I have been marketing on the internet for over five years
and building my Network Marketing business. Over the years
I have met a lot of interesting folks. Some of those
interactions remind me why the Network Marketing Industry
is so problematic for so many people…the dark underbelly of
Network Marketing.
It is not unusual for Network Marketers to go to my site
and fill out the form in an attempt to cross-recruit me
into their business. These are people who seek to
capitalize upon rather than solve the problem of the known
attrition rate in the industry and never stop to ask
themselves whether it is good for their business to build
with people who can be enticed away from their current
enterprises.
I think by now I have pretty much seen it all: the brash
distributor from A.C.N Canada who had his brother hit
sites. Follow up and you get Mr. Brash who's pitch went
something like. "you gotta %^&*($#join me. I am at the top
of the compensation plan. Money talks &$%# walks!" The
couple, with the Travel Biz who would like for you to join
them because they are at the top of their compensation
plan. The wife fills out the forms online, the husband
answers the phone. Then there is the couple with 700
people in their downline. They are not making money
because no-one is buying, using or selling the product.
People are people. There is even a distributor or two at
the top of my company who will go to crossline distributors
and offer to train them personally…the catch, of course, is
that they quit their business and join their downline.
Ah, well, such is life.
Something happened recently, though, that inspired me to
write this article. Last night I responded to a gentleman
from Michigan who went to my site. He told me that he had
already found an opportunity. I was following up with him
less than 48 hours after he went to my site. I thought,
"wow, kid you are getting slow." Intending to wish him
luck and let him go, I asked him which business he decided
to join. Big Ticket to Wealth was his answer. Before I
could say, "goodbye and goodluck", he said, "would an extra
$1000 to $3000 per day interest you?" I had to laugh.
Several years ago I had the priviledge of sitting next to a
couple on a plane. They were a former pilot and flight
attendant with the now-defunct Pan AM. They were at the top
of their then company, Excel. I was with my first network
marketing company. We got to talking, they did not pitch
me on their company. Instead they said, that the biggest
mistake that people make is leaving their company for a
"better opportunity". It is well known in the industry
that the longer you stay with your company the better your
odds of success. "As a policy, we don't cross-recruit."
They went on to say that most people join a company for
solid reasons. Unless the company betrays them in some way
or those reasons genuinely change, folks should stay the
course.
That encounter stuck with me. They gave me awesome advice.
Network marketing is a hard business. There are days of
disappointment and there are "championship days". There
are weeks of 4 figure checks and the surprise missed pay
day. My first company did betray me and several thousand
other distributors and I had to move on.
Hopping from company to company no matter the hype is one
sure way to lose and lose big in network marketing. I know
many people in the industry who were with 3-4 companies
over a decade. They spent more time out of the industry
than in. They learned from each opportunity and allowed
time to produce the maturity they needed before going into
a new opportunity. One of my dear friends was introduced
to network marketing over 14 years ago. She was never with
a company longer than 6 months, and found success with her
fourth company. After 2 years of failure in her fourth and
final company, she found the maturity to transform her
business and move to the top of that company.
She found the "one true thing" in Network Marketing.
I found my current opportunity and have stayed with it. I
joined my team because my team has systems of success. I
got started with my company because it has a solid
reputation, products systems and services. I had just a
little wealth and wanted more. Now I have so much more
wealth and freedom because I found the one true thing in
network marketing: success belongs to those who pick their
company well and have the personal maturity to draw that
line in sand and make their stand where they are.
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Ouida Vincent has been generating leads online for her
primary network marketing business and teaching duplicable
strategies to her team from her home for over 5 years. To
pick up her team's Light House Marketing guide to Network
Marketing on the internet, go to
http://www.passiveincomesecretsonline.com
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