Drive Your Network Marketing Business to Success

Ultimately, success requires a plan, the way a car trip requires a road map.  First choose the destination and then figure out how you’re going to get there.  Stephen Covey is famously quoted “begin with the end in mind.” I’ll add: begin with the end in mind and then work backwards.

We’ve spent a solid week figuring out our vision.  If you’d like to have a peek at our process, we shot a video of our big picture notes, take a look. You’ll see that we’ve just about blocked out one view in order to create another. We can’t wait to look back this time next year and see what we’ve built.

By ‘figuring out our vision’ I don’t mean that it is complete, a finished product.  It is not static.  It’s dynamic and flexible and we fully expect changes as we move through this year and into next year.  We’ll learn things we don’t know today.  Opportunities will come that we didn’t expect or see on the horizon when we started.  And things that we expected to happen will not.  Yes, there will be failures along the way.

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In our line of work, having built successful network marketing businesses and now coaching the industry, we get our fair share of people calling to recruit us into their businesses.  And, good on ‘em. Before you head for the phone, let me say it’s against our company policy.  We wouldn’t expect you to trust us wholly and completely with your downline if we had another agenda, so we don’t.  Let me state that clearly and emphatically:  we don’t actively build – to protect your interests and those of Savvy.

Now, that said, my ‘good on ‘em’ is about applauding people for asking.  You should proudly invite everyone you think could be a good fit for you business, to take a look.  That’s your main job when building an MLM business – exposing people to information about your business opportunity and your products and services.

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Your Business Mindset is Your Business’s Best Friend

If you listen to oldies music (or have been around a bit) you know that Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.  Now that may or may not be true, the diamond thing, I’ll leave it up to you.  But we do you know what your business’s best friend is – a robust business mindset.  Without that your business is stopped in its tracks.  Stopped before it can get out the gate or off the starting line.

A lightweight business mindset will turn your telephone into a 500 hundred pound hulk and make washing the dishes or cleaning the toilet seem more appealing. You’ll do anything to avoid picking up the phone and having a conversation with someone about your business/financial opportunity.  What is a good antidote to a puny business mindset?  Awareness. You weren’t expecting that were you?  But it’s true.

There is a great story in “The Inner Game of Coaching” by Tim Gallwey about a small professional medical office.  Too many patients were being kept waiting.  Gallwey was hired and came in to watch what was going on.  After a morning of observation he said something along the lines,

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