Expanding Our Vision
AMESSAGE FROMCEO FRANK VANDERSLOOT
Our mission of Enhancing the Lives of Those We Touch® has been a guiding beacon to keep us on course since the very first day we were in business. In the beginning I believed the day would come when we would have a few individuals who would take the opportunity to build their Melaleuca businesses to perhaps an annual income of one or two hundred thousand dollars. I anticipated that most of our members would use their Melaleuca business to supplement their existing income, and that many lives would be rewarded financially because of their efforts. In truth, I was quite short-sighted. I had no idea that in just 31 years we would have several families that would actually exceed a million dollars a year, and that we would be sending cheques to hundreds of thousands of families every month. I knew we were building something good. But I had no idea that it would grow and develop to what it is today. I was right about one thing though: the vast
majority of Melaleuca families have kept their jobs and use their Melaleuca income to supplement their current income. I was wrong about the size of that income however, as it has become obvious that the Melaleuca “supplemental” income often exceeds their income from their full-time employment. Nevertheless, we always encourage people to never quit their full-time job and to add their Melaleuca income to their original income, and if they follow our advice, their lives will be greatly enhanced. The success of our Marketing Executives is very exciting and fulfilling to me. Perhaps even more fulfilling is the fact that besides those who are building a business, more than a million other households use our products—not because they want to build a business, but because they love our products. They don’t receive the financial rewards because they may not necessarily be
1 JULY 2017 | MELALEUCA.COM
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