The Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan

What You Must See and What You Have to Know

This is easy. The Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan is a simple 2×2 Cycling matrix, right?

No, in fact 2×2 matrix is a complete misrepresentation as you will learn and come to appreciate by the end of this article.

Club Sea Breeze went “LIVE” April 5th, 2010 and at the time of this revision, August 26^th, 2010 important enhancements were added to the compensation plan.

And to be clear, the primary reason this article is even relevant is the incredible market appeal, acceptance and value of the CSB Product Suite. Which in and of itself is a breath of fresh air in the network marketing industry when the product isn’t just the excuse for an income opportunity.

There’s a huge “buzz” surrounding the “Panel Revolution”, the patent pending CSB linear compensation model, that could inadequately be described as a follow-me, completely sponsor directed, sponsor specified, but sponsorship retained, independent placements and qualifiers, multiple earned Additional Profit Centers, GPT (get paid today), residual income generating, cycler, but that is getting ahead of ourselves.

Actually, the Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan has 7 components, of which the Sales Panel is but a part thereof.

So to begin, the Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan has these seven (7) component parts:

• Personal Retail Sales Commission $50 on the 3-year $369 Deluxe Travel Membership and $250 on the $569, Premier Lifetime Travel Membership
• Sales Panel Overrides of $250 or $500 depending upon 1 or 2 qualifiers
• Sponsor Over Ride, Sales Panel Cycling Bonus $250/cycled position
• Fast Start Bonuses: $50 or $100
• Leadership Awards & Residual Bonus Pool
• Company Growth Achievement Drawings
• Residual, Money Manager commissions

Because all components of the CSB Compensation Plan are inter-related and inter-dependant, in the discussion and description of each, some definitions will be offered when they arise.

Initially we need to address some of these definitions:

Club Sea Breeze Members (CSB-M) Deluxe and Premier Travel Memberships

A CSB Deluxe Member has purchased the 3-Year Travel Membership from a CSB-Associate and desires the benefits of membership only and elects not to become a CSB-Associate, aka a Deluxe Retail Sale.

A CSB Premier Member has purchased the Lifetime Travel Membership from a CSB-Associate and desires the benefits of membership only and elects not to become a CSB-Associate, aka a Premier Retail Sale.

Every retail sale, Deluxe or Premier has a profit center linked to it and when a member opts for membership only, the profit center linked to their retail sale then becomes an Additional Profit Center (APC) for the CSB-A who sold it.

Making retail sales is also the process of earning additional profit centers, and/or activating a current Associate-ship.

Consistent with FTC rules and regulations, you can not buy additional positions or profit centers, they have to be earned via retail sales.

Club Sea Breeze Associates, CSB-A, Associate, Silver and Gold Associates

A CSB-A is someone who wants to work and share Club Sea Breeze as a business opportunity. This person becomes a CSB-Associate by paying the $24.95 monthly fee for the Club Sea Breeze Marketing System the replicated web sites, hosting of those sites, marketing tools, personal sales assistant, etc afforded to every CSB-Associate.

In order to activate their Associate-ship and be placed onto the Sales Panel, the CSB-Associate either purchases a Deluxe Membership at $369 or goes out and makes a Deluxe Retail Sale at $369 and activates the APC that specific retail sale generated and then becomes a Silver Qualified Associate.

If the Associate purchases a Premier Membership at $569 or goes out and makes a Premier Retail Sale at $569 and activates the APC that specific retail sale generated and they then become a Gold Qualified Associate.

It is critical to understanding the compensation plan to understand that each and every retail sale in CSB is linked to a profit center (PC) and only at purchase can a PC be separated from the membership.

And at first it may be confusing that there are two levels of membership, just Associates, Silver (SQA) and Gold Qualified Associates (GQA), and two separate web-sites, one to support retail sales and customers and another to support associates and their businesses, but these address critical compliance issues separating product from opportunity and create an environment wherein members can buy and avail themselves of the product without automatically being thrown into the opportunity also as associates.

It is refreshing to have a company looking so far ahead, proactively structuring itself for long term compliance, stability, sustainability and viability.

Personal Retail Sales Commission

Make a retail sale of a Deluxe Membership at $369 and as the selling associate you earn a $50 sales commission, plus an Additional Profit Center, APC

Make a retail sale of a Premier Membership at $569 and as the selling associate you earn a $250 sales commission and the APC.

Additionally, herein lies the critical distinction between Silver Qualified and Gold Qualified Associates.  SQA’s earn $50 on both Deluxe and Premier Membership sales.  GQA’s earn $50 on Deluxe sales, $250 on Premier Sales AND $200 on Premier Sales by any Silver Qualified Associates in their down-line, either their front-line SQA’s or when they are the first GQA up-line from the SQA making the Premier Membership Sale.

An APC is earned when a CSB associate makes a retail sale and the PC is separated from the membership and immediately activated onto a Sales Panel as directed by the CSB Associate that earned the APC per his/her Panel Settings (Back Office Function) at the time of placement.

This is getting ahead of ourselves, but this is part of the incredible built-in flexibility Associates have within the CSB Comp Plan.

The ClubSea Breeze Sales Panel

The Club Sea Breeze Sales Panel is not the traditional 2×2 top down cycling matrix employed by competing companies like LGN-Prosperity and Pyxism, it is more similar to the inverted 2×2 cycling matrix, which some other companies are employing like TVI-Express, Diamond Holiday Travel, and Royal Cruise Matrix, however all three of these companies employ multiple, 2×3 matrices, while CSB uses a single cycler.

In the traditional 2×2 top down matrix you will find yourself at the top and you are charged with finding 2 who find 2 (each). In a brand new matrix there is only one person, you. In a completely filled matrix, there are 7. And by various means, passive and active, you, your down-line and/or your up-line are responsible for filling all 6 positions to create a cycle.

In the CSB Sales Panel there are 7 total positions, arranged in order of entry to the panel, left to right, however unlike the aforementioned 2×2 cycler, the 1^st 3 of the total 7 positions are ALWAYS filled so that when you enter a panel it is always into positions 4, 5, 6 or 7 into the first available position.

If it is a brand new panel, then you are the first to enter and you will enter into the left most open position, which is position #4. On EVERY panel, again, Positions 1, 2 & 3 are always filled, always. These other CSB-A’s are usually, but not always associated to you or your sponsor, however, in every case your mutual goal with these other associates is to fill the positions, 4, 5, 6, & 7.

So, if you are first on, there are a total of 4 positions filled out of a possible 7 and at that time, all 4 associates, which includes you, are actively working to fill the 3 remaining positions. When an associate fills the next available spot, there will then be 5 working to fill 2, then 6 to fill 1 and when the 7th and final position is filled, the panel will re-order itself so that the most qualified associate moves to position #1, cycles off for either $250 or $500 and the remaining 6 associates, are also re-ordered based upon number of qualifiers and prior position and are split into two new panels, 3 associates to each panel, the associates in (re-ordered) positions #2, #4 & #6 to one new panel and the associates in (re-ordered) positions #3, #5 & #7 to the other new panel and 4 new empty positions #4, 5, 6 & 7 added to each to form two new Sales Panels.

Regardless of which position you enter the Panel, 4, 5, 6 or 7, when it fills and splits you always move up to either the #1,#2 or #3 position on the new panel.

The other exciting point that should not be missed here is that every new Panel you enter already has 3 positions filled and only 4 need to be filled before the Panel is completed, reordered and a cycle is generated and someone gets paid! Think about that. Especially if you are or have been involved in an opportunity with a matrix based comp plan, 4 positions filled and other associates and you working to fill four positions creates a cycle and someone gets paid.

Something else that should not be missed, every time you enter a CSB Panel the maximum number of positions that have to fill before you cycle out and get paid is 11 and the minimum is 2.

So next let’s talk about how that happens. As discussed, on a brand new Sales Panel there are 4 open positions and when you enter the panel in this case you are the first onto the panel, placed into Position #4 and consequently, there are only three positions left to fill on the Panel. And this is where it starts to get exciting because there are five (5) ways to fill those three positions.

5 Ways to Fill 3 Positions

1. You can Personally Sponsor someone to fill a position
2. Someone on your Panel can personally sponsor someone to fill a position
3. Someone in your up-line or an up-line of someone on your Panel can place a “Spill-Over” associate or APC into a position on your Panel.
4. An Associate who cycles their own Panel always follows their sponsor to their sponsors current Panel to fill the first available position, and in fact the same person can “Follow-Me” multiple times to the same Panel b/c they will always follow their sponsor, whether that be you or one of the other associates on the Panel and their personally sponsored associates.
5. You or one of the associates on the Panel can earn and place an APC onto the Panel.

Once on your CSB Panel you do need at least one qualifier to cycle off for $250, however cycling is not guaranteed with one qualifier. Two qualifiers insures cycling and a $500 personal cycling bonus. It is impossible to cycle the Sales Panel with no qualifiers. So how do you get qualifiers?

5 Ways to Get Qualified

1. When you Personally Sponsor someone and they are placed onto your current Panel, they can also become a qualifier for you for that Panel
2. When your down-line directly under your position on the Panel already have 2 qualifiers, the system starts to look up in a direct line for the next position that needs a qualifier and in this way, qualifiers can Spill-Up to your position on the Panel. Please note, that no actual position is filled in this instance, but a qualifier will appear under your username as spill-over or spill-up.
3. Spill-Over Placement does fill a position on your Panel and can also provide you with a qualifier and this occurs whenever your up-line sponsors a new associate they have the option of placing that associate onto any Panel in their down-line. This has the great benefit of helping down-line with qualifier(s) and placements, while at the same time not relinquishing sponsorship, which is very important because of the next way to gain a qualifier, “Follow-me”.
4. “Follow-me” is a powerful feature of the compensation plan. When your primary PC cycles the Panel you will always follow your sponsor to their current Panel into the first available position. So then will every associate you personally sponsor and every APC you earn, follow you to your current Panel and occupy the first available position. Additionally these associates and APCs can act as qualifiers whenever they follow to your Panel.
5. APC’s can qualify your position on the Panel through “Follow Me” as just described and can also qualify your position when/if you place them onto your Panel, where they can both fill an available position and qualify your position currently on that Panel.

By now three (3) very important points are probably becoming very clear.

• First, there is only ONE (1) Club Sea Breeze Sales Panel, not multiple matrices to cycle.
• Secondly, each new CSB Sales Panel begins with only 4 positions left to fill and all associates on the Panel working towards filling those 4 spots via any one of 5 different ways.
• Third, not only are there 5 ways to fill 4 spots, there are 5 ways to qualify your own position to maximize your personal cycling bonus and to help you jump those with less qualifiers and prevent your position from being jumped.

Final question to address with regard to the Sales Panel is what happens when Position #7 fills?

When #7 fills, the computer automatically and immediately reorders the Panel based upon a very simple priority metric for qualification.

Panel Qualification and Splitting Priority

1. 2 Qualifiers>1 Qualifier>No Qualifiers
2. Left to Right

For example, when the 7th position fills, the computer first looks for which associate(s) have 2 qualifiers and reorders them left to right, starting with position #1. If there is more than one associate with 2 qualifiers, then the computer places the higher priority to the associate with 2 qualifiers left to right. For example, when position #7 fills, the associates in positions #2 and #5 have two qualifiers, the computer will reorder these two positions and #2 will go to #1 and #5 will go to #2.

The computer will then reorder those associates with one qualifier, left to right and then reorder those with no qualifiers, left to right.

Now there is a re-ordered Panel, positions #1 thru #7 filled.

This is accomplished by the computer immediately and instantly the associate in the re-ordered position #1 cycles the Panel earning a Personal Panel Over Ride Cycling Bonus of $250 (1 qualifier) or $500 (2 qualifiers) and follows to and occupies the first available position (#4, 5, 6, or 7) on their sponsor’s current Panel.

Then, also instantly, the computer will create 2 new Panels and place the remaining 6 associates as follows, #2, 4, & 6 to a new Panel and #3, 5 & 7 to a new Panel, occupying positions #1, 2 & 3 on each new Panel, to which the computer adds 4 empty positions as #4, 5, 6, & 7 to each Panel, thereby creating 2 new Panels.

Personal Cycling Bonus

• When a CSB-SQA or GQA or APC cycles the Sales Panel with one (1) qualifier that associate earns $250.
• When a CSB-SQA or GQA or APC cycles the Sales Panel with two (2) qualifiers that associate earns $500.

Sponsor Over Ride, Cycling Bonus

Whenever a SQA or GQA cycles a Sales Panel, earning $250 (1 qualifier) or $500 (2 qualifiers), their sponsor earns $250.

Please note another important feature of the comp plan that favors “builders” is the fact that APCs are linked (for purposes of awarding the sponsor cycling bonus) to the primary position of the associate who earned them and when an APC cycles the Panel the sponsor over ride cycling bonus of $250 is paid to the sponsor of the primary position.

For example Liza has sponsored Joe who has earned 4 APCs. Whenever Joe or any of his 4 APCs cycles the Panel, Liza earns the $250 sponsor over ride bonus per each cycle.

Team Builder Incentive Awards and Residual Leadership Profit Sharing Bonuses

In keeping with the nautical theme of Club Sea Breeze, associates earn leadership ranks and points from One Star Navigator up through Double Diamond Navigator status.

Team Builder Incentive Awards

Paid to Active Commission Qualified Associates, ACQA, which are SQA and GQA’s that have:

1. 1 sale in the quarter (can be their own purchase)
2. Subscribed to the CSB Marketing System

When your down-line team has a total* of __ ACQA’s, you are awarded a:

• 25 ACQA’s = 16 GB Engraved iPod Nano
• 50 ACQA’s = 32 GB iPod Touch
• 100 ACQA’s = 64 GB iPad
• 250 ACQA’s = 15” Mac Book Pro Lap Top
• 500 ACQA’s = 27” iMac DeskTop
• 1000 ACQA’s = 7-Day Caribbean Family Cruise
• 2000 ACQA’s = 10 day 5* Spa Resort for 2
• 3000 ACQA’s = $600/mo Car Bonus
• 4000 ACQA’s = $1000/mo Car Bonus
• 5000 ACQA’s = $2500/mo House Bonus

Residual Income:  Leadership Profit Sharing Bonus (Replaces previous Leadership Bonus Program)

Paid to Active Commission Qualified Associates, ACQA who have had a minimum of:

1. 1 sale in the quarter (can be their own purchase) AND
2. Subscribe to the CSB Marketing System

One-Star Navigator

• 25 ACQA’s
• 16 GB Engraved Nano
• $180 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Two-Star Navigator

• 50 ACQA’s
• 32 GB iPod Touch
• $360 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Three-Star Navigator

• 100 ACQA’s
• 64 GB iPad
• $750 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Four-Star Navigator

• 250 ACQA’s
• 15” Mac Book Pro Lap Top
• $1,850 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Five-Star Navigator

• 500 ACQA’s
• 27” iMac DeskTop\
• $4,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Pearl Navigator

• 1000 ACQA’s
• 7-Day Caribbean Family Cruise
• $8,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Ruby Navigator

• 2000 ACQA’s
• 10 day 5* Spa Resort for 2
• $17,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Emerald Navigator

• 3000 ACQA’s
• $600/mo Car Bonus PMT
• $25,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Diamond Navigator

• 4000 ACQA’s
• $1000/mo Car Bonus PMT
• $34,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

Double-Diamond Navigator

• 5000 ACQA’s
• $2500/mo House Bonus PMT
• $44,000 Quarterly Leadership Bonus

*Requirements for Leadership Awards and Bonuses

1. 1 Membership sale in Prior Quarter
2. Active CSB Marketing System in Prior Quarter
3. No more than 40% of your teams total ACQA’s can be from the same leg, in other words you need to have your ACQA’s in at least 3 different legs with not more than 40% in one.
4. Please note that these awards and bonuses are paid on the entirety of your organization, infinitely wide and infinitely deep.

Payout Schedule for Leadership Awards and Bonuses

• January 15^th for Quarter ending December 31^st
• April 15^th for Quarter ending March 31^st
• July 15^th for Quarter ending June 30^th
• October 15^th for Quarter ending September 30^th

The First Bonus Payout will occur on:

October 15^th, 2010 for the quarter ending September 30^th, 2010

There is a tab in your back office that shows your current status and the information there will give you an idea on the structure of your team so that you will have an idea of how close you are to the next leadership award/bonus level.

CSB Company Growth Bonuses – Based upon overall Company Growth

Total company wide ACQA’s

Every 3,000 ACQA’s generated company wide = $30,000 Cash Giveaway

• $10,000 = 1 Winner
• $ 5,000 = 1 Winner
• $ 2,500 = 2 Winners
• $ 1,000 = 5 Winners
• $   500 = 10 Winners

Every 5,000 ACQA’s generated company wide = Car Giveaway

• Every 2 sales = 1 ticket into the giveaways
• **Through September 30^th, 2010 Every 2 sales = 2 tickets

Money Manager Commissions, Residual Income Component

The seventh and final component of the CSB compensation plan is based upon the optional Money Manager product, which is $19.97 per month.

As your down-line opt-in or you sell this product you are paid 12.5% per associate infinitely wide and down 5 levels, monthly.

For example for each associate that opts in or sale of the money manager you make 12.5% of each $19.97 or $2.50/each/month is paid to you, 5 levels deep.

Now, $2.50 per person per month may not seem like a lot, but remember, it is residual, it is passive, you are not doing anything additional to earn that income and it comes each month, like clockwork, simple.

Obviously, there is a lot more to the Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan than the Sales Panel, but of course that is where the bulk of the activity and attention will be centered.

Cycling compensation plans are hugely popular right now in the network marketing industry, some of the highlights discussed in this article were:

• There are 7 components to the Club Sea Breeze Compensation Plan, interrelated and interdependent.
• The CSB Sales Panel is a single cycler
• Your new CSB Sales Panel starts with 4 of 7 positions filled (includes you)
• Your new CSB Sales Panel has only 3 positions to fill to create a cycle
• 5 ways to fill the 3 positions
• 5 ways to qualify your position
• Requires you to sponsor a maximum of 11 new associates for you to cycle
• You can cycle personally sponsoring as few as 2
• You are allowed to place your new associates and APCs anywhere in your down-line WITHOUT giving up sponsorship
• You can split placement to one panel and qualifier to another
• When your personally sponsored associates and APCs cycle they follow to your current Panel, or the one you designate.
• When you cycle your Panel you earn $250 (1 qualifier) or $500 (2 qualifiers)
• When your personally sponsored associates and their APCs cycle you earn $250
• The Team Builder Incentive Awards and Leadership Profit Sharing Bonuses are awarded and paid infinitely wide and infinitely deep and further support and cement the Club Sea Breeze philosophy of people helping people
• Every Associate has an opportunity to benefit from company wide growth

The revolutionary and innovative Club Sea Breeze linear, follow-me cycler with the kind of flexibility of placements and qualifiers has never before been programmed, and in fact, the company programming the CSB compensation plan is a 12 year veteran programming comp plans for the network marketing industry and the owner got so excited he secured a position in CSB after reviewing the plan his company was being asked to program and this comp plan is so unique that a patent is being sought.

Club Sea Breeze with its robust Product Suite and revolutionary Sales Panel went “LIVE” April 5th, 2010 and has already gone global with active associates building teams in 26 different countries as of the writing of this article in late August 2010.

The Club Sea Breeze company leadership believes they will rock the industry and change the landscape of network marketing. Time will tell if Club Sea Breeze truly is bringing … the winds of change.