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The Business Basics You Cannot Skip If You Want Long-Term Success in Social Selling

🌟 Success Isn’t Overnight — It’s Built in the Daily Basics

One of the biggest myths I see women believing is that someone else had a “quick rise” or “got lucky.”

Nope.
Not even close.

Success takes:

✔️ Time
✔️ Intention
✔️ Clarity
✔️ Personal investment
✔️ Consistent action

It also takes giving yourself permission to enjoy your life along the way.
Because what’s the point of building a business if you’re not living the life you’re building it for?

Your “you time” matters just as much as your business time.

Listen in:


What Isn’t an Income-Producing Activity

Let’s talk about what often gets us stuck.

Here are the things many people spend 80% of their time on… but that don’t directly create income:

❌ Making endless Canva graphics
❌ Consuming trainings instead of implementing
❌ Redoing your brand colors for the 17th time
❌ Perfecting email copy
❌ Scrolling, browsing, “researching”

Helpful?
Sometimes.
Necessary?
Not every day.

Those can be outsourced, batch-created, simplified, or done during “bonus time.”

Your business grows from your business basics—not your busywork.


What Does Move the Needle in Your Business

If you want results, focus on these daily:

✨ Personal development
✨ Gratitude + mindset work
✨ New connections
✨ Conversations
✨ Invitations
✨ Follow-ups
✨ Scheduling your posts/content
✨ Showing up consistently

That’s it.
Simple—not always easy—but completely doable.

And when life gets busy, or you have something unexpected coming up (like my wrist surgery!), having these systems in place allows your business to run even when you can’t be fully present.


Plan Ahead So You Can Actually Take Time Off

This year, I’m headed to Florida for spring break, and shortly after that, I’m having another wrist surgery (third time’s the charm 🤞).

So I messaged leaders on my team and said:

“Hey—on these dates, I may need help covering power hours. Anyone want to step in?”

Because planning ahead = peace.

Scheduling my posts in advance, prepping content early, and setting up my systems lets me step away without stress.

That’s the beauty of a well-run social selling business.
It can run without you hovering over it 24/7.


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Education + action is how we elevate this whole profession.
Let’s do it together.

Have a fabulous day, friend! 💛

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