Are You Forgetting About Your Success in MLM?

Recently I was listening to an MLM tape and I had a fairly revealing
insight into something that appears to be going on in the MLM field.

And it isn't something that's working to our advantage as beginning
network marketers.

I'll explain.

Now you know and I know that there is one and pretty much only one
reason that we joined our MLM main company, right?

It's the same reason that the industry is so powerful at attracting so
many folks to it.

You know what it is...

Money.

Right?

Ask someone why they joined their MLM deal on the day that they join
and you'll find that about 99% of them joined to make money.

I know, I know. Your company has SUCH great products. Right?

Well, they might be the best products out there. That's not the issue
here.

The issue is what direction we are told to take our efforts in when we
are just innocent MLM beginner's.

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Well, when we get deeper into our main MLM company's message and we
forget 'why' we really joined this industry in the first place, that
is when we get into trouble.

That is when things can start to go downhill for us, if we aren't
alerted to what's going on.

You see...

... What's the first thing that most main MLM company's tell their new
distributors to do?

Get on the products, right? Whatever the product is...

Telecom.

Vitamins.

Magnetic shoes.

Toothpaste.

Whatever.

"Just, get on the products."

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THIS part makes sense to me. It should for you too.

You need to experience your products in order to best tell others
about them.

Nothing misleading here.

But what happens after this is what generally is what gets misleading
and sends most new MLM'ers into a downward slide they never recover
from.

And then one day, they're gone.

I'll explain.

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After new distributors 'get on the products', they are told to learn
about the products.

Why does this happen?

Answer: so that the distributors can know what they are 'selling' or
'sharing' with folks.

That's what the big founding company distributor or diamond upline
tells these impressionable beginning MLM'ers to do.

They are told that "they, as a distributor of the product, HAVE to
know the products."

- They have to know how they work.

- They have to know the dosages, the amounts, the frequency.

- The ingredients.

- And who should be taking them and for what and for how long.

Never mind worrying about contraindications and all that potentially
medically-damaging stuff.

I speak from first-hand experience. My first two MLM deals were both
consumable products.

And I was told for both companies that I had to know the products
before I could 'really' sell them to others. They told me it just made
sense to do it that way.

I was told to focus on the products and the money will follow.

Well, let's see what happened. And what happens to virtually most new
MLM'ers.

I was spending the majority of my precious new free-time learning
about the products and all that other stuff instead of working on
reaching out to folks and getting them involved in the business
opportunity I was in.

I was basically totally focusing on learning just about all that I
could about the products so, you know...

"I could tell people about them."

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Well, what happened to the business side of things?

Didn't I and most others join MLM to MAKE money?!...

I relate this to an experience I had in the mid 1980's after I
graduated from University and found myself unemployed for two years.

At least unemployed in the sense that I wasn't working in my academic
field of choice.

I found myself eventually selling new cars at a local dealership.

(And you think the public looks down on MLM! ;-)

Anyway,...

The day that I started with the new car dealership was the same day
this fellow named Lionel started.

Lionel and I were quite different in our approaches in 'selling'. I
found myself thinking that I couldn't possibly 'sell' someone a
$20,000 car without MY first knowing everything about it.

I mean, 'what if they asked me something about it'? And I didn't know
the answer. Wouldn't that just blow the sale?

So what happened?

Well, as I was busy figuring out all the package options,
combinations, and features of each of the dozen new car models on the
lot...

...Lionel was actually SELLING the cars to people.

From his very first day.

I had to stop him and in my naivet