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This is an interesting topic and one I used to talk to my Coach (Teresa Romain) about pretty often when I was active in my network marketing business. (I now continue to get a pretty nice check from my company and am not actively building that but have other ventures that keep me busy).
To answer your first question, having someone tell me they are in the Top anything is not a plus or minus and when recruiting, people are more interested in what THEY will be able to do...not necessarily what YOU have done.
They DO want to know that someone will be able to support them and even with that being said, they usually do not know what support they will REALLY need until they get in there and start playing. :-)
There are a few things that I think about network marketing, as an industry or any industry really that involved recruiting others into an opportunity.
First of all...
Too many recruiters and companies make it sound like easy money and it is not.
In fact, one person's success does not reflect one iota on someone else's ability
to have success.
Here is what I saw over and over that made the difference between someone that did make money and someone that did not:
People get into a business because they feel a lack. Either a lack of money or a lack of cotrol over their time...or both.
It is only if they can envision that being different, in their future, so that their focus is now on abundance, will they be able to shift their experience.
Since law of attraction is always at work and what we think about...comes about...the real work is in their ability to SEE themselves as being successful.
THAT is the job of an upline leader. Not necessarily to teach them the business or the product sales. THAT can be done in a few HOURS.
The job of an upline leader is to assist that distributor in holding their vision for WHY they are in the business at all. To coach them to help them move through the stages of feelings of lack. And provide them with resources. (Books, coaches, courses, etc for them to educate themselves and grow.)
...NOT to motivate them because you cannot motivate someone else (or even yourself) as "inspiration" is the only thing that works effectively and long-term.
Taking action from a place of "need" or "lack" will only produce more of the same.
Taking action from a place of "vision" and inspiration will do wonders!
For example, 2 people can make phone calls to the same (source of) leads and their attitude and perspective of their abilities and their feelings of worthiness of success will determine the outcome of that phone calling session.
Every time.
Unfortunately, lots of hours are usually spent coaching a person on the fact he/she made 300 phone calls and did not have any success at inviting someone to a "meeting" and the conversation becomes about stuff that doesn't matter.
i.e. "Something must be wrong with the script. Or the leads. Or the time of day the phone calls were made. Or the meeting is too far from the prospects. Or the phone conference is not a toll free number. Or the tone of voice. Or......"
The reality of it is...it is not any of those things. The script and the rest of all that is irrelevant.
An upline coach is better utilized by asking that struggling distributor WHY they even got into the business. WHY they are even making the phone calls and take them THERE (in their feelings) and teach them how to re-visit that feeling the next time before they make their phone calls.
Teaching that person visualization skills.
Bottom line: Those that make it in NWM are those that are "willing to take themselves on" and NWM is a great vehicle for doing that. And pays accordingly.
That's more than .02 and has been what I have observed over my last 15 years in NWM. :-)
Love,
Pat
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