In today’s post I want to share my list of top 50 do’s and don’ts in network marketing. This list includes tips for success and mistakes to avoid. I hope you can find two or three nuggets on this page that can help you move your network marketing business forward. Enjoy!
Here are 50 things you SHOULD DO in your network marketing business.
Do’s
- Think long term
- Team up with someone who knows what they are doing
- Find a mentor
- Find a product line you are passionate about
- Be a network marketing professional
- Work your business consistently for at least two to five years
- Have realistic expectations
- Be a student of your business
- Study marketing and lead generation
- Build a list
- Work on your people skills
- Learn how to manage your time
- Plan your work and work your plan
- Make the decision that you will succeed no matter what
- Treat everyone with respect
- Be honest, sincere and genuine
- Focus on helping other people get what they want
- Move the business from your head to your heart
- Be a product of the product
- Write a business plan
- Go to all events
- Discover your WHY
- Use third party tools
- Make a commitment to one company
- Learn how to overcome objections
- Learn how to deal with rejections
- Work on your people skills
- Lead by example at all times
- Always ask for the sale
- Leverage your own talents and abilities and build the business in a way that works for you
- Sponsor at least four people every month
- Work on your listening skills
- Get good at asking questions
- Show a genuine interest in other people
- Read every day
- Be consistent
- Think positive
- Look for the best in other people
- Maximize your company’s compensation plan
- Spend your time with the right people
- Focus, focus, focus
- Create a work schedule every week
- Set written goals
- Inspire people by your actions
- Make your business a top priority
- Have fun with the business
- Learn how to invite properly
- Act as if you have ONE MILLION DOLLARS invested in your opportunity
- Work on your personal development
- Get a top notch business card!
All of these things are very important to do if you want a successful MLM Business. It’s highly likely you are already doing a lot of these things. I encourage you to evaluate yourself in each area and see where you can make some minor improvements.
Don’ts
Just to clarify these are 50 things you should NOT do in your network marketing business. They are listed in no particular order.
- Never speak badly about other people or other companies
- Be a MLM Junkie!
- Be out for the fast buck!
- Have the lottery mentality
- Follow any one person blindly
- Try to me a one pony circus!
- Do the business only when you feel like it
- Try to help people who don’t want to help themselves
- Recruit people who NEED the business
- Recreate the wheel
- Expect your new people to know what to do
- Treat your business like a hobby
- Have the get rich quick mentality
- Dabble with the business
- Have unrealistic expectations
- Be arrogant or cocky
- Manage your team
- Do your own presentations
- Expect people to buy if you don’t ask for the sale
- Ask people to do things you aren’t willing to do yourself
- Try a bunch of different systems at once
- Be negative
- Expect people to do more than you do
- Take rejection personally
- Puke your business or products all over people
- Spam your business on Facebook
- Boss your team around
- Forget to follow up
- Over complicate the business
- Do things for your distributors that they should do for themselves
- Build someone a team for them
- Expect anything from anyone
- Hang around negative people and dream stealers
- Forget to build depth
- Stop talking to new people
- Chase people
- Talk too much
- Be a slacker
- Think small
- Forget to get lots of customers
- Be an emotional roller coaster
- Hide behind your computer
- Miss an event
- Pressure people to do more than they want to
- Pre-judge people
- Get excited about any one specific person
- Listen to people who don’t have what you want
- Quit your day job
- Spend all your time on the non-money producing activities
- Give up too soon!
I encourage you to evaluate yourself in each one of these 50 areas and see if you are making any of these common mistakes.
Final Thoughts
There you have it folks. These are my top 50 do’s and don’ts in the network marketing industry. This is by no means an all inclusive list. Instead, I simply wanted to share a few important ideas to help you with your mindset and prepare you for success.
What are your thoughts? What are some of your dos and don’ts in the network marketing industry? Leave a comment below and let me know what you think. I look forward to hearing from you.
Chuck Holmes
20+ Year Network Marketing Professional
Top Earner & Top Recruiter
Email: mrchuckholmes@gmail.com
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Very solid list. I’d love to just make a list of these and and hang them on my wall as motivation and reminders. In fact, I’ll likely lead my team to this post so they can also benefit from this great list. I think sometimes we all lose sight of the things we should be doing or those things we should be avoiding. Refreshing your memory and refocusing is always good thing to do from time to time.
Thanks for sharing with your team.
Thanks for your updates and inputs. I am a 2 year old son mom working full time. At night i have got no one to help babysitting my son (our country, it is not common to seek for a temporary babysitter). I read mlm books and blogs or any documents related to the business and my company (while waiting to pick my son up from a daycare), it is difficult for me to go to weekly events, do you have any suggestions for those whom attending night weekly events is impossible.
In some cases, people work odd schedules and it is difficult to attend events, but there are many ways you can still get the education the events offer. Sometimes they record the events and you can purchase them. I also suggest that you listen to the many podcasts Chuck offers here on Online MLM community.
There are many great books on building your business, and as Diamond said above…Make a copy of this post and other great information you should read daily, and read them daily. You may also want to check if some of these events offer child care. Some events offer these services, and it may be great if you request child care. If the people running these events realize the need, they might make it happen.