What is Direct Sales?

Direct Sales marketing is a simple and effective way to market products or services direct to the consumer. It involves the sale of a consumer product or service, person-to-person, away from a fixed retail location by an independent salesperson. Products are sold through in-home product demonstrations, parties, group meetings or demonstrations, over the telephone, over the Internet and through one-on-one selling.

Direct selling is a growing industry with sales in the U.S. having doubled in the last decade to nearly $25 billion and are now more than $82 billion worldwide.

Do people purchase products from Direct Sales representatives?

Yes. Direct selling is a rapidly growing industry. U.S. sales totaled $28.7 billion in 2002, up from 26.7 billion in 2001, with more than 55 percent of the American public having purchased goods or services through direct selling. That's more than the number who have purchased through television shopping and on-line computer services combined. People value the products available through direct selling and 45 percent of Americans want to buy from direct sellers. Those who have purchased by direct selling are exceeded only by the percentage of those who have purchased via retail stores (96%) or through mail order catalogs (83%). As mentioned, worldwide sales are also strong with nearly $85 billion in sales.*

An opportunity for growth is seen with public interest in purchasing through direct selling (38%) exceeding those who have purchased (27%)! Here are a few reasons why consumers enjoy buying from Direct Sales Representatives:

• Direct sellers can arrange their calls to fit the consumer's busy schedule and can deliver their purchases directly to them.
• Direct salespeople are knowledgeable about their products and take the time to personally demonstrate and explain their products to the consumer.
• Since the products are going directly from the source to the consumer with only the Direct Seller involved substantial savings from advertising, processing and shipping can be passed on to the consumer.
• Direct sellers build a personal relationship with the Consumer giving them one-on-one-attention.
• The Consumer knows who to go to with questions and concerns, as well as who to refer friends to, rather than dealing with a company full of unthankful employees.

Coastal Vacations is a direct sales opportunity that promotes the benefits of a vacation lifestyle while developing financial freedom through business ownership.

Stability and Service

Coastal Vacations continues to offer Membership Benefits and Services that are unparalleled in the industry today. Coastal offers an incredible Vacation Package valued at over $15,000 for just $1,295.   It delivers unbeatable value to the consumer, as well as tremendous financial rewards for the marketing team.  The Coastal Vacations travel package offers a lifetime of vacation savings for less than the price of one family vacation.

Working with thousands of resorts and leaders in the field of travel and leisure, Coastal Vacations pursues this commitment by consistently seeking out the best vacation and travel values in the industry and making them available to clients at rock bottom prices. The Companies chosen to fulfill the benefits and services in our packages are of the highest caliber. Most are publicly traded companies, licensed and bonded, with a track record of 12 years or more. Our Independent shipping facility has 25 years of proven experience in the industry.

The Top Four Ways to Maximize the Success Potential of Your Small Business

There is a difference between small businesses that are just making it, and companies that are truly taking off.  This difference commonly lies in the strategy being used to maximize the success potential of the business. Such strategies are made up of important techniques – primarily the four following – that allow a small business to make sure that it is functioning at its very best.

To be sure that your business is maximizing its potential, employ the following practices as a part of your own business strategy:

•    Make sure that your business offers knowledge or services along with its products.  No matter what industry or niche your company happens to fill, you will need to make sure that you have information and services to offer your customers that are different from your competitors.  Success, especially when marketing on the internet, is all about having something to offer, whether it’s knowledge, services, or something else.  This will also help you to be seen as an expert.  The more you are perceived as having expertise, the greater the trust you will have from your clients, and the stronger those relationships will be.

•    Don’t just say that you care about your customers.  Care about your customers!  This is one of the most far-reaching methods that you can use for growing your small business.  Though your prospective and current customers are important to your business because of their money, you need to show them that they are important to you for more than just that.  They need to simply be important to you; period.  This means being honest with your customers, and telling them the truth about the ways in which you are able to fill their needs.  Put your focus on helping the individual, not simply the majority of customers. Your efforts need to move from making a sale to helping the person.  Remember, it is much easier to create a repeat client than it is to create a new client!

•    Make going above and beyond a policy.  If you want to make your small business stand out from the rest, then you need the superior quality of your products and services to shine through.  Make your aim to over-deliver, every time.  Remember that customers love feeling as though they’ve received a good deal.  This can mean discounted prices, valuable bonuses, or surprise free gifts with purchase.

•    Maintain regular contact with your customers.  Using e-mail, direct mailers, catalogs, promotional flyers, “preferred customer” coupons, and other communication tools, it is easy to provide your customers with regular contact, informing them of great deals you’re offering, while reminding them that you’re around.  Make these communications worth while by offering free tips, discounts, and other useful ideas.

The main idea is that if you want to achieve your greatest success in your small business, offer expertise, care for your customers, deliver beyond your customers’ expectations, and keep in touch.  These are the difference between maintaining your business, and growing your business.

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The Journey Into Entrepreneurship: Starting A Small Business

For most of us there comes a day when we toy with the idea of starting a small business; work stress and frustrated career goals can often leave us thirsting for autonomy and starting a small business seems to fit the bill. But for those who are thinking of starting a small business, the road can be one of sacrifice and learning.

Before starting a small business do as much research as possible. Talk to other people who have started a small business and are willing to give you some guidance, read books by people who have a passion for entrepreneurship, and get online to read as much as possible about the ins and outs of starting a small business. On the Internet you’ll also have access to advocacy organizations developed to help those starting a small business; as well as access to chat forums where you can learn from the experiences of others in your situation

Locally there should also be organizations that can help you in starting a small business. Look at the business advocacy groups in your local area that can offer guidance.

Gather as much information as you can and keep careful notes. Remember that this business will be a reflection of you and as such should mirror the philosophies to which you subscribe. Starting a small business is not the same for everyone; take your own special circumstances into account before beginning your journey.

Depending on the business you are starting, it may also be in your best interest to hire legal counsel. A lawyer can help you navigate the complexities of small business ownership and save you time and money further down the road.

Additionally, a lawyer who is well-versed in online commerce can help you establish an online presence if starting a small business for you includes an Internet component.

Also, if starting a small business for you means bringing on employees, a lawyer is essential to your success. Hiring employees opens you up to a whole new set of liabilities; save yourself any complications by having a lawyer by your side to protect you.

Starting a small business can be a wonderfully rewarding experience. Put your best foot forward by facing each challenge and arming yourself with knowledge. Careful research and meticulous planning will reward you with success and the greatest possibility of future and continued viability.

To learn more about starting a small business, even from the comfort of your home, go to Start a REAL business for more details

Content is King

Content is KING. Whether you’re talking television, radio, internet or print, those who can create compelling content, gather an audience and keep them can virtually write their own paychecks. The talent will eventually migrate to the highest reward for their time. That is assuming of course that we seek to maintain a free market where they are allowed to act in their own best interest without some crazed government intervention like the Fairness Doctrine.

Viewers, listeners and readers will pursue the content that they want. I enjoy listening to the Mark Levin show. The AM radio station he comes on in my market does not have very good reception and the time slot is also not convenient. Most of the time, I download his broadcasts from the internet to my MP3 player or listen to streaming radio. The internet is also the major source for my music listening when I’m working, studying or just playing Texas Hold’em.

Multiple streams of content should be the future we envision and pursue. Let the talent seek to maximize their earnings and let the people seek the content they desire. If you want Howard Stern you’ll have to go satellite radio. On the other hand, Rush Limbaugh has chosen to stay with broadcast radio because he can’t generate the same advertising revenue through satellite radio. Now, if you want Oprah you’ll have to turn to cable. When we keep the market free from interference we provide the most opportunities for the producers and consumers of content. This is the way to prosperity. This is the way to freedom.

What about Extortion Marketing?

"Sounds bad, because, well, it is that bad if you are not implementing it for your web sites and the other guy is!"
by Thomas Prendergast

Extortion Marketing may sound rather severe, however, it is only intended to address one simple fact, a seemingly unfair advantage regarding Internet marketing. To achieve this status, one has to first understand the very nature of the complexities of the Internet, what works, what doesn't work and most importantly, to conduct your actions with integrity, (Don't Spam, ever!).

To achieve a fairly large sphere of influence on the Internet, it takes time, lots of time. Primarily getting your websites up and running with valuable automated services that work, are free or very inexpensive and then getting them listed in Yahoo (most important) as well as all the other search engines is the first step. It helps if you have been at this since the beginning of the Internet and that you have many hundreds of web domains to build all of these unique services on. Furthermore, it is also important that having thousands of sites on hundreds of domains also be unique and regularly submitted to all of the search engines. This is the first step.

It is also important to have many FFA systems that can be submitted to regularly from the massive FFA submission services found on the Internet. The same goes for Classified ad sites. But, even more important, these systems must verify all submissions before the benefit of capturing the email addresses for future marketing can be achieved legitimately. An added feature to this market (FFAs and Classifieds) is making them self replicate, and give them away for free. This makes your sites appear on other web sites and builds your awareness factor.

It continues: You must have many different newsletter sites. These build loyal subscribers. An added plus to this is to make many gateway pages to these types of sites and list these in the search engines.

Another highly viral product is the self replicating PDF ebook. Write thousands of these types of ebooks, put your URL in them and give them away on hundreds of web sites.

This is just a thumbnail of the magnitude of work and research that Veretekk has been doing for over 12 years now on the Internet. This is why many refer to Veretekk as the leader in extortion marketing, not because we are conducting ourselves badly, but, because everywhere you go, you will find Veretekk at work, building awareness, leads and databases, from the thousands of services, Veretekk has invented, for the very purpose to become highly relevant on the Internet.

Veretekk has prepared itself for this inevitable onslaught with massive servers to run the hundreds of leads sites.

This massive collection of free tools, services, and systems, are primarily designed to generate leads for our subscribers. Even so, many visitors use them anyway because, well, they are free and of great value. Nowhere else on the Internet will you find a collection to this magnitude.

Oh yes, other sites claim they have this service or they have a cool flash presentation, or they have a small part of the equation, but, in the final analyses, they will eventually reveal to be little more than a single engine generator, dwarfed by the Herculean collection, found on this system, built by Veretekk and only available to our subscribers.

You have to ask yourself, when you need power, do you want to plug into a Honda, or do you want the full throttle power of Hoover Dam. Well? Kind of rhetorical huh?

Veretekk's basic marketing philosophy is philanthropic.

We practice an impractical way to achieve success. We believe that good work creates for itself a greater reward. We believe, and it has proven itself over and over, that our success is based totally on yours! We put your self-interests ahead of our own. We are, basically, here to help you succeed! "Buy creating goals that are bigger than our own success, we are also serving ourselves in the very best sense".

The living world is pervaded by two equal and seemingly opposite principles altruism and self-seeking. Most people, in a simplistic way, will label the first as 'noble' but 'impractical' and the second as 'evil' or 'animalistic.' To which I answer - non-sense. In fact, the two ethical imperatives are linked, up and down the great chain of being, from the survival activities of the simplest multi-cellular organisms, up to the most elevated of human endeavors." You can include the Internet as well! Scientist who are suggesting that life could only have evolved through symbiotic cooperation, has challenged the Darwinian model of evolution recently. The 'fittest' creatures to survive have turned out to be the most cooperative, too. Even single single-cell bacterial can now be seen to 'make deals' of a sort, with their competitors, in order to grow and flourish."

This Altruism, as it were, permeates the very essence of what marketing on the Internet is all about. This is what Veretekk is all about. Every level, from the simplest, to the most sophisticated, has been designed to put our potential client, and/or prospect (you), at the apex of our focus. Our tools are exceptional tools, available to you for free, for the exchange of letting us help you achieve your goals faster and more effectively. Our system has been designed to simplify your quest to achieve success, and ultimately help you clarify what exactly you are truly after. We think it is freedom! With freedom, you can then turn around and help us, help others, and in doing so, we all build a better world. This is the purest essence of altruism at work.

Come join us, it is free!
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Go ahead and Google me

Maybe you came here looking for one of the quality products or services I represent. Then again, maybe you came here looking for a mentor or at the very least a quality business partner to work with as you develop a business. After all, I've been involved in business for over 20 years. I know a thing or two. Especially some things to avoid. Twenty years of mistakes and the lessons learned are priceless. Go ahead and Google me to see some of things I'm currently involved in or have been involved in the past. You'll get some idea of who I am.

Maybe you came here looking for a certain Curtis Staggs. There are not very many of us out there. I'm the shameless American capitalist who lives in Western KY. I use that terminology because, well first, I'm proud to be an American. I am NOT ashamed of my country or the ideas that founded this republic. Second, I am not ashamed of capitalism. I love it. Free enterprise all the way. Private control of capital is the only way to provide the most freedom and prosperity for all people.

I own a small life insurance agency in Madisonville Kentucky. I serve all of Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee; so if you came here looking for life insurance, click on the link that says free quote and I'll call you back.

If you came here looking for business development, the go to Curtis Staggs and fill out the form, I'll call you back.

Not counting my insurance agency, I've owned 4 other traditional brick and mortar businesses. Two were retail stores, one was a food service, and then I owned an A.M. radio station and even disc jockeyed for a little while. I've also owned countless home based endeavors. I tell you this to let you know that I have the experience to help you.