This post brought to you by Express. All opinions are 100% mine. Oh the love-hate time of year. Swimsuit season! This year I’m embracing it and shopping early. No waiting until the last minute and having less selection. I don’t want to miss out on super cute styles with ruffles, beads, or the always popular monokini. [...]
Customer Service at Heart of Direct Sales
March 16, 2011 By 3 Comments
Customer Service Is The Heart Of A Direct Sales Home Business When you run and operate a home business in Direct Sales, you need to be really conscious of the type of customer service that you give to others who come into contact with you and your business. Unlike big brick and mortar retail type [...]
Invest Your Time in Hostess Coaching
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Invest Your Time In Hostess Coaching To Ensure Home Party Success If you are consultant with any of the Direct Sales home businesses, it is very important that you concentrate on coaching your home party hosts on how to have a successful home party. Why you might ask? Studies have shown that party hosts who [...]
Jumping Into That Cold Market
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You’ve gotten all your friends, family and their friends and family as your customers. Now it’s time to branch out and find brand new customers. Where do you find brand new customers that have never heard of the company or tried the products? These people are what are known as your cold market in direct [...]
Tapping Into Your Warm Market
January 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
I just love sales lingo. “Warm market”, who ever thought of that term anyway? A warm market includes people who have a need for your product and are probably expecting a call from you. Perhaps you got their names from your sales director because another consultant quit and the customers need some TLC. Your warm [...]
Think You Have What It Takes To Succeed In Direct Sales?
January 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
You’re so excited. You just had an awesome party for your favorite skin care or home décor products and your consultant knows you’d be perfect at being a consultant too. After all you just had the best show she’s had in 6 months. That must mean you’re cut out to do direct sales, right? Well…maybe. [...]
Major Changes Here
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you are signed up for the Mom Chats weekly newsletter AND OPEN IT (I know that’s the hard part) then you know some of the changes that are taking place. The biggest and most important of the changes is Lauren will no longer be partnering the site with me. It was a difficult decision [...]
Money is in the Follow Up
November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
How many times have you left messages for someone and they never return your call? It can be so annoying yet do we all do it sometimes? I know that I have not returned calls, be it for the lack of time at that moment, but fully intending to do so eventually…. But in order [...]
Run With The Momentum part 2
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When you think about any business, you know there will be ups and downs, but sometimes the rough times make it easy to give up or throw in the towel altogether. With a direct sales business, it can sometimes seem like the drive is slowing down and you may find yourself wondering if you ever [...]
Run With The Momentum
November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What do you think of when you read the word momentum? I think of a marathon runner, keeping the pace, never slowing down to let the person on his tail overtake him. Just as a marathon runner holds a steady pace, so as to not expend his energy too quickly and sputter out, so should [...]
