Happy July Everyone! I was thinking about all of the cookouts and pool parties that will be taking place across this great nation this weekend and my entrepreneurial mind sees OPPORTUNITY! You do not have to be obnoxious to build your business in social situations. All you need is a good business commercial and a few products!Step 1 … Continue reading Summer and Social Selling
Summer and Your Direct Sales Business!
Ahh Summer vacation... "mom, I am bored.. hungry.. want to go..." . It can be such a challenge staying on task and focused. So here are a few tips to get you through!#1. Set summer business hours. It is okay to work less. Have your hours and let nothing get in the way of them. … Continue reading Summer and Your Direct Sales Business!
Sell it Baby— creating desire
Commercials are such a great study in creating desire, especially infomercials. There you are at 2 am with insomnia and the next thing you know you are contemplating how you lived life to this point without the pajama jeans! That is not an endorsement for the pajama jean. I can well imagine that unless you … Continue reading Sell it Baby— creating desire
We Are All Couture
I saw this most EXCELLENT post on a friend's FB wall (Kendra Krebs) and knew that it had to be my next blog topic!If you're not being treated with love & respect, check your 'price tag'. Perhaps you have marked yourself down. It's you who tell people what you're worth by what you accept. Get off … Continue reading We Are All Couture
How being a Mother made me a better Leader
Happy Mother's Day you all! I wanted to take the opportunity to wish everyone a lovely day today. As I was thinking about that, I began to think of how becoming a mother also made me a better leader. There is a word for that but it escapes me... either tangential learning or experiential. If you can enlighten … Continue reading How being a Mother made me a better Leader
Evaluating a Direct Sale Opportunity
I get so many requests for help in choosing the right company that I though I would blog about it. I think choosing the right company for you is incredibly important and integral to your success. Your DS business is a lot like a marriage so choose your partner wisely! Here is my humble opinion.I think the … Continue reading Evaluating a Direct Sale Opportunity
Time Management
As I author things for the Direct Sales Institute, I often come across topics that scream out to me to be blogged! This is one such topic. Steven Covey says that Time Management is a misnomer, that time can not be managed. He says that time is a resource to be spent! I think he is exactly … Continue reading Time Management
Recruiting
Recruiting, Sponsoring, Team Building... whatever you call it there is an art to it. To me recruiting is about the other person. What does she need more of? What is her life lacking? Does she need: to make more money.... personal accomplishment... does she need to make a difference...is she a SAHM who needs some … Continue reading Recruiting
Personality Recruiting
On a similar vein as yesterdays blog, I thought we could discuss recruiting with the Core BluePrint today. BluePrint can give you invaluable insight and increase your recruiting averages, leader count and personal success. BluePrint gives you laser precision in your approach. The first DS business I was in was super easy. My Mother signed up and … Continue reading Personality Recruiting
Who were you created to be?
Here is my story! Please do not read this as a shameless plug and I apologize for the length of it. It is a bit lengthy but spans my lifetime. Recently I discovered that I had lived about 38 years as someone other than who God designed me to be. I had spent my life living outside … Continue reading Who were you created to be?
