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A Map To Get You To Your Gold

May 13, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

Direct Selling Startup GuideIn California’s early gold rush days, miners knew the gold was there, but they were unaware of many of the obstacles that were ahead of them. Even so, they forged ahead, many without adequate supplies, information, or even maps.

If you are starting or growing a party plan or network marketing company, you are in many ways like a gold miner.

More Than A Map

Start Here: The Guide To Building And Growing Your Direct Selling Company will help you to avoid unforeseen obstacles by providing you with a map to get you to your gold.  More than just a map, it can be your instruction guide to help you in the construction of your home party plan or network marketing business.

Now available in English and Spanish.

By using this guide, you will learn about each of the components needed to create a direct selling company.  As you move forward through the guide, you will assess yourself, your team, and your plan.  You will see clearly the areas in which more work is needed so that you can prioritize your next steps and address each of them.

While this guide includes great information and examples, you will be asked questions and as you answer them, you will move closer and faster to your ultimate goal.

Sylvina Consulting developed our 250-page book for you because of the volume of questions we’ve been asked over the years about “how” to create a direct selling business and “where” to begin.

This guide was written to give you a well-grounded start on your new direct selling business.  Each chapter includes essential information, a series of thought-provoking questions to direct you to action, examples, and suggested next steps.

 

Most businesses emerge from either enthusiastic love of an idea or desire for money, but you can have both.  When your passion is supported by a plan, your enthusiasm will remain strong while you manage your business development project effectively.

For Starting Or Growing

If you are thinking about starting a direct selling company, beginning to create one, or have opened your doors for business but something is missing, this guide is for you.

Like a day planner, “Start Here” should be easily accessible so that you can update it with new ideas as you think of them.  In it, you can write down what’s most important to you in one place instead of relying upon your memory or numerous note pads.

As the old Chinese proverb says, “The palest ink is better than the best memory.”

How To Use Our Guide

This guide is divided into chapters. In each chapter, you will read information and answer important questions to help you to build your business.  Answering the questions will help you to see where you need assistance.

In the last chapter, there is a checklist that includes each of the groundwork activities to be performed by you in the guide.  As you complete an activity, tick it off in the checklist.

“Start Here” is not bound like a book.  Instead, it’s in a binder that is large enough to be the home for all of your thoughts and the materials you will collect for your business.

Don’t lose great ideas in your daily shuffle!  When you see or hear something that makes you think, “Wow, this is a great idea for my business”, print it out or write it down and insert it into the appropriate section of the guide for future reference.

Every Chapter Is Important

This guide will help you by asking you for your answers to two kinds of questions, those you’ve thought about and others you haven’t yet asked.

There is important information in every chapter.  As you progress through this guide, you will have your own questions.  Write them down in the space provided at the end of each chapter.  Since each guide includes an hour of consulting time, use this time to get answers to your questions.

We are excited for you and look forward to helping you to realize your dream.

Don’t be a gold miner without a map.  Get your “Start Here” guide today!

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About Jay Leisner

P15Jay Leisner, the President of Sylvina Consulting, is a top compensation plan and direct selling expert, a trusted adviser to new and established network marketing and party plan companies. For more than 30 years, Jay has enjoyed assessing and improving network marketing, party plan and referral marketing companies across the globe.

Direct Selling Startup GuideJay Leisner and Victoria Dohr authored the top-rated book for new and young network marketing, referral marketing, and party plan companies, "Start Here: The Guide to Building and Growing Your Direct Selling Company".

Available in English and Spanish. This startup guide contains 250 pages of wisdom that will guide you through the right steps to start and continue on your journey to build a successful direct selling company.

You will save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of your time using the information you will read in our book.

In 1986, Jay began his career in direct selling by working for a major direct selling software provider. First as a software developer and later as a project leader and a business analyst, Jay worked closely with new and established network marketing and party direct selling companies to provide them with software solutions to meet their unique requirements.

Jay contributed in many ways to the success of large implementation projects for many companies. Jay also worked with dozens of smaller companies to assist each of them in various capacities to provide them with the systems they needed to help their businesses to grow faster.

Along the way while working with them, he learned the secrets of successful direct selling companies and the challenges faced by them. In true entrepreneurial spirit, Jay’s decision in 1999 to start Sylvina Consulting as a direct selling consulting company was driven by what he saw was a need for answers, advice, and solutions.

In 2004, 2006, 2009, 2014, and 2018, Jay gave presentations on compensation plans, recognition, and field leadership development at conferences held by the US Direct Selling Association.

He traveled to South Africa in 2015, 2016, and 2017 to conduct workshops on compensation plan design and recognition programs for member companies of the South African Direct Selling Association.

In 2017, Jay spoke at the Canadian Direct Sellers Association Meeting on the importance of recognition.

More than just a compensation plan expert, Jay is exceptionally skilled at advising new and established companies on business strategies. Before offering advice or solutions, he asks important questions to understand each client’s specific concerns and goals.

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