5 Tips to Develop a Strong Network

Sharing your passion for your business, helping others build a business for themselves, training and educating and being able to earn a little extra money–these are all reasons why direct sales team building is so important.

If you are a team leader, you’ll find that you must build firm alliances with team members. Not doing so would only rish losing them all together. You need to build up a solid relationship that will benefit you both.

But you may be wondering how to insure that team members feel included while still maintaining some type of balance with the rest of your life. Here are 5 easy tips for maintaining a great relationship with your team downline members:

1. Start Off Strong

When a new recruit first signs up, it’s vitally important that you communicate often with her. One helpful ideas is to develop a series of emails to send to new member that talks them through those first confusing, scary, exciting days.

Don’t wait to communicate once she gets her kit. Start the training and mentoring the minute she signs up. You can do this easily via email or texting. Don’t make it a monumental task; just be sure to touch base frequently.

2. Give 15

Set aside fifteen minutes of each workday for team phone calls. Use those minutes to call one to five members of your group for a quick “just checking in” call. Leave a message if you get voicemail. The idea is to let them know that you’re thinking of them and giving them a chance to hear your voice. This is a great time to ask how they’re doing with their life as well and get beyond your company to show you care about them. They don’t want to get the feeling you only care because you are making money off of them.

3. Do it as a Team

Even if you have a personal website for your business, make a team website. It is great for communication. You can post new members, meeting dates and updates, etc. Your team can check it at their convenience and it keeps everyone connected.

4. Hold meetings

This is another great way to foster unity and strong relationships within your group. If you have downline members that are out your area, have a quarterly conference call with everyone just to touch base. There are many free teleconference services via the internet that make it very easy to do. And if you can, have a face-to-face meeting once in a while as well. Some group leaders have meetings monthly or quarterly. Others do a once a year get together with everyone.

5. Ecards

They are FREE (great!), but also convenient and fun. Use an Internet calendar function to keep track of birthdays. Once a month go through the upcoming month and set up the ecard deliveries for the birthdays, anniversary dates for the next month or more. You can set these up to deliver up to a year in advance! Everyone likes to get an ecard!

The bottom line to getting a strong downline team is to communicate in every way that you can. You will find that your direct sales team members will stay with your company much longer when you’ve fostered a strong relationship by keeping in touch! Much success