What would happen if you took just one year “off” from other obligations in your life (excluding family of course) and seriously treated your business like a job?
One of the things we tell prospective team members when talking about the business is how wonderful the flexibility is. The problem is that many times we think we can squeeze this business into an already busy schedule. This is not a problem if you a consultant who treats her business like a hobby. However, at the point when you decide to switch into high gear with your business, you may have to let some things go for a time.
If you worked your business CONSISTENTLY 20-30 hours a week, doing 2 -4 parties a week; you would still only be working part time. If you worked a retail job that paid $7.00 an hour 20 hours a week, you would have made a little over $7000 in a year before taxes.
If you worked your party plan business steadily for a year, let us just approximate where you would be (of course this is an estimate as all career plans are different).
Let us really “low ball” and say that you earn $50 for every party that you do. Doing three parties a week, you would be earning $7800 for the time you spent doing parties. Three parties take approximately 10-12 hours of your time (half the time you spent working to earn less in a retail environment). You would be meeting approximately 30 new customers each week. If you recruit one in every 10 people you talk to, you should, at a minimum be recruiting 1-2 new team members each week! That means at the end of a year, you personally would (very conservatively) have added 50-75 new recruits to your team. In addition, that does not take into consideration any of the recruits THOSE recruits would have added. Sit down with your career plan and do the math. How much MORE money will you earn with a team of 75-100 people?
When your team is more than 100 people, the business starts to run like a well-oiled machine. 100+ people on your team means that your “pool” of potential team leaders is large and you will have many people working into the ranks of management themselves. They will be team building and beginning to work with their own recruits. You then, will be able to concentrate on working with the team builders from your personal team and the leaders who will begin to emerge from your pool.
Building from 0-100 can be the most labor intensive time period in your business. Can you see why we would recommend that you take just a year and make your business the priority over all the other potential (as in things you have the option to say ‘no’ to…not family, spiritual or physical) time commitments in your life?
Once you hit the big 100, the exponential growth that your organization will take on will amaze you. And the best part of it is, THIS IS THE STAGE WHERE YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO BE DOING IT ALL YOURSELF!!!
As your organization is established, you can then begin to put back things that you chose to back burner for a short period of time. The choice is yours – to build slowly or quickly – but remember, it is all about choices and priorities.
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