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What to Do If Your Consultant Website Still Shows a Maintenance Message

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computer error messageDid your corporate office do an update to your website and now you and your customers still can’t get in?

It’s important to note that while exceptions do happen, almost always when your workstations or websites come back online after an upgrade or update, they all come back up. It’s rare that almost all consultants will be able to get in and you can’t. If this happens it’s almost always something on your end. Before you get too frustrated, there are some easy fixes. Before contacting your I.T. department try these:

  1. Refresh your screen. This is the most obvious and most frequent fix. Voila, new updates appear.
  2. Clear your cache/cookies. If you don’t know what that means or how to do that, Mr. Google can tell you. There are different ways to do that depending on if you’re using Firebox, Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE), Safari or any other browser or if you’re on a phone or tablet.
  3. Reboot your device.
  4. Try it in a different browser.

Any one of those four above suggestions should work.

That is all.

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About the Author: Laurie Ayers is a Michigan work from home mom and a Superstar Director with Scentsy Wickless Candles. She enjoys helping men and women start and maintain a home based business in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Germany, Ireland, UK, France, Austria and Spain. To download a FREE Start Up Guide which provides more details about how to start a home business as well as to learn about our compensation plan go to www.thrivingcandlebusiness.com/how-to-start-a-candle-business/ 

Be sure to connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest

 

Keep Your Friends Close and Your Competitors Closer

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tips to get more salesThere’s a familiar quote attributed to Chinese general and military strategist, Sun-tzu: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” If you know your enemies, and you know what they are up to, you can keep a close eye on them. If you are unaware of their activities that makes them unpredictable.

The same is true your direct sales competitors. One way to increase your business is to take existing ideas and put your own spin on them. By the way, there are no new ideas, just reworked ones.

Who are your competitors?

Some consultants believe other companies that sell similar products are their competitors. Could be. Others believe that their product line is unique enough to set them apart from other companies therefore their true competitors are other consultants within the same company. Remember competitor doesn’t mean enemy or unethical business owner, merely one who is after the same business you are.

Regardless of your definition, if you have a business you are working, then you are in competition with everyone else who has a similar business. To find new customers and potential team members, investigate what your competitors are doing. There is nothing illegal or unethical about evaluating how a competitor markets her product or business opportunity. [Read more…] about Keep Your Friends Close and Your Competitors Closer

Same Thriving Candle Business With a Fresh Look

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Hey wait a minute.Were you looking for this website?

Thriving Candle Business

You found it.Thriving Candle Business recently underwent a facelift.  It was time to shake things up a bit. It’s still loaded with information relevant to anyone in direct sales or who may be considering a direct selling business opportunity.

It also still contains loads of information specific to Scentsy Fragrance.

Why I dropped the words Candle Business in the header

I’ve been in direct sales since 1988. If my math serves me correctly, that’s twenty six years. Many of those years I’ve been in the candle industry. I’m an admitted waxaholic.  I’ve also personally represented nutritional companies (Matol Botanical and E’ola for those inquiring minds). Though the main reason is that much of what happens within direct sales and in party plans is transferable.

It doesn’t matter if you represent candles or chocolate or purses or jewelry or kitchenware or any other products. Information about home parties, recruiting, personal development, marketing, networking – those are all topics that anyone in any direct sales business can use.

So grab a beverage, settle in and nose around a bit. You may find some new features, although much of the former Thriving Candle Business website is still here, it’s just reorganized.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Quickest Way to Get Me to Unfollow You on Twitter

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I love Twitter. I use it daily. I’ve learned some amazing tidbits and met some fabulous people. I highly, highly, encourage direct sellers to jump on the Twitter bandwagon. In fact, come follow me @directsalesblog, then come back and finish this article.

This is not a post about the benefits of using Twitter, nor how to get followers; and it’s not a post about the content of what you tweet. There are plenty of resources about that and that is an entirely different conversation.

Instead I want to talk about:

The Quickest Way to Get Me to Unfollow You on Twitter

DMs – Direct Messages are great opportunity to start a conversation in private. It’s a great platform to start building personal relationships or to say something that the entire Twitterverse doesn’t need to be bogged down with.

Note I mention words like conversation (indicating two-way), and personal and relationships.

What bugs the beegeebers out of me are Tweeps using the DM to spam me. If I have decided to follow you because you look interesting or whatever reason, and then you almost instantly send me a DM sending me to your FB page or website or to buy your book, then you’re spamming me. And I will instantly go unfollow you. You have your settings set up to autoreply with your ad. [Read more…] about Quickest Way to Get Me to Unfollow You on Twitter

Getting Customers: What Not to Do

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Life sure does give me plenty of blog fodder. I had yet another encounter today that affords me the opportunity to share what not to do when you’re trying to reach new customers for your direct sales business.

I stopped at a garage sale – or “Good Junk Sale” as I refer to them. Signage on the street was bold, plentiful and even had balloons to draw my attention to it – so far so good. From a marketing standpoint, this potential trove of treasures was starting off doing everything right.

lemonadeI parked and immediately saw that it appeared to have mostly baby/little kids stuff, i.e. nothing I would be interested in. But since I was already parked, it was too late to do a drive by so I decided that I would get out of my air conditioned car and venture into the 98 degree garage to see if perhaps there was good junk that wasn’t for young kiddos.

I immediately noticed an enterprising little girl, approximately six years old, manning a lemonade stand. Gotta love young entrepreneurs. Good for you honeypie, it’s hot out here, I hope you make a few bucks.

Then she bellowed:

“Fresh lemonade and cookies twenty five cents!”

She spoke up clearly and loudly. Very good.   But then “¦. She said it again. Again loudly and in a very irritating sing-song chant.   And then she said it again. And again. Sing-songy, repeated, repeated, repeated. [Read more…] about Getting Customers: What Not to Do