You Won The Home Based Business Training Sweepstakes

The direct sales and home based business NEW LOOK sweepstakes wrapped up with 268 entries. That means that we picked 27 lucky winners to receive the home based business recruiting training program, “Stop Recruiting… Start Sharing!”. If your name in on this list, then you won!

Direct Sales Marketing Sweepstakes

The sweepstakes winners were drawn randomly at Random.org. You can check your entry in the sweepstakes by searching for your entry by your email address at Random.org. If your email address does not show your entry then try your name@facebook.com.  I tried to enter all new FaceBook fans even if a direct message was not sent with your email.  Please also check the direct sales marketing sweepstakes rules as published on this site if you are concerned about your entry.

Direct Selling Consultant Winners Are:

There were 268 entrants, so we picked 27 winners because we said that 1:10 entrants would win! In direct selling usually a good rule of thumb is that 1 out of every 10 leads will have an interest in your product, opportunity or services, so 1:10 WIN the sweepstakes!

The (27) direct selling consultants who are the winners are:

1st: kawolf
2nd: dhea
3rd: abeasleyprice
4th: pjf52
5th: cpaden
6th: flophasit
7th: cj-cmt
8th: homeideajj
9th: pjf52
10th: rochellesanon
11th: holly
12th: K.evers
13th: andrewsfamily6
14th: mtbellino
15th: dhea
16th: janott
17th: ilovecandleparties
18th: dhea
19th: debbies3boys
20th: elam1961
21st: richandrews62
22nd: udderchaos
23rd: mtbellino
24th: udderchaos
25th: jane_bacon
26th: dbnicegirl
27th: melissa

Direct Selling & Home Party Plan Marketing

The “Stop Recruiting… Start Sharing!” program is a system of recruiting that works for all direct selling, party plan and home based companies. This program will teach you how to motivate your sales team and market your business everywhere you go with better results.

I am in the process of contacting our winners. If your partial email address is on this list and I have not contacted you, then send me an email to get your password to download the “Stop Recruiting… Start Sharing!” motivational action packed program.

DSWA Celebrations Motivate Sales Consultants

I am honored to be a part of the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA) Celebrations conference.  This is the most motivational direct sales conference that I have attended since joining the direct selling industry.  The reason is that the diversity of the networking opportunities and collaborative efforts that are taking place here are powerful.  As a successful sales consultant, I always found my corporate national conference to be inspirational and motivational, yet this is much bigger because so many companies are represented.

Network Marketing Training

The conference is a networking opportunity that not only provides training and entertainment from powerful leaders, it also provides insight into market trends, coaching skills, and vendor resources.  With the many companies represented, the education, vendors, speakers and entertainment are unparalleled compared to what can be offered at a one-company conference. I videotaped some of today’s programs and will feature them in future articles next week.

Nicki Keohohou Inspires Sales Consultants

Nicki Keohohou, founder of DSWA, opened the conference with a message for sales consultants to reach for their dreams. In her message she talked about the start of the DSWA and how the organization continues to reach for the dream of being a global direct sales influence.  With the global expansion in progress, as well as a continued growth in members, Nicki’s promise that we will reach our dreams and will not be “going away” brought a standing ovation.

The Direct Selling Cheerleader

The event’s master of ceremonies Marvelless Mark, sometimes referred to as the direct selling cheerleader, brings the event a fun and entertaining twist between speakers.  Mark is a combination of actor, emcee, inspiration, rock star and just plain nutty fun.  He  brings a twist to the event that keeps everyone interested and having fun while learning. Marvelless Mark is a supplier member of the Direct Sales Association and has presented at direct sales company conferences like The Pampered Chef, Cookie Lee, Creative Memories and more.

2010 DSWA Celebrations Updates

Watch for more updates from the 2010 DSWA Celebrations conference next week. I have videos, audios and more pictures and will give you plenty of great inspiration and motivation from the conference on future posts.

Direct Sales Training Sweepstakes

Don’t forget to enter the direct sales NEW LOOK sweepstakes that is going on now!  There are 9 ways to get involved and win a 8- seminar training program that will give your recruiting a real shot in the arm! Enter to win training program  “Stop Recruiting… Start Sharing!”

Direct Seller, Avon, Globally For Brand Recognition

The list of the top ten most successful brands for 2009 recognized worldwide was released last month by 247WallSt.com. Beating out McDonalds in the number ten spot was the direct sales giant Avon, which ranked 9th in the prestigious survey. Avon was the only company in the direct sales industry placed in the top 10.

Top 10 Most Successful Brands 2009

1. Amazon: Beating out Walmart for online shopping.
2. BlackBerry: I love mine!
3. Nike: This goes without saying.
4. Goldman Sachs: investment banking
5. Oracle: software industry
6. JPMorgan Chase: financial services
7. Google: we all know them!
8. Ford: which surprises me!
9. Avon: The direct selling industry icon was also recognized two other times in 2009, placing number one in both the Direct Selling Power 50 as well as the industry’s Women of Power awards.
10. McDonalds:  McDonalds is adding close to 200 stores a year worldwide. This means we are spreading our poor eating habits around the word!

Direct selling Growth Worldwide

According to the Direct Sales Association, there are more distributors worldwide selling wares out of their homes, at parties, and door-to-door than ever before. In the U.S. alone the ranks of professionals in direct selling grew by 100,000 last year, to 15.1 million reps. The fact that Avon is ranked as one of the most successful brands globally is a tribute to the industry and to Avon.

Avon, Direct Sales Leader

Avon, founded in 1885, is based in New York, NY.  The company is a trendsetter and a leader in the direct sales industry. One of the first direct sales companies to embrace technology and the internet, their forward focus is certainly a reason for their successes. While other direct sales companies are fighting social networking and fearfully regulating their sales constants’ online activities, Avon has paved the way for a guaranteed future by harnessing the collaborative resources available on the internet. Avon deserves to be one of the top 10 most successful brands for 2009.

Direct Selling Women’s Alliance, Founder Nicki Keohohou

Direct Selling Women’s Alliance founder and president Nicki Keohohou has invited me to join the DSWA as a team partner.  The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance is a group of successful entrepreneurs who joined together to advance and promote professionalism in the direct sales and network marketing industry on a global scale.

DSWA, An Association Of Entrepreneurs

Based in Kailalua, Hawaii, the DSWA co-founders Nicki Keohohou and daughter Grace Keohohou both have a background of success in the direct selling industry.  The DSWA is literally an association of independently successful entrepreneurs who collaborate to bring a wide variety of expertise into the Alliance.   With each professional bringing something different to the association, and working from their location worldwide,  the team partners are dedicated to providing resources to direct sales companies, consultants and women of the industry.

DSWA, Search Engine Optimization Expert

Nicki has asked me to be the DSWA SEO expert.  My first project with the DSWA will be to bring the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance’s websites to the top of the search engines.  Currently, the DSWA is only receiving first page search results in Google and other search engines for their name, Direct Selling Women’s Alliance and DSWA, which means that all search engine traffic that they are getting already knew where they wanted to go.  They just did not know the address.  My job is to bring the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance to page one of Google on other keywords like ‘direct sales training’, or ‘direct selling resources’ so that when someone is looking for what the DSWA has to offer, they will show up on the first page of the results.  This will bring search engine traffic to the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance who did not even know that the DSWA existed. I just put up a new website to feature SEO Services.

As the DSWA search engine optimization expert, I will be providing SEO education and website optimization services to companies and individual members at a significant DSWA member discount, providing SEO tele-seminars and webinars, and other web services specific to the direct sales industry.  As a direct sales expert, the SEO services I will provide will be even more effective to home businesses because of my complete understanding of the industry.

Direct Selling Mission-Direct Sales Marketing

The mission of the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance  is to advance the professionalism of direct sales and network marketing industry while impacting the lives of women and ultimately families.  This is compatible with my personal and business mission to improve the quality of family life, now and into the next generation through good-for-you food choices and increased cash flow into the home.  I am really excited to have this opportunity to work with the greats in the direct sales industry.  The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance has a multitude of direct sales resources and education provided by industry success stories from all over the world.

Powerful Direct Sales Women

The Direct Selling Live, Women of Power Awards are the first annual awards designed specifically to recognize the successful women in the industry who have achieved so much.

For more than 100 years direct selling has had millions of distributors come and go. The majority of these distributors have been women. Today almost 80% of all consultants in direct sales are women.  Around the world it has been women who have bought more products, sold more products, used more products and built more businesses in the direct sales industry. Yet frequently it is the men who receive the most recognition.

Successful Women Of Power

The direct selling industry attracts every race, nationality, color, religion, age, economic standing, educational background, political view and sexual orientation.  The POWER 30 celebrates and honors all the differences of successful women in all walks of life.  The awards highlight the women’s success stories that have shaped direct sales and network marketing into the massive community and industry that it is today.

Power 30 Direct Sales Awards

The Power 30 direct sales awards honored 31 influential women in direct sales.

The 31st honoree is Madame CJ Walker – The Mother of Network Marketing & The Worlds First Female Self-Made Millionaire.  Madame CJ Walker was the daughter of former slaves and started her own business selling hair care products.  She quickly started recruiting sales consultants to sell her products. At a time when direct selling companies were using door-to-door sales techniques, Madam C.J. Walker taught her “Walker Agents” how to recruit and how to train others to do the same.  They used a demonstration to sell their products to customers, most of which could not read, thus introducing the basic network marketing business model.

Women Of Power

Other successful women recognized in the Women of Power includes:

• #29 Kara Kowalski – Openly Gay Distributor, Pre-Paid Legal
• #27 Dr. Traci Lynn – Founder and President, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry
• #26 Tami Longaberger – Chair of the Board and CEO, Longaberger
• #24 Deb Bixler – Direct Sales Speaker, Coach and Trainer
• #23 Linda Lucas – Director of DSWA International Area Chapter Program
• #20 British Ford-Hill Founder, MLM Black Woman, Author & Entrepreneur
• #18 Doris Christopher – Founder, Pampered Chef
• #17 Nicole Walker – Voted 2008 Worlds Greatest Direct Selling Leader
• #15 Lisa Nichols – Life Coach, Author and Speaker
• #9 Marcia Wieder – Life Coach, Speaker and Author
• #8 Nadine Thompson – Founder and CEO, Soul Purpose Lifestyle Company
• #7 Cookie Lee – Founder, Chairwoman and Chief Designer
• #4 Grace Lee Keohohou – Co-Founder, Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA)
• #2 Nicki Keohohou, Co-Founder Direct Selling Women’s Alliance (DSWA)

Most Powerful Women In Direct Sales

#1 Andrea Jung – Chairman and CEO of AVON

The DirectSellingLive.com’s Power Person of the Decade 2000 – 2009 is the number one recipient of the Women Of Power Award Andrea Jung.  Andrea has placed as the number 1 most powerful direct sales professional in the Direct Sales Power 50, which recognized influential professionals in the industry (men and women) two years in a row and is now being honored in the Women of Power as well.  Avon is truly a global influence in the direct sales industry with the largest worldwide organization with millions of sales reps.