I was working late the other day, and I had this realization, so I thought I would share part of the conversation. This guy asked me what I was doing, so I told him Infinity Downline, and this was his response: [4/11/2010 2:31:42 AM] Dave: I have had LOTS of people hawk that one on me.
And then it struck me; hawkers. I never knew that term until seeing a sign; I think it was when I was going into the subway here in Bangkok. Yup, I do live in Thailand.
So it seems to me that what people call marketing, is a pretty lame excuse for marketing. Don’t get me wrong here, hawking is marketing, the hawkers here drive me crazy. In my neighborhood, or village, they drive, ride motorbikes, bicycles, push carts, or walk around with blaring loudspeakers. These are hawkers, the ones that with complete disregard for anybody else in the world make it a point to disturb you and “get in your face” for just long enough to maybe sell you something. So in other words, if you drop a link in my Skype window, and think I’m going to stop what I’m doing and buy something from you, you’re crazy. I’m not looking to join a company based on a link that some unknown deposited in my Skype window to work with and help me secure my financial future. And the proof is in the pudding sitting in the window: [4/11/2010 2:31:55 AM] Dave : Problem is, trying to get people in under you. (Is this guy a hawker or what?)
So I said: [4/11/2010 2:31:55 AM] gr8fldanielle: i’m with a great group
[4/11/2010 2:32:04 AM] gr8fldanielle: it’s takes doing, not just trying to recruit
[4/11/2010 2:41:30 AM] Dave: this a one time?
Why do people ask this? “Is this a one time?” Those one time programs almost always fail, and certainly if you and the others are relying on a residual income. Think about it, one-time payment and residual income in the same sentence? I don’t think so.
[4/11/2010 2:41:49 AM] gr8fldanielle: one time programs by design fail
So Infinity Downline was very refreshing to see, a system that is not a matrix, and sharing it with one person pays your way. Like how cool is that? Very actually.
[4/11/2010 2:42:04 AM] gr8fldanielle: 25 per month to use the system, one person pays for it
I’m going to skip some of the mindless text just to keep this real, but you’ll understand why he got to say what he did in the line below:
[4/11/2010 2:43:31 AM] Dave: I was in one of those, only lost $45. (Do you think he worked it, or he worked on himself, or neither? must have been the program huh?)
[4/11/2010 2:43:40 AM] gr8fldanielle: you do have to work them
[4/11/2010 2:43:55 AM] gr8fldanielle: and it’s not about just calling people ;and asking them to join, they have to come to you (Now that’s a true statement if I ever heard)
[4/11/2010 2:44:22 AM] gr8fldanielle: people ;don’t join for the program, they join the people
[4/11/2010 2:44:41 AM] Dave: I have heard that mantra
Mantra!!!??? OMG! It’s not a mantra, it’s a fact!
[4/11/2010 2:44:47 AM] gr8fldanielle: not a mantra
[4/11/2010 2:44:54 AM] gr8fldanielle: just fact
[4/11/2010 2:45:41 AM] gr8fldanielle: the hawkers don’t sell as much as those that have the quality stores that attract people to them (This was my realization, hawker or shop owner)
[4/11/2010 2:45:52 AM] gr8fldanielle: are you a hawker or a shop owner
[4/11/2010 2:46:39 AM] Dave: trying to be a shop owner
[4/11/2010 2:46:49 AM] gr8fldanielle: do you have a blog (where are you reading this?)
[4/11/2010 2:46:50 AM] Dave: Not too many people come to my store though 
(Need I ask?)
[4/11/2010 2:46:55 AM] gr8fldanielle: why not ( I just had to ask)
[4/11/2010 2:47:12 AM] Dave: guess I should open the blinds
[4/11/2010 2:47:18 AM] Dave: No, no blog as of yet
[4/11/2010 2:47:31 AM] gr8fldanielle: no blog, no business (duh!!!)
[4/11/2010 2:47:37 AM] Dave: Blogs have to be updated everyday in order to be effective.
[4/11/2010 2:47:38 AM] gr8fldanielle: the the heart of the business
[4/11/2010 2:47:47 AM] Dave: U have a blog?
[4/11/2010 2:47:50 AM] gr8fldanielle: not quite, but what’s wrong with that (this guy doesn’t want to work every day)
[4/11/2010 2:47:52 AM] gr8fldanielle: yes
[4/11/2010 2:48:08 AM] gr8fldanielle: working on a new template,it’s kicking my butt though
[4/11/2010 2:48:08 AM] Dave: Finding stuff to write about. (lol, guess what I’m writing about?)
[4/11/2010 2:48:17 AM] gr8fldanielle: watch a webinar and write about it
That’s enough of that conversation so I’ll wrap this up. If you are going to make money, you have to work. And here’s another thing, something I’m going to write about and that’s that the compensation plan is not the most important thing. Read the blog about The Final Matrix below. Should have been an awesome system, but it died after about a 2 weeks. So what’s missing? I hear a song, I mean another blog topic, what’s missing is this; lead generation and successful matrices/systems are about people improving themselves. The systems that work are the ones that improve you the people. If the participants are not evolving into the best people they can be, then you ain’t got much. The fact is. Network marketing is about becoming the best or (holy cliché Batman) all you can be. Marketers are people that have evolved into organized, courteous, respectful and do what they say they are going to do. Marketing is not about hawking. It’s not about dropping links in Skype windows, nor is it about just talking to friends and family. It’s about people coming to you because of who you are. Are you a worker, a doer, someone that doesn’t quit, and someone that is going to be somebody someday?
People choose to work with people, not the program. If people are joining programs because of the program and not because of the people that you will be working with, they’re hawkers more than likely. You have to work with people that are leaders, trainers, mentors, have blogs, work on them every day, people that are on the first pages of Google! There are some great programs out there for generating leads, and the easiest thing to promote to generate leads is helping people that want to learn how to become super marketers. (I really wanted to say that; super marketers) Infinity Downline is a great program for that. Now, what compliments that and every other program out there is Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring course. Mike Dillard is one of the best of the best, take this offer seriously. What’s nice about Magnetic Sponsoring is that it is a onetime deal, and you can make a ton of money promoting it, and it is a whole marketing system, and it’s not promoted as a residual income opportunity. It collects the leads, has all the stuff you need, step by step, you just have to check it out for yourself. Mike is very thorough, but if you have questions you make certainly contact me personally.
Skype ID- gr8fldanielle Get Skype here: www.skype.com. You can also contact me directly from this page. So the two big things you should have gotten from this blog posting is that:
• You don’t go to people, they come to you
• You have to work on becoming a better you, not so much the business
• You need a blog
• You need to be in tight with real network marketers that will work with you
• No matter what business you promote, you need people to come to you
• You need us. See you when you get here.
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