We Are Related To Everything!
Mitakuye Oyasin is a phrase I learned many years ago while working with some Lakota Sioux Shamans in the Catskills north of New York. Literally it means “all my relations”. The Lakota believe that we are related to everything on earth, and that respect for all things is the way to peace and prosperity.
What Does This Mean For Marketers?
As Marketers, we are traditionally told that our opportunity and products are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Our mission is to tell everything that gets within 3 feet of us about it, and learn to be rejection free! Now, this works for the sales and mentally unhinged types who are immune to rejection, but for the rest of us, we are humans and have feelings! Let’s face it, most of us don’t like rejection and tend to take it personally.
Using the Lakota analogy, there is another way to look at this. This is not to assume that everyone wants to join our business, or buy our products. Instead, we build relationships with people we like. Our influence with those people is a consequence of how much our contribution enhances their quality of life in many ways. We respect everyone and their opinions, even if we do not agree with them. If politicians didn’t do this, we would be in a perpetual state of civil war.
In the modern world, there are so many ways to find new friends, so this is not an issue. It is what you do with those friends that will make or break your Network Marketing business!
Charles Chips
Where To Fish
OK, I am not a fisherman. When I was 7 or 8 my dad used to take me fishing for leather jackets in Sydney Harbour. If your dad did that now, first you probably wouldn’t catch any fish, and second you would think he was trying to kill you, such is the level of pollution! Fact is, if you fish in a toxin laden pool, where nothing can survive, I can guarantee you won’t catch a fish!
Now you could go looking for trout in the sea, but you probably won’t find any there, better go to a stream or lake for that. On the other hand, you won’t catch a marlin in your local creek! Big game fish just don’t go there.
I think you get the point. Where you look for your new business partners and customers is important to your success. You want to build relationships with the right people, not the wrong ones.
Building Relationships With Network Marketers
First we need to think about where these people hang out. Yes, they are on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like. They belong to tribes like the TSA, through which I have made several new friends. These people also scour the blogs, bulletin boards and use google and other search engines to find information. They are interested in making the world a better place and personal development. They either have, or want to, get out of the rat race. Does this sound familiar? If you are a Network Marketer, you probably fit at least one of these profiles, if not all. So, finding the pond is pretty easy.
What Do Network Marketers Want?
Yes, they want to find more people to join their team and they want to know how to build their organisation faster. That’s why pitching your business up front will not only probably not work, but may alienate a future leader in your organisation. Once you understand what they want, what you can do is to find things that will help them get what they want faster. “All my relations” means offering them help to get what they want, not what you want!
Now I know about disappointment. I have lost count of the number of people I have spent countless hours with training them, showing them how to create success, only to have them not step up. Mind you the ones that have are making a nice income these days! Not everyone is prepared to pay the price of success. Your best option is to find programs and ideas that can accelerate their success and show them how to use them.
The Pay Off
OK, you introduce them to a method to speed up growth of their business. What next? Well you keep them informed of how your gig is growing. Set yourself up as the expert, the person who knows how to build faster, and get better results. Then let it all go. Keep doing this consistently and then wait. You now have a fish on the hook. It it’s a Marlin, it will be harder to reel in, and you need to let the line slacken from time to time. What you are waiting for is for them to be discouraged with their current venture. If and when that happens, you are there to catch them! Bingo. Do this with enough people, and someone will always be ready to jump in and join you.
Establishing Yourself As An Expert
This is where I come in. What if you could introduce them to a training system that teaches them step by step how to create an on line presence and use it to market their MLM products? What if once they set this up, it provides a constant stream of customers week after week, month after month, year after year on autopilot? What if this was all available for less than $1 a day? Think about how much money they would save chasing rainbows and useless get rich quick internet schemes! Do you think they would like you more – or less?
All you have to do is to take the training system I provide, the MLM Profit Booster, which shows step by step how to attract and retain a constant stream of customers, and how to pluck business partners from that group, and mentor them through the exercises, keeping them accountable. Do you think you could do this? I mean what you have to do is ask, “do you think you can complete this part of the exercise by Friday”? They say, “yes”, and on Friday you check in with them. If they haven’t done it, you explore whether they really want success or not. If they have you congratulate them and move them to the next task. You are now a coach!
What Is This All about?
I invite you to become an affiliate for the system – it’s free and it pays you. You can join the affiliate program at http://mlmprofitbooster.biz right now. Very soon, there will be a range of marketing tools you can use to help your friends be more successful on the internet. While you are at the site, I would click on the “Looking For More MLM Profits” tab at the top and register. It is up to you whether you join or not, but at least you should go through the sales process. It will explain what the program is about. Once you enrol 3, let me know, and I will give you a free membership, that is your reward. Just drop me an email.
This program is very detailed, encourages you to create your own branding and presence, teaches you how to build your own custom system, and has enabled me to get huge reach with my products with minimal expenses. Yes folks, it is new and different, and over delivers on quality and value!
I hope you join us as a way to build your presence as an expert on the web. I won’t be pitching my opportunity to you, as we become friends, I simply help you build whatever business you desire!
Thanks for listening,
John
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