How Cool is this?

It's not every day you hear something like this so forgive us as we toot our horn a little here and share with you. Here's a note from one of our subscribers ...

A little bit of my Success ...

I read every newsletter and make changes to my business and I just had to write you and tell you what a terrific weekend we just had.

My oldest girls (Kambria and Faythe) are girlie girls to the bone as most of you know!!! They love anything pink and ask on a daily basis to go to Disney World. Well, since I have been doing so well with Do-Re-Me & You! We thought why not use the extra money and take them to do something REALLY nice this year!!! So I bought tickets to Disney on Ice; 100 Years of Magic.

We have NEVER done anything like this cause with me at home we just have never had the extra money laying around and with the tickets, drinks, parking, and a sitter for the younger ones we would have needed a loan to ever pull that off. But OH MY IT WAS AMAZING!!!! I am working on earning this cruise so I am making more money than ever. So not only was I able to get the tickets but I was able to get them custom made Disney Dresses, and barrettes, buy them new tights and shoes, and then the tickets, parking, popcorn, nachos, and pizza (yes I even let them eat in the dresses HEHEHE) then after an breathtaking performance James and I took the girls to Olive Garden for dinner.

The whole day was a surprise for them they were given clues every day for a week to keep them guessing (You will be going to Washington DC, You will be able to get dressed up, Take pictures, ect) and while we were having fun with the big girls the little ones were at home with a sitter (special treats for them also) and the whole day was paid for by my money from Do-Re-Me & You!

Don't get me wrong the Bonus checks are great to get, but seeing my little princesses sitting on the edge of their chairs the whole time watching all their Favorite characters from the movies they have seen a thousand times was worth more than any award I could ever get.

Thank you all so much for making my girls dreams come true!!! What an unbelievable company I work for!!! Not only to we help children with the products but also able to help the mothers.

Thank you all so much for helping me grow my team and learn so much!!!

Michelle with Do-Re-Me & You!

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First of all, congratulations on making enough money to afford something like this. Secondly, thank so much for sharing your story with us. There's nothing more satisfying for us than to read a success story from one of our subscribers! Keep up the great work! Here's to many, many more family trips paid soley by your business.!

Sales Horror Stories - February's Failed Sales

PUNCH DRUNK PROSPECT VS. RIPPED REP
Bar Code Labeling Pro Labels his Prospect

Bar codes have changed over the years and our company is one of the biggest players in the market. You might have noticed that most bar codes on mailing packages like UPS are now round rather than linear. If someone tears it or marks over the round code, enough information is embedded in this new shape that the scanner can still read it and help your package arrive on time.

Each year we run a big sales conference with our team as well as vendors and potential vendors attending. We use this big event to court new distributors who can sell our bar code imaging equipment for all kinds of customized uses.

The last night of the meeting we have a spectacular party: Funny speaker, wild games and LOTS of liquor. Did I mention there was plenty to drink?

I’m a big beer man (drinking volume, not size-wise), but my buddies convinced me to taste the hard stuff this evening. And if that decision wasn’t difficult enough, I had chosen to hit on this cute gal who was working at our company.

So I’m nuzzling up to her and chatting her up, but competing with another rep. Ah, competition – good salespeople thrive on it. However, this other rep is a potential vendor whose company needs a product just like ours, and this conference is our chance to close him.

Suddenly I’ve had enough – enough to drink, enough of the loud music and more than enough of the competition for my woman.

So I step up to this guy and tag him. Not with a bar-coding device, but with a right jab to the jaw.

Down goes the competition!

But I don’t win.

I don’t win the girl, who is not impressed by my slick conversation or quick hands.

And I don’t win the sale for my firm as my friends drag me out of the ballroom.

My ex-potential vendor woke up to a headache which he associated with my company. So simply avoiding a situation where he encounters us in the future (translate that “BUYS from us”) was a simple choice.

I learned that holding my prospects dearly was just as important as holding my liquor.

POSTMORTEM: Okay, I speak at 3 or 4 events like this a month, year round. Last weekend I took a rocket-speed Nerf football to the chest during an international sales conference party in Los Angeles and was grateful there weren’t baseballs being passed around instead. I recovered in time to close the event the next morning. These events (or any public events you attend – networking, fundraising, etc.) are really about Image Management. How well do you project the person you want others’ to believe in? Are you coming across as the classy sales pro or a
class-less dummy? Manage your image with your clothes, language and actions and you’ll portray the person that others will want to hang out with and buy from.

SALES HORROR STORIES
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Is AdSense for you?

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Direct Sales Helpers News
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January 31st, 2007
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Is AdSense for you?
by Anita DeFrank & Kara Kelso

It sounds so easy to get paid by simply running a few ads. But could you be destroying your reputation and missing hundreds of sales just for a few pennies?

If you own a website (which you should, even if your company provides it!), AdSense can be a great source of revenue. You put up a few ads, and then you start seeing the clicks coming in. First a few pennies, then a few dimes.......before you know it, you are seeing several dollars a day. Awesome!

However, if you are trying to sell a product, you could be losing out on HUNDREDS of dollars. What's worse, you could be destroying your reputation in the process.

When a potential customer hits your site, they have a specific idea of what they want in mind. You only have a few seconds to sell them your spectacular product. What happens when the first thing they see is an ad for a similar product?

Those advertising on Google are smart cookies. They know how to write some killer headlines that really pull in results. Now think - even if your product is exactly what they want, if the other ad SOUNDS better, how fast do you think your visitor is going to go running off? You just got maybe 10 cents when you could have made several dollars. How many times a day could that be happening?

What's worse - what if someone in your company is advertising, and you just handed the sale to another rep? Direct sales is competitive enough, you don't need to be giving away sales!

Get out of the "side income" reasoning right now. It's absolutely NOT worth the lost "main income".

If you are looking for another way to pull in a "side income", consider affiliate programs. Not only will you get paid better, but you have full control over what you offer. It doesn't have to be competition, but rather something that compliments your main products.

Just remember - AdSense doesn't belong on websites selling products!

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