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April 24th, 2009

Confidence In Network Marketing

by Farid Beck

Are you a confident person? If you are not then it will be very difficult for you to succeed in network marketing because this business is all about leadership and motivation. How can you lead, educate and motivate your downlines if your confidence is shaky and your posture is weak?

Sometimes, it is very sad to find many network marketers struggling to sponsor their very first downline. This is normal, but you must not dwell in this stage for too long because it is detrimental to your confidence. You see, fear causes inaction, and inaction causes a lack of results and the longer your lack of results show itself, the more fear it creates because people in network marketing are getting ahead of you and you are still in the first stage!

Therefore, the first step towards becoming more confident is to TAKE ACTION. By taking action you will automatically gain confidence. They say that a skydiver’s greatest fear is not the jump itself but the wait before the jump. As they wait and stare at the raging sky, their fear intensifies until the moment they step off the plane! Network marketing is just the same. You have to make that first phone call or show your first plan (or run your first opportunity talk). Whatever it is, JUST DO IT!

The next part about building your confidence is NOT to spend too much time reading network marketing material. A lot of your success depends on your knowledge in network marketing. Yes it is true undoubtedly. But too much analysis will lead to paralysis. Having too much knowledge without applying it is a surefire way to network marketing failure. The graves of many unsuccessful distributors are filled with people with all the knowledge in the world about network marketing except how to take action and make money with that knowledge.

One other way to build your confidence is to focus on building your network personally.

Sometimes, a distributor can spend so much time with their ONE golden downline, that they become too dependent on that one line. Very soon, you will find that downline moving up even to the point of surpassing you. When your downline starts making more money than you, your own upline will wind up spending more time with him or her and this could shatter your confidence! So dont rest! Always go out there and sponsor more people personally rather than by yourself.

Lastly, if you have little confidence when it comes to sponsoring, you can consider generating leads on the Internet. You face less rejections that way and you can still pitch your offer without the fear of rejection directly in your face.

One great system of generating leads on the internet today is the MLM Lead System Pro. This is a fully branded, customizable lead-generation system which combines Attraction Marketing with the Funded-proposal concept. Using this remarkable system, sponsoring your downlines has never been easier even for the zero-confidence network marketer.

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