Hey BigWave Team, I’m excited to officially announce our Numis Team’s brand new prospecting and qualification tool.
It’s in the form of a sharp and easy to use tri-fold brochure. It contains key information and bullet points about our opportunity that literally will replace you having to be perfect, good looking or a flawless presenter. In 5-7 min over a break or casually at a fast-food restaurant you can deliver a brief overview to anyone, anywhere any time. Just follow the images contained inside for easy mental cues.
Ever wondered what to say to a potential prospect when stressed to meet them? Well now your new BIGWAVE QI BROCHURE can save you the worry, the agony, the time and energy. This new QI brochure can literally do the speaking for you.
QI stands for quality invitation which is what every smart rep wants to make daily. It truly is a simple, lo-tech, team duplicating tool that if used correctly can 1) increase team activity, 2) improve prospect qualification and 3) maximize sign-ups because you’ll be able to book more quality people in front of our company presentation more often.
Getting excited?
Let’s face it if you had a way to explain briefly, quickly, efficiently the key points of our opportunity, wouldn’t you take more action? And wouldn’t that action propel you to more presentations/exposures? and more enrolling? Exactly… So here it is, designed for you specifically in mind.
“Ladies & Gentlemen Your New BigWave QI Brochure, Voila!!” After much anticipation we have developed it AND made it so ultra simple to get them in your hand. Just go HERE: Log in to our corporate account via www.VIstaprint.com with the appropriate email & password (which I will send to you upon request) and order as low as 25 copies up to 10,000. Simply text me at 416-882-5122 “QI BROCHURE” or email me with the subject line “QI BROCHURE” and let me know your name and whose team you’re on. That’s it.
Here’s the what the cover and inside the brochure looks like below:
I trust you’re as excited as we are about exploding your Numis business with this simple yet powerful QI brochure.
Erwin Mcken
5Star Directors
Toronto, ON
416-882-5122
p.s. For more specific training on the best ways and methods to utilize these brochures, click HERE in a few days for a upcoming recorded training
Every time a plane takes off, 100% times without fail it will at some point in it’s journey, begin it’s dissent and eventual landing approach. How good the approach is will determine a smooth and steady landing. Today I am asking the same question in relation to your network marketing business, “how good is your approach?”
Here are 4 simple, effective and highly duplicable approached you can use to immediately get more people asking you to tell them more about your network marketing business. You see at times we do feel pressured to say the perfect words thinking that those words will be the answer to ultimate 100% sponsoring… without fail. Unfortunately there is no such thing. People are people and there no perfect phrases to magically enroll them at will. As a matter of fact, “You cannot say enough wrong things to keep the right person from getting and you conversely cannot say enough right things to keep the wrong person from getting out!” However by saying less to more people and by learning a few alternative approaches you can align the right prospect with the most appealing situation to them.
Are you ready to learn them and improve your prospecting techniques?
Side Project Approach
This approach is a staple because whether you know the prospect well or not, you can apply it to a situation without any pressure on yourself or using committal type words. Stating that you are involved in aside project suggests that for you it also part-time on the side and not requiring a full time effort. It goes something like this. “Listen Frank, this may or may not be for you, and that’s totally cool, but would you be open to a side project that involved gold & silver if it didn’t interfere with what you’re doing currently? By using this approach you will get several people responding to the gold and silver (obviously) but specifically because you have told them up front that it is not a distraction. You have told right away it is a side project so they don’t feel they have to jeopardize any current commitments.. Good for parties, social events and casual settings where you have met someone sharp looking but you don’t want to pass up on the opportunity to ask the question.
Warm Market-Close Friend Approach
The warm market is as you guessed it, the first area that comes to mind when you start thinking about prospecting. After all why wouldn’t you want to share good news and a great idea with those closest to you? Right? Well this is exactly the idea behind this approach. Don’t try to be extra or phoney or different than you usually would be when using the warm market approach. Let your friends know that it is because you’re friends that you wanted to inform them first. The approach sounds something like this: “Billy, hey I just discovered a way for us to make some really good money together, I wanted to share it with you first obviously before I asked a stranger- that’s okay with you right?” The most important thing to remember with the warm market is be genuine, keep it real and be you! If you change how you speak or present you’ll certainly confuse the issue and your friend.
Professional-Opinion Approach
This approach is one of the best methods anyone can utilize. Why? Because the premise is that you are not seeking a yes or no, but simply feedback and an opinion. While you as a solid rep shouldn’t really be moved by whatever the feedback is or opinion may be, the idea is to get this prospect to examine what you do. Further, because you are asking typically professionals, intelligent-type, savvy and a sharp demographic, their desire is to give you a analysis of what we requested, This dynamic drives more of these prospects to actually review your info without hesitation. You’re asking for their take (perspective) and by doing this, validates your sense of confidence in them. Do this with any human being and you can usually get agreement from them in a specific task. Here is what this approach might sound like. “Mr Tyndle, I have heard great things about your success and have always respected your insight, that’s why I am asking if you take a look at what I currently doing and give me your honest feedback and opinion.” If you always establish respect and admiration prior to the request,you can have very sharp, well rounded prospects always looking at your business opportunity.
Referral-Disinterest Approach
The referral approach makes a safe assumption. It is this: that the prospect is neither remotely interested or minutely desirous to look at anything you are involved in. This is where you begin to frame the approach. You will tell the person exactly this and it will sound something like this: “Mr. Prospect, I know we’re both very busy people and I won’t waste either of our time asking you about what I do. “I know you’re not interested, but would you happen to know anyone partially interested in reducing their taxes, building assets while generating a strong passive income stream?” Depending on the person, how busy or unwilling they are, they may give you several referrals at which (at your discretion) you could offer a finders’ fee.
As we have discussed earlier, these four uniquely different approaches can assist you when speaking to completely different audiences. Knowing those audiences will cue you into which approach is best suited for each. Again this is not a magic formula for as I have found out with length of time and experience, the less you speak to more people, the greater the odds of enrolling more reps. For a complete training on approaches CLICK HERE
Start applying these different phrases and reproaches today and you’ll see increased bookings to meetings, online presentations and live events your company puts on. Make everyday a prospecting day and and here’s to your network marketing success!!
Erwin & Eva Mcken
5Star Directors
416-882-5122
(Please share and comment and let us know which is your favorite approach and which one you’re going to start using right away)
“But you don’t understand, I can’t get anybody to a meeting or PBR!!” Have you ever uttered that or heard that excuse in your mlm group? Well today this blog post is for you. If you don’t want to explode your momentum then stop reading this now. Warning: The following information will cause speedy momentum to breakout in you business and change your team’s complexion
Here’s a quick webinar promoting tip that many reps have already started to implement and seen instant results from. When you know how to promote correctly (and rapidly) these new daily webinars, your business will explode right in front of your eyes…Just ask Joel B, Chante E and Don L on the team! They are just a few of the reps taking advantage of these new daily webinar times intended for busy professionals.
Here are 3 points you can use to be more effective before during and after online presentations. These tools may be new for you but you can learn the art of getting prospects to take action quickly by applying this strategy.
1) Before the webinar, (see video tip below to explain) but before you get them on the webinar, you could ask them this: “Is 20 min of time worth $12,000 per month to you and your families lifestyle? Yes or No.
2) During presentation, be attentive, listen yourself and take note of what is being shared so you can ask about the specific slides and points to the presentation. Don’t ignore the information…Also you want to follow along and master this so you can learn how to eventually do your own webinars for your team. To become a powerful presenter.
3) Always aim to get your sponsor or upline on a 3-way call. Immediately after the webinar while the information is fresh in the prospects mind, is most ideal. The bottom line is this: Don’t go at the task of recruiting, alone. Remember this is a team sport and you cannot ever edify yourself or this business doing it solo. Leverage whenever possible someone else’s knowledge and expertise. Those with more success than you in the business can lend you more credibility.
Here’s a great question to ask to begin the after webinar follow-up process. “So what did you like best about what you saw today?” If they have questions or sincere objections, then you’ll just want to pause and get your sponsor, upline on the phone or in our virtual meeting room HERE. For a more details on 3-way call etiquette, you can harness the methods outlined in these uploaded trainings,here
Quick Business Promoting Tip for Our Daily Webinar Presentations
The next webinar is scheduled in March at 3pm ESTCLICK HERE
Happy Webinar Promoting!
Erwin Mcken
416-882-5122
(Please comment & share this if you feel it can help another of your team member.)
VIRTUAL (LIVE) MARKETING
Refers to specific physical and repetitive actions you can do daily to create new business growth and results in your business. (even if you’re not in the same vicinity) Actions equal results. Massive action equals massive results. So here’s how…
Now starting Feb 16th, you can plug any personal prospects as well as team prospects onto our daily 3pm AND 6pm EST webinars that I will be conducting. These webinars are building in momentum and producing faster results. That’s right you heard me correctly, not only ONE but TWO twice daily presentations to explode your Numis Network business.How do you leverage and drive traffic to these? Listen HERE
Simply use the same exact web ID at the given times at the following web url. Go towww.JoinGoToMeeting.com and enter Web ID 470-085-695 and you’re there!
VIRAL (TARGETED) MARKETING
We also have the ability to make what we do with our Numis business become viral through, massive exposure and visibility on Google & Youtube search engine ranking. Rob West a very astute and qualified internet marketing graduate (with heart) shared with our team last night exactly how to do this. If you missed the call, you can catch the recording HERE while it is still avail. It’s a 1hr 15 min call loaded with all the tips, tricks and motivation you need to rapidly and radically explode your marketing exposure to bring more leads and interested viewers to your page or website. Don Lachance also challenged the team to start becoming more active as leaders to create a multi-directional replies and comments with those on our team who post, share and video upload value relevant to the overall day in day our business growth. for example liking a comment and replying to it our Facebook Group.By liking and commenting to it on twitter or youtube. But the ultimate viral boost you can give a piece of content is to create a video message response on youtube to the original message. This statistically has shown to increase the rate and visibility of the original video. Thus drawing more eye balls and potential leads to you
Here are two very informative videos that can help you super charge your marketing. One features a very nifty blog plug-in for added traffic to your website and the other explains how to use a Google alerts feature to connect you in real time to a hungry targeted audience.
Adding a Viral YouTube Plug-In To Your Website OR WP Blog
How To Use Google Alerts to Listen for Prospecting Opportunities
PRACTICAL (EFFECTIVE) MARKETING
Finally how can we forget the simple common sense wisdom of physically sitting with a prospect or potential rep and watch the online presentation with them? How much benefit can this actually produce? Tons. But two obvious ones are a) You are able to immediately answer questions following the presentation and b) quickly set up a three way call to give you credibility and leverage at the key moment to enroll your prospect with ease.
Practical Steps To Get Better Results From Live Presentations
Hi Team, Ray Higdon our amazing friend and partner is coming To Toronto Canada again!!
Join yours truly 5Star Directors Erwin & Eva Mcken as we host the one and only Lifestyle Engineer, Numis 1st AMBASSADOR and #1 network marketing powerhouse, Mr. Ray L Higdon
This will be a one night only event and guaranteed to be a standing room only event. So plan early to attend. (Seats are already filling up fast so RSVP here)
About Ray:
From the ashes of depression and personal foreclosure, he had enough. Within 14 days of making this declaration he found Numis Network, joined, and started working his butt off. Through the team and leadership of the company he had his first $10,000 month his fifth month and his first $40,000 month his 7th month.
He has since gone on to become the #1 income earner in the company and the first Ambassador. Ray’s story is testament that anyone can get to where they want to go regardless of where they are currently located. Now Ray spends his time helping others reach their financial goals using Internet marketing, Social media marketing and coaching them to have a “no-limits” attitude. Ray works out of his house and spends quality time with his kids doing what he loves to do! “When you love what you do, no day is actual work!”
Read full story http://rayhigdon.com/aboutrayhigdon/
Thur Feb 23rd
7pm doors open
$10 per person
8pm presentation starts
10-15 min BREAK
9:30 pm Special Mindset Training
(ALL GUESTS ARE FREE)
RSVP your confirmation to attend to secure your seating
Erwin Mcken
5Star Directors
(please comment and let us know you’ll be coming to the event)
Listen to Ray Higdon #1 income earner in Numis Network share powerful and eye oepning rep training. “How To Be Powerful & Effective on the Phone” This is the most profitable skill you can possess if you’re to build a large and thriving organization. At counter 01:26:00 you will learn the following to take your results to the next level.
What you will learn:
1) How To Be Clear and never Ramble getting your point
2) How To Deal With Phone Rejection
3) The Art of Building of Rapport
4) The Purpose of Leaving a Voice Mail when you Follow-up
5) Why 3-way Calls are so Powerful to your Credibilty
6) The Proper way to End a Call …and much more!
Getting better on the phone is the most critical skill we as network marketers can sharpen, and Ray delivers the best value any person seeking to improve can ask for. Enjoy the training and see you at the top!
Co-founder, Chris Kent presenting The Numis Network Compensation Plan & Our Ambassador, Ray Higdon Training on How To Be Powerful on The Phone
Hi All, We told you some big things were coming for 2012, so here is the first of many. Whether you are on my personal team or a awesome members of my primary company, we are getting ready to make shift to help YOU catupult your buinsess into a whole new level for 2012. I have shared part of the idea with some of you on a previous conference call I conducted, but not all of you were on the call so in this post, I want to outline exactly what we as are team are aiming to contribute to field plus what I am looking for from all of the potential participants. That means you. If you want to be part of this fresh project which I am referring to as The BigWave Movement, keep on reading.
We have many prospecting strategies and multiple tools to utilize. Things like Mueller’s Tax Brochures, Robert Kiyosaki CD’s, Garage Full of What Audios,Webinars, Sizzle Calls etc, All of these are valuable and I use as well. However when I step back and think about it, all of these tools tend to lean heavily on money, product(s) or a company profile or a detailed compensation, primarily. What several of the leaders and I have come to conclude is that 9 times out of 10 the real essence of “why” we build is overshadowed by the logic, details, numbers and sometime hype surrounding the “what” we do in our industry. So we decided to try something completely opposite. We believe it’s time to re-focus on the people. Bring it back to the fundamentals of humanity. Emphasis what matters and connects us all as teenagers, middle agers, singles, newlweds starting out, couples w kids, retirees, grand parents etc.
We agreed that the “who we are as people” and similarity of “what we truly desire” would be a refreshing introductory platform to expose our business when talking to new propects in 2012. So instead of extoling all the virtues of compensation only or logical product features solely, we create a tool that talks to them (our prospects) about about them as a them and not as a us. It would be no longer us doing this (business thing) and convincing them to do it too, but showing prospects that what we desired is the same thing they currently desire -and we found a way to acquire it. This flow would put guards down, get you out of sales mode and get people to tell you honestly if infact they are wanting to know what we know to experience what we are experiencing after watching it. The idea is resonante with them first then educate them after. So what is the project? A simple, short powerful engaging video that intruiges them to ask more info…and voila this is where you can get involved if you choose.
For those of you who would like to participate, and be play a role in this collaborative effort (The BigWave Movement) creatng a different kind of propsecting video, here’s what our tem is looking for from you:
1. Record a personal 1-3 min video answering these 4 questions below. a) What your background culture or occupation is. b) Who you are in one or two descriptive words. c) Where you want to go in life and why?
2. Make sure you’re in a well lit or naturally lit environment. HD is prefered but not necessary.
3. Upload it to YouTube and sent to the email bigwavemovement@ gmail.com by Feb 1st the latest (I’m extending the original time specified when I talked to several of you so this gives you more time to be thoughful)
4. Attach your permission to use this footage in our final edit and you’re done!
The essence of this project is for you to be natural, sincere and real so you’re tell someone who listens to it what matters to you as a real person. (not a network marketer) That’s what I am after so we can them find the best parts to express it in a edited polished 7-8 min final video. A video you can direct your prospects to before bomabarding their minds with info they’re not ready for. It so they can connect with others, qualify themsleves & save you time if they are not after the same things.
Again this is a completeley volunteer project and obviusly reserved only for members of Bigwave Marketing Team and of course exclusive to those active reps in our primary company.
Note: I am looking for qa min of 40-50 videos to select from. Not everyone’s video will be used so the more submitted, the better the end product will be.
I look forward to your contribution & thank you in advnace in enhancing the industry experience for all. (Please reply under this blog asap that you are interested in participating so I can keep track and record of your video you are sending to me)
Your warm market. Defined as your family & close friends. To many they are an intimidative and uncomfortable group of people 95% of reps dread prospecting. That is, until some other complete stranger shares their opportunity with them or worse your very same opportunity! Yikes that would be horrible, right? Think it never happens?–think again. It happens all the time and as someone who did make that error once, the pain of not sharing, prejudging and assuming cost me quite a bit, but it was a lesson well learned. So why is it so difficult for the masses the share their beloved opportunity with loved ones? Why are scores of people overlooking talking to their immediate sphere of influence to chase total strangers? It’s because we have not understood a warm market from a target market and know how to present to them. We’re going to tackle this into today ‘s blog and help you gain clarity.
Before we do let me ask you: “Have you ever been properly taught how to effectively share your business opportunity with your warm market?” and if not will you learn it this year or keep them in the dark for yet another year? Perhaps you enlisted in the network marketing witness protection program or in what I refer to as an mlm undercover sting operation for life. Seriously though, let’s stop this cycle – it’s silly and senselss. Instead for this new year let’s establish the difference between your warm market versus target market and by the end of this post you’ll see that 3 out 4 people working full time today are actually in your target market and want what you have.
A warm market group are in fact the people we know like and trust. But truth be known some of them (altough we are related to them) are not the first choie of people we want to deal with, particualry in business. Let’s face it our harshest critics can be the closest ones. This is where distinguishing a target market becomes extremely helpful. A target market group are those individuals who may or may not know but they want what we are offering and are willing to hear every detail about even up to the point of a purchase. You see it’s really not the opportunity that’s the issue, but the way in which we are offering it and who it’s being offered to. In defining the differences above can you now begin to see that warm is about familiar and closeness, but target is about benefit and need. When you get these disticntions clear, the focus of what you have shifts to who can beneift from the thing and not the thing itself. While your friends and family may in fact need the program/product you offer, you will discover more success comes easier by offering it to those who want what you have. The benefits are what they desire to either solve a problem or make a task simpler.
Target marketing also takes pressure off of the presenter and places the energy of the experience on providing a solution. If we are not solving a problem or filling a need we have an unqualified prospect or uniterested client and pressure is building. Which means we have not done our homework and both parties are not going to be relaxed in the exchange. When we force a product or service onto an unqualified buyer or non-interested warm market person a strange dynamic begins similar to that of corrosion. I call it “relational accelerated rust” This where neither party resonates any longer, cohesion becomes friction and a potentially successful connection is broken. The equivalent is like taking a scissors to a phone line. The signal or frequency is lost.
Now that you are clearer on warm vs target, who do you want to speak to about your business? Who would you prefer to choose primarily to focus your opportunity on weekly? You got it, the target audience. To this we must afix another layer of truth: Everyone with exception to a few are our target market. Here’s is why. As network marketer and mlm opportunity promoters, we are offering 75% of society a solution to a problem they do not know and can not fix. It is called financial independance. The average person who works til age 65 will either be a) dead b) broke or c) dead broke neither of which is favorable. To compound this dismal statisitc, while 87% of employees work for someone else they a) are building that persons retirement and b) having their retirement income depeleted with a process called taxation. The higher the income bracket, the more taxes are withdrwan. Isn’t this scenario pretty bleak for those masses? Yes. But that is where we as network marketers come in. They become OUR TARGET MARKET becasue we have THEIR SOLUTION. These people want 100% want what we have. A plan b, an alternate option to give them the desired outcome. More wages, less taxes more profits and less time to a brighter financial future. How many warm market people now look like a target market? It doesn’t really matter now who they are. Anyone on the below list can be our target market.
1. Your Mother and Father
2. Your Brother(s) or Sister(s)
3. Your Neighbors
4. Your Kids’ Teachers
5. Your Co-Workers
6. Your Mail Delivery person
7. Your Insurance Agent
8. Your Child’s BabySitter
9. Your Doctor, Dentist or Lawyer
10. All of Your friends and their friends…
Why? because statistically all of these people are economically doomed to the same out come. Exchange of time for dollars, massive taxes, no legal deductions unless you offer them the thing they want.
I am hoping this mind shift has clarified the differences between warm market and target market you no longer have to dread speaking to. Which brings us back to the original question, “How do you properly share your business opportunity with our target market?”
You don’t have to…but you let this information do the qualifying. What I’m about to tell you may shock you…
It’s NOT a product, NOT a company NOT a compensation and NOT even a top leader. It’s INFORMATION. It’s the #1 thing they are undeniably and emphatically interested in, emotionally attached to and universally connected with.respective of age. THEIR MONEY. It is a fundamental fact, people do not care about you or your offer. Rather it’s all about them and a personal selfish solution they are after. 100% of all target market 9-5 workers in North America are seeking this. They are the over 300 million financially bleeding Americans and Canadians being drained by taxes in the arena called employment. It’s these mass of target propsects walking by us daily hemoragging economically yet unaware, that we can now correctly engage and present our business to.
By sharing a copy of this targetted information you can radically impact their lives and your future. Go out and look at your warm market differently than you did before. Share your solution with your target market from now on. If this article helped you, please comment on it and share it with others.
Erwin & Eva Mcken
5Star Directors P.S. IF your upline doesn’t have a system to help you target market your business in 2012, call me at 416-882-5122 or simply email me at WorkWithErwin@gmail.com
Hey fellow reps, I am writing this post 3 nights before embarking on our 3rd FREE incentive trip paid by our awesome primary company (Numis Network) and before joining approx 180 other winners and leaders this weekend. Jan 7-13th. Suffice it to say we cannot wait.. Now while we will be spending 6 glorious days and 5 luxurious nights aboard The Jewel of The Sea having fun, eating good food (some heathy too) dancing, laughing and making lifetime memories…there are two things to note. A) It won’t be the same without you there so make sure you qualify next time but B) it won’t be all play time.
Continue reading to see what I mean exactly.
I have learned from the co-founders directly that we will be enjoying some specifically designed and scheduled team building sessions. We’ll be game planning, dream building and some of us even leadership strategizing over a few hours while we sail across the gulf on Mexico enroute back to Tampa. “Yeah, you bet I’m pumped!” Which brings me to the point of this blog today. For a while now I have been absorbed with the idea (which I can’t shake) and have zealously shared with our forward thinking owners that the need for a mobile application just cannot go unanswered or unmet. Even with the exceptional growth of our company in the past 27 plus months, the opportunity for greater growth by having a mobile app would impact greatly our business on many fronts. Increased market and product reach, speedy support and training and of course dynamic rep usage/ daily application in the field. It is my strong belief that our very own unique mobile app would explode what we are already doing in North America and UK. There would be no other mlm company pioneering graded precious metals along with a mobile app. A second first for us!
So why am I writing about this topic before my free cruise? I plan on sharing some actual data with the owners on the ship this weekend from you the active reps building in the field.
We all know and agree that the modern trend of personal computing has revolutionized business. But what many may not know is how powerful the modern day smart phone and now newly termed, “super phones” are impacting media, business and even our network marketing industry. We can say it this way: Mobile is transforming the way people do business and adapting to this change is vital. 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31.Over 85% of people get their information to their mobile devices first then to their pc After which, when they get home they proceed to jump online. Tons of users engage in mobile activities like web purchases, gaming, banking, travel and of course let’s not forget a little trend called social media. I rest my case.
Today I am asking for 10 sec of help and for you participate in a short survey below. Maybe you are just finishing your day or starting your January work week. Here it is: Simply leave me your feedback / responses and or thoughts to the questions listed below via the reply button found at the bottom of this article. I will gather all the data I can and present factually our findings of app relevance, timing and interest level to corporate while we cruise next week. So let’s find out just how important having Numis mobile application is to you for your business success in 2012. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
SURVEY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A NUMIS MOBILE APPLICATION
1. Do you engage in mobile applications on your cell phone currently? Yes or No?
2. Would you agree that you use your cell phone to access more than 50% of your daily information? Yes or No?
3. Do you carry your cell phone with you wherever you go? Yes or No?
4. Would having a mobile app give you reason to share you business with others easier and faster? Yes or No?
5. Would features like sales reporting, BV volume, new rep enrollment and training be valuable to have at the touch of a button? Yes or No?
6. If you knew your cell phone was like your mlm cash register, would you check on your back office more often during the day? Yes or No?
7. Would you consider purchasing a Numis University ticket, extra coins or more support tools via your phone if it was available? Yes or No?
8.Does the idea of receiving text notifications when you get paid or when reps reach new rank levels be beneficial? Yes or No?
9. If you ran into another mlm rep (competitor) who has a company mobile app, would you be slightly jealous? Yes or No?
10. Would you like to see our company (Numis) develop a mobile app in the near future?
Yes or No?
TODAY’S MOBILE STATS EXPLAINED SIMPLY
Let’s commit to making 2012 a historic year with our amazing Numis Network co-founders. Let’s help make this year your break-out and breakthrough year with more of you getting free, living the the dream lifestyle and enjoying a lot more free incentive trips sailing with Numis Network!
Erwin & Eva Mcken
5Star Directors p.s If your upline does not have a proven system to help you hit your goals in 2012, please call me at 416-882-5122 or email me at WorkWithErwin@gmail.com
This is a very interesting question and one that I’m sure you are asking yourselves this holiday season. Over the past decade I have been asked it often and also asked myself the same many times over. So I will attempt to provide a perspective that addresses both sides of this potentially divisive topic. Again this is only my perspective and experience over my time in the industry and in no way do you have to see exactly as I do. I have just never written a blog post about it before.
Before addressing the issues, let me say this. There are TWO kinds of people are asking this question right now. One that doesn’t want to do business and one that does.There are those of us completely adamant about not doing business over the holidays and then there are those who may (after the festivities end) actually wouldn’t mind being productive. So which is it? Is being in holiday mode and productive a mutually exclusive idea? After all retail sector shuts down for an entire day but are right back full swing the next. Well the simple answer is either can be right IF the situation dictates. As I reflect on data collected through the years I have come to the conclude: While it is permissible to engage in moderate business activity, it is wise to abstain from all forms of business as well. But how can both be okay? I’ll explain.
by presenting two separate scenarios and fleshing out the circumstances that would make each alright to do.. I’ll try to be as objective and unbiased as possible.
Take for instance a person who is building a network marketing business for their family and this is the driving force behind their why. This individual will think it to be a utterly wrong to not be present (focused) with family at this time of year.. Not only because this time is to be cherished but also because it’s limited. For this person bringing up or speaking about business is just not an option. It can even offend the rep’s family members and create a full blow negatively charged environment. For this person business at Christmas or the holidays does not work. I would agree and honor that position. If you know someone like that please refrain from booking an appointment, calling to dialogue or booking any business-related events. Learning this fine art of etiquette and appropriateness can serve you as a smart upline leader extremely well so that you can make a proper impression when the time for your opportunity to be discussed.
Now for completely opposite scenarios. A) Take a rep who is also building for their family and motivated deeply by this fact, that are asked to share or update a family member on how their business is doing. That rep may infact take an opportunity to share briefly about the positive impact their business and it’s experiences has produced through the year. This indeed is acceptable. If someone asks then a simple response should be given. There is no harm in that. What becomes an issue is how much is shared and how the information is shared. Meaning in what forum or setting. Clearly at dinner is neither the time or place to spring a detailed presentation on your family whether they may be interested. Doing that would be a sure fire way to turn off loved ones and put yourself in the “dog house” permanently and for all future family events. B) The only other scenario where conducting business is approved is where extended period of time has been blocked and is available. In some cases clients and prospects have specifically asked each other to call for that purpose. Further people being off work for weeks can prove mutually beneficial and set the stage for a productive new year for both parties.
C) There is still a rare exception which I will underscore here. It can and does work ONLY if the rep is hosting a specific social event with the pre-advertised and known intention of sharing about their business to the invited.. The key here is that you do not take anyone (friend or family) members by tactical surprise. Why? Because you never want to ambush anyone with what you do at anytime of year much more at the holidays. This is just bad etiquette -period. So if you plan a holiday social or festive party with the “known” intention you or someone will be sharing ie. products, testimonials. or in our case time-sensitive tax saving info and you promote and invite accordingly then this type of forum is feasible. It may very well be conducive to a successful business-oriented event.
As you can see by comparing the different type of reps and factors, one can either mix business successfully or completely omit it from your holiday festivities altogether. It is important to note that whatever direction you choose, you will have completely unique results. None of which are wrong – only different.
Final thought: Do I want you to enjoy the season? Absolutely Do I want you to spend time with family? You bet. BUT If you plan on taking off a few days or even an entire week, ensure you do not contract mlm business amnesia. (MBA) Statistics do show a high 60% reps will lose complete momentum and some will even fizzle away. They plan to stay focused but life knocks them out. I believe if you’re reading this, that is most certainly not you. Be wise, be smart and don’t let all you’ve learned, your hard effort staying consistent over 2011 be in vain. It’s by observing the masses of reps who take a mental vacation never returning until spring AND doing the opposite of them, you’ll actual catapult you ahead of the herd.
So to borrow from that famous quote ,” to do business over the holidays or not to do business over the holidays, that is the question? It’s question that only you can answer and a wise decision only you can make considering the scenarios I mentioned above. Merry Christmas, best of the season, safe travels and have a prosperous new years celebration. We’ll see all of you smart, wise and educated reps in 2012!!
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