MLM Business Is Not Just About You

Posted by Jaz
November 20, 2008

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145- MLM Business Is Not Just About You One thing that really annoys me about MLM, and mind you, I’m very, very passionate about MLM – is that people who spend too much time in seminars and conventions talking on and on about themselves.

This usually happens during pin recognitions. When someone achieves a new ‘Diamond’ pin, they go up on stage and tell people things about themselves, how hard they have struggled and how people should change their attitude if they want to succeed in network marketing.

Of course, there is nothing wrong in and of itself, when someone gives a personal testimony about their struggles – regarding the heartaches and the lessons learned, but the problem surfaces when people go on and on about their speeches without respecting the time schedule and when they start causing others to nod off or grow restless, they still don’t know when to quit.

Sometimes, they will keep on talking even after people start hinting them to get off, when they play interval music and it gets louder and louder.

You may be a great MLM leader, but if you do not respect protocol or other people’s time and patience, then you are no different from a selfish child grabbing stealing the limelight from other people who deserve it as much as you do.

After all, you are not the only one talking on stage, right? What if there are 10 or 20 others who want to share for only 2 minutes each? If everyone shares an extra minute or 2, it could literally drag on for hours and people will not be able to leave for home early!

I guess, to give them some credit, they have slogged long and hard to get up to that pin level. Enduring the rejection of others and watching downlines drop off one at a time is quite a lot of heartache, especially if you are the one who brought them up and they still leave in the end (twice as painful if they join another company and they start line pinching…), but still it doesn’t justify a lack of respect towards the clock.

I always believe that you have to have a very clear intention when you share something with someone on stage. It is not about showing people how good you are. On the other hand, when you share something that will give other people value, even if you do not whisper your achievements or blow your horn one bit, people will still respect you, by virtue of the nuggets of wisdom you have shared.

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