Lifestyle Connections Review: $39 a month access to savings
Lifestyle Connections provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.
Lifestyle Connection’s product, a savings platform called Lifestyle Savings Network, first featured on BehindMLM as part of our IXQ TV review.
IXQ TV was the successor of vStream TV, both of which sold access to pirated content.
The MPA shut down IXQ TV in late 2019.
All of these companies are owned and operated by David Bremner.
Lifestyle Connections is marketed as being “powered by NXR Global”, presumably yet another company owned by Bremner.
Why this information isn’t provided on Lifestyle Connections website is unclear.
Read on for a full review of Lifestyle Connection’s MLM opportunity.
Lifestyle Connections’ Product
Lifestyle Connections markets access to Lifestyle Savings, a cash back and savings subscription network.
The Lifestyle Savings Network site and app are simple to use. Just search and save. Search zip codes to find deals around you.
Lifestyles Network appears to be powered by a third-party, however that’s not disclosed on Lifestyle Connection’s website.
Bundled with a Lifestyle Savings Network subscription is a “personal financial management system”.
Curiously, Lifestyle Connection fails to provide any information about this service.
Access to Lifestyle Savings retails for $39 a month.
On top of that there’s a telemedicine health care service called Veritas.
Veritas marketing material reveals it’s a “medical cost sharing plan” provided by The Karis Group.
Access to Veritas costs an additional $19.99 a month.
Lifestyle Connections’ Compensation Plan
Lifestyle Connections’ compensation pays on volume generated by Lifestyle Savings subscriptions sold to retail customers and recruited affiliates.
It is assumed the Veritas service is included in Lifestyle Connections’ compensation plan, however there is no mention of it in official documentation.
Lifestyle Connections Affiliate Ranks
There are ten affiliate ranks within Lifestyle Connections’ compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Independent Business Partner – sign up as a Lifestyle Connections affiliate
- Junior Executive – generate and maintain 150 GV a month or recruit and maintain an affiliate
- Executive – generate and maintain 1500 GV a month
- Senior Executive – generate and maintain 2500 GV a month
- Regional – generate and maintain 5000 GV a month
- National – generate and maintain 10,000 GV a month
- International – generate and maintain 20,000 GV a month
- 1 Star – generate and maintain 50,000 GV a month
- 2 Star – generate and maintain 100,000 GV a month
- 3 Star – generate and maintain 200,000 GV a month
- Ruby – generate and maintain 300,000 GV a month
- Emerald – generate and maintain 600,000 GV a month
- Diamond – generate and maintain 1,000,000 GV a month
GV stands for “Group Volume” and is sales volume generated via Lifestyle Savings subscriptions.
- a retail subscription generates 15 GV a month
- a Pro affiliate subscription generates 40 GV a month
- a Pro Plus affiliate subscription generates 60 GV a month
Note that no more than 75% of required GV can come from any one unilevel team leg.
Retail Commissions
Lifestyle Connections pays commissions on the sale of Lifestyle Savings subscriptions to retail customers.
These commissions are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Lifestyle Connections caps payable retail unilevel commissions at four levels.
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – $10
- level 2 – $3
- levels 3 and 4 – $1
Note these commissions are monthly recurring, for as long as a retail customer maintains their Lifestyle Savings subscription.
Initial Recruitment Commissions
Lifestyle Connections pays affiliates to recruit new affiliates.
Recruitment commissions are paid out using the same unilevel team as retail commissions (see above).
Lifestyle Connections has two affiliate options, Pro and Pro Plus.
Recruitment commissions are based on whether a recruited affiliate opts for Pro or Pro Plus membership, as well as which membership the recruiting affiliate signed up with.
Pro affiliates earn
- $15 on the personal recruitment of a Pro affiliate, $3 on level 2 and $1 on levels 3 to 5
- $20 on the personal recruitment of a Pro Plus affiliate, $3 on level 2 and $1 on levels 3 to 5
Pro Plus affiliates earn
- $15 on the personal recruitment of a Pro affiliate, $3 on level 2 and $1 on levels 3 to 5
- $20 on the personal recruitment of a Pro affiliate, $3 on level 2 and $1 on levels 3 to 6
Note that these are initial recruitment commissions. Residual recruitment commissions are detailed below.
Residual Recruitment Commissions
Residual recruitment commissions are paid again using a unilevel compensation structure.
This is volume generated by downline affiliate fee payments after the first month.
On level one (personally recruited affiliates), Pro Lifestyle Connections affiliates receive $12.50 per Pro and Pro Plus affiliate recruited.
Pro Plus affiliates receive $12.50 per Pro affiliate recruited and $15 per Pro Plus.
Residual recruitment commissions below detail levels two to nine of the unilevel team.
- Junior Executives earn 5% on levels 2 and 3
- Executives earn 5% on levels 2 to 4
- Senior Executives earn 5% on levels 2 to 5
- Regionals to Internationals earn 5% on levels 2 to 6
- 1 Stars earn 5% on levels 2 to 6 and 2.5% on level 7
- 2 Stars earn 5% on levels 2 to 6 and 2.5% on levels 7 and 8
- 3 Stars earn 5% on levels 2 to 6 and 2.5% on levels 7 to 9
Matching Bonus
Lifestyle Connections pays a Matching Bonus on downline residual commissions.
The Matching Bonus is paid through the unilevel team, capped down five levels of recruitment.
- recruit and maintain two affiliates and personally generate 80 PV a month – 20% match on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
- recruit and maintain three affiliates and personally generate 160 PV a month – 20% match on level 1 and 5% on level 2
- recruit and maintain four affiliates and personally generate 240 PV a month – 20% match on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 and 3
- recruit and maintain six affiliates and personally generate 400 PV a month – 20% match on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 4
- recruit and maintain eight affiliates and personally generate 600 PV a month – 20% match on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 to 5
- Ruby ranked affiliates earn a 20% match on level 1 and 7% on levels 2 to 5
- Emerald ranked affiliates earn a 20% match on level 1 and 9% on levels 2 to 5
- Diamond ranked affiliates earn a 20% match on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 to 5
PV stands for “Personal Volume” and is sales volume generated by an affiliate’s own sales to retail customers and recruited affiliates.
Infinity Bonus
The Infinity Bonus expands unilevel team volume commissions beyond nine levels.
The Infinity Bonus is paid on unilevel team volume, up until another affiliate at your rank is found in a unilevel leg.
This affiliate caps off the first generation for that leg, with the second beginning immediately after.
If a second same rank as you affiliate exists deeper in the leg, they cap off the second generation. The third generation begins after them.
If no such affiliate exists, the second generations extends down the full depth of the leg. The same happens with the first and third generations if no affiliate exists deeper to cap off.
Using this generational structure, Lifestyle Connections affiliate can earn the Infinity Bonus on up to three generations per unilevel team leg.
- Regionals earn a 0.5% Infinity Bonus on up to one generation
- Nationals earn a 0.5% Infinity Bonus on up to two generations
- Internationals and higher earn a 0.5% Infinity Bonus on up to three generations
Rank Achievement Bonus
Lifestyle Connections rewards affiliates for qualifying at Regional and higher ranks with the following bonuses:
- qualify as a Regional and receive $100
- qualify as a National and receive $250
- qualify as an International and receive $500
- qualify as a 1 Star and receive $1000
- qualify as a 2 Star and receive $2000
- qualify as a 3 Star and receive $4000
- qualify as a Ruby and receive $10,000
- qualify as an Emerald and receive $25,000
- qualify as a Diamond and receive $50,000
Note that Ruby and higher Rank Achievement Bonuses are paid out over twelve months.
Rank must be maintained during these twelve months.
Lifestyle Bonuses
The Lifestyle Bonus is a monthly bonus calculated on raw downline and retail customer numbers.
- maintain 5000 retail customer and downline subscribers and receive $5000 a month
- maintain 10,000 retail customer and downline subscribers and receive $10,000 a month
- maintain 20,000 retail customers and downline subscribers and receive $20,000 a month
Note that for the $5000 bonus, no more than 50% of counted subscribers can come from any one unilevel leg.
For the other two bonuses, the max leg criteria is reduced to 25%.
Joining Lifestyle Connections
Lifestyle Connections affiliate membership starts at $59.95 a month.
Exact pricing is not provided on Lifestyle Connections’ website.
Conclusion
We’re in the era of free apps that share their commissions with users. In that environment, dropping $468 annually just to access savings makes little sense.
This places a big question mark on Lifestyle Savings’ retail viability.
Even if you take into account the advertised exclusivity of some of the offers, you’re still looking at having to make back almost $500 a year just to break even.
If, as I suspect, Lifestyle Savings has little to no retail pickup, you’re looking at affiliates being primary subscribers.
If this is the case, Lifestyle Connections is operating as a pyramid scheme.
Supporting this is retail commissions capping out at four levels. Recruitment commissions range from six to nine levels.
It’s pretty clear where the intended focus is.
As a Lifestyle Connections affiliate, if you’re going to be focused on recruitment over retail that’s not sustainable.
Commissions will dry up once recruitment slows down, eventually leaving you out of pocket.
Bit ironic seeing as you’re supposed to be saving money with Lifestyle Savings.
Update 10th February 2020 – A reader has brought to my attention that Lifestyle Connections has multiple websites up.
This review is based on the information presented on “nxrglobal.com”.
Lifestyle Connections is also available via “mylifestyleconnections.com”, which details a flat $49.95 a month for retail and affiliate access.
The same price being charged further reenforces Lifestyle Connections lack of retail viability.
Are the savings ever really worth it when a person joins these things?
The hallmark of recurring payments into the company is where the money is no matter what the so called “SAVINGS” are.
Any time I see these comp plans play out with more than 4 levels of compensation it just makes my mind go numb.
Looks great to the newbie dreaming of huge income.
If often wonder what the average is for the total amount of members in these things before they fizzle out?
When these people that own Lifestyle Connections closed up IXQTV, it turned to “Coral Connection” for a few days. They had no clue what they were doing.
Then it turned into LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS. They collected all of JULY payments for the old IXQTV product, closed up on August 1st and never paid their reps what was owed to them.
I hear this has been done many times before with these past businesses this NXR GLOBAL has made.
Now we have Blaine Williams “COACH BLAINE” getting a piece of the LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS.
2/8/2020 conference call: (Ozedit: video link removed, unavailable as of Dec 2021) @ 17:15 pie. Sounds like he has some kind of sweetspot position.
Just research BLAINE WILLIAMS here on BehindMLM and you’ll see. These guys are all in cahoots trying to rev up something to take more of people’s money.
It’s just nuts and I find it humorous to see what mess they have made. NXR GLOBAL owes their OLD IXQTV reps commissions and previous companies before that.
The company KEPT all the commissions for the month of JULY and never paid a single residual dime they owed to people. They say it’s because they had lawyer fees.
Some figured if could be BREMNER’S OWED TAXES. SO yup sounds like a plan to take the last month of commissions and pay some taxes.
SO I’m pluzzed to why anyone would work with these people again. CROOKED.
A review of NXR GLOBAL, David Bremner, Bob Bremner needs to be done or updated if one has already been published. NOW BLAINE WILLIAMS on this deal. TOTALLY NUTTY NOW.
Anyone looking to work with this company and their owners need to BEWARE that your hard earned time, money and effort will be taken a when they shut down, change their business model or claim some other tactic to take commissions.
I forgot to research these people before joining them in the past. My fault. Thank you BehindMLM to help people see the light.
WHAT A JOKE: COMP PLAN changed since print of this review, probably a mess because they want to keep people guessing.
mylifestyleconnections.com/assets/img/LCComp.pdf
I wasted a load of time with these people in the past.
Savings clubs never last more than a few months. If they can’t beat local or Amazon prices, people will look elsewhere.
That is Blair Brenner Speaking in that audio. They are back scamming again.
I AGREE BUYER BEWARE…
The Bremners were joined by two other characters, “Coach” Blaine Williams and Mark Campese, first in Pure Life(selling a questionable product and now the “Coral” product and now in LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS.
While their names aren’t shown, they are promoting it on there conference calls and sending out information to their Pure Life members.
You might remember these two characters, Williams and Campese, from Waszup, Noble 7 and then were the 100% owners and decision makers in Noble 8 and suckered thousands more into it.
Waszup’s owner made a statement on Waszup’s Facebook page that he had fired Williams and Campese for questionable practices. They then started Noble 7 bringing several thousand people in at $50 each.
Then they suddenly shut it down and many of those people lost there $50. They then opened up Noble 8 where they got thousands more to join at $25. (what happened to the $50 from all those Noble 7 people?)
Then after a year of excuses Noble 8 finally paid out a one-time payment which was pitifully small and in no way what they had promoted would be earned for a year.
They charged so much to get the commissions out that many members were not able to get their little bit of money out before they shut it down suddenly and kept all that money.
Then they started Pure Life (with the money they kept from the Noble 8 members?) along with the Bremners.
As per their normal actions, they have now started this new Lifestyle Connections with the Bremners. I guess Pure Life isn’t doing as good as they thought so you have to wonder if they are about to shut it down too.
Your best bet if approached by anybody suggesting that you join anything these guys are doing is to run away fast!!! They can make it sound so wonderful but their reputations and there past actions say that whatever they say, what they will really do isn’t what they say it is.
It’s possible that you have a much better chance of winning the lottery than earning money with them…chances are you WILL lose money and time with them.
They need to be locked up to stop their evil ways.
Blaine Williams is speaking and doing the RAH-RAH after 17:15 mins after the video start.
I have learned that almost all of the leaders who were appointed to the Executive Boards at Noble 8 and Pyur Life have left the company over the past few months due to terrible actions by the owners.
While MLM already has a bad enough name, decent people no longer want there names to be associated with these owners.
Looks like they deleted the above webinar and now MARK CAMPESE is doing the webinar opening and calls himself, “One of the Executive Co-Founders of Lifestyle Connections.”
Here’s the link: vimeo.com/390309645
This was not the case when the whole deal was made after the IXQTV closed up. Basically NRX GLOBAL just tried to ROLL all the reps into this deal and that TOTALLY BACK FIRED!!
PEOPLE WERE GONE LIKE FARTS IN THE WIND. No one wanted any part of what was going on. FOR ONE, THE COMPANY OWED EVERYONE COMMISSIONS!!
BUT NOW LOOK WHO IS RUNNING SHOW! When I hear BOB PETERSON on the webinar at timeframe 18:40 > This guy is one of the original reps hanging out with the BREMNERS who helps run the show from Maryland.
This guy likes to contact his entire downline about his other deals. Oh that’s ethical.
At 20:37 you have BLAINE WILLIAMS “Executive Co-Founder???” How nutty is this company. Basically what NXR GLOBAL did was shift these guys from PYUR to LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS because no one was joining apparently.
Listen to these guys make me want to wear gold chains and velour jogging suits. I’m so annoyed with these people. Just look up these guys names – YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF. NXR GLOBAL, LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS (SAME THING AS LIFESTYLE SAVING NETWORK)
SO ALL THE GUYS FROM Noble 8 and Pyur Life (PURELIFE – hecks who knows) are now the ring leaders of LIFESTYLE CONNECTIONS = aka NXR GLOBAL also known “NUTRONIX” (THAT’S WHAT WAS ON THE CHECKS) Kind of funny how there are so many names, keeps people confused.
Jorge Johnson great points there! ALL THESE NAMES here associated with the NXR GLOBAL, BOB & BLAIR BREMNER, MARK CAMPESE, COACH BLAINE WILLIAMS, BOB PETERSON – PEOPLE GOTTA BEWARE and put any kind of BUSINESS idea out of your mind. SAVE YOUR MONEY and go buy a LOTTERY TICKET instead.
Not sure if the tax situation was fixed up or not. Here’s the public link about “Mechanicsville Man Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion”~ THis article has past public information on the father and son team, “Bob and Blair Bremner.”
Interesting read:
Here’s the link: justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/mechanicsville-man-sentenced-prison-tax-evasion
Once again…
BUYER BEWARE – I didn’t learn in the past, so just sharing the info. RUN WHEN YOU SEE THIS CREW!
These people can sell ice to eskimos and snake oil in the dessert. Just keep walking and looking a different business model. Not this one.
DON’T LET THESE PEOPLE BILL YOU… ATLEAST TRY TO CHARGEBACK YOUR CARD IF YOU CAN. GET OUT NOW. IT’S A TRAIN WRECK. DON’T LOSE A DIME WITH THESE PEOPLE.
This company owes me $4,355.11 in commissions I earned for the month of July 2019. They never paid, then they changed their company name.
I do not recommend working with NXR Global aka “Nutronix”, the Bremner family until they pay all the people commissions that they owe.
All my checks that were paid said, ” Nutronix Revolution, INC. 8101 Vanguard Dr. STE. 100, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111.
These people have chosen to ignore all commissions owed to reps that worked hard. The same corporate staff of NXR GLOBAL aka “NUTRONIX” company has now formed “Lifestyle Connections”.
I do not recommend any home business with these people because of all the commissions owed. Owners Bob and David Bremner continue to ignore all the reps that are owed.
NXR GLOBAL is back in action now (ON THE TAKE) with something new.
Beware people of this company!! They owe lots of people money.