PTA Business Leads and Recruiting Tips

In today’s economy, everyone is looking for opportunities to make more money without a whole lot of effort. As a direct sales consultant, you’ll encounter numerous chances to share your business opportunity with other like-minded individuals throughout the course of your day-to-day activities and obligations. Always be on the lookout for opportunities to find leads in your daily activities. One such example is when you’re attending Parent Teacher Association meetings or events.

While the chances are high that some of the regular PTA members are already involved in the world of the direct sales business and direct sales party planning, the chances are equally high that one or more members are on the lookout for the perfect opportunity to increase their disposable income without having to return to the traditional workforce. This is your opportunity to shine.

Direct Sales Tips

Here are a few practical, easy-to-implement tips that you can share your direct sales business opportunity with your PTA partners.

1. Don’t overdo it! While it can be tempting to swing into a hard sell, resist the urge. In most instances, a hard sell is a major turn-off for potential recruits. Instead, be honest, accurate and low-key. Whenever possible, if you make a claim, have some paperwork or other proof that can back up your claims so that they know you aren’t just pulling facts, figures and statistics out of the air.

2. Look for common ground. While you’re attempting to network and find recruits for your professional success, don’t make the mistake of keeping it all business. The more you can connect with a potential recruit on the personal level, the more likely you’ll be to build a lasting, high-impact rapport that can transform a prospect into another direct sales consultant that will strengthen your business’ bottom line.

3. Start with an invitation. If you’re looking to add new recruits to your direct sales business, don’t start with selling the opportunity. Instead, invite them to an upcoming party so that they can feel and experience the excitement and momentum of an actual direct sales party. When you’re just starting out in any business, things can be intimidating. Let your prospects’ first experience with direct sales be one of fun and enthusiasm. Don’t overwhelm them. Get them excited and hungry for information and opportunity.

4. Make it easy to stay in touch. Make sure that you share business cards, social networking profile information, websites and any other information that makes it easy to reach you whenever and however works best for your potential prospect. Commit yourself to sharing your business and opportunity with 2 or 3 people at every event you attend and obtain email addresses or phone numbers so that you can easily follow up and motivate them to take action.

Find Business Leads At PTA

When you make it a point to always share for 10 seconds or less and end with a question, your PTA time will become business leads.  Learn more about the 10 second rule and grow your direct sales business at any event!

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Join Us – Save Time Socializing On Twitter & FaceBook

The DSWA tele-class held on January 25th at 8:00 PM Eastern time will teach you how to be more effective in the social networks. Are you spending too much time socializing? Wondering how to make fancy pages? Having trouble getting people to your fan page?

This seminar will give you the FaceBook and Twitter tips, tricks and techniques that the pros charge big bucks for.  The DSWA tele-classes are FREE for everyone! Just dial in using this number: Call In Number:

(712) 432-7585
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• Learn what and how to automate so that you have more time for real connections.
• Create your social brand.
• Make your FaceBook page look like you really are a professional.

Deb Bixler retired from the corporate world in 2000 to enjoy life as an entrepreneur. In the first 9 months as a home party direct seller she created a business and a sales team which provided her with an income capable of replacing her corporate business salary of $80,000 per year.  Since then she has developed a massive internet presence and provides social media management for home business owners.

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Referrals Leverage Your Business

• Do you read movie reviews or ask your friends if they have seen any good films lately?
• Do you ever carry newspaper endorsements into the voting booth with you?
• Do you try new restaurants routinely, or wait for the “buzz”?
• Do you “Google” people to find out what you can before meeting or doing business?

Everyone relies on recommendations to make life easier and sometimes a whole lot safer.  We simply do not have time or money to do all of the research and testing we need to navigate in the complex world we live in.

Networking Is All About The Referral

This is “networking” in a broad sense, and Direct Sales companies and distributors wrote the book on this phenomenon long before the modern world began to rely so heavily on networking.

Direct Sellers cultivate relationships with people for many reasons. Quite often it is their natural personal style, and they have finally found a way to make that earn money for them. They develop relationships because combining them with great customer service and good product becomes the basis of their business.  That’s why people might choose one distributor over another within the same company. Someone has taken the time to get to know them, their family, their needs,  and found out how they want to be “sold” to. It is then that the magic of recommendation gets its “legs”.

In companies with MLM structures, this becomes the vehicle for the growth of teams and downlines. The product now becomes the opportunity, but the recommendation and relationship are what draws others to a leader and inspires them to bring their network along for the ride.
Next time you recommend a movie, ask yourself how much you are getting paid to endorse it, and whether Direct Sales and MLM opportunities might better use your powers of persuasion!

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