Moving On…

Jen

Products

Anyone who has signed up for our informative series probably knows by now exactly how I feel about selecting your company and product. However, if you haven’t already signed up, I’ll recap a bit so that what I’m about to say makes more sense.

Our team is built on many principles and strategies to get us from ground level to having a full thriving business. At core, it’s how you market yourself that is going to determine your success, not what MLM you get into. A good networker can be successful in any company. However, there are still two things to be said choosing your MLM wisely.

First, a good and fair compensation plan will always make you achieve your specific financial goal quicker than working with a poorly structured system. So yes, you can achieve your goal the same way with a crappy compensation plan, it will just take much longer.

Secondly, I don’t feel good about selling snake oil. Hey, I’m not looking down on a lot of you who are in this strictly for the business. In fact, I’m in this strictly for the business. I just feel a lot better about doing my business honestly. There are also some fringe benefits from working with a product that you truly believe in. Such as getting to utilize your product, and being able to give your personal testimonial without having to lie. It made it very easy for me to tell people all about my product with Via Viente because I had my own true story successful health story, based on using the product, to tell them about it. I don’t care what anyone says…people can sense lies. We’re not stupid this day and age, and we’ve been sold to so much over the years that babies are practically popping out with a skeptical mind.

So on to the good stuff.

My mother, sister and I have decided to put marketing Via Viente on hold for a while. For many reasons. I could write a big long list, but I’m just going to sum it up as best I can. This does not mean that I’m no longer going to drink the stuff. We’re going to remain customers because it’s truly has benefited us greatly, and I wouldn’t trade the stuff for any other.

Via Viente is still an amazing product that has helped myself and many people I know with various serious health issues. Maybe I can’t say that it’s a cure or whatever, but all I know is that we all feel a hell of a lot better taking it than not taking it. Via is what I would classify as an alternative health product, also known as a preventative health care product. It’s a big up and coming market these days. My family has been all about this since I was little. So I was inclined to market it, instead of some fuel additive or cosmetic line.

The trouble with Via is marketing it online. Corporate has recently decided to dominate web marketing. Meaning that all distributors are not allowed to have their own non-generic website for sign ups. They now insist on selling you their useless generic page for sign ups. This page provides terrible marketing methods and materials, and honestly isn’t going to sell anyone anything. I have a better chance of selling snow to an Eskimo online. Furthermore, there seems something morally wrong about this whole situation. I thought Via was an MLM, not in the business of selling web space. Now I’m not against them offering it. All companies do. I don’t think you’ll get anywhere at all with it, but to each his own. It’s that they’re forcing us to purchase their terrible marketing materials online, if we choose to market online at all.

If this wasn’t enough in itself, the Via website now has a button that says, “Buy Now,” which tells me that Via will be making it possible to purchase their product directly from their corporate headquarters. Isn’t the whole point in MLM to purchase directly from a distributor? This was one of Via’s biggest attractions as an MLM, as you can only buy from a distributor. I’m not sure what is up with that, but it’s a good sign for us to jet. I’m not ok with that kind of MLM corporate structure.

Well on to the good news. Like I said earlier, we’re marketing ourselves, not our product. So this isn’t going to affect our team. They will go where we go. We have decided to follow our own direct upline into a new MLM called Oceanside Wealth. You can check them out here: http://oceansidewealth.com/winkiton. I am so impressed with how their have structured their matrix pay plan and the additional investment options and freedom available to you. They actually make it possible for you to be in profit with only 6 people underneath you, at $60 per month. In addition to the MLM portion of this company, they also offer an optional integrated system for investing in Forex. I was already happy enough with all of this, but what really sold me on the idea was the amount of free valuable training available to myself and my downline. I prefer to have user friendly resources to give prospective customers, and our team. They offer just that.

Well long story short, build your team based on your relationships, not your product. Then they will always go where you go. It’s sad, but companies fold all the time. And a lot of the time, it’s not even because there is anything wrong with the company other than someone made a critical mistake that got them majorly sued, or one top leader did something very bad that caused his leg to fall apart along with the company. Or you might even be in the same boat we’re in where they change something important about their structure that you no longer want to deal with. Sadly, you’ll have to deal with it, if you want to keep making money. But it will be much harder to deal with if your team is built of customers and people who love your product, not you.

Until next time, you gossips!

-Jen

What’s A Name Got To Do With It?!

Danielle

We’d like to welcome in August with a bang!

To do so, we’ve decided to give “Whitewind Marketing” a fresh new look and name. Still the same ol’ girls. Just branded with a better, more scandalous appeal. That included moving our old blog over to WordPress. =p

So right now I’d like to talk about just that, branding yourself.

Let me ask you something… When you hear the words Whitewind Marketing? What do you think?

MLM gurus?!

Nah, I think not. Maybe fairies, maybe magic… But we’re not here to talk about that crap. Save it for the theaters and Tolkien.

Now, when you hear the words Scandalous Network Marketing, what comes to mind?

Oooh… That sounds juicy!

Yeah, I thought so. Everyone loves gossip and secrets!

Sometimes we don’t understand how much a name has to do with marketing yourself. No one feels comfortable talking to a corporate brick wall. They would rather be entertained. Seriously, who in their right mind likes hearing the same old thing constantly? People love over the top things. And your name and personality are no exception. So find your niche and go with it!

-Danielle