TheClub.Journey, one of many extra awkwardly named MLM corporations I’ve come throughout, gives no company possession or administration data on its web site.
TheClub.Journey’s web site area (“theclub.journey”), was privately registered on July twenty sixth, 2021.
Additional analysis reveals Jonathon McKillip citing himself as CEO of TheClub.Journey on Fb:
McKillip made a reputation for himself as WorldVentures’ International Gross sales President.
In 2016 Malaysia went after WorldVentures for violating tourism legal guidelines. McKillip defended the corporate, inadvertently admitting WorldVentures was a pyramid scheme.
Our product just isn’t journey packages. Our product is merely the (WorldVentures) membership.
McKillip resigned from WorldVentures in December 2017. He signed on as President of MaVie in January 2018.
In June 2018 McKillip was a named defendant in WorldVentures’ lawsuit towards Ariix and MaVie.
The litigation pertained to unfair competitors alleged towards Ariix, MaVie, McKillip and several other former WorldVentures workers.
In July 2018 an injunction was entered towards McKillip, barring additional use of confidential data obtained from his WorldVentures employment.
In late 2019, it emerged prosecutors in Taiwan had filed legal costs towards WorldVentures.
Taiwanese prosecutors alleged WorldVentures was a “traditional pyramid scheme”. Then President Eddie Head and McKillip had been named as defendants.
To the most effective of my data neither Head or McKillip defended the costs.
McKillip left Mavie in December 2019. In February 2021 he was appointed President of Hapi Journey.
Father or mother firm Elevacity Holdings, now The Comfortable Co., ultimately launched Hapi Journey as Hapi Journey Locations in October 2021.
Jonathan McKillip wasn’t a part of the corporate. As per McKillip’s LinkedIn profile, he left Hapi Journey in August 2021.
That brings us to the launch of TheTravel.Membership, McKillip’s personal journey MLM firm, on or round August 2021.
That’s not a typo. McKillip left Hapi Journey and launched TheClub.Journey in the identical month.
Why McKillip isn’t featured on TheClub.Journey’s web site is unclear.
Learn on for a full evaluation of TheClub.Journey’s MLM alternative.
TheClub.Journey’s Merchandise
TheClub.Journey markets three journey reserving membership subscriptions:
- Leisure prices $25 a month and gives entry to a journey reserving platform, 50% resorts and resorts pricing low cost, automotive rental reserving service, cruises, “actions at vacation spot cities” and “lodge credit”
- Globetrotter prices $50 a month and provides 100% resorts and resorts pricing low cost, trip leases, “superior entry to membership journey posting” and cyber safety
- Excessive Flyer prices $100 a month and provides “every day reductions (US solely)”, a VIP concierge service”, private journey agent and “quick cross passport and visa service”
Of be aware is TheClub.Journey’s Insurance policies and Procedures referencing a “Worth Bundle”.
At the moment Members can select a month-to-month subscription. They will additionally buy a Worth Bundle.
The Worth bundle is obtainable as an added worth for individuals who could journey greater than the typical client.
No particulars of the Worth Bundle are supplied on TheClub.Journey’s web site.
Along with journey memberships, TheClub.Journey additionally instantly sells “lodge credit”:
- Economic system prices $250 for 550 in lodge credit
- Membership prices $500 for 550 lodge credit plus $50 credit score in the direction of your first “Membership Journey”
- Premier prices $1000 for 1150 lodge credit plus $100 credit score in the direction of your first “Membership Journey”.
Presumably lodge credit are put in the direction of lodge lodging. No particular data is supplied.
The “Membership Journeys” part of TheClub.Journey’s web site is marked “coming quickly”.
TheClub.Journey additionally don’t disclose who any of their reserving companions are.
TheClub.Journey’s Compensation Plan
TheClub.Journey’s compensation plan pays on gross sales quantity generated by way of gross sales to retail prospects and recruited associates.
This consists of journey membership subscriptions and lodge credit score packages. It doesn’t embrace precise booked journey and journey associated companies.
TheClub.Journey Affiliate Ranks
There are twelve affiliate ranks inside TheClub.Journey’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Distinction Maker – join as a TheClub.Journey affiliate and generate and preserve 25 PV a month
- Explorer – generate and preserve 50 PV and 500 GV a month
- Achiever – generate and preserve 100 PV and 1000 GV a month
- Chief – preserve 100 PV a month and generate and preserve 2000 GV a month
- Visionary – generate and preserve 150 PV, 50 RV and 5000 GV a month
- Star – generate and preserve 200 PV, 100 RV and 10,000 GV a month
- Rising Star – preserve 200 PV and 100 RV a month, and generate and preserve 20,000 GV a month
- Winner – generate and preserve 250 PV, 150 RV and 50,000 GV a month
- Champion – preserve 250 PV and 150 RV a month, and generate and preserve 100,000 GV a month
- World Changer – generate and preserve 300 PV, 200 RV and 250,000 GV a month
- Legend – preserve 300 PV and 200 RV a month, and generate and preserve 500,000 GV a month
- Icon – preserve 300 PV and 200 RV a month, and generate and preserve 1,000,000 GV a month
PV stands for “Private Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated by gross sales to retail prospects, recruited associates and a TheClub.Journey affiliate’s personal purchases.
RV stands for “Referral Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated by personally referred retail prospects and recruited associates.
GV stands for “Group Quantity” and is gross sales quantity generated by an affiliate and their whole downline.
Notice that for Chief to Champion, as much as 50% of required GV can come from anybody unilevel crew leg.
For World Changer to Icon, this proportion is lowered to 40%.
Journey Subscription and Resort Credit Commissions
TheClub.Journey associates earn a 40% fee on gross sales quantity generated by journey membership payment funds.
These commissions are paid month-to-month for the lifetime of the membership subscriptions.
Commissions are additionally paid on elective Economic system, Membership and Premier lodge credit score bundle gross sales:
- sale of the Economic system lodge credit bundle pays $85
- sale of the Membership lodge credit bundle pays $170
- sale of the Premier lodge credit bundle pays $340
Notice that the identical fee quantities are paid on retail and recruited affiliate buy quantity.
Residual Subscription Charge Commissions
TheClub.Journey pays residual subscription payment commissions by way of a unilevel compensation construction.
These are ongoing journey membership subscription charges paid each by retail prospects and recruited associates.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a unilevel crew, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned instantly below them (stage 1):
If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel crew.
If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
TheClub.Journey caps payable unilevel crew ranges at seven.
Residual subscription payment commissions are paid out throughout these ranges primarily based on rank:
- Distinction Makers earn 4% on stage 1 (personally referred retail prospects and recruited associates)
- Explorers earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of
- Achievers earn 4% on ranges 1 to three
- Leaders earn 4% on ranges 1 to 4
- Visionarys earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of and 5% on ranges 3 to five
- Stars earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 5% on ranges 3 and 4, 6% on stage 5 and 5% on stage 6
- Rising Stars earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 5% on ranges 3 and 4, 6% on ranges 5 and 6 and 5% on stage 7
- Winners earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 5% on stage 3 and 6% on ranges 4 to 7
- Champions earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 5% on stage 3, 6% on ranges 4 to six and seven% on stage 6
- World Changers earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 6% on ranges 3 to five, 7% on stage 6 and eight% on stage 7
- Legends earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 6% on ranges 3 to five, 8% on stage 6 and 9% on stage 7
- Icons earn 4% on ranges 1 and a pair of, 6% on ranges 3 to five, 9% on stage 6 and 10% on stage 7
Residual Recruitment Commissions
TheClub.Journey pays residual recruitment commissions by way of a 3×10 matrix.
A 3×10 matrix locations an affiliate on the high of a matrix, with three positions instantly below them:
These three positions type the primary stage of the matrix. The second stage of the matrix is generated by splitting these first three positions into one other three positions every (9 positions).
Ranges three to 10 of the matrix are generated in the identical method, with every new stage housing thrice as many positions because the earlier stage.
A 4% residual recruitment fee is paid on gross sales quantity generated by way of associates instantly and not directly recruited into the matrix.
Mentorship Bonus
TheClub.Journey qualify for the Mentorship Bonus by recruiting three associates and producing 2000 GV inside their first thirty days.
Mentorship Bonus certified associates earn $700 per personally recruited affiliate who additionally qualifies for the Mentorship Bonus.
International Bonus Swimming pools
TheClub.Journey takes 10% of firm extensive gross sales income and locations it into seven smaller International Bonus Swimming pools.
- 2% is put right into a Momentum Pool
- 1% is put right into a Grasp Pool
- 1% is put right into a Legend Pool
- 1% is put right into a Founders Pool
- 1% is put into an Icon Pool
- 1.5% is put right into a Legacy Pool
- 2.5% is put right into a Consistency Pool
TheClub.Journey don’t present particular qualification standards for the swimming pools, stating solely;
You possibly can qualify for a number of swimming pools every month—for some because the
results of your exercise, and for some due to your rank.
Becoming a member of TheClub.Journey
TheClub.Journey affiliate membership is $99.95 after which $29.95 a month.
TheClub.Journey Conclusion
TheClub.Journey is just about a continuation of Jonathan McKillip’s time at WorldVentures.
Retail subscription gross sales are doable however there’s no incentive or requirement to deal with it. Throughout the wider context of TheClub.Journey’s compensation plan, it’s clear recruitment is what’s being pushed.
This begins with the beforehand acknowledged lack of retail quantity necessities. It continues by TheClub.Journey’s rank qualification standards.
I’ve used standardized PV/GV definitions within the compensation evaluation above. I needed to introduce referral quantity (RV), due to MyClub.Journey’s non-standard terminology.
RV is as near retail quantity necessities as MyClub.Journey will get, but it surely consists of recruited affiliate quantity.
Nonetheless, RV doesn’t kick in till Visionary, the place 50 RV is required towards 150 PV.
The one distinction between RV and PV is PV consists of an affiliate’s personal spend. This suggests that, at a minimal, 100 PV of the required 150 PV will likely be a MyClub.Journey affiliate’s personal spend.
This isn’t set in stone however turns into apparent as you go alongside greater ranks and see RV constantly trailing by 100 PV.
Then now we have sure commissions and bonuses focused at recruitment.
This consists of matrix commissions, the Mentorship Bonus and sure the undefined International Bonus Swimming pools.
It’s within the “matrix revenue” description that we discover the core of MyClub.Journey’s enterprise mannequin cited;
You enroll three individuals, then they enroll three individuals, and so forth to fill your matrix.
As long as everybody has a journey subscription and retains up with funds, commissions are paid.
The place MyClub.Journey differs from WorldVentures is not any commissions are paid on journey. It is very important be aware nevertheless that this got here later.
From launch and through McKillip’s tenure, WorldVentures additionally didn’t pay any commissions on journey (therefore the “we solely promote memberships” assertion from McKillip in 2016).
I’m not suggesting McKillip was solely chargeable for WorldVentures working as a pyramid scheme. I’m merely declaring MyClub.Journey doesn’t differ a lot from WorldVentures then compensation plan.
It’s in all probability what McKillip meant to arrange with MaVie, till the granted injunction killed momentum.
The Happi Journey tenure previous to TheClub.Journey launching is definitely unusual. Little doubt McKillip launching a competing MLM journey alternative the month he left Happi Journey raised some eyebrows.
However that’s past the scope of analysing TheClub.Journey as a standalone MLM alternative.
The excellent news is ascertaining whether or not your potential upline is targeted on retail gross sales is simple.
Simply ask them what their lively month-to-month retail subscription quantity is, and evaluate to their personally recruited affiliate month-to-month subscription quantity.
If it’s not a minimum of 50% retail quantity, that affiliate is working their TheClub.Journey enterprise as a pyramid scheme.
And if that’s prevalent throughout the corporate, nicely you solely want to take a look at how WorldVentures performed out to see the place that ends.
