Team Juice Plus +

I see 5 important uses for 'Ask' in our business and they are all important:

Questions you Ask yourself
Questions you Ask while building your Virtual Franchise
What you Ask God for
Asking someone to look at Juice Plus+
Asking someone to try/buy Juice Plus+

Questions You Ask Yourself

When things go wrong are you prone to ask questions like:

Why does this always happen to me?
What did I do to deserve this?
What’s wrong with me?

When you can't buy something you really want, do you say "I can't afford it" or do you ask "How can I afford it?"

Whatever the question, the answers reinforce the assumption behind the question and provide an excuse for why you are not getting the results you want.

Michael Hyatt's article The Power of Asking the Right Question helps us to turn negative questions into positive ones, which greatly influence the outcome and the answers.

Questions You Ask While Building Your Virtual Franchise

Asking the right questions at the right time, listening to the answer and responding appropriately to what you have heard are probably the most important skills to learn for success in life and in business. Too few of us have these skills, but they're not hard to develop; only a desire and practice are needed.

You can Listen and Question your Way to Success.

What You Ask God For

The bible tells us to ask in prayer; Jesus' told his disciples: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)

The Prayer of Jabez opened the eyes of many of us to the fact that it's ok to ask God to "bless us indeed", as long as our hearts are in the right place and our motives are pure. So let's ask Him, and see what he does - it's often far better than what we asked for.

However, it's not enough to merely ask: in the passage above, two actions follow the ask: seek connects our prayer with responsible action; knock suggests perseverance. So we are to persist in prayer, confident that God will provide whatever is best for us.

Responsible action and perseverance are equally important as we seek new customers for Juice Plus+: ask, act and persist.

Asking Someone to Look at Juice Plus+

We call this the Invitation - it's how we introduce Juice Plus+ to others. With those on your Invitation List, and as you are out there 'doing life', every day Invite people to take a look at Juice Plus+ and (for some of them) at what you are doing.

Asking Someone To Try/Buy Juice Plus+

People say to me, "I am out doing life and I'm meeting people. I am sharing my Juice Plus+ story, yet I just don’t seem to be getting anywhere. Do you have any suggestions?"

When I say to them, “Have you asked them to try/buy Juice Plus+?” I quite often get a blank stare. “Ask? You mean I should ask?"

Yes, this is a very important part of doing business, and many people have missed out because they just didn't ask. We learned this over 20 years ago:

The #1 reason people buy is because they were asked to buy.

In response we sometimes hear: “But what if they say no?” So what? The odds in any business are that you will have as many no’s as yes’s. Just consider the no’s practice on your way to a yes.

"Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There" is the title of an excellent book that will change your whole mindset about the word 'no'. You will need intestinal fortitude to take on the challenge, but it will change everything if you do!

Please understand that 'no' doesn’t mean the end of the world or the end of your business, it just means at this moment they are not ready; it means "not yet".

Ask yourself this: "How many Juice Plus+ customers will you get if you don’t ask?" Not asking is the same as not sharing Juice Plus+ at all.

That's why sometimes they will become someone else's customer - because they asked and you didn't.

Sometimes it means you just haven’t shown them how Juice Plus+ will meet their need; perhaps even you don't know how. Make it all about them, understand why they need Juice Plus+, then - once it's clear - ask them to "try it for 4 months to see what it will do for you."

Learning to Listen may well be the key to having the confidence to ask, because you will know their why - their need.

Sadly, the reality is that many people have a sales phobia and would rather socialize at a networking event and hope someone will come up and buy their product. And believe it or not, after you've told your story, they may think "yes Juice Plus+ is a good product, but you are apparently just showing me today and don't expect or want me to actually buy it"!

And there you are, wanting them to ask: "how do I get it?" But most won't!

Why are we this way? Many of us have had the "Ask Ability" knocked out of us as children; we have a problem asking anyone for anything, including God. That's where the Prayer of Jabez fits (above).

When you have as valuable a product as Juice Plus+ that improves people’s lives, and you are proud to represent that product, consider it your obligation to let them know, not only that Juice Plus+ exists, but that YOU are their 'go-to guy/gal' for Juice Plus+, now and forever!

Just remember, it’s your job to ask and it’s ok if they say 'no'; most of those no's will come back later and say 'yes'. Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There.