Healthy Energy Drinks: Healthy Scam or Healthy Energy?
The debate rages on concerning the Health of Energy Drinks.
This has opened the door for the marketing of Healthy Energy Drinks which are supposed to have no negative effects or actually improve the health of the consumer.
However, in this market segment scams abound and the Healthy Energy Drink Market has turned into a multi-level marketing (pyramid scheme) mecca.
These marketers then come to the comment boards here at energy fiend and try to peddle their business with statements such as “The First Healthy Energy Drink” or “Healthy, All Natural Energy” along with many other descriptions of how some new drink has changed their life. You know the drill if you’ve ever stayed up late and have been forced to watch infomercials. So here’s a list of some those so called healthy energy drinks
Multi-level Marketing Healthy Energy Drinks
- Eniva Vibe
- efusion
- Verve
- ACT
- XS Energy – Amway
- Mona-Vie
- Crave
- Jen Fe
- Hiro
- XOWii (the latest to make you rich beyond your wildest dreams.)
- Advocare Spark
- Chi 3
- Nuvo E
These drinks are usually crammed with exotic juices or herbs and guarantees, but some can be quite expensive and the only way to get these miracle potions cheaper is to sign up as an independent distributor of these “healthy energy drinks”. Be careful, their sales tactics are quite powerful and MLMs have lured the best of us in at times. If it’s too good to be true, it is!
Mainstream Healthy or “Natural” Energy Drinks
- Guru
- FRS- uses affiliate type marketing, but not MLM.
- Steaz
- Adina
- Amazon Energy
- Naked Juice Energy Smoothie
- Guayaki Yerba Mate Energy Drinks
At energy fiend we would be the first to admit that most energy drinks aren’t healthy per say, but we support the notion of moderation. I think the majority of energy drink fans aren’t drinking them for the health aspect anyway. If you want to learn more about energy drink ingredients or energy drink ingredient side affects, well, we have that covered too.
The important thing is education on drinking energy drinks responsibly as well as being able to recognize a healthy energy drink scam when you see it. The only people that are getting rich selling healthy energy drinks are those at the very top of the pyramid I’m afraid.
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I don’t really care if it’s actually healthy but I love Guru. The nice thing about healthy energy drinks is that they usually have really unique, well-developed flavor. The herbs they use also give some of the drinks interesting effects and a more smooth kick.
EWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Love how Lance Armstrong’s FRS ad is on the bottom of the page.
Yeah, but that ad is from google not us…
WOW!… Who comes up with this crap?
This article should be entitled Business Scams.. Not
The author appears to be uneducated on the definition of “pyramid scheme.” A pyramid scheme, also called a ponzi scheme, involves investors investing in something but getting nothing (no products or services) in return. In these schemes, a person ‘invests’ their money in the hopes of getting a big return on it. The first investors are paid with the money from the new investors while the creator takes some money off the top. This can continue until there are not enough new investors to support the people that already invested and the entire thing collapses. Multilevel marketing (MLM) is different. In MLM’s, products or services are provided in exchange for your money. Distributors receive better prices because they are the “store” so they get wholesale prices. Walmart doesn’t charge you what they pay for products, they charge you more, called a mark-up, and that is where their profits come from. You’re paying the marked-up price either way, it’s just a matter of who you’re letting profit, a corporation (the store that you buy from) or an individual (the distributor that you buy from).
blah blah, I’ve set through those presentations….the fact is the only ones that make the money promised are the ones at the top of the MLM so you can debate semantics all you want, but I bet you got your definition of a pyramid scheme from your MLM materials in order to entice people to sign up.
Ted I came to this blog looking for unbiased information regarding energy drinks and thought that I found one. Unfortunately, you decided to also reply to people’s comments in an unprofessional manner while bashing individual companies along the way. I don’t agree with MLM people that pray on the weak either but you really should watch who you might be “slandering” without personal knowledge of any particular company along the way. Gotta watch the tone of the conversation. Otherwise most people will just pass your site up thinking you are no better than them. You will keep more readers that way. Just a tip from a passer by. Good luck. Tony
You have the wrong mindset- look at the company you work for…maybe two guys at the top, a bunch of chairmen under them, and even more sales people under them. hhmmm,looks like a pyramid…and guess what you’ll never make as much as the guys at the top so what’s your point?
MLMs produce some of the most successful people in the world. No one is forcing anyone to join and NO guarantees are made about the products. If they are, you don’t want to be associated with that company. Pyramids… none of you understand corporate America if you think that MLMs are scheme’s. It’s direct sales with benefits. My company is going to go through the roof because our product is full of good stuff. I am not going to make medical claims, but I know how to take care of my body. And guess what — it’s a tax write off to drink my own product. What other types of businesses can provide that along with chance to involve others to take advantage of the same opportunities. You only get something out of a business if you put something into it. I only get healthy because I put what is recommended into my own body, including my company’s drinks. No one forces anyone to do anything, but don’t poison people into thinking people are being tricked into doing things they don’t want to. MLMs aren’t get rich quick schemes, there a type of job like anything else. If you work hard there’s a reward. Part of it happens to be your own companies products that you end up drinking for free. Also, why would anyone be involved in something they didn’t believe in? If I told you there was an MLM to sell toilet seats, then maybe I’d tell you they were full of crap!! Get your facts straight or point out specific companies making false claims or predatory practices to get people to join. There are Network Marketing Professionals out there building relationships through good products and good people! By the way, “the people at the top” are the ones working the hardest, same in any business!!
Guarana, which is in ACT energy drink, contains three times the amount of caffine then coffee. The label reads no added caffine, but the product ACT energy drink is loaded with the caffine, but advertising laws, state with guarana, the caffine within the guarana, does not need to be on the label. So be warey of products containing Guarana
The ones, in mlms, on the top all started at the bottom…..ceo and cfos, some started at the bottom, some did not as well as many, many corporate managers. Hum let’s see, Exxon Mobile, Starbucks, Albertson’s, Walgreen’s, JC Penney,etc, etc, etc, etc….. MlM’s have and always will reward hard working people, where as corporations do not,look at lay offs, etc… whether you want to be an employee or a business owner, that is where the question should be, btw whereever you shop, you are paying lots of someones. why not give business to someone you know. xs may not be the only healthy drink, but it’s 14 flavors are the best variety out there!!
Mlm = scam. That’s the only formula you need 2 know
Look people first of all no one points a gun at you and says buy the drink its a choice that you make if you do so. Many people buy it cuz it helps you get your tasks done and besides as it has been previously mentioned companies such as exxon, walgreens and other chains all started the same way…..AT THE BOTTOM!! so instead of whining do research and if you prefer to drink coffee which has caffeine over a drink that has guarana which at least helps you tackle your tasks then by al means go ahead. I prefer to at least enjoy something that allows me to take care of business without feeling like I can only use that energy for exercising which drinks like monster and no fear do. So once again its a choice and we live in a country that thrives on capitalism so whats the big deal if you got a problem with marketing tactits to allow the hard working individual to make money then go complain to all the big corporations because many of them started from the bottom and through hard work reached the top.
@Doug, obviously in a close minded state, the display of MLM is far better than what you will probably accomplish in your lifetime. If you want to watch your grass grow in your own yard that’s fine, so be it. But until you know the TRUE definition of MLM, I suggest you look into and study it before you speak your mind. And that goes for all those non-believers or haters as well.
If all the MLM haters are happy where they’re at repeating yesterday over and over again, more power to you. MLM is probably one of the best displays or models, if you will, ever made up. If MLM companies were scams, how many would they still be in business? Again, good luck with your careers.
Who knows about David Vanderveen from XS Energy?
Has anyone tried XS? This stuff tastes like battery acid. I’ve had smoother vodka!
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