Network Marketing and Me

I love doing stalls! In fact my first year or so in business they were really the only way I made any money at all if I am honest. Sure I would get the odd order from a friend who had seen something she liked on my Facebook page, but I wasn't paying the bills with the odd order for bath bombs! I was terrified about doing stalls, what if people actually spoke to me? What on earth would I say? I was so terrified so I did what I do best when I am trying to cover for my nerves, I overprepared. I swear, although I love to procrastinate and leave everything to the last minute, I cram in so much prep that I think thats the only way I got through university! I read lots of other people's experiences and looked at how they laid out their stalls. I also found a neat idea for getting people's details through doing a prize draw (this was before GDPR) and decided I would do that too. I bought one of those cardboard wedding post boxes, covered it in wrapping paper and made up a poste...

So by now you have been in business for a while and you have started building your list of people you know - you probably think you have finished it. Pro tip - you haven't, not by a long shot but thats another post. There are many ways to build your list so we will cover that in a separate post. Your list will be divided into two sections, or at least it should be. These are warm market and cold market, now people will argue that there is some grey area between the two and they would be right but it is best to keep things simple where you can. Put simply your warm market is people you already know and your cold market is people you don't. So all your friends and family and even your Facebook friends to some extent are your warm market, all the people you haven't met yet are cold. This could be people you meet at a stall or people who respond to a Facebook post that you didn't have a previous connection with before then. So how do you approach each? Well when it ...

So now you are up and running a little, you have spoken to some friends about your new business and hopefully a few of them have tried your products, maybe even bought something. What now? This is the point at which many people give up because they think they have exhausted all their opportunities, spoken to everyone they know and got what they are going to get. They are so unbelievably wrong! Don't give up, don't stop here. Follow this blog for a little longer (I am going to be doing posts every day for the next few days on the next steps, its too much for one post) and I promise you will get some ideas on where to go from here. Before we get into the next steps, there is something you need to get your head around and that is whether to lead with the product or lead with the opportunity. If you aren't sure what I am talking about, let me explain: Network Marketing is essentially two different things - selling products and recruiting people for your team or 'selling...