Category Archives: Direct Selling
Use the Law of Averages to Increase Your Income
How many prospects do you need to talk to before you get one booking?
How many people do you need in attendance to have a $1000 party?
How many parties do you average per week? Per month?
What’s your average party and how can you increase that amount?
How many bookings do you average per party? How can you increase this?
How many prospects do you need to interview before you get a recruit?
How many recruits do you need to sign before you get one new leader?
How many new leaders do you need before you get one great leader?
Many salespeople do not fully understand the importance of finding out their averages in order to improve in certain areas of their business. Tracking yourself in your business can help you find areas that you need to improve and then work on ways to improve your stats. Simple little techniques can have dramatic increases in your business, often with no increase in time or effort. As Jim Rohn says, “When you are new you make up in numbers what you lack in skill.” Once you discover what you need to do you can work to improve each skill to increase your productivity. Here are some simple ways to track yourself that won’t take much time or effort but can go a long way to making you more money!
Develop Your Persuasion and Selling Skills to Increase Sales & Bookings
How would you like to have an abundance of people saying YES to you and your offers? Would it be worthwhile for you if you could have more people say YES to booking a party? What would happen if more guests purchased at every party? It’s not as hard to get people to say YES as you might think and actually you probably already know several ways to do so BUT you may not be implementing what you know or you might be missing one element that makes your presentation less effective.
I’ve been avidly studying and practicing persuasion and sales techniques for thirty years. I have sales programs and books from Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Dan Kennedy, and numerous others and I have to confess even though what I hear or read is often a repetition there are also some BIG AH-HA moments when I read something or hear something and I think to myself, WOW, where has this idea been all my life! Now, you may be thinking to yourself, I know everything I need to know but when you really understand ALL OF LIFE IS A SALES TRANSACTION you might want to study to get things right. That’s right, whether you are trying to get your spouse to take out the garbage, or encouraging your kids to do their homework, or selling a tangible product for commission YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO INFLUENCE SOMEONE TO ACCEPT YOUR IDEA which is nothing less than a SALES TRANSACTION! So are there some simple things you can do to get a better response? Absolutely! Here’s a few suggestions!
3 Simple Secrets for Consistency in Your Life and Your Business
“Whether it is good or bad, when you do something often enough, it will become a habit! Choose your habits wisely!” Karen Phelps
As I was riding my bike up my driveway last week I realized it was a lot harder to get up the driveway than it had been the previous week. After I made it to the top and did my “celebratory drive in a circle” I realized it had been more difficult because with my busy travel schedule I hadn’t rode my bike in 6 days. The consistency of riding my bike 5 days in a row had helped to train my body for performance and then I took too long of a break and I needed to get the edge back again.
That’s when it dawned on me! Everything we do in every aspect of our life becomes easier once we do it consistently enough for it to become a habit! Once you develop a consistent pattern of doing something correctly you will discover how easy it is to achieve your desired results!
I laugh when people tell me they don’t have any habits because the truth is we ALL HAVE HABITS! When they tell me they don’t have any habits they are thinking only of bad or destructive habits, which truth be told, we all have many we just dismiss them! Because you are an entrepreneur it’s important for you to develop goo habits that will help you grow your business! Habits are simply the result of doing something consistently! Doing the “right things” on a consistent basis WILL alter your lifestyle. Here are 3 simple steps to help get you on track . . .
In Pursuit of Excellence
I’m one of those crazy people who USED to procrastinate because I wanted everything to be PERFECT!
Not anymore!
Well, I still procrastinate but not for the same reason. I no longer worry about being perfect! Over 20 years ago I discovered a motto I still live by today! “DONE is BETTER than Perfect!” If you keep waiting for perfection you’ll be sitting on the sidelines only half participating in life. People will pass you by because they are running, while you are just strolling waiting for the perfect time to exert extra effort! Here are a few tips I’ve learned over the years that have helped me have the success I WANT and DESERVE!
5 Simple Steps to Achieve Self-Confidence
Have you ever met someone and thought to yourself, “Wow, what incredible self-confidence this person has? How’s your self-confidence? Do you often find yourself second-guessing your decisions? Have you ever met someone and thought to yourself, “Wow, what incredible self-confidence this person has? How’s your self-confidence? Do you often find yourself second-guessing your decisions? Some…
Fueling the Fast Start in Direct Sales, MLM and Network Marketing
Want to know the most important time in a new consultants business? It’s the first week of course, but really it’s the first 72 hours that are crucial to success. It’s been said that by the 3’rd day many of the people who have joined a direct selling company have “mentally checked out” before they have even begun! YIKES! Scary news for those who are signing new people and hoping they will set the world on fire!
If you are a leader or as they say in Texas “fixin’ to be a leader” then what you do with your new consultant in the first 72 hours can have a dramatic effect on whether or not they do anything in the business. You are responsible for helping them get off to a really great start! Here’s a few helpful hints that can get your new starts on track so they sell more, earn more and meet their qualifications.
Leadership Skills
Many direct selling leaders arrive accidentally at a new position and aren’t sure how they got there or what to do next. It may have happened to you or someone you know in direct selling. Being a leader is a fun and rewarding part of the direct selling industry and when you know and implement these simple skills it will make the position even more FUN and REWARDING!
Eliminate Information Overload
I attend many 3 – 4 day training events and my brain is always on information-overload when I return home! Has this ever happened to you? Have you attended an event and you listen, take notes and then come home on overload and put the notes away and never get around to making any changes in your life or business? Well, I have to confess that as good as I am at taking control, I often find myself out-of-control after seminars and training because I didn’t take the time to create an action plan with a FEW STEPS I COULD TAKE IMMEDIATELY!
These trainings are quite an investment on my part ranging from $1000 t0 $3000 registration fee so I know I want to get everything I can out of each event! Here are five secrets I use during and after events to get results?
Are you afraid to lead?
I’m known as a “thought provoker!” I do my BEST to get people out of the inertia they are currently hiding behind so they can improve their lives,earn more income and begin to live the life of their dreams. In direct selling many leaders, company executives and persons of influence are afraid to challenge people to do better or at least do their best because they don’t want to LOSE THEM! Great, so they continue to build a team or a company of whiners and complainers and provide them with every reason and incentive not to succeed in making money. Gotta love it when someone tells me their earned their company incentive trip and in the next breath they tell me they’re broke!
I confess, I despise mediocrity. I never sent my sons to school encouraging them to “get a C” when they were both capable of and did get lots of “A-grades.” I believe all of us were put on this earth to achieve greatness, make a difference and live up to our potential!
We all have the ability to find an excuse or to “FIND A WAY” to succeed.
I would never in my wildest dreams be afraid to show someone how to succeed in direct selling especially if I took the time to have “a conversation” with them to find out their goals and then showed them exactly step-by-step what they needed to do to reach them. I owe it to every one I share the opportunity with to show them how to succeed, not set them up to fail. Let’s look at just a few of the ways you can have a great impact on other people’s direct selling income as well as your own!
Commitment to your Direct Selling Business
Over the years I have heard Zig Ziglar say over and over again, “Most people are as committed as a kamikaze pilot on his 99’th mission.” I tend to agree with him, especially when it comes to direct selling. What is commitment anyway? The American Heritage dictionary says the commitment means “to do or perform, to pledge oneself to a position.” You can be committed to your spouse, your family, your company, your goals, your exercise program or just about anything. But are you? Commitment means that even if it gets tough you are going to stay the course.
Committed people are tough! They would rather fight than give up! Committed direct sellers are on the phone making calls to generate new business. Committed Direct Sellers understand the need to work the business EVERY DAY, not just when it strikes them . They schedule business building activities into their calendar instead of just waiting to see if there is time to work the business today, tomorrow, this week or this month. Committed direct sellers treat their business like a job and commit to “go to work every day.” It’s not always easy to be committed but it is always rewarding.