I guess you could say I’m a Post It note nerd! I use them every day to the point if I don’t have a stack of them sitting on my desk, I feel like something is missing. Whenever I see a post-it note on social media, I immediately gravitate towards what it says or how people are using them. Some people use tons of digitial programs and apps to organize their business, but for me its it the low-tech, very highly effective Post-it Note!
I read recently that this simple planning tool allows you to use both the right and left sides of your brain. It helps you to see the big picture as well as the small steps it takes to get there as a powerful visual. Here are 5 ways I help my coaching clients use the good old Post-It Note in their DS Biz.
Booking Post It Notes. What is the biggest struggle for all Direct Sellers? When I ask this question, the answer is always, always “I struggle to get bookings.” My Direct Sales Planner system is all about helping you plan your business with a calendar full of bookings. The “Calendar confidence” system shows you how to be CONFIDENT in getting bookings and keeping consistent bookings on your calendar. And it’s done with a GREEN Post-it Note! Your next GREEN post-it notes are a great visual for people to see how confident you are in filling your calendar with bookings. It’s this “Calendar Confidence” system that keeps your business running consistently as bookings are the “engine” of your business.
Time Management business Post It Notes
. How much time do you spend
- searching for a phone number you wrote on a piece of paper?
- Or, digging for an important message from corporate office you wrote down – you wrote it somewhere?
- What about the prospect you just met at a networking event yesterday, who was interested in your opportunity?
- Then there is that great idea you want to implement and you wrote it down thinking you’d “take action later” but you never think of it again.
These pieces of paper and important messages are buried somewhere, and this is what sucks up your time over and over. Searching, looking under piles of papers and files and you wish you had a more efficient system. That more efficient system is my “One Notebook System.” You simply have ONE notebook where you write everything, every day! Your to-do lists, your wonderful bright ideas, your most important things that need to get done.
Brain Dump Post It Notes. I love to stack my new ideas on post-it notes in my one-note book on special pages! I call this a brain dump. Especially if you’re feeling overwhelmed. A good old brain dump gets everything out of your head and clears a space so you can see clearly your top priorities. So many ideas and not enough time, every time you have an idea, write it on a post-it note and stick it in your ONE notebook so it is never lost.
Training ideas Post It Notes After a great online training, or mastermind session, meeting or conference, post-it notes are a great way to re-group the big ideas you want to implement out of your head and into a visual place in front of you. These could be new goals you want to set in your business or important actions to take right away. Once you have written these ideas on post-it notes you can then organize them into a timeline so you know what to prioritize to get done first.
Post It Note Recruiting priorities. I’m sure you have a follow-up system, but the most progressive way to grow your team is to have a recruiting follow-up method that keeps you sharing your opportunity. I recommend to my coaching clients to share their business opportunity at least twice a week and so we use a YELLOW Post-it note to block out 2 one- hour blocks of time every week and their job is to make sure they are scheduling these appointments consistently. This keeps their pipeline full of prospects and the results happen when they have prospects to follow-up with each week.
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And organization is one of the systems we work on in my L.E.A.P. Mastermind Coaching group. If you’re ready for to learn more about organization in growing your business, check us out here.
What I love about Post-it Notes, they are portable! They help you plan and organize your business by moving them around until you see the results that lead to your success.
How do you use Post It notes when organizing your business? Leave a comment.
