Waching daily Jul 3 2018

00:00 Hey guys, Julie here and today I want to talk to you about why your direct sales

business is not really working for you.

00:18 So direct sales, let's just put it out there.

It kind of has a reputation, reputation, reputation of not being a real business, but let's just

face it, MLMers work just as hard as any other type of business.

So if it's not working, let's try to unpack why.

So the first reason it might not work is Master of the Obvious...

You're not making money.

00:41 And I think part of the problem is that most direct sales businesses, people don't

know what to do after they max out their friends and family.

So unless you've got friends upon friends upon friends who do all those extra home parties,

you run out of people to sell to, That's where online marketing can become so valuable because

you can use things like sales funnels and facebook ads, all that stuff that every other

business uses.

You can use it in your business too.

01:09 Secondly, you might not be making money because you made the direct sales business

your entire business.

Now, let me just explain what I mean.

The people who are usually successful in direct sales have a business around the business.

So let's say that you sell Mascara.

If you have, all you do is be a consultant for mascara you're gonna kind of run out of

creativity, run out of ideas, run out of leads.

But if you create an entire beauty type business and selling mascara is part of that business,

then you have a whole new world of creativity.

So sometimes building a business around your direct sales business can help boost sales.

01:52 The third reason that you might not be making money is because your heart isn't

in it.

Because it doesn't really feel like your business.

Because you feel like a glorified sales person for somebody else's business.

And you know, direct sales is a great way to get into entrepreneurship, but maybe it's

time to spread your wings.

02:10 So if it's not working, it could be one of those three reasons.

So the other reality that comes along with direct sales is that most of the top sellers

are making money because they're recruiting other sellers.

So at some point you will have to transition from just selling product to selling the business

idea.

This can also be done with online marketing and can be done with sales funnels.

There are a lot of MLMers, they build webinar funnels and what they do is they use the webinar,

the traditional webinar to basically show people what's possible with direct sales.

They invite them to build a side hustle, build that freelance gig, and then they give them

free mentoring and coaching when they joined the direct sales business under your, you

know, as part of your downline.

Then they run ads and they get new people to sign up.

03:01 So that's actually the best way to make money in direct sales is to get more people

in your downline.

And not just anybody in your downline, but other leaders in your downline.

So if you see somebody who comes into your downline and they're doing a really good job,

you want to do as much as you can to leverage what they're doing to help them build their

team, because as they build their team, that kind of comes up to you in more money.

So if you don't like that part of the business, direct sales might not be for you because

that's really where the money is made in that downline.

03:34 Finally, the organic nature of social media, it means that when you're in direct

sales, you're not really in the sales of the product.

You're more in the content business, creating viral videos, creating blog posts, doing podcast

interviews.

It's more about creating the content that's going to bring all the leads to you so that

you can sell to them.

03:56 So ultimately, whether it's Mascara or Tupperware or Pampered Chef or LuluRoe

or whatever direct sales business you're in, you're really a marketing company.

That's ultimately what you do.

You learn how to produce content to sell your products and to fill your downline.

04:11 So if those things aren't attractive to you, it may be time to say goodnight to

your direct sales and to get into the entrepreneur game in a different way.

04:20 You know that the best conversations happen after the camera stops rolling.

So if you are currently indirect sales, considering direct sales or really struggling, I'd love

to know in the comments below what is your biggest obstacle in your direct sales so that

I can help you.

And you can watch this video and all the other ones that I do over at Juliestoian.com.

For more infomation >> 3 Reasons Your Direct Sales Business is Not Working - Duration: 4:55.

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Brazil's Joy Is Mexico's Heartbreak in World Cup Knockout - Duration: 6:22.

Brazil's Joy Is Mexico's Heartbreak in World Cup Knockout

There are no curses, Mexico Coach Juan Carlos Osorio had insisted, no reasons to be superstitious about the team's apparent inability, one World Cup after another, to advance to the quarterfinal round.

There are simply good game plans, he said, and good players.

Hoodoo or not, Mexico on Monday had its World Cup run ended spectacularly, maddeningly, by one of the world's very best players, Neymar, who scored a goal and assisted on another to lead Brazil to a 2-0 win in a round of 16 game at Samara Arena.

It was a depressing finish for Mexico, which has now crashed out of seven consecutive World Cups in the round of 16.

In a multidimensional performance showing all the light and dark of the game, Neymar, 26, was the hero, the villain, the most graceful player in the stadium and, for many, the most vexing.

"I think we controlled the game, mostly," said Osorio, who repeatedly criticized Neymar, without calling him out by name, for what he perceived to be an unacceptable amount of playacting in the second half: "I think this is a very negative example for the world and the world of football and all the children following this game.

Heading into the tournament, Mexico had invested in their mental well-being. They hired a psychologist to bring a level of lucidity to the players' collective mental state.

The players and fans rallied around the phrase "imaginemos cosas chingonas" (a distinctly Mexican sentence that translates roughly to "Let's imagine amazing things") uttered by striker Javier Hernández in a fit of passion before the tournament.

A thrilling 1-0 win over Germany, the defending champions, helped the team start the tournament on a euphoric note. But Brazil, with its overflowing talent, was a challenge too difficult to overcome.

"We're sad, disappointed, obviously, with a dream that has ended," Hernández said after the game. The Mexicans looked ambitious through the first 20 minutes, dominating the ball, excavating little channels through the Brazilian defense, bringing danger to the Brazilian goal mouth.

But the game took on a different tone in the 25th minute, right about when Neymar turned two defenders inside-out with a head fake and a deceptive dribble and then drilled a shot toward goal that required a fingertip save from goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.

Ochoa made a number of crucial saves through the night. But from there to the final whistle, it was Brazil's match.

Neymar orchestrated Brazil's opener six minutes into the second half, cutting menacingly from left to right across the 18-yard line, tugging three defenders along with him, before smacking a blind, back heel pass to Willian, reversing the play.

With the defense discombobulated, Neymar abruptly did a U-turn into the box like a Russian cabdriver evading traffic and glided unfettered into the open space just in time to slide a cross from Willian across the goal line with his yellow cleat.

The incident that enraged Osorio came about 20 minutes later. Neymar, as he had on a few occasions already to that point, was taking his time getting back to his feet.

Mexican midfielder Miguel Layún came over to collect the ball and pressed his cleat onto the Brazilian's ankle. Neymar reacted theatrically, assuming a fetal position and writhing on his back, like a turtle flipped onto its shell.

The game was paused for several minutes, and the Mexicans watched in frustration, as he was examined. Tite, the coach of Brazil, put the blame on Layún: "There's nothing to say," he said. "You just have to look at the video.".

Layún delivered an underhanded critique: "I think he's a player with a lot of talent who hopefully one day dedicates himself to playing a little more. Osorio was unsparing: "It's a man's sport. I think there shouldn't be so much acting.".

Neymar was cryptic: "I don't much care for criticism, not even praise. Osorio had every reason to be frustrated.

The team's heroics in the group stage had inspired Mexico's horde of traveling fans to sing his name from the stands — a remarkable turnaround for a coach pelted with criticism in the weeks heading into the tournament.

But the good feelings withered in the heat of Samara.

It was Neymar, again, who conjured Brazil's second goal, finishing a powerful dribbling run down the left wing with an outside-of-the-foot cross pass to Roberto Firmino, who needed only to tap the ball into the net.

Mexico's fans, who had turned every game in Russia into a virtual home game for their team, were quiet for perhaps the first time this month.

The final whistle, minutes later, signaled the end of the road. There was no curse to blame, only Neymar — brilliant, exasperating Neymar.