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The Shaklee Business "opportunity" - Don't Let Shaklee Do This To You

I would like to tell you a story about astockpile on products, so her vitamins filled
woman named Ginny Gemmel. She wanted to earnthree shelves in her basement. Any money she
some extra cash to pay for art classes tomade went into next months inventory.
improve her business of hand-painting"Sometimes I thought this is crazy, but I'm
clothes. Excited about selling products foralso near the 18% level. Why am I not content
Shaklee, the Emmaus, Pa. housewife signed onselling fewer products, for a 5% bonus?" She
as a distributor. Seven months later she quitstarted spending a lot of time on the phone,
in disgust. Ginny says "she and her husbandand the bills ran between $100 and $150 a
Tim, 41, a computer salesman, spent so muchmonth. She would leave her kids and husband
with Shaklee that they lost their $12,000at home, working 60 hours a week. It did a
college fund for their three children, now 6,number on her marriage, and her kids were
11 and 16. If someone had told me in advanceignored. She then stated, "The sales leaders
what I'd end up doing, I never would havestarted laying on the guilt at the Shaklee
started selling". Her experience began bymeetings, making us feel we were lagging in
answering an ad in her local newspaper. Theour sales volume. They said, 'We've got the
person on the other end of that ad, was aliterature. We've got the products. We've got
Shaklee distributor. Ginny started bythe trips. What's wrong?'" She tried a lot of
purchasing an $18 sales kit. However, this isdifferent ways to sell for Shaklee like, but
where  is  gets  ugly.nothing  seemed  to  work.
Her sponsor said, he would "see if she wasSo what's wrong with this picture? It's the
good enough at sales" (now, I'm thinking,SPONSORSHIP. And it's also the TRAINING.
what kind of sponsor would ever say that to aShaklee, obviously failed miserably in these
person in their downline). She told him shetwo key areas. Ginny should have NEVER gone
wouldn't go door-to-door selling. He saidthrough what she did with Shaklee. Where was
that "you don't sell Shaklee, you share it".her support? Instead, all she got was a guilt
When she went to her first Shaklee meeting,trip. Please be careful when signing up for
(you got to love those hotel meetings) theyANY MLM. Not just Shaklee. Ask yourself these
all applauded to show support for her. Thatimportant  questions:
made her feel great. They promised her trips
and cars. So, she decided to try for the*Who  is  my  mentor/trainer?
bonus of 18% of sales of distributors below
her level in the company. That required*How  long  have  they been with the company?
ordering a total of $1,500 a month of
vitamins and skin-care products for her and*Will I have to go door to door selling
36 distributors that she would sign up. Sheproducts?
would say to her husband, "Just give me $500
from your checking account to help bring in*Can I physically even go door to door
business, and next year we'll be inselling  products?
California on a trip with Shaklee"! It was
like an addiction, she stated. Her husband*Will this company take me away from my
even spent $4,000 on a computer to set up aspouse/children?
program keeping track of sales for Shaklee
distributors. NONE (NOT even her SPONSOR) of*Will I be led on a guilt trip every time I
the successful salespeople told her NOT tohave to attend a company meeting?



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