AIM Global Review 3.0: Empowered Consumerism?
BehindMLM has published two reviews on Alliance in Motion Global (AIM Global).
Our initial review was published in 2013. We found a Philippine MLM company operating as a product-based pyramid scheme.
You know the deal; sign up as an affiliate, commit to a monthly spend and recruit others who do the same.
In our second AIM Global review, published in 2018, we revisited the company due to compensation changes.
While there were compensation changes, Alliance in Motion Global was still operating as a product-based pyramid scheme.
Although the payouts have slightly changed, Alliance in Motion Global is still very much a recruitment driven MLM opportunity.
Retail is a joke, as evidenced by Alliance in Motion still not fixing their website product page after five years.
A few months ago a reader got in touch to request a review of AIM Global’s latest marketing campaign; Empowered Consumerism.
Apparently the AIM Global company name was toxic, prompting rebranding of the MLM opportunity.
When AIM Global came up for review two months ago, I noted website errors that I was hoping would be fixed.
They haven’t, so we’re pressing ahead with the review anyway.
Read on for a 2021 updated review of Alliance in Motion Global.
The Company
Alliance in Motion Global is still based in the Philippines.
The company is owned and run by CEO Eduardo Cabantog (right).
Other than the Empowered Consumerism branding introduced in early 2020, there hasn’t really been any significant corporate changes since our last review.
AIM Global Products
There are two options provided in the “products” menu of AIM Global’s website; AIM E-Store and Naturacentials.
Here’s what the AIM E-Store looks like:
And here’s what happens when you click Naturacentials:
Conclusion: AIM Global has no retailable products or services.
AIM Global’s Compensation Plan
Alliance in Motion Global do not provide current compensation plan details on their website.
The only compensation information provided is an out of date video from 2018.
The following analysis is what I was able to put together from various “Empowered Consumerism” marketing presentations.
AIM Global is still paying commissions on affiliate purchases. These commissions are paid out via a unilevel and binary team.
The unilevel compensation is named “uni pay plan” and appears to pay on up to twenty unilevel team levels.
How many unilevel team levels an AIM Global affiliate earns on appears to be tied to how much they spend each month.
Residual binary team commissions appear intact as previously reviewed:
The Empowered Consumerism addition to the compensation plan appears to be a ten-level deep unilevel team.
When an AIM Global affiliate is recruited and purchases products, the Empowered Consumerism unilevel team pays 10% on level 1 and 5% on the other nine levels.
These percentages are calculated based off of affiliate purchase volume generated across the unilevel team.
There’s also a “Stairstep Bonus”, that pays volume percentages to ranked Silver Executive (10%), Gold Executive (20%) and Global Ambassador (30%) ranked affiliates.
This again is volume generated by recruited affiliate purchases.
There might be other bonuses in AIM Global’s compensation plan but I’m going to cut it short there.
Trying to further make heads or tails of AIM Global’s unnecessarily complicated marketing slides is doing my head in.
Joining AIM Global
Here’s what the Empowered Consumerism affiliate package page on AIM Global’s website looks like:
AIM Global Conclusion
If Empowered Consumerism was an attempt to relaunch AIM Global in the Philippines, it failed miserably.
AIM Global as an MLM opportunity is a confusing mess. It’s the worst I’ve seen it since our original 2013 review.
Retail has never been a focus in AIM Global and it still isn’t. AIM Global’s broken website leads me to believe the only thing keeping the company alive is offline recruitment.
Alexa traffic analysis for AIM Global’s website suggests that is primarily happening in India (35% of traffic).
Alexa doesn’t cite any other country as a significant source of AIM Global website traffic.
The take-away is AIM Global collapsing in the Philippines.
Someone managed to recruit some Indians and they’re spreading it. But when that inevitably collapses it’s back to square one (what likely prompted the Empowered Consumerism reboot in the first place).
Last year a BehindMLM readers wrote in to share AIM Global was being pitched across Africa (namely Ghana and Nigeria). That doesn’t appear to have gone anywhere.
Regardless of where it’s being promoted; AIM Global is a pyramid scheme.
They’ve added another unilevel team, changed some terminology but it’s still the same fraudulent business model:
Sign up as an affiliate, buy products and get paid to recruit others who do the same.
The problem with this business model is products are being purchased to qualify for commissions.
The argument from affiliates that they actually want the products, or that they provide value falls flat, owing to there being no retail focus within the model.
If AIM Global’s products were worth a damn outside of the pyramid scheme, it never would have collapsed in the Philippines.
As with the Philippines, promotion of AIM Global elsewhere will inevitably result in the majority of participants lose money.
In simple-terms this is non-recovery of monthly spend, compounded into larger losses each month.
To summarize;
- a broken website
- no retail
- abandoned in its home country
- collapsed everywhere else except India
- no attempt to address glaring compliance issues over fifteen years
I’m not usually this harsh in our formal reviews but there really isn’t anything to salvage here. Avoid AIM Global altogether.
Update 4th August 2021 – As I learned after the fact, the reason AIM Global looks abandoned is because they went full hog on their Empowered Consumerism branding.
That too is failing and so now AIM Global is again rebooting with OrbiXVictus branding.
Oz, AIM Global is nothing but a try to recruit people to buy 7 positions in the binary under the premise they will make more money if they buy more positions, which is tantamount to nothing but an illegal “front end load” scheme!
In addition, their promoters are very deceptive in their advertising practices, i.e., making it sound like you are coming to a job interview and using terms like salary in their online posts and adverts.
While others use terms like invest, investment, etc., in their ads and presentations, which now subjects them to charges of being an illegal ponzi/pyramid scheme, as they would be considered to be promoting a “security” without the company AND all of its reps having a securities license.
Finally, they have one of the worst binary plans in the MLM industry, along with SUperLife and I am Worldwide!
In AIM Global’s case, they have a cap of $728 a day the last time I checked, or roughly maximum earnings on a single position of around $5,000 a week, whereas a number of binary plans have caps of $10,000 to $25,000 a week or more!
In addition, they have no check matching bonus the last time I looked either…It was/is nothing but an overhyped deal!
They were running around Africa telling people they have created 1,000’s of millionaires, when they haven’t done enough in company sales over 15 years to create 100 millionaires, let alone thousands…Africans were easily duped!
If you earned 1 million kenyan shillings, you are considered a millionaire apparently in AIM Global! LOL…1 million kenya shillings is around $10,000 USD, a far cry from 1 million U.S. dollars!
This would explain the complete neglect of the rest of the business.
So straightup gifting scam at this point, not even hiding it really.
Recently, one of my Filipino friends joined the Alliance in Motion Global or AIM Global, INC in Singapore.
She said she joined her son as AIM is giving free scholarship grant to everyone who joins the company!!!
I was skeptical about it, but see that it was mentioned in a blog:
aimscholarship.blogspot.com/
I told her its too good to be true. Can Qz help to research and comment on the above?
My comment is: Based on its business model AIM Global is a pyramid scheme.
Attaching or not attaching a scholarship grant to a pyramid scheme doesn’t change the fact it’s a pyramid scheme.
You can’t buy legitimacy by throwing crumbs of crammed funds at what look like good causes
Mission, vision and core values are all lies.
They train people(independent product distributors) to so their recruiting for them and when these people steal the investors money the company claims no responsible.
I invested $2,100 with them and my investment was used to pay for medical bill by one of the recruiters.
Of the $2,100 I invested I only received 1 time payment of $477.07 which was the last of it.
I even stopped receiving communication from both the recruiting group and AIM Global.
I read so much hatred and bitterness when I read this article.
Wouldn’t be my first thoughts when reading about a pyramid scheme, but you do you.
hi.. how about EC Explosion Worldwide? i came across somewhere mentioning that it’s related to AIM global.
Ahe joining fee is the same Php10,500 but they don’t have products and no signing package given to new recruits as well.
EC stands for “Empowered Consumerism”… which is covered in the review you’re commenting on.
Maybe try reading?
ahh.. sorry that i wasn’t clear. i was actually asking if you have knowledge about Explosion Worldwide. thanks for your time. 🙂
All good. I punched “EC Explosion Worldwide” into Google and it appears to be someone’s AIM Global downline team. There’s a few other “EC (random name)” groups too.
Just another way to market the pyramid scheme without using the company name.
thank you so much for the information. 🙂
i love your page, it’s very informative. cheers! 🙂
Required for ED3.0 empower consumers.
What’s required? Your comment makes no sense.
I just saw and read everything about empowered consumerism , I made some researched and found out aim global is the mother company, they do a rebranding so now it was now empowered consumerism.
the company called aim global is into a multi level marketing scheme selling food supplements etc.
To join , you need to pay 10500 to get your EC account, they have a package like A, B , C , this products will be delivered to your address.
The cost of products you paid can be Worth more than the SRP because the company is paying commissions to your coach or endorser. So you can buy that package are a lesser price from the dealer or suppliers.
Once you Paid that 10500 pesos , you need to get new recruits who in turn will pay that same amount ,so this will give you commissions for every recruits .what you will do is copy paste the company format using the highly convincing sales talk.
To be honest this MLM is not actually focused on selling but on getting more recruits who will pay that joining fee of 10500 pesos.
When you are into selling products, you generally discussed the health benefits of the products you are marketing, but unfortunately this EC or aim global are more interested in getting recruits who will pay 10500.
I was introduced to a MLM way back in 1990 , the company is called AMWAY, I paid a joining fee to get the package, but I never had time to sell the products.
Any company who are depending on getting new recruits to survive and pay out its members will collapse once the chain is broken ..
They even called it an investment! That is not an investment, investment will earn you an ROI even you doing nothing. Like you invest in a real property, put your money in company stocks.
You can not get any ROI in aim global or empowered consumerism of you just do nothing, you need to recruit new members to earn ..
EC is bullshit! Dont join! Its scam!