The Healthiest Direct Sales Ever

When you work in direct sales you are an independent contractor for a company. You are in charge of selling their products or services, which you then get at a discount.

Your income comes from the difference between the price you charge your customers and the price you pay for the items. You can also normally earn money from commissions off of the sales of your recruits.

Going with a direct sales company is a great way to start a work at home business. Direct sales companies offer stay at home moms an affordable way to start up their own business. There are very little costs involved. Normally a starter kit can be purchased for $100 to $200.

Compare that with opening a regular store that will cost thousands. Some companies even offer the opportunity to earn a starter kit for free.

Working a direct sales business also means that you have flexibility in your work schedule and your income. You make all of the decisions on when you hold parties or demonstrations.

Your income is directly proportionate to the efforts that you put into your business. You'll also receive support and encouragement from fellow consultants. Weekly sales meetings help keep you motivated and give you fresh ideas for your business.

You will network with other consultants for support and praise. Your up line or recruiter will also provide you with lots of help as you get your business started.

To be successful in direct sales, you'll need to have great people skills. The products are really second to your personality. Your presence and your customer service will be what sell your items.

As an independent sales rep, you'll be in charge of tracking your sales and paying the appropriate taxes. You'll need to schedule your parties, shows or demonstrations and follow up with your customers in a timely manner.

Once you've decided that direct sales is right for you, its time to choose while direct sales company you want to work with.

It's recommended that you choose a company that offers product that you already like or have experience with.

The best salespeople are those who are enthusiastic about their products. Think about your direct sales company choice in the long term.

This will be your business that you put your name on, and you will invest your time and money in. Research your options thoroughly and make sure that you sign up with a trusted company.

Don't feel pressured by a sponsor to sign right away. Understand the commission structure, how products are sold and if there are any monthly minimums.

Make sure you understand how much your starter pack will cost and what the kit includes. Will you need to buy inventory? Understand how ordering works and how the products get to the customers.

If you are really serious about an opportunity, jump online and see what other consultants have to say about the company.

Find out what customers are saying about the company. If there is more bad than good being said about a company and its consultants, then that's a huge red flag.

Also, visit the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau websites. They can give you information about the trustworthiness of a company.

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We have over a million people working with our company world wide. Many earn very high incomes, our top people earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. More commonly though people are not looking to put the level of work and commitment into business to gives that sort of result.

Most people have clear needs, extra cash each month to pay the bills, a money stream do they can look forward to a more comfortable retirement, replacement of a wage so they can keep studying or to avoid having to go back into traditional work after starting a family.

Maybe you are like so many of us who have good skills and want to get out and do something special but you have never had the right "vehicle" to let you reach your potential, and to pay you appropriately when you do it.

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If you know what you want and are prepared to work for it, then we are a vehicle that could take you there. I suggest you take a very close look at what we offer.

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The most obvious method of attracting new people to your health and wellness direct sales business is to BE HEALTHY YOURSELF! You need to 'be a product of the product' so that you are your own walking talking example of how well your products work. You will be a living health success testimonial without having to say a word.

Then you can invite people to talk to you by wearing Tshirts or baseball caps, or flash / buttons that promote questions as well.

Here are a couple of other prospecting methods that you must be aware of if you want to survive in the network marketing jungle, after all having effective prospecting methods is your network marketing lifeline!

Cold Calling & Invitations

Cold calling (and going door-to-door) is one of the MOST INEFFECTIVE and DIFFICULT form of obsolete prospecting method in the 21st century.

Some sales people might debate that this is still viable, but let's be realistic

- YOU don't like to receive phone calls
- Cold calling has a lot of resistance and people turn their ears away if you are a stranger
- People don't like being sold things that they don't need
- They don't even need to see YOU - a total stranger!

Invitations on the other hand might still work if it is done correctly. You can invite your friends to an event or a tea-party but make sure that your INTENTION is very clear when you invite him or her.

People are not stupid and they can sense your intentions if you have promised them otherwise.

In other words, don't trick them into coming to your network marketing prospecting meeting!

Classified Advertising & Google AdWords

One important thing about advertising is to ALWAYS go for direct response advertising. Do NOT burn your money on advertising that does NOT solicit direct response and a measurable way to calculate your expenditure, leads contacting you and conversion to sales!

When you advertise your opportunity on classified advertising, make sure you have a website or a phone number that they can contact you that MUST lead the prospect to the next phase of your sales funnel.

Ad Impression - Direct Response - Lead Capture - Build the relationship - Pitch the right offer -Close sale or Follow up until the sale is closed.

The problem with people is that they dump all sorts of advertising without leading to the second phase which is the direct response or lead capture phase.

They think just because they leave a website or a phone number (like leaving name cards all over town) they will get a lot of people to sign up.

With Google AdWords, you must make sure you have a system that is designed to deal with those leads and execute the steps above.

Networking Swaps

In certain business networking circles, you are able to build a list of referrals for one another even if you are in a different line of work.

There are Business networking organizations like BNI (which is one of the biggest networking organization in the world) are designed to facilitate this.

Of course, all this depends on the rapport and friendship between you and the other members.

Remember that must refer business to those other members and not just sit there and wait for people to give you leads.

Online Prospecting

There are many ways you can acquire prospects online without spending money on Google AdWords.

You can drop by people's blogs, go to forums or build a mailing list of prospects in order to build relationships and meet new people.

Social networking sites like MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, MyBlogLog and many other web 2.0 sites are a great place to meet new people with similar interests and make friends with them.

You must be very careful of one thing, NEVER, NEVER EVER SPAM forums, blog comments or other people's email. It is a very quick way to get a bad reputation or banned from those forums.

This free ebook download about the new world of direct sales is a very valuable tool for you to start off with!

When you start your direct sales business, you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle for yourself and your family while you are growing your home business.

Many people admire others that run their business from the basement or upstairs in their bedroom.

Psychologically, it's a hard thing to do and as a SOHO business, you must take into consideration many factors while doing the best service that you can give to a person.

There is no supervision. SOHO owners don't have bosses telling them what to do or looking over their shoulder. This is a shock for most SOHO owners because when they start their business, they are expecting a partner to come along and boost their mentality.

This calls for having the discipline to work by yourself and being accountable to yourself.

Many times, you will feel like you're on an island with no one to turn or talk to. The work days can be long and as you go past the bathroom, you notice that the bed you just got out of you is beckoning you back into it but you've got eight assessments that you have to do! Now that's tempting!

Then there is the issue of pets. Most pets, such as dogs, love major attention and sometimes you have to stop and provide your dog or cat with attention which could cut into your work period.

You also have other "unpleasant" activities, such as the urge to see Judge Judy, Judge Mathis or a rerun of the Avengers on the A&E channel.

But you must put all of this aside and think about the clients needs first. I think it's a good idea to designate an extra bedroom or room as the official office. At 5:00pm, lock that office and continue on with your life.

Make yourself have great work hours (9:00am - 5:00PM). After work, you can do whatever you want to do until it's time to go to bed.

You have to be very disciplined when you work from home. It's tougher to work from home than it is an office because you're mostly by yourself but look at your office as a major player in the economy.

It's a place that people can come to find solutions and answers in the realm of small business.

It is essential to have a separate room for business purposes only if you would like to claim the home office tax deduction.

This is not the only advantage for dedicating a room for your home office. It is a great way of keeping the distractions out.

You are essentially sending a message to yourself and others in your household about the serious professional work going on inside that room.

The room must be spacious enough to accommodate not just everyday work, but also recurring projects that require additional work areas. If you think there's no room in the house that can be spared, consider your attic, basement, or garage. These can be converted for your purpose.

Once the room has been claimed and cleared out, some preparations need to be done to make it suitable for office use. A fresh coat of paint will set the mood and brighten things up.

To keep the noise out, insulation and carpeting may be installed. Arrange the layout of the room and have additional electrical wiring and outlets installed where you will place your computer, office machines, and other equipment.

It is strongly recommended that you set up a separate phone line for your home office. This way, the phone line for personal or family use is kept apart and the home office phone line is utilized for legitimate business use only.

While you're at it, investigate the most efficient yet inexpensive way of getting high-speed Internet access. DSL is available through many different providers while cable Internet access usually comes from cable TV companies.

At a minimum, a home office set up should have a desk, chair, computer, phone, and other business machines. You will also likely need a storage and a file cabinet plus bookshelves for your reference materials. If you will be entertaining clients, you will need an extra room for a meeting table and chairs.

When space is a real concern, mount everything you can on the walls. These can include your pencil sharpener, telephone unit, lights and shelves. The tops of cabinets can hold other items. Consider getting a laptop instead of a desktop computer.

Not only will you have more available desk space, you can also take the computer with you on trips. Another useful trick is to go for an all-in-one office machine that combines a printer, copier, fax, scanner functions in a single device.

Setting up a home office doesn't have to be expensive. When you set out to do your work professionally, your office will reflect it.

People who Pressure with Unrealistically High Entry Fees

Strictly, unless you can afford it and you love the products, you must avoid people who unnecessarily pressure you into high inventory loading or front loading. Your sponsor might be going to the quick sale and that can happen even after you joined as a distributor.

Of course you will normally get a much higher profit margin if you buy more products, but you have to consider whether your prospects are willing to do the same thing. Maybe they just want to be customers. Not all will come in at the most expensive entry level.

Hardc0re MLM Junkies

I would only join serious networkers who work hard in his company. Some MLM junkies are only in for the fast money and you will find it hard to locate your sponsor if he suddenly jumps off towards the next smoking hot opportunity.

Normally, an MLM junkie will join a company after he or she gets really hyped up by the opportunity meeting or rally. They will be on fire for a while before they lose steam and die a natural death.

The root cause of the problem would be running into difficulties in their business and when they can't handle the struggles, they find reasons to leave and join other companies because they are 'better' or because their upline 'is better.

Often, we must keep in mind that if we can solve the struggles within ourselves, then we will not find problems with our businesses. The main reason why I would hesitate to join an MLM junkie would be seeing him all hyped up about one opportunity and later on he will tell you to join another one and give reasons why the previous one he got me into is not as good as this one.

The Energy Sucker

Sometimes, I would turn this prospect away from my group. This person is like a disease among the sheep. A good shepherd would remove the disease sheep from the flock to preserve the other sheep. They carry too much emotional baggage and are the biggest cry babies in the networking industry.

This energy sucker would suck your positive energy dry and frustrate you with his problems like all the pain of his rejections, complaining about the company, the team, the staff or even the products. If you are not careful, he will pass that negative energy to your other downline and he might get them all to leave.

The Talker

These people are not bad people in and off themselves. They are great crowd pleasers and when you ask them to share testimonials or goal setting; they would be the first to give a rousing speech.

The problem becomes when all they do is talk, and tag along and give all kinds of excuses to justify their results. You can't depend on them but yet you can't turn them away because they seem so sincere and has become one with the team.

One of the best ways to deal with them, since they like all the attention, is to get them to bring their friends to home parties or rallies or any events organized by the company that will give them lots of fun.

They will forget that they are doing 'work' while you build your friendship with their prospects.

Mr. or Ms. Know-it-all and Heard It Before

These are people who are very good analyzers and attend to all the trainings and meetings. They write down every bit of information here and there but also don't bring the results.

Because they are know-alls, they will give you a hard time when you are trying to educate them or push them to success.

They will not attend trainings with open minds because they will go, "ah, I've heard this before. They are not teaching me anything new here." They will even start criticizing the speaker in their hearts.

Training MUST be attended repeatedly so our skills can be updated and reinforced. These groups of people would most probably be making little money in their network despite their large storehouse of information.

The Negotiator

When you approach someone with your opportunity and they are trying to sell you something at the same time, you might be facing a hard time if that person is adamant on selling you his wares or if he is just plain stubborn.

Not that you must avoid every single negotiator, but bear in mind that these people are very calculative and will only join your network if his or her price is met.

Then they might start pinching lines from your network and you will find that your people have gone over to the 'other side'. Afterwards, it would be too late for you to remove that spy within your midst.

Other people in network marketing, especially the more established ones will take contact over a couple of weeks or months before they are 'ready' to join yours.

If I had to go for other networkers, I would rather go for the 'weaker' ones or else I would be just wasting my time. Furthermore, the weaker ones may have connections with their leaders so there is a chance you will connect through them because of their relationship with their leaders.

The Snake

These group of people are the biggest poison in the networking industry. They will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to recruit people into their network. Even if it means using unethical methods just to get them.

Some of the tactics include high-pressure hard selling, friendship blackmail and even worse: line pinching.

Be very careful of these people when they are talking to YOUR prospects. They will appear friendly and helpful, sharing with your prospects and welcoming them to the team, and the next thing you know it, they wind up in THEIR downline.

They might even pick at your own existing downline and entice them to get into other MLMs that they are already a part of.

The Sloth

These people will act just like a sloth. Doing nothing! They join MLM companies to purchase NOT a business opportunity, but they purchase 'HOPE'.

Surprise! MLM requires work!

They will expect their uplines to do all the network building for them, they may even attend all the meetings, rallies, home parties, reading all the books and listening to the tapes.

But there is one thing that he or she won't do.

He or she will NOT SEE THE PEOPLE. They won't talk to anyone and all the 'work' they have done in the business amounts to nothing just because they are too lazy to see the people expecting their upline to do everything for them.

The quicker you learn to identify these people - and stay away from them - the healthier your direct sales business (and YOU) will be!

You will have to make changes to the overall you, not just change the amount of exercise you do or your diet.

The secret to achieving happiness and a healthier you is to balance your body and mind in harmony, it is only when we are balanced in physical health, mental and spiritual that we are truly healthy.

If we are healthy then we are happier and can reach success more easily in life, here are some ways you can bring back harmony and balance to your life

Exercise is an essential part, it helps to tone our body, keep our heart and lungs healthy and detoxifies.

Exercise can be anything from more vigorous routines such as aerobics to simply walking, pick your favorite activity and set aside a specific time of day and commit yourself to devoting a half-hour per day towards getting your body back into shape.

Eating right is the next essential step to maintaining a well-balanced life; our bodies need the right amount of vitamins, nutrients and minerals to work at its best.

Making changes to our diet is easy, keep away from fast foods which contain a lot of saturated fats and sugar and start including more whole grains, chicken, fish, plenty of green vegetables and try to eat fresh fruit instead of juice when available.

Along with making changes to your diet you should include supplements such as vitamins, nutrients and minerals. Modern farming methods strip many of our foods of the minerals our bodies require and now just provide us with the basic nutrients.

Due to this we might be lacking in certain minerals and vitamins, by supplementing your diet with vitamin and mineral supplements we can ensure we still get all the vital minerals, nutrients and vitamins we need in our daily diet.

Reducing the amount of stress we have in our life plays an important part in how we are able to cope with it. Stress can do much damage to our body and mind and has been linked with "burnout", fatigue, sleep problems, depression and it lowers our immune system.

Learning techniques on how to cope with stress and worry are essential to keeping yourself balanced and full of energy. There are a wide variety of techniques from simple breathing exercises which can be done anywhere, at anytime, to yoga which is a full system for relaxation and de-stressing to meditation. There are many books, DVDS and CDS available on the subject or there are courses you can attend.

Lastly but by no means the least important is keeping life fun, doing something which you enjoy doing and makes you feel relaxed and happy each day. No you are not being selfish by taking time out each day just for yourself, this time is essential.

It is just as important as exercising, eating right and reducing stress, your time could be spent doing a hobby or pastime that you enjoy, sitting quietly and reading, taking a hot bubble bath while listening to your favorite music or spending quality time with your family or friends. It can be anything as long as it's something you like to do and enjoying doing.

12 Tips for better health

The biggest step to aiming towards better health is admitting the fact that you need to make changes towards becoming healthier and fitter. Here are some tips to help you improve your health and help you to reach a new and improved you.

1. Make it a life goal to obtain a healthier outlook on life which will undoubtedly lead to a healthier you, if you are determined to reach a better state of health, making it a reality will be so much easier.

2. Support your new way of thinking by learning everything you can about ways of reaching better health and living a healthier lifestyle. You can use the internet, books, DVDS, clubs, gyms and support groups to your benefit, knowing all you can about healthy living gives you a great base to work from.

3. You have to start somewhere so start by taking a look at your kitchen and reorganizing in preparation for your new way of life. Reorganize your kitchen cabinets, cupboards and refrigerator to ensure that there are no signs of the old you and all the signs of the things that will help you in your new lifestyle.

4. Replace old food with your new healthier choice and don't forget to purchase any small appliances which you will need to support your healthier way of eating, such as blenders and food weighing scales.

5. Get a large planner calendar, pin it up in your kitchen and mark the day when you choose to begin your new lifestyle and stick to it no matter what.

6. From day one keep a journal, this can either be a traditional one or use your computer. You should include all thoughts and feelings about your new ways along with all the changes you see about yourself. This is essential to look back on to see the positive changes that are occurring due to your positive outlook and changes you have made.

7. Positive thoughts and self talk or affirmations are a necessity; they will give you confidence at the beginning and will continue to take you through the tough times which will often occur during the early changes.

8. Along with changes to your diet you will also have to make changes to the amount of exercise you do per day, while good healthy food is essential, exercise is also just as important to help ward off the onset of diseases such as heart disease, as well as helping us to firm up our body or lose a few pounds.

9. Give up any bad habits such as smoking or drinking, you will never reach your optimal peak of health while you are puffing away on cigarettes or drinking on a regular basis.

10. Make sure that you get the recommended 5 portions of fruit and veggies per day on your new regime, fruit and veggies are packed full of essential vitamins.

11. Make sure you learn ways to eliminate as much stress from your lifestyle as you possibly can, there are many ways to do this with one of them sure to be suitable for your situation.

12. Cut out excess salt, sugar and fatty foods from your diet, this will effectively lower your cholesterol and blood pressure.

Notes on Nutrition
The best place to begin taking notes about nutrition is with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA offers recommendations about what they find to be healthy eating-related habits for the general public.

And their information covers these main areas of focus: nutrition pyramid, needed nutrients, weight management, physical fitness and food safety.

Needed Nutrients

The USDA advises people to drink and eat a wide variety of nutrient-dense beverages and foods from the basic food groups they note in their nutrition pyramid. They also suggest limiting alcohol, salt, added sugars, cholesterol, saturated and trans fats.

And they recommend following plans like the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Eating Plan or their USDA Food Guide.

Weight Management

The general weight focus of the USDA stresses that people strive to maintain body weight in a healthy range, balancing calories from beverages and foods with those expended.

And to help manage weight control as aging occurs, people are to gradually decrease the amounts of foods and beverages consumed and increase physical fitness.

You can learn all about maintaining your own health & wellness, especially if you are planning to start a Health & Nutrition home based business.

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