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You may not think there is much in common between a direct sales company and a sorority.  One is focused on sales and parties, the other on social fun during college.  But they are remarkably similar, when you look at direct sales and sororities from a more philosophical perspective.

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Direct Sales and Sororities both:

  • Are actively focused on growing their membership.
  • Focus heavily on empowering women’s personal development and independence.
  • Pay a fee to join and stay active.
  • Use a common word or phase to connote membership such as  “Sister” or “Designer” or “Consultant.”
  • Help fulfill a personal mission that aligns with the brand’s mission (or chapter mission)–to serve others in the community.
  • Use their brand as a platform to hold fundraisers and raise both money and awareness for various local, regional, and national philanthropies.
  • Promote a strong brand identity, and compete against other brands (other direct sales companies, other sororities) for members.
  • Promote a strong sense of sisterhood among its members, and compete against other teams (chapters, brands, lineages) for the best performance (sales vs. GPA, active participation) and greatest team spirit.
  • Have colors, symbols, and mascots that its members obsessively collect and proudly display.
  • Wear apparel (t-shirts, sweatshirts, pretty much anything you can put a logo on) that connects us to our sisterhood or brand.
  • Have regional and national conventions to introduce new products and strategies, and reignite the excitement.
  • Leverage deep network connections to build relationships, and now through social media, engage and expand those networks more easily.
  • Foster sponsor-recruit/upline-downline/big-little relationships.
  • Participate in events and recruitment fairs.
  • Offer opportunity for personal growth and leadership at local, regional and national levels.
  • Live by the phrase “You get out of it, what you put into it.”
  • Offer the opportunity to develop lasting friendships with like-minded women.

Now, how do I know this?  Because I am a proud sorority alumnae.  I was a member of Chi Omega as an undergraduate, and held executive positions in alumnae groups in both Wisconsin and Arizona.  I love the sisterhood that is created when a strong group of women comes together by choice, for a common purpose.

Direct sales teams become like a sisterhood too.  We are intensely brand loyal, support our colors and symbols, proudly rock brand swag, celebrate each member’s successes, and create deep friendships.  We might not have a sorority house, but we probably all have secret Facebook groups that we consider “home.”  It’s plastered with team member pictures, training information, fun and games, and brand and team identity.

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