I want to talk about an aspect of network marketing that is not discussed often, in my opinion.

For most people, network marketing is about joining a MLM company then recruit people that will sell the products and recruit people themselves, then you sell enough products yourself to qualify for the percentage of the sales made by your downline people. That’s ok. It’s the main purpose of the whole concept. You can also build even stronger relationships with your upline and downline by helping each other for tasks not directly related to the MLM business.

Network marketing on social networks

The online marketing world has brought new exciting ways to expand on those concepts. Everywhere, we see people offering advice about business, network marketing, motivation, and so on and so forth. They post on their Facebook wall, they join groups to discuss ideas and get new referrals, they come to business social networks such as APSense to grow their business even further. One thing I’d like to point out. Are you active on social networks only to get new referrals, or to learn about the latest new programs/companies/products? If so, I believe you are missing one crucial ingredient to your long term success: building business relationships.

The real meaning of business relationships in network marketing

Let me explain. Nowadays, on social networks, you will meet people who do all sorts of things to build their network marketing business. But you will also get acquainted with others who:

• create products.
• write articles.
• record videos.
• are good with graphics.
• offer hosting services.
• do web design.
• are professional photographers.
• etc…

As you get to know them, you will become very good friends with some of them. I suggest you develop your awareness of what they do and keep that in mind. In good time, you will get opportunities to deal with them. Sharing information, doing something for them in exchange for something they can do for you, that will make you see all sorts of possibilities.

One more benefit of network marketing

The title of this article is “A real life example of network marketing.” This article you’re reading right now is on a blog hosted by one of my friends I made at APSense, Radek Vyskovsky. He’s about to start offering hosting services. We talked about it. The “Be Proactive Now dot "net” domain was hosted elsewhere, but I had not started using it. Radek offered me to host it. I know he works closely with Wincer Song, the owner of APSense, on some of the add-ons there. I saw how serious and professionally Radek does things. I already trusted him. I saw his offer as an opportunity to help a trusted friend from APSense. So, I accepted.

That’s only one example of many I could give you about the way I do things online. I hope it inspires you in your network marketing endeavors.