Network Marketing; Old School vs. New School, that is a question we have all been looking at lately. And as I realized my opinions on it I also then had to ask myself this:

Why does it sometimes take so long to get up a simple blog post? It isn’t that I don’t have things to write, but if I put them down here, I want to make sure that I give as much value as I can.

More than a year ago, I began learning how to network online.  I purchased the courses and learned to build a blog, and cover the social networking sites.   I thought I was going to be able to build a large organization using the internet and email, I wasn’t even going to have to talk to these people!! Guess what? That is just not how it works.

If you have been in this wonderful industry for any length of time, you have already come to realize that the computer and internet are great ADDITIONAL resources to help you follow up and stay in contact with people you are interacting with. It is NOT, an alternative to getting out and interacting with people. This is called Network Marketing, and if you are not ready to get out in the trenches and establish real life relationships, then you might as well just quit right now. So if it appears that my blog posts are less frequent you are probably right. But I am connecting with people in my community in the meantime. There is a balance. So what do think? I would love to hear your opinions, can it be done internet alone, or do you feel old school, combined with new school is the way to go?

So remember if you are looking to create real relationships, you have to go belly to belly when you can.  If you can’t do that, make sure that you are talking to these people on the phone.  Make that contact, make the connection.  We are always looking to connect, then if we become partners great, either way you have to make it personal.  Until next time, remember NEVER BLAST ALONE!!

Webinars do you get on them?  Do you make sure that you listen to the Corporate Webinar every week.  Do you make sure your team does the same?  Why you ask? For one reason, remember this is a business based on duplicability, and what better way to make sure you are saying and doing the right things, than to hear them from the Founders and Leaders themselves on a constant and regular basis.  Another reason is everyone needs to keep connected!  In a business where it is so easy to get secluded and feeling all alone, we must plug in every chance we get, (this is called Network Marketing for a reason,)  and stay moving in forward action.  Training is another major reason to make sure you are not missing these calls.  Team calls provide specific information and are geared towards each team’s players and goals, if you are not attending these calls you are missing a big part of your team participation!  So if you are not already attending these events here are a few suggestions to help make sure you get yourself moving forward, remember progress not perfection.  After all aren’t we all trying to fail our way to the top?

1)      Write down a weekly schedule of all calls you may want to attend.

2)      Put them in your calendar

3)      Set up remimders in your calendars with alarms.

4)       Set up a follow up call with team members to discuss the calls, keeps everyone participating.

Remember this is one of the most basic and fundamental ways to start getting yourself moving in the right direction.

What do you do to keep plugged into you company?  I would love to know…

We here at Never Blast Alone love to hear from you, so starting this week we are going to post a question of the week and hopefully hear from all of you.  This week’s question: What do you think is the best way you expose your opportunity?

In the meantime, we would like you to think about the following things as you work on growing your business this week.  One, are you consistently presenting people with your product or opportunity?  You are not furthering your business if you are not connecting with people.  This is true whether you are building your business online, or offline.  This is network marketing; you must go out and NETWORK!  Every day, presents you with opportunities are you grabbing them, or are you running the other way?  Keeping this in mind, we want to share a great tip we heard from Tom “BiG Al” Schrieter during a training call this week.  He said people simply react to what we say and do, so what we must learn to do is change someone’s mindset, to open up their minds to listen to our opportunity.  “Big Al” then gave us 4 simple words to use if you want to get someone’s attention, words that actually make someone stop and listen to what you are about to say, and those words are “I just found out.”  Examples of this would be “I just found out how we can earn an extra paycheck each week” or “I just found out how we can fire our boss”.  What these statements do is make a person want to hear more, and they thus have their defenses down, and you will be faced with far less rejection.  To hear more of “Big Al’s” training, and words from 5 of our Yoli Founders listen to the whole Dream Team webinar here.

Have a great week, keep Yoli’ing, and remember NEVER BLAST ALONE!!