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If Your Network Marketing Gift Is Refused, Yank It Away.

Guest post by: Andy Acciaioli

Article Overview: We never want to let go of any network marketing prospect. But there are times when we offer our business opportunity to someone who has no interest in joining our business. As soon as this person makes their disinterest known to you, immediately end your conversation and move on to someone else.

If Your Network Marketing Gift Is Refused, Yank It Away.

I returned a call to a person who contacted me to learn more about my network marketing business. After I introduced myself, she informed me that those network marketing "things" don't work". My response? "Good bye, have a great day." Dead silence on the other end of the phone as I hung up. It would have been a total waste of my time to attempt to convince this person that network marketing was a business model that could work depending upon the time and effort that she would put into it. Furthermore, it would have been futile to try to convince her into my business.

Instead, my network marketing gift that I was offering to her was quickly yanked out of her hands so I could offer it to the next person I called. After I hung up, I knew I left her totally flabbergasted as she was hunkering down for a fight which I refused to give her: never match wits with someone with half the equipment.

Had I invested fifteen or thirty minutes of my time bantering with her, the only investment would have been by me: a loss of my time. Even though I would count the call as a "no", I actually felt pretty good by not allowing her to spew her negativity all over me and only investing a grand total of ten or fifteen seconds.

Someone new to network marketing probably would have defended the industry or their network marketing company. We veterans know enough to pick our battles.

Should that happen to you and you call someone and receive that response, look at it as though you are offering them a financial gift, a business opportunity. And, if they start poking at it, getting all negative, simply pull your gift back and move on to someone else who will be more receptive. By giving a response like the one I gave ("Good bye. Have a great day."), you will cause the person to be totally dumbfounded or feeling that you are unable to defend yourself/your network marketing industry.

In either case, they will be so stunned by your lack of responding to them that you will leave them speechless...maybe even wondering if they made a mistake by rejecting your opportunity without knowing more about it. Don't be too surprised if you receive a call in the future from that person with an opening line like, "You know that business opportunity you wanted to talk to me about..."

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