What To Expect When You First Join MLM

Many people have high expectations when they first join MLM, but they tend to only focus on the good aspects. While MLM is an amazing industry where you can expect to make a lot of money and have a lot of fun, you must also expect the things that I reveal in this article.

The first thing you should expect is that you are going to have to work hard. There is no such thing as a free ride in this industry (or life for that matter), and there is no luck involved either. The only way you are going to build a successful MLM organisation is by putting your nose to the grindstone and working hard.

There are too many people who join MLM and expect it to be a cakewalk. Unfortunately this is the same reason why too many people fail and eventually quit.

While we are on the subject of work, another thing to expect is that you are going to have to work on yourself. No matter what MLM company you join, you are going to be encouraged to do at least 30 minutes of personal development a day. Personal development is an extremely important aspect of this industry because it allows you to start thinking in new way that you might have never thought before. It will give you the mindset that you need to be successful and it will help make you stronger when faced with adversity.

People that say they don't have time to do personal development are absolutely full of it. There is more than enough time in a day to do ½ an hour of personal development, it's just a matter of adjusting your priorities (i.e. put down the TV remote, newspaper, magazine, video game controller, iPod, all those other useless things and pick up a book).

Once you join MLM, you should also expect to be taken out of your comfort zone. Everything you will be learning is new and therefore, it will take some getting use to. When you start marketing for the first time. When you start talking to people about your business for the first time. When you start sponsoring people and teaching them how to do your business...all of these things are unnatural to people who have no prior experience in the network marketing industry, but it's all apart of the learning curve. These thing will take you out of your comfort zone until you eventually MASTER them, and they BECOME your comfort zone.

You see, MLM is not easy. The concept of MLM is SIMPLE but building an MLM business is not easy. At least not straight away. In your first couple of months there will be struggle, there will be missed opportunities, there will be awkward conversations where you don't know what to say, there will be people who look interested in your company but decide not to join, there will be family members and friends who want nothing to do with your MLM business. It's all OK. You have to remember that when you're doing something new for the first time, no matter what it is, there will always be a certain degree of struggle. The key is to just push on anyway.

It is very rare for someone to join MLM and just knock it out of the park immediately. There are a few special cases but for most people, it takes time to really grasp the mechanics of this industry. When you join MLM, not only should you expect to succeed (I don't think you should join MLM if you don't intend on succeeding) but you should also expect to fail.

Failure is a part of success. Failure teaches us what we've done wrong and how to do it differently the next time. I truly believe that anything worth doing is going to involve some form of failure. It's natural. Some of the greatest people in the world, who have achieved many great things, experienced a tremendous amount of failure before they ever saw any success. It's just the way it works...

You can't look at your small failures as failure. They're not. They are merely stepping-stones on the way to success. Use your failures to learn and grow, but do not let it get to your head. Most people who quit in this industry, didn't expect to fail, so the minute something didn't work out for them, they just threw in the towel and said "this doesn't work". When you join MLM, do not be one of those people. Network marketing is the greatest industry in the world for regular people looking to create financial freedom. Once you join MLM, stick with it, no matter how much you fail. It will all be worth it.

This is a quote from internet marketing guru, Jonathan Budd, which I think sum up the topic of expectations perfectly - "Expect you will have to do WHATEVER it takes, with no clue what that is or how long it will be, but that you just HAVE TO DO IT & can NEVER STOP...if you're ever to get the job done."

Now that you know what to expect when you first join MLM, you should be able to by pass all of the mental troubles that many 'newbies' face, and, with the right marketing training, you will be unstoppable. To discover the system that many people are using to shorten the MLM learning curve, check out my website TheNextLevelNetworker.com.

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