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Why and how you should train your team

Training: High school football teams do it for the season and elite athletes do it for the Olympics. Corporate employees and sales teams do it, too. For many, running the stadium stairs has more appeal than spending the day in a corporate training session. Business training can feel tiresome, condescending, and perfunctory—a hoop to jump…

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Starting an MLM Company That Will Last, Part 2 Compensation Strategy

Multilevel Marketing is big business. There are dozens of companies (including Infotrax) that sell products and services to MLMs new and old. My company has been supporting companies in the industry for decades. I have seen a lot of companies start: some fail some succeed beyond their wildest expectations, and many others fall somewhere in…

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The Elevator Speech

Did your grandma ever ask you what you do? You start explaining your job, your business, what happens each day, what goes right, and what goes wrong. Then, before you know it, she has fallen asleep? What happened? What happened is that you were unable to articulate, in sound bite fashion, in language she could…

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Relationships and Multi-Level Marketing

Is it possible to have relationships in business? The word “relationship” is thrown out in broad sweeping motions all around the business community: relationship marketing, business-to-business relationships, customer relationship management, brand relationship. What is this relationship so many people are attempting to capitalize on in our lives? Relationships are what make us human! Without relationships,…

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Training on Diversity

When direct selling companies move into foreign markets, companies learn about cultural differences and similarities. However, an important component of every company, domestic or international, is diversity within the company as well as the distributors they serve nationally. We often want to treat the United States as if it is one culture. Although living in…

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Training Tips from an Expert

I recently had the great privilege of interviewing Jeff Birk. The long-time stand-up comedian turned professional training executive has opened for Jay Leno, Bill Cosby, and Martin Short. He’s also appeared in several movies filmed in Utah including: The Singles Ward 1 & 2, The Home Teachers, and Saints and Soldiers: The Void. He was…

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See, hear, and do

Training has a very important role in the direct selling industry. As a distributor, you train your teams, receive training from your company, learn how to run your business from your team leader, catch up on the latest and greatest trends and media outlets, find out how to use new products, and so on. When…

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