Hi, I am Party Plan Pat! I am the author of
10 Deadly Direct Sales Home Party Business Mistakes
The Little Black Book Of Home Party Plans Success Secrets
I was once a struggling home party consultant.
When I started in the Home Party Plan Industry I had zero skills- I had no sales skills, no marketing skills, no confidence, no direction, no warm market, a shoestring budget that I wasted instantaneously. I had no clue, neither did my uplines.
Then I did what most other people do, jump from company to company only to have the same results! One day I looked at the facts. The companies kept changing, I kept experiencing failure and I blamed everyone except me. It wasn’t the company,the compensation plan and people didn’t suck. It was me!
I realized, what most home party consultants direct sales representatives do not realize; a home party business is the business of marketing! Regrettably, many of us who pursue this industry have no idea how to market or promote our home based home party plan business.
If you're tired of trying to build your direct sales business with dead-beat prospects, poorly attended home parties, and spending more money than you make, then your troubles have ended…
Many a home party consultants find it very difficult to realize a profit through their home party business. As a direct sales home party marketing coach and consultant, these are the obstacles I continue to hear that many in direct selling continue to face:
*I am not able to sell
*My living room, garage and bedrooms have all turned into a product storage warehouse!
*My spouse is threatening to cut me off financially if I don't turn a profit ASAP!
*My friends and family avoid me and are tired of my schemes!
*My upline keeps calling asking me to take one for the team and double my product volume!
*I am tired of buying leads, using the 3-foot rule and talking to dead beat leads!
*My no-show rate is so high. No one attends my home parties.
*I have spent 1000's of $$$ and in 5,6,7 months haven't enrolled anyone!
I can appreciate these frustrations; after all I was there once!
All these complaints if you will are tied to the fear of selling and fear of rejection. Of course it is going to be very difficult to realize any home party sales and profits for that matter at this rate!
Often during my discussions many people will be quick to tell me that they do not want to sell. That response begs the question why did you get involved in a direct selling business? When pushed further, many begin to realise what they are afriad of is coming across like the pushy car salesman.
Much of this fear of selling comes of course from the dreaded objections that many people inevitably come up with as to why they simply will not, cannot or choose not to use your services.
There are a number of things I would like to highlight:
1. The business you are involved in is direct sales or direct selling. The avenue for the sales to be made is home parties. In order to get the white mercedes, the pink cadillac, the big home and huge check, you must produce Volume both Personal Volume (PV) and Customer Volume (CV). These come from making sales. Your home party company will calculate your total monies due you through sales made and of course there are nice tidy bonus sums for those that meet and exceed direct sales company exepectations! You my dear friend are in the business of selling. Should you find you do not like what you do. It could very well be you are involved in the wrong industry.
2. As Jeffery Combs says, no one really objects to what you are selling, what they are telling you is they are incapable of making a decision. Remember that most people are used to being told what to do when to do it and how to do it.
3. There really is no such thing as an objection. An objection is much like the child that is constantly acting out. Are they really acting out or are they asking for attention? An objection is merely a crafty way of saying “please give me more information!”
4. When you get an objection, it means you are that much closer to makinng the sale. When you receive no objects you can be certain you did not reach your intended target.
5. As my friend Amanda says in her book Go For No “ A no doesn’t always mean “no”. It just means not now!
6. You can’t “overcome” your prospect’s objections – but you can give them information and tools that allow them to make a new decision.
7. The biggest mistake I find many home business owners making is not asking for the sale. What is the point of a well attend in home party if after a magnificent home party demo you don’t ask for the sale? Truer words have never been spoken. Ask and it shall be given unto you!
When one is engaged in the task of building a brick wall, when you notice a crack in the wall do you continue to build and then when you are done tear down the wall and start afresh? Or do you correct the mistake immediately and then proceed? Which option is cost effective and will bring better returns?
Discover how you can get the odds in your favor, pick up your copy of Home Party Plans QUALIFICATIONS Process : How To Guarantee You Are Not Wasting Your Time With Dead Beat Prospects!
Party Plan Pat
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