Time for me to resign my consultant/buyer’s club membership with TLC/Breezy Design.  Really, my experiences with that company, good and bad, set the roots for what all I have going on now, 3 years later.   Kind of have “root rot” shall we say. LOL!  So I’m thinking it’s time to move on.

I mean it this time.

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Yet, there are some in the school of thought that “Less is More” – the less information that is out there the more of an earning opportunity. If my customer’s know the price I pay, are they still going to buy from me knowing that I’m receiving 25% TLC’s new Revenue Sharing program? My thought is they are making an informed choice – my customers can continue to shop through my TLC Shop, paying retail (at least they lowered all the prices!), or they can decide to join the Buyer’s Club and get the same discount I’m getting.

As has always been the case, it’s completely up to anyone as to what they want to do with their membership. I’m choosing to be more active and take advantage of the Revenue Sharing and free referral page – plus I already have my TLC Shop paid for through January. Just like under the old model – anyone may decide to join just for the discounts on the exclusive scrapbook products. My feeling is I don’t want anyone to feel that I’ve kept anything from them, and it’s out there for all to make their own choice.

What I need to do now is beautify my TLC Referral Page – and I was thinking of a page with information similar to what I put in my other post. So, tell me, am I way off course? Am I even making any sense? LOL!

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For me, there was a slight loss of income – but that isn’t what bothered me as much as the loss of direction that MY scrapbook business was taking. I’ve had to sit back and wait for the dust to settle at TLC – I think it finally has. There was also a lot of thinking that I had to do as far as what I wanted to do with my relationship with TLC.

Before any of the changes had been announced, I had been thinking about leaving TLC. I was frustrated with the company and what seemed to be a lack of opportunity to promote it as a scrapbook business opportunity. Red flags had been flying, and I had taken steps to sever my ties with them (cashed in coupons and credits) – and I was basically just sitting on the fence about making my decision to resign my Consultantship. Then TLC did it for me with their announcement!

Funny thing is that I’ve decided to stay with TLC, as a Buyer’s Club member, and this is why…

1. I have spent the last 2.5+ years building a website, blog for marketing, and promoting Top Line Creations (primarily online). My ScrappinWAHM site will need some adjusting, but my Journal blog will keep going as it has – highlighting all of the great products that TLC has to offer!
2. I still have the opportunity to earn some income from Referral bonuses and commissions from purchases made through our new TLC Shops. Here’s mine – http://www.mytlcshop.com/lhaugh – all of which plays nicely into my online marketing business plan! Actually this new model fits my online efforts better than the old Direct Sales model did.
3. Honestly-I’m too busy with everything I do on and offline to try and “reinvent the wheel” – LOL! So how’s that for a reason?? I addressed this some in a post at ScrappinWAHM’s Journal “So I’ve Been Thinking…“, and in a way I defended my position as well.

And so I move on, because I really like lemonade, and to be honest with you I think I’ve come up with a recipe to suit my tastes, just fine!

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