Overcoming Challenges: Achieving a $400/Month Passive Income Goal

[Monty060609]

My husband's ex-wife took him back to court for more child support yesterday. And even though she makes more money than he does, his support went up $95 a week!! Its a long story but the short of it is that she is all about money, she has warped the kids views of him, he does everything he can and is supposed to and she is still just a jerk about everything, and worse part is that he hardly gets any time with his kids because of her attitude. I know that sounds very one sided but this is a short paragraph.

Anyway, I would like to turn my none goal outlook of PC into a minimum $400 a month income goal. So I'm coming to you all for encouragement, ideas, goal setting break down ideas, anything that you think could help to hold myself accountable. Until now I have been looking at PC as just this thing I kind of do and some times put effort into. Now I want it to be a real business and I want to really make money.

I have gotten a ton of great ideas from this site and now I just need to follow through on everything.

I think the first thing would be to write an email to my director(s)?? and then what?

 

[NooraK]

Definitely talk to your director.

I would say the next step is to break down the goal into the smallest pieces possible:

1. How much would you need to have in commissionable sales to reach that income goal?
2. How many shows would you have to have each month to reach that sales goal, based on your show average (cooking and catalog shows)?
3. How many people do you need to talk to each month in order to book that many shows?
4. How many people do you need to talk to each day to reach that goal?
5. What extras do you want to focus on in addition to your cooking and catalog shows? Such as fundraisers, bridal showers etc?
6. How will you go about getting those extras and how many people/groups do you need to talk to do achieve your goal?

And so on. The smaller the steps, the easier they are to achieve.

 

[raebates]

Best wishes! I'm sure you can do it.

 

[Sheila]

Ask your Director when the next Step Up Your Business class starts. That will hold you accountable!

 

[wadesgirl]

It's totally easy to make $400 a month! Get on the phone and start getting those bookings. Overbook each month and book as many catalog shows as you can!

 

[pampered1224]

Monty060609 - you can do it. Many of us are in the same process as you right now what with the economy the way it is. Many of us also need to get our businesses REALLY moving now! NooraK is right. Baby steps. If you keep in mind too that what you do today USUALLY takes 90 days to come to you. I found the best thing to do is be patient with yourself and your plan. We will all be cheering for you! One thing I am doing is that, yes, I am procrastinating here a bit, will be purchasing a whole bunch of the Spring Summer Minis and going door to door to introduce myself. I was going to do postcards but figured out that postcards are not informative enough to whet ones whistle or get their curiosity going if they do not know what PC is. Do the same or just make sure you carry them with you all the time and just simply hand them out when you go to the bank, the hair dressers or the doctors or even the grocery store! Get PC logo wear of some type too. I have been asked several times for info because yes it is a little awkward, I carry the catalog tote. Well wishes!