Down-to-Earth Look at Zurvita

New Multilevel Marketing Company Offers Same-Old, Same-Old

Daniel Khalil
Zurvita is a multilevel marketing company founded by Mark Jarvis. If you look for information of it online, you will find nothing but fake reviews by employees. Some of the reviews on Zurvita are legitimate, but others merely promote their own Zurvita account or an alternate MLM company.

Here is the truth, you will be charged $329 to work for the company. What kind of company charges money to work for them? Supposedly it is to start your own Zurvita business. However, won't the products sold by the individual pay for "business costs"? Put simply, this is an MLM company. MLM companies are legalized pyramid schemes, essentially. Like pyramid schemes, they charge individuals to join. Unlike pyramid schemes, MLM companies sell products.

Mark Jarvis, the C.E.O. of the company, supposedly "quit" his million dollar job as director of marketing at Dell, to start his own MLM corporation. If that sounds suspicious to you, then perhaps you are smarter than the average person who pays Zurvita $329.00 to work for them. It turns out Jarvis was fired from Dell by attempting to do something similar with their advertising. So, Jarvis was fired and claims to have quit his job. God only knows how he gets away with lying to the public as such.

Now, on to the positive news about Zurvita. It is a legitimate opportunity that actually will pay you, if you earn. To be honest, if you can make the $19 monthly fee (and out-do your initial investment fees) then go ahead and try. However, in the end, Zurvita is an MLM company. Their goal is to recruit; if you recruit, you will be rewarded handsomely. Recruitment, in fact, is stressed more than selling of the actual product, which is quite skeptical again.

Zurvita is a conservative organization that is not afraid to express its views. Of course, this is not bad by any means, but just a word of warning for those who do not support its agenda. On its about page, Zurvita states its ultimate goal is to create a company that glorifies God. Mark Jarvis recently was on the road promoting his "Freedom Crusade", although little information is available about what the tour promotes.

Bottom line: If a company promotes recruitment more than selling, consider that a premonition. The business style of Zurvita is similar to many other MLM schemes to include: AVON, Pampered Chef, and Mary Kay Cosmetics. Although Zurvita does spend a good amount of their webpage towards actually promoting their services, the vast majority focuses on recruiting.

Being a very popular MLM, Zurvita is ranked in the 83rd percentile (according to mlmrankings.com) among other Multi-Level Marketing companies. That makes them higher than 519 out of 622 competing organizations. Not bad for a newcomer to the game. However, if you are looking for a get-rich quick scheme, like they apparently advertise, do not buy that. Start your own business soley, without Zurvita. Companies like this scam good people out of their money daily, so please consider this decision long and hard before paying them that hefty upfront fee.

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  • Daniel Khalil7/19/2010

    Thank you for letting me know guest. Mark Jarvis does appear to have an unfortunate name that is identical to a fired Dell executive, but he is not the same. You are completely correct and I retract my attacks on him.

    The point of the article was to criticize Zurvita and the Multi-Level Marketing schematic in general, although I obviously was too busy attacking them to see that Mark is a different person.

  • Guest7/18/2010

    Perhaps I should retract the "moron" comment. After reading your profile I realize that you are a college sophomore and I recall my overzealous days of reporting at that age. But regardless, you should check the facts. When you say "If that sounds suspicious to you...", it should have sounded suspicious enough to to take the time to look Mark's profile, cross-reference it with Oracle, and very soon you would have seen pictures of two different men and discovered backgrounds that are vastly different. I knew Mark from Ameriplan and don't recall if he even graduated from high school , much less had a 14 year career with Oracle.
    In any case, do your HW or it will ruin your career

  • It's not the same Mark Jarvis, you moron7/18/2010

    I guess anyone can write for page. But the Mark Jarvis that worked for Dell and previously for Oracle is not the same man who left Ameriplan to join Zurvita. Yes they are both white Texans with the same name and involved in marketing. That's where the comparisons stop. If you would bother to do 5 minutes worth of research, you would know.You're worried about schemes but you deceive others into thinking you are legitimate and do your HW. You give internet reporters a terrible name

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