What do I hate about MLM? Actually not much.because this is the best industry for the little people to get a leg up and work towards serious wealth and financial rewards. Mr. Jack Zufelt, a Mentor to Millions once mentioned in an interview with John Milton Fogg that although he’s been an investor, company owner, franchisee, etc., network marketing gave him more cash flow than any of his other enterprises without the headaches that come from running a traditional business. And that cash flow is why I became a network marketer.
My only gripe with MLM is that people join it thinking that the other MLM companies are the enemy. That the other companies are their competitors, when in actuality, we are all a part of the same industry. Network marketing is wonderful and we should spend our time edifying and working together rather than tearing each other apart. All it does is make the entire industry look bad and causes people not to take our chosen profession seriously.
Can you imagine going to a doctor’s office, you know, one of those offices that have several specializations under roof and having the general practitioner running out into the waiting room telling the patients, “Don’t go see the OBY/GYN guy. He doesn’t know what he’s doing — all you need to do is come to me and I have the cure to all of your concerns”?
Or if you go to a library having the librarian who runs the Children’s Library running around pulling people into her area and telling them that the “other” librarian is a liar and doesn’t have any books worth reading in her section? No, why? Because they are both professionals. The doctors, regardless of the specialization belong to the medical profession. Librarians are informational specialists.
Well, it’s the same with us. Network Marketers belong to the Network Marketing industry. If we want to gain respect for ourselves and have people leaning forward to listen to what we have to say, be it product or opportunity, we need to stop pulling each other down.
We need to stop pretending that we are an expert on every other MLM company out there. We don’t know that we have the best compensation plan unless we go out there and actually compare compensation plans across the board. We don’t know that we have the best policies and procedures unless we actually read our own and compare that to other company plans. And how many people really take the time to do that? (Well, I know a couple, but I digress …)
What we need to do is to be respectful of other people’s choices, rejoice in their successes and learn from them. We need to acknowledge that our products are great, but in some cases someone else’s products might be better suited to an individual’s situation. Can you imagine what will happen if we willingly gave referrals for other MLMer’s products when the opportunity arises? Can you imagine how much better we would be perceived if we closed ranks and stopped the madness?
What a wonderful (and lucrative) industry we’d all be able to share in if we’d just admit we’re all one big family under one umbrella — the Network Marketing umbrella.
To your success,
Cheryl Henderson-Khalid
www.streetsavvymlm.com
