This is a new twist on the the world of Network Marketing…Being Small In Network Marketing.

In the traditional business world, people think having a BIG business with a bunch of resources…

…such as being able to hire the best, pay signing bonuses, issue stocks galore, cut enormous paychecks, and provide outrageous perks…

…all SEEM like unfair advantages large corporations have over the “little guy.”

But in actuality, being small has its own advantages.

I’m currently reading book titled, The Road Less Stupid, by a personal mentor, Keith Cunningham and a chapter in his phenomenal book has inspired me to write about this topic.

Anyway, in The Road Less Stupid, Keith talks about some of the advantages of being a small company…

…versus being a big conglomerate.

This got me thinking about being small in network marketing, and the advantages I had when I first started, as a “nobody” in this profession call Network Marketing.

When I was a newbie in Network Marketing, I sometimes caught myself, especially at company events, wishing I was already a double diamond or a top earner.

Because I assumed those people had an advantage over me.

Maybe they had more experience, maybe they had certain skills I hadn’t learned yet, maybe they had charisma, or just the credibility to be able to recruit more successfully.

So of course they were able to recruit and build an organization faster than I could, right?

Naturally, I thought…

  If I could just be where they were at, with their resources, influence, and credibility, that would be a huge advantage.

But the reality was that being small at that time gave ME the advantage, which I began to exploit and I’d like to share with you what that was.

Why being Small in Network Marketing is a distinct advantage…

Most of the top earners in my first MLM Company built their organizations a long time ago.

I’m talking way before the Internet took off, and the reality was this…

Their organizations were dwindling.

They were too high in their “ivory tower” to understand the struggles and the changing dynamics of the field.

They didn’t know what was happening in the everyday life of a network marketer.

And the their biggest disadvantage was how restricted they were.

Here’s what I mean…

Unfortunately, some network marketing companies and/or organizations operate like a cult.

It’s true.

These companies watch what their leaders are doing like a hawk.

They don’t want their leaders to ruffle any feathers!

And they certainly don’t want leaders to do anything other than what’s expected of them in terms of approved business building methods, involvement in other business ventures and even expectations around private personal conduct.

Many of these leader were clueless in what was going on way down in the “blood” line.

They were to big to see the struggles, drop-outs and frustration in their own organization.

Therefore, in many organizations, both the company and/or its more powerful distributors may start monitoring each other’s behavior, both personally and professionally.

And the business rules at least—both spoken and unspoken—keep people from innovating and trying new things.

The fear from the company, or top distributors’ perspective is that, if one of their leaders is building in a way that isn’t “approved” by the master distributors or company, other lower level distributors will catch on and might start mimicking an “unproven” strategies, putting in danger the focus, unity and production of the organization.

On the surface, innovation is likely to happen at a snail’s pace in many of these organizations.

The leadership is sacrificing the potential effectiveness of lower level distributors in a rapidly changing market, for the sake of maintaining slow and steady growth (i.e. protecting their incomes instead of the risk that comes with trying new methods).

You’ve probably heard in network marketing…

“We want only to teach you what’s proven”

Or…

“Follow our proven system”

The reality is this:

Being small in network marketing gave me, and gives you, an advantage, which is the flexibility to try new things…

New things the big guys are either too cynical, or are too afraid to try, for fear of how they will be judged or fear of jeopardizing their incomes.

When you’re small…no one’s noticing you

When you’re small and you start doing stuff online, for instance, no one bothers to notice you.

Maybe your immediate upline will notice something, but your company’s not going to come down after you, because you don’t have enough influence in the company yet and you don’t have anything to lose.

Once I realized being small gave me an advantage, I was able to explore things like “attraction marketing” and could learn to build my hone based business online without too much unwanted attention coming my way.

I was able to attend live events and seminars about how to build my home based business online.

When you’re small and you attend an event like the No Excuses Summit every June, by Elite Marketing Pro, which is all about building your business online, no one cares if your picture shows up on social media.

No one’s watching you…and that’s a big advantage!

For myself, I was able to build my online presence via my website and social media, before anyone was the wiser.

And here are my results…

Four years after discovering these online network-marketing strategies and exploring digital marketing, I…

• Sold my practice,
• I started to make some money for the first time
• Started to live a life style of my own chooseing

One of my sources of income was network marketing, the other source of income was affiliate marketing.

This type of diversity is important, but it also allows you to provide more value to your network marketing prospects.

For example, those two additional income sources allowed me to monetize the people who said “no” to my opportunity.

Maybe they wanted to build their own network marketing business in a different company, or they just weren’t interested in mine, but they still saw value in what I was doing, so they wanted to remain connected.

Regardless, I was able to make money and serve people in different ways.

That was powerful and that’s a lesson for you today…

You have an advantage if you’re small, because no one’s going to notice you, so you literally have nothing to lose.

Being small in network marketing allows you to make mistakes

You basically have very little to lose in terms of your actual network marketing business.

In other words, if you are afraid of what your upline’s going to think, because you’re doing certain things online…guess what?

That’s a made up fear, since you don’t have a big income yet to lose.

And even if you do have a little bit of an income going, that’s still not a reason to restrict yourself.

In The Road Less Stupid, Keith Cunningham references Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, where Darwin introduces the concept of the “survival of the fittest.”

The fittest were the most adaptable.

The fittest weren’t the strongest or the biggest.

Otherwise, the dinosaurs would still be around.

Only the adaptable survive.

The key to winning in any business, including network marketing, is how flexible you are in responding to the changes in the marketplace, the environment, and the technology that’s available.

Being BIG is the enemy of flexibility

It handicaps your ability to adapt and change.

There are plenty of examples of big companies who were number one in their industry and then collapsed.

Think about Blockbuster, Sears, Yonkers and Blackberry.

Taxi conglomerates are collapsing because of Uber and Lyft taking over the marketplace.

Amazon and ebay adapted to the environment and technology and look at what they have done to the buying public.

Being the fittest is about adaptability.

And the reality is the struggle for survival.

So if you want to survive in any marketplace…

…you need to have more curiosity and less arrogance.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of certainty, as opposed to clarity, among network marketing’s top earner circles.

Many top earners think because they successfully built their MLM businesses, they know the RIGHT way.

That’s not necessarily true, because the number one constant in business is what?

Change!

And many big companies, and many top top earners especially, lack change.

The classic was Blockbuster.  They resisted change and continued to open more stores instead of looking at what the public wanted.

Had Blockbusters not resisted changes, would they still be around today?

And so, if they want to survive, curiosity and less of a need to be right – certainty – is what’s required.

They need to ask better questions, and have fewer answers, in a changing dynamic.

Far too many times, I’ve seen someone who’s achieved a large income  in network marketing and…

And then operate like the marketplace is NEVER going to change

The reality is that the marketplace is always changing.

Those of you who have been in network marketing over the past five years know how quickly things have evolved.

The Internet, Google, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter and Blogs are now a means to communicate and build organizations.

And if you close your eyes, you know that all of that is changing very rapidly.

You can’t rely on your triple ambassador, who built his business 30 years ago, for answers to these kinds of changes.

Industry veterans do offer a lot of insight in terms of the fundamentals and leadership.

But ultimately, when it comes to technology & innovation, those insights are going to come from the field.

Your advantage in being small in network marketing is that you can innovate and make mistakes, without fear of repercussions from master distributors or the company.

Now, before we proceed, I have a warning.

As Keith mentions in his book, even though being small has an advantage, you can lose that advantage, if you’re not careful.

Small destroys its only advantage by trying to mimic the big guys and follow the rules.

You’re going to destroy your advantage if you always try to “toe the line.”

You need to be willing to ruffle some feathers!

You must be willing to do exactly what Elite Marketing Pro (EMP) does, which is innovate and stay on the cutting edge of what’s currently working—not only in network marketing, but in ANY business.

Elite Marketing Pro is trying to be rebels to IMPROVE the industry and the profession.

And this is for a good cause…

…so you can stay at home with your kids, rather than out doing home parties and home meetings, or hotel meetings, or being a “mall shark” like our friend Cari Higham talks about.

You can build this business from home, while your kids are playing five feet away from you.

That’s the advantage EMP is giving you—the ability to adapt to a changing environment, so if you want to be a stay-at-home mom or dad, you can do it.

Similarly, if you are a busy professional and you work long hours…

What’s the ultimate way to build a business in the network marketing space?

Being able to build a business from your phone or from your computer, your tablet!

This was not the way it was done even five years ago.  But today, phones and computers and tablets are normal every day items.

So if you’d like to learn more about becoming adaptable and flexible using the Attraction Marketing Concepts that essentially revolutionized and disrupted this profession a few years back, then I highly recommend you sign up for a FREE Online Recruiting Bootcamp.

It’s a video course where Ferny will walk you through how to build your business using the latest technology—where prospects come to you on a daily basis—interested in what you’ve got!

You can take advantage of these methods starting today—no matter how small your MLM business is currently.

This is, by far, the most efficient way to build your business today.

In fact, Ferny will share exactly how he grew a business which today, passively generates 300–500 leads per day, 30–50 customers per day, and onboard 70–100 new serious business builders each month.

These methods continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in network marketing.

So if you’re ready to get started…

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Again, do yourself a favor and get the Bootcamp and learn how to adapt changes to your Network Marketing Business.

So Bing Small In Network Marketing is a big advantage.

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Ferny, the author of the Attraction Marketing Formula, for the contents of this article.