With literally hundreds of business opportunities available, how do you pick? Just because you go to a party and want your hostess to get a special gift is not a reason to sign up to distribute a product. You really have to LOVE it.
Assume off the bat, that everyone is going to be skeptical to your new found business. Most will say it’s a scam and you’ll never make any money. That’s kind of true, but less apt to happen if you really love and believe in the product. Would you be able to defend the brand to a total stranger that hit you with questions and concerns over and over? Why does it work? How does it work? Yada Yada.
Consider a few things before you dive in:
- The company you select has to be stable, financially I mean. After all, they need to be able to pay you.
- How do they pay you? Monthly? Weekly?
- Is it a binary line? (My preference)
- There should be an 800 number for you to call with questions so you aren’t hiking up your phone bill.
- The market should not be too over saturated, but it is good that lots of people know of the brand.
- When you do a search on the web for the company, there should not be a slew of complaints and grievances about the brand.
- What do you get with the sign up fee? Is it an annual renewal? Do you get a website?
- Choose your upline wisely. If you are doing internet sales, consider signing under a rep that is already advertising on the web. If not, then find someone close to you that you can rely on for training.
- Do they make you sign up for an auto ship? Most give the impression that you have to, but if you really read the policies, many do not require you to have one.
With so many replicated distributor sites out there, it’s likely that eventually you will get an applicant interested in joining your team. Typically you’ll receive a notification via email that someone has filled out a form online.
Autoships are often required to be “Active” within a MLM/Direct Sales company. What ends up happening is you sign up to be a distributor and during the sign up process you are required to have an autoship order. Typically an autoship is around $50-$80 each month and shipped on the same day.
Isagenix® is a health focused company that is offering options for health benefits to its associates.
Distributors are often excited by a great sales pitch fed to them by someone they are dying to work for. I mean that’s usually how it works. We meet a great woman (or man) that is so uber knowledgeable about the product that we want to be just like her. We want to “live the dream” and retire at 50! We sign up for the small fee and place a huge order before we can even notice that we have spent the next 3 months income. In some cases this is ok if you have an established marketing budget, but more times than not we don’t. Most of these home based businesses consultants co-mingle money with home funds. The money going in and out of the check book is not well monitored and one can easily be spending way more than they are making on a business with no model other than to spread the news via word of mouth.
It’s not as hard as you think, or expensive. If you are using the web to market your business you would think that there was no need for a phone number right? Wrong! Believe it or not, there are thousands of people that still feel weird about ordering online. They would rather give their credit card number to a total stranger on the other end of an 800 number. That said, getting an 800 number was one of the best things I did to promote my sales sites. Not a day goes buy that my phone does not ring. True that sometimes they think they are calling the company, but the orders I get make up for the other calls.