I was traveling home from Maui this weekend, and I spotted a woman in a beautiful Cabi outfit.  We were standing patiently -  waiting in those long lines at the airport!  It can be so boring walking round and round those lanes of people.

 

I struck up a conversation and said, “I love your Cabi outfit!”  She produced a great big smile and said, “I love Cabi!  I have very big shows every season for my consultant!”  I kept the conversation going and found out she was from Seattle and visiting friends on Maui.  We kept conversing and I loved it when she said,  “I  get  fantastic hostess rewards at 50% off at my Cabi shows and I’m really looking forward to my next Cabi show in March.”    

 

As I went through that line, people’s heads were down, focused on their phones!  When I started that conversation with my new friend, we had moment in time  to enjoy each other face to face!  The more I work with my AMAZING coaching clients, the more I find their success happens when they have more CONVERSATIONS with customers, hostesses and prospects who join them on their teams.

 

One client LOVES CONNECTING with conversation at networking Events!   She recently found that striking up the conversation with people coming into her booth and learning their stories, converted people into bookings and future business.  She said she made some amazing connections from spending time chatting and getting to know people at these events and people responded with warmth and interest.  All of which led to new customers and hostesses in her business.

 

 

Another client found the answer to CONVERSING IN CONVERSATION with her hostess!  Her hostess seemed to go AWOL!  Oh my, how many times that happen to many of us.  Right?  Well, it turned out this hostess wasn’t checking her phone texts. Once my client connected with a real conversation on the phone, the party went forward as scheduled and it was a great success.

 

I also have a client who LOVES connecting with conversation over coffee and sharing her business opportunity!   I’ve been encouraging to have more coffee chats and she’s now got the bug and she’s learning that coffee chat conversations bring rich and rewarding results.  Some people join, but others simply stay as hostesses or customers, but it’s scheduling these conversations that is bringing her better results in recruiting.

 

What makes these three clients successful is they a CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION to find out more!  So many times, we start a conversation and the person says, no, not interested so we STOP!   However, if we just continued the conversation about THEM!   Asking more inquiring questions, finding other layers about people’s lives, we would find that maybe the NO turns around to not now, but maybe later and then as we continue conversing it becomes A DEFINITE later!

 

Did you know I go LIVE EVERY MONDAY in my Facebook Biz page with a Monday Minute Team Building Tip.  It’s at 2pm EST!  This week I was sharing my critical success factors that helped build my million dollar team, and a leader shared with me her team member who wants to  start over and re-launch her business, but didn’t know where to start.   

 

You can watch the MONDAY MINUTE TEAM BUILDING TIP here!

 

And, so I wrote a blog post on How to start over with a RE-LAUNCH party!  Check it out here!

Gretchen Rubin says, that ancient philosophers believe having closer relationships is a KEY to happiness.  And what better way to build your business than having closer relationships with your customers, hostesses and prospects.  Gretchen is the founder of The Happiness Project and she said while writing and researching for this project, she made resolutions to “kiss in the morning, kiss at night” and to “hug more, kiss more” with her family.  It brings people closer together when they regularly demonstrate loving feelings.   It was one of the KEY areas to developing my million-dollar team.  Our team meeting was a place of LOVING being together, and I’ll share more of that with you in an upcoming newsletter.   However, it all begins with conversation!

 

It’s VALENTINE’S week!  

• Who will you start a conversation with this week?
• Who will you build a closer relationship with this week through continuing a conversation?
• What customer will you converse with this week and get a sale?
• What Hostess will you continue the conversation to have a successful party?
• What prospect will you have a coffee chat conversation so she joins your team?
• And, of course, Who will be your Valentine?

 

It’s February – let’s have a CONVERSATION!   Message me to talk about where you are now in your business and where you want to go!  If you’re ready for coaching, we’ll build a close relationship together to work on your success!  Hit reply to this email – I’m ready to have a conversation... are you?

 

LOVE and Success,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gale Bates,  Your “Make the Leap” Mentor