Pros and Cons of Starting a Watkins Products Business
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“Why choose Watkins products as your source of extra income, or work from home business opportunity?” I get asked this question a lot. Making a T-List of pros and cons that evaluate the Watkins home business opportunity is really quite amusing. Why? Because the list of “pros” is so long it’s almost unbelievable, and trying to come up with a list of “cons” is almost impossible.
Still, for those that are interested in marketing Watkins products, I’ll do my best to paint a fair picture and unbiased picture for you. To be fair, let me first start by saying any review I give of Watkins may not be considered as unbiased, since I’m an Independent Watkins Associate myself. But I’ll be happy to provide a list of references for you to people that can certify I’m a straight shooter and known to express my opinions, whether good or bad, on all things related to Watkins.
Pros for Selling Watkins Products
As noted above, the list of pros associated with starting a Watkins products business is long. Ask any Watkins associate about the attributes and benefits of the Watkins home-based business opportunity and I guarantee you that you’ll come up with new pros you can add to my list. That said, here are some very important attributes of Watkins products that led me to making the decision to start a Watkins home products business of my own.
- Watkins is a company of impeccable integrity, with a reputation that is 142 years in the making.
- The company was founded in 1868 and quickly became the largest home and personal use products company in the world.
- When most American businesses were going bankrupt in the Great Depression, Watkins was one of only a hand full of American companies that actually grew in sales revenue eacy year of the Depression and added new employees and dealers each year of the Depression.
- Watkins has never had a single product recall during its 142-year history.
- There are numerous ways to market Watkins products, you are no just limited to one method.
- Watkins has been family owned and operated since its founding. Since 1978 it has been owned by Irwin Jacobs. His son Mark is President and CEO of the company.
- Watkins manufacturers over 350 products for home, family and personal use.
- Most Watkins products are recession proof products, that sell well in good economies and bad.
- Watkins compensation model is one of the best in the network marketing business, and pays bonuses on every level you have an associate at the Manager level.
- Watkins is one of the largest manufacturers of all-natural, environmentally friendly products in North America.
- Watkins continues to add new all-natural and organic products to its products list.
- Watkins helps subsidize associates sales by offering party hosts and hostesses free Watkins shopping sprees based on a percent of home party sales.
- Watkins awards top associates with free trips to exotic places.
- Millions of American households have used Watkins products for several generations.
- Several Watkins products, like Watkins double-strength vanilla extract, are award winning products, proclaimed to be the best in the world.
- Watkins offers superb online training for all associates, including numerous online audio recordings.
- Watkins offers all associates the ability to take orders online, by mail, by toll-free phone, via catalog, etc.
- Watkins products covers most lines of products sold in the home and for personal use, including seasonings, extracts, flavorings, cleaning products, laundry products, vitamins, supplements, first aid products, remedies, lotions, creams, lip balms, insecticides, bathroom products, kitchen products, outdoor products, snack dips, bread mixes and more.
- Watkins markets many products it’s been selling for over 100 years.
- Watkins associates can earn money from three revenue streams: profits on personal Watkins product sales, bonuses received on sales of associates in your Watkins downline, and bonuses from sales of Watkinize Your Home assortments.
- Watkins can be started as a part-time business, working only a few hours per week.
- It is possible to build a full-time income from running a part-time Watkins business just a few short years.
- Some ways one can market Watkins can lead to several hundred dollars per month in income very shortly, without having a downline of associates you recruit.
- There are no sales quotas in Watkins.
- Watkins places zero pressure on associates to succeed.
- Watkins does not use or promote high pressure sales tactics, but relies solely on the quality of its products and its impeccable reputation to market its products and its business opportunity.
- Watkins products will sell themselves if you introduce them to people and have the sample or try the product.
- Watkins products are produced to extremely high standards, with many products meeting the FDA’s highest standards.
- The “transfer buying” method allows one to build a Watkins business without having to “sell” products.
- The residual income component of Watkins revenue stream grows as you grow your organization.
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Cons Regarding Selling Watkins Products
- Watkins is not a get rich quick opportunity. Instead, its more of a get rich slow opportunity. It can take 5 to 7 years to build a six-figure income with Watkins. That said, my 4 15 years of Internet marketing experience and work from home experience has taught me that there are no free rides in that world, that the so-called “get rich quick schemes” touted online by thousands of get-rich wannabe’s should be more accurately called get rich quick scams.
- Neither Watkins, nor your sponsor, is going to build your Watkins business for you. When becoming an associate you are not buying an existing Watkins business, but will be responsible for going out and building your own Watkins business. Too often, many people feel they can sign up and become an associate and they will become instantly rich. Sorry friend, but you’re going to have to work for what you earn with Watkins. On the plus side, the work is extremely fun, very easy, not demanding, and can be scheduled anytime you like to operate your business.
- Although Watkins provides extensive training online, providing documents and online audio recordings, it has very little video training and relies heavily on personal mentoring from your sponsor. Hence, it is extremely important that you weigh and consider the merits and experience of the Watkins associate you are considering as your sponsor. Picking a Watkins sponsor that takes a keen interest in your success and helping you build a successful Watkins business by providing great mentoring and training is probably one of the most important decisions you’ll make when you decide to start a Watkins business. Don’t be afraid to ask a prospective sponsor what he or she brings to the table, what sets them apart from other Watkins associates or makes them different from other sponsors you could choose or might be considering.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Watkins home-based business opportunity, I strongly recommend you download my free ebook, Work From Home Goldmine, at http://www.workfromhomegoldmine. If you would like to receive a free, no-obligation Watkins Business Evaluation Kit by mail, please complete our business kit request form now.
I hope this list of pros and cons assists you in making your personal decision regarding Watkins. Feel free to download my free ebook about Watkins and its home business opportunity.
Watkins Products for Home, Family and Personal Use
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Since 1868 Watkins has been producing products that residents of the United States and Canada use regularly. Founded by J.R. Watkins with a single product (Dr. Ward’s Red Liniment). Over the course of the past 141 years numerous new products have been added to the Watkins product line. Modern-day Watkins Incorporated now manufacturers over 350 Watkins products for home, family and personal use.
From old-time favorites like Red Liniment, Watkins award-winning Double-Strength Vanilla Extract, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Menthol Camphor, Petro-Carbo Salve and Lavender Drops, to a whole new line of all-natural, “Going Green,” plant-based cleaning products (laundry detergent, dishwashing detergent, toilet bowl cleaner, All-Purpose Cleaner, All-Purpose Cleaning Wipes and more), to all-natural, environmentally-friendly beauty and skin products and Watkins traditional line of spices, seasonings, extracts and flavorings, today’s Watkins has it all. Oops! I forgot to mention natural remedy products and Watkins wonderful line of supplements (vitamins, weight loss products, Linimax for join pain, etc.).
With the Watkins products line containing so many products that people use, and use regularly, it’s no wonder that Watkins has been selected as North America’s best home-based business opportunity. Stay-at-home Moms, retired corporate executives, computer programmers, college students, teachers, nurses, musicians, the hearing-impaired, the blind, quadriplegics, etc. — basically people from all walks of life, are turning to Watkins in droves during good times and bad, finding a business they can start parttime, and build over a few short years to a full-time income.
Whether you’re financially successful or deep in debt, starting a Watkins home business and devoting a few hours of your time each week to build and nurture it, can produce a residual income that can either be an insurance policy for bad times ahead, or a solution to your financial problems.
To learn more about building a Watkins products business, download our free ebook, Work From Home Goldmine by clicking here.
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If you’re interested in starting your own Watkins products business and would like more information about this great home-based business opportunity, please complete the contact form below and we’ll send you a free Watkins Information Kit worth $25.
Watkins Associate Job Openings
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While the worst economic recession we’ve seen during our lives is raining down on the world and job layoffs are occuring at an alarming rate, one American company is still offering work to any resident of Canada or the U.S., 18 years of age or older. The company I speak of is Watkins Incorporated, on track to do $110 million dollars in sales this year, a whopping $15 million dollars over year-ago levels.
You may recall Watkins, best known as the door-to-door sales company that’s been selling its products to North American residents for 141 years. The door-to-door business model that popularized the company in it’s heyday of the 1930′s through 1960′s has long since given way to more popular forms of direct sales, like booth sales at festivals and craft fairs, catalog distribution, home parties, non-profit sales and Internet sales.
Watkins is now a thriving network marketing company that allows its associates to not only make money from their direct sales, but also make overriding bonuses from the sales of other Watkins associates they personally recruit and sponsor. This fantastic business model allows associates to start a Watkins home business working part-time and build their Watkins business into a full-time income in a few short years.
Many people are not aware that Watkins was one of only a handful of companies that actually prospered during the Great Depression, actually increasing its sales revenues during the Great Depression years and increasing its work force. As we hunker down to prepare for difficult economic times, one way of building a great insurance policy for the future and making sure bad economic times never threaten your lifestyle again, is to start building a Watkins home-based business now.
Just like Watkins added new jobs during the Great Depression, it still has is doors open to adding new associates in 2009. If you think you might be interested in learing more about the Watkins home business opportunity, feel free to visit our Watkins information site now at http://www.homeincomebiz.com or check out our Watkins products store online.
Generation Xers Find Safe Haven With Watkins Products
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A news article on MSN.com today explained how Generation Xers (that segement of our population ages 25 to 34) have been hammered by a financial double whammy in their young lives. First it was the dot com bust, when hundreds of thousands of Generation Xers lost high-paying six-figure jobs as they companies collapsed out from under them. Now it’s the brutal recession of 2009 and global financial crisis. Scores of Generation Xers are losing their jobs once again and are quickly discovering a dried up job market and no one interested in their talents.
Are so they thought . . . because I know of one company that actually prospered and grew during the Great Depression, and that company is still around today, 141 years after its founding in 1868. The company I speak of is Watkins products. Watkins offers every resident of the U.S. and Canada, 18 years of age or older, an opportunity to build a home-based Watkins business of their own.
What Watkins Will and Won’t Do for Those Without Jobs
First and foremost, Watkins is not a get rich quick business. It would take a very rare person indeed to earn six-figures there first year as a Watkins associate. But if you view the Watkins business opportunity as a car, that if driven regularly and often, can take you whereever you wish to go up and down your personal earnings highway, then what Watkins provides every new associate in the form of a startup kit and approval to sell Watkins products, is equivalent to the key you’ll need to start the ignition of your Watkins income car.
I realize this analogy may sound a bit hokey, but the point I’m trying to make is that there are several ways to make income with Watkins quickly, but since the Watkins business model is intended to be started as a part-time home-based business, that through regular part-time work can grow into a six-figure income business in several years, how fast you get to six-figures, whether it be 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 years, is highly dependent on you. By that I mean how much time you put into your business, how often you work your business, how efficient you run your business and how effective you are at selling and sponsoring.
Watkins offers a very low start-up cost solution to having an instant business, representing a reputable company, with 141 quality products. You can elect to make money direct selling Watkins products, you can elect to make money sponsoring new Watkins associates and earning bonuses from their sales or you could elect to follow my path, which includes both direct selling and sponsoring.
Watkins will put you in the driver’s seat with your own business immediately. That means you’ll have something to do immediately, a means and ways of making money immediately, an immediate boost to your morale and a surge of optimism. You’ll be in control of your own destiny. Once successful to the degree and level you set for your goals, you’ll be able to answer to no one but yourself. At last, no bosses, not set-in-concrete work hours, etc. Build the best life you can build by starting a Watkins business today.
If you’re in need of a job now and can’t find one, I highly recommend you look into the Watkins home-based business opportunity. Use our contact form to send us your contact information and mailing address and we’ll send you out a free information kit today. If you prefer to learn more about Watkins now, go to http://www.homeincomebiz.com and see what Watkins can do for you.
Generation Xers, I highly recommend you consider Watkins as a long-term insurance plan that will allow you to build up a steady income stream for added protection when economic times like this return again in your life some day.



