Is Network Marketing the Career for You? Discipline and Effort
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All work requires some discipline. You have to show up, do something (or look like you are doing something) for some specified length of time. Most jobs require that you do this at least five days a week for eight hours day. If you don't do these things, you won't have to worry too much because you will be asked to leave.
Network marketing is a little different. In network marketing there is no "boss." If you don't work, no one is going to get angry with you. (Although the person that recruited you may try to encourage you to do something.) Unlike you job, however, if you don't do something (i.e., work your business), you won't make any money. Even if you do work, if you don't work effectively you won't make any money either!
You need to ask yourself he following questions. First, are you self-motivated? Will you work even if no one is watching? Can you avoid "distractions" and stay focused? If you need a lot of hand holding, network marketing may not be for you.
Second, can you continue to work consistently even when the rewards or money may not happen immediately? There is something called the 90 day rule in network marketing. It basically means that the full benefit of you effort will not be realized until 90 days later. That doesn't mean that good things won't happen in between, just that the maximum benefit may not be there.
Third, do you like to learn things independently? While most companies offer some form of training (and many offer very extensive training), you still need to learn what they are teaching pretty much on your own. Often the lesions are online so you can access them whenever it is convenient for you. There may be conference call and in person training opportunities, but most of the training is on your own. If you get easily frustrated and impatient with training and need a lot of assistance to learn, network marketing may not be the career for you. While it may be true that the people that recruited you into the business or someone higher up in the organization will help you when you are new, their patience (and help) will quickly disappear if you are not making the effort or if you don't seem to be progressing.
A career in network marketing is work! It takes discipline to put forth the consistent effort to grow your business and it takes discipline to continue to learn and grow.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers (1879'1935) American comedian and actor
All work requires some discipline. You have to show up, do something (or look like you are doing something) for some specified length of time. Most jobs require that you do this at least five days a week for eight hours day. If you don't do these things, you won't have to worry too much because you will be asked to leave.
Network marketing is a little different. In network marketing there is no "boss." If you don't work, no one is going to get angry with you. (Although the person that recruited you may try to encourage you to do something.) Unlike you job, however, if you don't do something (i.e., work your business), you won't make any money. Even if you do work, if you don't work effectively you won't make any money either!
You need to ask yourself he following questions. First, are you self-motivated? Will you work even if no one is watching? Can you avoid "distractions" and stay focused? If you need a lot of hand holding, network marketing may not be for you.
Second, can you continue to work consistently even when the rewards or money may not happen immediately? There is something called the 90 day rule in network marketing. It basically means that the full benefit of you effort will not be realized until 90 days later. That doesn't mean that good things won't happen in between, just that the maximum benefit may not be there.
Third, do you like to learn things independently? While most companies offer some form of training (and many offer very extensive training), you still need to learn what they are teaching pretty much on your own. Often the lesions are online so you can access them whenever it is convenient for you. There may be conference call and in person training opportunities, but most of the training is on your own. If you get easily frustrated and impatient with training and need a lot of assistance to learn, network marketing may not be the career for you. While it may be true that the people that recruited you into the business or someone higher up in the organization will help you when you are new, their patience (and help) will quickly disappear if you are not making the effort or if you don't seem to be progressing.
A career in network marketing is work! It takes discipline to put forth the consistent effort to grow your business and it takes discipline to continue to learn and grow.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers (1879'1935) American comedian and actor
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