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Category Archives: Sales Tips

Top Tips to Maximize pre-Christmas Sales

Do you sell a product that appeals to women?

If so, you can make a lot of pre-Christmas sales with this clever tip that doesn’t require parties!

What you need to do is to create three beautifully presented product bundles at three different price points.

3 Bundles at 3 Price Points

You create a low-priced, medium-priced, and high-priced bundle. Of course, the exact prices depend on your particular product, but as a rough guide, you could aim for a $50 bundle, a $100 bundle, and a $250 bundle.

You then take these pre-prepared bundles with you to show at workplaces in your town that are generally staffed by men.

If you show up with three beautifully presented packs and offer to make Christmas super easy for them with this ready-made gift for their girlfriend, wife, or mother, they’ll likely be thrilled!

I’ve found that keeping it simple with only three options works best with the most sales. You might consider offering bundles in multiple colors or scents – if your product lends itself to that – but I find that making the decision easy for them tends to work better.

In addition to going around to workplaces, you can also take some beautiful photos of your gift packs and offer them on your business page and in customer groups.

The key to making this easy for you is to allow a little freedom in the products you put in each pack. I tell customers I can make a gift pack, presented just as beautifully as the samples, to the same value with similar contents. That way, I’m not restricted when some products sell out quickly in the Christmas rush. You can avoid the headache of stock availability by promising the same quality and value but allowing the freedom to swap out items.

Have a little stock on hand

As you get closer to the date when your company can no longer guarantee pre-Christmas delivery, you can stock up on your gift pack items to continue selling some ready-made gift packs to last-minute shoppers.

Whatever packs you have left over after Christmas will come in handy around Mother’s Day or you can re-bundle items as booking incentives in January or even hold a prize draw. I’m sure you can find a way to use ‘leftovers.’

Secrets to making these tips work well

Maximize Pre-Christmas Sales (without parties)

The two secrets to making this strategy work well are presentation and marketing.

The presentation must be perfect. You need to make your gift packs look gorgeous and high-quality.

The second secret is marketing – you are marketing this to men who want a beautiful gift for the women in their lives but also want the shopping to be easy.

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Switch on Your Confidence as a Direct Seller

Title: Turn on your confidence as a direct seller

Self-confidence is the feeling that you have the power to do what you want to do, even if you’re unsure how to do it. You know deep in your gut that you’ll be able to figure it out.

And if you don’t have that feeling, I have good news: Self-confidence is something you can develop.

And even better news: with a few tricks you can use to ‘turn it on’ when you need it. 

1. Turn on confidence with posture

Your posture is a powerful way to change your inner state because there’s a feedback loop between your body and your mind. Our non-verbal communication influences us. Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy has researched the benefits of “power poses”, like the wonder woman pose (hands on hips, feet spread wide) and the victory pose (fists pumped in the air in a V).

She found that standing in a power pose for just 2 minutes led to a 20% increase in testosterone (‘confidence hormone’) and a 25% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone). That’s an incredible difference.

I use power poses before competing in Karate tournaments. They help give me a confidence boost and have helped me become a National Champion.

It’s super helpful to use a power pose any time you’re doing something that is a bit outside your comfort zone and gives yourself that little boost in self-confidence. Even small adjustments to posture can boost your confidence. For example, when you slouch, you compress the space for your lungs, reducing their capacity, so sitting up straight can help your brain function better and lead to more confidence.

2. Look how far you’ve come!

My second tip is to reflect on what you have already achieved in your direct sales business and personal life. You can leverage your past wins to fuel future success by revisiting your success stories.

By focusing on how far you’ve already come, you can build an upward spiral of confidence instead of focusing on how far you still have to go.


Reading your list is a quick way of feeling more confident before doing something difficult, but you can also use this tip to build skills quickly.

Build Skills by Looking at Your Achievements

When I first started recording video content a few years ago, I would write down each achievement along the way, like remembering to look at the camera or getting through a video without saying “Uhm”. This helped boost my confidence, and it helped me improve quickly.

I could have done the opposite. I could have focused on all things I wanted to improve and dwelled on mistakes. But that would have eaten away at my confidence, made me feel bad, and generally turned the experience into something frustrating. That would have hindered my progress!

This leads to my third tip!

3. What are you telling yourself?

It’s essential to become aware of your self-talk. Sometimes our inner critic can be more harmful than helpful, and our self-talk can become very negative.

Negative self-talk is an inner dialogue you have with yourself and your abilities, and it can dramatically impact your confidence.

The first step to change your negative self-talk to more positive is to notice it and rephrase it to something more helpful.

“I find adding the word “yet” to the end of a negative statement is powerful. So when I find something difficult, instead of leaving the thought in my head of “I can’t do this”, I change it to “I can’t do this yet.”

This was very helpful when I recovered from a series of strokes three years ago. Instead of thinking “I can’t even walk 100 meters”, I’d think, “I can’t walk 100 meters yet“, and instead of feeling hopeless from the first statement, I felt determined to keep going. The ‘yet’ implied that I would get there eventually. 

Confidence can rapidly boost your success, and it will make you feel good. And the great news is that this is something you can build quickly. So don’t fake it until you make it. Fake it until you become it! 

Want to master your mindset?

Are you ready to switch on confidence when you need it?
Prime your brain for productivity and success

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