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You are providing a great product and making a difference in people’s lives by improving their physical health while you are improving your financial health. <br> <br> Your success is important to us. Our job is to help you start, grow and maintain your TSFL business. Many resources are available to you including our unique Health Advisors Only discussion forum. Please review the following and contact us for anything else you may need. <br> <br> Completing the application<br> Taking the health advisor test<br> Your co-branded website<br> Receiving compensation<br> Becoming certified<br> Tasting tips<br> Staying in touch with your customers<br> online tools<br> corporate communications<br> marketing support materials<br> Conferences and training<br> Leadership calls<br> Advice articles<br> Advancing in the organization<br> HA Discussion Forum<br> Annual Renewal<br> <br> Completing the application<br> The first step in becoming a HA is to complete the TSFL application and agreement. You must complete and return the white copy to TSFL within 30 days of receipt. Send the yellow copy to your sponsor (i.e. Medifast Tucson) and keep the pink copy. You will not be paid any commission until this form is returned and accepted. Complete and return the Checklist to TSFL as well.<br> <br> Taking the test<br> Your Health Advisor Manual is a very important document. Read it thoroughly and become familiar with its contents. The Quick Start Guide is also required reading. You will need this information to take the basic product knowledge test and then to serve your customers. The test is open book, you can take the practice tests as many times as you want, and you are given plenty of time to complete the test. You can take the test online using the login information sent by email or return the paper version provided in the HA Manual. This test needs to be completed within 30 days of ordering your Health Advisor packet. You will not be paid any commission until you pass this test. </p> <p>To increase your knowledge and ability to serve your customers, we recommend that you take the advanced certification training. Give yourself a couple months to absorb the basics then get this helpful additional training. It can be ordered from the ADVISOR MATERIALS area of the shopping cart. </p> <p>Your co-branded website<br> A great tool provided as part of your package is a complete website with a unique URL for you and your customers’ use. You can refer prospective customers to it for product and program information and current customers can place their own orders through its shopping cart, giving you automatic credit for their purchases. Instructions for setting up this website are found in your Health Advisor Manual, Section 4. (If you need help, please call us.) Once set up, no further effort on your part is required. All hosting and updating activity is handled by TSFL. </p> <p>Receiving compensation<br> The best way to understand the compensation plan is to read the 125 page Your Guide to Success: Starting Your Take Shape For Life Business. It is also covered in Section 3 of the Health Advisor Manual. Remember that you will not be paid until your application and basic knowledge test are completed. Any commissions you earn will be accrued on account until TSFL receives your application and exam. We recommend signing up for automatic deposit of your commission checks by completing the Direct Deposit Form in the Back Office. You can view your current commission details and past commission summary in the Back Office under weekly, 12 month Bonus and Commission Activity. Retail Commissions are paid weekly (2 weeks in arrears), and Growth and Leadership bonuses are paid on the 15th of the following month. </p> <p>Becoming Certified<br> Take your knowledge and ability to serve your customers to the next level by becoming certified. While optional, certification gives you more confidence and credibility with your customers. You will receive additional materials to study and then take an online test. Similar to the basic knowledge test, you can take numerous practice exams and have plenty of time to complete the actual test. </p> <p>Tasting tips<br> Getting a group of potential and current customers together to learn about Medifast and sample Medifast meals is a great way to obtain new customers. These gatherings are called “tastings”. As part of your health advisor package you received the 48 page Tasting Guide: the Path to Success manual. It contains lots of great information about tastings. A great new tool for one-on-one or small meetings is the Making Optimal Health a Reality flip chart with presentation notes. With it, in a very short time you can be confidently presenting the TSFL program. For more information, look under the Back Office, Company Related, Tastings Program section. </p> <p>In addition to those TSFL materials, Medifast Tucson has developed a few helpful documents such as suggested supplies to have for your tastings and a pre-meeting check list. We will also be glad to talk to you about your specific tasting questions. <br> Some advisors also host support meetings for current customers, often in conjunction with tastings.</p> <p>Online Tools<br> TSFL supplies you with numerous resources to manage your customers and business through an online program called the Back Office. It is a greatly expanded version of what customers see when they log in. As a Health Advisor, you are able to get detailed information about your customers, query your customer list by a variety of criteria, track your earnings, track your communications with your customers, download corporate forms and literature, learn about corporate programs and keep up-to-date on corporate news. Just log in with your customer ID and password and explore the options in the left side frame. Especially look under Company Related, Documents on Demand, Customer Development & Retention Tools. <br> <br> Corporate Communications<br> An electronic newsletter will be automatically sent to you via email once a week – called the TSFL E-Update. It contains company news, product availability updates, promotions and other information important to health advisors. If you do not receive this email, check your spam folder and filter to see if it is being blocked or deleted as junk mail. Prior newsletters can be found in your Back Office under Company Related, Field Communications.<br> A semi-monthly magazine entitled Inside TSFL is also published and available through the Back Office under Documents on Demand. It contains messages from management, helpful advice and other useful information. Look for your name in it as you rise up in rank!<br> <br> Staying in touch with your customers<br> Because of the personal nature of these products, your personal involvement with your customers is critical to their and your success. Be sure to develop an easy, consistent method to track and regularly contact your current and prospective customers. Use any method that works for you: index cards, a personal digital assistant, paper or computer-based time management system, etc. TSFL provides some contact tracking tools in the Back Office such as online messages, a to-do list, and printable detailed customer data. Many ideas for good customer relations are described in the Your Guide to Success: Starting Your Take Shape For Life Business manual. <br> <br> Marketing Support Materials<br> Many great materials have been created by TSFL for your use in finding and supporting your customers such as business cards, brochures, order forms, tasting supplies, a video, newsletter, advertising kit, branded clothing, etc. Look for them under PROGRAM MATERIALS, ADVISOR MATERIALS and TSFL TOOLS in the shopping cart. You may want to create your own materials. Be sure to get approval from TSFL Marketing first however. Medifast Tucson has also developed many materials and marketing programs which we will be glad to discuss and share with you. <br> <br> Conferences and training<br> You will be invited to various special events. The annual TSFL Health Advisor conference is a fantastic event where you can attend educational sessions to help you grow your business, be recognized for your achievements, and meet fellow health advisors as well as Medifast and TSFL executives. Additional special trainings are often held throughout the year, across the country. <br> <br> Leadership calls<br> Fresh ideas, news and motivation for your business are provided weekly in the free leadership call hosted by TSFL management exclusively for Health Advisors. These calls are live and interactive so you can ask questions of other successful Health Advisors. Mondays at 9:00 PM Eastern, call 1-512-305-4638 followed by the pin code: 99662#.<br> <br> Advice articles<br> Several articles have been written by highly successful health advisors in which they share some of the secrets of their success. Many of these were first presented at one of the annual conferences. You can find and read these articles in the Back Office under Company Related, Documents on Demand, Health Advisor Business Building and Customer Development & Retention Tools. Many other informative documents are also available under Documents on Demand. <br> <br> Advancing in the organization<br> Becoming a health advisor is just the start. As you grow your customer base and perhaps get health advisors of your own reporting to you, you will advance in title and income. The market for Medifast products is huge and growing; there is room for all health advisors to be very successful. The details are spelled out in your Health Advisor Manual and the Your Guide to Success: Starting Your Take Shape For Life Business manual. <br> <br> HA Discussion Forum<br> A wonderful resource is your fellow health advisors. As your sponsor, we of course are here to help you and your business. Yet each and every health advisor has some nuggets of advice to impart from her/his experience. To foster the sharing of such information, join the action in the exclusive Medifast Tucson Health Advisor discussion forum. <br> <br> Annual Renewal<br> Remember that you need to renew your Health Advisor status prior to the anniversary of your signup date. You can see your start date in the Back Office under My Overall Statistics. The renewal cost is $39.95 regardless of which package you originally purchased. 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