What happened to Youngevity?

Lisa's company was called Anthology.

She was hired as a brand ambassador for Youngevity.

Youngevity is a direct seller of essential oils. It appears that Youngevity might have been attempting to branch out into the memory keep category.

The essential oil business is fine.

It doesn't appear that Lisa's business ever got any traction.

Somewhere she partnered with Heritage makers too. There's a very sloppy low content video on YouTube about her latest kit. Basically as usual, it's more "you are going to love this because it has my name on it."

Gag.

I'm a (lapsed) Youngevity consultant who joined 95% to sell "Anthology by Lisa Bearnson." I loved the products and ordered maybe 10-12 things for myself. They're all great quality and, at my wholesale price, a good deal.

My 2 holdups in selling much of it were these:

1. The prices seemed high, I think, when customers compared them to all the 'deals' out there. The quality was worth it and the idea of providing a storage solution with each item was cool, but I'm sure added to the cost. Could that component have been eliminated?

2. I was with Memory Works for YEARS and absolutely loved it. I only want to sell online and reach out to customers online; MW made that super easy. Youngevity/Anthology did not. They tried ... they really really tried but there were too many hoops to jump through, imho. I give huge credit to Lisa Bearnson, Wendy McGee, et al. I think they're still trying but it seems an uphill battle (though admittedly I've mostly disengaged).

They call Youngevity "the Amazon of direct selling." That have a TON of other products, not just essential oils. (Could you be thinking of Young Living?) YGY has makeup, food, jewelry, Heritage Makers digital scrapbooking, Our Memories for Life paper scrapping, pet products, and more. There was already an ordering infrastructure in place that wasn't super conducive to home parties, which is how scrapbook products tend to be sold. There were no hostess gifts or compensation built in - so we the consultants had to come up with ways to incentivize party hostesses - out of our own pockets, which takes away from any profit we might make.

It's funny because I hadn't even thought about Youngevity in a while, then I was updating my passwords list this weekend by logging in to all my sites to make sure logins still worked. YGY is one that I logged into, and it got me to wondering if I should try it again. Last night, I received the first email in probably 6 months inquiring about being a consultant, then come here to see this thread. Is the Universe trying to send me a message? LOL

I ran into her at Ikea last year, pointed her out to hubby with no intention of speaking to her and he called her over...she tried to recruit me saying she didn't think she had reps in my area.

Hello Journeyfan I am glad to see your name. I have think about you every so often and wonder what you are up to!!