Direct Sellers – Content and Credibility

Direct Sellers, your company already briefed, trained, and provided you with the materials that you need in order to sell your products. So, what can you do to be able to sell your products as fast and efficiently as possible? What can you do to reach out and network more, establish trust quicker, host more and recruit more?

Sampling is the best way to sell your product – it gives the opportunity to “try it out.” It’s the same with building credibility and trust. People need to sample your character and competence. Just like a product would be hard to sell if you are not familiar with it – so goes the same with you and your brand – how can you share your selling points if you yourself don’t know them? Know your selling points and find ways your customers and recruits will benefit from connecting with you. Once you’ve figured it out, you will be selling, or a better word – presenting – yourself more confidently. This is what your people not only want to see but need to know. Credibility.

Translating your personal brand selling points

One place rapidly growing to meet up and sample who you are, are online social platforms. Create a business account on social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Make sure to know your company’s guidelines about establishing an account.

Once you have an account, invest time in keeping your site active. Put up all the information about your product and your company. People will want to learn more about the company you are selling for. Then you can start inviting subscribers to your site. Add your first degree friends, then start adding second and third degree friends. Attract subscribers by providing your own brand’s selling points along with those of the company and product line.

It is easy to create an account but it is a challenge to make your subscribers stay interested. This is why it is important to keep content flowing from your account. You want to drive traffic to your account because the more subscribers you have, the more chances you have of finding someone who is a good match as a customer, recruit, or a link to someone who is a good match.

Tips to drive traffic to your social media site

Content – in maintaining a site, your content will play a major part in marketing you and your product and generate traffic. Create articles that are related to you, your company and your product. Lean towards the helpful tone rather than the selling one. You can also get content that is related to your product from other sites – just don’t forget to cite your sources.

Add variety to the content that you post on your social media site. One way of being creative is adding a PowerPoint presentation to your site. Get an article and highlight the points and make a presentation out of it. Your subscribers will definitely want to see bullets, graphs, and stats every once in a while. Using PowerPoint will also give you a chance to be creative with color, text, and effects. You can upload your presentations and share them easily by using Slideshare. A lot of businesses are actually utilizing this online tool because it is free, easy to use and very accessible. No need to open file attachments to watch a presentation – just a link and your subscribers are ready to gain something new.

There are many ways to be creative using presentations. Utilize this and you will not have a hard time adding variety to your content.

Status Updates – social media sites allow you to update your status. Use this space to spread the word on the latest on your business. Broadcast if you just posted new content and add a short description as a teaser. When your customers see this in their feeds and find the teaser interesting, they can easily clickthrough. You also get the chance to be shared if subscribers find your content helpful and interesting.

Your personal brand in action

Your credibility will reflect when you talk to your customers. And nothing speaks with more volume about your brand that actual action. It’s often said people need to” know, like and trust you” before they do business with you.

It’s that “know and like” part that helps develop credibility so they will trust to share with you their needs and recommendations.

Part of that credibility development is knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are knowledgeable about your product and opportunity, and most importantly, that you present yourself with a confidence that comes from knowing how what makes you unique contributes and how that contributes significantly to your business.

“Maria Elena Duron, CEO (chief engagement officer), buzz2bucks | a word of mouth marketing firm, is skilled at making networks “work” and harnessing powerful online and offline buzz, she facilitates online visibility services and word of mouth coaching and workshops – taking companies and professionals from buzz-worthy to bucks-worthy, http://buzz2bucks.com.”

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What Is a Personal Strategic Plan?

Life is indeed funny. People place greater priorities about vacations and even the common written grocery lists than they do their futures. Let me explain.

Most people have gone to the grocery store or market. In many instances, they take along a written market or grocery list to ensure that all the correct items are purchased. For many this list is written to be in strategic alignment with the store’s interior space in mind.

Now sometimes the fates or distractions intervene and the piece of paper is left on the table, the refrigerator or near the phone on the desk. Then the buyer is frantically checking her or his memory to remember what to purchase. This failure to remember this simple little strategic plan generates the following outcomes:

  • More money is spent
  • Items not wanted are purchased
  • Time is wasted walking up and down the aisles in attempts to remember what is needed

Then upon returning home, negative emotions kick in because some items were forgotten and now a second trip is required. The individual actually may think additional personal thoughts such as “How stupid could I be to leave the list at home?”

By all accounts this simple strategic plan is very important because of the wasted resources of time, energy, money and emotions. Yet, how many people have a personal strategic plan for their futures. Not too many is the answer.

Strategy comes from the Greek for a general to deceive the enemy. In life we are the generals and the enemy is everything keeping us from getting to where we want to be, to winning the war so to speak.

By investing the time to write down our goals (think the items on the grocery list) we as individuals now have far more control of where we wish to go than before. Returning to that market or grocery store analogy, who do you think is the happiest camper when shoppers leave that necessary document at home? Hint, he owns the store.

When personal strategic plans are not utilized, individuals now become pawns on someone else’s playbook so to speak. They have relinquished control of their lives and willingly turned them over to someone else. I don’t know about you, but I personally do not want to be a pawn in another’s life.

A personal strategic plan, in my opinion, works much better when incorporating the Life Wheel concept. Buddha from my research was the first person to discuss the Life Wheel. After working with several different variations on this subject, I have created an 8 spoke Life Wheel that also employs a counter balance approach.

Draw a circle and divide it into eight equal pieces. Now starting at one o’clock label the eight sections as follow:

  1. Purpose
  2. Mental
  3. Career
  4. Family
  5. Ethics and Beliefs (Spiritual)
  6. Physical
  7. Financial
  8. Social

You will notice that Physical is directly across from Mental. This is because when we are not feeling well physically, our mental game suffers. The counterbalance effect can be found in the other areas of the Life Wheel:

  • Purpose and Ethics and Beliefs
  • Career and Financial
  • Family and Social

Obviously there are written goals within each of the 8 key areas for the Life Wheel.

Additionally, a personal strategic plan should be simple and on one page. This document must also contain you:

  1. Vision of where you see yourself in 3 to 5 years
  2. Values those non-negotiable behaviors you will demonstrate 24//7
  3. Mission for the current year usually 3 key goals
  4. Personal motto statement
  5. Dashboard of key performance indicators to ensure you stay on track

If you believe the common everyday written grocery list has significant value, then not having a personal strategic plan simply does not make sense. Invest the time to construct one and then work it. You just may be incredibly surprised by the results.

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P.S. Do you have a personal strategic plan for your life? If not, you may find this one page personal growth action plan of interest.

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5 Fundamental Principles on How To Build a Successful Downline

Downline Building is critical to your success. It defines your business. If you have a successful downline, you have a successful business. Building a downline is the biggest challenge your business will face. Without them, you simply don’t have a business. So how do you build a happy, productive downline?

The answer on how to build a successful downline is not found in a new marketing gimmick, or a fancy presentation. Looks do matter, and presentation can play a key role in opening the door, but they are not what keeps people interested or motivated over the long haul. There are some fundamental principles for successful downline building, and it is one’s ability to adhere to these principles that will ultimately shape your success.

Communication Is The Lifeline Of Your Business

The first and perhaps most fundamental aspect of your business is your ability to communicate with the people in your business. But what most people miss when trying to build a successful downline, is how important it is that you remain tied to your upline! You must spend organized, consistent time with your upline to help you stay plugged in. Your upline is your mentor, and you need them to keep your energy focused on productive activities. Too often folks get distracted by the common pitfalls to the business. Your upline has been through it all. Learn from their mistakes, don’t repeat them.

Commitment To Your Business Plan

When you are consistently listening and learning from your upline, it helps you remain focused to the business plan. You need to understand every component of your plan, and commit 100% to achieving the work in front of you. Your goals need to be realistic and achievable, and they need to be written down. You must be accountable to yourself and your upline, daily. Don’t try to be successful part-time. You need to work hard at getting each task done every day. Make a list, and cross off your daily tasks when you complete them. Too many people fail to work at their business, because they do it as a hobby.

If you want to build a successful downline, you have to be willing to step it up a notch.

Believe In Yourself And Your Business. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will either. The same goes for your business plan. If it doesn’t work, and you don’t believe in it, neither will they. You have to become the example for your downline. You don’t have to be “wealthy and already made” in order to make people believe in you and your business. Your confidence and belief are absolutely crucial to your downline. Generally speaking, “If you don’t, they won’t either.” Set the example. Be the pace setter. People like to follow people they can look up to. And people always respect hard workers. If you take your business and yourself seriously, they will emulate you.

Develop Your Leads By Example

If you are listening and being trained by your upline, and you are completely committed to your business plan, then you are setting the right example for your downline and their downline. When your confidence is real and not contrived, people begin to identify with you. This is the right place to be in order to develop your downline. People are looking for opportunity, and most importantly, they want someone to show them the way. When you become the example they can follow, you will discover people will identify with you easier, and your downline growth will ignite like wildfire.

Grow The Ones That Grow

As your downline grows, you’ll have folks in your business that want to grow like gangbusters, and others who poke along at a leisurely rate. You need an organized way to deal with both. The key here is to not get bogged down spending too much time and energy with the people who will likely never take their business as seriously as you take yours. Focus your time finding productive individuals, and when you have enough of them, spend your time with them, and teach them how they, too, can build a successful downline. They will learn from your example, and they will in turn demonstrate the business to their downline, and that is when you will see exponential growth.

We hope these principles will help you as you grow your business. If you take these strategies seriously, we can almost guarantee you will build a successful downline. Looking forward to see you at the TOP!

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