Yevo Prelaunch Review: Dehydrated nutritional meals?
Yevo recently went into prelaunch and are currently scheduled for a February 2015 official launch.
The company currently does not have an official corporate website, with affiliates marketing a prelaunch domain that at the time of publication provides little more than a marketing video and sign up button.
This domain (“myyevo.com”) was registered on the 29th of October 2014 and lists a “Eugene Tipps” as the owner. An address for “Foods Matter LLC” in the US state of Utah is also provided.
Foods Matter LLC is a “domestic limited-liability company” registered in the US state of Nevada. The Foods Matter LLC registration lists Peter Castleman, David Brown, Nathan Horvath and Chip Marsland as officers/managers of the company.
The YouTube video currently published on the “myyevo.com” website mentions an additional domain in the video description (“yevointernational.com”). This domain is also registered to Tipps, however at the time of publication that domain is not active.
Presumably “yevointernational.com” will be the official company website when Yevo decides to go live.
On the management side of things, research reveals Yevo affiliates crediting Peter Castleman (Chairman of the Board) and David Brown (CEO) as the co-owners of the company.
Eugene Tipps (credited as “Gene Tipps” for some reason) is listed as Yevo’s COO.
On the MLM side of things, Peter Castleman (right) appears to have gotten involved in MLM back in 2002, when fund Whitney V LP along with Golden Gate Capital purchased Herbalife. Castleman was Managing Director of Whitney V at the time.
After the acquisition, Castleman served as Chairman at Herbalife until he resigned in 2007 to ‘focus on other business activities‘.
Bios published by Yevo affiliates suggest Castleman went on to launch a “Chinese herbal company” that was later sold off to Nu Skin.
David Brown was formerly the CEO of LifeVantage, where he was credited with prompting the company’s switch from retail to MLM back in 2008.
Prior to LifeVantage Brown was CEO and President of Metabolife (2000 – 2005).
Metabolife was founded in the early 1990s by Michael Ellis, a former police officer on probation for charges relating to his involvement with a methamphetamine lab.
Ellis and a boyhood friend, Michael Blevins, were arrested in 1989 for producing and distributing methamphetamine. Both Ellis and Blevins cooperated with federal authorities in return for lighter sentences.
Following Blevins’ release from prison, the two formed Metabolife to market ephedra, an herbal supplement containing compounds chemically related to methamphetamine.
In the late 1990s, the U.S. FDA considered regulating ephedra more strictly, in response to reports of adverse reactions and more than 100 deaths linked to the supplement. These included reports ofpsychosis, heart attack, stroke, and diabetic ketoacidosis.
A clinical trial conducted to address safety concerns found that Metabolife 365 increased blood pressure and induced mild cardiac arrhythmias; the trial concluded that there were serious safety concerns associated with the use of Metabolife.
Metabolife took an active role in lobbying against regulation of ephedra, forming an advocacy group called the Dietary Supplement Safety and Science Coalition and contributing heavily to Congressmen Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.), among other politicians.
Following the FDA’s ban of ephedra, Michael Ellis was indicted on eight counts of making false statements to the FDA in an effort to obstruct regulation of ephedra.
Ellis ultimately pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FDA about the adverse effects of Metabolife 356. He was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison and a $20,000 fine.
Metabolife was also investigated by the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice for income tax evasion; ultimately, the company pled guilty to filing fraudulent tax returns and was sentenced to pay a criminal fine of $600,000.
Metabolife owner William Bradley also pled guilty to evading millions of dollars in taxes and was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison and 2 years of probation.
Some of the politicians associated with Metabolife also encountered legal difficulties; Texas state legislators Jeff Wentworth and Rick Green were accused of illegal lobbying on behalf of the company.
In response to falling sales, and facing more than $1 billion in personal injury legal claims related to Metabolife 356, Metabolife filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005.
Read on for a full review of the Yevo prelaunch MLM business opportunity.
The Yevo Product Line
On the 15th of November 2004, Foods Matter LLC put in a trademark application for “Yevo”.
Two International classes are listed on the application, “003” and “030”:
030 – Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, rice, tapioca, sago, artificial coffee; flour and preparations made from cereals, bread, pastry and confectionery, ices; honey, treacle; yeast, baking-powder; salt, mustard; vinegar, sauces (condiments); spices; ice.
003 – Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use; cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations; soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, hair lotions; dentifrices.
Sounds uh… delicious.
Due to a lack of company-supplied product information currently provided on Yevo’s product line, how “bleaching preparation” fits into the business (and whether or not it has anything to do with their food-based product line) is unclear.
Promotional material from Yevo affiliates marketing the opportunity suggests that the company will offer packaged dehydrated meals. These meals are advertised as just needing hot or cold water to prepare and costing around $4 to $5 a meal.
There is also an emphasis on “43 essential nutrients”, which appears to be a focal point in each of the packaged meals Yevo will market.
The Yevo Compensation Plan
The Yevo compensation plan pays affiliates on sales volume generated by the sale of Yevo products.
Commissions are paid residually via a unilevel compensation structure, with various performance and rank based bonuses also on offer.
Yevo Affiliate Ranks
There are fourteen affiliate ranks within the Yevo compensation plan. Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Bronze 1 – maintain 100 PV a month and recruit and maintain 1 active affiliate
- Bronze 2 – maintain 100 PV a month and recruit and maintain 2 active affiliates
- Bronze 3 – maintain 100 PV a month, recruit and maintain 2 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 1000 GV a month
- Silver 1 – maintain 150 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 2000 GV a month
- Silver 2 – maintain 150 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 4000 GV a month
- Silver 3 – maintain 150 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 8000 GV a month
- Gold 1 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 12,000 GV a month
- Gold 2 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 24,000 GV a month
- Gold 3 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 60,000 GV a month
- Platinum 1 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 150,000 GV a month
- Platinum 2 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 3 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 400,000 GV a month
- Platinum 3 – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 4 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 1,000,000 GV a month
- Presidential Platinum – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 5 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 3,000,000 GV a month
- Crown Platinum – maintain 200 PV a month, recruit and maintain at least 6 active affiliates and have a downline generating at least 6,000,000 GV a month
PV stands for “Personal Volume” and is sales volume generated by a Yevo affiliate’s own product purchases and that of their retail and preferred customers.
GV stands for “Group Volume” and is sales volume generated by an affiliate’s downline.
To remain active, a Yevo affiliate must meet and maintain the minimum monthly PV requirements applicable at their current rank.
Retail Commissions
Retail commissions are paid out on both retail customer and preferred customer orders.
Preferred customer orders pay out a 25% commission and preferred customer orders pay out 15%.
For those unfamiliar with the term, “preferred customers” are retail customers who sign up for monthly autoship in exchange for a wholesale discount.
Preferred Customer Bonus
The Preferred Customer Bonus is paid out monthly on the number of preferred customers a Yevo affiliate has and their associated product order volume.
- 4 preferred customers and at least 300 a month GV from preferred customer orders = $40
- 6 preferred customers and at least 600 a month GV from preferred customer orders = $75
- 10 preferred customers and 1200 a month GV from preferred customer orders = $200
Note that “GV” stands for Group Volume and for the purpose of qualification for the Preferred Customer Bonus, is the sales volume generated by all product orders made by a Yevo affiliate’s personally enrolled preferred customers.
Recruited Affiliate Order Bonus
The Recruited Affiliate Order Bonus (referred to as the “First 30-Day Bonus”), pays out a 25% commission on all product orders made by newly recruited affiliates made within their first 30 days.
Unilevel Commissions
Residual commissions in Yevo are paid out using 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 of these level 1 affiliates go on to recruit new affiliates of their own, 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.
Commissions are paid out based on the sales volume generated by sales activity within an Yevo affiliate’s unilevel team.
Yevo cap payable unilevel levels at seven, with how many levels an affiliate is paid down determined by their affiliate rank:
- Bronze 1 – 5% on level 1
- Bronze 2 – 6% on level 1 and 2% on level 2
- Bronze 3 – 7% on level 1, 3% on level 2 and 2% on level 3
- Silver 1 – 8% on level 1, 4% on level 2, 3% on level 3 and 2% on level 4
- Silver 2 – 9% on level 1, 5% on level 2, 4% on level 3, 3% on level 4 and 2% on level 5
- Silver 3 – 10% on level 1, 6% on level 2, 5% on level 3, 4% on level 4, 3% on level 5 and 2% on level 6
- Gold 1 or higher – 10% on level 1, 6% on level 2, 6% on level 3, 5% on level 4, 4% on level 5, 3% on level 6 and 2% on level 7
Infinity Bonus
The Infinity Bonus extends payable unilevel commissions beyond the initial seven levels offered.
Open to Presidential and Crown Platinum ranked affiliates only, the Infinity Bonus pays out as follows:
- Presidential Platinum – 0.5%
- Crown Platinum – 1%
Note that this bonus applies only to sales volume generated beyond the first seven levels of an affiliate’s unilevel team.
Advancement Bonus
If a Yevo affiliate qualifies at the Silver 1 rank within three months of joining the company, they are paid a $250 Advancement Bonus.
If an Advancement Bonus qualified affiliate then recruits three new affiliates who also go on to qualify for the Advancement Bonus, they receive an additional $250.
Note that the original bonus is a one-time payment, however the bonus paid out for recruits qualifying for the Advancement Bonus is paid out each time a newly recruited affiliate qualifies.
TeamBuilding Bonus
The TeamBuilding Bonus pays a Yevo affiliate for having a Silver 1 or higher ranked affiliate in each unilevel recruitment leg.
How much of a bonus is paid out depends on the highest rank of an affiliate in any given unilevel leg, as well as the rank of the affiliate qualifying for the bonus:
- Silver 1 – $50 for a Silver 1 or higher ranked affiliate (paid out per leg)
- Silver 2 – $50 for a Silver 1 affiliate and $75 for a Silver 2 or higher ranked affiliate (paid out per leg)
- Silver 3 or higher – $50 for a Silver 1 affiliate, $75 for a Silver 2 and $125 for a Silver 3 or higher ranked affiliate (paid out per leg)
Note that the TeamBuilding Bonus is paid monthly.
Leader Bonus
Once a Yevo affiliate qualifies at the Gold 1 rank, they are paid a Leader Bonus.
The Leader Bonus pays an affiliate an additional percentage commission on sales volume generated by their downline. The bonus is paid out according to generations, with how many generations an affiliate is paid out on determined by their affiliate rank:
- Gold 1 – 3% on the first generation
- Gold 2 – 3% on the first and second generation
- Gold 3 – 3% on the first to third generations
- Platinum 1 – 3% on the first and second generations and 4% on the third and fourth generations
- Platinum 2 – 3% on the fist and second generations 4% on the third to fifth generations
- Platinum 3 – 3% on the first and second generations, 4% on the third and fourth generations, 5% on the fifth generation and 4% on the sixth generation
- Presidential and Crown Platinum – 3% on the first and second generations, 4% on the third and fourth generations and 5% on the fifth and sixth generations
The Yevo compensation plan material does not define how generations are counted. Typically however generational bonuses either follow the unilevel compensation structure (with a generation equaling a unilevel level), or a generation is defined according to affiliate ranks within an individual unilevel leg (which is this case would likely be Gold 1 ranked affiliates defining a generation).
Global Bonus Pool
The Global Bonus Pool is made up of 1% of Yevo’s company-wide sales volume.
Affiliates earn shares in the Global Bonus Pool according to their affiliate rank:
- Platinum 1 – 1 share
- Platinum 2 – 2 shares
- Platinum 3 – 4 shares
- Presidential Platinum – 6 shares
- Crown Platinum – 8 shares
Joining Yevo
Affiliate membership with Yevo is available in three options:
- Basic (affiliate membership only) – $50
- Silver – $224
- Gold – $480
- Platinum – $540
The Silver to Platinum packages come with an assortment of Yevo products.
Conclusion
Given that Yevo only just went into prelaunch, I’ll forgive the lack of official information provided by the company.
That said, Yevo affiliates are currently marketing the opportunity and signing new affiliates up – so in that sense one would hope Yevo put up basic information about the opportunity (at “yevointernational.com” or elsewhere) within the next few days.
One would hope the allowing affiliates to sign up and recruit without having a basic website up providing essential information about the company isn’t a representation of the level of professionalism behind Yevo’s management.
That aside, on the product side of things if one can get past the whole dehydrated thing, providing affordable meals that meet nutritional requirements sounds great. My experience with dehydrated meals extends only to strawberries and the rare snack of two-minute noodles.
A whole meal prepared in this manner that’s cheap and quick to make sounds intriguing, although I’m not too sure about the whole bleach thing. Why that’s included in the Yevo trademark application remains a mystery.
In any event, this is definitely a product line that’s going to require sampling if retail customers are to be acquired. Depending on the finalized price-points, it might also be possible to have customers place a small order and go from there.
Taste isn’t really something you can adequately convey with marketing copy, in addition to it being rather unique to the individual. And with food, that’s really the bottom line here. Are Yevo’s products tasty?
As an affiliate marketing Yevo’s products, trying some of Yevo’s products yourself and leading with sampling seems a given here. That adds an ongoing cost to Yevo affiliate membership, which is something to think about.
On the compensation plan side of things, Yevo’s plan appears to be fairly well-balanced with only a few minor red flags evident.
First the product line is obviously retailable and retail commissions are offered. The preferred customer incentive bonus is a welcome sight, but I do not that it’s only an incentive.
Formally, there are no retail requirements at any level of the Yevo compensation plan, with an affiliate fully able to qualify themselves via recruitment and self-purchases alone.
Combined with significant retail activity self-purchases and recruitment aren’t an issue, but retail is only incentivized here – leaving the possibility for affiliates to earn on chain-recruitment.
You sign up, purchase your monthly PV requirement and then recruit affiliates who do the same. Retail is entirely optional, which shouldn’t be the case.
To alleviate this some retail volume requirements (true retail, not the misleading “you purchase the product and then resell it” nonsense) or preferred customer requirements applied to affiliate ranks would address the issue.
That way there’s zero room for ambiguity and given an affiliates monthly PV quotas aren’t that much, would ensure adequate retail activity was taking place within the company.
A secondary concern arises with respect to the Recruited Affiliate Order Bonus (“First 30-Day Bonus”), in that it’s unclear whether or not the Silver, Gold and Platinum affiliate packages generate a commission under this bonus.
If so, then the concerns about affiliate focusing on chain recruitment over retail are emphasized. 25% of the Silver, Gold and Platinum package fees paid by newly recruited affiliates would definitely undermine the rest of Yevo’s compensation plan.
I expect this point to be clarified shortly after publication of this review either by Yevo themselves or an affiliate who reads this review.
All in all, with those few points addressed, Yevo certainly offers something I personally haven’t seen in MLM before. Will dehydrated food under an MLM business model take off?
Guess we’ll have to wait till February 2015 to find out.
Footnote: Pending the official launch of Yevo, the above review is based on what information is currently available about the company. Note that this information is subject to change.
I’ll do my best to update the review pending any significant changes. At at the time of publication of this review, the information provided is accurate as sourced from official Yevo documentation and affiliate marketing efforts.
Update 27th July 2016 – On June 26th Yevo sent out an email advising they are shutting down the company.
Faith Sloan is already starting to pimp this one out…enough said!
because faith is promoting a business do not mean nothing. your ‘enough said’ comment is stupid. nobody care about that.
say something smart or dont write nothing.
So they want people spending $200 a month just to qualify to be paid? So these meals probably cost pennies to mass produce.
What is the angle you use to market this stuff?
Even if you could profit from it. Exactly how much do you sell to offset your monthly expense?
This can be a combination of personal-purchase or retail/preferred customer sales. If affiliates just self-purchase however then we have a problem.
Strongforce 1 predicts this to be a major home run. These people are super wealthy and have tremendous experience in direct sales.
On financial side they are a literal battleship. It has been a long time since a new company has really taken off and they have the potential modal to do it.
It looks to me to be mass momentum in formation.
Sounds like products for preppers.
Doomsday cults, or as Zoe said, “prepers”.
That reminds me there is a site selling boxes like that for such people. Looks like they already have competition.
Looking at the levels on this seems like you would need some corp accounts to do massive sales for the upper levels to make that kind of volume.
When is launch day?
I watched the first part of one of their promo videos in which they listed off what kind of people would buy the meals. They listed hikers, hunters, etc. which reminded me that I had seen these types of meals sold at sporting good stores.
A quick net search shows that there is already quite a selection out there. Yevo’s meals would have to be equal or better with a price about the same as what is currently out there.
The issue I see is that people who participate in such activities usually do it on the weekends (or maybe a longer camping/hiking trip for their annual vacation). Plus it can be seasonal depending on where you live. So there won’t be high volume sales from these type of people and there may be stretches of time that they don’t buy.
The video also said that the meals could be used for kids as something they could prepare on their own. I don’t think you could pay my daughter to eat these on a regular basis.
I think she might be willing to try one, but she mastered the toaster and microwave at a very young age (as most kids do) and has always been quite capable of preparing her own food.
They also mentioned college students and I don’t remember who else. Bottom line, they are pushing this as something people would be willing to eat on a regular basis instead of “regular” food. I wish them luck with that.
The only reason this program will see any momentum is because of the comp plan.
And I don’t say that because it is a good comp plan, but because the major pimps out there will try to make some easy cash off the backs of the sheep they con into paying exorbitant prices for this crap (where else could all the money to pay the pimps come from…it is built into the cost of the crap).
Whenever I see Faith Sloan, David Sherman, Jamie Strickland, etc I know that we are dealing with a money grabbing opportunity!
he did. he warned everyone a known scam artist is involved. Far smarter than what you wrote.
there is more to the food involved, their food contains all of the nutrition a person needs. their oatmeal has 26 gms of protein, regular has only four their is 11 gms fiber, regular only 4, theirs has omega 3 , regular 0 etc.
I appreciate your write up and the amount of time and information you include. I was able to attend the REVEAL event last week and just want to give a few additional points of info on YEVO International.
1. Peter first created Pharmanex which he sold to NuSkin who took his line of herbal supplements to a billion dollars through MLM.
This was his first experience with MLM and after watching what person to person marketing can do, he was intrigued enough to buy Herbalife. Which he then took from $700 million to $3 billion in 5 years.
2. Even though YEVO has 100 products complete and ready…they will launch with a small breakfast line in Feb.
Offering convenient yet healthy option for the most important meal of the day. Oatmeal, Apple cinnamon oatmeal, breakfast rice, vitamin coffee and vitamin tea. The line will expand rapidly from there.
3. For those looking at YEVO, it is in beta right now. Since prelaunch on Wed Nov 19, 2015 they’ve updated much of the material available and continue to do so daily.
The replicated beta site is meant only to introduce people to the problem we all face with food, the solution YEVO offers and allow people to join as representatives. Customers will be able to order after Feb launch.
I hope this information helps and as you can see, after the REVEAL event and meeting the corporate team, I am 100% committed to taking this message to the masses.
I feel it is our responsibility at any level, customer, distributor, fellow human being.
Pharmanex relies on selling bunk vitamins through bunk science with their bunk “scanner” which claims to measure your “skin antioxidant levels” which indicates how much of their “nano-pack” vitamins you need to buy. They don’t guarantee your health… They only guarantee you’ll test better (on their scanner).
Dehydrated food can’t be any better than MRE, commonly derided as “meals rejected by enemy” (granted, that’s like 10-20 years ago)
IMHO, this is a solution in search of a problem (that doesn’t exist), and it directly runs counter to to the trend of go natural / go local. This is polar opposite of natural and local.
Seriously? Instant oatmeal, plain and flavored, can be found in grocery store in the U.S. What’s breakfast rice – guessing it’s instant rice with flavorings.
Never heard of vitamin coffee or tea nor would I drink it. Instant coffee or a tea bag and a multi-vitamin and you’re good to go (to bo be honest, I don’t drink instant coffee either – I grind locally roasted beans every morning).
Out of all the possible meals they could kick this off with, they’re choosing basically common grocery store items?
Exactly zoe. And extremely overpriced so the pimps can make their chunk of change off the suckers!
Why is this?
Good research and excellent review!
2 Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Single Serve 5PK
2 Oatmeal Plain Single Serve 5PK
2 Breakfast Rice Single Serve 5PK
$5.80 a serving – I’ll stick with McCann’s Irish Oatmeal for less than 50 cents a serving.
From list of their product, I have not found anything that could not be found in my local stores.
Here is the latest garbage posted by Jamie Strickland (DopplerMkt on MMG, major ponzi scam artist) on the MMG forum:
who in the world would consume 2 of these crap meals a day!
It is also states that the meals are affordable! That is total and utter BS! These will be VERY overpriced packages of crap!
Well, dehydrated food are by definition “nutrient dense”…
Yevo is set to launch in February 2015? We might have another Rippl on our hands! Have a good one.
Peter is a Huckster, training countless others to become Hucksters, trying to open a new niche.
And if anyone thinks that this company will be as big as Herbalife, lets start taking bets, here and now and time will deliver the outcome.
The youngsters posting reviews about a lack of market for Yevo Foods are clueless because they don’t see the big food industry as being the problem.
You’ve heard the term you are what you eat, right? Why is America and Mexico obese? Why does the American Diabetes Assoc. predict almost 1/3 of all American will become diabetic? What does that mean?
Well if you are considered diabetic or pre-diabetic because of you medical blood work history good luck getting life insurance because you are 4 times the risk of dying early. The average person gains 10 pounds per decade and it only takes about 20 extra pounds to risk becoming diabetic as an adult.
But what do young people know, they don’t even see the need for buying health insurance.
25 grams of protein balanced with 43 essential nutrients and the proper amounts fiber in 500 calories is a real big deal for children and overweight adults tipping into a disease state due to chronic bad diet and eating habits.
I’ve tried a very good sampling of the products, pizzas, sauces, mac & cheese, yes – oatmeal and breakfast rice among many others, including coffee and tea. They are quite good.
There are many recipes that allow a variety of meals to be prepared around a nutritional base so you never get tired of the food.
I have to say the coffee tasted and smelled like fresh brewed arabica. These foods are prepared with some serious science to lower cravings and overeating. My doctor told me if everyone lost 20 lbs that are slightly overweight many medical problems would just go away.
Fact: Children and those with Autism achieved higher academically and have better social behavior when receiving better nutrition.
Its a proven fact that innovative ideas and products will not gain traction in the traditional market place going head to head with big box food companies. Direct sales is the only way make that message heard.
By agreement I’m not in this business but it is one answer and vision to a huge problem.
I’m thinking there are 3 angles here:
1) preppers
2) weight loss
3) regular busy boomers and gen Xers
For preppers, the argument is easy.
Weight loss? Medifast is more expensive by a ways, but I don’t know if there will be a weight loss angle here.
Busy people? I know college students were have switched from their normal fast food fare to prepack/delivered meals, paying $8.33 per. This will be cheap in comparison.
This is interesting, but who knows?
I am not a distributor nor part of the company in any way.
The oldsters posting about an alleged market for dehydrated food and sees “big foodco” (in the vein of “big pharma”) as a problem may be the real problem here.
People have already starting to abandon prepared foods. Everybody is going “organic”, “natural”, “localvore” and such. Instead of burgers it’s now wraps.
Whole Foods Market is making record profits and 10% annual growth. AntiGMO tide is at all-time high, even in this bad economic times. Chipotle with organic ingredients is one of the most popular restaurants around.
Not to mention there are plenty of food delivery services, like BlueApron, if you want to cook yourself, $9.99 per per per meal, comes complete with all ingredients and recipe card. Not to mention Pampered Chef, the MLM that is owned by Warren Buffett, that teaches people how to cook at home (while selling them cookware).
Dehydrated food, even if it’s only 500 calories, is NOT fresh, nor as tasty as a freshly prepared meal, and doubt it’s as “instant” as instant noodles. Total prep time is probably going to be close to half hour including rehydrating, heating, mixing, and so on.
Again, the “PR” speech against “big foodco” is misplaced. Yevo is a solution in search of a problem that is already being defeated via other means.
^^^This
Where I live farmers markets, urban farms, slow cooking, etc. is huge. My neighborhood is full of people growing gardens, raising chickens, bees, etc. and one guy teaches classes in aquaponics (and rumor has it that there is an actual prepper that lives here).
My local FB friends are constantly sharing photos of their chickens, ducks, cooked from scratch food (one hasn’t bought baked goods from a store in over a decade).
I can hook you up with sources for raw milk, locally raised grass-fed beef and a host of other items with one email to a local group I am on (it’s not a food related group – just that many people on it eat that way).
If they were to go with dehydrated food, it would be food that they dehydrated themselves. My neighborhood gardening group had a trip last month to visit an expert in canning all types of stuff (produce, meat, etc.) – unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it.
Just as a price comparison…
Here’s 135 servings of freeze dried meal for $80.
NOLINK://sport.woot.com/offers/mountain-house-freeze-dried-meal-9pk-1?ref=cnt_dly_img
It’s marketed toward “campers” and such. Each serving is approximately 200-250 calories.
Now I don’t know how many servings you’ll need to make a meal, but it sure ain’t CLOSE to “$4 to $5 per meal” as Yevo’s suggesting.
Looks like Yevo ranked as Number 2 behind SendOutCards as the best comp plan for current MLMs…is this true??
The freeze dried thing above for 80 bucks…does it have the nutrients??
Sure a lot of. Uneducated neg. comments. Kchang gangster. Lol. Just go to any food store. You Cannot find.
For instsance… Oatmeal. That even. REMOTELY comes close to the HIGH. Loaded nutrients or Quality that Yevo is offering !!!! Period. !!!!
Google luck with health and longevity eating the. SAD way. Standard American Diet. Via. Big food corps… Lol
You can’t find in a food store because food stores sell food! Why would anyone want to do this unless WWIII and total fallout were to happen soon?
I actually sold Metabolife and did make good money however to get the we are selling to the I retail stores. So we did all the work getting the word out there and then bam gone..
I am so happy with my business now but if I wasn’t in a networking business I would avoid this like the plague because of what happened then seeing the crimes they were convicted of oh yes sign me up.. Not because this shows it is being run by not so honest people….
Great informative post. Thanks for including the history and the detailed comp plan.
“Real Food” with 50% of the daily nutrition? So they add ARTIFICAL “nutrition” to “real food” and call it better?
Farm fresh food is real food, granted our soil is so over worked and full of crap, but I’ll take that over synthetic crap anyday.
This is another BS program with more over priced products that will result in failure for over 98% of those who join.
Sure sell the “ground floor” “get in first” sizzle and people will throw money at it in the hopes of hitting the lottery of a start up. NOT! Don’t be naive!
For the life of me I just do not understand WHY people will continue to join programs such as this only to lose their money. Can you imagine spending that much money on oatmeal and coffee?
I know they will have other offerings but just divide the number of oatmeal pouches you get by the start up cost and see just how much this oatmeal is costing you…. and they wonder why people fail in mlm… even Donal Trump failed with he Trump network so save your money on this one!
Ho Hum this is not the first MLM freeze dried preserved food. The first was 1982 Jeanette Brooks (recently sold Xocai) started Yurika Foods. By 1985 it went bankrupt as others have.
Others have come and gone quickly. Also recently we have GO FOODS Freeze dried food. It was recently acquired/bought by Youngevity. Don’t know pricing but should be interesting price battle! Rod Cook MLM Watchdog
Sounds like another company to be built and sold off like the rest he has done.
I prefer being with a Legacy company that will be around forever with the owners deeply invested into it – no hype just great nutrition!
Just studied their comp plan. It’s one of the worse ones I’ve ever seen
What EMBRYONIC intelligence!!
Most of the detractors, calling this Junk, will probably be well on their way to a Nursing home or Hospital. Haven’t you been seeing what’s been going on with our food supply!! You absolute MORONS!!
Monsanto is genetically crossing the food that you are eating with all kinds of DNA from Insects and other Bad Bad stuff. You don’t even know that you own DNA is being re-written every time you eat that supermarket crap.
Keeping your head stuck in the dirt carries a price. Ignorance might be bliss for you, until you find yourself in a doctor’s care, taking drugs that are designed to destroy you slowly.
Don’t write of YEVO, they are trying to correct over 100 years of wrong, in spite of the profound brain damage that is prevalent in your mirror.
Yevo status report (affiliate chatter, dated January 31st 2015):
Oh boy! Overpriced food with little to no retail sales combined with a Pay-to_Play compensation plan. How many times have we seen this before?
Phase One – Recruit a few MLM Leaders who go out and “sell the dream” to other MLM’ers who are looking for the next “hot deal” and get them to place a large initial order (called a Buy-In). This will create the sales volume needed to produce large first and second month checks for those at the top of the scheme.
Phase Two – These large override and bonus checks will then be used as “bait” to load up the webinars with other MLM’ers as the company moves into “false” momentum. MLM Leaders have been taught how to use the FEAR OF LOSS when recruiting their MLM friends away from their current deal and into the next HOT deal.
They use phrases like History in the Making, Ground Floor Opportunity, All the Top MLM Leaders are Joining, Get In Now Before Your Downline Does, Everyone is Joining our Deal – – so, They Can Come in Under You or YOU Can Come In Under Them, etc.
Of course, once the company enters into Phase 3 (after they run out of MLM’ers and have to recruit to non-MLM’ers) in the USA, they will enter other markets and do the same thing there.
Yes, the MLM Model is Broken yet many continue to repeat this pattern until they have no credibility at all.
Then, they either get a real job or ONLY recruit fellow MLM’ers into EVERY hot deal that comes along in hope of making some quick money.
Yevo (is this the best name they could come up with?) is attracting a lot of the Flexkom, Paid2Save and Zeekler leaders who have not had a decent payday in a longtime now.
How long will this one last?
Any questions?
I think you mean FOMO: Fear of Missing Out.
Speak for yourself, buddy. Starting with an insult. Where did you learn that? Kindergarten?
And the solution to that is fresh local food, not freeze-dried crap from God knows where.
K Chang – I think you mean FOMO: Fear of Missing Out. Yes, that does make more sense. Thanks.
This is suspect, just like that coffee company that used reishi mushrooms (which are NOT supposed to be consumed daily for medicinal uses, btw).
It is true that industrial farming practices have caused our food to be significantly less nutritious than it used to be. You would have to eat 7 servings of spinach today to get the nutrients that ONE would give you in 1960 for example.
So needless to say, nowadays it is impossible to eat the volume of food to get all the nutrients you need, even if they’re whole organic foods. I really question the method of enriching of these foods.
If they use whole food nutrients, like in the best natural vitamins and it’s not synthetic, they may be onto something. However, that has yet to be discovered, and the price point and comp plan just make me want to avoid it.
No, I’ll stick to eating clean with tons of vegetables, healthy fats, good quality protein and smatterings of fruit and superfoods like chia seeds, MCT oil, fish oil, grass-fed whey, kelp and taking my organic whole food multis from procaps labs (LOVE Andrew Lessman!).
You don’t need to be rescued by $10/day food packets to eat well! Just get a slow cooker and prep ingredients beforehand.
most of the legal/gray MLM companies, sell personal products or health products. the health products are often based on herbal supplements, which are touted as being ‘better than the rest’ for your health.
since pricing of ‘herbal’ products is indeterminate [source and quality], and further since these products do not require FDA approval, this is a very safe territory, for MLM to sell these products at a self determined price point, which is difficult to challenge for lack of exactly comparable products.
following the focus on MLM and it’s products over the last two years, due to herbalife being in the eye of the storm, seekingalpha reports on 10th,march,2015:
3/1/16, Any updates?
the company has come out with some extraordinary products (Smoothie, granola,), evolution in the making.
comp plan has totally changed, paying 40% on first level, 20 % level 2, and 10%, level 3 (first month) then 20,10 and 5 for life. It is now truly a home based business for everyone.
Not an mlm, evryone loves the smoothie. It will energize you in minutes and satisfy the appetite for hours.ony 230 calories, 30 grams of protein, fiber,all 43 ess.nutrients, omegas. 2.50 per serving, no shipping costs.
Go back pleas and updat your review!
It’s always been 43 ingredients. And smoothie / granola are plentiful in your supermarket. Cut the PR talk, will ya?
Yevo didn’t seem to be going anywhere, it pretty much flopped after launch.
If they’ve updated the comp plan though then I’ll flag this review for an update. Thanks for the heads up.