Making Your List And Calling It Twice

You have undoubtedly heard of the traditional making a list campaign that most all network marketing companies subscribe to. Yeah, I know, who wants to make a list and pester their friends and family? Unfortunately sometimes we have to get uncomfortable to get comfortable. Think of it this way- If you were starting a restaurant or any other type of brick and mortar business, wouldn't you want your friends and family to know about it? Of course you would.It's much easier to sell to someone that already knows and trusts us versus someone who we have just met. I prefer that my new IBO's only contact those on their list that they think would be most receptive to the concept of leverage through network marketing. The others on their list I would prefer them to first introduce the product and not the income opportunity.


Before I got involved in the mlm industry I would never have imagined I would be talking to friends and family about a network marketing opportunity. I was totally turned off by the idea of network marketing. To me networkers were just a bunch of believers that were being brainwashed. Oddly enough things changed and I was now in Network Marketing and I was excited about hosting a PBR (Private Business Reception) at my home with all the people my wife and I knew. We were excited and making our list and writing down all the names we could. We were going to pack our living room full of people and make some money! We didn't care if our friends and family thought we were crazy or not. All we knew was that we were excited and sick and tried of being sick and tired!

So we called down our list and we got less than 10% to show up for a living room presentation that was put on by our upline. We ended up making almost $2000.00 that evening. Just enough to almost cover what it cost for us to start our business. We were pretty much at a break even point and accomplished this in less than one week. We then later went back to our list of people that we hadn't gotten a hold of. Within 48 hours we had personally sponsored 22 people from that list. We were now making some decent money. We had our upline cheering us on. It felt great and we were on top of the world! We made our list and checked it twice.Making a list worked well for my wife and I, however that doesn't mean it will work for everyone. There will be those people that will never approach anyone they know until they feel they can say they are successful. There will always be secret agents in your organization. That is why it is helpful to have other resources and tools available for the secret agents who are not ready to tap into their warm market yet. It's important that you don't push them to tap into their warm markets. The opportunity you choose should have more than just list making in the tool box. Afterall, you can't build a house with just a hammer.Tools and systems play a key role in achieving success in mlm. I will talk more about tools and systems in a later post.

Make it a Great Day,

Jeff
http://www.xelr8withus.com