Your greatest achievements in Network Marketing
are those that benefit others.AGreatQuestion:
What's the best thing you've done in your business
in the past week to benefit others?
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Your greatest achievements in Network Marketing
are those that benefit others.AGreatQuestion:
What's the best thing you've done in your business
in the past week to benefit others?
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 31, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Which of these two titles do you think is most compelling... and what makes that so for you?
Kim Klaver chose one title for her essay, I picked another. They're both below (intro copy is the same for both). Which one do you favor and why?
If Kim's title wins, she takes me to dinner. If mine wins, Kim takes me to dinner. And either way, I'll pick a name from the voters at random (in lieu of a more authentic, intelligent, sincere reason to choose yours) for a free copy of It's time... signed by Kim and me. Here they are:
A Chance to Make Money
Doing Something I Love
The reason most folks stay in network marketing is
they love something about it madly: They love the
products, or they love making a difference, or they
love having something of their own. These are the
very reasons two-thirds of Americans want to start
their own business.
Kim Klaver
Network Marketing Is For Lovers
The reason most folks stay in network marketing is
they love something about it madly: They love the
products, or they love making a difference, or they
love having something of their own. These are the
very reasons two-thirds of Americans want to start
their own business.
Kim Klaver
Your turn. Which title is the winner— whatever that means to you, and please, say what that means to you.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 30, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What's So Great About Network Marketing?
I truly believe that we have entered the Renaissance of network
marketing and the light bulbs are going on and attracting
freethinking, abundant people at an accelerating pace that
cannot be stopped.
Corey Citron
To me, network marketing is a life line available to those special individuals who are willing to rock their boat, face some adversity, yet (not but) want to climb onboard despite all that—or even because of all that—and paddle like mad to safety and success together.
People who transform their own lives and then help others to do the same are the people who build the largest empires.
And it is the ability to interact and learn from these kinds of people that excites me most. I get enthusiastic about people with the courage and the determination to follow their dreams, especially in trying circumstances.
These are people who focus on the solution rather than the problem... people who understand that it's not the obstacles you face, but the overcoming of those challenges that really matters. The struggle gives us the opportunity to develop character, become true leaders and as a result, attract other leaders into our enterprise.
For after all, we are in the business of building and attracting people and leaders. And there's nothing I'm more passionate about than spending quality time with leaders around the world.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 29, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I just sent this out to the folks at GreatestNetworker.com and I'm posting it here, because I know there are some of you who will be attracted to the topic (and even though I had my doubts if you'd be interested or preturbed, I checked in with my intuitive mind and it said "Do it."). For me, this is all part of "The transformation of the business formerly known as MLM." So, see if it resonates with you, and if it does lets connect.
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What's the attraction of Spiritual Network Marketing
for you?
_________________________________________
The Greatest Networker in the World
_________________________________________
Hi, this is John Fogg,
I recently returned from a month-plus in Europe where I
did two separate presentation trainings: to 700 people
for a two day event in Moscow, and to 7000 people in
Kazan, the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, and
one of Russia's largest cities.
The events were remarkable! And what was fascinating
was they both began as planned GET RICH SLOW
trainings... and they both transformed into something
unexpected and different... Spiritual Network Marketing.
Maybe it was their nature; the creativity, passion and
spirituality of the Russian people is legendary. I was
compelled... moved...inspired... to take my presentations
to a whole new level and into subjects and conversations
I've NEVER done in public before.
Basic premise: Network marketing success is an inside-
out game. It's based on working and playing with Spirit.
I'm not the creator nor discoverer of Spiritual Network
Marketing, but I AM writing a book about it... and I AM
offering a new coaching/mentor program based on it.
The Spiritual Network Marketing Coaching Program
It's a six-month commitment. Begins Wednesday,
November 8. Costs $2,500 up-front and $250 monthly
for the remaining five months. And, there are five "places"
left, so if you're intrigued, and this is important to you,
and you believe Spiritual Network Marketing is something
you've been waiting for and wanting... get in touch with me
by eMail: mailto:[email protected]
There is no sales website and I'm not spaming a blast of
eMails. I'll send this letter a couple more times, but that's
it.
You will know if you are attracted to this work.
If you are, send me an eMail saying so and we'll set up a
time to speak. If you and I and where we are going with
Spiritual Network Marketing are a fit together, I'll invite
you into the program then and there (and, there is a
thoughtful and revealing application for you to complete).
You can get a taste of what it's all about at the website:
GreatestNetworker.com, in the new Spiritual Network
Marketing forum where I'm writing the book on-line. And
by attending the GreatestNetworker Coaching Calls on
Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 eastern time.
If you're excited and are not willing and able to wait to
eMail back and forth, call. My phone number is below.
Spiritual Network Marketing is something I've been
working towards for 20 years. And now, it's time...
Thanks.
I appreciate you.
— John
_________________________________________
The Greatest Networker in the World
_________________________________________
John Milton Fogg
mailto:[email protected]
2370 Saddle Hollow
Crozet, VA 22932 USA
+434.823.9303
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 28, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
This is NOT an excerpt from the book It's time... for Network Marketing, and... as soon as I read it I thought of you/us. It's odd that we (mostly) don't really see network marketing organizations as teams the way sports, the military and many other "enlightened" forms of free-enterprise do. So, this piece to encourage more of seeing our teams a powerful way. Enjoy.
Teamwork
The Team Member Handbook
From the Introduction to the book
Teamwork inspires employees to work as a high-performance team. Winning is more fun. Job satisfaction climbs as performance improves. Bring talent to the team... Play your position... Turn diversity into an advantage... Build team spirit... Create unit pride that protects quality and productivity
Price Pritchett, Ph.D.
____________________________
Let's say you have a choice –
...Work for a winner, or be part of a mediocre outfit.
...Play on a championship team, or never even come close to making the playoffs.
...Grind away at a job where the group just never seems to click, or get a bang out of being in a high-powered unit that produces record-breaking results.
Odds are you'll choose the champions.
Winning is more fun. Job satisfaction climbs sharply when your team gives a "shoot the lights out" performance.
High performance teams are also safer. The people look out for each other. You're less likely to get hurt when your teammates are good at what they do. Jobs are more secure, too, because good results protect the people who produce them.
The players even get paid more—maybe in hard dollars, sometimes in "psychic income." But whether you pocket more money or merely get more pleasure out of the game, it pays to play on a high performance team.
So how can you get a chance to work with a group like that?
Instead of changing teams, help change the team you're already in. And start with yourself.
If you really want to play on a championship team, or work with a high performance unit, you can't afford to be an ordinary performer. And you can't leave it all up to the leader. Teams that achieve very special results do so because their members are doing very special things. You and your teammates must take personal responsibility for overall team performance.
Just look at the head count. What's the ratio of team members to team leader? Probably something like 6, 10 or 20 to 1. The real leverage lies in the team members, simply because there are a lot more of you. To put it another way, there's strength in numbers.
The reality is this: You do have a choice. You and your teammates can choose to work the magic that moves your group beyond mediocrity and makes it a winner... You'll see your team achieve new standards of excellence in teamwork.
____________________________
Price Pritchett, Ph.D. is Chairman & CEO of PRITCHETT, LP, a Dallas-based consulting and training firm with offices in eight other countries. He has spent 30 years as an advisor to senior management in Fortune 500 companies, governmental organizations, and not-for-profits.
Dr. Pritchett has an international reputation as one of the clearest and most authoritative voices on mergers, corporate culture, and organizational change. His groundbreaking 1985 book, After the Merger: Managing the Shockwaves—named "One of the ten best business books of the year"—was the first ever written on merger integration. He also is author of The Employee Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions, the all-time bestseller on mergers, and New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World, one of the all-time bestsellers on change.
To date Dr. Pritchett has authored 29 and over 10 million copies have been sold worldwide. You can learn more by visiting his Corporate website here: http://www.pritchettnet.com
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 27, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"You can be what you want to be in network marketing.
You can do what you want to do in network marketing.
You can have what you want to have in network marketing."aGreatQuestion:
What is it you want to be... do... and have...in network
marketing?
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 26, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"You cannot make excuses and money in network
marketing at the same time."aGreatQuestion:
What's one "excuse" you've made you can stop
making today, and begin making money?
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 25, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I was surprised (shocked is also accurate) to learn that the last "Inspired by..." post was way back on May 31! Having been reminded and requested for more, here's the first and I'll keep them coming, 'cause I think they're valuable and useful and they're thoughtful-fun for me to make.
Oh... inspired action moment (you decide, I'm convinced it is): What about adding aGreatQuestion to the quote? Value-added to the thinkiing and fun-learning. Let me know what you think. Enjoy.
Inspired by Marcia Wieder
"When networker marketers focus more on their desire
than on their doubt, their dream will take care of itself.
You may be surprised at how easily this happens.Your
doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you
make them so."
A great question:
What do you do to make your doubts more powerful
than your desires... and what will it take for you to
change that?
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Freedom To...
Can you truly be happy suppressing the passion to live life
your way? Can you achieve happiness without freedom? I
know network marketing is the single best way to for an
average person without any skills like me to live a life
filled with freedom-real freedom, boundless, unrestricted,
ultimate freedom.
Art Jonak
It is a well known fact that 75 percent of our population is happiest with only a "six-pack of beer and a half tank of gas." But that wasn't me. I wanted more, much more!
I could try the Small Business America route. But I would have to go to work and dress and act a certain way.
I could try the Corporate America route. But then again the shareholders, board of directors, CEO, etc would expect me to "fit the mold." (Richard Branson, one of my heroes, being the rare exception to the rule here!)
Small Business America and Corporate America could earn me a ton of money, but in return they would strip away my "Time Freedom" to do what I wanted, when I wanted, with whom I wanted!
I could start my own business. But I'd be stuck watching over the business, employees, putting in extra-long hours for decades, etc. (Chad Hurley and Steve Chen being one of the few rare exceptions selling YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion after just a few years! Way to go boys!)
Every profession put a gun in my back and robbed me of my Freedom of Time or shoved conformity in my face. Or worse, the profession couldn't pay me anywhere near the income needed for true financial freedom!
I couldn't hold a job for more than six months without getting fired because of my deep craving for the ultimate freedom of not having anyone tell me what to do! I was unemployable!
I started to despair. Was I doomed to live being an employee and having to behave how society "expects" me to be? A life-sentence of someone telling me what I could or couldn't do?
I was running out of choices! I had to become a ten-times-platinum rock star, an ultra best-selling novelist or somehow find a few million dollars to invest, so I could collect a nice dividend check every month. Those seemed to be the only options that would allow me to be myself, to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, without anyone dictating what I could or could not do!
Heck even being a soccer, basketball or tennis superstar was out of the question! Even they had to conform to what the league expected! And then there was the constant barrage of fans and paparazzi!
Behind every door I opened there was a solid brick wall with a "NOT POSSIBLE!" sign on it and finally network marketing found me! It didn't take me long to realize that…
Network marketing is the perfect option for non-conformists and the unemployable!
Network Marketing is like toilet paper, Pampers® and toothpaste. It's definitely proven to be effective. If you don't think it works-don't tell my bank or they won't cash my weekly bonus checks! And today because of network marketing I am as happy as a 60's psychedelic band, hanging out between Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix! Finally I can do what I want, when I want, with whom I want without worrying about the money or about what society thinks!
This is not a eitor's-note for John Milton Fogg. It's not an open letter. It's not even an impassioned plea. It's a primal scream through a bullhorn into a microphone rigged to Metallica's mammoth concert amps:
"NETWORK MARKETING IS THE FREEDOM TO DO WHATEVER THE HECK YOU WANT!"
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week beginsDriving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchangeAnd all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way
- "Ants Marching" by Dave Matthews Band
Look around. Sit in rush hour. Watch people in lines. They are all "Ants Marching." This is no way to live! Every day there's someone telling you what to do. This is NOT FREEDOM!
The price of regret is a pain that can't be healed. The game of life is happening. Don't stand on the sidelines, in the bleachers. Claim what is rightfully yours. Choose Freedom!
Freedom to do…
What you want.
When you want.
With whom you want.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 23, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Passive, Recurring Income and Leverage
Network marketing is the simplest and easiest way for
the average person-the average person who has an above-
average desire for positive change-to get into free
enterprise, take control over their earning abilities and
start generating profits in a reasonable amount of time.
Tony Rush
So, how does network marketing work such magic?
The answer is two terms that every networker marketer knows and loves: passive, recurring income and leverage.
Network marketing offers people the unique ability to get paid over and over for work you've done once… and the ability to earn that same kind of income from the efforts of others, as well.
The fact is that the 24-hour day is "The Great Equalizer."
We all get the same 24 hours. It's what we DO with those 24 hours that determines whether we get rich… or whether we go broke.
Network marketing is the simplest and easiest way for the average person-the average person who has an above-average desire for positive change-to get into free enterprise, take control over their earning abilities and start generating profits in a reasonable amount of time.
All without having the huge start-up costs and hassles normally associated with traditional business ownership or franchising. Think about it: Where else can the average person have the opportunity to earn an executive-level income by working from home? Without having to go to college for years, pile up tons of student loans and climb a corporate ladder that you don't even enjoy?
And because of passive, recurring income and leverage-oh, my, I do love those words-you're not just working for a paycheck. You're building an asset that will continue to pay you for months and years to come.
And it's not even about the money. It's about what's under the money... and that's freedom.
The ability to finally get enough money flowing into your life so that you can spend more of the time doing the things you want to do, when you want to do them… and with the people you're in love with.
That is the real power of network marketing.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 22, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Why Is Network Marketing So Remarkable?
Life is about choices and Network marketing gives us our
choices back! It gives us the ability to choose when we wake
up, where we work, when we work and with whom ever we
want to work with.
Sue Seward
Network Marketing transforms you into a remarkable person.
10 years ago I couldn't even drive up to Houston an hour away by myself! I had no confidence at all. Now I fly all over the place and know that I can make it on my own IF I had to!
10 years ago I knew nothing about business and now I run a million-dollar a year enterprise out of my home office.
10 years ago I had no writing experience. Now, I'm a published author of numerous articles online and in magazines and co-author of a book!
10 years ago I had no speaking experience. Now I've been a guest on numerous radio shows, interviews, training conferences and spoke to over 4,000 people at a company convention!
I've built a solid career in Network Marketing, built myself personally, branded myself online and have a very profitable business all from home using the Internet and telephone! It's taken a lot of hard work and consistent efforts, but I hung in there no matter what the circumstances!
It can also be a lot of fun when you know how and you're willing to do whatever it takes, because you're coachable and you don't give up.
If a stay at home mom like myself can accomplish all of this anyone can!
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 21, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
So, How Ugly Can Your Relatives Be?
Tom suggested I make this the forward to the book. (He didn't
request that or even recommend it. He simply suggested it.) So,
having learned long ago to do whatever "Big Al" tells me to do,
here is his essay, first in line for It's time...
Tom "Big Al" Schreiter
So why don't more people use network marketing to replace their jobs and create the lives they want? Well, they just don't know. All of their network marketing friends are keeping it "top secret." Hmmm, there is a lesson there for us.
"Okay, I got the house, the car, the boat, the vacations, the lifestyle..."
Yes, some people take their network marketing business to the top level.
That's okay too.
I do know that when you earn more, you can give more. That should be a good enough reason for people to earn more than they can spend.
And network marketing provides that income and freedom for many people.
That's what makes network marketing attractive to people who desperately want to make a big change in their lives.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 20, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What's So Special
About Network Marketing?
All the advantages of business ownership-financial freedom,
time freedom, decision-making freedom-plus the advantages
of a typical job with a large company-a well-refined product
offering, reliable accounting, second-tier customer support,
and a proven plan for success.
Scott Allen
The Ability to Be Small
I know we all have great dreams of growing our business huge one day, but relish in your ability to do things on a small scale, especially when you're first starting out. It is one of the things that make network marketing rare, if not unique.
Some types of business can be started on the side while you hold down another job-internet businesses, a product you're creating to take to market, etc. But many others can't. You can't do consulting during the day while you're working full-time somewhere else. You can't open a retail store or a restaurant just evenings and weekends.
MLM opportunities, though, can be started part-time while you're still working a full-time job. Or it can easily be added in gradually to your mix of other businesses.
This makes it great for existing business owners, especially if you can find a complementary product or service, such as a personal trainer distributing dietary supplements or an insurance agent representing a pre-paid legal plan.
It's not just when you're starting out, though. One of the biggest challenges in a traditional business is the fact that while your sales growth may happen incrementally, you typically have to grow your capacity in big huge leaps. It's a significant investment, and therefore risk, to take on a new employee, open a new location, or develop a new product offering.
In network marketing, that risk is either shared or eliminated entirely. When you add someone to your downline, they are the one taking most of the risk. When the company creates a new product or service offering, they assume that development risk, and it's your choice as to how little or much you want to promote it.
You can think big, but you don't have to do big-you do small, over and over and over again.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Perfect Matchmaker
There are only two types of people who get into network
marketing: Those who are looking for it TO WORK, and
those that are looking for it NOT TO WORK. And you always
find what you are looking for.
Doug Firebaugh
So, what's the difference in view between someone who has little success and someone who has massive success in network marketing?
That is where The Perfect Matchmaker comes in!
What does a dating service do?
Matchmaking! It matches up people with other like-minded and like-hearted people that are seeking each other. Eharmony.com, match.com, Yahoo personals, are all examples of today's matchmaking services.
Network marketing could be considered just such a service.
People enter into this industry seeking something just like the folks that use these dating services. They are seeking and looking for something that they want to find. And that is the Ultimate Secret to Network Marketing Success:
There are only two types of people who get into network marketing: Those who are looking for it TO WORK, and those that are looking for it NOT TO WORK.
And you always find what you are looking for.
Read that again. And again. And again, please.
When you are seeking a potential mate with a dating service, you are looking for someone that will match the results you're searching for. You know what you want, and will not settle until you find it. Network marketing seems to be the same focus.
MLM will give you the results that you are TRULY LOOKING FOR. That's what makes this business model so remarkable. There are no rules and regulations, rigid procedures, one and only ways of doing things, musts and have to's to get in the way. In network marketing, you are free to create what you are truly looking for, because there is nothing in the structure to stop you. It's up to you. And you cannot say that about any other business system I've seen.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 17, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
My Best Decision
Nineteen years ago I sold my ownership in an investment firm
to my partner and left the business permanently for network
marketing. It was the best decision I have ever made.
Kathy Robbins
Many people are unaware that this nation was founded and developed by individual entrepreneurs. We were a nation of small businesses and small farms. Each of these people took responsibility for their own success.
Our current system of thousands of people working for large corporations has really only taken place in the last 100 years. When the shift occurred for large numbers of Americans from entrepreneur to employee, people typically went to work for one company and remained at that same company their entire career. That is no longer the case. Employees change jobs regularly, sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not.
Whenever you work for someone else, they control your destiny. Network marketing returns us to the world of entrepreneurship, self-responsibility and control of our own destiny.
I find it amusing when someone talks about network marketing as if it is some small little somewhat "shady" business in which only losers become involved. People who believe that clearly have no understanding of the business as a whole.
The direct sales/network marketing profession is a $30 billion business in the US alone with over 14 million people involved. There are people in the business that make little or no money and those who make better than six figures a month.
I know the second is possible because I have done it. The first is possible, because we are a business of independent contractors and there will always be a large percentage of people who simply cannot or will not do what it takes to be successful. In between there are huge numbers of people who make a few hundred to a few thousand dollars every month.
The business Paula Pritchard and I developed
generated $100,000 a month in earnings and
created over $3 million in sales every month
in our organization alone.
That is a small business, but not a little business.
As for the concept that network marketing is a little "shady"; there are people in the business who would fit in that category. There are people in every business that fit in that category. Think Enron. Think Wall Street. Think real estate, government, medicine, law... can you think of any business that doesn't have its share of unethical people?
Here's what I believe: There is no better way for a young couple, a single mother, a parent with college age children or an individual ready for retirement to supplement their income and potentially build a full-time income with almost no risk in network marketing.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 16, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Leaders Made Here
Network marketing is THE leadership business. What we do for
a living is bring out the best in people. And rather than speak
about that as an intellectual concept, I thought I'd show you
exactly what we do to make a leader. That's the best way I
know for you to really understand.
Kathi Minsky
When I reached high school, I finally decided to stick my toe in the waters of leadership. I was pretty bad at it. In fact, I was terrible. But I had one high school teacher saw something in me I did not see in myself. Every time I tried, she would tell me, "That was really good. You are going to be a real leader one day."
What was it really that my grandmother, my father and a very special teacher gave me? I have to boil it down to two things: Experience and confidence.
You see up to that point, I had not succeeded, because I had never really tried for fear of failing, or worse yet, being laughed at.
You cannot consistently perform in a manner,
which is inconsistent with the way in which
you see yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
So, where does that confidence come from? We boiled it down to three ingredients:
Know what you are talking about.
Not everything about it. Just enough about the subject you will be sharing for the time you will be speaking. When you listen to great motivational speakers, realize that most give the same speech over and over. They are great, in part, because they know their subject inside and out.
Practice. Practice. Practice.
If you have done it well in front of the mirror or a friend, you know you can do it.
Begin with people you trust.
A small group of friendly distributors is a great beginning. Eventually (after you know you are not going to die when you speak in front of a group), you can expand your subject matter and then gradually expand your audience.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 15, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Put a Price Tag On That... If You Can
I know about the freedom that money can buy. But the
freedom of your time being YOUR time. Priceless!
Jim Bartlett
The best thing about network marketing is absolutely, positively, unequivocally... the time freedom!
When my aunt called me from Minnesota in September 2003, and told me my grandpa was dying and I needed to get on a plane as fast as possible, you cannot imagine the relief I felt in knowing I did not have to ask for time off, I did not have to decide if I could afford the trip.
Within 15 minutes I had my flight booked and was on my way to the Pittsburgh airport. I got there while my grandpa was still coherent enough to know me. I held his hand and prayed with him before he died. I got to tell him I loved him. I heard his last words... I heard him say he loved me.
I'm not saying I'd not have gone if I had a job. Of course I would have. You would, too. But we both know how difficult that would be... the price we would have had to pay.
To go without thought of answering to anyone... To go with no anxiety about an unforeseen expense... To go with peace of mind... That is freedom.
And that's the freedom that I'm passionate about
sharing with others through network marketing.
It's time...for Network Marketing
the most remarkable form of free–enterprise ever created.
Click here to learn more about the book >>
Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 14, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Four Greatest Fears of
Starting Your Own Business
... and how network marketing blows them all away with the
force of a 20-magaton thermal nuclear explosion! I dare you
to honestly and openly look at network marketing and not be
impressed and intrigued!
Len Clements
Way back in the last century (1991) a survey was conducted by my research firm, MarketWave, Inc., of almost 7,000 people who were not, nor had ever been, business owners of any kind. The question was a simple one:
If all obstacles were removed, would you like
to own your own business?
In other words, if what ever was stopping you from starting a business didn't exist, would you at least attempt it? Would you prefer to be an entrepreneur, or an employee?
Eighty five percent said Yes, they'd prefer to work for themselves. Which means 15 percent misunderstood the question on the survey. After all, if what ever concerned you enough to not attempt a business venture didn't exist, then you'd have no fear of doing so.
I mean, who wouldn't want to be in control of their own life? To have the freedom to make their own decisions, work their own hours, and write their own pay-check?
Even using the conservative 85 percent figure, that would mean about 200 million Americans want to start their own business, but have never even attempted it! We thought there must be some pretty compelling reasons why, so we set out to find out what they were.
To no one's surprise, it was never about
preferring to work for someone else's business,
but rather the incapacitating fear of starting
your own.
And it was the same four fears, every single time.
It takes too much money.
People didn't have tens-of-thousands, or hundreds-of-thousands of dollars to invest in a business (and they didn't know anyone else who did).
It takes too much time.
People didn't want to work 80 hours a weeks for the first year or two to get their business going.
There's too much risk.
Over 56 percent of all businesses fail in the first two years, and they'd have to quit their job, so there was no safety net.
They didn't know how.
Most people had never taken any business courses. They had no business experience. They don't know anything about taxes, accounting, marketing, and they myriad other skills a good entrepreneur must possess.
Not all responded with all four objections, although most responded with more than one. Surprisingly, "I don't know how" was the single most common response. A lot of folks said they wished they had taken the plunge earlier in their lives, but they just weren't the Mavericks they once were. They had a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. They felt is was "too late."
(More from Len coming soon...)
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 13, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stay the Course Long Enough
To Discover the Magic For Yourself
Years ago I uncovered four levels of what I call "pursuit" in
network marketing. Each one leads to greater appreciation
and a higher consciousness: Money, Freedom, Helping People
and Changing the World.
Paula Pritchard
Network marketing has the ability to change people-to change the way they think and the way they act.
I have seen network marketing create such amazing teamwork, camaraderie and esprit de corps amongst individuals working together to reach their common goal.
I have seen network marketing unite cultures and help people rise above race, gender, social economic and political differences.
I have seen network marketing create hope and optimism and empower people to take control of their lives.
Network marketing is a gift and in the right hands, it can change the world. I know this from firsthand experience.
In 1994, I was on my way to Paris, France, to speak at the launch of an American network marketing company. A couple days before the launch, I was doing a meeting in Antwerp, Belgium. At the conclusion of the meeting I was told that there was a gentleman waiting in the lobby who wanted to speak to me. I will never forget his story.
He was Croatian and it was during the time when there was a war in his country between the Serbs and the Muslims. He was involved in a network marketing company and he was looking at joining our company.
He proceeded to tell me about an organizational meeting that he had attended a few nights before in order to recognize and congratulate one of his distributors on their advancement. This meeting was in Croatia, where he had to cross a border and risk his life to enter into a very dangerous part of the country. Snipers were killing people there every day.
Their meeting was held in the basement of a house in the war zone. Everyone that attended was risking their lives. Everyday they were smuggling their products across the border to build their businesses. But what was amazing was that at this meeting there were Serbs and Muslims, all sponsored by one another and all hugging and congratulating each other.
What a paradox:
Outside, there was war, hate and destruction.
Inside, there was peace, love and harmony...
and it was because of network marketing.
For the first time I truly saw what an impact network marketing could have around the world.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 12, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Cutting a New Path
It goes beyond our impressive statistics and growth figures.
Today, most people you'll talk to about network marketing
know of someone who's had a positive experience. We're
less apologetic and more sensible. We have a proven track
record, and we're getting much, much better at what we do.
John David Mann
Used to be, we talked mostly about the merry-go-round golden-ring style of success, the fractional percentage of people with both the exceptionally good timing and the right skill set or personality profile to hit an opportunity just right and catapult to the top. "Success" in those days was mostly shown off in terms of those elite few with yachts, personal jet planes and ridiculous fortunes. Robin ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") Leach was just hitting stride in the late eighties, and the style resonated with gawky young teenaged em-el-em. Success might happen to only a few, but the rest of us could dream, right?
Today we do more than dream. The way we describe success in the network marketing of 2006 has been shaped by The Millionaire Next Door, the Latte Factor® and...
The hundreds of thousands of serious
networkers sincerely and sanely pursuing
a reasonable goal of replacement income
and financial stability.
Goodbye get rich quick, hello get smart now.
Meanwhile, as we've matured, the world around us has changed. The corporate model of financial security has crumbled away. Two generations ago, going to work for a company was "security," working for yourself from your home was "risky."
Today it's gone clear the other way around.
In 2004, the Small Business Administration told President Bush that small business accounts for more than half the nation's economic output and employs more than half the country's non-governmental employees-and that more than half of those small businesses are home-based businesses.
Warren Buffet, the "oracle of Omaha" and famed billionaire stock market expert, turned heads on Wall Street in 2002, when he bought a network marketing company. Today, he no longer owns one-he owns three. (And has been quoted, speaking about one of them, as saying, "It's the best investment I've ever made.")
Network marketing today is a $100 billion concern worldwide (some $30 billion of it in the U.S.).
Right now, as you read these words, there
are about 70,000 people around the world
who are not network marketers-and by this
same time tomorrow, will be.
The DSA's Neil Offen projects that over the next ten years, more than 200 million people worldwide will join our business.
Paul Pilzer projects that over those same ten years, the US economy will create ten million new millionaires-and that many of them will be created in network marketing.
And it goes beyond statistics and figures.
Ten years ago, most people you'd talk to about network marketing either knew nothing about it, or knew someone who'd had a negative experience. Today, most people you'll talk to about network marketing know of someone who's had a positive experience. We're less apologetic, and more sensible. We have a track record, and we're getting much, much better at what we do.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 11, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Network Marketing:
a Divorced Woman's Hope.
Once I cleared my old negative blueprint about network
marketing, the difference was like night and day. I no longer
had any trepidation talking with someone about the products
I offered. I didn't beg them to purchase again. And, people
were sticking in my organization.
Monique Gallagher
Even though I read many books, listened to tapes, and took courses-in addition to asking anyone I could how to change that negative mindset-I didn't find the answer until many years later. I still recall asking any successful networker I came across how they developed the strong belief they had in the business. Every time I was told the same thing, "I don't know, I just believe." This didn't help me in clearing my own faulty thinking. I was on the hunt for a method to create a new and better blueprint for success.
When I did clear my old blueprint about networking marketing, the difference was like night and day. I no longer had any trepidation talking with someone about the products I offered. Previously, I would be excited with an order of $50, but now I was getting orders of $200 and more. I didn't have to beg them to purchase again. And, people were sticking in my organization.
Did the products change? Did I change companies? Did the comp plan change? Did my upline change?
The simple truth was...
I changed my mind about how I viewed
network marketing.
My belief is unshakable. When I sell someone products now and someone asks, if it is possible for them to do what I do, I no longer cringe at that question. I look them in the eye with confidence and pride and say, "Yes, you just need to become an associate and this is what you need to purchase."
Do I accept everyone as a business partner? No way, I have customers and I have partners. There are criteria for someone who wants to be in my organization. Gone are the days of the desperate network marketer, grateful for a pitiful one-time order.
Now in its place, is a proud network marketer who is able to assist others in their journey of healing-physically and emotionally (and financially, too).
The healing not only comes from the products, but from the journey of becoming a networker itself.
The truth of it is. It's an inside job. You not only become what you think about... you become what you believe.
So how is my network marketing career going now?
Well, I would say, well. No, I would say more than that… swimmingly well.
For this single mother, network marketing
was not only her hope, it was her healing
and the renaissance of her life.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 10, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Split Personality
of Network Marketing
The really good network marketers are those who have
the kind of character you respect. They teach and train
their downline to have financial and personal success,
knowing that is the only way they will create their own.
Peter Pearson, Ph.D.
Network marketing is not about developing a skillful ability to overcome all objections or recruit anyone with the money and time to invest.
This approach results in too many frustrated newbies who actually just aren't cut out to be business builders. These people end up thinking their failure is lack of will power or they don't have big enough dreams. There are enough people in the world with low self-esteem without us piling on more.
Reflect for a moment: How honest do you want a salesperson to be when selling to you?
The other side of network marketing's personality gives the very best modeling and training of all the professions.
The best network marketers understand they are helping a people grow their business by growing themselves.
To do so successfully requires developing multiple skills that fit the individual. These sponsors give generously of their time, sharing their experience and expertise. If they don't have it, they find the knowledge, resources, skills that will fill the void.
They teach and train their downline to have financial and personal success, knowing that is the only way they will create their own. The good ones also know when to stop investing in someone who doesn't follow through with their agreements.
The really good network marketers are those who have the kind of character you respect. You would like to call them your friend, have your children play with theirs.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 09, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Business of Hope
I was a new mom, looking to stay home with my newborn son.
I wasn't really looking to get rich, or even set the world on fire—
although I did allow my mind to dream a little about what that
might be like.
Jackie Ulmer
Network marketing. It's a term that typically conjures up strong emotions, on one side or the other. It deserves a chance to be accurately defined, that's for sure. There are many misconceptions about what this business is and does.
When I decided to join the ranks of network marketers, I was only looking for a few things:
• A way to generate some income to stay home with my children.
• Some flexibility around my hours.
• Adult interaction, or a way to keep my foot in the "grown up" world while being home with toddlers.
That was really about it. However, what I got was a list quite a bit longer. Here's what network marketing has given me so far:
Generated enough income to allow me to stay home, and my husband to stay home as well if he chooses.
When I first started looking into the home based business arena, I was convinced of one thing-
I needed to steer clear of that thing called
"network marketing." I wasn't exactly sure
why, but "they" all said it was bad; a scam;
something to be avoided.
Why was it, then, that everything I was looking for in a business kept directing me back to the business of network marketing?
I'm forever grateful for the day that I put my skepticism aside and decided to find out for myself what this business really is-and more importantly, what it isn't. That day ultimately changed my life. I hope you'll create a day like that for yourself, and allow this profession to transform you and your life.
That was nearly 13 years ago, and today, I am able to put so much of what network marketing offers into words, feelings and experiences. One phrase that sums it up best for me is that it is the business of hope.
This industry provides hope in so many ways.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 08, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Network Marketing Is an Organic Business
In the ideal network marketing model, one human being asks
another human being what will help them—then helps them
achieve whatever it is they want. That's organic business—
one human helping another.
Tim Sales
The reason I have chosen to focus my life's effort in network marketing is because I feel it's a true organic business. One human being helping another human being is as organic as it gets.
Why does food grow on planet earth, other than to help other life to grow?
Why are humans on planet earth, other than to help other life to grow?
There is only one real business on this planet—
the business of making someone's life better.
Let's imagine for a moment that you and I live on an island, just the two of us: I'm a fisherman, you're a farmer. One day I say to you, "If you pick a little extra corn today, I'll catch more fish and we can exchange them with each other this evening. That way you don't have to eat only corn and I don't have to eat just fish."
Through that exchange we've made each other's lives better.
Now, a new person comes to our island that can make shoes. He makes us both a pair of shoes and we give him food in exchange. He's made our life better and we've made his life better.
That's organic business-one human helping another.
In the ideal network marketing model, one
human being asks another human being
what will help them—then helps them
achieve whatever it is they want.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 07, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A Level Playing Field
and a Great Game to Play
This country was built on free enterprise, and that is
what MLM offers. Network marketing is more consistent
with the original "American Dream" than just about
anything else you can do to make a living and a life.
Kimberly Rhodes
(Sans an appro' picture of Kimberly, the header of her website instead.)
My female colleagues in the corporate world and I were forced to make some hard choices between careers and family. In fact, some women had even opted not to have a family at all in favor or pursuing what they thought would be rewarding careers.
It's like we were being punished for wanting success. The more we "go for it" in our careers, the more we must give up at home. It may be time with our spouses and children, missing private lessons, recitals, games, or not being able to prepare the kinds of meals we know the family should have.
Whatever it ends up being, we are faced with
the decision to either have a great family life
or a great career and often told we cannot
have it both ways.
But network marketing gives us the amazing opportunity to have that wonderful family life and a rewarding career. Countless women have proved this business provides an environment for them to truly reach their goals in a way that makes them happy, fulfilled, and balanced in all areas of their lives.
So, many businesses today talk about providing a "level playing field" of equality, but MLM truly delivers on that promise-and not only for women, for many men as well.
There is neither a glass ceiling nor are we bound to office politics or "the good old boy network." We can be paid in direct proportion to our service, value, and the contribution we bring to each person we sponsor into the business. What's more, the entire MLM model is based and built on personal and professional development. So, the better you become as an individual and a leader, the more you are rewarded by your business success.
Another important benefit of network marketing of particular interest to women is that for once you get to design your business around your life, instead of the other way around.
You can literally "tailor" your work to exactly
what you want to put into it, get out of it, and
how you want that to fit into the rest of your life.
If you choose to stay at home and raise your children, you can do that. If you only want part time income to add to your household, you can do that. If you want a bustling business that makes a nice living income, you can do that. And if you want to be a high-powered CEO running a multi-million dollar company, you can do that as well.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 06, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
MLM Goes Mainstream
While you were busy tying to convince your brother-in-law
that network marketing is a viable business, the business
world was busily adopting the concepts behind MLM network
marketing, labeling them word-of-mouth, buzz and viral
marketing.
Ty Tribble
A word-of-mouth marketing company, BzzAgent will deploy 1,000 word-of-mouth agents in a 12-week campaign for $85,000. Companies send BzzAgent a product and BzzAgent sends the product to its agents who then tell others what they think about the product.
Seth Godin, the best selling author of Permission Marketing and perhaps the number one marketing blogger in the universe, has written an entire book based upon the concept of "remarkable products." The book is titled Purple Cow, because cows are basically boring, but a purple cow? That would be something.
Network marketing has always been about marketing great products through word-of-mouth and the mainstream is starting to catch on.
The Essence of Network Marketing
Networking with great people and marketing remarkable product sums up the essence of network marketing.
In its most authentic form, few can argue whether or not network marketing is a good, strong business concept...
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 04, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Okay, truth telling... I don't know what to do with this one. A four page excerpt is too much, but Jillian's essay is 21 pages!!! Over 5,000 words. It's not an essay, it's a book all by itself... and, it's great stuff. More great stuff than I've read in one place in a long time. So, bullet biting, here's a BIG chunk of Ms. Middleton's missive. (Did I say I spent five hours editing it!?! Mama.) Enjoy.
Myths and Legends
For More and Better
In MLM network marketing, it is all about your efforts and
"who you are." It is how you show up FOR people and how
you show up WITH people, that makes all the difference. If
you're looking for personal control in your financial life this
could be your vehicle.
Jillian Middleton
It is way too often that people have an unnecessary low opinion of MLM network marketing and it is time the real story is told. I can speak about both the merits of network marketing as well as its "less than stellar" public opinion, because of my own personal experience.
My early opinions of network marketing were solid... and ugly. I thought people who did MLM were unable to do anything else. And I felt this way even though I was introduced to the business the same way many people are, by a friend. Norine Arundel is a close friend and confidant of many, many years. Although I had every reason to believe her and trust her judgment, my prejudices were so strong I simply couldn't see around them.
If you're looking at network marketing to solve a financial dilemma, like I was, or simply to make a few extra bucks to play more, for heaven's sake don't let the myths get in your way. Instead, look to the real legends in the industry.
To make sure we're on the same page here, l'll define what I mean by myths and legends.
One of the definitions for myth from Dictionary.com, is "an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution." Two great examples of this kind of myth as it relates to MLM network marketing are:
1. Anyone can do it
2. That "gangster money" is available to everyone who
decides to work a network marketing business.
It isn't a huge leap of common sense to realize that everyone cannot possibly be cut out to do network marketing, anymore than everyone is cut out to be a doctor or hairdresser.
And the notion that "gangster money" is available to everyone-well... when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. The worse part of this kind of myth is it gets in the way of the real legends in the industry.
What do I mean by legends? Dictionary.com, again, offers a few definitions: "A collection of stories about an admirable person... a person who is the center of such stories."
So, who are these legends in network marketing? People just like you and me. They have jobs they don't like. Or they have a business that owns them rather than them owning the business. They are often professionals, yet just as often from "blue collar" industries. Some come to MLM with no college and some come with PhDs.
I consider myself a pretty smart person, but the myths I heard about this industry nearly kept me from one of the best financial/entrepreneurial decisions of my life. My prejudices about network marketing were so strong that even though my construction business of eight-plus years was falling down around my ears I wasn't embracing MLM any too fast!
I thought MLM could be described in two words:
hokey and unprofessional. I thought if you were
in network marketing you chased your neighbors
down the street to sell them soap.
The California economy had been in a huge down turn for about four years and my company was simply not going to survive it. I threw everything I had at my construction company; my savings, effort, time, and finally all the credit I had, but nothing could stop the train wreck of business disaster. I was broke and in debt to everyone including the IRS. Under those circum-stances you would think I would be open to something new-especially if a trusted friend brought it to me!
But instead, my stomach turns into a knot and I'm thinking, "If this is where I've come to it really is the end of the line." I didn't want anyone to know I was doing MLM. The bottom line for me was shame!
It's amazing just how seriously I can take myself and I don't think I'm so very different from most people. I got patronizing and said things like, "This is OK for you, but not for me."
It's embarrassing for me to look back on all this. I'm not sure just who or what I thought I was. I'm sharing this with you not because I'm proud of it, but because I've met too many people who think along the same lines as I did. It actually took my friend Norine about four months to bring me to the table. And then it didn't have a thing to do with the business really. It came down to our friendship.
Norine didn't threaten our friendship. When she came to the end of her patience with my arrogance, she simply reminded me of whom she was. I'll never forget her words,
"You know Jillian, I didn't turn stupid last
night, if I think there is some value here...
maybe you should take a look."
Talk about a reality check.
Norine was right. My take on network marketing was a caricature of the business. My view was a complete misrep-resentation of both the people who work MLM businesses as well as the business model itself.
I was so afraid that if I started an MLM business, when people saw me coming they'd look underneath their bathroom or kitchen sinks to see what they had to buy. "Oh here comes Jillian, do we need more toilet cleaner?" I didn't want that kind of image of me. My opinions were so strong it was really difficult for me to let go of my beliefs and open my eyes to really see what the business was all about.
After Norine's reminder of who she was and her no nonsense "get over yourself" talk, I agreed to drive up to Fresno, California where she lived, stay a couple of days and go to an event.
Not because of the company or what it
represented, but because of who she was
to me.
(Much) more to come...
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 03, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why I Hang Around
With Network Marketers
Like-minded people, who believe that they can make
their world a better place, are the type of people I
like most. That's why I hang around network marketers—
besides all the great places to stay.
Mark Davis
8:34am September 14, 2005.
Los Angeles International Airport.
I've just landed with my entire family, including my mother, at LAX,
USA. A 10-day vacation, including Disneyland, Las Vegas and San
Francisco. Truly the trip of my kid's lifetime and one we've worked
hard to create.
My first stop is two-nights Pasadena, the
"older" section of Los Angeles, where I'm staying with a really good
friend I met nine years earlier at a network marketing event.
The relationship we started back then stuck. And now here I am, half way round the world with a trailer-load of family and we're staying the night.
I've
asked for tourist advice about Vegas, and people far and wide who have
visited and who live there have given me their best ideas. They send me
emails, txt messages, and turn me on to "locals" they know who will
help.
When travelling to Singapore, I get everyone who has ever
visited telling me of their favorite hotels and restaurants, shopping
centre and tourist attractions I should not miss.
It feels like I have a host and travel guide in every city in the world.
In
1995, when I first visited New York City, I was toured 'round the city
by a native New Yorker. For the MasterCard charge of a few cappuccinos
and dinner, I had accommodation, good company, and a built-in
street-smart tourist guide. Priceless! Of course, she was a network
marketer.
Most of my traveling the world has been
related to this business. Training, attending
trainings, researching, visiting, publishing,
making new contacts, building relation-ships,
it's all been paid for by my involvement in
network marketing.
Once, I got flown all the way from Melbourne to New York just for a
meeting! Beats driving for an hour in your home-town in a traffic jam.
I was introduced to that person, because I was in network marketing.
All through this business and it's connections.
I've
met people of all kinds from all corners of the world: a German-trained
Indonesian engineer speaking English in Jakarta, Singaporean-born
entrepreneurs in Oakland, California, Norwegian networking superstars
in Houston, Texas, housewives in Singapore, house cleaners in Toronto,
bartenders in Denver, and couples from Orlando.
When I look at
all the people I have met through my travels, I feel truly blessed. I
have made relationships with doctors, writers, psychiatrists,
executives, chiropractors, professors, dentists, lawyers, and every
other kind of professional and career person you could think of and
most of them were network marketers.
Each one is unique and different, and every one adds to my picture of the world, and the amazing people in it.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 02, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Is Network Marketing Selling?
Most network marketers are honest, ethical and believe
in the value of their products and their opportunity. And
that is what they should focus on. And that, is sales.
Wendy Weiss
I looked up the word "sell" in the dictionary. This is what it said:
To persuade (another) to recognize the
worth or desirability of some-thing.
This definition assumes value. It assumes that you recognize the value of whatever it is that you are selling. Inherent in the definition is the concept of worth or desirability.
I also looked up "salesperson," "saleswoman," "salesman," "sales
clerk," and my favorite, "sales talk." The definition for "sales talk"
was, "a line of reasoning or argument intended to persuade someone to
buy something."
Whenever I do a workshop or teleconference, I frequently ask participants, "What are the words that come to mind when you hear the word, 'salesperson'?" Invariably, I hear back words like, "manipulative," "dishonest," "unethical," and "sleazy."
In the dictionary, however, when I looked up all of the above sales words, none of the definitions referenced, "manipulative," "dishonest," "unethical," "sleazy," or anything particularly negative. The language in these definitions was actually quite neutral and several of them spoke of value.
Unfortunately, in our culture, the words "sales" or "sell" are viewed with disrespect. The words no longer simply mean to persuade someone of the value of what you are offering. Instead they carry the baggage of images of untrustworthiness and deviousness. This is a misconception that does an enormous disservice.
Far too often, network marketers buy
into this stereotypical image of sales and
see the activity of selling as negative and
untrustworthy.
They feel that if they are selling (or being perceived to be selling), they are doing something that is not quite right or that has the potential to be not quite right. It's as if there is a line drawn someplace, but they don't know where that line is... or when they've stepped over it. It causes them to be cautious and careful and worry about how they are perceived.
This anxiety puts network marketers, in their own minds, at a
disadvantage and on a lower level than their prospects and customers.
This is a difficult place to be. And it stops many network marketers
from taking action.
The reality is, network marketing is selling. Network marketing is persuading people to buy your products and persuading people to join your team. It is persuading them of the value of your products and your opportunity.
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Posted by GreatestNetworker on October 01, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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