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Go Ahead. No One’s Peeking. Make That Phone Call.

Guest post by: Andy Acciaioli

Article Overview: Young, inexperienced network marketers jump into various network marketing businesses and fearlessly work the phones by calling total strangers. We veteran MLMers find more comfort in jumping on our computers to market our businesses online. The results we are missing by not making phone calls to potential prospects is staggering.

Go Ahead. No One’s Peeking. Make That Phone Call.

I received a phone call from a New Jersey college student today. He wanted to pitch his business to me as he had gone on my Facebook page, checked out my websites and realized I was a network marketer. When I asked him why he was calling me about his network marketing business, his response was classic. He said since you're a network marketer I feel as though you already know the ropes. This young man is going to go far. With his present network marketing company? Not so much. But just the fact of realizing the concept of attraction marketing without even knowing of the king of attraction marketing, Mike Dillard, is positively incredible.

After I hung up from the call, I wondered how many on my team (INCLUDING MYSELF) would have the gumption to pick up the phone and call a total Facebook stranger and pitch our business?

There was a recent webinar that I attended for my primary business where another college student (they must really be teaching hut spa in colleges nowadays) sponsored in 6 or 8 people during the month of March. How did he do it without any network marketing experience? He picked up the phone and called total Facebook strangers who were network marketers. Did he get no's? Tons of them. Was it enough to never pick up the phone again as it probably would be for the best of us? Absolutely not. He reasoned, with each no I'm getting closer to a yes.

But, Andy, we're in the internet age. I want to sit at my computer and market my business that way. It's easier than talking to somebody.

Easier but nowhere near as effective. When you talk to someone on the phone they get a unique insight into you simply by your tone of voice, the pace (fast or slow) of your speech and, most importantly, the excitement you have for your business opportunity. Now how are you going to show excitement in an email? Adding a few exclamation points or capitalizing your VERY EXCITING OPPORTUNITY?

I'll give you the King of All Never Having To Pick Up The Phone Network Marketers, Daegan Smith. If you are on one of Daegan's email lists you know two things: 1.) be prepared because he sends out tons of email and 2.) his email is crammed full of content of superior value that you cannot get anywhere else. So what do you do? You get excited when you see an email from Daegan. I'm not the only one though. He has built an email list of - I'm guessing now - around 200,000 eager daily readers. Hitting submit to send an email is all Daegan probably has to do to fill any network marketing opportunity. Here's my bet: I bet he too picks up the phone on occasion and makes a personal contact.

While it pains most of us to call strangers, you never know who will answer the next phone call of yours. Perhaps it will be a person to build the largest group in your entire company...and the volume will all flow up through you.

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