Direct Sales and the Most Powerful Way to Make Money in Direct Sales

Quite simply, Direct Sales is the sale of a product or service directly to a customer. There are an unlimited number of ways to do so - both offline and online.

When evaluating different ways to make money, we have a few key criteria that each opportunity gets filtered through first. The top two criteria are:

• Is it portable? For us, financial freedom includes the ability to do business from anywhere in the world.

• Can it be automated to a high degree? With the advent of technology, a large portion of the sales and delivery process can usually be automated, especially with online selling.

Consequently, this usually filters out most offline methods of direct selling. One of the most common examples of this are companies like Avon, Weekenders, The Pampered Chef, Mary Kay and Discovery Toys. The sales methods typically utilized are home parties and in-home visits and sales presentations.

One could argue that this type of direct sales business is portable. You can sell in any city or state in your country after all and many cases in multiple countries. You can even sell the products online if you wanted to. You could also argue that the sales and delivery processes can be systemized and duplicated by new sales representatives.

However, we have found online selling to be the most portable and easiest to automate. Naturally, in our financial freedom journey, we are looking for the most efficient and effective ways to generate streams of income that are as ”passive” as possible.

Wouldn’t you rather have something that will continue to work with or without you? Such as a website that automatically attracts qualified prospects, educates and leads them through the sales process, delivers the product and follows up with them, rather than spending your time hosting home parties or doing sales presentations?

There are multiple ways to sell directly to customers online. For example, you can sell retail products through websites such as eBay or Craigslist. However, we have discovered that the most powerful direct selling method is through Affiliate Marketing.

But it’s not affiliate marketing by itself that makes it so powerful. It is most powerful when used in conjunction with your own website about a topic that you are knowledgeable or passionate about.

Build the website with a loyal following of subscribers first, then earn commissions by recommending other peoples’ products and services that complement your business. These are products that you have personally tested and determined to actually deliver the results and benefits promised.

Another aspect that makes this type of marketing so powerful is that it can also be harnessed to create your own direct selling sales force. When you create your own product, you can usually offer a commission to other people when they make a sale of your product to someone else.

In your journey to financial freedom, you will want to consider adding Direct Selling online in your arsenal of tools and include the power of affiliate marketing.

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