Let me say this: prospecting sucks. For 5 years I have been an avid student of network marketing. Ive listened to hundreds of tapes and filled my library with all of the right books. I got into the right mindset, put affirmations all over my home office, and Ive worked HARD. I purchased opportunity seeker leads, learned how to set up an autoresponder and tweaked those campaigns for YEARS. I tried every recommended lead provider I could find and jacked up my credit card bills to buy said leads. I pumped those expensive, and not so expensive babies through my autoresponder and watched as my live leads poured in, WOW! Now we are getting somewhere, I thought
I called every one of those hard-earned live leads. I sponsored upwards of 50 people relatively quickly. But they dropped. 99% of those people dropped. They couldnt duplicate what I was doing. They especially couldnt pick up the phone and make the calls,
because prospecting sucks.
Somewhere around my third year I got enough guts to start calling other networkers to see if theyd be interested in looking at our opportunity. I made 50-100 dials a day for weeks on end. Id get totally burnt out and take a few...