Are you using  Google Alerts yet?   I while back I was telling a friend that I’d discovered that I’d been mentioned on a particular website that I knew got a huge amount of traffic and as a result I was hoping to see quite a boost in my stats that week.  She said who told you […]

ok it’s time for another question from the mail bag this time from Barbara.
“I use a written diary to keep track of team training; calls, and meetings etc.. I’d really like to move this to my computer but I don’t want to have to spend money or a put a lot of training time into new software, any ideas […]

When you are around technology and the internet a lot, I know it can be easy to start using abbreviations and terms that others may not be familiar with.  I’m often guilty of this myself.
So I thought to even the playing field, before I start talking about anything else technology related I would share with […]

Sound familiar?  Does everyone keep telling you  that you need a website !!
But you don’t have any technical expertise and you really haven’t a clue where to start?
Well as the song says “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start” 
As I’m sure you can guess this isn’t the first time that […]

Happy New Year to everyone.
 I hope you had a great Christmas and are now raring to get going for 2008.
I’m going to take off my techie hat for a moment and put on my other one  (that’s the Ireland/UK roving reporter one !) 
I want to tell you about a brand new party plan business that […]

I was talking to someone offline ( yes I do network offline too !) about my last post which was about building up a team and building relationships through online networking, message forums etc.  and they put something too me which I thought you might relate to.  It went something like this. 
 ”Yes Darina I fully agree with what […]

first question from the mailbox from Mary.
Hi Darina.
I’d like to use the internet to help build my direct sales team, but I don’t want to have to pay for leads or be accused of spamming, have you got any ideas on what I can do?.
Hi Mary.
First up using the internet to help build your team […]

Hi everyone,
 This is my first official post.  (well after my welcome post !) I’m going to be your technical expert as well as the UK & Ireland roving reporter.  So as well as letting you know what’s going on in the world of direct sales this side of the pond I will be helping you […]

I’m Darina Loakman.  I run a website for Mums who work from home or who would like to work from home in the UK and Ireland.  Sarah Robinson really has her finger on the pulse of the direct sales industry! This is going to be such a great resource for everyone involved in this area, […]