I have dabbled with Direct sales for over 20 years. I have tried to sell many kinds of products for many different reasons. Usually I fall in love with a product or the idea of being able to earn a large income. So far it hasn't worked out well for me, but I have learned a little bit more with each venture I have tried. I vowed I would never do direct sales again, but then I found Plexus a company with some great health products that have really helped me be the person I wanted to be.
After a year of being with Plexus I realized that something was missing and that health products were just not my niche. I still use them religiously and if I find out they can help someone else have no problem sharing those products with others.
I began a search for something else without even realizing I was doing it. I joined a referral group and started listening to what some of the other companies were offering. I even seriously looked at signing up with one of them, but after my husband told me to look deeper, I found too many things I didn't like about the company I investigated. I thought I was looking for a company that I would meet often in person with, but I realized my mastermind groups were enough encouragement for me to find a start up to work with.
I got the idea to look at what was new in direct sales and found 6 different companies that I was interested in. As I looked at them more closely I quickly narrowed it down to 2. Then I started talking to my husband about both of them. We discussed the cons of both of them before we addressed the pros. We determined that while the other company had a great idea behind their products they were a little more difficult to sell because you had to convince people of the validity behind the idea for the products.
I grew up in a home with parents who were teachers. Not just any teachers, but special education teachers. My mom had a special needs home day care before she got her teaching degree. I chose not to go into teaching because I didn't like what I heard when they discussed work at the dinner table, but I found myself in positions where I was teaching anyway throughout my life. I found myself being regularly in contact with families of special needs families and I had 2 children with their own set of special needs. Then I had my youngest and I was faced with a different challenge of having a child who was academically advanced at a young age.
I started homeschooling which was something I had also vowed never to do. As I started looking at Fundanoodle Learning, I realized that these products created by Pediatric Occupational Therapists and Early Childhood Education Specialists were ones that I wished I had had not just earlier in my youngest's education but with my daughter who was diagnosed with disgraphia in 5th grade. These were products that could benefit so many not only with special needs, but with the average child as well.
Because of my background and who I associate with now, I found that these were products that spoke for themselves. It also helped that there were only 2 other distributors in my state. I don't have to convince people that there is a need for these products. I just have to show them that their children will use them and enjoy them. It only took half of my life, but I finally found the company that I belong with. I am a teacher at heart even if I didn't go to college to become one.
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