Thursday, October 1, 2009

Day to Day Activities


One of our team members volunteered a sample day of her average work week in hopes it might help everyone understand how to explain the day to day activities of what we do. It is below and if you wish to have detailed information on our compensation plan and some great benefits while you learn about our parent company, be sure to contact the FourPointGroup representative who sent you here.

 This team member is a single mom and has two children ages 3 years old and 11 years old. The 3 year old is in preschool twice weekly so her work days vary when he is in school and out of school:

 Monday:
6 am – up with the kids
7:15 am – drive oldest son to school
7:40 am – back home – put youngest back to bed and go back to bed herself for another hour to grab more sleep!
8:45-9:15 am – feed child breakfast, drink caffeine, review appointment book for the day – notate any changes needed
9:30 am – help new team member open an account for someone so they can work with us
10 am – get dressed, bathe child, turn on Dora the Explorer, and answer emails from prospective members
10:30 am – play with son, do the dishes, wipe down the counters, and throw some laundry in
11 am – Pick up the phone and call about 15 people who have requested information, leave several voicemails, and schedule 2 phone appointments for tonight.
12 n – meet with team members via telephone to discuss questions about FourPointMoms life, etc.
12:30 – eat lunch with son.
1pm – fold towels, clean the bathroom, put son down for a nap, answer questions via Yahoo instant message, post on Facebook for my business
1:30 pm – call 10 more interested contacts that requested information, leave more voicemails, schedule 1 appointment for tomorrow
2pm break time
2:30 pm – wake up son from nap,
2:45pm – leave to pick up oldest son from school.
3pm-5pm – workout at the gym, help son with homework, kids out to play, sweep floors, tidy living room
6pm – connect a guest in another state to business presentation via phone and Internet (3 minutes tops!)
6:05pm – start dinner
6:35pm – talk with guest who just listened, answer questions, help them get started
7pm - connect a guest in another state to business presentation via phone and Internet (3 minutes tops!)
7:15pm – Dinner on the table
7:45pm - with guest who just listened, answer questions, schedule follow-up appt for next day
8pm – call more interested people for new team member while she listens in
9pm – make sure kids are in bed, answer emails missed earlier, respond to online messages
10pm – bed time





 

FourPointMoms: What Do We DO Exactly?




Many times people want to know exactly what it is that we do. In fact, a few of these folks even ask this question after they just heard a 35 minute presentation. Is it because they were just not paying attention, distracted or just plain dense? In some cases, sure – those COULD be the reasons they ask. However, there are at least two other explanations we can think of that could cause someone to ask that question after just having heard the answer.


#1    Each presenter explains the information in his or her own way. While our presenters are amazing and very talented, everyone communicates their perspective in their own unique way. People are unique and we all communicate and understand in a variety of ways. For example, one presenter might say "We don't sell products or keep stock in our homes." While another presenter might say "We do not exchange goods for money or keep inventory." Both presenters said the same thing, didn't they? Some people would say yes. Others would say "It depends on what you mean by the words "sell products vs exchange goods for money." This is just one example of how people communicate differently. (For the record, FourPointMoms does not exchange goods for money nor do we keep or stock products in our home in order to sell them. We do however, endorse and open accounts for a company that does manufacture their own products.)



#2    The 2d reason I think people still want to know what we do after they've just heard about us is that they cannot quite wrap their minds around the fact that an organization would be so generous with their time and resources at no charge. People have been taught to believe that nothing is free and everything has a catch. When they encounter a volunteer organization like FourPointGroup and FourPointMoms, it is just incomprehensible to them that a group would spend thousands of dollars a year to help them get started with free resources. So, when someone comes off of one of our presentations, we do encourage our members to reiterate the fact that our members do receive ongoing mentoring, coaching, free websites (no hosting or maintenance charges, setup is free) and the ability to do their home business on the Internet. Granted, we DO pay a $29 membership fee to our parent company so that we can get started and it includes an amazing membership kit but everything that FourPointGroup and FourPointMoms provides it's members is complimentary.



So what do we do? In a nutshell, we setup accounts for an international company that manufactures green products. Plain and simple. We can do this using the Internet or we can talk to people that we know. It's a matter of choices. Through the years, FourPointGroup has had many men, women, married, single, with and without children get excited about what they see and join our team. We originally began with the concept of helping Moms stay home around their children. Many of our features and resources were developed BY moms FOR moms because moms with children at home have specific needs. Turns out a lot of people – male and female- with and without children love the flexibility that we offer too!
What we do is straightforward and uncomplicated. We're independent contractors. We receive a paycheck on a monthly basis for the work we've done (with weekly pay options). Checks are mailed on the 15th of each month. As an independent contractor, we receive a 1099 at the end of the year instead of a W-2. We're not the ones writing the paychecks every month. Our paycheck comes from our parent company. We set up accounts for them. We train you how to acquire and set up these accounts from the comfort of your home using your telephone and the Internet. You do not have to "know" a lot of people to be successful working with us. Your day to day work is simple and the key is to be consistent.