Put Down the Bat
The scene: a hard sell salesperson, shoving a business card and catalog into your hand.A minute with them and you feel like you’ve just been hit over the head with a bat. Ugh.Oh, you can pick them out right away.They can be seen shoving a catalog or business card into every person’s hand they come across. You know them online.All their posts on Facebook are about pushing their products or service. The hard-sell sales person is all about “Me, Me Me!” But networking is about building relationships, not dumping your wants and needs onto others. I Check out this article...
Read MoreDear Santa, define a good party?
Let’s say you have a home party. 12 people show up. Sales were low. You didn’t get any bookings.Bad party, right? Wrong! Why? Because you met 12 people in person and they saw you, your products, heard your pitch, and experienced your service. These 12 people turned into 12 warm leads. And warm leads, if you work them, can be eventually turned into customers, a party hostess, a referral or even a new recruit. -12 new people you can continue your connection with. -12 new people you could email a brief note after your party and ask them if they had a good time, and comment on...
Read MoreLet Them Eat Your Dust!
While your competitors are busy chomping on turkey and shopping on Black Friday, you could be ahead of the game with about 30 minutes of time and never even leave your computer. Probably the last thing you want to do today is business related, right? You’d laugh if you saw me here at the moment, half dressed in my robe, typing, fresh from a shower and slugging down a quart of coffee in anticipation of a hoard of family and friends coming over for the big feast. And you? I bet you’re either trying to defrost the turkey, clean for company, baking or buying something to...
Read MoreWhat Light Bulb are you Using?
OLD BULB: sitting at your computer once a day to check your mail NEW BULB: you literally run your home party business from your Blackberry, Droid, iPhone or smart phone that is essentially portable computer in your hand. Our brain and image memory has been so ingrained, it’s hard to imagine that something else can take it’s place. But it has! We are smack dab in the middle of an evolution! And whether we like it or not, to be successful in our business we have to be: 1. more efficient 2. easily accessible 3. and immediate! How you embrace the evolution will...
Read MorePlay Ball!
Enthusiasm is contagious. Make yours worth catching. Play ball! —Rina Valan ###
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