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Is Your Network Marketing Opportunity Making You Bitter Toward People?
December 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Don’t let the frustration that comes with building a network marketing business turn you bitter toward people. It is easy to let that happen after you suffer set back after set back while trying to invite new members and being rejected time after time. The fact that you are being rejected is not your fault or the people that you offer your opportunity to. It is nothing personal they just don’t want it.
I have spoken to many people about my network marketing opportunity during the twelve years that I have been doing it and it has not been necessarily easy finding the right people. There are many opinions as to where to look for the right people and what interests someone would have that may be interested in building their own business. Let’s face it, everyone wants money but not everyone wants to do the work necessary to earn it. Since network marketing is not a scheme or a scam but instead just an alternate way of moving and introducing products to consumers and paying the person who introduced the buying customer to the product a commission. To some people this type of opportunity seems like a scam since you have no boss and you are responsible only to yourself and your down-line. This non-traditional type of way to earn a living is just too hard for some people to understand let alone want to do. Some people cannot be self-directed and without a boss or the structure of a job they would panic. You can’t expect these types of people to be receptive to a network marketing opportunity.
You need to find people like yourself. Since you decided to join a network marketing opportunity it would be more productive for you to first talk to your warm market because these people are your friends and are most likely similar to you in their thoughts which is why you became friends with them in the first place. Of course you don’t want to be a pest to your friends so don’t badger them just talk to them about it and if they aren’t interested at that time just let it go for now. Once your friends see you having success with your opportunity they will ask you about it.
What I have found has worked best for me is to purchase cheap triple or double opt-in leads and import them into an auto-responder and let the system filter out the wheat from the chaff. You will find that the same thing will happen with some of those leads that happened when you asked people about joining your opportunity but you just see the results in un-subscribes, bounced e-mails, and sometimes a lead will even e-mail you and go on and on about how you are spamming them and to please stop. Now to me those are the funniest of all. It’s as if them receiving a series of ones and zeros manifesting itself as e-mail is somehow going to hurt them. Instead of them just deleting it or simply un-subscribing they have to send you the e-mail pleading for you to please stop.
You just have to develop a thick skin toward the rejection and that is easier using the auto-responder. Using an auto-responder also frees up your time to follow-up with leads that are interested in your opportunity instead of calling down a list of leads and getting a lot of duds. Just let the auto-responder filter them out and the best prospects will begin to e-mail and call you and believe me that is much more fun and rewarding than running into a wall of rejection every time you discuss your business with someone.
You will find that when you let the auto-responder filter the prospects for you your frustration level will decrease and you will not be bitter toward people. Being bitter toward people only makes you look bad and if the people that you are talking to ever decided to join a network marketing opportunity they would not speak to you about it if you were nasty to them. So keep your cool and use an auto-responder to do the heavy lifting.
Bob Crane is the cofounder of debnbob.com, a blog focused on the personal challenges in life. It is through her blog that he helps people solve, and discuss everyday issues that concern us all. Sometimes it just isn’t appropriate to ask someone you know their opinion on a subject that is on your mind. You may feel-free to ask Bob. Or just come by to vent. You may visit Bob’s blog at: debnbob.com/ www.debnbob.com
