quite a few years back which collapsed in a very short time. He has been trying to duplicate some form of that “success” every since with many failed attempts. NOT a great track record for choosing a path.
Just because he has a book of regurgitated material doesnt add any credibility to the fold either. I have met Jim a few times and he is actually a great guy BUT until he dumps that “first one in” MLM mentality, He, or anyone following will never achieve ANY meaningful, long term success.
Him and Lutes both could both be very successful with a little work and re-education. A little humility can go a LONG way.
All these people passing up a “guaranteed” $2M – $3M a year for life so they can gambling all or nothing to hit the $1M a month mark is baffling to me. Whats evenmore baffling is them leaving a trail of destruction in their path. It is epidemic, completely foolish and irresponsible.
Might I add.. “Gambling all or nothing” on what would AT BEST be a VERY short term gain.
When I searched for:”gss.us,” it took me to a website for: “Greystar Solutions.”
I would read Tony Robbins books before I would ever pay for this nutjob bologna. Thank you for this informative website.
I was burned by ‘MPG Today” with Gary Cahloun. That was a huge investment for me. I live on SSI. It takes money to make money and i just don’t have the resources to invest. I enjoy reading all of the comments too.