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<p>How do you help your overweight patients? How would you like to boost your
practice’s bottom line while you shrink theirs?<br>
Grow your profits while you improve the health of your overweight patients
by offering them Medifast’s clinically proven products. Through the Take
Shape for Life (TSFL) subsidiary of Medifast Inc., you can provide your
patients medical foods that foster healthy, rapid weight loss - without the
hassle of stocking or shipping products. You simply give your patients
information about Medifast, help them signup and purchase products that are
drop shipped to their door, and then receive 20% or more in compliance fees
from TSFL.<br>
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The TSFL Health Professional program:</p>
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<li>Is turn key, including all manuals, materials and
training for you to begin</li>
<li>Decreases the physician’s need to provide nutritional
and exercise counseling</li>
<li>Allows the physician to oversee and monitor a patients’
weight management</li>
<li>Lowers patient medication requirements and optimizes
their health</li>
<li>Increases your business by word of mouth from satisfied
patients</li>
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<p>You are well aware of the numerous health issues created by
obesity and its epidemic growth in the United States. Now you
can do more than lecture your patients - you can offer them an
easy solution that will keep them motivated, energized, and
satisfied - not hungry. It even works for patients who are
unable to exercise. They simply select from 70 different meals
to enjoy 5 times a day along with one low fat, high protein meal
thereby consuming about 1000 calories a day. They quickly enter
a safe, low level of ketosis and lose 2 to 5 pounds a week.<br>
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Medifast Tucson has been providing Medifast products nationwide
for over 5 years. We want to help you offer these great products
to your patients. We will get your program set up, train one or
more staff members, and provide you with ongoing support – all
for no additional cost. Depending on the volume of orders
generated by your patients, you will earn from 20% to 35% of the
retail value of those orders (an average monthly supply is
$300). Additional bonuses are available. <br>
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IMPLEMENTATION AND ONGOING SUPPORT <br>
<br>
Now that you are part of the Medifast Tucson and TSFL Health
Professional program, you are entitled to our full attention and
support. We want to help you help your patients and your
practice’s profitability. TSFL has provided you with a packet of
information on how to offer Medifast foods to your patients. If
you would like any assistance getting started, training your
staff, etc., please do not hesitate to contact us. The following
is general advice for your practice. <br>
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Completing the application<br>
The first step 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>
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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.
<br>
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. <br>
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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.
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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
compliance fees you earn will be accrued on account until TSFL
receives your application and exam. We recommend signing up for
automatic deposit of your compliance fees checks by completing
the Direct Deposit Form in the Back Office. You can view your
current compliance fees details and past compliance fees 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. <br>
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Becoming Certified<br>
While optional, certification gives your staff 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. <br>
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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 Professional, 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>
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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
important information. 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>
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Staying in touch with your Medifast patients<br>
Ongoing support is important to help your patients stay
motivated and on the program. Besides your practice’s normal
customer contact procedures, TSFL provides contact tracking
tools in the Back Office such as online messages, a to-do list,
and printable detailed customer data. <br>
<br>
Marketing Support Materials<br>
Many great materials have been created by TSFL for your use such
as business cards, brochures, order forms, sample packs, 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
professionals 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 and Professionals. These calls
are live and interactive so you can ask questions of other
successful Health Advisors and Professionals. 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 professional 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 professionals 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.
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Annual Renewal<br>
Remember that you need to renew your Health Professional 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. Select Renewal (last item on the page)
under ADVISOR MATERIALS in the shopping cart. </p>
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<p class="singlesidebar"><strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/03/12/obesity.campaign/index.html" target="_blank">White House takes aim at obesity (CNN)</a></strong><br />
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<p >I thought you would like an update on my progress. I began the Medifast 55 plan on May 22, 2002. I weighed 225. I have lost 68 pounds and now weigh 157. Yippee!</p>
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<p class="singlesidebarstory"><strong>Water Intake</strong><br />
Hello Everyone, I wanted to share with you all something that may help. Some of you may be having trouble getting all your water in every day because well water has no taste and we would rather have something that tastes good, right?<br />
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So it's been a month since I started the program and I've had nothing but great success. Now that I am half way to my goal I figured now would be the time to adopt some sort of exercise routine.<br />
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