The Spiritual Side Of Network Marketing
Lydia De Leon
If you really think about Network Marketing (I mean true Network Marketing, not like all the hypey types of programs out there), you can't help but notice it's spiritual characteristics. There are many parallels to the Christian Faith in true Network Marketing.
For example:
1. If you want long term success in Network Marketing, there is no way to get around building relationships with your prospects and downline.
Those who are in recruiting mode think only about their own interests, and are not very concerned with their prospects' needs. They are interested mainly in the money to be gained by recruiting the person, instead of being a true sponsor to him or her. If a person feels they can trust you, and that you can truly help them reach their goals, they will stick with you.
2. Network Marketing is all about leveraging your self, your time and your money.
Building a long term income requires that we teach our downline how to be successful so that they are growing and so that your business grows too. Although we cannot 'make' them work, we can certainly inspire them and teach them how to do network marketing. Christianity is all about leveraging our time and resources too.
Jesus, the Master, delegated responsibility to his disciples by teaching them how to go out and reproduce more disciples.
Isn't that the work we're doing in our organizations?
Finding a couple of good workers, showing them how to recruit and reproduce other leaders in their businesses, and continuing to do this over and over in our businesses. By teaching your downline the skills and knowledge they need, you don't have to do all the work yourself and your business will grow at a fast rate.
We create an environment where others become teachers also, and as a consequence, our time is freed up as more and more people in our downlines take on more and more responsibilities.
Teaching your downline means knowing what it is that they need so that you can help them. Are there areas in their businesses where they are having problems? Show them how to succeed in those areas. Jesus does that with his followers. He makes sure that all their spiritual needs are met by teaching them and providing for them, so that they are empowered to live as he wants them to live - in holiness.
That is also what the church is for - a place to learn about God, a training place for holy living in all aspects of a person's life and a place for encouragement and fellowship.
Because we brought them into the business, we should make sure that they are receiving excellent training to help them build their business. Even more, they need a place of like-minded people, so that they are motivated, inspired and encouraged in their businesses as well as celebrated and applauded for their achievements.
Doing these things will surely help them make money, but (that's right!), will grow our businesses too. Like the old saying says, "I prosper myself, by helping you prosper".
3. If deep down, you honestly want to create a stable six figure income, with Network Marketing, then it is essential that you have faith and patience as you travel down this road.
Many MLMers don't know how to handle rejection well, so they don't do very well with their home based businesses. Rejection comes with the package. Because they don't see results as quickly as they'd like, they quit their businesses and hop on to another opportunity.
Growing a successful Network Marketing business requires faith in the process, sprinkled with a lot of patience as it starts to sprout and grow.
So what does all this have to do with Network Marketing and spirituality?
First, the Christian Faith is all about truly helping and serving others. It's not about having a secret agenda that will benefit me.
It's true, we are working in Network Marketing to make money for ourselves, but our attitudes and spirits have to be right. It's more like servanthood marketing.
If making money is the only reason we are in Network Marketing, then that will show in how we bahave and how we come across to our prospects and downlines. People know when we truly want to help them be successful.
Second, even Jesus needed help in spreading the gospel. He teamed up with twelve men and taught them everything they needed to know about effectively 'recruiting' others into becoming followers of Jesus.
Those twelve men went out to the world, applied the teachings of Jesus, and taught others how to be followers of Christ also. Today the Gospel is known throughout the whole world as it has spread like a virus.
Network Marketing is no different. We do not have to go out and recruit 100 people to grow a large organization. If we wisely sponsor 5 - 10 people and work closely with those, they will eventually 'duplicate' our teachings and our organizations will start to have momentum and growth.
It's all about creating other leaders in our organizations just as Jesus created twelve leaders and those twelve created more leaders.
Third, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you could move mountains" is a principle that Jesus taught and that Napoleon Hill also wrote about. Today, many authors have written books on how important it is to think positively.
It's very unlikely that we will have any success in Network Marketing if we are thinking negatively. Thinking positively will help you achieve great things. Negative thinking will only destroy your vision and keep you in the rut.
I can continue to enumerate the many similarities between Network Marketing and Christianity, but it would take a book to finish it all.
The point is this: Network Marketing is not a one man show. It's all about building long term relationships, having business integrity and treating others with the same respect you would want to receive. It's all about self development and personal growth.
Acquiring a positive mental attitude, staying focused, dedicated and committed and getting the right training will help us attain the outcome we are looking to achieve in our Network Marketing businesses. There's no limit to what can be done. There are always higher levels to achieve.
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