You will get out of it what you put into it

You can't expect to reach your goals in life if you don't put in the effort it takes to reach those goals. I did a Periscope yesterday where I talked about athletes and what it takes to be a world class athlete. It is the same in this business, you can't expect to get to the top or even have a decent amount of success without putting the effort in. Once you are a part of a team and you have a good sponsor and upline along with corporate support there is a path already made for you, it is your decision if you want to travel down it and how fast you want to go to reach your destination. Just like a road there are road maps and gps devices, signs, etc. all of these are directions from someone that has been there before, there are the same things in this business, you name it someone has probably tried it and shared their idea with someone on what they did. Now it is up to you if you want to use their idea and change it up a bit or go a completely different way, the thing is that there is help, tons of it. I have said this probably a thousand times since we started in Paparazzi, but I will say it again, I can't stress this enough that nobody is going to do it for you, the jewelry will not sell itself, the customers will not come to you and ask if you sell it, and neither will the recruit. If you are having success and getting out of it what you had intended or even more then that is awesome, and you know exactly what I am talking about, for those of you that are struggling, please ask yourself if you are doing everything that you think you can to be successful, have you talked to your sponsor, your upline, or any teammate for ideas, are you getting yourself and the word out there that you sell it, are you allowing enough time a day, week, and month for your business? All of those questions are the ones that you should be asking yourself and find what you think needs improvement. Everyone in this company has the potential for limitless success, but it doesn't come overnight, it's not easy, and it takes some great effort and belief, belief in the company, the product, and most of all belief in yourself.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and let's make this the best black Friday week, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday!!!

Attitude

Picture yourself going to buy a new car, you have the money, you know what you can afford, you narrow it down to a couple of different cars, so you finally go to talk to the car dealer to help pick one out that you want and you walk up to the dealer and he grumbles and acts like you are bothering him, he rushes through the process, doesn't really know much about the car, obviously doesn't really care about the manufacturer of the car, and basically just has a bad attitude altogether. Would you want to buy a car from this person? I bet not, he pretty much just ruined your whole buying experience. Why did he act this way? Maybe because he has had quite a few customers come up to him, ask him questions, get all ready to buy from him only to back out at the end, who knows. All I can say is he is not going to get many more sales that way, now is he? Well guess what, our customers can feel the same way when we don't show our excitement about Paparazzi, if we go into an event, party, Facebook group or party, or even someone coming up to you on the street. Learn about what you are selling, learn about the company, share with every potential customer what you love about what you do, what brought you to the company. You don't have to go into detail, but you want to be educated enough to be able to answer most questions that they might have. Your attitude is as much about your sale as is the product, never forget that. Always treat your customers better than you want to be treated as a customer. Also remember everyone can be a customer, your goal should be to make sure they know you sell it, make sure that they know you love it, and to make your product a household name and that if they want something they know to come to you. 

Your attitude not only can make or lose you a sale now, it can make or lose you a customer for life. 

Don't Fall Into the Trap of Just Being a Recruiter

We have been with Paparazzi for three and half years now and it took us three years to finally realize that in order to be successful you need to sell as well as recruit.
We were the ones at convention that sat their listening to the founders talk about working your sales, going out there and doing the parties, sell, sell, sell and we would get pumped about it, we would think we really need to preach this to our teams, not once thinking that it was pertaining to us. You see when we got into Paparazzi we wanted to do the sales, the parties, and the events in our area, we were going to travel and do shows, etc. etc., until we did an event and a home party, I am not saying they were bad, I am just saying that they weren't as good as we thought they would be. Then Chasity started recruiting, not because she didn't like doing shows or parties, actually she did it to try and find more shows, then realized that she could share this opportunity with people from all over the country, pretty soon we started signing people up left and right. Well with this success recruiting we started focusing all of our time on recruiting, and we were having great success and were also teaching our team how to do the same. In the beginning our front line volume was doing amazing because we kept signing people up and they would buy a little and sell a little, but eventually they started doing what we were doing, they started spending more time recruiting and building their teams. Pretty soon most of our volume from our team started coming from further down in our team because we weren't pushing our teams to sell, we were pushing them to recruit. Do you know what happens when you have a team full of consultants that focuses mostly on recruiting and very little on selling? You have a hard time keeping people because they don't know really how to sell and nobody pushes them to sell. I am not saying to not recruit, but what I am saying is to try and get them as a customer first, get the sale, let them see the product, wear the product, and while they are buying from you they are also learning how you sell and how easy it is to do. Get them interested in the product, share the whole experience with all of your customers, develop a relationship with them and then present the opportunity to them, you will have team members on your front line that potentially can be your next rock star because they aren't just starting a new company focusing strictly on finding new people, they are selling right from square one and they know how. I hope you all learn from our mistake and benefit from what took us three years to figure out.
Happy selling everyone !