How to Attract Amazing People to Your Business

 If you are in business and you want to do real good, you need a network. These days, networking is vitally important to your business no matter what the business entails. If you’re looking to improve yourself or change the fortunes of your business for the better, you need to network. Since every network inevitably involves interacting with people, you’ve just got to find ways to get these people. To get people into your network, you need to do the following.

1. Joining a professional networking group. If you’re looking to get into a business or meet people in a specific business, you can arrange to join a professional networking group of the business you are interested in. Online groups found in IBOtoolbox.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ can be very useful here.



2. Doing things you love to do together with others. The most exciting way of networking is simply to do the things you love and you’ve always wanted to do. Things like singing in a choir, playing a musical instrument, sky diving, hiking, taking a cruise, flying and so many other things ordinary people have fun and excitement doing. Moving your life and your business forward begins by attracting new and amazing people into your life. So, it is good to get out there, get to meet exciting people and make their acquaintances by doing the things they love to do together with them.

3. Seizing every opportunity to meet other people. You can form the habit of meeting and talking to people at every opportunity.  Even perfect strangers! Because of the unpredictability, meeting and talking to new people daily can make life very exciting. Fact is, every single conversation you have with a new person is potentially life-changing. That helps you to get to know a lot more of very exciting people you can do business with.

4. Changing hobbies to meet new people. Everyone I know has at least one or more hobbies. If you’re looking to build a network, it might be worth changing up your hobbies or taking up some new hobbies. The essence is to get to meet new people in the new hobbies you’ve got involved with. If you look very well, you will find that people involved in certain businesses tend to gravitate towards same hobbies where they get to meet up regularly. I read somewhere that many business analysts play squash, writers go to book clubs, and middle managers for consultancy firms go road cycling. These are only some of the hobbies you can take up depending on who you want to meet.

5. Leveraging on the people you meet. As human beings, each person always knows somebody else who knows somebody else ad infinitum.  Because of that, many successful networkers always like to remind everyone that: “It’s not who you know, it’s who you know knows.” Any person you get to make a new acquaintance of daily probably knows someone else who can help you in your business. That helps in no small measure to expand your network of exciting people you can do business with.
 

How to Attract Young People to Become SFI Affiliates

The best strategy for attracting younger people to SFI business is by coming to their level by seeing things from their own point of view. Everyone in that age bracket is in their “earning years” so you will be point-on if you say things to them which will enable them earn some money. Go find young people everywhere they can be found. To do that successfully, you must create time to take your SFI business to the following places.

01. College campuses.
02. Local gyms.
03. Sports clubs and stadiums.
04. Local library.
05. Shopping malls.
06. Local Laundromat.
07. Community parks.
08. Job placement bureaus.
09. Community restaurants.
10. Local Civic centers.

Good luck!

 

How to Use Printed Flyers to Attract Sign-Ups

Printed flyers are very cute and highly-effective marketing tools for recruiting PSAs/PRMs/ECAs. Their designs, layouts, wordings and colors help to make them effective in the marketing process. For maximum effectiveness, it is always recommended that you use flyers in places with a very high human concentration or human traffic. Some of the commonest ways to use them are listed below: 

 
1. In reception areas of a Doctor’s clinic with permission.
2. In the notice boards of your religious or social clubs with permission.
3. In the community boards of your local shopping centers/malls.
4. In the notice boards of your local library.
5. In your community gym.
6. In your local sports arena.
7. In the rest benches of public parks.
8. Hand them over at local train and bus stations.
9. Place flyers under the windscreen wipers of cars parked in the street, at the malls or in sports arenas.
10. At the barber’s or hair-stylist’s shops with permission.
11. At the local restaurant with permission.
12. At your auto-mechanic’s shop with permission.
13. Tape them to the front doors of homes and businesses.
14. At your local shops’ counters or even inside shopping bags at the cash points.
15. Get your local vendor to insert them at the center pages of newspapers.
16. You can post a flyer on bulletin boards in your community.
17. When you attend business and franchise meetings, an opportunity to distribute many flyers.


 
These are just a few of the ideal uses for flyers I can immediately think about right now. Since printed flyers are an excellent and very cheap way to advertise your business, using them as stated above always brings very good results.

Good luck!