Customers are good!

In the majority of MLM or Network Marketing companies that I have been a part of, the vast majority are simply interested in “recruiting” new distributors. The entire marketing plan is basically, recruit distributors that use the product, who in turn, recruit more distributors to use more product. What you really end up with is a large wholesale buying club. With the economy in the dire straits that it is today, this business plan fails to make sense to the majority. This is true because the “typical” products that these companies market are priced at a premium. Premium items are the first to go from your discretionary spending.

The founders of ViSalus Sciences had found that out the hard way. The primary product was a relatively expensive (albeit phenomenal) Vitamin/mineral/essential fatty acid combo. Even with their patented products (how often do you see that!), the demand suddenly dropped with the onset of the recession. Fortunately for me (and all the other ViSalus promoters) with a few minor tweaks, they came up with the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge. One of the main ingredients with the Challenge is that our “customers” can easily get their products delivered to them for free by simply getting 3 referrals. In addition to that, the Promoters (distributors) can also get their products for free AND the free products qualify them for their monthly auto-ship requirements! How cool is that! No longer do I have to actually “buy” something to get qualified for commission payments every month!

Has ViSalus been successful? Just look at the numbers, over 80,000 new people joining the Challenge every month, over 25 BMW bonus earners every month, upwards of 3000% growth in 2011. With a customer to promoter ratio of close to 7 to 1, yes, customers are GOOD! Their Vi-net website is in the top 10 direct selling companies (ranked by traffic on alexa) in the WORLD and are only doing business in North America. ViSalus is on track to be the first company of its type to reach $1 Billion in sales in North America alone. Currently doing business in the US and Canada, there are rumors of further international expansion on the way.

It’s amazing that most companies still limit there purchases to their distributors (and many are doing so poorly with cash flow that they are delaying payments to their distributors) while ViSalus apparently has plenty of cash flow and from personal experience, have paid their monthly commissions twice in the last quarter EARLY! Yes, Customers are GOOD. When looking at your next opportunity, do your due diligence and make sure that you are getting involved in a company that is growing and paying.

Take a few moments and look around on our ViSalus website. Fill out my contact form there and I’ll promptly send you out a sample of the wonderful Vi-Shape shake mix. It truly is the shake mix that tastes like cake mix! If you choose to only join the Challenge as a customer, that’s fine with me! Customers are good!

Michael

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Told You So

Just wanted to post a short video of Dana and I getting our BMW “Told You So” license plate at the ViSalus National Training last year. I should get around to editing video a little more often!  It you’d like to drive your own BMW and not have to worry about where the payment is coming from or get national recognition for your accomplishments, give us a shout! Proud to be promoters of the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge!

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Setting Goals

During this time of year, most of us are trying to set new goals and/or set a New Year Resolution. Jim Rohn has been a favorite of mine for sometime and I received this today in my email so I wanted to share. Hope you enjoy!

Vitamins for the Mind
by Jim Rohn

Goals/Goal-Setting

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Some people are disturbed by those tough days because all they have is the days. They haven’t designed or described or defined the future.

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build, end up building us.

We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.

“Vitamins for the Mind” is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. The burgundy hardbound book with gold-foil lettering is a collection of more than 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim’s personal journals, seminars and books and spanning more than 40 years. Click here to order The Treasury of Quotes.

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New Year Resolutions and the Law of Diminishing Intent

Ever wonder why we start the new year off with all these great ideas of how we are going to change “this” year. Then, one, two, three months later, we are not doing any of those things? It probably has a lot to do with the Law of Diminishing Intent. Simply stated, the further away from the moment of inspiration, our intent tends to diminish. Over time, it returns to the moment before the inspiration occured. How can we overcome this?

One way is to reestablish our goals, resolutions, or whatever you want to call them on a daily or at least a weekly basis. It really helps a lot if you have a written list. When was the last time you actually wrote your New Year Resolutions down? Put the written list in a place where you will review it regularly. (preferably daily) Then take some kind of action on them on a daily basis. This will renew your original “intent” often, not giviving the law of Diminishing intent a chance to work.

If you have a goal or New Year Resolution of improving your health, losing weight, getting more fit, or in my case, uncovering those abs of yours, take a few minutes and write down your exact goals. Mine is to lose 3% body fat while gaining muscle mass. Getting an accountability partner will greatly increase your odds of keeping your intent. Find a program that you can follow and do it everyday! I use the Body By Vi 90 day Challenge and their online system called Vi-Net to help keep me motivated. Hopefully, you will find something that will work for you and keep you motivated while we keep the law of diminishing intent at bay.

Post your new resolutions or goals here and I’ll try and help you stay accountable!

Happy New Year!

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ViSalus Bimmer Club

I’ll be the first to tell you that I did not get involved in the ViSalus Body By Vi 90 Day challenge for the extra income. For me it was to try the products and see how it worked. I knew there was a viable business here but really just wanted to see my abs! (At 50 years old that becomes increasingly more difficult!) Anyway, while on my first challenge we did promote and it was easy because people kept asking me what I was doing to lose so much weight. I hadn’t really lost much weight but I did end up losing 2% body fat and a total of 10 inches so it was quite noticeable.

Fast forward 5 months and we are Regional Directors and our BMW Car payment is no longer a major expense. In fact, I just have to tell you that when you go to make a car payment and all you have to do is transfer money from your ViSalus pre-paid MasterCard Debit account to your checking account, if REALLY feels like you don’t have a payment at all! My goal now is to help as many people as I can to know how good it feels! If you want to get healthier, join us on the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge and see how easy it is. The shake mix that tastes like cake mix! Lose weight, gain muscle, whatever your goals are these products support it. While you are at it, why not build yourself a team and drive your own BMW. Courtesy of ViSalus!

Michael Lindsay

(910)990-2056

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ViSalus Growth

Just a relatively short video from ViSalus going over the 3rd quarter 2011 Growth of the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge. One interesting point that Blake Mallen makes is that ViSalus gave away $1.5 million in FREE merchandise to its promoters and customers. WOW, that’s more than some entire companies do in volume! While we are just getting started, there has never been a better time to get started! Get in contact with me and lets see if the time is right for you!

Hope you have a great week!

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Give More Than You Receive

If you have read many of my posts, you will know that I am a huge fan of Jim Rohn’s work. He is known as America’s foremost business philosopher. I never get tired of hearing him speak. Thankfully there is a huge amount of his work available even though he passed away last year. I still subscribe to his Newsletter and the following “Vitamins for the Mind” post arrived today. I want to share Jim’s work for others to see, as I think this post was meant for me this morning. Hopefully, you will get something out of it as well.

Vitamins for the Mind
by Jim Rohn
Career/Marketplace
My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.
Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time.
Here’s the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand.
“Vitamins for the Mind” is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. The burgundy hardbound book with gold-foil lettering is a collection of more than 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim’s personal journals, seminars and books and spanning more than 40 years. Click here to order The Treasury of Quotes.

I’m trying to write something that can be of value related to this post, but Jim pretty much says it all. I hope you enjoyed this post.

Michael

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Body By Vi BMW Goal Setting

We began our Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge at the beginning of May, 2011. During the following 5 months, we have learned a lot about promoting the challenge as well as learning about ourselves. We we set a goal to achieve the Rising Star director level in our first thirty days. We were starting to get a little momentum going into June and our volume approximately doubled. In July, it went up another 30%.

In July, Dana and had a friend take the picture here in front of a shiny new Black BMW when we attended our first major ViSalus event, Vitality, in Orlando, FL. And what an event it was. We then set our goal to become Regional Directors by the next National Training event which is in Atlanta, GA in October. Then August “happened”.

Although our volume still went up, we had been unable to schedule hardly anything because my daughter was expecting our first granddaughter. Didn’t want to have a party scheduled and not be able to make it. We were also right in the middle of moving to a new office in one of our Piggly Wiggly stores that we are remodeling. I do nearly all the computer/technology stuff in our stores so I was having multiple 18 hour days trying to keep everything working while we we in the process of moving to a new office location. 3 or 4 birthday parties, One of which was another daughters 16th, which of course required a LOT of planning. Finishing up audits of our 401(k) plan, and renewing our check cashing licence with the NC Banking commission. Are you starting to get the idea? All kinds of “stuff” was just happening. Oh yeah, most important one was my granddaughter “Rylee Elaine Hunt” was born. Don’t get me wrong, all these things are just normal everyday life that sometimes just overwhelms you in the midst of it all.

We had scheduled a party for September 1st and on that same evening one of our support team from Chigago was having a call on getting it done in September. We were on board. Dana and I talked on the drive home from that party and made the decision that September was the month we were going to qualify for Regional Director. Well, even in the midst of August not being a banner month, we had planted a lot of seeds. They started germinating early in September and just kept on sprouting and growing and growing. Sometimes they just popped up out of nowhere! All of a sudden, we were halfway to regional! Then came the last two weeks of the month and we knew we would make it but had a tremendous desire to help the members of our team to make their own goals. We scheduled 5 parties for the last week in the month. Turns out we didn’t need all of them to get our goals, but our team needed them to get theirs. It was a tremendously successful month for us as well as our team. Inactive promoters “woke up” to find huge amounts of volume in their groups and got re energized. Lots of amazing stuff happened.

Set your goals, and work at them. Understand that life will sometimes get in your way. That’s ok, we all have lives outside of ViSalus. Make time for your family and friends, but don’t put your business completely to the side during those times. Keep planting those seeds! They will germinate. The marketing funnel that ViSalus has created for us with the Getting Started Training is the most beautiful in the world. Stick to it. Do NOT try to reinvent the wheel. If you run enough people through the funnel, you will absolutely be successful in this business. Remember we are promoting a Challenge and sorting people. That’s it. Make shakes, press play on a dvd player, determine 1’s, 2’s, and 3’s and work with them appropriately.

We love getting paid to party. How about you! Join us if you like, we are having a blast!

Michael

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Body By Vi BMW Bonus

Wow, I have to admit that when Dana and I started on this Challenge nearly 5 months ago, I knew I LOVED the product. I knew that I wanted to share the challenge with others. I even knew that we would get our products for free. I wanted to believe that we would one day qualify for the BMW bonus, but even with the wonderful ViSalus Sciences marketing plan, I had NO idea that we would do so as quickly as we have. I say we have because, we are literally just hours away from making that qualification. I say quickly, because by any stretch of the imagination, we have certainly not done it as quickly as hundreds of others have, but with our time constraints, we are just like the 1000’s if not millions of other people that know that the network marketing/mlm business philosophy makes so much sense but have never been able to achieve any success with it. If this rings a familiar bell with you, and you have any interest in helping others, I urge you to take a good LONG look at promoting the Body by Vi 90 day challenge with us.

I have some severe time constraints that limit how much time I have available to promote the challenge. We operate 4 grocery stores, one of which we are in the process of remodeling. If you are a business owner, you know the kind of time that entails. During these 5 months, my daughter had our first grandchild, my son was hospitalized, and the “life” that gets in the way sometimes just goes on and on. Beleive me. If we can qualify to drive an expense paid black BMW, so can you! Take a look at the company, the opportunity, the success stories. Then give us a call and let us help get YOU started on YOUR challenge!

Michael

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Turn Your Dreams into Reality

I don’t know about you, but when I first started trying to tap into the power of manifesting, I had quite a few frustrating “failures”. I still have not got it perfected for sure but it gets better!

If you’ve been trying as hard as you can to get it right–well, that’s your first problem (the TRY part!)

But the second thing is–it’s really so much easier than you think once you understand a few key elements to your manifesting success.

The great Bob Proctor has the answers for you if you are still looking!

[Bob Proctor Shows You The Way]
You may remember Bob from The Secret–and from the absolute gold mine of knowledge he shares all over the globe.

Now Bob sits down with Ryan Higgins from Mind Movies for a fascinating conversation explaining exactly where effective visualization begins.

He just has such a fantastic way of laying it all out, I’m sure you’ll get a whole new perspective that will actually be very exciting for you.

In my opinion, this kind of conversation is way overdue when it comes to the essentials and TRUTH about the Law of Attraction and how it all works.

Because it’s simply not just some flight of fancy or make-believe exercise–the Universal and unchanging laws that make EVERYTHING happen for you are grounded in science!

Now don’t get nervous or anything–you don’t have to be able to unravel an equation or know a test tube from a Petrie dish–all you have to do is step up to the plate and agree to make this a habit you do every single day…

[Practice Makes Perfect--How To Manifest ANYTHING You Want]

The biggest mistake most people make with manifesting is throwing in the towel when what you want doesn’t materialize immediately. Hey, it doesn’t work like that!

I mean, on the one hand, it works so darn fast it will make your head spin–especially when you consider how hugely this can transform your life forever. It DOES take some time, with a dedication to visualizing what you truly want in your life every single day. But it doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated, or even very time consuming. It just has to be done regularly like clockwork.

When you do that ONE thing, hold on to your hat–because some really incredible, almost magical, things will start to happen in your life!

[Feels Like Magic But It's Real]

The magical part is so real, Ryan explains exactly how he vaporized a whopping $70K in debt in only three short months. If you’ve got some financial “issues” you’re really going to want to watch this very closely–it could be the key that unlocks the door to your best life yet.

So take a look–and get started doing exactly what Bob says. You’ll find it just could be the missing piece of your manifesting puzzle. And be sure to let me know how things are going for you OK? To your manifesting success,

Michael

P.S. Have you ever thought about how you’ve been programmed since you were a kid to accept whatever life hands you? No offense, but that is the biggest load of horse puckie since Columbus said the world was flat! You can truly RE-program your thinking to attract the most astounding things into your life. Just watch the video, OK?

[Bob Explains It All--RE-Program Your Thinking!]

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