Direct Sales - 5 Great Ways To Communicate With Your Online Team

These days with the power of the internet a direct sales team leader has the ability to recruit and add new members to their team from all over the United States. Once you have built up a national team, you can use that same technology to communicate and train your members.

Over the years I have seen some pretty creative ways to communicate with your members by using the internet that I thought I would share with you today. Let's take a look at a few of those ideas.

1. Forum Boards: You can set up a public or private forum board for free or get them hosted on your own domain. Forum boards are a great way to for you to post training information, business files, sales notices, etc. so that all of your members can view that information when it is convenient for them. Forums are also a great way for your members to communicate and interact with one another.

2. Email Groups: There are a few online email groups that you can use to communicate with your team. With this type of group the owner of the group would set it up and invite their members to join. The owner of the group can post messages to the group which are then delivered via email to everyone who is subscribed. Members can choose to receive these messages as they are posted or in a daily digest form. Most of these type of groups are free to set up and use. The only draw back to this is most people get enough email and really dislike their email boxes filling up with numerous messages.

3. Facebook Group Page: These days a lot of companies are communicating their customers and clients by setting up Facebook group pages. When you set up this type of group there are some limitations but it is an easy way to communicate with your members and/or fans of your company.

4. Online Webinars: If you are tech savvy, you can look into producing your own sales meeting and recording it. You can then upload it online and schedule a webinar to have with your team. During the webinar members can view your video or slide show presentation and interact with one another in the webinar chat room.

5. Chat Rooms: You can find many different sites that offer free or low cost chat rooms that you can use to conduct your online meetings in plus...some of these chat room providers also offer video chat! If you have your own web site, you can install software on your site and have your own private chat room that members can access at any time.

These 5 methods of online team communication work well for most direct sales team leaders. If you are unsure which method will work best for you, I suggest you talk to other online leaders to see which methods they are using.

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Shelly Hill has been successfully working from home since 1989 in Direct Sales. Shelly owns the popular online Work At Home Business Options web site at www.workathomebusinessoptions.com where you can find free home business articles, home business resources and Direct Sales Tips.

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