Ok, so I have posted a couple of entries about lead generation. It was a true roller coaster ride that ended in disaster for us. We love selling Herbalife products but we will NEVER do Herbalife's recommended lead generation programs again. If you are an Herbalife Independent Distributor and have not participated in their lead generation program (Paid Packs and Call Me Leads), my advice to you is to proceed very cautiously and do not participate unless you have several thousand dollars to risk. When you go through the Herbalife training, they really push their lead generation systems on you - especially paid packs. You learn that this is where the money is made, they send you voicemails from others that are successful using Paid Packs, they focus their training webinars and conference calls around the lead generation, your mentor pushes the paid packs - it is everywhere. You start to believe all the hype - but beware because they never tell you about all the refunds you'll be giving out of your own pocket (and the credits are never returned to your bank account), about the leads complaining to the BBB (though they do help validate your business if this happens), about the aftermath of people backing out after they decided to sign-up for the business and back out later. They tell you you'll do over $10K in business to start out - and it only grows from there. However, we think it is the luck of the draw - some get lucky and some don't. I imagine more get bad leads than what we will ever know. There are good lead generation systems out there that are much less expensive - I suggest trying them out on your own rather than going through Herbalife's program. We will be trying some of these others after we recover our losses from using Herbalife's program. When we do, I will be sure to keep everyone updated on how we do.
In any business, especially starting one on your own, you expect to take risks and there are possibilities of losing money. We knew this going into it and even though we didn't want to lose our money, we were prepared to lose what we had invested into the lead generation system if it didn't work. However, what we weren't prepared for was the additional money we lost from paying for everything out of our own pockets prior to receiving funds from the leads and then having to refund any money from leads that complain out of our own pockets and not getting any of that money returned to us when the products are returned to Herbalife. So if you are considering the lead generation program, just proceed cautiously and tack on an additional $1K for every 25 to 30 leads you purchase to come out of your pocket - just to be safe. Hopefully, if you decide to proceed your luck will be better than ours...but please carefully consider your options before feeding into the hype being shoved down your throat every hour of every day.
Other than the lead generation loss, we love the products we sell. The products are terrific and work as promised. They are easy to sell and are worth the money to get started in the business as a supervisor. The retail side of the business is awesome and I would recommend it to anyone but be careful of how you go about proceeding with your MLM side of the business and know all of your options before deciding on one.
We'll keep you posted on things we try whether they are successful or not.
Until next time,
David & Crystal
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