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Sunday, March 14th, 2010Drug addicts and rock stars…
Saturday, March 13th, 2010So I had a two-on-one appointment with one of my team members this morning. She is awesome. She had met a young man at the bowling alley (he is 28) who wanted to know more about our business. Well, from second one he had little interest or ability to listen to anything. His story changed at least three times during the short conversation. Not one of our better appointments. He was asked towards the end of our conversation what he would do if he were making an extra 17k per month? This was somewhat revealing; “I would buy coke and put it up my nose.”
Ok, so maybe he wasn’t our next superstar. But my associate was. She told him that he wasn’t the guy we were looking for. She was polite, but firm. We don’t always talk to the right people, but people none the less, can be fascinating. Rachel, my associate, has my eternal respect and admiration.
After that I went to breakfast with one of the MLM industry’s true rock stars, Mr. Tom Chenault. Tom also happens to be my upline leader. I’m tough on my upline leaders. I have been around and they have to know their onions. Tom does. Our conversations are frank, honest, sometimes brutal and always enlightening. I hate him…And I love him too. While I don’t always like or agree with what he says, I always appreciate that he has the courage, conviction and compassion to say it.
Today was no different. We talked about developing leaders and disagreed about developing leaders. We talked about building a business and disagreed about building a business. Do I think he is wrong?….nope, just different approaches. Now to my point…I still learn from Tom and, even when he provokes me, I force myself to be totally accountable to him. He is my upline, my friend, my respected peer and my accountability partner. If you choose to find someone that skilled and that experienced, who you let that far in, you will be going places. I highly recommend it.
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Your products and autoship…
Monday, March 1st, 2010Hopefully it goes without saying, autoship is one of the cornerstones of your business. If you aren’t on it, you can’t expect your team members to be on it. If you aren’t on it, you simply won’t be successful in your business. If you can’t embrace autoship, get the hell out of network marketing! Really, you don’t have any chance of being successful. The industry doesn’t need another non-accountable idiot blaming everyone but them self for failure when they aren’t willing to do what it takes to win.
That being said, it’s easy to maintain an autoship. Just use your own products. If you don’t like them enough to use them regularly, you’re with the wrong company. With most companies, a few pills, or drinks, or laundry loads, or meal replacements, or beauty sessions and you’re all set. If you are using your own products it is enhancing your life and you are easily meeting your autoship obligations.
Frankly, you’re only 1000 or so autoships from declaring your independence from the corporate system. It all starts with you. Your infectious enthusiasm for the possibilities that life has in store for you and your team members is all you need to win. Yes there is work involved and being persistent and consistent for 5-10 hours a week, every week is IMPORTANT. On the other hand, TV isn’t going to pay you 10 grand a month, no matter how much you watch.
Embrace the fundamentals, use and promote autoship.
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com