Young Living has launched a single-level affiliate compensation plan through Wyld Notes.

Quoting Young Living co-founder and CEO Mary Young, a January 13th article from Beauty Packaging states;

Wyld Notes represents our vision for the future: a new way to connect with customers and empower our Brand Partners, all while staying firmly rooted in the Network Marketing model that defines us.

We are setting a new standard for the industry and are excited to lead this charge.

Gaya Samarasingha (right) has been appointed CEO of Wyld Notes.

Samarasingha has held a number of MLM executive roles, including Director of International Development at Young Living.

In addition to Wyld Notes, Samarasingha is also founder and CEO of Kalaia, an MLM company she founded in late 2017.

Like Young Living, Wyld Notes markets a range of essential oils.

Wyld Notes’ compensation plan sees it pay a 25% commission on personal sales only.

No complicated tiers or quotas—just straightforward rewards for your efforts.

Despite the above, taken from Wyld Notes’ website, sounding like a critique of Young Living, Wyld Notes is being launched as a “sister company”.

The hybrid model allows Young Living Brand Partners who participate in the Wyld Notes affiliate program to receive commissions on both Young Living’s side and Wyld Notes’ side.

This sentiment is echoed by Samarasingha who, in a January 5th Instagram post, stated;

This program is seamlessly designed to integrate with Young Living, offering YL Brand Partners a game-changing growth opportunity in 2025 and beyond.

At least at launch, Wyld Notes appears primarily pitched at existing Young Living Brand Partners.

This raises the question of why Wyld Notes wasn’t just launched as an affiliate option within Young Living?

Off the top of my head I can only come up with two reasons:

  1. Young Living wanted to launch Wyld Notes without any public MLM association;
  2. Wyld Notes isn’t really for Young Living’s existing MLM Brand Partners.

Neither is good news for Young Living’s Brand Partners.

If Wyld Notes was launched as a standalone company to avoid public association with MLM, what does that say about Young Living’s confidence in the industry?

If Wyld Notes was launched to build a non-MLM salesforce, that doesn’t help Young Living Brand Partners.

And what happens if Wyld Notes takes off and eclipses Young Living?

Young Living is part of a recent trend of MLM companies shifting to a single-level affiliate model.

Wyld Notes is scheduled to launch sometime this month. On February 21st Samarasingha stated she was “call[ing] in every favor to get Wyld Noted launched on time”.