Wednesday, August 5, 2009
NEW!! BURNING MAN NUTRITION SURVIVAL PAKS!!
Look to the right, y'all, for information on our new Festival Nutrition Paks -- also known as B-Man Nutrition Paks. We're very proud of this new method of marketing as well as our particular product line. Contact us if you would like to discuss either.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Leadership Development Weekend Day 2
Let's see -- last time I checked in (I'm writing to you from Alaska now) I was at the Herbalife "Leadership Development Weekend" in Sacramento. As I said earlier, the Herbalife people know how to treat their distributors. Everything about the entire weekend exuded generosity of spirit, intelligence, positivity -- none of the sleaze factor that can be associated with Sales.
The presenters were terrific. People from all walks of life; each had an extraordinary success story to tell. In this terrifying economic time (for me anyway!) I appreciated hearing the different ways people had of building and managing their businesses.
Everyone who has been in the Herbalife business for a while says that it is important to get yourself to a training event like the Leadership Development Weekend. I've been turned off by other such events with a different group I'd worked with, and I wasn't sure, but I qualified for the Leadership Development Weekend, and I thought I'd be a fool if I didn't take advantage of it. They have these things for a reason -- to educate leaders, and that's what I am interested in being.
Some of the presenters were very young and loved to approach people in malls asking them if they were interested in health and nutrition -- these girls were so lively and cute! I could completely see that they might enjoy that way of doing business. I cannot think of anything I would like to do less. Fortunately, there are many different methods of doing business as an Herbalife distributor -- there's even a place for people with mild social anxiety disorder. Like me.
You have to earn the right to be present at these events -- they don't just let everyone in at the higher levels of training. You have to have demonstrated, in one way or another, adequate interest in really doing some business. In my case I didn't do anything spectacular but recognize that Herbalife was, for a passionate and disciplined person (well, I'm working on the discipline!), a way to attain financial freedom. Their compensation plan is tremendous, and the product is second to none, in my opinion.
I've known this was the company for us ever since a moment of "first contact" I'd had in my meditation over my computer. But for some reason I couldn't transmit what I felt to my partner. It had been a little depressing with Patrick and the business lately. I felt consumed by it and I wanted him to understand in the way that I did.
But I'm a person who learns by reading. Everybody learns differently. I was the one with the system on my computer and Patrick wasn't, and he wasn't connecting with the business like I was. I felt like he didn't get it, and honestly I felt he was being a drag on me. He made commitments and didn't follow through, and I began to feel that I would have to do the business alone.
But things do change, and change they did for Patrick as he listened to the stories of the Herbalife people at that weekend in Sacramento. There's something about hearing the stories of the business people who have profited so greatly from a brilliant group of products* and a generous compensation system that is set up to reward those who step out of their comfort zone and get those products into the kitchens of other people.
Patrick came home a changed man, ready to begin this business and definitely excited about it. He recruited a fantastic young man almost immediately and I simply am almost in shock at the difference a weekend like that can make. And we didn't go to any of the famous Herbalife parties; we didn't even manage to attend all of the conference as I can't sit in certain sorts of chairs for more than several hours due to old back injuries.
Still -- that weekend worked its magic, and Patrick Gavin Duffy became a proud and enthusiastic voice for Herbalife from that weekend forward! We plan to start our first cycle of "Weight Loss Challenges" in our neighborhood -- but before we do that, we're going to get some Herbalife Survival Kits put together for people going to Burning Man over Labor Day Weekend.
*I inadvertantly wrote "prouducts" -- certainly a freudian slip!
Everyone who has been in the Herbalife business for a while says that it is important to get yourself to a training event like the Leadership Development Weekend. I've been turned off by other such events with a different group I'd worked with, and I wasn't sure, but I qualified for the Leadership Development Weekend, and I thought I'd be a fool if I didn't take advantage of it. They have these things for a reason -- to educate leaders, and that's what I am interested in being.
Some of the presenters were very young and loved to approach people in malls asking them if they were interested in health and nutrition -- these girls were so lively and cute! I could completely see that they might enjoy that way of doing business. I cannot think of anything I would like to do less. Fortunately, there are many different methods of doing business as an Herbalife distributor -- there's even a place for people with mild social anxiety disorder. Like me.
You have to earn the right to be present at these events -- they don't just let everyone in at the higher levels of training. You have to have demonstrated, in one way or another, adequate interest in really doing some business. In my case I didn't do anything spectacular but recognize that Herbalife was, for a passionate and disciplined person (well, I'm working on the discipline!), a way to attain financial freedom. Their compensation plan is tremendous, and the product is second to none, in my opinion.
I've known this was the company for us ever since a moment of "first contact" I'd had in my meditation over my computer. But for some reason I couldn't transmit what I felt to my partner. It had been a little depressing with Patrick and the business lately. I felt consumed by it and I wanted him to understand in the way that I did.
But I'm a person who learns by reading. Everybody learns differently. I was the one with the system on my computer and Patrick wasn't, and he wasn't connecting with the business like I was. I felt like he didn't get it, and honestly I felt he was being a drag on me. He made commitments and didn't follow through, and I began to feel that I would have to do the business alone.
But things do change, and change they did for Patrick as he listened to the stories of the Herbalife people at that weekend in Sacramento. There's something about hearing the stories of the business people who have profited so greatly from a brilliant group of products* and a generous compensation system that is set up to reward those who step out of their comfort zone and get those products into the kitchens of other people.
Patrick came home a changed man, ready to begin this business and definitely excited about it. He recruited a fantastic young man almost immediately and I simply am almost in shock at the difference a weekend like that can make. And we didn't go to any of the famous Herbalife parties; we didn't even manage to attend all of the conference as I can't sit in certain sorts of chairs for more than several hours due to old back injuries.
Still -- that weekend worked its magic, and Patrick Gavin Duffy became a proud and enthusiastic voice for Herbalife from that weekend forward! We plan to start our first cycle of "Weight Loss Challenges" in our neighborhood -- but before we do that, we're going to get some Herbalife Survival Kits put together for people going to Burning Man over Labor Day Weekend.
*I inadvertantly wrote "prouducts" -- certainly a freudian slip!
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