subject: 3 Crucial Tips To Consider Before Joining Shaklee as a Distributor [print this page] f you're reading this, it's either because you're looking into joining Shaklee as a distributor, or you're already involved in Shaklee and you're wasting time reading articles when you should be concentrating on your money making activities.
Anyways, I wanted to share a few quick tips on how to find a good sponsor in Shaklee, or how to be a good sponsor for your new people (regardless of your company affiliation). However, I do have a couple of personal qualifications which I think you should seriously look at before you join (if you haven't yet) that are vitally important to the long-term success of your Shaklee business.
1. Make sure that the person who is sponsoring you isn't a chronic company jumper'. In my opinion, the worst person in the world to get involved with in network marketing is someone who is hopping from company to company all the time. You know what I mean? Make sure that they are with Shaklee for the long term, residual income and not to build up a team and just to steal them away to another company.
One thing that I'd suggest you do is talk to your sponsor about their network marketing background. Is Shaklee their first company or have they been with multiple companies over the years? If so, does their reason for switching make sense (having a company go out of business, lack of support, etc.) or do they have the habit of jumping around to the "hot new opportunity" of the week?
2. Make sure that your sponsor isn't sponsoring you as a Shaklee distributor by saying things that are completely unrealistic. Now, in my experience Shaklee hasn't been plagued by complaints of outrageous income claims made by it's distributors ("Join us and you'll make a million dollars in the next 30 seconds!"), but to be fair no company is immune from the actions of a few dishonest people. If in doubt, be sure to take a look at the actual average incomes that Shaklee publishes each year, which are based on the real average incomes earned by its distributors (by rank) that were reported to the IRS.
On a side note, sometimes people join multi-level marketing but they never want to pick up the phone and talk to someone, and they expect to build a business by checking their email and waiting for the millions to magically appear in their back account. I've chosen to build my business primarily using the internet, but that doesn't mean I never pick up the phone to connect with prospective Shaklee distributors.
Network Marketing IS NOT strictly a "marketing" business.
Like it has been for the last 50+ years, it is a relationship business and even if your sponsor is brand new make sure that they are committed to building a long term relationship with you and will likely still be in business with you next year.
3. Make sure that your sponsor is plugged into the company system. Shaklee distributors have access to a proven, time-tested system that works whether you're building online or offline, and it's extremely important to the long-term sustainability of your business that you're not trying to completely "re-invent the wheel". Don't get me wrong, I'm all about embracing new tools and methods which will help me be more productive, but at the end of the day it's all about sticking to a system that's proven to help people get results.
Lastly, even if your sponsor is brand new to the business, you should have no reservations about joining them because we all work together as a team in Shaklee. There are weekly conference calls by established leaders and "up and coming" business builders where we all share what we are doing to be successful, and we're more than happy to answer any questions that you may have as you're getting started.
That about it for today, friends if you've got a sponsor who's COMMITTED (even if they don't have all the answers yet), I suggest that you consider working with them to become a Shaklee distributor, because your leadership team will still help you to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals.
3 Crucial Tips To Consider Before Joining Shaklee as a Distributor
