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Why this is Exactly the Right Time for Your Small Business

July 26, 2020Advertising, Attitude, Direct Sales Tips, Entrepreneurs ONLY, Get Results, Get Your Energy Flowing, How to Make It, Inspiration, Network Marketing Made Easy, Problem Solving, Success n Network Marketing, Tips for your business, What Kind of Network Marketer are You?Adapting Your Small Business, Small Business, Small Business Covid-19, Small Business In Crisis, Small Business Success, Small Business Support, Small Business TipsFindSalesRep.com

You are a small business owner. You work hard. You manage and promote your businesses as you strive to succeed and a make difference in your finances. We know it’s a tough grind and that there are plenty of obstacles in your way. Covid-19 is just the latest in a long line of hurdles. The pandemic has touched every aspect of our lives and it is reminding us of how interconnected we all and how our actions can significantly impact those around us, as we find ourselves adapting to a new normal. How we respond to new demands, how we support each other through crisis, how we modify our ways of doing business and how we revise the ways in which we interact with both our business partners and our customers, all of these new interactions are shaping our new small business plans.

How we respond to new demands Things are not the same. Living and working through a pandemic is something new for all of us. The economy is being artificial supported by the federal government and showing no real signs of recovery. Economists and experts agree that the economy won’t really start to recover until there is a cure for the Coronavirus. The new world we find ourselves in can NOT be responded to in the same ways we are used to. We must search for new ways to respond to the new demands a of socially distant world. Gone are the days of face to face marketing and meetings in coffee shops. The Zoom call and other online interactions have replaced the time honored tactics of the most successful sales representatives and entrepreneurs. Today, small businesses are encouraged to do their part to keep their employees, customers, and themselves healthy. To do that, they need to be creative. Lucky for you, your business is already online. You have a link to your company website, a place where you can send people that want what you’ve got. You’re used telling people face to face how to get there. Now, for your business to survive, you will have to look for ways to tell them online.

Directories: Like FindSalesRep, Manta, Yelp and others
Advertisements: Google is the leader, but there are literally millions of places to buy ads
Social Media Marketing: There are a lot, but you will have the most success using Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook
Blog: Share ideas and products that can help others relieve some of the stress. Help people adapt to the new way of life that we are all facing and make life a little easier for others.

How we support each other through crisis There’s no denying how difficult these times are. Stress, hardship, uncertainty all require a response that is both empathetic and compassionate. In your business, you are a leader. Leaders need to look for ways to identify with the feelings, thoughts and attitudes of their customers, their teams, their employees and their business partners. Show that you, through your business have feelings of deep sympathy and sorrow for others who are stricken by misfortune. Show them that you have a strong desire to alleviate their suffering.

For your customers: Identify strategies that they can use today to combat there problems. Can your business offer a solution, some support or comfort?
For your Team or employees: How can you directly help them today? Can you call or connect with them to identify what they need

How we modify our ways of doing business In these times especially, we are constantly reminded how one person’s action can impact the life of another. Just think about how big your reach can be and then work with others to make it even bigger. Collaborate with your business partners to change how you do your business. Start work together to use your joint interests to become something bigger than you are apart. There are many types of business partnerships to consider. Businesses with different basic interests can partner together to share content or customers. The benefit of this type of collaboration is to reduce worry about competition. A great example is to host an online party. Invite 10 reps from different, non similar companies to host. In order to qualify as a host each must bring 2 reps with them to the party. That’s 30 people at one event and a fun party! This idea also works for training events, swapping sprees, swag bag exchanges and basket giveaways, all of which can be done completely online. The swapping spree, swag bag exchange and gift basket giveaways can be run a little differently. They offer you and you business partners ways to share revenue. If this sounds too confusing or too difficult, it’s not. In fact, chances are you are already a part of a revenue sharing partnership. If you or your business are an affiliate, consultant, representative or ambassador of any brands where you earn a percentage of the sale, that’s a revenue partnership. 😉 You can get creative with all of these types of partnership.

How we revise the ways in which we interact with both our business partners and our customers. Meaningful interactions begin with kinder leaders. If you think back to the most impactful mentors you have had either professionally or unofficially, you will instantly remember their kindness toward you. They made time for you and they connected with you. Now, during this time of so much anxiety and suffering, you could take advantage of the moment and seize the opportunity and become a more empathetic leader. Reach out and check in on your customers, teammates, employees and business partners. Treat them like friends and family.

These new interactions are shaping your new small business plan. Kindness is contagious and good for business. Show genuine gratitude and interest in the concerns of others. Public display recognition and affection. Putting them first will have an mediate positive effect on your business. These small but meaningful gestures will create lasting connections of goodwill and mutual prosperity.

Take the extra time that you have during this imposed down time that we are all being forced to take and find new ways to make people happy!

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It’s like This Was Written For You

June 30, 2020Advertising, Build It Make It Create It, Community Support, Direct Sales Tips, Entrepreneurs ONLY, Get in Front of an Ideal Audience, Get Results, Get Your Energy Flowing, How To Do The Business, How to Make It, How to Reach Your Target Audience, Inspiration, Network Marketing Made Easy, Reach Your Target Audience, Success n Network Marketing, Tips for your business, Women in Business5 Tips to Help you become an Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Thinking, Entrepreneurs ONLYFindSalesRep.com

Grab a pen and a piece of paper for notes and go to The Life-Changing Magic Of Words: 5 Reasons You Need To Think Like A Copywriter

Yesterday, Jill Griffin, influencer and master leadership trainer, published an interview with Tamsin Henderson on Forbes. Tamsin Henderson is the creator of the #1 best-selling copy writing course on Udemy, the world’s largest online learning platform.

She helps entrepreneurs give their ideas the best possible chance of success, wherever they are writing and sharing their ideas and products.

“Tamsin’s simple, down-to-earth approach proves that anyone can overcome their fear of writing, and see results.”

You will probably want to talk about what you learn. So, post in the comments. What tip will help you most with your business?

11 Things You Can Do To Achieve More Today

February 25, 2015Attitude, Beleif, Build It Make It Create It, Direct Sales Tips, Entrepreneurs ONLY, Get Your Energy Flowing, Goal Setting, How To Do The Business, How to Make It, Inspiration, Making It In Net Work Marketing, Problem Solving, Success n Network Marketing, Tips for your business, Vision Board, What if you couldDirect Sales, Home Business, How to Achieve Anything, How to Find Opportunities, Make Something Happen, Own Business, Sign of Intelligence, Stop waisting time, Think about the Possibilities, Vision BoardFindSalesRep.com

It can be overwhelming. Being your own boss will offer you moments of self doubt, crushing stress and frustration. BUT… but there’s also excitement, adventures, new possibilities and a whole lot of clapping and smiling when you achieve success.

You may not be able to quit your job today or follow every direct sales lead that comes your way, but every day contains within it countless opportunities, all waiting to see what you will do.

Theses are the choices that will make all the difference in your business. They are the things that will determine your current level of success and your likelihood of you achieving your goals in the future.

So, WHAT IF? What if you make some changes today and stick to them? WHAT IF?

Sometimes even the smallest shift in thinking or doing can create the biggest opportunities.

To get started:

1. Stop thinking and stopping there. Getting a good idea is NOT enough. Write down all of your ideas, right when you have them. Then, put them on your calendar and make them happen.

2. Challenge your beliefs about what you can and can’t do. You are better than you think you are. Yeah, you really are that good!

3. Challenge your ideas about how things work. Sometimes when you decide how things should be you limit your ability to see how they CAN BE. Take a look at how others ‘do the business’ and see which things you think you could try to adopt in to your day to day business plans.

4. Have a vision, a dream, a goal. Write down your goals. “I will… by this date…” Then create a vision board and put on it those things that will be visible you when you achieve your goals. (Directions for creating a vision board can be found in the search on this blog.)

5. Look for opportunities in every failure. Avoid the victim mentality, everything that happens, whether to-you or by-you is an opportunity. Yes, EVERYTHING! Change your attitude and start LOOKING for the opportunity in EVERYTHING.

6. Remove something from your life that doesn’t serve you. Make room for something better and new. These can be small things, like a cluttered work space or big things like a business partner that is holding you back. Either way, take the time to evaluate those things that you let in to your business and make room for new things that will encourage growth.

7. Commit to something. You know those things that you always say you’ll do but you never seem to start start—start them. Go, right now, GO! Write it on your calendar and figure out how to make it happen. Take the first step right now.

8. DON’T think about what you DON’t want. DO think about what you DO want. Shift your energy from complaining, worrying and waisting time to doing, taking action and achieving.

9. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Positive energy creates positive results. Enough said.

10. Self Improvement is a sign of growth and intelligence. Anytime you improve your habits, you pave the path for personal excellence.

11. Forgive your self and others. Let go of grudges. Removing barrier opens doors.

Attracting the RIGHT People on Facebook

January 23, 2015Direct Sales Tips, Entrepreneurs ONLY, Expand Beyond Your Warm Market, Get in Front of an Ideal Audience, Get Results, Get Your Energy Flowing, How To Do The Business, How to Reach Your Target Audience, Inspiration, Make Money On Facebook, Network Marketing Made Easy, Tips for your businessFind potential customers on facebook, Finding Friends on Facebook, Grow Your Business on Facebook, How to do Direct Sales, How to make friends on facebook, Making Friends on Facebook, Making good business connectinsFindSalesRep.com

“Let’s Be Friends”

You know how awkward it can feel sending a friend request to someone on facebook that you don’t actually know. BUT… it really doesn’t have to be creepy.

Finding friends that you have interests in common with, like YOUR BUSINESS can be good for both you and the person you are making a new connection with. Making NEW friends on fb can be fun for EVERYONE.

Think about it, these are people that you are going to have direct, personal contact and they might even turn in to potential customers and who knows, you might become their customer too, or maybe you will exchange referrals. It’s good for everybody, but especially for small-business owners, like you that want to connect directly with local people, this can give you and your business a big boost.

So… YOU ready to make some new friends?

POST below in the comment section. Let us know that you LOVE making NEW friends and then give us a link to your fb page and your business website. If you want, you can also give a brief — very brief — bio of your involvement with your company.

Once you’ve posted about YOU, start making new friends with the other small business owners in the comment section below. You can send a friend request and/or comment about their post. BE FRIENDLY!

Take some time to find relevant connections. You don’t have to be friends with everybody. You’ll find that connecting with like minded people will inspire you.

CONNECTIONS are EVERYTHING in Direct Sales…. Let’s START CONNECTING!

How Can You Start Growing Your Direct Sales Business Today

December 17, 2013Beleif, Direct Sales Tips, Get Your Energy Flowing, How To Do The Business, How to Make It, Inspiration, Making It In Net Work Marketing, Network Marketing Made Easy, Tips for your businessAchieve Dreams in Network Marketing, Strong Work Ethic in Direct SalesFindSalesRep.com

Help someone else!

It will take a little soul searching and a little self improvement. But, reaching out and helping someone else is the single most inportant thing you can do TODAY to grow your business.

Recently, I listened to Steve Jobs autobiographer talk about what kind of leader Steve Jobs had been. He said that Steve was a brutally honest leader. He encouraged Positive Attitudes, never let A players slack and never waisted too much time on B Players. He Pushed Day Dreamers, to Take Chances and to turn Dreams in to getting stuff done! Here is what Steven Tobak wrote about Successful Business Entrepreneurs:

“You won’t achieve the American Dream by dreaming”

(Source: MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY. We live in volatile times where viewpoints are highly polarized. The way people see business in America is no exception. Lately, it seems as if management commentary is either feel-good fluff or anti-business rhetoric.

Of course, neither extreme relates very well to the realities of the business world, which makes it all the more frustrating for those of you seeking to advance your career through meaningful insight.

Speaking of which, one of the key insights you’ll learn sooner or later is not to trust conventional wisdom. If you don’t take chances and challenge the status quo, you won’t get anywhere. So you should probably avoid or at least challenge extreme thinking. In other words, don’t drink the Kool-Aid from either side.

Perhaps the most damaging piece of popular career and leadership fluff is that you should reach for the stars, aspire to the corner office, and don’t stop until you achieve your dreams. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t that the American Dream, start from nothing and become a big-time success?

Absolutely, but you won’t achieve the American Dream by dreaming. You’ll achieve it by doing.

You see, successful executives and business leaders aren’t typically driven by high aspirations. They didn’t get to where they are by walking around with their heads in the clouds. They got there by putting one foot in front of the other and getting stuff done.

And they did it for one or more of these four reasons: because it was their job and they had a strong work ethic, out of necessity to put food on the table, to bring a product to market they thought customers would want, or they had a passion for what they were doing and thought it was cool.

Just to be clear, I’m not arguing against Robert Browning’s insightful statement that, “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” I’m not saying you shouldn’t work your tail off, seek your passion in life, have a vision of something unique, or want to do great things. What I am saying is that you don’t accomplish those things by spending your time thinking about how to get to the top of the corporate ladder.

So how do you achieve the American Dream?

You get there by delivering the goods, getting the job done, and satisfying the needs of your customer, whoever that is. If you get really good at doing those things, that’s how you achieve the American Dream. That’s how success really works. Here are some notable examples of what I’m talking about:

When Mark Zuckerberg was developing Facebook, he was building something he thought would be cool. He wasn’t thinking about running a big company and becoming a billionaire.

Richard Branson didn’t aspire to build a global conglomerate of over 200 companies when he opened a record shop and mail order retailer named Virgin.

Bill Gates did not have stars in his eyes when he licensed an operating system to IBM for the first personal computer. He was just trying to satisfy a big new customer.

Fred Smith was not driven by the idea that FedEx would someday become an everyday verb for express mail. He was driven by the idea of a fully integrated air-to-ground shipping business that could operate efficiently using hubs.

When Ed Whitacre started out as a facility engineer with Southwestern Bell in 1963 and slowly worked his way up the corporate ladder over the coming decades, he wasn’t thinking about someday running the company and, after a series of mergers, creating the nation’s largest telecom company and relaunching AT&T.

In 1927, not only were Dick and Mac McDonald not trying to create the world’s first and ultimately its biggest fast food empire, McDonald’s, it took 21 years for them to realize they should be focusing on burgers instead of hot dogs.

Kraft Foods started with James L. Kraft selling cheese door-to-door. Toyota founder Sakichi Toyoda made looms. Sony started out as a radio repair shop in Tokyo. Nokia was a paper mill in Finland.

Click Here to Read More on: Unusual origins of 15 innovative companies

I can go on and on, but the point is this. The secret to success isn’t aspiring to great things. It’s doing great things. And far more often than not, that starts with doing not-so-great things. Oftentimes, you don’t even know what you’re doing is great until way after the fact.

You won’t get to the top by thinking about how you’re going to be a rich executive someday, but by thinking about how people may actually have use for a personal computer, building them in a garage, and selling them, the way Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did. Or by just doing your job better than anyone else and slowly but steadily climbing the corporate ladder from the bottom to the top, the way Whitacre did.

Remember, you won’t achieve the American Dream by dreaming. You’ll achieve it by doing. Your motives won’t be grandiose. They’ll be simple and straightforward, like loving what you do, solving a customer problem, or putting food on the table. That’s what motivates successful people.

Source: Money Watch

Tips to Help You Start Growing Your Direct Sales Business Today

December 8, 2013Direct Sales Tips, Get Your Energy Flowing, Getting the Job Done, Goal Setting, How To Do The Business, How To Grow Your Direct Sales Team, How to Make It, Inspiration, Network Marketing Made Easy, Problem Solving, Tips for your businessGrow yYour Direct Sales Business, How to Build a Team in Direct Sales, Setting Business goals in Direct Sales, Start Growing Your BusinessFindSalesRep.com

Only you can make transformation happen. NO One Else Can Build Your Business For You!

Todays we Challenge you to set clear goals:

Let’s start with your ‘Why’? What do you want to happen?

I joined my company to __________________________________________________________________.

My goal is to reach my target income _______________ and become ________________ by ______________.

I want to improve my current level of business success by focusing on:

Building my team Doing more Marketing Making more calls Attending more trainings Attending more table opportunities

Hosting more Parties Other _____________________

Take time to write down your answers to the questions above. Know your ‘how much, by when’ number and then…

Find an example of someone who has accomplished what you want to accomplish. If you want to be come the top recruiter for your company and get in great financial shape, find someone who was in your present condition and notice what they were able to achieve. That person is ‘living proof’ that it can be done! You can do this, but having them in you mind ALWAYS will help you keep your focus!

There are people, just like you that have reached their business goal just by making a few simple changes. How are you doing? Are you “Sticking To It”? Today, we would like you to share real-life testimonial from someone who was struggling with their business, until they found a way.

Maybe it’s your story – Please share it in the comments!

Maybe it’s someone else’s story that resonates with you… Post a link to their story

As you listen to stories like this, you’ll learn that for anyone who has ever tried to grow a business and has failed, you don’t have to fail again! YOU CAN DO THIS!

All those people with success stories had tried gimmicks, workshops and training programs with short-term results—or worse, no results and or negative side effects. But, they kept trying, they kept trying until they found something that worked! Their company is not the only comp plan that works, YOUR WILL WORK TOO!

No mentor’s success story yet? Today’s the day you find one. Go to your primary company for support. Search success stories until you find one that will drive you. Then, —we hope you will be inspired to Create Your Own Success Story!

And… Just a motivational reminder! TAKE YOUR BEFORE PICTURE and MEASUREMENTS if you haven’t already! Think business success picture. Where do you stand today? These are the snap shots of where you are right now. YOU will need these facts at the end of your Success Story. To show how far you have come. Get it Done!

Focus on victory

Today, when your thoughts turn toward the challenges you face, think about success. Keep in mind that thousands of people have have made a decision to transform their lives and have had tremendous success in Direct Sales. You are following in the footsteps of people just like you, that were ready to commit and they Stuck To It!

We Know YOU Can Do This!

Gabby, Consultant Support@FindSalesRep.com

Are You a Big Thinking Entrepreneur

December 10, 2012Attitude, Beleif, Get Your Energy Flowing, New Marketers, Tips for your business, What Kind of Network Marketer are You?Big Thinker, Direct Sales Opportunity, Entrepreneurial Thinking, Hard Times Inspiration, How to Duplicate Your BusinessFindSalesRep.com

Thinking BIG is a really big deal, because Entrepreneurs who are capable bigger thinking are the ones who earn the big leadership positions in their companies. They are ALWAYS the ones rising to the top. You’ll notice them because they always have followers… ‘duplicators’.

If you considered yourself a “bigger thinker,” then you are now ready for the unthinkable in business. It’s time to prove yourself and turn those big ideas into really big action steps and take them.

Think you can’t do it??? Good, because often that is when BIG thinkers do their best thinking – when it’s do or die! Being up against a hurtle can actually be a good thing for Big Thinker, because it allows you the opportunity to demonstrate the kind of entrepreneur you really are in your business.

So, put a smile on your face when when you come across a stumbling blocks, difficulties, or obstacles. Your big thoughts turned in to actions in the face of tough times will reveal just how big your thinking really is!

Words on a Page

November 28, 2012Attitude, Get Your Energy Flowing, How To Do The Business, Inspiration, Making It In Net Work Marketing, Must Read Books, Time Management, Tips for your businessBuild Your Direct Sales Business, Direct Sales Aids, Direct Sales Books, Direct Sales Losers, Direct Sales Tools, Direct Sales Winners, I Read It In A Book, Who's on Your Direct Sales Team, Words On Page Change EverythingFindSalesRep.com

Do you sometimes just sit down with a book and open to a random page to look for wisdom/inspiration? Some of my best ideas have come from this little action.

Have you ever tried it? What happened? Did you learn a business lesson at just the right moment? Where you motivated to take a risky step that made all the difference? What’s YOUR STORY?

Heres a few to get you started:

Mariah Colella-Slider I do it with my bible… and it always helps!
Giorgianna Michelle Goudas I have done this with my book of meditations.. and also with the bible. I have done this not for business reasons, but if I felt lost or confused in general… Actually, I can say that 90% of the time I come across something that helps me get through whatever it is that is keeping me down! 🙂 In effect,though, this does help me professionally, because if we are not “okay” mentally/emotionally, we cannot work to the best of our abilities.
Great question!!

This one happened this morning:

I had to get up and take a walk. I needed to THINK my way through a problem. I was getting no where sitting in front of the computer. As, I pushed away from my desk, I grabbed “How To Get Rich” by Felix Dennis. As an author, he is not my usual cup of tea, but he is one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs, so I have been reading his book ssssllllooooowwllyy over the last few months, for inspiration. I am on the chapter called The Power of Focus – yeah ironic.

Here’s what I read,

“Only hire winners. There may or may not be such a thing as bad luck. But whether it exists or not, it is certainly contagious. Hire Winners or people you believe will become winners. Fire whiners and moaners swiftly. That’s contagious, too. You are trying to create an environment where making money is on everyone’s mind most of the time. Losers and winers usually have other priorities.”

Those words hit me like a bolt from above today! They stopped me in my tracks and lit a whole new idea in my head! Here’s what came from that moment of INSPIRATION: Problem – Trying to Save the World. lol Yeah, I work on that sometimes.

I was thinking about how to help certain people with their business. I was thinking about my own experiences in Direct Sales and then applied Felix’s advice. In Direct Sales, reps typically think, “I’d be happy if anyone joined my business. The more sign ups the better.” BUT… Felix and I do NOT agree.

“Only Hire Winners!” No, you are not ‘hiring’ people when they join your organization, but you are letting them in to your business and they WILL have an effect on your SUCCESS. “Bad luck” like a Bad attitude is CONTAGIOUS, and it can suck up a lot of your time and energy – just thinking about it. Example: Think about the people that already exists on your team. Remember back to a moment when one them ‘whined or moaned’. lol Just thinking about them, makes you start frowning right?! It stops you in your path. Solving their problems kept you from your priorities – Right?

Now, think about someone on your team, who has had some success, maybe more that you. Do you start dreaming about the future when they pop in to your mind? That’s what happens to me. Their Winning Attitude is CONTAGIOUS, even when I just think about them and when I hang around them – WOW! That’s POWERFUL STUFF!

In your business, you are trying to earn money. There may be a lot of other admirable things you are trying to accomplish too, but in order to succeed at any of these things You Must, “Create the environment”. Weed out Losers and SEEK out Winners and you will find that you have a lot more time, a TON more fun and a huge amount of success!

Thanks Felix!

Don’t Waste Your Time

November 12, 2012Get Your Energy Flowing, How to Make It, Inspiration, Time Management, Tips for your businessBusiness Inspiration, Business Tips, Define Your Purpose, Drama Free Zone, Save Time and Energy, Set Priorities, Stay Away From Drama, Time Management, Who Are YOUFindSalesRep.com

Time Management can be a huge struggle for any entrepreneur.

The key- Don’t Waste Your Time:

Define your purpose!

Your priorities, energy, mental clarity and focus will then fall naturally in to place.

When you become really clear about who you are and what you want, your purpose will become clear too. That’s when you can more effectively lay out your priorities. You will know just what to do. Getting your priorities (goals) straight will help you to naturally begin to make better choices and you will know where to put your time and energy.

Stay away from negative energy, drama, bad habits, and empty foods. They all drain your focus, energy and mental clarity.

The healthier and more passionate someone is about who they are and what they are doing, typically the more effective they are in every hour of every day. Having a passion for living your purpose is the ultimate fuel for success. Living in the drama-free zone is a great place to start.

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