If you are in direct sales, it is extremely important that you grow a healthy downline. Not only are you building a relationship with your customers through sales, but you should build a healthy relationship with your sales team. Here are 7 tips to generating a strong downline and keeping your direct sales business growing every day.

TIP #1: GET PERSONAL Your downline wants to know who they are working so hard for. Send a monthly newsletter will sales tips, monthly numbers, top salesperson, etc. Offer a free forum or chat group to your team so everyone can share ideas and offer support to one another.

TIP #2: BE AVAILABLE Schedule time to speak with your sales team often. Constant contact will show them that you care. This gives your team a chance to share their concerns, thoughts and ideas with you. It also allows them the opportunity to ask questions.

TIP #3: HOLD A CONTEST Offer prizes or free services to new recruits. Offer special discounts or coupons to the team member who recruits the most new partners.

TIP #4: WRITE ARTICLES Article marketing provides an avenue for free web site traffic. Write five articles, linking to a web site where your products are sold, then submit them to various free article directories.

TIP #5: EDUCATE YOUR TEAM Provide your current sales team with powerful information about your business and products. By educating your sales team, you will create an aura of excitement. This excitement pushes your team to recruit their acquaintances into this wonderful opportunity for self-based employment.

TIP #6: LOSE YOUR MIND Sometimes the silliest ideas are the ones that often get noticed in sales. If you’ve been playing it safe, get crazy with promoting your business. Print fliers, bookmarks, calling cards, booklets, etc. Go door-to-door and promote your business and sales opportunity. Focus only on promoting awareness of your business instead of sales.

TIP #7: DON’T STOP It has been said many times that for every 9 no’s you get, you’ll get one yes. Don’t stop promoting recruits, regardless of how many no’s you’ve had this far. Eventually someone will say, Yes!  Sometimes the squeakiest wheel is the one that gets oiled!

Stefanie Fauquet is the owner of http://www.workathomemomonline.com  A Site Devoted to Helping Moms Make Money in Direct Sales. Need More Recruiting Tips? Check out http://www.workathomemomonline.com/building-a-downline.html

What are Top Tier Sales?

What separates top tier direct selling from a typical MLM product is price point. Top tier sales are simply put products that cost more than a typical multi-level marketing product. Generally speaking top tier products are in the thousand to ten thousand dollar range. What does this mean from a sales and commission perspective? Just as you might expect that commission on a top tier sale is much higher than that of a typical MLM product- again it is more likely in the thousands of dollars.

Dead downline

The beauty of top tier sales is that there is little emphasis placed on building a downline. In MLM most of your energy is focused on your downline and rightly so if you’re interested in building a residual income. The problem with this model is that in this day and age the internet has made this very problematic. The internet has made MLM unsustainable. The reason this is is because there is so much access to information that people can see where the next big OPPORTUNITY is. If you blink, you just may open your eyes to an empty downline and then you start back at zero.

In top tier direct sales you don’t have to rely on a downline for your income. You get paid commissions on your sales which amount to a higher income up front due to the higher price point. You have the same potential for residual income you just don’t rely heavily on your downline to produce your income.

Get Paid Today

Get Paid Today is a concept of top tier sales that grew out of the new era of MLM. When the internet killed MLM as we know it GPT was born. The GPT concept illustrates how important it is to have your money in hand today vs. a promise of your money in the future at an undetermined time. The promise of MLM is that If you build a downline you will be paid off of other people’s sales tomorrow. GPT allows you to have your money today to invest and do with as you wish.

Parting advice

Here is some parting advice to ponder. What it comes down to is making an informed decision on what will work best for you. There are still plenty of people earning a living from their MLM business and plenty of people failing at top tier sales. It is important that you do your due diligence when making a decision such as this. Make sure that you follow your heart AND your head. Understand that it is a true, bonified business with all the work and effort that a business requires. The tough part can be separating the facts from the hype. If it sounds too good to be true IT IS; this cannot be stressed enough. Finally, never forget people are trying to SELL you something.

Melissa Erlandson
Successful internet marketer and training coach. Currently involved with company that is an incubator for entrepreneurs in the internet marketing field.   http://wealthycreations.net/