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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]