Network Marketing Doesn’t Work
My return from Never Never Land!
No, I’m not Peter Pan. In my case never never land refers to my vow to never get involved in network marketing again! But 30 years later I’m back.
It’s a common tale shared by a lot of people. Maybe you’re one of them. Does any of this sound familiar?
My wife and I got involved in a network marketing opportunity over 30 years ago. We were totally committed to making it work. And we did work very hard at it for a couple of years.
Like most people who get involved in network marketing, we quickly ran out of contacts on our “warm” list.
I then started looking at everyone I met as a prospect, setting up face-to-face meetings and showing the plan.
The fact is we had a small degree of success. But we could never crack the code to make it into the really big money. The kind of income that was always held up as a carrot.
Our “team” was very shaky, the attrition rate very high, and the whole thing just didn’t go anywhere.
The frustration grew and we eventually quit the business, deciding that network marketing wasn’t for us.
At that time we moved across the country so it was a logical time to make a change.
Although I wasn’t successful in the network marketing business, I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started a couple of different businesses and achieved a certain level of success.
Recently someone I know quite well got involved in an opportunity. She dropped a few hints about what she was doing, but didn’t approach me directly for over a year. Eventually though, I gave her an opening by asking her what she was so excited about.
Interestingly, she did not give me a proper presentation, and although she continually encouraged me to come out to the meetings, I resisted. I had a really bad taste in my mouth from my past experience in mlm. I told her that I was not interested in a business where I needed to approach my family, friends and acquaintances, and attend weekly rallies and meetings.
Her comment was that, given my experience on the internet, I could build the business mostly online.
This was an intriguing concept, something I hadn’t really considered. But a concept that definitely appealed to me. The only thing is, she didn’t give me any guidance on how to go about it, because it was not something she was doing. Her approach was the “old school” method of recruiting I had rejected all those years ago.
I started doing some research and found that there were a number of established tools and strategies for attracting qualified leads using the internet. They seemed viable. My research also revealed an opportunity that was much better suited to a mostly online approach.
I know from my previous experience that very few people are actually willing to take the necessary action to change their situation, even though they might complain about all the things that make them sound like ideal prospects. Things like lack of money, hating their job, retirement funds disappearing, debt payments that outstrip their income, lack of time, and on and on.
The key to success in this online marketing business is to be able to target and talk to the right people. And those are prospects who are either in the network marketing business in one capacity or another already, or are actively seeking an opportunity or at the very least are doing some investigations about possibilities.
Being able to talk to those people clears one major hurdle.
I continued to investigate many different online tools and websites for generating leads.
One site was head and shoulders above the rest in terms of its total package. And that site is CarbonCopyPro. Nothing else seemed to come close in terms of a turnkey solution for anyone interested in marketing their products or services online.
If you’ve been trying to figure out how to effectively market online, whether it’s a bricks and mortar business or online, whether it`s a traditional type of business or a network marketing business, do yourself a massive favor and check it out.
It could be the turning point you’ve been looking for.
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