Internet MLM

What success did you follow?

October 7th, 2006

Today I got a great question from Lee Benson so I wanted to
get to the nitty gritty of it and share the answer with you
as well.

Lee asked simply:

“What success did you follow?”

Great question, simple, and to the point!

===Focus Point===
I’ve learned that leveraging the knowledge of someone
who’s been where you want to go is invaluable down the path
to your success. Not because it will tell you exactly what
to do, but because it will lead you down the right path and
give the the valuable opportunity learn through experience.
My experiences thus far have brought me true freedom in
life at the young age of 26 and have pushed me to take even
greater leaps than I ever thought I could be a part of. I
offer you the opportunity to use me as your stepping stone
down your own path to success.
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=385500
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Here’s the skinny . . .

When I first started network marketing I got into my first
REAL opportunity after buying an information product called
“Network Marketing in the Internet Age” by a guy named Frank
Garon.

Man did I love that product! It cost me $97 which I didn’t
really have at the time, but the chain reaction it’s caused
to this point has been invaluable. It was an 8 cassette audio
program which talked about adapting your network marketing
business to the internet. I must have listened to that thing
40 time in the span of a month.

I would put in on before I went to sleep at night and let it
play while I dreamed away and then when I woke up in the
morning I would pop in the next tape. I think I kept going
like that for about a month or so straight.

I was so impressed with what Frank was saying after that
time I mustered up the confidence to give the guy a call to
really get to know the guy behind the information.

I wanted to do whatever he was doing and I let him know it
as soon as I got on the phone with him.

I jumped into his business and got a game plan for success
following his advice.

I was so excited the second I got off the phone I called my
girlfriend at that time and told her I had finally talked
to that “guy” that I had been listening to compulsively for
the last month.

She was excited for me and so it began.

I got into network marketing, unfortunately not the type of
internet network marketing that I had envisioned, but full
of excitement and anticipation I pushed forward anyways.

What Frank referred to as internet network marketing was
actually more buying leads online and calling them. (Not
what I call Internet Network Marketing, but what did I know
at that point?)

So I called these leads day in and day out for about 7
months spending mucho cash all along the way.

And you know what? I didn’t get one person to join my
business!

It sucked, but the lesson learned was just because one way
of doing business can work well for one person it doesn’t
mean it’s going to happen for me.

Meanwhile I noticed that one team in that Network Marketing
company was outperforming all the rest by about 20X.

I wanted to know what the heck they were doing!

The team was lead by a young lady by the name of Anna Ahira.
She had set up a duplicable system online for her team and
it was working like crazy!

I called her and her perspective on doing business was much
much different than Frank’s. She used systems and marketing
to attract the right people, not just brut force like what I
was taught to do and for it her team was growing at
breakneck speed.

I wanted to jump ship bad! But I didn’t want to let Frank
and his team down, so I went back and fourth on it for about
a month and at the end of that period I had made a decision.

I called Frank full of guilt and told him that I was moving
on.

He said . . .

“No problem bud, maybe we can hook up in the future.”

Not the answer I expected after toiling over what to say to
this I guy I put so much confidence and belief in.

But he surprised me.

And I’ve taken this as a lesson learned and draw from that
experience to this day in my business. People come and
people go in network marketing and we as sponsors can’t
loose sleep over someone else’s business decision.

So when people leave my business I never take it personal, I
jut focus on those that are there and give them my all.

But back to the story at hand . . .

I quit Frank’s team, but my decision was not what you
probably think it was. It was not to join Anna’s team. Rather
I stopped all together to formulate my own game plan for
success.

For the next six months I researched what Internet marketers
and network marketers were doing and how they were creating
success.

What systems where they using and why?

Then I filtered this against what I wanted out of my business
and came up with a blueprint for my success.

I didn’t know if there was a business out there that matched
my blueprint, so I knew I would eventually have to either
find one or create my own system if I was going to do this
network marketing thing my way.

Luckily I found the right business for me.

I jumped in . . .

Had some early success.

I mean just imagine what it would feel like after 7 months
of being beaten down in the cold calling game sending out an
email and immediately sponsoring 12 people that day without
saying a word to them.

Pure heaven.

I knew in my heart that there had to be a better. I set a
game plan to prove it. I then tested it and my research had
proven correct!

So it was time to become the leader the strong leader that I
knew network marketing success required.

I went to school and I’m still in class now . . .

What I mean is I started listening to the stories of other
successful network marketers and successful entrepreneurs to
focus my actions in the right direction.

People like Jim Rohn, Earl Nightingale, Brian Tracy, Les
Brown, Jack Zuefelt, T Harv Ecker, and Robert Blackman to
name a few.

If you saw my CD collection you’d probably think I’m a
personally development nut.

Guess what?

You’d be right!

Heck if it helps me be a better me I’m doing and doing it
big time.

The leaders at my company took note of my success. I reached
out to them and they extended there hand.

I can say that I am good friends with all of the leadership
in my company at this point and I actually contribute
regularly to the overall development of the company, in
fact, I’m actually the head Internet Marketing trainer for
my company at this point.

I definetly don’t say this to toot my own horn. It took a
lot of personal growth on my part to even get myself on the
phone on a weekly basis with 100s of people on the line to
listen to rant for an hour.

But . . .

I didn’t reach out to the leaders for these opportunities.
Truth be told I just wanted to know how they did what they
did and now to this day they are some of my biggest role
models for success. ( Whether they know it or not.)

Lee. to make a long story a little shorter.

Ever person that I’ve been exposed to as a leader in the
industry I’ve pulled as much as I can from.

There are to many people who have contributed to what I’ve
been a part of for the last year and a half to name them all.

There are success to be found in every success you have, but
to be honest by biggest leaps have been made after huge
failures. So all the heartache and hassle your business may
seem to give you at time, there’s a silver lining if you
just stick to your guns and have a clear vision of why
you’re doing what you’re doing.

To the top,

Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”

P.S. I’ve learned that leveraging the knowledge of someone
who’s been where you want to go is invaluable down the path
to your success. Not because it will tell you exactly what
to do, but because it will lead you down the right path and
give the the valuable opportunity learn through experience.
My experiences thus far have brought me true freedom in
life at the young age of 26 and have pushed me to take even
greater leaps than I ever thought I could be a part of. I
offer you the opportunity to use me as your stepping stone
down your own path to success.
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=385500

P.P.S. If you hear the rumbling it’s because a shockwave is
headed your way! You’ll see what I’m talking about in due
time! Just keep your eyes to you email over the next couple
of weeks.

 

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