Archive for March, 2009

Wellness Tip – Water

Friday, March 27th, 2009

02A10F2R1.  Drink WATER. Water keeps the joints lubricated, regulates the body temperature and helps flush out body toxins while keeping you hydrated.  When you get thirsty – consider the FAT-FREE DRINK:  Water! (it’s even free)

Carry a water bottle with you on all your trips whether it’s to the office, the gym, the mall, the park or a walk in the neighborhood.  By having a water bottle handy, its easy to keep hydrated!!

Success is easy, but neglect is even easier. As a successful leader at JD Premium…

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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Success is easy, but neglect is even easier

As a successful leader at JD Premium, people will ask you how you became successful…while so many others didn’t. Your answer will be simple, but important: You will be following business habits that are easy for you to do and easy for you to train others to do. But unsuccessful people will find that those same, easy things are easier not to do.

For example, you will find it easy to listen to the self-development CDs and read the books that shape your business philosophies and ideas. You’ll find it easy to go through the company training program thoroughly yourself so you’re prepared to give it to others.

Unsuccessful people will find that listening and reading are easier not to do.

You will find it easy to schedule the meetings, conventions, radio shows, and conference calls into your life.

You will find it easy to schedule the classes and seminars with your team that make all the difference. You will find it easy to associate with the most successful people—the movers and the shakers. They will find it easier not to.

As Jim Rohn says, “The primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.”

He also has this to say, “Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.”

As a leader it will be easy for you to schedule your part-time JD Premium tasks as carefully as you schedule your full-time employment. You’ll schedule time for prospecting and follow-up calls. You’ll create and schedule systems of follow-up text messages and emails. You’ll keep up-to-date in adding your enthusiasm to new announcements the company makes.

In short you’ll do all the little things that are easy to do, but even easier not to do. And that will mean all the difference in your paycheck.

As Jim Rohn said, “Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken.”

Just imagine what you will be making a year from now when you have developed an immunity to the disease of neglect.

How can JD Premium pay 70% on PV? This is a great question that deserves a serious response…

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

02A12G0RHow can JD Premium pay 70% on PV?

This is a great question that deserves a serious response.

When you start with a different goal in mind, you get a different kind of company.

Most investors in our industry are understandably profit driven, as most investors are. To maximize profits they ask, “what’s the very lowest amount of money I am forced to pay my employees, my distributors, and my vendors to get them to do what I need? Then what’s the highest amount I can charge the customers for products that come with a promise of an income?”

Because many people who come to network marketing don’t understand the way this industry works, they fall for the advertising hype that they can get rich quick. They sign up to promote some high-priced miracle product on the hopes of making a fortune. They cancel after a short time and the top few recruiters and investors in the company make off with vast sums of money.

Because of these and many other abuses he saw in the industry, but also because he admired the tremendous power for good in the industry, Roger Ball decided to start this company with a different goal in mind.

In our economy these days people are extremely skeptical, especially where their money is concerned…and especially knowing exactly what they have to do to earn their money. They’re afraid to go to work in a network marketing company for fear all their up-front work will be wasted (as it has in other companies they’ve tried).

roger-ball_9351So Roger dared to ask this question: “What if I start this company with the promise that I will never take more than a fixed profit, say…10%. And then I promise to maximize the payout to distributors…and, I open my books to them to prove it! Will that dispel the fear, help people relax and go to work, and give far more people the opportunity of a lifetime?

“What makes people afraid to get involved in an opportunity like ours?” He asks. Here are some answers:

“They’ll relax and go to work if they know I have their best interest at heart with rock solid guarantees and promises to maximize their earnings and open my books.

“They’ll relax if they know our products are competitively priced and offer the very highest value.

“They’ll relax if they get their products and checks on time.

“They’ll relax if they have plenty of training and marketing support.

“They’ll relax if they know the company won’t be out of business when they start earning big checks.

“They’ll relax if they completely understand the compensation program. There aren’t a lot of hidden hurdles, breakaways, balancing legs, and so forth.

“Here’s another important reason for distributor stress that many companies ignore. They’ll relax if they have a voice in compensation plan decisions. Here’s why.

“The sophisticated networkers are afraid of a company who will change the compensation rules down the road to increase their profits. But they do this after the founding leaders have built large organizations. This makes it impossible for founding leaders to enjoy the rewards of their initial hard work without having to jump over new hurdles that favor newcomers.

So Roger Ball’s promise is to build a company that will disclose many of the abuses and hidden industry practices that have made people afraid to try network marketing. We can be honest with our customers and IBOs, give them assurances and guarantees, and let them go out and build a business built on integrity and fair play.

Now, let me tell you why JD Premium can promise up to a 70% payout on Point Value plus a 50% Fast Start, 25% Matching Bonus, and a Directors Bonus Pool. It sounds almost impossible, but for three things:

untitled1.    To remain competitive in the marketplace with products of varying margins, JD Premium uses Point Value (PV) (as most companies do). In other words, if a product costs the IBO $45 but IBOs only earn 70% commissions on 40PV, they are not really getting 70% commissions on $45 ($45 x .70 = $31.50). They’re earning it on 40PV or (40PV x .70 = $28). That’s only 62% of the actual dollar cost of the item but 70% on PV. According to Roger Ball PV is a very dangerous tool in the hands of greedy people because, as we said earlier, a company can maximize profits by charging the maximum and paying out the minimum.

2.    In our industry there are people who enroll but enroll no one or only one or two others. In our company we understand that these people won’t maximize their payout to 70% of PV because they won’t sponsor the number of people it will take. Therefore, if they enroll one or two, they aren’t paid 70%. They’re paid 10% to 30% of PV depending on their qualifications. So a larger percentage is paid to those who build deeper organizations.

3.    It also comes from the money we save at JD Premium from manufacturing our own products and living as lean as possible. You won’t see middlemen making a lot of money at JD Premium.

Why we protect unsophisticated networkers

Our promise at JD Premium is to protect the unsophisticated first-time networker. Where many companies keep the above facts hidden, our promise is to educate the unsophisticated first-time networkers and make promises they can trust. If all they want to do is buy the products and never recruit, we don’t penalize them with inflated prices. But if they choose to recruit at all, we offer wonderful incentives that allow them to pay for their products easily with only a little recruiting effort. And with a little more effort, they can earn an extra $500 a month. That part-time income alone would dramatically improve the lifestyles of many people.

Then there’s an amazing financial opportunity for anyone who develops the disciplines and skills of a professional networker. That is the opportunity that comes with a promise to maximize your income and open our books so you know we will never do anything to hurt you.

Roger has established a Leadership Advisory Council (LAC) where leaders and officers of the company come together on a weekly basis to agree on the decisions that affect everyone.