Why I chose to align with
SPX Nutrition
For the past 8 years I have been involved with the Network Marketing profession, though not always working to build an organization. I was first introduced in 2006 and joined what is now a famous juice company, solely based on the product results. It wasn't until after a few days that I found out about the business opportunity. Once I dug deeper and learned more about this business model I must admit, I became a believer.
Long story short, my wife and I started sharing the product, doing home meetings, hotel meetings, attending company events etc. Well, don't you know that we built a T.E.A.M. of over 800 people within a year. I began to realize pretty quickly, "This residual income thing is GREAT!" I was hooked!
Well, things were rolling along just fine for us, until... We started to notice that people were dropping their auto-ship...then more people...then more people. I started to make some calls to see what was going on in their lives. Over and over I would hear, "We like the product but..."
"My husband got laid off... The oil bill is out of sight... Things are tight right now...and the juice is very expensive"
Welcome the Great Recession of 2008! Trying to promote a product that depends on disposable income is not easy, even to people that have disposable income. Even the wealthy begin to circle the wagons and trim the sails in times like those.
I knew in my heart that this business model worked, but I really needed to find the right product, one that people could afford to buy forever, no matter what the economy.
So for the next few years I began to look around, research, and test different products and companies. There were some new ones, some old ones. I joined with well know leaders in the industry and found out I hated the product! I could never promote something that I didn't use and love, but that's just me, some people do it every day!
I did not want to be one of those people that jumps from company to company. It seems they never get anything accomplished. I even looked at the so called "tools" market but I realized that really didn't help people out in the way that I wanted to help people.
I remember what a well respected industry teacher once told me, "Look for a good product that you can believe in, and make sure every month your customers get to the bottom of a bottle or a box so they will reorder." It makes perfect sense to me!
So, about a year and a half ago I found a company that was just starting out and I decided to give the products a try. Everyone will tell you that you have to be careful with start ups because most of them don't make it. I hear that, I get that, but every company was once a start up!
One of the things I liked about this company is that, although it was a start up, the
products had some history behind them, having been around for 5+ years and sold under their own brands.
Turns out I really liked the
products, and they were very affordable but I guess I wasn't in the right frame of mind to take on the building of an organization just yet. My wife and kids had seen so many products come into the house over the past few years that I would get "the look" every time I said anything about a business. If that sounds familiar to you, we need to talk! LOL
Well anyway, time passed and I began to see some problems with the shipping, like my auto ship arriving two weeks late, things like that. The company also started to get into non-health products and that kind of turned me off as well. Trying to market a phone app for $20/month that anyone could buy for $10/month just didn't sit right with me. One other thing I learned over the years was to ask yourself if you would buy your product in a store for the same price if you weren't building the business. Fail.
Then one day I was on
Facebook and saw a friend who I had met in that company, talking about another company, but mentioning one of the products. What was going on here?
She told me that the owner of the product was pulling it from my former company and starting his own. Apparently he got upset with how his customers were being treated and a few other reasons. So I started following what was going on and learned that another product was coming with him as well. Now this was note worthy to be sure. Both products had very good history and their owners are well respected in the industry. My interest increased...
I was introduced to some of the leaders of the new company and even got to know the Corporate Trainer, who it turns out went to the same college as my wife in Boston. This whole thing just began to feel right, you know?
I decided to plant my flag...
