MLM lead lists can help build network marketing businesses quickly without bugging friends and family. This article describes high tech versus high touch MLM prospecting.
As you know, I ran into Tom "Big Al" Schreiter a few weeks ago in a Kansas City sandwich shop. I happened to have my video camera with me so I proceeded to interview Tom right on the stop. An excerpt of that conversation went like this:
ENRIQUE: Tom, with all the technology today: obviously you've been doing network marketing for quite awhile. You've built your MLM or network marketing business the old fashioned way, belly to belly with your prospects. And since then, you now have all these online systems.
Has network marketing really changed? Or is it still a relationship business?
TOM: Well: I think that most people or MLM lead list prospects are going to make a decision to join your MLM or network marketing company based upon: let me see:
They haven't seen the home office.
They haven't checked the financials of the company owner.
They haven't gone over to the laboratory where the vitamins are made.
They haven't checked the servers where the service is run from.
Probably the only thing your MLM lead list prospects know is the person they talk to, and what that person said and did. I really don't think that is going to change very much.
You're still going to have to build some sort of relationship so that they trust you: and that's what we're talking about at the workshop this evening; how to create instant rapport with your MLM lead list prospect.
So if you don't, you're pretty much toast.
Building trust with your MLM lead list prospect: that's the key to using MLM leads to build your network marketing businesses without friends and family.
Remember: you can use all the high technology in your MLM lead lists prospecting that you want but ultimately it comes down to you. And your MLM lead list prospects are going to do business with people that they know, like and trust.
I’m rooting for YOU!
Man did he hit it on the head.
I’ve been hearing a lot about the 2.0 marketing craze and I do believe it’s the next wave of “connecting” with prospects. However…
…”We” are the bridge or the conduit from where the prospect is and where they want to go. “We” represent our companies and ultimately people buy people, not so much the product.
(If the gate to your home is ugly broke down and ultimately not very inviting, don’t you think people would be extremely hesitant about walking through it?)
Gives new meaning to what Jim Rohn’s quote when he said, “to attract people of quality, we must 1st become a person of quality.”
We can use all the “techie” tools we want to gain access to MLM prospect leads but if we’re not the person they are attracted to work with…it’s a huge waste of time!
Thanks Enrique and Big Al for the gut check.
Tony (big Fan of MLMLeads.com)