Scent-Sations Inc. has added a new packaging system called Geami System. This environmentally friendly in-the-box protective packaging is a revolutionary patented packaging system based on an ingeniously simple idea.

Geami uses recycled paper that is die cut with thousands of slits that expand into hexagonal cells to form a 3-dimensional wrapping and cushioning material. This replaces other non environmentally friendly packaging materials such as plastic air filled wrap or foam peanuts.

Geami can be reused or can be recycled with either your newspapers or old corrugated boxes. An Interpack system was also installed to help with creating and taping boxes.

Hello All!
My name is Neil, I live in Richmond, Va. I am currently employed with a contractor for the Federal Reserve Bank. I work on their currency sorters. The one time in my life I would love to bring my work home with me and can't get past the guards.. lol.

My sponsor is Lucille Boling. I met Cille online about two years ago when I was with another network marketing company. We both sort of pitched to each other. She won, I bought some candles.

When I started using them I loved them immediately. So, I ordered some more. My sister, who hasn't been able to burn a paraffin candle for years due to breathing problems, tried a couple of my votives. She burned them and was very excited that Mia Bella Candles had no negative effect on her breathing.  This truly sold me on the product. However, because I had such a bad experience with the network marketing company I was in, I wasn't so gung ho to jump right into another one. Cille and I developed a really great friendship and I have been watching her
progress in building this business. Circumstances changed in my life and I thought, I'm ready to take a serious look at this Mia Bella biz. I started looking the opportunity over really good. It just made scents, nearly everyone loves candles. So, she finally got me signed up and here I am, ready to roll up the sleeves and start building. Well, I guess I have said enough about myself, as they say in the mountain climbing game, I will see you at the top!!

God Bless,
Neil Tucker

Bob & I joined Scent-Sations under Kelly Wissink. During the four months we have been distributors we have sold to friends, finished 2 fundraisers, and have our brochures and a votive sample at numerous doctor's waiting rooms.

While presenting the idea of a fundraiser to the Director of Activities at a Healthcare Facility, she told be about a 2 day convention, which we signed up for as vendors. Besides the retail sales we did there, we also booked 2 candle parties and another fundraiser.

The attached picture is a promotion my Credit Union is doing called Market Wednesdays. They offer free lunch, music and shopping for their employees as well as the general public. We are booked there the first Wednesday of every month through December. They love our candles! This past week I booked another candle party along with the retail sales.

I told Kelly that my new goal is to be a Diamond Distributor by the time I attend the Fall Fling. So far I have signed up 2 distributors with a third one ready to sign up after she watched the presentation CD. My first distributor I met at a craft show, she had the table across from me, and watched the crowd around my table all day long, I gave her a sample votive, she called and ordered a jar the next day and by the end of the week I got an email telling me I had a distributor sign up. This was even before I could approach her with the idea.  My second sign up came from an affiliated fuel lead, the same with the third one that I am communicating with at this time.

These past four months have been a hectic whirlwind of fun!

Thank you,
Bob & Karen Singer

I just got this email from a friend and it reminded me of another story that is very similar. At my first home party I gave all the guests a votive of their choice as a thank you for attending. My sister called me the next day and said she forgot and left her votive in the car until she got back in to it the following morning. She called because she just had to tell me how wonderful her car smelled and how impressed she was from one single blueberry votive. So perhaps if you have run out of Scent-Sations air fresheners then the votive or cinnamon bella buns are a good backup:)

Carrie Gauthier

Subject: New Use for Cinnamon Bun Candles
Hi Carrie,

How are you? I hope all is well. I just wanted to take a quick second to let you know I have discovered a new use for my cinnamon bun candles. Over the weekend I picked up a friend who was very upset. We were driving around looking for her car - long story short, sleazy boyfriend borrowed her car and never came back it was already the second day - anyway, she had some ideas where he might have been so we were driving around and she asked me if she could smoke in my car. I quit smoking 10 years ago, and the smell of smoke which I once craved, now makes me ill. But . . . . . she was so upset, how could I say no, so I let her. She opened the window, but after she was gone, the car still smelled like smoke. When I got home, since I didn't have an air freshener or anything - I don't use them, my car still smells new even after 3 years. So I put one of the cinnamon buns in the car over night and now the car smells wonderful! As a matter of fact, when I was driving yesterday the smell of cinnamon buns was making me hungry!

Just wanted to tell you how versatile the candles really are LOL!

Hugs,
Paula

P.S. She got her car back yesterday and the boyfriend is history!

Back in October 2004 when I signed up with Scent-Sations, Inc., I had no idea that I was signing up my whole family. My children have embraced this business as if it were their own. My son is counting down the days until he can sign up to become a distributor himself. He’s 8 years old!

My children ARE my business partners and help me with all aspects of this business. They put labels on all the products. They alphabetize the scents. My daughters hand out pens and drawing slips at my parties and collect them for me. But, my son has taken selling candles to a whole new level!

One Saturday afternoon, my son asked me if he could sell candles. He asks me that a lot so I didn’t think much of it and told him that we didn’t have a party and that I didn’t have plans to sell any that day. He was persistent and said that he wanted to set up a candle stand. I didn’t understand… “You know, Mom, like a lemonade stand.”

He took out a little table and some chairs and recruited his sisters to hand out my business cards and hold a sign. He chose two dozen assorted votives and set up on the sidewalk in front of our house. Did he just sit there waiting for people to come to him? No way!! He waved to cars passing by and stopped people as they walked by.* He would ask them to smell his favorite candles and his little sister would hand them a business card. He sold quite a few candles that day and planted lots of seeds.
*(Note: adult supervision required!)

What a wonderful opportunity we have that even an 8 year old can understand it. Include your children in your businesses and YOU might even learn something from them like I did from my son and his Candle Stand.

Kari Andersen
Diamond Distributor

We had been thinking and looking for a way to change jobs and start a new business venture. We looked at Scent-Sations, we joined, got our first Candle of the Month, checked out our web site and started our business. We started telling people about our new venture right away. We started calling and listening to weekly training sessions. And before we knew it [SNIFF AND TELL] we became a part of the Scent-Sations, Inc. *C.C.C. Group.

We attended Spring Fling 2005 and met owners, company employees and representatives in the business. We visited the Candle Factory site and saw where the back room meets the front room {they both looked the same they just wore different hats}. We gathered a few customers and sponsored a few other new business associates to do the same things we were taught to do and are doing. And we started getting checks from Scent-Sations, Inc. (and cashed them).

We’ve learned a whole new language that has helped us become better at what a Scent-Sation, Inc / Mia Bella Independent Representative can do to make money. We made a list of family and friends we wanted as customers and possible business partners. Without pre-qualifying them we were trained;

• Some will, some won’t, so what, move on.
• Some you will find to be B.B.B. (Busy Being Broke)
• Some will be B.I.D. (Broke In Denial) and
• Some will be C.B.B. (Comfortable Being Broke)
  (Obviously these people do not make good business partners so don’t let them burst your bubble or spit in your chili).
• Remember the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
• Being C.C.C. (Coach able, Consistent and Committed), makes for better results in your business.
• When asked - What’s up? We reply - Making Money! What’s up with you? [Gen X’s language]
• When asked – How much money are you making? We reply – You need to be asking me how much money can I make?
• We like it when the Business Presentation speaker asks a room of people – Do you know anyone that likes to burn scented candles? [99.99% answer YES] [The other .01% have a (DA!) look on their face] How many did it more than once? Who’s going to do it tomorrow? Don’t you want to be in the middle of that kind of opportunity?
• (Ice Breaker Questions) passed on to us by one of Scent-Sations Inc. finest – What do you do? – [A] -What would you like to be doing? – [A] - If we could show you a way to achieve your American Dream would you give us a chance to show you how?
  

I’ve been taught there are 3 kinds of people – People that make things happen, people that watch things happen and people that just wonder what’s happening. I have met all three kinds working my Scent-Sations, Inc. business; some have been all 3 in the same day. All are successful Independent Representatives working their Mia Bella business in ways that are comfortable and rewarding to them and their families. Unlike so many other MLM businesses that train, YOU MUST GET OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

I can’t assure you of what will happen should you join our team of Mia Bella Representatives but I can assure you of what will happen should you decide not to give Mia Bella a try! We all know that to be a winner one must have a ticket to play—[so to speak] – no tickeeeeee no laundry // kaaaapich.

It is truly the opportunity and A CANDLE LOVER'S DREAM BUSINESS for us all.
*Being C.C.C. {Coach able, Consistent and Committed}
Vic & Carrol Lee Dun - Ohio

Lt. David Darby, is currently serving our country in Iraq, near Tuz with the 278th-TN National Guard. He has a wife and four children-age 8 and under, who miss him and love him very much back home in Columbia. He was called to duty the week I found out we were expecting our fourth child. He has yet to hold his now 4 month old baby girl. For all who read this-please pray for God's protection and the safe return of each one of our soldiers.

Bill and Darlene Mitchell
Diamond Distributors

I’m doing these as table favors for over 200 wedding guests and thought others might enjoy this easy and very elegant idea.  I purchased the embroidered organza 4”x6” bags through Papermart.com for $.84 each (sold in quantities of 24 per package) and the frosted votive holders from Cudge.net for $.50 each (sold in quantities of 72 per case). For this wedding we are using White Chocolate and Coffee. Papermart has a huge variety of colors and types of bags, so it’s easy to match color of the bag and candle with the wedding color theme.
These would also make nice little thank you gifts for any occasion. The total cost is under $2.50 and I sell these for $5.00 each.

Becca Mutz, Arizona
Diamond Distributor

It has been a blessing since day one. The people I have met through selling and just introducing people to the candles is so much fun! This is such a fun company, a great candle, awesome support!

I have been a sales rep for several different companies, but the support we have with Scent-Sations is very rare. The online conference calls, the numerous phone conference calls, and the online yahoo groups we have keep you motivated and fresh with new ideas. I have fun meeting different distributors and sharing ideas with them.

I feel like we have the best candles out there. I have purchased other “clean burning” candles just to compare with ours, but Mia Bella’s won ..hands down. I met another girl where I live and we met for lunch to compare the candles she makes, but again the scent of our candles were so much superior than hers.

Every night when my husband goes to bed before I do, he leaves a candle burning so I can find my way back to our room.

Last night when i got home with my 14 year old he went in to take his shower. He came in the living room with a pink candle (rose scented) and said "faulty candle, faulty candle!" he thought it was one of our candles..it was burning down the middle. I smelled it and said this is not one of our candles...it is paraffin wax!!! It was so funny...how he has gotten used to the way Mia Bella’s candles burn and THOUGHT he had found a bad candle!

I have a friend that burns mia bella candles....she has a air filter in her house...when she burns our candles she only changes the filter every 3 weeks, but she has a few paraffin wax candles she had had before...when she burns the paraffin wax candles, the buzzer goes off on her air filter and she has to change it every 3 days...

I love making gift baskets using our candles..I do a bath time, kitchen and garden theme baskets. The bath time baskets include a jar candle, a fancy washcloth matching the color of the candle, small box of matches, a bella bar, and some tissue paper. The kitchen theme is a apple jar candle, 3 wooden spoons,kitchen towel hung over the side (found one with a apple on it)some measuring spoons and a hershey candy bar (what woman doesn't like chocolate).
The garden theme had a jar candle, some color coordinating garden gloves, a bird house, a knee pad for gardening, some bug spray, a birdhouse, and a plastic flower pot with color coordinating flower seeds...this business can be so much fun!

I also took a glass candlestick and glued a votive cup on the top of it and added some beaded ribbon on the bottom of the votive. Some have said it looks like a old oil lamp..be sure to get glass to glass adhesive..the glue gun doesn't work as well. You can get the candlestick fairly inexpensive at discount stores.

My advice to anyone is to make it fun!!! People want to have fun and to be with fun people!!! Life is too serious, so have fun and make money at the same time! We have a unique product so all we have to do is share the scents... scentsations that is!

Elaine Mieth

Well Alyssa knew she was in trouble, and right away decided to earn money to pay the deductible which was $100.00. Alyssa asked if she could sell my candles to pay for the windshield, I thought it would be a good experience for her so I said yes and guess what? Not only did she pay for the deductible, but made $30.00 extra dollars for herself to spend, just going door to door telling her story in the neighborhood. To top it off one of our neighbors is interested in becoming a distributor herself, and it fired up both of my seventeen year old sons.

They each started taking candles to school and selling them there, at which the teachers loved them and are wanting to do fundraisers next fall for the schools!

Who knew “grandma's windshield” would turn out to be such an “eye opening money maker!!!” I can only imagine if we put our minds to it as a family what we could do. Also this is great that as a family we do Mia Bella's candles together it makes it fun. I just want to say THANKS and May GOD BLESS EVERYONE IN MIA BELLA CANDLES.

Thelma Miller

My daughter, Mandy came home from school last week informing me that our candles were the talk of the class room.

Her teacher has been boycotting the local candle makers since they almost destroyed her wedding. At Christmas we gave her a Lavender candle, which she fell in love with and is now a lifetime customer. Candles came up in classroom conversation and the teacher ended up giving a free commercial all about how great our candles were to the entire classroom!!!

Next thing I know the kids were asking Mandy for brochures. One young boy in the class got together with his sisters and decided to purchase the Mystic Melon Bella Bar for his grandmother.

The kids had surprised her with it that afternoon. Needless to say, they all enjoyed the bar a great deal. That nite she caught her grandson taking off with it and ended up chasing him around the house informing him that if he didn't give it back she was going to ground him for two weeks. He stopped, turned around and smiled at her and said,"

Grandma, this Mystic Melon is worth getting grounded for; But, I will give it back because I love you so."

Sandy

A little more than a year ago, I was looking online for ways to make a little extra money. It was late when I came across an ad on a site saying something about “Soy/Veg Candles”. Well, this was right up my alley.

A few months before, I had very high cholesterol and my doctor put me on a VERY strict diet. Well, it was during this time that I started looking at different things out there that would actually help lower cholesterol naturally. I found out that soy and soy products that could help do this. So, much to my family’s dismay I became a soy junkie (and still am.). So, bring in the soy milk, soy cheese, soy burgers, cereal with soy protein and soy candles?

I couldn’t help myself. While I was on Deb Warren’s sites, I was thinking how great this could be. How easy it would be to “make a little extra money”. We emailed back and forth a short time, but before I even received her samples in the mail, I had already signed up! I remember thinking – “What the heck? If they don’t sell, I’ll burn them and have great gifts to give.” Little did I know the gem that was about to be delivered to my door.

Paul, my husband, wasn’t quite as excited as I was. He figured that “She’ll do her thing for a little while and move on.” That’s the way I was. Trying out all types of things, moving from this to that because boredom would set in, and so on. Ask anyone who really knows me; they will tell you that they felt shock the day I graduated with my Elementary Education degree! Because the running joke was – “What’s Patti going to do next?”

I was so excited when my sample case arrived. I remember opening the box so fast and pulling each one out to smell and then shoving them up Paul’s nose. Before Scent-Sations, I was strictly a “spice person” – not to be confused with “spice girl”. So, the Cinnamon Raisin Bun jar was the first we tried. We both thought it smelled great. Paul even told me “business or not, these will be the only candles we’ll ever burn again”.

But here was the “I’m in the right business” clincher….we burned the candle on a Friday evening. That night I went with my daughter to her school for a field trip. We were actually spending the night there (and sleeping on the gym floor!). So, after a night of sweet slumber, about 7 in the morning, we walked into our house. The scent of the Cinnamon Raisin Bun jar was so strong as soon as I opened the door, that I thought Paul had already woke up and lit it. But he was still asleep! And we also live in a quad-level house. The family room in which we burned that candle was below our main level. I was impressed.

Paul and I drove to Springfield, MO last summer for the “mini-convention” there. One thing we were so pleasantly surprised about was the friendliness of everyone. Susie and Randy Tonniges came up and introduced themselves right away and so did John and Lise MacFadden. We learned a lot that weekend from Bob Schmitz and the other presenters and drove the 3 ½ hours home with our minds buzzing with ideas. So, now Paul was getting excited. It was around that time that he started taking products in to work…and selling all of them!

We did a bunch of shows during the fall and winter. I did some home parties that turned out to be a great profit for us. It was a lot of fun for us to show people something new and watch there eyes either light up in amazement or close with a blissful look on their faces.

The Fall Fling was the “we can see doing this for a LONG time” clincher. Nothing had prepared us for what was going to happen, how we were going to feel, and the special people we would meet. Being able to talk personally with Bobby and Charlie was so awesome. Spending time talking with Lynn was terrific. Being able to pick Carmen’s brain was just beyond words. We felt like we belonged; like one of the gang. It really solidified our commitment to the company.

It seems like after the fling, I started hearing more and more about vision and goals. This was rather new to me; something that I would usually just blow off figuring I’d never make it to where I wanted anyway. We had recruited a few people into our team (Hi, Mom!), but nothing spectacular. But with all the talk about goal setting, having a vision, building a team…it was starting to sink in. With Scent-Sations I can do this!

Over the past few months, we’ve welcomed a few more people to our team, with many more to join thanks to that fantastic CD! I’m very clear on my “WHY” in this business now. My “WHY” is my husband and best friend, Paul. He is definitely my main support system. I want him home with us and be able to work side-by-side with him. And once I really figured it out, it’s like a light bulb went off. I’m very proactive and very much able to step out of my comfort zone now. Whereas, even 3 weeks ago, I couldn’t do what I’m doing.

Over the weekend, Paul bought me this “European Luxury Home Plans” book. In it you will find our Dream Home. My original plan to “make a little extra money” has changed slightly. (Ha!) We can visualize ourselves living in this home. And then I have a good chuckle, because by the time we can afford this, Paul won’t be working anymore and our neighbors will be whispering, “How in the world can they afford to live in a house that big? They don’t even work!”

I’ve gone on and on, but I appreciate being able to share my story. I absolutely LOVE being a part of Scent-Sations as you can see! I love the people. I love the products. I love what it offers to all of us. With the one of a kind company we have, the management team that puts distributors first, and the possible future it provides (it’s only up to you!), I can say that the sky’s the limit!

Patti Price, IL