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Just a FYI that I am no longer blogging here. I have moved my blog to my website and you can visit the most recent version at mlm success blog
Just a FYI that I am no longer blogging here. I have moved my blog to my website and you can visit the most recent version at mlm success blog
Have you read the book, The Oracle's Secret. If not, you really should. This book outlines in a very clear but fun way, how to make your dreams come true. For me, it really helped me to see goal setting in a whole new light. It is also entertaining and helps you to develop a clear plan of action and then put it into place. I also really like how it talks about visualizing your success. If you feel like you need to visualize your network marketing goals better or you just need a kick in the pants then this book may be just the thing for you.
If you share a good idea long enough it will eventually fall on good people. Jim Rohn
What good idea are you sharing with people via your network marketing business? Have you shared your good idea long enough and with enough people? Many times people who are not expriencing the kind of network marketing success they want, have simply not shared their business with enough people and for a long enough period of time.
How can you share your good idea with more people?
No! How does this word make you feel? Chances are that you do not like it and you will even do anything you can to avoid it. However, in order to hear yes, you must often first hear no. How you handle with and deal with the word no can influence your success. I had the privilege a few months ago to hear the authors of the book Go for No on a conference call with my network marketing business. I also purchased the program afterward and I have to say that it has changed how I thought about the word No. Instead of avoiding the word No, you should embrace it and focus on how many no's you can get. That way you will get to yes faster. In network marketing, the reality is that you will hear no and you will hear it more often than you may like. However, by focusing on getting as many no's as possible, you will hear yes more often and this will grow your business faster.
As I was watching the Red Rocks University of Utah Gymnastics team perform at their meet against Michigan last night, I was thinking about the connections between gymnastics and network marketing. Gymnasts who compete at the collegiate and professional level practice for hours a day. They fall and get back up. They spend large amounts of time and money in order to succeed.
Are you practicing with your network marketing business every day?
Are you falling down and getting back up?
Are you spending the time and money it takes in order to succeed?
If you have been in business very long, of even if you haven't odds are good that you have at least heard about Dale Carnegie's classic novel "How to Win Friends and Influence People." I would like to invite you to think about how you can win friends and influence people in network marketing. Examine with me for a moment each one of the main principles in this book and explore how these principles relate to network marketing.
What happens when you criticize or complain about your upline, downline or other people in network marketing or even those outside of it? Does this benefit your business?
2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
This is crucial for your network marketing success. Your downline and other distributors as well as potential prospects will all appreciate this.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
In order to be successful at sponsoring someone into your business and keeping them as well as retailing your products you must become an expert at this.
4. Become gueninely interested in other people.
This will help enormously with your recruiting efforts. Show true interest in the other person and what they want and need.
5. Smile
Everyone loves and is attracted to people who smile.
6. Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.
This will explode your business like nothing else. Make sure that those you speak with, sell products to and sponsor feel like they are important.
What other connections do you see with this book and network marketing?
Michael Clouse is a top network marketing trainer and if you have never read any of his books, or listened to any of his programs you really should. He is amazing and he offers all kinds of materials. One of his free ebooks, which you can get at http://www.nexera.com is called The Fifth Principle. This short ebook offers a glimpse into the five things or principles that every network marketer must know in order to be successful. I am now using this ebook as a part of my training with each new distributor I sign up into my network marketing business. I encourage you to check it out today.
You have no doubt heard about the legend of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Many times this is used as a metaphor for wealth and success. It is also associated with the desire to obtain ones wishes and dreams in life. It is also associated with being lucky and with leprechauns. However, in real life, everyone knows that there is not really a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but it is possible to obtain your own pot of gold if you make the right decisions and do what needs to be done to have it. So how does this apply to network marketing and to anyone who has their own business? Well, in order to obtain your pot of gold you must:
1. Be consistent with your business efforts.
2. Commit to your long term success and stay with it no matter what.
3. Dream big dreams and focus on achieving them.
4. Believe that you can and you will.
Do these things and you will be successful. While you may not necessarily actually get a pot of gold, you will over time accumulate enough wealth both in money and in friends and self growth that you will have your pot of gold.