Archive for October, 2007

Some Tips to Business Success

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

To get to that question, we have to start at a slightly distant point, by answering the question that is certainly pertinent here – What is business?

Simply put, a business is a legally organized entity designed to sell goods and services to generate profits for the seller/investor. A business expects financial returns for the time and energy spent in such an endeavor. Having arrived at this definition, let us tackle another one – when do you actually achieve business success?

You achieve business success when the business you are operating is churning out a profit and keeping its customers satisfied.

Having set up your own business, how do you ensure its continued success? For a business to be continuously profitable, you need to know what it is doing right and what it is not. In other words, you need a proper business plan.

A business plan would essentially perform three steps, as shown below.

1. Plan a business
2. Start a business
3. Manage a Business

Planning a Business

The first step to achieving business success is to plan out the business properly. To this end it becomes important that the plan you develop for your business is a superset of numerous other documents for individual tasks. Other than the business plan, you should also have in place a marketing plan, a financial plan, and a management plan.

The business plan should aim to describe your current organization, products, and services, including its primary benefits, advantages, and features. A proper business plan will help you streamline your operations and look at any structural or flow changes you need to make. whether the model you have in place is going to work or not.

Here are a few tips to planning a business successfully:

1. Describe Product
2. Describe marketing options
3. Discuss Technology
4. Promotion Tactics
5. Pricing Strategies
6. What problem does our business solve?
7. How much money we need to run the business

One sayings that says it all is “Failing to plan is always planning to fail”.

Starting a Business

Once you have the business plan in hand, you can think of starting the business. To start any business, the most important aspect is finance. There are other critical aspects as well – ensuring there is proper organizational structure, putting in place the proper business structure, ensuring proper location for the business, etc.

The following are some things to keep in mind when you think of starting a business:

1. Ensure there is adequate finance.
2. Ensure your business does not lack organization.
3. Put in place an appropriate business structure.
4. Take steps to protect your business idea from being copied.
5. Ensure you have a proper location for your business.
6. Ensure you have the required equipment.

Manage a Business

The first thing to be aware of when managing a business are the 3 Ps – product, price, and promotion. While marketing is a vital aspect, making decisions is also very important for managing a business. You must also manage your employees well and ensure they are satisfied. Satisfied employees translate to higher effort and increased productivity and profitability.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when managing a business:

1. Make decisions.
2. Manage Employees.
3. Market and Price properly.
4. Get Insurance.
5. Pay Taxes.
6. Handle legal issues.

These are some tips for making a business successful.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Business Success: How to Get It

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Where can you get it?

People can get into any type of business. There are various kinds of businesses in the world, and different people may choose different businesses. People just need to identify their own strengths and work within these areas. It is important for people to be able to keep an eye on the competitors and perk up on their capabilities.

There are no set or finite rules for achieve success in the business world. In business, success can be a deadly thing to have. Most people find success in business through many hardships. The number of people who have it easy in business are relatively few. Except for the silver-spoon-in-the-mouth leagues, there are not too many such easy success stories to feel good about.

So how do you become successful in your business venture? Experimenting is the key to learning the tricks of the trade in business. You must be efficient and unafraid to take risks or try something “out of the box”. It may sound a bit unintelligent initially, but believe me; you will reap the rewards later.

What does it take?

Knowing the basics matters a lot when it comes to being successful in business. You must be aware of all the necessary basics and be ready to give lots of hard work to the business you take up. Determination and creativity are some of the other crucial aspects.

As the saying goes, the first step is always to stand up to the knowledge, the next step to absorb it, and the final one is to take action regarding it. Generating profit is always the foremost aim of any businessman. Usually, it’s not only the profit, but also the wealth that drives the business a person undertakes.

However, the wealth generally comes in later, once you have made a firm place for yourself with your business venture. There are a few dos and don’ts you should keep in mind at all times:

• Avoid businesses that generate create unreceptive income.
• Physical assets typically determine wealth, so look to build up on these.
• If your business is doing well, don’t flaunt your money.

Instead invest it quietly, so you have assets and properties to show for your success. This will mean you will becomes assets-rich and cash-poor, at which time

Some things you need

One very important aspect of success in any business is the marketing element, which you may also include with sales. Another critical aspect of success in business is marketing. You can nowadays use the print and electronic media to market and promote your business.

The media is a great element to have on your side. It will provide your marketing business with endless opportunities, besides performing the major act of allowing you to establish a connection with your customers. It will definitely scale up your level of business and target a great mass of people, thus upgrading your business to higher levels.

Besides, with the advent of up-to-the-minute media sources in the market nowadays, you have a much sharper tool to use to promote your business to specific customers across specific domains, thereby increasing the possibilities of you finding a niche domain for yourself over time and thriving therein.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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What Is Network Marketing Anyway?

Friday, October 26th, 2007

The biggest misconception about Network Marketing is that this is the same thing as a pyramid scheme. Nothing could be further from the truth. A pyramid scheme is strictly a money game. Remember those chain letters? There is no product just money changing hands in the hope that it will filter back to you and you will suddenly get rich. Although some of the newest pyramid schemes have a product, it is obvious that it is just a flimsy disguise for the same old money game.

Network Marketing, on the other hand, is a legitimate and potentially lucrative business. Like any other business you will not get rich overnight. If you are willing to put forth the effort, you will reap the benefits. You are building an organization that provides real products or services.

One of the beauties of this business model is that you and your lifestyle are not limited by what someone else thinks your time and effort is worth. You are not limited to only X number of dollars an hour or year no matter how hard or how much you work. Your income is only limited by your drive and desire to succeed.

To put it simply Network Marketing is a proven system where the design, creation and expense of a product or service has already been taken care of and streamlined by skilled professionals providing you with a tried and true path to success.

The most important facet of Network Marketing is leverage. By this I mean you can leverage your time and increase the number of hours of work for which you get paid by sponsoring other people and earning a small profit for their efforts. These people are your downline. Having an effective downline is one of the most successful ways to grow your bottom line.

The most productive network marketers sponsor other people and teach them how to sell the company product and how to sponsor others. When you help those you sponsor (your downline) to do the same for others (create their own downlines) you create an exponentially growing network of potentially hundreds or even thousands of individuals. By leveraging your time you have helped others succeed and you are earning an income from all their combined efforts as well as your own.

There are no big start up costs, no minimum quotas and no special skills required to succeed with Network Marketing. It is a perfect work from home business which can allow you to take advantage of the tax advantages associated with owning your own business. It is a people-to-people business that allows you determine your own level of success. The more you are willing to put into it the more you will get out of it.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Finding Your Niche In Your Work From Home Business

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

If you are an entrepreneur looking to start up your own business in your home, you certainly are aware that the best thing to do in the start-up process is find a niche. You can often get a good start with a multi-level marketing company who provides a service or product you are interested in. Direct sales can be extremely remunerative as well in the work from home arena!

You can’t be so bold to think that your work from home endeavor can cover the entire market, for that is entirely too broad. Entrepreneurs who are on fire to get that income rolling while they are at home sitting back and just enjoying watching the dollar signs will find quite a disappointment when they start out. If they are smart and get some business coaching in order to get off on the right foot, they will be told instantly to find a niche product or service, which will be their best bet.

So how does a red-hot, ready-to-go entrepreneur find a niche? All he has to do is study the market. Opportunities abound. He just needs to check out all the multi-level marketing opportunities to find one that fits his preferences. It should be something that he is familiar with or has experience with. And most importantly, it must be something he likes (or loves) to deal with.

Direct sales of a product you love and are familiar with can be a great work from home business. Many multi-level marketing companies provide resources to help the entrepreneur keep up their enthusiasm and motivation. They also give marketing tools and business coaching. If you love to sell makeup or dolls or electronics, you can find multi-level marketing companies that you can work for, some familiar and some not so familiar, depending on the amount of advertising they do.

You can find other opportunities by checking out what is needed in different fields then finding a way to supply what is needed. You can hire someone to give you one-on-one business coaching while you look for some enterprise to engage in, and in this way have some assistance in picking the right area.

As you search for the perfect work from home business and the niche that is right for you, keep a list of all the fields that interest you and finally narrow it down to one or two that hold the most fascination. Write down the pros and cons of each niche that you find interests you. Most of your research time can be devoted to these. It will save time and a lot of confusion if you narrow it down. By narrowing down your search and doing the pros and cons you will come up with a niche market quicker.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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A Skilled Business Coach Is Worth Their Weight In Gold

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

A Business Coach can be a very effective developmental tool for leadership development, as well as producing financial and intangible benefits for any business. A good coach can provide you and your employees with a rich learning environment that allows the learning to be applied to a variety of business situations. Key skills such as decision-making, team performance and the motivation of others can be strengthened and enhanced.

In a recent study of a Fortune 500 company that had launched a business coaching program they were able to identify specific financial and intangible benefits that came as a result of their coaching.

The two things most significantly impacted by business coaching were productivity and employee satisfaction. These two items alone underscore just how valuable a good coach can be to your business. Happy employees are not only more productive they are more creative and more willing to go the extra mile. They are also more willing to “think outside the box” which is where lucrative innovations originate.

The next areas most significantly impacted by business coaching were work output and work quality. Twenty percent of the respondents said they could clearly identify a financial benefit directly related to their increased output. Imagine how even a ten percent increase in work output by you and your employees could impact you bottom line! That alone would more than reimburse you for the costs associated with a quality business coach.

The same study found that when program costs were tabulated to determine a return on investment their business coaching program produced a 788% return on the investment. In this case the company in question had experienced downsizing and other factors impacting employee retention. When they excluded the financial benefits related to employee retention they still found the coaching program produced a 529% return on their investment. While those who had customer or people responsibilities produced proportionally greater financial benefits, the realization of benefits to the business was fairly widespread throughout the group involved in this study. What other single thing could you do for your business that could make such a huge impact?!

While this study was dealing specifically with a large company, any company of any size can benefit exponentially by adding a skilled business coach to their team. Small businesses especially can find that a good business coach can help them manage their time and business more efficiently, effectively propelling their business to the next level. A good coach can also help you find ways to balance your work and personal life. Do yourself a favor and schedule a consultation today and see where your business can be tomorrow.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN, as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Who Needs A Business Coach & What Can A Coach Do For Me Anyway?

Friday, October 19th, 2007

The fact is every business can benefit from coaching. However, there are certain times when a skilled business coach can be especially beneficial. Some of those instances can include:

*A start up operation that wants to avoid common mistakes and build their business on a solid foundation.

*Businesses that have reached a plateau and are ready to move to the next stage of development and expansion.

*Businesses that are well established, successful, and are contemplating a major change such as joining or separating from a partnership.

*Businesses who want a knowledgeable sounding board to clarify and challenge their thinking regarding important business issues.

*Businesses whose current leadership is approaching retirement and wishes to make a smooth transition of power and responsibility

A business coach can help any business owner craft a custom strategy to resolve these or other specific issues or problems. Utilizing a business coach can help lower the risk of costly missteps. It can also help you find ways to more effectively do what you need to do such as improving internal communication, creating a budget, controlling costs or measuring your financial performance.

Do you have your mission statement or vision for your business written down? A coach will help you refine your goals and dreams and help you develop sound strategies for achieving them. A coach will also help you determine what steps you need to take to meet your objectives. This is a collaborative process between you and your coach. Your coach will not only give you practical advice and insightful observations but will challenge you to step outside yourself and grow in ways you never imagined.

Working with a business coach will help you find ways to organize your business so that you will enjoy going to work. You will discover ways to start making more money. Learn how to structure things so that your business runs efficiently and smoothly…even when you are out of town. Rediscover (or find for the first time) that sense of clarity, that energized feeling, that business owners have when they know where they are going and how they are going to get there.

Having a business coach could be one of the most beneficial things you can do as a business owner. Remember it is hard to exceed in business until you have a team of experts around you. A business coach should be one of your first picks for your team.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN, as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

Popularity: 17%


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Make Your Home a High Tech Office

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

With the advent of internet and computers, offices have effectively shifted home. Many people who are into full time employment are still working from their homes after their working hours because of the email phenomenon. Work and leisure seem to have mixed together, with one merging seamlessly into the other.

For some of us the luxury of starting a home based business is too much to resist. Turning your home into a high tech office is quite simple. You simply have to get a high speed broadband internet connection and a computer. Nowadays fax services can be accessed trough the PC itself. A small compact printer can work as a copier and scanner. These printers are inexpensive and easy to operate. They are compact and consume very little space. With these three tools i.e., an internet connection, PC and a printer, you have a high tech office at your disposal.

Now how to convert this into a business venture? There are many opportunities on the internet. Say, for example, that you have a particular product to sell. You can leverage the internet to set up a virtual market for your product. A nice well designed interactive web-site is all you need to start off. To design your web-site you can approach a number of professional designers who will readily do the work for you as a freelancer. You can set up an online payment system for your website either through PayPal or a online shopping cart. This way people can buy your goods and services online. By doing this, you can sell your product worldwide.

If you think that having a web site of your own will be too complex a task to handle, you are not alone. Rest assured that there are many like you. To cater to you there are websites which promote and sell your products, like eBay and Amazon.com. You have to simply register with them and then start selling on their sites. Coming to the question of actual delivery there are many couriers which specifically cater to this segment. Sitting at home you will be able to market, sell, and deliver your products and your earnings will be safely transferred to your account.

There are many other activities which are suitable for a home based business. Data entry, website design, writing, editing and consulting are some of the areas most suitable for homes. It is possible to operate a complex supply chain management system right from your home. Virtual Assistants are gaining in popularity for the stay at home profession.

It is always advisable to have multiple sources of income. Google adwords, and many affiliate programs let you do just that. Setting up your web-site for this is quite simple and your web-site designer would be able to add these features in a jiffy. Google advertises different products on your web-site and you get paid if any visitor to your site clicks on these advertisements.

At first all the internet marketing jargon is bound to be confusing and rather formidable. But it can be compared to swimming. You have to get into the water to learn swimming. No amount of theoretical reading will help. Getting hold of a coach can be really helpful to get maximum mileage from your web-site and the internet world and how you can harness its power. All this is possible from the comfort of your home.

Outsourcing of work has been the mantra of modern businesses where non core activities are being offloaded. Professional accountants, marketing and sales professionals, almost everyone has gained from this phenomenon. Do you have the expertise to take on outsourced work? If yes, you can approach large companies who would be glad to engage you as a freelance worker.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Does Your Personality Suit Network Marketing?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

This is something a lot of people ask. Can I be a successful network marketer? Doesn’t it involve meeting people? I hate to interact with strangers. Is this stuff right for me? The answers to all these questions are yes and no. Yes because, network marketing doesn’t really mean you have to be a master speaker addressing thousands of people over the mike. Nor does it involve hectic socializing as some are apt to imagine. Network marketing is like any other business. You have a product, which is made available to you for selling. You need not even open your mouth, if the right approach is cultivated.

Here is a small example of what is meant. You will have to familiarize yourself about the product that you choose to sell. Your job is to reach out to those who would like to buy this product from you, whether that be via internet, warm contacts or any other type of marketing you choose. If this product is good and priced well, there should be no problem selling it. You would have noticed by now that the selling cycle does not involve much of talking. The product speaks for itself. In fact, products which sell well are those which have inherent value. Your job is to bring the buyer and the product together on a common platform. It is obvious that, more than talking, it is your marketing skills which are important. There would have no problem in buying food pellets for my pet fish if it is good for my fish.

Unfortunately all products are not food pellets and all consumers are not fish. There are high tech products which require specialized training to understand and sell. Mind you the profit margins are much higher for these products. As a rule, more difficult the product is to sell, more is the profit margin. This is about real, genuine goods and services here. Not some hare brained scheme to rip off people. To sell a product you must have a clear understanding of that product and how the product can help the consumer. Network marketing companies are usually good about doing training calls and providing marketing material for you to use. You should take advantage of the trainings and the materials in order to provide better customer service to the consumer. If they don’t, then you must ask your upline or someone in the company to provide you with the necessary training.

In network marketing one usually does involves friends and colleagues, but keeping your personal and professional lives separated by a discreet line is always prudent. Each situation is different and unique. Network marketers should understand the undercurrents of the situation and act accordingly. There is no formula or system to tackle real life situations.

What is truly required is a genuine personality with a desire to market goods and services to people who have a need for them. Cutting across the jargon and providing true value is the core substance of network marketing.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Win At Customer Service

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Disgruntled customers are a very unpleasant part of running any business, whether it is the enterprise of an entrepreneur, a network-marketing endeavor, or a simple work-at-home business. Unfortunately, unless you are some kind of miracle-worker, you will find some in any product-oriented or service business. How they are handled can actually determine your success or eventual failure in your home-based or storefront business. If complaints escalate into court cases, all you’ve worked for could be destroyed in legal fees.

Perhaps you don’t have the objective of turning upset customers into repeat business, but if the transaction is handled properly, this can even be the case. If the customer won’t be a repeat customer, at least you might avoid them going to an agency to get things made right, or avoid them posting bad comments about you on the Internet.

Every business is going to run into a customer who feels wronged in some way. There just is no getting around it. Sometimes the customer is right, and an error was made. Sometimes the customer has misconceptions about the service or product and what they expect. Whichever the case, to sort out the difficulty, someone is going to have to determine the reality of the complaint and whether it is valid. When you work at home, this is going to be you!

Naturally, there are some people who want to get something for nothing. But to have a customer service representative approach the situation with the already fixed idea that every customer is a pain and is trying to do the company out of something, will do nothing but escalate any situation. The service rep can’t be objective and simply listen to the customer.

Listening is a very important factor. The representative (or you) has to listen to what the problem is, look up the paperwork on the transaction, and check all they know against what the customer is saying. A thorough customer service employee will even have someone go and look at the item if it is something like a plumbing fix or a service performed in the home that can’t be moved. The customer could bring in the item to have it inspected if the product is something that is portable. In a work from home enterprise, you may have to email the customer for more details. Get all the facts.

If it is an error in manufacture or some problem that wasn’t repaired fully, it would be only right to re-do the repair, or replace the item or refund the customer. A business owner has to be prepared for their employees making mistakes and take responsibility for them. In network marketing, you may have to take this up with your supervisor.

However, if it is the customer’s misconception, and it isn’t the company’s fault, effort is going to have to be made to get the customer to fully understand why it isn’t the responsibility of your company. It could take a thorough explanation on the phone or in person, or if nothing seems to work, a competently written letter explaining the entire matter. At the end of the letter, you should always leave the “door open” in case they want to continue the matter and have more to say. If you shut them off, they won’t feel they have an ear, and could go to a public agency to complain, causing a lot more trouble than the entire sale was worth.

People who feel wronged end up wanting revenge. They want to break you because of “what you did to them.” You have to avoid this revenge-seeking mentality by working with them so you both can come to an understanding.

Sometimes refunding the customer so you both can move on is the only way to handle the matter. And if you can take that loss, it might be a smart business move. You have to determine whether it’s worth your time or your employee’s time to handle this customer compared to other things they could be doing to expand your business.

The bottom line is to take the customer’s view and try to understand how they are looking at things. Then you can communicate intelligently to them and get the complaint resolved. And you will be able to take your business, no matter the type, to new heights.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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Maximize Your Downline…Maximize Your Bottom Line

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

The most effective way a network marketer can grow their income is by fully developing the potential of their down line. It is a proven fact that 5% of your down line will do 95% of the sales. If you don’t take care of those you sponsor you may not see that much.

The very worst thing you can do is sponsor someone and expect them to function in a vacuum. Unfortunately it happens way too often. Many new network marketers think all they have to do is get people to sign up and then they never talk to them again. This flies in the face of the concept of sponsorship. Take some time and design into your business model various ways you can support your down line.

To build a successful downline each person must know what you want them to do and (most importantly) how you want to do it. The easiest way to communicate this is to create a simple and easy to understand FAQ that spells everything out for them. This will take a bit of time in the beginning but once you have it fine tuned it will save loads of time down the road.

Make sure that each person knows how to contact you when they have questions or problems. Answer their questions quickly and completely. Think of this as another facet of customer service (which in fact it is). The better you treat your downline the more eager, excited and willing they will be to tell other about you and the products or services you represent.

Another great tool you can provide to your downline is pre-prepared banners and text-links. All they have to do is cut and paste. You should also create a web page or email that contains links to your distributor’s site as well as direct links to the tools and/or reports they offer. Make it as simple as possible for the people you are sponsoring to utilize the tools available to them.

Set up a weekly or bi-weekly phone meeting or internet conference. This will not only allow you to keep in regular touch with your downline it will help you identify your most profitable team members. You can also set up a yahoo group or private message board where you and your team can answer each others questions and offer support to each other.

The clearer you can make your expectations to each new person you sponsor and the easier you make it for them to succeed the more profitable your downline will be. By giving them easily accessible support and tools you are setting them up to prosper and succeed. The more successful your downline is the more lucrative your bottom line will.

Wendy Stevens, Nashville, TN as a single mom vaulted to the top of the Direct Sales Industry in 8 months. Wendy is a former 3-time Division I All American Lacrosse Player, NCAA Division I National Champion and Division 1 NCAA Head Coach. Wendy is one of the top 1% earners in the entire direct sales industry. As Marketer, Trainer and Speaker, Wendy is in demand nationally. She earned 7 figures in networking marketing. For information on Wendy, visit www.coachyoutosuccess.com

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