Andrew
Khabaza
In January 1999 I was a teacher in a
boarding school in Epsom, Surrey. I had been teaching for nearly 20 years and
was sick and tired of my job. So I decided that I needed a change. My initial
thoughts were to retrain in IT but then I received one of the green books
through the post from my sponsor, Mark Sterio. I was intrigued by the Herbalife
opportunity as this looked liked something I could try, part time, whilst I was
completing my last six months of teaching.
I got the information packs and
decided to sign up, coming in at the supervisor level. I went to an STS at the
Grovefield Hotel on 20th February where I was able to meet Mark. With that
training and Mark's help I began to retail. My lead generation consisted of
newspaper advertisements, cards in newsagents' windows and flyers.
I began serious
activity in March and I reckon that over the following five months I was able
to spend an average of about 6 hours per week on Herbalife (varying with the
school holidays, etc.). During that time my lead generation consisted of:
·
3 x 1 box adverts in
the Croydon Advertiser (6 weeks) & Surrey Mirror (6 weeks), and a lineage
ad. Private Eye (a national, fortnightly publication; 6 insertions)
·
4 cards in newsagents,
each for 6 weeks
·
about 6 000 flyers
distributed through letter boxes
My retail sales
& profit (at the supervisor level of 50%) were:
|
March 9 sales May 14 sales July 5 sales |
£263 £157 £275 |
|
TOTAL Profit |
£1556 |
Number of
separate retail customers = 21
This convinced me
that:
(a)
This was a genuine
opportunity
(b)
I could be successful in Herbalife
(c)
If I worked the business full time, I could
support myself.
Many aspects of
the opportunity really impressed me:
·
the friendly and
genuine people I met
·
the quality of the
training and support within BIG
·
the opportunity to
visit my upline Millionaire Team member.
So I resigned
from my teaching job and went full time in Herbalife from the end of July 1999.
Towards the end I began some recruiting activities and brought in a supervisor
in June; this gave me a personal volume of 4000 VPs. After discussion with Mark
I decided to purchase 6000 VPs making a total of 10 000 VPs so I went World
Team that month, gaining access to the training at the higher level BIG
organisation meeting.
During these five
months I tried to attend as many trainings as I could:
·
an evening talk by Jim
Rohn at Sandown Park in March
·
Mark Hughes at Wembley
in May, the meeting celebrating Herbalife's 15th year in the UK
·
Expo 99 in Paris (July)
·
the UK Super Schools
given by the leaders of the BIG organisation (June & August)
·
BIG organisation meetings,
Colour Workshop and more STS's.
If there's one
tip I could give to a new distributor it's to be consistent in your retail
activity; consistency is more important that the volume of activity.
Andrew Khabaza
August 2000
