Here are some questions you should ask yourself before you start a business. We did and it made a huge difference in what business we chose.

1. What will you do?
2. Who do you do it for? Better be yourself!
3. What makes you different?
4. Do you know what cashflow is?
5. What employees will you need? Do you want employees?
6. How will you manage customers?
7. Do you really want to run a business?

These are all very good questions. Questions you need answers for before you commit your time and energy, not to mention money you previously earned by investing your time and energy into a new business venture.

We have found that a Tahitian Noni Independent Product Consultant Business solves a lot of the problems identified by these questions even before you get started. Getting rid of the problem before you start is a better strategy then trying to minimize it after you start. We get paid regularly every Friday and you can to. ( read the series of posts at once )

There are many kinds of businesses. You should first decide on what kind of business you want to have. Some need employees and some do not. Some need a store front or office and other do not. Some need warehouses and equipment like fork lifts, trucks and delivery services and other like ours do not.

Our Tahitian Noni Independent Product Consultant business does not need any of these things. We use Tahitian Noni International’s warehouse to ship to our customers anywhere in the world. We use Tahitian Noni International computers to track our orders. UPS does the deliveries. And every Friday we get paid a commission to ensure we maintain a positive cashflow to pay ourselves first.

Simple and effective Noni Business! We find customers and take orders. Everything else is done by Tahitian Noni International. ( read the series of posts at once )

That is a very good question. Who are you working for your suppliers or yourself? Who gets paid first your suppliers or you? This question needs to be settled before you start because if you are going to work for your suppliers you might as well send them a resume instead of building your own business.

First off you need to understand that you must get paid first. There is no exception to this rule. Yes you have to pay your suppliers and yes you have to pay your taxes, but since you own the business and you come to work every morning you have to get paid first or your motivations will soon evaporate.

With our Tahitian Noni International Independent Product Consultant Business we get paid first. Since Tahitian Noni International processes the credit cards during the product ordering they split up the order cashflow when it is placed. We get paid every Friday our portion of the orders plus once a month a second residual income cheque based on the volume of business we have done since we started in 2002. Of course we have to pay the taxman but that is it. Shipping, warehousing, products, staff, accountants, lawyers – Tahitian Noni International takes care of all that.

So when you are thinking about starting a business make sure you have a plan to pay yourself first. We did and it makes a huge difference. ( read the series of posts at once )

What products or services will you be providing to make you different? For us it is the iridoids in the Tahitian Noni Bioactive Beverages that is unique. There are a lot of nutritional supplement companies in the world, but none have large quantities of iridoids in them and this makes a huge difference.

Noni or Morinda Citrifolia contains powerful bioactive compounds that impart health maximizing properties. Among these are iridoids which possess a wide range of potential health benefits. Iridoids are not common in fruits. In fact the Noni fruit is one of the few fruits in which iridoids are present. Iridoids are extremely heat and time stable which is important as processing and pasteurization involve heat. Iridoids are the primary compound in the Noni that delivers its health benefits.

Other nutritional supplements have fruit in them to be sure. Some have exotic tropical fruits from all over the world. These fruits are great for you if you eat them raw. Unfortunately most of their benefits are destroyed by pasteurization and long term storage after bottling, something nobody seems to want to talk about.

Iridoids are different, they survive pasteurization and do not degrade over the typical shelf life of Tahitian Noni Bioactive Beverages since they have been shown to last over 7 years of storage in a recent test.

Iridoids are what make our business different. They make our product unique worldwide. If you are going to start a business then consider what makes it unique today and what will still be unique in 5 years. Uniqueness really does matter. ( read the series of posts at once )

Cashflow is the inflow of cash into YOUR bank account from sales of products and or services. Cashflow makes your business solvent and allows you to pay yourself and your suppliers.

In our business cashflow is not much of a problem because we do not have any large expenses to pay. Plus since Tahitian Noni International charges our customers credit card, takes care of the product costs, shipping and then just pays us a commission every Friday, we do not have to have complicated accounting systems.

Keeping a constant cashflow is critical and that is why Tahitian Noni International pays weekly commissions and monthly residual income bonuses. They know that happy and profitable distributors are the key to getting their products to the market.

You can leverage their business by letting them run the corporation ( have the headaches ) and you just find customers to sell products to. Simple, efficient and cost effective – not to mention profitable for everybody. ( read the series of posts at once )

We do not need any. You might, so you have to give some thought as to how much they cost to hire. Not just their salaries but benefits, days off, holidays, desks, telephones and even a part of the office overhead.

Employees are a major cost to any business and that is why a lot of companies buy computers and automate as much as they can. We took a look and decided that employees were just too expensive so we picked a business that did not require any. Why borrow trouble if you do not have to. Lots of businesses have no employees beyond their owners so this is hardly a radical concept.

Our Tahitian Noni Juice business is a profitable employee-less business. You can have one to if you want.

Besides why do you want to become the boss you desperately want to fire anyway? A small business with no employees is a recipe for success and peace of mind. ( read the series of posts at once )

Customers are both a blessing and a curse. Sure you need them to buy your services but keeping them happy is a big job especially if your products are complicated to use.

Keeping happy customers is job number one, job number two is getting rid of customers that cost more than they are worth. Do not ever forget job number two.

There is no use being fooled. You only want customers that you can make money from so you have to pay attention to how much they are costing versus the profit you make from sales to them.

Our biggest problem is that our customers are spread out all over North America, Europe and Asia so we got a cheap long distance plan so we could just pick up the phone and call them if we have to. That simple action resulted in many a satisfied customer. Email is great for delivering information but sometimes you just need to solve a problem quickly so it stops costing you cashflow. Remember the idea is to make money not spend it on the customers.

Our Tahitian Noni Original Bioactive Beverage Business allows us to take care of customers to ensure they order again and it allows us the discretion to drop the too much trouble customers so they become ex-customers. We are not a desperate business. We provide great noni products and outstanding service and as a result we have lots of customers. ( read the series of posts at once )