Network Marketing Success - When is Retreat a Victory?

I stayed with a great company for eight years before I realized that nothing I did would give me network marketing success in that company. I felt soooo guilty.

Instead of earning the money I expected, desired, and knew I deserved, I poured money into training, advertising, marketing tools, personal growth, etc. If only I could change myself, improve myself, increase my skills… I would be successful. Right!

Well, I did those things – and still wasn’t successful. I had a negative return. Don’t get me wrong – it is a great company with great products that I still like to use. But I cannot do the business! What is the matter with ME?

Well, through the Mentoring for Free program I found that there was NOTHING wrong with me. The company was wrong for me. It was and is wrong for me from the standpoint of business-building. After all, I am complete, perfect and whole just the way I am – Where is Mr. Rogers when you need him!

Needing to know what's what -

What were some of the things I found? I often did not sell the products at the retail price – offered lots of discounts to get people to buy and then hope they got hooked and either signed up as a wholesale buyer so that they’d order for themselves and I’d get some small benefit – 4%. If someone did want to buy retail I was stuck with the ordering and generally the delivery. I offered free shipping – probably part of that "feeling I had to offer a discount" mentality. Why did I give discounts to family and others? Probably because I thought on some level that the prices were too high. That no one would buy unless I offered a discount. And people pick up on that. And that’s no way to work a business that works.

The next thing I found was that it was so difficult for me to qualify for the next level, I tended to try to "buy" it. I am definitely not alone. I listened to others who get a nice bonus or override check how much they spent to generate that money. So how much is the real profit?

Breakage

The plan is a stair-step breakaway plan. Without going into confusing detail, suffice it to say I subsequently understood where the money went. I’m referring to the money I didn’t earn by reaching the levels I sought. It went to the people above me – okay. But mostly it went to build buildings, move to ever-increasing warehouses, hire more order-taking customer service reps….
Think about it – when you have to hire more personnel, what costs are involved? How about space requirements – either owned or rented. How about grounds and building maintenance, water, power, supplies, insurance costs, technical set-up costs – what would they add up to? Oh, and let’s not forget in addition to salaries you have benefits and retirement plans to pay for.
So the bigger a company gets, a company that does business with a lot of hired personnel, the more expenses that company has. What – a million? Two million a month? More? Where does that money come from?

It comes from the compensation plan – from you and from me.

The company I’m referring to did two "take-aways" this year. They ended the free product with the auto-ship – this was a great selling point for autoship. And they "raised the bar" on one of the monthly campaigns. In other words, you have to purchase more to get the bonus. They can call it anything they want – it’s still a take-away from compensation. How does that promote network marketing success?

Is there hope?

I found a company that does not do that. I now know that I can have network marketing success. This company only adds to the compensation plan and will never take away. Oh, and they have outstanding products, too.

The value of training

But to understand what I had found, I had to go through the skills training at Mentoring for Free. I no longer feel I am knocking my head against the wall. I have forgiven myself because there was nothing wrong with me.

If you feel that you are in the same boat as I, if you feel that to retreat and moving in a different direction would be a victory, or even if you feel you just need more skills to stay where you are to be successful, feel free to contact me for information on skills training calls with Mentoring for Free.

We will help you in whatever business you’re with.

Wishing you network marketing success through using retreat as a victory,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart"

Other articles by Wendy:

Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 1
Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 2
Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 3
Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 4
Network Marketing Success – Are We Having Fun, Yet?
How a 55 Year-Old Single Parent in Phoenix – Who Loved Her Network Marketing Company for SEVEN YEARS! – Realized She Had Been Betrayed
NETWORK MARKETING SUCCESS – COLOR ME GREEN for PERSONALITY
Network Marketing Success - Take It Away!
Network Marketing Success – Say it With Feeling!
Network Marketing Success - Stay Close to the Fire (or Baby It's Cold Outside)
Network Marketing Success – Are You a “Product of the Product”?
Network Marketing Success - Listen, Do You Hear Me?
Defeating Your Gremlin for Network Marketing Success
Strategies for Defeating Your Gremlin for Network Marketing Success
"A" is for Abundance for Network Marketing
Headlines for Network Marketing Success
Core Values and Network Marketing Success
Be - Do - Have for Network Marketing Success
Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life for Network Marketing Success
Network Marketing Success - Perfect Means Never
Network Marketing Success - Ground Yourself for Take-off
Network Marketing Success - Are You Training Your Downline?