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MLM Special Knowledge
“. . . Initiations often double as a long and confused moment of shared truths. Essentially, what the adults, elders, or senior members of the group share with the initiates is the knowledge they possess, and then they admit to a terrible secret, the secret of the “tribe” – that beyond the knowledge the initiates have just been given there is no special knowledge.” ~ Anna Simons, The Company They Keep
There is no special knowledge. Anywhere. Not in the US Army Special Forces which is what Anna Simons is writing about in the above quote.
Not in an ashram or a monastery. Not in a lodge or a brotherhood or a cult or a club.
Not even in a Multi-Level Marketing company is there secret knowledge other than that shared when entering the group. Though initiates want it, (see http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/bullscript) suspect it has always existed and believe they will now have it revealed upon joining, there is no secret knowledge about how to lock down that success that’s been so elusive yet so promised.
There’s only this:
To persistently work the system of a 5 Pillar company.
Want help in determining what a 5 Pillar company is? Get your free report here. It’s knowledge but never a secret.
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Playing The Time Leverage Game
Funny how each of us really has the same dream: time, money, great relationships, and a meaningful, fulfilling life. But none of us will ever achieve our dream by trading time for money in a job.
There is only one way and that is to learn to Leverage Our Time; make Time and Others work for us.
Here are the Rules as outlined in a great, short, impactful book by Bill Quain Overcoming Time Poverty: How To Achieve more By Working Less.
1. Learn To Multiply. Time for Money is linear and to increase the money you have to increase the Time. It is simple addition. Instead learn to Multiply, using the Time of Others whom you have taught and mentored and the Time of the Others whom they have found in turn. And so on and so on.
2. Increase the value of your time, don’t increase your time. When you create more without working more, you have automatically made your time more valuable.
3. Use your time to Build not Buy. Build equity that will work for you forever. Don’t spend money on things but on more income-producing assets.
4. Build a Toll Booth, not a Toil Booth. Be more interested in collecting than working. Find a massive and dynamic trend and take part in it. Even just a small part of each transaction will accumulate quickly.
5. Get a Mentor, be a Mentor. In this Time Leverage Game, build a network of winners. We all need help and it is our responsibility to pass on that help to those who earnestly seek it.
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Gandhi on Network Marketing (!)
“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. “
I don’t know if my friend and mentor Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter is a student of Gandhi or not, but this is right out of ‘Big Al’s’ Three Steps To Success: “Take the Volunteers.”
Be grateful for a clear and honest NO. Their NO releases you, allowing you to move on to further efforts. When you get excuses or reasons, don’t bother chasing them.
Avoid Stress! It’s a killer.
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Randy Gage Points Out “The Seeds of Opportunity”
About four years ago when I was in another Networking Company it was recommended that I read some sort of Personal Development material. Okay. But why in conjunction with Multi-Level Marketing I thought?
The person I was recommended to read was Randy Gage. Though I left that company shortly thereafter, I have remained a fan of Randy’s ever since.
You will easily see why. Here is his latest blog entry. “The Seeds of Opportunity”.
As Randy asks, You up for it?
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“As a concept or an experience?”
Personal Development is only one of a handful of things that got me and my networking career straightened out. There are quite a few people who started out as coaches and mentors and who are now friends that are equally worthy of mention.
A turning point of my career was when I downloaded and read Success In 10 Steps. That eBook opened a worldview of network marketing that literally had me slapping my forehead and dropping my jaw.
All that and more led me to a bit of education and training that I discovered last December while researching more personal development resources. While surfing the web I came across the phrase “not informative but transformative learning.”
I had discovered the Landmark Forum and since then an entirely new way of seeing and being has been available to me.
As a way of illustrating how the Forum works, take this very brief conversational exchange that helped me own more deeply the solution to a chronic energy drain.
The presenter was capping off a conversation to which a participant answered, “I got it.” The presenter quickly but pointedly asked, “As a concept or an experience?”
Allow me to translate. “You say you understand but how did you take what I just gave you? As some passing idea that will be bumped out of you mind’s consciousness within the next 20-30 seconds, or as an experience you are now having on several levels of consciousness, none more important than in your heart?”
Those who have been reading my posts will recall this post of mine
http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/set-your-heart-your-mind-will-follow
The ‘heart – mind’ battle is one I have been fighting for some time. If you have too you just might appreciate this exchange as much as I do:
“I got it.”
“As a concept or an experience?”
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The Aphorism Salon – On The Wrong Track?
I’m currently with the only five pillar company I’ve come across in seven years of networking. Yet it took me months to bring the first of my affiliate distributors into this great company. Why so long?
John’s aphorism explains it well. I was on the wrong track with some really bad habits, gathered over those misguided years, developed through misplaced trust and a basic misunderstanding of the industry. Every occasion and every conversation I had was wrong. I was “arriving at the wrong station” again and again. I was on the wrong track and that track was my bad prior training and habits.
What bad habits? Here’s the short list:
1. Selling - Yes, SELLING – my MLM opportunity.
Big, huge, monumental and deadly mistake. As my mentor rightly says: “This is not a sales business, but a relationship business. No one wants to be sold.”
2. Buying MLM leads.
Passed off as fresh MLM leads they were expensive and useless. The only ones who benefited were my upline who were supposed to be helping me build OUR business! Just imagine their cynicism: knowing that new affiliates on average recruit only 2.7 new distributors, they figured out a way to make money on the backs of newbies by selling useless leads. The money paid to the leads company got shared. A kick-back. Buying and selling leads is a scam. Worse, it does not lead to duplication, the backbone of any true MLM. It breeds only mistrust and a culture of cynical cannibalism.
3. Making a list of friends and family and practicing “the 3-foot rule”.
I targeted everyone I knew and then went after everyone that came near me. I took so much heat that I became gun-shy. So gun-shy that in my current company, I was reluctant at first to talk to anyone at all even though I believed and knew the value of the company and the opportunity.
I had to learn NOT to talk to just anyone but to seek out the volunteers, those who fit us, our company, our culture and our ‘family’. I learned to screen prospects the way I learned to screen prospective tenants in my 4-family house. I began looking for people I could live and prosper with.
How do you feel about that?
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The Aphorism Salon – Boring Your Prospects?
“NEVER FAIL TO KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE DOING ALL THE TALKING YOU’RE BORING SOMEBODY”
WoW! Do I love this gem from John’s window.
When I first got into Network Marketing I did not meet with any success worth considering. And I couldn’t figure out why. After all, I came with some sales experience. I knew how to talk a good game. Slowly I came to real-ize I had a load of bad habits – worse, unproductive and undermining habits that just didn’t work in MLM. One of them was talking.
Another was not listening. Enough.
We have all heard that Network Marketing is a Relationship business but how many of us have also heard that it is NOT a sales business? There is nothing to sell and everything to lose if it is approached that way, namely, as a conventional business.
You see, most of us got into this gig because we didn’t like the way conventional businesses are run or what they make us do or feel. It’s a whole new order of things here but if we bring some conventional ideas and habits along with us into Networking, well, what have we made of it?
Our conscious mind may be telling us we’re our own bosses now, finally, but are we allowing our unconscious habit-mind to undo us?
Pay ATTENTION to your actions. Cut that talking time in half and double the listening time.
This Prospecting thing is a process and you must differentiate yourself from everyone else out there shouting about their deals. So LISTEN.
You are a Leader, someone your prospect can plug into. Don’t be focused on jerking them into your deal. Tell them stuff they didn’t know but show them you have the answers, or at the very least, can get the answers for them.
But you’ll NEVER be able to find those answers if you don’t know the questions and there’s only one way to get those. By LISTENING.
How do you feel about that?
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“Life Is Tough . . . It’s Even Tougher When We’re Ignorant”
There’s this little shop in my neighborhood that has all sorts of bric-a-brac in its window, including a small whiteboard. On it the shop’s eccentric owner posts these short, quirky and yet insightful little bits of wisdom. A few days ago the board read:
Life is tough – it’s even tougher when you’re stupid.
Hit me right between the eyes. I mean, I’ve been stupid, had stupid ideas and done stupid things. And they’ve all made my life more difficult. Well, maybe stupid is not accurate and too harsh. Maybe ignorant is more like it. Anyway. . .
The list is long and it touches every part of my life but since this blog is as much about networking as it is about personal development, let’s go there. Let’s look at how being ignorant of the industry cost me – in many ways.
· I totally fell in love with the product, thinking that product quality or uniqueness was enough to insure my success. I believed all I had to do was SELL and the rest would be my million dollar dream come true.
· I paid absolutely no attention to the compensation plan. I wouldn’t ignore how I was to be paid in a conventional job, but come MLM, I totally disregarded it.
· I spent THOUSANDS on one company’s products UPFRONT. I had so much inventory from this frontloading tactic that I wound up giving or throwing the product away.
· I bought leads at the advice of my sponsoring upline, trusting that my sponsors were working with me toward my success. The people I spoke to NEVER heard of my company or had simply filled out an online survey to “get stuff”.
· I got into a reverse funneling system that offered a standard marketing and advertising back office site but charged me $300 EACH MONTH to host it. Luckily education put an end to that financial drain.
Yes, I got educated. I made my life a lot easier by educating myself and getting the mentorship I needed to succeed in this industry. I just wish I had read that Google ad sooner!
The ad I read got me a free copy of SUCCESS IN 10 STEPS by Michael Dlouhy. If you need help avoiding many of these MLM landmines and want a copy of the map through the field, please help yourself on the right sidebar.
And of course you can contact me at any time.
I mean, your MLM Networking Life is tough enough as it is. Don’t make it tougher. Get answers, get mentoring.
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Attraction = Intention + Attention
I get asked frequently why I use the word INTENTION and ATTENTION when most people who speak of this subject usually just use the word ATTRACTION.
There is a very good reason.
The Law of Attraction (LOA) is an inviolable law of the universe: Whatever thought or image a person keeps and nourishes with emotion will manifest.
Now most who hear this believe that if they really, really, really want something it will >POP< appear by magic. Sorry. To be kind, this is naive. A bit more is required.
We live in a world of duality. Up & Down. Right & Left. On & Off. Polar opposites.
There is NEVER one without the other. We can’t ever have a Right without a Left because in truth, polarities are points on a Continuum.
One of the more dynamic of these polarities is Inside & Outside. Where does your Inside stop? At the tip of your nose? And your Outside? Somewhere in Infinity? If so, where?
You desire something and you set your Heart on it. You dwell on it. Dream about it. Imagine how you’ll FEEL when it manifests. Good. Your Intent is in place. Your internal settings are good to go. But is that all? Is something else needed?
What are you ATTENDING to? What is your ATTENTION on? To what is your Mind bending? Where and on what will your actions be directed and focused?
You see the “opposite pole” of Intention is Attention. Just having the right stuff going on internally is only a start. You have to take action and you must consider a direction or target for your action. To what and where in the world Outside of You are you bending your Mind and directing your Intentional force? Wherever that is, is where your Attention lies. Or should lie if you want fulfillment of your desire.
If your Heart’s Intention and your Mind’s Attention are unbroken, in unison and focused on the same external outcome, you will ATTRACT your Desire. The energy continuum will be complete and manifestation imminent.
If not, there’s work to be done getting these poles in synch.
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Don’t Sell – SERVE
I went to a networking event last night that was advertised as a Social Media event. Little did I realize it would be the perfect Real-ization of what happens in that virtual online world.
When the presenter – a very personable man – kept trying to impress the audience of 50 with the high Google rankings his 40 websites consistently achieve, I had the feeling I get when reading invitations to friendship on Facebook. Not to disparage Facebook but to highlight how it’s being used.
You’ve seen them: “Thank you for adding me as a friend. I look forward to sharing some ideas on networking and marketing with you.” Shortly thereafter you’re hit with this: “ Here’s my deal. It’s in pre-launch and you’ll be rich by next Thursday ’cause the product is . . . blah, blah, yada, yada . . . and endorsed by . . . “
Last evening’s presenter did just that: after the warm-up and presentation of his top 40 Google hits, he offered his one-on-one services (“not cheap” he called them) to get our websites to the top five rankings in less than a week. And to host our sites as well.
But the biggest disappointment, saved for the end, was what he called “hard networking”. Dividing the group, he had the first 25 stay put while the second 25 rotated giving each of us 1 minute of face-to-face time to make our pitch. Though he didn’t call it that, of course. He called it “relationship building”. In one minute!
Please remember this: 98% of the population DOES NOT like to be sold. I learned this the hard way from my previous failures in networking. It finally registered when I had a way of putting it into context. I had believed, as most of the business population does, that SELLING is what doing business is all about.
Wrong, Wrong, WRONG!
Doing business is knowing and serving people. Don’t sell. Serve.
Beginning and end of story. What put this all into context for me was Success In 10 Steps.
