How To Sponsor People Into Your Network Marketing Business

By | Bill Fletcher

This article was years in the making.  In my network marketing business I struggled with MLM. Years later it became easier.  I said easier not fool proof. So “How To Sponsor People Into Your Network Marketing Business”…here is some thoughts of years in the making.

Like so many Network Marketers the main theme of their frustration is “I Simply Can’t Sponsor People in My MLM Business”.  “I try and I try but no one joins”.  Or another theme is “How Do I get Leads”?

I will try to help you with some ideas that may work.

Who am I?  I have been in network marketing for over 10 years. And 8 of those 10 years I struggled.  I quit twice, changed MLM companies 4 times no actually 5. Sponsored people only to have them drop-out. No shows at meetings and cards on car windows. Talked to all my friends and family.  Nothing was working.  Nothing was working that was UNTIL…

Network Marketing is NOT Hard, when done right.  Network Marketing is HARD when done wrong.  If your not growing your business every week then you must be doing something wrong and you find it hard.

Why are so many people stuck, IN SPITE OF doing the things they’re supposed to do?

My sponsor is making money and their sponsor is making money.  I’m struggling!  Let me say something that may help you and set you at ease….EVERYONE STRUGGLES AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER.  Your sponsor struggled, Your not alone.  You just haven’t figured it out yet.  I struggled until I found out…it wasn’t the MLM company at fault or my sponsor.  It wasn’t the companies compensation plan, it was ME.

I finally realized what the problem was.

It’s really pretty simple, yet I find that’s it’s one of the hardest things to do.

And if you’ll be honest with yourself, you’ll agree that it takes an enormous amount of mental discipline to stay on track… ESPECIALLY when things are not going all that well.  When every one is saying NO to your business opportunity.  When your friends and family are telling you get a job and quit poking around with the MLM Scam stuff.  It’s hard to stay positive

They mean well, but just don’t know the real power of network marketing.

This lady had a dream of building a MLM business, but the dream was destroyed by a family member.  She lost 8 years in her business.  And as she explains it was 8 years lost.

What Was My Discovery?

I know this is going to disappoint you.  You are looking for the “Silver Bullet” that will explain all the problems of the world and your rise to success.

My Secret...Focus!  I told you… Your disappointed right!.  But really my break through was to focus.  Forget about your past failures.  Forget about your NO’s.  Forget about all the issues you have dealt with and Focus on the task at hand.

Focus ONLY on what you want… and NOT thinking about the things that hold you back.

It’s easy when you grasp the power of Focus.  Close your eyes…are they closed?  Your sitting on the beach with the warm blue waters at your feet.  Your loved one beside you.  Tomorrow you are going out to a fancy dinner.  Next week your on your way to Africa for site seeing.  You paid cash for this trip and when you return home you have more money in your bank account than when you left.  That was EASY.  Of course if you really had your eyes closed you didn’t read this!I

Your Sub Conscious

It’s the 2nd part that sub-conscious that cause most of us the problems.

It’s that darn voice whispering fear, doubt, can’t and worry into your ear.

It’s that little voice saying to you why you haven’t make $100,000 this year or that trip to the beach. Then it starts naming all the reasons why you can’t.

You create a new marketing campaign… and instantly the voice start doubting – “what if it doesn’t work AGAIN?”

We all have these thoughts.  Professionals just ignore them while most of us can’t.

These thoughts fuel your beliefs… DICTATING ultimately what ends up happening.  You say to yourself, “I told you, it wasn’t going to work”, and you believe it.

Bottom line is… you attract THAT what you think about it.  Read some books listed below to get rid of those negative thoughts.

When you can eliminate fear, doubt, and worry you can have everything you want…When you can eliminate fear, doubt, and worry… you can have everything you want.

I know this is common sense and chances are you’ve heard it before.

The two worst words you can say in the English language…I CAN’T.  When you can’t your right. When you can your right.  Notice there is no difference, except in your belief. Your mind does not know the difference.

We all KNOW what we need to do… but it’s NOT what you know, it’s what you DO.  Doing gets rid of I Can’t.

I have a 4 year old daughter and the love of my life.  Yesterday she said, “I can’t do it”.  She want to ride her tricycle.  “I can’t do it”.  “Well honey, you have never tried”.  “Let’s try..Okay”?  She tried, a little clumbsy at first but today as I’m writing this article, she is outside riding her tricycle.  What was the difference..she tried.  Her little brain new nothing between CAN”T and CAN when she tried.

Let’s do it a different way

A friend came to me a few years ago and wanted to start his own training business. He had a great background and drive, so there was no reason why he would not succeed.

I told him that a new business takes effort and thought.  You need to have a guide to where you are and where you want to go.  You need to have a marketing outline and how you plan to get students.

I explaining to him that a new business is tricky, and there are things you need to know about. Advertising, management, financial, etc….he smirk and said “I have a great background in training, I’ve got a business degree, I think I can figure it all out”.

It’s now several years later and he is still trying to get the business growing.  What do you think the problem was?  He wasn’t interested in finding out HOW, because he KNOWS.

It’s the same in our network business… you might KNOW what you need to do and HOW you need to think.  But putting the know and how together is how they fail.

..it’s the application of How and the knowledge that’s the issue.

Flip The Switch

Here’s a little technique from Dr. Robert Anthony in regards to training yourself to think about what you want and NOT about doubt, worry and fear.

It’s called a “flip the switch”.

The minute you catch yourself doubting, worrying or having any counterproductive thoughts… you just FLIP THE SWITCH and change your thought to what you actually want.

See, it turns out that you can only hold ONE thought a time, so when you REPLACE the negative thought with a positive one, you instantly change your focus.

And when you change your focus, you change how you feel and that’s when the magic happens.

It’s easy to slide and go into a negative state… but it doesn’t do you any good. So you might as well practice this little technique and the moment you catch yourself sliding,

FLIP THE SWITCH.

How Does It Work?

Maybe you want…

• More Money…how much?
• New Car…which one?
• New Home…where?

Now why don’t have those things yet?  Think about that. If you say you CONSCIOUSLY want them WHY don’t you have them yet?

What is the hang-up? What is holding you back?   You’re UNCONSCIOUS BELIEF THAT I CAN’T.

FLIP THE SWITCH

…and feel the JOY that I did it or I have it.

Its takes 7 minutes to flip the switch.  Your saying “7 minutes, that’s ridiculous, you just flip a switch and it changes”.  Not really!

Remember you have many years of Stinkin-Thinkin, and the brain is not easily changed.  So for a few minutes you have to reprogram the brain (Sub Conscious) to hear want you are trying to convey.

So the exercise is “I just flipped the switch, my can’t is replaced with I can, my excuse is replaced with can do and my negatives are replaced with positive”.  Do this for 7 minutes a day and you will be surprised with your results.

My hope is that you got “something” out of the article.  Remember when I said you may be disappointed with my discovery.  Actually when I Flipped The Switch and focused on the task at hand such as becoming good at getting leads, it all changed.  I found a way to get leads by teaching my sub-conscious mind to find a way.  Yours may be, Facebook, PPC, Twitter, Squidoo, YouTube or Blogging as Empower Network has established for you.  You may want affiliate marketing to be your income source.  No matter what it is, Flip The Switch and focus on how to do and do it well.

Thank you

To your success

PS:  Some good books to change the way you think are; “Think And Grow Rich”, “Acres Of Diamonds”, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, “See You At The Top”, “Beach Money”

Many thanks to Ray for contributing thoughts to this post.