So What's The Big "Secret" to Success In Network Marekting?

Okay, so I am sure that many of you have seen or heard something about the book and movie called "the Secret". It was featured on Oprah and is touted by many mentors in the MLM and Network Marketing Industry.

I am not saying that you do not need to see them. You may find them very aspiring. To me it was a mix of stuff that I had learned on my own growing up, science (the law of attraction), and church. It wasn't anything "new" for me, it didn't rock my world, but it is an important phenomenon, and is worth talking about.

"The Secret" is all about the "law of attraction"- it basically says that you are what you think (yes I oversimplified the explanation). You see many people walk away with, if I think it, it will happen. If I write it down on paper and look at it every day it will happen. Well it doesn't work that way. We don't have genies in the bottle waiting to grant our every wish and desire at the nod of a head.

We need to do more than wish for our dreams to happen. We need to be willing to learn and change in order to reach our dreams. Keeping our eyes on the prize will help us to get there, but the prize won't magically drop into your lap. You'll need to step out and reach for it. That's the Big "Secret" behind the secret.

This works in all areas of life and business. Remember when you are full of negative thoughts and emotion, you will only draw negativity towards you, but, when you are filled of positive thoughts and emotions you are a beacon towards positive things.

I am a positive person, and try to keep negativity from hindering my success in Network Marketing. I have seen others' teams explode overnight and others have no growth at all. I have been somewhere in the middle- happily trucking along, knowing that my time will come. I have been working on my consistency and learning new skills in order to have an "edge". It started slow, but in the last 12 hours I have watched my email list grow by more than 400%. It is awesome to see it all happen.

It is also a humbling experience. I am far from reaching my goals, but well on my way and I have to thank everyone that has followed my blogs and emails. Thank you, because with out your support, I would not be here right now.

Why My Network Marketing Business Almost Failed...

Many people have made and are making fortunes in network marketing and MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) businesses. Usually only a small number of people make the big money, while 95% fail to achieve any measurable level of success! But why?

Network Marketing IS simple. It does not take rocket science to achieve success. It's just NOT easy to do.

Let me show you why it is so easy for so many to fail (this is my opinion of course)

The simplest explanation is usually the right one (a rough translation of Occam's Razor). I am going to use this theory to explain why more than 95% or more network marketers fail.

Are you ready?

What was the first thing that you were told to do? Go out and tell people. (I was told to tell 40 people within my first 2 weeks- did you have to fill out a list too?). Guess what, that FAILS 95% of the time.

Raise of hands, how many have heard that if you tell 100, at least 5 will join your business? My hand is up too.

Guess what? It didn't work for me.

Now, I'm not going to say this doesn't work, but I will say is that after six months of talking to people for hours every day this just didn't work for me.

Honestly, unless you're a natural born, confident, and charismatic sales leader going into the network marketing industry you'll probably have these same results.

Don't get me wrong some people are very good at talking to people and getting new clients, customers, and team members: BUT most aren't.

What about scripts? I tried that too. I used ones with a 20% conversion rate, and I still couldn't get a single one to join. Honestly, when you have 3 young boys wanting attention while you are talking to people on the phone, how can you NOT make it sound like you are reading from a script?

So what happens to most people after they've spent time and thousands of dollars on leads and advertising with no or very little success?

They get discouraged, they run out of money, they get tired of hearing NO and then...

They give up.

Hey, hearing NO all the time is bad for your self esteem, it gives you a lot of doubts about yourself and your network marketing company.

As I said before, most network marketer give up, and not surprisingly within the first 9 months.

The network marketer's perception of their business goes from one of opportunity to one of complete doubt and negativity.

Hey, what you think is what you are, so when the network marketer thinks that they and their network marketing business is a complete failure, a total waste of time, and a dead end, this becomes a reality to them.

Well, let me tell you. I did not want to be a statistic. I was and still am determined to make my network marketing business work. I believe in myself and in my network marketing business.

So something had to change. I changed my tactics. I am using a proven system, that can be used in ANY network marketing or MLM business. I have found a way to expose my business to more people in one day, than I can meet in a month. I have leads calling me, I make money even when people don't join my business.

I took control and I took action.

So what are YOU going to do?

So My Sponsor is No Help to Me...

Show of hands, how many of us have a good working relationship with our sponsors?

I am sure that there are very few hands in the air right now.

Mine is one of them (for a change).

In the past, my sponsors were always "too busy", just didn't care, or worse yet- complete idiots (having them around made it even harder for you to recruit). Let's face it for the most part, sponsors are no help at all.

So what are you going to do about it?

Well you basically have 2 options:

1. Quit: You can give up before you even start working. I do not care if you just joined or you have been in the biz for several months or even years. If you have to rely on your sponsor to get your business going, you need to quit. You obviously don't have what it takes. This is Net"work" Marketing, not ride your sponsor's coat tails, not sit back and do nothing marketing.
2. Step up: That's right, you'll need to step up and become the leader you want. The great thing about MLM and Network Marketing, is the huge amount of information available to you at the click of a button. Start learning about your business, the industry, and how to build strong teams that will multiply. You will find that people want leaders, and are drawn to them, your recruiting and retention will increase dramatically. Just do a Google search and you will find that there is a ton of experience and knowledge ready for you to learn.
   

So I am not here to encourage you to quit. I want to see Moms become successful and reach their dreams. SO I want you to step it up.

So it's not going to be easy. No one ever said it would be, every one has had "one of those days" You know when

you wish you could crawl back into bed and go back to sleep.

Yesterday was one for me. I had a headache. The boys were awake, my sponsor dropped off a ton of stuff for me to go through, and all I wanted to do was crawl back into bed and pull the blanket up over my head.

My husband’s Mom woke up and started to take care of the boys. Thank God.

If I didn’t have so much to learn I would have slept all day. I went back to my room, closed the door, and plugged in the laptop so I could rest, and work at the same time. I spent many hours on my laptop yesterday, learning new things. It’s amazing everything that we are getting ready for the upcoming year. We are very excited.

I alternated work and naps (long lessons and a headache are not a good combination). Amazingly I made it thru 3 discs. I still managed to check on my emails and talk to my sponsor about the things to come.

All this with a migraine.

SO what’s the big deal? I was determined to get things accomplished. I could have just as easily gone back to bed and shut everything out for a whole day. I could have been a lump on a log. Anyone who has ever had a migraine would not blame me for doing it.

Without determination, you can’t succeed. We can give you encouragement, training, training tools and resources. We can show you how, but if you are not willing to do the work, you won’t succeed. We all have our bad days, we all have difficulties and problems.

We all have the same opportunity and we all have the same chances at making it big.

The ones that are determined are the ones that will make it. You need to visualize and work towards that dream. You need to be willing to learn new things and to change course in order to reach that dream. Because the dream doesn’t change, the way you get there does.