New Promotion, Same Old Result

And by 5pm her number had changed from 532 people...

To 531.

Jenny also linked a video to a Juice Plus distributor explaining how to do the complex thing of how to open a sachet and consume the booster. Real rocket science stuff. Yet Carly, the distributor, also mentions that boosters come in boxes of 90 sachets with an average cost of 80p each, recommending that you take up to three a day.

That means for a box of boosters a person needs to pay about £72. For that box alone, someone is spending more than I personally spend on my gym membership and chicken that lasts me about a month (bulk buy, freeze, basically live on chicken).

Considering the contents of the booster as outlined in my previous post, namely that it is basically nothing more than glucomannan, that is an extortionate price to pay for a simple product. And, as with all JP products, it is an unnecessary waste of money for the same effects you can get for cheaper.

The booster's purpose is to make you feel full, thus be less inclined to overeat and put on weight. Yet eating fruit does the same thing because it contains fibre, which also fills you up. Heck, you can even lose weight for free by using that little thing called willpower. If your willpower is that weak that you'd rather spend £72 on over-hyped boosters, then even with them you are still destined to fail. Willpower, above all else, decides if you lose weight or not, decides if you stick to the gym or not, decides if you eat cake or salad or not. It's that simple, no magic product required.

But try telling that to Jenny, who has no willpower. At the time of typing she is now offering a "trial" period of boosters for £19. She does not mention how many sachets this includes, but by the average cost of 80p a sachet that should come to about 23 sachets, lasting someone just over a week on three a day. I don't think Jenny quite understands that a "trial" is meant to be a much reduced price for a genuine attempt at the product, not simply selling for roughly the same price for a reduced quantity. But hey, what do I know about business.

At this point I'd simply wrap things up but a further twist occurred: Jenny actually made a sale. In honour of Jenny's wonderful achievement I will now finish every post with a tally of Jenny's total sales and distributor recruitments for 2016. To date, this year Jenny has made one sale and no recruitments. To also measure the effects of this super-awesome money making business venture we'll be extra nice to Jenny and assume that every sale she makes is a premium JP product to the cost of £50, where she gets £25 commission (ignoring tax for argument's sake). Every recruitment we'll give her £25 as half of the £50 joining fee.

Thus, so far in 2016 Jenny has made £25 from her JP "company". Stay tuned to find out how long it takes our entrepreneur to reach that six figure income within two years of joining - this May will be the halfway point!