The Noble Quest – Metaphor for MLM?

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to conviction of honor and good sense."
Sir Winston Churchill

Sometimes the best way to get a point across is to tell a story. You've already heard this story. It has taken shape in every culture and every language. It has become its own genre. It is the Noble Quest.

Our hero or heroine takes on the task of seeking a specific goal – a golden fleece, holy grail, goose that lays the golden eggs, fair maiden held captive in a tower… You get the picture.

The Iliad, The Odyssey, Jack and the Beanstalk, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Othello, The Sound of Music, just about every Disney movie ever made. The heroic Noble Quest.

Our protagonist is beset by a seemingly endless array of obstacles and challenges. Ogres, dragons, intergalactic distances, demons, desert sands, wide oceans and tall mountains stand in the way.

When we pick up a book like this, or sit down to such a movie, we expect our hero or heroine to prevail. By the end of the story our quest will be completed and the people involved will have undergone profound personal change, emerging nobler and stronger for the experience.

Of course these stories are metaphorical. Our lives are quests in their own right. The things we want are achieved through effort. Hard work, sacrifice, fear – these are the things that stand between us and our goals.

Why is it that when we sit down to the movie of our own life we are willing to accept that we might not fulfill our quest? Why are we willing to fail?

Pick up your metaphoric sword and shield! Mount your metaphorical steed! Feel the wind in your face and the sun in your eyes and charge off in your quest to reach the unreachable star!

I don't care if it means you make one phone call today. You have the power to do it. And doing it gives you even more power.


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MLM Recruiting - Can You Hear Me Now?

I was talking to one of the folks in my downline yesterday, and he was disappointed that people didn't want to listen to his presentation. That got me thinking about how to get people to listen. And I remembered:

You can't.

As a matter of fact, it isn't even a good idea to try! If you are fortunate to have a chance to speak with a prospect there is one irrefutable rule: Shut up and listen! It's not about you, it's about THEM!

Ask questions. Not yes-or-no questions. Open, leading questions that get the person to talk about themselves and their needs and their desires and their dreams.

Bad: You don't really like what you're doing, do you?
Better: What would you change about what you're doing?
Best: If you could do anything in the world, what would that be?
Really? Tell me more about that!

The idea is to let the person talk about how your Network Market proposal fits into their hopes and dreams of the future. If they had the power and money, what sorts of things would they like to be able to do for their family? What kind of exciting hobbies and interests would the like to spend more time on? If they could go anywhere, where would they go? Who would they take?

If your prospect has any idea about what your business is all about, they have already thought about how it doesn't fit into their life. They may have let some ideas filter through about how cool it would be if only… Now let them expand on those. Encourage them to dream.

Network Marketing is a unique business in that the thing we really offer to others is an opportunity to make their dreams real. That's what got you and me into the business, not the cool products – the dreams. That is what we help others to realize. How much better could it get? You are a purveyor of dream-fulfillment! A vendor of destiny!

Okay. Maybe I got a little carried away. But maybe not!
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Law of Averages or Load of Bull?

I was listening to Jim Rohn today, and he made a point that hit me. I’d heard it before, but today there must have been a Velcro patch or something in my brain, and it stuck. There is a lot of potential to this idea, and I thought of a way to put it into action.

Here’s the email I sent to a heap of people. I’d love to hear what you think.



Hi. I hope this finds you well. I have a favor to ask. I’m doing an experiment (actually I have a bet with a co-worker) with what he’s calling the Law of Averages.

Here’s the deal. I started in a home-based business in June. The target is to get to the point where I can do that business full-time and be home with Lynn and the kids without sacrificing food, clothing and shelter. A noble goal and I’ll get there eventually. The business is a cool travel website and is promoted through direct sales and multi-level marketing.

Okay, I know that the second you mention Multi-level marketing people’s eyes glaze over, they think “AHHHH, Amway! Run for your life!” and head for the hills. The good part of all of this is that I’m taking an internet approach to presenting this. I don’t trap people into awkward situations and jam my presentation down their throat until they scream, or anything of the kind. I’ve found a way to do it so that everyone has a chance to just say “no” without any hard feelings or guilt.

Here’s where the Law of Averages discussion comes into play. My friend argues that you can reliably predict that there will always be 2-3 people out of 10 who will watch the presentation and decide that they want to become involved. I counter that such generalizations can only be made about a random population, and that my address book is far from a random sampling.

So I’m making this leap and sending this out to people in my address book. Okay, I have two favors to ask. If this seems way out of line, and you want to delete me from your email life, favor #1 is please forgive me and refrain from mocking. Favor #2 is this: Please pay a visit to my web site at http://www.EarnAFreeVacation.com and watch the presentation there.

If Brent is correct, 2 or 3 out of ten will decide to get involved. If that’s the case, I need the other 7-8! So even if you think it’s crazy, I need the numbers to make the argument. Make sense? Not to me either, but help me out here, okay? When you have some time and can sit in front of your computer, just visit the site, and watch the presentation.
http://www.EarnAFreeVacation.com

And thanks for taking the time to read this far.


So that was it. I am eager to see what sort of response I get, and I’ll post the results here as they come in.




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Personal Development - Key of Just Hokey?

As an avid student of Network Marketing I have had an opportunity to read and re-read a pile of books, e-books, magazines and articles on the topic. A pile large enough that my wife sincerely wonders what they could all possibly say that is so different from one another.

The truth is that they don’t often have all that much different to say – it’s just that they say it differently from one another. Have you ever had the experience of having someone explain something to you and leaving you more confused than before? And then someone else comes along and explains the same thing and it all makes sense? That’s the result I’ve gotten from all of this study.

One thing that every author, speaker, DVD guru agrees on, though, is this: there is an element of personal development that is essential to MLM success.

At first I thought that this was really corny, carnival barker-type stuff. Raise up the tent for the big revival rah-rah meeting! I completely discounted it. After reading, listening to, and watching all of these very sincere people tell me about it for so long I thought I was immune to it.

Then something happened. I was driving down the road, talking to a new recruit in my organization (Hands-free cell phone. I promise.) and I realized that I was talking the same talk!

After the call, I spent some time in real soul-searching and discovered that all of this communication with people, all of this learning about their needs, all of this encouraging their success had been somehow transformative. “Oh, NO!” I thought. “I’ve become one of THEM!”

Well, I’m happy to have made the change. This MLM thing has helped me listen better. It has helped me be more encouraging and solution-oriented. It has made me pay more attention to the needs of the OTHER person.

Not bad for a business that was only supposed to make me money.
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The Revolving Door

Have you ever known someone in network marketing who recruited and recruited and recruited, and then wondered why his or her recruits quit?

We have an obligation to our downlines to make sure that they are supported and trained to grow their business. Most people who leave the business do so because they've gone 60-90 days and see no way that they are ever going to make any money at this. We need to develop our people quickly, so that they can see that the opportunity is real and that they, too have a chance to make it in Network Marketing.

Just think how much faster your team will grow if you have a handful of leaders who are building THEIR teams!

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