Stacey Forever

On the 1st April 2011 I signed my next team members, Brian and Theresa Smith- Husband and wife from Radford Semele, Warwickshire. I met Theresa at a brainstorming event for Networking group Networking Mummies Warwickshire. I was discussing the fact that I needed more people to practise my one2one presentation on and Theresa informed me she’d briefly looked into the business opportunity several months ago and would gladly take a look for me. We met up for a coffee that week and I went through the presentation with her and answered her questions she had and also asked her what she was looking for from Forever. What I found was that Theresa and myself was more alike than different as she to wanted to provide a secure future for her children and not have to worry about school fees, holidays or anything else the children might need and want growing up.

Theresa is an entrepeneur and has already set up two businesses- 1 is co-owned by her sister and is an event management company called Taylor Made Events the 2nd is Serenity support services which is based on coaching and supporting clients. I think Forever will fit in fantastically around these two businesses and compliment them fantastically.Brian is in the care industry and is probably the most enthusiastic person I’ve met! He totally gets the opportunity that Forever can offer his family and is ready to work hard to get great results. They have both embraced the products and both are feeling the health benefits from different products.

I’ve had great fun with Theresa and Brian this month helping them do a number of successful business launches including a very successful toning wrap party. We’ve also put plans in place to meet their goals and get them to where they want to be.  In their first month they have hit their 4 case credits (which is the company standard), attended trainings and helped me to achieve a promotion up the marketing plan!!!!

Charity

PLEASE SEE BELOW A STATEMENT FROM GREGG MAUGHAN- FLP PRESIDENT.  If you would like to donate to this amazing cause or would like to hold an event to help raise money for this please email me at: mail@staceycalder.co.uk- any help is much appreciated. Thanks Stacey.

Dear Forever Friends:

Like all of you, I have been stunned by the recent events in Japan. I recall waking early to the news that there had been a massive earthquake just off the northeastern coast of Japan. My first reaction when I hear of disasters and troubles throughout the world is to do a quick mental inventory of where our staff and distributors are. I recalled immediately that we have large numbers of dedicated distributors that live in the affected area, and we began the process of trying to locate our Country Manager in Japan to see what was happening and how we could help. Rjay Lloyd and his wife Annie were also in Tokyo, and after a nervous couple of hours we were able to contact them and get an assessment of their safety and the situation there. Over 300km south of where the earthquake struck, Rjay and Annie felt the quake, which still registered over 7 on the Richter Scale at the office in Toyko. He told us buildings were swaying over 18” off center. Thankfully our office in Tokyo suffered only superficial damage and no one was hurt. However, it quickly became apparent that this was more than ‘another earthquake’. It was a defining moment in world history. With the advice of our team in Tokyo, we reluctantly made the decision to postpone the Japanese Rally that was scheduled for the next week. With this decision made we were able to focus our efforts on doing what we could to help.

Miraculously, we are able to report that so far we have heard of no loss of life amongst our distributors. Sadly, though, many have lost their homes and ALL of their possessions; in some instances, their entire villages have been washed away. Obviously this level of devastation has created a massive need for humanitarian assistance, and I am proud to let you know that Forever has not been standing by. We immediately emptied our warehouse there of our products and gave them to our distributors, who have been an excellent distribution network making sure the product is getting to the people in need. We have sent truckloads of products, food and water from the south up to the stricken areas. Just yesterday we sent two more truckloads of food and water to those in need. We will continue to do what we can to help. But, without your help, we can only do so much.

As members of our extended Forever family, we are requesting that you join us in supporting Forever Japan as they join the humanitarian relief efforts in their country. We are confident that if each one of us gives what money we can to the Forever Giving Japanese Relief Effort, we will be able to achieve our goal of raising 25million YEN. If we achieve this goal, Rex has committed to matching this amount, which means that Forever Giving would donate 50million YEN to the relief efforts. Forever Giving has also guaranteed that 100% of the funds donated will reach Japan. With the help of Forever Japan, Forever Giving is currently searching for trustworthy and reliable partners to work with that will enable us to get the right assistance to those that need it the most.

Please visit www.forever-giving.org now and give what you can. We understand there are needs throughout the world and appreciate that it might not be a good time to give to another ‘cause’. However, all we ask is that you give what you can. The amount is not important; what is important is that we give something.

Thanks for Joining Us,

Gregg Maughan
President

I think you’ll agree this is an amazing gesture by the company and just goes to show FOREVER really is about helping others…

As I mentioned in my previous post this month I’ve been focusing on a product that I think really could benefit anyone with school age children. My daughter started pre-school in January and has had the dreaded ‘check for head lice’ letter that goes out to all children at all schools. I have to say since then I’ve become a bit obsessive about it- the last thing I want is my daughter coming home with them!

I distributed health care leaflets to her school at the start of the month offering a natural alternative to those horrid smelling, chemical based potions my mum used to use on me and my siblings. I really wouldn’t want my kids to go through that- they burn, they smell and they make you feel yuck! I offered to give the school 10% of the sales as I like the idea of putting something back into Mackenzie’s school. After I sent out the leaflets describing the product and it’s benefits, I thought I’d better give it a go- I love the fact my work is based on recommendations not selling. I’ve used the Forever Aloe Gelly for so many different things that I’m always recommending it to people, but my daughter has never had nits so i hadn’t used it in this way. Many people have told me how great it was for this and how easy to use but I still thought that I wanted to try it for myself.

Don’t worry this is not the part where I say I grabbed a child with nits and made them try it or that I made my daughter catch them so I could treat them- I’m not that obsessed or mad! But I did decide to try it on Mackenzie as if she’d got them so at least I could answer people from my own point of view about how easy it was to apply. Mackenzie loved the idea of getting to use more of “mummies magic creams” and getting her hair played with! So I took a tube of the Aloe Vera Gelly and rubbed it into the roots of my daughters hair and once that was done covered the remainder of the length of hair- I only needed a small amount even though my daughter has curly hair longer than shoulder length, I used hardly any of the tube so value for money here is amazing. When you think you pay around £12-£15 for a bottle of that chemical stuff (I’ll mention no names!) and you only get 1 application and then you compare it to the Aloe Vera Gelly which is under £12 and to be honest you’d get so many applications from it I wouldn’t like to say how many- obviously it depends on hair length and the other bonus is it can be used on all other things as well internally or externally- It really is a no brainer! We then brushed a nit comb through it and tied it up into high piggie tails and plaited them.

Now I know this is going of the subject a bit but what a fantastic natural hair gel it made! As i said earlier my little madam’s hair is curly so 9 times out of 10 it doesn’t matter how I style it it looks like she’s put her fingers in a plug socket! but after using the Gelly there was not a hair out of place and it stayed like that all night (as I got her to leave it in overnight). The next day we undid her hair, brushed it through with the nit comb again and then washed her hair using the Aloe shampoo and conditioner and then used the nit comb again.

The results…. Now as I said she didn’t have nits to start with so I can’t comment on that but the softness and manageability of her hair was amazing. It had brought out the shine (all natural as there is no fillers etc in the products), the curls looked beautiful for once and there was definately no knots! I really was over the moon with the results and so was Mackenzie who in her words “Looked like a princess”

I have had testimonials from people telling me that using the Forever shampoo and conditioner is enough to prevent head lice and I do use it as a preventative on my children’s hair, but I have some wonderful feedback from customers telling me about the Gelly as a way to

eradicate them. I hope this has shed some light or at least brought a smile to your face while discussing a subject that none of us would rather have to deal with!

Stacey and (Mackenzie) x

Hello All- First I’m going to apologise to everyone for not writing in a while. I’ve been so busy I hadn’t realised it had been so long until I saw a comment on here from someone saying they wish I posted as often as I used to- so my promise is I will try too!

Here at the StaceyCalder.co.uk headquarters It was a very hands on month last month so I think I’ll tell you all about it and you can judge for yourself.

• YOUR IMAGE IS OUR BUSINESS WORKSHOP

On the 3rd April we attended a great networking workshop co-run by Sally Evans photography and Laura Morris of Rentabuggy and Networking Mummies. The ‘Your Image is our business’ workshop was a fantastic idea. It involved a short presentation about giving the right company image followed by the chance to have some professional business shots taken for your website/business page. I’m pleased to say that I provided the Sonya Make up collection for make up artist Amy Murray to use before the ladies went in front of the camera. We received some great feedback from the event and it’s always lovely to meet new faces!

• PTA MEETINGS AT LOCAL SCHOOL

We’ve also been getting to know the PTA at my daughters school this month. My daughter Mackenzie started pre-school in January and since then I’ve been attending meetings to try and help come up with idea’s and events to raise money for the school. This month I doubled my efforts and came up with two ways staceycalder.co.uk could help. The first idea got me printing and distributing leaflets for every child in the school (around 210) offering a natural alternative to the horrid smelling, chemical full nit lotions available in the shops- lets face it there’s nothing worse than getting the dreaded ‘head lice leaflet’ in the book bag- I know over the last few months my daughter has had her hair checked constantly as I cannot stand the thought of her catching head lice at school! I offered the school PTA 10% of the sales for every order placed as a thank you. If your interested in a product for this subject I really recommend the Forever Aloe gelly left in the hair overnight, but I’m going to write a separate blog on this subject and go into more details. My other idea to raise money for St Patricks school was to hold a pamper morning or evening and offer teachers and parents the chance to come and experience some of my treatments such as the facials, toning wraps and hand massages. We are currently looking at packages and dates so more information on this will follow…

• SHOW AND TELL NETWORKING MUMMIES MEETING

I’ve been to Leicester this month to a networking event where the topic was ‘show and tell’ well I don’t think I ever did this even at school as the thought of getting up in front of people and presenting something used to scare me to death, I’m not so bad now but it still gives me the shakes and butterflies in my stomach! After speaking to several people I decided as it was a networking group of business mums i would show off 4 of my favourite and most popular products amongst that group of customers. I discussed the benefits of the Aloe deodorant stick (no aluminium salts), the Forever tooth gel (no fluoride), Bee Pollen (known in our team as legal speed as it boosts energy!) and my most popular product amongst mums the forever Aloe Gelly. I must have presented it okay as I got 2 sales there and then!

• FLYERS/CARDING/LEAFLET DROPS

We’ve spent alot of time this month (helped greatly by the sunshine) going around local housing estates and advertising the business. Local people have had events flyers, help cards and advertising magazine’s dropped through their door and I have to say I’ve been really pleased with the response I’ve had. On several occasions I’ve had people call me straight away and I’ve literally still been going door to door! I shouldn’t be shocked by the extra response because lets face it in winter when it was cold, wet and snowing I wasn’t doing half the activity in this area that i did last month so of course my response would have increased!

On top of this I’ve organised some amazing events and had some brilliant business one2one’s- one has resulted in a new team member and one on an amazing company placing a fantastic order with me- but I shall blog about this on a separate blog.

Well all that activity paid off as I managed to get in a great month and am pleased to say I achieved a base month for my next marketing plan ‘promotion’ so now all I need is an Amazing April!

Over the last few weeks I’ve been chatting to a lovely lady over in the US (thanks to social media networks now making this very easy!). She doesn’t work with Forever like myself but does work in Team/Network Marketing and has a great story to tell. People sometimes look at this way of business and think it’s a con or that it doesn’t work. Hopefully Shanna’s story will help to show people it really can change lives, I like the fact it’s not a Forever colleague as I think it then shows that it’s genuine. Big thank you to Shanna for sharing her beautiful story with us….

“My story may sound similar to others but it’s very special to me.

I signed up with a direct marketing company on September 29, 2008, when I was 5 months pregnant with my youngest child.  With two children at home already, and 2 others that we share custody, my husband trying to make a go of our business in a struggling economy, I knew that any extra income would help our family.  I set a goal and begin working hard to reach it.

To my surprise; MY business took off VERY QUICKLY!  People wanted something to brighten up their homes and lives, in a world of stress and cloudy days.   My goal was to simply sell the product, my focus was not on recruiting.  I knew what I needed to sell, to make my monthly goal, to provide that extra boost to our family budget.

After my “Launch Party” to introduce my new business, I quickly learned that this was MUCH more than just an extra $600 (USD) per month.  It could be SO much more.  People were seeing my success, my passion for the product, and they wanted what I had.  A life-changing opportunity! Building a team of consultants, or “downline” has been the easiest part for me.   Because I realized what I was sharing was a blessing not a burden that I was offering them.

With my company, I have been able to create an income to replace that of my “real job”, pay off debt, save for my children’s secondary education, and most recently paid cash for my daughter’s orthodontics (braces).   What a great sense of accomplishment it has been for me, to be able to help my family!

And it’s not just about the financial blessing, this small town girl, has been able to travel to places I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity.  My husband and I have been on an Alaskian Cruise, Canada, The Bahamas, earned an all expense paid trip to Hawaii, and my children and I are headed to Disney World in June… all because of the company.

I have been involved with other direct marketing companies before, and I think they are also wonderful companies, just not the right one for me!   The most important thing about anything you do in life is to be passionate about what you are doing!  With ANY Direct Marketing Company, it’s loving the product, believing in the company, and deciding what YOU want out of it, and developing a plan to reach your goal.

When talking to other successful consultants within my company as well as other Direct Marketing Companies, the secret to their success if very similar, they LOVE what they do!

I never dreamed when I invested that $99 (USD), that it would change not only MY life, but my family, and so many lives that have been changed, because I was able to share the blessing with them too.

What are you waiting for?”

Shanna Hodges
Star Director

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