 EXAMPLE OF THE NATURE’S SUNSHINE MARKETING PLAN
In a “break-away” plan such as Nature’s Sunshine, there are two groups to consider. Your Personal Group are those customers/associates that you sponsor, but either are not pursuing a business (simply ordering for themselves, etc.) or those who have not yet built their business to achieve the rank of Manager. In your customer/associates group, there is up to 30% payout available.
The second group is your Manager group. It is to your advantage to sponsor associates who will also build up their customer/associate base and eventually “break away” from your own group and form their own—thus becoming a Manager themselves. The Nature’s Sunshine compensation plan is set up to encourage this, and reward Managers who in turn, develop more Managers. For example, you receive a 12% override commission on all new Managers who break away on your first level of your successline.
The overall result is that most of the financial incentive is tilted toward you as you get started in the business. Nature’s Sunshine provides other incentives to encourage you to build deeper, even though the actual percentage of payout at those levels may not look like it is as much.
SCENARIO
We will use an example someone (we will call him Joe) who has reached the Manager 30% commission level. This means that Joe and the people in his group or customer and distributors— whether they are actively distributing the product or simply using it, do 6750 PGV in that month. It does not matter if Joe puts all customers/associates underneath him, or whether he puts them under each other.
Also, Joe is fulfilling his own personal requirement of 135 PV per month. It does not matter if he consumes them himself, or consumes none of it and sells the product--at cost, at retail, or any other price he wants--to someone else.
Nature’s Sunshine is going to pay—to this group—30% of the wholesale cost of the product back in rebates/commissions. In many cases, Joe will receive the entire 30%. For example, if Joe has someone in his group that is ordering 6 bottles per month, that customer is receiving a 5% rebate back. Therefore, Joe’s part of the rebate/commission is 30%-5% = 25%. However, for any member in Joe's group that is only ordering 2 bottles, he will receive the entire 30%.
Now, let us say that Joe shares Nature’s Sunshine Zambroza with Gertrude, she joins Joe’s group, and is ordering 6 bottles per month (thus fulfilling her 135 PV requirement)—3 of which she consumes herself, and 3 of which she sells to a co-worker (without even sponsoring the co-worker into the plan). She will enjoy a 5% rebate back from Nature’s Sunshine each month that she orders her minimum 6 bottles. However, Gertrude sees the business opportunity and tries to develop her own business.
Gertrude shares Zambroza with several people, and gets them ordering 4 bottles per month. She raises her “group volume” to 40 bottles, and she has broken out as a Manager and finds herself receiving a 15% rebate/commission--both on the products that she orders and the ones that her “group” orders. She can continue to approach the business in this manner and continue sponsoring new members to build her group. Also, Donald—one of her new members—goes out and sponsors 3 new members ordering 4 bottles per month. Now, Gertrude’s total group volume is 52 bottles, and she is now earning 17% rebate/commission on her volume! (Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Joe is happy that Gertrude grew her group and broke out since it helps him in his rank advancement and also increases his total group volume, or TGV.)
Gertrude has broken away from Joe’s group, making him happy since he now has his first Manager in his Manager Group and his TGV is climbing. He still receives 12% on her entire group volume! Having Gertrude as a Manager in his Manager Group helps him move up the Manager rank to Bronze Manager!
Joe gets excited, knowing that more opportunities are coming his way...so does Gertrude, and so can you!
Other notes:
1. Nature’s Sunshine will ship the product directly to the new Associate. There is no need for you to have inventory. Nature’s Sunshine will process their credit card as well, so there is no need for you to have a credit card processor.
2. There is no sign-up fee as long as the customer orders 3 bottles or more. | 
