Success in Direct Sales Businesses

Any good direct sales leader will tell you there are good days and bad days. There are times when you’re in the groove, magnetizing incredible opportunities. And there are other times when you’re discouraged and exhausted, and all your efforts seem to be wasted.  We call the former state, flow.  Being in flow is a wonderful thing. We love the feeling of achieving great things effortlessly and joyfully. We love the delightful little surprises, the unexpected opportunities.  Direct selling success depends upon having more times that we are “in the flow” than not.

On the other hand, we HATE being stuck. We despise the feeling of hopelessness and despair. We resent the times when our efforts aren’t rewarded. And we judge ourselves and our choices horribly at those times.

Awareness and Flow In Direct Selling

The real problem isn’t that we may not be in flow, but that we’re not aware when we’re not in flow. Sure, we are eventually, but usually our level of awareness is a few steps behind reality. What we need to do is become aware more quickly when we’re not in flow, and respond accordingly.

Here are some tips on keeping an awareness of your direct selling business flow:

• Take your mental and emotional temperature every morning. Are you happy and free or joyless and intense?
• Acknowledge that if you’re in a negative mindset, you’re not going to be particularly effective.
• Stop trying to overcome that mindset by working harder. It will only spin you deeper into frustration, despair and exhaustion.
• Shift your goals away from your business objectives and towards your emotional ones.
• Take actions that are specifically designed to elevate your mood, even if they have nothing to do with your sales objectives.
• Always treat yourself with love and respect. Never beat yourself up for feeling low. It will only prolong the state.
• Call a friend or colleague who can help you remember all the things that make you great.

By following this formula, you’ll find you can quickly return to a resourceful state where your efforts are once again bearing fruit, and where you’re having more fun! Enjoy the flow and you will achieve success in your direct sales business!

Dr. Steve teaches direct sellers how to clear mental roadblocks so that they can take action to propel themselves and their sales teams toward their goals and achieve greater success.

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Home Party Business – Recruiting From The Start

When you first start your home party plan business you will need to begin thinking of recruiting right away. It is an essential part of your success and should be focused on from day one. The more people you can get onboard with you, the larger your business will become.

You can always make up in numbers what you lack in skill and the numbers will give you the skills. So, practice makes perfect is a true saying. When you practice the skills of recruiting from the beginning, you will become a recruiting machine with time.

Even if you lack the experience to begin training your downline right away, you will learn very quickly as your upline helps you with this process. When you first start your new party plan business, you are eager, enthusiastic and excited about the products, the company and the prospect of making money while being self-employed. The idea behind recruiting is to spread this enthusiasm around so that others want to become a part of a very lucrative opportunity.

The excitement you will feel and emanate from the very beginning can be used in your favor. This is the perfect time for you to recruit others. In fact, your enthusiasm will be one of the best and most powerful marketing tools you could possess.

Recruit At Your Home Party!

When eyeing potential recruits at each home party, don’t overlook your hostess. She may even be your best prospect for a recruit. She has enough connections with family members and friends to have the party, so she will be able to influence many people along the way.

Use all possible means of recruiting. This means taking advantage of the more traditional methods conducted off line, methods such as handing out fliers and business cards at parties, shopping malls and business events and talking to people you meet about the party plan business and how they can become involved. You will also want to take advantage of the benefits provided by online recruiting. This approach offers many possibilities and there’s no time like the present to begin utilizing these very powerful tools.

You will, of course learn as you go. The more you recruit the better you will become at doing it. The more you’ll also learn about what works and what doesn’t. You will develop your own methods and can use them to influence others to become involved in this great money-making opportunity.

Talk to others in the same business. Find out what worked for them at the beginning. While you don’t necessarily want to replicate exactly what someone else has done, knowing how they found recruits can help you when beginning to do the same. You will find many benefits to doing this as it will give you a realistic view of what it is like to go through the recruiting process from beginning to end.

Remember, the recruiting process is one that is never ending. Once you find your recruits, you will need to follow up to make sure they have what they need to succeed. You will also need to continually recruit new members to your business so as to expand your customer base. The better you become, the more you will be able to help those you have recruited, and the larger and more successful your party plan business will become. In recruiting, practice does make perfect.

Party Plan Recruiting Skills

Your party plan recruiting skills will grow.  You can always make up in numbers what you lack in skill and the numbers will give you the skills. So, practice makes perfect is a true saying. When you practice the skills of recruiting from the beginning, you will become a recruiting machine with time.  Learn more about recruiting at your home party business shows and become a recruiting machine!

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Direct Sellers Hypnotized By Steve Taubman

DSWA Celebrations 2010 Presentation by Steve Taubman

Direct sales trainer, Steve Taubman kept direct sellers hypnotized with his presentation at the April 2010 Direct Selling Women’s Alliance Celebrations event. His book, Unhypnosis Steve teaches the skills that all sales consultants need to snap out of snap out of their comfort zone and achieve higher success.

Steve Taubman, Unhypnosis

This is an excerpt from the book Unhypnosis, by Steve Taubman.

I’ve reinvented myself more times than you can imagine, and life keeps getting better. I’ve been a direct seller, physician, pilot, actor, musician, magician, trainer, author … and a hypnotist. I judge each new project on the following two criteria. First, will it help me touch the lives of others in a positive and constructive way? Second, will it be fun? I love to learn new skills that require practice and concentration, and I love to teach others about what I’m learning. One of my favorite lessons to share is that we are not trapped by our circumstances in life. We aren’t defined by job, family, current finances, or education. Whatever we are doing can be changed, and we can start over… now!

Of course, it takes courage and vision: courage to step out past the familiar and risk failure, ridicule, and fear; vision to be able to first see ourselves in new circumstances of our own creation. Most of us have stopped using our God-given right to dream, to fantasize, to imagine. We stop before we start, and we rob ourselves of the wonder and awe of life’s adventure. Imagine if we dared to dream and take action on our dreams!

I’d like to encourage you to do just that as you embark on, or continue on, your path to network marketing excellence. It’s all possible once you master your mind. That’s a learnable skill! As I say in all my speeches, if you control your state, you control your fate!

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Steve Taubman is a recognized direct sales trainer who brings a perspective to your conference or workshop like no other.  As a hypnotist and bestselling author, he is highly regarded for his unique ability to combine laughter, magic and empowering stories to effect change in audiences lives. Dr. Steve teaches audiences to clear mental roadblocks so that they can take action to propel themselves and their sales teams toward their goals. If you enjoy Dr. Steve’s writings, visit http://www.SteveTaubman.com and sign up to receive his Weekly Wisdom Tips and a download of his #1 bestseller, UnHypnosis.

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