Affiliate Business Trends

Archive for May, 2009

I left Herbalife in March of 2007.  I had a few regrets, one of which was leaving some of the people that I had met during my time with that company.  I think that was why I hung on for that third year.  I didn’t want to miss the comaraderie that I felt with my downline and one very special person in my upline, Rosey, my mentor.  After I quit, I later learned that most of my downline also quit.

About a month later, Rosey called me and told me that she had started working with another direct marketing company, Meleleuca.  She told me it was different than working with Herbalife. 

So began my next venture into the home based business.  Meleleuca was different.  A much friendlier atmosphere, and the upline wasn’t so driving.  I advanced to director in my first month and I have to say that 3 years later, I’m still with the company.  I’m not really working it as a business anymore, but I am still using the products.  I like them, they are quality products.

Tomarrow the journey continues.

I began thinking about starting a home based business in May of 2004.  I had a brand new baby granddaughter and I wanted the freedom to spend time with her whenever I wanted.  I also wanted the freedom to work from where ever I chose to.

So the first business I looked into and began working at was, Herbalife.  I spent 3 years of working my tail feathers off, (working every holiday, weekend, and evening of those 3 years), and having nothing to show for it except, umm, no life.  I decided that this was not why I started a home based business.  I had wanted more time with my family and all I was doing was working constantly with more time away from my family.

Now I’m not usually a quitter, but after 3 years, I was having trouble sleeping.  Mainly because I was worrying about the money my upline wanted me to spend each and every month on leads.  I worried that I wasn’t going to hit my quota for each  month and I would lose my downline and I started to have self confidence issues when my upline told me that “I wasn’t bringing in the right kind of people, that was why I wasn’t keeping customers or downline people, and that the people I brought in were a direct reflection of me.  I really began to feel the stress and my health started to suffer.  So after much thought, I finally quit Herbalife.

After I quit, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. 

Tomarrow I will tell you about my next adventure into the home based business market.