Sunrider’s Halloween Celebration

Sunrider’s annual Halloween Celebration was ghoulishly festive, with the much-anticipated costume contest being particularly entertaining. This year there was a record number of contestants, who ranged from comical to completely creepy, parading in front of a captive and appreciative audience.

This cavalcade of creative costumes made the judges’ task of selecting four winners quite a challenge! All contest participants received a free movie ticket, and the winners each received a check for $50! Congratulations to the winners, and special thanks to all the contestants for making everyone howl with laughter (and fright)!

Happy Birthday Mrs. Chen!

Employees gathered in the Sunny Café at Sunrider World Headquarters on Monday, October 20 to celebrate the birthday of their president, Mrs. Chen. After everyone sang “Happy Birthday” and wished her best wishes on her special day, the festivities continued, and were topped off with everyone enjoying delicious cake and ice cream.

New Opportunity Presentation on YouTube

Our new Opportunity Presentation is now on YouTube. It's in two parts since the presentation is over 10 minutes long.

Part One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40Ddk_Eep8)


Part Two (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nuNu9z6-BM)



We'll be adding other languages when they are ready. This will be available on DVD along with the Convention Highlights. We also have our 2008 Sunrider Grand Convention World magazine online here.
(http://www.sunrider.com/eBook/SunWriter/Eng/index.html)

Enjoy!

Thanks,

Wendy Teng

New Sunrider Internet Policies

As you may know, Sunrider is increasing its presence on the Internet, and recently updated the Business Guide to encourage IBOs to promote their Sunrider business on the Internet. I am an attorney with Sunrider, and helped draft the new language in the Business Guide. Because these changes are exciting, I wanted to give IBOs an overview of the new rules.

The biggest change is that IBOs can now publicize their Sunrider business on the Internet. This includes your own personal or business website, online advertising, and social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. IBOs can use Sunrider’s text and images on their websites, and can use all of Sunrider’s trademarks. If you are drafting your own content, be sure not to make any improper health or income claims. Your content can also include links to any Sunrider website (including Sunrider’s main website, Sunrider Shop online, and our blogs), have discussion forums, and explain your experiences with Sunrider’s products. YouTube videos, online product demos, or a daily blog—the sky’s the limit!

Keep in mind a few guidelines when promoting your Sunrider business online. First, Sunrider does not allow online sales by IBOs (other than through Replicator websites). Second, make sure to use the Sunrider IBO logo, and not the Sunrider logo. Third, you must state that you are independent of Sunrider, and not copy the look and feel of any Sunrider website. Fourth, do not use the name Sunrider or any of Sunrider’s product names in any domain name, blog address, online profile, or other online identity.

Sunrider also recommends that IBOs setup their own Replicator website, which they can then promote online. A Replicator website allows IBOs to link to products for sale through Sunrider Shop Online, and will automatically track SV for such purchases.

As with printed promotional materials produced by IBOs, Sunrider needs to review all non-Replicator websites for compliance with the Sunrider® Business Guide. When your website or other online content is finalized, please tell us about it through the form at http://business.sunrider.com/CustService/WebCompliance.asp. Please note that you do not have to submit Replicator websites for compliance review.

This article is just a small overview of the new rules, and IBOs should carefully review parts N and O of Section 3. I. of the August 2008 Business Guide for complete details. If you have any questions about these changes, please contact your upline or local Sunrider Business Services Department.

Owen Smigelski
Senior Counsel

2008 Olympic Games

This is a bit delayed, but we thought you might want to know how the Olympics went. Our family had the great opportunity to fly on the new Sunrider airplane all together. It was great, and such a blessing to be able to bring all the grandchildren on board with all of their toys and contraptions and not have to worry about being security checked!

So in Beijing during the Olympics, which were quite organized despite some confusions here and there, we were able to meet with top leaders from China for some dinners to review our franchise business there, visit the new Beijing branch office inside the Sunworld Dynasty™ Hotel, meet with our hotel managers to go over our Sunworld Dynasty™ and Sunworld™ hotels’ business, and were able to enjoy watching the Olympics in person and on TV. It was a great experience to be there, and to see everything that we wanted to…women’s 10m diving was awesome, rhythmic gymnastics was beautiful, tae kwon do and judo (always a passion for the Chen kids) were really interesting and fast, artistic gymnastics made us hold our breaths… we are truly grateful to our parents for giving us the chance of a lifetime to see the Olympics up close and personal.

Of course, with a trip to China, we couldn’t pass up on the chance to visit Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul. On August 14 in the afternoon, we had a packed meeting with the Hong Kong IBOs (young business leaders and their parents) and our family. My dad talked and motivated them about doing the franchise-like business, my mom introduced all of us, and we all went up on the stage to talk about the role of the younger generation in Sunrider. It was really a great meeting, and everyone was so excited. It was a really different experience to see all of the younger IBOs, some with their parents, coming up onto the stage and telling their parents that their goals need to be higher in Sunrider. Totally cool.

On August 16, we had a dinner banquet at the Sunworld Dynasty™ Hotel in Taipei with the young business leaders there and some came with their uplines or parents as well. With a few hundred IBOs in the audience, a great MC, and good food, we of course did karaoke. The kids in our family all sang “YMCA” and “Lean on Me”…both fun songs. Some of the Taiwan IBOs came up to the stage to sing and to share their goals in Sunrider…the second generation and young IBOs are really good examples of how to keep Sunrider going into the future. My mom also did the lottery drawing there, which was a hit, and a lot of IBOs walked away with new products.

On August 18, we had a big Opportunity Meeting in Seoul with about 50-60 Business Leaders and above who are high performing, and Drs. Chen had an intimate conversation with them about the franchise concept.

On August 19, we had a big Opportunity meeting with Korea’s leading IBOs and their new prospects. What a crowd with the room packed to capacity at 240 people. The meeting was exciting, my dad gave a great speech, and the IBOs that came up to share their experience and how much money they’ve made with Sunrider (their Sunrider testimony) did a really good job. They got the new prospects excited. Later that evening, we had a banquet dinner with the IBOs at the Lotte World Jamsil in Seoul…our staff there had prepared this enormous banner that hung in the center atrium and must have been at least 50 feet long. The entertainment was really fun with the older and younger IBOs all participating, and we had a great lottery of products for the special event donated by my parents and some top IBOs in Korea. This was really exciting, and Marcus was clapping his hands the whole time.

All in all, the trip was great. We got to see all of our IBO friends in Asia, traveled on the best airplane in the world, and got to spend time together as a family…it’s not so bad mixing business with leisure. That’s the only way it’s done in our family, and we enjoyed it a lot. Hopefully we’ll see some of you on our airplane some day traveling and inspiring others to optimize their life around the world.

Sunny C. Beutler
Regional Operations Director

Sunrider is on Facebook

Sunrider International now has its own official Facebook page!

Facebook is a great way to connect with other Sunriders and keep up with company news and events. We’ve already added pictures, videos, and more. Check it out today and add yourself as a “fan.”

Post-Convention Update

I hope all of you had a great time at the Convention! I had a wonderful time meeting many of you, holding the young IBO workshop, and chasing my daughter around the Hall during the general sessions. Here’s a quick status update on the products and marketing tools. I know you are all dying to get them!

New Products

Of course everyone wants to know when you can buy the new products. I don’t deal directly with this issue, but I do know that it’s a rather complex process. It first depends on how well it sold in your country during convention, and the sales volume and recruiting rate in your country. We can’t launch new products if there are only a few people there to buy them. We also have to register the product and comply with local regulations. I know that’s not the answer you want because you want the products now. Hopefully, you bought enough products at Convention. But, I have better news. The new Oi-Lin® and some of the new product packaging should be phasing in soon over the next few months.

New Marketing Tools/Website

I oversee the writing, editing, look and feel of the marketing tool, but I don’t handle the printing or translating so I’m just estimating the time on these “hot” tools we are working on.

Sunrider® Training CD-ROM – we’ve made some revisions and most countries should be in production soon and have it in the next 3 months or sooner.

Ingredients Brochures – Dr. Chen told me to add more ingredients to the brochures so we are doing that. Some countries may not have this brochure due to government regulations. Estimated time is 1-2 months.

Website – It should be ready in 3-4 months.

We have many other tools in development like a new product catalog, new brochure on being environmentally friendly, and new product flyers. There’s lots of exciting changes and we hope you enjoy them.

Wendy