Honesty is Your Best Policy In Network Marketing

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There are a lot of MLM companies in the world today that teach their people to operate in a manner that does not seem straight forward. They believe that they would be able to close more sales and sign up more downlines if they do not use the ‘M’ or ‘N’ word (The MLM or network marketing word…)

The problem with that thinking lies in the fact that it implies you are embarrassed about your network marketing opportunity.

If you are afraid your friends or others will reject you even before you start to share about your wonderful opportunity, then you’re dead in the water!

Some disingenuous tactics that people employ include:

• A distributor calling their friend out for a drink without telling them that a ‘friend’ will be coming who is in fact an upline or sponsor of the distributor and they spring their network marketing opportunity on their unsuspecting friend.
• Doing the same thing as the one above except this time, they are bringing their upline(s) to the home of the person without informing about the presence of these strangers (to the host).
• Tricking their friends into attending a business opportunity meeting without revealing what the business opportunity is all about. This is widely used by a particularly large network marketing company and they teach their reps never to mention the ‘A’ word.
• Inviting friends and family to a home party which also turns out to be a business opportunity talk.

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Stop the insanity

The more you hide your opportunity, the more your prospect will disrespect you because you are acting in a shady and suspicious manner about your business.

If you are ashamed of what you are doing and you will only tell people about it when you want to get them to join you, then why are you in this business?

Embrace network marketing

If you want to achieve success in network marketing – don’t hide it… go public about your career. Embrace the industry.

After all, your career is no different from any other businessman or doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. In fact, network marketing has created more millionaires than any other industry on the planet!

Here are a few ways to make sure you can avoid the ‘business opportunity’ pitfall.

• When someone asks you what you are doing, tell them that you are in network marketing. Be up front, be honest and be proud of your business.
• You never need to be desperate about approaching somebody to join you. In fact, when you take your time to educate and openly share about your opportunity, you will find that others won’t be as inclined to run away from you.
• Lastly, respect people’s opinion about the network marketing industry. Don’t get into an argument about it because a person convinced against his/her will is of the same opinion still. So take your time and focus on education.

If you find you’re still feeling uneasy or ashamed about the network marketing industry, perhaps this historical overview of network marketing will help.