It’s Not Your MaMa’s Watkins Anymore!

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1953 Watkins Products AdI grew up on a small Louisiana farm in the 1950′s and early 1960′s.  One of life’s special treats in those days was the monthly visit by the “Watkin’s man.”  He would drive up to our farm house in a black paneled truck with the Watkins name in gold script letters on each side.  He was always dressed in a black suit, white shirt, a colored tie and a black hat.  I can no longer recall his name, and really not sure if I ever knew it.  Of course my parents and grandparents knew him well and called him by his first name, but when he wasn’t around we all simply referred to him as the “Watkins man.”

The “Watkins man” captivated us each month.  Like a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat, the Watkins man would open his large black leather display case, that also had the word Watkins in gold letters on each site, and begin demonstrating new products and old, concentrating like every good salesman on ones we had’nt tried before. 

Our kitchen pantry and medicine cabinets were chocked full of Watkins products.  My Granny Brown used double strength vanilla, walnut and banana extracts, cinnamon, black pepper and many more products for the kitchen.  Like every good mother, she had passed down the tradition of using Watkins to my mother. 

My Papa Brown was practically a Watkins groupie.  The man treated Petro Carbo salve with a special reverence like none I’ve ever seen.  You would have thought it had been discovered by Ponce de Leon himself.  He treated everything you can possibly imagine with Petro Carbo salve, from minor cuts, scrapes and burns to open wounds that should have been stitched — on both people and dogs. 

I can recall countless times when our hog dog “Sport” would get cut badly by a wild boar or injured badly in a dog fight and Papa Brown would holler, “Craig, run get me the can of Petro Carbo.”  And a miracle ointment it was indeed, for any and everyone we treated always healed quickly with Petro Carbo.  It still holds a special place in the medicine cabinets of my house and my parents.

Ah, but those days of oles bring back fond memories.  And here I am today, a proud “Watkins man” myself.  But things have changed a lot at Watkins over the last 40 years.  As I frequently tell others interested in this fantastic home-based business opportunity, “It’s not your Mama’s Watkins anymore!”  No, instead its much better, with 350 fantastic Watkins products marketed by 50,000 associates across North America.

Today’s Watkins is no longer a door-to-door sales business.  Oh sure, it can be, but there are far more, far better and far easier ways to market Watkins.  From Good Tastings parties, to festivals and events, online sales and catalog distribution, selling Watkins is easy, fun and an easy way to make money.  More important for Watkins associates, one can now make a full-time income working Watkins part-time because the owners of Watkins have given associates a fantastic associate compensation model that now allows associates to build an unlimited residual income stream. 

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Watkins – North America’s Top Home-Based Business Opportunity

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WorkatHomePro.com recently conducted an analysis and evaluation of leading home-based business opportunities available to Americans and Canadians and determined that one company stood Watkins productshead and heals above the rest as North America’s Top Home-Based business opportunity.  That company?  Watkins Incorporated of Winona, Minnesota, founded in 1868 by J.R. Watkins.

Watkins was chosen as the top home-based business opportunity afer receiving superior results on 15 major points.  Among the more important conclusions the study determined were:

With so many great attributes, it is no wonder that WorkatHomePro.com found the Watkins home-based business opportunity to be top home-based business opportunity in North America.  We highly recommend you give the Watkins business opportunity special consideration.  Feel free to view our free ebook which explains more about this grand business opportunity.

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Watkins Dealers Have Reason to be Proud

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Watkins DealerWatkins dealers, or associates as Watkins refers to them, are among the most satisfied and happiest network marketers in the network marketing industry. Why is that and why have I have chosen to write about this subject today? Frankly, when I woke up this morning the question was still fresh on my mind from it being posed by a new prospect last night. When he asked me the question it was like playing slowpitch softball with a basketball. I leaped on the question like a duck on a June bug and hit that basketball out of the park. When I was finished, you could see the excitement dancing in his eyes.

As I told my prospective Waktins dealer the answer to his question is both old and new — starting 140 years ago and originating with great products produced by a great American (i.e., J. R. Watkins). I went on to explain that the answer remains as alive today as it was in 1868, because the Watkins company continues to produce fantastic products that people love and adore, helping to make the job of every Watkins dealer even easier through the product testimonials our customers share with their friends and relatives.

I went on to emphasize that although our company’s ownership changed from descendents of the Watkins family in 1978, it is our good fortune to have the ownership in the hands of someone who is one our nation’s most adept business leaders. More importantly, it remains in the hands of someone who truly cares about the company’s customers and its associates (i.e., Watkins dealers). Namely, that someone is Watkins owner and Chairman, Mr. Irwin Jacobs. I honestly don’t feel Mr. Watkins himself ever loved his company any greater than the love for Watkins I see exhibited daily by Mr Jacobs and his son Mark.

Mr. Jacobs is a Minneapolis entrepreneur and owner of numerous businesses other than Watkins, most notably Genmar Holdings Inc., the world’s largest boat manufacturer. Anyone that has come to know Mr. Jacobs has learned that he attributes his success to many years of hard work, love of family, a strict code ethics taught to him by his father that emphasized building relationships and practicing honesty, loyalty and trust with everyone he comes in contact with, to his understanding of people and to all the personal failures he’s experienced in his life. For each failure, he explains, was a necessary lesson in life, a learning experience (if you will), that empowered him with the fortitude and knowledge necessary to overcome future obstacles he would come to face in life and business.

Mr. Jacobs purchased Watkins in 1978 and has remained closely involved with the company ever since. His son, Mark Jacobs, is President and CEO of Watkins. Both of these business leaders have contributed more towards making Watkins the greatest name (and company) in the network marketing industry than any Watkins dealer could have ever imagined 30 years ago. While many network marketers think it takes hype and ra-ra motivation tactics to build a network marketing organization, these two great leaders have built a company based on family values, concern for their customers and concern for dealers — all the while emphasizing to their sales force of Watkins dealers to not sell the Watkins home-based business opportunity as a get rich quick scheme, but to always be forthright and honest in all their marketing efforts.

Watkins truly offers a wonderful opportunity for everyone looking to start a home-based business. From stay-at-home moms looking to earn $500 to $800 per month working a few hours a week, to former corporate executives wanting to escape the rat race and build a six figure income in a few years, the company’s compensation model and product line is more than one could hope for, regardless how much income you might wish to earn.

But like the Jacobs emphasize, the Watkins business opportunity is not a get rich quick plan.  Like any business, it takes drive, dedication, determination and a desire to succeed to make Watkins work for you.  You’ll get out of Watkins what you put into it.  It really doesn’t take a lot of effort, only working a very few hours per week parttime for you to make $500 per month.  But if you’re one of those persons that want to build your Watkins business to a 6-figure annual income, making over $100,000 per year, there are many Watkins dealers who’ve proven this goal can be accomplished in 3 to 4 years – starting it out as a parttime business.  Married couples that have accomplished this goal have done so with one spouse being able to quit their job in 1 or 2 years and the other spouse usually following close behind in another year or two. 

The problem with we American’s is that we’re always looking for shortcuts.  We want to “get from point A to point B without traveling through the obstacle course,” as Watkins owner Irwin Jacobs describes it.  As Mr. Jacobs so smartly points out — “this is not how life works.” 

When I’m telling someone about the Watkins business opportunity and I sense they are only interested in finding a shortcut to “instant wealth”, I ask them one simple question — “How many people do you personally know who’ve achieved wealth overnight?”  I emphasize I’m not talking about movie stars, sports stars and singing sensations, I’m talking about people they can say they know personally.  Their answer is always the same “No one.”  That acknowledgment alone should be their wakeup call.  I point out to them that if they apply themselves Watkins should put them on a shorter path to wealth, but not a shortcut to instant wealth.

I’m in my 50′s and I have earned a six-figure income for many years.  Many people would call me rich.  But I didn’t get to where I am overnight.  There were many bumps in the road along the way.  Still, I’m convinced that if I had joined Watkins 30 years ago the road to success would have been much shorter, with very few bumps along the way.  However, like most people, I chose the hard way to get to where I am today.  Along the way I was naive and looked for the shortcut to wealth at every turn I took.  I chased a hundred “get rich quick” schemes that all turned out to be hype and heartache. 

Fortunately, I had a good education and was always smart enough to not leave my job and pursue these get rich quick ventures fulltime.   At Watkins, we never recommend you begin your Watkins business opportunity full-time.  Instead, from Mr. Jacobs down, we recommend that you start your Watkins business parttime and build it to what it can become — your escape from the rat race.  So when someone asks me, “Why are you so happy to be with Watkins?” I tell them, Watkins offers every dealer or associate the opportunity of a lifetime:  great products, a great reputation, a moneyback guarantee on everything we sell, 140 years of history, 140 years building a stellar reputation, 140 years of product branding, a great management team, an owner you wish you could call Dad because of the value system he teaches and a company that cares about you as an individual – not just what you can bring to the table. 

I had a guy the other night who told me, “Craig, I want to meet the guy who sold you on Watkins.”  When I asked why he said, “Because I want to find out everything about him, what he eats, what he wears, how he lives, when he sleeps, etc.  If I could just copy what he’s doing right I’d have no problems recruiting new Watkins dealers and building a successful downline.”  Once again, I was tossed another basketball to hit out of the park, because I was proud to be able to say — “You’re looking at him, just practice what I do, follow my lead, and together we’ll build a great downline organization.” 

He looked puzzled and perplexed, so I went on to explain — “No one sold me on Watkins.  I sold myself.  True, I’ve known the company and its products for 50 years.  But when I was looking for a home-based business opportunity for myself I took the time to (1) do the due diligence, (2) research the company, (3) find out what I could about Mr. Jacobs and how he managed the comapany, and (4) searched online to determine who I wanted in my upline and decided quickly that to guarantee my personal success with Watkins and become the greatest Watkins dealer I can be, it was essential that I join Watkins under the Summit Group.  That decision led me to David Daisey, Jerry Fochtmann and Steve Bretske.  I’m convinced that this is the most important business decision I’ve ever made in my life, and the best due diligence I’ve ever performed.   Speaking of which, I’m a business consultant, so I do due diligence for a living and trained to spot good companies.

I invite you to explore the wonderful business opportunity that Watkins has in store for you.  Simply go to The Summit Group and take my challenge to escape from the rat race, adding flexibility and freedom to your life.  Don’t be like me and regret not having done this when you were young.  Watkins will always be there waiting for you, but my question in closing for you is, “Why delay the start of your trip to financial freedom another day or minute?  Take my challenge to explore the Watkins home-based business opportunity now!

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Summit Group’s Watkins Associate Enjoys Success Quickly

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Join the Watkins Summit GroupOver the years I’ve met many network marketers who signed up with one company or another and didn’t know what to do next.  The business they had long dreamed of founding fizzled and died because they lacked a roadmap or blueprint.  Members of the Watkins’ Summit Group of associates cannot site “lack of training” or “lack of a roadmap” as a reason for failure.  That’s because Summit Group founders Steve and Ginny Bretzke and Ginny’s brother Jerry Fochtmann have done a marvelous job building an online resource and training center for their Summit Group downline members, of which yours truly is a member.  You gain access to the private member area of the Summit Group’s associate training center if your fortunate to join Watkins through this URL link.  This link is to the Summit Group’s Watkins products information and new associate signup site.  The Summit Group maintains a different domain name and URL address for the private member training and resource center that you gain access to once you become a Summit Group member of Watkins.

Once you join Watkins it is very important to strike while the iron is hot.  Don’t lose the momentum that drove you to become a Watkins Associate by procrastinating another minute.  After all, if you purchased a McDonald’s franchise would you wait several weeks before you visited your store?  I don’t think so.  Once you join Watkins you should spend your first few days reading the abundant amount of training materials and listening to the audio files in the Summit Group private membership site.  Once you feel you’ve learned enough about starting and managing your new Watkins business I want you to promise yourself that you will devote 30 minutes of time exclusively to Watkins every day, even if you spent the entire 30 minutes reading a motivational book, a primer on direct selling or taking 30 minutes of “quite time” to comtemplate what your next move will be.  If you can give your new home-based Watkins business 1 hour a day you’re destined for success. 

Thirty minutes a day isn’t much, so consider spending more if you can find the time.  If you can give your personal Watkins business 2 hours a day of your time you’ll soon become a Watkins manager, and will one day enjoy a 6-figure income.  Some of Watkins greatest success stories have achieved their dream of becoming finanically independent within 3 to 4 years.  You can too. 

Let’s take the example of Summit Group Watkins associate member Cindy Gillespie-Robert.  Cincy is a classic example of how quickly success can come to Watkins associate that is willing to devote a little time each day to their Watkins business.  Cindy and her husband Ryan are Bronze Manager’s of Watkins.  I became interested in learning more about Cindy and Ryan while perusing my private Summit Group membership site.  I visit it almost daily because its a fantastic online training and resource site designed to train all members of the Summit Group of Watkins associates how to start, manage and grow their business. 

Each month the Summit Group posts results of prior month leaders within the Summit Group.  In the month of March I noticed that Cindy Gillespie-Robert of Louisiana ranked 13th in the Summit Group’s top 50 list of associates with the most downline points.   I wasn’t looking for Cindy, because frankly I didn’t know her or had ever heard her name before.  Instead, being a native of Louisiana, I was just curious and wanted to find out who in the Summit Group was the most successful Watkins associate in the state of Louisiana.  Keep in mind that the Summit Group has 8,500 members and being in the Top 50 list means you’re one of the leading Watkins associates in the country.  Cindy’s name popped up as number 13 on the list.  The Summit Group offers its members many resources and a bevy of statistics.  In their sales statistics area I also learned that Cindy’s downline ranked 9th in the Summit Group, having sponsored 21 new members in March and that she personally had sponsored 6  new members.  

Still stuck on the curiosity related to a successful Watkins associate from Louisiana, I decided to surf the net and see if I could learn more about Cindy.  My findings astounded me.  I had assumed that someone this successful had likely been with Watkins for 15 years or more and were likely up in their years.  Such was not the case and her story should serve as an example to all that if you devote a little time each day to your Watkins business it doesn’t take long to become highly successful and begin making lots of money.

What I learned is that Cindy did not join Watkins until April 2008.  That means she’s only been a Watkins associate for 4 years.  During that 4 years she’s not only become a Bronze Manager of Watkins (earning that honor in October 2006), but won trips to the Bahamas in 2006, San Diego in 2007 and Puerto Vallarta in 2008.  In 2007 she was invited by Watkins to speak at its annual business conference for associates and won several distinguished awards, including No. 2 Personal Sponsor Overall, No. 2 Total Downline Sponsor in the Manager Category and the No. 3 Manager award — in the entire company!  I can’t wait until I meet Cindy and Ryan and have the opportunity to “talk Watkins” with them. 

Now for those moms reading this article that you don’t have the true grit it takes to become this successful in any home-based business you try because you’re too busy with responsibilities at work, at home and with your children I want to share one more tidbit of info with you about Cindy.  Cindy is a registered nurse, a busy mom, active in the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, softball, soccer and much more and still finds time to run a highly successful Watkins business that has won her trips, awards and a healthy income stream in just a few short years.  So what are you waiting for, give Watkins a try.  You can become a Watkins associate for as little as $39.95.  The most important step you can take if you join up with Watkins is to join as a member of the Summit Group.  You can visit the Summit Group website and signup with Watkins now now by clicking here.

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