When I first started in network marketing, I was told something that really bothered me…
It was at a nuts n’ bolts training meeting held by a successful distributor in my upline, someone who’d made over 2 million dollars in network marketing.
She obviously knew what it took to create success in life, or so I thought.
But when I sat through the training session, I was extremely disappointed.
Basically, for an hour I sat and listened to a big spiel that was mostly “fluff.”
Worst of all, it didn’t teach us anything which remotely resembled a strategy or skill set I could use.
Instead, all I heard was…
This business, it’s not selling, it’s sharing.
You’re simply ‘sharing’ the business with people.
You don’t need to sell; you just need to share these meetings with more people.
This didn’t make sense to me, because she was basically saying that network marketing is a game of chance and didn’t require any skills.
Think about it…
As an engineer, I knew that people in my profession certainly didn’t become successful by luck.
No matter what profession you’re in, I’m sure you’ll agree that…
People Become Successful by Learning Skills and Getting Good at Them!
Luck has very little to do with it.
Even though I didn’t know much about network marketing back then, I knew her path couldn’t have been easy…and her success definitely wasn’t random.
After that presentation, I craved for somebody to show me a specific process that would help me build my business in a way that made sense.
I wanted the network marketing success this lady had and I wanted to know step-by-step, how she did it.
My frustration with the lack of answers, is what led me to eventually go online and find network marketing mentors who used the Internet to build large teams, using a set of strategies, which they called “attraction marketing.”
Along with giving me strategies, attraction marketing solved the #1 problem in my network marketing business—a lack of fresh and new prospects for my business.
And I was able to find them, in a predictable way, without bugging friends and family OR cold prospecting strangers on the streets.
But more importantly, from my mentors, I learned that success in network marketing (or any business) isn’t about luck, or chance, or any roll of the dice.
It’s strategic, skill based and can be done in a predictable way—i.e. it’s about doing the right things in the right sequence, to achieve a specific result.
Now, what I want to share with you in this article are…
5 Proven Strategic Steps I Used to Guarantee My Success…
…and can help you guarantee yours!
Essentially, these 5 things, when done in the right order, can literally create “push button” money — which offers you the ability to recruit with a few strokes of the keyboard on your computer.
Now, I know that sounds a bit “hypey,” but let me prove what I’m saying to you…
Just like any profession, in network marketing you need to learn specific skills. And you need to treat what you are learning with the exact same seriousness that a doctor or engineer treats the skills of their trade.
Listen to the five steps right here…
Step 1: Find or Develop a Strategy
A strategy is essentially a series of specific steps that enable you to achieve a specific goal.
I say specific in the sense that you can draw the steps on a piece of paper or a whiteboard and map out how you’re going to achieve your goal.
Now, if you’re not being taught any semblance of a short or long-term strategy by your upline or company, you need to run away and go somewhere else!
Seriously, I’m not kidding!
Because you have 2 choices: you can either:
- Develop the strategy yourself, which is going to take a lot of money, time & trial and error, or
- You can find people who have already figured out exactly how to be successful in network marketing and model their strategy.
Now, personally, I don’t think there’s any reason to reinvent the wheel.
I’d much rather follow a proven process from an already-successful networker who’s already making money and achieving what I want to achieve.
In summary: find a mentor or company that gives you a concrete strategy for recruiting your first person, making your first sale, and eventually reaching your long-term goals.
If somebody hasn’t provided that, for you in whatever team or organization you’re in, they either don’t have a strategy or don’t want you to succeed—so run!
Step 2: The Strategy MUST Be Simple & Repeatable
This step is the key to duplication in network marketing…
You want to teach your strategy to your downline so they can go out, succeed, and make you some money in the process and the process should be simple, but not necessarily easy.
Now, recall that the doctor I mentioned before told us, “it’s not selling, it’s sharing.”
Even though I was new, I thought it sounded simplistic, moronic, and inauthentic.
After all, I was “sold” (influenced) into signing up for business, so why was she telling us that we didn’t need to learn to do the same
Looking back, I know why.
- Issue 1: She assumed we were dumb, or weak, so she made the process of building the business sound easy, because she didn’t want to scare us away by telling us the truth. (i.e. that we had to learn some tangible skills.)
- Issue 2: She was not doing what she preached. She approached this business in one way (skill based), while telling us to do something entirely different. This meant we couldn’t duplicate, even if we wanted to, because catering to weakness doesn’t duplicate.
As a leader myself today, I use every single process and tactic I teach to my students and organization.
I give my downline the exact same tools I use, and I’m constantly testing, refining, and improving my methods. And if anything changes, I let them know.
That’s my responsibility as a leader.
Besides, developing strategies isn’t the team’s responsibility; it’s the leader’s.
I’m not saying that a strategy or tactic has to be a “touchdown” the first time it’s used. It just has to deliver results that can be quantified, assessed and be improved over time.
It is very likely that your first time implementing a strategy won’t go well and you have to be ok with that, as long as you are committed to improving and learning.
Tim Sales, teaches with the assumption that if you are willing to actually do the work, learn skills and are strong enough to persevere, you will succeed.
Professional Inviter and Professional Presenter continue to be two of the best OFFLINE network marketing courses I’ve ever heard of.
In fact, I’d recommend these courses even if you’re building online.
Here at Elite Marketing Pro, we’ve solved the biggest problem in network marketing, which is finding prospects to talk to, who are actually interested in talking to you about network marketing. But you still need to have effective conversations to bring your prospects into your business.
In summary: The business building strategy must be repeatable & quantifiable so, anyone may perform them, assess results and improve over time.
Do. Get Result. Correct. Repeat…
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