EnerSource International Review – Legit Company or Big Scam? Find Out

Welcome to my EnerSource International Review!

It seems like there are 100s of new and exciting MLM companies that are just popping up online daily and they all want you to invest with them…

Deciding which company to invest with can be a tough decision.

It can be difficult to figure out where the good companies are and where the bad ones are hiding…

Why play games, when the best thing you can do before jumping into a new company is thoroughly research it.

Well good news, you’ve ended up at the right place for that info!

In today’s review, I will talk about the company’s history, their products and their compensation plan.

Let’s get started right away!

EnerSource International Review – The Company

EnerSource International Review

The company started up in 2016 and they operate within the MLM niche of health and nutrition.

Centered out of Oklahoma, Linden Wood is the Founder and current operating CEO of the company.

In Wood’s corporate biography, it says:

A defining ‘A-Ha’ moment in Linden Wood’s life occurred when Linden attended a network marketing event, hosted by the company Excel, at age 27.

This would prove to be a defining moment resulting in his astronomical success in the network marketing industry.

Over the next three years, with no official network marketing or public speaking training and without a mentor, Linden immersed himself in books and audios authored by highly successful network marketers and self-help experts, such as Tony Robbins.

Through his dedication, he learned the principles which govern success.

He quickly discovered that it wasn’t his own success that mattered most, but the success of the people who came into his business.

Through this understanding, Linden achieved the highest levels of success Excel had ever seen.

With his unrelenting persistence, Linden, along with his leadership team, built this team, to over 100,000 representatives in only three years.

In 1997, this achievement earned Linden an income of over $500,000 a month.

Following this, Wood moved on from Excel to launch WorldConnect, his own MLM company

WorldConnect succeeded at growing to 60,000 representatives and reaching annual sales revenues of $50M a year by his fourth year in business.

Ultimately, Wood would move in another direction after leaving WorldConnect in order to follow other business interests in fitness and real estate, leaving the whole MLM industry behind.

In 2001, Linden’s company EnerGreens Inc produced the cutting-edge nutritional products, EnerGreens Essentials.

Over the next 7 years this company developed over 40 different nutritional products.

Over the past 15 years, millions of dollars of these products have been sold successfully within fitness franchise systems.

Linden is bringing this exceptional product line to the network marketing industry via EnerSource.

EnerSource International Reviews – The Products

Enersource products

The brand name “Energreens Essentials” is used to promote the company’s wide range of health and nutritional supplements:

Energreens – A “superfood formula” that “helps the body achieve optimal nutrition and increased alkalinity”, retails at $59.99 for a one-month supply ($89.99 for 15.9 oz. “family size”)
Energreens Plus – Energreens with a “high quality probiotic” and “67 milligrams of Digestive Enzymes”, retails at $69.99 for a one-month supply
EnergFX B-12 – Vitamin B-12 supplement, retails at $34.99 a bottle (2 fl. oz, 60 ml)
EnergFX Energy Booster Energy Drink – “Delivers a quick, powerful energy boost and is a healthy alternative to drinking coffee and other over stimulating beverage”, retails at $49.99 for a one-month supply
EnergFX 02 – “Designed to raise the alkalinity with a few drops” through “antioxidant neutralizing molds, yeast, bacteria, exotoxins (and) mycotoxins”, retails at $34.99 a bottle (2 fl. oz, 60 ml)
KetoSource – “Designed to dramatically increase the effectiveness of a ketogenic diet”, retails at $116.95 for a one-month supply
Meal Replacement Shakes – “Weight Loss Shake (that) has over 26 vitamins, and minerals at 238 calories per serving”, retails at $89.99 for a 37.4 oz, 1062 g canister
SuperNutrient Vitamin & Mineral – “A unique formula of vitamins and minerals that provide you with the maximum nutrition support you need every day”, retails at $39.99 for a one-month supply

The company offers “Daily Essentials” in combos that can also be bought in various packages.

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The EnerSource International Compensation Plan

Affiliates looking to take part in the company compensation plan are required to sign up and invest into the company.

The company combines residual matrix and unilevel commissions in their compensation plan.

The unilevel model gives the impression of being upfront commissions earned, and the matrix provides more long-term residual income for affiliates.

NOTE: All company affiliates are required to achieve 100PV monthly to be able to qualify for commissions.

PV (Personal Volume) is retail sales to consumers and an affiliate’s own purchase orders.

Matrix Commissions

The company uses a 2×12 matrix to payout matrix commissions to its affiliates.

The 2×12 matrix puts an affiliate onto the top of the matrix, where 2 positions are right underneath the top affiliate.

These 2 positions now create the first level of the matrix and the second level of the matrix is made by dividing each position on the first level into another 2 positions each (where the second level will hold 4 positions total).

In the 2×12 matrix, the third to twelfth levels of the matrix are created in the same respect, where every level will hold 2X the amount of matrix positions as the level before it.

The matrix positions are filled through direct and indirect sponsorship of new affiliates.

Affiliates earn commissions by their sales volume achieved, which is usually a combination of retail sales and an affiliate’s own purchases.

Specific rates for matrix commissions earned by affiliates are not disclosed.

The company only gives one mention of a rate:

total of 30% residual commission on your downline’s business volume through 12 (matrix) levels.

Unilevel Commissions

The unilevel compensation model puts an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team that places any personally sponsored affiliate on level 1 right underneath the original affiliate.

When a level 1 affiliate sponsors new affiliates, they are then put onto level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

When a level 2 affiliate sponsors new affiliates, they are then placed onto level 3, and levels continue to be created like this down a hypothetical never ending amount of levels.

As seen above with the undisclosed rates for matrix commissions, the same goes for unilevel team commission rates earned by affiliates.

The company only gives one mention of a rate:

$300 Customer Acquisition Bonuses and up to an additional 10% residual commission of downline business volume.

Unilevel commissions earned by affiliates are paid out down through the infinite number of levels in the unilevel team.

Cost To Join EnerSource International

The cost to join EnerSource International as an affiliate is $249 with a membership.

Also, there is an option at $49, although those affiliates with the $49 membership will not get full access to the company MLM opportunity internationally.

Verdict of EnerSource International

It’s awesome you’ve made it to the end of my review, and after doing my research I can say that I do not think this company is 100% legit…

First off, remember I said this company started up in 2016, but somehow the company landed onto the Direct Selling Star’s list of “brand new companies [for] 2018.”

We do know that Linden Wood did begin making EnerGreens as far back as 2001 for a nutritional company and these nutritional products were being sold by Wood’s many other companies that he was involved with.

Since 2016, EnerSource International has been the sole distributor of EnerGreen goods.

I’ll give the company some credit for being so forth coming about the ingredients present in their products and having retail pricing readily available.

There are only about 3 paragraphs available on the company compensation plan, and that’s not enough to make any sort of sound decision with.

From what they have provided from the compensation plan, we know the company wants affiliates to make about 100 PV per month in order to qualify for commission earnings.

But on their website, it states something else:

“Am I going to have to beg people to buy product?

Our goal is to get our products into the hands of people who want to improve their lives.

The monthly requirement of 100BV ($1=1BV) will provide reps with enough product for their own needs.

We only require representatives to have one customer purchasing the product outside of their home.

No- you only have to maintain 100 a month in purchase or sales.”

So, from above we can see that the company really wants affiliates to make $100 worth or more of personal orders or retail sales (not sure if they are combining those two sources of sales).

Their whole business plan could use a touch up.

If interested don’t be shy, make sure you ask your upline about the sales you need to achieve personally or otherwise, and ask about their sales (and ask to see their receipts, so you can see the proof of where the sales are really coming from).

Also, remember the $49 membership option that’s available?

Well, the only difference between the two is the accessibility to some unilevel commissions offered by the company…

But is that worth the extra $200 you’d need to cough up before you’ve made any money with the company…?

The extra money needed to be paid upfront to the company definitely makes this company sound like a “pay to play” company and that my friends is a red flag.

The MLM income potential presented by a company needs to be linked to the individual or group sales achieved, not by the amount an affiliate can pay when he or she first signs up and joins in.

My advice? Proceed with caution…

I hope you enjoyed my EnerSource review and if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below…