As I mentioned this blog looks at living a healthy lifestyle and by lifestyle we explore all areas, wellness, emotional, and financial well-being. I firmly believe on the financial side that owning a network marketing business is the best way for the average person to achieve financial success. So today's blog post is to share a tip about how to do just that, have success in network marketing. I invite you to take a look at the business model that in my opinion is the best in the industry. I have spent two years looking at all types of networking companies and I believe that we have the best by a long shot. Our products are clinically proven and I feel very comfortable as a pharmacist to stand behind them which was very important to me. I feel the compensation plan is the best and easiest to achieve of all the plans I looked at. It is designed to give a novice a chance as well as the seasoned professional. I believe the training program, which we call the simple system, truly is the easiest and most rewarding to follow. And finally the people that I have met have been the friendliest and most caring of all the companies I researched. Everyone is more than willing to help out any way they can.
I just wanted to share this list with all my friends that are interested in their financial well-being. I got this list from Todd Falcone, he is a network marketing professional and has some very good training programs. I slightly altered it to reflect what we do in our business. You can view his blog at http://ToddFalcone.com I highly encourage you to subscribe to him if you truly want to be a professional in this business.
1.
Keep your Pipeline Full. I’m not sure who said this but 2 a day 10 in
play. It’s hard to make a lot of sales or recruit a lot of people when
no one is looking at your product or business. So…my suggestion to you is that
you do everything that you can to consistently get more eyeballs on your stuff.
Want your business to grow? Get more people to look at it pure and simple.
Waiting never made anyone rich.
2.
Track your Numbers. I tell everyone to
draw a box on a piece of paper at the end of every day…and in that box, write
the number of NEW PEOPLE you talked to that day about your business. When you
do that, you get FEEDBACK. You get a reflection of your activity or inactivity
levels in your business. You can track the raw numbers of contacts…or you can
get even more detailed and track the number of contacts, messages left,
presentations given, follow up calls made, etc. and get an even CLEARER IDEA of
how many people you personally need to expose to your product or business to
make a sale.
3.
Follow up…Fast. I can’t tell you how many
people I talk to that say they aren’t good at follow up. The reality isn’t that
they aren’t good from a skill standpoint, they simply drop the ball and don’t
finish what they started. When you show someone your business and they need to
get more information to make an informed decision, find out how soon they can
look at it and follow up with them on THAT day. If I know you are going to be
looking at my “more information” that I am sending you tomorrow and tomorrow is
Tuesday, my question to you will be, “When can I follow up with you tomorrow?”
Don’t ever ask, “Can I follow up with you?” Be sure to specify a day…or even a
day and time.
4.
Don’t Overload your Prospect. You don’t
need to choke your prospect with every piece of information available. Just get
them enough so they can begin to understand what it is that you do and how
they’d fit into the picture should they decide to do so. Overload creates
confusion. Confused people do nothing. You want your prospect to look at your
stuff, not be so overwhelmed that they feel intimidated.
5.
Leverage
your Leadership. You likely have people in your upline or on your
leadership team that are better than you or more experienced. Use them! There’s
no better way of learning that putting a good prospect on the phone with
someone who has more experience than you. I’m amazed at how many people
complain about their lack or results and then I ask them if they’ve ever done a
3-way call with a leader, their answer is NO. Use them…it’s what they’re there
for.
6.
Be
Genuinely Interested. As Tom Chenault says, “Be interested, not interesting”
People who pitch themselves and their
company without every getting to know their prospect likely aren’t getting good
results. The more you show genuine interest in someone and their needs, their
desires, their dreams and aspirations…the more you’ll attract people. It
doesn’t matter how good your product or business is if you don’t care about
your prospect. Start showing it through your actions and you’ll start seeing
the result in your bonus check.
7.
Listen
(pause), then Respond. Too often, people are concerned with telling people
about their deal rather than ENGAGING a human being in a real and interactive
conversation. If you ask a question…or your prospect asks a question, take a
moment and PAUSE before responding. It tells them that you are actually
listening, rather than stepping all over the end of their sentence which is a
blaring sign of disrespect and clearly shows that you actually aren’t listening
at all.
8.
Put your
Blinders on and Focus. Tiger Woods doesn’t play tennis. Michael Jordan
tried baseball, but it didn’t work out so well for him, did it? Focus on
building one company and your money worries will be gone. Build multiple deals
and you’ll have money problems multiplied for many years. ’Nuff said? I think
so.
9.
Don’t
Hover. .Sometimes people get 5 to 10 people looking at their business, and
they stop reaching out to more people. Keep moving forward. Keep following up,
but don’t hover “hoping” that you’re little group of people you’ve shown your
business to are going to set you free for life. Some give you a definitive
“no”, and others simply don’t make a decision. If they haven’t made a decision
over an extended period of time, they’ve likely made a decision, but simply
haven’t told you yet. Move on…find someone else. Just don’t hover.
10.
Dump the
Hype. We have enough cheese already in this business, we don’t need any
more of it. The “greatest launch in MLM history” has been done a million times
over. The “we’re the next billion dollar giant” line only makes you look
stupid. Be real with people and be realistic as far as what they will
experience in your business and you’ll not only grow a great check, but you’ll
grow a great reputation based on being real and genuine in your approach with
people.
11.
Employ
you. The best question you could ever ask yourself every day is, “Would I
hire me?” Would you? I mean that seriously. Look at how you’ve been showing up
until right now. Based on how you’ve been showing up in your network marketing
business, how would you answer that question? In order to master your
prospecting and maximize your potential, you’ve got to be living up to your
potential every single day. Start asking yourself that question at the end of
every day. If you don’t like the answer, then do something different.
12.
Be Clear
with your Desired Outcome. What exactly do you want and when? Do you even
know? Do you see it clearly? Have you written it down? It’s hard to get
someplace when you don’t even know where you are going. On the other hand, when
you know exactly here you are going, it becomes very easy to get there.
Everything seems to fall in line for you when you have clarity in your life. Put
together a vision board. Write out realistic goals in bite size pieces. Have
small victories every day. This goes along with tracking your numbers. Know
where your going and how your getting their.
13.
Practice,
practice, practice. The only way to get better at anything is to put
practice time in. How often are you practicing your approach, your talk, your
presentation or your pitch? Do you rehearse what you’re going to do or do you
just “wing it”? If the best athletes in the world practice regularly, why
shouldn’t you?
14.
Enthusiasm
DOES Make the Difference. Brandy, Tom, and many of the FDI leadership
understand this. The fact is that people are attracted to individuals who have
a burning passion for what they are doing. It is literally contagious. Boring,
hum-drum, blah isn’t fun to be around. In fact, it’s the reverse of fun. We are
in business for ourselves, get to come and go as we please, live life on our
terms and do whatever the heck we want to do whenever we feel like it. There is
something to get excited about in all of that, don’t you think? But…does that
come out in your prospecting? Can you prospect “feel” your excitement for what
you do? If not…change it.
15.
Under-Promise
and Over-Deliver. Nothing is more disappointing than someone who tells you
they are going to do something and then they fail to do it. If you make a
promise, keep it. If you say something, then do it. Seems pretty simple, but
people fall short of their promises all the time, and as a result, so does
their check and their overall success.
16.
Be
Consistent. Want success in your business? Do it every day. Nothing good
happens for someone who does something every once in a while, or when they feel
like it. In fact…when you don’t “feel” like doing something, that’s probably a
really good sign that you need to be doing more of that something. Do something
every day, you’ll get really, really good at it. Do it every once in a while
and you’ll always be average at it.
17.
Recruit
up. You want to be looking UP. Who do you want? Good people or people that
aren’t good? Obviously, you want the former. So…when it comes to your
recruiting and selling, look for those with talent and abilities, people that
CAN do what we do. It makes the business fun…and far more profitable in the
long-term.
18.
Ask for
Referrals. I could talk about this until I am blue in the face, and still
people don’t get it. You don’t get anything you don’t ask for in life. If you’d
like to make your leads list last forever and continue to grow your business
organically, then asking for referrals is something you’ve got to start doing.
The more you ask, the more you’ll get. I’ve gotten referrals that have led me
to literally tens of thousands of dollars in income. In fact…I’ve probably made
in excess of 6-figures just by asking for a referral. If you knew that would
happen for your, would it cause you to start asking? You’ll never know until
you ask.
19.
Harness
the Power of Projection. When you are working outside of your warm market
and contacting people who you don’t know yet, use that to your advantage. The
fact they don’t know you gives you power. It gives you the power to project
whatever image you choose. So…if you’re working out of a garage or your
basement, you don’t have to act like it. I know someone that literally got to his first $10,000 month in
network marketing working out of a garage, but his prospects never knew it.
Why? He acted “as if”. He acted as if He was already successful and they
accepted it as their reality of me. Fake it till you make it
20.
Model
Success. Don’t change it. When someone is willing to show you how to do
something that you don’t yet know how to do…and they’re really willing to share
with you exactly how they did it, don’t re-invent what they’ve shown you…model
it, copy it, do it, just don’t change it!
21.
Take
Responsibility for yourself. No one but you is going to create success for
you. Blaming others, your comp plan, your upline or system for your lack of
success doesn’t cut it. If you’re doing that, my question for you is, “How’s
that working for you?” Blaming, justifying and making excuses is the opposite
of accountability. You’ll win because you chose to win and because you acted
like a winner. Failures blame others for their lack of success. Winners accept
responsibility for their actions, good or bad. You’re an independent
entrepreneur. Act like it.
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