Grace Keohohou, DSWA – Build It Big Book Grace Keohohou, co-founder of the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA), has a vision and determination that is dedicated to the professionalism and advancement of the direct selling industry. The DSWA is dedicated to serving the needs of independent direct sellers worldwide.

The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance

The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance is an organization that unites all direct sellers with a mission of personal and financial success by serving as a place where direct selling corporations, consultants, speakers and vendors find the latest information, resources, networking and support that empower them in their direct selling business.

Build It Big Book Webinar Wednesday, Aug. 18th

Grace will be presenting a webinar on the Build It Big concept taken from the DSWA’s direct sales industry’s best-selling book Build It Big on the August 18th Speakers In The Park program. You must be on the Speakers In The Park newsletter list to get the dial-in information. Build It Big is a fabulous book that every direct selling professional should have on her or his reading list.

The Build It Big book is a collaborative event bringing together the experiences of top direct selling industry leaders. This book brings the reader the insights and practices of direct selling success stories from leaders around the world.

This SpeakersInThePark event will teach you how to incorporate new modern business practices so that you no longer rely on outdated systems that do not work in today’s changing world.

• You will discover the secrets strategies of leaders in the industry!
• You will become more confident!
• You will discover new ideas you can take action on right away!
• You will have the motivation to take action for greater success!

Direct Selling Training Webinar

The Speakers In The Park direct selling training webinar featuring Grace Keohohou will take place on August 18th @ 9:15 PM Eastern time. Get on the dial-in list by visiting: SpeakersInThePark.com

Building A Successful Downline In Network Marketing

One of the key elements of the network marketing success is team building! One of the many wonderful things about the network marketing business is that while every member is in business for themselves, they are not in business by themselves. By taking a leadership role and providing opportunities for team building you will find out who YOUR key members are. Truly knowing every key member of your downline is vital and will dramatically increase your income.

Team building activities not only promote enjoyment and relationship-building, but they are a fantastic opportunity to empower your team. Have some fun together, get to know one another, learn about business, and learn about life, which will in due course solidify your relationships.

Consultant Team Building Skills

As time goes by in your network marketing career, you will notice that it is usually not your personal consultants who become the biggest leaders and business builders in your downline. Team building skills include getting to know your team on a deeper level. It is important to get to know the newest members of your team (any new downline member even if you did not recruit them) and invite them to your team building activities. Spend some time with them, recognize them, and introduce them to all other attendees. What you will also notice is that key team members may not always look or seem like they are key members in the first days or weeks of their business, but they may get their super spurt in productivity at a later time.

3 Team Building Strategies & Tools

Simple games, seminars or activities are sometimes excellent education tools. Here are three powerful team building strategies  that will promote your team growth;

• Do something service-based with your team. There are dozens of local volunteer opportunities that exist. Choose one, and invite a handful of team members to do it with you. To respect everyone’s time, it is best to pick something that can be done in 2-3 hours. After the event, have a recap together and talk about how the activity applied to your business and your own goals.
• There are a few business board games that will offer you an entertaining time. Monopoly, of course, is a fun game that everyone has heard of. Some may wonder how that is a business game, but play it again from a business perspective and you may find it quite interesting. Cash Flow by Robert Kiyosaki is a classic entrepreneur business board game. If you do not already have MLM: The Game, that’s another great choice. Playing business board games will allow all players to build powerful relationships with each other, and everyone will learn or teach many lessons along the way.
• Go to a motivational or business seminar together as a large group. One that is held nationwide and that we can recommend (and it’s FREE) is a “Millionaire Mind Evening” offered by the Peak Potentials team. Fabulous, fun, mentally challenging, no-nonsense business advice from Millionaires. There are many other opportunities for personal and financial growth, look one up in your area!

The point of whatever you choose to do is really to spend time with your team! Get to know them; get involved in the lives of your key members. These friendships & resulting paychecks will last you a lifetime!

Be Well and Thrive!

Anders is a Cash Flow Show expert who teaches accelerated learning techniques for network marketing team building. Visit MLM The Game or contact him and learn more at his Cash Flow Show expert page.

Direct Selling Team Training Theme

Sales team meetings should be fun, educational and include basic team training topics designed to keep your sales organization coming to meetings. A consultant who attends meeting is a consultant who makes money. Consultants who make money never quit!

Theme = “What REALLY Is Marketing?”

Make one of your upcoming team training themes all about the definition of marketing. Sales is marketing! If your team does not have enough business because they do not know how to market their business, then they will not last. It is easier to keep a team member than it is to find a new one. Team retention will improve when your team knows how to promote the business online and offline. Direct sales marketing is the foundation to all home businesses.

Direct Sales Marketing

Direct sales marketing takes on many forms. The successful consultant takes advantage of all marketing forms so that they have an unlimited supply of leads coming into their business.  Is your team marketing through these techniques?

Company Affiliate Site Blogging And Online marketing Social Media Friends, Family, Neighbors Schools, Churches, Work Home Parties Fairs and Expos Public Speaking Opportunities Libraries and Banks

When you teach your team how to find business, they will never quit. No one ever quits with a full calendar! The Power UP For Professional Results program is a direct sales marketing strategy that works in all companies.

Direct Selling Impacts Lives

The direct sales industry has impacted 100’s and 1000’s of lives over the past 150 years.  Our first guest speaker on the Speakers In The Park direct sales Summer education series is  Keeper (Nick Catran-Whitney) the organizer of the direct selling 100 Million Voices Project 2010.  Kicking the series off on May 26th Keeper founder of DirectSellingLive will share some of the stories that he has gathered in the project.

Speakers In The Park, 2010

Summer Sales Training Kicks Off May 26th

If you are not on the newsletter list already, you MUST register for Speakers In The Park! Join us for the HOTTEST direct sales motivational training of the Summer.

Direct Sales History Million Voices

The 100 Million Voices Project 2010 represents the greatest effort to gather historical content through telling of stories in the history of Network Marketing/Direct Selling. Never before has such a task been attempted. As part of the project I submitted 3 “story” videos.  One was based on my personal transition from the “job” force into direct selling and the other two were videos based on how my party plan business impacted the lives of children in my family.

Direct Selling Family Values

One of the greatest successes of the industry is the ability to impact the quality of family life while generating income.  When Savannah was younger (7-10) we spent quality time together while I was working and she tagged along to a home party.  This video is a totally unrehearsed and for the most part unedited video interview with Savannah now 12 years old.  As this video illustrates the direct selling industry can and does create work ethics and values in young people by allowing them to participate in the business and have fun to.

Register For Direct Sales Training Series

The Speakers In The Park direct sales training series is FREE and you MUST register.  If you are already on this website’s newsletter list, then you ARE registered.  If you are new here then visit Speakers In The Park to register for our Summer series!  I have heard some of Keeper’s and they are fascinating!

Speakers In The Park-2010, Direct Sales Training Event

Get Your Lawn Chairs! It is time to grab your cell phone and head over to the local park for some awesome training. The Speakers In The Park motivational speakers series for 2010 is kicking off on May 26th with a star studded list of direct sales trainers.

Kicking off the event is Keeper, founder of Direct Selling Live. Keeper will be sharing the direct sales stories he has gathered in the 100 Million Voice Project. I have heard some of these interesting stories that Keeper is collecting about how the direct sales industry has impacted lives and they are fascinating!

Party Plan, Network & Internet Marketing Motivation

The list of topics and speakers brings Speakers In The Park a diversified list of niches include all direct selling niches from party plan topics, to network marketing prospecting and internet marketing expertise. This is not your ordinary everyday list of motivational speakers that you find on every conference call! Visit the Speakers In The Park to see the complete details. Some of the speakers are:

Speakers In The Park-2010 Training Starts May 26th!

• May 26th – Keeper, founder of Direct Selling Live shares the 100 Million Voices
• June 2nd – Mary Christensen, Party Plan Recruiting Training
• June 30th – Dr. Steve Taubman, Building Rapport and Sales Relationships
• July 14th – Karen Clark, Local Sales Leads, Internet Marketing Skills
• August 4th – Belinda Fuchs, CPA Home Business Finances
• August 18th – Grace Keohohou, Direct Selling Women’s Alliance, Build It Big!
• September 8th – Jackie Ulmer, Network Marketing Success Story

And that is not all! Check the site and share it with your team!

FREE Direct Sales Training Event

Pass this link onto your sales organization so that they can take advantage of this free direct sales training event. http://www.SpeakersInThePark.com. If you prefer to listen to the calls at your leisure, the MP3 downloads of all the training calls are available to Elite Club members so join the direct sales training club.