How does selling overpriced make-up equal financial freedom? Hahaha
Not makeup, but a friend makes enough selling Beachbody that she and her husband both left their jobs as Aerospace Engineers. They travel a lot, because she can do her job anywhere with an internet connection now.
/Just hope they are also thinking about retirement, and not just "same salary".
This is impressive. I also know a couple of people who do it as a full time business now (were able to quit their day jobs), or use it as a side business to something else.
Like any MLM business, you have to work it. Can you reach financial freedom with Younique? I suppose so, if you like the product and have the right circle of customers and work the business.
The people who work the Beachbody business and do well at it - well, first, they love the product. Second, they work hard at the business. Third, they are very motivational and REAL. Easy to relate to. Fourth, they spend a lot of time on it. It's not just sitting at home, videotaping yourself, and posting to FB and instagram. Some of them run workouts at private gyms 3 to 4x a day. They run free healthy eating clinics. Stuff like that.
But you can't really rest on your laurels. From what I know, a BB Coach makes a commission of 25%. You aren't going to be able to quit your job by getting a $15 to $40 cut when someone buys a workout from you, even if you have repeat customers who buy every new workout. They way you make money is to "move up" and have more coaches below you (I honestly don't know how much this is worth. I think when you get to a certain level you get customers from the BB website as referrals.)
The other way is Shakeology. Obviously if someone buys it from you, you get a cut. If they keep buying it from you, you get a cut every month. I've seen local BB coaches run free groups, etc., but they stop putting effort in you if you don't buy Shakeology from them, because then they are working for nothing.
I have a friend who tried Rodan & Fields, but she just didn't have enough people interested. Then there was the jewelry one. Another friend first tried DoTerra Oils (she seems to be doing okay, she's a SAHM). Then she tried this energy/ utility thing. Like, you get friends to sign up with this third tier electric company, that just buys in bulk from the local electric company. Or with a cell phone company, or cable TV. The customer saves money and you get a commission - every month - because they pay their bills. It's apparently a good company (I went to the sales pitch). Honestly, because I'm mustachian, the idea interested me (the idea to help people reduce their bills), but when my friend looked at my bills, she couldn't do better (because we'd optimized everything by then).
I think the big negative with that one was that the only cell phone company was one whose signals were not strong here. The big wig from NC (video call) said "stop focusing only on cell phones, think of the big picture, this is a new market!" We said "you don't understand, this is California, people will pay their phone bills before anything else!"
I'm not much of a sales person. So while I like the Beach Body workouts, you won't ever see me quitting my day job to be a coach!
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