yourmentor
15-05-2007, 09:38 AM
...the difference.
Hello everyone
I was sent this thought provoking article the other day and would like to share it with you.
Network Marketers - Professional v. Amateur by Richard Dennis
These words will be very uncomfortable for some to read.
Sorry about that. Here are the facts:
Professional network marketers get paid to retail product and build their teams. So that's what they do. Amateurs do it for fun, not pay, so retailing and recruiting aren't part of their plan.
A Network Marketing professional gets up in the morning and focuses on what they need to do right NOW, today, to maximize their organization's growth ... and her own next paycheck. The Network Marketing amateur gets up in the morning and gets right to work ... re-designing a website and then reading the online news.
The Network Marketing professional knows that today he must sell products and sponsor people. That is standing order #1 every day. He builds relationships with potential retail customers and with potential business leaders The Network Marketing amateur checks their email 10 times before lunch, to see if anyone wants to join.
The Network Marketing professional knows that there is time for the amateur activities only after the money-generating is successfully done for the day. The Network Marketing amateur plays online games until 8:30 pm, to give people a chance to settle in after dinner. Then they makes calls until 9:00 pm. They don't upset anybody by calling too late.
The Network Marketing professional does one thing at a time and completes it. The Network Marketing professional works on a dozen tasks at once, loses focus, and never completes anything.
The Network Marketing professional gets the kids occupied, turns off the TV, tells the spouse they are busy for awhile, turns off the email alerts, turns off the phone (if necessary), gets rid of all distractions. They do the Professional work first. They use pen & paper to keep an exact record of all their activities, and the results, holding themself accountable for their actions. When they are finished, they review their results, looking for what they can improve on. They compare this week's results to last week's results.
The Network Marketing professional is proud of their career choice. Everytime they explain the network marketing compensation plan, they realize again what a smart decision it was.
The Network Marketing amateur spends their day getting ready to get ready - organizing, filing, surfing, emailing, website-building ... anything and everything, except those things that actually make money and build their organization. They have no use for a "results sheet," since there are no results.
Both the MLM Professional and the MLM amateur work all day. One gets a big paycheck. The other tells people that their MLM company just isn't working out.
Regards,
Derek
Hello everyone
I was sent this thought provoking article the other day and would like to share it with you.
Network Marketers - Professional v. Amateur by Richard Dennis
These words will be very uncomfortable for some to read.
Sorry about that. Here are the facts:
Professional network marketers get paid to retail product and build their teams. So that's what they do. Amateurs do it for fun, not pay, so retailing and recruiting aren't part of their plan.
A Network Marketing professional gets up in the morning and focuses on what they need to do right NOW, today, to maximize their organization's growth ... and her own next paycheck. The Network Marketing amateur gets up in the morning and gets right to work ... re-designing a website and then reading the online news.
The Network Marketing professional knows that today he must sell products and sponsor people. That is standing order #1 every day. He builds relationships with potential retail customers and with potential business leaders The Network Marketing amateur checks their email 10 times before lunch, to see if anyone wants to join.
The Network Marketing professional knows that there is time for the amateur activities only after the money-generating is successfully done for the day. The Network Marketing amateur plays online games until 8:30 pm, to give people a chance to settle in after dinner. Then they makes calls until 9:00 pm. They don't upset anybody by calling too late.
The Network Marketing professional does one thing at a time and completes it. The Network Marketing professional works on a dozen tasks at once, loses focus, and never completes anything.
The Network Marketing professional gets the kids occupied, turns off the TV, tells the spouse they are busy for awhile, turns off the email alerts, turns off the phone (if necessary), gets rid of all distractions. They do the Professional work first. They use pen & paper to keep an exact record of all their activities, and the results, holding themself accountable for their actions. When they are finished, they review their results, looking for what they can improve on. They compare this week's results to last week's results.
The Network Marketing professional is proud of their career choice. Everytime they explain the network marketing compensation plan, they realize again what a smart decision it was.
The Network Marketing amateur spends their day getting ready to get ready - organizing, filing, surfing, emailing, website-building ... anything and everything, except those things that actually make money and build their organization. They have no use for a "results sheet," since there are no results.
Both the MLM Professional and the MLM amateur work all day. One gets a big paycheck. The other tells people that their MLM company just isn't working out.
Regards,
Derek