The Top of the MLM

As with most things, attitude begins at the top. The owners of a MLM set the business into motion and determine how it is to function. Mary Kay Ash, of Mary Kay, decided that her MLM company would be run following the Golden Rule, meaning that all the Mary Kay members were going to be expected to treat each others and the customers fairly and ethically. Any sponsor or distributor that did not want to do this did not belong in the Mary Kay family. Every MLM has a definite set of beliefs in how the company is run and it always starts with the owners.

Early Recruits

Starting an MLM is not easy. There are many decisions regarding product, distribution, marketing, legal issues, etc. To go through everything it takes to get the MLM up and running, an owner must really believe in their product. The owners must have a passion for their MLM, and want to do whatever they can to make it a success. And when recruiting they must find others who can pick up on their passion and make it their own. MLMs more than many other businesses need a passionate commitment from the top down.

Sustaining the Drive

When an MLM is growing they must foster the attitude of passion for the product and system in all its members. Every day the MLM is trying to sell their product and system and that only happens if there is a passion to make it happen. They need their sponsors to want to recruit new distributors every day. They need their distributors to want to sell product everyday. That drive to accomplish goals everyday is what the MLM demands if it is going to become successful. When a MLM is growing, they must keep their sales force motivated. It is important that while they do not want to create unrealistically high monthly goals, that they also don’t make them so low that distributors can relax and sell the minimum and still profit.

Successful MLMs

Once a MLM reaches the top, say an Avon or Mary Kay, there is room for the more casual distributor. These are the direct sellers that are happy with part-time hours, selling to regular customers. The MLM still wants them passionate about the company and its ideals, but it has reached the point where it can have distributors that take care of sales only, with no interest in becoming a major sponsor. As long as there are plenty of passionate members recruiting new people and creating large forces to generate the sales, the MLM can remain successful and at the top of the industry.

In recent years there has been a lot of attention and information about super foods. These are foods that help to promote and maintain health and protect our immunity systems. The original MonaVie Acai blend is based on the acai (pronounced “ah-sah-ee”) berry, found on a palm tree in the Brazilian rainforest. They also just came out with a energy drink called MonaVie EMV.

This palm tree was in danger of extinction as it was being harvested for a small twelve inch section called the heart of palm, and once this was removed the tree died never to grow back. MonaVie began using the acai berry from this tree creating a new market for the locals and ensuring that the berries could be harvested without harming the tree. And it is important that every tree in rainforest should be saved, as the whole world’s environment is dependant on it to keep in balance.

MonaVie acai is a blend and it includes eighteen other beneficial fruits including blueberries and pomegranates. The acai blend also includes white and purple grapes, pear, bananas and prunes, and many other healthy fruits. The formula MonaVie came up with is a powerful source for phytonutrients which help create and maintain great overall health. Another plus is that the MonaVie is safe and beneficial for all ages.

But it is not all about business. MonaVie is also committed to protecting and preserving the world and its resources. One of the main ingredients, the acai berry, is harvested from the acai berry tree in the Amazon Rainforest. The same tree also produces heart of the palm and in the past whole trees were destroyed to get this twelve-inch section of the tree, trees that will never grow back. By creating a market for acai berries, MonaVie (through The MORE Project) has given the people an economic reason to harvest the berries while letting the palm trees live.

The company is also committed to other resource preservation. They use recycled glass in their bottles and promote recycling to its customers and distributors. MonaVie works to establish green and earth friendly policies. And by selling through local networks and distributors they are able to eliminate multiple corporate offices which use a lot of energy and material supply.

MonaVie is a health based company committed to helping people while preserving the world’s treasures. They strive to do the best, from their healthful drinks and blends to the way they harvest their ingredients. They give their customers healthy and highly nutritious products while giving their associates the opportunity to run a profitable business. They continue to develop new products and formulas to meet the growing and changing needs of their customers. MonaVie has accomplished a lot in just a few years and we wait to see what they will do next.

The original MonaVie is a nutritional drink that is designed to increase health and fight free radicals. The company uses an approach that they call Balance-Variety-Moderation to combine phytonutrients and antioxidants in a healthful drink. Phytonutrients nourish the whole body for overall good health. Antioxidants, which are very much in the news, fight the free radicals in our cells that cause oxidation and can lead to cell damage and early aging. They have since branched out and created several other blends including one for energy and a kosher drink.

MonaVie is made from a blend of many fruits including acai, blueberry and pomegranate which have all been promoted as power foods. It also includes many other healthful foods like apple, banana and passion fruit, nineteen foods in all. It is said that it provides the antioxidants equivalent to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables which definitely meets the daily requirement that medical experts advise we get each day for optimum health.MonaVie was also recently highlighted in the INC 500. Click here to read MonaVie’s profile.

Heart health should be on everyone’s mind. The number of new cardiac related cases in the nation’s hospitals is staggering. We have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and declining health, the majority of which is caused by obesity and poor diet. Knowing that we are all facing such a horrible health crisis, you would think more people would pay attention to diet and nutritional news. That does not seem to be the case, however. It is almost as if no one cares that we are digging our ways to an early grave with a fork and spoon.

Cholesterol has been a health concern for many years, but many people either do not know their numbers and what they mean, or they do not care. They blithely eat a cheeseburger and say they are taking the latest cholesterol reducing drug, thinking that the pharmacist has given them some magic elixir that allows them to eat whatever they want and not worry about it. Fast forward six months and these same people are goggling at the doctor and swearing the blood test must have been tainted- there is literally no way their cholesterol can be worse, they have taken their medicine every day! Well, that pill must not be strong enough, they say. Or, that pill is not the right one for me. When the doctor asks if they changed their diet like they were told to, they come to a dead stop. Diet? I was supposed to change the way that I eat, too? And so it goes.

We expect a lot from our heart if you think about it. We expect it to continue beating at its regular pace for every day of our life. As we grow, new vessels must be added to keep up with the demand. The same goes for gaining weight. As we gain weight, we must continually add more blood vessels to keep blood flow to the new, fatter areas of our body. The more we add, the harder the heart works. Once we strain it too far, we get damage in the form of scar tissue or worse. Keep it up and the heart calls “fault” and we have a heart attack. It’s not like the warning signs had not been there all along, we just often choose to ignore them.

We must reduce our weight and lower our cholesterol. We can make sure we get enough plant sterols to help with this, but sometimes that is hard to do. Adding MonaVie Pulse adds not only plant sterols but heart healthy Resveratrol as well. Drinking two servings (a total of 8 oz.) a day of Pulse gives you the suggested amount of plant sterols in a convenient easy to carry with you package.

-Eating better.
Our diets are all out of balance. We eat too much artery clogging red meat and unhealthy fats but not enough good fats, vegetables, fruits and fiber. We never think about a healthy glass of red wine with our meal but will guzzle down cheap booze at a party every chance we get.

-Getting Some Exercise.
Remember the old days, when you had to get up to change the channel on the television or answer the telephone? Now we don’t even get that. We sit in our lounge chairs with a remote in one hand and the cell phone in the other . Get up, get out. It doesn’t have to mean going to a gym and practically killing yourself, in fact, it should NOT mean that at first, anyway. Take a walk. Rescue a pooch from the pound or borrow the neighbors pug and go around the block a time or two.

-Add heart healthy plant sterols to your diet.
The recommended amount of plant sterols is .8 grams per day. While you can get this from a number of food sources, you may find it easier to get with MonaVie Pulse which contain .4 grams per 4 ounce serving. Two servings of the juice or two packets of the gel is equal to the heart healthy plant sterols that you need to help reduce your blood cholesterol levels.

Pulse also contains reservatrol, which is found in high concentrations in muscadine grapes (part of the benefit of a glass of red wine). This nutrient strengthens blood vessels, making them more elastic and less prone to damage. If you cannot or will not drink wine, this is an excellent substitute resource for you.

Lower your intake of fat and cholesterol, increase your exercise and drink Pulse.

Every pound of weight that we gain adds more strain to our heart. Every day we spend seething and loathing our boss and fighting through rush hour traffic is slowly killing our heart. Every negative that we go through can be bad on our hearts, but what about the good that we can do for it? While we cannot all quit our jobs and spend the day painting seascapes on the beach, we can take a little better care of the organ that keeps us going.