Shaklee A Good Program Or Bad?
Are you a Shaklee distributer or looking at Shaklee? Here is the information you are looking for to grow your business or to get started.
Shaklee is one of the oldest network marketing company around today and probably one of the most well known for vitamins. Shaklee shares it’s business with other well known multi-level companies such as Amway, Herbalife, Watkins, Mary Kay and a host of other MLM companies. But Shaklee grew to become one of the most recognized and successful of all the network-marketing companies with their vitamins.
Shaklee’s History
Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee, a San Francisco chiropractor, created “Shaklee’s Vitalized Minerals” in 1915 before the concept of vitamins was fully understood. In 1956, Dr. Shaklee founded the Shaklee Corporation with his two sons to manufacture nutritional supplements. Starting in 1960, Shaklee chose the relatively unknown multi-level marketing business model to market his product. The idea here was to allow more people to purchase his products and have others the ability to earn some part-time income. Soon, Dr. Shaklee began marketing organic biodegradable cleaning produced. He continually emphasized “natural” and “environmentally friendly” in his marketing messages, ideas which were not common at the time.
Shaklee’s Growing Pains
Shaklee Corporation was a public traded company in the late 1970s and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The corporation began to diversify in November 1986 when it purchased the Bear Creek Corporation, a direct marketing company. In March 1989, Shaklee Corporation received an unsolicited proposal from a group led by Irwin L. Jacobs, known by his nickname “Irv the Liquidator”. Analysts placed the leveraged buyout value of Shaklee at $35 a share. The Jacobs group had been aggressively accumulating Shaklee shares, and disclosed it currently held a 14.98 percent stake in the San Francisco-based company. After a few tense weeks, during which time Jacobs increased his stake in Shaklee, Shaklee Corporation announced it was being acquired by Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical for $28 a share in cash, or about $395 million. Yamanouchi’s partnership with Shaklee in Japan helped make the transaction possible, and cast Yamanouchi as a “white knight” in helping Shaklee fend off the hostile takeover bid by Jacobs.
In April 2004, Yamanouchi sold Shaklee Corporation to American billionaire Roger Barnett, managing partner of Activated Holdings LLC, for $310 million. Barnett became the new CEO and Chairman of the Board of Shaklee Corporation. “Shaklee is the crown jewel of the network marketing industry,” Barnett stated. “My dream is to build Shaklee into the number one company in the world in our field.” Barnett went on to predict Shaklee would become the leading nutrition and natural personal care company in the world, generating $5 billion in annual revenues.
When network marketing or MLM began to grow many organizations challenge the MLM business. Shaklee, Amway and others took them on face-to-face, belly-to-belly and over months and years of proving that MLM business model was not a pyramid scheme. But instead a successful business model that anyone, with a little desire to own their own business could become involved and be a business owner. This was an important concept. In fact we owe todays MLM success to These Pioneers.
So what is a pyramid?
Well in a true since, today’s modern business is a pyramid. In fact the company you work for could be called a pyramid. Here’s what I mean. Let’s say you have CEO, the head of the business. The CEO has a President. The President has Vice Presidents. The Vice Presidents has Directors and the Directors have Manager. The Managers have employees who consist of Secretary’s, shipping and receiving, marketing, sales, factory workers and others.
Now let me ask you, what is the possibility for the mail clerk or forklift driver moving into the CEO position? Impossible? No not impossible but unlikely. So if you draw out the corporate structure it is a TRUE PYRAMID.
Business Pyramid
CEO
President
Vice President
Directors
Managers
Employees
The advantage of any network marketing company is that you can be the CEO of your company and in fact, grow your personal business larger than the person who sponsored you. I know of many distributors who sponsored someone who grew their business larger and more successful than the person who sponsored them.
So to answer the question Is Shaklee a Good Program Or Bad? The answer is YES! Shaklee is a great company in which you can make money either part-time or full-time. In fact there are many Shaklee distributors earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in their work-at-home program.
Shaklee is A Good Program:
Shaklee is well known in the network marketing business. They have one of the most successful product lines. Shaklee has a great support program, good motivation programs and seminars. The leaders motivate and promote. The marketing is a proven model and has been very successful for many Shaklee distributors. Talk to a potential customer, and they probably have heard of Shaklee vitamins through their personal contacts, family and friends. The products are excellent and the home care products will save the customer some money from purchasing from retail stores. And you can make money by following the advice of the leaders.
Is Shaklee A Bad Program?
That depends your point of view. If you like network marketing, Shaklee is a good business model for making money. If you’re not a believer in network marketing, then NO Shaklee is not a good program. To the nonbelievers, any network marketing company is not a real program.
However, I submit the following: Many top universities study this type of marketing as a form of a successful business model.
Shaklee is not bad in the true since of bad. Are there problems? Any MLM Company has some issues. Mostly in the way they offer training and coaching.
Shaklee is one of the oldest MLM companies. There are many stories on how the program works. For example, they want you to promote the business through family and friends. You start by getting the family on the Shaklee products then friends. The problem then become: what happens when you go through friends and family?
A lot of MLM Companies and sponsors will then have you make a “list.” They will even give you an “idea” paper. Who is your barber? Your mailman? Your store clerk? Your favorite restaurant? Beginning to see the problem here?
Most MLM distributers start to fail at this point because they lack direction.
Again, this is the way most if not all Network Marketing Companies start new distributors. It is Old School Marketing. The problem here is What Happens When You Run Out Of Friends and Family? You then start posting notes on windshield in parking lots, post notes on apartment entryways, stand in front of malls and hand out flyers, wear buttons and DO What Ever You Can To Invite Someone To A Business Opportunity or try your products.
The drop-out is high with many of the MLM companies and Shaklee is no exception.
Shaklee products.
The products are excellent. From 1988-2000 Shaklee was the title sponsor of an American based UCI professional cycling team managed by Frank Scioscia. In its final year of existence (2000) Team Shaklee was the top-ranked UCI tier III team in the world. Beginning in 1993, Shaklee started providing NASA with a customized rehydration beverage for use by Shuttle astronaut sand its use continues today. Shaklee continues to expand the product line with a Weight Loss Program, Vitamins, Anti-Aging, Home and Beauty Products. As with most MLM products, many customers complain about the price. To off set this, the distributor tries to promote the “business” side so as to get a discount.
How To Build A Shaklee Business
So as I said is “Shaklee Good Program Or Bad” and the answer is YES it’s a good MLM Company. Can you make money with Shaklee? Many do and you can too. Do what your heart tells you.
Follow a Proven System
But there is a better way to build your Shaklee business or to get you started. It’s called Attraction Marketing. You first have to build trust and relationship. People will buy or join a network marketing business from friends. How do you do that?
Be a friend first and find out what your prospect wants and provide a way they can get what they want….Attraction Marketing.
Summery
Want to build your Shaklee business, network marketing, MLM, home based business or Internet business…use Attraction Marketing!! Remember old school marketing is Dead. Replace it with What Works.
Any successful business, including network marketing needs fresh leads each and every day. No leads, and the business fails.
This is where many distributors begin to fail. No leads, No business, Lack of knowledge, Lack of a good marketing plan = failed business.
You need leads, you need tools, you need coaching, you need a way to contact people without spamming. You need your Shaklee business to grow.
Attraction Marketing is the New Tool for successful network marketers.
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Here’s to your success in Shaklee and thanks,
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