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May 12, 2019  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In thirty one gifts

4 Ways to Make Deposits in your Business

Sometimes we’re making too many withdrawals from our “account” when it comes to our customers. Are you guilty? 🔥Have you been bouncing checks in your business? 🔥Having a hard time getting your customers to pay attention? In 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he talks about how important it is to make more deposits than […]

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July 5, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In Vendor EVents

Summer Vendor Events

Summers are just crawling with lots of awesome local vendor table opportunities. People are out and about and you can really take advantage of the inexpensive, outdoor vendor tables at fairs, community festivals, art shows, wine festivals, carnivals and more! I have been to more than my fair share of events over the last 10 […]

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July 3, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In thirty one gifts

Great Idea for Celebrating New Consultants in your Direct Sales Business

Need an idea to celebrate your new consultants?


I came up with an idea that will help celebrate them AND get them excited about their business! And I knew just who to contact to help me carry it out. Julie Shilling is my go to graphics girl. She efficient, affordable, and provides excellent service and design.
So here’s what I did…

When a new consultant enters their first party, I wanted a way to reward them with something that would also help them market their business. I decided to do a catalog label design!

So let’s say they enter their first party…
I message my girl this graphic and say pick any design you want! I’m going to personalize these catalog labels for you!

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Julie provides a PDF they can download and print their own labels from home!

I’m also going to send the link to these labels I get on Amazon prime for SUPER CHEAP:
1,000 labels for $11.99

She charges the leader (me) $15 for the initial design with team colors or whatever you want on these 3 choices. But guess what? For every new consultant you need the design for, it only costs $5! So I can reward my new consultants for $5! HECK YEAH! #SCORE

This is going to:

  1. help her market her business
  2. make her feel so proud to see her name on a beautiful design
  3. get her excited about passing out those catalogs
  4. and make her job easy by handing her a tool that is essential to her business

And in return:

  1. you get to celebrate her
  2. you can get your whole team excited about this
  3. you can even do team giveaways centered around these as a giveaway
  4. and you do this all while paying PENNIES to do it!

Contact Julie Shilling today by heading to her business page:

Angel Kiss Design

Hope this helps someone today!
Melissa Fietsam @DirectlySocial

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June 13, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In Increase engagement on customer group

5 Ideas to Increase Engagement in Your Customer Group

I honestly hear from my Directly Social group members every single day asking for help on how to get people to engage with them in their Customer Groups. For me, I think the answer is pretty simple… look at your own social media behaviors, what things do YOU engage with? If you haven’t joined Directly […]

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May 7, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In thirty one gifts

You're FIRED!

Think what you want to about Donald Trump, but I will tell you, I used to LOVE his show The Apprentice and his infamous “You’re Fired!” at the end of each episode.

I loved the urgency and intensity of the show and loved to see how people perform under pressure and rise to the occasion! People can do amazing things under pressure and when they feel the urgency to get things done. For me, it gives me sheer adrenaline to work on risky projects and try things I have never done before in my business. I never want to get to a place of complacency or apathy in my business, where I just don’t care to work for it anymore…where I’m content to sit on my butt and watch the world around me. That is not me, that is not in my nature, and it shouldn’t be in yours either!

I get it, some weeks and months are harder than others and sometimes you just don’t have anymore gas in the tank. But let’s get real! Most of the time you’re honestly just being the worst boss ever in your own business! You’re not getting things done, you’re making excuses, you’re piddling around doing things that bring no real value or $$$ into your business. You’re “playing business” and not actually working a business.

Businesses MAKE money, hobbies COST money!


I am going to share with you a little tidbit that I heard many years ago in my direct sales career, so long ago that I can’t actually remember who originally said it, “You many need to fire yourself from the business. Yep, that’s what I said, sometimes you might just need to give yourself the old heave-ho!”.  Think about this scenario; if you worked at a company and you had an employee performing the way you are performing in your business right now, would you keep them on the payroll? If yes, awesome! But I would venture to guess that most of you would say NO WAY! You would fire you in a heartbeat — so do it now! Yes, I am giving you permission to completely fire yourself from your own business!
Even for me, there are some months where I just royally screw up my business. I get comfortable in my day to day, I do the mundane business tasks with no sense of urgency and basically just “exist” in the business and perform like a lifeless robot. I need fired, I deserve to be fired! So every now and then… I DO fire myself completely from the business. I fire myself on a Friday for being ineffective and not doing what I know needs to be done for my job to grow my business. Then I will spend the weekend thinking about what I know needs to be done and coming up with a plan to make that happen. Then I rehire myself on Monday morning to get things done right.
How are things going in your business? Do you need to go all “Donald Trump” on your own butt and give yourself a pink slip? If you’re not working your business with urgency & intensity, if you are not leaping out of bed each morning because you are so excited about what you are doing and who you’re helping, you should be fired!

My favorite plan of action to REBOOT:

2 days: Make a list of all the things you need to get done in the next two days. These are #1 priority. And this list needs refreshed often.
2 weeks: Make a list of all the things that need done in the next two weeks. And refresh this list every couple of weeks.
2 months: Make a list of all the things that need done in the next two months. This is where your quarterly planning comes in; upcoming holidays, incentives, sales, etc.

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Complacency & apathy will be the death of your business, do not allow it to come to that.

Deep down, regardless of what you portray to others or make yourself look like on social media, you know if you’ve been slacking in your business. If you’re doing enough to just get by and hoping the “boss” doesn’t notice…you need to get a grip! Since you’re the boss…you’re just cheating yourself and your family out of success. So take a page out of Donald Trump’s show, maybe it’s time to say “YOU’RE FIRED“! Wipe the slate clean, get your thoughts and plans together and then rehire yourself to rock your biz!
Melissa Fietsam @DirectlySocial

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May 2, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In power hour

My Daily "Power of 3"

Here’s the truth… ya’ll are just making this business too hard! Get out of your own way, stop “thinking” about working your business and actually get out there and work it! Many of you spend more time thinking about working than actually doing anything constructive for your business and it needs to STOP! I am […]

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March 22, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In How to create an Animoto video for your business

How to Create an Animoto Video for your Business

Animoto is my favorite new video site. Check out how easy it is to create a beautiful video for your Direct Sales business. When you’re done drooling…you can catch some IDEAS on what videos to make below! [wpvideo d4NJywBC] Wasn’t that EASY?! So what kind of videos can you do to promote your business and […]

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March 19, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In April Marketing Ideas

10 Ideas to Rock Your APRIL Direct Sales Business

Hey friends! Happy Spring!! Do you have spring fever?? I definitely do! April is such a beautiful month! It makes me think of rain washing away the winter yuckies, new beginnings, the weather getting warmer here in Ohio, umbrellas, rain boots and Spring Break! If you walk around the Dollar Tree (my fave store), you […]

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January 12, 2018  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In power hour, Power Hour Binder

Power Hour Business Binder for Direct Sales Consultants

Power Hour Business binder for your direct sales business! *updated with 18 forms! This binder is for ALL companies & all direct sales consultants. Are you ready to take control of your business in 2019? Order your business binder printables and training today and finally get a SYSTEM to work your business in 20 minutes […]

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November 18, 2017  |  By Directly Social with Melissa Fietsam  |  In Direct Sales, thirty one gifts

Entire Month of Engagement Posts for December!

I’m giving away an entire month’s worth of posts EVERY MONTH! FYI…these posts expire in two weeks! So you better grab them quick! CLICK HERE to join Directly Social… and get these links every month for FREE! I just posted your December customer group posts! All you have to do is have a Cinchshare account […]

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