Post by LDS Anarchist on May 9, 2004 3:31:52 GMT -5
A very simple and effective way of promoting the stewardships of the United Effort would be to equip the individual members of the Effort with the products or services of the stewardships and with business cards of the other stewardships and then in going about their daily lives, telling other people of the things that have helped them.
For example: Let's say that Marjorie has a Sonic Bloom distributorship. The United Effort bought this distributorship and put it under Marjorie's name. It also purchased business cards for Margorie's stewardship and distributed them to the entire membership. Now, the individual members of the Effort purchase home residential garden systems from Margorie at her cost. There is no profit generated in these transactions. However, as the members apply the technology, they see the results: more produce, bigger plants, healthier plants, etc., and they talk to people, naturally, about the results they are witnessing. Those to whom they talk find the results fascinating. The members pass on Marjorie's business cards to them. Marjorie is contacted by these referrals and she makes retail sales. The surplus of these retail sales goes into the general fund and everyone benefits.
There is a big difference between telling someone you've experienced amazing plant growth with a new system that you, personally, are selling and telling them that you've experienced amazing plant growth with a new system that you bought from someone else. As soon as you mention that you are selling the thing you are excited about, your testimony is suspect. But word-of-mouth advertising is extremely effective. The mere fact that you are not trying to sell something to a person gives your testimony weight.
By applying this three step process (purchasing and assigning stewardships, creating business cards and handing them out to all members, and equipping the individual members with the products or services of the various stewardships) a United Effort will prosper fairly rapidly and its general fund will grow in abundance, allowing other, higher-costing stewardships to be able to be created.
For example: Let's say that Marjorie has a Sonic Bloom distributorship. The United Effort bought this distributorship and put it under Marjorie's name. It also purchased business cards for Margorie's stewardship and distributed them to the entire membership. Now, the individual members of the Effort purchase home residential garden systems from Margorie at her cost. There is no profit generated in these transactions. However, as the members apply the technology, they see the results: more produce, bigger plants, healthier plants, etc., and they talk to people, naturally, about the results they are witnessing. Those to whom they talk find the results fascinating. The members pass on Marjorie's business cards to them. Marjorie is contacted by these referrals and she makes retail sales. The surplus of these retail sales goes into the general fund and everyone benefits.
There is a big difference between telling someone you've experienced amazing plant growth with a new system that you, personally, are selling and telling them that you've experienced amazing plant growth with a new system that you bought from someone else. As soon as you mention that you are selling the thing you are excited about, your testimony is suspect. But word-of-mouth advertising is extremely effective. The mere fact that you are not trying to sell something to a person gives your testimony weight.
By applying this three step process (purchasing and assigning stewardships, creating business cards and handing them out to all members, and equipping the individual members with the products or services of the various stewardships) a United Effort will prosper fairly rapidly and its general fund will grow in abundance, allowing other, higher-costing stewardships to be able to be created.