Network Marketing Success Training – 3 Major “Rookie” Mistakes To Avoid

Whenever I produce my mlm success training courses, I always tell my apprentices to make structured commitments and goals by organizing their daily, weekly, and monthly income producing activities, and make sure to track EVERYTHING.

One of my acquaintances on Facebook asked me to assist them to identify why their best efforts seem to be producing very little success in MLM. He was quite angry and ready to toss in the towel by the time he reached out to me.

He is new to MLM, and felt as though he was doing everything that he was told to do to get ahead. He thought that either he was being lied to by his support team (or he wasn’t), or he simply wasn’t cut out for this MLM business (also not true).

So, in the course of our conversation, I was able to determine exactly what was wrong with his efforts, and after I identified where his “holes” were, he was overjoyed to find out that all he had to do was make a few adjustments to his activities and his mental state of mind.

Take a look at these 3 areas that I found that he was doing wrong and make sure that you don’t fall into these traps:

1. Overstated expectations of growth – he felt that he would be an “overnight sensation” because he’s heard stories of how people make tons of revenue in what seems like a very small period of time. This is NOT normal of ANY business, contrary to all the hype. Building a successful MLM business is like planting a seed in the dirt; you can’t plant the seed and then stand over it demanding that it grow. It has to take root, and you have to provide the food and care to make sure it doesn’t die in the soil. It’s not smart to have the get-rich-quick mindset; it takes TIME to build a successful company, and there’s nothing you can do about that but cultivate patience and the right behaviors.

2. Inconsistent activity – he had not developed a schedule of planned activities for his network marketing business success. He just did whatever he could with whatever extra time he could come up with. That’s totally amateurish. Developing “office hours” is pivotal to building consistency, and that can’t be taken lightly. He planted the “seed,” now he needed to organize a regularly scheduled “watering.” If over the course of a week you only have 7-10 hours available, that needs to be a specific, targeted, pre-arranged, and non-negotiable time towards growing your company. Don’t make excuses because, if this were your occupation, you wouldn’t make excuses; or you would be unemployed. Punch in, do what you have to do, and punch out.

3. No tracking – he wasn’t keeping track on phone calls, appointments, emails, etc. No company that is interested in genuine sustainable success makes this mistake. Keeping “stats” is central to being able to measure where your strengths and weaknesses are. Most business owners haven’t figured out what their ratios are. Take a peak at this following ratio: 194:13. This is my stat for leads:conversions over the previous 30 days. I know that for ever 14 leads I acquire through my marketing, I’ll convert 1 to a business owner. My goal is to improve my stats by keeping track of everything from articles, emails, videos, phone calls, etc. It doesn’t have to be a mystery as to what it takes to get your company to the next level. “Keeping stats” is what you need in order to find out.

Just because you’re working your MLM enterprise part-time doesn’t mean that you’re excused from being a professional. Take a second look at your commitments to make sure that you’re not fooling yourself and organize yourself for success.

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