My dad joined a network marketing company last Friday, selling green energy. It’s been super fun watching him get started. (Hi dad!) He’s never done network marketing before, so he’s got a lot to learn. But the company is a great fit for him, and he’s got a super upline in place to help him [...]
Business and Technology Excellence with Jennifer Fong
Tag Archive: team building
Start an Avalanche
Are you part of the “love avalanche?” One of my favorite parts of Facebook is when people have something to celebrate. Be it a birthday, a marriage, or any one of a number of things, Facebook makes sure people know, and then people respond! If you’ve ever celebrated a birthday while part of Facebook, you [...]
Using Facebook Groups for Your Business
I recently posted a discussion topic in my Direct Sales and Social Media with Jennifer Fong group on Facebook, asking how people were using online groups to support their teams. What I discovered was that there were a lot more questions than I realized about this topic. So today I’d like to go through some [...]
Using Social Media to Find a New Direct Sales Opportunity (or, What to Do When Your Company Closes)
A direct selling company closed its doors recently. This has been an incredibly tough economy to run a business in, and direct selling companies were not immune to it. Whenever this happens it hurts my heart on a couple of levels. I know the heartache that consultants who have invested in a company feel when [...]
Top Social Media Tools for Direct Sales Team Building
Social media can be a powerful tool that direct selling leaders can use to build and support their teams. In this article, Jennifer Fong discusses 3 tools that can be used to help a direct sales leader be more efficient, effective, and productive at team support and recruiting.
Using Social Media to Achieve Leadership in Direct Sales
Today’s post is the next in a series discussing the successes direct sales professionals are experiencing through the use of social media. I conducted a poll a few weeks ago asking direct sellers what social media tools they are currently using. 37% said they use Facebook, 23% are using Twitter, 23% use LinkedIn, and 17% [...]
Can You Run Your Direct Sales Business Exclusively Online?
This is a question I get asked a lot. Now that social media has arrived on the scene, do direct sellers really need to continue doing parties, and running the business the “old fashioned way?” Can’t we just point everybody to our website, and call it a day? And wouldn’t it make recruiting easier, if [...]
There Are No Pity Purchases Online
If you’re in direct sales, as either a direct seller or a corporate executive, you know what I’m referring to in the title of this post. The pity purchase is the purchase a customer makes at a party because they feel that they should buy SOMETHING. So they locate the cheapest item in the catalog [...]
