Lately I’ve had a couple of requests to revisit Speak Fusion. For these of you unfamiliar with the corporate, Speak Fusion is an MLM alternative tied to video communication.
It was outdated when BehindMLM first reviewed Speak Fusion in 2014…
Again in 2007, when Bob Reina launched Speak Fusion, YouTube was making a reputation for itself, having solely only recently been purchased out by Google in 2006.
Right now YouTube is a family title and the third-most visited web site on the web.
Earlier than we go any additional, I’m simply going to go forward and say it: paid video communication providers right this moment are totally redundant.
…and stays much more so right this moment.
That stated I used to be capable of match reader requests with advertising and marketing presenting Speak Fusion as a “reimagined” MLM alternative for 2025.
The screenshot above is from a February twenty fifth Speak Fusion advertising and marketing video from Tony Berry. Berry seems to market Speak Fusion as a part of “Plan B Revenue System”.
I’ve to say Berry’s declare Speak Fusion doing $100 million in retail gross sales in 2024 sounds fairly deceptive.
Speak Fusion as an MLM firm is lifeless and has been for a while. That is mirrored in Speak Fusion’s web site getting simply ~3200 month-to-month visits as of February 2025 (SimilarWeb).
Such to the extent Speak Fusion might need achieved $100 million in retail gross sales in 2024, I don’t assume it had something to do with its MLM alternative.
Supporting that is Speak Fusion’s final supplied Earnings Disclosure Assertion for 2024 (click on to enlarge):
As above, 59.16% of Speak Fusion associates didn’t earn something in 2024. 98.22% of associates earned lower than $2500 yearly.
In any occasion and in mild of its 2025 “reimagining”, right this moment BehindMLM revisits Speak Fusion for an up to date evaluation.
The Firm
Speak Fusion is owned and run by CEO Bob Reina (proper).
Previous to Speak Fusion Reina launched Journey Response (2001) and Money Card Worldwide (~2005).
Neither exist right this moment however each Journey Response and Money Card Worldwide had been MLM discounted journey opps.
Shortly after BehindMLM printed its 2014 Speak Fusion evaluation, the corporate started to collapse.
Prime ranked Speak Fusion associates had been terminated. This prompted a lawsuit by Minh Ho and Julie Campagna which, amongst different issues, alleged “Speak Fusion makes use of a pyramid fashion downline”.
A second RICO fraud lawsuit was filed by Dennis Grey in November 2015. Grey’s lawsuit spelled out the retail non-viability of Speak Fusion’s product providing;
Nearly all of Speak Fusion’s merchandise are individually obtainable free of charge (or at a lot decrease month-to-month charges than Speak Fusion) on the Web, by commonplace applications reminiscent of Skype, YouTube, and Google.
Moreover, nationally-recognized, long-standing manufacturers reminiscent of Adobe, Webex, Centrix, and Cisco supply a product much like Speak Fusion’s–with out the $250, $750, and $1,450 signup charges.
The supposed path to monetary prosperity by the Speak Fusion Alternative will not be based mostly on promoting videoconferencing expertise.
As a result of Speak Fusion’s costs and signup charges are terribly excessive, retail gross sales should not feasibly worthwhile.
Each lawsuits led to murky circumstances, with Ho, Campagna and Grey all rejoining Speak Fusion as promoters.
In 2017 BehindMLM revisited the lawsuits to look at whether or not Speak Fusion paid off high earners to drop their pyramid fraud allegations.
Aside from that the final eight years have been comparatively quiet for Speak Fusion. One would assume if Speak Fusion’s video communication merchandise had been ever going to take off it will’ve been throughout COVID-19.
That didn’t occur.
Speak Fusion’s Merchandise
Speak Fusion’s web site particulars a number of video communication providers.
These embrace:
- video e mail
- video newsletters
- dwell conferences
- video chat and
- sign-up varieties
Retail entry to Speak Fusion’s providers prices:
- $99 after which $10 a month for entry to video e mail (100 GB storage cap)
- $249 after which $25 a month for entry to “all merchandise” with a 250 GB storage cap)
- $1499 after which $50 a month for entry to “all merchandise” with “limitless storage”
Speak Fusion’s Compensation Plan
Speak Fusion’s compensation plan pays on service gross sales to retail prospects and recruited associates.
- sale of the $99 video e mail bundle = 40 PV
- sale of the $249 “all merchandise” bundle = 200 PV
- sale of the $1499 “all merchandise” bundle = 600 PV
PV stands for “Private Quantity”. PV represents commissionable gross sales quantity, versus the greenback quantity paid for Speak Fusion providers.
Speak Fusion Affiliate Ranks
There are seventeen affiliate ranks inside Speak Fusion’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Affiliate – join as a Speak Fusion promoter
- Group Builder – recruit two associates, positioned one on both facet of the binary crew, who both buy or make a retail service sale
- Group Chief – have two Group Builders in your downline, break up one on either side of the binary crew
- Gold – generate 500 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity
- 1 Star – generate 1000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity
- 2 Star – generate 2000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity
- 3 Star – generate 3000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity
- Diamond – generate 10,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two or extra 3 Stars or greater
- Double Diamond – generate 20,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Diamonds or greater
- Triple Diamond – generate 30,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Double Diamonds or greater
- Diamond Elite – generate 40,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Triple Diamonds or greater
- Blue Diamond – generate 50,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Diamond Elite’s or greater
- Grand Blue Diamond – generate 100,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Blue Diamonds or greater
- Royal Blue Diamond – generate 150,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and recruit two Grand Blue Diamonds or greater
- Presidential Blue Diamond – generate 250,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and preserve two personally recruited Grand Blue Diamonds or greater
- Ambassador Blue Diamond – generate 500,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and preserve two personally recruited Grand Blue Diamonds or greater
- Imperial Blue Diamond – generate 750,000 GV every week in weaker binary crew facet quantity and preserve two personally recruited Grand Blue Diamonds or greater
GV stands for “Group Quantity”. GV is PV generated by a Speak Fusion affiliate and their downline.
Notice that required recruited associates should be positioned on the identical facet of the binary crew (i.e. two of the required ranked affiliate on the identical facet).
Retail and Recruitment Commissions
Speak Fusion associates earn a ten% fee on service gross sales to personally referred retail prospects and recruited associates.
Residual Commissions
Speak Fusion pays residual commissions through a binary compensation construction.
A binary compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a binary crew, break up into two sides (left and proper):
The primary stage of the binary crew homes two positions. The second stage of the binary crew is generated by splitting these first two positions into one other two positions every (4 positions).
Subsequent ranges of the binary crew are generated as required, with every new stage housing twice as many positions because the earlier stage.
Positions within the binary crew are stuffed through direct and oblique recruitment of associates. Notice there isn’t any restrict to how deep a binary crew can develop.
On the finish of every week Speak Fusion tallies up service gross sales quantity on either side of the binary crew.
Residual commissions are paid as a share of 400 GV matched on either side of the binary crew:
- generate 40 to 399 GV in service gross sales and 5 to 24 GV in month-to-month subscription gross sales quantity = 10% residual fee fee
- generate 400 GV in service gross sales and 25 GV in month-to-month subscription gross sales quantity, or qualify at 2 Star or greater = 20% residual fee fee
Notice that required GV should be generated on each sides of the binary crew. Additionally notice Speak Fusion caps residual commissions at $150,000 every week:
- Group Builders by Diamond Elites can earn as much as $10,000 every week
- Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $15,000 every week
- Grand Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $20,000 every week
- Royal Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $25,000 every week
- Presidential Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $50,000 every week
- Ambassador Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $100,000 every week
- Imperial Blue Diamonds can earn as much as $150,000 every week
As soon as paid out on quantity is flushed. Leftover quantity carries over into the next week.
Matching Bonus
Speak Fusion pays a Matching Bonus through a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the high of a unilevel crew, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned instantly beneath them (stage 1):
If any stage 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel crew.
If any stage 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Speak Fusion caps the Matching Bonus at ten unilevel crew ranges.
The Matching Bonus is paid out as a share of residual commissions earned throughout these ten ranges based mostly on rank:
- Golds by 3 Stars earn a ten% match on stage 1 (personally recruited associates)
- Diamonds by Diamond Elites earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 and three
- Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to 4
- Grand Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to five
- Royal Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to six
- Presidential Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to 7
- Ambassador Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1 and 5% on ranges 2 to eight
- Imperial Blue Diamonds earn a ten% match on stage 1, 5% on ranges 2 to eight and a couple of.5% on ranges 9 and 10
Notice Group Builder by 3 Stars can solely earn as much as $500 every week by the Matching Bonus.
Automotive Bonus
Speak Fusion rewards Diamond and better ranked associates with a $1000 a month Automotive Bonus.
Keep the rank of Diamond or greater for 4 consecutive weeks so as to obtain the $1,000 USD automobile bonus in the direction of the fee of a base mannequin Iridium Silver C Class Mercedes-Benz, as much as the total worth of the automobile or a 36 month lease time period, whichever comes first.
5 Star Holidays
Speak Fusion’s compensation plan references “5 Star Holidays”;
From tropical getaways to the world’s most extravagant cities, we reward arduous work with holidays to unique areas, breathtaking locations, and elite galas.
These unforgettable, limited-time promotions for high performers are the proper alternative for folks to embrace their desires and share inspiring motivation with high leaders.
Particular data, together with qualification standards, will not be supplied.
Becoming a member of Speak Fusion
Speak Fusion fails to reveal affiliate charges on its web site or in its compensation documentation.
Speak Fusion Conclusion
On the danger of overly simplifying Speak Fusion’s “reimagining”, I see a bunch of boomers wetting themselves over… video e mail.
Placing apart video e mail was a part of Speak Fusion’s providing in 2014, eleven years in the past, so far as I can inform that is only a HTML e mail template with a streamed video embed.
Any e mail consumer with HTML performance will have the ability to do that. Granted you may not have a template however… do you really want one?
Speak Fusions’ lack of ability to carve out a sustainable retail subscriber market suggests no.
To actually drive residence simply how old-fashioned Speak Fusion’s “video” providers are, that is from the corporate’s web site right this moment;
Home windows Vista? Web Explorer? DSL??? And Adobe Flash Participant? That was discontinued on the finish of 2020 outdoors of China and for non-enterprise customers.
Speak Fusion might be an Adobe Flash enterprise consumer however nonetheless, they’re counting on an in any other case lifeless platform. Fashionable browsers don’t even play Flash content material and haven’t for years.
Put merely, nothing a lot appears to have modified in Speak Fusion over the previous decade. In comparison with what BehindMLM reviewed in 2014, Speak Fusion truly pays out much less.
Right now there’s no point out of extra binary crew positions, Rank Achievement Bonuses or Management Swimming pools in Speak Fusion’s compensation documentation.
So if Speak Fusion’s reimagined “video e mail” marketing campaign is a boatload of gaslight advertising and marketing, what is truly being marketed?
To cite Dennis Grey in his 2015 filed lawsuit;
Nearly all of Speak Fusion’s merchandise are individually obtainable free of charge (or at a lot decrease month-to-month charges than Speak Fusion) on the Web, by commonplace applications reminiscent of Skype, YouTube, and Google.
Moreover, nationally-recognized, long-standing manufacturers reminiscent of Adobe, Webex, Centrix, and Cisco supply a product much like Speak Fusion’s–with out the $250, $750, and $1,450 signup charges.
The supposed path to monetary prosperity by the Speak Fusion Alternative will not be based mostly on promoting videoconferencing expertise.
As a result of Speak Fusion’s costs and signup charges are terribly excessive, retail gross sales should not feasibly worthwhile.
With little-to-no title recognition, Speak Fusion Associates’ jobs are made much more tough of their try and earn significant gross sales commissions.
Most of the supposed rivals of Speak Fusion, within the space of enterprise videoconferencing, have by no means even heard of the corporate.
This lack of title recognition precludes Associates from promoting Speak Fusion’s services to bigger enterprise, particularly ones that might afford the prohibitively costly $1,499 Professional-Package deal signup charge.
As such, Associates have little (if any) real probability of promoting the merchandise at retail.
As an alternative of promoting its overpriced video merchandise to endusers, Speak Fusion generates massive sums of cash within the following two methods:
First, present Associates’ inside consumption of services, and secondly, the recruitment of recent Associates (who pay the aforementioned signup charges [between $250 and $1,499] and month-to-month storage charges [between $35 and $215] to take part within the Speak Fusion Alternative).
With their “enterprise alternative” inherently based mostly on Associates endlessly pursuing to recruit new Associates — Speak Fusion does little to encourage or reward retail gross sales.
Certainly, the compensation paid to Associates is nearly altogether unrelated to retail gross sales.
Actually, new Associates are particularly instructed to not discuss Speak Fusion’s merchandise’ “features” and “options,” and as a substitute give attention to emphasizing the “wealth constructing” that the Speak Fusion Alternative presents.
Nearly all of Speak Fusion’s MLM prospects are and all the time have been its affiliate promoters.
In that sense Speak Fusion’s communication platform has a use-case in getting used to market Speak Fusion itself. If for no different purpose than at that time, a Speak Fusion promoter has already paid for an outdated providing that was left behind years in the past.
To wrap up, that is from BehindMLM’s unique Speak Fusion evaluation;
Paid video communication providers right this moment are totally redundant.
I imply actually, $125 plus $20 a month ($365 yearly) for video e mail? Is that this some type of joke?
Fairly clearly, no person is paying Speak Fusion 1000’s of {dollars} for video communication providers. Contemplating what’s obtainable right this moment free of charge on this area of interest, not even by an extended shot.
Was true again then and stays true now. Method with warning.