Watkins Home Based Business

Linear income is what you earn at a regular job. You only get paid when you work. Regardless of whether you are paid hourly, on commission, or on salary, your income is based on the time and effort that you and you alone put in. If you are on a salary, your income stays the same no matter how many extra hours you work. The bad thing about linear income is that you have few options. If you decide to work fewer hours, for whatever reason, your income will immediately go down. This severely limits flexibility for parents who wish to spend more time with their children, as well as for anyone who desires more in life than working all the ...

When discussing the Watkins business with prospective new associates, I often hear comments like this: "I don't like to sell, so I probably wouldn't be good at this business". I believe in most cases that the prospect is asking "Can I sign up with Watkins and build a profitable business without having to retail products?". The answer is, yes you can! Neither you, nor members of your downline, have to focus on retailing products. That may sound strange at first, but here is the key. The Watkins business is both a network marketing business as well as a direct selling business. For the long-term residual income that many desire, it is important to focus on the network marketing aspect of Watkins. ...

Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, I was one of the first people to effectively build a strong MLM (network marketing) business online. This was before the Internet and World Wide Web existed. At that time, we had mainly the online services such as CompuServe, AOL, and GEnie. I was a regular participant on the CompuServe "Work from Home" forum, which was hosted by the best-selling small business authors Paul & Sarah Edwards. I learned a lot about MLM & network marketing in those early days. Following is a story that continues to amaze me to this day, a story about a persistent MLM Junkie. There was a gentleman on CompuServe in the early 1990's that was involved in ...

A lot is said about "residual income" in MLM or network marketing. So, what exactly is "residual income"? A common example is that of a recording artist. When a pop star or country-western singer records a hit song or CD, they will continue to get paid for sales of the song or CD for many years to come. Popular authors enjoy the same benefit - they write a best-seller and continue getting paid for years while they enjoy doing what they want to do, without having to worry about punching a clock or reporting to the same place at the same time day after day after year after year. Unfortunately, the majority of us will never record a hit song, or write ...

Some people become Watkins associates and desire to build their own personal web site. If you have the time and skills necessary, this can be an excellent boost for your Watkins business. By having your own personal site, you have a Watkins web site that is unique and not like any other on the web. This gives you the opportunity to get listings in the free search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Building your own personal Watkins web site can be challenging. You will want to start with two or three basic pages that describe the Watkins business and products, with links to your TSGINFO sponsoring site and your Watkins Online product catalog. Later, you can add detailed pages ...

The J.R. Watkins Company started in 1868, in a small house located in Plainview, Minnesota. Through direct selling, working regular routes door-to-door, and innovative ideas like placing "Trial Marks" on bottles and offering money-back guarantees, Watkins grew from a one-man company into the world's largest direct selling company. Today, the company is still in business selling the liniment that founder J.R. Watkins first bottled in 1868, along with hundreds of other quality products that people love. With independent sales associates all across the United States and Canada, the Watkins name and its quality products are enjoying unprecedented popularity.The book "Images of America: Watkins" documents the history of the company, the famous and popular Watkins products, and the people who have made Watkins a household ...

From time to time, a prospective Watkins associate will ask if there is someone in their local area they can join under. They may feel that joining under someone hundreds or thousands of miles away is a disadvantage for them. In reality, it is not a disadvantage at all. Here are some points to consider. Prospective Watkins associates want good coaching and training. Our Summit Group has an extensive training website full of carefully organized information, a very active message board where you can get feedback and answers 24 hours a day, and weekly conference call training from the top leaders in Watkins. The training is top-notch and no other group offers this advantage. Some prospective Watkins associates want to do parties, ...

There are a few "home based business" programs out there that focus on promoting multiple opportunities on one web site. One such program, that is quite popular, offers to give you a free web site with several opportunities advertised on it. You are required to host the site with a particular company, and you must sign up for four other specific opportunities that this program promotes. Only one of those opportunities requires a monthly purchase up front, but to maximize potential profits you have to "upgrade" to the paid option on most of the others (which requires a monthly fee or product purchase). This all sounds really good until you get into the training. You soon learn that while it is implied ...

The Watkins Fall Gift Line is a special selection of products that are available only from September through December. This helps associates get more customer orders during the autumn months as people do their Christmas gift shopping and buying for other occasions. Customers can order Gift Line products just like they order any other product in the catalog. The Watkins Fall Gift Line typically includes:  - a few products that are not in the regular Watkins product line any other time of year (as an example, Six Onion Soup Base has been a popular Fall Gift Line item for several years, but is not available the rest of the year)  - special, attractive packaging of standard year-round products in groupings that make them ...