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Okay, so you’re not a people person, but you’ve joined a network marketing, people-based business. What do you do now, and what do you say to people that you want to attract into your business? First of all, you have to believe that it’s not a lost cause just because you feel a little inadequate in the dealing-with-people department.

If you have learned all you can about your business, can share your knowledge with other people, and totally love and believe in your company or organization and what you are doing in this business, then you have what it takes to be successful in network marketing! But sometimes it can be difficult knowing exactly what to say to new prospects without feeling like you’re going to mess it up. Here are a few things to keep in mind when talking to people you know and don’t know to try and attract them into your business:

The first thing to keep in mind is that no matter what, you will talk to people who are going to turn you down. Try not to feel bad or take it personally because it is just a part of network marketing. Expect to hear “No thanks, I’m not interested!” and know that the more people you talk to, the better chance you will have of someone saying “Yes, where can I sign up?” When someone turns down one of your offers, you don’t want to be pushy and might be inclined to say, “Okay, thanks anyways!” and leave it at that.

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Network Marketing is a phenomenon of recent times. It is also popularly known as Multi Level Marketing. It aims at increasing profits and returns. When you join a network marketing program, your introducer constitutes your upline. The people you introduce into the network marketing business are called your downline. It involves identifying people who can contribute to the success of the business and introducing them into the business. Network marketing success depends on the quality of people involved, the kind of efforts put in and the marketing skills of people involved.

There is no clear roadmap to network marketing success. As such there are no dos and do nots that will guarantee success if followed. It is difficult to identify methods and techniques that lead to network marketing success. Some techniques work for certain businesses and people and other techniques work for others. However, network marketing success is not an illusion. By following in the footsteps of successful network marketers and studying their methods and principles used, the ordinary person, new to network marketing can taste success as well. Let us now examine certain principles that have helped network marketers in the past to taste success.

Persistence

The key element in network marketing success is persistence. You need to “keep on keeping on.” After being in the network marketing game for a while you have a downline large enough to study its statistics. Network marketers generally find in their downline that 95% of the downline is doing nothing at all. Only 5% of the downline is actively working towards sales. This makes it all important to support that 5% in their efforts.

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I read an article posted on a self improvement blog site from two years ago that had this same headline and the list of 10 things to do below. The most interesting thing about the post was that there were about 420 comments, many several paragraphs in length.

The author hit a nerve I believe in his assertions that confidence can be improved by a combination of attitudes and behavior as stated in this list:

1. Dress Sharp
2. Walk Faster
3. Good Posture
4. Personal Commercial
5. Gratitude
6. Compliment other people
7. Sit in the front row
8. Speak up
9. Work out
10. Focus on contribution

His lead in stated the following:

“Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits. Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you. Perception is reality — the more self confidence you have, the more likely it is you’ll succeed.”

For the network marketer, when trying to win over people into your business or convey any sense of leadership ability, you must be aware that people have a keen sense of your confidence. It’s like a sixth sense. It may be subtle, but people can sense it and they are watching for it.

Lack of confidence is very difficult to hide if you don’t have it. People are looking to invest in someone who conveys leadership qualities, one being that of confidence.

So you can say that your degree of success is in part, tied to your degree of self confidence. Your degree of self confidence is also reflective of how you handle fear, doubts and worries. Your ability to act on those perceived fears gives you a sense of confidence that can be perceived through your attitude and actions.

The key thought is whether you perceive anything as fear and to what degree. Something may be fearful to most people, but to you, it may be no big deal. The way you handle it conveys your sense of confidence that people see.

So if you are fearless you will always be perceived as confident. One must therefore look upon their thoughts without fear and they will develop a demeanor that is seen as confident. Sounds too simple right?

The difference between outright fear and feeling unstoppable is a state of mind that is hard to completely erase with simply putting on nice clothes or walking quickly. Thoughts change constantly.

Your ability to feel confident has to do with both your feelings of fear and your feelings of self worth. Subconscious thoughts of self doubt and self worth can sabotage you and limit your ability to counter your sense of fear in any given situation.

So when someone is perceived as not having self confidence, is what they are also seeing their self esteem? Yes, but acting courageously can be your ability to be confident while on the inside battling your feelings of self worth.

Your negative thoughts don’t always have to hold you back. It’s how you decide to act upon them that determines your confidence and how you are perceived.

Let’s say you are in a bar, you see an attractive person across the room and you’re buddy urges you to go over and ask her to dance. In fact, he challenges you. Your feeling of fear goes through the roof. You fear that you will be rejected and look like a fool in front of everyone.

Public humiliation (in the form of looking stupid while public speaking) is the number one fear of most Americans. Your voice of self esteem kicks in reminding you of what happened the last time you did such a thing. You replay the tapes and getting a chill over your body. You react with emotional pain and a decision not to risk it again for fear of experiencing this feeling of pain once again.

However, if you are a rejection junkie with extremely low self esteem, you will indeed go over to the person, get rejected, and then subconsciously affirm that you were right. Your low self esteem part of your brain said to you that there’s no way you can succeed with that woman. That you are not successful because of your ongoing negative thought patterns and its no time to start changing your thinking! Because that is who you are!

Now, let’s say the friend who challenged you decides to go over and ask the same woman to dance. Does he have fear? Perhaps. Does he look confident?

Yes. But he made the decision to act upon his perceived fears. He dismissed his thoughts of inaction because he dismissed the thoughts as being irrational and he had the power to control his own thoughts by dismissing them and to conquer them. The woman agreed to dance with him in part because he exuded self confidence. For it was not a reason for rejecting his offer had she chose.

Is having high self confidence merely a protective shield against feelings of fear? It is if you’re faking it. People can pretend and sometimes get away with it. But to not address the self sabotaging thoughts through internal dialogue will result in that suppressed deep down feeling of lacking confidence to persist.

Courage is the opposite of fearful. Courage is a perceived attribute one has when judging other’s attitude and behavior. Courage is “feeling the fear and doing it anyway”.

Afterwards, you can meditate and address your thoughts of fear so that next time you can always do “it” – without the fear – confidently.

“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney
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John Stuart Leslie is a network marketing professional providing solutions to struggling network marketers looking to stay in the game and achieve their goals.

When I first got into business online, I didn’t really know what it meant to be a network marketer or be involved in multi-level marketing (MLM). I wanted to sell a product and a service that would eventually generate a good residual income for me. It is becoming clearer to me now as I get into network marketing that it does take a certain kind of person with certain skills to excel in this business, but if you’ve got the desire, passion, energy, and commitment to be successful at it, then anyone can do it!

Network marketing, or multi-level marketing is about people. It’s about building and team – a downline – and teaching them to be successful like you. Yes, there are different levels in the organization you build, but that’s not to say that all network marketing endeavors are pyramid schemes. As long as there is something of value being offered in the program and it’s not a program designed to pay only those higher up in the pyramid, then you are pretty safe.

Once you are into a network marketing program, you have to work on yourself and your own success before you can hope to achieve success with others you recruit. The problem is that many people are attracted to the big money aspect of it, and hope to make it big with little effort on their own part. Once you’re in, you have to make a commitment to yourself and your program, no matter what big hitters are above you, and you have to work it like any other business. This will take time, and you have to be willing to invest that time, and believe that in time you will see the results you seek.

Believing is huge in this industry because you start with a dream. There is a reason you got involved in network marketing, and one of the big reasons might be that you want to be a millionaire. The trick is to believe and feel that you already are, even if you’re far from it. This kind of positive attitude must be maintained, even though everyone will go through good times and bad in their businesses. If you love what you do, you will be able to maintain a healthy attitude and the discipline needed to propel you to greatness.

Most people think that network marketing is about making sales when really it is about relationships with your prospects, your customers, and your team. The best way to be confident about relationship building and team-building is to educate yourself and develop the skills you need to succeed. A lot of it has to do with conquering your fears about talking to new prospects by analyzing what the fear really is and developing the skills you need through practice and repetition. Part of relationship building is also to be a leader to your team and knowing how to handle objections to your offers, or excuses for not joining. Being prepared with a list of questions for your prospects will help you deal effectively with their issues.

Network marketing can be a business for those who are willing to work at it. Money won’t grow on trees, so if you want to be successful at it, then take the time to learn, grow, energize yourself, love yourself and what you do, and carry yourself and your team to the top!

MLM is a impressive online or offline concept for many reasons but the most obvious is for the type of income it can create the network marketer. It is so simple that many a wealthy fortune 500 company have used, some are still using, this professional model to build multi-million dollar kingdom and creating a MLM working at home business opportunity for many.

So why cannot the regular individual do the same?

The answer is simple. Regular individuals are now operating some vast MLM home businesses. Are you one of them? If not, now is an excellent time to get involved.

Millionaires have taken notice of MLM as a working at home business opportunity that ordinary people can work into and build a prosperous business.

MLM is a huge, flourishing business in spite of all the pessimistic publicity it receives in the television from anti-MLM groups. Many wealth people express how MLM is a fantastic chance for anyone interested in building a MLM working at home business opportunity without having to start from scratch.

Can you use some further income?

Most people would almost certainly answer yes to this question. Everybody can use additional income every calendar month. But where is this additional income going to come from?

One obvious answer ought to be is to get a second job. This option may seem to be the best solution but is exceedingly not. This is because the time you spend on your second job and the money you receive after taxes is not sufficient.

You will have to take into consideration your reasons for acquiring a second job and why you need the additional income to determine if getting a second job is truly the right way out for you.

However, you can begin working on your own part-time MLM working at home business opportunity . You can get begin in MLM nearly nothing for costs. This is a big plus.

Lets look at how your can begin this MLM business we have be talking about.

Getting going in MLM has become so easy that somebody can get take off even if you do not have much money to begin with. The key here is to solely get going then never, never quit.

Many reasonable MLM working at home business opportunities allow you get started for under $100. You can even find free opportunities with slight or no overhead expenses and with large support from extra partners as well as the parental company.

These companies will provide all the tools and methods for you. You just add your hard work, commitment, and obstinacy to the MLM working at home business opportunity.

Remember to choose a company that has a proven track record and that offers consumable products or services with an outstanding compensation plan and support from upline and the company itself.

Another important key thing is your commitment to the company and its products and services. You need to be using these products and services yourself, and you need to like them, so you can properly promote them. If you do not, your people you introduce to this MLM business well soon see you as a fake.

MLM is a intelligent business model for someone wishing to start their own home business. It cost next to nobody to get be on your way, you get a established routine like you had purchased a very expensive franchise, and you can be in profit in months in MLM as opposed to years in the franchise business

Therefore, if you appeal for more income while still employed at a 9 to 5 job, or to build your retirement income, then you should seriously take a close look at a MLM working at home business opportunity.