Having this blog site up for almost a year now, I have learned and have gotten to know who many of my readers are. Some are customers, even more are fellow designers, most are DIWs (designers in waiting) and a fast growing number of my readers are Poachers. Poachers are those that come to a competitor’s terrain, such as to this blog and various sites, to drop in on me, my readers, and commentators and fulfill their desires with an alternative such as their company’s products or say to them, “Why not join my ________, there’s no waitlist.”
Uhm… I say to you “Why is there no waitlist? Because the demand for yours is not as high…. and… why are you on my personal Origami Owl blog? Please make your own avenue to promote your business.”
Anyway….the question of “Should I Try Out Another Company While I Wait?”
My opinion is NO. Why not join the others? This industry is all about serving the desires and need for a particular product. A DIW who has a market waiting for her to be an active Independent Designer for Origami Owl but goes and does another, that DIW would not be filling the customer’s desire for an Origami Owl Custom Jewelry. You can fulfill their desire for a locket with the help of your future Mentor. They want an Origami Owl locket, not just another locket or custom jewelry of another company. If they wanted something else, they can just go to Etsy or the many sites that sell something similar. Do not provide your circles and possibly only market an orange for an apple. Not even a granny apple if they want a red apple. You provide them something else, chances are, you will never hear from them again because you were not hearing what they were asking from you from the beginning.
I am honest with people I interact with that there are alternatives out there – have been for many years online and many more will come – but it is Origami Owl that have brought it in to the popular and mainstream with their amazing products and amazing look and quality above the rest. An Origami Owl locket is what they want. Get your Mentor and get it to them! Not only is Origami Owl the best in everything when it comes to product offerings, Origami Owl has amazing marketing know-how too that brings customers and new Designers (for now, DIWs) to the company, bringing on greater demand to you to build your business while other company’s reps succumb themselves to the most undesirable tactic to promote business: poaching.
You know that something good is going on here at Origami Owl when our Independent Designers don’t have to go to the reps of other companies to poach their people. These poaching tactics have worked on so many DIWs I will just say this: I hope you made the best decision for you. I am all for your success and I want you to experience it too.
As someone who has been with Origami Owl from the very beginning (I was one of the first 200 reps). It IS nice being one of the first “Founders” of Origami Owl. It is even nicer knowing that I have grown along with so many others here because the company brings me and everyone else people to join our team. Bella and The Nest have no need to poach on the reps of other jewelry companies with letters of their so called empathy written all over it, highlighting the growing pains and how they are so much better. I know what I am talking about as I have experienced it myself as a co-founder and owner of “new companies” have done it to me, my team and DIWs, and several others in the company.
To those getting these letters: think. Think about your real intentions, your real goals and your real desired results with Origami Owl, and act accordingly.
I am all for everyone finding what path is right for them I tell my team, “If Origami Owl is not for you, please set yourself free and find your real dreams just as I have found mine here.” If you are not sure if Origami Owl is for you and have nothing to lose, feel free to try other things out. But if you are thinking of definitely coming back to Origami Owl when you receive your invite, I highly suggest to skip the trying it out phase, or doing another company, while you are on the waiting list. Why? Because innocently trying things out is costly to you and your intended future Origami Owl business.
Don’t do the temporary switcharoos as many as I have been seeing from many DIWs. You are shooting yourself in the foot, killing your future Origami Owl business as you you lose face with those around you, if you have not already. You excitedly told everyone around you and their friends that you are so excited to start your Origami Owl business and a week later, they receive a this Facebook Page invite to your “not Origami Owl Page” cognitive dissonance at its best. Even worse, months later, they receive another invite, this time, to “Like” your Origami Owl Facebook page.
The other companies want you to “try it out” because of one truth: Their written letter stating they “hope you try it out, even if while just on the waitlist with no strings attached” is written with the pure intent that you stay with them permanently. Duh! And there is nothing wrong with that. They want a decent paycheck too but do know that it isn’t just so you can try it out, and you can leave just as easily, if you don’t like their company after all.
Admit it or not, you will be “stuck” one way of another just as they had hoped:
1. You have confused and lost credibility with your previous and intended Origami Owl market by having “tried” something else out. You can’t just grow a new market or new circles as easily as you lost one.
2. You feel obligated to stay with the new team reps and customers you have led into another company using the same tactic used with you – the “try it out” method of the company.
3. You like the vanity title of “Founding” rep, member, etc… and want to keep it even if you know you could be selling so much more as an Origami Owl Independent Designer.
What is a public title if nothing in your personal bank account reflects it anyway?
This is a case where the saying “There’s no harm in trying it out” does not apply. Even if you really wanted to go do Origami Owl after trying “it” out, your market may or may not forget the little stint you pulled on them for a short while. Innocently “trying it out” may end up crippling your original plan and much bigger path. The trying out you just did may have pushed them to another Origami Owl Independent Designer and keeping you from building a strong Origami Owl business and wish you had just stayed the course.
So what to do? I suggest, instead of trying something else out, why not start building you Origami Owl business now instead of later? Check out my blog Archives to read up on the many ways to start buidling you business today or watch my YouTube videos for endless ideas!
DIWs, may you make the best choices for you today. Wherever you may go, may you serve others by offering them what they desire. I wish you the best in finding your vehicle to reach your dreams. I have with Origami Owl and I wish the same for you.
All is worth the wait. I promise.