What do you hate more? Going to your MLM company convention and hearing the 90-day wonder story, where someone hit the top of the pay plan 90 days after joining the company
… or shrinking back in your seat and knowing that you, as a wallflower, won’t be able to duplicate that?
Personally, I hate both.
I’m not a wallflower, but I also don’t believe in 90-day wonders. Do they happen? Yes. Is it a good role model for 99.99% of people who do MLM? Absolutely not! For most people, listening to a 90-day wonder describe how “easy” it is to hit the top of the pay plan quickly isn’t inspiring … it’s downright discouraging. And for those who are kind of shy, introverted, or just not born with the gift of gab, it’s enough to cause them to quit, right there, on the spot!
That’s where online MLM comes to the rescue!
Online MLM as a Solution for Wallflowers and Introverts
The problem with 90-day wonders is that either they are freaks of nature or they entered the business with a huge Rolodex filled with high-powered friends who already “get” MLM. So of course they are able to hit the top of the pay chart in 90 days. Unfortunately, that makes the rest of us look like wallflowers and introverts.
Luckily, wallflowers, introverts, analytical types, and nerds can flourish by moving their MLM prospecting online. First of all, you don’t have to have the gift of gab to do online MLM because you mostly type rather than talk. Second, even if you didn’t start your MLM business with a huge Rolodex, you can acquire one online in fairly short order … a lot more quickly than you can in the real world.
Three Benefits of Online MLM
Here are three of the benefits of online MLM for those stumped at prospecting in the real world.
Benefit #1: Online MLM Gives You Time to Think
Unlike prospecting someone over a cup of coffee, you don’t have answer objections “on the spot” when you are prospecting online. If someone sends you an objection via email or text message, you have time to think through your response. You even have time call your sponsor and get some help. You won’t “ruin” a prospecting session just because you don’t have an immediate answer.
Even better, you can offer an ebook or audio that not only presents the most common objections, but answers them as well. The big benefit of offering an ebook or audio like this as a free download (via your website or blog) is that you can offer something that is educational, useful, and well-researched to your prospects. This makes you look like the MLM expert that you are, which is way better than stumbling your way through an unprepared answer at a live presentation.
Benefit #2: Learning to Write is Easier Than Learning to Present
Fear of public speaking is one of the top three fears that people have. That’s a really harsh statistic for MLM business builders who want to prospect in person because live prospecting is all about public speaking. Whether you are inviting someone to a presentation given by your upline or actually presenting your MLM opportunity, you are engaging in public speaking. Even speaking to a single other person is a form of public speaking. That’s a bummer.
On the other hand, almost no one puts “fear of writing” at the top of their list of scary things. Learning public speaking can be embarrassing for a lot of people, but you can learn to write without ever being embarrassed. Whether you start out with a simple blog on a topic that interests you and is related in some way to your business, or you actually take a writing course, you can learn to write. It may not be totally easy, but you won’t scare yourself half to death.
And, as a bonus, there’s no need to imagine everyone in the audience in their underwear. I’ve done quite a bit if public speaking, and frankly I have to say that that image has never done a thing for my nerves!
P.S. We are currently gathering a very small group of people who want to start an MLM business and want to do it online. If this interests you, drop me a line. The group is limited to 5 people.
Benefit #3: Rejection is Usually Anonymous and Painless
I gotta love that analogy they always throw around at convention which compares prospecting to a deck of cards: to get to the aces (your big time business builders) you have to go through a lot of other cards (rejections). Well, be that as it may, I like taking my rejections while on Novacaine. In a word, painless.
In the real world, rejection of your opportunity varies from embarrassing, from friends who don’t want to hurt your feelings, to downright ugly, from acquaintances who have had bad experiences with MLM. Rejection, no matter how the other person tries to soften the blow, isn’t fun. That’s why there are at least two articles in every MLM magazine dedicated to the art of handling rejection.
You know what? I don’t want to handle rejection. I don’t even want to touch it. That’s part of the beauty of online MLM. Rejection happens beneath the radar. With online MLM, rejection looks like people who:
- visit your site but don’t stay or buy anything
- see your blog post title on Twitter but don’t visit
- read your blog but don’t comment
- download your free ebook but never contact you
- don’t respond to your auto responders
Of course, there is some outright rejection, like the occasional person who slams MLM by leaving an ugly comment on your blog, but compared to constant outright rejection, I prefer the online variety. Don’t you?
Is Online MLM for You?
So whaddya think? Are you the 90-day warm market wonder type or does online MLM seem to be more suited to your personality? You don’t have to be a wallflower, committed hermit, or established nerd to do online MLM. There are lots of reasons to bring your business online.
Some people don’t feel comfortable prospecting their friends and family. Some can’t prospect those people anymore, having already done it two or three times. Some people deal with other people face-to-face all day long, and would rather grow their MLM business with a digital approach.
It really doesn’t matter what your reason might be. The key is this: if any of the benefits of doing your MLM business online caught your attention, then it is definitely worth exploring.
As I mentioned above, we are gathering a very small elite group of people who want to start an MLM business and promote online. We won’t torture this group with analogies that compare prospecting to decks of cards. What we will do is teach this group how to develop an online MLM business with technical correctness and statistical expectations of success. The approach helps you do MLM sanely and without embarrassment. If that hits home for you, drop me a line fast ’cause we’re limiting this group to 5 people!
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