Restart Your Life Review: Beta Glucan supplements
Restart Your Life market dietary supplements and are based out of South Carolina in the US.
Launched in Mid-2011, Restart Your Life was founded by Joyce Cordell and A.J. Lanigan, who serve as CEO and the company’s “Product Manufacturer” respectively.
Referring to MLM as something she was “exposed” to, Cordell (photo right) entered the MLM industry back in 1993.
Surprisingly, I wasn’t able to find any additional background information on Cordell, with her Restart Your Life executive bio only stating that she ‘earned the top position with a world-wide telecommunications company‘.
Somewhere along the way Cordell was diagnosed with breast cancer and as a result met A.J. Langian.
Going through this health challenge heightened her awareness of her body and the importance of the immune system.
She (Cordell) became aware of Beta Glucan through A.J. Lanigan.
As she began taking the product her knowledge and belief in it solidified and she felt strongly that launching it through the network marketing model could bring life changing benefits to the masses.
A partnership between Cordell and Laniganis how Restart Your Life came about in 2011.
Restart Your Life first popped up on my radar when I was doing research into a newly announced MLM company, “Level 9 App“. The Level 9 App website lists “Restart Your Life” as the domain registrant, indicating that the company owns it.
Rather than launch as a product however, it appears as if Level 9 App is launching as a separate company. The exact nature of the relationship between the two companies is currently not clear.
Read on for a full review of the Restart Your Life MLM business opportunity.
The Restart Your Life Product Line
Described as being “alone at the top of the heap”, Restart Your Life market a series of products that revolve around “Beta Glucan”.
Beta glucan enhances the immune system by improving the immune response when the immune system is confronted with a foreign body it sees as non-self (i.e. viruses, bacteria, fungi, cancer, parasites, etc.).
When absorbed and converted, Beta 1, 3-D Glucan attaches to specific sites on all immune cells that have CR3 receptors.
By attaching, or binding, to these specific sites, beta glucan puts these immune cells on ‘high alert’ to foreign bodies they see as non-self. This process is called immune modulation.
Research shows our Beta 1, 3-D Glucan is a highly effective immune modulator.
Wikipedia state that Beta Glucan
occur most commonly as cellulose in plants, the bran of cereal grains, the cell wall of baker’s yeast, certain fungi, mushrooms and bacteria.
Restart Your Life appear to use the “baker’s yeast” variety of Beta Glucan and claim that ‘beta glucans purified from baker’s yeast enhances the immune system better than any other type of beta glucan‘.
RVB-300
RVB-300 is Restart Your Life’s “flagship” product and comes in a 60 capsule bottle. RVB-300 contains ‘100 mg of Beta 1, 3-D Glucan, 100 mg of Resveratrol and 50 mg of Vitamin C‘.
RYL BETA500
RYL BETA500 is a “stand-alone beta glucan product” that is also capsule based. RYL BETA500 contains ‘500 mg of Beta 1, 3-D Glucan’ with Restart Your Life recommending
RYL BETA500 is to be used along with the RVB300 for those who want or need a higher level of immune support.
Trinity Lotion
Trinity Lotion is a skin product that contains a ‘Beta 1, 3-D Glucan, MSM and Aloe Vera‘.
Restart Your Life claim that Trinity Lotion
is designed to keep skin healthy, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, as well as a great first aid for burns, insect bites, bee stings and minor cuts.
Heartfelt Chocolate
Heartfelt Chocolate is
a sugarless dark chocolate which is sweetened by Xylitol, and is diabetic friendly. There are no additives, dairy, waxes or nuts. Also it is Vegan, Gluten-Free, Lactose-Free and Kosher.
Our Heartfelt Chocolate contains a proprietary, patented blend that includes Cinnulin PF, “The Real Cinnamon Extract”.
The Restart Your Life Compensation Plan
The Restart Your Life compensation plan offers affiliates a mix of retail and recruitment commissions, with residual income derived from a 3×9 matrix.
Restart Your Life Membership Ranks
Within the Restart Your Life compensation plan there are nine membership ranks. Along with their qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Bronze – recruit 1 affiliate
- Silver – recruit 2 affiliates
- Gold – recruit 3 affiliates
- Diamond – recruit 8 affiliates
- Double Diamond – recruit 16 affiliates
- Triple Diamond – recruit 24 affiliates
- Blue Diamond – have 3 personally recruited Triple Diamonds in your downline
- Black Diamond – have 3 personally recruited Blue Diamonds in your downline
- Crown Diamond – have 3 personally recruited Black Diamond or 9 personally recruited Blue Diamonds in your downline
Retail Commissions
Retail commissions are paid out on all orders made by retail and preferred customers.
Restart Your Life pay out a ‘$25.00 per order commission for each Customer (an affiliate has) who makes a purchase for the month’.
No minimum order purchase amount is specified.
Recruitment Commissions
Referred to as “Next Day Training Pay”, Restart Your Life pay affiliates a $20 commission upon the recruitment of a new qualified affiliate.
Restart Your Life define a qualified affiliate as one who has
qualified to earn commissions their very first day of enrollment into the company’s matrix by making an initial purchase.
This “initial purchases” is called a “Join Package”, which ranges in cost from $69.95 to $399.
First Order Bonus
When a newly recruited affiliate places their first Join Package order with the company, it pays out a “First Order Bonus” to the recruiting affiliate.
The First Order Bonus is paid out at $25 to $200, depending on which Join Package a newly recruited affiliate purchases.
Executive PAK Bonus
The “Executive PAK” is the top-tier Restart Your Life Join Package and comes in at $399.
When a new affiliate joins and purchases an Executive PAK or an existing affiliate buys one, commissions are paid out to the affiliate’s upline.
$100 is paid out to the recruiting affiliate, $100 is paid out to the first National Marketing Director ranked affiliate found in the purchasing affiliate’s upline.
A third commission is paid out to the first Diamond Marketing Director or higher ranked affiliate.
This third commission is paid out depending on the ranked level of the qualifying affiliate:
- Diamond Marketing Director – $25
- Double Diamond Marketing Director – $50
- Triple Diamond Marketing Director – $75
- Blue Diamond Marketing Director – $90
- Black Diamond Marketing Director – $100
- Crown Diamond Marketing Director – $105
Note that if the recruiting affiliate is not a Crown Diamond Marketing Director, then the third commission is paid out incrementally until the entire $105 has been paid along the upline genealogy.
Residual Commissions
Restart Your Life pay out residual commissions using a 3×9 matrix compensation structure.
A 3×9 matrix structure places an affiliate at the top of the structure with three legs branching out from under them (level 1).
In turn, these level 1 positions each branch out into three additional legs (level 2) and so on and so forth down 9 levels for a total of 29,523 positions.
These positions can be filled either via direct recruitment (of either customers or affiliates) or the recruiting efforts of an affiliates up and downlines.
For each “bottle of product” ordered by a recruited affiliate, Restart Your Life Pay out a $1 commission. 25 cents is offered on each bottle of product a customer buys.
Matching Bonus
For Diamond or higher ranked affiliates, a Matching Bonus is offered on the matrix earnings of all personally recruited affiliates.
The Matching Bonus is paid out down to a maximum 6 levels of recruitment:
- Diamond – 50% on level 1
- Double Diamond – 50% on level 1 and 10% on level 2
- Triple Diamond – 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2 and 5% on level 3
- Blue Diamond – 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on level 3 and 3% on level 4
- Black Diamond – 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on level 3, 3% on level 4 and 2% on level 5
- Crown Diamond – 50% on level 1, 10% on level 2, 5% on level 3, 3% on level 4, 2% on level 5 and 1% on level 6
Rank Advancement CV Pay
Despite the confusing name, Rank Advancement CV Pay is simply a product sale commission paid out on the sale or purchase of products by personally recruited affiliates and their downlines and customers.
The Rank Advancement CV Pay commission is paid out an unlimited depth of recruitment generations (affiliates you recruit, their downlines, their downlines downlines etc.), with commissions tied into an affiliate’s own membership rank:
- Diamond – $1
- Double Diamond – $2
- Triple Diamond – $3
- Blue Diamond – $4
- Black Diamond – $5
Crown Diamonds aren’t mentioned, but presumably they are paid the same rate as Black Diamonds.
Business Builder Bonus
The Business Builder Bonus is paid out upon an affiliate qualifying for the Diamond or higher membership ranks.
Bonus Pools
Restart Your Life take $5 per bottle of product sold “company-wide” each month and put it in a Bonus Pool.
This pool is then divided equally between all Triple Diamond ranked or higher affiliates at the end of each month.
Restart Your Life also have a “Great American Health Challenge” pool, which is made up of 20% of each “Health Challenge” sale and $1 from every Trinity Lotion and Heartfelt Chocolate product sale.
Restart Your Life distribute this second pool equally between every affiliate who makes a Great American Health Challenge product purchase each month.
I’m not exactly sure what this product purchase is, as details do not feature on the Restart Your Life product page.
There is a Great American Health Challenge page in the “opportunity” section of the Restart Your Life website, however it appears to be a restaurant voucher testimonial incentive for customers, rather than something affiliates purchase each month.
Rank Achievement Bonus
When Restart Your Life affiliates qualify at the Diamond membership rank or higher, the company pays out a one time cash bonus.
Restart Your Life state that these bonuses range from $250 to $5000 but do not provide specific payouts per rank achieved.
A “Business Builder Bonus” of $300 to $500 a month is also mentioned for Blue Diamond or higher ranked affiliates, however again no specific information is provided.
Joining Restart Your Life
Basic affiliate membership to Restart Your Life is $39.95 a year.
The company also sells “PAK” affiliate membership, which includes product(s):
- RVB300 PAK – $69.95 ($49.95 monthly autoship)
- Trinity Lotion PAK – $69.95 ($49.95 monthly autoship)
- Executive PAK (3 bottles of RVB300 and two Trinity Lotions) – $399.95 ($49.95 monthly autoship for one bottle of RVB300)
Conclusion
Although I found most of the Restart Your Life compensation plan easy enough to understand, there were certain parts (the coding bonuses and Executive PAK bonuses) that left me scratching my head a bit but I believe I’ve got most of it accurate.
With a preferred customer class there’s definitely a retail side to Restart Your Life which is good to see, however upon analysis the compensation plan heavily tilts in favour of the recruitment of affiliates and placing them on autoship.
This is evident in the affiliate rank qualification requirements (which are all recruitment based), the 25 cent per bottle matrix commission on customer bottles of product vs. $1 for affiliates and complete lack of retail sales qualification criteria built into the compensation plan.
I will say however that the $25 retail order bonus is quite an incentive to attract retail customers, however it does appear a bit ambiguous. I’m not sure if it’s paid out on single bottle orders of product or whether there’s a minimum order amount required.
Restart Your Life don’t specify retail prices for their products on their website but with autoship being $49.95 a month I don’t imagine retail is much more than that. In that case $25 per order isn’t too bad.
Of course that’s assuming you don’t just give up and focus on recruiting new affiliates, earning $1 per autoship order each month on every affiliate you and your downline recruits.
And then of course there’s the additional bonuses and what not you get as you advance up the membership ranks (qualifying by recruiting new affiliates).
Taking all this into consideration it doesn’t appear that retail is a strong part of the Restart Your life business model. As a prospective affiliate the quickest way to check this would be to ask your upline how many retail customers they have vs. recruited affiliates.
Also consider how you yourself were approached, was it on the products or the affiliate income opportunity?
The more scrutinious of you would also be advised to enquire about your potential upline’s upline customer vs. affiliate numbers.
One strong point I think that will heavily influence the amount of customers in Restart Your Life is that the key ingredient in Restart Your Life’s product line doesn’t appear to be exclusive.
As a manufacturer, A.J. Lanigan sells his products to a number of other companies. Two examples I found via a simple “A.J. Lanigan manufacturer” Google search were The Beta Source (“thebetasource.com”) and HealthSprings (“healthsprings.net”).
Both companies sell products based on Lanigan’s “Beta1-3D Glucan” ingredient and both list A.J. Lanigan as the manufacturer of their beta glucan products.
Given this, all that really then differentiates Restart Your Life from these other companies in the attached income opportunity. Without which you’re pretty much just selling what everyone else is.
Retail option or not, if Restart Your Life is mainly full of affiliates selling the income opportunity then it’s really no different to any other recruitment driven matrix scheme out there.
Update 24th February 2017 – In October of 2014 Restart Your Life was acquired by Youngevity.
Company CANNOT pay on recruitment. That is ILLEGAL. PERIOD.
K. Chang, the company does not pay on recruiting. Where did you find this erroneous information? A retail, wholesale or distributor product purchase sale must be made before commissions are paid.
As far as exclusivity, the other two retailers selling the Beta Glucan through A.J. Lanigan’s company are only selling the Beta 1-3D Glucan 100 & 500 mg formulations.
Restart Your Life (RSYL) also has an exclusive Beta 1-3D Glucan formulation named “RVB300,” that contains resveratrol and vitamin C, to make it (according to university studies) the most potent immune support supplement on the market, which can only be purchased through RSYL.
Oh and all the studies on its efficacy can be found on the corporate site, as well as top competing immune support products as comparisons. Also, the retail price of the Beta 1-3D Glucan 500 mg product sold at RSYL is the same $69.95 (unless on sale) that you will find it sold via the other 2 retail shops.
Because of this, no one could ever accuse RSYL of price gouging like other nutritional MLM companies do. Only difference is, RSYL has a compensation plan attached for resellers and “G4” plan for customers to get their products free, whereas, the retailers pocket the profits.
And Oz, your compensation plan details will need to be updated, as some major enhancements will be available on the site 3/15 – 3/25.
Then how would you classify the PAK bonus?
The compensation plan is heavily tilted towards recruitment. A quick look was enough, I didn’t have to analyse each and every detail to see that.
Executive PAK pays out $225-$305 commission to recruiter plus upline, that’s “on recruitment”.
Other than that, paying for recruitment is not about “on recruitment” but about “derives from recruitment”. It’s about whether commissions derives from recruiting other participants or derives from sales to end users.
“Participant” is someone who has the right to recruit other participants, and is paying directly or indirectly for the right to participate in the plan (“pay to join”, “pay to play”, “pay for your paycheck”, “pay for promotions”, etc.). The payment doesn’t have to be about directly paying money.
Every compensation plan has “holes” if you will, where there is usually breakage; but RSYL pays out up to 60% of every dollar it takes in from product orders, which is very generous.
Each starting point in the compensation includes “product,” except if someone wants to become a distributor, known as an Independent Marketing Director (IMD), which requires no product purchase or other payment, as stated in #8 of their “Distributor Join Agreement”
(8. I acknowledge that I have not made any payment or purchase of any kind as a requirement to become an IMD of Restart Your Life, and I agree not to require any other person to make any payment or purchase of any kind to become an IMD of Restart Your Life.)
However, if an IMD decides to purchase one bottle of RVB300 for $49.95 (at the discounted IMD price), it can be beneficial to their health. If they do not agree, then they will have 30-days to return the unused portion of the product for a 100% money-back guarantee (minus s/h).
And again, the compensation plan has been revised to reflect enhancements that will make it even more lucrative than it already is, without jeopardizing the incomes currently being earned by existing IMD’s.
But those changes have not been updated on the corporate site as of yet. So we can revisit in about 2 weeks for further developments to aid in your research.
NOTHING BUT A SCAM. MLM MARKETING WHERE THE TOP DOGS MAKE BANK AND YOU GET CRUMBS. YOU PAY YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO JOIN.
I was not a “TOP DOG” in another MLM company but made many checks over $5000.00 dollars each month!!!!
A scam is you buying a set of TIRES from “Wal Mart” and getting a good “DEAL” and when you see me and 10 of my friends, you tell me what a great “DEAL” you had in buying your tires.
So, we (11 of us) all go to “Wal Mart” to get “OUR DEAL” BUT, who gets PAID for you telling us about that GREAT DEAL? DID YOU GET ANY MONEY FOR TELLING US (11 of us) ABOUT WHERE TO FIND THIS GREAT DEAL? THAT”S A SCAM!!!!!!!!
In MLM we all get to share the profits and REMEMBER< THE MORE YOU HELP YOUR PEOPLE THE MORE YOU WILL MAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE NAME OF THE GAME IS HELPING OTHERS TO SUCCEED, THEN YOU WILL SUCCEED!!!!!!!
ALOHA, Stanley
1. Making money has nothing to do with determining whether or not something is a “scam” or not.
2. Walmart is not an MLM business opportunity, so it is neither here nor there.
And how many retail customers (non-affiliates) were you selling product to each month? What was the retail sales volume said customers generated and how much of your $5000 commissions was attributed to their purchase of product?
Is the company still in business?
Thanks.
They were bought out by Youngevity in late 2014. I’ve now added that to the review.
I used to take RVB 300 and i never felt better the whole time, then i heard about the buy out an possibly taken revesterol out of the product so i quit taking it.
i knew that there was a possible pyramid affect to make money but i was more interested in my health and i felt great all the time.
I really didn’t feel how it was affecting me till i quit taking it.
It’s great for diabetics but to feel good again an possibly make money with is a bonus so i’m going to reorder autoship and get back on it …..