Effective Recruiting Begins With Your Target Market

Category : Direct Sales Articles, Direct Sales Recruiting Tips, Direct Sales Work at Home Business Tips, Home Party Plan Tips

When you are bringing new team members into your direct sales business it is important to remember that these people will join your team for different reasons. Everyone is looking for something different in their home based business. Once you understand those reasons, then you will know who your target market is and can effectively tailor your recruiting pitch to them.

Here are 3 reasons that a new member will consider joining your team and want to start their own direct sales or work at home business.

1. Personal Use ~ This type of consultant is looking to make just a little bit of money and will most likely only be joining to take a few orders every month from their family, friends and co-workers. This is so that they can get their personal items at a discount. These consultants usually only want to make $100- $200 a month as a supplement to their income.

2. Part Time Sales ~ This consultant is looking to make additional money to help support his or her family’s income. This person will usually demonstrate 2-4 parties a month and they are looking to make $200-$500 a month in additional income to supplement or for building up a nest egg. The part time sales consultant can also be a person who just wants to make some extra cash during certain seasons of the year.

3. Full Time Sales ~ This type of consultant is looking to make a full time income. This will replace a regular job so that they can support their family. This person will usually demonstrate at least 6+ parties a month and they are looking to make a minimum of $1,000 a month in income. In addition, this person will be interested in recruiting and building a team within your company’s organization so that they can add additional money per month to their income stream.

By knowing what your target market is, you can then craft your sales ads to that particular type of consultant or rep. By coming up with three different recruiting sales pitches, your recruiting methods will be much more effective and you will see a greater acceptance to your message and therefore an increase in your team numbers overall. Taking the time to learn your target market will make you more effective in your recruiting efforts.

Are You Maximizing Your Profits in Your Direct Sales Business

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Category : Direct Sales Articles, Direct Sales Work at Home Business Tips, Home Party Plan Tips

Maximizing your profits in your direct sales or party plan business really comes down to how you run your business. So let me ask you. Are you a sales based direct seller or a recruiting based direct seller? Does it really matter?

I am a sales based direct seller. I believe that sales are the foundation and basis of our business in direct sales. By using customer sales and the growth of your business through sales as the main basis of your income, then you will have a stronger business overall. With this said, I am also of the belief that strong sales will lead to strong recruits who also use sales based business model.

Another important reason that I use a sales based business model is that you actually make more money from your team sales as you are getting paid on their sales as well as any increase in income from adding a recruit to your line. I truly believe that sales drive the whole system of getting paid from your recruits. They will also sell product and make money and start then recruiting, just as their upline shows them. And the circle continues and the strenght of the whole team grows. The more product your team sells, the more money you make as well as the company.

Recruit based income is a hard concept for me sometimes. By putting the most eggs in your basket based on recruiting and then hoping that you will build yourself a team that will support you is tough. How do you make a living in the mean time, while you are building your team? And how does your teammember become good at selling the product, if no one is showing them how to? Also, if no one sold product, how can the company continue to exist?

It would make me nervous to expect a team to support me. What if they all quit? What if they didn’t buy anything next month? What if the party circuit dried up for them and their recruting efforts died? If the product doesn’t sell, the company cannot profit either….

Where do you want your business to go? Have you thought about how you have structured your business? Are you maximizing that structure to the benefit of your income and your recruits income as well? Make sure you look at all sides of the business when setting up your business plan and structuring how you do business and share all sides with your recruits as well. Recruits will tend to follow your lead until they can create their own plan and become comfortable with the business as well as learning to maximize their own profitibilty. We certainly have a responsibility to our new business partners to make sure they are being profitable so that we have a long and mutually satisifying relationship.

So now you know the best of part of being a home based business owner. Maximizing your profits and your recruits profits as well. The more you sell, the more you earn!

Tips to Recruiting Online for Your Direct Sales Business

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Category : Direct Sales Recruiting Tips, Direct Sales Work at Home Business Tips, Home Party Plan Tips

We have all seen the craziness on chat forums when someone asks a simple question about a direct sales business. People all of a sudden come out of the woodwork and offers their business and “expertise” so they will join their team and direct sales business. I don’t know about you, but that makes me crazy!

Hammering people over the head to join your team is really not a effective way to add team members. I have seen so many different methods over the 10 years I have been online with my business. What is effective is being helpful, curteous, and a resource to others. This blog is dedicated to being a resourse and I have never had to beat people over the head to join me or my business.

If you have built your business ethically and offered help and assistance to others; have branded yourself and your business online, the ones that want to work with you, will find you. Be a value to others and they in turn will be a value to you.

Now Hiring!

Category : Direct Sales Work at Home Business Tips, Home Party Plan Tips

I have a big issue with these two words! Especially when you are talking about a work at home business, MLM or direct sales business. I have addressed this issue before about using “Now Hiring” writing business ads on a blog post located here. I was not seeing it as much for a while, but now it is cropping up again. I was on Facebook the other day and saw a National Corporate Direct Sales Business, whom shalll remain nameless, use “Now Hiring” in their recruiting Ad!

Are you serious??

What in the heck is a INDEPENDANT REP supposed to think when they are “hired”, by paying their money, for a job?

“Ummmm HELLO? Where are my leads? Where is the money you say I would make? Oh, I have to do this alone? But You “Hired” me!”

WHAT THE HECK??
Yes, I know I am “yelling”. But this really ticks me off. I cannot believe that in this day and age, we are still seeing this blantant type of deceitful advertising. Hopefully, most people know that they are not reallying hired; they are starting their own business, but you never know!

I, for one, think this practice needs to stop immediately.

Just my .01 cent worth…
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Article Marketing and Your Direct Sales Business – WAHM-Articles BlogTour

Category : Article Marketing, Direct Sales Work at Home Business Tips, Ghostwriting for Blogs

I have been invited by Wahm Articles to participate in a blog tour of several sites through the month of December. We are all going to be talking about article marketing and how it would help you in your business. Since I am in the direct sales business, well, what a better topic for me than that. Enjoy the Tour!
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Article marketing can be a huge help in your direct sales business should you decide to embrace it. I know there are those of you out there asking, “why should I use it when I only sell lipsticks and lotions”?

Here is my why. Article marketing is a powerful tool in driving traffic to your website. The more people you can get to your site, the better the chances of making a connection with folks which leads to making sales, as well as recruiting people. You also have the opportunity to invite people to get on your list which will enable you to direct information to them as well. Another opportunity to make a sale and a connection.

Making connections is huge in any online business. Especially a direct sales business. We do not have the luxury of being a big box retailer. We have to forge our own way in the big, bad world of the web. Using articles that are written and directed at your niche, will bring those people that are interested in you, in what you have to say and ultimately in your products, right to your front door by using a well written article and resource box.

When you are a small fish in a big company and even one of many in your home town, making a difference and using different methods can only bring you more. Remember each resource box out there is an incoming link to your site. The more there are that are quality, the better it is for your site and your rankings. This means more traffic for your site.

So embrace article marketing in your direct sales business. There are hundreds of topics you can write about that you know. Start today and start seeing results sooner than you expect!

Footnote…..
Chris, thanks again for allowing WAHM-Articles to stop and visit your blog. We hope this post will help your readers get started with article marketing. We just came from Amy’s blog, so make sure you Click Here to read how we helped her readers. Also, make sure you click here to visit Corrie’s blog on Tuesday to see how we’re going to help her readers with article marketing.