GRAND PRIZE WINNER – DERYA KUCUKALI
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
Diamond club has been a transformative journey for my family, my team and for myself. It has been a period of personal growth and development, where I was thrown out of my comfort zone and matured as a result. The experience has allowed my leaders to grow and develop into more confident people and advance in ranks. I was able to show others how easy it is to share these wonderful products and begin to take control of their health and their businesses.
Diamond club gave me the opportunity to form friendships with individuals I would otherwise never have met. Reimbursement for my travels meant I could travel far and wide around Australia and touch the lives of so many people and their families.
I knew it was going to be a sacrifice, but with the support of my family I knew this four month journey was going to set the platform for what I believed in and create momentum for my whole team – and that’s exactly what diamond club did.
Your top 3 tips for future Diamond Club participants:
1. Plan and Prepare: Inform your team members that you are available any day anytime, anywhere for the next four months. They need your support and in return their success is your success – it’s all about team effort and dedication.
2. Commitment and Passion: Love the work that you do and the fruits of your hard work will begin to show with every phone call and email from people that want to thank you for changing their lives. If you live and believe in the product, this energy will emanate to the crowds that you speak to and they will be drawn to your energy and want what you have. Every human being, regardless of race, faith, and creed wants happiness and good health. You are the key – believe this and watch success happen.
3. No one can say, “It’s easy”.: It was intense and at times a roller coaster ride of emotions. We had challenging days and then there were great days! The hardest part for me was time away from family. Whether it was interstate or at a local event and not being with my family for dinner or for a bedtime story or to see their beautiful faces when they awake in the morning due to a 6am flight was tough. Mentally I would remind myself that it was short term and all this hard work was the stepping stone for the life I want my family to have. I knew that the help I was offering everyone I met was improving their lives, and empowering them to take control of their health. I’m a firm believer in “do good and you will find good”.
1ST PRIZE WINNER – Paula & John Overbeek
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
Diamond Club has allowed us to grow personally. It created the platform for us to work consistently with our team members and we have had many new members rank advance. Overall we had an increase of 25% in total volume.
Diamond Club was exciting, fulfilling, and challenging but well worth the effort.
Your top 3 tips for future Diamond Club participants:
- Be prepared.
- Be consistent.
- Provide incentives: To create excitement for holding an introduction class and also for new enrolees.
1ST PRIZE WINNER – Nichole Anderson
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
Diamond Club was a life changing experience. It will take you to the edge of what you thought was possible and then push you further.
You will cry, you will laugh, you will make friends you will have for the rest of your life. Most importantly your business will grow faster and stronger than you could have imagined if you give Diamond Club your all.
Your top 3 tips for future Diamond Club participants:
1. Plan in advance: Use your preparation month, don’t waste it. Map out your 4 months for yourself and with your team. Get commitment from your leaders on growing their own businesses.
2. Think bigger than what you are currently doing: Use the time to try something new beyond your comfort zone.
3. Be prepared for the highs and the lows: You will experience success you never thought was possible and you will think you can sit back, you will work hard and sometimes you will be let down. But you can’t take your foot off the gas pedal no matter what
2ND PRIZE WINNER – Jade Balden
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
After discussing with my family about Diamond Club and working out the logistics of how we could do this, we decided to do it. In January, I began with a team meeting and explained to my local team about DC then we planned double the required classes for the next 4 months. I booked classes with my out-of-area leaders in the same manner for the 4 months of DC too. Air tickets were purchased for as many places as I could ahead of time. I still wanted to spend time with and participate in the lives of my four small kids and husband as well. That meant that while I was away I would have to teach up to 4 classes back to back each day to maximise my time away. I gave a list of classes that I could teach to my leaders to decide on and advertise. My team members organised my transportation and set up goals. I did business training and strategising with leaders in the car while traveling to and from events and in the evenings in their homes. I booked a 20-day trip to the USA where the majority of my team was and held 2-4 classes a day back to back in Arizona, Idaho and Ohio. I flew to several different areas in Australia and New Zealand too. I offered incentives at every class and prepared the host to promote the Diamond Club incentives. The work wasn’t as difficult physically as it was difficult emotionally being away from my family.
Your top 3 tips for future Diamond Club participants:
1. Plan ahead and work efficiently. Do all you can before Diamond club starts so you don’t have to waste time with major planning or doing the logistics during Diamond club. Use technology efficiently. I download all the diamond club reimbursement forms, and the other forms on to my iPad ahead of time and organized it by months. I filled in as many of the details as I could so that all I have to do is to add the details and names in as I went during Diamond club. I took photos of petrol receipts as soon as I got the receipt and added the details to the reimbursement forms on the iPad. Focus on the teams where you need to grow the most and help build any other willing business partners on your team.
Schedule 4 months of classes and events ahead of time. Book air tickets in advance then work around those dates. Schedule at least double the required local and out-of-area events. Have regular team meetings or conference calls too when you can. Print out all materials you will need and put presentations on all devices in case you need them. Organise and purchase incentives. Pack wrinkle-free clothes!
2. Establish a support group. Get friends and family involved in Diamond Club with you. Tell everyone around you what you are doing, so they can help support you. My husband, my parents and my siblings coordinated with each other to take care of the kids for the days I am out of town. During diamond club my support group was actively introducing people to me as well to help me out. Give updates to and celebrate successes with your support group. Work out ways to help kids participate in DC too. Sticker charts for the number of enrolments, paper chains for counting down each day till you return from your trips, journals to record memories of activities while you are away, FaceTime or call daily.
3. Be flexible. Be ok and flexible with classes of any size and in any location. If a class has no-shows, help your team leaders make calls to use the time wisely and/or use that time to train your leaders and answer questions. Be flexible in the way you support your team according to their individual needs. Keep communicating with your team about what diamond club is and how they can utilise it to their advantage. Be flexible with incentives too. Talk about the Diamond Club incentives and add your own incentives. Be ok with setbacks. It is part of the growth.
2ND PRIZE WINNER – Tanya Maidment
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
Diamond club was a non-stop roller-coaster. It was also an opportunity to connect and get to know some amazing people and to experience incredible generosity and kinship. The diamond club journey reminded me of why I love these oils so much and why I want to share them with the world. They work. They bring joy. They empower. I am forever blessed to be part of this journey.
Your top 3 tips for future Diamond Club participants:
1.Plan and Delegate: Delegate to your team, your friends, your neighbours and your family. Diamond club is full on, so don’t try and do this on your own! Get the family involved and helping where they can. Make them part of your DC adventure. This way you will also have more people to celebrate with when you succeed!
2. Acknowledge: Acknowledge everyone who has helped you during DC, both locally and in your hometowns. They have helped organize events and welcome you into their homes, fed you, encouraged you and introduced you to new people. You couldn’t have done this without them. Show your gratitude with a note or a gift.
3. Enjoy the journey! Yes it’s challenging, hard work and you will make sacrifices, but you will also make new friends, experience incredible personal growth, touch people’s lives with these amazing gifts and have a LOT of fun!
Bonus tip (most important): Don’t go anywhere without Sat Nav and Wild Orange, especially while driving in Sydney.
2ND PRIZE WINNERS – Berit Munro
How was your experience with Diamond Club?
Diamond Club was an amazing, thrilling ride. I have never done so many classes and met so many people. I was honoured that my team stood behind me and supported me and got fully engaged in this opportunity, too. Without them, this could not have happened. The reward for the team was the emergence of new leaders, rank advancements, commission and the start of their doTERRA journey was cemented in this way. I was eternally grateful for the financial re-imbursement – it allowed me to explore new territories that I would not necessarily have done otherwise, because of the costs involved. It was tough physically and it took me a while to recover. It was only when I stood still that I realised how much I had been burning the candle at both ends.
It is an experience I am already recommending to my team to participate in. I am keen to pass on the benefit of my journey through DC to them and look forward to doing it again with them having learnt from past mistakes.
1. Strategise to support your team where support is most needed and stick to the plan. I ended up spending most of my time with a group who were most enthusiastic to the detriment of other legs – it was so easy to work with motivated people but I could have used my opportunity better and focused more on the other legs and more equally balanced my organization.
2. Maintain clear focus on your own prospecting, enrolments and follow up. I took my eye of the ball completely and my income dropped significantly as my fast start was non-existent. I was so focused on the team that I did not look after that aspect of my own income. This also affected my Convention standings to the point that I cannot afford to go to US convention this year – but would have done if I had qualified for the top prizes, as I had done the previous year.
3. Do not become the expert in taking the classes but start to work early on with emerging leaders and get them to do the presentations or take classes. I became so good at them that my leaders wanted me to take the classes for fear of non-enrolment, and naturally I wanted them to succeed so that I was taking all the classes. I did not empower them – I am now working on that with them.