Do any of these people sound like you?
“I want to be successful selling doTERRA online, but I’ve posted on Facebook a few times and no one ever responds.”
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“I post on Facebook all the time on my personal page. Annoying? No. . . It’s totally not annoying to my followers. My mom totally doesn’t think about unfollowing me every day.”
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“I’ve ran out of family and friends and don’t know how to find new people to talk to.”
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“I just don’t even know where to start selling doTERRA online.”
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“I finally found someone interested in doTERRA and gave them my standard doTERRA website link but then never heard anything.”
If any of the above people sound like you, you need to keep reading this article. You need to seriously consider setting up your own doTERRA WordPress blog.
Please note that this is step #6 in my FREE How to Be Successful Selling doTERRA Online Training. Click here to see the complete training and make sure you’ve already completed steps 1-5.
Have you seen where the link for your free doTERRA website goes to? It just goes to a super-generic doTERRA branded website and looks pretty much the same for everyone. Sure, you can write a brief introduction on it and put your photo and there are a few videos and recipes. But is that enough to convince a person to sign up for doTERRA? It won’t convince anyone I know so that referral you worked so hard to get leaves. Never to come back.
Or Facebook. People can’t search on Google or Pinterest and find you on Facebook. You can’t organize Facebook. You have to keep posting on Facebook. You can’t create a beautiful landing page on Facebook complete with videos, graphics and customize the look and feel just how you like it.
But, what if you have your own, unique doTERRA blog? What if this blog is affordable and I teach you step-by-step how to set it up? On this awesome blog, your prospective customers read all about what essential oils are, how they would benefit them, how they’ve helped you and all sorts of other great things about essential oils. They are thinking, hey, these sound pretty good. Then, you send them to your generic doTERRA website to sign up.
Or maybe they don’t want to sign up right away, so they sign up for your mailing list or follow you on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram. And they share your content with their friends and so on.
How Will People Find My Blog?
With a standard doTERRA site, the only way someone will find you is if you send them your link directly. However, with a blog, complete strangers can easily find you. They can find you on Google, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, etc. You can reach a much wider audience than just your Facebook friends.
Freedom & Flexibility
With your own self-hosted WordPress blog you are free to do what you want. There are other options for doTERRA websites out there, besides the free one doTERRA gives you. I’ve looked at them all, but what they are all lacking is freedom. They are all wrapped in a tiny, little box and are all easy and integrated with fancy tools, but they don’t give you the freedom to do what you want with them.
With your own blog, you have the freedom to do whatever you want with it. You can change the look and feel of it anytime you want, you get to choose what email provider you want, what font, what logo, the layout, basically anything you want. There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins out there to turn your blog into pretty much anything you want.
Diversification
I highly recommend you blog about more than just doTERRA on your blog. I recommend you also pick another niche on a completely different subject that would attract the kind of readers that may eventually be attracted to doTERRA.
Why? This will help bring in more readers that may eventually sign up for doTERRA, but more importantly, be another income stream.
Example
Take me, for example. I started my blog My Natural Family as a healthy blog where I talked about health topics, mostly about doTERRA. But I knew I needed something to bring more readers to my site, so I added all sorts of healthy recipes to my blog. The recipes did really well and I was successful selling doTERRA online. Fast forward a few years. The FDA gave me three days to take all doTERRA content off my site.
If my blog was only about doTERRA, I would have been almost completely out of business. Instead, I was sad I lost one revenue stream but spent the extra time getting the recipe side of my blog even bigger. That blog eventually got so large and diverse that I split it into four different food blogs with more niche topics. Then after a year, doTERRA said I could add doTERRA back to my blog, but this time I decided to do my doTERRA blog just as a doTERRA blog, mostly targeted at current Wellness Advocates and making more money from ads than from signing people up.
What started as just a way to get a few doTERRA sign-ups has turned in to a full-time income for me.
Now that’s a story of freedom, flexibility and diversification. . .
Become A doTERRA Certified Site
Once your doTERRA blog is up and running, you can apply to get a doTERRA certified badge on your site. It comes with these privileges:
- You are able to use doTERRA trademarks in any way you would like on your site. This means you are able to include pictures of the oils, talk about our trademarked blends using their name rather than a generic name, and help people know which brand you love and trust the most.
- You can share your mydoterra link on your website which helps build your team and give them a friend to learn and grow from.
- The Certified seal on your site also gives you the ability to link to your Facebook and Instagram pages so that all of your online presence is linked and easy for your followers to find.
- Having the seal also gives you permission to post videos to YouTube or Vimeo discussing the benefits of the oils, as long as it’s compliant, of course.
- Being in the program puts you on the Weekly Drops of Wisdom email list from doTERRA with ideas to help you be able to boost your content in a compliant way.
Now that I hopefully have you wanting to start your own doTERRA blog, the next step is to figure out what your blog is going to be about and what you’re going to call your blog. Click here to read step #7 – How to Choose A Blog Name for Your Own doTERRA Blog
Technically, you aren’t supposed to use their images unless you are a certified site but I’m 99% sure as long as you are applying to be certified or do what doTERRA asks you to do then doTERRA isn’t going to do anything about it. In theory, all the blogs you have seen are certified. If you ever do see a blog that’s not certified (you can tell because they won’t have the badge on their sidebar or footer) just email doTERRA at [email protected]doterra.com and they will contact the blogger help them become certified.
Yes they will. There is more information on that here – https://bestessentialoils.com/doterra-certified-site/
Hi! Loved your post – really helpful. Can I ask why the FDA asked you to take it down? And also – where would you find a list of what compliance means? I keep finding the application but not a list!
I’m wondering, at the stage I’m at in my own blog and website, if it would make sense to apply before I have any information on about doTerra or after I have a bit. What are your thoughts?
Thank you!
I guess that technically it was doTERRA that had me take it down cause the FDA told doTERRA all their members needed to have compliant websites. So doTERRA had all their members take down all their websites for over a year while doTERRA figured out how to work out the logistics of all that. Now that they have, we can have doTERRA websites again, as long as they are compliant. Here’s all about being compliant – https://bestessentialoils.com/how-to-be-compliant-when-selling-doterra-essential-oils/ You need to have a bit of information about doTERRA first before you apply, but you don’t need all of it. Just a start so they have something to approve. Then they will scan it automatically as you add content.
Thank you for all of these wonderful ideas! I have been a doTERRA Wellness Advocate for about a year now and am ready to take it to the next level. I looked at your awesome pg on lemon oil, but I have to say I am intimidated! Your page has so much information on it. How long did it take you to set up that page? Is this the typical amount of info you put on an oil page?
That page took me months to do and my mom works for me and did a lot of it. Besides, a lot of it is copied and pasted from doTERRA. Lemon is a really popular oil so there is way more recipes and such for it than a lot of the other oils too. You can totally do whatever type of posts you want on your blog. I’m the type of person that likes to go overboard and put everything about everything on my blog, but most people would do better by limiting to a niche. I just added a few other examples from my blog to this post of much simpler type of posts you could do as examples.
Thank you so much much for your reply and of your great ideas!
You’re welcome!
Do I need BOTH a WordPress site and a SiteGround (hosting provider)?
You need both a host and a WordPress installation but SiteGround hosts your WordPress installation. WordPress by itself isn’t any good without a host like Siteground. Think of WordPress like a an app, such as Word, Excel, Chrome, etc. they aren’t any good without a computer to host them. Siteground is like your computer. Luckily, WordPress is free and you just have to pay for Siteground.
Hi Rebecca, its Vivienne again. Yes Definately is better to have a Blog. Sorry about all the questions, but how do people find my Blog. And do you put all the information on???
Right about the time you start your blog, you will also start a business Facebook page, business Instagram page and business Pinterest page. You will post your blog posts to these pages and other interesting content to help grow these pages. People will click from these social media sites to your blog. Over time people will also sign up for your mailing list and hopefully find you from Google and other search engines.
You will need to put all the information on your blog yourself, but I will show you lots of places you can get free images and content. You will do better to write original content, but you can also copy and paste some of the content from doTERRA.
You can make your blog be as big and fancy or as simple as you want. It’s all up to you. You will attract the type of readers that connect with your style.
Hi Rebecca, Thankyou for being patient with me, but I do not know how to post etc, and not even sure how to start a page.
Can you tell me step by step how to do?? And payment is $96 upfront is that right.
Thankyou
Vivienne
I think what you’re going to have to do is just wait until all my training is done and see exactly what is involved, so you can see the whole big picture and then make your decision when you totally understand what is involved and how the whole big picture fits together.
Sorry Rebecca, I do not understand how to use the internet very lwell, Posting etc etc, and at the moment having to pay 1 years membership may be a bit hard but if it works, am sure will be able to find money to start, Where does the Blog Go????? Sorry will keep reading through.
I’m not quite sure what your question is. You’re on a blog right now, for example, and then people would read about why you like doTERRA and if they like what you have to say, they would click on your link and sign up for doTERRA and be signed up under you. Does that make sense?
I do not see, why My doTERRA Page would not be just as good, I send Rebecca a Standard Introduction letter to people that I chat with who want to look at the Oils, has Links and is quite good, then obviously I follow Up. Question I have 435 acquaintances on Facebook, how do I get them to look at my doTERRA Site. Still do not understand Why A Blog is any much better. You still have to get the people to Look at it? How do you do that????
Thanks Vivienne
First of all, with a standard doTERRA site, the only way someone will find you is if you send them your link directly. However, with a blog, complete strangers can easily find you. They can find you on Google, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, etc. You can reach a much wider audience than just your Facebook friends. After all, you found me and you aren’t my personal friend, right?
Then let’s compare just one page from your standard doTERRA website to mine. Here’s the standard doTERRA website for lemon – https://www.mydoterra.com/ShoppingCart/index.cfm?retail=1&GoItem=30120001&Country=USA&LNG=en_dot&OwnerID=183977
It has a little bit of information about it and a link to buy it at retail cost. That’s it.
Compare that to my blog page for lemon –
https://bestessentialoils.com/doterra-lemon-essential-oil-uses/
Can you see the huge difference?
My blog has a link to buy it, an option to upgrade and sign up instead, links to share on social media, graphics to share on social media, way more compliant product description, usage directions, links to other products I talk about, tons of recipes, videos, blends and graphics. All of these I can share on social media on my business pages, others can share on social media or people can find me on Google because of them.
Then if the person is interested in learning more, they can email me, sign up for my mailing list or sign up.
Does that help you see why it’s so much better than the standard doTERRA page?