Online MLM: How to Avoid Stressing Out

Stress is contagious, especially when it comes to working an online MLM business. You know what they say about “one bad apple.” Well, when it comes to stress, all it takes is one stressed person in the group to make the whole downline stressed out and CRAZY.

This is especially true of doing an online MLM business. While MLM has been around for a long time, people are just now getting their feet wet and learning how this business translates into the online world. And, trust me, a lot of knowledge gets lost in translation. There are a lot of mistakes to be made and a long road to hoe before the MLM industry really learns how to do online marketing productively and efficiently.

That being the case, there’s bound to be some stress along the way. Here are just a few causes of stress.

You want to do online MLM marketing but …

1. No one in your upline is doing it so you can’t find anyone to help you
2. Not only is no on in your upline doing it, but they scorn you for doing it (major stress)
3. You can’t find examples of MLMers who are doing online MLM well AND making a good check
4. You’ve written 10,000 articles but sold only 2 bottles of product
5. You bring business builders on board who want to build online but you have no idea what you’re doing, so you can’t help them
6. You have been in front of your computer so long you’re starting to resemble a computer programmer (you know, pasty-white skin, bloodshot eyes, living in a diet of Twinkies and Coke)
7. You’ve been slammed so many times by flamers and spammers that you’re just damn tired…

Sound familiar? Well, join the crowd. Newbies to online MLM pretty much all share the same dilemma. They all have to ask themselves:

“Do I have the patience and perseverance to do online MLM even if no one else in my upline, donwline, or sideline is doing it?”

3 Ways to Avoid Stress in Online MLM
If you answered “Yes” to the question above, then you’ve got the “no guts, no glory” attitude that it takes to do online MLM. Having said that, it must also be said that guts alone will not bring you business success while helping you avoid stress. Guts are good, but they are just the beginning. To avoid stress in online MLM, check out these simple ideas:

1. Pick ONE Online MLM System to Start With
Nothing drives an online MLM newbie to the loony bin faster than subscribing to 17 different approaches to online marketing, from funded prospecting to squeeze page mania, and trying to do them all at once.

Just STOP.

If you have already subscribed to 17 different online training systems, you are not only wasting your time but also your money. Take a deep breath, go through each and every one of those systems, and pick ONE system that resonates with you. Whether you want to blog, do social media, or focus on article marketing, pick a system that you actually like and go with it.

If you pick a system you hate, you’ll never do it. If you pick a system that includes 300 hours of audio training and you are not an audio learner, you’ll never use it. Get it? Pick a system that fits your personality and your learning style, and promise yourself you will stick with it for at least a year.

2. Don’t Spend Faster Than Your Learning Curve
A lot of online MLM training system offer freebie ebooks, email courses, and audio lessons right on their website. Sure, you don’t “get it all” by reading through the freebie materials but these materials at least give you somewhere to start. So before you plunk down your credit card and pay $395 for an online training system “guaranteed” to make you rich overnight, do the freebie stuff.

If you can’t do everything suggested in the freebie materials, chances are that you won’t follow the recommendations in $395 program either. Plus you’ll be crazy stressed that you blew your mortgage payment for an online MLM training system that you don’t use. Save yourself the stress. Don’t spend faster than you can learn.

3. Follow the Online Marketing Pros
When you feel like you are the only one out there doing online MLM marketing, way out in left field, take heart. Don’t stress. Instead, check out the best of the best in online marketing. Check out Chris Brogan, Duct Tape Marketing, Fuel Net, Copyblogger, and even WineTwits. These guys all know how to market online.

They aren’t doing MLM online, but if you can’t figure out how to adapt what they give away for free to your MLM business, then you don’t deserve the big compensation check that you hanker after. MLM stands for Multi-Level Marketing. So be a marketer. Take the best that the best have to offer, and cut and fit their approaches to MLM. It’s not rocket science, it’s MLM. Not worth stressing over … plus you can definitely do this.

Hope these three tips help keep your blood pressure down and your spirits up. MLM companies are taking baby steps in the online world, but they are learning. One company is learning super fast and diving in head first. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you more!

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