Guest blogger: serious business or hobby business?

The following excellent message is from Rod Larkin. This message is thought-provoking and right on the mark. I agree 100% with Rod when he says this business takes work and what I will add to that is when a person makes a decision to develop the skills necessary for building, their is no ceiling for what's possible.

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke

Hello Team!

 

In all of my business training presentations, I always wrap up with this slide at the end about treating your Shaklee business like a serious business.

 

The #1 reason, by far, why most people fail in this business is because they do not treat their Shaklee business with the same respect, commitment and effort that "traditional" business ownership requires.

 

Owners of any other type of business who have lots of money and time invested in their business MUST treat their business seriously.  They MUST show up for work everyday.  They MUST pay attention to it.  If they don't, they risk losing everything. 

 

Most people in Shaklee treat their business like a hobby business which is fine, if a hobby income, which is sometimes little or no income, is what they are satisfied with.  If a person wants more, if a person wants to earn a great income, increase his/her income, then there is only one way to make that happen-- treat your business like a serious business and it will pay you a serious income!

 

Over the years I've heard people say-- "If I was able to work this business full-time, then I could really make it work."  there has been a saying every since I've been in this business-- "if you can't make it work part-time, you'll never make it work full-time."  You see, it's never been about the total amount of hours a person puts in to building his/her business.  It's ALL about what you do with the time you put in. 

 

Prospecting and contacting new people, doing presentations with new people, sponsoring new distributors and new members, following up with people, and training and support your people-- these are THE ONLY activities that product growth.  NOTHING else does.  I've seen LOTS of people build very large and successful Shaklee businesses doing it part-time.  Sr Master Coordinators Ray & Sue DeBrincat.  Ray was a senior design engineer for Ford at their World Headquarters.

 

Sue was introduced to the products first and when she got great results with the products (she was suffering severe hair loss and had a severe stuttering problem, both which eventually went away when she got on  the right Shaklee nutrition program), Sue decided to share the products and start her own business.  When ray saw the results Sue got with the products and then saw how she began making money, Ray joined Sue in the business and not just by being "the supportive spouse", but by actively working and building in their business part-time.

 

Ray set a goal that when they made it to Master Coordinator, he would quit he high-paying job with Ford.  Working at their Shaklee business part-time while working full-time for Ford, they made it to Master Coordinator in 4 years with 15 1st generation Director legs and Ray quit his job.  That was back in the early 1980's and Ray and Sue have enjoyed a wonderfully spectacular income and lifestyle due to the success of their Shaklee business.

 

Ray and Sue treated their Shaklee business seriously, put serious, committed, focused, self-disciplined part-time effort every week into building it over a period of 4 years, and it has rewarded them in kind for how they treated their business. 

 

Rod Larkin