We Found The Best Jerky

JERKY DIRECT JULY 2010 NEWSLETTER
As you can imagine, we often hear from the loyal members of Jerky Direct with many different thoughts, questions and ideas and we do our very best to satisfy each one of your desires. One of those requests has been that we provide a way for members to purchase the same high quality meat that we produce the delicious jerky from and have it delivered direct to your home. This month we are excited to announce that we will now be able to do just that!
In addition to founding Jerky Direct and several other companies, Roger Ball is the owner/operator of the Big Hole Bison Ranch located in Southern Idaho. His passion for this business has created an opportunity for Jerky Direct to not only offer our members premium buffalo jerky but now world- class buffalo steaks. The steaks will be available to purchase in addition to each members standard
$12 monthly jerky purchase. These high protein, low fat steaks are all natural and contain no antibiotics or added growth hormones. Take a look at a comparison of buffalo with three of the most popular meats that we buy on a regular basis:
Nutrient Composition per 3 ounce portion of lean cooked meat
Species
Fat % Calories Protein % Cholesterol
Bison Beef Pork Chicken* USDA Handbook 8-5:8-10:8-13:8-17 *Skinless
2.8 27.9 25
159 35 39 192 27 73 198 26 79 162 23 76
Why eat Buffalo meat?
It is low calorie, low fat, low cholesterol, and it tastes great! If you didn’t know what you were eating, you would probably think that it was the best beef you ever tasted. Buffalo meat is naturally flavorful and tender. You don’t need to spice up buffalo with a lot of extras or hide the flavor with steak sauces. Buffalo will make any recipe better and tastes great by itself. The flavor, in most meats, is in the fat, but so are the calories, cholesterol and saturated fats. With other meats, you trim off the fat (which you paid for) and try to cook it out and drain it off. But buffalo meat is tasty without the fat. Buffalo meat is satisfying and it is “concentrated.”
That is because what you pay for is almost pure protein, 25 to 30% more than beef. It doesn’t shrink in cooking, so pound for pound, it doesn’t cost much more than less expensive meats.I
t’s hard to believe, but buffalo has less fat content than even chicken, turkey, or shrimp! Due to their nature, buffalo are handled as little as possible. They spend their lives on grass, just as they always did. Their meat is not full of drugs, antibiotics, nitrites, or chemicals. Many people who have problems eating other red meats can often eat buffalo without any problems. We are now finding out what the Native Americans knew all along – Buffalo meat is for everyone, from dieters to athletes. Buffalo are no longer an endangered species. If it sounds too good to be true, it is time to find out for yourself!
How is it best to cook Buffalo?
The taste is often indistinguishable from beef, although bison tends to have a fuller, richer (sweeter) flavor. It is not “gamey” or wild tasting. Bison is low in fat and cholesterol, and is high in protein, vitamins, and minerals. The lack of fat insures that bison meat will cook faster (1/3 faster than beef). Fat acts as an insulator – heat must first penetrate this insulation before the cooking process begins. Marbling (fat within the muscle) aids in slowing down the cooking process. Since bison meat lacks marbling, the meat has a tendency to cook more rapidly. Caution must be taken to insure that you DO NOT OVERCOOK BISON. For good steak cooking, start with a preheated grill or skillet. Apply immediate high heat to the steak to add flavor and seal in juices. Finish slowly over low heat making sure not to overcook. Use long handled tongs to turn the steaks—a fork will pierce the meat and allow the flavorful juices to escape. Avoid using salt before cooking as it tends to pull the moisture out of the meat.
How can I order Jerky Direct Buffalo Steaks?
Beginning in July, all four varieties of Jerky Direct Buffalo Steaks can be ordered directly from your website. These steaks will be shipped direct to you and arrive frozen in packs of four premium steaks. The products will be as follows:
Item # Description Number of Steaks Price
69 71 72 73
6 oz Buffalo Tenderloin 8 oz Buffalo Ribeye 8 oz Buffalo New York Strip Loin 8 oz Buffalo Top Sirloin
4 steaks 4 steaks 4 steaks 4 steaks
$35.99 $39.99 $32.99 $25.99
Shipping and handling of these premium products will be: Buffalo steak purchases of up to $40 – $17.99 Buffalo steak purchases of up to $80 – $20.99 Buffalo steak purchases of up to $130 – $22.99
Buffalo steak purchases over $130 – $24.99
FREE BUFFALO STEAK!!!
Now for some very exciting news! We are pleased to announce that beginning on July 1, 2010, any member of Jerky Direct that personally enrolls FIVE new members in a calendar month will be eligible to receive a free shipment of buffalo steaks! The shipment will include four of our finest six-ounce Buffalo Tenderloin (Filet Mignon) Steaks – a $54.00 value that will be yours free for introducing five new members to the exciting products and money-making opportunity at Jerky Direct!

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Booths and Events January 2009
A booth is a great place to bring your new Distributors to hear you make your presentation.
There’s an opportunity for us at the first of every year, and especially in the month of February to attend a lot of health and heart fairs and share our healthy jerky. Remember the month of February is the “heart” month
Many people at these events, especially the other presenters, will be interested in hearing about the Jerky Direct opportunity. You have a semi- captive audience that is already inter- ested in trying samples and possibly getting small business start-up advice.
You’ll definitely want to attend, and possibly even participate with a booth in some of the health fairs this winter. Later in the year you may want to try the farmer’s markets, flea markets, trade shows, and booths of many kinds.
Booths are good for training new Distributors
A booth is a great place to bring your new Distributors to hear you make your presentation. They’ll get to hear you tell your story over and over again. Then they’ll start to practice theirs over and over.
How to plan ahead
There are costs for booths, however, and investing a lot of time and money in booths and seeing few results can be discouraging.
If you want to try promoting Jerky Direct in booths, start small and discover what works best for your team. You may be able to find booths at malls and local fairs at a reasonable cost.
Before you invest in a booth, it’s wise to attend the event first and exchange business cards or get the names of a few exhibitors, especially those who have food products and op- portunities similar to yours. They can
give you suggestions for how to make your booth worth your investment.
In some areas there are insurance requirements if you sell food at your booth. Call Customer Support a couple of months before the event, and we can get you an insurance rider that meets those requirements.
Some Jerky Direct leaders gather so many contact names and business cards at these events that they never have to invest money for a booth. All of the leads become part of a warm market list for a contact like this, “I don’t know if you remember me but when you gave me your card, you suggested that I call and talk with you about Jerky Direct. Did I catch you at a good time?” Then you ask if you can make an appointment ei- ther by phone or in person to share the Jerky Direct opportunity.
If a Distributor in your area or in a nearby area uses booths regularly, you can ask to be part of their team at one of their shows and learn what works well from them.
Make sure you talk with people who are experienced in booths and learn all you can before you make a heavy fi- nancial commitment. Try to get commit- ments and appointments at the booth for one-on-one presentations or for getting your contacts to a home party or oppor- tunity meeting.
The fortune is in the follow-up
When you gather names of interested people at a booth or an event, make sure you email and use the phone to follow up quickly and frequently. Your investment in a booth only pays off if your follow-up is the best part of the proc- ess. Plan it well and plan for continuing to make phone and email contacts until you have ex- hausted the potential in every lead.
Booths for retail sales
You may know some Jerky Direct Dis- tributors who use booths mainly for making retail sales. That’s a good way to make some money, but be sure to talk about the opportunity with every customer. Who knows if he or she is ready for a part-time opportunity? If you don’t ask, you’ll never get a positive answer.
When you share the product, the com- pany, and the opportunity with everyone you meet, you stand to duplicate what you are doing and make a lot more money over the long haul.
How much does your jerky
cost? Every Distributor has to answer that
question, but there are more ways to answer it than you think.
Some new Distributors may squirm as they think of the price of the tough, cheap jerky on the convenience store racks. They may think of the roadside stands or some other inexpensive source for inferior jerky.
But Jerky Direct isn’t a roadside stand or a convenience store. It’s a business opportu- nity and a very affordable way to get the highest quality jerky available anywhere. If you plan to make money in this business, you’ll want to learn a different way of thinking about the cost of our jerky.
Here’s another way to present our price. “Well, that depends on where you’re buying your jerky now. How much jerky do you buy?”
Get an answer then say, “I get it from my own store instead of someone else’s store. Commissions from my order and the or- ders of a lot of other people pay me instead. I don’t have to lose all my profits to the conven- ience store.” That gives you a chance to explain the simple details of the compensation plan.
Here’s another way to answer the question. “Well, that depends on what you’re spending for snacks, especially healthy ones. What snacks do you use all the time? Are any of them healthy protein snacks?”
If they like the idea of protein snacks, share with them the advantages of pro- tein instead of inexpensive, empty carbs:
Proteins are craving busters. They help you feel full longer. You don’t binge on them as much as you do
on inexpensive carbs like chips or candy. They don’t have the negative image of a
“health food snack.” Plus, they taste great.
Some of your clients may be think- ing, “Jerky costs $12.00 a pound. I can get the most expensive cut of beef, buffalo, or turkey and beat that at the meat counter.”
“Well…aside from the inconvenience of chopping, preparing, and cooking, and the fact that it’s pretty hard to eat your steak as a snack…jerky is actually a pretty inexpensive source of protein.”
Two-thirds of the weight of the meat is lost when jerky is slow-processed. The water is gone. So weight-for-weight it’s like compar- ing the price of a pound of raisins with a pound of grapes.
If your steak or deli meat is between $4.00 and $9.00 a pound and Jerky is $18.00 a pound, the two may actually be equal in price.
You’ll never find a more tender, more delicious meat snack than Jerky Direct jerky…at any price. It’s free from hormones,
MSG, nitrites, and other synthetic, fake flavor- ings and preservatives. It’s processed by a company that knows from forty years of experi- ence how to produce the most consistently deli- cious jerky on the planet.
So how much does it cost? It’s priceless. In 2009 enjoy Jerky Direct jerky,
guilt free! It’s definitely worth it!

Eric Business Opportunities, Fundraising, Jerky News, Success Tips and Secrets

JERKY DIRECT SEPTEMBER 2010 NEWSLETTER
Hard to believe that the summer of 2010 is slipping away and giving way to Fall but there is a chill in the air that has everyone rushing to get ready for classes, football season, the hunt, and the inevitable change in the season. But before summer is officially out the door, here are some tips for network marketers to help beat those summertime blues!
1. Arrange for some time off! It may seem counter intuitive, but taking some down time is crucial to the health of your business. A change of scenery, new experiences and a chance to slow down and really relax will help you to recharge yourself and increase your creativity. If getting away even for a few days is just not possible at this point, try and schedule some work or activities that are at least different from what you generally do each day. Take the kids for a work day at their grandparents or volunteer at a local soup kitchen for the lunch shift for a day. After all, your mother told you that a change was as good as a rest!
2. Learn something new. Summer is the perfect time to take a class and learn a new skill or master a software program that will help your business grow. Buy the acoustic guitar you always thought you would learn to play someday. Check out the offerings at your local community college or university. Subscribe to an online training site. Many web sites such as About.com offer free tutorials on anything from Word or Excel to Photoshop or other programs that could prove invaluable in your business.
3. Don’t ever stop networking! Just because you are on vacation doesn’t mean you can’t network. People on vacation that are alongside you are also in a “relaxed zone” and are often more willing to talk and discuss new ideas and concepts than when they are at home and in the daily drag. Stay open to connecting with people no matter where you are (cruise ship, beach, amusement park, ball games etc.) and always be sure you have your business cards and information with you to exchange with your new friends.
4. Evaluate goals. Why wait until New Years? If you have goals that are now proving to be a bit too enthusiastic, better to reload now and aim for goals that are realistic rather than getting discouraged and figuring you will start over again after the holidays. Maybe you have had a fantastic year so far and have reached some or all of the goals you had set for yourself. Summertime is perfect for creating or rethinking your business goals. Use this time to write down your goals for the rest of the year or check the progress of the goals you’ve set and tweak them a bit.
5. Host a fun summertime event! Plan something fun and increase business by utilizing Jerky Direct products as part of that event. Family reunions, pool parties, road trips and picnics are all made better when you pull out the jerky and the inevitable question is always something along the lines of “This jerky is fantastic – where did you ever find it?”
6. Use the social networks to your advantage. It seems that at this point, almost everyone you went to high school or college with is on Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. None of us can believe how easy it is to reconnect with friends and relatives that we thought we would only see and speak with once every five years at class or family reunions. Communication with these folks is right at our fingertips and when the inevitable questions come about what we have been doing lately, take the chance to let them know! Or better yet, get a sample in their hands and add another member to your downline!
10 Tips On How To Pump Up Your Downline
When you are involved in network marketing, you need to remember that without your downline, you are nothing. This is a concept that each of us understands quite well but often can slip through the cracks when time and events get frantic. It reminds me of the sales clerk at X-Mart that is hurrying about their department checking prices, restocking shelves or taking inventories. They get so involved in the minutia of their job that they fail to notice or acknowledge you, the customer, even if you speak to them or try to get their attention. I always half expect to get an answer along the lines of “Hey buddy – can’t you see I am trying to work here? Stop trying to buy stuff from me!”
So to avoid the mistakes of the above mentioned sales clerk who did not want to be “bothered”, here are ten effective tips for making sure that it does not happen!
1. Treat Your Downline Like Royalty! – Don’t use a lot of hype, pushy sales talk, clichés and mumbo- jumbo in your sales pitch and product info. These people need to understand everything about what we are all selling so talk to them honestly and intelligently.
2. Be Clear – Do not be vague and be concise on your website or presentations. Give a positive call-to- action. Let your downline know what your product is all about. Tell them everything about what you have to offer or how it can benefit them.
3. Keep Your Word – People love it when they know they can count on you. Once you sign them up, continue keeping your promises – they will love you for it!
4. Answer Their Questions – Be prompt when answering emails – they can’t keep till next week. Give each one in your downline as much attention as they need to address all of their concerns. It is never a waste of time to answer their questions and then they will be more likely to stay involved.
5. Share Secrets of Success With Your Downline – You need to let everyone else in on the things that have worked for you! After all, they are not called “secrets” for nothing! Hopefully in this way they will not have to struggle and stress on everything as hard as you did.
6. Do Not Become Too Automated – Give your downline the personal touch and be in contact with them. That takes personal time but will pay off great dividends in the end.
7. Do Not Keep Costs Hidden – Be upfront with all your product costs, shipping, etc. If they know what everything costs, they can feel more comfortable and not worry about the mysteries!
8. Always Offer Contact Info – Put your name and contact information on your site or any printed material. You want these people to know who you are or how to contact you. Who wants their phone calls even if it is during important activities such as football games or afternoon naps!
9. Stress the Importance of All-Natural and Organic – This is really that big of a deal even if they are probably eating a greasy burger and fries for lunch and washing it down with a giant milkshake. Why might it be important that your downline understand why Jerky Direct products are unique and unmatched in the industry?
10. Always Take Initiative – Even though Jerky Direct is a very simple and uncomplicated business model, never count on someone or something at corporate level that will solve all your wants and needs. Utilize your own skills, talents and resources to grow your own downline and do not count on the possibility that someone else will do it for you!
So, if you follow these ten tips, we can assure you that you will be “bothered” by your downline for a very long time! We wish you much success with your Jerky Direct business!

Eric Business Opportunities

JERKY DIRECT OCTOBER 2010 NEWSLETTER
One of the things we hear most often from anyone that has decided to “build a downline” is that they are encountering resistance and are not sure how to handle the objections that are thrown in their face. In fact, most of us begin objecting to any type of change in our lives before we even get a chance to hear it out completely. Resistance to change is universal.
So maybe it is time to get back to basics. Tom Hopkins of dummies.com has done a great job of breaking this down and has done so in six simple steps. Here are six steps for handling objections or addressing concerns that almost always work in your favor. They also work pretty well in diffusing unusually tense situations, so heed them well.
Step #1: Hear them out
When someone trusts you enough to tell you what’s bothering him, do him the courtesy of listening. Don’t be quick to address every phrase he utters. Give him time; encourage him to tell you the whole story behind his concern. If you don’t get the whole story, you won’t know what to do or say to change his feelings. Don’t interrupt either, because you may jump in and answer the wrong concern. Another advantage to encouraging them to tell you all that they want to say is that it gives you an opportunity to consider the situation and construct your response. It is also more likely that they will then in turn hear you out if they have indeed said all that they wanted to.
Step #2: Feed it back
By rephrasing what his concerns are, you’re in effect asking for even more information. You want to be certain that he’s aired it all so that no other concerns crop up after you’ve handled this one. You’re saying to him, Go ahead. Lay it all on me. Get it off your chest. In doing this, you’re asking him to trust you and also providing yourself an important period of time to plan your response.
Step #3: Question it
This step is where subtlety and tact come into play. If a guy objects to the fact that you are asking Block Walkers to wear a reflective vest while out walking the neighborhood, don’t say, What’s wrong with it? Instead, gently ask, Wearing the vest makes you uncomfortable? If it does, he’ll tell you why. Maybe he’s shy. If so, you have to build his confidence in
the respect the uniform generates and in the authority it lends to him as a participant. By asking how things make people feel, you will get the real sentiment as well as gain trust. Who does not like and trust a person that cares about how things make them feel?
Step #4: Answer it
After you’re confident that you have the whole story behind his concern, you can answer that concern with confidence. Maintain their attention by using his name in your conversation and referring back to the information that he has just shared with you.
Step #5: Confirm your answer
After you’ve answered the objection, it’s important that you confirm that he heard and accepted your answer. If you don’t complete this step, the other person very likely will raise that objection again.
You can confirm your answers simply by completing your answer with a statement such as, That answers that concern, doesn’t it, Bob? If he agrees with you that, your comment answered his concern, then you’re one step closer to persuading him. If he isn’t satisfied with your answer, now is the time to know — not later when you try to get his final decision to go ahead.
Step #6: By the way . . .
Know those three words. They’re three of the most useful words in any attempt to persuade or convince another person.
You use the phrase to change gears — to move on to the next topic. Don’t just keep talking. Take a conscious, purposeful step back into your presentation. If it’s appropriate, turn the page in your presentation binder or booklet. Point to something other than whatever generated the objection. Take some sort of action that signals to the other person that you’re forging ahead.
These six steps, if you learn them and apply them properly, will take you a long way toward achieving your goal of selling others even when they raise objections or concerns.
Sometimes you’ll hear more than one objection or concern. If you start running through all six steps with each objection you hear, you can spend a lifetime trying to persuade these people. Experience helps you tell which concerns you need to address and which you may be able to bypass. You will also find that once you have gained the other person’s trust and handled his objections in a satisfactory manner, the number of objections will dwindle dramatically or end altogether.

Eric Jerky News, Success Tips and Secrets

JERKY DIRECT NOVEMBER 2010 NEWSLETTER LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE COACH
As we approach this holiday season and Thanksgiving in particular, one of the things that many of us like to give thanks for is the wealth of exciting sports that are suddenly upon us as we follow all of our favorite teams. Whether it is your child’s local youth hockey team or high school football or college basketball or even the World Series, this is the time of year that nearly every sport seems to be underway and as a nation, we do love our sports.
In addition to being a perfect time to enjoy some quality snacks from Jerky Direct with friends and family, sports over the years have offered us many examples both good and bad. Many a parallel has been drawn from the world of athletics. One of the most sparkling examples of leadership and inspiration has got to be the former men’s basketball coach of UCLA – John Wooden. He was born in 1910 and passed away in June of this year. In his 100 years he was able to accomplish many great feats such as ten NCAA Championships in just 12 years! No other college coach before or since has been able to come close to matching that record of success. But it was the way he chose to live his life and the manner in which he treated and dealt with his fellow men that will always be his legacy.
Since we are all involved in a business that requires that we interact with others while teaching them and sharing new concepts with them, it would seem appropriate to more closely examine how it was that Coach Wooden was able to teach and mold an ever-changing group of college boys into perennial champions. Was it because he had extraordinary talent or was his IQ that much greater than the other 100+ Division 1 college coaches? It is true that his program’s success did attract some high profile players such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Bill Walton but this did not ensure continued winning or success.
What made John Wooden the greatest coach of all time was also what made him a great human being. It was something that he adhered to and followed on a daily basis and he would have done so no matter what his profession had been. We are talking about his personal creed or as we like to call it today, his personal mission statement. It consisted of seven points as follows:
1. Be true to yourself. 2. Make each day your masterpiece. 3. Help others. 4. Drink deeply from good books. 5. Make friendship a fine art. 6. Build shelter against a rainy day. 7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
While an entire newsletter or book could be dedicated to each one of these seven guidelines, they are both simple and self-explanatory. There is not a person on earth that could not benefit from following them and there is no business, conventional or network marketing, that would not profit from adhering to them.
My mother has a great habit of writing down great quotes or thoughts on a chalkboard in the kitchen for all the family to see and be mindful of. These “golden nuggets of thought” as we kids jokingly referred to them as, would become a part of our daily conversation and then put into practice. Chalkboards have now been replaced by whiteboards and iPads, but as business builders and as good citizens, we could all benefit from posting Coach Wooden’s seven rules and reviewing them with frequency.
A few more jewels from Coach John Wooden:
• “Ability is a poor man’s wealth.“ • “Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being
especially free of admirers then.” • “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is
what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” • “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” • “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” • “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer
makes mistakes.” • “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” • “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given.
Be careful.” • “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” • “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either
one.” • “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be
able to repay you.”
Ingredients:
RECIPE OF THE MONTH – TURKEY MAC
• 1 (10.5-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup • 1/2 cup skim milk • 1 cup shredded Low-Fat Cheddar cheese • 3 tablespoons finely chopped onion
• 2 cups cooked Whole Wheat elbow noodles • 1 (4-ounce) bag Jerky Direct Turkey Jerky, cut into bite-size pieces • 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350°F. 2. In bowl, stir together soup and milk. Stir in cheese, onion, macaroni and Turkey Jerky.
Fold in eggs. 3. Pour mixture into 1 1/2-quart casserole; cover. Bake 30 minutes or until heated
thoroughly.