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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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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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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Want to Promote Body By Vi?

Let’s see. You’ve been using the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge products for a while now and people are REALLY starting to notice your success. So, now you are thinking “I wish I had watched the part of the DVD that explained how to become a promoter.” I’ve had so many people ask me that I thought it would be a grand idea to post the 2nd part of our Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge Party DVD here so that you could enjoy in the privacy of your own home. After watching, make sure you call us before you make a final decision so that we can help you determine your goals along with the correct promotional kit. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Why Networkers LOVE Body By Vi

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Just recently I received a call from an old friend who asked me to attend a Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge Party. Unfortunately, I could not attend. That cost me nearly 2 weeks! Fortunately, he was a good business person and followed up. We met at my office a couple of weeks later and he walked me through the ViSalus marketing plan. But even more importantly, he made me a couple of the Body By Vi shakes. WOW! I was hooked. Not only was there a huge market for the product and and excellent compensation plan but this stuff tasted GREAT!

Not being one to make rash decisions, I did my due diligence as well as I could in less than 24 hours, but after seeing what kind of growth ViSalus was having after creating the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge marketing concept and investigating their back office options, I jumped in with both feet. We made Director in 24 or 25 days. That made me a “Rising Star” and qualified me for an extra bonus check! Ok, I could have probably done it faster, but being conservative like I am, I didn’t really share the opportunity with anyone until after I received my product, then waited 4 days until a Monday to start on the Challenge. Another mistake for me. Oh well, I got better!

You have to understand, I have been involved in several Network Marketing companies over the last 20 years and it usually took me months to generate a check at all (if at all), much less to actually get a check along with a BONUS within my first 30 days! Here is a short little video that I did a couple of days after qualifying for “Rising Star”

Come join us on this exciting journey!

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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Success vs. failure with social media

That’s right. Don Crowther — the Big Kahuna of social media… and the guy who created the breakthrough social media training program SMARTS — just posted a free, new video called “Social Media Doesn’t Work.”

Check out “Social Media Doesn’t Work” here
Social Profit Formula

Now, I must admit, when I first heard about this video, I was flabbergasted. I mean, what in the heck is the world’s #1 expert on social media doing bashing social media? Has he lost his marbles… or has he just seen the light?

Turns out it’s neither. You see, Don readily admits that for most people social media doesn’t work. And the reason is simple: it’s because of a costly mistake that most social media marketers are making right now.

…a mistake that will doom your social media efforts to failure.

And a mistake that explains why so many are saying, “social media doesn’t work.”

Watch “Social Media Doesn’t Work” here
Social Profit Formula

The good news is, on this eye-opening video, Don shows you the deceptively simple, but highly effective secrets that can turn it all around and let you finally start making money with social media.

These are the same secrets Don, his clients and his students have been using to rake in millions of dollars using social media to market their products and services.

And here’s something else: Don is also going to give you a downloadable worksheet that shows you in just 5 minutes precisely how well you’re doing with social media. You’ll quickly discover whether you’re wasting your time, or are on your way to making serious money.

Believe me, this video and worksheet are crucial if you want to find success with social media.

Check out “Social Media Doesn’t Work” here
Social Profit Formula

Last thing: the video has been specially formatted so you can watch it on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch without any hassles or delays.

I urge you to check out the video right away — and then start putting Don’s ideas to work in your business right away.

Enjoy,

Michael

P.S. By the way, Don also shares some remarkable social media success stories on the video — from companies that are doing social media right. And he names names.

Watch the “Social Media Doesn’t Work” video here
Social Profit Formula

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