Success in networking is determined by the size and quality of your network.

You’ll be told by your upline to make a list of people you know. Why? Because your list of friends and acquaintances is your current network. It offers a fast way to building a huge business – IF you use your list properly and seek support to do so in the right way.

Most new networkers don’t ever write a list and share it with their sponsor. They fear the judgement of their friends more than their desire to develop a successful business.

They lack confidence; in themselves; their ability to sponsor and because they think they need to be a sales person. Most people would rather die than be a sales person, but the simple fact is that to be a success you need to be able to undertake some of the selling process.

Everything we do in life revolves around negotiation and agreement; all selling is about is moving someone towards your point of view so that you can transact together. We all do it, you sold yourself to your first boyfriend or girlfriend, your spouse, or indeed to the bank that gave you your mortgage, if you have one.

Selling is ultimately what we are doing here. Your recruitment process involves selling someone the idea of your product, your business opportunity or both. Mesnja helps you to take care of the communication process so that people can understand the benefits of your business and product. Much of the selling process is taken care of this way making it easier for you to get to a well-informed decision from those on your list.

Make sure you write down everyone you know because this group potentially short circuits and speeds up your business development because there is very little needed to develop a trusting relationship with friends and family.

Your friends already know, like and trust you. At least if they are friends they do. It is one of the key reasons network trainers always tell you to start with people you know, because the likelihood of achieving a sale is greater than if you build from cold leads. Your averages will be better.

The “know like and trust” awareness of friends and family can appear to be a two-edged sword for the new networker. It raises the prospect of appearing to be “selling” to them which most people do not want to do however your connections are your most valuable asset.

The fear of approaching friends is rooted in a basic lack of confidence in the choice someone has made to begin a business in network marketing. This is the potential killer of dreams and aspirations for change. All too often people quit in their first week because of criticism by friends and family.

The big earners know this. They build contact lists, consistently and continually, and work them wherever they go. The scale of their list determines the income they create and the reputation they build in their sphere of influence. It is no different for you.

Your primary focus should be on connecting with people and building your list. The biggest earners in network marketing are those with huge downlines, and systems designed to increase their size. They play the numbers first, and then the people. To be a success in network marketing you MUST master the list building and communication process first, and then continually work it.

The sobering truth for most wannabe networkers is they will give up trying to build a business because they believe they can’t make it work. The numbers bear this out – the average distributor only ever sponsors 3 people. This is because they run out of people to talk to and lack the skills and motivation to build new connections. Your team need to know how to build connections, Mesnja helps you to do this and your team’s use of it, in turn, helps to build momentum.

We’re going to help you become a recruiting machine, through this series of blogs, so, to help you get started here [Link} is a memory jogger to help you write down the people you know. Please share it with your group.

Make sure you have written your list and discuss it with your upline. You don’t have to gift it to them to take care of for you, but you do need to share the potential in it.

Why should you do that?

The concept of networking at its basic level is in leveraging results from people you know – it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. It follows then that who you know now offers opportunities for partnerships, but at the outset of your networking career you probably know too little about your network, the products and the business model to speak convincingly about its potential.

Your active upline sponsor is in a position to do this. Your role is to facilitate the connection between your contacts and your upline to expose the opportunity, not to sell them into the idea.

Once you have written up your list have a strategy session with your upline about who you are going to contact, when and what approach you need to take. Prepare for the call and the follow up to it. The Mesnja pre-programmed messages will speed up connection process and ensure consistency in what is sent to them. The faster you undertake this initial phase of development will dictate the speed at which your business will grow.

The team you build must understand the importance of sharing their connections and why they should do this. It is the first test of commitment.

Mesnja helps you to build a network, you choose its size.

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