MLM: Multi-Level MADNESS!
I love MLM. It's been very good to me; paying me millions of dollars.
But I'll never forget the early days.
Make that the early "years."
They were incredibly FRUSTRATING ... sometimes literally to the point of tears.
I would go mad with frustration wondering why prospects didn't see the great opportunity I was offering them.
- Why was everyone so skeptical?
- Was my product unappealing?
- Was I a terrible presenter?
- Was I talking to the wrong people?
- Who are the "right" people?
Remembering how much I SUFFERED early in my MLM career, I've made it my mission to help others through the process from failure to fortune!
What do you need help with? What do you wish a mentor would help you understand or help you do?
Send me an email at: barry@mademillionsinmlm.com and let me know, or simply leave a comment on this post. I'll do my best to help ... NO CHARGE!
Labels: mlm, network marketing, prospecting
posted by Barry Burns @ 2:53 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
It's interesting to me how many of us in network marketing forget some of the basic tenets of business in general as we go about doing our own business. Any Fortune 500 company personnel director will tell you that they may interview 1000 candidates for one position and yet we in MLM expect to find our business builders from the first 10 people we talk to! I have found that incorporating training resources from the general business arena has been helpful in keeping prespective on some of the questions you posed in this entry.
Dr. Moira
www.myBIOPRO.com/onebrain
Mr Burns
I subscribed to your blog several weeks ago and at first thought it was merely a way to promote e-books. The information I've garnered in the last weeks however, has been invaluable to me and I extend many thanks for that.
I've been in MLM for the past few months and have reached what , before you, I saw as a dead end.
I have spoken to ALL my friends and relatives and Several of them "signed up".
My product is wonderful adn has been life-changing physically for my husband and I, as well as friends, but I can't seem to get through to them about making the business work.
I encourage them to attend meetings, I even try to have trainings myself, but they always neglect it.
In the past few months it's even been a strain to stay "qualified" as my downline is just sitting there.
I am determined to do whatever I need to do.
I feel like I need some direction tough.
HELP!
Sharo
Hi Sharo,
Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you're doing well getting people to take your product.
Getting people to move beyond just consuming the product and becoming business builders is a big topic - much more than I can cover in a Blog "comment."
I'll be offering more in-depth generic MLM training in the near future that will help with this in detail.
For now, however, I'll share 2 principles with you that apply to your situation:
1. You get what you focus on.
2. You get what you ask for.
These are very similar principles -
If you introduce people to your company through the product, you will get mostly product users simply because that's what you focused on and that's what you asked for.
Contrary to what's been traditionally taught in Network Marketing:
To change product users to business builders is NOT a natural transition!
The easiest way to get business builders is to focus on getting them and ask for them up front.
Not everyone is comfortable doing that. Some people are more comfortable "leading with the product" and that's fine. But it still won't change the fact that you get what you focus on.
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