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2008 has been a wonderful year and I’ll be spending the rest of it with my dear family and fantastic friends. I wanted to take a moment to wish you a very happy, safe holiday season and a bright shiny new year.
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Have you heard? A new social networking site for direct sales consultants called Direct Selling Live.com and my favorite direct sales learning resource the DSWA have joined together to search for the World’s Greatest Direct Selling Leader and they want to hear from you! The “World’s Greatest Direct Selling Leader” contest provides you with a forum to clearly identify qualities of a leader that not only inspire you, but guide you to achieving your own personal and professional goals.
I’m sure that you know this leader…they follow their heart and help you discover yours. Wouldn’t it be nice to give something back to the special person who shares so much of themselves?
Have you nominated someone? Why wait? Click here to nominate your direct selling leader today! Don’t know who to nominate? I would be so honored if you nominated me, here are the details you’ll need:
1. Please Enter the Candidate’s first and last name: Melody Thacker
2. Your First and Last Name
3. Please provide your email
4. Your Zip Code
5. Are you a DSWA Member?
6. In 300 words or less, describe why your leader is the best!
7. Candidate Company: Watkins Inc.
8. Candidate Email: melody (@) melodythacker.com (remove the () and spaces )
9. Zip Code or Postal Code of Candidate: V0K1V0
Okay, here’s why I’d love to win the “World’s Greatest Direct Selling Leader” contest, the winner will receive a complimentary registration to the DSWA’s fantastic Excellence in Leadership Pre-Conference to the DSWA’s Annual Celebration to be held this year in Los Angeles, CA April 17-19. Plus, winners will also receive a wonderful day of pampering at a local Los Angeles Day Spa, preferred seating and special recognition at the annual DSWA’s Celebration 2009. What’s not to love?
Hurry, it will only take you a minute and November 30th is just around the corner! Thank you in advance, if you are sweet enough to nominate me!
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If you do this, you are almost guaranteed that you will fail in your direct sales or network marketing business. I see it all the time, people who join multiple direct sales, mlm or nwm companies and then they constantly struggle to make sales, recruit and grow any of their businesses. The truth is most people cannot effectively split their time and resources between multiple businesses and achieve any type of success.
Many people have difficulty starting and building a business with just one company, so why do they join another company and another and so on? There are likely many reasons why people do this but I think the main reason is that they have no idea how to become successful at direct sales in the first place. So they jump on board with more and more companies hoping this one will be their ticket to success.
Now here’s the real secret, it’s not the direct selling, nwm or mlm company, the products or even your sponsor that make you successful, although they may help it’s really up to YOU! You must be committed to “do the work” that is required to grow your business, and you need to educate yourself on your products, your company and how to effectively market and run your business. The best way to learn is to ask your sponsor or a successful upline for help and then consistently “do the work” that they suggest.
If you belong to multiple companies and you are struggling I challenge you to pick one right now; either the one that has products you love and use or the one that you have had some type success at. Next, focus all of your efforts on just that one company for three months.
Leave comment to let us know you are up to the challenge. If you are taking the challenge you might want to book mark this page and come back in three months to let us know how it went. I know you can do it if you focus and take action!
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I’ve been having issues with this blog for a while, it’s been mysteriously out growing it’s disk space, very rapidly for totally unknown reasons to me. Actually, it’s one of the reasons I haven’t been posting much here. Finally I contacted my web host with my predicament. Did I mention I have a wonderful web host? After poking around for awhile she discovered something in wordpress is creating something called a core dump file in my wp-admin folder. These files are about 30MB each and there was a whole bunch of them, so they were taking up a lot of space. Okay so now I know what’s using up my space, next I’ll be trying to figure out what might be causing them, a plugin perhaps? If you have any ideas, please let me know. When I figure it out, I’ll be sure to post the solution here in case anyone else is having the same problem.
Other mysterious happenings, have you noticed the latest spam commenter’s tactics? I like to check through them to make sure no valid comments got caught by Akismet before I delete the spam and I just had to copy these ones:
Excellent Web Site! Very professional and full of great information. I am greatly enjoying it. Your enthusiasm is wonderful!!!
Why thank you, your enthusiasm and compliments will take you far. Well in this case, far down to the bottom of the trash bin…
A very interesting website. I plan to access it again when I get home and have more time. There is much I need to look into here.
Yes indeed, there is much you need to look in to!
nice site, very informative, well designed, easy to use … what can i say ? i love it…
What flattery, you almost had me tempted to approve that one! But alas I decided to trust Akismet instead!
Lovely. Made my day (which is saying something)
Goodness, I’ve really made an impression! What an honor!
I found your website after I have been surfing the internet to be useful
Yes, I find the internet to useful too. I’m glad you found my web site, deleting your comments gives me something to do in the evenings when my hubs is hogging the tv!
Hope you had a good chuckle, as I did!
Now I’m going to publish this and see what happens to my disk space…
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Three minutes of motivation for Direct Sales Team Builders!
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Learn how to make more money in your direct sales or home party business with these free tips
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Dear readers, are you wondering, “Where Are You Watkins Lady?” I haven’t seen you twittering or visiting your social networking sites much and you haven’t been posting your secrets here either!
First of all, let me assure you that I’m still here! I’ve just been a bit busy with a number of things and focusing on what brings me the most value and income. I’m sure I could change this blog a bit to make it an income producing endeavor, however that would take some of my time and focus off my direct sales business.
I believe one will be more successful if they focus on one business and their income producing activites. I could sell advertising, add google or yahoo ads and promote affiliate products but I think that clutters the place up. Plus it would distract me as well as you. I know I get tired of being bombarded with advertising and hearing about the next best thing since sliced bread, and figure you might too.
This is the best time of the year to make sales if you are in direct sales, so my focus is on marketing, adding relevant content to my other web sites and helping people. One important aspect of my business is team coaching and training. After all my team members can’t take advantage of the selling season and grow their business if they don’t know what to do or how to do it. While I may not be blogging much here, now you know that I am still here! If it’s Watkins business you are interested in you’ll also know that I’m focused and ready to help you get started.
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