Zrii Progress #3/Getting over the hump

December 26th, 2007
· Filed Under: network marketing · zrii amalaki

The little bottles are here. WOW. Our Zrii Amalaki business will now take off…..for sure. This is one of the things we were waiting patiently for. We are also waiting for some people to decide whether to get into business with us, but I have a feeling that we will always have to have that type of patience.

Our company is still in Pre Launch and there have been a few little holdups, or delays. Good thing our CEO Bill Farley has deep pockets. Legend has it that when we were behind on the shipping of the little bottles, (3 oz. samples) he went to the vendor to talk about it. Hands on, I like that.

When there, they decided that this was an assignment that was way over their head. When he was figuring out what to do, he realized that he would need the bottle molds to be able to resume production when he DID find a bottler that could handle it. Obviously the molds were NOT for sale.

Well, he reached into the deep pockets and after some negotiation it turned out they were for sale after all. The molds, perhaps worth about 500 dollars could be had for a mere…..Ten Thousand Dollars. (Ya gotta be careful in New Orleans at midnight in dark alleys with huge diamond rings on too, btw, but I digress.)

So, then, “Who would bottle our tonic, then?”

He then found a new bottler that would take on the project. But one problem remained for them. They could not meet the production demands. “What will it take” Bill asked?

Well, the answer came after a hem and a haw, remember hemming and hawing? It’s making a comeback in my blog. The situation required a …..new machine. “And how much is that new machine?” he asked, seemingly with the checkbook already in his left hand?

One point five million dollars! Aha, let’s write the check then!

He’s my kind of guy, that Bill. Not that MY checkbook is exactly like his. My checkbook can LEARN from his though. But that was the kind of decision that has to be made in the life of a network marketing company in startup. Many times a company makes these decisions based on a LACK of funds, or makes the wrong decision altogether. Good thing we are over THAT hump.

These type of critical decisons separate great network marketing companies from the rest. I will cover the 5 Pillars for Success in Network Marketing in a (near) future blog.

The Zrii train is on track and heading down towards the Launch date in May. When are you going to get on board?