Network Marketing Success — Don’t Forget to Smell the Roses
Network marketing can be addicting. The thrill of competition and learning new skills, the high one gets after successfully completing a sale, or reaching that income or recruitment goal you set at the beginning of the month.
It can all be very addicting.
A word of warning here, folks…
Don’t forget to take time out for the really important things in your life.
I’m talking about your wife, your kids, your girlfriend, your parents, other family members, and of course, your friends.
It is very easy to go overboard with your new found success in network marketing. Or even if you’ve not had success but can sense it inching closer.
But remember that any success you have in your life, whether it be in network marketing or anything else, will mean NOTHING without people in your life to share it with.
NOTHING.
On Friday, my wife Rosemary and I are jetting off to the Bahamas for 5 days.
Many in the network marketing community would say I’m crazy. After all, January is a killer month for marketers, especially with the job loss rate climbing and prices soaring. People need some strategies to get through this, right? And what we have to offer in network marketing is perfect for many of these people.
I know this.
I don’t care.
I’m going to the Bahamas on Friday for 5 days.
What many of you don’t know is that, at this time last year, Rosemary had just been diagnosed with breast cancer, and was later found to test positive for the breast cancer gene (making it much more likely for her to get breast cancer again and again).
Four surgeries and countless doctor visits later, Rosemary today can proudly say she is cancer free. But I will never forget that initial feeling on December 26, 2007 when the doctor spoke the 3 words that change your world forever….
“You have cancer”.
So what did Rosemary and I do (besides pray and seek out the best doctors we could find)?
We got married. It was the second marriage for both of us, and prior to this we were just taking a kind of “wait and see’ attitude about marriage. But we considered her diagnosis a wakeup call.
Someone upstairs telling us that ‘life is precious and what the hell are you waiting for‘?
So we got married, but with the cancer treatments and surgeries that Rosemary was undergoing at the time, we had no time for a honeymoon. We made a promise to each other that, when all this was over, we would take our long awaited vacation away from everything, just she and I.
So Friday we leave for the Bahamas, and for all the people out there who are looking for a way out of this economic mess, for all the poor souls who lost their job and need another way out, I’m sorry.
You’ll have to wait until we return.
For the next 5 days, it’s just Rosie and I and nothing else.
The successes will still be there when we return. So will the failures.
It doesn’t matter.
What REALLY matters is that we have each other.
Remember, everyone…. take the time to smell the roses in YOUR life.
I’ll post some pictures upon our return. Peace everyone.
To your profound happiness,
Two Essential Skills You Must Master To Be A Successful Network Marketer
I’ll never forget when I joined my first MLM company quite a few years back.
I was told that I only needed 2 things to be successful:
- Have a big enough “WHY”
- Just tell my story
Well, I had a very big “WHY”, knew exactly why I wanted to be a network marketing success. I didn’t have much of a story to tell, since I was just getting started, but I did my best…. and I floundered… BIG TIME.
Fast forward 5 years and the scenario is much different.
I’ve accumulated enough knowledge and experience to understand that there are 2 things you need to know to be a successful network marketer... but they weren’t what I first thought.
But I soon realized that, if you can master these 2 skills, you will be well on your way to network marketing success. They may not be what most people think. But here they are……
- Copywriting. If you can write your own ad copy and website story effectively, you are the expert that everyone wants to talk to. Now, I don’t profess to being an ad copy expert, but it is one of the areas that I am actively studying and receiving training.
And until I am that copywriting expert, I am lucky enough to be involved with an automated marketing system that provides professionally written websites, autoresponders, and ad copy.
Even so, it is a skill that I want to master so that I can be successful with any sales venture in the future.
- Effective Communication. We spend so much time figuring out how to get prospects — learning how to market, how to get our message out, figuring out the right message, planning a great website to which to send our prospects once they opt in to our system. What we forget sometimes is learning how TALK and COMMUNICATE with our prospects once we have them.
There are a ton of books, CDs, and DVDs on various aspects of Effective Communication.
I want to share with you today one that has changed the way I deal with prospects and, indeed with people throughout my life.
Jerry Clark, creator of Club Rhino, is a master communicator who lectures and teaches throughout the world in the field of effective communicaton. I was driving quite a lot lately and, as we always do, Rosemary and I popped in some CDs to turn our car in to a travelling university.
We had just purchased a CD series by Jerry Clark, The Magic of Colors that just struck a cord with us. Presented in an easy-to-understand and entertaining manner, Jerry described the 4 personality types that are found within all of us.
The fun-loving, energetic BLUES, the relationship-driven and empathetic YELLOWS, the fact conscious, introverted GREENS, and the hard driving REDS, with a CD devoted to each.
This information is not new. In fact, it’s decades old and has been described by various scientists since the 1930s.
But what is DIFFERENT about The Magic of Colors is that, for the first time, Jerry Clark has presented this material totally related to NETWORK MARKETERS.
In other words, how to access your prospect, how to play to his/her needs and wants based on the personality type, and how to get them what they need to make a decision about joining your team.
And about YOUR TEAM. This CD series allows you to access the strengths and weaknesses of your team members and how to get them to interact in a productive manner.
Pick up a copy of The Magic of Colors today. It will be a great addition to your business library and give you a whole new understanding and a different approach to communicating with your prospects and team members.
To your success!
Dr. Bob Clarke
November 16, 2008, Cresskill, NJLIVE COMMENTS
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