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Would You Rather Join With an Eeyore or a Tigger Sponsor?

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Attitudes are contagious.

If you spend time with someone who is always crabbing and complaining, it too can drag you down. It won’t be long before you also start to adopt nonproductive emotions and attitudes.

Likewise, if you spend time with those who are positive, chipper and generally happy, it’s easy to maintain your own peaceful, joyful attitude.

Some say opposites attract, but I disagree. Like attracts like. I consider myself pretty positive. I embrace living in the moment and appreciating each moment. I don’t sweat the small stuff … and it’s mostly all small.

If you’re a direct sales independent consultant you know that you have a two-fold business, sales and sponsoring. If you’re having a hard time team building, take a look at what type of recruits you may be attracting.

Are You a Tigger?

Tigger personalityTigger is genuinely friendly and bouncy. He likes to sing, “The wonderful thing about Tiggers is I’m the only one!” He is cheery, positive, sweet and energetic. He’s FUN to be around. See for yourself.

eeyore personalityOr Are You an Eeyore?

Eeyore  is a pessimistic old grey donkey. He lives in the southeast corner of the Hundred Acre Wood, in an area labeled “Eeyore’s Gloomy Place: Rather Boggy and Sad” Have a look.

Like Attracts Like

I see direct sales consultants on forums and Facebook complaining or finding reasons to be upset about one thing or another. It’s no surprise their business isn’t going well. It’s no wonder they’re not building strong teams. They are leading by example, but not a very good example. [Read more…] about Would You Rather Join With an Eeyore or a Tigger Sponsor?

Mid-Year Tax Tips for Direct Sales Consultants

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income tax tipsCan you believe 2014 is half over already?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news or bring up ugly subjects, but someone has to – in a word: taxes.

If you are typically a procrastinator each and every year when it comes to bookkeeping, make this year the year of change. Make 2014 the year you will be organized or at least have less of a mess to contend with before you file your 2014 income taxes.

File Piles

Do you have a pile of 2014 receipts that need some sort of action? Whether you file your income taxes as a sole proprietor using a Schedule C or you’re an S-Corp or some other designation, income and expenses need to be tracked.

IRS Audits

I’ve been audited by the IRS three (3) times for my Scentsy business since 2006. I come out okay but it is a royal pain and highly invasive. I keep meticulous records, but it is time consuming to do so.  I do not have a fancy system, it is pretty basic; I don’t use any Quickbooks or other accounting software.

My Simplistic System

Here’s what I do, take what you like and discard the rest. I do have an accountant who I use and who pays my monthly taxes and payroll (I’m an S-Corp now) but the basic bookkeeping no matter what your business designation remains fairly similar. [Read more…] about Mid-Year Tax Tips for Direct Sales Consultants

5 Tips to Stay Motivated During Summer

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home business summer ideasSure I’d rather lie on the beach all day too! If your business is on vacation throughout the summer, you can plan for a lousy fall season.

Summertime. Beautiful sunrises, fresh air, sunny days, gorgeous sunsets. Who could possibly work inside when it’s so inviting outside? Staying motivated can be challenging, no doubt. Follow these five tips to help you ensure your business doesn’t suffer this summer.

1. Work outside whenever possible.

Take your iPad or laptop outside. It can be difficult to see the screen if the sun is blaring so sit under an umbrella at the picnic table. Do you need to sharpen the saw? Read a great motivational or how-to book while at the beach. Need to make some a phone calls? Step out on the deck to talk. Prepare a mailing or label catalogs from your lawn chair. The more often you allow yourself to be outside, the less you’ll be longing to be out there.

2. Early to rise.

Get up a little earlier than norm so that you can hunker down and work for four hours before the children wake or before it gets too beautiful outside. That way you will have already put in a half day of work and you can play outside for a chunk of the day. [Read more…] about 5 Tips to Stay Motivated During Summer

Garage Sale Recruiting

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direct selling tipsWill Brake for Garage Sales

Some independent direct sales consultants have a garage sale mentality when it comes to recruiting new team members. See if you are one of them:

  • You either target particular garage sales, yard sales, church sales, neighborhood sales or estate sales based on ads you’ve seen on Craig’s List or other advertising platforms – or as you are just headed down the street you stumble upon a sale.
  • You evaluate the signage. If it is large and brightly colored, you decide it might be a good sale. If it is small and looks like chicken scratch, you figure it was just thrown together and probably won’t be very good.
  • When you see the sign, you slow down to look down the street to see if the sale is visible or if you’ll have to venture down the street to seek out the location.
  • When you get to the sale you slow down to look from your car to determine if it looks good enough to get out.
  • If you see baby items out front, and you are not in the market for any baby items, you decide it must not contain any good treasures in which you have any interest, so you keep going.
  • If the sale is staged well or if you see some big items that catch your eye from the street you decide to park and get your bum out of the car.
  • If you do get out only finding there was nothing of interest to you, you silently curse to yourself that it was a waste of your time and energy to go look at that junk.

Do you recognize yourself in any of those descriptions? I sure do. Even though I am well aware that by making such unfounded judgments I am probably missing out on some gem that was available to me, I still repeatedly engage in some of these actions.

Judging Recruits from Afar

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Feel Like Your Sponsor is Getting a Free Ride?

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sponsor getting free rideIt’s not uncommon to hear direct sales consultants complain about how irritating it is that they are doing all the work and their upline is just getting a free ride.

Generally this isn’t the case; it only appears so because some downline members don’t see the big picture. That said, there are indeed some instances when an upline should be providing more training to downline members. In most direct selling companies there is a systematic approach to take care of these situations. I’m not talking about that genuine lack of responsibility

I am referring to the self motivated, go-getter type consultant who has the inner drive and objective to build a successful business, yet they chose to sign up with someone who does not share the same level of career aspirations at this time. Below is a perfect example of what I’m talking about. After reading it perhaps you’ll have a different perspective.

Disgruntled Consultant: It’s just frustrating because she does it more for personal use and also has her best friend under her as well.   Heck I even asked her if could join. But now I’m over here working my hiney off and in return she gets a free ride and promotes. Isn’t that nice for her and she has never sent me anything in return.

Upline Response: Well, as far as your sponsor is concerned, a few things to keep in mind, she is certainly welcomed to be a part time seller, casual user. The company doesn’t require her to be a business builder. And it sounds as though she did not actively recruit you, because you stated, “˜you asked to join.’  I sometimes I hear third hand how some are upset because they think they do all the work and I get paid off of it. Actually that is partially true – because that’s how our compensation is set up. It’s just a fact with a two-tiered compensation plan. [Read more…] about Feel Like Your Sponsor is Getting a Free Ride?