An honest Usana Review is hrd to find due to the nature of this business, Vitamins and Scam money making type schemes. When you read any review, read between the lines, and think about the motivation of the author. If they write a positive review most of the time they are likely to have either been paid to write it, or have a motivation to write only positive things because they want to sell their products to you.
I say, make up your own mind, don't be sucked in by the big dollar signs, and always have an open mind, but apply critical thinking to every business opportunity and review, not just Usana, but every kind of multi level marketing scam or scheme or legitimate business.
I'll let you apply critical thinking to the below article I found:
You can learn from successful women such as ABC journalist Juanita Phillips at the Women in Business Speaker series in Sydney on June 26. Held by USANA Health Sciences, a global distributor of nutritional, personal-care and weight management products, the series will include speakers such as Collette Larson, the company's top income earner internationally, who will talk about her experience building her business while raising five children on her own. Here are some of her tips for success:
* Determine your "ultimate why": Declaring your intentions and attaching a value to what you are doing helps you stay focused. Also, involving friends and loved ones will assist you to stay on track and remind you of why you have chosen to do what you set out to do.
* Build your belief: Having confidence and belief in the industry, the company you are working with and, most importantly, yourself will greatly assist you on your path to success.
* Get involved locally: Being involved in your community will keep you connected and in touch with the evolving trends and needs of your local consumers, who are often the most important people to your business.
* Live gratefully, give generously: Humility and generosity are important aspects of business. Nurturing your relationships and taking the time to show you care are small but essential components to not only a happy workplace but a balanced life.
* Love what you do: Having passion for your work shows in everything you do. It provides you with the drive and confidence to succeed and makes going to work an exciting prospect.
USANA Women In Business Speakers Series, Courtside Function and Event Centre, Tennis Centre, Rod Laver Drive, Sydney Olympic Park; Saturday, June 26, 3pm-5.30pm
Seem like an honest review? No signs of Usana being a cult or fraud just yet, sounds more like a paid press release to me. Maybe when you attend they supply you with the "essentials".
If you have your own Usana review, with the pros and cons, post them as a comment.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Usana Business News
A Glenhaven, Australia resident Gill Stapleton, general manager of Castle Hills-based business "Usana Health Sciences" is one of the new directors on the Direct Selling Association of Australia (DSAA) board of directors. Gill has business industry experience as Usana's general manager in Castle Hills from 2007.
The first female general manager for the Australia and New Zealand divisions of Usana.
Gill joined Usana in 2003 and has held a variety of leadership positions.
Ms Stapleton spent has spent 10 years running her own allegedly successful home-based business and raising her two children prior to joining Usana.
Also a marathon runner in training, she is the essence of work-life balance as a woman, mother, and general manager, or at least gives the impression of being balanced.
Obviously a strong female figure, she gives the girl power mantra "Every time you achieve something as a woman, it means other women have the potential to reach out and do more".
"I want to affect change for more Australian women to achieve a work-life balance and have greater flexible work opportunities." she said.
Direct Selling Association of Australia chairman and Amway Australia director Anthony Greig, said Ms Stapleton brought strong experience and insight into the direct-selling industry.
So the board of the DSSA is made of of the heads of Amway and Usana? Wow, who knows who else?
Amway Australia's director stated he is honoured she is a director "to help lead the continued growth and success" of the "direct selling" / multi level marketing / pyramid scheme associated industry.
Gill is now the second woman on the board after Jenny Messenger from Party Lite.
What difference will this make to Usana's future?
The first female general manager for the Australia and New Zealand divisions of Usana.
Gill joined Usana in 2003 and has held a variety of leadership positions.
Ms Stapleton spent has spent 10 years running her own allegedly successful home-based business and raising her two children prior to joining Usana.
Also a marathon runner in training, she is the essence of work-life balance as a woman, mother, and general manager, or at least gives the impression of being balanced.
Obviously a strong female figure, she gives the girl power mantra "Every time you achieve something as a woman, it means other women have the potential to reach out and do more".
"I want to affect change for more Australian women to achieve a work-life balance and have greater flexible work opportunities." she said.
Direct Selling Association of Australia chairman and Amway Australia director Anthony Greig, said Ms Stapleton brought strong experience and insight into the direct-selling industry.
So the board of the DSSA is made of of the heads of Amway and Usana? Wow, who knows who else?
Amway Australia's director stated he is honoured she is a director "to help lead the continued growth and success" of the "direct selling" / multi level marketing / pyramid scheme associated industry.
Gill is now the second woman on the board after Jenny Messenger from Party Lite.
What difference will this make to Usana's future?
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Usana News
Found this article about Usana in the news recently.
It's interesting that they seem to get more positive (or any) press than Amway and Network 21, and other MLM groups and associations.
Even though it wasnt a proper article, or even an editorial, more of a press release snippet, I found it interesting that it was published by an offshoot of one of the world's largest media companies:
Encore Youth Theatre wants to provide a fun, friendly opportunity for the youth in the area to gain experience in the theatre world, either in an acting, dancing or a technical capacity, with no previous experience necessary. If you are interested, come to a meeting at 11am, December 11, at Clayton Community Centre. For details, phone Karen on 0425 725 787.
Talks for retirees
The Association of Independent Retirees will hold a meeting of its investment discussion group at 2pm, December 13, at Alvie Hall, Mt Waverley. The meeting will include a discussion on the composition of portfolios. Visitors welcome. Afternoon tea provided. Details: 9808 4282.
Computer skills
The Monash/Waverley Community Information and Support Centre, 6 Holskamp St, Mt Waverley, will be closed from 12.30pm on December 17 to 9.30am on January 10. The staff wish all clients a happy and safe festive season. Details: 9807 9844 or 9807 5996.
Chances to volunteer
The Monash Volunteer Resource Centre has vacancies for volunteers in areas of driving, meals on wheels, op shop, aged care and disability support. Phone 9562 0414.
Holiday experiments
The Monash Science Centre's Spectacular School Holiday program features hands-on experiments to captivate young minds with volcanoes, chemistry and catapults. Suits children aged five to 14, from January 18-27, Tuesdays to Thursdays. Cost: $20 and $35. Bookings: 9905 1370.
Repositioning
The Oakleigh Philatelic Society is changing its meeting time and venue in 2011 to the second Wednesday of every month (except January), from 10am, at Monash Federation Centre, Atherton Rd. All welcome.
Write workshop
Renowned author Arnold Zable will lead a free workshop, in writing about migration experiences, at Clayton Library, 1-2.30pm, on December 17. Bookings: 9544 0668.
Christmas Connection
USANA Mt Waverley celebrates its final health and fitness seminar in 2010 with a Christmas Connection on December 9, an inspirational evening of entertainment, guest speakers and opera singer Hilary Taylor. Donate to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal while you're there, at 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley, starting 7pm registration. Cost: $3.
Diabetes
The Monash Diabetes Support Group meets on December 9, from 1pm, at the Mt Waverley Youth Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley. Phone by today, December 7. Bookings essential. Contact MonashLink: 1300 552 509.
Annual meeting
Ratepayers Victoria Inc's annual general meeting will be held at South Oakleigh Bowling Club, 1216 North Rd, Oakleigh South, on December 12, 2pm.
Calendars coming
Monash Council will soon begin distribution of a new calendar outlining waste services offered to all properties in 2011. The calendars give residents a clear and easy-to-read explanation about rubbish collection days, which products can go in which bins as well as the schedule for the alternating recycling and green waste collection dates for each street in Monash. Waste collection day and the type of bin to put out (recycling and green waste) will change in the new year, so it is important residents check the calendar to ensure they don't miss their collection day once the new schedules come into effect.
It's interesting that they seem to get more positive (or any) press than Amway and Network 21, and other MLM groups and associations.
Even though it wasnt a proper article, or even an editorial, more of a press release snippet, I found it interesting that it was published by an offshoot of one of the world's largest media companies:
Encore Youth Theatre wants to provide a fun, friendly opportunity for the youth in the area to gain experience in the theatre world, either in an acting, dancing or a technical capacity, with no previous experience necessary. If you are interested, come to a meeting at 11am, December 11, at Clayton Community Centre. For details, phone Karen on 0425 725 787.
Talks for retirees
The Association of Independent Retirees will hold a meeting of its investment discussion group at 2pm, December 13, at Alvie Hall, Mt Waverley. The meeting will include a discussion on the composition of portfolios. Visitors welcome. Afternoon tea provided. Details: 9808 4282.
Computer skills
The Monash/Waverley Community Information and Support Centre, 6 Holskamp St, Mt Waverley, will be closed from 12.30pm on December 17 to 9.30am on January 10. The staff wish all clients a happy and safe festive season. Details: 9807 9844 or 9807 5996.
Chances to volunteer
The Monash Volunteer Resource Centre has vacancies for volunteers in areas of driving, meals on wheels, op shop, aged care and disability support. Phone 9562 0414.
Holiday experiments
The Monash Science Centre's Spectacular School Holiday program features hands-on experiments to captivate young minds with volcanoes, chemistry and catapults. Suits children aged five to 14, from January 18-27, Tuesdays to Thursdays. Cost: $20 and $35. Bookings: 9905 1370.
Repositioning
The Oakleigh Philatelic Society is changing its meeting time and venue in 2011 to the second Wednesday of every month (except January), from 10am, at Monash Federation Centre, Atherton Rd. All welcome.
Write workshop
Renowned author Arnold Zable will lead a free workshop, in writing about migration experiences, at Clayton Library, 1-2.30pm, on December 17. Bookings: 9544 0668.
Christmas Connection
USANA Mt Waverley celebrates its final health and fitness seminar in 2010 with a Christmas Connection on December 9, an inspirational evening of entertainment, guest speakers and opera singer Hilary Taylor. Donate to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal while you're there, at 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley, starting 7pm registration. Cost: $3.
Diabetes
The Monash Diabetes Support Group meets on December 9, from 1pm, at the Mt Waverley Youth Centre, 47 Miller Cres, Mt Waverley. Phone by today, December 7. Bookings essential. Contact MonashLink: 1300 552 509.
Annual meeting
Ratepayers Victoria Inc's annual general meeting will be held at South Oakleigh Bowling Club, 1216 North Rd, Oakleigh South, on December 12, 2pm.
Calendars coming
Monash Council will soon begin distribution of a new calendar outlining waste services offered to all properties in 2011. The calendars give residents a clear and easy-to-read explanation about rubbish collection days, which products can go in which bins as well as the schedule for the alternating recycling and green waste collection dates for each street in Monash. Waste collection day and the type of bin to put out (recycling and green waste) will change in the new year, so it is important residents check the calendar to ensure they don't miss their collection day once the new schedules come into effect.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Vitamins a waste of money?
A lot of us spend lots of money on big things and little things, from cars to vitamins.
Even spending 5 dollars a week on a product can add up, especially if you're doing this with many additional products. This will soon add up to a lot of money.
So in general, where can we save money?
Brand names: Sometimes brand names are better, some time they are not especially with items such as grocery foods. Are you paying for your ego and the label, or is the product actually better (keeping in mind you can pay 2 to 3 times more for a branded product), is it worth paying 3 times more for the logo? Have you tried the cheaper product and the more expensive product and compared them? I challenge anyone to tell the difference between items such as pasta, flour, salt, butter, vitamins, cleaning products, and many more. With some I admit there is a difference, but I've even found some name brand items to be better, such as peanut butter. Kraft peanut butter tastes like oily faeces.
A lot of the difference is psychological as well, since many of these products are made in the exact same factory, so you are essentially getting the exact same product a lot of the time, just in a different package.
If one company compared to it's no name competitor has to use fancy expensive packaging, spend on marketing and tv advertising, then their product has no choice but to be more expensive to cover those costs! Price does not equal quality.
Vitamin pills and supplements: Why all of a sudden in human being history is everyone thinking they require a daily vitamin supplement? We have survived as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, without additional vitamin supplements. But now acai berry juice, vitamin water and other snake oil is a must have daily item. Think about it, doctors aren't the ones recommending that we spend hundreds of dollars a month on expensive supplements from American multi-level marketing companies such as Usana, it is the marketers themselves trying to make money from you for their benefit, not your health benefit.
Consumable goods such as Usana's products are one of the biggest wastes of money the world has ever known, and do nothing for you except lighten your wallet, and probably make your urine yellow.
Do you know why vitamins, especially those containing vitamin B make your urine yellow? Because the the vitamins are passing straight through your body, and not being absorbed. As you can see vitamins are a total waste of money. Joining a company like Usana to try and sell a product and pills that are a waste seems like a crazy idea to me.
Even spending 5 dollars a week on a product can add up, especially if you're doing this with many additional products. This will soon add up to a lot of money.
So in general, where can we save money?
Brand names: Sometimes brand names are better, some time they are not especially with items such as grocery foods. Are you paying for your ego and the label, or is the product actually better (keeping in mind you can pay 2 to 3 times more for a branded product), is it worth paying 3 times more for the logo? Have you tried the cheaper product and the more expensive product and compared them? I challenge anyone to tell the difference between items such as pasta, flour, salt, butter, vitamins, cleaning products, and many more. With some I admit there is a difference, but I've even found some name brand items to be better, such as peanut butter. Kraft peanut butter tastes like oily faeces.
A lot of the difference is psychological as well, since many of these products are made in the exact same factory, so you are essentially getting the exact same product a lot of the time, just in a different package.
If one company compared to it's no name competitor has to use fancy expensive packaging, spend on marketing and tv advertising, then their product has no choice but to be more expensive to cover those costs! Price does not equal quality.
Vitamin pills and supplements: Why all of a sudden in human being history is everyone thinking they require a daily vitamin supplement? We have survived as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, without additional vitamin supplements. But now acai berry juice, vitamin water and other snake oil is a must have daily item. Think about it, doctors aren't the ones recommending that we spend hundreds of dollars a month on expensive supplements from American multi-level marketing companies such as Usana, it is the marketers themselves trying to make money from you for their benefit, not your health benefit.
Consumable goods such as Usana's products are one of the biggest wastes of money the world has ever known, and do nothing for you except lighten your wallet, and probably make your urine yellow.
Do you know why vitamins, especially those containing vitamin B make your urine yellow? Because the the vitamins are passing straight through your body, and not being absorbed. As you can see vitamins are a total waste of money. Joining a company like Usana to try and sell a product and pills that are a waste seems like a crazy idea to me.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Usana Vitamins
If you were to visit the Usana Vitamins homepage you would be bombarded with the phrase "highest rated supplement in the world", labelled all over their images and marketing, but without any other supporting information.
Highest rated is a very general term. Rated for what? Highest price, bad taste, least healthy, highest rated as the leading cause of death? This is not only shabby marketing, but vague and uninformative.
It is not uncommon for vitamin companies like Usana to use very general marketing terms to give the impression they are actually doing something healthy for the body, and have some kind of health benefits. There is a reason for this. Apart from legal reasons that you can't directly claim vitamins will heal and fix certain ailments and diseases such as colds and arthritis, as much as they try and put that perception across, it is also because they do not help one bit.
Look at advertisements for everything from fish oil to vitamin C, to the more commercial and expensive name brand medications that claim to reduce colds, energise and revitalise, and do everything else to cure all kinds of ailments.
Studies show almost all vitamins have no benefit, and most of what is ingested is also excreted through the urine. I could think of much better ways to spend my money than that.
We live in a society obsessed with the quick fix, pop a pill and be done. The problem is all these marketing tactics and instant solutions usually do not work, or work badly, so you end up spending more with them in the long run, for less benefit.
You could be spending money on healthy green vegetables to naturally improve your diet, exercise, even a gym membership would be money better spent, and you would be far more likely to see real health benefits.
For Usana Vitamins to base a whole "direct selling" / multi level marketing business on the back of a product that offers no benefit is a recipe for disaster.
Although it does not make sense to anyone who understands the whole vitamins industry is a scam, there are millions of people out there still spending billions of dollars on worthless vitamins. Are you one of them?
Add Usana into the picture, and they are recruiting other distributors to sell worthless pills for them, in what some would call a pyramid scheme.
Take the time to investigate and view other books and websites on the topic, and read honest reviews and research, then you can make an informed decision to really know what good are vitamins doing for you.
Highest rated is a very general term. Rated for what? Highest price, bad taste, least healthy, highest rated as the leading cause of death? This is not only shabby marketing, but vague and uninformative.
It is not uncommon for vitamin companies like Usana to use very general marketing terms to give the impression they are actually doing something healthy for the body, and have some kind of health benefits. There is a reason for this. Apart from legal reasons that you can't directly claim vitamins will heal and fix certain ailments and diseases such as colds and arthritis, as much as they try and put that perception across, it is also because they do not help one bit.
Look at advertisements for everything from fish oil to vitamin C, to the more commercial and expensive name brand medications that claim to reduce colds, energise and revitalise, and do everything else to cure all kinds of ailments.
Studies show almost all vitamins have no benefit, and most of what is ingested is also excreted through the urine. I could think of much better ways to spend my money than that.
We live in a society obsessed with the quick fix, pop a pill and be done. The problem is all these marketing tactics and instant solutions usually do not work, or work badly, so you end up spending more with them in the long run, for less benefit.
You could be spending money on healthy green vegetables to naturally improve your diet, exercise, even a gym membership would be money better spent, and you would be far more likely to see real health benefits.
For Usana Vitamins to base a whole "direct selling" / multi level marketing business on the back of a product that offers no benefit is a recipe for disaster.
Although it does not make sense to anyone who understands the whole vitamins industry is a scam, there are millions of people out there still spending billions of dollars on worthless vitamins. Are you one of them?
Add Usana into the picture, and they are recruiting other distributors to sell worthless pills for them, in what some would call a pyramid scheme.
Take the time to investigate and view other books and websites on the topic, and read honest reviews and research, then you can make an informed decision to really know what good are vitamins doing for you.
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