The top ten reasons why people will quit network marketing.
Doug Firebaugh
Well we all have seen it as leaders....People come into this business and have all the dreams in the world ready to grab....and they start this business, and down the road, they become the Amazing Disappearing Distributor, what happened? What went wrong?
We have studied relentlessly, people who have quit and left the business, and also folks who have had great success. Here are the top ten reasons we have found why people leave.
1. Trying the business.
Many folks who come into this business, have a focus of "I am going to try it and see what happens." That is a death toll for this business. People who TRY the business are not sold on it, and are not serious about it, this business demands everything you have inside of you, and will stretch you to the limit...and if you are only in it to try it....then do yourself a favor and get out of it. It will only drive you crazy with the frustration a half hearted effort and belief brings. Here is a question we ask all the time in our seminars..."Have you made a Choice to TRY this business...or a DECISION to become successful in it?" Your destiny lies within your answer.
2. Distractions
Life has a way of throwing daily distractions in front of you to defocus you in your business and then we start using those distractions as excuses not to perform at Maximum Fire. Whatever your distractions are remember this: Every distraction you focus on has a cost and you must pay that cost in your business, and they can cost you a ton of money. And we usually ALLOW distractions to slow us down and stop us. They are not something we cannot control, we just refuse to and end up so distracted we just lose focus and then lose interest. Question is.... who is the REAL loser in this picture?
3. Listening to the wrong people.
Well meaning family and friends...God blessem...but they can kill your excitement and dreams quicker than you can say...."Dream Stealer!" Let me ask you a question. Would you go to someone who has never worked on a car before to get your car fixed? Of course not. Would you go to someone who has never cut hair before to cut it for an important dinner? Of course not. Would you go to a plumber to do heart surgery? Of course not. Nor would you go to a surgeon to put a new hot water tank in.
Why?
They have not done what you want done, wrong person to ask and listen to. No matter how the plumber tried to convince you he could operate on your heart, you wouldn't listen to him. Why do people listen to folks who have never had success, never experienced success, and who know little of success, about success? That one is a mystery. Listen to the right folks who can help you get to where you want to go and have BEEN THERE!
4. Busy at the business, but not busy building the business.
There are a lot of great activities that you can do in network marketing, and you can get real busy preparing for meetings, for phone calls, for follow ups, for trainings, for events, for just about anything....but you are not earning a dime.
There is only ONE THING you do to build this business and earn a paycheck. It is communicating with people....sharing your business and products with others. You build this business one customer at a time, one distrubutor at a time.
5. Not plugging in.
There was a study done and they found an amazing fact. The distributors that plugged their new distributors into a system had a 70% retention rate the first year...those that did not plug in had a 30% retention rate. Leaders plug in.
6. Codependency
There is a reason why your application says "Independent Distributor". You are to become independent from your sponsor, but there are some who have a codependency, they depend on their sponsor for success, and depend on their excuses to not give it 100%.
They are "codependent" on two things that they should not be. Yes, you lean on your sponsor at first to learn this business, but you MUST get independent quickly. Why? You will never get a big paycheck depending on someone else to create it for you. The less dependent you are on your upline, the more your paycheck will be due to your downline.
7. Lack of success expectancy (LOSE)
What you expect to happen in this business generally does and a lot of people who come into this business deep down inside expect it not to work and it doesn't. They have never experienced nor expected success in their life, and never will. Expectancy is MAGNETIC! If someone does not expect to succeed they won't. The key word in Lack Of Success Expectancy is LACK. That is their mindset, and they will do this business through that filter in their mind, and continue to create lack in their life. When you focus on LACK....You put a LOCK on the door to success. It is called the "Lock of Lack".
8. Trying to reinvent the wheel.
This one is a goodie, happens all the time, folks go out and try to figure out a "better" way to do what already has been done, and end up going broke, when they should have just taken the tools and ran with them. Improvement is great AFTER you have mastered the basics and tools that your company has. I did this for a year, trying to get a "better: tape....a "better:" brochure....and I had some strong ideas....but was a novice in the industry....it did not take me long to see I did not have the experience to rewrite the script, so I embraced the tools that the company had...and things exploded....I am just trying to get you not to make the same mistake I did.
9. Lack of connecting with your sponsor and leading your team.
You as a leader must provide leadership to your group and create a growth and success environment. If you do not you are setting your group up to fail and they MUST have leadership in the beginning because they are new. You cannot do this business FOR them, but you can do it WITH them as a leader out in front.
10. Building the wrong thing.
As leaders, you can spend a lot of time building the wrong thing with your downline. You can build all the business you want, but if you are not building your people's confidence, skills, and self esteem as well....then you will have a very fragile business that is built on sand. People who are believed in and encouraged and listened to will stay longer with you, become more successful, and will ride out any storm with you by your side. Build your people first, then the business, then if a storm comes along the business will be resting on a strong foundation.
ALL OF THESE ARE RELATED TO OR A RESULT OF NOT HAVING A COMPELLING AND POWERFUL VISION!
Do it now.
After 21 years of marriage, My wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, "I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would love to spend some time with you."
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie. "What's wrong, are you well," she asked?
My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign of bad news.
"I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you, "I responded. "Just the two of us."
She thought about it for a moment, and then said, "I would like that very much."
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit nervous. When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be nervous about our date.
She waited in the door with her coat on. She had curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel's. "I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were impressed," she said, as she got into the car. "They can't wait to hear about our meeting."
We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant, was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First Lady.
After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Half way through the entrees, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me.
A nostalgic smile was on her lips.
"It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,"she said .
"Then it's time that you relax and let me return the favor," I responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation nothing extraordinary but catching up on recent events of each other's life.
We talked so much that we missed the movie. As we arrived at her house later, she said, "I'll go out with you again, but only if you let me invite you."
I agreed.
"How was your dinner date?" asked my wife when I got home. "Very nice. Much more so than I could have imagined," I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn't have a chance to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant receipt from the same place mother and I had dined. An attached note said: "I paid this bill in advance. I wasn't sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates - one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son."
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: "I LOVE YOU" and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve.
Nothing in life is more important than your family.
Give them the time they deserve, because these things cannot be put off till "some other time."
Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby .... somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "normal" is history.
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct .. somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
Somebody said being a mother is boring .. somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit.
Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good"....somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.
Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices ....somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.
Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother ....somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math.
Somebody said you can't love the second child as much as you love the first .... somebody doesn't have two children.
Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books....somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery....somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten .. or on a plane headed for military "boot camp."
Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back...somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married....somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.
Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home....somebody never had grandchildren.
Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her.... somebody isn't a mother.
Pass this along to all the "mothers" in your life, and to everyone who ever had a mother.
This isn't just about being a mother, it's about appreciating the people in your life while you have them.... no matter who that person is!
