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05/19/2006
Network Marketing Training | Are You Getting Any?
By Network Marketing training I mean something solid, not some rah, rah, we’ve got the best company so just keep talking to people. I’m talking about good meat and potatoes stuff, something you can actually use.
Are you a salesperson?
The vast majority of people who get into network marketing are not salespeople, nor do they wish to become one! Yet the “training” that people get from their upline and companies goes something like this. Now that you’ve joined, get your entire family and all of your friends to join you! Just go out there and talk to everyone within 3 feet of you! Get out of your comfort zone! Get 100 no’s! Call 100 leads a day! And on and on and on, they try to turn you into a salesperson! I’m here to tell you it doesn’t work.
Here’s the funny thing, in my “previous life”, before becoming a stay at home Mom, I was in corporate sales! I sold everything from garbage services to advertising…and I was good! If I wasn’t the #1 rep in a certain month, I was always in the top 3. So when I got into Network Marketing I thought, no problem, piece of cake. Heck I used to cold call on businesses, this will be easy. Well, guess what, it was hard. I did everything my upline told me to do and I still didn’t have success, then, when I asked what else I could do, I was told “Just keep talking to people and don’t quit.” What kind of training is that?
Do you have a simple, duplicatable system?
Well, that system wasn’t duplicatable and it certainly wasn’t simple. I mean, I don’t have a problem with rejection, being in sales I was used to it. But what about the secretary, plumber, teacher, mechanic, retiree, how long do you think they’ll last getting stomped on day in and day out? You need a system that’s rejection free, something that can be followed by anybody, from the corporate CEO to the street cleaner (no offense to the street cleaners out there, I know how you guys feel about those CEO’s!). You also need a training system in place to teach people about people. Network Marketing is a teaching and mentoring business and in order to be successful at that, you must understand people and what makes them “tick”. In many Network Marketing companies their training consists of telling people it’s a numbers game. Well, have you ever been treated like a number? Did you like it? How did it make you feel? Is that the way you want people to feel about you? It’s not a numbers game, it’s about people and people are not numbers.
Most companies don’t have any training in place that is worth anything. Typically it consists of a lot of motivation and “you can do it kind of stuff”, know what, that’s OK. The company’s job really isn’t to train the distributors in the field, their job is to manufacture and ship the products, and then send us our checks. That’s why it’s so important to find an upline or team that has a system in place already. A system that you can plug into, get some good meat and potatoes training, has great support and makes you feel part of a team instead of on an island out there all alone. When you find a network marketing team with good, solid training in place, then it will be magic!
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To your Success
Suzanne
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