Message From Corporate

Hello Team Menage!

As Mark and I looked over the final leader board totals for October it is clear that many of you truely are working for your teams and your family. The company had a great push at the end with numbers soaring to close the month. Team building and product sales rose subtantially during the last 10 days of October. Let's keep up the pace in November to produce much welcomed income for you and our Menage family members.

Many of you have heard me talk in the past about the key to sustaining a productive team and business in Menage. The successful person in Menage must build a strong infrastructure for their business. They must build a strong relationship with their team members and be CONSISTENT.

The system is simple:

**Make a list

**Make calls

**Set appointments

**Show the plan(don't just talk about the opportunity)

**Followup

More specifically, every step builds on the next step of the business. Without a solid foundation a business will be unstable. Many people ask "How do I get a good consistent meeting going each week and keep growing my team?" First, we must examine what people are looking for and what drives them. In the beginning stages of a business before anyone has made a pay check three things get people excited and keep them engaged: thier need (why, destination, financial goal,etc.), their mission(purpose and reason for earning income), and fun(socialization). Pay checks become the driving force in the end, but the first three things keeps a team together before the pay checks role in.

Taking each phase step by step, a new team member must get help from their upline (when possible) to present the plan to their prospects. Most people don't sign up on the spot and that is normal. To help them fully experience the power of the business, the fun and income, a Taste abnd Tell must be in place to immediately bring the prospect to within their first week after having seen the plan. At the Taste and Tell the new prospect will be surrounded by other Menage team members that are foccussed on their goals and team members that are having fun. The new prospect will want to be part of the EXCITEMENT, making additional income and having fun. The concept just makes too much sense.

The Taste and Tell HOME PARTY is the key to massive growth in your business. First, anyone can host friends in their home to try the food and see the plan. It is not feasible to expect a new team member to create a hotel or conference center meeting in the beginning. The new team member's prospects will feel comfortable and relaxed coming over to their house to try some great food and have a GOOD TIME. Keep in mind that "duplication" is the key and anyone can duplicate a Taste and Tell in their home. Second, at a Taste and Tell HOME PARTY the host has the ability to prepare our great gourmet food the way they like with their own specail recipes, sauces, and marinades and spices. Likewise, the Taste and Tell HOME PARTY allows for a great visual presentation of the food. Imagine the prospect entering the relaxed setting of a home smelling the delicious aroma of gourmet food surrounded by happy excited people having fun. Now imagine them seeing the food and then tasting the food. All of the senses will be involved creating the perfect setting to close the deal.

Once a new prospect joins, it is important for their upline to help them host a Taste and Tell in their home. The upline must keep their Taste and Tell in place each week(consistency) but must immediately work to expand to the new team member's home with another Taste and Tell. For example, Mary Lynn McPhereson's team has done a great job with Taste and Tells. Each week now for several months Mary Lynn has consistently hosted a Taste and Tell in her home every Monday night rain or shine. This is her team's home base. She has in turn helped her new team members expand out into their homes hosting numerous Taste and Tells each week. By having her meetings in so many different homes, Mary Lynn's team has continued to rapidly grow because of consistency, duplication, FUN, thus equalling great PAY CHECKS for her and her team members.

Don't misunderstand, large weekly group meetings are also essential and at some point a large conference center is needed to hold all of the team members and guests in one location. Sam Kelly and Chuck Dalton's Germantown meeting is a great example of the next step in the system and is essential. However, they did not get to that point over night and it took many individual presentations and Taste and Tells to reach that point.

The system is a cirle and not necessarily a stair step. You begin one on one or two on one, move to the Taste and Tell, expand to a conference center, and start the week all over with one on one's and two on one's, Taste and Tells, and then once again the conference center meeting. See the cycle.

In the end anyone can work the business as they wish and that is the beauty of being an Independent Distributor. Whatever your style or system, work as often as you can, be consistent, and create something anyone can duplicate. Fun is contagious and great food, socialization, and income are a winning formula.


Have a great week.

Eddie Lee Herndon

Co Owner

Menage Innovations

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