Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at
10:30 am
Are you a confident person? If you are not confident, it will be very hard for you to succeed in network marketing because this business is all about leadership and motivation. How can you lead and motivate your downlines if your confidence is shaky and your posture is weak?
Sometimes, it is very sad to find many network marketers struggling to sponsor their very first downline. This is normal, but you must not dwell in this stage for too long because it is detrimental to your confidence. You see, fear causes inaction, and inaction causes a lack of results and the longer your lack of results show itself, the more fear it creates because people in network marketing are getting ahead of you and you are still in the first stage!
Therefore, the first step towards becoming more confident is to TAKE ACTION. By taking action you will automatically gain confidence. They say that a skydiver’s greatest fear is not the jump itself but rather the wait before the jump. As they stare at the raging sky, their fear intensifies until the moment they step off the plane! Network marketing is just like that. You have to make that first phone call or show your first plan (or run your first opportunity talk). Whatever it is, just get the job done.
The next part about building your confidence is NOT to spend too much time reading network marketing books. A lot of your success depends on your knowledge in network marketing… yes it is undoubtedly very important. But too much analysis will lead to paralysis. Having too much knowledge without applying it is a surefire way to network marketing failure. The ‘graves’ of many unsuccessful distributors are filled with people with all the knowledge about network marketing… except how to take action and make money with that knowledge.
Another way to build your confidence is to focus on building your network personally.
Sometimes, a distributor can spend so much time with their ONE golden downline, that they become too dependent on that one line. Very soon, you will see your downline moving up even to the point of surpassing you. When your downline starts making more money than you, your own upline might wind up spending more time with him or her and that would greatly shake your confidence! So don’t rest, always go out there and sponsor more people personally.
Lastly, when it comes to sponsoring, you can consider generating leads on the Internet. You face less rejection, if any, and you can still share your opportunity. The key to using the internet is learning and having a system that works. In network marketing, there is no way around meeting people, but the internet helps to make that process so much easier and way more fun!
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