Build Your Business Without Friends and Family

Your friends & family love you. And they want to save you from this bad thing called MLM ... and they know nothing about it. 

Here's my belief: Go build your business.

* Talk to like-minded people.
* Target your market.
* Build your business.
* Get into positive cash.
* Get your car allowance, whatever your company offers ‚

- and your family will still be there. Go talk to them after you already have built a positive cash flow.

Or talk to them about your products. Maybe you have awesome products they can buy from your website. Do that.

But do NOT talk to friends & family about a business! Don't do it.

Here's what's magical. When you're in positive cash, you walk differently. You talk differently. You have this attitude, this positive-ness. And your friends & family will want a part of that. They cannot tell you, "This doesn't work" when it's working. You're driving your new bonus car, or you won a company-paid trip to Italy, how can they tell you it doesn't work?

To be long-term successful, you will need a marketing system anyway. You will have to be able to tap into the cold market anyway. So you may as well go ahead and set that up first. Get that working, get successful, and then your friends & family will fall in line.

Why "Spillover" Will Not Benefit Your MLM Business

Spillover is another scam companies run on people in MLM network marketing .

The worst thing you can ever do building your business is to create fear of loss. It's the worst way to build your business. Oh, yes, it definitely works - to get people in. But you have a totally false business, because you've got a bunch of people, and none of them ever does anything.

 Many companies that do a powerline - or even a binary or a matrix - focus their promotion talk on spillover.

Now, I have met people who have gotten spillover, definitely. BUT - none of the people that were spilled over on them ever did anything! Why?

Because the promise of "spillover" creates a welfare mentality.

What happens when you tell people, "Oh, get in NOW, and you are going to get spillover!"

They're afraid of losing something for nothing. So they do get in now - and then they sit and wait for all that spillover to make them rich.

Isn't That A Wonderful Business Plan?

It's like joining a binary because you can get a position that already has $1 million volume in the strong leg. The reality is, you don't make a dime, unless you build the weak leg, But people get so worked up about losing that "$1 million position", they join - and never do anything, and never earn any income.

So never forget those words, powerline & spillover. Anytime you see them, their purpose is to promote the welfare mentality. Something for nothing, something for nothing, something for nothing.

The fact is, you are in network marketing. Network marketing is a business that takes work. It's net-work marketing, ok? it's not net-free marketing. It's not net-spillover marketing. It's not net-zero marketing, it takes work. Anything you do that promotes the "something for nothing" mindset will not work. End of story.

But you will draw in a bunch of couch potatoes who are convinced that you are going to build it for them. Matter of fact, you can even give them your bank account number, and you'll just pass the money directly to their account. They don't have to leave the couch. They can stay on the couch, drink their beer and watch a football game. No problem.

Whatever company or whatever distributor is saying them to you, that is not the company or the person you want to depend on long-term. They will not be successful. Keep on looking. There are lots of good companies & MLMers out there. Keep looking, and you'll find the right mentor.

To Your Success

GREED & EGO: The Curse of Network Marketing.

Every time we have ever seen a company or down line implode and disappear, it does so because of the same 2 reasons: GREED and EGO.

True leaders are the Mentors who dedicate themselves to their teams success. It's never about the money. No Money Focus = No Greed. 

Build people and people will build the business.

People are people. They are not a number. They have goals, dreams & desires. Network marketing is not a sales business in itself. Network marketing is a teaching & mentoring business. So the track record & attitude of leadership is critical.

When you've joined a business and someone calls you, telling you to make a list of your friends & family, I can promise you that they do not have a system.

 "Friends & family" is what has been forced upon us for the last 50 years, and that is the reason for such high failure rates in MLM.

It's Really All About Target Marketing

You've got to find people who will raise their hand, looking for you and/or your product, your service, your opportunity.

Too often, somebody calls you up, pitching you. They don't even know who you are. They don't care who you are. They don't care anything about you.

I've heard certain network marketing leaders say, "It's a relationship business." And many of these people have never built a relationship with anybody. Nobody on their team would want to go on a one-month cruise with them.

Some "Leaders" Don't Even Want To Be Around Their People At  a Convention!

Why? It's all about the greed & the ego. The fancy watch, fancy jewelry, fancy suit, exotic cars, being the superstar, all that stuff.

Do they ever help the person who's been squashed by life?

Do they ever pay for the next guy going through the toll gate?

Do they ever just freely give their time to mentor others, expecting nothing in return?

Do they ever use their income to buy good tools for those in their group who are obviously trying to build?

Do they make themselves available at any time when you need help?

Do they reply promptly to your emails or phone messages?

No, they don't.

Instead, it's always about greed & ego, me, me, me. It's never about the other person.

You truly have to care about people. And then you won't have the greed and the ego. And that is the kind of person who can build huge in network marketing, because you will attract people just like you!

To Your Success,

Graeme