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Network
Marketing Success: Leading
a downline is a challenging part of any MLM or network marketing
business. But effective leadership is a vital part of helping your
downline to produce at top levels. Here
are eight success strategies for effective MLM leadership. 1.
Ask questions. Effective leadership involves empowering your
downline to do things for themselves. Allow your downline to solve their
own problems and answer their own questions. Guiding them to the answers
is a matter of asking the right questions: 2.
Find each individual’s personal strength. Many times, the network
marketing industry is so focused on duplication that we forget the fact
that each individual brings a unique set of skills, strengths, and
experiences. Invest some time identifying particular ways that a person
can be successful with your business – even if they are beyond the
duplicable system that you have set up.
3.
Lead, don’t push. Effective leadership doesn’t involve pushing,
dragging, or bribing people to success. Leading is about walking out in
front of people, successfully working the business so that they will
want to follow you on their own accord. It’s about making personal
relationships with people so that they can ask you questions. Provide
the information and tools they need and then inspire them by
successfully demonstrating the example yourself. 4.
Manage your time effectively. As a leader, you’re constantly
identifying the one thing that is the most valuable use of your time,
right now. Effective leaders
don’t allow each of their team members to chat away for hours on the
phone. View yourself as a businessperson, and keep each conversation on
task. 5.
Teach that consistency is the key to success. Help your downline to
understand that success is never about one isolated event. It’s a
marathon - not a sprint – with continual and consistent baby steps.
Create a list of simple business building tasks, and teach them to keep
a log of the tasks completed each day. Whether it’s 3, 5, or 10 tasks,
let them know that success depends on how many of these tasks they
commit to completing on a consistent basis. 6.
Keep consistent communication. Send team updates or newsletters via
email to your downline at least every two weeks. Recognize achievements
as much as possible. Everyone loves to see his or her name in print.
This, in itself, can be tremendously motivating. 7.
Know when to move on. Recognize that you can’t make anyone do
anything. You can lead, but if one of your downline won’t follow –
it might be a better use of your time to find a more self-motivated
person than to beat yourself up to motivate someone who, for one reason
or another, isn’t working at the business. 8.
Take five. Creating a large and successful network marketing team is
so fun and rewarding that we sometimes forget to take breaks – and
that can lead to burnout. Take
some time off every now and then, and enjoy the journey. Copyright 2006 BestSelfHelp.com
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