From skeptics to Chairman's Club

A little over 12 years ago, a friend approached Mary-Ann Shearer with a bottle of green powder. Not keen on the taste of green, Mary-Ann gave it to her teenage daughter who pronounced it “totally gross.” The bottle sat on the shelf until it was thrown out during a move five years later.

A few years after that, another good friend contacted Mary-Ann to share how she was thriving physically and financially with AIM and urged Mary-Ann to join the AIM family. The more the friend “nagged,” the more Mary-Ann put up her defenses. As an expert in nutrition and best-selling author of several books on health and nutrition, Mary-Ann felt she had to be very careful about anything she promoted, especially if she profited from the sale of the product. Her friend continued to send information Mary-Ann’s way, but it wasn’t until Mark ran into a longtime friend that things began to change.

One day, Mark saw a friend who had struggled physically and financially for many years. She looked great and was on her way to serve in Israel, supporting herself through her AIM business in South Africa. When Mark asked about her transformation, the friend attributed it to AIM products and the compensation plan. Mark was sold and pushed Mary-Ann to connect with the friend who had been sending them information all these years with a view to getting some of “that green stuff.”

“We signed up and ordered the product not only for ourselves, but for all our staff, our children, and the dog and cat!” Mary-Ann remembers, “My thinking was that, if I saw some real results in a wide range of people, I could really get behind the product.”
Longtime proponents of a natural, healthy diet, the Shearers didn’t expect to see much difference by adding AIM’s barley product to their regimen, but they did! They and several of their staff experienced symptoms of detoxification. Their dog, on the verge of being put down due to a painful back condition, recovered and continues to bounce around six years later.

“I was so impressed that I told everyone and sent out a news bulletin to our database. This resulted in our becoming Directors in our first month with AIM.”

Although not interested in building a business, the positive results of AIM products in people’s lives—both physically and financially—spurred the Shearers to become bolder in their promotion of AIM products and the business opportunity.
“One top AIM Member in South Africa told us we could make more with AIM than in our healthy food business,” recalls Mary-Ann. “We laughed at him and said that was not our goal. But he was right. Now, six years later, our AIM income is more than double our other income.”

The Shearers’ two daughters, Melissa Klopper and Marie-Claire, are both AIM Directors. As young mothers, they have found AIM BarleyLife® essential for breastfeeding their babies and both the Shearer grandchildren, Stephen and Dylan, have been raised on AIM BarleyLife®.

Mark and Mary-Ann travel extensively giving talks and presentations around the world. They say they never leave home without the AIM Garden Trio® and AIMega™. Many of the other AIM products are also part of their nutritional profile.
The Shearers have come a long way, from entrenched skeptics to unabashed champions of AIM and the AIM products. Congratulations to AIM Chairman’s Club Members Mary-Ann and Mark Shearer.

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