LEADERSHIP Through the Years EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7 Janice & Fred Teeter F L O R I D A
“I loved the stability of the company. I was about to turn 50, and I needed to find something that I could stick with.”
Enrollment Date: February 2000 Lifetime Earnings: $2,109,996
Personal Enrollees’ Earnings: $1,671,675 Monthly Repeat Income: $5,590 Members in Organization: 1,227 Directors in Organization: 41
I Have Grown So Much through Melaleuca Janice Teeter was head of corporate operations for an international information technology company. “That really appealed to me,” she says. Melaleuca especially resonated with Janice because she had suffered a personal health
each day. “I even had a ‘staff’ that I could call on at Melaleuca Global Headquarters when I needed help!” she says. “Through Melaleuca,” Janice continues, “I have grown so much in so many ways. For example, I had to learn how to reach out to friends and family. That’s very difficult and uncomfortable for many new Marketing Executives, who may feel like they’re asking for a favor. But when you approach someone close to you, just say, ‘I’m not saying this is something you have to embrace, but since you’re my good friend, I really want you to know exactly what Melaleuca is and what it isn’t.’ “That approach worked for me because even though I had skeptical family members, after I explained the products, the shopping club, and the revenue sharing model, they enrolled!”
As she approached her 50th birthday, the company was sold and plans to relocate were announced. Suddenly, Janice found herself contemplating a tough decision. “My parents were aging. I already didn’t have much time to spend with them, my sisters, or my husband,” she says. Retirement wasn’t an option. So she approached her next step with analytical skills fine-tuned by her corporate experience. Of all the opportunities before her, building a Melaleuca referral business was the best fit—even though it wasn’t a corporate job. Her enrollers explained that building a Melaleuca business isn’t about selling laundry detergent. This is a wellness company. This is about changing lifestyles.
crisis in her early 40s. Afterwards, she spent months researching the chemicals she was using to clean her home— resulting in a thorough purge. Sharing why she chose to change lifestyles came easily for her, and she could back up her reasons for that change with the research she had done. As an executive who used to help evaluate corporate mergers and acquisitions, Janice also researched Melaleuca from a business perspective and liked what she saw. “I loved the stability,” she says. “I was about to turn 50, and I needed to find something that I could stick with.” So she got to work. Even though it wasn’t a corporate job, Janice approached her Melaleuca business just like it was. She created a home office and “went to work”
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These results are not typical. Consult the Annual Income Statistics on page 58 for typical results.
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