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Are You Pushing a Rope?

In every network marketing business, there comes a time when you find yourself wanting success for your people more than they want it for themselves. Or, maybe you’re depending on them to come through and achieve the next status level, or enroll more people. If you’ve developed a large enough network marketing organization, I’m sure you’ve had those months when the size of your check was riding on one guy doing what he said he was going to do.

So you push him, and push him to get to the next step…

And, he bails on you. He leaves you high and dry! This is called ‘pushing a rope’. No matter how hard you try, and how much you want it, you simply cannot push a rope. If they don’t want it for themselves, you’re fighting a losing battle.

So, what do you do when you find yourself with the urge to push that same rope next month?

Get someone new! Get someone hungry! Get someone who will pull the rope in the same direction with you so everyone can advance together.

Every network marketing group has dead weight somewhere. Don’t try to drag them along kicking and screaming, but leave them where they are, and move on!

More advice on Pushing a Rope…

Leadership - Push vs. Pull?
- Indeed, you can’t very well push a rope. In conclusion, make this strong point to your group:. By “pulling” the rope, it will follow you anywhere. Try to “push” it, and the rope goes nowhere at all. The same can be said for the art of …

Why Push The Rope?
- When was the last time you tried to push a rope? Picture in your mind a rope lying on the ground – let’s make it a good sized rope, say a full inch in diameter and 100 feet long. The rope is laid out completely, from your office, …

Can you really motivate others to succeed?
- You cannot motivate others to want to succeed any more than you can push a rope uphill. Truth is, a person must first want it for themselves before they will ever become successful. If you want it more for someone else than they want it …

Learning From Network Marketing Leaders

This week is our company’s National Convention. And, this is the time for many network marketing businesses to get rejuvenated, back on track after the long summer, and in gear for a new year. Are you going to your company’s convention?

Learning from Leaders at Convention

If not, you’re missing out on a valuable event to help you learn from the leaders. The atmosphere at Convention is amazing and unlike any other event year round. Everyone, from the newly enrolled marketer to the seasoned network marketing veteran attends the Convention to share new products, company news, and unrivaled training on how to become successful in your network marketing business! …Continue Reading Learning From Network Marketing Leaders

7 Ways to Celebrate Success!

Everyone loves a pat on the back! A friendly “Good Job!” goes a long way. And, when it comes to your network marketing business, it’s important to recognize when your group or an individual in the group does well. Part of being a good leader is celebrating other people’s successes!

What Accomplishments Should Be Celebrated?

That’s easy…almost everything! We should celebrate and recognize people when they advance in the company, when they enroll a new person into their business, when they help one of their personals advance, and when they reach a specific goal they’ve set for themselves (like a certain income level or number of people in their organization). …Continue Reading 7 Ways to Celebrate Success!

Role Playing is an Effective Network Marketing Training Tool

Most of us, when we begin our network marketing business, have no clue what we’re in for. We’re not prepared for the objections, the rejections, and the attitudes we get from people we are sharing with. That’s why role playing with your new enrollee is a MUST!

Role Playing is the best training tool you have to get your new people ready for what they’ll face. Besides, we need to prepare them so they don’t get discouraged at the first “No” they get. So, what’s the best way to do a role playing training?

Role Playing Training 101

If you have enough people who want to particpate, it’s easier and more efficient to do a role playing conference call. This way 10, 20 or more people can benefit from the practice conversations. Plus, when you have more people participating, they can throw out suggestions of objections or their own experiences along the way. It’s just plain more fun on a conference call or in a large group setting. …Continue Reading Role Playing is an Effective Network Marketing Training Tool

Dealing with Enrollees Who are MIA

I’m sure you’ve seen it before…You enroll a new person into your network marketing business who’s excited and motivated to get started right away and make lots of money. And, then they don’t pick up the phone or return your calls. No one has seen or heard from them. They are Missing in Action (MIA)!

Here’s how I deal with the absent enrollee…

I call them a few times, at different times to give them the benefit of the doubt. People have lives and families and emergencies, so we have to give them a chance. After a week has passed without a word, I switch to email.

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How to Keep Yourself Up When Everything is in the Dumps

We all have those time in our network marketing businesses when nothing goes right. People don’t show up for presentations, and even if they do, they don’t join, your check takes a dive, and your group seems unmotivated.

What do you do to keep yourself in a positive mood?
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New Enrollee? Get Joined at the Hip!

You know the rush that comes from enrolling a new person into your network marketing business! Now you have the awesome resposibility of holding their hand, walking them through their first days and weeks to create their first story and reach their first income goal.

That means you should be joined at the hip with your new enrollee. I know a guy who takes this concept as far as he can go with it - he moves in with them! That’s right…he flies to the other side of the country, moves in with them for a month, and makes sure they work on building the business every hour and every day they’re awake! It’s intense, but this guy also makes about $100K/month and has broken every advancement record in our company. And, his personal enrollees have advanced faster than any others in the history of the company. Results speak for themselves!

The best way to create duplication is to show the new enrollee the ropes right away. That way, they learn it once, the learn to do it the right way, and from then on they will teach their new enrollees the same thing. Duplication at its finest!
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