(1) Read This First

Yes, you need to read this before you continue with the rest of the blog.

You may already be a registered Tianshi distributor; or, you may be a prospect and somebody is trying to introduce Tianshi to you; or, still, you may just be on your own but anxious to know about Tianshi.

You may be a regular visitor to this site; or, you may have been referred by a friend, who truly loves you and wants you to join Tianshi; or, still, you may have so luckily - yes, so luckily - come across the site by chance and you cannot wait to browse it to discover your hidden treasures through Tianshi prosperity plan.

Whichever of these cases applies to you, you are welcome. You are at the right place and at the right time too. You will enjoy every minute you spend here and you will be grateful for every information you get here. And you will find yourself recommending this site to your friends (see the post titled "How To Email This Blog To A Friend"). After all, maybe, you were linked in the same way.

If you are new to this site, it is advised that you follow the familiarisation sequence, that is, follow the numbering of the posts (1 - 10). For example, first for your attention should be (1) Read This First; followed by (2) Typical Introductory Letter On Tianshi; next (3) The Tianshi Offer In Brief; and so on. Some posts are not numbered, meaning that they do not have to be read in any special order after your familiarisation. Some posts are not shown on the home page. You can call up such posts by going to the sidebar and clicking on the entries under Previous Posts or Archives.

This blog will prove itself to be an invaluable Tianshi networking instrument. It is always being updated; new posts are added and old ones are reviewed. Visiting the site regularly will keep you abreast of the happenings in the Tianshi world. Using it to educate and recruit your prospects will give your network a global dimension and quickly see you to the top.

To your success. Enjoy!

(2) Typical Introductory Letter On Tianshi

Dear ...,

I have something good to share with you. But, first, I'd like you to join me in looking at this scenario - just to illustrate a point.

There are many different brands of mobile phones in the market, manufactured by many different companies. You can buy any brand of your choice - cash and carry. The company sells; you buy. And that's the end of your relationship with them. You may even recommend the phone to your friends and they too may buy theirs from the same company. Without knowing it, you advertise and promote the market for the phone company. But the company does not know you. They don't even know your name, not to talk of rewarding you for your personal marketing efforts. Indirectly, you sell phones for the company without being paid.

And this applies not only to mobile phones. Check it out. Everyday, you sell all sorts of things for the companies that manufacture them and you are not paid for doing so. You sell things when you convince your friends to buy them from the various companies and they do, even if you are not physically present when they do the buying.

Now, suppose that among all the various mobile phone companies in the world, there is one called XYZ company and they have the following marketing policy:

"If you buy any of our products from any of our specialized shops worldwide, we will put your name in our database. If you recommend our products to your friends and they patronize us, we will pay you a commission on the purchases they make. And we will also pay you when your friends introduce their own friends and your friends' friends introduce their own friends, and so on."

Now, if you need a mobile phone, would you not prefer to buy it from XYZ company and have the assurance that you will be rewarded any time you help them to sell to others, rather than buy from another company that will not recognise you? You buy your own phone for yourself, then you tell others how good the phone is and let them buy their own from the company by themselves. When they buy, you earn a commission. And you continue to earn even from later generations. You surely would like that, won't you?

I only used mobile phone companies for illustration. The good news I want to share with you is actually about the company called TIANSHI, which operates like the XYZ company above. I cannot see a good thing like this and keep it to myself without thinking of you. So, I thought I should let you know. It probably isn't new to you; many Nigerians and many people all over the world are already making it in Tianshi. I used to hear the name, but, to my regret today, I mistakenly wrote it off as some funny and crazy company meant for funny and crazy people. That was until very recently when I got to really and truly know what it is all about. I joined them. And I'm enjoying them till today.

Maybe you are already into Tianshi; maybe you've not known them well enough to join them. In any case, I recommend that you visit this blogsite:

CLICK http://your-hidden-treasures.blogspot.com/

The site explains the Tianshi business plan and provides answers to most of the issues often associated with Tianshi business. Check it out, I'm sure you will find it useful.

In case you are not in Tianshi yet and you wish to join, please do request for my ID, so that I could be your sponsor.

Expecting that you will write and let me know your opinion.

Yours sincerely, ...

(3) The Tianshi Offer In Brief

We are Tianjin Tianshi Biological Development Company. We have the following offer for you:

Register with us. (Of course, you will need to be introduced to us by somebody who is already registered.) We will expect you to patronize our products and services - gradually, bit by bit, whenever you can afford, without any time-bound targets whatsoever - until you reach a specified amount of purchases set by the company.

We are very sure that you will love our products and you will like to recommend them to your friends. So, introduce your friends to us and let them register and do as you did. Duplicate yourself among your friends as many times as you can. Keep on introducing them to us, regardless of how much products you have personally purchased. By the multiple repetition of this process by your friends, your friends' friends, and so on, you build a vast network of marketers for our company.

We will reward you handsomely for your efforts in promoting our business. First, for every sale which the company makes to your friends, your friends' friends, and so on, we will pay you a sales commission. And, depending on your hardwork and the activity of your network, we will keep on elevating you on our promotional ladder and will continually reward you with various types of awards ranging from fat sales commissions, international travels and luxury cars to pleasure boats, jet planes and luxury villas. You can also earn yourself a place as a global shareholder of the company with a comfortable retirement guaranteed.

Take this offer and you will always be glad you did, more so, since Tianshi has been so carefully structured that you can conveniently work with us in combination with your regular job.

We wish you success and happiness, health and wealth and financial freedom.

(4) About Tiens Tianshi Company

The company, Tiens Tianshi, with its headquarters in China, is a conglomerate with various diversified divisions and businesses all over the world. Its business method is that of multilevel marketing (MLM), which is based on the principle of people recommending people for mutual happiness and coexistence. Tianshi MLM opportunity is open to all persons from all walks of life and does not require any special educational qualification.

The names, Tiens and Tianshi, both represent one and the same company - Tianjin Tianshi Biological Development Company, China. The popularity and the preference of either Tiens or Tianshi vary from one country to another. It has turned out that Nigeria prefers Tianshi. Thus, Tianshi is used in the most part of this work.

Tianshi Corporation is a manufacturer and marketer of high quality daily-need products and a provider of various essential-to-life services. Tianshi has the support and approval of the best regulatory bodies in the leading countries of the world. Some of them are: China Quality Certification Centre; Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America; United Nations Association of Russia; National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (in Nigeria), just to mention a few.

(5) How Tianshi MLM Operates (Part 1)

Tianshi's philosophy is "Two keys - health and wealth for all". As a distributor (Tianshi members are called distributors), you are presented with two priceless opportunities: first, to enjoy good health and, second, to attain financial freedom (not just to break away from poverty, but also to become affluent).

To become a distributor, you are required to do three things:

-GET a Tianshi distributor to recommend you (this distributor becomes your sponsor). Register with N2,700 at any Tianshi specialty shop nearest to you (wherever you are in the country) and obtain your starter kit. Upon registration you automatically become a star 1 distributor.

-AT your own pace and convenience, you make your purchases. Cumulative purchases up to N13,500 (100 points) will place you on star 2; up to N40,500 (300 points) will place you on star 3. You will not be required to exceed 300 points purchases, but there is no problem if you do. Purchases can be bit by bit or all at once. And you can take as long as you need to complete your purchases.

-BUILD your own network so that you can enjoy financial benefits and receive various awards. You build your network by sponsoring as many people (downlines) as you can to register as distributors, make their purchases and also build their own networks in turn. There is no maximum number of downlines, but for you to climb steadily up the Tianshi ladder, you will need at least four active downlines. Your growth beyond star 3 will depend on the performance of your network.

(6) How Tianshi MLM Operates (Part 2)

Note the following points about Tianshi MLM business plan:

-PURCHASING and network building can go on concurrently; one need not wait for the other.

-NETWORK building does not necessarily entail going about the town in search of downlines. You can conveniently integrate the exercise inti your daily routine. Whatever your job or vocation, you are constantly surrounded by people and you are constantly interacting with people. Make a list of your acquaintances (family, social, business, corporate, political, religious, and so on) and you will be surprised you will have not less than a hundred names. And each one of them is within your reach - either physically, or by phone, or by e-mail.

-AS a distributor, you are regarded as a salesman. But you are a special kind of salesman - with a difference. How? The explanation is like this: You are not required to carry or buy products from the company and go looking for customers to sell them to. Rather, you simply make your own personal purchases for your personal use up to the company's requirement of 300 points, then concentrate on sponsoring other people to register as your downline distributors. When your downlines ( or generations of your downlines) make their own personal purchases, you are regarded as having made sales for the company and, for that, you are paid a sales bonus (or sales commission).

-THE more downlines (both direct and indirect) you have in your network, the more chances you have of generating more sales, earning more bonuses and climbing up the Tianshi ladder of stars. At first, your monthly bonuses may be peanuts but, as your network widens, you will be surprised as you watch your bonuses grow into tens, then hundreds of thousands of naira and eventually into millions.

-FOR every purchase made by a distributor (no matter how small the purchase may be), Tianshi pays sales bonuses to seven upline levels of distributors, starting from 5% for star 2 to as high as 43% for star 8.

-YOUR growth in Tianshi does not stop at star 8. You still have the lions (bronze, silver, gold and diamond lions), the honorary director and the exploit award. For the purpose of calculating sales bonuses, however, all levels beyond star 8 (collectively known as honorary levels) are treated as star 8.

-TIANSHI allows overtaking. This is a fair and just way of encouraging and rewarding hardwork. Nobody can block your progress, not even your uplines. If you work hard enough, you can overtake your uplines both in rank and in income.

-REMEMBER once again that your sales bonus in a month is determined by the volume of purchases made by your downlines in that month.

(7) About Tianshi Products And Services

One of the numerous product lines of Tiens Tianshi company is Tianshi healthcare products. They are herbal food supplements and must not be mistaken for the conventional chemical drugs used in orthodox medicine for the treatment of sicknesses.

The essential nutrients required by the human body are never complete and never obtained in the required dosage through the normal foods we eat everyday. The body thus becomes weak due to malnourishment and is often harassed by otherwise avoidable sicknesses.

Basically, Tianshi herbal products are a form of food, which is meant to supplement our common everyday foods in nourishing the body and preventing sicknesses, so that we may enjoy healthy living and longer life. Being free from toxins and without side effects, they are highly recommended for the treatment of various sickly conditions. Medical doctors often prescribe Tianshi healthcare products as complementary medicine.

Other Tianshi products include: various types of hi-tech health equipment, office facilities, cosmetics and beauty products, homecare and sanitary products, and assorted daily-need products. Also in the Tianshi network are such services as: supermarkets, education, transportation, insurance, telecommunication, tourism and many others.

Nigeria is one of the latest entrants to the Tianshi world market. The Nigerian market started with healthcare herbal products; then it expanded to cover hi-tech health equipment and some items of electronics. With the present growth rate of the market, Tianshi has promised to flood the country with its full range of products and services very soon. A bigger one yet is that Tianshi is even planning to set up a manufacturing plant here in Nigeria.

(8) Useful Tips For Your Purchases

-TIANSHI advises that you endeavour to use the products you purchase for yourself and your family, so that you can confidently testify to their high quality and efficacy.

-IT is entirely your choice what products you purchase. There are no conditions for selection whatsoever. And you have a wide variety: food supplements, assorted health equipment, home appliances, electronics, beauty products and many more.

-YOU are not under any obligation to meet monthly sales targets, so purchase your products at your own pace and according to your pocket.

-EVERY Tianshi product or service has a rated point value (PV), which is cumulatively added to your purchase volume. One point is equivalent to one US dollar (or N135 in Nigeria). Other rates apply to other countries.

-DISTRIBUTORSHIP does not imply hawking. Your purchases, therefore, should not be with the intention of hawking or displaying the products in a shop for resale.

-DISTRIBUTORSHIP is all about recommending Tianshi products to potential users. You either register the user as your downline or supply the products to him at a retail profit. This is one effective way of building up your personal purchases.

-WHETHER you have made your purchases or not, go ahead and do not relent in building your network. Your upline may notice your hardwork and decide to help you with your purchases. This is because your growth as his downline will contribute to his own growth too.

-YOUR personal purchases will only earn you bonuses if you have attained or risen above star 3 status. Otherwise, as a new distributor, your purchases will only serve to elevate you from star 1 to star 2 (100 points), then to star 3 (300 points).

-AS a star 3 or higher distributor, who still has the personal need to make further purchases or supplies, you can easily see from the above explanations that you will benefit more by making the purchases in the name of your downline, who is below star 3, than in your own name.

-AS from star 5 upwards, your network turnover has become a regular source of good income to you. Having been relieved of purchases since star 3, you may naturally be tempted to stop using Tianshi products, thus ignoring your health. For this reason, star 5 and higher distributors are required to make a specified meager purchase every month (for example, 20 points, that is, N2,700 for star 5), without which they will forfeit their bonuses for the month to their next eligible upline.

-THREE powerful methods of making your personal purchases have been revealed to you here. They are: (i) As a consumer, purchase in your own name, with your own money, for your own use; (ii) As a supplier, purchase in your own name, with another person's money, for another person's use; (iii) As a penniless distributor with an active and promising network, endear yourself to your uplines so that they may make purchases in your name.

(9) What Do You Gain From Joining Tianshi?

Good Health
This comes with using Tianshi herbal food supplements and other healthcare products.

Unique Business Opportunity
- Requires little or no capital: N2,700 (20 points) for registration; N40,500 (300 points) total purchases, bit by bit, over any period of time you choose.
- Pays various types of fat bonuses (sales bonus, leadership bonus, honorary bonus).
- Grants various special awards for hardwork (international travels, luxury cars, luxury boats, jet planes, luxury villas).
- Provides the opportunity to own a Tianshi specialty shop.
- Easy to combine with any other job, business or vocation.

Financial Freedom

Not just breaking away from poverty, but also attaining complete financial freedom, becoming a millionaire.

Be Your Own Boss And Dictate Your Own Pace

You are free to operate your MLM business the way you can afford without anybody bossing you about and without the burden of monthly company targets. Work at your own pace; decide when to work and when to rest; decide the size of your network and the size of your earnings; decide your retirement with respect to time and status.

Be An Employer Of Labour

Beside the provision of a specialty shop, Tianshi provides ample opportunity for career development. And with the huge financial rewards for your hardwork, you can set up other businesses of your choice and become an employer of labour.

Global Business

When you travel or relocate from one part of the country to another (or from one country to another), your Tianshi distributorship goes with you. You can fully transact your Tianshi business from any part of the globe regardless of where you were registered. Your bonuses will be paid to you in the currency of any country where you choose to reside. Also, even when you do not travel, you can introduce the business to your contacts in any part of the world and recruit them as your downlines. Tianshi is a global business.

Secured Retirement

When you have built a self-sustaining network for yourself, you may choose not to work any more. Also, in the undesired event that you become handicapped (due to accident or other circumstances beyond your control), you will be unable to continue working. In both cases, your Tianshi network will be working for you and taking care of you in retirement.

Leave A Worthy Legacy

Your distributorship will be transferred to your next-of-kin when you die.

(10) When You Decide To Join Tianshi

Should you decide to join Tianshi, or should you need to know more about Tianshi, please feel free to contact the person who linked you to this site. He or she is your sponsor.When registering with Tianshi, you will be required to enter your sponsor's particulars in your registration form.

You can obtain the registration form either from your sponsor or from the specialty shop where you have chosen to register. (A list of Tianshi specialty shops and offices is contained in this site.) The content and the format of the registration form are exactly as shown below. You only need to copy your sponsor's details into the form and complete your own part as the new distributor. Then you can submit the form at your chosen specialty shop with the registration fee of N2,700 (or the equivalent of 20 points in your local currency).

Immediately upon registration, you will be issued with the Tianshi business starter kit and you will automatically become a star 1 distributor. The kit consists of your ID card, the Tianshi business manual, a brochure of Tianshi healthcare products and other relevant materials.

NOTE: DO NOT FILL THE ITEMS MARKED (?).
In the space for your sponsor’s signature you may simply write his or her name and that will be enough. And, before submitting the completed form for processing, please cross-check to be very sure that the entries are correct, especially your sponsor’s details. Also, ensure that your computerized ID number is copied correctly from your ID card onto your registration form.

New Distributor's ID No.....................................(?)
First Name..................................................................

Initial.......... Surname...................................................
Telephone No.............................................................

Mobile No..................................................................
Fax No.......................................................................

Specialty Shop.......................................................(?)
Signature.....................................................................

Sponsor's ID No......................................................
First Name.................................................................
Initial..........Surname...................................................
Telephone No............................................................

Mobile No.................................................................
Fax No......................................................................

Specialty Shop...........................................................
Signature....................................................................

Tell A Friend About Tianshi

Your success in Tianshi business lies in your ability to build and sustain a viable network of dedicated distributors. You do that by telling the people around you about the Tianshi business plan and recruiting those who understand it and are willing to join.

You will never know who will make a good downline until you approach him. So, make it a policy to spread the Tianshi message to everybody you know. Here are some methods and instruments that you may wish to use.

1) Personal Approach: Basically, this is your starting point. You need to make acquaintances and establish relationships with people, and then propose Tianshi business to them. It will be necessary to reinforce your presentations with Tianshi educational literatures, some of which are suggested here.

2) The Handbill (The Uniqueness & The Benefits Of Tianshi): Get yourself several copies of the handbill and give them out to your prospects. It consists of only four pages of A4 paper size, so small that even those who do not like much reading will find it difficult to resist. And it is so carefully drafted to cover the very salient and catchy areas that your prospects, after reading it, cannot just help being interested and asking to know more about Tianshi.

3) The Book (The Uniqueness & The Benefits Of Tianshi): The book contains all that is in the handbill and more. In fact, it contains almost everything on this site. It can only be described as an indispensible companion in network building.

4) The Internet (A Journey With Tianshi): This is the site you are browsing right now. It is an expanded and very much enriched internet version of the book "The Uniqueness & The Benefits Of Tianshi". Using it to educate and recruit your prospects from various parts of the world will give your network a global dimension and quickly see you to the top of your ambitions.

5) E-Mails: Network marketing is friendship marketing. Expand your network of friends both within the country and across the globe. Through e-mails, you can interact with your friends, exchange ideas about life and about Tianshi. Some of them may even be ordinary penpals, whom you have not physically met before. The chapter titled "Typical Introductory Letter On Tianshi" will serve as a good guide.

6) Tianshi Business Seminars: Endeavour to take your prospects to seminars and other Tianshi events. More often than not, the exposure gives credence to your personal presentations and the numerous literatures and provides the missing link required to convince your prospects.

SOME SAY (14): I cannot afford to make my purchases.

And to them I say: As a Tianshi distributor, you are bound to find yourself in one of three categories: one, those who use Tianshi products without growing a network; two, those who develop networks but do not use the products; and, three, those who use the products and also develop networks.

The second category consists of people, who join Tianshi primarily in pursuance of the financial gains and not necessarily to use the products. They see Tianshi as a business - which it is- but they have to fulfill the requirement for personal purchases in order to really enjoy the business. It is a common thing to see that this category of distributors often cannot even afford to make their purchases of the products, whether for their own use or for resale. Many of them are students or job seekers, but they still succeed in Tianshi. How do they do it?

Tianshi as a company survives by selling its products. For the company to remain in business, every distributor is expected to purchase products up to the specified value of 300 PV (or N40,500 only) over any period of time as convenient to the distributor. But, until you fulfill this requirement as a distributor, you will not have any moral justification to expect that you will be paid bonuses on the purchases made by your downlines. By not making your own personal purchases, you are contributing towards the collapse of the company rather than its survival.

It therefore becomes absolutely necessary that you complete your purchases as fast as you can in order that you may start earning bonuses on your network. And there are three ways you can do that: (i) If you are a consumer, you can purchase in your own name, with your own money, for your own use; (ii) If you are a supplier, you can purchase in your own name, with another person’s money, for another person’s use; (iii) If you are a penniless distributor with an active and promising network, you should endear yourself to your uplines so that they may make purchases in your name. Learn more about making your personal purchases in the post titled “Useful Tips For Your Purchases”.

SOME SAY (13): I cannot afford the registration fee.

And to them I say: The registration fee is 20 point values (PV), which is equivalent to N2,700 only. That is all you need to spend in order to start off on your journey with Tianshi, your journey to a secured future and financial freedom. In my opinion, the journey is worth every effort you can make to raise the fee.

Tianshi requires of you some measure of seriousness, determination and focus. Many people have joined Tianshi without knowing what they were going into, believing that it was a get-rich-quick scam and hoping to become millionaires overnight. Obviously, they failed. And that was because they lacked knowledge and focus. They were not serious nor determined; they possibly did not even pay for their registration by themselves. Hence, they had no value for the business they were involved in and they felt at ease to abandon it anytime.

That is why Tianshi registration is not free. Tianshi advises that you raise the registration fee by yourself and that it should be your personal decision to join. That way, you give yourself some sense of seriousness and commitment as well as integrity and self esteem. And it is not advisable to allow your upline to pay for your registration, lest your own prospects should ridicule you by asking you to also pay for them in like manner.

But, have you really worked towards raising the registration fee and failed to succeed? What would you do if you were invited to an interview for a salary job in a company and you were required to come along with some fees when you cannot even afford your transport fare to the venue. If you are serious and determined to get the job, you will find a way and make the money available. In the same vein, if you are serious and determined to join Tianshi and you know what you are aiming at, you will make the registration fee available. Reexamine yourself very well and you will see that it is true.

Making The Best Use Of "A Journey With Tianshi"

1) The contents of the site are in the form of articles posted with titles and dates. The arrangement of the posts does not necessarily suggest the order in which they should be read.

2) Some posts are numbered (1), (2), (3), (4), and so on. The numbered posts constitute the so-called familiarization sequence. If you are new to the site, it is advised that you start with the familiarization sequence. Specifically, you should start with the post titled, "(1) Read This First".

3) The blog is always being updated: new posts are added and old ones are reviewed. So, visit the site regularly in order to catch up on the updates.

4) Many of the posts will not be shown on the home page. You can search for such posts and also other posts and topics of your interest by checking "Previous Posts", "Archives" or "Search This Blog".

5) You can obtain valuable information and training materials on topics relating to the blog contents by checking the numerous research materials at various locations on the site.

6) Learn and master the art of copying and pasting texts on the computer. As a way of prospecting for downlines, you can copy selected posts from the blog into the "Compose" window of your personal email address, then edit to your taste and email to your friends.

7) Include the blogsite address "A Journey With Tianshi" http://your-hidden-treasures.blogspot.com/ in your emails, so that your friends could also use it to build their own networks.

8) Make friends - even penpals - from far and wide; always keep expanding your circle of friends; collect their email addresses; introduce Tianshi to them using the blogsite along with emails.

9) When you have convinced a prospect, email your Tianshi ID to him or her, so that he or she may register at the nearest specialty shop in the neighbourhood.

10) Maintain contact with your downlines - even after they have registered - using the blogsite and emails as a medium.

Ask Yourself These Questions (Part 1)

I am a student/apprentice
I have a guardian, but how is he coping with my sponsorship? (Or: I have no guardian; how do I sponsor myself?) Will an extra stipend make a difference? What job can I combine with my studies/apprenticeship to support myself? What is the guarantee that I will get employed or start my own business when I graduate?

I am unemployed
How am I coping without a job? Why am I not employed - no demand for my profession; or am I being too selective, having several offers in my hands? Can I do something outside my profession? How do I occupy myself while seeking permanent employment? What actually am I looking for - the job or the pay?

I am a self-employed artisan
How big is my business; can I make it bigger? How comfortable am I financially? Can my business ever make me a millionaire; in how many years? Can I do something else in addition?

I am employed

How much is my salary? How free am I with my time? How comfortably am I living? With my salary, can I ever become a millionaire; in how many years? I am working for somebody; will anybody ever work for me? What will become of me if I should lose my job?

I am a businessman

How big is my business; can I make it bigger? Can my business ever make me a millionaire; in how many years? What will become of my business and me when I grow old and unable to work any more? Can I combine my business with some other business? Will an extra income hurt?

I am the breadwinner of a family

How comfortably am I coping with the burden? Will an extra income be any relief? What will happen to my dependents when I die? Rather than give them fish, is it not better to show them how to catch the fish?

I am retired

How long did I work for somebody before retiring? How am I surviving now in retirement? Do I have any investment to take care of my dependants and me? Though I am retired, I am not tired of working, but what can I possibly do now to earn meaningful income?

Ask Yourself These Questions (Part 2)

I am engaged with another network company
How long have I been in this network? What have I achieved? Can I ever become a millionaire with this network? What are the good and the bad sides of this network? Is there possibly a friendlier and better rewarding network somewhere?

I am a one-time victim of the unfriendly business plan of another network company
Are all network companies the same? Or, are some better than others? Having failed in one, can I possibly succeed in another? What is the guarantee that I will not fail again?

I am a regular user of Tianshi products but not registered with Tianshi
I am already buying and using Tianshi products and they are very effective. But I obtain my supplies from a third party who is a registered distributor.

If I should register with Tianshi, I will be expected to: EITHER (1) just buy and use the products for myself only (then I can only enjoy good health but no financial benefits); OR (2) buy and use the products and also recommend them to other people so that they can register and buy their own (then I can enjoy good health and also financial benefits). As a registered distributor, I will be able to buy my products in my own name and at the lowest possible price.

But why have I not registered? Am I afraid of networking? That is not compulsory if I am not eager to receive financial benefits from Tianshi. Someday, however, somebody around me will see the good works of Tianshi products on my health and well-being and decide to join me. Then I will start receiving financial benefits just like my third-party supplier.

In any case, I have nothing to lose in joining Tianshi; I have something to gain instead. So why have I not joined?

SOME SAY (12): The bonuses and other benefits they promise are not realistic; they sound too good to be true.

And to them I say: They are realistic and they are true. It surprises you, because you are not used to such realities. You are rather used to being enslaved and exploited, used to being paid peanuts for generating massive wealth for your master or employer. The business world today is so full of capitalist tendencies, whereby the monkey does the work while the baboon savours the rewards. The ideals of network marketing are similar to those of a socialist society, where the masses labour collectively for their collective survival, recognising at the same time that the more you work, the more you earn.

In practice, however, some network marketing companies dilute these ideals with too much exploitation. They weigh down their distributors with Herculean business terms and conditions, which make it difficult for them to reap the fruits of their labour. Tianshi is a company with socialist orientation, a company with a human face, a company which believes in sharing its proceeds equally with its distributors and empowering them to higher personal development and financial freedom. Tianshi is able to win the love of its distributors through its most friendly and most flexible, no-strings-attached business plan.

Any reward given to you for your labour cannot be greater than the labour you put in. So, do not think that the bonuses and other benefits which Tianshi pays you for promoting its products are more than you deserve. If you should cast your net into the river and the net should catch a big fish, would you throw the fish back into the river and say: “This fish is too much a reward for my labour, and it is too big for my frying pan”?

SOME SAY (11): I do not know anybody I can introduce the business to.

And to them I say: Perhaps you mean: “I do not know anybody who will be interested in the business”. That is better than saying: “I do not know anybody I can introduce the business to”. Man is a social being and there is no living human who will say that he does not interact or socialise with others. Think back into the past. Have you ever had cause to seek financial assistance from others? Were you able to find anybody to approach? Did every one of them come to your rescue?

The morale of asking you to reflect into your past is as follows: one, you have people around you, with whom you interact; two, you know how to approach people and make presentations to them; three, only a few (definitely not all) of the people you approach will understand your situation or welcome your ideas and proposals; and four, until you approach people, you will not know who will agree or disagree with you or who will be interested in your business proposal or not.

Since you can approach people and make presentations to them, requesting for financial assistance, I do not want to believe that you cannot approach people and introduce Tianshi to them. Do your own part by approaching them, and let them do their own part by accepting or rejecting your proposal. It is only a lazy man that will refuse to go to the farm in the planting season, claiming that there is a lion on the road. But when the time for harvest comes, he will be the first to go to the farm, ready to fight any lion that dares stand in his way. I know you are not lazy, are you?

SOME SAY (10): Tianshi business is a low class business and people will laugh at me when I tell them about it.

And to them I say: Do you know this saying: “Determination is the key to success”? And this: “The whole world will step aside for the man who knows where he is going”? Indeed, if you know where you are going and you are determined to get there, you will certainly get there successfully.

But do not expect an easy express road. Be prepared to meet and to overcome challenges. Most of the time, obstacles will come your way in human form. Friends and folks will not reason with you; they will not have the same vision as you do. They may laugh at you, but that will not change the fact that you know where you are going.

They say you are doing a low class business, which requires that you tolerate and endure all sorts of people of diverse characters. On the surface, they laugh at you, but, inwardly, they respect you for being able to do what they cannot do. Make patience your watchword. You will cross the initial hurdles and at the end of the tunnel you will find a bright light. Then, it will be your turn to laugh. Remember, he who laughs last laughs best.

SOME SAY (9): I am not a preacher or orator. I cannot speak eloquently and convincingly.

And to them I say: Your ability to talk authoritatively and convincingly will indisputably be an advantage for your Tianshi marketing success, but it is definitely not a prerequisite. There is quite a number of literatures and other educational aids that you can use to enlighten your prospects on Tianshi business without having to talk yourself to exhaustion. Get more hints on networking methods in the post titled “Tell A Friend About Tianshi”.

Do you know that even the deaf and the dumb do Tianshi, and that Tianshi has produced a Nigerian millionaire and car awardee among the crippled? Adedunni Adebayo is physically handicapped. He goes on crutches, and on crutches he came to the National Stadium, Surulere, in March 2006 and received his brand new BMW car as a token appreciation for his hardwork in Tianshi. Adebayo is neither a preacher nor an orator. He is even handicapped.

SOME SAY (8): I am not a marketer.

And to them I say: Yes, you are a marketer. Everybody is a marketer, but everybody is not of equal expertise. You believe it is only those who read Marketing as a university course of study that are marketers. Alright, you may call them professional marketers. Then, you and I and the lots of others like us are just ordinary marketers - but we are marketers.

Marketing is all about making yourself - your being, what you consist of and what you can offer - to be sought after by others. You may have something that is useful to others. It may be goods, intellectual property or other services. But, in order to be patronized by people, you must bring yourself to be noticed, recognized and sought after. In other words, you must market yourself. You cannot exist without marketing yourself. You need other people in order to survive and other people should need you too. No man is an island.

You must market yourself, if you want to get a job after leaving school. You must market yourself, if you want to sell the harvest you get from your farm. You must market yourself, if you want people to always flood your provision store or tailoring workshop. You must market yourself, if you are a banker and you want people to open accounts with your bank. You must market yourself, if you are a journalist and you want that politician to grant you an interview. You must market yourself, if you want people to join your Tianshi network marketing programme.

You may not have known it before now, but you are a marketer and you have been marketing yourself all your life. That is why you have been able to survive till today. So, keep it up. Discover the marketer in you and use your potentials to your benefit. You can do it.

SOME SAY (7): I do not have the time to go out in search of downlines.

And to them I say: Network building does not necessarily entail going about the town in search of downlines. You can conveniently integrate the exercise into your daily routine. Whatever your job or vocation, you are constantly surrounded by people and you are constantly interacting with people. Communication is not only by meeting people physically. Think of the telephone; think of e-mails on the internet.

It is true that the unemployment situation in the country today has caused many people to venture into network marketing and regard it as a full-time business from day one. But the basic fact about network marketing, generally, is that it is a part-time business - something you do to earn extra income in addition to your regular job. However, the time may come in the long run when the “extra” income may become your major income and you will have to make the inevitable choice of quitting your regular job and becoming a full-time network marketer. The history of Tianshi business is fraught with many of such cases.

But, as a beginner, you need not sacrifice your regular job to go hunting for downlines. Just make it a habit; make it a part of your life wherever you find yourself - at your workplace, at school, on the street, at the marketplace, in the church or mosque, anywhere. Human nature is such that whatever the mind is set to do, it manages one way or the other and finds time to do it.

SOME SAY (6): They make big, big promises which nobody benefits from.

And to them I say: Better say you have not met anybody who is successful in Tianshi. Then I will wonder if you have just come into the country, or if you have been flocking with the wrong people - those who are misinformed and biased about Tianshi, and those who jump into Tianshi believing that it is a money-magic business and jump out when they discover that there is no food for a lazy man anywhere in the world.

You have not met any of the uncountable number of successful Tianshi distributors and beneficiaries of the big, big Tianshi promises. But they are everywhere around you, all over the country. You have not met them, because you have not made yourself available so as to meet them. You have locked yourself up in your own secluded world.

You see, if you want to know what you do not know, you need to seek out those who know; you need to look beyond your present circle of friends and associates; you need to open your mind and be ready to welcome new ideas; you need to change your mentality and your general attitude to life. Then you would have made a tangible step towards discovering your hidden treasures. It will not do you any good to continue to deceive yourself that Tianshi makes empty promises. Tianshi never goes back on her promises. Tianshi has always delivered. The testimonies are on so many lips around you. Just listen and you will hear them.

SOME SAY (5): Tianshi logo looks occultic and demonic.

And to them I say: I can understand your complaint, but I am sure that you do not understand the logo. Tianshi logo is a flying lion. You are wondering why a lion should grow wings. If the logo were just a lion without wings, you probably would not have complained. And if it were a flying bird, you more certainly would not have complained. You will not complain, because both the simple lion and the simple bird are familiar sights.

But a logo, by definition, is not bound to be a familiar sight. More often than not, a company’s logo represents and reflects the mission and vision of the company. The question you should ask, therefore, is: What is the relationship between the flying lion and the company’s mission and vision?

Tianshi started its operations in a Chinese town called Tianjin, which means Lion City. The company’s name then was Tianjin Biological Development Company. (Call it a research institute or laboratory, if you like.) The company adopted a lion for a logo as a symbol of strength and swiftness and after the town Tianjin where it was - and still is - located.

In no time, the company worked up a mission and a vision for herself - to take the Chinese natural herbal healthcare to all humanity in all continents. But the lion logo, though strong and swift, could not possibly go round the world fast enough, crossing mountains and valleys, forests and deserts, rivers and oceans. The lion had to be given imaginary wings to enable it to fly to all parts of the world and accomplish its mission. Thus, the name Tianshi was born, meaning Flying Lion. Today, the company is known as Tianjin Tianshi Biological Development Company.
Now, you know the genesis of the lion and the wings. Now, you may judge for yourself: Is Tianshi logo occultic? Is Tianshi an occultic organization?

SOME SAY (4): Generally, the principle of network marketing has the resemblance of the biblical 666.

And to them I say: You say this because network marketing companies assign identification numbers to their registered customers. On this, it is worth noting that although network marketing is quite an old - but relatively new - method of product distribution, the use of customer ID numbers has long been in practice in other industries before the evolution of network marketing. Winnings on product promotions and customer incentives are organised through the use of customer ID. Banks issue ID numbers to their customers in the form of account numbers. Every organised group of people assigns ID numbers to their members and no benefits are given to the members without reference to their ID numbers. Think of schools, hospitals, companies, associations, communities, nations, even churches. The whole world uses ID numbers. Is the whole world practising 666?

SOME SAY (3): I personally do not need the products.

And to them I say: So you may think. You are on your feet; you are not confined to the sick bed. That is why you think you are healthy, but you are wrong. Noone on Earth is one hundred percent healthy. This is because the essential nutrients required by the human body are never complete and never obtained in the appropriate dosage through the normal foods we eat everyday. The body thus becomes weak due to malnourishment and is always harbouring one ailment or the other.

The key to healthy living is proper nutrition, body detoxification and adequate exercise. All these may be wrapped up in one - preventive therapy. And that is what you get by using Tianshi products.

You need to support your health. But, even if you choose to ignore the health aspect of Tianshi, you still have the business aspect to consider. Tianshi is a lucrative business; it gives you residual income, puts abundant food on your table and secures your future for your comfortable retirement at old age. A trader who sells potatoes may not necessarily like potatoes as food. Not all boat builders like riding in a boat or travelling by sea. Who said you must personally use Tianshi products in order to be a successful Tianshi distributor? One truth you must know is that out of every ten network marketers in the world (all, including those of Tianshi), as many as nine are into the programme for the financial benefits, while only one joins for the love of the products. Do your research.

SOME SAY (2): The products do not work.

And to them I say: There are quite a few people like you who claim that Tianshi products do not work. But there are millions of others who testify to their high efficacy. Where does the difference lie?

There are clearly stated instructions for recommending and for using Tianshi products. It is the failure to follow the instructions that leads to such complaints as: “The products do not work”. You need to be sure of your diagnosis, your prescription and the method of administration.
And beware of hawkers! A hawker goes about carrying Tianshi products in his hands. There is the tendency that he may confuse you and make you to buy the particular product in his hands, which may not be appropriate for your ailment.

Any Tianshi distributor, who is to prescribe and supply products to you, must not have any products physically in his hands for hawking. He must take your order on a clean slate and purchase the products from the company to meet your own specific needs.

SOME SAY (1): It is a hawking business and I cannot hawk.

And to them I say: Tianshi distributorship does not necessarily imply hawking. The design of Tianshi is such that you buy what you need for your personal use, and you recommend the products to others, who will register under you and buy their own by themselves directly from the company.

It is not a requirement to hawk. However, some people choose to hawk, usually because they are anxious to reap the financial rewards of Tianshi but do not have the money to buy and use the products for themselves. There are lots of instances where those who do not hawk have grown even faster in Tianshi than those who do. You had better think more about introducing people than worry about hawking.