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Years ago my doctor told me I should take supplemental B12. But oral B12 supplements don’t work, he said, unless they are sublingual. Sublingual B-12 supplements are not pills you swallow – you stick them under your tongue and let them dissolve. The idea is that vitamin B12 cannot be absorbed well in the digestive system so it’s best absorbed by the glands under your tongue.
So over the years I have been continually in search of a good source of Sublingual Vitamin B12. I have grown discontented over the vitamin stores which seem to carry a hodge-podge of different brands – some of which look like they’ve been sitting around for a while. I got tired of getting them home to find them stale (even though they were within their stamped freshness date).
So that eventually brought me around to TriVita. If you Google “Sublingual B-12” you will find them listed so I thought : Ok let me give them a try. I knew they are a network marketing company and decided to put their product to the test. So I scoured the forums for a rep and clicked on her link, then bought a one month supply of their Super Sublingual B-12.
One of the things you look for in a network marketing company to determine if it’s legitimate is how the product is purchased. If you can purchase the product without a lot of hoop-la about the opportunity and the product stands on its own merit, then it’s probably a legit network marketing company. This was the case with TriVita.
I was pleasantly surprised by TriVita. Not only was the delivery fast with plenty of communication about tracking information, but the product was fresh. And there was plenty of literature that came with the product – a ‘welcome kit’.
I fully expected to see a bunch of blather about the opportunity in the welcome kit. But much to my surprise, there was not a peep about the income opportunity – rather the literature focused on the product and its benefits. It was a refreshing change to be sure.
If anything, there is too much separation of product and opportunity here. I don’t even remember the rep who I bought it from and her name was nowhere to be found among the literature. It would seem they would help her out by posting her contact information in the event that I was interested in the opportunity (which I am not at this time) and wanted to get in touch with her.
But all in all, my experience with TriVita was a good one and I will be putting myself on their autoship to save a few bucks on the product.
Well I finally finished my eBook. I never knew a 30 page free report could take so long but I just had to work on it as I had time. A little at a time. That goes to show you that even if you just work on something a little at a time, it will eventually get finished!
It’s titled: “How to Select the Perfect Network Marketing Company (and Avoid the Stinkers)“. If you are lost in the sea of network marketing companies and wish to get a formula to size them up, then please feel free to download my report. Free of course, of I already said that. Here are some things inside:
– Case studies of 4 Failed Network Marketing Companies
– What is the most important thing to look for
– How to draw the line between legit and pyramid scheme
– How to avoid the bad apples
– How to “due diligence” a network marketing opportunity
.. and more! Now that I have finished that project I can move on to other things. How great it is to finish something that has been on my list for longer than I care to admit! This is a company independent report (it does not try to sell you on anything although it does have business links on my bio page in the back). You can download it at the link below:
Network marketing is well known for its high rate of failure. And there are almost as many opinions on the subject of ‘failure rate’ as there are network marketing companies. One of the reasons I want to address in this post is failure to take action.
One thing I have noticed in my own team is that about a third of the people I bring in never do anything. And it’s not because they don’t have a marketing plan. As I stated in an earlier post, I provide everyone who joins my team with a detailed, step by step marketing plan after they join. I designed my own marketing plan to be duplicatable so that I can pass it on to my downline.
This plan includes details on how to work the various marketing channels (such as classified advertising, social networking and so on), scripts to use, and even free leads for their first 90 days. I know that most of my team will not have a lot of experience with marketing when they join and it’s up to me to provide them with that guidance.
But yet many of them never do anything with that information. I try to screen people when recruiting. I would rather say NO to someone if I don’t think they have the desire to run a business. Perhaps my screening process will get better over time, but in the meantime I am left with about a third of my team not doing anything.
Every once in awhile I think about that non productive third. What causes these people to lose interest? They seemed so interested and eager when I interviewed them. And I provided them with a plan to follow. What went wrong? Did they not expect they would have to do some work? Did they not like my plan? Should I call each one and pester them every day?
I was told by a far more successful network marketer than me, that this is fairly normal. She said that 33% is actually pretty good; that most network marketers have a larger portion of their team sitting on their hands. Her advice to me was to focus on the other two thirds that are producing and just continue to hone my screening methods in recruiting. And that’s the advice I follow.
But I would be willing to bet that those non productive people in network marketing are a major contributor to the high network marketing failure rate.
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