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[Lawrence Bergfeld Contribution Level: 3]

Everybody knows that autoship is a business requirement in ones respective network marketing company to get a paycheck. Therefore you can write off your autoship as an advertising expense. When you are on autoship you can get free products to sample and sign to others.

These two things will create retention through the roof among your distributors and they are more likely to have better health!!!

Lawrence Bergfeld

[Melvin Goodrum Company: AdvoCare International, L.P. Contribution Level: 4]

You're right about making sure you write off autoship orders along with any other network marketing expenses but I have to say that I absolutely hate autoship programs and will not recommend or have anything to do with a company that requires IBO's to have product automatically sent to them because not everyone can sell and give away all of their product in one month and they usually end up with a room of unsold merchandise.

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

Well, I do think differently, this time, Melvin.
I tell my downline to always order by autoship. It's cheaper to have an order coming in and you know it. You do get a small discount rather than ordering yourself every month.
If they order every week, you will still have to pay for shipping every time. That is what is costing the customer more on each order. And the customer would not like it, and mad at you for not telling them this.
Also, you will get paid for the first order, and not the second. With the autoship, you will receive residuals as long as the autoships are in place.
You pay for what you use yourself or a minimun order to get your maximun commissions. Any overages you may accumulate can be used as samples to attact more customers and build your downline.
You don't expect a customer to stay with the program if they just order one time. You may just not hear from them again.
Make sure your downline stays with an autoship program and keep in contact with them regularly.

[Lawrence Bergfeld Contribution Level: 3]

You definitely do save if you order every month on autoship. Lets say you pay $7.50 for one order each week. If it is four times that is $30.00. Why spend your dinner money for Federal Express? Makes no sense.

Lawrence Bergfeld

[Melvin Goodrum Company: AdvoCare International, L.P. Contribution Level: 4]

Well, I do think differently, this time, Melvin.
I tell my downline to always order by autoship. It's cheaper to have an order coming in and you know it. You do get a small discount rather than ordering yourself every month.
If they order every week, you will still have to pay for shipping every time. That is what is costing the customer more on each order. And the customer would not like it, and mad at you for not telling them this.
Also, you will get paid for the first order, and not the second. With the autoship, you will receive residuals as long as the autoships are in place.
You pay for what you use yourself or a minimun order to get your maximun commissions. Any overages you may accumulate can be used as samples to attact more customers and build your downline.
You don't expect a customer to stay with the program if they just order one time. You may just not hear from them again.
Make sure your downline stays with an autoship program and keep in contact with them regularly.

I'm wasn't talking about autoship for "customers" but autoship requirements for distributors that some network marketing force IBO's to abide by. When I was in Pre-Paid Legal, they had an autoship program that was 150.00 dollars a month and while some of the material was useful, 1/3rd of it was completely useless. I still have about 600 magazine and 300 DVD's in a storage facility along with contracts, receipt books, etc in a storage facility (I need to clean that pig sty out)

Autoships are great for customer retention but for a distributor, I honestly want to only order what I'm going to need and use

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

Thanks for clarifying some things up, Melvin.
You do have a lot of material collecting. A lot of that material maybe outdated and could be sorted and/or thrown out.
Sometimes the DVD's don't last too long either. Check them for clarity as well.
If you have a large inventory of materials, that means you have not been distributing them as you should.
More work begets more work and soon will result in more money and more work to do again.
We talk about what if we made $5000 a month in our business. This is what results in that kind of income. More work and inventory to bring in more work.
Luckily, I changed to another company. I can give my overages to more people as samples. Everybody wants more samples to try. I can supply my downline anytime they need extras when they are prospecting.
Be innovative in distributing your samples. Just remember, they are samples and not supplying their orders for them.

[Melvin Goodrum Company: AdvoCare International, L.P. Contribution Level: 4]

Thanks for clarifying some things up, Melvin.
You do have a lot of material collecting. A lot of that material maybe outdated and could be sorted and/or thrown out.
Sometimes the DVD's don't last too long either. Check them for clarity as well.
If you have a large inventory of materials, that means you have not been distributing them as you should.
More work begets more work and soon will result in more money and more work to do again.
We talk about what if we made $5000 a month in our business. This is what results in that kind of income. More work and inventory to bring in more work.
Luckily, I changed to another company. I can give my overages to more people as samples. Everybody wants more samples to try. I can supply my downline anytime they need extras when they are prospecting.
Be innovative in distributing your samples. Just remember, they are samples and not supplying their orders for them.

The company I'm involved in now lets me autoship the stuff I choose and its mostly supplements for samples along with my own for my continued bodybuilding aspirations. However I'm not required to have any autoship whatsoever. The excessive materials some companies force on people are ridiculous especially in the era of the internet.

[Rob Wynkoop Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 3]

[Autoships are great for customer retention but for a distributor, I honestly want to only order what I'm going to need and use

I believe that you have to lead from the front... The pace of the leader is the pace of the pack. If I want my distributors and customers on autoship then I will be on it also.

Without autoship, you're just throwing mud at the wall and hoping some stick... Most people need a 2-3 months worth of doing anything to have it become part of their life... Introducing a new product to their lives is no different. If you don't encourage autoship, you're going to have plenty of one and done marketers...

Keep someone on autoship and help them build their team... once they get a check, they may see it's worth sticking around for! You can't expect your volume to increase every month if you have to follow up with current distributors and re-"sell" them on why they should be part of the company.

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

Also consider the advantages of autoship for your orders. Have you ever ran out of your shipment before the end of the month?
You will have to re-order again to increase another order. That will cost even more for you.
When I run out of my autoship, I can change my shipment date upwards to receive the next month's order earlier. Also, on the next order I can add what I need besides my regular order. One shipment costs are the same without re-ordering again.
I can be innovative and distribute my overages to my downline especially when they too come up short and able to give samples of other products before their shipments arrive.
Without having a set autoship program, you may run out before you know it. Then you will have to wait a few days more to receive your order again.

[Warren Little Company: Chews-4-Health International Contribution Level: 4]

In my professional experience, over 7 yrs as a multi-million dollar producer, there is a HUGE problem with MLM auto-ship programs.

1- The retention rates are disastrous , generally 40% month to month on the high side.

2- This fallacy does not aggressively promote & encourage ever increasing orders or volume every month.

My best advice to the community is to find a business model where the retention rates are 95% month to month & LONG TERM . . . and

Find a business model where the monthly product point average by design is ever increasing for each customer per THEIR CHOICE .

It'll also help to choose a business model set up for the 80%'ers to win & win huge , since the world generally operates on the 80/20 rule.

When the 80%'ers can do what the elite 20%'ers will ALWAYS DO you've found yourself a hit.

This is THE key to creating the massive residual incomes in this business that the uninformed fail to understand.

I'm confident this will help lots of people in the community.

Partners in success,
Warren Little
772-971-8637