Business Wise ~ Tips To Keeping Your MLM Business Organized

Posted on July 15th, 2007 by Leisa
Filed under: Business Tips, Business Wise

Organization. Sometimes it haunts me. It’s as if something from my past has come forth to say, “remember me.” It’s not that I don’t know how to be organized. It do. It’s just that I am a very busy mom who is pulled in many directions. I run two successful businesses, help my husband with another, teach my children at home, and volunteer in the community. Obviously I have to be somewhat organized to pull-off the productivity I do. But it has become more and more difficult. Primarily because my brain just doesn’t work like I expect it to. You see I have ADHD, memory loss caused by a couple of automobile accidents, fibromyalgia, and post-traumatic stress disorder that throws me into a foggy not there feeling once in awhile. My brain just doesn’t cooperate like I want it to. So I have to develop systems to keep track of the info and hope that nothing falls through the cracks.

So how do I cope and still manage to get everything done that I need to? I don’t. Not really. There is always more dishes to do, a cupboard to be cleaned out, another towel to wash, and a new business associate to train. In other words if you run a successful business and have a family there is always more to do, and there will always be.

At least I don’t get everything done that I expect to get done. My husband keeps telling me to not expect so much from myself. But that is part of the reason why I do get done what I do. I expect to.

Tip #1 ~ Expect More from Yourself. Plan on accomplishing a lot.

Tip #2 ~ Take advantage of those small minutes of time. It’s amazing how much you can get done in the minute or two while you are waiting for someone, while you are on hold, or …

Tip #3 ~ Take advantage of technology to manage and train your down line. Record your training and upload it to a website.

Tip #4 ~ Make your one-on-one training with your down line about mentoring, dream building, and overcoming individual problems rather than training on the kit, training on the compensation plan etc.