Royaltie is an unusual MLM, as the focus is on local marketing. The idea is that customers use the service as a method of generating leads in their local area.
It’s an unusual approach, but one that could be powerful for the right audience. After all, local businesses do need a way to promote their products and services. If used well, this type of technology could theoretically increase sales and profit.
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The idea is interesting from the MLM perspective too. There aren’t that many service-based MLMs out there and very few MLMs target businesses and entrepreneurs, rather than regular individuals. This could mean that you’re targeting a less saturated audience, one that is more open to distributors.
Besides that, entrepreneurship is increasing in popularity. Many people are looking for ways to make their own living, rather than being stuck in the traditional employee grind. The pattern could help to increase sales potential as well.
Even so, targeting a different type of audience has disadvantages too, so you’ll need to consider the risks and rewards carefully.
Two Ways To Make Money With Royaltie
Royaltie might have an unusual product and service, but they still follow the traditional MLM methods for income. This means that you earn some money by promoting the products and that you can increase your income by building a team.
In this post, we’re weighing up both of those elements and considering whether Royaltie does truly have income potential.
Make Money From Product Sales
Royaltie explains the underlying concept in three basic steps:
- Create your ad in minutes
- Drive traffic to your customized landing page
- Collect new leads
At one point, Royaltie worked by broadcasting messages that you created directly to the phones of people in your area. This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore (perhaps because it was a seriously spammy concept).
Instead, ads that members create are shown through the Royaltie Advertising Network. They use the following image as an example of the concept.
They claim that you can advertise on ‘over 1 million apps & websites’ is technically true, as Royaltie is using popular services, like Google Ads. Of course, there’s nothing unusual about the concept. The service is mostly just offering paid ads. As you might notice from the image, the ads themselves are pretty typical.
There are a few other aspects of the service, including a website/landing page builder, the ability to use email marketing, and the presence of Android and iOS apps. Once again, these are pretty common tools. You could easily get similar advantages by building a website yourself, paying for ads, and using an email marketing tool. Royaltie could (potentially) make the process easier, but you’d have less control than with your own site.
There are three packages to choose from, ranging from $57/month to $327/month. They tend to have the same core features, with the largest differences being in the number of people that you’re targeting.
There are also add on packages that provide extra ads. These cost $30 for 5,000 impressions, $50 for 10,000 impressions or $200 for 50,000 impressions.
The main unusual feature of Royaltie is the location-specific idea. Royaltie states that your impressions are delivered to ‘the most popular websites and apps within the proximity area you choose’. This suggests that your ads are more likely to reach people in your local area, but it isn’t clear how well the idea works in practice.
While there is nothing unusual about using ads, landing pages, and email marketing, Royaltie is still an interesting idea. It could make some of the processes easier for beginners and for small businesses.
Royaltie Gems
If you look at other discussions of Royaltie, you might notice many people talking about the Royaltie Gem. This was a small wireless device that was used to send ads to Android phones in your local area. Royaltie’s original business model involved renting out those gems for a monthly fee.
The messages sent through the Royaltie Gem looked like this:
Royaltie seems to have abandoned this part of their model altogether, which is a good thing. It was a creepy idea and never seemed like it would work well for marketing. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t trust any company that managed to spam my phone with unwanted messages.
Ads are a more acceptable idea, especially as Royaltie is using established networks.
Making Money
Royaltie takes an unusual approach to commissions. Instead of paying a percentage commission for the sales that you make, they pay a set total based on your rank.
Even more, interestingly, this total is based on your Level 1 and 2 sales (so, the people you recruit and the ones that they recruit). The image below shows how this breaks down for the early ranks.
So, for example, the first rank (100 Club) requires a team volume of $100. You earn $20 in commission by hitting that (which is 20% commission). If you can get up to $200, then the commission is $50 (so, 25% commission).
The commission rate isn’t too bad if you hit right on the target for a given rank. However, the style means that there are no income differences from making $100 worth of sales and $190. Similarly, there’s no difference between $1,000 in sales and $1,995. That’s pretty bad.
There is also a Strive for Five bonus. This allows you to earn $125 for every five customers or affiliates that you recruit.
Make Money Building A Team
Royaltie is like most MLMs in that there is higher income potential through your team. However, unlike most MLMs, the team side of things is pretty straightforward. There is just a single method of earning to consider – no extra bonuses or complex requirements.
Basically, as a Royaltie member, you would earn from the collective sales of your levels 3, 4, 5 & 6. The specific level that people are in does not matter.
The percentage you earn can be influenced by your rank or by your personal sales. The personal sales breakdown looks like this:
- 1 sale = 1% commission
- 2 sales = 2% commission
- 3 sales = 3% commission
- 4 sales = 4% commission
- 5 sales = 5% commission
Hitting a rank of Topaz or Jade (the 7th and 8th ranks, respectively) will automatically take you to a 3% commission, while a rank of Pearl (9th rank) or above will take you to 5% commission.
There are some interesting outcomes of this commission scheme. For one thing, it means that you can hit the maximum commission rate from your team and the maximum rank even if you’re not personally making sales each month. All of the requirements are based on Level 1 and Level 2. Even the ranks requirements are only based on team volume.
The design is also odd in the way that it separates out your Level 1 and Level 2 members compared to the rest of your team. This separation is useful in that it can make it easier to progress through ranks. On the flip side, your Level 1 and Level 2 members are excluded from your team commissions, which is unexpected.
One other thing to mention is the ongoing requirements. Royaltie is one of the few MLMs that still seems to require a monthly fee. The website suggests that members need to be actively paying for the Royaltie services themselves. This means a minimum requirement of $57 per month (plus a $30 set up fee).
Paying almost $60 each month for the chance to earn money is pretty rough. This type of approach makes it much more difficult to stay in the green.
Can You Generate Reliable Income With Royaltie?
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With the right audience, you could make a reliable income with Royaltie. After all, the underlying service does seem like it would work. The way that services are bundled together could even be useful for some people.
Your audience is always relevant when you're considering an MLM and this is especially true with Royaltie. As we mentioned earlier, Royaltie's services primarily target people with their own small businesses. This gives you a different audience than most other MLMs. It is also a much narrower audience.
How many people do you know that even have something that they could promote using ads? How would you expand this audience?
We're not just talking about any business owner or entrepreneur either. You'll need to be targeting people who would benefit from having ads and who don't have the technological know-how to buy ads themselves. Honestly, this is a pretty narrow audience. It just doesn't seem like there are enough people who would benefit from what Royaltie has to offer.
If you do plan to get involved, it would be important to plan carefully. Think seriously about your audience and about strategies that you could use to grow your customer base over time.
Don't forget, your income is linked to the sales of your team too. This means that you'll need to get some people passionate about Royaltie.
MLM Critic & Author: Nathaniell
What's up ladies and dudes! Great to finally meet you, and I hope you enjoyed this post. I have to be honest though. I'm not a big fan of MLM. Tried it. Hated it.
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Glenn Earls
I was an affiliate with Royaltie since the very beginning. I stuck with them through the transition to digital marketing. I sold the digital marketing product and has good success with it. The platform was simplistic at first but they expanded it over time. It was a bumpy ride with lots of changes. Then they stopped paying me the affiliate commissions that I earned. I asked why they weren’t paying me and I go a short snippy answer. I asked again why they weren’t paying me and they again were short and basically said that it was my fault. I wanted to know how to resolve the issue and they told me I needed to read the Affiliate Agreement. The company is just not good at customer service and taking care of problems. Not a great company to work with.
The Cleaner
Very very true. Once you join you are basically on your own. They have video sales meetings and really offer no help. It is not a big secret who really makes all the money. The big 3 and then they get snotty when you ask how? They always refer everyone to the affiliate agreement which answers nothing for basic questions. I had to finally file a dispute to get 6 months of my monthly fee back because they wouldn’t stop my subscription. It is a horrible company and any affiliate offer that wants a monthly fee should be suspect.