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We look forward to developing these important resources for your success and encourage you to check back often.

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Chapter 1 Resources: Direct Selling Excellence

Joy von Skepsgardh, author of the insight entitles Bring Your Values To Life Through Direct Selling, offers you an insightful audio class entitled The Power of Dialogue (page 13).
Effective listening, the art of asking questions and the ability to explore with meaningful dialog – these are the skills that will move you toward a new level of sponsoring. Enjoy this insightful MP3 tele-class that will help you prospect and sell with greater success!
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Enjoy an intimate interview with Doug Firebaugh as he shares more on his insight entitled, Will it Be an Entrance or Exit? (page 15).

Every morning, you have a chance to walk into a world and life that most people only dream of, if you decide to. Discover how to walk through the door of Success daily and to avoid the door of Struggle. Let Doug you walk the path to your dreams with confidence and courage. Click here to listen!


Chapter 2 Resources: Sensational Shows

Would you like to learn how to reduce cancellations and postponements so that the shows you book are the shows you hold? Your key is to tap into your #1 tool for show success - your hostess' Guest List!

Katherine Sigrist, author of the insight, Optimize Your Guest List (page 29) is sharing her secret to making the most of every show - the Hostess Coaching Worksheet. This simple yet effective tool will help you reduce cancellations for greater success. Click here for the Optimize Your Guest List Checklist!

 

As a successful direct seller you must create vital connections with others each and every day. Top leader Pat Dempsey author of Vitalize Your Connections (pg 24), has mastered the art of networking and has provided this simple checklist for your success.

Make all your relationships count, from customers and team members to upline and company executives. Click here to download a checklist to help you vitalize your connections in the coming weeks.


Chapter 3 Resources: Networking & Prospecting

Let Friendship Lead to Fearless Phoning is what author Beth Jones-Schall tells in her More Build It Big insight.

Beth shares with us a worksheet to help put the 8 steps of Friendship building skills to work and a way to see what actions produce results!

Click here to download Beth's Worksheet.

 

In her Create a Buzz Through Community Action insight, More Build It Big author Jackie Baugrud shares ways to meet and make a connection with people.

To create a buzz through community Action, you must have a plan for how many contacts you want to make in the week.  In this worksheet, Jackie has provided a list of possible people to seek out and Create the Buzz!  Click here to download.


Chapter 4 Resources: The Art of Sponsoring

Long time industry leader and respected author of The Greatest Networker, John Milton Fogg will address an important question you should be asking yourself... Has your eagerness ever alienated a prospect?

During an intimate 50 minute call, John delves into two of the four essential insights that he has presented in his More Build It Big contribution entitled, The Four Business-Building Conversations (pg 111). Discover how developing relationships through natural, meaningful conversations can improve your results, take your business to the next level and make the journey more rewarding. Click here to listen!
 

Michael Clouse, empowering the direct-selling entrepreneur, shares his insight, Take the Daily Half-Dozen Steps to Success (pg 98) from the Best Selling More Build It Big.

"By consciously deciding to take small steps toward both personal growth and building your business, you'll make daily progress toward your goals". Get off the treadmill of day to day life, and gather the information you need to become disciplined to do a little bit of personal growth and business growth on a daily basis.

Here are Michael's half-dozen small steps you can take everyday that will, over time, make a huge difference in your personal life and the life of your business.


Chapter 5 Resources: Principle-Centered Coaching

In Jennie England's insight, Coach in the Spirit of Service, (pg 126) she shares how shifting the focus away from what you want and instead, focusing on what your team member wants and needs can bring more joy and better relationships with your team members.

Within the principles are the "You're The Expert Questions".  Click here to download this list of questions, to help coach your team to a higher level and become the Leader of Excellence you dream to be!

 

Leading the way to a more meaningful life, Diane Thompson, has perfected the art of reaching out to her team and showing them how much they mean to her. In her insight, Let Them Know How Much You Care (pg 128), she has shared her secrets with you!

Strive to be a leader who shows you genuinely care about your team members. Click here for an checklist of inexpensive yet effective ways to show you care.


Chapter 6 Resources: Managing Your Money

DSWA Prosperity Panel member, Vicky Collins is changing the way direct sellers think about their business through her insight entitles, Legitimize Your Business in the Eyes of the IRS (pg 174) To protect your business status with the IRS and understand how the IRS determines whether you have a business or a hobby, we;ve provided you with an invaluable tool. Click here to receive an Business Assessment Form that will help you determine whether the IRS would identify your business as a hobby, thereby eliminating your ability to enjoy the many tax advantages of a legitimate home-based business.

 

Enrolled Agent, Rhonda Johnson, shares essential steps to hiring your kids in her insight, Hire Your Kids with Uncle Sam's Money, (pg 180).

But to lay the foundation for legitimately hiring your kids for your home-based business, you must meet a number of important criteria. 
Take this important step toward financial prosperity while helping your kids understand the value of money and how to earn it. Click here for a checklist the includes he "rules of the game" for hiring your kids legally and ethically.


Chapter 7 Resources: Home Business Excellence

Every direct seller deserves and yearns for the support of their spouse or significant other. That's why Mark Semple, contributor to More Build It Big is dedicated to helping husband and wife teams learn to work together for greater prosperity and a deeper relationship.
In his insight, Be a Hero In Your Wife's Business, (pg 207) Mark helps husbands of direct sellers learn how to "partner for success." From how to become involved to how to encourage and support - Mark's real life suggestions are helping couple's enjoy the journey together!
Click here to print the insight to share with your spouse
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For many leaders, balance is the one thing they strive for most. Balance between home, family and their business.

Karen Olson, More Build It Big Co-author, reveals in her insight The Art of Balance for the Entrepreneurial Parent, (pg 191) that learning to set boundaries and establishing strategies help you manage both roles as mom and entrepreneur, and you can begin to live the life you dreamed of: earning additional income while keeping family a top priority and being there for your children.

Click here to listen a tele-class where Karen shares how using effective boundaries, understanding that your situation changes every six months, and how having dedicated "no work" days helps keep balance.


Chapter 8 Resources: Enlightened Leadership

With the advent of technology, many leaders find themselves with team members spread over multiple states and even countries. Top Leader Crystal Grant shared her secrets for supporting and training long distance team members in her insight Support and Expand Your Long-Distance Team.(pg 250)
Take the steps to set yourself up to support your long distance team members.
Click here to download a Technology Resource List
of vendors and services you can benefit from right away.

 

"By creating a culture for your organization that's appropriate for its level, you can let your new team member know that she might be in business for herself, but that she is not in business by herself."  This is the key for Donna Johnson's insight in More Build It Big, Create Culture to Connect and Motivate Your Team (pg 253).

Click here to listen to Donna's Tele-class on how having a unique team identity and culture makes people want to get involved and remain an active part of your team for years.


Chapter 9 Resources: Success Strategies

Mark Victor Hansen understands that highly successful individuals do things that separate them from the masses. One of their greatest secrets to success is that they believe, feel, speak and act as if what they want is already theirs!

Join Mark Victor Hansen as he shares his More Build It Big insight entitled, Master the Obi-Wan Approach  (pg 267) and discover how to use your inner knowing to move you quickly and effortlessly toward your deepest desires. Click here to listen!

 

You're in a relationship business! Therefore, as a direct seller it is essential that you develop the art of communicating and connecting with others. Join Dr. Rohm as he discusses his contribution to More Build It Big, entitled, Discover DISC for New Communication Power (pg 264).

Once you understand the 4 behavior styles and how to communicate with each effectively, you'll experience transformations in your results and your relationships! Click here to listen!

 

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