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Archive for January, 2010

When it comes to joining the right Direct Sales business for you, there are many things you need to consider. With my post today, I would like to point out what you should be considering in regards to selecting the ‘right’ company for you.

1. Are you familiar with the products for this particular company? Are you already using them?

To succeed with whatever company you choose, you need to use and love the products that you will be selling to others. You should never join a company who’s products you have never personally used.

2. What is required of you? Will there be weekly or monthly sales meeting that you will be required to attend? If so, do these meetings fit into your schedule?

3. Consultant Compensation Plan – Do you understand the compensation plan? If it’s a legitimate company, you will be selling a product and/or service. Do you feel that you will be paid adequately for the work that you will be doing?

4. Products – Are the products in high demand in your local area? Are the products of high quality? Do the products come with a company backed warranty or does the consultant eat the costs when a customer is unhappy?

5. Placing Orders and Delivering Orders – How are orders placed? Are they mail-in, phone, email, internet, etc. and does this order method suit your needs? Who delivers the orders? If it is you…how many hours a week can you devote to personally delivery orderings? Does the company offer direct to customer shipping?

6. Start up costs – Almost all legit company’s have some sort of start up cost…I have seen them low cost (around $20 and up to $500). If you are paying to start a home business in Direct Sales…can you afford the start up costs? What do you get for these costs?

When you pay for a start up business kit, you want to make sure you get several demonstration products, paper business supplies, a consultant manual/guide book, etc. You don’t want to be sucked in by paying $100 and a few days later find out that you need to dish out another $50 to get everything that you need.

7. Training – Who will be responsible for training you? How will this training be conducted? You will want to make sure that your sponsor’s schedule meets your schedule and that however this person does their training that it suits your needs.

There are a lot of things to consider before joining a Direct Sales company. I suggest you sit down with pen and paper and come up with a list of things that you are looking for in regards to finding a reputable company. Before you sign up on the dotted line, get all of your questions and concerns answered by your potential sponsor…then take a few days to think about it before making your decision.

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Do you enjoy decorating your home for Valentine’s Day? Are you looking for some easy family craft activities that incorporate the Valentine’s Day theme?

When our daughter was a little girl, we enjoyed decorating our home for each and every holiday along with the various seasons…and Valentine’s Day was no exception.

Here are some crafty ideas that you can make with your children this year.

1. Cut out pink, red and white hearts (various sizes) from construction paper. Use a hole punch and punch a hole in the center top area of your heart. Thread some satin ribbon through to make a hanging loop. Give the children some glue and let them glue on some rhinestones, beads, charms, glitter, buttons etc. Then use some suction cups and hang them up on your windows or household mirrors.

2. Homemade Valentine’s Day Cards…you can make them simple or elaborate using construction paper, stickers, markers, glutter glue paint pens, etc.

3. You can make a heart banner by cutting out and decorating paper hearts from construction paper. Use a hole punch and punch a hole in the side of each heart and thread them together with satin ribbon or yarn. Then proudly hang up your banner some where in your home.

4. If you are crafting with older children, consider doing some baking. You can bake cupcakes and cakes and decorate them in a Valentine’s Day theme. Children love to add sprinkles and little candies to the frosting!

~ Shelly ~

Do you challenage yourself in your home business? If not, you really should!

I like to give myself monthly challenges as this helps to motivate me and helps to keep me on track with my business goals.

I will look over my previous months activities and then come up with a challenge for the following month.

For example:

If I had 4 party bookings in December, I will challenge myself to obtain 5 for January. If I had 7 new customers the previous month, I will challenge myself to obtain 9 in January.

If I spent 10 hours in December networking my business online, I will challenge myself to spend 15 hours in January.

I think it’s very important to keep stats on your month to month activities. Then use these stats to challenge yourself to ‘up’ those states the following month.

Giving yourself monthly challenges can help to motivate you to do even more for your business the following month. If I accomplish the personal challenge that I have given to myself, I like to reward myself with a little something for myself ie. manicure, pedicure, massage, etc. Not only will you end up ‘treating’ yourself with a little something…but you will end up with a business that is growing at a steady pace.

The more you work on your business…the more it grows and the more money you will make.

~Shelly~

Are you looking for some products to help you with your Direct Sales business? If so, Please check out The Booster!

I have bought a lot of products aka sales aids from the booster over the years and I feel they are very beneficial for any Direct Sales business.

You can purchase pens, pencils, stickers, postcards, bookmarks and other “paper” type of goods to help assist you with your business. I personally like the stickers that I can stick and use in my product catalogs. I am also a big fan of their preferred customer club cards and ‘new’ catalog is available postcards.

You can also purchase some great books that are geared towards those of us in Direct Sales. I personally own and have used the “Meeting Magic” book which is great for team leaders!

So head on over to The Booster web site and see if they have anything to help assist you with your Direct Sales business.

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When it comes to cleaning things around our home to prevent infections, do you remember to clean the little things?

I know as a mother and grandmother, I often get busy and just do my basic house cleaning…but part of my 2010 New Year’s Resolution was to get better cleaning the little things that harbor germs and bacteria around my home.

Here are some of the items we all need to remember to clean on a weekly basis.

Telephones and Cell Phones
Remote Controls to TV, Stereos and DVD Players
Light Switches
Door Knobs
Cabinet Knobs and Drawer Pulls
Handles on our appliances
On/Off switches on our lamps
Gaming Consoles (especially the controllers)
etc.

It is important to remember to clean and wipe down those little things in our homes that our families frequently touch.

You can go out and purchase ‘green’ cleaners or you can use those handy dis-infecting wipes…either one, just as long as you get into the weekly habit of wiping these types of little things down.

~ Shelly ~

A website tracker is a very important tool for any webmaster even if you don’t have your own domain name or pay for hosting.

There are four main reasons using a website tracker is imperative even if you’re not promoting anything online.

1. Many people who own their own domain name and use pay hosting will often have a stat tracker included. Depending on your hosting company, many who uses cPanel will show you stats.

These statistics show where your visitors are coming from (search engine including what keyword phrase they used to find you, from another website etc.), track pageviews, show the most popular pages, top referring sites, top search engines, top search phrases and much more. Basically it shows what your visitors are doing or clicking on your website.

You will also see computer specifications such as IP address, country, browser types, resolutions etc.

2. Website trackers will also benefit you in your ad campaigns. It will track unique and returning visitors. How many times your ad was clicked, sales and so forth.

3. Website trackers displays top keyword or keyword phrases that can help you in your article marketing and ad campaigns. Use these keywords or keyword phrases in your articles.

4. What I really like about site trackers is not just the great website information you get, but it also alerts you in finding people who have plagiarised, scraped or stolen content from you. Too many times I have found my content stolen from viewing my statistics.

Here are some website trackers you can look into to add to your websites or use your favourite search engine to find what you need.

- Add Free Stats
- Stat Counter
- Site Meter