ACN has quietly acquired Crew Nationwide.
The announcement was made on ACN’s FaceBook web page on January eighth:
What’s instantly unclear is what this implies for Crew Nationwide distributors going ahead.
I first realized of ACN’s acquisition of Crew Nationwide from a reader earlier in the present day.
In an try to substantiate, my first port of name was Crew Nationwide’s web site. Nothing there, so I moved onto their social media pages.
Crew Nationwide’s YouTube channel hasn’t been up to date since March 2019. Crew Nationwide’s Fb web page is recurrently up to date, nevertheless there’s no official announcement.
Reasonably the primary point out of ACN was a “Tremendous Saturday” occasion on January 14th:
When following Crew Nationwide’s January FaceBook posts, this comes out of the blue.
Equally there’s nothing about Crew Nationwide on ACN’s web site. The one acknowledgement of the acquisition is the beforehand referenced ACN FaceBook submit.
One attention-grabbing dialogue concerning the merger I discovered comes from Justin Weeks and John Melton.
Weeks is a former Crew Nationwide distributor. He left the corporate in August 2020.
Melton is a former ACN distributor. Each Weeks and Melton at the moment are Modere distributors.
Weeks’ and Meltons’ dialogue occurred in a video titled, “The TRUTH about ACN absorbing Crew Nationwide“.
The video was uploaded to Weeks’ YouTube channel on January seventh, 2022.
Maintaining in thoughts there’s a bit of promoting occurring, right here’s some related commentary between the 2;
Justin Weeks (talking on Crew Nationwide): Lengthy story brief, one of many issues (Melton) requested me that basically hit residence was, “Justin, I perceive you’ve had success … however how many individuals in your crew are profitable?
And it was embarrassing to say. I might depend on one hand how many individuals, out of 1000’s of crew members, y’know have been having success.
There wasn’t quite a lot of duplication occurring. It was like pulling tooth to get somebody began in (Crew Nationwide).
We have been doing the old-fashioned residence displays. We began doing a little Zoom assembly nevertheless it was quite a lot of travelling, three-way calls, simply quite a lot of stuff that nobody needs to do. And it simply isn’t straightforward to do.
John Melton: Let me guess Justin, most of these calls and conferences revolved across the alternative to earn money?
Justin Weeks: Sure, that’s precisely what it was.
John Melton: There wasn’t a complete lot of emphasis on prospects and it was all about making a living, recruiting, recruiters to recruit recruiters. And it was all about y’know, the hype and the chance to get wealthy.
In the meantime most people are spending greater than they’re making. They usually’re pissed off.
They’re attempting to remain optimistic, however on the finish of the day it was arduous to earn money (Crew Nationwide’s) compensation plan.
Which is humorous, as a result of your organization (Crew Nationwide) simply partnered up with my outdated firm (ACN) – which was the identical means!
It was all three-way calls, residence events, residence conferences, resort conferences. And it was all about making a living.
On the finish of the day in case you have been simply getting prospects, there actually wasn’t a lot compensation.
To not go off on a tangent, however I discovered Melton’s feedback considerably ironic given how he markets himself on his private web site:
Justin Weeks: Proper, precisely. And that’s what it was all about.
Y’know lately … as of yesterday or the evening earlier than final, I heard that the corporate that John, truly I used to be with my firm about the identical time John was together with his firm, he walked away for comparable causes, after which his outdated firm simply absorbed my outdated firm.
And y’know I’m listening to all these tales from all these individuals. And I simply really feel like there’s lots of people on the market John, which can be confused, probably being misled.
There’s lots of people that I care about proper now, that’s [sic] being informed one factor; that, y’know principally their firm is gone.
Their firm is gone. It was absorbed. However they’re saying, “Oh, now it’s… that is the “2.0” model of your organization”, which … that’s not the case.
Their firm’s gone, as of in a couple of weeks.
They’re being informed all this stuff and being overestimated about this new alternative that was all the time in existence, earlier than their firm was absorbed.
However now it’s this new large factor, and so they’re being informed all this stuff … as a result of clearly they need to maintain their family tree construction. They need to maintain their enterprise going.
John Melton goes on give a spiel about ACN. He states that the corporate is “scuffling with recruiting”.
BehindMLM reviewed Crew Nationwide in April 2013. Whereas we discovered a complicated compensation plan, there wasn’t something overtly suggesting recruitment was a spotlight over retail.
Our ACN evaluate revealed a equally complicated alternative, largely resulting from its sprawling dimension.
Crew Nationwide marketed low cost memberships. I suppose these will simply be built-in into ACN’s product vary.
At time of publication Crew Nationwide’s web site and social media pages are nonetheless on-line. Justin Weeks’ feedback counsel this gained’t be the case for lengthy.
CEO Angela Chrysler made an look on Crew Nationwide’s FaceBook web page on January eleventh.
Within the livestream, Chrysler reveals off her “ACN gear”. She goes on to clarify what’s occurring going ahead;
One week in the past Crew Nationwide introduced that we’ve entered right into a enterprise relationship with ACN.
So TN and ACN are coming collectively … what does that imply?
Which means we’re gonna proceed to serve our prospects for the month of January, however then in February you’ll have entry to ACN perks in case you are a member.
Chrysler does state she’ll be round to “help” Crew Nationwide distributors, however doesn’t make clear whether or not she’ll have an govt function inside ACN.
Crew Nationwide was based by Richard (Dick) Loehr in 1997 and ultimately launched as a standalone MLM firm in 1999.
ACN’s acquisition successfully brings an finish to the twenty-two yr outdated firm.
Crew Nationwide is the second MLM firm acquisition by ACN in six months. It follows Kynect Vitality final August.
