Mineral Kiss Independent Business Opportunity

At Mineral Kiss we offer great incentive to our Independent Business Owners (IBO). Becoming an IBO is quick and easy and compensation for your business can be very lucrative. The Mineral Kiss compensation plan is based on a 5 x 7 matrix.

All commissions are calculated on the same schedule, "monthly".  I.e. there are not multiple schedules such as "weekly" and "monthly".  The actual duration of any commission period is at the discretion of the client.

Definitions

Active - income centers are considered Active when they have greater than zero PV in the current commission period.

Compression - refers to the process whereby inactive income centers are temporarily removed from the downline for the purpose of commission calculations.  Active income centers in the downline then roll up to occupy the positions vacated by the inactive centers.  This effectively removes "dead spots" from the organization and makes the most volume available possible to pay commissions on.

The "Active" amount off which compression is triggered is based off PV.  Within this compensation plan, income centers are considered Active when they have a PV of greater than zero in the current commission period.

Compression Example - Compression is applied on placement sponsorship lineage.  When compression is applied to fixed width plans, such as this matrix, the act of compression can break the number of frontline positions that is usually maintained.

As an example, there is a leg of downline containing four income centers: A, B, C and D.  A is at the top of the organization.  B is placed directly below A.  C and D both reside frontline to B.

Focusing on the A position, A is Active and fully qualified to earn commissions.  B is inactive.  Both C and D are Active.  When compression is enacted, B will be temporarily removed from the downline.

Both positions frontline to B will roll up to replace B.  E will then be paid frontline commissions on both C and D.  After commission calculations are complete, B will again assume its position and the downline will return to its pre-commission format.

Moving two (or more) centers to take the place of one compressed individual can temporarily, for commission calculation purposes only, break the rules of maximum width that are in place.

Customer - a customer is a person that wishes only to purchase product at retail price from the company.  Customers are not eligible to build downlines or receive commissions.  Customer volume is added to that of the sponsoring income center during commission calculations; customers do not occupy a position in each level of downline.

E.g, X sponsors income center Y frontline to himself.  Y in turn sponsors customer Z.  Y purchases $100 CV during the commission period and Z purchases $50 CV during the commission period.

Z's $50 CV will be added to Y's $100 CV, placing $150 CV frontline to X at Y's position.  Z is not considered to be second level to X.

CV - stands for Commissionable Value or Commissionable Volume.

CV is the value of a product that Matrix qualifications and benefits are calculated off of.  For instance, if there was $100 Matrix CV present on a level of downline and the percentage to earn on that level was 10%, the total amount paid on that level would be $10; { (100) (0.10)}.

Distributor - a distributor is a person that has enrolled with the company, wishes to build downline(s) and participate in the compensation plan.

Downline - refers to positions (distributor and customer) in the genealogy below a specific income center in the genealogy.

Fixed Width Compensation Plan - a fixed width compensation plan restricts the number of income centers that can fall on any distributor's first level of organizational downline; this matrix is an example of a fixed width plan.

Frontline - refers to an income center's first level of downline.

Income Center - an income center is a position in the organization that can build downlines and participate in the compensation plan.  Distributors may have multiple income centers (or not at the discretion of the company).  Each income center belonging to a distributor can build its own downline.  Qualifications and benefits are calculated independently for each income center position.

Levels - Levels refer to layers of downline. 

Those income centers that an individual is the placement sponsor of comprise the first level (or frontline).  Those placed under one's own frontline comprise the second level and so forth and so on.  An income center's own volume is not counted as being in any of its downline levels.  Customer volume is applied to that of its sponsoring income center in order to determine the position/level in the downline that it falls in.

PV - stands for Personal Volume.  PV is the sum total CV purchased by a particular income center and that income center's personally sponsored customers in the current commission period.

Rank - a rank is a name that represents the achievement of qualifications and benefits within the compensation structure.  Income centers must meet the necessary qualifications to receive benefits associated with a rank each and every commission period.

If an income center has met the qualifications for a rank in the past, but does not meet the necessary qualifications in the current commission period, that income center will be demoted in rank.

If an income center earned a higher rank "last commission period" but does not meet the qualifications for that rank "this commission period", the income center will be demoted in rank and paid commensurate with the qualifications met in "this period".

Spilling - refers to a mechanism that automatically determines placement sponsor positioning in fixed width compensation plans.  Fixed width plans allow a finite number of income center positions on any individual's frontline.

E.g., in a 3 x 7 matrix, no more than three income centers can be on an individual's frontline.

Once all frontline positions below an individual are filled, any new personal enrollments must be automatically forced into the next available position in the downline.  The rules for determining which position is the "next available" comprise the definition of the spilling type employed by the software.

Spilling, Left to Right/Level by Level Spilling - This spill type works as follows.

When an individual sponsors a new enrollee, the software will first check to see if the sponsoring individual's frontline is full.  If the frontline is not full, the new enrollee will be placed there.  If the frontline is full, spilling must occur.

The LR/LL spill routine will then evaluate the second level of organizational downline below the sponsoring individual.  If available positions are present, the first position to the farthest outside left on the level will be selected for placement of the new enrollee.  If there were no available positions on the second level, it would then move down one level to the third.

This spill type evaluates each level in the same fashion until the next available position is identified by asking the same two basic questions: 1. Are there any positions available on the current level (if not, go down one level)?  2. Once the level with an available position(s) has been identified, what is the first position, starting from the left and moving across the level to the right, which is not occupied?

Sponsor, Placement - refers to the income center that is immediately above a position in the upline.  The Placement Sponsor is not necessarily the income center that brought an individual into the opportunity - especially true in fixed width systems, such as this matrix.

Sponsor, Enrolling - refers to the income center that brought an individual into the opportunity.  Although an Enrolling Sponsor may be the same as the Placement Sponsor, the two do not have to match.  The term "Personally Sponsored" is used to refer to those that an individual is the enrolling sponsor of.

Upline - refers to positions (distributor) in the genealogy above a specific income center in the genealogy.

IBO

Qualifications - the following condition must be met to achieve this rank

Condition 1 - IBO must have a PV greater than or equal to 0 in the current commission period to achieve this rank.

Condition 2 - IBO must have a minimum of 0 personally sponsored that have reached Active status in the current commission period. Note: the personal sponsorships do not need to occur in the current commission period, the personally sponsored only need to have met Active status in the current commission period.

Benefits - IBO receive the following benefits:

Benefit 1 - Retail/Wholesale bonus - IBO receive the differencebetween the retail and wholesale price of products purchased by their personally sponsored retail customers in the current commission period.

Benefit 2 - Levels Based Benefits - IBO receive the following Levels Based benefits on the CV present in their downline in the current commission period.

Level 0 = 0% of CV
 

Qualified IBO

Qualifications - the following condition must be met to achieve this rank

Condition 1 - Qualified IBO must have a PV greater than or equal to 80 in the current commission period to achieve this rank.

Condition 2 - Qualified IBO must have a minimum of 0 personally sponsored that have reached Active status in the current commission period. Note: the personal sponsorships do not need to occur in the current commission period, the personally sponsored only need to have met Active status in the current commission period.

Benefits - Qualified IBO receive the following benefits:

Benefit 1 - Retail/Wholesale bonus - Qualified IBO receive the difference between the retail and wholesale price of products purchased by their personally sponsored retail customers in the current commission period.

Benefit 2 - Levels Based Benefits - Qualified IBO receive the following Levels Based benefits on the CV present in their downline in the current commission period.

Level 1 = 2% of CV
Level 2 = 3% of CV
Level 3 = 10% of CV
Level 4 = 12% of CV
Level 5 = 5% of CV
Level 6 = 5% of CV
Level 7 = 3% of CV