Not long ago, I went on one of my many driving trips from Singapore - where I live - to Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia four hours away.
As I drove across the border, I realized that in my hurry, I forgotten my bag of maps entirely - which had served me well in the past whenever I got lost somewhere in KL.
Fleeting thoughts haunted my mind to turn back and get that bag of maps in case I get lost in a foreign land. However, I comforted myself that I’ll be able to find my way and decided to continue on with my journey.
Four hours later, I was in KL.
As I already arranged several appointments at various places in the city, I had to rely on my past knowledge of the city in order to find my way around. Thankfully, I had ‘installed’ the KL map into my mind over the last two years:
- by remembering landmarks like prominent buildings
- by analyzing how the myriad number of highways intertwined and led to one another
- by staying at hotels in different parts of the city
- by using different routes to travel from one place to another
Though the map is not the territory, but having the map in mind had helped me to navigate around, to find my bearings though I admit that many a time I still find myself lost in some small roads and areas that I’m not familiar with… which can be a little frightening as it can often take awhile to get back to the main roads and find my direction once again.
Isn’t it the same for your network marketing business?
The network marketing map is all there, laid out on the table for us:
- the company’s history, background, founders, achievements, mission, vision
- the products it carry and distribute
- the compensation plan and how it rewards distributors and affiliates who achieve the most results
- the back office, the support system, the prospecting tools
- the strategies and how your team functions to support and shorten the learning curve of your new ‘distributor’ business partners
If we had taken the time to ‘install’ the ‘network marketing’ map into our mind, we will be able to move forward in the direction in our success journey. When we meet someone who is looking for a business opportunity, we are fully prepared to share and expose the business opportunity to them confidently so that they would know that we take our business seriously and not just some ‘hobby’ that we try out and see if it works for us…
Having said that, we do get lost along the way. There will be new situations that we do not know how to handle yet, there will be people we have not known how to deal with yet, there will be questions on the products and/or compensation plan that we would not know how to answer yet. But that’s part and parcel of the game.
But still, having the network marketing map in our mind offers the comfort that we are at least prepared to meet most of the challenges that we will face and by learning and growing everyday, we will become better and more knowledgeable and finally become unstoppable in our journey to success.
About the author:
Roger Loh is in the business of helping individuals make money online and helping SMEs bring their business online. For more information, visit his site and blog: http://www.InternetMLMSecret.com http://www.NewNetMarketingSecrets.com |
