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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, you need the best resources to help you to create, launch and grow your business.  Your goal is long-term success and to be successful you will need to do many things well.




Start Here

Direct Selling Startup Guide

Start Here is our 250-page direct selling textbook with worksheets to fill in that was written to give you a well-grounded start to build and a firm push in the right directions to grow your party plan or network marketing direct selling business faster.

First published in 2008, we revised this book in November 2019 for our 5th edition.

Each chapter includes essential information you need to know as soon as possible, a series of thought-provoking questions to direct you to action, examples, and suggested next steps.

When you follow the path of the book, you will build and grow your business faster.

BONUS:  Each book includes one hour of consulting time for your business, a $200 bonus value.




Passion Supported With A Plan

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.

Start Here  provides you with a path while helping you to blaze your own trails! 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 our guide, 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.”

Our Start Here book is divided into 15 chapters.  In each chapter, you will read information and answer important questions to help you to build your business. As you travel through the guide, your vision will become clearer as you define your company in more detail. 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. Answering the important questions will help you to see where you need assistance.

More Than A Book

Start Here  will teach you what you don’t know, confirm truths you’ve learned before, correct your misunderstandings,  and provide guidance to stop you from making mistakes.

As you progress through this guide, you will have questions related to your business.  Write them down in the “Questions for Sylvina” pages at the end of each chapter. Included with each guide is one hour of professional direct selling consulting. You can use it to answer your questions.  Continue onward to the next chapter until you have completed the guidebook to the best of your ability.

Start Here




Our Passion Is Helping Direct Selling Companies

We are excited for you and look forward to helping you to realize your dream. With our guide, you can choose to “do it yourself” or you can decide to use one or more of our professional consulting services to get you there faster.

At Sylvina Consulting, we make it easy for our clients by putting our 30+ years of experience working with emerging and established direct selling companies to work for you. With Start Here , you can move forward swiftly to build, launch, and grow your successful network marketing or  party plan company.  And beyond the guide, Sylvina Consulting can help you along each step of the path to create, launch and improve your company.

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Filed Under: Hostesses, Interviews, Key Operating Indicators, Leadership, Legal, MLM Software, Pilot Programs, Policies & Procedures, Products, Recognition, Recruiting, Retention, Social Media, Startups, Training Tagged With: compensation plan, MLM Software, Recruiting, start here, training

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 party plan and network marketing companies across the globe.

Direct Selling Startup GuideJay Leisner and Victoria Dohr authored the top-rated book for new and young network 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.

Direct Selling Edge ConferenceSylvina Consulting and Thompson Burton sponsor the pure education "Direct Selling Edge Conference Webinar" for new and young direct selling companies. The wisest direct selling executives never stop being students. They seek out opportunities to learn more. They understand that the long-term success of their companies depends on how much they know, so they make efforts to keep learning.

Broadcast live and with recordings included for later viewing, this powerful webinar will give you buckets of wisdom and guidance to help you on your journey.

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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