Are you teaching your team to develop a hobby or run a business?

How often have you heard, “Treat your business like a business and it will make you money. Treat your business like a hobby and it will cost you money.” Many new direct sellers come into the profession without business experience. Where will they learn to turn their passion for the products into a real business? They look to you, their leader, for guidance: what are you teaching them? Take a look at your new consultant training, are you teaching beyond book, sell and recruit? Do words like invest, plan, systems, income producing and return on investment appear? Do you discuss money?

Taking Your Direct Sales to Businesses

By Dana Phillips. If you want more daytime contacts, you have to take your business to places where you can see people.  I talked to [...]

Who is On Your Team?

By Dana Phillips. “Everyone on my team is a ‘hobbyist.’” “They love the meetings; they just won’t put anything into action.” “I love my people; [...]

Fun Incentives for Your Direct Sales Team

By Dana Phillips. We have earned many incentive trips throughout our direct selling career, like many of you. The other night I was thinking about [...]

The 4 Best Ways to Say No

By Neil Phillips. Being a grandfather is one of life’s best roles. You are allowed to do the fun things and put the work things [...]

Want Your Team Engaged? Coach (plain and simple).

By Neil Phillips. Look around. Seventy percent of the people you work with are either not engaged or actively disengaged. Gallup polls are consistently showing [...]

8 Key Questions to Create Positive Accountability

By Dana Phillips. I have shared a couple of posts on how to get your team to do the things they say they are going [...]

Keys to Better Coaching

By Dana Phillips. In an earlier blog, I gave you a working definition of positive accountability related to your role as a direct selling leader. [...]

Invest Your Sales Earnings in 2022

By Neil Phillips. Will your November Check be the biggest ever? Are you riding high? November is the #1 selling month for direct sellers, so [...]

Be Ready for January

By Neil Phillips. Keeping momentum through the holidays can be challenging. Many times our December goal is to be ready for the holidays on time, [...]

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