FULLER BRUSH
DOWNEAST WINNING TEAM®
NEWSLETTER

ROLAND RHOADES, DIVISION DIRECTOR
& Head of the Downeast Winning Team
1.207.892.0923 or 1.800.775.1113
E-mail: FBDWT@maine.rr.com
10 Blackberry Lane - Gorham Maine 04038     

Latest email updates:
(make sure I have your email if you want updates!)
4/27/2010 - See our private Discussion Board on our training website for a copy if you didn't get it.

May 18-20,2010 - Email notice that the newsletter is available here. I can't email everyone the same day, so get into the habit of checking our updates yourselves.

7/19 - see Discussion & Announcements Board for the latest posts of newsletter info.

7/25 - I emailed the max amt of newsletters my isp allows. Copied below for anyone else.

Do you read MARK'S NEWSLETTER?
It is posted on [our private training website] regularly for ALL team members to read, whether you are in Mark Haynes' group or not. How's that for being a team player?! Lots of good information there, so I won't bother repeating it.

           USA MADE PRODUCT LIST

 Look for the USA label next to all the made-in-USA products.

July 25, 2010 Fuller Brush Newsletter Update

NEW Discussion Board tells all. see below.

Hi all

July 30 Deadline

4pm CST is the deadline for ordering specials from the July catalog. The Summer Outdoors flyer says it expires then, but it is extended to the end of August every year, so likely will this year also. Don't miss out on the special introductory price on the Bath Clean Refill size this month, and other stuff on the sales hotline.

If you are a newer dealer, keep track of your deadlines (that I snail mail EVERY new dealer that I receive an address for) for the various bonuses. We are seeing better inventory control at Fuller and fewer backorders, see the discussion board post under Company news which turned into a mini-newsletter, if you haven't yet. Don't forget to order the limited time below wholesale new product demos. After you reach Manager, stretch to reach $75 and 29% instead of 26%, and keep track of the commission chart to maximize your profits. Remember, Minimum Order to qualify for downline commissions is $35.

My newsletter webpage www.FullerBrushDWT.com/news.htm  has a library of all newsletters for the past seven years. Hope you all got the May-Summer newsletter.

Anyone who is, or wants to be, on my paper snail-mailed newsletter list, gets one in the mail. LET ME KNOW if you want a free paper copy, or you get only this notification. In between are email-only updates like this one.  EVERY member of our team receives this newsletter, but only IF your sponsor submitted your name and address and email to me for a free subscription.

Emailing 2000 newsletter updates monthly is too cumbersome and also my isp doesn't really like it. So check for the monthly news updates yourself on my newsletter webpage and the Discussion Board (via our training website). Link to our private site not given here on this public site; if you are a member, you have it.

Another advantage of registering on our NEW Discussion Board is that you get weekly updates in your email. Which reminds me, the hundreds of you who registered on our OLD discussion board will need to re-register. We got hit by hackers in May who turned all our links into spam links. Our new board is managed by a company that can prevent that.  Everybody can view without registration, but please register so you can post your questions and replies. Thanks.

The price increases announced last month have been postponed until Sept 1, and the new master catalog should be ready late August. The Home for the Holidays flyer is included with the September catalogs which are available now.

Thank you to our top contributors to our Board with their experience and opinions lately: Mark Portincasa, Fred Taylor, Connor McDonald, Chuck Alt, David Thomas, Alice Flanders, Jesus/Carl Wendt, and others who do not have their name posted in their profile (please do), and top topics have been fullerdirect fees, Straight Talk about Fuller Brush and backorders, master catalogs, product testimonials. We also announced the extension of the kit and new dealer specials over a week before the Company did.

Reminder: My next print newsletter comes mid-August. I list Sponsoring Leaders in my newsletter of sponsors who TELL me who you've sponsored. If you sponsored a dozen people but haven't told me so, and who they are, then your total is zero.  And those new dealers do not exist in my records for help. I can't help anyone who won't help themselves and tell me how to reach your new dealers (address and email). I also send customers to active dealers if I know where they live. Thanks.

The Sales Hotline that you call every week if you want to be kept up to date is  Audio Newsletter 1-800-732-1132 , and also on myfullerbiz, on my newsletter webpage, and on Mark's Message and our Announcements & Discussion Board at our training website. The latest announcements are always on the Discussion & Announcements Board there. Monthly catalog Previews are on my newsletter webpage and in our File Library.   

Hope all is well with you and your businesses. Your answers are at our website above. The best way to reach me is email, I sometimes go a week between checking voicemail.

Questions? Concerns? Sponsor problems? Don't know who to contact for help? EMAIL ME. 

[I will be out of the office Mon-Wed this coming week.]

Hope you are all enjoying a great summer.

Roland Rhoades

#87 May-Summer 2010 - posted May 17

FULLER BRUSH SALES HOTLINE RECORDING - - 1-800-732-1132

Reminder: If you join on the new GetStarted Company application webpage, NO paperwork is required.
If you joined on a distributor's web-application, if you don’t also complete and sign the paper application that your sponsor sends you, you are removed from the Fuller computer after 2 months as being not interested enough to finish registering. And if you don’t finish joining the first time, you can’t rejoin again with someone else, you need to simply FINISH joining the first time.

 If you are a new distributor, make sure you qualify for all the potential bonuses, summarized   at www.FullerBrushDWT.com/money.htm 
You are most productive by combining both sales and recruiting in your business.

Great for planning your marketing campaigns, and keeping your customers informed about when their favorite products will go on sale again. Specials always end at 4pm Central.

STANLEY HOME PRODUCTS one-page list to print Our team members can get a copy of this that you can edit your name into. See the DWT Discussion Board. New Nov 2008, updated 4/09.

IMPORTANT  FULLER  WEBSITES

FULLERDIRECT

You NEED to request your FREE Fuller Direct website. Did you?
Use the form in your kit saying you want it. I also include a pdf copy in my welcome email, which is also in our File Library and your MyFullerBiz website. Mail or fax to Fuller, wait a couple days and try it. Then advertise your website as "Discount Fuller & Stanley at http://www.FullerDirect.com/9200298 " substituting your ID# for mine.

MYFULLERBIZ

Also remember, since many forget, the site Fuller gives you to place your own wholesale orders and to check your customer and distributor activity and see other announcements and company flyers is www.MyFullerBiz.com and you login with your 7-digit ID# and use the last 4 numbers of your soc sec # as your password (until you change it). You get this site automatically, as well as the site to sign up new distributors.

All signup specials are continued through December 2010. DWT Manual 3 is the Fuller Gold 2010 5-page Recruiting letter, updated January, now including our new on-line application. Download it to edit for your recruiting at our File Library. Use by Fuller distributors who are not a member of the Downeast Winning Team is a copyright violation. New instruction page to make sure you don't need to pay more than 78c postage for a full, complete, dealer-info package. Make sure I know if you are actively recruiting and have this letter ready to mail if I send you leads in your area.  Too much reading just confuses people, but it must also tell enough to answer their questions. That's why our package works so much better than Company brochures. Remember, only ONE Kit per person, so encourage the largest $130+ R205 Gold Select Business Builders Kit for $39.95. Sponsor new distributors with the FULLER BRUSH 24-hour RECRUITING LINE 1-800-477-3855 and ask them to call you back for the details. If you want help, call me.
* NEW Postage rates May 11, 2009: A 3oz mailing in a #10 or 6x9 envelope will mail for 78c, 2oz 61c. However, more than 3oz, or a 9x12 envelope, nearly double the cost. See usps.com for full details and rates.

THE DWT TRAINING WEBSITE

The rest of the Company doesn't have this. For OUR Team members only. It was created by Roland Rhoades and Mark Haynes to put US a cut above the rest. {And just may be the reason why OUR team has had the Company's last 22 Director or above promotions!} We guard this site and you receive it after you join with a DWT member.

It has PRODUCT PROMOTION & EDUCATION for you and your customers. NEW flyers available to photocopy for Stanley Home Products, Fulsol, Fullsan, Electrostatic Carpet Sweeper, Fuller Difference in Bathroom Cleaning, Sticky Stuff Remover geared toward commercial sales, Boar-bristle hairbrushes, Stainless Steel Sponges, Deodorant Moth blocks, and the Dryer Vent Brush & Refrigerator Coil Brush. See the Discussion Board>Forms & Flyers and/or File Library for the 8x11 flyers. It also has our training manuals on many subjects. Updated 7/10

We also announce anything new, many times before the Company does, including when the next TV product training show is.

Please add your product testimonials to the many more posted on our Discussion Board. Sharing our product experiences helps us all when we work and learn as a Team.  Thanks.

Here is my 2005 Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid car. Notice the license plate. Only $25 extra in Maine. I charged it as a business advertising expense too. I washed it with 'Fuller Car Wash & Wax'* right before the photo. All paid off in 13 months. Click on the car for more on my Prius page, and more about my vacations on that link.
My car and I, and the head of the Company when he visited me, are also on my home page.
*Product discontinued, but I loved it.

   Don’t make this business more complicated than it is or more simple than it is. If you sit at home and don’t tell anyone you have Fuller Brush products available, but just wait hoping somebody will find you anyway and order products on your website, you shouldn’t have joined. But as any active dealer can testify, if you actually tell people that you sell FB products and have catalogs, people will be asking you for catalogs and products, and telling their friends about you. Buy your own Fuller products. You don’t have to sell people on Fuller, but you do have sell yourself on Fuller and speak up and tell them that you are here. I see many applications come through each month from someone in the same town as a current dealer, but they were sponsored by someone across the country. You NEED to get your name out there if you want the business! Use the flyers in your kit and place [classified] ads in your local weekly shopper newspaper. I also get many questions that we have already answered in our training manuals. Everybody should be sure to read our DWT Manuals. They are FREE on our training website. Manual 1 gives getting started info and sample ads. Manual 2 and 3 are on recruiting. Manual 4 is on retailing.

Stay in touch and let me know how things are going.  I’m always here if you can’t reach your own sponsor. That’s one advantage of being on our TEAM. Keep your eyes on the horizon, as well as your bottom line.

Was one of your ancestors a Leavitt?  June 25, 2005 I was elected President of the National Association of Leavitt Families, and I’ve been active in researching the Leavitt families for some time; In June 2009 my term expired and I was elected Genealogist for the society. I now have all 18 volumes of our previously published research, and if you share the latest generations of your family with me, I will gladly share what we have back to 1600. Free Leavitt Update e-news available too.  See my Genealogy website at www.RolandRhoades.com specializing in Maine Families.