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Creating Time to Work Your Business

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No Time To Work Your Scentsy Business?

how much time is needed to be a scentsy consultant

Many consultants also work a full time job – either at home raising children or outside the home as an employee for someone else.  Don’t forget all the other obligations such as being taxi driver for the kiddos, cleaning the house, head chef, banker, homework helper, wife or head of the household.  When would you possibly have time to start a home business?

The Busiest People Make the Best Consultants

Busy people know people. They know how to get things done. They know how to multitask. Besides, you know we don’t have time – you have to make time. What if you worked your Scentsy business just 20 minutes a day? That’s less than a recommended workout, an episode on TV, or two smoke breaks.

Get up a few minutes early. Work a bit during your lunch or while you are waiting for the load of laundry to finish in the washer. Do something while you’re waiting to pick up your kids. Break it down into two 10-minute work bursts if you seriously don’t feel you have 20 minutes to devote at once.

Small Increments

While you may not have 1-2 hours a day of undivided time to a make a video, write a blog post, schedule social media posts, make some phone calls, enter orders in the computer, bag and tag the product that UPS just delivered or to call a host, you can still get things accomplished in small increments.

Instead of looking for reasons why you can’t make it work, look for reasons why you can create brief pockets of time and work your business in small increments.

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How Are You Really Spending Your Time?

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Busy busy busy. No time. Wish I had more time. So much to do. Argh! I’ll never get it all done.

Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone. Maintaining a successful direct sales business is definitely work. Many consultants certainly enjoy what they do, but nonetheless it is still work. Those who are doing fairly well and are managing a large organization either have good time management skills or good delegation skills or a little of both.

Those consultants who say they truly do have the desire to succeed but claim they aren’t successful due to time constraints may be able to eke out a little more time to work their business. That said, if I were to show you how to have more time to work your business, is that all it would take for you to get your next promotion in rank?

If you honestly believe you’re not successful or not as successful as you would like to be in your direct selling business right now because you simply don’t have enough time, then it’s time to take a deeper look at the root cause why you don’t have enough time.

Do a time study for one week.

You’ve heard of dieters keeping a food log of everything they put in their mouth for a period of time; this is the same thing – only it involves how you are spending your time. Don’t worry about tracking your time on the weekend.   All workers are entitled to have a weekend off from working.   Starting Monday morning from the time your feet hit the floor, write down the various activities you do – and don’t cheat, you want to be successful, remember? Cheaters never win and winners never cheat. Finish tracking your activities Friday evening. [Read more…] about How Are You Really Spending Your Time?

Working Smarter – Pt. 3 Complete Tasks in Bulk

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In continuing with the Working Smarter, Not Harder series, remember that having more people to manage doesn’t have to mean working more hours. In order to survive being the leader of a large organization you need to eliminate, mitigate and delegate duties that are not the best use of your valuable time.

We all have non-income producing tasks as part of our business. An income producing task would be activities such as facilitating a home party or attending a vendor event – some action where you are directly earning money. Then there are all the other tasks that are required but don’t directly earn you any income at the time of completion. These are tasks such as assembling hostess packets, updating your bookkeeping records, bagging and tagging orders, etc.

Generally the non-income producing tasks are somewhat mundane and not nearly as fun; yet they still must be done. For example, when someone requests a catalog do you go to your shelf, grab an already assembled info packet, address it and pop it in the mail – bada bing, bada boom? Or, do you grab a catalog, then stamp or label it with your contact info, possibly add a business opportunity sticker to the front, add a recruiting DVD or brochure, add your business card and a sample, grab an envelope, stamp your return address, address it to the prospect and then affix a postage stamp? [Read more…] about Working Smarter – Pt. 3 Complete Tasks in Bulk

Working Smarter – Pt. 2 Automate the Answers

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In continuing with the Working Smarter, Not Harder series, remember that having more people to manage doesn’t have to mean working more hours. In order to survive being the leader of a large organization you need to eliminate, mitigate and delegate duties that are not the best use of your valuable time.

This blog started as a way for me to answer questions before they were asked. While I appreciate the kudos for providing a wealth of information, it’s really here to save me time in answering individual questions on a routine basis.

For example, one FAQ I get is from potential recruits who want to work their direct sales business using Internet Marketing (yet frequently these same people have zero IM knowledge and want me to teach them everything I’ve learned over the decade). It didn’t take me long to figure out I was eating up a large chunk of my time responding to this same question. Thus the post: My Online Direct Sales Business was developed to answer these questions.

Another question that can be time consuming to respond to is How do you make samples? Voila – the answer is right here. [Read more…] about Working Smarter – Pt. 2 Automate the Answers

Work Smarter, Not Harder – Pt. 1 Ink Stamps

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The more your team grows the smarter you need to be with your time management skills.   You will have more people to manage but that doesn’t have to mean that you’ll be working more hours.   In order to survive being the leader of a large organization you need to eliminate, mitigate and delegate duties that are not the best use of your valuable time.

One of my favorite time savers are Vista Print Free Self Inking Stamps. I have a nice collection of them and am constantly adding more. Just to name a few, I have:

  • Some that have just one scent name on them. I stamp the back of my business cards annotating the name of the particular scent sample that is attached.
  • One that I stamp the back of my catalogs – contains my website address and a reminder of secure online ordering, no minimums, low and free shipping.
  • One that I use mainly for recruiting on the Getting Started brochures – with the web address of my recruiting website, my email and phone number.

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