Direct Sales Kit-Nappers…

In the world of Direct Sales, most consultants are serious business builders and take great pride in recruiting and building their Direct Sales teams.

We take the time to come up with great recruiting ads, invest in business opportunity fliers and brochures, and invest our time in trying to find quality teammates to join our business opportunity.

Lately though, there has been an increase in people who are joining various Direct Sales Companies just to nab a demonstration business kit and run off with it. These people desire a great deal on the products.

Let’s look at an example:

Business Kit might have $400+ in retail products in it, but yet a company is running a special on the kit for only $50.00 for people to come into the business and join.

Kit-Nappers will usually run around to the various Direct Sales Companies and join several of them to just get the kit. They have no intentions on ever working the business. I have found that they usually take the few products they want from the business kit and sell the rest to make their costs back, sometimes even profiting off it.

Let me make this clear, those who kit-nap, have NO intention of ever working the business. These are not people who join a company and then after receiving their business kits, decide that the company isn’t the right ‘fit’ for them. Kit-nappers are usually people who have deception on their mind from the very beginning.

After you get a new teammate you can usually tell within 2 weeks if they are serious about the business, as they will respond to your communication with them. (Kit-nappers usually don’t respond or if they do, it’s to give you their resignation notice within 2 weeks of them joining your company).

Can you stop it? Not really…you never know who is just a kit-napper and who isn’t because they will not be honest about their intentions with you.

My advice, Don’t waste your time communicating with folks who don’t want the communication. Invest your time with those on your teams who are serious about building a business. If possible, interview your potential recruit leads…sometimes you can figure out who will be serious about the business and who is kit-napping by just spending some time interviewing them and asking some questions.

~Shelly~