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6/18/2012 11:11:19 PM EST
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Avoid the Scatter Bomb!
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Okay, so I've been doing this for quite a few months now, and you would think I know better. I even read the book "Your First Year in Network Marketing" by Mark and Renee Yarnell. There was a whole chapter dedicated to the scatter bomb! At the time, I made a solemn oath to myself and these amazing leaders that I would not fall victim to the scatter bomb. Well, I just did it again!
If you're wondering what the scatter bomb is, it's exactly as it sounds. Here you are trying to focus on building your business, and along comes a new, better, faster way to make more money NOW! Just writing that I feel like an idiot! But I am putting my pride aside, so that I can warn you all. The scatter bomb can come in the form of a "better opportunity" which is pretty obvious, but it can be as sneaky as an affiliate product that will bring you more "targeted prospects".
Now, you are going to want to listen to some training from industry leaders: Dani Johnson, Joe Syverson, Mark Yarnell......but ONLY and if ONLY it is helping with your primary business. No one at all becomes successful and wealthy by being a jack of all trades and a master on none. In the beginning, I was trying to master way too many things at once, and not mastering anything but becoming frustrated and overwhelmed. So I took my company's leaders' advice, and read the book they suggested for my personal development. It really worked, it helped bring clarity to my priorities....for awhile. I mastered one aspect, then onto the next, then onto the next. I can't even believed what caught my attention and scattered me: a cute face! Can you believe that?? Anyone who knows me knows that I have a fabulous relationship with the man I love. He is amazing, and we are together for the long haul. So of all things, a cute face?!?
I was looking up some tips on blogging, came across this cute face combined with a good article. BAM! Next thing I know, I am on the phone with him and he is selling me on a book and an affiliate marketing campaign. Of course, the idea sounded great "If you advertise free videos to marketers to help them with their sales, prospecting, closing etc, you will make a little money on the front end, even if they don't join your business. These prospects are more targeted because they have an interest in the industry". Ok great, where do I sign up??
After a whole night of training for affiliate marketing (which I swore I would never do. Nothing against it, just not my cup of tea), then posting some links in places I would normally post my business, I realized there were at least 7 more steps to the training, and tons more "training" after that.
I woke up the next day, with an entire day lost! Did not call back any of my leads I was already behind on, did not post my primary business ads and wasted valuable time and credits posting links for these "free" videos that came with their own autoresponders, and suggestions to buy the product.....GRRRRR.
I did get one lead out of the how many impressions I wasted....he didn't even finish the video. And yes, they are interested in network marketing because THEY ARE NETWORK MARKETERS ALREADY! Why else would they want free videos telling them how to generate leads, be facebook famous in 60 days, tips on prospecting and closing.
Moral of the story: FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS on what is going to make you money. Not what YOU think is going to make you money, what your UPLINE tells you is going to make you money.
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 | | Thanks for that great Blog...... |
| | |  | | Wow another great blogpost |
| | |  | | Excellent!! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.. |
| | |  | | It just kind of sneaks up on you..... |
| | |  | | Wow, I was becoming a victim myself... Thanks for this |
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