Jose Esquivas is Sunrider’s May Employee of the Month!

Each month, a select set of Sunrider’s finest get together to discuss which employee has contributed the most to their department, and after lots of discussion and contemplation, the latest choice for Sunrider’s “Employee of the Month” (EOM), emerges.

Recognized for exhibiting a top-notch work ethic, great attitude, and a spirit of teamwork, the EOM distinction is a proud and exciting title. And although Sunrider has many incredible employees, and it’s not always an easy choice, it’s a distinction reserved only for those that go above and beyond their job duties.

We’re currently recognizing Sunrider’s May EOM, Jose Esquivas. A member of the Sunrider team for over 18 years, Jose is a Business Services Department representative. According to those who work with him, Jose is always optimistic, works well under pressure, assists management with various department functions, and is dependable and loyal! And, on top of all that, he’s always got a smile on his face!

In order to get to know Jose a little better and find out what makes his time at Sunrider enjoyable, I asked him a few questions about his long career here.

Q1: What do you think is the best thing about being a SR employee?

A1: The best thing is that I get to work with good people who’ve helped me achieve the honor of Sunrider’s Employee of the Month.

Q2: What’s your best memory of SR?

A2: My best memory was at my very first annual convention, just three months after I was hired, when I learned how many IBOs we had. I had no idea we had this many!

Q3: What do you like most about your job?

A3: The people I work with make it worth it. We sometimes act like brothers and sisters.

Q4: What’s your favorite color?

A4: Blue.

Q5: Do you have any pets?

A5: I have a little dog (a cross between a dachshund and a white terrier) as well as a green, talking parrot.

Jose’s manager Sid Schreiber said, “Jose is a self motivated, team player. He is very meticulous in his duties and always willing to do whatever it takes to complete the job…He is very knowledgeable regarding the Sunrider marketing plan and extremely adept at sharing it with our customers. He is well liked by his colleagues and management team. In addition to being a hard working member of the Business Services Department, Jose often fills in as our resident photographer.”

Congrats, Jose, on this exciting achievement! Keep up the good work!

Convention Shop Online Open until June 21!

Based on overwhelming customer demand, we’ve reopened the Convention Shop Online for the USA and Canada from now until Sunday, June 21, 11:59 PST.

This is an extended opportunity to order sensational New Products, Convention Products, and Promotional Products. These exclusive products are your reward for coming to the Grand Convention and they also make great recognition gifts for your organization. Visit our Convention website and click on Shop Online.

'Sunrider is My Choice' Video Contest

We appreciate all the support from Sunriders like you, who’ve made Sunrider your choice for a healthy life with rewarding opportunities. Now’s the time to inspire others to make Sunrider their choice by sharing what it is that makes Sunrider so special to you. Here’s the deal: Sunrider is hosting a video contest that’ll allow you to showcase your passion for Sunrider and your talent at the same time! We’re looking for Sunriders everywhere to create their own 30-second commercial explaining why “Sunrider is My Choice.” So, summon your inner Spielberg and power up your video camera—it’s time for lights, camera, action!

And don’t worry, we’re not looking for technical perfection or the next cinematic blockbuster (and you’ll get no Simon Cowell-like snide remarks from us!); what’s important is expressing the heart-felt reasons why you choose Sunrider for your life. Maybe it’s the way Sunrider® products make you look and feel great. Maybe it’s the premium-quality ingredients and Dr. Chen’s Philosophy of Regeneration™. Maybe it’s the life-elevating business opportunity. Or maybe it’s all of these together! Script it, shoot it, and send it to us! All eligible entries will be entered into a raffle drawing, with the winner receiving a fabulous Sunrider gift.

Best of all, the grand prize winner of the video contest will be awarded a prize onstage and have a photo taken with Dr. Chen during the Sunrider Grand Convention! And finalists will have portions of their video shown during the General Sessions. Who needs an Oscar with this type of recognition?

Help inspire others to enjoy the good life that Sunrider offers—we bet you’ll have a lot of fun in the process.

Here's what to do:

1. Make a 30-second video commercial explaining why “Sunrider is My Choice.”
2. Burn your video onto a DVD. Video format should allow uploading to YouTube (see below for more info).
3. Review and sign the Release and Assignment document; enclose it with your DVD and contact information, and mail to:
   

Sunrider International
Attn: Bob Seawright
1625 Abalone Ave.
Torrance, CA 90501
USA

Submission Guidelines and Information:

• Deadline: Entries must be received by 5 p.m. PDT, July 13, 2009. Sunrider will not consider entries received after this date.
• Content: Do not distort or misrepresent the quality or purpose of Sunrider® products. Sunrider® products are not intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment of any medical condition and IBOs shall not represent or make any statement to the contrary.
• Return of materials: DVDs will not be returned.
• Entries will only be accepted from Sunrider IBOs or ABOs.
• One prize winner will be picked at random by Sunrider from all eligible entries received. The grand prize winner will be determined by Sunrider (in its sole and absolute discretion) based upon all eligible entries received. Sunrider reserves the right to not select a grand prize winner in the event that all eligible entries do not meet Sunrider’s selection criteria. Winners will be notified on stage during the General Sessions of Sunrider’s Grand Convention in Anaheim, CA on July 25, 2009, and must be present to win.
• Compatible formats to use for DVD burning (to enable Sunrider to upload your video to its YouTube website):

Windows Media Video (.avi)
3GP (cell phones)
.AVI (Windows)
.MOV (Mac)
.MP4 (iPod/PSP)
.MPEG
.FLV (Adobe Flash)
.SWF (Shockwave Flash)
.MKV (h.264)

• More information is available at: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55744

• All taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner(s). For U.S. citizens/ residents, the value of the prize(s) will be included in their annual tax form 1099. Sunrider will pay any withholding tax due for non-U.S. citizens/residents.

Sunrider Regional Meetings held in Newark, NJ, and Minneapolis, MN, June 2009

For audiences in Newark, NJ, and Minneapolis, MN, who came expecting to learn more about Sunrider® products, Dr. Chen “fire-hosed” them with non-stop product information for 90 minutes—to the point that some in the company for less than 10 years were probably looking to their left and right to make sure they were really at a Sunrider meeting! In other words, Dr. Chen delivered product information in a very big way. He started by explaining the strategy of conventional medicinal wisdom to cure diseases and the resulting implications of potentially creating harmful side effects and imbalances.

The audience was then prepared for Dr. Chen to explain his revolutionary Philosophy of Regeneration™, wherein he made it clear that he personally has no interest in curing high blood pressure or high blood sugar, but rather he wants to provide the highest quality foods so that your body can find its own harmonious balance and take care of itself. That’s powerful! Backed with an hour long Product Fair in each city, each audience was hit with a convincing one-two punch combination, clearly showing why Sunrider is “Simply the Best™!"

Newark, NJ

We had to start the meeting late because our flight was delayed due to weather and heavy air traffic. By the time I arrived at the ballroom to help prepare the final setup details, half the room was already filled with excited Sunriders and their guests. Once we were full speed, the room filled to capacity with 400 people! Dr. Chen delivered a spectacular 90-minute message about his Philosophy of Regeneration™ and even conducted some convincing on-stage product demonstrations to the audience’s delight. It had been almost a decade since Dr. and Mrs. Chen last held a meeting on the East Coast, so everyone was extremely grateful they found time in their very busy schedules to remind East Coast Sunriders how much they love them!

Once Dr. Chen finished his remarks, the audience raced to the back of the room where local leaders conducted a 60-minute Product Fair of tasting and testing many of Sunrider’s most popular products. One of the more unusual experiences from this Product Fair was when Mrs. Chen turned her back to a large table of display-only products on the stage. Someone then came up from behind her and swept one arm across the entire demonstration table and walked away with everything! Skin care, herbs, and new arrivals, all gone in the blink of an eye! The funniest part about this heist was that the person walked off with a demo tube of Sunsmile® Herbal Toothpaste, and left behind the store bought toothpastes we used to convince the audience of the Sunrider difference. Ah…now there is a thief with impeccable taste! A person who understands the high value of Sunrider® foods in comparison to all of the paltry alternatives available on the market. I am impressed…but I still want my foods back. If you have any news about the “sticky fingers” that walked away with the entire Newark Product Fair, please give me a holler!

Minneapolis, MN

Okay, so then we were on our way to Minneapolis “empty handed.” A couple of phone calls to Sunrider Headquarters and to Minneapolis and we were back in business. Our wonderful Minnesota Sunriders came through and provided their own personal stocks to supply the demonstration items needed for the next Product Fair. For that, I want to publicly give all of them my personal thanks for reminding me that we are all in this together, to help each other as a family—a Sunrider family. Thank you! The more times I visit the wonderful city of Minneapolis the more I like it!

The Sunrider meeting was held in a beautiful conference room on the 50th floor of a skyscraper in the downtown area. Even with moderate visibility through the clouds I stood beside, the view still was breathtaking. Dr. Chen let them have it for another 90-minutes, and he shared product information that even I had never heard. One of the neatest things I learned about Dr. Chen during this meeting was that in the beginning, he made the foods with the intention that he was going to be the only person eating them. But people started asking him to share his food, and he just gave it away. The problem was that it got to the point where so many people wanted to “eat his lunch” that he would have nothing left for himself. That’s when someone suggested he could make money selling the products, and the rest is history. Dr. Chen still makes the foods for himself with the intention that his children and grandchildren eat them, and that gives Sunriders the highest level of confidence in knowing that if Dr. Chen’s own family uses the foods then they have to be the best.

Would you be surprised if I told you Mrs. Chen showed up an hour early to the Minneapolis meeting to vigilantly watch over the large table of display-only products like a hawk? I feared for anyone during this Product Fair who may have thought to try and pull the wool over her eyes again. And did you know that Mrs. Chen first met Dr. Chen in a Judo class in college?

One IBO excitedly pulled me aside after the meeting and said something to the effect of, “Wow, this was just amazing! When are we going to do this again?” After which I replied, “Next week, and it’s going to be at your house.” I am reminded of the oft-quoted parable of the fish. Dr. and Mrs. Chen race from city to city and country to country like most people drive down the street to work. Still to this day, I have never met anyone who works as hard as these two do. Sunrider® foods make it possible to live such a rigorous lifestyle, but there is a physical limit to how many places they can be at the same time. I hope you understand that Dr. Chen is trying to teach you how to fish so you can be filled—and not just for a day, but for a lifetime. If you felt like you learned a lot in those 90-minutes, then imagine what you will take home with you when you spend a week with Sunrider at the Grand Convention July 20-25 in Anaheim, CA! The deadline is July 1, so you still have time to register. The best advice I can give those planning on being there is to come with a reliable writing pen, a whole lot of paper, and get ready to learn from a genius on how you can simply and easily share the Philosophy of Regeneration™ with the 99% of North America still waiting for someone to tell them about Sunrider for the very first time. See you at convention!

John Teng

Sales Manager North America

An Evening with The Beatles, high-flying acrobats, dreamy dancers, and more!

Maybe you’ve heard of the performance troupe Cirque du Soleil? What about “Dancing with the Stars”? The Beatles? Hmm? I suspect you have! Well, this year Sunrider went all out to create the most sensational Gala Evening in Grand Convention history, “The Beatles Experience”!

So if you like The Beatles (who doesn’t?!), high-flying acrobatics and dramatics, beautiful ballroom dancing, and other high-energy performances, then you’ll be thrilled to attend this year’s Gala Evening at the 2009 Grand Convention.

Veteran performers of world-renowned Cirque du Soleil, ballroom dancers from the hit show “Dancing with the Stars,” and other wondrous minstrels and maestros, will perform rousing renditions set to the critically acclaimed and publicly adored beats and lyrics of the enamored British rock and pop band, The Beatles.

The Gala Evening is set to begin at 8:00 pm on Saturday, July 25, but you must register for Grand Convention to attend—and guess what? The registration deadline is July 1!

“The Beatles Experience” is a Sunrider entertainment-ambush of bewitching acts not to be missed! Quickly visit http://convention.sunrider.com so you can register now!

Hello, Utah! Drs. Chen Special Meeting Greets Salt Lake City

Drs. Chen touched down in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, May 31, to lead a Special Meeting for area Sunriders and share our unique and special brand.

I asked Business Leader Richard Jensen of Spanish Fork, Utah, to share his thoughts, and here’s what he had to say:

“Drs. Chen gave an excellent presentation about the Sunrider® products and the opportunity we have as IBOs to share them with others. Dr. Chen explained the difference between Sunrider® products and regular brand products. We are fortunate in Sunrider to have owner expertise with professional methods of production, and ingredients we can trust in each of the products. Some of the products that were at the Product Fair, for our sampling, included: Sunrider’s fluoride-free SunSmile® Herbal Toothpaste, Kandesn® cosmetics, SunSmile® Fruit & Vegetable Rinse, smoothies with VitaShake®, and Fortune Delight®. It was great to taste and feel the quality of these products. The product demonstrations are simple to adopt into our own Sunrider business to make sharing easier. Many new people there were interested to learn about Sunrider International.”

For the large crowd who attended, Dr. Chen helped illuminate why our products, ingredients, manufacturing processes, the Philosophy of Regeneration™, and more, make Sunrider stand above other companies in the market. The intense and rigorous development and manufacturing standards Drs. Chen adhere to make

Sunrider a company nonpareil. Others may try to emulate, but without the brains and brawn behind Sunrider, it’s just not an option.

Summarily, if the meeting could speak for itself, I think it would say this: “Stick with Sunrider. We’re the best!”

Liz Jernigan
Copywriter, Sunrider USA

How Do You Eat an Elephant? One Bite at a Time, Of Course!

The title of this post may seem odd if you weren’t on last night’s conference call with Kandesn Marketing Manager, Julie McLewee, and IBOs Glenda Feilen, Maria McCue, and Teri Lee, but if you were, you know exactly what I mean. It was one of many Kandesn® and Oi-Lin® skin care and workshop tips shared on this exuberant, knowledge-exchanging, enthusiasm-rousing Sunrider conference call!

So what does eating an elephant one bite at a time have to do with Sunrider skin care workshops? Basically it means take things slowly (similar to the old adage “slow and steady wins the race”). Because the Kandesn® and Oi-Lin® products are so amazing, all you need to do is introduce one of these great products into a “newbie’s” skin care regimen, and they’ll be back for more. No need to overwhelm newcomers…or yourself, for that matter!

The skin-care mavens on the call shelled-out their own special tips and advice for throwing successful home workshops and sharing Sunrider’s wonderful Kandesn® and Oi-Lin® products.

Maria McCue said it’s about having an attitude of service—not sales—and listening to their needs. Confidence is also important. If you know your products and are enthusiastic, the rest will follow. She added that she likes to hold one-on-ones or host very small groups—it’s good for practice and getting comfortable.

Glenda Feilen remarked that when she holds home workshops, she encourages everyone to bring a friend. It promotes product satisfaction and eases comfort levels. Glenda also said she often touts the SunSmile® Herbal Toothpaste at workshops, too. What’s a better accompaniment to a glowing, healthy face than a beautiful smile?

Julie McLewee suggested categorizing your skin care workshops and always exuding enthusiasm. Have fun when sharing the products, and people will be attracted to your enthusiasm! She added that Sunrider’s skin care product lines are changing women’s lives and helping them achieve the income they want. Plus, when women fall in love with a skin care product, you’ll have them forever.

Teri Lee, an IBO and aesthetician who works at an upscale wellness spa and also a medical spa, said her clients prefer Oi-Lin® Supreme Emulsion cream to other high-end products in the market because it doesn’t irritate their skin and delivers exceptional results.

We’ve already received rave reviews about the call, too! One IBO said last night’s call had “so much fantastic information…about the products as well as wonderful tips on promoting and sharing the Kandesn® products with others. I got off the phone and immediately was inspired to give myself a Kandesn® home facial. I can’t wait for another call!” And Lois Emerson, a long-time Sunrider, said the Kandesn® conference call was a “very informative, enthusiastic, power-packed Kandesn hour,” and gave props to all for “imparting their wisdom and great ideas and tips on becoming successful Kandesn stars!”

This was Sunrider’s first Kandesn® conference call and an apparent sensation, too! Thanks to everyone for participating in such a fabulous call—a call that wouldn’t be possible without the fabulous products and the hard work and savvy of Drs. Chen!

Be sure to check out these smashing products at our Shop Online—the Oi-Lin® and Kandesn® lines have all your skin, hair, and makeup necessities (and more!) covered!


Please note: No elephants were harmed or eaten during the course of this call.