LiveGood — is it really good?
Introduction
LiveGood promise to provide passive income for those who join their Affiliate program, and also they offer a variety of products. The first time I heard about them, I was surprised to learn that they have over 100K members already, and at the time of writing 2.4K people join daily. So I looked into why is it so popular, and if it can be a sustainable source of passive income.
I am a skeptical person, I do not get excited easily about new projects, I never jump into projects without doing proper research, and I only recommend a project to others if I think it can provide a positive value to those who join. After all, if I consider build a team in a project, I want people in it to be happy. So in this article I will share what I learned about LiveGood and my experience with it, and hopefully it will help every reader to decide for themselves if this is a project they are interested in.
For readers who come here from DRIP ecosystem, LiveGood is very different from DRIP or the Animal Farm, and cannot be compared to them. In case you are not familiar with DRIP or Animal Farm, they allow you invest cryptocurrency and earn passive income, proportional to the investment made. But LiveGood only allows fixed investment per each member and has monthly or yearly fees, this is why they cannot be compared. LiveGood is not a decentralized platform — it is a company with products and services.
LiveGood is unlike many other MLM projects, where success rate for an average person is usually low, especially if you do not want to sell anything and do not enroll anybody. This is where LiveGood is distinct from other similar projects. One of the reasons why LiveGood became so popular, is that you can earn even if you do not bring any new people earn and do not sell any of their products.
In this article, I will share what LiveGood project is about, what risks are, and what you can expect if you decide to join. Of course, if you are reading this, your first question may be — is it worth it, especially if you choose the passive approach? It is up to the reader to decide, I will share what I know and hopefully you will be able to answer this question yourself.
In case you are interested in what exactly LiveGood products are, they sell supplements to maintain health and wellness, including popular things like multi-vitamins. Their other products are also reasonably priced, regular buyers who decide to become a member get lower prices. Their price seem to be reasonable, at the time of writing for example multi-vitamin price is $9.95 for 60 capsules, but they have many other products.
Even if you have no intention to sell or buy their products, the fact that they are marketable and popular is still relevant, because the overall project growth helps everyone, even if they are passive members who joined only looking for the passive income.
LiveGood has system that strives to be fair to everyone. Their multi-level referral system has “spillover” feature, the spillover is created when your enroller and other people above you in the “Matrix” enroll people faster than you, which means if there are members on the team who struggle to get referrals (or choose to just wait for the spillover to happen because they want completely passive income), the system will help them automatically. Those who actively enroll, also can benefit from spillover, because it is not based on literal speed of enrollment, it is just makes more difference for those who do not enroll others or do it at a slow pace. Please refer to “The 2x15 Forced Matrix” section of this article to understand better how it works exactly. But basically, the earlier you join, the more you will benefit from the spillover.
Despite multi-level referral system, there are not too much ponzimonics, LiveGood does not motivate to overinvest like many other projects, instead it is about the real products and team building (even for those who decide to take passive approach and rely only on spillover). This is what allowed the system to scale up to over 100K members already, because it is attractive to multiple categories of people — those who are looking only for passive income, those who are team builders, and those who would like to earn by marketing products.
How to join
Step 1 — reserve your position
Even if you have not made a decision to join, but still considering it, you may want to reserve your position. What “reserving position” mean exactly? It comes at no cost and it is the first step of the joining process — it just requires you to enter your name and email. Then your position in the “Powerline” will be reserved until Thursday 23:59:59 UTC-5. It will be explained later in the article what this all mean exactly.
You can only reserve your position by visiting somebody’s referral link, I will appreciate if join my team, as your enroller I will be there to help you and answer any questions you may have either now or in the future:
https://livegoodtour.com/Lissanro — please click here to join.
The reason why would you want to reserve your position even if you are unsure if will become a member, is because those who join sooner, are more likely to benefit first from the spillover and it will be easier to earn passively for them, so it is good idea to do this right away, given fast pace of growth of the userbase. Then depending on day of the week, you may have up to full week to make your decision. You also will see how many people will join under your own Powerline while you still are reading this article! “Powerline” refers to people who join after you and some of them eventually may be placed under you in your 2x15 Matrix due to spillover, which will be explained later in the article.
The reserving of your position is a simple process, it takes just a moment to enter your name and email and click the button:
Before deciding to pay for your membership, I suggest to read this article fully, including Risks section, in order to make informed decision, and also do your own research about LiveGood project. I cannot provide financial advice, but I can share my own knowledge and experience with this project.
Since spillover probability depends on upline performance, it is worth mentioning that I am active member in the community and plan to stay active, and I have an active Enroller above me, and there are active Platinum and Diamond Leaders in my upline — which means that you are more likely to benefit from the spillover if you are on my team, than if you register under somebody with less active upline. Having bigger upline is beneficial, and provides a better position for those who are just joining the project. Also, since my team is not very big, this means spillover events on my 2x15 Matrix potentially may happen more often, compared to someone who already have a huge team.
Step 2 — choose username and provide personal details
When you are ready, if you decide to join after reserving your position, you can create your account by choosing your username, password and payment method (either “Cryptocurrency” or “Credit Card”). This is how the full form will look like:
Step 3 — Make your payment
After providing your personal details, you can scroll down until you will see two options to choose from:
You can either pay $49.95 for Affiliate Sign Up + 1 month of membership, or $139.95 for Affiliate Sign Up and one year of membership. Then you will need to pay either $9.95 every month or $99.95 every year.
Please note that if you decide to go the passive route and rely only on spillover, you may want to consider buying yearly membership to save money, because it takes time to build up your passive income this way. This makes sense, because there are no sustainable projects which would offer you very quick passive ROI. What is great about LiveGood, is that you do not need to be a whale to build up your passive income over time, and there are no whales who can potentially drain the system like in most projects where you can invest crypto.
After choosing the option you prefer, click green “Continue” button. You can pay either with cryptocurrency or your credit card. If you decide to pay with BNB (on Binance Smart Chain), exact amount of BNB you have to pay will be calculated based on $49.95 membership price. You will se a dialog like this, and your price will be guaranteed for 15 minutes:
Your initial membership fee you only have to pay once, but in case you miss your monthly or yearly payment you will miss spillover and passive income during the period when you was inactive.
The above was a short overview of LiveGood project and how you can join. For those who are interested in learning more details, please continue reading the second part of the article below. In next few sections I will explain how exactly LiveGood system works, and also review what you can expect and what risks to consider, before you decide if you want to join or not. I start with describing Ranks, even if you do not plan to recruit others, it is still important to know to understand how LiveGood system works.
Ranks
Ranks are based on active members under you. Active members are those who have membership for the current month.
BRONZE — Those who have 2 personally enrolled active members.
SILVER —Those who enrolled at least 10 active members, and in addition to that have a total of 20 active members on the team, or alternatively three separate enroller tree legs each with a Bronze ranked Affiliate, and total of 20 active members in your team.
GOLD — To reach this rank, you need to enroll 30 active members and have a total of 100 active members in your Enroller Tree team, or 3 separate Enroller Tree legs with a Silver ranked Affiliate plus a total of hundred active members in your team. Or alternatively, one hundred active members in your Enroller Tree team with no more than 30 counting from any individual Enroller Tree leg.
PLATINUM — Must have 100 personally enrolled active members plus a total of 500 active members in your Enroller Tree team, or 3 separate Enroller Tree legs with a Gold ranked Affiliate plus a total of 500 active members in your Enroller Tree team. Or 500 active members in your Enroller Tree team with no more than 150 counting from any individual Enroller Tree leg.
DIAMOND — Must have 3 separate Enroller Tree legs with a Platinum ranked Affiliate, plus a total of 2,500 active members in your team. Or 2,500 active members in your Enroller Tree team with no more than 500 counting from any individual Enroller Tree leg.
The 2x15 Forced Matrix
Each member is a part of somebody else’s 2x15 Matrix, and they have their own too (even if they do not enroll anyone themselves).
“2” refers to number of direct spots in the matrix under each person. “15” refers to the number of potentially beneficial for you total levels of new members below you.
Imagine yourself at the top, and that you already have two people under you. If you enroll one more person, spillover will happen, and the new member will be placed under the first person in the matrix under you, who have an empty spot available in the 2x15 Matrix, even though they did nothing at all (you still receive full reward, if you enrolled somebody).
The same is true for you as well, you can benefit from your upline enrollments this way, depending on where you are in their matrix and how fast it is being filled. This includes not only your enroller, but other uplines above them as well.
Each row in the 2x15 matrix has two times of spots than the row before it. So on the first row there is only two spots directly under you, then 4 spots below them, and so on.
This is one of the reasons why LiveGood is attractive to everyone, even those who have no plans to build their own team, or sell any products. Your success does not depend on your direct upline either — but all the uplines combined. The higher someone above you is, the more time you have to wait until you get spillover from them, this depends on where you are in their 2x15 Matrix exactly. But it will happen periodically, helping to fill spots below you in your own 2x15 matrix over time.
This is also the reason why it is still worth joining even though the project has over 100K members already — people actively growing their teams above you, including not only your direct enroller but others above them as well, and this will help you to grow too.
This system greatly increases success rate for an average person, unlike typical MLM, where most people end up rekt. Please note that there are still risks, just like in any other project where you need to invest money upfront, this will be reviewed in more details later in the “Risks” section of this article.
The Compensation Plan
There are 6 way to earn income in LiveGood. In this section of the article I will describe each one. Even if your plan does not involve enrolling other or selling any products, and you are here just with the intention to earn passive income thanks to spillover, it still may be worth familiarizing yourself with how the system works.
Income Stream #1 — Earn from referrals
The first and most obvious way is to promote the project yourself and enroll others, you will get approximately $25 per referral. You will also earn from their referrals, up to 10 levels deep, depending on your rank. Most people who actively build the team end up with either Bronze or Silver rank, so you can expect at least 2–4 levels. But even if everybody had Diamond rank, LiveGood still would be sustainable, so it does not overpromise what it can actually pay. The table below provides complete summary what referrals rewards you can expect depending on your rank:
Weekly “Fast Start Commissions” are paid out on the first month’s membership and on the $40.00 affiliate sign up fee. So you will receive $5 for any new members that you refer, plus $20 for any new affiliates you refer. Since people often join as both a member and an affiliate, you will receive both of those amounts for a total of $25 paid out the very next week to your balance.
You will be withdraw your earning either to your crypto wallet or your bank account (crypto withdrawal is available for all countries, other withdrawal methods may be available depending on your country).
Income Stream #2 — Matrix Commissions
When you lock in your position in LiveGood, you can think of it as getting your own business center in their 2x15 Matrix. As more people join LiveGood, they are placed in the Matrix under everyone who already there. This is why it is worth reserving your position even if you did not decide if you want to join or not. So the sooner you lock in your position, the higher your position will be in the Matrix.
Even without enrolling anyone, LiveGood system potentially allows up to $2047.5 of monthly income based on $9.95 monthly membership fees from people under you.
Matrix Commissions are limited based on your rank. Please note that these are “up to” values (upper limits in the system) you can potentially reach over time in the long-term. What you actually will earn depend on how many members are placed under you in the Matrix, and how many of them will pay their second month of membership and beyond. Here is the official description of how Matrix Commission works along with some examples:
Matrix Commissions and Matching Bonuses are paid Monthly the first week of each month for the previous month’s Matrix volume. Remember, the first month’s Membership is paid out in Fast Start Commissions only. So Matrix volume starts to accumulate on Members’ second month Membership and beyond.
Example: If you joined LiveGood in January and you have 50 Members under you in the Matrix in January, you would not earn a matrix commission for January because only Fast Start Commissions are paid on first month Memberships. Assuming all 50 of those Members remained active in February, you would receive your first Matrix commission the first week of March for those 50 Members in your Matrix who paid their second month Memberships in February.
Income Stream #3 — Matching bonus
In addition to Matrix Commissions, you can earn so called “matching bonus”. You will match 50% of the Matrix Commissions on everyone who you enrolled personally. Depending on your Rank, you can get Matching Bonuses up to five generations deep. But even if you do not have any Rank, it is still pretty good bonus at the first generation.
Income Stream #4 — Retail Commissions
LiveGood offers reasonably priced products and if you decide to promote them, you can earn Retail Commissions. Even if you do not sell any products yourself, you still may earn from this if somebody under you manages to sell something, according to the table below:
Income Stream #5 — Influencer Bonuses
For Affiliates who actively market Retail LiveGood products on a larger scale, they can earn additional bonuses. If you sell products in bulk, you can get up to 100% of the difference between the retail and member price on products you sell.
If you an average person, then you may not get the influencer bonus yourself. But if you get lucky and get an influencer below you in the matrix, even if not personally enrolled but due to spillover, you still can benefit thanks to Retail Commissions described above.
Income Stream #6 — Diamond Bonus Pool
Few people will reach Diamond rank, but those who do benefit greatly from this, because they get profit from the Diamond Pool — 2% of total company sales every month. This is indirectly beneficial for an average person because Diamond members usually keep being active, it is their busyness, and they are skilled in enrolling new people, which helps to create spillover events more often, which in turn benefit everyone in the system below and above them.
Personal LiveGood websites
After you become affiliate member, if you choose the active strategy, instead of just waiting the passive income to come to you through spillover in the system, you may find your personal LiveGood sites useful to promote either your team and/or LiveGood products (for these examples, my username is shown in each link, but you will get links with your username after you become a member).
LiveGood Site
Powerline Landing Page
https://LiveGoodTour.com/Lissanro
Retail Site
https://ShopLiveGood.com/Lissanro
Promotion policy
I find their promotion policy honest and good. They want people to be happy, and not annoyed. LiveGood company cares about its reputation and reputation of all personal websites (referral links), so according to the rules stated at https://livegood.com/bo/myURL spam is not allowed. You should never send our personal website address via an mass mailing or other means which can be interpreted as spam. Also, purchasing fake traffic (like hits, leads, fake pre-enrollees) is strictly forbidden.
Risks
All of this is awesome, but as always, you need to understand risks before considering investing in a project. LiveGood system is made to minimize and limit your risks, but you still need to be aware of them to make the informed decision, and what options LiveGood provides to minimize your risks even further.
If you are becoming a member with the intention to earn passive income, the usual concern if you can ROI. As was stated in the introduction section, LiveGood project system is organized in a way to this risk smaller for an average person.
Even if you choose to take the most passive path and just wait for spillover to happen, and will not do anything except maintaining your membership (or alternatively try to be active but end up not bringing anyone on board and not selling any products), you still have a good chance to not only ROI but build up passive income overtime, since you will be getting spillover in the system.
But spillover may take weeks or months to happen and build up, how often it happens will depend on performance of your upline (not just your enroller, but everyone above them as well). This can be considering an investment risk, if you choose to go the passive route, and patiently wait for spillover. You can minimize this risk by paying yearly membership fees, since it will reduce amount of money you have to invest in the long-term by 20%, and also by choosing to join under active enroller with active upline above them.
LiveGood limits how much you can invest, since the cost of the initial membership is fixed, and monthly or yearly membership costs are also fixed. So it is not really possible to overinvest, assuming you can afford at least the initial cost and maintenance of the membership.
For those who decided to commit for a year to save money, LiveGood provides reassurance by offering an option to get refunded 100% if requested within a week, and refund 50% if requested within 90 days, in case someone will feel unhappy with the project after this time.
Even if you purchased monthly membership, you still can request refund of monthly membership charges can be refunded up to 7 days from the date of the charge if there were no product purchases used with the membership.
LiveGood Affiliate join fees also can be refunded if requested within 7 days of joining.
For those who purchase products, LiveGood also provides a refund option. All LiveGood products are covered by a 90 day empty bottle guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied with any of LiveGood products for any reason, you can send back the unused portion or empty bottle to their return address, along with your name and your order ID number: LiveGood Returns, 1201 Jupiter Park Dr., Unit 5, Jupiter, Fl 33458.
Another possible concern, is if you can get any response from the support, and how easy is to contact them. Sometimes, even large and popular companies fail at this, and provide no easy way to get in touch. Fortunately, it is not the issue with LiveGood. Their support is responsive and I had positive experience with them. When you send email to support@livegood.com, you immediately get your ticket number, to let you know that your message was received and will be addressed soon. Their support is polite and usually reply in less than 24 hours, at least on working days (I did not yet have a need to contact them during weekends or holidays, but in any case they will respond to each ticket).
Conclusion
I think LiveGood is a great project and those who join now will have a good chance to earn passive income in the years to come, since there is will be plenty of time to benefit from spillover events in the Matrix, and many more people are likely to join in the future.
Those who join much later, will probably have to be more active to earn and they may face greater competition. But this is true pretty much for every project — those who join early usually will be in the better position. Currently, pace of growth of LiveGood userbase still increasing — not so long ago it was about 1K members per day, and now it reached 2.4K per day at the time of writing, so the project is still in relatively early growing phase.
Please note that there is no financial advises in this article, and you should do your own research if you are considering joining. I hope information in this article provides a good starting point.
