David Forbes and Tracy Falconer

David Forbes
In July this year, I celebrated my 60th birthday in a top seafood restaurant in Paris, among a very special bunch of friends made in our 22 months in Herbalife! My background is in the dry-cleaning and textile services industry where I spent 25 years - but markets change and my business failed and despite my best endeavours, I ended up in debt with insufficient income to make ends meet - the future at 58 years old looked bleak! Then a friend suggested that I might like to take a look at a work-from-home opportunity and despite my enormous scepticism, decided to take a look! After getting all the information, we needed and after attending a Training/Information Day (ROM) so that we could make an informed decision, Tracy and I joined the company and qualified to the Supervisor level in October 2001.

Tracy Falconer
I became a single mother in 1991 with two small children to raise and relied on benefits to make ends meet. I took on a part-time job with one of the major High Street retailers dealing mainly with customer care. I was looking forward to developing a career within the company but after 10 years I hadn't progressed as I hoped. Unlike David I had never worked for myself before, so when he asked me to take a look at the opportunity with him I decided I had nothing to lose and attended the training day (ROM) with him. I had been very unsure of whether I could do this business but what I saw at the ROM was ordinary people from all sorts of backgrounds, building successful businesses working from home and I thought if they can do it so can I! The rest is as you can see, - is history!

Getting Started
What attracted us to the opportunity was the sheer size and marketplace. We recognised the huge potential for the company's unique products and the "Look-good, feel-good and stay younger and healthier for longer" market was set to explode over the coming years. Also the incredible support systems and tools available from the B.I.G. organisation gave us the confidence to believe that we could become successful in this new business.

We both got on the products immediately: David lost 1st 2lbs in 6 weeks and Tracy lost 10lbs in 3 weeks and we have both maintained our goal weight since! These results and the vitality and energy that accompanied them, enabled us to start retailing the products immediately and we made £430 profit from this on a part-time basis in our first month! This gave us confidence in our ability to do the business and we became very excited by the future possibilities it offered us.

By January, month 3, our continuing success at retailing gave us the confidence to start building a small group of distributors and we began to introduce people into our business. In the same month we achieved the next (4th) level in the Marketing Plan. By April we had progressed to the 5th Level which provided us with a 40% increase in our royalty income!

The benefits so far
Our work-from-home business has enabled us to move, within 14 months of starting, from a three bedroom terraced house to a lovely roomy farmhouse set in 2 acres of paddock. We have also travelled to many countries with the company, been on two all-expenses-paid holidays; one to a world-class resort in Greece and most recently on a £1million luxury boat in the Mediterranean! In the course of building the business, we have helped many people control their weight and improve their health. We have also introduced the opportunity to others, who we are now working with to help achieve their own lifestyle goals and creating life-long friendships in the process. This business is tremendous fun and we are both also enjoying extraordinary personal growth along the way.

The Future
We are both even more excited now about the future than at any time since we started as we continue to build a financial wall around our ourselves and our families and as even more incredible possibilities open up ahead of us. This truly is the opportunity of a lifetime and one of the most satisfying aspects the business is that our success is achieved through contributing to the success of others.