If you are searching for Young Living Reviews to learn more about Young Living Essential Oils or the Young Living business opportunity, then this is a great place to start.

This is an unbiased Young Living Review.

This will be a general overview of the Company, Product(s), and Compensation plan and should be enough for you to make an informed decision on their business opportunity.

NOTE: Unbiased (meaning I am not a distributor of their products and I do not promote their business opportunity). Your decision to join or not join the Young Living business opportunity is entirely up to you.

Ready to begin? Let’s get started!


Young Living Company Profile

COMPANY NAME: Young Living Essential Oils, LC
INDUSTRY: Health and Wellness, Nutritional Supplements, Personal Care
FOUNDER(S): Donald Gary Young and Mary Young 
COST: $45-$160 (see more below)
WEBSITE: youngliving.com and youngliving.org (business opportunity site)
REACH: Global

Young Living is a United States based network marketing company that officially launched in 1993.

The company’s current leadership consist of: Ben Riley (Executive Vice President, Global Sales), Michael Green (Senior Vice President, Information Technology), Alene Frandsen (vice President, Publications & Document Review), Aaron Raymond (Vice President, Information Technology), Lyndi Smith (Vice President, Global Marketing), Lee Bowen (Vice President Finance), Joe Walker (VP Global IT Operations), Todd Walker (VP Global Sales and Business Innovation) and a number of Regional Vice Presidents, General Managers and Country Managers.

Young Living’s Mission Statement:

We honor our stewardship to champion nature’s living energy, essential oils, by fostering a community of healing and discovery while inspiring individuals to wellness, purpose, and abundance.

Is Young Living a member of the Better Business bureau?

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No, Young Living Essential Oils, LC is NOT a Better Business Bureau (BBB) Accredited Business. But up until last year (2017) they were.

On 07/13/2017 this business’s accreditation in the BBB was revoked by the BBB’s Board of Directors due to its failure to adhere to the BBB requirement that Accredited Businesses meet and abide by.

Businesses are under no obligation to seek BBB accreditation, and some businesses are not accredited because they have not sought BBB accreditation.

Their current BBB rating is B and the BBB file for this company opened 02/16/1996.

The company has had 101 complaints closed with BBB in last 3 years ( 20 closed in last 12 months). This is not an usually high number for a company this size.

 Are there any Concerns or Red Flags about this opportunity?

Hand waving a red flag I really don’t have any concerns or major issues with this company.

Their products seem to be well liked and they have been in business for 25 years.

They are also a member of the Direct Selling Association.


What Are the Products?

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Young Living offers health products, essential oils, and other essential oil-infused products that promote wellness and healthy lifestyles.

The Young Living flagship product is a line of Essential Oils.

Essential oils can be used in many ways, but the most common practices include aromatic diffusion, topical application, and dietary consumption.

According to the company, these methods bring the pure essence of health-promoting botanical to your home, family, and life.

The company claims it bottles its oils via an exclusive “seed to seal” to process, which is basically their quality control standard for their essential oils product line.

Read on for a full review of the Young Living business opportunity


How do I join Is the Young Living business opportunity?

Find a Young Living distributor near you or online or go directly to the company website and create a new account.

Joining Young Living as a distributor requires the purchase of a “Starter Kit”, which range in price from $45 (Basic) to $160 (Premium) (+tax and shipping).

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After enrolling you will receive a Starter Kit that includes: A Product Guide and Product Price List, , Sample Packets, Sample Business Cards, Sample Oil Bottles, Essential Edge, Stress Away™ 5-ml, and the AromaGlide™ Roller Fitment (Basic Kit).

Once you’re enrolled as a new Young Living member, you can start building your business.

NOTE: During enrollment there is an Essential Rewards Option (monthly autoshipment for products). Selecting the auto-ship option is not required. However, to earn the Rising Star Team Bonus, 100 PV Essential Rewards (autoship) is required at Star level and above.

How to promote the products

Young Living encourages promotion of their essential oil product line through person to person contact and hosting home parties.

Most distributors are engaging their warm market (friends, family members co-workers, etc) and trying to persuade them to become their customer or join the company to become a Young Living distributor.

The top earners who are making money in Young Living are great at marketing, both offline and online.

They know how to generate traffic and leads, and then convert those leads into sales, and they know how to recruit the best people into their business.

Not having a good lead marketing system is why most Young Living distributors will fail; because they follow the masses and get the same old results.


How to make money with this opportunity

You need to understand that if you are new to the direct sales and network marketing industry that your success will come from your ability to get new prospects or generate continuous leads in order to make sales.

You will also need to recruit others and build a large team.

Even experienced network marketers might work hard to build large teams and still not produce the life changing income stream they desire.

You can make some money with this opportunity but it may be difficult for a newbie (new to marketing or sales) to make monthly quotas and generate a residual income stream.

The Young Living Compensation Plan

The Young Living compensation plan is a unilevel with compression. In order to receive compensation, a distributor must be considered active.

Distributors who fail to accrue 50 PV (Personal Volume) in a calendar month are considered inactive for the month and will not qualify to receive certain payouts from their sales organization.

What is a unilevel plan with compression mean?

This means that you can only recruit people front-line to you. The more people you personally sponsor, the wider your organization grows.

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You also earn a percentage through a certain number of levels of distributors within your organization. The higher the rank you achieve, the more levels from which you can earn commissions.

Example: If a company decides to pay $0.50 of every dollar earned to distributors, it will not stop at a fixed depth level. This means that if distributors, who are too deep in the plan for you to get payment on normally, are inactive (do not qualify for a commission payment), then the remaining commission will flow up levels in the plan to the next qualified person and the complete $0.50 will be paid out.

The Young Living compensation plan pays down to five (5) levels deep. You have the ability to earn on more depth in your organization as you advance through the ranks and build a large enough team.

Distributors earn 8% on the sales volume, or PV, of each distributor on the first level within their organization, 5% on the second level, and 4% on the third through fifth levels.

The company pays commissions to distributors each month based on the volume of their loyal customers, and their distributors, and their distributors recruits (downline), and their loyal customers!

You must be qualified (maintain a monthly order of at least 100 PV as a distributor to be eligible to receive unilevel (downline) commissions and be considered “active,” with a monthly order of at least 50 PV to qualify for retail earnings and enroller-based bonuses with the Young Living Compensation Plan.

Highlights

For a short version of the compensation plan click here for the Young Living compensation plan summary.

  • Every month, 45-47% of the company’s Commissionable Sales is paid out to Distributors.
  • There are four ranks of achievement and six leadership levels – Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Crown Diamond and Royal Crown Diamond.
  • Pays out monthly for all bonuses & commissions.
  • Pays 5 levels down and 8 generations

For a more detailed look at the full  Young Living compensation plan click here.


Well you were looking for Young Living Reviews on the internet right? Then let’s look at the good as well as the bad about the company.

The Good Stuff – Pros

  • Residual income opportunity on monthly product reorders (autoship).
  • No inventory to manage and the products are liked by customers.
  • A variety of different ways you can get paid.
  • Low start up cost, can enroll for as low as $45.
  • Earn a one-time $25 cash bonus when a new, personally enrolled member orders the Premium Starter Kit.
  • Bonuses and Awards. In addition to to the above compensation, Young Living has multiple bonus opportunities and recognition programs available to its distributors.
  • Stability-the company has been around for  25 years, since 1993.
  • International business opportunity – The business is available in a multiple countries outside the U.S.

The Not So Good Stuff – Cons

  • In order to earn commissions and bonuses, you must remain qualified until commissions have been finalized.
  • Production based comp plan that will require heavy recruiting and building large teams to sustain and maximize income potential.
  • Requires distributors to reach and maintain 100 PV (Personal Volume) each month in order to qualify to receive compensation on the volume of 2 unilevels.
  • Must be Star –100 PV (Personal Volume) and 500 OGV (Organization Group Volume) before qualifying for your  commissions down to unilevel 3.
  • Only pays 5 levels deep until you qualify for the generation commissions.

Is the Young Living business opportunity right for YOU?

young living distributorIf you love the essential oil products and are interested in starting a home business by promoting/selling essential oils then Young Living may be a good fit for you!

THE  SAD TRUTH

Ok, so, I’m going to be pretty open and blunt here.

I’m assuming that we haven’t personally met yet and that I haven’t gotten to know you.

If you expect to sign up and instantly start to make money without investing some of your time and money into your personal development in order to acquire the skills necessary to be successful let me be the first to tell you … YOU WILL FAIL!!!

Don’t believe me? Read the company’s income disclosure statement.

So if your looking at Young Living solely for the purpose of the compensation plan and have no experience marketing and don’t have the drive and ambition to make a serious change in your life, Young Living probably isn’t for you.

The problem is that a lot of people join this company and then don’t want to do ANYTHING to develop the skills you need to stand out from the thousands of other distributors in the company.

Your success as a Distributor will ultimately be determined by how many people you can attract to you and your team.

Without understanding Attraction Marketing principles, you will always be at a serious disadvantage. If you want the best chance at success in your Young Living business, you also need to learn Attraction Marketing principles.

Click here for my FREE 3 DAY LIVE virtual training webclass to learn about attraction marketing.

By using attraction marketing, learning a few marketing skills, and leveraging the power of the internet, you can succeed where the other 95% fail.


Final Thoughts

Please continue to read as many Young Living reviews as you possibly can while  researching this company.

At the time of this post interest in Young Living is increasing so timing for getting involved in the business opportunity may be right.

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You should always make sure you get to know as much about the company as you can before making a decision.

But also understand that if you are new to the direct sales and network marketing industry that your success will come from your ability to generate continuous leads in order to make sales.

young living review business opportunityIn my opinion Young Living is just like any other direct sales and network marketing company.

So if you are interested in essential oils and personal care and feel comfortable with their products, then Young Living is certainly a business opportunity worth looking into.

It may be difficult for a newbie to make any real money with this company and even experienced network marketers cant work hard to build large teams and still not produce a life changing income stream.

Remember, success in network marketing is not a huge mystery. It is just a matter of correct education, proper skills and effective action.

To Your Success!
charles lenoir

Your comments are welcomed below, if you are a Young Living distributor please share your experiences.


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If you have been in the direct sales industry or network marketing for more than a day then you have probably encountered one or more excuses a prospect will give you for not joining your business opportunity.

Do any of these sound familiar? 

quote“It sounds great, but I just don’t have enough money to get started.”

“Is this some pyramid scheme?”

“I can’t sell.”

“I don’t want to give you my social security or credit card info.”

“I’m not a people person.”

“This just isn’t my thing.”

“But what about this other company that sells the same stuff cheaper?”

“I’ll have to ask my wife/husband before I join.”

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“I’ll need to pray about it.”

“Let me think about it and I’ll call you next week.”

“How much does it cost to join?”

“Do I have to buy product every month!?”

“I don’t like to recruit people.”

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In my opinion objections are really nothing more than stupid excuses.

Every network marketer at some point while selling his or her product and recruiting others will encounter these common objections.

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Say, “oh, I understand how you feel. I felt the same way when I got started…but here’s what I found out.

For example:

Objection: “I’m too busy, I don’t have enough time to do this!” 

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You might have attended conference calls each week so you can learn how your sponsor masterfully counters each excuse or purchased books or courses on answering objections so you can turn the situation around.

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What do you do when you don’t have a very good sponsor?

Do you quit your new business?

Do you re-join under someone else?

What the heck do you do?

Well in this post I will discuss,

3 Ways To Deal With A Bad Sponsor or Upline Leader