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Good Morning Arbonne Leaders, You may have seen my post of looking for a new home, Well I decided to go with Arbonne and selected my sponsore. So here I go on to a new adventure in life but; here is my snag. I am currently in another HB business and I am not wanting to get outof it until the season is over with it is a gourmet food line (one of those you can not mention on line), so I am very busy this time of year, I have stock I need to get rid off so I do not want my customers to know that I am in something else until I have done the above. 2nd I have severaly people sponsored underneath me, I don't want them to question or get discouraged because they are busy with parties and such too. So that gets me to January, January I will be quiting my job and I need to sale my business supply from my HB business. Know I am getting into Febuary and March my husband will be getting orders for are next move and we will be moving in April so Febuary, March and January I will be getting our house ready to sale, I will be visiting family and I am selling our house myself, (we are in a sellers market). April Is when I would like to start my business but I don't want to loose the momentum, but I really do not have a warm market here, I have used my warm market for my current business. I am really looking forward to our next move, new people, fresh new start. I am open to any suggestions and question, TIA.


Lis

I have come to find that it really doesnt take too much time for me to
successfully run my arbonne business. I am a full time college student,
and have another job, but by budgeting time wisely I am able to get
done what I wish to get done. Since I dont know your situation, I
cannot say that you'll have plenty of time to work arbonne during the
first of the year. It would be great if you were to budget 5-10 hours
out of the week to doing Arbonne.



Normally I would just say, Get started now! But considering you already
have another successful business that does well this time of year, I am
hesitant. You dont want to overload your clients by presenting them
with multiple product lines, etc.



Arbonne is a great business. I wish you the best of luck when you do get your feet off the ground!

I work my Arbonne business around another business and made DM in two months.smileys/smiley4.gif
I also have 3 kids, 1 of which I home school 2 days a week.And the youngest is 1.

Anyone can do this if they want it.

Good Luck with Arbonne!

Lisa
Executive District Manager smileys/smiley4.gif


http://www.mywhy.myarbonne.com (http://www.mywhy.myarbonne.com)
http://www.frutavida4u.com/myhomebiz amazing product - amazing pay structure!

Best of luck to you and your new adventure.



Edited by: NewMommy

Hi Lisa, Thank you, It is not the time issue, it is the issue that I want to get out of this other business by December, but I have alot of stock I want to get rid off and I don't want my customers to think "she now longer sell HG because she is doing Arbonne. We live in a tight community and alot of people know me. So they do talk and assume things. And I am on the downhill slide of leaving this area. I guess I will just kind of wait until April. Should I go ahead and order my RE sets, in case, maybe two sets. Get my business cards done up?

I don't think anyone would think bad of you by doing both. You could do the results approach while pushing to get rid of your stock from your other business. All your doing is sharing an AWESOME product that people are going to love! You never know, you may find a couple business builders before you leave. Military spouses are always looking for extra income! I should know, I am one! Plus, you will have more of an incentive to keep going once you move. If you are starting from scratch when you move, you might put it off. Just my 2 cents!

I would go ahead & get your results kits now. You never know when you are going to run into your 1st (or next) business builder. What if you were chatting with someone tomorrow who said, "I hate my job. I just don't feel appreciated." or "I wish I could find a part time job to pick up a few extra dollars for a housekeeper." or many other scenarios. With Arbonne, you have the answer for what they need, you just have to listen to hear the wants/needs. Better to be prepared in my humble opinion.


Good luck with whatever you decide. In the meantime, you now ownyour ownmall...think of all the great things you can get for you & your family, especially for Christmas!!

Hey Lisa,


Have you thought about going to any of your downline in your food business and telling them about Arbonne? Who knows, maybe they are in the same spot you are and wanting to get out of that business and into another.


I agree, I think you should get your kits now and just ask people if they want to try it. Your two businesses are so different that I don't think anyone would think anything of you doing both. You could just let them believe you are continuing with your food business and just adding Arbonne.Also, think about having aopen house for peopel to holiday shop to get rid of your inventory and have a sea salt demo out too and a RE 9 kit setting out.


Good Luck!!


Lori


Good Luck!!


Lori

Hi all and thank you. Still not 100% sure of what I am going to do, but a few things I am going to do is go ahead and purchase 2 set of the REsults and get some business cards made up. I am also going to be meeting with my sponsore next weekend and I think I should introduce myself with her, I have never met her. I am also going to get my business cards made up and do some of the online training. I really do not want to over extend myself with doing to much, I already do that and do not need to add anything else, I am going to enjoy the holidays. I have a open house this weekend with my other business so hopefully I get rid of most of my stock from that. Then start in baby steps in January, a new year for my success. 2006 is going to ROCK.


Hugs


Lisa

Hi Lisa~ (and Hello to everyone else smileys/smiley1.gif)


Best of luck with your move. It sounds like you have a lotgoing onover the next few months. I just moved toArkansas from Pennsylvaniaand do not know anyone here. Take it from me...don't wait to start your business. I decided not to pursue Arbonne as a business until I moved from PA.Things are progressing and I made DM last month, but it has been slow in coming.If you have established relationships with people where you live and they know and trust you, they will not think poorly of you for introducing something new to them, especially something that is of benefit to them. I was a very busy hairstylist for 8 years. I only told a few clients what I was doing right before I moved. The ones I shared withknew I hadalways taken great care of themand they now use Arbonne! I should have shared with everyone when I had the opportunity. Don't miss out on that chance while you still have it.

Hey Gigi72, where in AR do you live? I was a hairstylist also until we moved to the Texas/Arkansas border. Just wondering if you were closesmileys/smiley17.gif

Hi Lori~


I am in Bentonville. I think my husband and I are the only 2 people who live here and don't work for Wal-Mart. I was born in Fort Smith, but have not lived in the state for very many years. Where did you move from?

I would suggest getting a team going where you currently are. Don't wait, since they know and trust you, you'll have momentum when you move and while you are finding a new team.

just so you know, it's against Arbonne policies and procedures to
recruit people from other direct sales company. it's sorta
tricky. for instance, if your sister sells pampered chef and ask
questions and is curious about arbonne, it's fine to answer questions
and give information. it wouldn't be okay for a person to decide
that arbonne offers a better opportunity than another company and
recruit her sister to switch companies.