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Direct Sales Opportunity Creates Success Only When…
Posted by | Posted in Direct sales | Posted on 17-02-2010

Hi Readers,
While driving my girlfriend home last night we were talking about the difference in successful direct sales people and what separates them from the pack. After careful study of students it has become clear why some people achieve success and others do not. There is about three aspects to attaining success in direct sales. Most people that start do one exceptionally well, some do two things pretty good, but those that succeed do 3 things extraordinarily well.
The First Step is to spend the money required to start and open your business, just like any business on the planet the direct sales business model in no different.
The Second Step is to spend time to catch up on your learning curve by showing up to the training. Just like figuring out the systems in any franchise type business model.
The Third Step is to take action and implement what you have learned or are learning by way of marketing. Further just as any business needs to do in order to drive customers to there door step.
The third step is by far the hardest and can require money to be spent on your marketing related activities. It also takes a skill that some people do not like to use. Instead of taking action by deciding that you have found what you’re looking for and forking over the money to open your doors. Further instead of sitting back and watching what you need to do to drive customers, this step required you to go out and actually do it. You see for some reason on planet earth people would far more often spend the time and money to watch how to make things work than actually spend the time and money to act on there knowledge. It is really strange, but it is the truth. I have spoken to many individually that posses the characteristics of top earners in several fields all have which agree on that fact.
We believe it has to do with the fact that many people have an entitlement mentality or are just lazy. Lazy being that they are unwilling to do the work because they just don’t feel like it and entitlement meaning that since they spent the capital and watched the training that now things should just fall into place as they deserve to be profiting.
Keep this in mind when you are building your team and some of the people you recruit don’t amount to anything, yet they may even still come complaining to you. The numbers don’t lie, go over their stats. No leads or traffic is a pure indication that no work has taken place.








