new news

OK.  Exfuze has again joined the ranks of companies that charge for an app.  And the app is a disappointment too.  I tried it during it’s “free” stage and couldn’t find a reason to ever use it.  Especially if they charge for it!  “go Exfuze” is a dismal failure.

On to Good News.

The new Zilla container is a VAST improvement.  It holds less, so instead of getting 4 bottles, you get 5 better bottles.  Opening a new container is much, much easier.  Delivering a shot into your water is much easier.  And it is still the best tasting energy drink.  period.

The new SUMMA container has a better delivery system too.  The taste is closer to fresh brewed coffee.  It makes great “iced” coffee.  Add a little liquid French creamer and you’re good to go.

After 7 years, PRO is still my health supplement of choice.  And it’s anti-inflammatory properties are still working for me!!

Go eXfuze

Well.  It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged here.  There are a couple of reasons for this.  The main distraction is that eXfuze has gotten on the “everyone can be seduced to join any company that offers to “buy” them a Mercedes”.  Number 1 – That disappointedly moves eXfuze to join every other Network Hype company.  Number 2 – I don’t like Merc3edes autos.  I’ve had one, My brother has had a few and I even had the best that they ever made. 450 SL, in my care for awhile and I wouldn’t buy one ever.  They are uncomfortable for anyone over 6 feet tall, the seats are harder than a church pew and the dash looks like a 1949 Dodge pickup; with wood.  If I wanted a Mercedes, I would own one;  and I don’t.

However, that doesn’t change the fact that they still produce the only nutritional product that I would use even If I had to import it!

But…..  They have just released a new Android tool that now makes promoting eXfuze really easy.  It is named “go exfuze” and can be found in the Android and Apple market.  You really need to try it out.  Oh.. You need to sign in using your ID NUMBER, not the name or nickname that you may use on your exfuze back office.  No one tells you that, it will just refuse to sign you in……

With this new ap, you can email, text and follow your leads.  You can retrieve the names from your phone/tablet contact list to do so.  If you are in my down line, expect a text from me showing you what I can send automatically.  More on the success of this later.

Summa Coffee by eXfuze

I know, I should have blogged about Summa before now.  However, I wanted to write about it with some experience and not just a “taste test” review.

First I admit that I am Dutch by heritage.  That means that my blood runs to coffee and my thoughts run to sarcasm.  Through exposure, my bride succumbed to the coffee affinity but not, thank God, to the sarcasm.  But by this, I am stating that we drink a lot of dark roast coffee.  A short day for me would be a pot of french roast.  A short day for Eloise would be any day without a extra shot of espresso in whatever….

Summa will not take the place of a cup of dark roast coffee.  It is similar to a medium roast.  So, does this mean that we don’t drink Summa?  Not even close.  If I have a pot of dark roast on, Eloise uses Summa for that extra shot.  If we want just a cup of coffee without making a whole pot, you can put enough (hold down for 1 one thousand 2 one thousand) into a cup of hot water to suffice.  It tastes like brewed coffee, not “freeze dried instant”.

I like coffee hot and cold.  I have figured out my summer drink.  I take a 12+ ounce glass, fill it up 1/3rd with crushed ice.  Then pour in just enough cold water to fill the spaces in the ice, no more,  Put in 4 or 5 shots of Summa (to taste) (I count - 1 one thousand to 4 one thousand) and then pour in liquid french vanilla creamer to taste.  It is similar to an Iced vanilla late from a coffee store.  Only cheaper and made wherever you are!

New product anticipation

We have the announcement of a new product being available next month after it’s launch at the February convention.

WE are now in the coffee business.  It will be a healthy coffee with nutritional extracts (without the nutrition bad after-taste).  If my information is correct, it will be a 3 oz. glass bottled espresso.  It will NOT be freeze dried coffee.  It will be brewed and pressed.  The nutritional components will be encapsulated in the same way that our great tasting nutritional and energy drinks are.  Being that it is not freeze dried, but in liquid state, it will dilute in cold water as well as hot water.  Therefore, you can make cold, iced and/or “frozen” coffee drinks as well with no residue on the cup!  If you want an espresso, just pour a small amount in an espresso cup and you're there.  If you want a regular cup of coffee, just put the espresso amount (1 oz.) into a cup and add Hot or cold water!  Sounds GREAT!  Our family drinks coffee all day.  I  personally drink 10-20 cups per day.  Not for the caffeine but for the taste.  Can’t wait to sample this new product.  We may have to retire our coffee grinder.?.  I will write an update on this product after a taste test.

changes afoot

There have been changes made to the compensation plan.  These changes have ADDED money to your bank, not decreased from it.  The original comp plan still stands.  These starter packs and autoship paks are in addition to the existing offerings.

Go to your back office and read more about these new advantages.

Change to FOCUS

There is a change being made to our FOCUS product.  We are now starting to get the same product that the Asian market has always received.  Yes, I didn’t know that there product was different either.  The main ingredient that is different is that FOCUS now has Dokudami (or dokudame).  If you search for Dokudami on the web, you can find many articles about this plant.  http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Medicinal-Herb-Called-Dokudami-Has-Many-Health-Benefits&id=3612783 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokudami , http://dokudami.us/index.html & http://dokudami.us/use-of-dokudami.html are a small sampling of such.  Read up on this plant.  This is the reason that the Asians only purchase FOCUS.  From what I was told, it has been in their product since day 1.  Dokudami and Periwinkle are why they get so excited about this product.

I think that eXfuze hasn’t announced the change because the large bottles are still, as of Sept 24, 2013; still the old formula.  I received the travel FOCUS 3 months ago in glass bottles instead of the plastic bottles.  That was the change for them.  When I inquired, I was told that they will change the large bottles when the existing production runs out.  So for now, I’m only ordering the travel size.  Another note.  The new glass travel bottles contain 3.1 oz.  This means that a travel pak of 10 bottles has 31 ounces of FOCUS.  The large glass bottle has 25 ounces.  So the travel size costs a distributer $1.87 per ounce.  The large bottle costs $2.2 per ounce.   Better and cheaper too!

Incredible Free Products

I was on the Saturday call with Eddie Freeman this morning.  He mentioned that the “get 4 and pay no more” promotion has been modified to accept YOUR personal autoship preference!!  So I went on to check it out.  All of the packages that had been offered as the “get 4 and pay no more” weren’t what I wanted/needed before, so I had stopped mine.

Sure enough, the new program is great!  I selected 1 bottle of PRO, 1 bottle of Focus and a box of ZILLA.  This is perfect.  I now have a package that my downline will be willing to order AND it cut the cost to $125.00 plus shipping.  This is affordable for everyone.  These are the products and the amount that should be a minimum for everyone.  If my 4 customers/distributers then order this same order or more, , mine is free.

If you want or need more of any product, you can add it as an additional autoship or, as I do, order additional products as needed every 2 months or so.  This is how I order the ShapeWay products.  That way my autoship qualifies me at the $100.00 level, so I can collect a weekly check without automatically ordering too much of anything.  I no longer have to modify my autoship to keep from purchasing too much of any one product.

Eddie talked about how the new Focus was much better than the original.  I will research this and blog more on it later.  Eddie toped off his call with the announcement that the compensation plan is being improved in the distributers favor.  This information will be released within a few weeks.

August Update

It has been too long since I posted here.  I have posted on the other blogs, but have neglected this one.  Airless is getting busier and we have had a lot of family stuff going on.  I felt the need to report on my weekend though.

One of the things that happened recently is that I fired our gardener.   So it was up to me to fix the entire yard, front and back.  More on that at the Sacramento Scribbler; http://hartsuiker.wordpress.com/.  The brick planter had been torn up while removing a huge tree in the front corner of our yard.  I like to work in the yard, but since the accident, it has torn up my back to do so.  I have done very little in the yard at the Sacramento house. 

So. last Saturday, I got out the sledge hammer, hand maul, shovels, branch cutters and reciprocating saw.  There was 8-10 feet of brick 2 layers deep, and the concrete foundation was broke up in 3 pieces.  All were laying, as tossed aside, in the planter.  I broke the concrete off of the bricks and broke most of the bricks apart.  I dug out the first half of the trench, cut roots, etc.  I then jigsaw puzzled the bricks back into place.  In doing so, I spent around 4 hours on my knees, bent over, hammering, sawing roots and placing the bricks.  I had prepared by drinking 4 ounces of PRO and was drinking ZILLA water continuously while working.  At about 4 hours, my knees gave out.  I was wearing shorts for the heat and my knees paid the price.  I was about half done with the bricks and the trench.  I expected to be crippled up on Sunday from the work done on Saturday.  When I felt in good shape on Sunday, I decided to work again that day, expecting to be done for the week.  On Sunday, after church, the girls offered to help.  Amanda was a huge help with the heavy work and in cutting and chopping more roots.  Eloise Renee and Anna-Gail picked up concrete pieces and helped put the dirt back up against the front of the planter.  Once again, we started with PRO and Amanda brought out a pitcher of water heavily laced with ZILLA 2.0.  We practically bathed in it.  Within 3 hours or so all of the bricks were in place.  There is still work to be done, but the difficult physical work is done.

Yesterday, Monday, I got up at 6am and worked all day at Airless and completely forget that I was expecting to be down for a few days!  This is a great testament to eXfuze!!  My recuperation period is as short as before the accident.  I won’t profess to be 100% pain free, however I am still 100% med free!!

I am convinced that if you are aware of eXfuze and aren’t drinking your ounce per day; You are cheating yourself.

ShapeWay change

There is now an improved ShapeWay.  When the taste was improved and the protein was increased, the calories went up.  The improvement in taste was well worth the small increase.

However, this has now been corrected.  The calories are back down to 150 per meal.  The fat content has been reduced to 35 calories and the carbs reduced to 10 grams.  The B12 has been increased as well as the pre-biotics and pro-biotics.

There is still NO soy, sucralose, aspartame, corn syrup anything artificial and the cost is still the same!!

Mind the HEAT !!

With temperatures soaring over 100 degrees, you really need to stay hydrated.  I have found that drinking ZILLA 2.0 helps me with this.  I really don’t care to drink plain water, bottled or tap.  So I used to always drink iced tea or coffee.  I’m told that they, like most sugared and/or carbonated drinks, DE-hydrate you !!  So. Back to ZILLA.  I put more than needed into my water because I really like the taste.  I get about 20 servings instead of the recommended 30 out of a bottle of ZILLA.  But even at what I retail it for, that costs about 80 cents per serving.  The ZILLA itself seems to encourage drinking more water.  Instead of sipping off of a bottle, I drink it fairly quickly.  This results in my drinking 4 or 5 bottles of water in the shop during working hours and usually 1 or 2 full glasses at home.  At distributer cost, this runs about $3 or $4 bucks per day.

Stay out of the direct sun.  Use sun block and wear a hat when in the direct sun.  Stay hydrated with ZILLA.

Taking for Granted

It’s funny how we just accept certain things over time.  I took my mobility and athleticism for granted until the accident in 1986.  Then, for 20+ years, I accepted that I would always walk in pain and with a cane.  Then Larry brought me eXfuze.  Now, after 3 years, I just realized how I’m walking 2-4 miles every day without a cane.  So.  I thought that I would post a picture that Ellie Rae took of us on 1 of our 5 mile walks.

Christmas is almost here!

Can you believe it? It's almost Christmas! We just celebrated Adam's birthday and I just realized I only have the rest of this week until the shop closes down for the year. So basically, it's 3 days until Christmas! December is a fast month. We just come off of Eloise's birthday hit Adam's birthday then Christmas then my birthday then New Years. It's as busy as that last run on sentence. And Christmas is of course, 2 to 3 days long.
I've got to admit it though, I love it!
have a very Merry Christmas and then an absolutely great New Year

Merry Christmas

I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This year has been an odd 1, what with the staggering economy and an election year. The last quarter of this year looks better then the previous 3 or 4 years.
I hope to see each and everyone of you at the exfuze convention in February. You will be surprised at how your business will grow and flourish if you attend. See you in Las Vegas.

I have had a few conversations recently with a few of my distributors. They are having problems getting new distributors signed up.
As for the season. Winter is always a difficult time to get new distributors. There are a few other things that I speak to them all about, but the most important comes under the do as I say not do as I do rule. None of these distributors are on autoship themselves. I have a hard time understanding how someone expects to sell someone else on a product that they aren't using themselves. I am asked quite often how I manage to to sell so much exfuze. My answer is always the same. I drink the product on a daily basis. I show and can list benefits from drinking the product. I share this information with anyone who asks. I personally would never purchased a nutritional product from the person who didn't use the product themselves.

ZILLA 2.0

ZILLA 2.0 is here.  ZILLA now comes in a 3 ounce bottle with a “squeeze” top dispenser.  It is now HIGHLY concentrated and you only need 1/2 teaspoon in 8-12 ounces of water.  This gets you 30 ZILLA servings out of each squeeze bottle.  Even at retail, this is only 50 cents per serving!  The taste hasn’t changed a great deal, but I like it even better.

eXfuze Retail Site

eXfuze Corp exceeded their projections and now have our retail and challenge sites up and running.  You can check them out at www.exfuzechallenge.com/hartsuiker and  www.exfuzenow.com/hartsuiker  . 

There are now 4 ways for people to purchase ZILLA and our nutritional Seven+ line;  Face to Face retail, Online retail, Online Challenge customer (autoship) and as a Promoter/Distributer.  These should cover every possible circumstance.

For distributers, if you would like further instructions or information on these, visit your back office and check out printed materials and audio/video tutorials.

BAK

Ha.  Back at keys!  After about 6 or 7 months.  It has been a complicated summer.  And because of circumstances, business slowed.  It’s that blasted “you reap what you sow” stuff.

OK back on track.  The new ZILLA 2.0 is going to be a huge seller.  The cost has gone from just over $1.00 per serving to 33 cents!!  The new “challenge” paks are really geared to provide a wide range of product to everyone.  The new “Get 4 and yours is Free” will provide everyone, even customers, to have free product.  And the new Promotion paks!!  Travel PRO, travel FOCUS, ZILLA and sample paks of ShapeWay!!  This is Great!

I still haven’t gotten a handle on how these promotions all work yet (did I say that this summer was a complete distraction?), but I do have Miriam's cell number…..

2012 and it’s promise

The beginning of the new year.  Wow. 2011 went fast.  The introduction of ShapeWay, our new weight management product line has quickened the speed of growth for eXfuze.  My downline has almost doubled since it’s introduction.  And this happened during the winter, our slowest season.

I haven’t been as diligent in keeping to the ShapeWay regimen, however it is still doing it’s job.  Last year, because of the holiday feasting, I weighed in at around 210-212.  This year, I’m holding at 193.  I expect, now that the eating season is behind us, that I will drop below the daunting 190 to my desired 185.

I have missed drinking my ShapeWay shake.  I really like the taste of the “Keith”.  It is also really easy to fix, 1 of my favored requirements.  Eloise gave to me as a gift, a coffee mug that expresses my sentiment succinctly; “I can cook, I just don’t”.  Meal preparation has always seemed like more trouble than it’s worth.  I have no patience for standing over a stove waiting for something to cook.  My ShapeWay favorites lean that way too.

Additional Recipes

In opening this today, I realized that I have neglected to post the additional flavors that we have.  So here is that post

11/26/2010

We spent The holidays in Arizona.  We had a ShapeWay tasting and came away with 2 new flavors.  These were acquired by the tried and true “hit and miss” method…

17'.  the “Kat”  8: 8 oz Non-Fat Milk, 1 scoop S/W, 1 tablespoon unsweetened chocolate, 1 tablespoon peanut butter, 1.5oz ZILLA.

18. the “Larry” 8: 8 oz NF Milk, 1 scoop S/W, 1/2 banana, 1 tablespoon unsweetened chocolate, 1.5 oz ZILLA.

ShapeWay results

I started using ShapeWay 3 weeks ago.  At 6’2”, I hovered between 199 and 204 pounds.  I was not considered overweight except that I am small boned and was carrying 10 or 15 pounds too much around my waist.  I had hit an all time high last year at 211 and was determined not to ever go over 205 again.

I started ShapeWay at 202 pounds.  I have substituted 1 ShapeWay for 1 meal, averaging 5 days a week.  I started out taking 2 Metabolic Energizer capsules in the morning and 1 in the evening the first week.  From the second week on, I have taken 1 capsule each morning and 1 each evening.  I weighed in on the 3rd week, at 192.5 pounds.  In combining the measurements of neck, chest, ribcage, waist and hips, I have lost just over 6 inches.  The first inches to go were the “love handles”, thank you ShapeWay.  With this a “90 day Challenge”,  I can see where I will easily be below my target weight of 185.

If you want to lose 5-50 pounds or more, take a serious look at our ShapeWay product line.  By replacing a meal with the ShapeWay drink, you will save money at the same time!