Network Marketing Tips: 5 Things Network Marketer Leaders Do Daily

October 24, 2009 by Daniel Mcgonagle
Filed under: Network Marketing Tips

The internet and network marketing industry is filled with so-called, self proclaimed leaders who are Fakin’ It Until They Make It.

Part of the reason for this is a lot of people get sold on the whole notion of attraction marketing after reading Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring book so they set out to brand themselves instantly as leaders in this industry via attraction marketing.

However, reading an ebook does not a leader make (semi-Yoda like there, eh?) The amazing thing to me is that everyone is touting Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring as their main “Bible” to follow to achieve their marketing success.

But if you are practicing attraction marketing but with no success or practical knowledge to back it up, that is a pretty shallow, myopic, and useless method to use to build your business. There needs to be some “Ommph!” and legitimacy behind your attraction marketing methods; your lifestyle pics, your “look at me I’m successful!”" writings, recordings, videos and what-not…

5 Things Network Marketing Leaders Do Daily

1. Visualization techniques – If you Fail to Plan, you Plan to Fail, as the saying goes

The way visualization works is you imagine/visualize things as you’d like them to happen or even visualize them as if they’ve already happened.

As an avid golfer in my high school years, I was doing a lot of visualization techniques before I knew what visualization techniques even were! It was a natural thing for me to do because I truly loved the game of golf and prior to taking every shot there was some sort of visualization involved.

The funny thing about visualization is you’re not surprised when things happen exactly as you imagined them, quite the opposite actually… With visualization you’re only surprised when you don’t see the end results…

A friend of my family who is also a golfing fanatic has a picture of him inside the clubhouse depicting him chipping in from 30-40 yards away, and in the picture there’s a guy congratulating him saying,

“Wow! nice shot, I can’t believe you hit the pin and sunk it from 40 yards out…!!”

And my family friend’s response was,

“Why not? I was aiming for it”..

and he was completely serious, too. He expected every shot to go in.

This may sound a little too much like new-age horse hockey but applying and implementing this network marketing tip will lave the mental foundation upon which all your success will be built upon, seriously…

Practice visualization techniques on a daily basis, preferably before you get into your rhythm for your day…and again at the end of the day as a re-affirmation method to put you to sleep with your goals set straight.

Put yourself in the space of ALREADY achieving your goals. Meditate, feel, taste, and smell the outcome. if you do it right this part will become so real to you that it will move you to the next step.

2. Focus on true income- producing activities

This particular network marketing tip is one of he hardest to implement because a lot of people don’t know what true income-producing activities really are.

The minutiae or running an online business can include the following:

checking and replying to emails,
organizing their PC and desk desktops of clutter,
visualizing and planning the day,
training downlines and reps,
attending company training and opportunity calls,
talking on the phone to downlines and potential new team members

While these are all just some of the elements involved in running a business, they’re not always the true income-producing activities you want to be spending most of your time on. In the network marketing world there are only two things that make your money;

Prospecting – getting leads
Prospecting – closing the leads

End of Story, just remember though, that anything that helps you prospect more is an added task that lends to your overall momentum.

3. Personal development, self mastery

One of the best business and network marketing tips you’ll ever hear is the tip that tells you that you have to work on yourself more than you work on your business.

Your brain is what drives your business, your life, and your daily actions inside and out of business 9in case you didn’t know). This means every single day reading or listening or watching something that will better you as a leader. There is always enough time in the day. Turn off the tv, put down the newspapers, and garbage novels. At lunch if you have an iPod or iPhone put on your headsets and listen to Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, or whoever you choose. Allow their words and beliefs to transform you into a better leader.

4. Mastermind with other leaders

For us in the network marketing/direct sales industry this means getting on all the conference calls that our respective companies have. It’s not feasable to always have events so this is the best way. Look at it as you are a part of a mastermind group. You can learn from those that are where you want to be.

5. Position myself at the top (Cultivating the expectation of leadership)

Depending on the company you are with there may be different levels that you can join at. As a leader you want to set the culture on your team to always play from the top. If you don’t have the money to get at the top then work your butt off finding ways to get it or to climb your way through the ranks. Leaders understand that those that typically get in the MLM business at a lower position will not take the business seriously. Always fight to get to the top no matter what.

In order for this to work properly you have to do all five every single day. Now to see what I consider the biggest network marketing tip of all go here.