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Old December 31, 2014, 07:44 AM
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Default How to make a small fortune selling weight loss products in 2015

Here's what I teach my MLM downline distributors to do to sell weight loss programs.

Secret: "You teach the cold market where to place you in their minds".

So brand yourself as a weight loss expert.

How to become an expert? Simple... go to your public library and read one or two weight loss books each week. It all boils down to 'eat less - exercise more' anyway. Only you have a secret sauce that makes dieting go down easier. The real secret to weight loss is developing the mental toughness to stick to a diet. See:http://www.fatloser.com/ Same mental toughness it's going to take for you to execute my simple system below...

Capture peoples names, emails and phone numbers online and offline using bait like:
Drop your business card into the fish bowl to win a Free 30 day supply of our New,
Delicious Weight Loss Shakes.

Call each person and say: Sorry you didn't win the 30 day supply, but I can give you some info on our program and let you try a free sample so you can taste just how yummy and filling our new weight loss shakes are.

BTW... Are you in front of your computer? Go to google, type in Joe Marketer Weight Loss Expert and tell me what you see?

You own the entire first page of google because you spent 10 days branding yourself writing articles and creating pages of content that google will show when you tell them what to type into the search box.

Also.... collect testimonials... before and after pictures of your customers who got results with your products. And if you are fat.... great.... use your weight loss products to help you to consume less calories and turn off the computer and go walk around town all day to burn fat... place your weight loss fish bowls on counter tops of stores... (if anyone wants to know what to say to get store managers to agree to display them contact me) and have before and after pictures of yourself to show.

Teach 10 people in your city to duplicate your actions and within a year your organization could circle the globe with several thousand distributors/affiliates.

All of this is simple stuff.... but you got to have enough burning desire and mental toughness to do the work.

If you do.... you will make a fortune!

Cheers,
Steve Shulenski
MLM Expert

PS... Even if you are fat, sick and nearly dead... there is a very simple, easy way(I won't give you the secret sauce to doing this in this post) to get 50 people to beg you for a taste of your weight lost products/program because you can borrow someone else's credibility. I did this by recruiting a doctor and a couple of naturopaths into my business so anyone who joins my team will also be in the downline of one of these doctors. Then even a fat, sick person can simply go out and meet people and rave about how doctor so and so is helping them and others and he's speaking to a small group of people at my place tonight at 7pm sharp. Be there to try free samples, talk to the doctor, ask your questions and we'll send you home with a free booklet of weight loss tips by Doctor so and so.

The Secret Sauce Process is so wonderful; because we don't have to sell, we only have to put people on a webinar.

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Old January 5, 2015, 11:40 PM
Dien Rice Dien Rice is offline
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Default How one guy used the "expert" approach to succeed in MLM...

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Here's what I teach my MLM downline distributors to do to sell weight loss programs.

Secret: "You teach the cold market where to place you in their minds".

So brand yourself as a weight loss expert.
Hi Steve,

I agree, where you position yourself can make a big difference... It can affect how they see you.

And, positioning yourself as an "expert" makes a lot of sense...

Everyone trusts an expert! But they don't necessarily "trust" an MLM guy/girl, a sales guy/girl, etc. But if you're an expert...

Hey, that reminds me of something. A long, long time ago (late 1990s, pre-Sowpub even)... I joined an MLM. It was Herbalife.

Herbalife promots itself on the basis of health. Now, the guy I joined under - he was a qualified naturopath!

You know what, he did well. Why?

Because he was an "expert" - and billed himself as such!

I didn't know much about sales or marketing back in those days. I didn't last too long, because I decided to go on and do other things...

I haven't communicated with the guy I signed up under since those days. But I notice, today, he's still taking a similar approach... Now, he's a "life extension specialist."

(That's his link, as I said, I haven't even communicated with him since the late 1990s, so this is not an endorsement or anything. I just "Googled" his name, and found him...)

Hey, this approach works!

As Steve said,

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All of this is simple stuff.... but you got to have enough burning desire and mental toughness to do the work.

If you do.... you will make a fortune!
Thanks for sharing that, Steve!

Best wishes,

Dien
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Old January 6, 2015, 06:55 AM
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Default Re: How to make a small fortune selling weight loss products in 2015

Hi Dien, naturopath's, chiropractors and MD's tend to do well retailing MLM health and wellness products however... their MLM income tapers off after $15,000 to $25,000 a month because the people they sponsor can't duplicate what the doctors are doing.

Personally I think it's unethical for doctors to prescribe products that they earn commissions on to their patients.

However... Doctors can really enhance ones efforts if they are taught a NO Warm Market approach. So I sponsored some but I tell them I do not want them to talk to anyone they know about the business or products.

Instead... I use them to do seminar selling...

Doctors have a lot of credibility... we've been raised to look at doctors as authority figures. In Network Marketing... the average distributor lacks credibility and people pay more attention to the messenger instead of the message.

I recruited several doctors so I and others in my down line can borrow their credibility. This way my team members job is to invite people to come hear the doctor speak.

Do you know how hard it is to get distributors to understand that they need to stop talking about the company, products and compensation plan?

What they need to do is to be the 30 second commercial for the 30 minute sales presentation but that doesn't mean they should give the presentation themselves.

Better to borrow the credibility of a doctor and let them or a 3rd party tool (video) do the telling and selling while you focus on inviting people to come listen to your doctor speak and try a sample of the product... but you do not want to tell prospects anything more than that.

If you tell them the name of the product or company they will type it into google and feel they don't need you. Then after looking at all of the phony review sites will decide they know it all and will not be interested and if they are interested they will go sponsor shopping for someone who can offer them more support than you. So it's essential for a newbie to talk less and sort more... In Network Marketing Amateurs Sell While Professionals Sort.

When people join my team I will place them under one of my doctors so they can tell their prospects... that's a good question... let me 3-way Doctor so and so into our conversation and let him or her answer your questions.... BTW... if you join my team, the doctor will also talk to your prospects for you. You can look for another sponsor if you like but can they guarantee that a doctor will help you like I can? Can you see how having a doctor do presentations in person or by live or recorded webinar would make your job easier? Join anyone else and you will struggle finding people to talk to. But I have a no warm market approach so you'll never run out of people to put through the process of letting them sample the product so they feel the results and connecting them with a doctor who will work with them.

Cheers,
Stephen Shulenski


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Old January 8, 2015, 01:12 AM
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Default Re: How to make a small fortune selling weight loss products in 2015

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Hi Dien, naturopath's, chiropractors and MD's tend to do well retailing MLM health and wellness products however... their MLM income tapers off after $15,000 to $25,000 a month because the people they sponsor can't duplicate what the doctors are doing.

Personally I think it's unethical for doctors to prescribe products that they earn commissions on to their patients.

However... Doctors can really enhance ones efforts if they are taught a NO Warm Market approach. So I sponsored some but I tell them I do not want them to talk to anyone they know about the business or products.

Instead... I use them to do seminar selling...

Doctors have a lot of credibility... we've been raised to look at doctors as authority figures. In Network Marketing... the average distributor lacks credibility and people pay more attention to the messenger instead of the message.

I recruited several doctors so I and others in my down line can borrow their credibility. This way my team members job is to invite people to come hear the doctor speak.

Do you know how hard it is to get distributors to understand that they need to stop talking about the company, products and compensation plan?

What they need to do is to be the 30 second commercial for the 30 minute sales presentation but that doesn't mean they should give the presentation themselves.

Better to borrow the credibility of a doctor and let them or a 3rd party tool (video) do the telling and selling while you focus on inviting people to come listen to your doctor speak and try a sample of the product... but you do not want to tell prospects anything more than that.

If you tell them the name of the product or company they will type it into google and feel they don't need you. Then after looking at all of the phony review sites will decide they know it all and will not be interested and if they are interested they will go sponsor shopping for someone who can offer them more support than you. So it's essential for a newbie to talk less and sort more... In Network Marketing Amateurs Sell While Professionals Sort.

When people join my team I will place them under one of my doctors so they can tell their prospects... that's a good question... let me 3-way Doctor so and so into our conversation and let him or her answer your questions.... BTW... if you join my team, the doctor will also talk to your prospects for you. You can look for another sponsor if you like but can they guarantee that a doctor will help you like I can? Can you see how having a doctor do presentations in person or by live or recorded webinar would make your job easier? Join anyone else and you will struggle finding people to talk to. But I have a no warm market approach so you'll never run out of people to put through the process of letting them sample the product so they feel the results and connecting them with a doctor who will work with them.

Cheers,
Stephen Shulenski

Hi Steve,

I think you have a brilliant approach! Using the credibility of doctors (and others like them) which everyone in the downline can benefit from, is a pretty good idea...!

What you say about the "downside" is true, too. While the naturopath was good at getting people in, and I saw how it helped him, I figured, how can I replicate that? I'm not a naturopath... So I figured, I can't replicate it, which means I can't duplicate his success (without becoming a naturopath myself). In that sense, it might have been better to have been under a marketer, rather than a naturopath, since I probably would have learned better, more easy to replicate skills...

(Of course, now is different. I was a marketing and sales "newbie" back then. I hadn't even earned my first dollar in business yet - I earned my first dollars in business 2 or 3 years after that, through online product sales as an affiliate...)

I like your approach though... That would have worked. However, he didn't think of it... I don't blame him, as he was a naturopath, rather than a marketer.

Best wishes,

Dien
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Old January 9, 2015, 12:15 AM
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Default Re: How to make a small fortune selling weight loss products in 2015

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I figured, how can I replicate that? I'm not a naturopath... So I figure, I can't replicate it, which means I can't duplicate his success (without becoming a naturopath myself). In that sense, it might have been better to have been under a marketer, rather than a naturopath, since I probably would have learned better, more easy to replicate skills...

Best wishes,

Dien

Exactly, Network Marketing is about duplication. Not about how to retail lots of products. Prospects rarely ask this but in the back of their mind they are thinking “I don’t know many people I can talk to about the business, I can’t give a good presentation, I lack the credibly of upline leaders and I don’t want to pester people to buy products because I can’t sell”.

And approaching MLM the way Don Alm approaches typical sales guarantees failure in MLM.

If someone like Don joins a MLM program, he or she will have no problem talking to both their warm and cold market about joining the business. Their great sales skills will mean they will personally enrol a lot of distributors but most of those distributors will not be able to sell like their upline did and, they won’t be able to duplicate the personality and skill set of a master salesman like Don.

Personality can not be duplicated, but systems can. Now the company I’m with teaches a one question marketing technique… it goes something like this…. “Have you heard about______?”.

You got to check this out….

Then you point them to a 3rd party tool (in my case it’s a 9 minute video) and let the prospect sample the product. All that is pretty simple to do if you already have a warm list to contact. The hard part is learning to do the opposite of what most people do.

Here’s how most people go about it…. Ring… Ring…. Hello Mary? It’s your friend Jessica here. How are you? “Have you heard about XYZ Product or Company?”

Now Jessica is so focused on selling that she fails to hear Mary typing the name of her product or company into google and seeing all of the negative reviews left by sales types who failed in MLM because they taught their downline how to sell instead of how to duplicate.

At this point Jessica has already lost control of the process. With the name of the product and company her prospects don’t need her when they have google at their finger tips. If they should happen to want to join up chances are they will go sponsor shopping instead of signing up under Jessica.

They know and like Jessica, but they know Jessica has just got started herself and lacks the credibility of a proven track record. So they think.. hey.. no offense Jessica… but this is business so I’m going to find someone who is already earning $50,000 per month to sponsor me so I can learn from them.

In our example, Mary ends up joining directly under Mr SuperDuperSponsor. What Mary didn’t know is that Mr SuperDuperSponsor sponsored Sally who sponsored Mark who sponsored Peter who sponsored Sharon who sponsored Jessica.

If Mary joins under Jessica she now has Jessica, Sharon, Peter, Mark and Sally in addition to Mr SuperDuperSponsor who have a vested interest in helping Mary succeed.
Mr SuperDuperSponsor can’t possibly work personally with every single person they recruit so they only work personally with those who deserve their help… not those who need their help.

Mr SuperDuperSponsor personally works with his top 5 producers only. Oh you’ll see him speaking at company events and doing webinars and conference call presentations but he’s not going to give Mary the help she needs because his time is already committed to his top producers.

So Mary loses out on several ten and twenty thousand dollar per month mentors and Jessica who only earned $500 her first month because she's new at the game. Now Mary can’t go to any of them for help because her upline starts and ends with Mr SuperDuperSponsor. Mary can’t duplicate everything Mr SuperDuperSponsor does and after a couple of months Mary quits the business and claims MLM doesn’t work.

Now what if Jessica took this approach instead…. Ring.. Ring… ? It’s your friend Jessica here. How you doing today? I only have a quick minute before I have to jump onto a conference call so I’m glad I was able to reach you in time Mary… Listen, Do you know anyone who likes to vacation and travel? (If they say no then change the subject, why would you want to sponsor anyone who doesn’t like to have fun?)

You know Mary…

It takes 3 things to go on a month long holiday….

Time
Money
Health

If I can show you a way to have all 3 would that be worth 30 minutes of your time to get all the information?

Mary says… What’s this about Jessica… (Now this is where most people screw up… they start telling everything they know hoping the prospects will want to join and do what they are doing… telling and selling) But Jessica resits her temptation to puke info (sales talk) all over Mary and chooses to follow the system instead.

So Jessica replies to Mary’s question with… I’m working with Doctor so and so… she will be taking and answering questions at my place tomorrow at 7PM the Doctor will reveal a new substance known as SRB that will change your energy and your life…

You have to attend our little get together and listen to what Doctor so and so has to say. Promise me you’ll be here because I have limited seating and I need to know right now if I should reserve the last seat for you or give it to one of my co-workers from my regular day job. I wanted to offer you this opportunity first, do you want me to reserve you a seat or should I scratch you off my invitation list?

Mary says… tell me more… Jessica resists the temptation to sell knowing her job is to be the 30 second invitation/commercial to the 30 minute sales presentation that she does not give herself because the doctor does it.

It would take me 2 hours to try to explain everything myself. Would you prefer to book a 2 hour appointment with me or would you rather attend Dr So and So’s 30 minute presentation? You need to decide right now because I have to end our call to dial into my conference call.

Now, Mary doesn’t know what the name of the company or product is. All she knows is it’s something called SRB and when she googles the doctor she finds there are several doctors with that name. To satisfy her curiosity she has to come hear the expert speak.

So Mary attends the 30 minute event, Jessica gives everyone a sample of the product so they can feel it work and she then dims the lights, turns on her flat screen and plays the doctors recorded presentation. At the end she puts the doctor onto a speakerphone (I just enable my iPhones Bluetooth connected to a Jaba Solemate Speaker) so the audience can talk to the Doctor who will answer ant questions about the product for you.

After that the doctor turns the meeting back over to Jessica and her sponsor Sharon. Sharon quickly explains that the product is sold via Network Marketing but with a twist…. Sharon looks at Mary and says… Mary… what did Jessica do tonight?

Mary says… not much, she invited me to listen to Dr So and So but all she did tonight was passed out the samples and she listened to the doctor speak. Sharon says… Mary… If Jessica and I help you… do you think that you can do what Jessica did for you? Mary says… sure I can. You mean all I all to do is introduce people to Doctor So and So? I don’t have to try to explain and sell the product myself? Sure I can do that.

Do you see the difference a system and process can make? People join MLM because they want more time, money and health. They do not join because they want to sell. People quit MLM because they don’t want to sell. So if their upline just tells them to go talk to more people and sell them on joining the business or sell the products… duplication stops. That’s why it’s so important to have a simple, proven system to follow and teach others to use it.

One other thing prospects are thinking but seldom say is… I don’t want to call anyone I know about this… and I’m scared of approaching strangers so how will I be able to do this? Well, that’s actually pretty simple to solve… it’s part of my Secret Sauce System Icing that I reserve for the people in my downline.

But I just lost one of my Nautropaths yesterday because the vitamin D in my health and wellness product is derived from the oil from wool. He said everything else about the product is perfect but he can't promote it because that source of vitamin D is not vegan.

Talk about being extreme... Even PETA is less extreme... Here's what PETA has to say about vegan products...

http://www.peta.org/living/beauty/an...redients-list/
While we hope this list proves helpful, we also want to emphasize that no one can avoid every single animal ingredient. Being vegan is about helping animals, not maintaining personal purity. Boycotting products that may contain trace amounts of animal products can actually be harmful to animals in the long run. For example, by refusing to eat a veggie burger from a restaurant because the bun may contain traces of milk or eggs, you are discouraging that restaurant from offering vegan options because it is seems too difficult a task.

I like for my company and product to be perfect but there's wool oil in the vitamin D so it's as good an excuse to pass by this opportunity as a bad moon on your left. But, I have to respect his choice to be 110% vegan. He also wrote some interesting books that he is giving away at: http://www.completefamilyhealing.com/ If you know anyone with cancer or want to take steps to help your children from ever getting cancer, download the free books and music while you can. I haven't read them myself yet but his Billion Dollar Give-A-Way page does makes sense.

Cheers,

Steve Shulenski

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