Find a Mentor in Your MLM Program
Finding a mentor to follow in network marketing/MLM is a critical aspect of your success or failure in the profession. You may even have a couple of mentors to guide you through the process of developing and growing skills to continually get better & better at building your business. When I say ‘program,’ I don’t mean your company. I mean it is your plan or schedule of activities, procedures, etc. to be followed to reach success in your network marketing business!
The reality of the network marketing profession is that many times we join a company out of emotion or maybe we went looking for a company and sign up with the first person we come into contact with. One of the biggest complaints (however, I call them excuses) is that, ‘Oh, my upline isn’t teaching me,’ or ‘My upline just quit and now I have no one to turn to.’ Again, this excuse crap because if one is truly dedicated to finding success in our profession, they will undoubtedly find it in THEMSELVES to figure it out by finding mentors.
Mentors are critical, but realize, that sometimes, a mentor may not be your immediate upline or maybe not even in your own company or industry! A mentor is defined as ‘a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.’ Mentors usually come free of charge. They are usually someone who is successful, and successful people tend to genuinely want to help others succeed. The ‘Go-Giver’ effect (great book, by the way by Bob Burg!). Mentors are sometimes stumbled upon or maybe they are someone one has known for a long time. No matter what, the goal of a mentor is to motivate you, guide you, inspire you to be better, no matter what!
I, personally, have several mentors. Some don’t even know they are my mentor! I have had a business mentor for 16 years. He was my first boss right out of college and he took me under his wing. I had NO skills, NO guts, NOTHING at 21, but Henry saw more in me than I saw in myself. He taught me business skills without saying, ‘I’m going to teach you some negotiating skills today, Vidette!’ He was an extremely humorous man and would just say, ‘Watch this!’ He’d dial up a client, ’schmooz’ the client, hang up the phone with an order. We would laugh and, at the time, I didn’t really know what I was learning. Looking back, I now realized the importance of relationships in ANY business. He had an amazing relationship with his clients, and where I thought it was ’schmoozing,’ I now realize it was Henry building and reinforcing his relationship with the client. I left the company, at Henry’s direction, a couple years later, but he wanted more for me. It was time for me to move on and Henry guided me in the direction. I still stay in touch with Henry and he always knows what I’m doing because he set me on my path and now that I’ve never been in a happier place, I owe a lot of that to Henry.
Another mentor of mine is my business coach Jeffrey Combs. I was introduced to Jeffrey through a mutual friend, and I hired him that day. Jeffrey has changed my life by helping me reveal and see emotional barriers that had been holding me back in becoming successful. I had been carrying limiting beliefs for so long that I didn’t even know I had them. I still have limiting beliefs, but because Jeffrey has helped me identify them, I am more aware of them and work around them. He is an amazing person who has a skill of changing 1,000’s of people’s lives and I aspire to do the same!
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