Updated Resources

The following templates and forms have been updated this morning!

1. Letter to new Preferred Clients
2. Great Savings and Benefits
3. Checklist for new Preferred Clients

and I've added a first draft of "Keeping Yourself Organized".

New resources loaded!

• Figure 8 Weightloss prsentation by AM Dana Lang
• Package Design Magazine - Arbonne wins awards in May 2009
• Redbook Magazine - June 2009

Look at the great folder that Tamy put together to introduce Arbonne to her sister and sister-in-law - contains samples, business information, Eye on Arbonne's and more. Way to go Tamy!

Learning About Network Marketing

As we all know, the secret to being successful in this business is to become sucessful within ourselves - by developing our personal effectiveness. Sometimes it is hard to find the time for personal development ...but, while visiting Arizona in the fall I came across a great learning tool - the Residual Income Game and subsequently learned of some one hour teleconferences that take place each Thursday (they are also recorded and left up for 3 days after the original call). Take a moment now and go to https://rit.infusionsoft.com/go/psa/B38 and register for the Skill Radio Training calls.

There's no charge to listen to the calls. Each week you'll be able to improve yourself by learning and taking action to develop one new skill. Don't worry if you can't always make the call but I hope you will make it part of your weekly personal development.

I have had a few questions about how to get paid, so I thought I would tell you what I did when I first started.

If you have people purchasing products under you, then you will want to place an order under your own ID, so that you get paid on the products that are sold under you. For example, if Carolyne sells products, she is under me, so in order for me to get paid on what she sells, I have to place an order under my own ID, for approximately $140 retail ($91 wholesale) and that will equal 100QV (qualifying volume).

What you want to do, is purchase products that you would normally purchase if you were to go to London Drugs, Shoppers Drug Mart etc. I don’t look at it like “I have to spend $100” in order to get paid, I think about what products I would use every month and I buy them from my own store. I use shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, hand crème, supplements etc. so it’s not like I am having to spend money to get paid, I am spending money because I need to wash my hair and I love the products!

As your business grows, you won’t “have” to place that order for your own products because you will have reorders and retail orders from repeat customers, but you probably will still purchase products, because you still will wash your hair, use face crème, etc.

If you have people selling products under you, then you are so lucky that someone is helping you build your business. Be a product of the product and use them, they are awesome products and you get a 35% discount.

I purchase the baby products for gifts, the spa products for gifts, etc. I had a consultant order the FC5 basket of products to give to a friend that was going in for an operation. Use your own store to shop from. It lets other people try the products and chances are that they will love them. You can be building a business without even wanting to sell products.

Turtles tell tales…a seaside lesson in determination

When you find yourself facing seemingly insurmountable odds, consider the first days in the life of a sea turtle hatchling.

Buried beneath a foot and a half of sand, the sea turtle’s first test of survival is to break out of its shell…with a single temporary tooth. Free of its shell, the newborn must then dig its way through the wet, heavy sand to the surface. Given its size and strength, this exhausting task can take up to a week.

After finally breaking through the sand, the race for survival really begins! In hopes of avoiding any confrontations with natural predators, the young turtle waits to take advantage of the cover of darkness before scrambling toward the shoreline.

Once in the ocean, the newborn swims frantically for almost two days fighting powerful undersea currents over which they have no control before reaching the safety of the unanchored seaweed beds that serve as their homes.

If something smaller than the palm of your hand can do all that within the first week of its life, there’s no stopping you from overcoming every obstacle...all it takes is determination and a clear focus. Like the hatchling, you’ll reach your bright horizon by making sure that the details don’t become a distraction and that your gaze is fixed squarely on your goals. You can do it!

“Approach every challenge with a level head and unwavering determination…all your horizons will be bright.”

Great words...

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson