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The InCruises Compensation Plan
The InCruises compensation plan was originally hidden behind a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Followin publication of this review, Michael Hutchison sent BehindMLM a copy of the InCruises compensation plan. It is presumed the NDA is no longer in place.
Before we get started, I’ll note that the InCruises compensation plan mentions “active” qualification.
Active qualification sees InCruises affiliates required to sell two cruise memberships (one of which can be their own purchase).
The InCruises compensation plan however makes no mention of whether active affiliates are able to earn commissions.
Three subscription sales appears to be the required minimum for direct commissions and five for residual commissions.
InCruises Affiliate Ranks
There are eight affiliate ranks within the InCruises compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
Marketing Manager – generate $5000 a month in dowline sales
Senior Marketing Manager – generate $10,000 a month in dowline sales
Marketing Director – generate $25,000 a month in dowline sales
Senior Marketing Director – generate $50,000 a month in dowline sales
Regional Director – generate $100,000 a month in dowline sales
National Director – generate $200,000 a month in dowline sales
International Director – generate $300,000 a month in dowline sales
Executive Director – generate $500,000 a month in dowline sales
Cruise Membership Commission
InCruises affiliate are paid directly for selling $100 cruise memberships in groups of three.
For each group of three sold in a month, an InCruises affiliate is paid a $100 commission.
Note that these groups of three can be retail customers or recruited affiliates who have purchased the $100 travel membership subscription.
A Coaching Bonus of $100 is also payable if a recruit affiliate receives a cruise membership commission within 30 days of joining the company.
Direct Residual Commission
When an InCruises affiliate sells five $100 cruise memberships to retail customers or recruited affiliates, they trigger a $10 per month residual commission per subscriber.
Additionally if an InCruises affiliate themselves has a cruise membership, the monthly $100 fee is waived.
Residual Commissions
Residual commissions in InCruises are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
unilevel-commission-structure
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
InCruises cap payable unilevel levels at five, with a $5 monthly residual commission paid out on cruise membership payments.
Note that residual commission qualification is the same as direct residual commission qualification (sell and maintain five cruise membership subscriptions).
Rank Achievement Bonuses
InCruises affiliates are paid the following monthly bonuses for qualifying at specific affiliate ranks:
Marketing Manager – $500 a month
Senior Marketing Manager – $1000 a month
Marketing Director – $2500 a month
Senior Marketing Director – $5000 a month
Regional Director – $10,000 a month
National Director – $20,000 a month
International and Executive Directors – $30,000 a month
Worldwide Bonus
The Worldwide Bonus is made up of 5% of InCruises monthly sales volume.
To qualify for a share in the Worldwide Bonus, an Incruises affiliate must be at the Executive Director rank.
Joining InCruises
Affiliate membership with InCruises is $195 and then $95 annually.
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Conclusion
I don’t usually write a review if I don’t have the specifics of a compensation plan, but I felt I had enough to go on with InCruises to put one together.
Behind the usual “everybody loves to travel!” marketing spiel, InCruises offer up a genuine cruise discount platform that, at least on the surface, is detached from their income opportunity.
One glaring problem is the company itself offers nothing but access to discounts. Travel merchants provide the cruise booking engine and discounts, with InCruises merely a gatekeeper.
As far as MLM goes, there isn’t a readily identifiable product retail customers are paying $100 a month for. Access to discounts or even discounts alone are not a tangible product in MLM.
Despite the retail offering, the inherent compliance danger with InCruises is that only affiliates will sign up for the $99 a month cruise membership.
As it stands there are no retail cruise membership qualifiers in the compensation plan, allowing InCruises affiliates to earn commissions solely on the recruitment of new affiliates who also purchase a cruise membership.
This would drive home a lack of demonstrable retail value of the cruise membership, and also drag InCruises into pyramid scheme territory.
Luckily this is easily evaluated, with a query of a potential upline’s non-affiliate numbers the easiest way to suss out if retail membership sales are taking place.
Make sure you are provided data on active retail memberships only. Do not accept any data on expired members or pseudo-compliance explanations of affiliates who haven’t recruited counting as retail customers.
If an affiliate fee was paid then those InCruises members are affiliates, period.
A secondary concern (which is tied to retail viability), is competition from competing travel-booking engine users.
InCruises charge $99 a month for access to booking engines, with a good chunk of this fee feeding the InCruises compensation plan.
There’s a very real possibility that competing travel companies who don’t have an attached MLM opportunity, will be able to offer access to the travel-booking engines for less than $99 a month.
This could be a potential marketing hurdle for InCruises affiliates, reducing their pool of retail customers to the uninformed and/or ignorant.
Approach with caution.
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