Did you know there are some things you are doing right now that are actually scaring away your prospects?
Go back with me to the day you decided to get into Network Marketing and Direct Sales. What were the 3 most compelling reasons you joined?
If you’re like most people you would say:
- Freedom to enjoy the lifestyle you dream of.
- Freedom to be in control of your time and your future.
- Freedom to choose the people you work with.
It’s all about FREEDOM!
So, why is it that after you signed your agreement and got your starter kit, you approached this business with the same mind-set as you did when you worked in the rat race of Corporate America?
That same working mind-set is keeping you broke!
Think about it; what do people hate about the traditional way of working? They hate it that they have to wake up to a blaring buzzer in their ear. They hate it that they have to work traditional hours. They hate it that their work environments are extremely structured.
They hate it that they have to work with people they don’t like. They hate it that they can’t take a day off just because, jump in the car for a surprise long weekend, take their kids to another country for the entire summer or any of the other limitations in traditional jobs!
Network Marketing and Direct Sales offers the opportunity to do all of those things and more. But, when was the last time you actually did one of those things?
Your lifestyle, not your compensation plan, is your greatest witness to your prospects.
The freedom you enjoy, not your product line, is your greatest testimony to your prospects.
Living the Network Marketer’s lifestyle is the ultimate benefit and the best advertising you can do to attract prospects and intrigue them enough to say yes.
When your Network Marketing business begins to look just like every other J-O-B, you are scaring away your prospects and keeping them from saying yes to your opportunity.
It was 1991. I’d been building my Direct Sales business for two years and found myself at a stand still in my recruiting. I began regaling all my sponsoring woes to a friend of mine. After listening to me for several minutes, she stopped me mid-sentence and said, Lisa, you’re always telling me how busy you are. You never seem to have any time for just hanging out with me. Frankly Lisa, you aren’t fun anymore.
I looked at her in shock. How could she be so insensitive? Doesn’t she know I’m building a big business here? If she understood how
important this is, she would be more understanding. But then she said something that shook me to the core. She said, And you have to wonder who would want your business opportunity with that kind of lifestyle?
She was right. Who would want to join a business that touts the benefits of freedom, work your own hours, be your own boss, live the lifestyle of your dreams, and yet the person showing the business has turned the opportunity into bondage?
That was the turning point for me. I took the next two weeks off and spent the first week deciding what my dream life would look like and the second week creating my plan of action to manifest it.
Here’s what I discovered. There are three ultimate mistakes that Network Marketers fall into that actually scare away their prospects.
- They allow themselves to get too busy. Busyness is the enemy to success.
- They fall into patterns that turn into bondage (and look too much like traditional J-O-B’s).
- They don’t have enough prospects so they get desperate for any one to join their company.
These were the three problems I had created in my business and they caused my recruiting to decline. As soon as I changed my beliefs and my mindset, I began attracting people to me! I learned how to create balance in my life with small shifts in my behavior.
What about you?
Are people attracted to your opportunity by watching how you live your life? Do people look at you and WANT WHAT YOU HAVE? If not, don’t think it takes money to create the change. It doesn’t. What it takes is a shift in your beliefs, a change in your mindset, and small shifts in your behaviors.
Lisa Jimenez can be reached at her website http://www.Rx-Success.com.
