Just Move On!

I am sure that a lot of you have seen this video by Pat Petrini. Each time I watch it I have to laugh because it is one of the truest videos on the market showing just how wrong some people can think.


As Jim Rohn said, "You can't say the wrong thing to the right person, and you can't say the right thing to the wrong person. ~ Jim Rohn (One of my favorite quotes - has sort of a tongue-in-cheek meaning. Especially after watching this video.) Really fits this video. Don't you think?

It is interesting that people with a job never think about the company they work for as being in the shape of a pyramid. You can find more pyramid schemes in the job market than in network marketing. With a job the boss will always make more money than the people working under them. In network marketing that is just not true.

In network marketing you can bring someone into your business and that person can actually end up making more money than you.

I have worked at a job for many years. Was in management most of that time. Did it ever cross my mind that some day, after many years, that I would make more money than my boss? Good grief, NO! It ain't gonna happen! In network marketing I could end up making more than the person that brought me into a company.


I like what Eric Worre says: "Say less to more people.  You don’t have to be good, you just have to be busy.  Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice.  All of these MLM maxims say the same thing… Activity is KING."

The point is there will always be those people that you shouldn't even try to convince to join your company. Know this! Move on! Be yourself. You network every day of your life in some way so when trying to build your business relax, have fun and keep going. Your life will be better and your business will grow.

Now, that's life and business rolled up into one.

PS. Pat has more great videos similar to this one so you might want to check his YouTube channel: PatPetrini

Change Can Be A Wonderful Gift

Change is Good - You Go First

As a leader you must empower change to others joining you. In network marketing we build teams to promote a company/product. A lot of the people joining us may be set in their own manner of doing this.

The reason for this might be that they have been in (direct) network marketing for many years and think that they have all of this down pat. Let me tell you my story.

I actually started in direct marketing back the 1980s with a company that is still around today and is still one of the biggest and most well known in this industry. I had no idea what I was doing and the sad thing was I received no help in learning how to market must less anything else.

From there I tried other direct marketing companies with the same result. No one to showed me the ropes and no one to answer my questions. Was it necessary to have these options at my finger tips? I found or discovered the answer to this question much later in my searching. The answer, Actually No.

So some years later as the internet grew and more information was available I was like a sponge. I read, absorbed, copied, did everything I could to learn the ins and outs of network marketing. Found some great people teaching what should be done and what shouldn't be done. But something was always missing that I just couldn't wrap my head around.

I have recently discovered that what was missing was leadership. Leadership in the team leader and developing leaders on the teams. This is really what this industry is all about: Developing Leaders. 

So what must we do as the so-called team leader to entice those joining up to change their ways?
Watch this movie and see if it answers any questions for you:



As leaders we have to embrace change. A change that accepts that it is our responsibility to develop leaders not sells people. We have to learn to inspire and motivate our teams to embrace change. We have to inspire them to get out of their comfort zones. It is our responsibility to assure them that this is the right path to be on for their own good and success.


Developing leaders within your team will ensure that each one accepts the responsibility for themselves. This is good. Not bad. This is what you should strive for. 


Bob Nelson puts it this way, "You get the best efforts from others by not lighting a fire beneath, but by building a fire within them."

Eric Harvey and Steve Venture in their book "Forget For Success" puts it this way: "Our brains are like closets. Over time they are filled with things we no longer use - things that don't fit. Every once in a while they need to be cleaned out."

For so many years our industry has remained on the same old, same old path of mediocrity. Putting people in and moving on to putting more people in. The more people, the better. This didn't work and now you should be able to figure out why.

The ones that have made it big and been the most successful in network marketing are the ones that realized that things had to change. The change was developing leaders.

What Are Your Opening Words?

Why don't your prospects believe what you are saying?
Maybe because you are assuming that they will trust and believe anything you tell them.

Do these sound familiar to you?
1. You can trust me...
2. You can believe me when I say ...
3. I am from North Carolina so sure you can take what I say to the bank...
4. I live near you so you know I wouldn't lie to you...
5. We have the best ever compensation plan that has been devised...
6. Sure, you can make lots of money right away even this week...
7. My company has the best most researched product for ............. on the market...
8. This is the greatest opportunity in the history of mankind...
9. This is a ground floor opportunity....

Do these sound like something you are saying to your prospects? If so, stop it! These types of statements throw up big red flags waving in the air like hot air balloons.

Want to know what these types of statements say to me? You might not but I am going to tell you anyhow. SELLING!!!!!! You are trying to sell. And, people don't like to be sold to.

Most of the people you are talking to don't know you from Joe Blow. If you start off with one of these then I can assure you your prospect will think of you as blowing in the wind.

This is true whether you are face to face with your prospect or doing online marketing. The same will hold true in any situation.

Here is an idea for you from Tom 'Big Al" Schreiter:
Write down the first ten words that you are going to say to your prospect. Do these words create trust or do they create mistrust?

In today's world people are more skeptical than ever so your first words will either get you a good prospect or forever loose you a good one. It is your choice. Change what you are saying and win or keep on with the same old, same old and slip by the wayside.

Wishing you all much success,
Elaine

Do You Have All Three Legs?

No, I have not lost my mind. At least not right now. Later maybe.

I came across this video and I was taken back a few years to when I first started out in direct marketing so I decided to share it with you.

Too many, almost all, try to enter the network marketing industry without even knowing how to start much less how to really make a lasting income. They play around thinking they are doing the right things to succeed but never really making it.
Then they get frustrated and give up.

I did the same thing over 30 years ago when I first started out with Amway. And, I continued to do the same wrong things with every company I tried until lately.

In this video Dale Calvert points out the three things that we all must have to make it in network marketing. Without these three legs you will be lost, not accomplish much and become bitter about this industry.

I will tell you that the three legs stand for:
1. Right Skill Sets
2. Right Mind Set
3. Right company at the right time in history



Dale Calvert got so frustrated with where network marketing was headed that he quit and started his own company doing consulting and training. That was about 11 years ago. He came out of network marketing retirement last October when he saw the mission and passion of MPB Today  He came into MPB Today just like you and I. He started at the bottom without contacting the owner. He is now our national trainer.

If you don't have the right three legs to stand then stop what you are doing. Go back and start with number one.  I guarantee you that if you will do this you will be able to accomplish anything you so desire.

We all learned to walk by doing. It took us a while to accomplish this before we were sure of not falling. We all learned how to run and that took working at it. Developing the right skills and mind sets takes time so don't expect to accomplish this in an instant. And, please, don't think that you already have number 1 and 2. It is an ongoing process that we have to master each day.

If you want to be coached and trained by one of the best then join us. We would be happy to have you working with us.

"You Don't Gotta Be Someone Else "!

I received an email from Dale Calvert yesterday talking about all of the ads out there for so-called 'increase your traffic software'. I have seen all of the ones he mentioned. Also in his email he reminded me of a long time internet marketer, Marlon Sanders. Marlon is famous for his Marketing Dashboard software which is just one of his many endeavors. This software has been around for several years.

If you don't know of Marlon Sanders you need to get to know him. He is an expert at copy-writing. If you haven't struggled with learning how to write good copy to improve your sales then you are missing a major portion of what you should know. Good copy makes for more sales.

Anyhow, today, I got an email from Marlon with this video on the page that he had me go to. I thought I would share it with everyone because it speaks mountains to everyone of you trying to make it in this thing called 'home business. It doesn't matter whether you are in network marketing or affiliate marketing this video shows us what a long time marketer has to say about internet marketing. And, no it isn't what you may be thinking.



Just remember this: you are special. You are the only person on the face of the earth like you. You have much to offer to the world and to your little space of it.

Elaine

Be Sure Before You Quit

Is It Time For You To Move On?

Here is some of the best advice that I have seen concerning quitting MLM, direct marketing, network marketing; which ever name you want to call it.




I have to agree with Eric: never quit this industry, just change companies, if you must.

Do You Have Pet Peeves?

Oh! my, do I have some pet peeves when it comes to network marketers!!!!!!

The reason I decided to add this post is because of a phone call that I received last week from a friend of mine. Yes, I said friend. He called me to tell me that he had joined this company and would like for me to come to a meeting at his house. Of course I asked him what company and what does the company offer as far as services. I got no answer to my questions.

Red Flag!! Red Flag!! Irritation setting in...

I kept my cool and told him I would be at the meeting. I just wanted to support him - not join some company and I told him this.

Here are just some of my pet peeves when it comes to us network marketers:

1. Not telling the name of your company - good grief, are you that ashamed of it?

2. Not giving out at least a little information about your company - well, maybe you don't know either.

3. Calling me by using my contact information on my sites to plug your company - hello, are you that desperate and just want to waste you money?

4. Using my contact email to solicit me into you business - all this is going to do is get your email deleted just as fast as I can hit the delete button.

5. Free is not free if I have to give you my name and email address - your definition of free is certainly different from mine.

6. Calling yourself a Network Marketing Guru when all you are doing is copying from someone else - dead give-away that you know nothing. Do you think we are that stupid and have not been around far longer than you?

7. Commenting on forums or blogs with nothing more than words about yourself or your business - for sure will be deleted. Sometimes it is just better to keep your fingers off of your keyboard.

I am sure that I have more but will it at this.

Do you have pet peeves? Let me hear them by leaving me a comment. (I do monitor all comments before they are posted. He! He!

Have a great day and remember if these are some of my pet peeves I can promise you that am not alone.

 

Are You Making This Plunder?

Entice! Give a little information. Move on... Recruiting is not difficult unless you make it so.

I just finished watching a new video by Dale Calvert and I have to say that it brought smiles and a little laughter to me. Watch the video and then I will explain.


Now that you have watched the video I will tell you why it was funny to me: I use to do this all the time when trying to recruit people into my business. The whole truth and nothing but the truth according to how I saw it. This is not the way to do it.

First off, I have learned with frustration to not approach my family and friends. Give it time. When those close to you see how well you are doing, they will approach you.

Second, if someone ask me what I do I give then a short version: I have a home base business. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!

If they want to know more I give them a website to go look at for them self and if after looking and studying the site they want to know more, well, then fine, I will answer any questions that I can.

Remember this, your business website can tell a much better, clearer story than you can. When trying to explain your business you become so excited, so pumped up and start rambling on and on. You are to close to your business to be able to be objective when explaining it.

This approach just may save you some heartache and pain. Why not try it?