The system does all the work lie that Tim Darnell of Advantage Conferences and numerous other MLM scammers have promoted is how the top of pyramid promoters lure in their innocent victims. How did that work out for Ronnie and his desperate downline......
Ronnie Branch Here is a interesting Post from Harold Bryant he is a good leader in this company
1. A company, organization or entity that makes CLAIMS with no intention of fulfilling those claims.
2. A company, organization or entity that has no morals or integrity and it’s primary ‘mission’ is financial gain with no possible return to it’s clients.
3. A company, organization or entity with no known products or services.
Attempting my best here to be unbiased, I nor anyone else can legitimately say that The Berry Tree is a scam.
(1) The Berry Tree has made no CLAIMS of income. It does not state on the site that there is a guaranteed amount of income that you’ll receive in a certain amount of time.
(2) Being that I’ve talked to the owners and creators of The Berry Tree (face to face), I can honestly say that MORALS & INTEGRITY stands out more than any other network marketing company or entity I’ve ever dealt with. It was a pleasure to meet Art & Rob Phelps (brothers), Bob & Blair Bremner (father & son) and many other executives of the company in Orlando, Florida at the 2007 Convention.
(3) Being that I receive products on a monthly bases and have personally visited the Nutronix/Berry Tree headquarters in Mechanicsville, VA, it would be an outright lie for anyone to say that The Berry Tree or Nutronix International don’t have legitimate products. Why did I go there? Because I like to know who I’m working with and since the headquarters is only 120 miles from me it was not an expensive trip. Bob Bremner (one of the owners of Nutronix International) gave me a personal tour of the building. I even got ‘toured’ through the shipping/receiving area where I visually saw REAL PEOPLE packaging REAL PRODUCTS to be shipped out (April 1st 2007).
Of course The Berry Tree is a division of Nutronix International. They ship their products from the same location (Mechanicsville, Va) as mentioned. They both are helping people in over 60 countries around the world. I’ve introduced people to their products and have received some excellent feed back on those products. Although they are not allowed to make claims of curing any disease, many of their members would love to make those claims for them.
With all of that being said, in the past I’ve also worked with other companies in the Health & Wellness field like Melaleuca and Shaklee, just to name a few. Honestly speaking, those 2 companies really had EXCELLENT products as well. However, I joined those businesses because I wanted to help people AND get paid a decent income at the same time. The latter did not happen. In my honest opinion, if you want a spot in the Health and Wellness Home Business Arena, there’s no other company online or offline that can even come close to the compensation plan of The Berry Tree. If money is not an issue for you, then go join Shaklee or Melaleuca. But let it be known that you’ll have to convince your prospects to convert their entire household to Shaklee or Melaleuca products which are very good but outrageously expensive.
Below are statements that are shown to my prospects before they even get to my signup page:
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1. You will earn credits for just being a member in our program. Once you reach the defined amount of credits you will begin to earn money MONTHLY from every membership order in the ENTIRE Company (Not just members in your downline).
2. A small portion of your monthly membership fee goes toward guaranteed advertising. This is advertising done by the company on your behalf. Within a few months you will begin to see members placed into your downline with no effort on your part.
Note: The above mentioned incentives (credits and advertising) are a part of your membership. These incentives are earned by both passive members and active members. However, as you’ll soon learn in our compensation plan, the members who are referring others to the program will have the potential to earn MORE money and also they will have the potential to earn money FASTER than ‘passive’ members.
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That info is shown once a prospect begins the tour of my website. If anyone would like to see where this message is then they can go to the page below and follow the ‘Quick Tour’ link. I’m not sure if this is allowed here on ripoffreport.com but at least you will see that we are not ripping people off. There is no webform to fill out. I’m giving you direct passage to bypass my webform so that you can read and listen to exactly how The Berry Tree works. You can take that info and signup below the person that originally referred you or not at all. This is just to give you the facts:
http://quickstarttowealth.com/members/harold/thanks
So why are people crying ‘Berry Tree Ripoff’?
The answer to that question is quite obvious. This is not to put the blame on any Berry Tree members or any specific groups of people. But it is a fact that many members do not follow up with their new signups who are just joining their organization. These new signups have NO IDEA what to do or how to become more ‘involved’ with the program.
When those newbies don’t get the attention that they need or have no idea what’s going on then they say, ‘I’ve been in for 2 months and I haven’t made a dime!’ Well, they don’t know that they’ve already accumulated 2 BMCs (1 upon signup & 1 every 2 months) which is bringing them closer to earning on EVERY monthly membership order in the entire company! There’s no guarantee that you’ll get 1, 2 or 3 guaranteed signups within your first month or even your second month. However, there IS a guarantee that you WILL earn those Berry Member Credits just by remaining a member. BMCs are a powerful part of The Berry Tree’s Compensation Plan but yet most newbies don’t even understand how they work, not to mention how many they’ve accumulated.
Another reason that some current members are not as successful as others is that they refuse to learn how to market the products which is the main part of the program. These very few members joined The Berry Tree and began marketing their affiliate links online and offline. This was a bad move. Why? Because people (prospects) who are interested in the opportunity CAN NOT contact the owner of that affiliate site. There’s no lead capture form, no sponsor email address and no telephone number for prospects to call. Again, this is where they are totally lost and have refused to check into all of the services that are listed in their Automatic Builder backoffice. Instead of marketing their affiliate sites they should be marketing a lead capture page. I’ve even gone to the extent of creating capture pages for my team to use as an additional option. This is in addition to the abundance of resources that the company has already in place upon signup.
Below is information also that I copied and pasted from my ‘Quick Tour’ product page where I explain what is included in the $55.95 charge… Product, shipping/handling, Customer/Tech Support, Website/Hosting, GUARANTEED ADVERTISING:
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What Is GUARANTEED ADVERTISING?
Within the next few months of your membership with The Berry Tree you’ll begin to see members fall into your downline through the company’s advertising efforts which is included with your membership.
Therefore, you DO NOT have to ADVERTISE the O2 Berry Product or The Berry Tree Opportunity if you are willing to be patient by waiting on the company’s efforts and spillover from your upline. However, keep in mind that this DOES NOT mean that you will immediately be in profit while allowing the company and your upline to do ALL of the work for you. Again, the members who are actively promoting The Berry Tree Opportunity will earn money much faster than the members depending on the guaranteed advertising alone.
Furthermore, Guaranteed Advertising is done by ‘Cost Per Acquisition’ (CPA). This means that there is a price paid for each new member brought into your downline. For example… Let’s say that $11 from your monthly membership is going toward guaranteed advertising. It may cost the company $1,000 to get 30 members to take the free trial. This means that the CPA is $33.33. This also means that with your $11 (taken from your monthly membership fee), it would take you approximately 3 months to receive one (1) enrollee through the guaranteed advertising. This is ONLY an example of how ‘CPA’ works.
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Now as far as the ‘Failing’ of the guaranteed advertising is concerned… When the Berry Tree launched we all had an 8×3 matrix. When the company sponsored someone and placed that person in the next available position that person could only benefit 2 other members (because of the 3 levels). There simply was not enough company sponsored signups to accommodate EVERYONE in the program. The Berry Tree recognized this and re-structured the comp plan. We now have a 2×12 matrix where a member can potentially earn 10 times the income as before. Furthermore, with the 2×12 matrix, even if someone is placed on your level 9 this person will benefit 8 other members. With this huge change in the comp plan, guaranteed advertising will work much faster, spillover is more likely and the members who stayed with us are glad they did. My point here is that the company has ALL of the qualities of a good company and they’ve proved it by putting in the extra hours to make sure that we members have the best mlm program on the net.
The part that amazes me most is that people claiming that The Berry Tree is a ripoff are the ones who have obviously never come to any conference calls, training calls, etc. I know this because if they would have been there then they would have had the perfect opportunity to ask questions and get answers. Again, The Berry Tree has never promised anyone that they would earn a certain amount is a given time. This is a real home business and I look at the guaranteed advertising as a bonus that 99.9% of the other companies don’t do. This is a Network Marketing company and networking is about introducing products to others, PERIOD. The marketing tools in The Berry Tree are simply amazing. They even have leads that members can purchase for faster growth. These are leads that have already gone to that members ‘Berry Tree free trial’ site. They also have a lead source in place where the leads have already been pre-called for them. Anyone not having success in The Berry Tree and calling it a ripoff is simply someone looking for a ‘get rich quick scheme’ which The Berry Tree is not. It’s a real home business which takes time to build. I’m living proof that once you start building it builds fast. But you only can build with people who take the time to understand how the program works.
Bottom line…
People will complain about Walmart being too crowed even though Walmart has (in general) the best prices on retail products. People will complain about gas prices even though there are so many ways to earn an additional income to cover those fuel expenses. People will complain about everything on the Internet although they would cry like a baby if the government took the Internet away. The Berry Tree is an EXCELLENT income opportunity but if you don’t use it correctly AND learn all of the details then you might also unjustly call it a Ripoff.
Learn All there is to know about The Berry Tree!
I joined The Berry Tree and Nutronix International on February 24th, 2007. I was a full time truck driver at the time. I worked the business for about a year before I was able to retire from the trucking industry. As of March 1st, 2008 I now work for MYSELF. Even though my commute to work was only about 12 miles, I’m now able to commute to work in about 12 STEPS (down the hall into my office).
I think that ripoffreport.com is an excellent site. We all can expose TRUE scammers here. But wouldn’t it be better to expose the companies that are taking your money and closing their doors the next day? Or exposing the ones who are intentionally robbing people with no regard? It’s a shame to see people get misinformed about an opportunity that could really change their lives for the better.
I hope this rebuttal helps people in making a decision about The Berry Tree. It was certainly my pleasure to write this ‘insider’ report. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any additional questions about this opportunity.
Sincerely,
Harold Bryant
Ronnie Branch Hey Ryan,
Your making a big mistake not adding Dani Johnson with your training. You can have great leverage and watch it all fall apart if your now growing a Army of Leaders.
Just my personal opinion but I’ve seen great marketers I wont mention names get many but their conversion is not good and or it falls apart fast.
Why is that? It is because they do not step up and become a leader themself and coordinate things as a leader should. You get the idea…
Why saturate your good name and not be able to properly lead them to success? Just my thoughts on it and yes I think what your doing is good but to be truly great Dani is where it’s at.
As for the company Ryan nobody is perfect and I think that is quite unfair on your behalf to pass judgement and lead folks to think one situation when truly the Berry Tree has changed many lives…
Goto the http://berrytreenews.com/ and click testimonials and u know what they all have in common Ryan?
THEY ARE POSITIVE!
Not saying your not, perhaps just focused in another direction I respect that but the outcome of success comes from positive thinking. If you manifest your thoughts here and I come back to see a large list of comments of people running in every direction. I had to come by to help with crowd control.
The owners are not deceptive or irresponsible or Nutronix would not be a almost 10 year debt free company.
The berry tree is a little baby that needs time to condition. Sure there are challenges and not all will be happy but I will say they are committed to helping folks become successful. They have put a lot of time and energy in their new pay plan to ensure its done right so you as the distributor are happy.
Anyways take care…
Ronnie Branch
“Homeless Rebel”
Ronnie Branch

Well again by saying that tells me we can focus on the negative feelings within or we can see what they are doing for us in the future…
What I look for is what they are doing in the future if nothing they don’t get my support simply put regardless of what I make I’m nobody’s puppet or anybody’s employee that is the attitude of a leader and handling his business.
I truly believe in their leadership because of the things I have seen them do in the past & what I see for the future…
I can’t speak for Bt/Nutronix since They do not tell me anything but I am a good judge of character… It is my belief they did the things they did through sheer enthusiasm but realized it had some flaws… It doesn’t mean we pass judgement however if their intentions are good ones.
The way I look at it is what does a company do after they seen some flaws? That is the question we must consider carefully… From the time they have invested and dedication to ensuring the little guys have a place to earn from the entire company is very exciting. They have weekly training calls and berry tree webinar’s and the upcoming convention this being our 3rd tells me they are committed to helping this company move forward…
Folks can pass judgement or not but just remember it is the berry tree that has vested interest in doing what the majority of MLM’s will not do for you.
Personally I am happy for as long as they are committed to improving and making the berry tree the best it can be.
From the actions I’ve seen it clearly shows that and that is what matters the most for the future of the company.
Ronnie Branch
“Homeless Rebel”
Ronnie Branch

Rome was not built in a day Ryan…
Folks often wonder why money doesn’t fall from the sky and I say welcome to the World of Life & The Internet lol
I’m living proof that if one is willing to step up he or she can become successful…
No worries about bad feelings…I love everybody always because I live in Christ and I hope you do to. This has always empowered me to stand firm.
Sometimes Ryan you need to look into people and company’s more aside from the traditional methods you use when making considerations…
For example you should pray about things & interview success stories not just drag on the drama and bad…
A fair judge looks from both angles not just one and keeps a closed mind. A great leader always keeps all things in consideration just as I have answered and satisfied some peoples questions to some degree. I cannot speak for Nutronix or Berry tree but I know Gary fairly well and He has known Art for several years.
Anyways I’m looking forward to seeing others become successful in the Berry Tree.
Take a easy..
Ronnie Branch
“Homeless Rebel”
Richard

Hello Ronnie,
I would like to address several comments that you made,
Quote “1) The Berry Tree has made no CLAIMS of income. It does not state on the site that there is a guaranteed amount of income that you’ll receive in a certain amount of time.”
You said that you were at the Orlando convention as I was, did you take a day off as I know I was there from the beginning to the end. Matt stood on the stage and presented a chart showing what the Beery Tree would bring you in 2 to 3 years as an investment compared to 3 other investment plans including stocks and bank interest. The chart showed that in 2 to 3 years your return would be $1336.00 per month. I surly think that this is projecting a guarantee of some sort. The chart showed that it would take from 8 to 66 years to reach the same income with similar investments in the stock market or interest baring bank accounts.
quote “Why should a company say something and be held to it when one does not? Now I can’t speak for the management it would not be in my place but common sense tells me this.”
This statement just boggles my mind. Can I ask what are you thinking, are you saying that it is OK for any company anywhere to not back what they are saying. That they can mislead and misrepresent at any time? And also never be held accountable? Please you have to be kidding me.
Quote “Do you expect a startup company backed by a 9 year debt free company to have it right the first go? Or are you kidding yourself?”
Well the answer to that is, if the company was not backed by a 9 year old company I would expect some corrections having to be made, but with the experience coming from Nutronix and there leadership I would certainly expect a lot less turmoil than what has happened. The major thing is that all of my life I have taken full responsibly for ever thing that I have done and never passed it on to anyone else. What the Beery Tree has done is made mistakes and have made the members pay for them, If The Berry Tree backed by Nutronix a 9 year old debt free company had to pay for there own mistakes then they would not make as many.
I would also like to offer that I have been married for 31 years to the same woman and we have been together for 33 years and have 5 children whom I have instilled the same morals of honesty in that I process. On another note I was born on a farm and lived in logging camps and on a farm for the 1st 12 years of my life. I was brought up by hard working honest people that would never deceive or cheat anyone and they installed all of the morality and honesty in me that I have carried my whole life and that far surpasses any videos ever put on you tube or anywhere else. Do I want wealth and to take care of my family? The answer is yes but not if means having to deceive or cheat any other person on this planet.
Regardless of what you say this matrix will not keep the passive members in. There is no way someone will continue to pay $55 a month with the hopes of making $12 from the matrix after there are 14 members in their tree. And 20 months from now to receive 10 BMC’s so that they can receive the bronze pool money.
In the 14 months that I have been in the Berry Tree I have received 1 person from the company and now I hear the same thing that they are on their way, I have been hearing this for 12 of the 14 months. Now it’s time for the company to “show me the money” as the saying goes. I have already shown what I will do, now it’s there turn to step up to the plate and deliver as promised.