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Bass Akwards…

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

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Here we are at the final mistake. The earlier posts covered 1-4 and now we come to the most mule-headed goof of the bunch…

Using the Wrong Approach

I decided not to put up a photo that really represents the type of person that does this. It would be a bit embarrassing… So I told our model to face us for the photo shoot.

Have you ever been to a party when a guest arrives in a sharp suit and a pocket full of business cards?  He or she starts with the eyes….looking all around the place as if to size up all of the guests and mentally calculate his method of attack.

What do you do?  You can tell it’s going to happen before it even happens.  There they go moving from one person to the next with a smile plastered on their face and a hand shake ready and one hand in their pocket for a business card.

What is their agenda?

To put you into their business.  They want you.  How does that make you feel?  Run the other way right?  Of course it does.

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I Didn’t Go Into Business To Run A Nursery! (Is This Your Business Partner?)

Friday, August 13th, 2010

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Mistake #4 is an addition to the earlier post “Babysitting Service or Bootcamp?”

Not Targeting the Right People

It’s not necessarily quantity that makes a successful business. It’s quality. Yes, you have to have prospects.  And yes you have to have a lot of prospects and then you HAVE TO SORT.

You have to sort Desire from Delusion.
So how do you do this – what are the qualifying, probing questions?

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Out In The Cold…Brrrrrr!

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

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The Third of Five Big Mistakes Network Marketers Make…

Things get pretty cold when thee network marketer hits the brick wall of no more warm market.

What do you do when you have run through the 20 to 50 people on your list and only 3 said “Yes”?  You hit the wall! Right? Of course you do.

And right there at that wall is where 95% of network marketers quit, fail, go home, and put their dreams back in the closet.

To beat this, once again, it takes some Getting-Out-of Your-Comfort-Zone action.  If you owned a burger stand and you had no customers for the day, what would you do?  You really only have 2 choices…

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The Second Egg You Laid…

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

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This is thee Second of Five Big Mistakes Network Marketers Make…

or…..How to Become a Failure in 5 Easy Steps…. Step 2.

2.The network marketer is not doing
the right kind of action.

Here you find the network marketer sitting at a desk looking at their handwritten list of 50 names for the 19th time… but they are unable to pick up the phone.

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The First of Five Big Mistakes Network Marketers Make..

Monday, August 9th, 2010

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or…..How to Become a Failure in 5 Easy Steps….

These mistakes are so important that I decided not to rush this.  I will lay them out over a 5-day period.  That’s right, this will be a series of posts with these mistakes explained fully so that you don’t get tripped up not knowing them.

For starters, here is the first of the five mistakes:

1. The New Network Marketer Has Unrealistic Expectations

You have seen this many times, you bring someone into your business and they are Fired-UP! They have dollar signs in their eyes and dreams of helping all of their friends and family become wealthy just like them.  And they take off out the gate!  Two months later they quit and sometimes you can’t even find them.  You’ve trained them, you worked with them and poof they’re gone!

What happened!?

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