Doing my Research

A few days after our talk Skip came into the bank with a few small packets of Organo Gold coffee. He handed it to me along with a web address to a video that tells about the company. Skip asked me to contact him when I finished the coffee and video. He also mentioned to me that the coffee was supposed to be healthy due to an herb called Ganoderma that is in the coffee. I said thanks and he walked out the door.

I was happy up until the point he said it was healthy coffee. I've found that the majority of "healthy" food and drinks tend to taste bad if not awful. I've learned this through my moms various attempts to convert the regular products my siblings and I consumed while growing up into "healthier" versions. She has given us healthy cereal, healthier juice, and health bars, you get the idea. Anyway, most of these products tended to taste bad, especially when compared to the food or drink they were based off of. So I didn't care how healthy the coffee was, if it didn't taste good I wouldn't be able to sell it.

So I got home that day and decided to give it a try. I opened the pack, poured the contents into the empty cup, and added hot water. After mixing it all together I gave it a try. I gotta say it surpassed my expectations. I thought it tasted very good and beat the majority of the coffee I have had in the past by a long shot. This was a great sign to me because I felt that I should be able to sell this coffee purely on taste, the health aspect should just be an added bonus to the consumer.

I than looked up the video presentation online about the company. The presentation was done by the vice president of sales Holton Buggs, who is currently the number one income earner in the entire industry of network marketing. Mr. Buggs talked about the advantages of selling coffee, why he got involved with the company, and how Organo Gold distributors make their money. After the video was over I got in touch with Skip over the phone and we made an arrangement to further talk about the company at a local hotel.

I was extremely excited about the possibility of working with the company, but I wanted to see what other people were saying about them. Now I have never heard of a network marketing company that wasn't accused of being a scam, so I expected to find such claims. But if the claims against the company were too extreme, than that would definitely hamper my ability to grow my business.

 Fortunately, what I found was that the people who complained were usually ex-distributors who had entered the business with unrealistic expectations about how fast they would start making money and not putting in the effort or even understanding what it really takes to grow a business. This was not an issue to me because this is a common situation many new want-to-be entrepreneurs get themselves into regardless of the business they decide to start.

With that out of the way I was ready for my meeting with Skip at the hotel.