Arbonne as a Business

Recently I was approached by my best friend regarding Arbonne. At the time I had never heard of this company or what it did but I agreed to go to with her and meet two Arbonne reps to hear a little more about the business. I went into this meeting thinking “This is a scam, just another pyramid scheme” but I came out of that meeting completely pumped and ready to “Arbonize my home”!

The business was presented to us as “Why not get paid to do something you do every day?”. What they mean by this is everyone takes a shower and on average people use 25 products before leaving the house in the morning, so instead of paying Walmart or other big box stores why not pay yourself?

The Arbonne business model is different from more traditional companies in that rather than distributing through typical brick and mortar stores, they offer a generous commission package for anyone who wants to sell it on their own. This vastly reduces the overhead costs for the company while providing regular people like me the opportunity to share a great quality product with everyone who will listen.

In order start selling Arbonne products you just need to sign up as an Independent Consultant which costs less than $100. From there it’s just a question of how you want to approach growing your business. Some people host parties to introduce their friends and family to the products, some purchase a stockpile of product to use on their own or lend out to potential customers to evaluate and some focus solely on the business side of things and building a network of people who work together to sell the products.

Now how you get “paid” for doing this is:

1. This is your own business so many things become tax write offs

2. You make commission on all of your own sales and also make money when people in your network sell product

Many people confuse this compensation method as some sort of pyramid scheme, which couldn’t be further from the truth… A pyramid scheme is defined as an unsustainable business model that requires a constant influx of new ‘marks’ to keep afloat. When there are no longer any new people signing onto the scheme the entire thing falls apart.

The Arbonne model doesn’t have any such need for new naïve people to constantly sign up. Arbonne sells actual product (quality product at that!) and just follows a less traditional marketing and distribution model. I personally know regular women just like me who are making a great living selling Arbonne and whose lives have been changed for the better as a result.

Obviously I have just started with the company but I am so excited for my future potential. What is great about me being new is I can share my excitement with others and I have an experienced sponsor to meet with people and explain the business. My sponsor is very successful within the company and I know she’s going to be an incredible asset to me and to anyone else who is interested in learning more about this opportunity. Hopefully in the near future I’ll be able to do the same for new people interested in Arbonne as well!

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