From: bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: BARLEYGREEN
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:07:56 GMT

Another MLM company that I have never seen mentioned in alt.b.m-l is
American Image Marketing (AIM). They market (very successfully) a 
line of health-food products. They have been in business for 10 years
now and seem to be doing very well. They operate in US, Canada, Japan,
Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and probably anywhere else, too.

Their most famous product is BARLEYGREEN, which is a powder made from
the dried juice of young barley plants, cut down when they are about
18 inches high. This product contains a good combination of vitamins,
minerals, and enzymes, and is pH balanced and very nutritional. It
is a food product, and doesn't claim to be anything else, although
the marketing promotes it (IMO) as a miracle food, more or less, but in
a legal way, i.e. of not actually making any miraculous claims. However,
if people do read more into their claims than are actually stated,
the product is 100% guaranteed money-back, so there is no intent to
mislead. 

The marketing of AIM products is based upon what they call the
"Healthy Cell Concept". They believe that healthy cells produce 
healthy bodies, and BARLEYGREEN is food for the cells. Skeptics and
cynics might imagine the real marketing concept is the "Healthy Sell
Concept", whereby you sell the lifestyle of healthy, vitamin-taking,
energetic, free enterprise entrepreneurial wealth-generation, but
there are enough people doing this now that _REALLY_DO_BELIEVE_ that
I do not consider it a scam.

Another leading product they have is called Herbal Fiberblend, which
is a mixture of various herbs and other stuff )like crushed nut 
shells. This product is very VERY good at cleaning you out from
the inside, as well as keeping down your appetite so you don't
eat so much, and it is mentioned in promotional literature that a
diet high in fibre is recommended for reducing one's risk of getting
certain cancers, such as stomach, colin, etc.

Other products include ginko, bee propolis, Willard's Water, and 
others. They have a line of natural cosmetics called Mayfine.

I have researched the business plan, and it is an honest MLM (as 
opposed to an illegal pyramid. It is quite similar to Amway but
not the same. They use Marketer, Supervisor, Director, and jewel 
symbols for higher levels, i.e. Blue Diamonds, Royal Emeralds,
and Star Sapphires. Commissions and royalty payments are not the
same as Amway.

I have also seen some personal testimonials of people who use
BARLEYGREEN, including a good friend and my own mother. They
continue to rave about it after more than a year. Some other
friends of mine are in the business and are making some money...
I can't say how much because I do not know. I have become a
distributor myself, and I am taking BARLEYGREEN daily. I hesitate
to mention this because I don't like to use the net to attract 
business. However I did mention it for honesty's sake, since
this post might look like an advertisement. But really, folks,
I just wanted Jon Noring to add this company to his FAQ list (or
whatever it is called). It seemed strange to me that no one had
mentioned BARLEYGREEN before in this group.
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