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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
Leaders show up….
Sunday, February 28th, 2010My wife Pattie posted my schedule on Google calendar so my team members could see when I am busy and schedule my time if they want to. By surrendering to this I am finding that most of my time is booked in advance with three-ways and two on ones. This, of course, also makes my time more valuable to both me and my team members.
She also has scheduled all the meetings and functions that I will be at in advance. So every Monday evening is scheduled in advance, also Wednesday evenings, a Sunday conference call that I do with the 14 Diamonds that I have on my team, plus lunch on Thursday and Friday that I have with my two Double Diamonds, the monthly Saturday trainings that we do, Company Convention in April, a team cruise in September, and two quarterly events at home in late July and a holiday party in December.
How do I know who my leaders are? They show up too. Leaders attend the meetings and functions. Leaders are a big part of the team culture. They know how important it is to participate, set the example and promote participation. All of these things keep you in the game and keep your team members in the game. Once you let yourself drift away…you’re toast.
You simply cannot succeed in a big way by being a wondering generality. Commitment is EVERYTHING to your ability to succeed. It keeps you going and it’s how others judge whether they are going to join your business or not. If your sponsoring is down, look in the mirror. You will either see someone who shows up…or not. You will either see someone destined to acquire their dreams…or not.
Leaders show up to succeed….do you?
Best of success,
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Let’s go cruzin now…
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Time to move on. High 5 Team….October cruise. Let’s have some fun mixed in with our business.
Go get em,
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
A well placed card…
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009I saw this on Facebook posted by Christina Thompson. I liked it and wanted to take the opportunity to pass it on here:
When doing your Christmas cards take one and send it to this address: A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave NW, Washington,D.C. 20307. If we pass this on, think how many cards these wonderful, special people would get. PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Just copy and paste to your blog or FB wall if you agree (and enjoy your freedom.)
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Immerse yourself in the team culture…
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009You’ve been involved in your network marketing business for a couple months. You’ve been to an opportunity meeting and now you’re at home watching NCIS. “I don’t have anyone going to the meeting, why should I go?” Well, its the culture stupid!
I know, you’re smarter than everyone else. You’ve got no one coming so it’s a waste of time for you to be there. Besides, NCIS is far more important to your future. Well my friend, you don’t know it yet, but you’re already toast. You’re gone, kaput, road kill. And it’s your own darn fault!
In an alternate universe, the one where you’re successful…you’d be attending all the meetings and functions. In that universe you know how critical it is to immerse yourself in the culture. There, you’ll know that no one has ever had a life changing epiphany while watching prime time TV. You’ll know the importance of being involved. You’ll know it’s good to be around excited, happy people who are all moving toward a common goal. In that universe you are a strong team player and you’re supporting others with your presence. In that universe, you aren’t selfish!
In order to get what you want out of the business, you have to give something in to it. You have to participate. You can’t do it by yourself, we all need to be a part of the culture to succeed in it. If you could do it by yourself, you would have already done it. When you’re ready to win, to really win, you’ll get committed to the process. Part of that process is showing up.
Immerse yourself in your team’s culture, it’s part of your road to success.
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
MLM Video Marketing Secrets Exposed
Friday, October 23rd, 2009A blog I ran across that I liked and thought I would share it with you here:
When it comes to network marketing, if you can’t learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly and do a lot more of it…
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009So you want to be a network marketer but you just can’t get the hang of it. You’ve read all the books, you’ve listened to all the cd’s and you’ve attended every meeting and seminar that you could. Have you tried going to see someone to tell them about your business? If you don’t know it yet, activity will create knowledge but knowledge won’t create activity…and it takes activity to build a network marketing business!
Time and time again I see people that never get started because they don’t know everything there is to know about the business yet. “What if someone asks me a question that I don’t know the answer to?” Well maybe you could say something like, I don’t know, let me find out for you. MLM is such a simple business. You go share the opportunity and products with people and they tell you if they want to join you or not.
You’ve probably heard that the answer is always no until you ask. If you are afraid to contact the people on your list because they might say no, your worst fears have already come true. Since you’re afraid to ask, they’ve already said NO! Want to over come your fear?…go see some people. Want to learn more about the business?…go see some people. Want to build a network marketing business?…go see some people. Want to make a lot of money?…you probably get the idea.
GO SEE SOME PEOPLE!
Greg Arnold
http://www.Greg-Arnold.com
Sounding like Big Al…
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Ok, I admit it, I’m going to sound exactly like Tom ‘Big Al‘ Schreiter here. Mostly because I stole the bulk of this material from him. Or at the very least he was a huge inspiration for it. So why repeat it?…cuz it’s true! No…it’s really true!!! What’s true? I’m glad you asked.
“We all do network marketing anyway, why not get paid for it?”…Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter.
When was the last time you saw a good movie and recommend it to a friend, who recommended it to a friend, who recommended it to a friend. You may have started a chain of recommendations that caused hundreds of people to see the movie, buy snacks at outrageous prices and make a lot of money for the local movie theater. Did you get an end of the month “word of mouth” bonus check from the movie guys? If not, you just participated in network marketing, but you didn’t get paid for it.
Don’t feel bad, most of us do just that everyday. We recommend stuff we like, to our friends and coworkers, who buy it too, and we get nothing for it. Probably not even a thank you from your friend. This caused me to think several years ago…How can I be so stupid! Frankly, I don’t have the stamina to tell you all the reasons for that, but hopefully you may get the point anyway. All network marketing is…is a network of people who know each other sharing things they like with each other.
So the question is, why are you still network marketing and NOT getting paid for it?
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com