There are FOUR simple steps to planning your business with the DIRECT SALES PLANNER system and running your business like a well-oiled machine.
Yesterday was Step ONE where I shared with you the importance of setting weekly goals. It’s easy to set weekly goals in ONE place in the weekly planner page in the Direct Sales Planner system. Now you have a path to follow for the week and a place to review these goals every day. This keeps you focused on achieving and accomplishing your goals each week!
Now, let me share with you the second step to planning your week!
STEP 2
Planning with Time Blocking
Step 2 is a crucial piece to the 4-step system because it allows you to be successful in getting things done with a weekly time structure. When you figure the amount of time you have available to run your business each week you are organized and feel more in control. So many people run from the hip and spend too much time being distracted with social media and other things, by the time the week rolls through, they have not accomplished what they wanted in their business.
The Direct Sales Planner “system” is designed for you to run a smooth and well-oiled machine in your direct sales business. The key with systems is to not to re-invent the wheel each time you do something in your business. Instead, when something works, you repeat it over and over. Then it becomes a system and if the system is good, it will create great results over and over again.
The value of doing this time blocking exercise every week helps you get the best results in having high sales, consistent bookings and many new recruits joining your team.
A special time blocking exercise is laid out in the DIRECT SALES PLANNER on a weekly planning page with instructions to figure out how many 3 hour blocks of time you have to work your business each week. And, it’s important you do this every week, because every week changes right?
Time is the most precious commodity we own. Our time! And there are 168 hours in one week. In the Time blocking exercise we
- look at things you’re committed to every week, like taking kids to school, or perhaps you have a full time or part time job.
- Then we review what lifestyle events like attending the gym, or family dinners are scheduled.
- Once this is done, you now know exactly how many blocks of time are left in your week to work in your business.
When I do this exercise with my clients, we find at least 5 three-hour blocks of time available for your business. If you don’t devote at least 15 hours a week to your business, you really don’t have a business, you have a hobby!
It’s a wonderful thing to know exactly how much time that you have each week to devote to your business. In each of those three hour blocks of time, you take action on
- Planning and organizing your parties with hostess coaching and follow-up.
- Arranging coffee chat conversations with prospects.
- Scheduling time for your follow-up work
- Setting dates to plan and hold team events in supporting your team.
As the saying goes, “Time waits for no man!” so doing this weekly TIME BLOCKING exercise every week is the answer to hearing yourself say. “Help, I can’t get it all done!”
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Once you order your planner, you’re invited into a special secret Facebook group where our mantra is “What gets scheduled, gets done”
Are you ready to be organized with a simple system that gets results?
Try a sample page on keeping track of your FOLLOW-UP from this planner
Then check back tomorrow for Step 3 on how to plan your week in your Direct Sales Business. I will share with you how to set priorities that bring results.
Leave a comment if you have a question about planning your business every week?
