Can I Sell It On eBay?
Last weekend was my second Herbalife Training Seminar. One thing I noticed is that whenever a speaker goes up on stage, there will be people grabbing their notebooks, diaries, even the pieces of paper that the hotel provided, rushing to the stage for the speakers’ autographs.
The guy sitting beside me asked why I’m not doing the same thing.
"Why?" I asked.
It’s not like I can sell it on eBay and make a lot of money. Besides, from what I can see, I don’t even think that the signatures are authentic. They look very hastily scrawled on to me.
I picked up a few interesting facts during the seminar.
=> Herbalife is now the official nutritional advisor and sponsor for LA Galaxy aka David Beckham’s team in the US. I spotted some people wearing the official jersey with Beckham’s name on it. I forgot what is the number, but I believe it’s 7 just like Christiano.
=> Sponsoring people and getting new customers are really easy, if you are the people at the top of the food chain. Of course, these people purposely left out the sacrifices and hardwork that they did to get to the top.
=> It’s all about packaging your story.
=> 50% discount is better than 25% discount, so a distributor’s aim is always to qualify as a supervisor so that they can enjoy the enormous discounts and other benefits that supervisors get.
=> Say the word "Extravaganza" and the people will go wild.
=> An Extravaganza is this really big conference that only supervisors & above get to attend. It will be a regional affair and this year it will be held in Bangkok. There will be seminars, parties and really fun activities that allows plenty of networking opportunities.
=> If you attend the Extravaganza, you can be sure that you get to learn from the best people because only the best of the best, ie the top earners in the business get to be their speakers. These are also the people who get to fire their bosses and take up the business full time.
=> From the pictures, the seminars look like a rock concert. People sit stadium style in a really big auditorium and if you sit at the back then I doubt you get to see much of the action on stage because it will be too far away.
=> To qualify as a supervisor, you need to make an order of 4,000 volume points in a single calendar month, which is around RM14k investment.
=> Some people are willing to take the risk and invest the amount (some of which they don’t have) in products, then slowly sell them off. Me, I’m a coward when it comes to money. I don’t fork out that much cash unless I am sure of the ROI. Besides, having that much funds tied up in products indefinitely doesn’t sit comfortably with me.
Hmm…I wonder if one fine day, I will get my turn up on that stage? Yeah, that would be really cool.
