Why Network Marketing Fails
You've got to wonder why some people are even in network marketing. I mean, they join a program and 6 months down the road, they are quitting that program and joining another. They feel that the first program that they had joined, had been so gung ho, fired up about, just wasn't working. It wasn't bringing in the money that they had been sure it was going to.
Skip ahead another 3 months and yep, another program. This one is guaranteed to work! The owners and other distributors even said so. You were watching people make tons of cash from it. This is going to be the one!
Three more months go by, and you aren't any richer than you had been when you joined the first "sure thing". In fact, you had even less money. What was going wrong? Why wasn't it happening to you? There had to be a reason... was it your sponsor's? Were the products not good enough? What was wrong? Surely, you had been doing everything right, you had been going to meetings, you had given out the pamphlets and business cards like you had been told to. So why?
The biggest problem with network marketing, is that people get so hung up on "Get Rich Quick". Then, if they don't start rolling in cash after their first two weeks, they think "SCAM", quit the program, and start bad mouthing that company. "It doesn't work", "The comp plan sucks", or any other of a number of excuses. And that is the wrong way to go about it. Everyone knows that making money takes work. It takes effort. Network marketing will not make you rich overnight.
Sure, there are the lucky few who have the right contacts and the right personality to make it seem like they did it overnight. But, that's just it. They had people waiting for them. They knew that if they said 'jump', their people would 'jump'.
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Skip ahead another 3 months and yep, another program. This one is guaranteed to work! The owners and other distributors even said so. You were watching people make tons of cash from it. This is going to be the one!
Three more months go by, and you aren't any richer than you had been when you joined the first "sure thing". In fact, you had even less money. What was going wrong? Why wasn't it happening to you? There had to be a reason... was it your sponsor's? Were the products not good enough? What was wrong? Surely, you had been doing everything right, you had been going to meetings, you had given out the pamphlets and business cards like you had been told to. So why?
The biggest problem with network marketing, is that people get so hung up on "Get Rich Quick". Then, if they don't start rolling in cash after their first two weeks, they think "SCAM", quit the program, and start bad mouthing that company. "It doesn't work", "The comp plan sucks", or any other of a number of excuses. And that is the wrong way to go about it. Everyone knows that making money takes work. It takes effort. Network marketing will not make you rich overnight.
Sure, there are the lucky few who have the right contacts and the right personality to make it seem like they did it overnight. But, that's just it. They had people waiting for them. They knew that if they said 'jump', their people would 'jump'.
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Comments (16)
Philippe Moisan16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
lol good quote, Rob :)
Rob aka Cerberus17
Better World Partisan
Add Your time, full attention and work into anything You do, for
"You never become a howling success by just howling." (Bob Harrington)
Michelle Hoffmann8
Inventor/Member at Kulabrands
Yes, how you, the upline, treat YOUR downline, IS an important part of any network marketing business... but this article was not about the that aspect... it is about how people act and think when they embark on the journey. Thank you all for your wonderful comments!
Aurang Zeb Awan15
Content Writer
Well I also agree with Helen Smith and Naville's point of view in which they have mentioned that, "You must teach your down line the exact steps which brought success for you so he can also be successful by following you. I am very much convince, "If I will teach my down line properly it means a long long relationship which is must for network marketing".
Philippe Moisan16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
Michelle, I feel that Helen Smith's comment deserve that you click "top it" for it to become the 1st comment. It brings a nice additional perspective to your article. Just my 2 cents.
Neville Dinning10
Independent Consultant
This article has encouraged me to reflect if network marketing is very different from any other form of work or job with which you hope to earn income. I have only recently finished working in a career that spanned many years. But to get into that career meant 4 years of intensive training with mentors (uplines who were not actually paid from my efforts) whose careers depended on successfully training their downline. In time I ended up in a position where I was responsible for being a mentor for
Ken Tallman7
Pastor/Marketing Consultant
I agree you have to put the work in if you dont or cant dont get involved
Maria Fiore Pilon7
Water The Source Of Life
This is so true what you spoke about on this article, achievements requires lots of work to get good results that really is rewarding.
Annette McQueen6
I love this article because I always wonder why some people think that they can get in a program and do
apsolutely nothing and expect results. Nothing in life works that way. Anything worth having is worth putting
some time and effort in it.
Helen Smith9
Consultant
The article is true to a point! However let's also take a look at the people dragging others around that trust them, and they do not give them the mentoring they need to succeed!
Automation is great, technology is grand, but when someone joins your program it is up to you to mentor them, help them to understand, and get them going in the direction they need to go! if after all is done, and they still don't get it! Your job is done. Be a Blessing to someone today!
Mary Magistro5
Newbie to Internet Marketing
No truer words have been spoken. This is a very clear, concise and to-the-point article. Several toes are stepped on in this article, mine included. Yes, I have fallen prey to some of these "get rich quick" scams, but no more. Once I took off the blinders and started using my brain, I realized that there is no profit in jumping from one "greatest thing since corn flakes" to another. You must do your own due diligence and insure that the program of choice is indeed one that you are willing t
Robert J.15
Marketer, Empowerment Practitioner
Thank you for the information. Simple but true and applicable.
Atif Sohail5
Teacher
Nice article thanks for sharing such a good information
Paula van Dun6
Social Marketing works.
Good article. This message is broad casted by many and it can't be broad casted enough. I agree with the comments from Cheryl and Otoabasi.
Cheryl Baumgartner12
Medical Billing/Coding/Insurance
So many people are on this merry go round it's ridiculous. And they remain on the same merry go round just switching animals occasionally. How many of these 'programs' focus on an actual product/service and on providing that product to a consumer base? 99% of what I see is nothing more than "pull more people into this matrix, powerline,downline etc. A business cannot survive without a cash flow and powerlines, downlines, matrixes etc do not create a cash flow-consumers buying an actual produ
Otoabasi Umonting7
Marketing Consultant & Coach
Good points here Michelle,
a lot of people still think that Network Marketing is a bed of roses, and that they'll hit it big in a matter of seconds. What an illusion, and I have to say, I was down that road once upon a time. But I learnt my lesson, stuck on and grew. Today, I tell people it only for serious minded people who are willing to stay consistent in doing what's necessary for their success; even when nothing's happening yet. Thanks for sharing.