“Tom” wrote Mike Dillard on his “Ask Mike” series. Tom is frustrated and tired of the crap and hype that his upline has given him.
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Tom is very frustrated and doesn’t know what to do next. I know that this is common in the industry. I’ve been there too. You are invited to a meeting, you see someone up on stage telling you their story. You fall in love with the dream and picture yourself up there too. You do everything that your upline tells you and yet no results.
During the episode Mike Dillard makes a profound statement: “[that network marketing is] an industry of marketing and promotion pursued by people who don’t know how to market and promote.” My question is how can we change that? The simplest answer is to teach people how to market properly. There are many different ways to market, with marketing on the internet being only one way. The biggest reason why attraction marketing is not taught is that it isn’t duplicable and mlm companies want to have a system that is duplicable. Yet, if most people in the industry are failing, why would you want to follow them?
Mike Dillard during his reply to “Tom” advises him to be responsible for his actions. Yes you need to take responsibility for your actions because it is your business. No one will build your business for you. It is unfortunate that some uplines tell their downline dumbed down marketing techniques and don’t tell you the whole story. For example, that they spent the first 7 years in the industry, struggling and broke while building their network. Then, with a big network, the opportunity comes to start with a new mlm company, they get in touch with their network and voila, the one who struggled so much for seven years is suddenly an overnight success.
One thing that is my pet peeve, is all the hype. Join our company, you’ll make x thousands of dollars overnight. They just want to get the “sign up.” For those who have a lottery mentality by joining the mlm industry, it’s not going to happen and then they quit and become frustrated and join company after company, hoping that one day, they will come across a company that will be a “magic pill.” and solve all of their financial problems. It doesn’t work that way. MLM is a business model that a company uses to market their products. They need individual sales reps to go out and teach others how to market and buy the products. The size of your network is your net worth is so true to those in network marketing. Because you build a network of people to market your products or services to. With Magnetic sponsoring, when you buy the ebook, there are some bonus material included with it. One of the bonuses that I really like is a list of interview questions to ask a potential lead who is interested in building the business. That’s why you need to qualify your leads and ask them questions to find out where they stand. such as why they want to start a home-based business, do they have previous experience in the industry, what are their expectations? If you find out a person’s motivations, then you can truly help them.
To Your Success
Joanne Brownlee