ViSalus Sciences: Documentation Definitely Beats Conversation!

• Estimated 4,000,000 lbs lost
• Helped raise over 500,000 meals for kids
• 40% growth in the month of March
• Over 25,000 people joined the Challenge in March
• Refer 3 and get your next month free referral program
• Over 25% of promoters are getting their kits for free each month
• Averaging over $400 in product revenue per promoter, almost double the industry average
• Rising Star program is 331% over last years 1st Quarter
• 2,335 BMW Qualifiers to date with 303 in March
• 1st Quarter commissions increased 481% from last years 1st Quarter commissions company wide

But don’t take my word for it! Check it out for yourself!

Blake Mallen, CMO, shares ViSalus Sciences‘ 2011 First Quarter Update:

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Join our team today and we will get you started the right way, right away!

Plus, you have a chance at an amazing bonus! What bonus?

Our vi-family, friend & sponsor, Melanie, is offering this to ever new promoter we enroll:

Stars and Cars!

My waiting room is chock-full of excellent promoters of  the Challenge, and you have the opportunity to have them placed into your group.

The rules:
If you are not yet a Director, you must have the following in place to have a promoter placed into your team:
#1 have 2 active promoter legs
#2 have a minimum of 1500 in volume

That way when I place the 3rd leg, you become a Director. EZ

Plus, be featured in Success From Home Magazine!

But you NEED to take action NOW!

Join our group today to take advantage of Melanie’s amazing bonus offer!

Become a Director and you can offer this bonus to your promoters too!

There is no ‘magic’ to it, it’s a very simple system we teach you to follow. The closer you follow it, the more you will make and the more people’s lives you can impact!

Call me if you are ready to take advantage of this bonus today: 732-790-0876

Or

CLICK HERE TO PROMOTE The Body By Vi Challenge and Claim Your Bonus TODAY!

ViSalus is for EVERYBODY!  Whether you are someone just getting started or you are the seasoned professional, you need to watch this video to learn why ViSalus is a leader in the industry and why you should be promoting the Body By Vi Challenge!

Get educated NOW by watching…

Blake Mallen’s Top Ten Reasons Networking Leaders Love the ViSalus Compensation Plan

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Now that you know why leaders love the ViSalus compensation plan, start promoting the challenge today!  Why?

Because we are the fastest growing health challenge in the world!

Because we had 25,868 NEW people who joined the Challenge just in the month of March!

Because we have the highest grade Nutraceuticals on the market.

Because…

Special Rewards when you Take Action Now!

At the close of another powerful event at the recent National Success Training in Cincinnati, a special promotion was launched that gives EVERYBODY a chance to be recognized for their efforts.

Become one of the individuals who “Just Did It,” and look what you can WIN!

PRIZES:

Prizes
»» YOUR NAME in ALL NEW edition of Success From Home Magazine on national newsstands in August, 2011.
»» YOUR NAME featured on the “Just Did It” website—Names listed in order of when you qualify at www.justdidit.visalus.com
»» And PRIORITY SEATING at VITALITY July 2011  in Florida!

Qualify for the “Just Did It” list by:

A. Achieve the rank of Director for the first time between Sunday, April 17th and April 30th

OR

B. Maintain Director or above AND Help at least 1 personally enrolled Distributor achieve Director for the first time between Sunday April 17th and April 30th.

Become a Promoter today and help others lose weight, win cash prizes and feel great again about their body, mind and spirit! Hit the second level of the ViSalus Compensation Plan and get a BMW paid for by ViSalus!  Yes, the second level in the company is the Best car program available in the industry!

Have more questions?  Email me at bodybyvinj@gmail.com today!

Take ACTION today so you can say that you “Just Did it!”

ViSalus Sciences: Marketing Its Way to the Fast Track

Originally featured in Direct Selling News:  February 2011 “ViSalus Sciences: Marketing Its Way to the Fast Track” by Barbara Seale

Founder and CEO Ryan Blair says that he and his two co-founders spent the company’s first five years learning what not to do. Now that they have found the formula, they’re celebrating a year of 500 percent revenue growth.

When entrepreneur Blair combined forces with his ViSalus co-founders Blake Mallen and Nick Sarnicola, they had noble intentions to build a health-based business that would benefit business owners and customers over the long term.

Blair says: “We spent the first five years learning what not to do. Then we spent last year not repeating the same mistakes we made over the first five and doing what works instead. The economic downturn forced us to get focused on what works, and now we’re at an all-time high in every category. By early 2011, we’ll be in the neighborhood of $10 million a month in sales.”

What turned everything around was a long-lasting flash of marketing brilliance called the Body by Vi™ Challenge. The Challenge has been so successful that it has become the company’s foundation.

Shaking Things Up

The simple 90-day program lets participants take advantage of ViSalus health products and support tools to transform their bodies. As a marketing tool, as well as a health-transformation tool, the Challenge has been wildly successful. Since its launch in July 2009, ViSalus estimates to have helped people lose 3 million pounds.

The core ViSalus products are low-calorie, high-nutrition meal replacement shakes. But because of the Challenge, distributors don’t focus on “selling” the products. Instead, they issue a friendly weight-loss challenge. “Let me tell you about these great weight-loss shakes” has transformed into “I’m working on losing 20 pounds in the next 90 days. Anybody want to join me?”

“The Body by Vi Challenge is the business. It’s the only thing we talk about,” Founder and Chief Marketing Officer Blake Mallen says. “It’s a simple conversational message that draws lots of responses. There’s nothing to sell or explain.”
ViSalus crafts products from high-quality ingredients that taste good. Then they develop packaging to conform to Challenge-participants’ goals. For example, the basic “Balance Kit” is targeted to people who simply want better nutrition. It contains 30 servings of the Vi-Shape™ Nutritional Shake Mix for once-a-day balanced nutrition. The kit includes an assortment of Health Flavors, which add flavor variety and even more health benefits to the shake. The Shape Kit includes 60 servings of shake mix, enough for 60 slimming meals—two a day that result in weight loss. The Transformation Kit includes the 60 meals, plus additional products to help people transform their bodies as quickly as possible. The Core Kit helps support the active lifestyle with one shake a day, healthy energy and nutritional supplements. All of the kits come with recipes, meal plans, exercise plans and more.

“Ours tastes really good—sort of like cake mix. We know that if you enjoy it, you’ll stick with it,” says Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Development Audrey Sommerfeld. “When mixed as directed, in the shake you get 22 to 25 grams of high-quality protein and a full serving of fiber that keeps your blood sugar level and makes you feel full. Those are the amounts of nutrients nutritionists recommend most. We recommend blending the shake mix with fruit. That makes a 200 to 220 calorie meal that saves you money and is much better for you than most American breakfasts. Use two shakes a day to melt the pounds away.”

The basic light sweet cream flavor that Sommerfeld describes as “like cake mix” is a foundation. It can be enjoyed alone or with added Health Flavors, such as chocolate, cappuccino, banana, orange or peach. Each offers specific health benefits as well as flavor variety. Craving something crunchy? ViSalus also has Nutra-Cookies made with their exclusive Tri-Sorb™ protein system, prebiotics, fiber and antioxidants to support a healthy immune system, healthy digestive system, and help curb appetite. More products are in the works for 2011. Mallen hints that new products will support energy and fitness.

Free Products

The products and the Body by Vi Challenge keep the business opportunity simple, and the Three for Free promotion lets distributors get their products at no cost.

“The whole message is super simple: Lose weight, get fit and save money because you’re replacing meals with our shakes, literally saving people a couple hundred dollars a month,” Mallen says. “Then we layered in Three for Free, which removed all financial objections and barriers. We let our customers and our distributors refer three other people. Then their own products are sent to them free. We’re averaging over $400 in monthly product revenue for every distributor in our company. That’s unheard of! And our retention is dramatically better than the industry average.”

Retention results from several factors, including a strong compensation plan that lets new distributors promote quickly.

“We pay out up to 80 percent payout at the highest levels,” Blair says, “and we have a car bonus at the lowest rank of any competitor we’ve looked at.” More than 1,500 distributors have already qualified for a BMW, making them members of the company’s fancifully named Bimmer Club.

But the comp plan is intentionally skewed toward the bottom and middle ranks of producers, helping them quickly earn income that makes a real difference in a family’s budget.

Youthful Energy

ViSalus distributors’ average is similar to many other companies, but they have a broader range of young, middle-aged and older persons. The top 10 distributors today tend to be slightly younger than the industry average, possibly attracted by the company’s 30-ish founders, but the age of those high achievers ranges from 31 to 75, Mallen says.

“What’s dramatically different is our image and energy,” he says. “In my opinion, young is no longer an age. It’s more of an energy. Everyone wants to feel young, be young, be around a young, vibrant culture. That’s why we attract people of all ages—we attract a young energy. That’s duplicated throughout our leadership and our whole culture.”

The youthful approach embraces the use of technology. In December, ViSalus launched a powerful new generation of Vi-Net™, the private website that its distributors use. Mallen describes it as “like a private Facebook. It will have a front-end marketing site system, the normal back-office genealogy, real-time commissioning and cool stuff for managing your business. But then it layers in an online community, literally like Facebook. People will be able to see everyone’s challenges and fitness goals. There’s a live community feed. It wraps an entire online community around the Challenge. It’s really big when you see that kind of support.”

The new ViNet is fully integrated with Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Its energetic executives and distributors use it as a standard way of doing business.

Mallen himself sets the standard for activity on social networking sites. He posts videos on Facebook a couple of times a week with content that distributors can share with their personal networks. He often gets about 1,300 views in 24 hours. Technology also supports business presentations, and pre-recorded conference calls are available daily that support distributors’ businesses.

The future is exciting for ViSalus. Mallen says that the eventual revenue goal is $1 billion a year, a figure he believes is attainable within a few years. The ViSalus product portfolio is built years in advance, and the company plans to introduce new products that complement its existing line in 2011. International expansion is also on the horizon, beginning with Canada. And they plan to amp up their consumer-to-consumer business. But through it all, they’ll continue to try not to mess up the formula they’ve refined. It works.

“Our goals are really the same as when we started,” Blair says. “We want to add more value to customers and distributors; we want to get better and make the experience of our customers better. But basically, our ambitions are to continue to help the world lose millions of pounds.”

Vi-Net™

Raising the Bar Once Again!

Since its official launch in 2008, Vi-Net™ has been a cutting edge tool for promoting ViSalus™ and the Body by Vi™ Challenge online. Often leading the industry in innovation, spotting and seizing trends before they became reality, and putting a powerful marketing and business management tool at your fingertips, ViSalus™ is about to take another leap with a new version of Vi-Net™!

Launching company-wide on February 8th, Vi-Net™ will burst onto the scene with a new look and feel, and a host of new tools to make promoting the Body by Vi™ Challenge and managing your ViSalus™ business easier, more rewarding, and more FUN than ever before!

A taste of what’s coming…

New Look
Fresh and more user-friendly design

New Websites
More options, easy to customize, better conversion

New Body by Vi™ Tools
Track your progress, view support videos, and more

New Promoting Tools
Enhanced Contact Manger, Web & Print Tools, Email Marketing, and Resource Library

Dynamic Dashboard
One-stop-shop for managing your ViSalus™ business

New SUCCESS Library
The best SUCCESS has to offer, only one click away

New Body by Vi™ Profile and Community!
Post, share, and comment like never before

With Vi-Net you will work smarter to market the #1 Home Based Business!

Watch the OVERVIEW, then JOIN THE CHALLENGE!

Have questions? Call me at 732-790-0876!

Is timing really everything?

If you asked the 58 people who became BMW qualifiers in May, what would they have to say about “Timing is everything”?

ViSalus and the Body by Vi Challenge is definitely sweeping the nation.  ViSalus is in full momentum.  MLMRankings.com voted ViSalus the #1 GAINER IN PUBLIC INTEREST industry wide and 90.34% for Internet Popularity!

ViSalus has been averaging two Free Black BMWs a day for the past 2 months!  Yes, that’s two BMW qualifiers a day and it is predicted not to slow down any time soon!  The question is, do you want to be part of it or look back a year from now or even 3 months from now and say “I should have”?

ViSalus is an amazing community of people all striving to help others get healthy.  Did you know that two-thirds of the people in the USA need to lose weight?  So why NOT make a ton of money helping them lose that weight with a program that has helped people lose an estimated 200 million pounds already?

BONUS THIS MONTH

ViSalus is offering the June Rising Star bonus this month.

Earn an extra $500 CASH on stage at Vitality by becoming a Regional Director who helps at least 5 people become Rising Stars this month!

Collect the $500 “Rising Star Search” Bonus on Stage at Vitality in Orlando!

Regional Director, the second level in the comp plan, qualifies for the Black BMW paid for ViSalus!

Sarnicola brings with him former ViSalus Vice President of Sales Mike Craig to break records in the Network Marketing Industry.

LOS ANGELES, CA – January 11th, 2010 – ViSalus Sciences Co-Founder Nick Sarnicola has announced that he will be stepping down from his role as Chief Sales Officer in order to build a new team from the ground up as a ViSalus Distributor. He looks forward to being a leader in the field, executing the ViSalus sales and training model and providing key feedback to the company he helped create.

Also announcing his decision to join Sarnicola as a Distributor is Mike Craig, who has served as the company’s Vice President of Sales, working closely with Sarnicola over the past year. Together they will build a new organization as they share the Body by Vi Challenge, a 90 Day Health Transformation initiative that has fueled ViSalus’ growth over the past 6 months.

For Sarnicola, this step is a return to his roots as a builder. “I’ve been involved with the Network Marketing Industry for 13 years, the last 5 of those in a corporate role with ViSalus,” said Sarnicola. “I have loved taking my vision and turning it into a reality with an amazing community of people, but I have missed the lifestyle that comes with being a Distributor. I can’t wait to put some of our latest strategies into action to create success stories on an even larger scale, and help thousands upon thousands of people enjoy better Life, Health, and Prosperity.”

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With the company’s Body by Vi Challenge sweeping the nation, and the backing and stability of a publicly-traded, billion-dollar direct sales leader in Blyth, Inc., the timing was perfect for Sarnicola to join the ViSalus field and experience life as an Independent Distributor once again. “I have always said that the best job in the company should be that of the Distributor, and I’m excited to go live that lifestyle. I have found my utopia.”

For Mike Craig, who has worked closely with Sarnicola in the past, his time with ViSalus showed him the potential of the company’s products and opportunity. An expert in sales systems, Craig will serve as an integral part to the success of this new organization. “Like Nick, I am a builder at heart,” said Craig. “Traveling the country and speaking at ViSalus events over the past year has re-ignited that spark within me and showed me that ViSalus is a special place. When Nick decided to move into the field, I couldn’t pass up that opportunity.”

Sarnicola’s Co-Founders, CEO Ryan Blair and Chief Marketing Officer Blake Mallen, will continue to work with the current leadership to support the growth of the ViSalus community. They are excited to take another step towards their vision of ViSalus becoming the ultimate health transformation opportunity worldwide.

“When Nick came to me with this idea, and I saw the passion in his eyes, I was thrilled to support his desire to join the field,” said Blair. “Nick is an amazing entrepreneur, and with Mike as on his team, I have no doubt that they will be extremely successful.”

Blake Mallen, who has worked with Sarnicola for over a decade, is excited to support a longtime friend. “Nick and I were Distributors together when we launched our careers in Network Marketing. I know what he brings to the table. The existing team of ViSalus leaders is exceptional. Mike and Nick just bring one more competitive advantage.”

Sarnicola has the opportunity to achieve exciting new goals alongside a community that is close to his heart. “I love every one of our Distributors,” Sarnicola said. “I am thrilled today to join them in taking the life-transforming ViSalus vision to new heights.”

Originally posted on Vi-Net Company Blog Tuesday, January 12, 2009