Recently a direct seller mentioned to me that she’d been approached by someone in her downline about joining that person’s “secondary” business. In other words, the direct seller in question was working two businesses, and was soliciting people in one business to join the other. The leader who had been approached was annoyed. She was [...]
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September is the BEST Month to Recruit
Happy September! Can you believe it’s here already? I personally could use another month of summer, but am bowing to the inevitability of school supplies, late busses, routines and cold weather. (I really need to move somewhere warmer!) As a direct seller, you need to realize that your customers and prospects are currently in a [...]
How to Build Your Direct Sales Team Right Now
I was recently speaking with a client who was looking to grow recruiting numbers for August. It seemed like things had slowed down considerably, and this client was looking for ways to turn things around. Of course one of the first questions I was asked was how social media could fix this. And I had [...]
How to Create a Facebook Page for Direct Sales Recruiting
It’s fairly easy to create a Facebook Page if your goal is to increase sales. Pretty much all you need to do is provide content related to your product line. So if you sell bags? Share tips on organization. Clothing or jewelry? Fashion tips! Nutriceuticals? Healthy living tips. See? It’s pretty easy to identify the [...]
Stop Spamming Your Opportunity!
Yesterday I received a note through Facebook from a direct seller who had just been approached about a business opportunity by a rep with another company. The person who was pitching the opportunity mentioned that she had found the gal through me. (!!!) Apparently this individual had gone through my Facebook Page and scraped the [...]
You Need a Team
For the last 2 years, I’ve grown a successful social media consulting business. I’ve been able to service lots of corporate clients within the direct selling industry, and have had some amazing experiences along the way. Yet, as I made my plans for 2011, I realized that I had a limitation in my business. I [...]
4+ Ways to Ethically Recruit Online
This past week I received a LinkedIn message from someone who wanted to recruit me. He saw that I was a member of a LinkedIn group associated with a particular direct sales company, and since he was with a company that sold a similar product line, he was trying to get me to leave the [...]
Where Does Social Media Fall in a Direct Sales Company?
I do a lot of corporate work in the direct sales industry, and thus have the good fortune of networking with a lot of really smart folks in the industry doing social media. We’ve recently been discussing the topic of recruiting with social media. What I found fascinating is that in smaller companies, there is [...]
