Is Your Spouse on Your Team?
Every woman deserves a spouse that is supportive of their business. Today on our Direct Sales Business Breakthrough call, a woman shared how her spouse was not supportive of her business. Truthfully, I have heard this way too may times.
Unfortunately, I have also seen too many times that a successful direct seller does not make [...]
Are You Going to Conference?
I know that Passion Parties and Avon and several other direct selling companies are getting ready for their spring business building or leadership conferences- I know other companies conferences have already passed in January or February. Whatever the case with your company- here is the point: you cannot consider yourself a committed entrepreneur if you [...]
Make Your Direct Sales Business Resolutions Stick
By Caterina Rando, MA, MCC
I love the new year! I love resolutions and I love the optimism and possibility thinking that goes along with them. I have seen many times that they can work, and believe in making them. Just like in your personal life you probably have some ideas for what you want to [...]
Keep Your Accomplishments Right In Front of You
Gwen Mazer is the author of a great book, Wise Talk Wild Women, http://www.gwenmazer.com. I attended a workshop she facilitated this past weekend.
We had been asked to bring a collage to the workshop. I went ahead and made a collage that was a vision board with all the things I want in my life: a [...]
To Cold Call or Not To Cold Call- That is the Question
You can cold call to companies to see if they want you to come in and do an event for the staff or when you can call an organization to offer to do a free speech related to your product or service to meet people and add customers.
There are a lot of people in network [...]
Are You More Sales or More Marketing?
If you are like most direct sellers, you love to do your shows or parties, you love to go out networking and you enjoy doing tradeshows or fairs where you can show people your opportunity or talk to them about your fabulous products.
I want to make sure that you recognize that there is a huge [...]
Job Fairs – Your New Recruiting Frontier
As you know, the economy is down and people are losing their jobs. Guess what? That could be the good news for you. The direct selling industry thrives when the economy is down according to one Direct Selling Association study.
People are out there looking for the answer to the question of how they are going [...]
Podcast: Up Your Acknowledgement for more Direct Selling Success
Click here to listen to Caterina Rando talk about how upping your acknowledgement can up your direct sales business. (10:22 minutes)
The Grass is Not Always Greener
Recently, I am sitting in a neighborhood Peruvian restaurant with my sweetheart when our meals arrive. My entrée is sided with home fries- new potatoes, chunked and sautéed; my honey’s plate is sided with light golden homemade garlic fries, topped with parsley, my favorite vegetable. As I feel my disappointment over not wanting what is on my plate I reach over and grab three ultimately delicious, fresh and warm fries.
Have you ever had that experience of wishing you had ordered what your dining companions have chosen? That was a rhetorical question – of course you have, we all have. Life is sometimes like that too. We see what others have, or get a glimpse into their life and lifestyle and we think, “Wow that looks good.” We see their house, body or boat and we think, “That would work for me.”
As we dined I thought this is true in almost every area except for one: people with jobs think that self-employed people have it better, most self-employed people do not think that people with jobs have it better.
Embrace Rejection and Humiliation
By Caterina Rando, MA, MCC
CHOOSE HUMILIATION TODAY
I was going through my office supply closet the other day when I came across a bright sheet of orange copy paper that had written on it a quote from Betty Furness, American consumer advocate and journalist. After reading it I quickly taped it up on my wall right [...]