DON'T DO THESE THINGS TO YOURSELF IN YOUR NETWORKING BUSINESS
One of the reasons why people are frustrated in their network marketing business is because they expect their network marketing business to solve all their financial problems right outside the gate.
In an attempt to make this happen fast, they pressure their downlines to work harder, quarrel with family and friends who won't join them in their business, destroy most of their healthy relationships and act emotional in any opportunity to recruit a prospect.
One of the lessons have learned from this industry that will help you attract so many people into your team is detachment from anyone joining you. You need people to join you but you don't need a particular person.
During my early days in this profession, I was emotionally attached to people joining my team, I was equally focused on the referral bonuses and other incentives you can say I was needy.
If your aim is to attract prospects into your team, you must understand that those attitudes repel them.
A needy networker can never be attractive to a prospect. The sad truth is that you may not even know that your attitude is repelling your prospects.
If someone had told me that my emotional attachment was repelling prospects from me I wouldn't had believed.
Although, I know that there were other factors that caused me not to succeed during those early years but my emotional attachment was one of the factors on top of my scale.
While emotional attachment is bad there's something else that I want you to avoid while building your network marketing business.
Don't burden all your financial problems on your network marketing business when you are just starting.
Network marketing is a business, every business takes time to grow. If you are looking for an immediate money, I suggest you take a job and do network business part-time.
One mistake that many networkers make is expecting too much from their business right out the gate. They expect to start earning much money before they even build a team.
OTHER MISTAKES TO AVOID IN YOUR NETWORK MARKETING BUSINESS
#1) BE WILLING TO USE MONEY FROM OTHER SOURCES TO GROW YOUR NETWORK MARKETING BUSINESS : when you start a traditional business, it's obvious that you will look for money from other sources to grow that business until that business is able to generate it's own profits. This is no different from the network marketing business.
You must understand that your registration fee isn't the only money you need to grow and maintain your business other monies are needed.
When I was new to network marketing, I didn't know that I'll still invest money to grow my business this was because I wasn't cleared on how my investment will affect the business.
Let me explain better because if you are new to network marketing, you may equally have some challenges in understanding how to invest in your network marketing business.
A) YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: This is one of the ways to invest in your network marketing business. If you have been in this industry for a while, you know that inorder for your business to grow, you have to grow and you grow by developing yourself.
This is done by buying and reading books, audio/video trainings, paying to attend physical trainings e.t.c.
Truthfully, during my early days I didn't know that these were part of what I needed to do. I didn't know that I needed to invest these money to grow my business and because of that, I struggled in the business.
One of the ways of investing in your business is in your personal development and you use money from other sources to do this most especially when you are just starting.
B) SETTING UP YOUR SEMINAR CENTER: If you are building your network marketing business online you may not need a physical seminar center, you may only need an online platform to promote your business but if you are building your business offline, you need to have a seminar center. Ranging from your sitting room to a more classic center. This is another way you invest in your network marketing business.
C) PURCHASING COMPANY'S MATERIALS AND OTHER RELEVANT THINGS FOR YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH : To some networkers, these understanding may be gotten by default but in my case it wasn't.
I was expecting the company to share flyers for free to all her Partners, I was expecting the management to transport all her members to any event venue they conducted. I had all these things in mind because I wasn't seeing the business like my business.
There are different materials that you will have to buy to grow your network marketing business some include: purchase of company's Marketing and training materials, transportation to your seminar centers and Company's event, conventions and get together. Purchase of phone, laptops and creating your website if you are building your business Online. Purchase of data e.t.c
All you have to understand is that you will need to invest money from other sources to grow your network marketing business after your Registration.
#2) DON'T BE SHORT SIGHTED: I equally failed in this area. I started my network marketing adventure with an instant gratification mindset. I will say I was short sighted.
One thing I know about professionals in any profession is that they see beyond the average person in their professions. They understand that preparing for the future is the only way to secure it.
They don't only plan for today and tomorrow, they equally plan for the future.
If you want to dominate the network marketing profession, don't just look for instant gratification start thinking about the future gratification because that is were the big fortune lies.
Often times people usually come to me to teach them the strategies I normally use to get unlimited prospects online. When I begin to explain it to them, they develop cool feet and walk away.
They always think that it's an immediate strategy no, anything of value takes time.
You can only dominate the future by preparing now and network Marketing professionals understand this fact so well that is why they are not always short sighted, they can sacrifice instant rewards for a future purpose.
Let me use my story to some up this point. During my early days in this field, my initial days that I started building my network marketing business online one of the things I read on how to get unlimited prospects Online was to start a network marketing blog.
Since I was short sighted at first, I wanted to recruit prospects as soon as possible by chatting up prospects directly (instant gratification) so I ignored the blogging idea. After a year I decided to start blogging , while still doing my direct method of chatting prospects. After few months of blogging i started generating leads from my blog. Currently 99.8 percent of my leads come from this blog.
The lesson here is that if I was only short sighted by only focusing on chatting up prospects to join my business, I wouldn't have been attracting good numbers of prospects to myself now. In this case, Chatting up a prospect is for instant gratification but blogging is for future domination.
There are other scenarios regarding this point once you get this point, you won't be short sighted in your network marketing Adventure.
#3) STAY PLUG IN: According to Jim Rohn he said "get around successful people and watch." Association is for sure a great influencer regarding your success in this industry.
Plug into your upline's trainings, check other successful people in your company and follow them, introduce yourself to them and be Intentional about being close to them .
Always locate where you can get first hand information about your business and be there.
You can only build your business based on the information you have about your company and recent happenings so always stay plugged in.
#4) DON'T CONFUSE BUSY WORK WITH PRODUCTIVE WORK.
In network marketing business the productive work include: prospecting, invitation, presentation, closing and team building. Everything else is known as busy work.
Thinking about a prospect, reading your company's materials, writing out prospects to contact, writing your to-do list e.t.c all these things are busy work.
Your duty is to assign more time to Productive work and limited time to the busy work.
#5) USING HYPE, HIGH PRESSURE AND DECEPTION:
If you are presenting your business in this way you've got to stop because not only are you giving our industry a bad name, you are equally stealing from yourself your integrity, good name, reputation and good relationship.
You are presenting your business that way because of the beliefs you have about yourself.
If you keep up with those beliefs, it will result to hardening of the attitude which show up in your physical experiences, events and circumstances.
So guys, these are few things you shouldn't do to yourself in the Network Marketing profession.
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TRAINING 2
BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT BUILDING QUALITY RELATIONSHIPS WHILE BUILDING YOUR NETWORKING BUSINESS.
It's very easy to let it slide, it's easy to just focus on making the money while ignoring this integral aspect of life.
This post is to call your attention to using one stone to kill two birds.
Many networkers only have business partners as friends but they don't have a closer relationship with those partners outside business.
It's not wrong to say let all business partners stop at the business circle. But here's the truth if you are not Intentional about building a more closer relationship with your team members or business partners, all your affairs with them will be transactional and this usually not always fun because there are different things you may intend to do in your life that may not be transactional.
Your transactional partners will only be available when you have transactional projects .
This post is to raise your awareness to understand that you can build relationships with your business partners that is quite above transactional level.
You can make people to be your genuine friends even though they are your business partners and this can only be done Intentionally.
During my early days in network marketing profession it wasn't really easy to build a genuine relationship with my business partners because I was so focused on the money.
My idea was to only interact with those that were productive and the interaction was strictly on business level. Sometimes, I wouldn't even know who has been off in my team for a while.
Please I want you to understand that am not saying that this is the wrong way to build your business, if your aim is to make money in your network marketing business this may work for you but if your aim is to accomplish what this post is about then I suggest you become more Intentional about building close relationship while building your business.
Here are some ways to go about that
#1) BE NICE TO PEOPLE: One of the ways you can build close and genuine relationship while building your business is to be nice to people. As humans we have a good and dark side. Your aim is to always make people feel comfortable while working with you, inspire them and make them understand how much you want them to succeed.
#2) LOOK OUT FOR QUALITY PARTNERS: Don't allow any quality partner pass you by. Once you notice a quality person whether in your team or not be Intentional about introducing yourself to the person and work on making him or her your friend. There's a saying that goes " the friends you keep and the books you read now will determine your success level in the nearest future.
Often times we miss an opportunity of making a unique person our friend because we are only business conscious but not business and relationship conscious.
In reality our brain is always filtering things that are not in line with our goals. If your goal is to build great relationships with unique individuals while building your network marketing business, you will always be conscious of such opportunities.
#3) STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR BUSINESS PARTNERS/ TEAM MEMBERS: Communication is another concept of building a genuine relationship while building your network marketing business. One of the things you can always discuss with the person is about the person's interest.
Discover what that person love and ask him/she about it anytime you reach out to him or her.
There's nothing as rewarding in building a genuine relationship like communication.
#4) BE COMMITTED: There's nothing as seductive when building a genuine relationship as being committed.
Do what you said you would do. Your business partner trust you for that and you will be in their minds always.
#5) SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE : It's of no doubt that no one is a bank of knowledge that is why knowledge sharing is important. for example; If you have discovered that your network marketing strength is offline and your partner's networking strength is online. You can decide to share your offline networking ideas with the person while the person does same with you. This doesn't only improve your business ideas but it equally builds a stronger relationship.
I believe you got value from today's training. Do you have any question or contribution? If yes kindly leave a comment below I'll like to hear from you.
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