“God save the Queen.” This is the national anthem of the United Kingdom. While your company is not ruled by a monarch, every direct selling company needs to have at least one figurehead. That figurehead is either you or someone else. If you don’t have one, you need to get one right away! Why Is…
Why You Should Read Our Book
What is… a map to get to your gold? a bible for all direct selling companies? a consultant in a book? the most valuable $300 you’ll ever spend on your business? Our “Start Here” book is all of these and more. If you are starting or growing a network marketing or a party plan company,…
Who Do I Hire First?
When you are starting a new direct selling company, you know you are going to need to hire employees. What types of people should you be hiring? Who should you hire first? Interestingly, the skills you will need in your first employees are the skills you don’t have or the skills you don’t want to…
Can Rapport Building Be Taught?
Rapport is what we all seek. It can help bring harmony and balance into our daily lives. Rapport is part of the foundation on which we build our success in life and in business. It is imperative that direct selling business owners and independent consultants build rapport with customers, representatives, and potential recruits. They use…
What Should I Do About Leaders Who Stop Leading?
Leaders are so important to the success of all direct selling companies. They sell more, recruit more, and stay active in the business longer than the average representative. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, eventually, all leaders stop acting like leaders. Why? There are many reasons and there is a lot you…
Are Leaders Born Or Grown: Why This Matters
There are two schools of thought regarding leadership. One says leaders are born, that is, they have innate qualities predetermined at birth. Leadership is preordained, like eye color. The other school of thought believes that leadership is a skill. Like spelling, leadership can be learned. Everyone wants more leaders, but how do you get them?…
Kindling For Your Direct Selling Fire
To start a fire, it helps if you have kindling – wood or paper that burns at a lower temperature. Do you have kindling for your direct selling fire? If you have a network marketing or party plan company, you may be wondering what you can do to grow your direct selling company…
What To Do When Leaders Stop Leading
Leaders are so important to the success of all direct selling companies. They sell more, recruit more, and stay active in the business longer than the average representative. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all leaders eventually stop acting like leaders. Why? There are many reasons and there is a lot you can…
Have You Visited Our Vimeo Channel?
Sylvina Consulting is a publisher of great educational content for new and established direct selling and network marketing companies. In addition to their top-rated 250-page book, Start Here: The Guide To Building And Growing Your Direct Selling Company, and their Amazon Kindle e-book MLM Software: What You Need To Know, Sylvina Consulting also has its…
Where Do Leaders Come From?
WHAT IS A LEADER? In general terms, a leader is a person who has personally enrolled “so many” others and who is active in the business by meeting or exceeding the minimum personal and group volume requirements of the company’s compensation plan. It would be great if everyone who joined a direct selling company became…
Top 10 Problems of Direct Selling Companies
Direct selling companies face and conquer many problems as they launch, grow, and become successful enterprises. As top MLM consultants, we have observed that there are 10 types of problems faced by network marketing, MLM, and party plan direct selling companies. In this post, we will not only list them for you but also provide…
For Your Success, Remain Teachable
Did you know that students make the best teachers? In the world of direct selling, you will always be teaching others. Always be open to learning more. Never stop learning. The more you know, the smarter you get. What if you could go somewhere warm and sunny where you could also learn more about how…