What Have You Done For Me Lately?

Your Sponsor is going to hate me!

... but here goes anyway.

What has your sponsor done for you lately ... in concrete terms? In other words, what are they doing to help build your business in a very practical way?

It's sad, but many people join an MLM company, looking for Network Marketing Success, only to be let down.

They expect their sponsor to be a Network Marketing Coach and provide them with excellent MLM training. But this rarely happens for several reasons:

• Your sponsor is also new to the business and still inexperienced.
• Your sponsor believes in the principle: "Throw them all against the wall and see who sticks."
• Your sponsor has no skills.
• Your sponsor has no money.
• You joined a program where "they" do it all for you ... and so got placed under someone who is also waiting for the mysterious "they" to do everything for them too.
• Your sponsor is a total loser.

None of the above is great ... but it's a common occurrence for a person's sponsor to be new and still inexperienced. Not many people are personally sponsored by winners.

But that's not a real problem. You simply research upline until you find the first leader.

Call them and ask for their assistance. More than that. Ask for their mentoring.

Why? Because you NEED it, deserve it, and it's their RESPONSIBILITY to give it to you.

Look at that word, "re-spons-ibility."

The word "Sponsor" is in the middle of it!

Your sponsor (or immediate upline leader) is partially responsible for your success.

The only way you're likely to succeed in MLM Network Marketing is to get on-the-job, earn-while-you-learn training from someone who is already making the type of money you want to make.

It's that simple.

2 days ago I received a phone call from a man in my downline. I had never heard of him before and he was very deep in my organization ... at least 10 levels under me. Maybe more. I gave him a 1-on-1 personalized training for an entire hour, customized just for him.

Then I offered to talk to all of his prospects for him the first few weeks, while he listened on the phone.

If he follows through, I'll also help pay for his advertising so he can get double or triple the number of leads he can afford on his own!

Gosh I'm a great guy!

Actually it's got nothing to do with me being a nice guy (although I am anyway!). It's simply a smart business decision. If he succeeds, it helps me. So I'm happy to bend over backwards, give him my personal time and even help fund his business. Because it will pay me back many fold in years to come.

So why aren't all leaders so generous?

Even leaders make mistakes. Many of them are highly ambitious, aggressive and skilled people, but they could do even better if they understood how MLM works better than they do.

The 2 most common reasons they don't do this are:

1. They think they're too "busy." I say they "think" they are because they really aren't. They're usually spending too much time doing the wrong things. There's nothing more important than helping an ambitious new distributor. It's more important to spend an hour with one highly-motivated go-getter, than it is with 100 people on a conference call.
   
2. They think they can't do it for everyone. This is true, but what they fail to realize is that they don't have to.

That second reason is the most interesting. While it's true that leaders can't give personal attention to everyone in their large organizations, it isn't necessary, and therefore needn't be a concern.

First, we refer people to the upline leader most immediate to them. I designed my business from the beginning to have leaders at the top of each leg, and I taught them to do the same. Therefore each leader has a manageable number of distributors that are "unencumbered" by other leaders. Sure, sometimes things change and people become "orphaned," but you just search for the few go-getters in that group and create new leaders.

Second, you won't have many distributors that have enough self-motivation, self-discipline and drive that want your mentoring.

Most distributors are still seeking the Holy Grail of MLM, which is make money by doing nothing. Those people don't want mentoring. They don't want empowerment. They don't want to work.

The few who truly have the entrepreneurial spirit, - who have the drive and self-discipline, they are true gems that you should cherish and work with closely. These people are rare so you'll never have to worry about having too many of them in your downline to handle (we should all have such problems!).

So ...

If you are one of those gems, and you're not getting the support you deserve, call everyone in your upline until you find the first leader. Explain to them your unbridled commitment to your business and ask for their mentoring.

If they have 2 brain cells to rub together, they'll be thrilled to hear from you, and your call will be the best thing that happened to them all day!