Starting Your Direct-Sales (Home-Based) Business

In this professionally accredited self-paced online course, you will be introduced to tips and templates to assist you in identifying, evaluating, selecting, developing, and operating the perfect direct-sales (home-based) business for you.

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More than your average training class, this course provides you with foundational knowledge as well as industry-utilized and easily modifiable templates that you need for identifying, evaluating, selecting, and operating your direct-sales (home-based) business.

Research shows that the success of a business can be improved by not only having a passion for your product or service, but also by better understanding the goals, expectations, commitment, responsibilities, and existing market conditions of your direct-sales (home-based) business as well as the utilization of industry-proven tools and techniques for the ongoing selection, development, marketing, and sales of your product or service. This interactive training will share with you tips for identifying, evaluating, selecting, developing, marketing, and operating the perfect direct-sales (home-based) business, targeting communications and making good and expedient business decisions, recruiting, and providing quality customer care, all while combining industry recognized tools to assist you in both the startup and ongoing operation of your business.

As part of the Starting a Direct-Sales (Home-Based) Business course, you will receive the following twelve templates that can be easily modified for your unique business:

• The Budget Tracking Analysis template assists you in identifying the internal, external and re-occurring company actual and budgeted costs and analyzes the variance between the two both by quarter and overall in order to tell you whether you are under, on or over budget.
• The Contact List template assists you in identifying an individual’s contact information including name, title, company name, work location, work number, cell number, and email address.
• The Communications Management Plan template assists you in identifying your audience, their role, the vehicle of communication, frequency of contact, sensitivity of the communications, and contact information.
• The Weighted Analysis template assists you in evaluating your best course of action by first, prioritizing (highest to lowest) your topics of evaluation to pre-assigned weighted values (also highest to lowest). Now evaluate (on a scale of 1-10), each topic for each opportunity. The opportunity with the highest grand total is your most beneficial option as determined by your own criteria.
• The Cost/Benefit Analysis template assists you in identifying, in general terms, the direct and indirect costs and benefits (dollars, time, effort, impact on your family, etc.) associated with your decision. This simple evaluation allows you to make quick decisions that are the best or most profitable for your business.
• The Business Opportunity Interview Form template assists you in identifying potential recruits by capturing pertinent information about show attendees.
• The Business Plan template assists you in identifying the information and resources (capital or other liquid resources, operational and technological cost estimation, benefits and challenges, etc.) necessary to support your product or service in order to best enable your business to achieve its long-term objectives.
• The Marketing Plan template assists you in identifying your company’s core competencies, your potential client’s and their specific, targeted locations.
• The Sales Plan template assists you in identifying the level of marketing and sales commitment to be afforded each of the potential customers, as well as a categorized (by industry and company location) target area for ease of sales calls and presentations.
• The Travel and Mileage Details template assists you in capturing (both by incident and overall), the overall cost of traveling.
• The Expense Spreadsheet template assists you in capturing (by occurrence, month, and year), your company expenses.
• The Tax Summary template assists you in capturing the total yearly cost expended by your company on mileage and expenses.