MLM Tip: Don’t blame your sponsor … yet
Big Al knows we all like to gripe about our upline, and lord knows many of them ARE worthless, but this will help you get a better idea of whose responsibility is whose.~~~
When you join network marketing, it is important to understand the responsibilities of your sponsor, and the responsibilities you have to yourself.
Your sponsor is responsible to give you things such as:
* A couple “icebreakers” to help you easily get presentations.
* A “One-Minute Presentation” so you can look professional in explaining your business.
* Some opening sentences to prospect your warm market without risking objections.
* A fool-proof sentence or two to get appointments.
If your sponsor gives you a few of the basic skills above, then what are some of your responsibilities?
* To consistently prospect to build your business.
* To invite prospects to meetings, three-way calls, two-on-one appointments, etc.
* To study and attend trainings to learn the skills to be a professional network marketer.
* To take personal responsibility for your success.
It is a two-way street. You can’t expect your sponsor to do it all for you.
Once your sponsor gives you some of the basic skills, it is up to you. You can whine and complain that you have no one to talk to, that no one will listen to you, that you don’t know what to do … but it is your business.
Your choice to abandon responsibility and to invest in self-sabotaging thoughts is your decision, not your sponsor’s decision.
You will have to take the initiative to learn and solve these problems in your business. It’s not your sponsor’s responsibility to make you successful. ~~~
If you find yourself without the Icebreakers, a 1-minute business presentation or a fool-proof sentence to get an appointment, you’re in luck.
There’s an ongoing webinar series devoted to the skills Big Al teaches. You can register for it and get all the details at http://www/MLMreadysetgo.info and please use my name, Tony Lauria, as your inviter.
And No, this is not an affiliate program.
The Difference Between Management and Leadership
Seth Godin does it again:
Managers work to get their employees to do what they did yesterday, but a little faster and a little cheaper.
Leaders, on the other hand, know where they’d like to go, but understand that they can’t get there without their tribe, without giving those they lead the tools to make something happen.
Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility.
We need both. But we have to be careful not to confuse them. And it helps to remember that leaders are scarce and thus more valuable.
Stupid OR Lazy?
Here’s the link to the latest post from Seth Godin. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/10/stupid-and-lazy.html
I highly recommend it for several reasons, the first being that I totally agree with his assessment. The second because it greatly explains, in my opinion, much of our economic woes.
Are we in this economic trouble because we ARE stupid – perhaps untrained is kinder and more accurate – OR because too many of us just don’t want ANYTHING enough to move off the couch or away from the computer?
Closer to my own situations is this: I have people in my network marketing organization that surely expressed deep desires to own their lives and thus live their dreams, but once in and thoroughly trained, nothing ever happened.
Stupid OR Lazy?
A shame on many levels, not the least of which is that self-employment is the way out of the economic doldrums, not JOBS.
Who’s Paying the Price?
In line with the current topic of what OCCUPY is all about comes this blog post from Randy Gage.
Now I admit that at first glance there does not seem to be any relationship but allow me to connect the dots.
There is a stifling sense of entitlement that seems to be permeating the globe from huge businesses and banks that expect to get bailed out even when they screw up, to the politicians who love to spend wealth they have not created, to the radical chic in Zucotti Park-like demonstrations, to network marketers who join a company, don’t want to work, but expect success/wealth.
Just what the hell is going on that so many are so allergic to work and effort? Millions upon millions of long gone immigrants to North America et al must be turning in their graves.
That leads us to Mr. Gage. I trust now you’ll be able to see the connection.
Pay the Price
By Randy Gage
October 19th, 2011
Here’s the very unsexy thing no one likes to talk about. But I’ll tell you the truth:
Success doesn’t come without sacrifice or inconvenience. There is a price for success. And in Network Marketing, that price is going to include some levels of rejection, no shows, dropouts, skepticism, doubt and fear. Perhaps even getting let down by a company or two, some government harassment or negative publicity.
That’s the truth. So what?
No other business has a higher reward ratio. Pay the price and you’ll live a life most can’t even dream of.
And remember you are overcoming to become. Which makes it all that much better…
Ain’t it great!
- RG
