article · October 2005
Is This Any Way to Win Friends and Influence People?
Ooh, I'm a wellness consultant! We market unique, patented, scientifically proven nutraceuticals, and blah, blah, blah...
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60 storiesfeature · December 2005
Network marketing is a woman
The only people making big income are going to be people who do the business on a full time basis or who have done it on a full time basis. That happens to be mostly the guys.
column · April 2006
What if we let customers be customers
Why don't we promote cross-company customers?
column · June 2006
Women in Network Marketing: Does it quack like a pyramid?
One quack is the mad focus on recruiting. For years, it's been all about getting people to sell and recruit.
feature · November 2006
"I wish I'd done network marketing 30 years ago..."
Flexibility. To build something part time from home when you're lucky enough to be supported by a mate during those years or you have another job.
article · June 2007
The Truth About Seasons in Network Marketing!
I never slow down in planting seeds and speaking with possibility seekers during the summer!
feature · August 2007
Old School vs. New School
You have to wonder why anyone would do sales, which is not that easy to do, and network marketing which is even harder to do if you're not hungry for success.
article · May 2008
NeuroMarketing - 7 secrets to unlocking your customer's brain for instant sales
"Our unconscious mind, not our conscious mind drives how we respond to ads, brands and products and, ultimately, drives all our buying decisions. Customers don't really know why they buy what they buy, which is why traditional market research fall short."
feature · July 2008
Are You In or Are You ___?
Belief in yourself that you can flat out, "get it done" is the single most important factor in any Network Marketing business!
feature · September 2008
Your Products Are Worth What They Are Worth!
Expand your comfort zone and don't assume you know what people are thinking. You create value in your products or service based on the depth of the other persons need PLUS their level of desire to achieve a better result.
feature · November 2008
Ignorance Can Make You Wealthy!
She said, "In the first month no one told me I was in the sales department. All they told me during my training was that people would call looking for a phone service and that I was to help them find what they needed and help them buy it."
feature · December 2008
5 Marketing Lessons from the 'King of Make-up' – Max Factor
But find a structured way to illustrate the need for your services and watch the resistance melt away.
feature · January 2009
Is Prospecting, Respecting? You Decide!
This is one way to attract people to you. This is also how you attract people who will stay with you!
feature · February 2009
The Hare or the Tortoise? You Choose!
This is a typical example of the "You've got to do it in 3 minutes" type of training that takes a lot of time and effort, and yields very poor results for most Distributors! That is why this type of selling (conventional selling) is called a "numbers game".
feature · March 2009
The Rewards of Caring
Because by asking of the right questions at the right time (remember, one of the principles in Natural Selling), he created value in himself and what he represented, he involved me without telling me what I should do, and he showed respect by allowing me to come to my own natu…
feature · May 2010
CUSTOMERS ARE KING
Customers are the life blood of any business. In fact customers are the reason you are in business.
feature · May 2010
What is a Customer and How Can You Get More of Them?
You have to understand that in network marketing the reason to retail is to recruit. That is your ultimate goal, to back customers into your business and make them distributors.
feature · May 2010
Why Increasing the Product Retailing Side of Your Network Marketing Business Could Mean a Huge Boost to Your Downline
Because your residual income actually comes from the auto-shipment orders of your MLM products.
feature · May 2010
Who the Heck Wants More CUSTOMERS?
Now obviously the ideal situation would be 20,000 distributors who also “consume” and tell others who tell others and get more consumers and more distributors, True or True!
column · May 2010
Customer Service Sales and Retention
Internal customer service means everybody supports everyone else in the organization. Develop mutual trust and support with your team members. Always have open and honest communication.
feature · May 2010
I Hope You Never Have Any Customers
The first customer you ever land should be YOU. You should be your first customer and your best customer. Only by using the product and becoming a product of the product will you become passionate about your product.
column · May 2010
Two activities that help to make a successful business
Developing outstanding customer service is a vigorous proposition that takes daily action and must be one of the cornerstone activities of your business.
feature · May 2010
The Importance of Customer Satisfaction and Increasing Clientèle Base
That is being clear about exactly what kind of clients best serves your business, and knowing what kind of clients can you serve best.
feature · May 2010
Direct Sales: Customer Service the Magic Bullet to Getting and Keeping Clients
A lot of distributors end up spending too much time chasing new business because many direct sellers don't understand that customer service is the core of business, not something that gets slapped onto the business as an afterthought.
feature · April 2011
Booking Preparation
The most common sabotage is the mistaken choice to "pre-judge" or decide for a person why they "would" or "would not" want your service!
feature · April 2011
Customer Care Calls – Preparation ins the Key!
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feature · April 2011
Responding To Booking Concerns
Whether our intent is to schedule a sales appointment, a group demonstration or an opportunity interview, all direct sellers must learn to effectively ask for what they want on a regular basis.
feature · April 2011
Spring Into Spring!
If you wait on business to knock on your door or to call you on the phone, you will spend a lonely spring while all around you is blooming. Get busy, get productive, get happy with the springtime ideas!
feature · September 2011
Get the Service Right and the Profits Will Follow
Network marketing is not just about selling products. It's about people. Helping people and building relationships with them, and the better your relationships, the more successful you will be.
feature · September 2011
Using the Forgotten Customer Service Art to Grow Your Business!
Well guess what. YOU are not exempt from customer service with your network marketing business. You are required to deliver great customer service to your prospects and to your customers or they will do exactly as you would do... they'll go to your competition.
feature · September 2011
The Secret Sauce of Great Customer Service
“Everything Counts” is a maxim that sends a powerful message. It means that you see every customer interaction as an opportunity to retain a valued customer, increase your value proposition, build loyalty, or strengthen a brand.
feature · September 2011
Excel at Service, the Profits Follow:
What REALLY impresses me about apple is the added benefits that are offered when you buy a computer or other product. They offer amazing training and support for only a few dollars per week and their CUSTOMER SERVICE is exceptional.
feature · September 2011
Great Customer Service is Personal
Cindy told me that the most important thing she does is LISTEN to what her customer has to say... all of it! She doesn’t interrupt. Through the years she has noticed that people mostly want someone to express their frustration to.
feature · September 2011
Balance High-Tech, With a High-Touch Environment
In fact, the most important re-engineering may have more to do with people than systems – or, to put it another way, the transformation may have to be more cultural than technological.
feature · September 2011
Perspective and Customer Service
What I found most interesting in this conversation was we each had different perspectives. When we are delivering customer service it really doesn’t matter what the giver perceives rather what the receiver interprets.
feature · September 2011
5 Service Excellence Principles to Propel Your Profits
“We really aren’t a moving company. We’re a customer service company that happens to move.” Know in your bones that you are a customer service company and your customers will feel the difference.
feature · September 2011
Customer Service, THE Age Old Secret to a Thriving Business!
She studied with excellence as her goal and with a desire to embrace the tribes people with compassion and a desire to give them MORE than the service they required. She set herself above the rest by doing so and gained the respect and admiration of the tribe.
article · October 2011
Think Like a Customer
Loyal customers keep coming back and spending more; they become powerful advocates for your cause. Enthusiastic customers make your work fun, enjoyable and purposeful. B2B should mean “Back to Basics”–a return to business fundamentals where it’s all about the customer.
feature · February 2012
What Network Marketing Has That Other Industries Don't... and How It Can Make You Wealthy!
By training these people who decide to join, they are leveraging out their own business by expanding it with others, and therefore in return for teaching others about the products and how to run their own home business… they receive a commission not only for that person’s effo…
feature · February 2012
Institute a More Dynamic, Proactive System for Getting Back to People
I have learned through the years that the greatest communication problems occur when no communication takes place. One of Parkinson’s most important laws is that; “The lack of communication creates a void that is quickly filled with doubt, fear, anxiety, poison and innuendo.”
feature · February 2012
Don't Play the Telephone Game with Your Success
If that happens to your company story today, you will have just one result, lost customers.
feature · February 2012
The Future of Marketing
Some marketing experts are predicting that social media is the future of advertising. Aside from a Super Bowl here and there, mass marketing will take a back seat to advertising that is personal, that is based on our lifestyle, our preferences and which groups we belong to. I…
feature · February 2012
Network Marketing Connects People with Product
Contrary to what many believe, the author of this article doesn’t feel that the best way to reach customers is through selling. It is through LISTENING! Network marketing is about finding a solution to a problem and trust me, there are plenty of problems out there to be solved…
column · February 2012
Network Marketing, a Powerful Way to Reach Customers
What I am saying is the acquisition of customers always develops a base of income that can be counted on.
feature · February 2012
CUSTOMERS – The Life Blood of Any Business
The bottom line is this: Without customers, eventually there would be no company.
feature · April 2012
If I Join This Company, Do I Have to Spend Money Every Month?
How can a person make sense out of purchasing product from themselves on a monthly basis if putting food on the table has become such a source of fear?
feature · February 2014
Prospects – Network Marketing, How Do You Accumulate Prospects?
When you define your consumers, you can think like them and mimic their patterns to some degree.
feature · February 2014
What Night Crawlers, Magic, and Sports Collectibles taught me about List Building
List Building has been a foundational marketing principal, long before the Internet
feature · February 2014
Business Retention – It's easier than you know!
Business Retention Needs To Be Your Focus
feature · February 2014
Get More Customers – 5 Questions to Make Your Business More Relevant
What potential buyers want to know is: How will reading this book improve my business? How will it bring me more customers? How will it solve my problems?
feature · February 2014
NO, You Can't Be a Customer Today!
Sometimes it’s just LISTENING to what the prospective customer says they want. And giving it to them!
feature · February 2014
Customers – Who they are, why you (and your company) need them, how to find them and what to say to them
One half of the success formula is having customers who are willing to buy a product or service on a monthly basis. The other half of the formula is to have a product or service they are actually willing to buy.
column · February 2014
CUSTOMERS
In these 40 years the most successful business had the most customers. I found that the most successful businesses were the ones that we put our customer FIRST!
feature · February 2014
Not Just Customers
This is our business model. That’s why it’s called, NETWORK Marketing! It’s created through duplication!
technology · March 2014
Reach More Prospects Through Mobile Tech
Mobile tech has changed the way that businesses are defining themselves and how they are marketing to their audiences.
article · July 2014
Women in network marketing
If we knew what kept people in even when they’re not making much yet, wouldn’t that be useful information?
column · November 2017
So what is this 27% annual success membership all about?
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