Good Times or Depression?

Those of us in our own business good times are ahead, if you are working one of those JOB's and not striving for entrepreneurship brace yourself. This morning I get this article from Al Hergerman, I would venture to say Al has been in the MLM industry longer than anyone else in the US.(45 years) His message was so powerful I wanted to share.

Let the Good Times Roll
In today's issue of the Wall Street Journal, the headlines stated, "Sales sink, prices fall for housing!" In the story that followed, analysts forecast the slump to continue for months.

Carol and I just returned from our daily luncheon date. During our outing, we filled our Mercedes car with gas and for the first time that I can remember, we paid over $70.00 for 19 gallons of gas! When we returned to our condo here at Coronado Shores, our January bonus check was in our mailbox. It was the largest check we have received in the last four years.

We had 50 sales leaders with personal group volume in excess of 10,000 PV. Four were in excess of 20,000 PV and one with over 35,000 PV! 10,000 PV = $40,800 a year at 34%. Add in a 10% to 25% price differential and we are talking about $52,800.00 to $70,800.00 annual income from a personal group only. This does not include additional First, Second, Third and Fourth level Leadership bonuses. Considering that the median household income in the U.S. is slightly over $40,000.00 a year, we have a great money making opportunity to offer.

Now, getting back to the article, "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL", please do not misunderstand what I am about to say. Nobody wants our country and its citizens to have difficult financial times!!! But, by all indicators, our country and many of its citizens are experiencing difficult times. Many people are losing their jobs, gasoline and other prices are rising. We are all aware of the troubled housing market. What I am saying is our industry is not affected as much as most industries are.

My first sales manager, Ken Casper, once told me, "If you really want good times in the direct sales business, you want the biggest depression this country has ever seen to occur tomorrow." Now remember, we don't want tough times for anybody! But, if they are occurring and we are not creating them, let's take advantage of this growth opportunity that our industry has to offer and go out and help as many people as we can.

Another sales manager that I had when I was selling vacuum cleaners, told the story of when he was the manager of the Duluth, Minnesota, branch in the depression years of the 1930's. Branch managers in the vacuum cleaner business like all MLM sales leaders and sales leaders to be, are constantly looking for sales people. He would run advertisements in the "help wanted" section of the Duluth newspaper. He was so overwhelmed with the responses that he would rent out the grand ballroom of the Hotel Duluth. There he would give mass presentations to recruit new sales people to sell his vacuum cleaners door to door on a straight commission basis. He would recruit dozens of people this way.

I have always found in our business, over these last 45 years, that when times were good and everybody had jobs and plenty of overtime pay, etc., etc., most people were not interested in the extra income our company had to offer. But, when their circumstances changed, their attitudes changed regarding the our opportunity. That's what I mean when I say, "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL."

I would like to close this newsletter by commenting on this year's presidential election. Over the past 45 years, we have had presidents of our country that I have had a great amount of respect for. We have also had presidents that I have had absolutely no respect for. However, none of them made any difference in my making money or building a sales organization or just selling our products. I am sure the same thing will occur regarding this year's election. Don't worry, just keep throwing mud against the wall and perfecting your "30 minute pitch."

Next month we will give you our ideas on a record keeping system that really works. (We were supposed to share this system with you this month until we paid $70.00 for a tank of gas.)

Sincerely Yours, Al

Granted Al has been in the business for a long time and has lots of insight to share. One thing that I try to stress be sure when you are choosing a company to build an organization with they are stable and will be in business for the long haul like our company.

What would you say if you were Dying?

Oprah has done it again. She has the best content on her shows! Here is an awesome inspirational talk from a father of 3 and professor at a college university who has been disgonsed with a terminal illness. It's his "Last Lecture" talk given to his students. (11 minutes)


This reminds me of the Tim McGraw song "Live each day like you were Dying" Kinda makes you stop and think eh? Do you have people in your organization that keep putting off till tomorrow or are so caught up in the task at hand that their forgetting to enjoy the ride? This might be a good video to use in your next training meeting.

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VereConference | Veretekk State of the Week Update

Many have asked me for the Veretekk State of the Week update. In my VereConference training this morning, I used this recording to show participants how you can customize VereConference. When you open this recording you will see my logo and changes to the text messaging area... this is done by changing the html code in the index file.

I decided post this recording as an example of customizing a VereConference Recording. Just so you know the DVD presentation I did towards the end of this conference isn't perfect and probably should have been tweeked a little, but at least you can see it works!

VERETEKK STATE OF THE WEEK RECORDING Feb. 17,2008

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Excellent Business Mindset Tool

Here is an excellent video that will make any business owner or team member push for more. It's amazing how the mind works controling our thoughts and actions.

How much further would your business be ahead if you put on the blind fold and just did it!

Most Powerful Words: I have an Idea

Ideas are what has made this country great. Many people have ideas but how many act on them? I have found there are certain instances that cause people to act on their ideas. How many times has someone told you a great idea and then never acted on it? It happens all the time.

The first of the year many people act on their ideas. It's that news years resolution thing working... In fact in my barefoot biz company there were 30,000 people act on an idea to become part of that company in January 2008 alone.

It's a fact that we have been talking about for a almost a year we are in a huge growth wave. I can tell you though the company just didn't automatically grow by itself. This is the result of lots of effort and time put in by many distributors.

Are you acting on your ideas? Did you sponsor over 20 people into your business last month? If not ponder this...

Frequency and Quantity ...

Here is what I suggest for your self talk about getting yourself going. How often - How many? How often - How many? How often - How many? How often - How many?

Over and over again this is what you need to tell yourself.

Instant gratification is a terminal disease. People who need success RIGHT NOW. If it doesn't happen NOW ... you know what I mean. Building this business takes some effort, patience, belief. I will say just two things for you to ponder on ...

1. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the present to get the future, and fight off all thinking of instant gratification.

2. Compromise. Don't compromise your future with things that don't matter.