Time Management, when working from home in network marketing or direct sales is crucial as you have to balance your home-based business alongside running a home, being a parent and possibly working another business alongside this or even having a job which can be a constant juggling act if you let it.
Read MoreSo you’ve just started a blog or have always put one off because you’re unsure of what to write about. If this is you, then these 52 weeks of blog post ideas prompts should help you get started and keep you being consistent to help get your blog noticed. Happy blogging!
Could you add any more?
Now that you have 52 weeks of blog post ideas, open up your blog and start writing.
I’d love to see how you get on with the ideas.
Is this you? Are you holding yourself back from making a mark in your company? I get this kind of response all the time, so I thought I would give you all some idea’s on how to start a blog in your direct sales or network marketing business so let’s start at the beginning and cover why you actually need to blog. Starting a blog is easier than you think.
Stand out from the crowd (not many people are doing it - I know, it’s true!)
Make it your own, you can still link it in with your replica website.
You can funnel people back to your post from your ‘call to action’ on that blog post.
Google loves to help people searching for what you can offer them!
Become an expert in your area.
It’s content to share on every social platform you are on.
FREE SITES:
WordPress.com is super easy to set up & get started (it has limitations, not many widgets to add to drive people to your other platforms)
Blogger.com is another free and super simple blog to get up and get into the blogging arena. But if after a couple of month of blogging you decide to upgrade, all the work you do on here would have to be done again!
*start as you mean to go on
SELF HOSTED:
WordPress.org – Install your own themes and widgets it is all your own, it’s your own piece of the internet (hosted by GoDaddy, Hostgator and chargeable) You purchase your domain name, you control every part of it including it being found in google search.
Squarespace (like this one) is payable (monthly, annually or 50% discount off an annual plan as a student) You can add products, have multiple blogs and is much easier to manage than wordpress (in my opinion, I've used wordpress for numerous years!) Analytics are attached - this whole site is super easy (drag/drop) and more stable.
MICRO-BLOGGING:
Just login & post – Twitter is a micro-blog, 280 characters. Simply add an image and post your content and share it with the world and your followers. This again is a great way to get started, see if you can compose content then share it and get people following you before you progress onto your first blog site, build up a following who want to hear your tips and drive them to your social media sites!
This is the most common remark I get when I ask people ‘why don’t you start to blog?’
Think of your customers, your ideal crowd;
What are they asking google?
What are they searching for?
How can you help them with the answer?
What questions are you often being asked? (check out your companies Facebook page, their are your questions to answer in a blog post)
What are they looking for on Pinterest?
I hope these ideas have helped you and gave you some more confidence to set up your first open house which would be great for your customers to build up trust by joining you with these once a month events.
I’d love or you to share the image below on Pinterest, come find me over there HERE
Questions?
Pop a comment below or come on over to my business page on Facebook, you’ll find me hanging out there all day!
This time we are just going to go for it, live on Facebook and showing everyone who you are, why you joined your company and the benefits of the products will have for them in only 30-45 minutes, once a month!
Here’s my own 30-minute training on how to run a live Facebook Open House, check out how I edited the LIVE TITLE later so I could encourage more shares and team members!
This is a great habit to get into, just like monthly opportunity events. Create some excitement 1 week before by sharing a game and the winner will be announced at the live event or promote your product giveaway like I did on this Facebook Live at the start to encourage sharing, engagement and more interaction during the LIVE event.
Your 30-45 minute event is in 6 parts (and a guide to timings to help you stay on track)
1) 1 minute – Intro and prize giveaway for shares (welcome chat, #replay, #newbie, #regular or location)
2) 2 minutes – Company history, what do they do
3) 15 minutes – Talk about the products & benefits
4) 5 minutes – Share your story. Why did you join – ask for people to join your team and the benefits
5) 2 minutes – Can you do a Live 2-minute product demo?
6) 5 minutes – Close and your CTA (call to action). Thank you for joining, please remember to share this live to enter the draw and if you would like to join my team and get products at wholesale please look at the link above the replay.
Here is a video of my 30 minute training on creating an open house.
This is a recording of an actual live open house where I even play hook a duck. I hope you take lot's of ideas and inspiration for creating your own - get out there and get social with your friends, customers and potential team members!
I hope these ideas have helped you and gave you some more confidence to set up your first open house which would be great for your customers to build up trust by joining you with these once a month events.
I’d love or you to share the image below on Pinterest, come find me over there HERE
Questions?
Pop a comment below or come on over to my business page on Facebook, you’ll find me hanging out there all day!
So you have started a network marketing or a direct sales business and now you need to get the name of your business out there online and share what you do with everyone so you can bring in sales and potentially, new team members. The first thing I advise everyone to do is, host a Facebook live online launch party and make sure you also schedule in a monthly open house event LIVE on Facebook. Let's now jump into how to how a Facebook Party in just 45-minutes.
Let me share with you my tips for launching successfully and ways to run a winning Facebook Party, this to increase your visibility and product awareness massively!
1) Create an event 7 days before your party using your personal profile (ASKING if people would like a VIP invite as this party - it is not for public eyes, you want to build up excitement)
2) Create an event in your Facebook Group inviting all your group members
3) Change the actual name of your business group for 7 days to ‘Sharon’s Thursday night VIP Party’ and have the posts running right on your feed there.
4) Host the event on your business page where you can get lots of new eyes onto your content and products
1) It pings up a notification to every single person who is in your group so tells everyone.
2) It tells people that don’t want to be in your group they are in and weeds them out, leaving only genuine people that want to interact and be there! Bravo - we weed out inactive members so we are left with genuine customers!
It’s good to run an online Facebook party alongside a house party
I like to create a closed Facebook event for all my hosts holding house parties, I create the event on my personal profile and make the host a co-host of the event and ask her to invite ONLY 20 – 50 of her friends (the ones she has a good idea of who will purchase and engage). This is great for guests coming to her home party get a feel of the products available and the prices. They can ask questions before or if they cannot make her party they can place orders this way. (No item prices are posted during these 7-days or that would be spammy) we save that for party day!
7 days before – Create the event with a ‘door prize’ ONLY for those accepting the invite and post a funny picture in the evening relating to your products
6 days before – Create/share a funny meme related to your industry
5 days before – Post a helpful/ problem-solving image related to one of your product ranges (plant the seed.
4 days before – Post a ‘how to’ image ‘how to apply primer’ how to shrink belly fat’ ‘how to pack for short trips’
3 days before – Post an A, B or C image ‘which would you choose?’ ‘which do you prefer?’
2 days before – Let’s be entertaining – how about making up a Spotify music list ‘what music is good for the party?’ post your comments below
The day before your online/in-house party – Create a poll ‘what can you not live without?’ ‘which do you prefer?’
In the morning share your excitement and tag the hostess (you want her to share her excitement)
At 5pm post, a reminder that the event is happening at ‘[HOSTESS NAME] house at 7pm] or online at 9pm.
For online parties – share a post 30 mins before asking if they are ready to party and share a fun graphic of you ready to party too!
1. ROLL CALL the draw for entering the event and for accepting the RSVP invitation
2. PRODUCT SHOWCASE – Share your 5 favourite products and why (why not share a video instead)
3. RETAIL THERAPY – Share the link to your business page and the special photo album (increases your likes as well)
4. CHECKOUT – WHOLESALE SPECIAL & WINNERS (make people hang out online for the results)
Here is my 80’s themed video (and I do not own the rights to the music - Please add a disclaimer on all lives and YouTubes that contain music) these are my 30-minute themed parties!!
Here is an old but still relevant training I was delivered to my team, please use and adapt to your own business
I hope these ideas have helped you and gave you some more confidence to set up your first Facebook Party or helped you get ready to promote your own live open house which would be great to see as a regular once a month event.
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