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How Do I Attract Top Leaders To My Company?

August 7, 2024 By admin Leave a Comment

If you have an established direct selling or referral marketing company with annual sales of $50 million or more, you are likely to attract top leaders because you have a proven track record. But what if you’re new or your annual sales are less than $50 million?  To attract top leaders, your track record isn’t…

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Why Are Direct Selling Companies Struggling?

August 1, 2024 By admin Leave a Comment

The Pandemic Effect For many direct selling companies, the COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for increases in recruiting and sales, because people were looking for ways to earn money while quarantined. Since the world reopened, the pandemic effect is in reverse, so today most direct selling companies are seeing reductions in recruiting and sales. The pandemic…

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Who Are Your Recruiters?

November 28, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

Direct selling companies like to count new recruits and they like to count recruiters, too. While the counts of recruits and recruiters are good to know, what is even more important is discovering some very specific information about your recruiters. Data Tells All At Sylvina Consulting, we improve compensation plans, but before we can improve a…

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Have You Visited Our Vimeo Channel?

July 6, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

Sylvina Consulting is a publisher of great educational content for new and established direct selling, network marketing and referral 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…

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Master Distributors: Good Or Bad

July 6, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

A master distributor is a person you put at the top of your genealogy, the one in whose downline every other independent representative will be placed. Master distributors are optional. Should your company have a master distributor? In this post, I’ll explain the pros and cons of such an arrangement. Then, you can decide what’s…

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Understand Why People Choose To Sponsor

May 2, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

One of the most misunderstood behaviors in direct selling is the sponsoring behavior. Sponsoring, also known as recruiting, is the introduction of a direct selling company to a prospective independent sales representative. People choose to sponsor others when it is in their best interest to do so. Why People Sponsor Let’s examine separately each of…

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Founder Program Wisdom

May 2, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

A Founder Program should be a campaign to attract and enroll experienced direct selling representatives who will be rewarded when they meet specific performance measurements. However, not everyone knows this. Some companies think a good Founders Program is one that recognizes one of the following situations: everyone who joins by September 1 the first 100…

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Fast Start Programs: What You Need To Know

March 30, 2023 By admin Leave a Comment

The success of all direct selling companies depends on the performance of their new independent representatives.  What can companies do to help their reps get off to a good start?  One of the answers is a Fast Start Program. While network marketing and party plan direct selling companies have much in common when it comes…

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Why Is Recruiting Like Panning For Gold?

November 2, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

Have you ever panned for gold? To us, recruiting is a lot like panning for gold. Everything looks like mud until you look closer.  While most of your pan’s contents are mud, there may be little bits of gold in there, too. Don’t Prejudge It isn’t wise to make judgments about people when you first…

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3 Behaviors We Want From Our Reps

October 2, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

The average life of a direct selling or referral marketing representative with your company is short, unfortunately.  Before it ends, we want to see two behaviors and after, we want to see one. Why Are Average Direct Selling Lives Short? By design, most direct selling and referral marketing opportunities are priced very affordably.  We want…

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Why You Should Read Our Book

January 4, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

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,…

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How Much Recruiting Do You Want From Your Leaders?

January 4, 2022 By admin Leave a Comment

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Recruiting is one of the most important behaviors we want to see from our independent representatives. Without recruiting, your direct selling company’s sales force will shrink.   To grow or to stay the same size, all direct selling companies need new recruits. Recruiting can be performed by new representatives, representatives in the business awhile, new…

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