Archive for April, 2010

• Longaberger, Handcrafted Basket Home Business

  Date: 2010.04.20 | Category: Company Review | Response: 3

  Longaberger Company is one of the rare Direct Selling Company that sells handcrafted baskets and specialty pottery dinnerware.

  This family business began from the rich family history starting with Dave’s Father, J.W. Longaberger when he took a job with the Dreseden Basket Factory in 1919, where he learned the fine art of crafting basket bottoms and weaving baskets tight and precise, which eventually became the trademark for Longaberger’s basket.

  In 1976 Dave opened J.W. Handwoven Baskets in honor of his father. He even bought the old woolen mill that his mother worked in when he was a child to use as the factory for his business. He first began selling these baskets through retail shops. However two years later, he realized that the best method for selling these baskets was through home shows, where a consultant would be present to demonstrate the Longaberger baskets and explains the craftsmanship of each basket, from these parties, the consultant will book more shows through the guests or their referrals. Hence the direct sales organization of Longaberger baskets was born.

  Although very few have believed in his business, Dave persisted and made his dream come true. The Longaberger Company has more than 45,000 consultants in US working to realize their own financial dreams.

  The company had continued to stay true to their original mission statement, “To Stimulate a Better Quality of Life”.

  Dave’s daughter Tami joined the business in 1984 and proved herself to be an excellent leader and was later appointed president on Longaberger. She has helped diversified the company into other home lifestyle areas to include complete line of Pottery, colorful fabrics accessories, wrought iron pieces, liners and protectors for their baskets.

  Longaberger works slightly different from most network marketing companies. When you sign up through their website, a consultant in your area will contact you and help you to get started by training you to hold the basket shows. You will learn about each product line and their unique characteristics along with their history to be a qualified representative of these baskets.

  As a consultant you will be able to receive free or 25% discount on Longaberger baskets and other products according to your sales volume. Through the company Home Show Experience you can also earn commissions.

  The basic cost to get started as a member is $49. If you want to have everything you need to start your business, you can go for the Business Basics Kit at $159. You also have the opportunity to buy the Business Builder Kit, which is a complete inventory of their products range, according to your selection for $399. From there you will determine your own level of success based on the time and effort you invest in your own Longaberger home based business.

  If you are interested to sell this product and make a part time income, then you might consider speaking to the company or find a local consultant. Go over the marketing plan and find out exactly what the earning potentials are and if you are required to purchase supplies or product on a monthly basis.

  However if you are serious about building it as a business, then you will want to consider using some online strategy to boost your business. Here is a 3 steps strategy which many top earners have used to be successful in their business:

  1) Personal Branding – You will need to promote yourself as a leader online and provide value to the community, this way your prospects will trust you and find value in associating with you. This works by you initiating to open yourself to the community, where they can learn about you and getting to know you.

  People do business with people not with business opportunities or products, this is the main reason why you need to promote yourself and build a relationship with your prospects.

  2) Online Training Resource – You will need these resources to update you on the latest strategies and methods that are working for the top earners. This will add value to you as the leader and personal branding. These resources will also teach you how to market online and provides you with the education you need to succeed in the network marketing industry. From these resources, you should be able to generate the endless leads to explode your business.

  3) Auto-Pilot Marketing System – This is the critical component that you must have to do well in the online marketing industry. A good system will be able to setup for you a customized landing page with a sales funnel that will convert your leads and prospect into paying customers or cash flow for your business.

  If you are keen to find a complete automated system that includes all the above strategy, I would like to recommend you to access this immediately by filling up the boxes below.
  

• Make Money on Autopilot with a Simple Tool

  Date: 2010.04.13 | Category: Content Marketing, Marketing Tips | Response: 2

  Do you know that you can communicate with your prospects and make money on auto-pilot while you are having dinner, watching a movie with your kids, hanging out with your buddies, having a family picnic at the beach, or even during your sleep?

  I would like to discuss on the fundamental of creating a sales funnel that you definitely want to implement to improve your business 200 times. However despite this being such an effective tool, 95% of network marketers are not using it!

  This simple tool will send educational information to your list automatically, keeping you in touch with each of your prospect on a daily basis, thus building a good and valuable relationship. And this tool, when used appropriately can provide them with the illusion that your message was crafted and sent personally. This customer follow-up process is extremely important if you want to be successful in this industry, it helps you to introduce and promote any new product that is valuable to your prospects. This is an absolutely CRITICAL tool to your success.

  If you still have not got a clue what I am referring to, this tool is email auto-responder and it is the best friend an Internet Network Marketer can have.

  An Auto Responder is a computer program that automatically provides information to your prospects and then follow-up with them at preset time intervals.

  “Why is follow up so important?” you may ask. Studies have shown that it may take up to seven follow-ups before you can close a sale. Therefore these regular follow-up emails serve to remind your prospect and emphasize on the value of your product and primary business.

  This is the tool that all the top producers uses and builds on THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE of ANY Internet business!!

  Using an auto-responder allows you to have MULTIPLE streams of income (A HUGE KEY TO MAKING MONEY ONLINE).

  I personally have multiple streams of income that ALL of my prospects get exposed to at some point through my on-going communication with them and this generates for me a significant amount of income per month regardless of whether or not they join my primary business.

  There is no question here…if you want to be a top producer you must be building YOU and your own list, period.

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  It’s time to start generating your own leads, funneling them through your own professionally created squeeze page, and guiding them through your carefully crafted marketing funnel if you want to join the ranks of the elite.

  This is the ONLY way top earners market online…

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• Scentsy Review- Opportunity and Advice

  Date: 2010.04.07 | Category: Company Review | Response: 2

  

  Scentsy Product

  Are you thinking of supplementing or replacing your income by joining Scentsy as an independent consultant? Can this really work for you? I would like to give you an overview on this company and its opportunity and some advice on what you will need to achieve your financial goals.

  1. Scentsy, a Direct Sales MLM Company

  Scentsy was founded in 2004, based in Meridian, Idaho. The company offers various types of candle warmers, or wick-less candles, which is safer than the regular candles.

  The candle warmers simply release highly scented Fragrances within the wax, without creating fire risk associated with lighting a candle.

  Scentsy is an MLM company that sells their product using Direct Selling. It means that as an independent consultant, you will be selling their product directly to the end users. When you sell above certain sales amount, you will receive commissions. If you are able to recruit other consultants, you will also receive bonus based on your leadership level.

  2. What it Takes to Join Scentsy as a Consultant?

  You will need to purchase a US$99.00 starter kit, which will include about 8 types of Party Fragrance Testers, various demonstration products and a comprehensive business supplies of product catalogs, Party/Training DVD, Brochures, Business Cards, etc.

  There after you will need to remain active by maintaining US$150 Personal Retail Volume(PRV) every 3 months.

  You can also subscribe to a replicated webstore/website for US$10 per month, which your customers can visit to purchase products.

  3. Commission and Bonus Structure
  

  Your commission will start from 20% of your PRV, which is how much you have sold.

  Once you have achieved the US$1,000 PRV, you will be able to receive a 25% commission for your subsequent sales. Furthermore, you can stand to receive 2-9% of the wholesale volume based on your minimum PRV and Group Wholesale volume.

  4. Marketing Strategy Based Around Party Plan

  Scentsy has been using party plan as its main marketing strategy, although it has allow its independent consultants to decide their own marketing approach. This strategy had been successful for a handful of consultants and helped them to realize their financial goals. However it does require a lot of time and effort to organize and follow up, mostly manually. On the other hand, many successful Scentsy consultants have also leverage on the online automated tools and systems, which more effectively market their product and services.

  5. Product at Affordable Price
  

  Scentsy’s products are inexpensive, which makes it is easier to sell. However it also mean that you would need a very high volume to achieve a significant commission amount.

  6. How Much Commission Can You Make?

  Just for an example, this is what it takes to make $1000 in commission:

  A Sampler Multi Pack cost $105, your commission will be 20% at $21.

  You will receive about $210 for first 10 sales.

  You will receive $813.75 for the next 31 sales.

  In total you will need to sell 41 sets of Sampler Multi Pack to receive $1023.75 commission.

  This is totally workable if you can invite 5 new friends to a Scentsy party each time, organize 8 parties in a month and sell to each of your friend 1 sampler pack in each party.

  While this seems doable, it does involve a lot of hardwork, new contacts and time. Fortunately, Scentsy does allow you to market your products online and thus leveraging your time and effort to promote the products and services. However what Scentsy does not provide is a Marketing System that will help you to generate new leads and convert these leads to customers or independent consultants.

  A good system will be able to generate endless leads for your business, and convert these leads to cashflow even if they do not buy your Scentsy product or join your business.

  If you are serious to learn the online marketing strategy that can help you improve your Scentsy business immediately, put your name and contact information below and you will receive the step-by-step marketing blueprint that will help you to achieve your financial goals in the fast track.