WHO IS THE DOWNEAST WINNING TEAM?
and WHO IS ROLAND RHOADES?

and the Fuller Brush Cat ??

As promised in my email, here is the "photo of me and my honey in bed, taken by my wife". Silka likes to crawl under the covers with me. This was taken about 9am, the time when I usually get out of bed. I don't believe in alarm clocks. I get up when I'm done sleeping! Back when I had a job I had to get up at 5am; that's criminal! Most people don't have time for their kitties during the day. If you'd like to have more flexible control of your time and spend more time with your kitties (or kiddies), just decide to take control of your life and become self-employed in your own Fuller Brush business!

What does The Fuller Brush Company have to say about me?

Larry Gray, Director of US Field Sales (President of the Distributor sales force at the Company), says on his Nov 9, 2005 Sales Hotline:
"And now . . . I want to recognize an individual . . . who over the years has developed a phenomenal sales team!  Through consistent sponsoring . . . every day retailing . . . on-going training . . . and never-ending follow-up with prospects and Distributors . . . this individual has climbed the ladder of excellence in Fuller Gold. A BIG, BIG congratulations goes out to our newest . . . Division Director . . . Roland Rhoades from Maine. Here’s to you Roland . . . for an outstanding job! Your group has grown from simply you retailing Fuller Brush products to a vast sales team that includes 5 Supervising Directors, 5 Directors and countless dedicated Distributors. Hat’s off to you . . . for your tremendous success with Fuller Brush!" 
[Also note the photo of Larry and me on my homepage.]

The DownEast Winning Team also offers FREE Training Manuals and an Announcements/ Question & Answer Discussion Board on our exclusive DWT-members-only website.

Another benefit of being part of the DownEast Winning Team is our newsletter, mailed free to all who want it in print - see my Newsletter Page.

Click on the pictures for larger copies.	Roland Rhoades at the Gorham Business Trade Show in April 2002, wearing one of our Fuller shirts that I had made.
Here is the outside of my new 440 sq ft office that I had built on the end of our house (all paid for!). I like looking at the woods out my windows. I'm still doing landscaping, raking leaves and brush, and more tree planting.	This photo is part of my Product Area.

   
To speed up page-loading time, more photos, including my awards, will be on a separate page:

Here's two old 1992 photos I found of Me (left) and my good buddy, Larry Gray (right), VP of Sales & Marketing at Fuller Brush, the person at Fuller Brush in charge of all of us distributors. He's the voice you hear on the Sales Hotline.  

I met him at regional meetings in 1992 and 1993 in MA and CT, never realizing at the time the importance of getting to know him, AND for him to know who I am, as my business started growing and I wanted his attention and extra help.

See also the 2007 photo on my Home page.

 

THE FULLER BRUSH CAT
This last picture is my new baby (2003), a Scottish Fold kitten named Silka, learning about my business.
Click on the kitty for more on the most beautiful and wonderful kitten in the world, plus cat stories and jokes.
updated 1/25/04

The following is edited from the Company Newsletters. Can you identify with my goals?

Several years ago, Roland Rhoades began a gradual process of creating a new, more positive work atmosphere for himself.  As an electrician at a naval shipyard in Kittery Maine, he enjoyed his work, but not the negative working environment.  Rather than stand still and complain, Roland decided to take steps toward the positive.

His efforts led him from the shipyard full-time, to supplementing his earnings with part-time work in the Network Marketing industry. Eventually, he arrived where he is today: working full-time as a Fuller Brush Director.   Roland says "I'm too independent minded to work regular hours for a boss. That's why I love Fuller Brush so much."

Roland had been involved with another networking company for several years when in 1992 a friend recommended that he consider adding "product diversity" to his business. Roland responded that he didn't need "diversity," he needed products that worked and that would sell. "That's the definition of Fuller Brush products," his sponsor told him. And when he added that Fuller Brush had just made the transition to network marketing, Roland promptly decided to join Fuller Brush, and began to build his highly successful DownEast Winning Team. 

It didn't take many side-by-side product comparisons for Roland to realize that Fuller Brush products simply worked better and were priced better than the products he had been promoting. "I know the other company's products well, and now I know Fuller Brush products, and Fuller's work better." Instead of adding diversity, Roland decided to change companies, and since then he has never looked back.  

The true advantages of his Fuller Brush business became clear to Roland as he began to prospect for new customers and distributors. "The response I got to the Fuller Brush name was like a breath of fresh air," he said. "It was a real relief to have people respond to the name by telling stories about their favorite products, instead of making critical comments about your company."  

With new-found confidence, Roland became a Fuller product expert, and encourages the distributors he sponsors to become experts also. "I encourage the people I sponsor to use retailing as a way to offset some of the initial expenses of building a network marketing organization," Roland said.  "I started off selling enough products to pay for a small inventory of my fastest selling products and to pay for nationwide advertising, and expand my business out of my economically depressed area in Maine. Building a solid distributor base of other distributors making a profit is the key. I've published a free Newsletter for downline support since 1994. I now have distributors or mailorder customers in all 50 states. I also feel that I've gotten to know as friends, many of my distributors and customers across the country, just by mail and telephone."

When talking to prospects, Roland emphasizes the unique advantages of operating your own Fuller Brush business. "Name recognition is an important advantage when talking to anyone over 40," he said. "But just as important, among the younger crowd, the people who aren't as familiar with the Fuller Brush name, they will remember their Mom buying the products, and they know Mom was never wrong.  Also, you can mention 'environmental products' and find a similar, warm response." 

Besides freedom to do business his own way, on his own time, Roland says he appreciates the freedom that the Fuller name lends to his growing business. "It's good to know that there are virtually no barriers to achievement in this business except ones you place on yourself," he said. "I like knowing that if I (or the people I recruit) need to, I could easily build or expand my business with direct sales and make good money. The Fuller Brush name that has always opened doors, now opens minds to possibilities."

Work with a business offering something that you can be proud of, not a business you are embarrassed by. I quite regularly sign up new Fuller Brush dealers who remark that they've tried everything else; now they want a real company with real products. That also includes former Fuller dealers who wish they had stuck with Fuller in the first place. If there was a way to make real money doing nothing, or not contacting anybody, everybody would be doing it instead of going to work. 

Roland Rhoades, the Person - Genealogy & Politics

I also have a life outside of Fuller Brush. In fact, my Fuller Brush income is giving me the financial freedom to enjoy other pursuits and hobbies when other people have to work at a job, including an expensive collecting hobby/investment. I am also spending more time on genealogy, tracing my family tree and assisting others with common surnames, especially the names Rhoades, French, Leavitt, Reynolds, Boardway/Boudway et al, Morgrage/Morgridge, Flagg, and some other Maine families. See my Maine Families Genealogy website at www.RolandRhoades.com  My wife Cyndy is not actively involved in the business, but occasionally helps with newsletters and catching me up on phone calls. I was elected President of the National Association of Leavitt Families in 2005, and re-elected in 2007. 

I am also volunteering more time at church, actively participating in social justice causes; our church even won a nationwide award for being the most active in 2002-3 in social justice causes. I believe one must have an open mind to have an open heart.  My church believes in a Higher Power with many names and messengers, according to the various cultures of the world, and the value of every religion. Someone asked god why s/he doesn't perform major miracles anymore, and s/he replied "because every time I do, you people start a new religion and persecute all my other peoples, or tell them that they have to believe the same way that YOU think I'm telling you to believe."  I think that believing that your way is the only way, is at the root of the terror that we see in today's headlines.

Let's make America strong and secure again. The US has been spending more and earning less the past few years. We need a balanced federal budget again to create financial stability for our children's futures, proper educational support for our children, and we need to provide proper healthcare for our seniors, AND EVERY family for that matter. We are the richest country in the world. No one who knows what they are talking about can say that we don't have the money. It's just a matter of priorities. What are your priorities? The silent majority will get stepped on unless you make your educated opinions known.

I urge one and all to watch a free Fun video on America's skewed budget priorities, by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame. It tells how to find the missing BILLIONS of $$ in the federal budget.

This website owner is willing to stick his neck out and stand up for his personal opinions about "Liberals". If you care, click on my personal website.  Even though I am a liberal, I am open-minded enough to also totally agree with DICK CHENEY when he is right, and his explanation of Iraq is the first one that I have heard that makes sense. If you are a liberal (or a conservative), I hope you will be open-minded enough to listen to what he has to say. This not a conservative-liberal view; it's an American view. [updated 12/07.]  Proud to be American where people can think for themselves and disagree with Big Brother government. Thanks.
12/27/07 Update Topics: Can a Liberal support Conservative Ron Paul for President?
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