Building Your Team

If any of you are starting to get to the point where you have a downline of more than 10 personally enrolled business builders, you might find yourself doing more training and mentoring than recruiting and possibly wasting lots of time with dead wood. So this blog is really more geared for those with larger organizations.

Mark Yarnell one of the greatest networkers of all time says the first 30 days is the honeymoon period, but after that you don't really pick who you are going to work with, but your people choose whether or not they are going to work with you. As Nathan Ricks, just said in one of his latest interviews, "you cannot afford my time, but if you run, I will run with you, you walk, I will walk with you". So where does that leave the new recruits? Unfortunately, for many if they don't get support in their first few months in the business they are likely to quit. This is why I personally always try to place people underneath my people who are showing up, whether or not they are recruiting. I know I could barely recruit when I first started out, so why not help your people who are serious? But don't expect me to ever put people under someone who is looking for a free lunch. Been there, done that. If your looking for a lottery ticket, go join the other 99% of broke internet marketers who are chasing that pie in the sky.

What my upline has done to leverage their time is put together a training website, where every new distributor can get all of their on-going training and resources for FREE. I also do a weekly meeting in my home for my local business builders, and a weekly training call one time per week for my national team. Most of my team members know that I am only a phone call, or an email away and that if they call me, I will be on the phone with them.

Now when do you cut a team member lose. Obviously, if you were to spend all of your with every team member, regardless of how serious they are that can be a recipe for disaster. As I always say, "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot get the horse to drink". So here is what I suggest after the first 30 days of sponsoring a new person.

• Don't call them, let them call you (Be the leader, I only check in with my people for the first 30 days or so, unless they are building)
• Be available always for 3 way calls, questions, etc...If you are working a full-time job let your team know when to call or email. My team knows that I rarely work on Sundays.
• Home Meetings
• Conference Calls
• Email (I have a few distributors that email me multiple times per day and I always respond)
• Skype (Skype is a great tool, I need to get more of my people on it, but it works awesome!)

Here are just a few tips to build your team and take your network marketing business to another level. Remember help those who want your help, but don't waste your time with people that can't be helped.