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!

John Purdy brings to ViSalus nearly 30 years of global leadership in executive roles with companies such as Herbalife and Amway.

LOS ANGELES, CA – February 16^th, 2010 – ViSalus Sciences has added a direct selling industry veteran to its executive management team with the hiring of John B. Purdy as the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer.

Purdy most recently held a variety of leadership roles over a 13 year career at Herbalife, including Director of North American Operations, Senior Vice President of International Operations and Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific. He led Herbalife’s efforts in Japan, increasing sales of this leading market during a dramatic growth period from 1995-1999. As Senior Vice President of International Operations, he was responsible for the International Expansion Group which successfully opened markets in Europe and Asia.

In Purdy, ViSalus adds a seasoned executive who has risen through the ranks of two multi-billion-dollar companies. Purdy was instrumental in both maintaining the stability of mature markets as well as launching and growing new emerging markets.

Prior to his time with Herbalife, Purdy was with Amway Corporation for more than 15 years, holding various management positions as he rose to senior manager of Amway’s California operations center.

Purdy will work primarily from the company’s Beverly Hills office, where his focus will be enhancing the Customer and Distributor experience and improving operational efficiency in all aspects of the company.

“The ViSalus mission is to impact millions of people around the world through our Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge,” said ViSalus CEO Ryan Blair. “Adding John Purdy to the executive team is a monumental step in our global ambitions.”

The ViSalus Community will have its first opportunity to meet its new President and COO when Purdy is introduced at ViSalus Academy, the company’s national training event taking place March 12^th-14^th in Denver, Colorado.

In addition to valuable entrepreneurial education, ViSalus Academy will feature:

• The crowning of new Body by Vi Champions from over 997 contestants.
• The promotion of several Distributors to the company’s top earning position of Ambassador.
• Significant cash awards on stage as part of the company’s Rising Star Search promotion.
• The celebration of raising over 100,000 meal replacements for children in need through the Body by Vi Community Challenge, and the launch of a million meal challenge.“

“I am very excited about the ViSalus opportunity, and having met some of our leaders in the field already, I know that their passion for this company and our products is true of their teams as well,” said Purdy. “I can’t wait to experience the fun and excitement of a ViSalus national event first hand.

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About ViSalus Sciences

ViSalus Sciences, with headquarters in Troy, Michigan and Los Angeles, CA, is a leading Health Transformation Company utilizing the direct selling channel to distribute its Weight Management and Nutritional Supplement products. Backed by a partnership with NYSE traded Blyth, Inc., ViSalus is the company behind the Body by Vi Challenge, a 90-day health challenge that helps people achieve their weight loss and fitness goals for a chance to win over $100,000 per year in total prizes. Their Body by Vi Community Challenge is closing in on a goal set in November of 2009 to donate 100,000 meals to children in need.

ViSalus may be found on the Internet at www.visalus.com and www.bodybyvi.com

Originally Posted on Monday February 15, 2010 8:03 pm on Vi-Net Blog

NEW! ViSalus Sciences Faith-Based Initiative

I was sent this email earlier today that I had to share with you…

The following article is an excerpt from a speech given by a direct seller at a local meeting.  We are told she was asked to speak on how direct sales/network marketing compares to working a “regular” job.  It was submitted to us, and although the original author is unknown, we wish to thank her for her thoughts and insights.  We have forwarded it to share with you as you embark on a brand new opportunity to count the many blessings we have in this business.

Is Network Marketing Difficult?

Lately, I have heard so many people say how difficult direct sales/network marketing is.  “It’s hard.”  “I can’t get bookings.”  “This just isn’t for me.”  “I didn’t know how difficult it would be.”

Well, I am a single mom of three who, before joining the direct sales/network marketing family, held down two jobs.  I would get up at 4:00 in the morning and not get to bed until midnight most nights, after returning from my part-time retail job, packing lunches, checking homework and relieving my mother, who helped out with the kids.

That, my friends, is difficult.

It is difficult always having to lower your dreams to meet your means.  It is difficult to miss your son’s football game because you have to work.  It is difficult knowing the rust bucket you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance, but you can’t afford a new one.  It is difficult to realize that someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say mama to the preschool teacher.

It is difficult knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working for someone else, only to realize that you will be retiring on one-third of what you can live on today.  Or, worse yet, it is difficult knowing that you have diligently worked all your life, only to be given an early retirement and be replaced by someone younger, more capable.

I will tell you what is difficult.  It is difficult waking up one morning and realizing that your children, the most precious things imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, or are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing.  It is difficult realizing it is too late and that the time frittered away can never be retrieved.  It slips through our fingers one second at a time.

It is also difficult watching the spark in your partner’s eyes fade because both of you realize the house you have been wanting is just a dream because someone else is controlling your finances.

We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastination and skirting important things, rather than facing the issues.  Too often we allow others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, to direct our futures.

As children we have absolutely no freedom; we rebel in our teens and scream for freedom.  We reach adulthood and are finally free, only to relinquish that freedom because we think it is too difficult.  We do not want to take responsibility.  We do not want to make a wrong decision, so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone else.  We wake up too late.  We hear ourselves uttering phrases like: “I wish I had only…”  And “If I could do it over again…”

You have no one but yourself to blame.  You had the chance.  Perhaps the Opportunity was presented many times and each time you elevated the trivial to a higher priority than yourself.

Let me ask you:  Is direct sales/network marketing really difficult?

Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea?  Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for three to five years, you just might finally be able to send your children to a college chosen by excellence, rather than one chosen by price?  That you could finally put your family in the home of their dreams?

Would you work really hard for eight to ten years, so you could mold a lifestyle of your choosing, so your family could live a lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone else thinks you should live?

How difficult is it to pick up the phone and call your business partner?  How difficult is it to pack up your kit and meet some new friends?  How difficult is it, really, to share what you love with others?  Think about it.

Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with direct sales/network marketing.  There are people out there working three jobs.  There are people drowning in debt; or agonizing through bankruptcy, realizing they only needed a couple hundred more dollars per month.  That is difficult!!

This business you have chosen has the ability to change lives.  Direct sales/network marketing cannot do anything.  But YOU can change lives with it.  You are the one with the life-changing ability.  What are you waiting for?

There is difficulty and pain in success, and there is difficulty and pain in failure.  Difficulty and pain in success will last a short period of time but pain in failure lasts a lifetime.  Which one is really more difficult?

You will pay a price for your actions and your choices.

Which choice will you make?

Take ACTION today!

80% of ViSalus Sciences top earners

NEVER worked in Network Marketing before!

The door is open, you have to walk through it!

Chose a company that gives you the tools you need to build your business. If you have been searching, search no more!  ViSalus is a community of amazing people all striving for Life, Health and Prosperity.

This Live Fusion Academy Training will prepare you for entrepreneurial success in today’s Online Network Marketing arena.

Online Social Media Marketing Mastery + Network Marketing with ViSalus
= Your Residual Millions!

The last 2009 ViSalus Sciences Fusion Academy Live Training is THIS weekend in Tampa, Florida.  This is an event not to be missed!  The Friday night Red Carpet Event will kick off the weekend with entertainment and a party where some of the most fit and positive people from across the country will dance till all hours.

On Saturday and Sunday, the training will equip the ViSalus business builders who attend with a success blueprint to take their ViSalus business to the next level and beyond.  The training will cover the fundamentals of Network Marketing with ViSalus and will encompass all of the training modules covered in the Fusion Academy.  It will also cover in depth how the ViSalus marketing system, the Vi-Net , integrates directly with social media like twitter, Facebook and MySpace and how you can use our online marketing system to generate endless free leads for your ViSalus business using smart social media marketing.  You will learn that our company is literally years ahead of every single company in our industry when it comes to online marketing.  Our Vi-Net and our training on how to market effectively online, is unmatched!

New Bimmer Club Members To Be Recognized in Tampa!

ViSalus Sciences will award the 21 newest Regional Directors (second level in the company) with their BMW ‘Told You So’ plates, plus $1000 cash bonus for reaching that level in October!  This is incredibly exciting and I’m attending Fusion Academy Tampa Live this weekend to learn exactly how to help YOU earn YOUR BMW!

This is where YOU fit into this weekend.  You still have time to start your ViSalus business and register for Fusion Academy.  The training this weekend WILL give you the complete success blueprint for you to succeed in your ViSalus business.  Our team would like nothing more than to have you sit in the team’s row, so that you can get the training you need to get yourself into a BMW by the New Year!  It is absolutely possible and this weekend is going to prepare you for an incredible future.

The Fusion Academy training is truly unique, and incredibly effective.  The top earners in ViSalus had no prior MLM experience and are succeeding wildly because of the training that has been put in place.  What will YOU do when given this blueprint for success?

You have the opportunity to get to

Tampa, November 13-15, for Fusion Academy Training LIVE!

Ask me HOW!

ViSalus Sciences is…“Building Relationships through Social Media”

For an industry built on relationship marketing, the advent and proliferation of social media raises a lot of questions—and opportunities. The relationship between a direct seller and its prospects is a long way from the ones found on Match.com or eHarmony. But they do have things in common.

On every social media site or blog, everybody hopes they find people with mutual interests, and in the best of all possible worlds, you strike up long-term relationships.

But it’s a delicate balance in our industry. We’re learning that there’s no payoff in a “Join my company!” or “Buy my product!” approach. Instead, relationships in the virtual world are built in much the same way as they are face to face. They evolve slowly and intentionally. But whether the relationship develops over a cup of coffee or a keyboard, the relationship itself is the key to having people know, like and trust you.

Best of Both Worlds

For 4-year-old ViSalus, the decision to encourage distributors to build relationships through social media was a no-brainer. It was a matter of efficiency, as well as vision.

“Network marketing is about creating relationships and communication and working together,” Chief Marketing Officer Blake Mallen says. “The new social media tools are the most effective platform to communicate.”

The wellness company so strongly believes that social media marketing is the future of the industry that it has coined the term fusion marketing, which takes the tried-and-true traits of traditional direct selling and unites them with today’s technology.

The cornerstone is Vi-Net, an invitation-only online community of distributors—and customers—on ViSalus’s Web site. Vi-Net is the company’s go-to place for online training, sales tips and business-management tools. It’s home to blogs, pictures and chats among the ViSalus community. But here’s the differentiator: Vi-Net also provides instant connections with key social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Anytime a member updates Vi-Net, the system automatically updates their sites on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and others.

The effect of Vi-Net on ViSalus’s growth has been amazing, Mallen says. “We’ve seen retention go up and new enrollments increase. But the biggest thing is that it’s just fun. It brings out people’s personalities and creates an awesome culture that helps bring people together and make them feel like they’re part of something. It’s all about fostering relationships.”

My first 90 day challenge is coming to an end on November 11th. Throughout my challenge I have learned even more about this amazing company that I want to tell everyone about these products and to try these products too!

I not only look great, I feel great too! I can fit into pants I haven’t worn in quite a few years! I am enjoying my challenge because of the amazing taste of the shake mix that takes seconds to make.

This is so perfectly formulated that anybody with any body can lose weight. They were designed to help EVERYBODY lose weight.

Not only does it help people lose weight, others are maintaining their weight! Some are using the products to increase their performance for sports and marathons! People are getting healthy too!

I already decided on what my next challenge will be! My next challenge will be to keep the weight off that I lost through the holidays !

Are you ready for your 90 transformation?  Improve your body, improve your health!

Why not start that new year resolution now!  Save money, feel great, lose weight, get fit and make this holiday season a great one!

Make YOU your priority for the next 90 days!  Good luck to you on your Body by Vi Challenge!

Remember, if you invite 3 friends who join the Challenge with you by purchasing a Challenge Kit of equal or greater value to your own, yours will be free the following month!

Originally posted by Robert Bailey, Star Write at the The Jamaica Star : ViSalus Boost for PLCA

The Premier League Clubs Association (PLCA) has received a $45 million sponsorship package from California-based wellness company ViSalus Sciences.

Blake Mallen, co-founder and chief marketing officer of ViSalus Sciences, made the announcement yesterday at a press briefing which was held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston. The three-year sponsorship will see each Premier League club getting an equal share of the $12.5 million worth of products and the $2.5 million in cash.

“We are definitely very excited about this relationship … I believe the mindset and the philosophy of the PLCA as well as ViSalus and our community are definitely in line,” said Mallen.

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core mission

“We are a community that has been existing for the past four and a half years and our core mission is going out there and raising the consciousness of health … challenging people to make their health and their body a priority in their lives,” he said.

The products that the clubs will receive are the Vi-Shape nutrition shake mix and Neuro smart energy drink.

Edward Seaga

Edward Seaga, chairman of the PLCA, said he was delighted for the sponsorship.

“Whenever you think about football, you think of players that are expending a lot of energy on the field and who are entertaining us with their skills and a lot of goals,” Seaga said.

“What we are doing now is linking with a firm that is relatively new, but which has the ingredients and the experience to package supplements that provide a lot of that missing energy and other missing elements in the needs of the players,” said Seaga.

The deal now brings the PLCA’s sponsorship for the top football competition to over $100 million for this season.

I haven’t always been very health conscious.  I have always eaten pretty poorly.  I had an amazing metabolism when I was in my teens and early 20′s.  Didn’t have to watch what I ate, didn’t have to exercise much.

The one thing I have noticed is how much my mindset has changed since starting the Challenge.  I am more conscious about what I am eating.  Yes, I still have sweets, it’s my downfall, but I try to limit it to once or twice a week instead of every day like it was before I started my Challenge.  I try to drink more water and less juice.  I never liked diet soda and rarely even drink regular soda for that matter.  I have been trying to eat more vegetables which is a big issue for me as I don’t really like most of them!  I am so glad I found ViSalus and the Body by Vi Challenge.

I feel and look better and want to help everyone I come in contact with to feel and look better too!  That’s why I was so happy and excited for Helen on Tuesday.  She joined the challenge two weeks ago. Helen wasn’t sure what to wear and pulled out a pair of pants that didn’t fit her.  The pants didn’t just fit her, they looked a bit lose on her!  Helen has been on only one shake a day and has liked the pace she has been losing the weight.    She did mention that after she gets back from vacation she may just change that to two shakes a day.

Each of us have to reach deep inside to push away all the excuses.  If I had just kept thinking about joining the Challenge, I wouldn’t have improved my own health and Helen would still have those pants hanging in her closet waiting for that some day that may have never come.

Money can’t be the excuse because it costs less than a fast food meal, takes less time to make then to get a drive-thru meal and tastes so much better than a drive-thru meal.   So what are you waiting for? Join the Challenge to make your life healthier and better.