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Network Marketing Success Tips: Choose your team wisely

Guest post by: John Bino

Article Overview: Imagine this: You are a soccer coach about to lead your team to the field for an all important match. Just before you leave for the field, a star player approaches you in the locker room and tell you this – “Coach, I am going to play on the left wing. I am not going to give passes to X, Y and Z because I don’t like them. These are my conditions; if you are okay with them then you can let me play”. What do you think you will do?

Network Marketing Success Tips: Choose your team wisely

Imagine this: You are a soccer coach about to lead your team to the field for an all important match. Just before you leave for the field, a star player approaches you in the locker room and tell you this – “Coach, I am going to play on the left wing. I am not going to give passes to X, Y and Z because I don’t like them. These are my conditions; if you are okay with them then you can let me play”. What do you think you will do? Will you let him play despite? I don’t think so; if you are good coach you will keep him on the bench or on the streets. You wouldn’t want to have such kind of players on your team, now would you?

Yesterday I received an email from a prospect telling me that he is interested in knowing more about how to start a home business and how to join my team. However, he goes on to say that he is limited in resources, will not accept certain modes of payment and doesn’t know much about anything. Everything is fine till now. But, next he goes on to say that, “Only if you are okay with my conditions, you can give me a call”. Now that attitude totally gave him away. He is very much similar to the soccer player who lays down the conditions to the coach.

If the prospect would have had the right attitude he would have expressed his problems, and would have sought for advice or solutions on how overcome these problems. Instead, he goes on to give an ultimatum. As a leader in the network marketing industry, you will come across people like these who think they are doing you a favor by joining your team. They have no clue that you as the leader and coach will be investing your valuable time on them, investing your resources on them, taking on the huge responsibility to guide them to success. So the only person who has the right to lay down the rules is you – not the prospect! The coach selects the team and lays down the conditions, not the other way around.

It’s like going to college and telling the dean that I am doing you a favor by enrolling in your college. So you got to pay me. It doesn’t work that way. In order to get educated you got to pay the price; and that too upfront! You don’t pay your fees after you graduate. You pay it before you enroll. Only and only if you are committed to studies will you pay the price. It’s said, “There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”

So what does one do when encountered with such a prospect? Walk away! I have followed an advice given by a top leader in the network marketing industry, and that is ‘Never Engage Losers’ (NEL). I just totally ignore these people; they are just a waste of time. My time is too valuable to be just given away like that. Jim Rohn said, “You can never change a man, only the man can change himself”. Your job is to be the guiding light and lead him on the right path.

Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Theologian, put it very well, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Apply this in your network marketing business and choose your team wisely.

God Bless.

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