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11/21/2006
Network Marketing Training | Are Relatives Good Business Partners?
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
- Greek Proverb
Wow! Is that what you typically hear from your upline and company? Not many people do when they enter into the Network Marketing arena.
Usually newbies and others are told, friends and family are their best source for obtaining new business partners. I have not found that to be the case.
Most people I coach tell me that their friends and family either:
1. Don't have the desire to change what they are doing in life
2. Don't believe they, meaning the person in Network Marketing, can do it and want to see them successful first
3. Or, they don't know enough people to approach about the business
I'm also asked why some people in MLM can be so successful while they are struggling.
Have you learned your Colors?
The majority of those who are "successful" in Network Marketing are the Red Personality types. They are the centers of influence in the community. They typically have a following of people who look up to them and will follow their every move.
The Reds, have no problem telling people what to do or how to do it and how much money they should spend while doing it. If you are around a red, you'll hear them say things and think to yourself, "I could never do that!"
A Network Marketing Red Test
For example, I have a friend, very red, not in Network Marketing, who actually told another friend who couldn't afford to have extra photo prints made, to charge her family for extra picture prints of photos of her kids!
Both myself and my friend were astonished, we aren't reds, but my Red friend saw nothing wrong with it! Could you do that?
My point is, red personalities can do the things we are taught to do in Network Maketing, i.e., talk to friends and family, make 100 names list, get 100 no's, talk to everyone within 3 feet. Most of all, they can be successful at it.
But those of us who are not red....85%......can't do it for very long. It doesn't feel right, and there's nothing wrong with that. We are meant to be who we are, not someone else.
The first rule of success is Don't Change Who You Are. Anyone who is successful will tell you that.
Find or develop a system that will work for you as you, not as someone tells you you have to become in order for success! Make sense?
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Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com
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