MLM Networking Women

Occasionally, I like to share an “MLM Letter” Michael Dlouhy sends out to people who have signed up to receive them.

I wanted to share this letter because it is such a common “excuse”.  I know, I used to think this same way!

“If you’ve been in network marketing very long, you’ve run into plenty of prospects who are totally focused on ONLY joining a company where they can sell a product they love.

I tell them, “Look. We have 30 products. You don’t have to use them all. You don’t even have to like them all. Matter of fact, we have a Woman’s Formula that helps balance out the hormones. Guess what? I don’t use the product. I don’t use that one. My wife does. She loves it. We’ve got hundreds of women who buy that product. They love it. I don’t have to use it.“

And That Makes Them Realize How Stupid It Is -
- that they have to love the product. Right there.  And if it’s a woman – guess what?¬ Our company¬ has a Men’s Formula! It’s for the prostate.
And last time you checked, you didn’t have a prostate, because you’re a girl. But guess what? I’ve got a lot of guys that buy that product.

Another one I’ll talk about is our product that helps balance blood-sugar. I ask them, “Do you know anyone who has hypoglycemia, diabetes, low blood sugar, a sugar problem?”
“Yeah.”
“Great. Do you think that person would like to know about a product that’s all-natural, it’s been proven to help re-build the pancreas, and¬ will help them to use less insulin, and maybe even get them off of insulin?”
“Oh, yeah!”

You Don’t Have To Have Diabetes To Sell the Product, Do You?

Make it so ridiculous, they get it. I’m telling you, this is magic. People will come to you and they’re totally focused on finding a product that THEY love.

But that is NOT the way to build a long-term, successful, profitable business. When I hear that, I’ll tell them, “Well, then, go get diabetes. Go get diabetes, and this stuff will help you fix it. OK?

And of course, they laugh. It’s a ridiculous solution. But it makes them realize that the attitude that they MUST love the product is also ridiculous.

To get them into your company, tell them why YOU joined. Why did you join this company, this team, this sponsor.

I did a call the other day with a lady who is married to a heart surgeon. If I told you what they have to pay in insurance for him to stay in that business, it would blow your mind. Basically, he’s working for the insurance company.

So they need another income. They have to get something going. The first thing she said was, “Well, I’ll have to try the products first to see if I like them.”

And I went right into the Women’s Formula. I went right into diabetes. And I asked her,
“Do you have diabetes?”
She said, “No.”
I told her, “Well, you don’t have to go and get diabetes to sell a bunch of this product.”

And she got it. She joined on the spot. She figured she’d just try the product but instead, she got the idea. Now she’s in the business.

Do I ask people to join? Do I push them? Do I twist their arm? Do I say, “Get in now and you’ll be rich by Tuesday?”

No. I present the case for my company & our team.

The prospect makes their own decision. Mostly, they ASK if they can join. It comes from THEM. How could anything be more powerful?”

Can you think back now and remember hearing this sort of logic?

Or perhaps it is you who thinks this way.

You are either in an MLM for business or to generate enough retail sales to pay for your product…that you “love”.

If you are in MLM with the intention of generating a serious income, then you have to think like a business person.

You can have the best product introduced to mankind, why, it even raises the dead!  But your compensation plan, policies and procedures, and upline support are what are really behind your check.

Look for the product everyone is going after.  You don’t have to “love” it.  You don’t have to “believe” in it either (provided it’s not a scam!).

What you have to do is make money.  You have to make money in a way that is easy and duplicable for the people you sponsor into your business.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Do you ever feel like you are chasing down your prospects or some of the people in your downline? Does attempting to work with them feel like you are pushing a rope up a hill?

How often has someone expressed interest in what you have to offer, only to ignore your calls and emails? Or how about those people who were so enthusiastic when they signed up in your business, but are nowhere to be found a month or two later?

The thing that makes me shake my head is when someone signs up for my free ebook and gives the wrong telephone number. OK, so maybe some were typing too fast and hit the wrong key, or transposed numbers. That’s understandable. But others just simply do not give their correct contact information.

Why do they do that? Why do some people dip their toes into the water only to turn and run like hell in the other direction?

Part of it is FEAR.

MLM is a wonderful industry where AVERAGE people can make ABOVE AVERAGE income.

MLM is also an industry where most of us enter without knowing anything about the business. The “vultures” know this and start circling around the fresh meat that so trustingly entered the arena of Big Hopes and Dreams.

Because the MLM industry is open to anyone, it unfortunately attracts the scammers and “Pyramid” schemers. The pitch always sounds GLORIOUS and GLITTERY. The REALITY is that only the people at the top make money, most people get ripped off, then the company disappears in a few years. POOF!

It’s no wonder so many of us become jaded and skeptical. How many times do you get burned before you stay away from the fire?

But running scared from the potential scammers will also keep a person running away from potential positive business or training opportunities.

Another, more significant reason people run or hide, is TIMING.

Each one of us grows at our own pace…in our personal development, in our commitment to build our businesses, and in our personal lives.

A person may contact you for information, but still feel some insecurity about being successful. As a protective mechanism, he/she will avoid contact or avoid taking action.

You might have sponsored that someone into your downline who seems to have evaporated into thin air. He or she may not have a strong enough belief in themselves, or may have family members who are filling them with negativity and doubt.

Whatever the circumstances are for the individual, the TIMING for them is not right.
TIMING is not right for them YET.

Trying to Motivate someone who’s TIMING is not right…yet…is like trying to push a rope up a hill. Or have you heard the expression, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”?

Tom “Big Al” Shreiter has a saying: “Only take the volunteers. Look for the ones with their hands raised.”

This doesn’t mean you give up the ones hiding. Some may never come back to you for help again. Let it go.

But many others will be looking seriously for help when the TIMING is right for them. That may be in a month or it may be in a year.

So how do you increase your chances that these people will return to YOU?

That is where the beauty of an autoresponder comes in. If your prospects or downline have signed up to receive information from you through your autoresponder (such as a weekly or monthly newsletter), then they will continually have your name in front of them.

Always, always, always offer valuable content when using your autoresponder to keep in touch with folks on your list. This is not the time to pitch your business opportunity…it’s a major turn off and sets off salesman alarms.

Valuable content consists of sharing marketing and advertising tips, leadership skills, and personal development information.

A carefully constructed informative newsletter is an efficient tool that takes only 20-30 minutes. This leaves you with plenty of time to work more closely with the prospects and people in your downline who have their HANDS RAISED.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

When you first got into MLM, I’ll bet you were like most people.  You were new to the industry, had no formal training, blindly believed your upline sponsor and trusted your company’s leadership implicitly.

I’ll bet you never thought about distributors having…or being entitled to…a Bill of Rights.

I’ll bet you never thought that there was an MLM Distributor Rights Association or that there was a Network Marketing MLM WatchDog.

Now that you’ve been working your business awhile and probably have some questions, you may not know quite where to turn for answers.

The MLM WatchDog, founded by Rod and Marcie Cook, is a great place to start.

Rod & Marcie have dedicated their efforts into making sure the MLM industry gets fair representation.  They are also committed to protecting their readership from being scammed.

I have included below the Distributor Bill of Rights as found on the MLM Distibutor Rights Association.

Read it carefully.     

 

Distributor Bill of RIGHTS

1. Distributors have a right to own and operate their own independent contractor business. The company and the government should recognize that a distributorship is an independent small business with all of the rights and tax benefits of any independent small business. By entering into an agreement with any company, each Distributor is entitled to specific and undeniable rights to protect and preserve immediate and long-term residual income.
2. Distributors’ personal business relationships shall be honored and protected. Distributors’ downlines that are personally sponsored and personal retail customers are part of the distributor’s business. Companies will recognize the sacred nature of the sponsor/distributor relationship. Distributors have the right to expect company’s efforts to support and sustain that relationship, and do nothing to compete with or harm the Distributors business. No restrictions should be placed on any legitimate business relationship, regardless of a competing company being involved or not.
3. Product usage by a distributor’s personally sponsored downline and customers is considered as retail sales of that distributor and is commissionable. The use of the company’s products within the sales organization is called “internal consumption.” Whether a distributor or a customer receives a discount is immaterial, as in the case that factory or wholesale outlet sales are still considered as retail sales.
4. Distributors have a right to a fair and balanced contract. Distributors shall be protected from termination without just cause. Distributors have a right to automatic renewal without material breach of contract. Distributors have a right to a process and system of fair and independent recourse.
5. There cannot be any restrictions on the distributor’s spouse or family conducting any other legitimate business of their choice. The company has no right to condition their distributors’ business based on any third party that is not a signature party to the independent contractor agreement/contract. Such attempts may be illegal.
6. Distributors have a right to sell, transfer or will their independent contractor business to any party that would qualify as a distributor under normal conditions. This is a provision that also helps protect the independent contractor status.
7. Distributors have the right to expect that their company and employees be honest and treat them courteously and respectfully; and submit to likewise treat them with mutual respect.
8. Distributors have the right to expect that their company has taken all reasonable steps to insure that their products are properly represented and meet any and all legal standards, have taken all reasonable steps to protect the proprietorship of the products and they are shipped in a timely manner.
9. Distributors should have the right to join any legitimate association of their choice.
10. Loyalty is expected from both Distributor and Company to each other.

Does your company’s contract and policy and procedures follow the principles in the Bill of Rights?

Have you even read your contract and policy and procedures?  If you have, do you understand the legalese?

Do you fully understand what could happen to your business if your company has a termination clause, or some other clause not in concordance with the Bill of Rights?

Who owns your downline (aka “your list”)?  If you left your company, are you allowed to contact your downline to introduce them to your new opportunity?  Or will you get sued?

These are questions you have to have answers to.  It means the survival of your business…the one you’ve worked so hard to build.

I can help you find those answers. 
All you have to do is ask.

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

In the world of business, whether it’s MLM or a conventional type of business, it is crucial to be able to attract people to your business.

In MLM, often our biggest focus is in finding leads.  We need to find people who become customers and those who we will sponsor into our business opportunities.

Have you ever been approached by someone who uses the “Just take your medicine” approach?  Or maybe you’ve been trained in this method?

You know the “Just take your medicine” sales approach.

Think of when your kids have been sick and needed to take that pink sticky medicine you have to keep in the fridge.  No matter what you tried, you always got more of it on you than in your kid.

After pleading with your child to “Just take your medicine and everything will be all right.”, you give up and call the doctor.

The doctor tells you to put the medicine in some juice or pudding and your child takes it just fine.

Just the other day, a salesman called me trying to get me to buy some online advertising.

He went on & on for about a half an hour showing me the website and all of the features it had to offer me. 

He finally got to the part where he showed me the advertising space on the website.  He must have talked another 10 minutes about this.

After about the first 5 minutes, the main thing running through my mind was what was he trying to sell me and how much would it cost.

I also thought about how it sounded like he was reading a script and couldn’t answer some of my questions clearly.

The point is that I wasn’t listening so much to the explanation he was giving me about all of the bells and whistles.  I stopped paying attention.

He never once stopped to ask me what I needed.  It was only until he was done with his pitch that he asked me if I was interested in his offer.

He was trying to get me to “just take my medicine”.  In other words, just listen to his sales pitch and everything would be alright.

He was trained to think that he knew what was best for me, the customer.  He was not trained to listen to me.  He was not trained to listen to what I needed and then tailor his sales pitch to meet my needs. 

Just yesterday, on our Mentoring For Free Marketing Skills teleseminar, Bob and Anna Bassett taught about this very issue.

Bob and Anna interviewed Kaleem Abdulah about how the book “The Secret of Selling Anything” by Harry Browne impacted his sales techniques.

In short, you “hide” the medicine in pudding.  You learn to be a listener.  You ask your prospects what they need, what they are looking for.

Have you ever asked a prospect “What are your greatest challenges?” and then just sat back and listened?

Or have you been trained to get your prospects to “just take their medicine”?

If you’d like to hear this exciting training audio, send me an email requesting the “Secret of Selling Anything” audio and I will be happy to send it to you. 

Believe in Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Have you ever received an email from an MLM contact or a network marketing training service that had odd characters or unusual miss-spellings?

Most people would think the person was stupid or that there was some kind of scam underfoot.

There IS actually a good reason for emails to arrive with funky spellings.

Take this one for example.  When you sign up for my ebook, Success In 10 Steps, you will receive several training emails written by Michael Dlouhy.

Take notice of of the odd characters and miss-spellings highlighted in red in the following text.

“Subject:  M-L-M Frustration Causes Success

Hi Karen,

Frustrated?

A big reason for the effectiveness of “Success In 10 Steps” is THAT word. The eb00k answers the questions of frustrated netw0rk mar*keters – who REALLY want their questions answered. It’s eating away at them, why they just haven’t made it big. They are so darned – frustrated!

I recommend you use that word in your advert1sing for “Success In 10 Steps.” Use it when you talk to your leades. Pound, pound, pound on “frustrated.” That word is worth its weight in gold.

Things change over time. It may not always be this way. But it definitely is true now. M-L-Mers are frustrated, and they want answers now. Use that knowledge when you advert1se to them and when you talk with them.

To build your own big income in M-L-M, the people you sponsor will need a constant stream of hot pr0spects. I can help you do that for them, and for yourself. For details, call me at (541) 484-5455 or hit reply right now and send me your name, phone number, and the best time to call.

To Your Success,

Karen Miller
(541) 484-5455

PS: Karen, I hope you have had time to print it out and read the eBook, “Success In Ten Steps”, which you requested a few days ago. it. Remember, there are only two things in life—reasons and results. The first one doesn’t count.

If you haven’t yet downloaded the ebook, here is the link:

http://mlmsuccess4u.successin10steps.com/ebook_download.php?d=MTQ0NTk1CWthcmVuQGthZG9raXRzLmNvbQltbG1zdWNjZXNzNHUJNwk1

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When you requested a free copy of Success In 10 Steps, you indicated you were serious about learning the secret to making a great extra paycheck from home or taking your business to the next level. If that’s changed and you want us to scratch you off our list, just hit the link below.

To opt-out from receiving notices from Karen Miller, visit:
http://mlmsuccess4u.successin10steps.com/optout.php”

Why is this email written in such an odd way?

You see, most email ISPs will block emails as spam if they contain certain words, hyperlinks and “opt-out” links.

Unfortunately, there has been such a proliferation of scams and email spam, that ISPs have had to take action.

Primarily, the ISPs have to control the bandwidth consumed with email spam.  Bulk spam costs the ISPs money.

As a Network Marketer, sending and receiving email is your lifeline to building your business.

Professional Network Marketers and those offering training programs, know that many people out there don’t understand how their email service works.

This is why emails are sent “disguising” the words with miss-spellings or odd characters.  Even this tactic doesn’t always work since some email ISPs will block emails with “opt-out” links.

If you are a business professional, why would you use an email service that makes decisions for you on which emails you should receive or not receive?

Make a smart business decision and set up an email account that allows you to decide which emails are spam and which are not.

Gmail is a free service and does not block your emails.

Wishing You the Success of a Lifetime!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

So you’ve entered the field of Network Marketing and you’re beginning to realize that you’re one of many fish in a really big pond.

Is it time to give up on your dreams of financial freedom?

Or is it time to do something to bring yourself to the level of “Professional Network Marketer”?

I have collected 5 essential must do actions to brand yourself and make your business stand out from the rest.

1.  Decide on a user name that you will use on Social Networking and Social Bookmarking sites. 

• Your real name is the best choice.
• If your name is common (like Jane Doe), choose something with your name in it like “MentorJane” or “Jane.Doe”. 
• Avoid cutesy slogan names like MLMMegaMama.
• People join people, not tag-lines.
• Check a site like namechk to check the availability of your chosen username on over 130 sites.
• Do this before creating your accounts!  Continuity throughout the sites you use strengthens your personal brand.
• Once you’ve chosen a username, go create those accounts to lock in your username, even if you’re not ready to use the sites yet.

2.  Open an email account with Gmail.

• Gmail is one of the best free email accounts you can use for your business.
• Gmail won’t block emails that other providers would identify as spam…emails with the words “free”, “opportunity”, “MLM”, etc.  When you have an MLM business, you will be receiving a lot of legitimate email with this vocabulary and you don’t want to miss it!
• Do not join email blockers like Boxbe.  These types of services will block important emails.  If you are doing business on the internet, you don’t want to make it hard for people to contact you!
• Again, choose your real name if at all possible.  The email mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com is easier to identify with as a real person than the email k.j.miller.777@gmail.com.

3.  Create your own website.

• You do not want to use your company’s splash pages as your personal website.
• Start a blog where you offer unique, valuable content for your readers.  Host your blog through a service like HostGator or GoDaddy.
• If blogging isn’t for you, develop a simple webpage where you introduce yourself, offer some valuable content, and tell people how you can help solve their problems.  Take a look at Blinkweb for a free website.
• Your website will contain links to your products or business opportunity.

4.  Buy a domain name

• Again, use your own name if it’s available.
• Use your domain name for your personal website.  It looks much more professional and is easier to remember.
• Consider buying other domain names that capitalize on your brand.  Think of a unique domain name you can redirect to your affiliate page with your company.  KarensDiet Crunchies.com is easier for a customer or new prospect to remember than www. BestCompanyOnThePlanet.com/affiliate123456.
• Domain names are inexpensive, $10-15 a year.  Try GoDaddy, NameCheap, or HostGator.

5.  Make business cards

• Create business cards that are unique to you.
• Include your photo.
• Include your name, phone number, email, skype ID, etc.
• Include a tagline that tells how you will solve people’s problems.
• Include your website with your personal domain name. 

Starting your own business takes planning, patience and persistence.  Getting off to a solid start with creating your own brand will help you focus your marketing efforts.

Wishing You the Success of a Lifetime!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

Everybody knows you cannot have success without integrity.

Everyone expects that their MLM company’s management personnel have experience in the Network Marketing industry.

Everybody in an MLM company trusts that the management of the company’s business practices is solid and in the best interest of its distributors.

Most people have blind faith.  They assume since the company has a snazzy website with flashy banner ads, it must meet all of these criteria.

Looks can be deceiving.

Take for instance a woman, Sally, who has to walk a couple of blocks through the snow to get to work.  Sally really looks forward to stopping at a local cafe for some hot coffee and a fresh pastry.

There happens to be two cafes located on opposite corners.  To save time, Sally likes to stop at the cafe on the side of the street she is walking on…makes sense.

Every time she has gone into Cafe A, there is never fresh coffee, the pastry case is just about empty, and the waitress is usually out back on a 10 minute smoke break.  Sheesh! 

After a few disappointing times at Cafe A, Sally decided to take some extra time out of her morning and cross the street to Cafe B.

To Sally’s delight, whenever she goes into Cafe B, she is greeting warmly by the waitress and promptly served fresh, hot coffee.  Sally also enjoys a fine assortment of baked goods prepared just that morning.

Both Cafes look alike, serve the same menus, and charge the same amount of money.

So what’s different?

The management, experience and integrity of the Cafe owners.

Who is going to stay in business the longest?  Which cafe has the best interests of its customers and waitresses in mind?

Most people instinctively know what to look for in a good Cafe.  They know which of these two Cafes they would patronize.

But not everyone is so certain of their company’s management, experience and integrity.

It’s a tough question to ask yourself.  It is also imperative that you have the right answer.

Do you have a system for evaluating your MLM company?  I do.

Wishing You the Success of a Lifetime!
Karen
k.j.miller.777@gmail.com

In my last post about Mentoring For Free and the Big Lie, I exposed the hidden costs behind Mentoring For Free.

Namely, the Mentoring For Free Pro Version and the collection of CDs and ebooks Michael sells.

Mentoring For Free Pro 

Anyone in any company can use the training program as a lead generation system.  The Mentoring For Free Pro version offers…

• the ebook branded with your name and contact information,
• a back office to store your leads (those who download the ebook) that belong solely to you,
• an auto-responder,
• splash pages,
• an ad tracking system.  

Mentoring For Free is NOT an Affiliate Program.
None of the Mentors make any commissions from people joining the Mentoring For Free pro Version.

Mentoring For Free Pro is a reasonably priced lead generation system when compared to other systems available today.

Mentoring For Free CDs & ebooks For Sale

Michael Dlouhy sells a Personality Colors CD and ebook and an ebook about the 5 Pillars to Success.

Like most Mentors, I recommend people keep their credit cards in the freezer.  There is no need to buy anything until you read the ebook and see the total training program we have to offer.

All of the information in the CDs and ebooks Michael sells is offered in our free training program.  On top of that, the Mentors who blog or write articles for the internet, are writing about this information all the time.

So WHY does Michael offer these CDs and ebooks for sale if the information is free anyways?

Different strokes for different folks…

• Some people want the information in a defined, concise, and convenient format.
• Some people think information is only valuable if they pay for it.

What About the Lie?

The big question still hasn’t been answered.
Fess up to the lie.
What does Michael and his posse of Mentors GET from Mentoring For Free?

OK, OK, You got me!

Mentoring For Free is a lead generation system that offers a FREE ebook and free training…10 tele-seminars every week plus all the trainings since 2007 recorded and archived for anyone to listen to 24/7… plus access to your own personal mentor…a real live person.

All this to attract business leads.

Feel a little like you’re part of a cat & mouse game?
Is this where the Lie is exposed?

Here is where you have to learn how to lose your agenda.

Mentors help everyone, no matter what business they are in.
Oh, and all of the training is generic…no companies or products are mentioned.
The person you download the ebook from will not tell you their company.

But Why?

Let’s say out of every 10 people who download the ebook,

• 5 of them are happy with their companies and are just looking for some training. 
• 3 of the people are with companies that they know, at least deep down inside, are a bad deal, and are looking for help. 
• And 2 are looking to join a company and are doing research.

If you’re married, you wouldn’t like it if someone who knew you were married asked you out on a date.

Nobody likes being pitched either.
If someone’s with a company, they don’t want an opportunity thrown at them.

Only a few of the people who download the ebook will actually be interested in joining the Mentor in their business.

And that’s good!

• Who wants to be a sponsor monster and bring in anyone with a pulse?
• Isn’t it better to get to know each other first?
• Isn’t it better to find out who is serious about their personal development? 
• Isn’t it better to find out who is serious about learning business building skills and applying them through persistence?

So that is why Michael teaches us to lose our agenda.  This gives us the freedom to help anyone in need of learning these skills whether they join us or not.

In fact, it is not until a person goes through the training program and learns the concepts and skills that we teach that either the mentor or the client can make a realistic decision to become business partners.

It’s not until then that the Mentor will share his/her company information with their Client.

If they won’t become business partners, that’s great too.  They both get lifelong friends and the Client has accessed an invaluable training.

Still think there’s a big lie?
Maybe the style of Mentoring For Free is not for you.
Maybe you’re just a skeptic.
Well, you have a choice to make.
Remain a skeptic and walk away.
Or, get over it and get plugged into the system.

To read more about the Mentoring For Free program and find out how other Mentors have been impacted by Mentoring For Free visit my page here.

Your Friend and Mentor,
Karen

Of all the MLM business training programs out there on the internet, many people think Mentoring For Free is a big fat lie.

You see, Mentoring For Free offers a FREE education and training program to anyone in any company. 

The training is always free. 
The Mentors always offer their help for free. 
The Mentors at Mentoring For Free are a volunteer army.
The Mentors never get paid.

Many people are skeptics and aren’t ready to believe that something so valuable could actually be offered for free with no strings attached.

So is the Mentoring really for Free?  Or is it a Big Lie?

What is taught at Mentoring For Free?  Is it really of any value?  Afterall, how much value can there be in something for free?

1. Personal Development
2. Leadership Skills
3. How to Advertise…for free or low cost

Who exactly is behind Mentoring For Free?
Michael Dlouhy?
Who the heck is he?  Another lying MLM Mega Guru?

1. Over 30 years working experience building his own MLM business.
2. A distributor who got ripped off by his own sponsor.
3. Went on a mission and joined 100 companies to study how the businesses, contracts and pay plans worked
4. Wanted to take what he learned and put it together in a program to teach people skills so they never get scammed again.
5. Knowing most people who enter MLM have little or no money, so he chose to GIFT everyone his training program.

So, Michael Dlouhy just wants to help people.

What a lie.

Why would he do all that training and mentoring for free?  Everybody has heard him talk about his huge house in Florida that he built…heard him talk about his new Corvette he just paid 100K in cash for.

He’s not doing this for FREE!

Well, yes he is.  And so are all the other Mentors at Mentoring For Free.

You see, this is about a Philosophy Michael teaches…

• that you have to be a Giver,
• that you have to be a Servant with a Mentor’s Heart,
• that you have to get rid of your agenda,
• that Network Marketing is about building relationships,
• that if you build people they will build your business…and they will become your devoted friends to boot.

A bunch of feel good hype?  Another part of the big lie?

What does Michael and his posse of Mentors really get out of this?  Where do they make their money?

What’s this $19.95 a month deal then?

What about those CDs and the other ebooks he sells?

What’s so FREE about that?

Aha!

More on the Big Lie in the Next Post!

Your Friend and Mentor,
Karen

A longtime Mentor and Successful MLM Business Man, Tom “Big Al” Schreiter, often teaches of the power of using Storytelling to help build your MLM Success.

When Networking with people you wish to make connections with, either as customers or business associates, telling a story helps break the ice.

A story…

1. takes the focus off of the high pressure sales pitch,
2. puts everyone on a more relaxed, personal level, and
3. often helps to drive home an important point.

Let’s say, for instance, I was coaching you in an area of your personal development. 

You are having trouble focusing on your success. Many people important to you in your life have been nay-sayers, made negative remarks about your business venture, or simply have given you no support what-so-ever.

Discouraging, isn’t it?

To help boost you through these issues, I might tell you the following story…

A Bucket of Crabs
Who’s pulling you down?

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Have you ever seen a bucket full of crabs? They pinch and pull as they struggle to climb over one another to reach the top of the bucket – to freedom.

Ask any fisherman and they’ll tell you that a bucket full of crabs doesn’t need a lid – they simply won’t escape.

Why? Well, it’s not impossible for a crab to climb to the top, and really if they worked together it would be quite easy. But crabs don’t work together…

Instinctively crabs pull each other down-literally.

When one crab breaks away from the pack, reaching its pinchers toward the top of the bucket, the others promptly grab onto the escapee’s leg, pulling him back down. That crab is then pushed to the bottom of the pile and his dream of freedom is crushed. This is what we call the “crab mentality”.

People have a way of acting just like a bucket of crabs. Have you ever decided on a personal goal only to have someone in your life talk you out of it?

Do you have crabs in your life? A crab is…

• The person who discourages you from going to trainings;
• The person who scoffs when you mention your weight loss goals;
• The person who snickers when you say you are going to work from home and make $5000/month or even $10,000/month and more.

The crab mentality says “If I can’t have it, then neither can you.” When you decide to do something different, to reach for a goal and to improve yourself, the crabs in your life will do their best to hold you back.

Keep Crabs at Bay: When crabs come snapping, remember the following:

1. Ignore them: When someone in your life begins to pull you down with discouraging words, remember that you don’t have to listen. Don’t let them get into your head. Mentally tune them out or politely remove yourself from the situation. Who are they to tell you what you can or can’t achieve?
2. Understand them: Ouch! Insults and put-downs hurt, especially when they come from people that we care about. So what is the deal? Why do your friends, co-workers and even your spouse turn into crabs when you decide to improve your life? Do they really hope that you don’t succeed? The truth is that crabs are thinking about themselves-not about you. They see you attempting to better yourself and to change your life. Whether they realize it or not, this scares them. If you better yourself will you still like them? Or will you leave them behind?
3. You hold the power: Even the most persuasive crab doesn’t hold a candle to your iron will. When you are ready to change, and you’ve made up your mind without an inkling of doubt, then 90% of the work is done. Your mind is the most powerful tool at your disposal-don’t let a wimpy crab rob it from you.

Are you ready to make a positive change in your life? Don’t wait any longer. And don’t let a single crab talk you out of it!

Your Friend and Mentor,
Karen