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You are here: Home / Training / Why You Should Invest In Yourself

Why You Should Invest In Yourself

January 1, 2021 By admin Leave a Comment

If you are building or growing a direct selling company, your success in business depends on what you know.

The smartest business leaders are always students. They never stop learning.

If you want your sales force to understand the importance of continuing education, your sales leaders need to show them by example.

Who shows your sales leaders that we should never stop learning? That would be you.

When You Know More

Everyone becomes better when they know more.  Lack of knowledge is often the cause of poor decisions.

“If I only knew what I know now, well, things would have turned out differently.”  How many times have you said these words aloud or to yourself?

Our lives are like a race.  The more we know, the better job we’ll do in keeping up with the pace.  We can learn either from personal experience or from the experiences of others.

When we learn from personal experience, we make many mistakes and spend lots of money on the wrong things.  While we may emerge smarter at the end of our life’s journey, the positive impact we have on others and upon ourselves will be a small fraction of what it could have been.

When we make the conscious decision to invest in our continuing education, several wonderful outcomes occur:

  1. We learn what we need to know faster.
  2. We become smarter entrepreneurs.
  3. We spend less money on mistakes.
  4. Our minds and bodies don’t get so banged up.
  5. Our sales leaders see that we follow our own advice, and they follow our lead.
  6. Our impact on the world is so much greater.
  7. More people benefit from our leadership.
  8. New doors of opportunity open for us and our sales force.
  9. Our businesses continue to grow.
  10. We feel great!

How We Can Help You?

The success of your MLM or a party plan direct selling company is influenced directly by the demand for your products and services, the marketing initiatives of your company, the design of your compensation plan, the ability of your field to recruit, the delivery on your company’s promise to support and empower its independent representatives, and the ability of your company to act and react well to market forces.

Sylvina Consulting’s mission is to educate the owners, management team, and independent representatives of direct selling companies with information, wisdom, and solutions to improve the health and stability of their businesses.

Truly, we at Sylvina Consulting are in the education business, the business of educating direct selling company owners, executives, and independent representatives.

In 2008, we wrote our 250-page book on how to build and grow a direct selling company.  It was revised for its 5th edition in 2020.

In 2011, Sylvina Consulting joined forces with Kevin Thompson of Thompson Burton to offer a two-day school for owners, executives, and employees of direct selling companies, the Direct Selling Edge Conference, which is held several times yearly in different cities across the USA.  During COVID times, we offer this conference via live and recorded webinars.

All of our faculty members are experts in their respective fields.

In addition to our book and school, we provide a full set of consulting services for party plan and network marketing companies of all ages and sizes.  One of our specialties is compensation plan design and improvement.

Invest In Your Education

You don’t know what you don’t know.  You do know that you need to know more.

Never stop learning.  Decide to become a perpetual student.

Start by making the choice to spend some money and time on personal education.  Gain the benefits of wisdom imparted by others.  Teach your sales leaders to do the same.

As a result of your commitment to learning, watch your company thrive and the businesses of your independent representatives and sales leaders continue to grow.

Filed Under: Training Tagged With: direct selling education

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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