What Makes the Biz Work
If everything in network marketing were based on logic, it would be quite easy to build the business. You’d just hand out DVDs, CDs, or brochures, and people would study the information and join.
Because realistically, how could anyone argue with what we have? You’d have to be crazy to think there is a better way. But it doesn’t work out that way, does it?
So what causes the business to work?
I think it is you, getting down in the group, working with your team. Driving to presentations in a new house, getting on a plane working with long-distance lines, counseling with leaders in depth.
That is where people get emotional and connected, because they see your commitment to their success. And that’s what keeps them in until they breakthrough.
So how you doing on that?
-RG
Randy, What makes our business work is finding and developing leaders and you can’t do that without digging down, getting into your team and connecting. You can’t just go through the motions, you have to know why you’re doing what you’re doing.
–TD
and know why ‘they’ are doing what they’re are doing.
I’m learning from you guys, it’s about the relationships. Too many people are are looking for the “lazy man way”. That doesn’t work in anything else. Why would it work in networkmarketing?
DK
Hi Randy,
What about the idea that a successful NM business is made up of a large group of people doing a few simple things, consistantly, over time? I think Leaders will find you in that scenario, and then your efforts can be concentrated on helping them with their growth. After all, you can’t push a rope!
MJ
I have tried it both ways. Driving depth & developing leaders has always worked better than sitting back & letting people figure it out on their own. The only challenge I seem to run into is when you keep going back & working with people that don’t seem to appreciate you being there. They just come to expect you to come serve them almost like a welfare program & you show up & they haven’t worked since you were there last or they are still recruiting the low hanging fruit. So is it more than just your actions of serving that they see or is there a science in how you communicate to them that you are there for them that helps them get it & duplicate the behaviour. I have had some that really appreciate you being there & they continue to pass on the gift & those tend to be my biggest long distance lines, but it seems that maybe somewhere along their journey they learned respect & appreciation for servitude where there are
some people that just don’t get that. Do
others see this same behaviour? Do you sit down with those folks & try to help them get that or do you look for someone else that gets the respect thing?
In general when I serve others those seeds always come back & the biz continues to grow.
It’s the heart that makes it great!
Peace!
DR
This is a great topic. It’s important to work with the people who “show up’ and to show them that you are committed to their success.
I also think it’s important, from the onset, to set boundaries, too. Ask them what they expect of themselves and let them know what they can expect from you.
It’s definitely something that can be a challenge to balance because people have to also learn to fly on their own. At some point, before you find yourself in a position of being taken advantage of, you have to cut the ‘umbilical cord’, so to speak.
Eventually, people are ultimately responsible for their own success, regardless of how committed you are to helping them.
That just makes me cry…
It’s THIS part of the business that I LOVE – working deeply and juicily with people in every area of their lives to make gorgeous transformation.
There are few businesses on earth like it – that you get to work long term, deeply, and beautiful with people to uplift, inspire and lead other others to living their potential in all areas. It simply is gorgeous. I get great satisfaction from working deeply with people – and seieng them breakthrough – come to know aspects of themselves they didn’t know before, or open to why they sabotage, or see how they can turn things around. I love it!
I think the real business only works face to face, from me to you.
In times of social media sometimes it seems that we can do it just with a mouse click. But nothing happens.
Internet is just a tool to find the best people faster but then I have to get connected personally with them.
That´s the way I do it!
From the start I emphasize that this is a net-WORK-marketing business not a net-WAIT-marketing business. Work brings results, so if you go a week, a day without working the business, you are not going to receive the rewards. It also helps to find out “how much” work they want to do off the bat, hence their pace. With that information, I know how much work I will do with them as far as my end of the deal. They always have the right to increase that amount and then I am right there to match their efforts.